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JP believes the Commanders should trade assets at the deadline but is afraid Washington won't do much of anything.
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00:00Four hours away from the NFL trade deadline.
00:02Yeah.
00:03Do you think anything happens to you, Jay?
00:07I'll do should and will for you.
00:09Okay.
00:10I think the commanders should be looking to deal whatever they can.
00:14I think if you can move Caleb on Chase on and get a fifth, you should.
00:18I think if you can move Mikey and get a conditional sixth, you should.
00:22I think if you can move Marcus, I think Marcus is a really intriguing piece.
00:27If Jacoby Bursette got a fourth-rounder from the Ravens to the Cardinals,
00:32should Marcus get you a third, a fourth, and a sixth?
00:35I think I like Jacoby.
00:38I think Marcus is a better player.
00:40Yeah.
00:41And Marcus is a legit two-way player.
00:46His running ability is a real factor.
00:48Jacoby doesn't really present that.
00:51But Jacoby was starting.
00:54True.
00:55Yeah, but, I mean, if people are calling the Niners about Mac Jones,
00:58he ain't starting, but he's going to fetch a price.
01:00Yeah.
01:01I just think with Mac's younger, and then you look at his performance the last time
01:06he was on the field, it's like a lot of little things that makes that pick go up
01:11or down.
01:12I think you could argue, even if you'd only get a fourth for Marcus,
01:17you should do it.
01:18So, for me, what should they do is trade things away, acquire more picks,
01:24realize where they are, and sure, you're going to try to win these games,
01:28get back in the NFC East race, but we've got to think big picture here.
01:31Because even if we climb back in this thing at 8, 9, and 1,
01:35is my math right on that?
01:37No.
01:378, 8, and 1?
01:39Yeah, that'd be straight 500.
01:41Right.
01:41In a league with an odd number of games.
01:43Like, even if you climb back in this thing at 500,
01:48are you better for next season?
01:50Like, I think you could separate the attempt to climb back in the NFC East race
01:55with the need to acquire more capital.
01:57So, if I was in charge, I would be looking to trade away, period.
02:04What do I think will happen?
02:06Not much.
02:07Yeah.
02:09There is, I don't know the right term, a confidence, an arrogance.
02:14There is a reluctance for any sort of admission of the facts of where this thing is right now.
02:25But is it, or there appears to be.
02:29Is it necessary to admit 100% where you are right now, why you're still trying to win?
02:35I think, I will say this, I think having a short week on trade deadline week sucks.
02:42I think that is a real unfortunate byproduct of scheduling for them.
02:49Because, if this was a typical Sunday game, and they had these first two days of the week
02:55for the staff and the front office to really sit down and be like,
02:58alright, we know the record's bad, we know we've been in some close games,
03:02do we think we can claw our way back into this?
03:06Yeah.
03:06I think that would be a little different.
03:08I do think it's worth acknowledging that the schedule of a short week on the deadline sucks.
03:13I kind of feel that that conversation you're talking about is being had, just not publicly.
03:20Agreed.
03:20They don't have to, they don't have, they have zero obligation to make an admission of guilt
03:28to the media or fans or anybody else.
03:30Frankly, they never would, right?
03:33But I just want it to be known in the building.
03:36Like, I don't know, they're aware of the record, right?
03:40They're certainly aware of their record.
03:42They're aware of where they are in the division.
03:45I think the viewpoint from the outside looking in is you're just not very good.
03:49And I don't know if they have that same viewpoint.
03:54Yeah, but I think that's the viewpoint every time you lose football games.
03:58But I think players who practice and when you hear players saying...
04:01I'm not talking players.
04:02I'm talking front office.
04:03I'm saying when you're hearing players talking, the coaches are saying the same thing the players see.
04:08And when they think, oh, we got to do is make this play to get over the hump,
04:12they rarely see that we're just not good.
04:15They see like, damn, we keep making mistakes, which that's what I see.
04:19I see they make too many damn mistakes.
04:20And I think they're more inconsistent and they show more inconsistency and lack of discipline
04:31than they show me that they're not good.
04:33But aren't those two things backers and bad teams?
04:37Sometimes you just are over-talented.
04:40Both of the teams are way more talented than you.
04:43But this team here makes too many damn mistakes.
04:46You know, so that's what I'm looking at.
04:48But I'm not looking at the fact that everybody is just overwhelmingly better than them.
04:53No, I don't see that.
04:54I see them shoot themselves in the foot at the most inopportune times.
04:57When that happens over and over and over, though?
05:00Yeah.
05:00You want to try to correct.
05:02And then I think that's the thing that they're trying to focus on is correcting it.
05:05Like, I not only listen to the coaches.
05:08I try to hear what players say, too.
05:10And I see a lot of confident damn players.
05:13And when I see a player completely start to go into the dump and start saying certain things,
05:17I know it's done then.
05:19But when you still see players with a level of confidence and a belief in what they have,
05:24that is when I'm like, okay, something has to be just messing up around here.
05:29The consistent mess-ups would be...
05:31Yeah, that kills me.
05:33You know, I don't...
05:34That's the thing that really pisses me off is the consistent...
05:38Every time you think they're going to do something, they do something the other way.
05:41I can't really deal with that very well.
05:46I tend to agree with you.
05:48If you are the coaches in that building, you have to be harping on, we've been really close.
05:56We could have beat Philly week one.
05:58Had a chance against the Niners late.
06:00Had a chance against the Rams late.
06:01Inexplicably tied a game against the Giants.
06:03Like, that should be what the players and the coaches are focused on.
06:08I think the front office needs to have a separate vision.
06:12Players and coaches are focused on winning the next game.
06:15That is their job, period.
06:17Oh, yeah.
06:18The front office needs a big picture look.
06:20You're absolutely right about that, Jay, but that's the thing about it.
06:22When I talk, I'm really speaking from a player...
06:25Totally.
06:26...player-coach perspective.
06:27And I agree with you.
06:30Listen, my 14 years of playing, I rarely ever talked to or gave a damn about what the front office
06:38was thinking.
06:39Because I knew the people that made everybody's job easier was the guys that was in the locker rooms and
06:44those little coaches' offices.
06:45And we try to handle our business that way.
06:47I know as you get older, people think you're always talking to the front office.
06:51I ain't no reason to talk to them.
06:53I had a reason to make sure I could get the guys around me getting better or make sure the
06:57coaches could get a little better.
06:58But the front office, their job is to look at them tomorrow.
07:02My job is to worry about today.
07:04And I couldn't agree more with you that the players and the coaches should not be focused on big picture.
07:12Yeah.
07:13But where I think the fellas that should, Lance Newmark, Sosna, Adam Peters, that's where I want an admission of
07:22where this thing is.
07:24But see, that's the thing about it.
07:25They don't talk.
07:27Like, you've been around this.
07:29No, I don't mean publicly.
07:30I don't give a rip what they say publicly.
07:32That's why I want them to trade players away.
07:35Because they understand over the last 17 plus 8, over the last 25 games, you've won 7 of them.
07:41And what you have acquired isn't good enough.
07:45And I don't mean it publicly.
07:47Make the trades.
07:48What I explained to you earlier, the position that they are in is totally different than the position that what
07:57you see the Eagles doing.
07:59The Eagles front office ain't going no damn well.
08:02Sure.
08:03This front office start trading away.
08:05They are going somewhere.
08:08First of all, they are in a position now where they got to prove that they can do what they
08:12told them they can do for getting hired the first time.
08:16So, getting rid of players ain't going to help because that's also admitting the fact that I didn't get good
08:22players.
08:22Right.
08:22So, they are in a pickle right now.
08:25Right.
08:25They are praying to God that the players and the coaches get this thing right to help them out.
08:29A hundred percent.
08:30Yeah.
08:30A hundred percent.
08:31So, for them to start trading in that, listen, I have talked about this for a long time.
08:36And I know for some reason when I say stuff, people don't like to take it because they know more
08:42than the players and they won't listen to everybody else.
08:45But when I say nucleus and I speak on those levels, I'm not telling you stuff just to be telling
08:50you stuff.
08:50So, I'm telling you stuff that I know is factual on teams that work.
08:54Teams that can do what the Eagles are doing and be right back at it the next year, that team
09:00is full.
09:01They got a nucleus.
09:02They have top-notch players.
09:04They can do that, like throw off all the junk and then pick on something.
09:08Go back and win.
09:09But the teams that hadn't got to that point yet, they can't do that.
09:14And this team is one of those teams who's not at that point.
09:16Totally agree.
09:17The problem, I would say, is you're three years in.
09:22Yeah.
09:22Outside of, you tell me if you think I'm being overly critical here.
09:27We could try to identify the nucleus.
09:30Jaden, obviously, it's the most important position and I believe they have that filled and filled well.
09:36I would put Sonny in there.
09:38Yeah.
09:38I would put Antonio Williams in there.
09:41Yeah.
09:41And nucleus, to me, is here now and here for the future.
09:47I like the Nick Cross signing a lot.
09:49Trey Amos looks like a player.
09:52But see, people are already talking about Trey and him trying to get something for Nick.
09:56So I'm not saying that one.
09:57No.
09:58Because he's on a multi-year deal.
09:59Yeah, so he.
10:00Chason's on a one-year deal.
10:01So Chason is a guy.
10:03But like the way he's playing, hell, wouldn't you be trying to sign him?
10:08Trying to keep him around.
10:10Because the way he's playing this year, I would love to see that for the next three, four years.
10:13Sure.
10:14I don't know.
10:16But like when you talk about the 2024 draft, as of now, is haunting this front office.
10:21That's just the reality.
10:22You got Jaden, but then you had five picks in the second and third round.
10:28And you're getting some play there.
10:30Like, like, Sennett looked like a good blocker the other day.
10:33He did a hell of a job the few times he was matched up with Miles Garrett.
10:36But that's a coaching problem.
10:38I don't know why a tight end solo against Miles Garrett.
10:40And credit to the Rams for moving him around.
10:42But like, Newton's been hurt.
10:45Sammer still's regressed significantly.
10:49Luke's turned into a good return man for you.
10:52If that's enough.
10:53But I just don't know what the nucleus is that you're...
10:57But that's what I'm saying.
10:58Like, what I kept saying is they haven't built a nucleus.
11:03But everybody else always want them to go out and get something else.
11:06Do something else.
11:08Build that damn nucleus.
11:09Then you could go do all that stuff.
11:11You know, if...
11:13I'm going to use it like this.
11:15I like to give analogies.
11:17Okay?
11:17If you keep buying parts for a car, but you don't have a damn car, how does it help you?
11:25So, you know...
11:27So, the car is the nucleus.
11:28We keep getting pieces.
11:30We just don't have a car.
11:32I agree with that.
11:33We got a steering wheel.
11:34We got a starter.
11:37We don't have an engine.
11:39We don't have a transmission.
11:41We don't have no tires.
11:43So, like you said, Jaden...
11:45Okay, that's a steering wheel.
11:47So, Sonny, he could be an ignition.
11:50What's it called?
11:51Your name?
11:53Williams.
11:53Nick, let's call it.
11:55There's some bumpers.
11:56Still have no wheels.
11:57No drivetrain.
11:58No engine.
11:59No transmission.
12:01Can't do much.
12:02But you got parts.
12:04You got nice rims.
12:06We got great, great doors.
12:08We got a great pay job.
12:09We don't have no damn engine in it.
12:11I agree with you.
12:13And I think that's where...
12:14I think that's an indictment of where things are in year three.
12:17I think it's been that indictment for the last 15, 20, 30 years.
12:21And it started off with a bang because the players on the field would not make stuff happen.
12:27But the stopping to build something has not happened for 20 plus years.
12:33And that is overall...
12:36It was the franchise and it was everybody outside of it wanting...
12:41Everything to move.
12:42And they did a lot with what everybody wanted, but it never got to the point.
12:46I think you got to get people to come in here, put on their earmuffs to what the outside is
12:52saying, build something, get the proper nucleus, and then be what you want to do.
12:57I agree with you theoretically entirely.
13:02I thought you'd have more built by year three of this group.
13:05I thought two.
13:06But you, I, everybody that's calling in here and hating everything now wanted them last year to go for it,
13:13right?
13:14After 24.
13:15Yes.
13:16Because we saw that one little thing.
13:19At that point, they probably should have said, yeah, let's just pump the brakes a little bit and add some
13:24more pieces to this.
13:25We may still win some games.
13:26I think if they had went in the way that they should have gone, they would have won more than
13:30five games last year.
13:32But the way they went, they went veteran.
13:35And most of those veterans got hurt.
13:37And then all of a sudden, you just left with what?
13:40Nothing.
13:41Right.
13:41I agree with you.
13:42And the conversations we're having are more for ownership, right?
13:46Like, how do you think this joint is built after three years?
13:49And that might be more for the end of the season.
13:52But that's why, when you ask me what I think they should do on trade deadline day, is sell.
13:58What they will do, I think, stand pat, largely.
14:02I don't think they're going to add, right?
14:04Like, I don't see them.
14:06The Brian Thomas thing I found interesting.
14:09I don't expect a conditional seventh going to San Fran for IU at this point.
14:14You know what I mean?
14:15Yeah.
14:16So, I don't think they're going to add.
14:17When you talk about the players that we hear a lot about out there, I mean, could Jonathan Taylor help
14:22this team?
14:23Absolutely.
14:24Should they pay the freight on a 29-year-old running back at this stage of where the organization is?
14:30No chance.
14:32Like, the Vikings should.
14:34The Giants should.
14:35The Bengals, maybe.
14:37Like, teams that are competing.
14:38If I had a healthy tonsil over there, I would damn sure take Jonathan Taylor.
14:42The tonsil injury has massive ramifications for this team, and it's just super unfortunate.
14:48Tonsil was at the game on, when was that, Sunday?
14:52He was out there for some of the pregame stuff, and I think that has certainly value.
14:58I mean, maybe you get tonsil back.
14:59I just, it's hard to be this far into a season and have these kinds of questions and very few
15:10answers.