Albert Breer: "Washington Is Certainly A Destination"

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Albert Breer from MMQB discusses the report that Ronnie Stanley turned down more money from Washington to stay in Baltimore. Then, he proceeds to tell us that the Commanders are still a destination.

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00:00but let's not waste time let's get to the rude guest hotline of it ain't rude it ain't right

00:04and talk to our guy albert brier si and mmqb so i saw an attribution to you albert and i wanted to

00:10get you on to ask about this today that you've been told the commanders offered ronnie stanley

00:15the left tackle who signed with the ravens for 20 million a year 24 per and he stayed in baltimore

00:22for less money what can you tell us about that well i i can tell you that obviously it couldn't

00:27officially make an offer but um you know i know a couple teams were 24 or more or were over 24

00:35million per um yeah i think the commanders and the commanders and the patriots were were two of

00:40the teams that were there um the chiefs i think were a little bit closer to where the ravens were

00:46um at about 20 million per and these things sort of get around over the course of a couple weeks

00:50leading up to free agency so that's all it is i mean i think um you know again like the commanders

00:56and pagers were were planning pretty big swings at um at ronnie stanley so you know they sort of

01:03got left where they got left there um after after um you know ronnie makes the decision to stay in

01:09baltimore and then they they turn around and they're able to get their left tackle and let

01:13her be done i mean it's obviously a great culture in baltimore something you're hoping to change

01:18around here in dc it's something we talked about after the season they had last year if the

01:22perception around here has changed that guys wouldn't come play here do you feel like that

01:26has changed is this just a case that stanley wanted to stay put or was it something that he

01:30was still a little bit miffed at what washington is i think stanley and chris godwin are sort of

01:36similar in the sense that like they're both third contract guys right and like they both have made

01:42a lot of money and when you already have a lot of money in the bank doesn't mean you're not still

01:47chasing the next dollar you are i think you always are to some degree um you know but you

01:54might be willing to to give up a little bit because you've already made some money you know

01:59so i think that's probably what it was you know and it's not like i haven't talked to him directly

02:04about this i think that's probably part of it for for ronnie is you know he's got a comfortable

02:09situation in baltimore um they've been really good they're going to continue to be really good

02:14um and you know like as being able to stay at the number he's able to stay at he can trust that

02:20they're going to be able to take the savings there off of what he may be may have been able

02:24to make in a washington or a new england and make the team around him better so um you know really

02:30i don't think it's it's any knock on anyone else it was just he's got a good situation he's made a

02:35lot of money and so if it meant taking a little bit less i think he was willing to take a little

02:40bit less to stay in that good situation that's it i mean i think washington is a very attractive

02:46destination for teams right now i don't think there's any question about that albert brier

02:50senior nfl reporter and lead content strategist at the mmqb so what they ended up doing at left

02:56tackle is actually maybe even better in terms of production but man did they pay a lot right laramie

03:02tonsil and i mean comparatively speaking they give up a two or three and a four with a seven

03:07over the next two drafts they did get a four back to help cushion the blow and then they get tonsil

03:12at 21 per against the cap for the next couple of years he'll probably want an extension after this

03:17season presumably but if you if you would have gotten stanley in this hypothetical at 24 and

03:24kept all your picks i would have taken that i do think tonsil is a better player but i want to get

03:29your thoughts on you know what they tried to do and what they ended up having to do because

03:33peters who works in the shadows seem to go outside the box here yeah and i think it's like a

03:38honestly um you know i i think it's sort of reflective of how hard it is to fill that

03:44position if you don't have one you see what the what the chief said to do which was

03:49bring in a guy who wasn't ever a full-time starter in san francisco at 50 at 15 million

03:55dollars a year dan moore who was you know about to be replaced in pittsburgh got 21 million a year

04:01in tennessee so i like just it's a supply and demand thing and that's one position where it's

04:07just really really hard to find a guy who can be your long-term answer and it's rare that they

04:13become available so i think that the fact that they were able to get them at the price they were

04:17able to get them out was actually pretty good i think it's if you do like the graph value chart

04:22whatever it winds up equating to it winds up equating to a low first round pick what they

04:26were what they gave up to get them um and the opportunities present present the opportunity

04:32presented itself because of some stuff that happened in houston but i don't think he's a

04:36bad guy like i think he'll come in and as long as you have the right culture around him he'll be

04:41fine um you know it's a little bit like trent williams and and you guys can obviously relate

04:46to this where there were a ton of questions about trent when he was in washington right

04:51and you know then he gets to san francisco you know you know we we haven't heard anything bad

04:56about trent williams you know so i think if you're adam peters you sort of look at your

05:00own experience having gone through that san francisco where you traded for trent williams

05:05in early 2020 and um trent's going on uh you know six years now of all pro play out there and

05:12and in a really good environment you know now that the pit commanders have that sort of environment

05:18um you know i think it gives them the freedom to to take swings on opportunities like this

05:23with guys that like i mean hey you know look like again like not a bad guy but might not be the

05:29leader of your program when you bring them in what have you made of their moves overall so far

05:35in free agency some trades that they've made i've probably been fine which is about everything

05:39they've done except for maybe 15 million a year for kin law but what what's your take on what

05:44they've done so far yeah i mean i think the kin law thing is again like just sort of a guy who you

05:49view as a scheme fit you know and a very specific role you're going to have for him and um you know

05:54he hasn't lived up to his his his where he was drafted of course but um he's still a good player

06:00you know and you have an idea of what you're going to get from him which is you know sort of the way

06:04that they built the team last year and bringing all the guys that they had background with and

06:09you know i don't need to go through everything for you guys you guys know all the names um but i

06:14think it's another one of those you know what i mean like where um you you you do have an idea

06:19of what you're getting because adam peters was with the guy before and has experience and it

06:24there is some system familiarity there um and what kin law has done in the past outside of that like i

06:31i think you know this is a good um good example what the what the commanders have done it goes

06:36back to you know november when they traded for for latimore which was really a move for 2025

06:42more than it was a move for 2024 um you're bringing in guys at premium positions in

06:48latimore and debo and laramie council um and that happens because you did a good job in year one

06:55under adam peters and dan quinn and and building the roster up and creating an environment where

07:01you don't have to press needs now you know so when an opportunity comes along you are

07:06loose enough to be able to take a swing on a guy like this you know it's i think if they don't

07:11draft as well as they did last year and and and beyond just jayden being able to get um a brandon

07:17coleman a mikey sanders still uh um you know a uh you know johnny newton who they think is going to

07:24be something uh luke mcafree it does give you the freedom to to take more chances and to do

07:31to do different things with some of your draft picks because you don't need

07:35you know the the margin for error where you've got 10 or 12 picks and you need to fill five

07:39positions um with starters albert brier getting us up to speed on the commanders as we are now

07:45about an hour and 20 minutes away from the official league year start oh yeah

07:49any more shelves are already there i think i was gonna say i don't even know if that means

07:53anything anymore but we're an hour and 20 minutes out uh before we let you go we only have about 30

07:57seconds but i just want to get your thoughts really quickly as best you can sum it up

08:01is trey hendrickson still an option for washington and what would that market look like

08:06yeah i mean i the the the bengals want a one um but i don't think the one's going to be out

08:12there for him because he's 31 years old and um he's going to require a new contract so i i still

08:18don't think they would move them for anything less than a two though so you have to make that

08:22determination if you're washington where you know you've already you know i mean i i can't i don't

08:28have it in front of me but they got what a one a two a four uh six and a seven or something like

08:34that right yeah right so like you know you're looking at it if you're them and you're saying

08:39do i really want to deplete myself for another draft pick i i think that's a that's a question

08:44and i think the other thing about it is you know if you are the commanders you know you're you're

08:50probably looking at it and saying there's a really deep draft um at that position so we could we

08:55could draft guys with our first two picks and potentially hit on starting level players at

09:00that position at a much cheaper rate than than than flipping the two for Hendrickson so i think

09:05it's something to consider um but you know i think there's a there's a case to be made for

09:10just drafting and developing your own at that position too based on what's in the draft class

09:14albert always appreciate your insight thanks for the time man awesome thanks guys be good

09:18there's albert brier si and mmqb on grant and danny here on the fan

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