00:00i don't like when coaches do the same thing over and over and expect different results okay i do
00:07like when coaches are self-aware enough to change things okay i do like when coaches listen to their
00:14players therefore i do like that dan quinn named season-long captains for the washington command
00:21okay i need you to get me up to speed on last year's deal and why and the last two
00:25years and
00:26why it rubbed some people the wrong way how it worked i don't think people should be rubbed one
00:31way or another frankly but don't rub anybody yeah just stop rubbing people but the the last two
00:38seasons dan quinn has named weekly captains the friday before the game what's wrong with that
00:43i don't know what was wrong with that i don't know that there's a right or wrong but i know
00:49that quinn
00:49said players had kind of reached out to him about doing season-long captains and in turn he said
00:57okay that's what you guys want that's what we'll do he named five captains two offense two defense
01:02one special teams jayden daniels terry mclaurin frankie louvu jeremy reeves and tress way i'm all
01:09for it i don't have a like i personally don't think frankie louvu will play harder because there's a c
01:16on his chest all year but it's for me it's like if there's something you like to do that is
01:24good
01:25for you and makes you feel good whatever it is whether there's scientific truth to it helping
01:31you or not it doesn't matter if if internally you like it and the guys like it go for it
01:38look good
01:38feel good feel good play good that kind of very good play that's right yeah dude like i you know
01:45the
01:45whole captain thing's interesting the rams kind of got some shade on social media because you know
01:49how many captains the rams named 13 or something 11 wow like that's almost a quarter of the damn team
01:55what is it oprah running a you get a captain c and you get a captain c and you get
02:00a captain c um
02:01i always am fascinated by how a locker room vibrates who does it vibrate around who are the alphas in
02:10there who are the guys that people look to when things are you know hitting the fan the bad locker
02:16rooms have a leadership void that is obvious the good ones have a couple of dudes who you know
02:22keep it together because nfl seasons are often chaotic and things happen games are lost in ways
02:29that should never be lost and then you've got to go to work on tuesday and your body's all beat
02:34up
02:34you're like okay we got to prepare for this week we got to forget about throwing away
02:38that game last sunday and that takes leadership and guys you can look up to so i like the group
02:45that they've named and i think six is or five is a decent number it's not 11 so there's there's
02:50that
02:52i i like it i don't know that it's going to make a tremendous impact on anything no right like
02:57no not
02:58at all but i think for a lot of fans they really care about this it's never been something that
03:03really
03:03strikes me one way or another i think like yankee fans always cared about the captain and all this
03:08kind of stuff baseball slightly different yeah i think hockey it matters sure you know what i mean
03:13but i think i think it's a great move i like that they're doing something different that i like yeah
03:20i like that he listened to his guys that i like beyond that how did he figure out who was
03:26the captain
03:26each week um based on how they played in the game it was a lot of it was that sometimes
03:32it would be
03:32how many guys ended up wearing the sea last year a bunch when it was all said and done a
03:37bunch it
03:38was it was also like i remember we were in new orleans maybe two years ago and there was i
03:44can't
03:44remember which player it was somebody on the roster go to grambling or southern it was like somebody's
03:48kind of like homecoming so they got to be a captain for the weekend uh so there's kind of doled
03:53out as a booby prize of sorts i wouldn't say not but it was it was handed out like a
03:59special thing
04:00like oh you're playing you know okay now i mean quinn was asked a lot about it yesterday um and
04:06the way
04:07he explained it he said why go season long you know this is not how you've done it the last
04:14couple
04:14years he said there's a lot of leaders here and that was probably the thing that prompted us to say
04:17hey this is probably the right time to add some guys to it and really be an extension for the
04:22team
04:22these are five really heavy hitters and leaders here and it was nice to see some others there are
04:28a lot of guys that got votes on this year's team and i think it kind of speaks to the
04:31trust that
04:32their teammates have in these five and the work they've put in so for a guy like jeremy he has
04:37been an absolute legitimate leader for a while and so to see that paid forward i wasn't surprised
04:42one bit same thing for jayden to see all the stuff he went through and put the work in to
04:46know that
04:47people see that and all the work that he's put in here just all the joy terry's bringing
04:52i could probably go on and on but i think it was the group that you know said this is
04:56the right
04:56time to do this yeah okay i know this for those that are nerds about uniforms it's gonna be better
05:04to not have c's floating around on chests on any given week i'm trying to think if they even had
05:12them
05:12last last year not everybody was named captain got the c on their jersey because you were only the
05:17captain for the game i know but you would think you would think the equipment guy would slap it on
05:21there and then take it off uh yes i and you know i don't know maybe somebody can pull the
05:27i know well if i if i'm if i'm on the commanders and i get named captain for the week
05:33and i show up
05:34to my locker and there's no c i'd be like oh my god i would want that you know that's
05:40kind of an
05:40honorific now and the c now because the stars get filled up depending how many years you've done if
05:45you're a captain for four years you get the gold i would imagine ron did season long i believe i
05:51would
05:51imagine terry's probably filled up now i don't know i would guess i wonder revo too i don't know
05:57like we'll find out sunday when we see the unis honestly they'll probably drop something on social
06:02prior all right you want to know the number according to grok from last year i went looking
06:06this up the number of captains yes so there was 17 games 17 games i think it was three a
06:12week
06:12that whether there's 51 captains designations okay they believe it was three a week but some
06:20guys probably got doubles grok said that wikipedia's game recaps list captains combining those with
06:27other reports produces a unique list of roughly 30 players so in other words there was 30 captains
06:35last year yeah that tracks so almost half the team so he also said there is going to be one
06:40guy
06:41per week so you got five for the year and then one guy per week yeah by the way get
06:45you to six
06:45on the year on this per game colson yankoff got a c one game right like i bet i bet
06:50if he has that
06:51jersey at home with the c on it he ain't giving that up what game was that la i don't
06:56know what game but
06:57it just lists him as one of the guys i'm trying to look track that down like that would kind
07:00of so
07:01colson yankoff's a california kid played his college ball at ucla like i wouldn't be shocked if that
07:06was the game although that's kind of early in the year for yank i don't know i wouldn't be shocked
07:11to maybe it was late in the year once urts went down and he was probably on the active every
07:14week
07:14um but like urts got one oh sure nick bellore got one nick bellore was a special teams demon dude
07:21he's retired now but that dude on specials something else he had an intensity to him i think izzo just
07:27loved him um i think giving jayden like a formal leadership role in year three is the right move
07:37i like in year one how they handled things because you know i mean hell we saw it with robert
07:44in the snyder days where marketing dollars were all that mattered as soon as robert's drafted he's
07:52team captain he's a started quarterback like date everything was presented everything was given
07:57right when they drafted jayden he wasn't on the cover of the marketing materials there was no
08:03there was no billboard there was even the fallacy of making him he wasn't the starter when we got
08:09to camp it was mario technically yeah so like we all knew that was a charade but like they at
08:14least
08:14went through the markers and and i can appreciate not throwing all that on a 22 year old rookie
08:20quarterback um but now is certainly the time for it yeah i would say there's only two voices that
08:25the average fan cares to hear during the week leading up to games and that's the head coach and
08:30the quarterback and not all quarterbacks are as suited to be kind of a pr polished podium guy
08:37to me daniels strikes me as a bit quieter very low key he's all about ball he's not into the
08:46necessarily the rah-rah stuff but that's okay because rg3 was really good at the podium but it was all
08:54bs yep it was all eye wash it was fakery and i got snookered by it i i said early
09:01on in his
09:02redskin career i'm like man this guy's unnaturally immature for his age no no he just memorized how to
09:09sound important at the podium and he also wouldn't stop talking and so then when things got sideways as
09:16you remember jp he said some really dumb stuff like putting his name in the same set he says
09:23peyton manning and aaron rogers and that's where he lost a lot of the fan base that's where i would
09:29argue he probably lost a good chunk of the team too because nobody wants to hear that the quarterback
09:34takes all the blame gets all the credit that's the way it's always been that's the way it's always
09:38going to be and jayden had that from day one i mean jayden jayden had that publicly from day one
09:45i thought the best the best jayden press conference yeah which are frankly irrelevant
09:53but after the bears game last year they're not irrelevant but go ahead after that bears game
09:58last year where they lost on the late fumble he walked up to the podium said it was all me
10:02yeah
10:02wasn't the running back all my fault we lost because of me and he's not right right like there's 50
10:07dudes
10:08playing football there's a lot of moving parts it did right it did not all come down to one singular
10:12fumble but it sure swung the game and he stepped right up and owned it and that's who he is
10:17like
10:18the the thing i don't like with jayden robert comparisons is yes they were both number two
10:23overall picks heisman trophy winners like there are some comps there right but jayden the dude
10:28wildly different than robert oh i'm not wildly i'm not making a direct comparison they're very
10:32different guys i'm just saying i'm just saying it's easy to get fooled by the way guys sometimes sound
10:40sat monday through saturday at the podium sure you're like well this guy's really got it together
10:44oh maybe maybe not he might just be good at snowing people so yeah it's funny going to this eagles
10:52games i was talking with a couple guys last night at the pool they were asking me you know what
10:56do you
10:56think i really think they're gonna win i think they go to philly and win i said it the ike
11:02reese like
11:02i've told philly people this is how i feel i think based on vibes i think i like the spot
11:08a lot
11:08i think philly is a team that gets better over the course of the year okay i think jalen hurts
11:14the noise there he seems relatively impervious to the noise but i think losing aj brown is a really
11:22big deal and it seems like everybody's kind of like oh you know davante smith this and uh
11:29mckay lemon that and i just i think washington's defense now assuming health we'll get our first
11:35injury report tomorrow which is going to be a big deal that's going to be a big telltale sign
11:39specifically with the edge rushers away and chase on i just really like the spot i think this team
11:46this organization jayden daniels you know how mad jayden is about last year and dude i don't think
11:54he's paid any attention to all this lsu do you get that sense that he is mad okay that dude
12:00is a
12:01competitor yeah period it's in his blood and i think he lost last season he knows like he doesn't pay
12:10attention to the stuff but he knows the stuff's out there he's he's aware that it exists and the
12:16absolute best way to remind the nfl who he is is to go to philly that's fox game of the
12:21week right
12:22like this is gonna be on across the country oh yeah philly's a super bowl favorite right i bet
12:28philly's top five super bowl odds something like that i i think this team to dan quinn's point
12:37will be frothing at the mouth come sunday at 4 15.
