Adam Peters Texted an Injured Players Father To Give a Health Update

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Grant tells a story about Washington Commanders general manager Adam Peters texting an injured players father during a game to let the father know his son was going to be OK and why that is meaningful for this franchise.

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00:00there was a player that got banged up in game and left the game with an injury and that player went

00:07back to the locker room at some point during the proceedings to be checked on. That player's

00:14dad got a text from General Manager Adam Peters from what I was told. The GM, Adam Peters,

00:22not an assistant, not some random person on the training staff, literally Adam Peters,

00:27fired off a text to this player's father to say, hey, I just want you to know your son's okay.

00:33Here's an update on his status. Here's what's going on in the training room right now.

00:38Here are some of the things we're doing and thinking are going to help him in the next

00:42couple of hours. Here's what it looks like kind of moving forward with this injury that he has

00:46suffered. And again, without getting into the specifics of the player or the injury,

00:50what I was told was that this is a guy who's been in some other places and that they were

00:57blown away by this. Almost like a high school football player's dad in the stands hearing from

01:02someone on the staff like, little Jimmy's okay, right? But it spoke to me to what I have heard

01:08constantly since Peter showed up and certainly in this Peters-Quinn regime, which is that the way

01:16these guys treat players, their families, which is so important, one of the secret sauce

01:22under talked about things in professional sports, Danny, is how do you treat my family,

01:27my wife, my kids, my parents, my VIPs, right? But think about that for the GM of the team in the

01:34middle of a game to not only get the information, which is not abnormal, but then text a family

01:40member and say, hey, your boy's all right. Here's what's going on. The player was basically just

01:47giddy with the treatment. The dad was floored. The family was kind of taken aback. And it just

01:54tells me they get it in so many ways. You think about those NFL PA. Hard not to think of those

02:02surveys, rankings and surveys that get done. And I guess my point here long windedly is this is

02:07going to be a place that people want to come, not just because maybe you've got the answer

02:12at quarterback and Daniels, who's the cool guy that everybody wants to talk about in the media

02:16and players are all going to want to play with. But if the word gets out that they treat their

02:20players really, really well, which has been one of the biggest developments and stories behind the

02:26scenes for me since this regime took over. I think you're going to see them soar up a lot of these

02:31NFL PA type conversations.

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