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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00:00I want to have a conversation very specifically about what you want to see in Dallas.
00:05But I did want to run through this. I was listening to PFT Commentator's podcast this morning.
00:10So think about this 2018 NFL draft. And I say this because I don't know who these morons are,
00:18but apparently I got tagged in a tweet. So this dude Disco,
00:22who I feel like Disco is a part of our universe and we appreciate Disco,
00:26um, said that some fans have already declared Ben Sennett a bust and wonder why he hasn't
00:31supplanted Zach Ertz. And I think the people saying this are so incredibly stupid.
00:36Sennett has been really good all year. Ertz might be a Hall of Famer. I don't understand this rush
00:42to not like Zach Ertz, who caught two touchdowns last week, including the game winner in overtime.
00:48Ertz is a fantastic player and one of the best pure route runners as a tight end,
00:53probably in NFL history. We have to find a way
00:57to ignore the small amount of people who like to say the dumbest things possible.
01:04And let's not put any more, you know, focus on them, move past them and move on. You don't just
01:12sit down somebody because somebody outside the building think that they can't play.
01:17I've watched him play all year and the guy has given us a hell of a lot, you know what I'm
01:23saying? So, so we got to stop. We got to start to ignore those people. And you know, it may be
01:29sometimes it's the infiltration of others, fans that didn't like it from Philly when he left and
01:35this, that and the other, you know, people come in and do that stuff. So we got to learn to just
01:39ignore them. I had an interview with a commander side ends coach David Rye yesterday. I think we're
01:44going to play that later in the show. We talked about arts at length and how impressed he is,
01:49but the notion of declaring a player, a bust 16 games during his rookie season, I just found so
01:55stupid. And I was listening. Like I said, I was listening to part of my take this morning.
02:00Everyone that thought that Senate and Luke McCaffrey was supposed to automatically get
02:06playing time. I've always fought against that. I keep saying you have to learn how to play at this
02:10level. And Senate is he's a hell of a blocker. He plays best team out the world. And then he's
02:19going to be able to enhance other stuff coming forward. You look at Luke. Luke is in his what
02:24third year now of being a receiver. And now he's at the highest level playing at rice.
02:29Yeah. He has to learn how to play it. And I see a bright future for him, but everybody just
02:36automatically assumes just because somebody was dead. We've seen, we've seen Heisman trophy
02:42winners never take a snap in the NFL. Well, that's exactly where I kind of where I was going.
02:48Let's look back at the 2018 NFL draft, shall we? And then think about what's happening in
02:54the playoffs this year. Number one pick in that draft Baker Mayfield, who a lot of at various
03:00points in his career had been dismissed as a bust repeatedly. Yeah. He's I assume he made
03:07the pro bowl. He's, you know, Tampa is, is Tampa's in the, I guess not definitively in,
03:12but Tampa's probably in the playoffs. Mayfield playing at a really high level. People definitely
03:17at one point in time called him a bus. Yeah. Number two, picking that draft.
03:21Saquon Barkley, the giants just decided he was done. Didn't want to pay him.
03:26How's that look? It might cost you your job. Honestly, Joe. Yeah. Yeah. Number three,
03:31picking that draft landfills boy, Sam Darnell. Everybody thought everybody thought people still
03:37think he's a bus and he's sitting there 14 to two. Right. And about to get paid.
03:44That draft was loaded. Be listening to this. Denzel Ward at four Chubb at five
03:49Quentin Nelson at six, Josh Allen at seven Roquan at eight McGlinchey nine, Josh Rosen at
03:5510. There's your first bus. Minka goes 11 Vita. Vega goes 12. Deron Payne here.
04:03I mean, this draft was just loaded. Tremaine Edmonds in that draft Jair Alexander.
04:07And you know, went 32 fellow by the name of Lamar Jackson. I mean, that, that was told
04:17he should try and run him back. And it's just such a loaded draft, dude. But yeah,
04:22that's kind of my point is like, people got to chill trying to make these pronouncements and
04:28determine draft success. This new staff is, I think they know what the hell they're doing.
04:35Yeah. You know? Well, dude, so 13 people got pro bowl recognition, obviously Jaden interior in,
04:43and then 11 other dudes are some level of alternate, right? Yeah. Of those 13 be
04:5110 of them joined this organization since March. These guys know what they're doing. And, and,
04:59and the other three were here back to the Gruden day. And then all of the pundits think about that
05:07when they, when they picked all these people up, they were like, Oh, Washington,
05:10they didn't get no talent. Remember that we have no talent. And I say, let the people at least
05:17get in, get in here first and see what they can do. They have more, more than enough talent.