WE’RE ON THE CLOCK

The clock is ticking… and Season 2 is officially ON.

Bob and Mike are back in the home office to launch Season 2 of Command the Commute with a full-throttle breakdown of the Commanders’ offseason. The NFL Draft is in the books, and the guys are diving into every pick—starting with the monster at #7, Sonny Styles. Is he the playmaking defensive weapon Washington has been missing? The boys are fired up, cautiously optimistic, and already talking positionless defense.

Then it’s on to free agency, where the Commanders didn’t chase flashy headlines—they plugged holes. Leo Chenal brings violence, juice, and attitude to the middle of the defense. Odafe Oweh, Amik Robertson, Chig Okonkwo, Rashad White, Jerome Ford, and more get the full CTC treatment as Bob and Mike sort through who fits, who sticks, and who could be gone by roster cuts.

Of course, no Commanders offseason is complete without a uniform debate. The new burgundy, white, and black sets are here—and they might be the closest thing yet to the old-school Redskins look. So naturally, the guys go there: could the logo come back? Could the name ever return? And is the new stadium timeline the real deadline?

Plus: NFL offseason drama, Dan Quinn’s warming seat, next year’s NFL Draft coming to DC, WrestleMania disappointment, Ravens uniform slander, and what’s ahead for Season 2.

New season. New roster. Same two maniacs on the mic.

We’re on the clock. Let’s ride.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:16

Sonny involving everything we look for in the commander on and off the field. So I'm really really excited. So please join me in welcoming Sonny Sal to the Commander's family in the DMV.

SPEAKER_03 0:35

How are we doing? Yo, Mike, what's up? Hey, Bobby.

SPEAKER_05 0:41

And hey, we're going into season two of Command the Commute. Talking about the game, going to the game. You got it. Hold on. Let me get this. Of course, it wouldn't be Command the Commute if we didn't have some technical difficulties right off the bat. But hey, we're here. We're back. The offseason is going. Full swing. Man, our our roster has real, I think, improved right off the bat. Just going through free agency and then the draft just ended. Um, I'm I'm excited. We've got, I don't know what list uh or when it gets released or who compiles it at what time. I guess it's probably when the active roster hit up. But last year we were on the older side of the average age per player across the league. I gotta think after free agency and now the guys that look like they're gonna make our team from the draft, I would think that we're we're definitely on the younger side.

SPEAKER_04 1:43

I mean, I don't know if we're better, but I'll say that our roster has evolved.

SPEAKER_05 1:48

We're definitely that's one way to look at it. That's that's uh that's a you know, that perspective there is a lot different than the perspective of last offseason, where I was gonna say it was pretty much the same, but go on. Well, no, I mean resay what you basically just said. It's evolved, which I think is a really good way to to kind of put it. You're starting to see Adam Peters really put together a roster. It's safe to say at this point, outside of Tressway and a and a few others, the Rivera era is gone. Oh, yeah. That's done for there's there's a handful of of guys, and and those guys uh honestly, most of them were there before Rivera.

unknown 2:39

True.

SPEAKER_05 2:40

Honestly, but um, but I I think evolving is a good way to put it, and and it also has a sense of realism, not optimism. Right. Because last year, last year's offseason, like many Redskins, commanders, football team, Washington fans, we were all on the optimistic because we just came off the NFC Championship.

SPEAKER_04 3:06

Right.

SPEAKER_05 3:07

Now we're coming off the seventh pick in the draft, rightfully so. Um last year was brutal. Last year felt like a Dan Snyder era year in terms of the product on the field, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 3:19

Right.

SPEAKER_05 3:19

And we've talked about that plenty. You know, so I'm super excited. Let's give everybody just a rundown of what to expect over the the first episode here. Obviously, the name of the title of the podcast is we're on the clock because the draft just ended. So super excited about that. We'll just kind of set the stage with Mike and I are not college football experts by any means. I wait until they're on my team, until I decide to choose an opinion on those guys. As Maryland Terrapin football fans, it's really hard to get jazzed up about college football. Uh you agree. I mean, I just almost wish I could pick another college team to get behind just so and a good one.

SPEAKER_04 4:09

I don't know which one I would I'm not invested enough to uh to care about college sports as a whole.

SPEAKER_05 4:15

I would like to be able to track uh a college player and then like through the to the NFL like I know a lot of people do. I mean, a lot of people are huge college football fans, and they know all these prospects and watch the combine and all that stuff. And that's wonderful for them. Yeah, I just can't. I I mean, I can't choose to know your name until you make my fantasy lineup for the most part, unless you're on my actual team, too. Um so obviously gonna talk about the draft. Want to talk about free agency because we haven't had an episode since uh oh, we had uh all the free agent signings, which hey, I'm looking across the board there at all the NFL ESPN uh pundits out there, and our draft, our free agency class or draft our free agency was was all really good, greeted very high.

SPEAKER_04 5:07

Everybody's looking at all of our well-rounded draft is what I see.

SPEAKER_05 5:11

Well, draft and free agency is it and from what I'm seeing in the early parts of like the the overall draft in grades, which we'll we'll look into. Um but we'll look into free agency, and then we got some NFL news that we're gonna talk about. I mean, um there's plenty of things to talk about around the league, and one being like, are we journalists? Um that's uh a strong word. Um I mean, we are we are we have a podcast, and a lot of podcast people are media, and I guess in some sense of the Bill of Rights, we're all journalists, you know?

SPEAKER_04 5:55

Uh I mean Freedom of Press? Yes, but I wouldn't define us as journalists.

SPEAKER_05 6:01

We're just we're not breaking any news.

SPEAKER_04 6:04

Yeah, we're um we're opinion media at most. Right.

SPEAKER_05 6:09

Right. But if we were journalists and there was a female head coach out there, we still probably couldn't have an affair with her. No, no, absolutely not. So we'll get into Diana Rossini and really man. That has really dominated the news cycles here in the sports world, especially in the offseason uh uh of the NFL, where the only thing is to talk about is the draft and Mike Ray Bell and Diana Rossini. And some of the videos out there are just uh damning to say the least. We'll get into it, I guess, a little bit. Um so let's get right into uh the 2026 NFL draft. We had the seventh pick and Sonny Styles, the guy that we the guy that we took. Where's my phone?

SPEAKER_03 7:03

Don't know.

SPEAKER_05 7:04

Thought I brought it in here. All right, we'll pull up our picks. Oh no, my phone's recording. You wanna there you go. Where's your phone?

SPEAKER_04 7:12

It's in my pocket.

SPEAKER_05 7:13

All right. Um Sonny Styles is the first pick. I mean, his his attributes that stick out right immediately is like his size for a middle linebacker. He's six foot six, and I'm calling him six six because I saw that he was six foot five and seven eights. Yeah, just round. I'm rounding, but then the question is with these football dimensions, have they already rounded? And we're rerounding. Was did was is he actually six? It doesn't matter, doesn't matter, but he's huge, he's 245 pounds, he runs a 4'4. Um he he he's tied for a uh combine record in like the long broad jump. I mean, we've got a really, really athletic middle linebacker. He used to play safety, and then so like when he started college, he was six foot one, 185 pounds, and was a perfect safety, and then just kept growing and growing and growing, and now he's six foot six, two hundred and forty-five pounds.

SPEAKER_04 8:19

Well, imagine once once he truly gets into the the off-season workout and begins to bulk up to NFL standards.

SPEAKER_05 8:28

Well, I think that is NFL standards. I mean, he is a monster. I mean, the only thing that you you I would be I wouldn't be shocked with is if he if this guy keeps bulking, then you start to his position becomes one where his hand is in the ground. Right now, he's still lanky and long, and and the 245 looks still as a huge middle linebacker, but that's his athleticism at that middle linebacker. But I like it because his experience as a safety and his athleticism, we got a middle linebacker that we can cover that can cover, where Bobby Wagner, he was a tackling machine and and was stopping people in the A, B, and C gap. But if it was a passing down, we really didn't like seeing Bobby Wagner in the game. No. Um, which uh to kind of wrap up the the seventh pick, I think we still got to talk about Bobby Wagner because I do do we is there still room for him to be re-signed, or at this point, is it wasted money? And I guess it's also it also depends upon Bobby Wagner's mindset.

SPEAKER_04 9:49

You could resign him and use him as like a part-time player on like maybe first and second down or something, you know.

SPEAKER_05 9:57

Well, that was what I was getting at. Like, does that what is that what Bobby Wagner wants as a 36, 37-year-old linebacker? Maybe he wants to take that more Von Miller role and kind of come in on downs and mentor and you know, keep playing because he's got the drive to do it, but or does he want to go be with a contender and play every snap? I mean, we'll find out if we're able to free signings. Because well, that's why that I mean, but it's up for debate, which is why I but I think the first question is is there room for for him? Um, we're also gonna get into our free agent picks, and we took a guy, Leo Chenal, which we'll get into because he was one of my favorite free agent signings just from the things that I've seen and how pumped up he looks. But um, you know, he he plays in the middle of the field as well, no, depending on what kind of packages that we're in. And it seems like the defenses in the NFL, what I kept hearing throughout the draft was like a positionless defense. I kept hearing that term all weekend as they were talking about certain players. Um, because there are these athletes where you're like, is Micah Parsons a defensive end, or is he better suited as a middle linebacker? But like he can kind of do it all. You know, you get these mixed matchy players um where you're like, what position is he? Doesn't matter. He's a hybrid, he's a defender. Um, he's on that side of the ball and he can play wherever you want him to.

SPEAKER_04 11:34

Well, I think the league, as you just sort of alluded to, that's kind of what the league is evolving to, the more plug-and-play type players. Then, you know, I'm a one-trick pony, I can do this position and only this position.

SPEAKER_05 11:47

Right.

SPEAKER_04 11:48

I think the league is just evolving to where you need to be able to do multiple different things depending on what the what your playbook calls for.

SPEAKER_05 11:57

Now, his highlights don't really show him uh as like the big uh like he doesn't come across the screen the same way that Sean Taylor did, but I like a freak athlete that plays that middle linebacker, like middle of the field, Sean Taylor was middle like safety, you know. I I so of course he's one of my favorite players, so I'm always gonna think of him when I'm looking for, and this is really what we're after. And people are debating, you know, what should we have taken someone else? Like, I don't care who we take, I just want him to be a playmaker on the defensive side of the ball. You know, I want the lot, the Bosa. I I want the Miles Garrett, I want the playmaker, the guy that like the flashy players.

SPEAKER_04 12:50

And the way, and the of course we talked about this, but the way we played last year, like I see no problem in shoring up the the defense in the way that we did. I mean, pff we needed to. So, and at this point, who are we to not trust Adam Peters to make the right decisions? Right. You know, I mean, he's we talked about it before we got on air, you know, he's he's newer to our team, he's you know, getting his footprint in there, then he really hasn't done anything, I think, for the fan base to distrust him. So, you know, he had one good season and one bad season.

SPEAKER_05 13:33

So this is the season that, as we've already talked about, makes or breaks the Yeah, I think there's been some things that make you raise an eyebrow, and we've kind of like, uh, but we're not in the room, we're not in the building. We don't know the other conversations happening behind the scenes with other teams. We don't know how the players are reacting on a day-to-day. And you know, it's a simple thing when you're just like, I just want guys that love football, want to be here, want to work, and have like buy into our mission.

SPEAKER_04 13:59

Um and the people that we've signed, if you've listened to their you know, press conferences, they're thrilled to be here for those kind of things, you know, the culture, the the locker room, the the whole deal.

SPEAKER_05 14:13

There was only one or two free agent interviews where I kind of was getting the feeling like yeah, they would have gone anywhere that that but this was the best deal they could get. Um and like, of course, that's it's a business. That's what they're gonna do. They're they're gonna go to the team that's given them the best deal to play there, but at the same time, that doesn't also mean that they can't buy into the system and be a good teammate and and buy into everything that we're doing as well. Um, all right. I'm just gonna kind of run through the rest of the draft picks here. You know, um we with the 71st pick in the third round, we took Antonio Williams, a wide receiver out of Clemson. Uh kind of shifty, uh quick, um not six foot. Uh I guess that's the end of that. Um to me, very comparable to a Jalen Lane type of a player, which can kind of confuse me about the pick, but maybe he was like the best best player at that spot. I don't know enough about the depth of the draft to know people are still grading that pick really high for where we took them. Um I'm excited. I like the fact that we're we're we're balking up our wide receiver room because God knows we struggled in with injuries last year, and that's where we yeah, that's where we our depth was struggling the most. You don't want to have a situation where you're bringing you're signing two to three wide receivers in the middle of the season in one week and teaching them the playbook and hoping that they can get open. Um, but that's what was happening to us all last season. So got got another wide receiver there. Um in the fifth round with the 147 pick, we took Joshua Joseph's edge uh rusher out of Tennessee. Um the the little tidbits that I'm seeing on him is just kind of developmental, but we look, I don't care. We need we need developmental players on on that side of the ball. Sometimes these young guys really don't catch their stride until their second or third year. Um we'll get into it with our free agency. Well, we we brought back Tim Settle. He he was a situation where we would have re-signed him when we had him, but another team was gonna give him a little bit more money. Um, but he's uh he's a proven vet at this point, and so much so to where he's gonna be a pretty big part of our defense, I think, um on the defensive side of the ball with Duron. Um after that, in the sixth round, we took uh Penn State running back. Uh I'm gonna mess up some of these guys' names until they start scoring touchdowns. Like they don't really have a need for me to know their names, but Catron Allen, K-tron, Katron, Catron, Megatron, K-tron. I like it. Um offensively, another position group where we were all banged up last year. Um really, really struggled with Eckler going down week, whatever that was. It was early, it was like week one or two, right?

SPEAKER_04 17:36

Uh yeah, it was within the first three weeks. I'll put it to you that way.

SPEAKER_05 17:40

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um and then kind of finished uh oh round six, we had another pick. We took a center. We I mean we we need depth on the O-line. Um sixth round pick for a center. Hey, I don't know how many centers got drafted, but I I think sixth round is where you go with the heavy guys. Um I I really do. You're gonna find depth with the heavy guys, especially where they can get developmental too. There's a lot left to learn, and you've changed those guys' diets a little bit from the calf food to an NFL diet and get them in the weight room competing with our D-line. I I really I have always thought that in the later rounds, like, why wouldn't they just go O-line, O-line? Like, take the best offensive and defensive lineman that you have. Right. Because that's where you need the most depth throughout the year. Um, but we didn't do that with our seventh pick. We took a quarterback, uh, another guy who I can't name, uh I can't pronounce his name, Ethan Kelakamasis Kemanis. Uh, with the 223rd pick out of Rutgers. Um we resigned Mariota.

SPEAKER_04 18:55

Yeah, which is why one of many reasons I think that was a wasteful pick. You should have gone with a kicker, a punter, anyone else but a quarterback. You didn't really need a quarterback.

SPEAKER_05 19:06

If you thought that you I think it was a wow, look at that catch.

SPEAKER_04 19:11

I think it was just a wasteful pick. I think it was a stupid pick.

SPEAKER_05 19:16

I mean, I don't see the need for it. I just don't. Well, let me put it to you this way. Like just in terms of like with in the seventh round, these are guys that may or may not make the team. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 19:31

Well, he's not gonna make the team. I'll tell you that right now, and I don't even know who he is, but he's not gonna make the team. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 19:37

Let's say he doesn't make the team. Right? You still need a third quarterback going into training camp. And if you've got a guy that you think maybe, maybe, you know, there's a little he's a quarterback too, because he in the seventh round quarterback, another team would have definitely signed him as an undrafted uh free agent, an undrafted rookie. So if you can draft him and you don't need to compete with other teams to sign him as that third spot, then draft him. Then you don't, then you got your guy that you're gonna at least take in the training camp, right? That's that's the opposite. That's that's the answer to your question. That is the opposite way to look at it. That's the only upside, right? Because if he goes undrafted, then anybody can get him, right? Yeah. But to your point, and my point, why not just take like the best right guard available? Why not just take the best defensive tackle available? Shoot, why not take a kicker? Even, you know, like take a kicker in the seventh round. Nobody's gonna blame me for taking a kicker.

SPEAKER_04 20:49

It just seems of all the positions to draft, why? Uh but I understand what you're saying.

SPEAKER_05 20:56

I just don't agree with it. I mean, we don't, I mean, to my knowledge, I don't think we other than Jane Daniels and Marcus Mariota, now those will be the only guys that matter on the starting day roster. Right. Because we've proven that like even if we had a third guy like Sam Hartman, right? Even if you do draft a guy and develop him up, and he doesn't make the asteroster, but he's good enough in the locker room, he seems like a good guy, good teammate. You still need a practice squad guy, you need a scout team guy. But to our argument last year, why have Sam Hartman on the team if you're just gonna bring in Josh Johnson or somebody else to start in front of him? He's been on your team, he's paid you dues, we're four and whatever. Like, yeah, why exactly? So, but it's a difficult spot there. I mean, who knows? Maybe, maybe he's the next Tom Brady. We took him in the seventh round. It's a good, it's a yeah, a good another way to look at it is there's never a shortage of having too many good quarterbacks on your team. Like that's a good problem to have. But we've never had it. Right. We've never had that. Um but yeah, I mean, from what I've seen out there, everybody else thinks that our draft was good. I hope that these guys are good. I like the positions uh that we drafted at the round that we took them, uh, outside of obviously your in my yeah, but I'm not I don't feel strongly enough about that opinion to really bitch about a round seven pick. Right.

SPEAKER_04 22:40

Like I just said what I said, but that's that's the end of it, right?

SPEAKER_05 22:43

Right now. Yeah. Um, but we got we got a running back, we got a wide receiver. I mean, we really spread uh the draft across the position groups, you know, um, which is good. You don't want to be too young at any one spot. Right.

SPEAKER_04 22:59

So now let's talk about what really matters, and that's next year's draft.

SPEAKER_05 23:03

Oh yeah, because next year is in DC. That's right. And we are definitely going. And one way or the other, yes. Dude, why did it not even occur to me that there was like a whole NFL draft uh thing inside the stadium? It looked like they had the whole draft on the Jumbotron and everybody was just drinking beer, enjoying themselves on the field. Uh, why didn't I know about this?

SPEAKER_04 23:27

I well, they do something like that every year, but it's usually for season ticket holders. But we are season tickets. For like general pop, I think, but they usually do it not day one of the draft. It's usually like yesterday, Saturday. It's a it's a Saturday thing.

SPEAKER_05 23:46

We missed out on that. But I did see from it from the Pittsburgh draft one, seemed like they had a shit ton of people there.

SPEAKER_04 23:55

They did. The uh you want to know the attendance number?

SPEAKER_05 23:58

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 23:58

Because Washington is already under pressure to beat this number because it's an old it's a new record in draft attendance, eight hundred and five thousand.

SPEAKER_05 24:09

Wait.

SPEAKER_04 24:12

Over three days, eight hundred and five thousand.

SPEAKER_05 24:14

Is that that's what Pittsburgh was? Yes. Okay. Oh, over three days. Yeah. Uh okay. I had to kind of regulate that. Um as you said.

SPEAKER_04 24:25

Over three days, 805,000. I guarantee you the target attendance for DC is a million.

SPEAKER_05 24:30

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 24:32

Woo! Guaranteed. I bet you the target is a million. We'll be there for day one. And with it being on the national mall.

SPEAKER_05 24:41

And they didn't fit that many people.

SPEAKER_04 24:44

I mean, you're gonna have the national mall, you're gonna have the the stadium event like they always do. So I think a million, I think I think they can do it. I think if anyone can do it, it can be DC, just because of the way the because the renderings have already came came out.

SPEAKER_05 25:00

Yeah, they look awesome.

SPEAKER_04 25:01

So I mean I it's all in how they stage it and set it up.

SPEAKER_05 25:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 25:06

And how many across DC, how many other uh, for lack of a better word, satellite locations they have. But I think they could hit a million.

SPEAKER_05 25:16

I think so. Um and of course the NFL wants that to happen. They want uh Washington to to to start to buzz because the new Stanium and uh obviously our new uniforms. We'll get into that towards the end here. I want to talk about free agency next. Um but next year we're definitely going to the draft. Uh I cannot wait. That's gonna be because did you see Pittsburgh did such a good job with with uh their picks and some of the players that they brought back and the way they started the draft. And I did notice that Pittsburgh had the same deal. I guess season ticket holders were watching the draft from the the Heinz Field or whatever they call it now.

SPEAKER_04 26:00

Yeah, there was uh there were people in the stadium, and then everybody else was, you know, under the ticket. You know what I did notice though?

SPEAKER_05 26:09

So in large parts, it as they were scanning the crowd, I didn't see uh as much beer holding as I thought.

SPEAKER_04 26:21

No, it's just people standing. There, I mean, yeah, the you're just standing there wa literally standing there watching the draft.

SPEAKER_05 26:31

Like, do we have to sneak in a cooler or something? They don't have bars set up everywhere? I I don't know, but we're gonna have to figure that out. We're gonna have to we're gonna have to read into that for before next year.

SPEAKER_04 26:43

But as seasoned ticket holders, we could probably just watch it in the stadium.

SPEAKER_05 26:47

But do we want that though? Do we want that? I'm just saying as seasoned ticket holders. Well we have that right, yes, but we that they're gonna be 25 miles apart. I want to go to the draft.

SPEAKER_04 27:03

I mean, I would like to be on the national mall somewhere.

SPEAKER_05 27:09

Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying. So shit.

SPEAKER_04 27:13

Well, I guess for lack for for a comparison, think of it as like a presidential inauguration. Okay. You're gonna have you're gonna have the main thing there on the mall.

SPEAKER_05 27:28

Right.

SPEAKER_04 27:28

And then the farther you go back, you're gonna have TV screens and stuff, and it's just how they how they set it up.

SPEAKER_05 27:36

Well, I I already told you, um I'm going to the UFC event that's that's got that's happening this summer. It's coming up too. Yeah, I know you're you know, I'm a big UFC guy. I'm going to the White House. Well, I'm not, and this is where my friends that don't know shit want to chime in. You're not gonna go. I know I'm not gonna go to the White House lawn and be a part of the 5,000 people that sits around the octagon. Nobody's gonna be able to do that. They're gonna reserve that for people with clearance to go to the White House and like military members, and they're gonna put them all there. But then they're gonna have a bunch of other locations around DC with screens and everything. I just want to go. I don't care. I don't care if I'm not gonna see the octagon. I want to be a part of the experience. It's like people like if you knew that the thriller in Manila was gonna be such a big fight for years and years to come, and you had an opportunity to go, like, why wouldn't you have gone? This is gonna be a fight that the a fight card that they talk about forever. Um and everybody's got the opportunity to go, it's free to go to one of those watch areas and see it from big screen and part of the whole thing. But anyway, free agency. We were active. I I was happy with our activeness. Um didn't really get a name that I was immediately familiar with, you know. Yeah, me either. You know what I'm saying? It wasn't like a splashy signing. Um, but and it's just so weird to kind of regulate expectations over the contracts that you that you get anymore, because it's like, what like what's a hundred million dollars get you anymore? And it and it's like a lot, but like it seems like a lot of players get$100 million deals now, not where it used to be like the first guy that got a hundred million dollar contracts, you know, but now it's not as rare, right? Because the way that the contracts go up every single year. And so you kind of have to regulate your mindset with the current market value every single year with with the money that goes out to these players. But I feel like the contracts were good. I did tell you I was excited about uh my boy Leo Chenal. I I hope I said that right. Um, but he's a guy that I'm excited about, and we'll let everybody kind of hear a little clip on uh his initial press conference.

SPEAKER_00 30:10

Um, you know, I've I've said it before, I'll say it again. You know, I bring bring violence, physicality. Um, you know, game day, I'm bringing that energy, that juice. I'm ready to get these guys rolling. You know, not that they didn't need it anymore, but you know, I'm ready to uplift any way that I can, supplement any way I can, and uh again, get this rolling. Let's just continue to build um every aspect of the game. You know, I can I can really be anywhere, you know, whether it's on the line, um off the ball, you know, defending a pass down the field. Um it's it's just really kind of building off things. Um eyes are continuing to progress and you know, make plays into coverage as well. Um so it's not only defending the run, um, but being able to drop back, cover a tight end, whatever whatever um, you know, coach asked me to do, I'm ready to do it. You know, it's it's it's different. You know, I just I've heard great things um just about the coaching staff, especially recently. Um, you know, I got former former teammates uh here that are on the team now, and just the way they describe the coaching staff, just the kind of the vibe, um, just the way it is. And it it guys are excited here. Um guys are excited uh to show up to the building. Uh guys are loving football here. Um it's just it's just so many good things. I've I really haven't heard a bad thing about you know the culture that they're building here, that we're building here. Um so I'm just excited to be part of it.

SPEAKER_05 31:20

All right. Free agency, Leo Chenal, uh linebacker, sounds thrilled to be part of our team on hearing that. And then he really does. Like he he really seems excited about a new opportunity. Um you can kind of hear it. Uh I for those of you that are curious, uh listen to this, go over to our the our TikTok page, Command the Commute Podcast, and I made some compilation videos of uh their intro interviews and cut together their highlights as well. And uh out of all the interviews, uh he he was the most jazzed up. Yeah, he's not gonna be able to do that. Um guy like Amik Robertson uh from Detroit, he signed a two-year$16 million deal,$9 million guaranteed quarterback. Uh, I'm excited for him too. He seems like he seems like a dog. He seems like a guy that just wants to get after it. A little bit undersized, but for a cornerback, who cares?

SPEAKER_04 32:23

And just like just like with the draft, it seemed like we're making the right moves in terms of position players and where we're trying to show you.

SPEAKER_05 32:31

We're plugging holes. We're plugging holes for sure. Um the big signing. Uh Adafe OA. Yeah. I think I nailed that name. I I think you did. Defensive end, four-year, hundred million dollar guy, 68 million guaranteed. He was playing with the uh Chargers before. Um, he had he had played with uh one of these guys that like ends his rookie deal. They're not gonna resign them, they trade him before the deadline. Um, he was with the Ravens prior to. Um, but he was a first-round draft pick one once upon a time. Still a young guy, 26, 27. Yeah. Most of our draft our free agent signings, they all seem like they were in that 25, 26, 27. Well, we needed to go younger. Yeah, we needed to go younger. Uh, but excited about that position specifically for a big free agent name. Like he's he's the big, big name that we got in free agents, free agency. And um I'm I I hope we just are just filling up the defensive side of the ball with playmakers because around our division, we've got tough offensive to offenses to compete with. God knows what we're gonna see with the new and improved New York Giants, the Harbaugh Giants. I hope they're not good. I mean, I hope they're not good, but they're I mean they're improving, but the it's easy to look at rosters that need improving and saying, oh shit, they're improving. It like similar to ours. Um, I saw reaction videos. They were worse off than we were. So right, but I saw it's like I see reaction videos of uh the Dallas Cowboys Stadium of their draft, and when we picked Sonny Styles at seven, they were all pissed, which I love, you know. Yeah. Um but that's the thing. Our roster has plenty of ways to to improve. Uh Rashad White, we took one-year deal. He was with Tampa, um, been around for a little bit, but still a young guy. Um, he's got an incentive-based deal. Um but we that's another position where we need as much playmakers as we can. Um we re-signed um Jeremy McNichols, but we did not re-sign Rodriguez. So we've got our new guy out of Penn State, we got McNichols back, we got Bill back. Um, and then we've got um Jerome Ford, another guy with one-year deal. He was with Cleveland. Um, not all these guys can make the team.

SPEAKER_04 35:15

No, there's there's gonna be some cuts.

SPEAKER_05 35:17

I don't know who. I like them all. Um time will tell. I wouldn't be surprised if McNichols is the guy to get cut because I mean his deal is only one year, 1.4 million. So that seems like a contract that's cuttable compared to some of the other ones. Uh Ford's isn't that much more, but there's something to be said about like the guy you don't know versus the guy you do know is like a little bit more upside with the guy you don't know. Like, let's see what he can do.

SPEAKER_04 35:49

Just depends what they what they see when you get to training camp and all that kind of, you know.

SPEAKER_05 35:53

Yeah, maybe make sure they come back the same way. At this point, it doesn't look like we've got any room to sign, like re-signed Eckler. No, he's gonna try to make a comeback. There's definitely a running back room out there that needs him. He's gonna get the veteran minimum, but I I don't I don't see us re-signing him as much of a fan as I am of him. I just don't I don't see it. Um we obviously re-signed Marcus Mario one year, 7 million. So maybe this is where your seventh round draft pick is in need. We're gonna need a set that we're gonna need a backup quarterback um at some point. You know, Mario's not gonna be around forever. Um Van Jefferson, wide receiver, another one-year deal, 1.4 million, uh, another one-year deal, three million is bringing back DeMey Brown. Remember him? Um he was our third round pick. Uh and then he and then he went to Jacksonville because they gave him money. I but I I just didn't think that he was he definitely wasn't worth the money that they gave him when he went there. But now he's hoping for like a rejuvenation going back home uh for his whole career. Because if he don't make it work here, then he's looking at the UFL. Yeah, that you're a deal or whatever it's called. Uh a couple other guys that I am excited about is uh Calova Calavion, Calov. It's one of those guys. Chase on um another defensive end, just another one-year prove it deal. He was with the uh Patriots. Um he's excited to be here. I know that. I got that from his his deal, uh, from his interview. Um, but it's just a one-year 11 million, prove it. If you don't prove it, you're out of here. Um on the offensive side, uh the the free agent sign that I'm excited about is our tight end. He kind of answered our question with what what was gonna happen there. I'm still not ruling out Ertz coming back, um, but he'll be a maybe a end of training camp signing and start the season on the uh pup list and stay there until we need him kind of a signing. I see that. I'd be okay with that. I mean bring the guy in the building, let him continue to rehab, give him a.

SPEAKER_04 38:27

Because he actually wanted to he actually wanted slash wants to be part of our team. Yep. And those are the people that I want. Right. If you actually want to be here and you're a you're a a pretty good player that actually can contribute on the field, then we should find a place for you. If you actually want to be here and we think that we can do something with you, right, find room for him somewhere.

SPEAKER_05 38:53

But to say that, uh the guy we're talking about, Chigakonquo, tight end, three-year, thirty million dollar uh Tennessee Titans. So he's a guy that they believe in right off the bat. He's gonna be here for three years, ten million dollars a year. Um he's got some incentives in there per year that bring him up to ten million dollars a year. Uh, but I I'm I like everything that we've done. It seems like we've plugged a lot of holes in our roster with some some talented young veterans uh across the board. Um anything that you have to have to add or anything you want to want to say? I think we've covered that topic and can move on. I'm going to uh once we get in season here, I think Mike, would give me your thoughts on this. I would like to give uh add a segment to the podcast that's gonna be centered around uh the depth of the roster. Um so we'll get into it into uh training camp. We can kind of talk about who, who makes the team, who's gonna start at specific positions. And then as we get through training camp, we'll talk about those bubble players. And then throughout the season, I'm curious where the snap count goes on certain position groups, um, specifically wide receiver, and then all entirely on the defensive side of the ball. Because with wide receiver, you know exactly where they stand based upon the snap count. And then with the defensive side of the ball, I'm curious which players aren't necessarily starters, but are getting more playing time based upon certain packages. I'm I want to dive into that. So just a little teaser.

SPEAKER_04 40:32

Sounds like a thrilling conversation.

SPEAKER_05 40:34

All right. Um, next I want to get into, and I'm surprised that we've been able to hold it off this long, but the new uniforms. Yeah, they are awesome across the board. It it it uh it seems like uh our assumptions from last year for the white throwbacks being our new whites is correct. Yes. Uh, because I haven't seen any of that old commander's cranberry white. Yeah, thank God that's gone. And then our burgundy is coming back to the old school burgundy. It's coming back to the traditional redskins looking burgundy, golden white uh stripes on the sleeve, um which and the gold face mask on the burgundy helmet. Can't forget the with the with the yellow stripes and all that. Yep, we've got the W on the side. Um, and then the black, they changed up our blacks again. The black look awesome.

SPEAKER_04 41:35

Chef's kiss to the black uniform.

SPEAKER_05 41:38

So the it's just it's it's a simple design to the uniform. They're not flashy in any which way. They they really let the color scheme speak for itself. Um but the helmet. And then the black helmet, they've got that spear coming through the W. Yeah. I love it. I wish I love everything about it. I almost do you wish that the they would have put that spear through the other W on the other Burgundy helmet? Because it's just the black that we're seeing, the spear.

SPEAKER_04 42:07

I w I don't mind it just being a black uniform specific thing, only because the helmets that we're using for the white and burgundy uniforms all already have the the red skin, you know, yeah, uh trifecta on there. So I'm okay with I'm okay with the way they have everything thus far. I'm okay with it.

SPEAKER_05 42:35

The only thing I haven't seen is I haven't seen uh do we have cold pants? I have not, no, I have not seen that's my favorite. I have not seen that is my favorite burgundy, burgundy jerseys, gold pants, and something else that is if you really think back and just close your eyes and think of like a traditional Redskins uniform.

SPEAKER_04 43:00

But to their defense, I don't think they told us what uh of course we know the three uniforms, but I don't think they've really told us what the pants combination is gonna be for the white and burgundy uniforms. So maybe I doubt it, but maybe we'll get the the gold pants. I don't think you will, but the socks.

SPEAKER_05 43:21

The socks is another staple to our uniform that I think we're we we have also forgotten. Yeah. Um, and this is just me being really, really overly picky. And I don't give a shit. I'm allowed to be overly picky about the socks because they took everything away from us, Mike. So they're they're giving it back slowly but surely. Well, and how far do you think they're gonna go with giving it back? Because I and this is well, there's a lot of debate on that. I know. I let's debate it. How far do we go? Like, what are our chances? If we're looking at the pie chart of chances and we're looking at like percent chance of like going back you follow?

SPEAKER_04 44:08

Yeah, I do. But I think because it doesn't say commanders at all. Right. Anywhere on the form. I think within now what will be three years under the new ownership that we've gotten this far down the pike. And I didn't really think that we'd ever get this far. I'm gonna say it's better than 50-50. It might be like 70-30. That we go that we go full back.

SPEAKER_05 44:37

Full back. You're in the boat that we go that there is a possibility that we go back to the old Redskins logo and the old Redskins name.

SPEAKER_04 44:50

The name is where I'm not a hundred percent, but the logo for sure. So I mean I think because we talked about this a little bit in season one. Yeah by the time we open the new stadium, I think that's when you see at least the old logo come back. You might not get the red skin name, but you'll have the logo. I I don't know if I just don't know if the name itself will be able to come back. I mean, the the logo, the emblem is one thing, but people are always gonna be caught up on the name. But I don't see how you can bring the logo back without the name. So I think, yeah, I mean, yeah. I it just I c I agree with you in the sense We're we're like we're practically there now with the three uniforms that were just well we look we look the same.

SPEAKER_05 45:56

Yeah. We we we we don't look like the expansion team that we did look like over the last couple years with some of our our our uniforms and the way that we we looked, especially as the football team. You go back and look at some of those. Remember when we put the numbers on the side? Yeah, and we're gonna be. At the time when we're looking at it, and we're like, well, you know, I mean, it is what it is. It doesn't look horrible. It's kind of got its own kind of It's a team without an identity, yeah. Yeah, right, right. So, I mean, I don't know, man. This is just uh I would like to have an honest debate with somebody that can sit on the other side uh with me and and really tell me what I'm missing here.

SPEAKER_04 46:44

But if it doesn't happen by the time that we open the new stadium, if it does if we're not there by the time we open the new stadium, it's not going to happen.

SPEAKER_05 46:55

Agreed. Yeah. I actually think the decisions will have to be made in 28 or 29.

SPEAKER_04 46:59

So the new stadium opens what, 2030, right? 2030. So that gives you four years.

SPEAKER_05 47:07

No. See, that's my point. The decision will have to be made by 28 because this stuff takes time. Now, whether or not they release this decision to the public is a different conversation. But the internal decision of changing the name and the logo and all that, that will have to be made by 28. Because you got to think about the renderings that we're seeing now. The design is underway, and they're going to start to get these marketing teams in here to give us new renderings. So this is where the logo is going to be, and this is what the field design is going to look like.

SPEAKER_04 47:43

And this is going to be well, we already know from the renderings that are out that the exterior of the stadium is at least going to have the the W that's on your hat, it's going to have that, which I think is totally cool. Yeah. Um, but yeah, if it doesn't if it doesn't happen by the opening of the new season, uh the new stadium, no matter how you have to time that out from a logistics standpoint, then it's never going to happen. Right. And if that's the case, maybe this right now, maybe this is the closest we ever get. I don't know, time will tell. We still have by your timeline, two years to to figure this out. But if it doesn't happen by the opening of the new stadium, it's not going to happen. Right. And whatever we are by 2030, that's what we will be. But you see my logic for the rest of our lifetime, I'll point to you that one.

SPEAKER_05 48:38

No, no, we both agree that the new stadium that that time frame of when we're in there, that directly correlates with the same conversation we're having about the brand and the logo and the name. So we both agree there. And do you agree with me that, like, look, they're going to be building new roads, right? And they're going to be naming these roads. Is it going to be Redskins Drive or is it going to be Commander's Boulevard? You know what I'm saying? Right. These decisions don't happen in 2030 when we kick off. They happen years before. Or maybe. You know, and the same thing with the marketing and all the all the renderings that we're seeing now, those are just renderings. But by the time the boots hit the ground and they start swinging hammers, that's when things are really getting final. Right. Yeah. Like if not, if not well before then, just because these things need all the stamps of approval, and everybody from a corporate world knows how many people need to stick their nose in specific plans and get their signature on it, right?

SPEAKER_04 49:42

So But I do agree that, like, okay, however, your main entrance to the stadium is, that should be, you know, Commander's Way or Redskin Drive, whatever. And then any offshoot off of that should be player specific.

SPEAKER_05 50:00

Yeah, sure. And any like garbage dumpster alleys we can call Snyder Way. Yeah, yeah. Which while we're on the whole name thing, I like, and I was saying this uh a little bit ago, is I would like I would like to have an honest conversation, not necessarily a debate, but if someone could educate me, uh I would love my mind to be changed or or or broadened in the sense that I don't understand why it's more racist for to have the Redskins logo and be called the Redskins than it is to completely whitewash Native American culture out of pulp culture and conversation entirely. Why can't the team be, why can't we embrace that culture? I would love to see a Native American themed uh a halftime show. And I would love it if the Redskins organization were the reason why people are educated on the Native American culture, you know. Well, I don't understand why it has to be a negative connotation. I I would not because I would argue that most Native Americans, if you ask them what their favorite team was, they would set Redskins.

SPEAKER_04 51:22

But we already know that it's not because Kansas City, the winning franchise of Kansas City, was not forced to change their name. Right. So we already know that the moniker of the Chiefs, which is basically the Redskins in a sense, is not offensive. So if the Chiefs isn't a sense offensive, then the Redskins isn't. It's just the difference of the Chiefs are winning franchise, we were not. So we were easy targets in that situation.

SPEAKER_05 51:53

I honestly, I so I yes, I agree. I think just saying that we were uh if we were coming off of a Super Bowl, we wouldn't have changed our name. Yes, I hear your point. I agree with you. Um, but if we're putting the shoe on the other foot and kind of taking the stance of like being like delicate about the situation in the sense that, yes, skins is in the name. It does refer to their skin tone, red. I get it. And I understand how uh certain people might feel a specific way about that. But nobody in large part ever said red skins and thought to themselves like as in a derogatory term. It would just reference Native Americans. That's the only thing that people thought of the American American American.

SPEAKER_04 52:39

That's the only thing I ever thought of. Right. Because we had the the logo. So like that's just what I automatically always thought of. Right. Right. The culture of the Native American.

SPEAKER_05 52:52

Right. And I will I will always say that Dan Snyder's biggest mistake as it related to the name was that he didn't hire a Native American within the organization and you know, call him uh, you know, fan relations or or call them give them a business position. There's ton of ton of really good Native Americans around the country.

SPEAKER_04 53:17

From a PR perspective, yeah, we could have done a lot better than that.

SPEAKER_05 53:21

Fan relations, some and then put that guy responsible for uh um fan outreach as it relates to those Native American uh cultures and stuff like that. Now everybody that lives on this land would love to embrace that that culture. We love we it I I don't know. Uh instead, it was just Dan Snyder and Bruce Allen going up there, these rich old white guys just telling everybody, trust us, it's not it's not racist. Didn't you read the Washington Post? You know, and and and like that's not the tone that was appropriate for trying to keep the name. Um but I I don't know. Anyway, let's move on to the other NFL news. We've got a couple minutes left here. Uh do you want to touch on Diana Rossini and Mike Bradville? I mean, they're definitely they're definitely doing something that will keep it. And it looks like for some time, and the internet is undefeated when it comes to this kind of stuff. People are going back and tracking all of her clips that she'll just reference to or Mike Brave.

SPEAKER_04 54:23

We will just say that uh I will say, I won't speak for you, but I will say it is clear that for lack of a better word, and we are on a recorded podcast, and I'm not trying to get us canceled just yet. Uh, they have been intimately involved for some time. Right. Okay. And the fact that he had to miss day three of the draft to seek counseling, that's code for, you know, basically marriage counseling or whatever. Okay. So they've definitely been doing something for a long time.

SPEAKER_05 54:59

Of course, she loses her job, but there's like a journalistic. Yeah, but there's like a journalistic integrity uh thinks involved in in in her side of things. Um could you argue that he should lose his.

SPEAKER_04 55:12

But he's no, but he's not the first person to have an affair, and she's not the first person to have an affair or something else.

SPEAKER_05 55:21

So the only thing that gets sketchy about it is is like you start hearing these reports come around about how AJ Brown's unhappy in Philadelphia, and that whole storyline just wouldn't shut up all the all throughout the second half of last season. And then you start to ask yourself, you well, you know he's a Patriots fan, and you wonder if during bed talk there couldn't be. Could you stir the pot there a little bit? We really like to get that player. And it's like that's you're essentially some bed talk. That's where the integrity part comes into play. You're like, yeah, well, you can't do that. You can't be changing the league like that. You know, I mean, there's anyway, but it has really dominated the news cycle here. That's all anybody knows.

SPEAKER_04 56:02

I mean, that's uh outside of the draft, that's the big uh off season story for sure.

SPEAKER_05 56:08

So, you know. Um, the only other thing that I want to uh kind of touch on here, I just feel it befitting in episode one to just put this on the record um for season two of Command the Commute Podcast. So um do you think, like what it what are the chances, or nah, what am I trying to say here? What is the warmth of Dan Quinn's seat coming off of last season, right? So we've already talked about that. Well, I want to put it on the record again. So how warm is it? Like how many losses does he get?

SPEAKER_04 56:49

On a scale of 10, I would say six and a half.

SPEAKER_05 56:54

Okay. Six and a half uh on the warmth scale. 65 degrees, if 100 is when he's getting up and out. Right. All right, so it's not toasty, right?

SPEAKER_04 57:07

Now, if and I we s we certainly hope that this isn't the case, but if we have another season like we did last year, or worse, he's gone.

SPEAKER_05 57:24

Well gone. I would argue that if and that's why I phrased it as how many losses does he get?

SPEAKER_04 57:32

Because if you're right now his coaching record for us is legit at like 500.

SPEAKER_05 57:39

Yes, but I'm just saying if we get off to a one in five start next year, then he doesn't make it through the season. No.

SPEAKER_04 57:49

No.

SPEAKER_05 57:50

Right?

SPEAKER_04 57:50

If if that's your start in the first six weeks, yeah, he's gone. He's gone by week eight.

SPEAKER_05 57:56

Right. Um I I think if we are if we finish the season at eight and nine, he keeps his job.

SPEAKER_04 58:06

Yes. I'll agree with you on that.

SPEAKER_05 58:09

Uh if we get to ten losses, he keeps his job through the season, but he might not make it past Agreed. Yeah, maybe it's not a Monday firing, but it might be a Wednesday.

SPEAKER_04 58:24

It might be like a Wednesday, Thursday Friday. Yeah. One of those things where they have extended discussions.

SPEAKER_05 58:31

Right. Yeah. But yes, I I agree with you. So we're on the same page then as far as uh Dan Quinn's hot seat and where we think of course we hope this doesn't happen. 100%. We hope that everything that happens this season is very similar in trajectory as the feelings we were given year one.

SPEAKER_04 58:54

But just like with the new stadium talk and the the everything we just talked about with the name change and everything else and the new ownership, like we need a winning franchise going into a new stadium. So if we're going to go into a new stadium, we have to have a winning franchise if we want any shot of changing the name and all that stuff that we just talked about.

SPEAKER_05 59:17

And by all means, don't wait for the stadium. Have a winning be good before the good stuff. That's my point.

SPEAKER_04 59:23

That's my point, is that Josh Harris and that ownership team, they're not going to, for lack of a better word, they're not going to dick around going into a new stadium that costs what six point eight billion dollars, something like that. So they're not going to mess around. So he is on a short leash.

SPEAKER_05 59:43

I think it's 4 billion, but yeah. Um I think we're going, I think we're close to 3 billion and Washington's in about a billion.

SPEAKER_04 59:51

But he is he's on a short leash because you're going into a new stadium. You want fans to sit in those scenes.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:00

Yeah, well, I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:01

Okay. The stadium, I think, is going to hold what, like 60,000 people? So you're going to need a fan base that wants to show up. Yeah. Yes, you and I, we're already going to be there. We're going to keep our season tickets in one form or another. We're already going to be there. But we're, but not every fan that attends a Washington game is a diehard fan like you and I. Right. You need the every, you know, you need We'll go in the rain.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:30

There's other people.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:31

You need the casual fans that are in the DC metro area. Yeah. So in order to do that, going into a stadium that you have to pay for, okay, you have to justify you have to have a winning franchise. Yeah. And if he's not going to do it, we're going to get someone in there who can. Right. Yeah. And we're going to continue to do it until we win.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:56

Well, we will see with Dan Quinn a little warm, uh, new coordinators, new coaching staff, new players. I mean, it's another fresh start in many ways. And we're really just hoping that Jaden Daniels can replicate what we saw.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:11

And just like we, just like we talked about at the end of last season with the new coordinators, that's all on Dan. Oh, yeah. If they don't work out, yeah, you know, he his future is literally in their hand. Yeah. So they better know what the hell they're doing or they're all gonna be gone.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:30

Yeah. All right. We'll sign off with this because you seemed a little heated right now. Tell me about your uh WrestleMania experience. It was it was by experience, I mean watching it from fall. Yeah, yeah. No, I did not go. But you're a fan of WrestleMania.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:46

Yeah, and I don't plan on going to a WrestleMania until we host one in DC. All right. And I'm gonna drag your ass to it. Okay. Um, but it was one of the worst WrestleManias I have ever watched. The matches were too short. The only matches that truly mattered were the main events, but everything else was too short. They were under your average match, including entrance, lasted like eight minutes.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:10

Oh. Were they just trying to shove as many matches in as possible? That and commercials. Oh wow.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:16

Um, but it was one of Where was it at? It was in uh Las Vegas at Allegiance Stadium. Yeah. But it was just it was just a bad WrestleMania.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:26

It was who was the main event?

SPEAKER_04 1:02:28

Uh night one was um Cody and Randy Orton, and night two was Roman Reigns and CM Punk. That match, night two, was outstanding. You need to go back and just watch that one match.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:45

It was wow. I'm surprised that CM Punk was uh the main event. Well, he was I mean I had obviously I'm so out of touch with WrestleMania. I don't know the lead up and the storylines leading into all that. I mean, you just look at it as a name, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:03:01

Don't even talk about the build-up to WrestleMania. That sucked too. Okay. But I watched because it's WrestleMania and like I'm not gonna not watch Yeah, I know that you're you're a fan, you're you're a fan of the show.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:19

But it was just it was just a bad, it was a and by all means, there there's certain characters that can come back that get me a little interested just from when I what I used to watch.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:27

Well no one of the old characters, no one came back.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:31

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:32

So don't go back watching anything. Oh, I'll I'll see like whoever. You're not gonna see truly old students.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:40

I really don't care to see Logan Paul jump off the top rope. I mean, I'm sure it's cool.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:46

Yeah. But I'm not a fan of him either way. I think he's a giant.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:50

But he's like one of the guys now. Like he's like one of the main headliners of the he's allegedly full-time, but I mean, you know, it's who knows? Um, all right. Well, anything else? Uh let's go O's. Yeah, let's go. Two games, two, two games under 500. Let's still early.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:09

Oh, you know, we weren't the only team to change uniforms. Apparently, uh the Ravens also changed their uniforms. And I'm saying this specifically for Tom, who I know will be listening to this. Yeah. And he'll have to tell us on a future episode how they actually changed their uniforms because I saw them and they look exactly like the same uniforms that they've had for like the last forever seasons. Put any number you want on it.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:35

So I'll speak for I'll speak for him.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:37

I know he and they probably what'd they do? They probably changed a font. Did they go to Times New Roman? Uh you know.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:44

Uh I will speak for Tom and all other Ravens fans listening. Uh fuck you, Mike. They did a lot of different things. Oh, I bet they worked real. Oh my gosh. Uh I'll say this.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:54

So Did they really they must have really round those zeros?

SPEAKER_05 1:04:57

Tom and I went golfing um the day This is exactly why I brought this. The day after we know he's gonna listen to you and be like, this is we went golfing the day after uh our uniforms got released, and that day, that day they Ravens released their new uniforms the day after ours. And so we were sitting there just going back and forth. And yeah, ours are pretty simple. You know, it's like showing somebody an old Redskins jersey. It's like, see what we did? And they're like, Yeah, cool, nice colors. Um and then Tom, he used to show me like the stitching and the patches, and then underneath here, and then on the collar, and then this, and then that. And so, like, if you ask a Ravens fan, they see every little detail because their uniforms have details. Ours are golden white sleeves on a burgundy uniform, and we're all jazzed up because the border of the numbers are how we used to like them, you know. But uh, but Ravens fans are listening to you and they're like, screw this guy, our uniforms are dope. They're all different than they used to be. Um, but I'll let Tom come on and and and uh correct your ways. Um I don't mind the Ravens. I don't mind the I don't mind the No, I think they I I like their uniforms, but I don't see I like they're all blacks. They're all blacks have always been my favorite.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:17

My point is I just don't uh as a watcher of them, and I am not a fan like Tom is a fan of the Ravens for obvious reasons.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:25

But Tom is more of a fan of the Commanders than you are of the Ravens. I can say that.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:31

You can say whatever you want. I don't care. I don't see the the the changes in there. He looks like the same uniforms that they've essentially had, you know, since the beginning of the franchise. All right. Well, we're looking forward to it. I mean, maybe they changed the color purple. Maybe they went a shade lighter or something. Who knows? I don't think we can see that much in that.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:53

But all right, hey, thanks everybody for listening. This is obviously uh the Command the Commute podcast, and uh this is episode one of season two. We're gonna give you uh another episode here in a couple of weeks when the schedule gets released. That's right around the quarter mid-May.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:11

That's when we can really start planning out our year.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:13

We already know who we're gonna play, just not when we're gonna play them.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:17

And we know we have a London game.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:18

And we have a London game, which is a home game for us, right? Yeah, it's a home game. But I hate it when they do that. Give us a put that to be an away game. Yeah, well, the other team's thinking the same thing too. So our team's live in that. But yeah, so we'll get into get get into the schedule and probably give our like way too early win-loss prediction. Because that worked out so well. Oh my gosh. No, we'll do two. We'll do right when the schedule gets released, and then we'll do one right before the season uh starts, like we did last season. But thank you guys for listening, and we will see you all next time.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:32

Thanks for listening to the Command the Commute podcast. I now welcome you to crack a cold beer, cook up some chicken wings, and enjoy the football game. Because the commanders, the team, the redskins, or whatever else you call them, is gonna kick some ass. If this is a home game, Bob and Michael will be in the red zone lot at Northwest Stadium. We encourage you to come to our tailgate and say hello. If you are still listening to the podcast, wow! You are an extremely loyal listener. I wonder how much longer you'll stay. Hey, I've got a question. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck? If a woodchuck could chuck wood? You've got mail. Goodbye.