Washington Commanders' New Era: Exciting NFL Shift

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00:00As my good pal, Nate Bush used to say from West Virginia, his team's got a fresh paint

00:08a coat.

00:09Yep.

00:10That's what he used to say.

00:11It was a fun thing to say.

00:12You got to love those little Southern isms, right?

00:14When they flip things around like that, but I can't believe I'm excited about the Washington

00:17commanders.

00:18I haven't been excited about the Washington commanders from a fantasy perspective.

00:21I don't know.

00:22My whole life I got, I'm trying to really think about, I'm trying to, I mean, I wasn't

00:28playing fantasy back then on art Monk and Gary Clark.

00:31I mean, fantasy was barely even a blip on the radar back then.

00:35So this is a whole new thing.

00:38We're into a different regime, different ownership, different head coach.

00:42I like the head coach.

00:43Dan Quinn is a good football man.

00:44He has been around where he's been.

00:46They have won.

00:47Yes.

00:48He's had some talent there, but I think sometimes you get coaches, good coaches when they get

00:52that second chance.

00:53I've talked about this on the show before pay attention to it.

00:56The commanders are going to be a problem.

00:57I think they're going to be a problem early on.

00:59They're going to cover a lot more games that people realize and games where maybe they're

01:01not the favorite.

01:02They're going to be very plucky.

01:03They're going to pull off some upsets.

01:04I'm telling you, this is going to be a team to watch potentially because it's so much

01:09new and so much excitement.

01:10It's so much of fresh.

01:11They don't have, you know, I think the shackles of the past really around them right now,

01:15not with the ownership, not with the head coach.

01:18It's all new.

01:19And it starts with Jaden Daniels.

01:22Jane Daniels, I think is a phenomenal talent.

01:25What he did at LSU.

01:26Yes.

01:27He's got a lot of talent around him, but a player that is really exciting.

01:31The athleticism is off the charts.

01:33He's got a great arm.

01:35Good accurate quarterback has that ability to make the big play in the big spot has the

01:40ability to get out there in space and just break ankles.

01:44And he is part of this new look quarterback scenario that's going on in the league.

01:48We've been seeing it time and time again.

01:50So Jaden Daniels, if you don't want to take Anthony Richardson as ADP, but you want all

01:55the fun of the rushing quarterback, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Jaden Daniels

02:00QB 12.

02:01He's practically free.

02:03Go around early and then you get back it up in the last round.

02:06If you really are terrified with a Matthew Stafford or a Kirk Cousins or any of those

02:09guys who in single QB league, sometimes even go undrafted.

02:13There's nothing wrong with that.

02:14You have the best of both worlds.

02:16You can even pick and choose your matchups.

02:17If you really are afraid of genuine Jane Daniels, but you want the upside of what he could be.

02:22And I, for one, I'm coming closer to wanting to draft Jaden Daniels at his ADP than Anthony

02:28Richardson at his, because Richardson's has gone so high at this point.

02:31So this is the evolution of draft season.

02:34I think Daniels can make everybody on this team immediately better.

02:37You look at some of the quarterbacks they've had the last couple of years.

02:39It's been absolutely brutal, Matt.

02:41So I'm very excited about Jaden Daniels.

02:43My question to you here to start, am I too excited?

02:46Am I too much in that fantasy nerd projection realm where everything's going to be sunshine

02:52and rainbows, or do you think I am correct in my love and excitement for this young quarterback

02:57in Washington?

02:58Well, one thing you've often spoke of is value, right?

03:02And you mentioned it in the diatribe there about if you want the Anthony Richardson's

03:06of the world, but you don't want to spend that price.

03:08You can get arguably the same type of function and form for a much more decreased price in

03:15Jaden Daniels.

03:16Now, full disclosure, I'm Commander's fan, been that way since I'm a kid.

03:18I'm incredibly excited for what this brings to the team.

03:22The defense, I think, is underrated.

03:23I think this is a good football team.

03:24And also, you talk about extending drives.

03:26I think Daniels has that ability, and that's something that hasn't been seen in Washington

03:30for quite some time.

03:31It makes the backfield exciting because I also think you have a two-headed monster back

03:35there.

03:36It also makes the receivers incredibly exciting as well, and I'm glad we have time to have

03:39this conversation because I want to dive deeply into all of that.

03:42Let's start with the backfield here.

03:44Brian Robinson Jr., Austin Eckler, both of them incredibly formidable out of the backfield

03:48in PPR leagues.

03:49One would carry a bit more weight than the other, but I want to hear from you.

03:53Brian Robinson is being drafted as RB32 right now, and last year he finished as RB22, which

03:59I think matters.

04:00I just want to put that out there first.

04:04Now, I understand people are going to say, well, Austin Eckler showed up, and that's

04:07fair, except for the fact that Brian Robinson is the early down back, Brian Robinson is

04:11the goal line back.

04:13Those are some pretty valuable touches, I think, and especially the goal line work.

04:17That's the thing I want the most.

04:18Can we lose some of those to Jaden Daniels?

04:19Sure.

04:20If I want to keep Jaden Daniels upright, I'm very careful about how I use him around the

04:24goal line.

04:25I do not want Jaden Daniels taking too many shots around there.

04:27I want to make sure that guy is healthy because I need him.

04:30I don't want to drop down anymore.

04:32I want to ride this wave of good feelings.

04:35Brian Robinson had a really good career at Alabama, a very steady running back.

04:38His career, I think, got lost in the shuffle of all the other big names that played around

04:42him, but every time you watch in those Alabama games, there's Brian Robinson getting that

04:47first down.

04:48There's Brian Robinson just continuing to be that consistent dude, and I think he can

04:51be that for the Washington Commanders, and I do think Dan Quinn's going to want to run

04:54the football.

04:55Now, Austin Echler might be the biggest beneficiary, in my opinion, of the Jahan Dotson trade because

05:03if you're looking for vacated targets, I think Echler in those passing down scenarios, Echler

05:10maybe even working in the slot a little bit might be a better thing for his health at

05:15this stage in his career and the workload he's had.

05:18Echler can still be an asset, but I think it's more of a flex option than it is an RB2

05:23option.

05:24I think that's more where Echler's value might be.

05:26Now, look, it could completely turn on its ear in three weeks, and I might be wrong about

05:30this, but from what I'm getting from all of those folks that are following the team, what

05:35you're getting from the coaching staff is that Brian Robinson is the lead back in this

05:39backfield.

05:40I want the lead back.

05:41I want the guy with the goal line touches.

05:43He's also a guy that can catch the football.

05:45He had more than 30 catches last year.

05:46It's not like he can't catch the football at all.

05:48Austin Echler's there.

05:49It's going to be a little weird at times, but I think more often than not, Brian Robinson

05:52is that consistent guy who's going to give you the better floor every week.

05:55Maybe he doesn't have the high ceiling that an Echler has, but I think the floor is better.

06:00So I'm going to take Brian Robinson and take a look at this map.

06:03Zach Moss going ahead of Brian Robinson.

06:05What?

06:06Nick Chubb, who's not going to play for the first eight games of the season, going ahead

06:09of Brian Robinson.

06:10That's absurd to me.

06:11I love Nick Chubb, but I can't justify that ADP over Brian Robinson.

06:16It just makes no sense to me.

06:18And the last guy to really point out to in the value is Terry McLaurin, a guy that's

06:22kind of become the unofficial mascot of the show.

06:24Four straight years of a thousand yards receiving with some of the worst quarterback play you've

06:28seen in the NFL, and he's being drafted as a 30th wide receiver off the board.

06:33What am I missing here?

06:34Please, I am begging all of you draft Terry McLaurin.

06:39He is going to get more extended drives, more scoring opportunities with Jaden Daniels

06:43as the quarterback.

06:44Terry McLaurin could have his best season ever this year.

06:48He's a special talent drafted everywhere you possibly can.

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