The Commanders Have Zero Urgency At The RB Position

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Nick Chubb has signed with the Texans, and we don't understand why the Commanders haven't addressed that spot.

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00:00Danny, Nick Chubb is reportedly signing a deal with the Houston Texans.

00:03He only averaged 3.3 yards per carry in eight games last year.

00:08He missed, you'll remember, because of one of the most gruesome, awful national TV,

00:13like terrible, all the LCLs, all the CLs got torn apart.

00:17So he missed 15 games two seasons ago and then another nine last season.

00:22So 24 of 34 games the last two years.

00:25But the last time he was healthy, he averaged five a pop.

00:29Is he someone they should have at least kicked the tires on?

00:32We keep going back to the same story, you and I.

00:35Like every time a running back, J.K. Dobbins visits the Broncos.

00:38Nick Chubb goes to the Texans.

00:39We go, another one off the board, another one off the board.

00:42We're acting like they are supposed to be making these calls.

00:45They have no interest.

00:45They don't seem to care at all.

00:47They're like, why do you care if one went off the board?

00:49We've got Brian Robinson and Austin Eckler and Chris Rodriguez.

00:53We're doing this thing where we're putting our ideas on them,

00:57and they don't seem to care at all about what we think.

00:59100%.

00:59So they don't have urgency on this position.

01:02They don't.

01:02I mean, I've got a lot of people, dare I call them, stands for Crosskey Merit,

01:09the seventh-round pick, who they played a game a little while ago.

01:12So if he works out, then, yeah, you've solved your running back group.

01:14I don't know.

01:15I just sort of don't set my watch by seventh-round picks turning into stars.

01:19But TBD, of course, on that.

01:21If they really did find something, what a great job at this front office,

01:24scouting department, everybody in between, you know, take a bow,

01:26and you could shove it in my face.

01:28To me, this was a cheap, easy upgrade here just to improve that room.

01:33It doesn't mean I'm just jettisoning Robinson for no reason.

01:37I'm keeping Austin Eckler around.

01:38He's valuable.

01:39To me, this was one of those I would have added somebody for the times

01:44that Eckler's going to be down who might have a slightly larger role.

01:46I would have had somebody to take some of the carries, those early downs from Brian Robinson.

01:51I'm still going to keep him as my thumper.

01:52There was a role for that guy.

01:54I'm just not doing 250 carries to Brian Robinson.

01:56I won't do that anymore.

01:57Now, maybe there's some renaissance.

01:59Maybe it's the offensive line and the blocking will be better,

02:01and you'll see him all of a sudden have vision and have burst and have more wiggle.

02:06I don't know why blocking would do that, but maybe that's the case.

02:09But specific to Chubb, who's in the news here today,

02:11do we think he's got anything left?

02:13Whether Washington's in the running back game or not,

02:16which we've talked about ad nauseum, they're not.

02:19Is this a guy that more teams should have been interested in?

02:21I totally get the lack of interest when he has missed as many games as he has,

02:26and last year he didn't look anything like Nick Chubb pre-injury.

02:31But you add in his age, he's going to be 30 years old this football season,

02:35and I kind of file him away as I would bring him in at next to no money on an ultimate flyer,

02:43like you're the last guy in the room and we'll see what you got left contract.

02:48I don't know if that's – we'll get the terms when he signs with the Texans.

02:52Is that what they're doing?

02:54Or it seems to me like when I hear people talking about Nick Chubb, they go,

02:57he's still really good.

02:58He's better than Brian Robinson.

02:59You could bring him in as your starter.

03:00I think there are people like that out there that you could say that about,

03:04whether that's Dobbins or someone else.

03:05I'm not sure if I would put Chubb in that category.

03:07To me, how could you possibly know that based on what we've seen the last couple years?

03:10That's the key, right, is you have to know now that he's further removed from ACL injury

03:14that was, as you said, particularly gruesome, maybe he does have some of that burst back, the power.

03:19He, to me, was the all-around back, right?

03:21Speed, power, agility, catch the ball, just a really, really good football player.

03:26He was so good.

03:27Before, you know, kind of pre-injury.

03:28So I'm not winning a bidding war for Nick Chubb.

03:30I always think about guys like this, where I go, I got to have it.

03:33I'll win the bidding war.

03:34I will pay the most because I'm desperate.

03:36If somebody else wants to offer him, hey, you'll be our starter, go, I'm just making up a number,

03:41make $7 million this year, okay, fairly well.

03:44But is he worth a call when he's hanging out for weeks at a time?

03:47Absolutely.

03:48Again, I think they missed the boat on this one.

03:49Well, look, he signed with the Texans, who have Joe Mixon as their starter.

03:52They acquired him in a trade with the Bengals.

03:55He was good last year.

03:56They still have Damian Pierce, who two seasons ago was their number one,

03:59who they drafted in the fourth round in 2022.

04:02They also drafted a running back in the fourth round, Woody Marks,

04:05who's going to make that roster and be a part of the team.

04:08So by him signing with Houston, it is a tell to me, there was not a starting job out there.

04:13Right.

04:13That's a good point.

04:14There probably wasn't even a number two job out there where you're making really good money.

04:18This is indicative of the fact that the market was pretty bleak.

04:22So I tend to believe that Washington was probably in lockstep with everybody else on this.

04:28Just not interested.

04:29Maybe it's either no interest or they said to him, hey, we're willing to bring you on at next to nothing

04:36and let you show us that you still got some football left in camp if you want to do that.

04:40But even if they offered that, you would think they would have been a better destination than Houston.

04:43Because that's kind of what the Texans are doing.

04:46Another airplane coming overhead, by the way.

04:48Except that the Texans have a starter and a really good number two

04:51and a drafted number three in the fourth round.

04:53So I would think if it's the same money-ish, same situation-ish, Washington-Houston,

04:59you'd have rolled with Washington because there's a path to actually getting carries quicker,

05:02which tells me he wasn't even getting looks from the running back needy teams.

05:07The Texans are kind of one of the few teams maybe that even called.

05:11Because it's not a good place to sign.

05:12It's not a – for a guy trying to reclaim his career, it is not a good place to sign.

05:15It's actually a bad place.

05:17Yeah.

05:17I mean, this is one of those a lot of dominoes have to fall.

05:20But if you don't have a lot of choices, maybe that's the kind of choice you make.

05:23Yeah, I think that's a smart point, putting two and two together there.

05:26Yeah, my sense is Washington is not interested.

05:30And I know that's – there are 31 teams that said that.

05:33But kind of most specifically, there is a lot – there are a lot of eggs

05:37in the Krosky Merit basket from a lot of fans.

05:41And I'm just one of those, I need to wait and see.

05:44If this was a third-round running back or a guy that had all sorts of hype

05:47and energy around him, maybe.

05:49If you're sold, you know because of that, quote-unquote,

05:51game tape that you watched in 2023.

05:54God bless you.

05:55I don't know.

05:56I will let things play out right there.

05:58But to me, this was one of those, you can go get Jeff Wilson.

06:00You can go get J.K. Dobbins for a guy to supplement that room,

06:03and you'd be better.

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