JP and BMitch discuss Commanders defensive lineman Jonathan Allen requesting a trade with Barstool Nate. Nate thinks Allen was a great Commander, and the team should honor his request in order to get younger.
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00:00John Allen seeking to trade. I don't think this is much of a surprise. What was your reaction?
00:04We saw a mission to seek a trade you have a permission to seek a trade. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, not a big surprise
00:10It's unfortunate. Obviously, he's been here forever two-time Pro Bowler
00:14You know hard and solid locker room type of guy and we're finally good, which is kind of the ironic part
00:22But it seems like he's ready to move on
00:25I don't want to say he's like never completely lived up to
00:29Expectations coming out Alabama or anything like that because obviously he's a very good player
00:34It has been quite a good defensive tackle for this team
00:39Him and pain never
00:42together became like that
00:44Crazy demon force in the middle that I think we all wanted them to be whether their fault or you know
00:51Just the teams they've been on combined fault, whatever. I think it's fair that he wants to go somewhere else
00:56I I think it's fair if fans of the team are like, why does he want to go now?
01:02But you know, he has one where you're on his contract. It's still a rebuilding team. We have to remember that
01:07I'll say it every week until the cows come home. We're only this is this is the second year of the rebuild
01:13He's a veteran. He's on the wrong side of 30 as they say in the biz
01:17I think it makes sense from both sides. But do you see another move coming?
01:22Behind this that like, okay
01:24We give him a chance to go look for trade try to find and then bring somebody else at that position or somewhere else
01:32Yeah, it's just I guess it all depends on the market
01:35I'm reading a lot right now that it's a very good to tackle draft which may hurt the trade a bit
01:41But it also you have to remember gms are smart. They're sharp. They know that he's a good veteran player
01:47He's you know again a two-time pro bowler. He could still have three four five more years in that tank. Um
01:56What will we get back for him?
01:59You hope adam peters can do adam peters magic and get you know, a couple picks, uh third and fourth
02:05Or maybe he's looking bigger. Maybe adam peters is looking at that wide receiver type of trade
02:11Using him as bait. I I don't know. It's very early in the process
02:15I'm sure we'll see a lot of leaks and a lot of rumors and all that stuff in the in the next few hours and
02:21Days and weeks you might see rumors. You're not gonna see leaks
02:24Okay, we should actually you're right
02:27No, no, I think we're so conditioned to thinking about this franchise and leaks but that doesn't really happen anymore
02:33And that's actually very encouraging. I'm glad you caught me there
02:36But I may sometimes they want stuff leaked so you might see leaks like sometimes
02:41There's information they want out there that might get out. But in general, it's not a leak if I want it out there
02:47It's it's not exactly it's not like the toxic
02:50Yeah snake pit what they call it a viper pit. It used to be to your point
02:54I don't think losing jonathan allen is the end of the world. He essentially gets the run
02:59We saw that he wasn't all there this last season
03:02Um, I I I think that we just have to remember as a fan base
03:07That we are still building this roster back up from basically nothing and they want to get younger at that position
03:14Jonathan allen was injured for the most of the season. He is over 30 years old
03:19It is a good defensive tackle draft
03:21I think there's a lot of good things that came from jonathan allen being on this team for as long as he's been on the
03:26Team and you know just sailing through the rough seas as he has I wish him the best in his future endeavors
03:33I I think that's uh, that's the exact way to to say it. I like
03:37Allen was mostly really good here. He and pain never became this dominant alabama wall force that folks hoped for
03:45um, they almost
03:48They were probably better than what most fans thought but never delivered on the on the really exciting promise