00:00Now, lots of reporting, especially late last night and this morning from guys like Jeremy Fowler and Graziano especially.
00:08And Fowler, for like the third time in the last few days, and I mentioned this I think on Monday
00:14or maybe last Friday,
00:16Fowler reported that Washington received multiple calls on Mikey Sanristill.
00:23But Washington was only parting with Sanristill for a, quote, quality pick, closed quote.
00:33You know, the interest in Mikey Sanristill might be surprising to some of you.
00:38But with that said, you know who gave him the biggest ringing endorsement of all time?
00:45A guy that people listen to in the business, Nick Saban, who said the night of the 2024 draft,
00:52he's the best pound-for-pound player in the draft.
00:58He felt that way about Sanristill.
01:00Washington not giving up on Mikey Sanristill at this point.
01:04You know, these draft picks, it takes time.
01:08Usually after three years, you know, and after three years, which is the end of this year,
01:12the Mikey Sanristill resume isn't going to look good.
01:15One good year early on and two dreadful years back-to-back.
01:21So we'll see on him.
01:23But, yeah, I mean, once again, you know, reporting that multiple teams were interested
01:30in trading for Mikey Sanristill.
01:33It goes to show you, by the way, that when you have a DB that's played well at any point,
01:38teams take notice because it is hard to find those guys.
01:43It's hard to find depth at that position.
01:47One other thing real quickly, not necessarily related to yesterday, but I wanted to mention this.
01:56I think it was Ben Solak from ESPN had his mid-season awards on ESPN,
02:03where he had first-team and second-team selections for every position.
02:08He had Sam Cosme as the first team mid-season starting right guard.
02:16And I thought about that.
02:18And I know that this is something that is probably very surprising to many of you
02:27because you think the offensive line is terrible
02:31and that nobody on the offensive line deserves any sort of, you know, recognition.
02:37Now, I think most of you think that Sam Cosme is a good player.
02:40But first team, right guard, mid-season for this team, a 2-5-1 football team,
02:46what it truly describes or reflects is something that I think is really important to discuss
02:56because perception of what our team is isn't always reality
03:03when you put it side-by-side with the rest of the league.
03:06You know what the rest of the league has a major problem with?
03:10Offensive line.
03:12Finding quality players, quality starting level players
03:18to fill out five positions on your offensive line,
03:22and then they have major problems
03:25finding players that can be good depth answers.
03:30One of the reasons that it's hard is that it's the position group
03:36of all of the position groups that has the most players.
03:39There are five spots, and then there are another five backup spots
03:42depending on whether you keep 8, 9, 10, 11, whatever it is.
03:46But, you know, receiver has three if you count slot.
03:49Running back, most is two.
03:51You know, defensive line, three or four depending on what your base defense is.
03:56Linebacker, three or four.
03:58Corner's two, safety's two.
04:00The O-line has five players in that position group.
04:04O-line.
04:05It's very hard to fill out an offensive line
04:08with high quality from left to right.
04:12Left tackle to right tackle.
04:14It's really hard to find good depth.
04:17The fact that Sam Cosme missed what?
04:19What did he miss?
04:19Two games this year?
04:21Did he miss two games or a game?
04:23I think it was two.
04:27The fact that somebody like Ben Solak, who really follows the league, you know,
04:32very closely from an advanced, you know, analytical standpoint, etc.,
04:38put Sam Cosme as the first team guard.
04:41I'm not knocking it.
04:42I think Cosme's a good player.
04:44Trust me.
04:45I do.
04:46Washington's the 32nd ranked run block win rate team in the league per next gen.
04:54Now, they are seventh in pass block win rate.
04:58But the fact that Cosme was the answer for Solak tells you that, yes, he's a good player,
05:07but also that there aren't a lot of great right guards in the league right now.
05:14This is part of the problem with the position.
05:16I'm telling you, most fan bases rip management, rip their GM for the lack of depth along the offensive line
05:25or the lack of higher quality starting talent along the offensive line.
05:30Watch the waiver wire just a little bit, just to see all the moves that are made having to do
05:36with the O-line.
05:37It's also a position that suffers a higher percentage of injuries.
05:42I mean, there's a lot of rolling around on backs of legs, on knees, etc., in piles.
05:48So it's hard to keep five together for 17 games a year.
05:55I'm not making this case because I'm hell-bent on defending Adam Peters.
06:02That's not it at all.
06:03I think Adam Peters has several strikes against him in terms of some of the decisions he's made.
06:08I also think there are more pros than I think most of you believe there are.
06:12I'm just stating what is a league fact about offensive line play.
06:20The majority of NFL fan bases are complaining about offensive line play, offensive line depth,
06:29and by the way, by extension, because a lot of the pre-snap penalties are offensive line penalties,
06:35too many penalties.
06:36We don't look organized.
06:37We look undisciplined.
06:39We don't have a good center.
06:40We don't have a good left guard.
06:42We have no depth.
06:44League-wide, fan bases complain about that all the time.
06:49Philadelphia, in recent years, has been consistently solid.
06:55Howie Roseman's done a great job, and they have had a very good offensive line.
07:00And, you know, our franchise has invested in that position, traded for Laramie Tunsil,
07:07gave him a long-term contract, used a first-round pick to pick a right tackle.
07:12So it's not like they've ignored the position.
07:15Now, you may say, well, what about the interior?
07:19What about the center?
07:20The center position is a totally reasonable conversation to have.
07:23I believe Tyler Linderbaum was what they wanted, and they were absolutely stunned by where the
07:29market went for him.
07:30I think when they let Biotish go, they thought they could go out and pay top dollar and land
07:37the best center, not only in free agency, one of the best centers in the league, one of the
07:42best interior offensive linemen in the league, in Linderbaum.
07:46And they didn't get it done.
07:48They should have, perhaps, considered the possibility of not getting that done.
07:54But their fallback was Nick Allegretti, mistake, at least through eight regular season games,
08:02a mistake.
08:03He's got nine more to prove himself.
08:05We'll see if he can do it.
08:07But, yeah, the idea that Sam Cosme is your first team midseason starting right guard, first
08:14team, is a compliment to him.
08:18I don't want to take anything away from him because Sam's a good player.
08:21He's a really good player.
08:22They actually have two A-level offensive line players in Tunsil and in Cosme.
08:30Unfortunately, Tunsil's not available to them this year.
08:33And they also have, I think, in Josh Connerly, a player that's developing into maybe a future
08:39A-level player.
08:40We'll see.
08:41More physical maturity, more strength, you know, more experience.
08:49But, yeah.
