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The Commanders future is bright I BMitch & Finlay Show
WJFK-FM / 106.7 The Fan
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1/3/2025
BMitch and JP reflect on the play of the Commanders rookie class this season. They come to the conclusion Washington's young core should keep the team in the hunt for the foreseeable future.
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I want to have a conversation very specifically about what you want to see in Dallas.
00:05
But I did want to run through this. I was listening to PFT Commentator's podcast this morning.
00:10
So think about this 2018 NFL draft. And I say this because I don't know who these morons are,
00:18
but apparently I got tagged in a tweet. So this dude Disco,
00:22
who I feel like Disco is a part of our universe and we appreciate Disco,
00:26
um, said that some fans have already declared Ben Sennett a bust and wonder why he hasn't
00:31
supplanted Zach Ertz. And I think the people saying this are so incredibly stupid.
00:36
Sennett has been really good all year. Ertz might be a Hall of Famer. I don't understand this rush
00:42
to not like Zach Ertz, who caught two touchdowns last week, including the game winner in overtime.
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Ertz is a fantastic player and one of the best pure route runners as a tight end,
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probably in NFL history. We have to find a way
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to ignore the small amount of people who like to say the dumbest things possible.
01:04
And let's not put any more, you know, focus on them, move past them and move on. You don't just
01:12
sit down somebody because somebody outside the building think that they can't play.
01:17
I've watched him play all year and the guy has given us a hell of a lot, you know what I'm
01:23
saying? So, so we got to stop. We got to start to ignore those people. And you know, it may be
01:29
sometimes it's the infiltration of others, fans that didn't like it from Philly when he left and
01:35
this, that and the other, you know, people come in and do that stuff. So we got to learn to just
01:39
ignore them. I had an interview with a commander side ends coach David Rye yesterday. I think we're
01:44
going to play that later in the show. We talked about arts at length and how impressed he is,
01:49
but the notion of declaring a player, a bust 16 games during his rookie season, I just found so
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stupid. And I was listening. Like I said, I was listening to part of my take this morning.
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Everyone that thought that Senate and Luke McCaffrey was supposed to automatically get
02:06
playing time. I've always fought against that. I keep saying you have to learn how to play at this
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level. And Senate is he's a hell of a blocker. He plays best team out the world. And then he's
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going to be able to enhance other stuff coming forward. You look at Luke. Luke is in his what
02:24
third year now of being a receiver. And now he's at the highest level playing at rice.
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Yeah. He has to learn how to play it. And I see a bright future for him, but everybody just
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automatically assumes just because somebody was dead. We've seen, we've seen Heisman trophy
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winners never take a snap in the NFL. Well, that's exactly where I kind of where I was going.
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Let's look back at the 2018 NFL draft, shall we? And then think about what's happening in
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the playoffs this year. Number one pick in that draft Baker Mayfield, who a lot of at various
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points in his career had been dismissed as a bust repeatedly. Yeah. He's I assume he made
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the pro bowl. He's, you know, Tampa is, is Tampa's in the, I guess not definitively in,
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but Tampa's probably in the playoffs. Mayfield playing at a really high level. People definitely
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at one point in time called him a bus. Yeah. Number two, picking that draft.
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Saquon Barkley, the giants just decided he was done. Didn't want to pay him.
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How's that look? It might cost you your job. Honestly, Joe. Yeah. Yeah. Number three,
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picking that draft landfills boy, Sam Darnell. Everybody thought everybody thought people still
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think he's a bus and he's sitting there 14 to two. Right. And about to get paid.
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That draft was loaded. Be listening to this. Denzel Ward at four Chubb at five
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Quentin Nelson at six, Josh Allen at seven Roquan at eight McGlinchey nine, Josh Rosen at
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10. There's your first bus. Minka goes 11 Vita. Vega goes 12. Deron Payne here.
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I mean, this draft was just loaded. Tremaine Edmonds in that draft Jair Alexander.
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And you know, went 32 fellow by the name of Lamar Jackson. I mean, that, that was told
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he should try and run him back. And it's just such a loaded draft, dude. But yeah,
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that's kind of my point is like, people got to chill trying to make these pronouncements and
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determine draft success. This new staff is, I think they know what the hell they're doing.
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Yeah. You know? Well, dude, so 13 people got pro bowl recognition, obviously Jaden interior in,
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and then 11 other dudes are some level of alternate, right? Yeah. Of those 13 be
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10 of them joined this organization since March. These guys know what they're doing. And, and,
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and the other three were here back to the Gruden day. And then all of the pundits think about that
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when they, when they picked all these people up, they were like, Oh, Washington,
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they didn't get no talent. Remember that we have no talent. And I say, let the people at least
05:17
get in, get in here first and see what they can do. They have more, more than enough talent.
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