Hello, and welcome back to camping out with Zach Selvey, where we're dropping all the bombs he would ever want. I bet you're watching the Commander's team and they go through training camp. We got the fans all out here for the first day of padded practices and today is rotating cast of characters on the beat. We have two rapporters and a player. By the way, I'll add a feature there for you had miss Tissler from NBC Sports Washington.
We have Michael Phillips from the Richmond Times Dispatch, and we have Curtis Hodges, the tity who was trying to make his way onto the roster. Let's go check out what they had to say. All right with us, we have Michael Phillips and the Richmond Times Dispatch. It's the first day of PATS and what have you seen so far? There's really kind of stood out to you, man, I've seen a lot of good play from the defensive line today. I think you started with fa Obada. You know you
knew he was good. Obviously he's got a track record. He's gay. Jonathan Allen's mullin dudes out there. Montes Sweat playing very well, Fiderian Mathis. I like what I saw from Fiderian Mathis, so we knew that's a good unit. Obviously fun to watch with the pads on finally getting a chance to do the things they do. And then Carson Wentz had a much better day than yesterday. Off to a very good start here. The one thing I haven't noticed, man, you don't hear the thud anymore with
with these Guardian caps on their heads. You know that kind of click every time you hear a play. It's a lot a lot softer, a little more subdued. I'm not gonna lie I do. I do understand why they're there. They're very important, they should be there. I do kind of miss the pop a little bit. We can find out some sort of technology to make the pop exist without like, you know, concussion, that would be super nice. This is our version of college baseball. Remember when they
went to like the Woods simulated bat. Now it sounds like they're swinging a toilet out there, like you know, like that porcelain cling instead of the metal. That's what we're doing here. So you mentioned John Allen, I mean, did you see the way he was just bull rushing Andrew Norwell I mean, I mean it seems like he's just he's ready for the first day of pass right thoughts some prayers for Andrew Norwell Man. That's you don't
want to be that guy. You'll you'll line up, you're excited, it's an NFL practice, and like, oh, there's an angry Jonathan Allen. Okay, well, that's a bad situation to be in them M. But you know, kind of switching. You talked about FIDERI mat this too, and he's the guy who has really been coming that really so much, none of the pastors, but he does have that ability, right Yeah, And people are talking about like, oh, you know he's
here to replace Ran Payton. Now he's here to play alongside to Run pay They're gonna go three on that line a lot, especially Chase Young. This is the first few weeks here. You've got matthis, Payne, Alan, You're gonna put all three m on the field. You're gonna have formations where you go five on that defensive line, can get after the quarterback, can get after the run game. I think that's gonna be a key to the success this year. It is really using all three of those guys.
You're right Faderian mathis. I mean, obviously he's a run stopper, that's who he is by definition. But it wouldn't surprise me if he gets a sack this year. It's a nice little wrinkle to have when you can rush the pastor in the middle. Yeah. Yeah, So I was down there watching one on one pass rush. Were you there watching seven on seven? I was trying to stand in the middle and see both. I'm trying to off it's trying to have it all. It's tough to have it
all out here to training camp. You know, you got the offense working over here. You want to see that, But then you got the lineman, you know, popping each other. When they did that first drill, which was it was the kind of the run drill where the two lines were both there and got like you could just feel the excitement they were they're getting after it. I loved it. So I knew we were watching one on one routes with the receivers in the DBS, and I thought, Cam Sims,
why don't he caught every single pass a day? He almost had a really really nice grab out there during red zone drills. Well, we've seen out of camp Sims so far. Somebody explained to me what Cam Sims needs to do to get more playing time. Nothing Football League. All he does is make clutch catches every time they put him out on the field. I just you could run a highlight reel of Hey there's Cam Sims. He got one catch. It was a monster catch that changed
the game. Like, I don't know, I've seen enough from Cam Sims. We have a four year body of work now, he's very good at what he does. I'm close your eyes and tell me what you see. And that's how much Campsens has to do to make a roster pro Cam Sims. There you go. Who isn't honestly, but so you know Cole Turner another guy who has really kind of come on rit lately. I mean, do you think he could be kind of like a Red Zins wall.
Logan Thomas is still kind of on the man. We don't know why he's gonna come back, but you know, he's nice to have him at him and his ability, that's your caveat. You know, fantasy football players were kind of waiting for that Logan Thomas information. Right, If Logan Thomas is out six weeks, I'm just making up a number here. There's gonna be some Cold Turner touchdowns, but he's capable of that. He's absolutely capable of filling that
role being a big red zone target. If Logan Thomas is, you know, getting ready for Week one, it's going to be a reduced role for Cold Turner, and understandably so you want to run with Logan Thomas. He's the best you've got. But he can do it. He's a big red zone target. We've seen Carson Way. You know, it's hard to overthrow a six six guy. Carson Wentz found a way to do it the other day. But when he connects, I mean he can get balls up there that you know, that's what you want in the red zone.
It's either an incompletion or a touchdown, no bad outcomes. You know, he provides that with that height, that size, he goes out there, He goes out and gets it. He has that length. Like he said, Now, going to the defense, we know kinda fuller has been you know, pretty good so far. Who are they some other defensive line that we're not really thinking about. It kind of really popped, you see, kind of did what I did there with the Popo Metavi guy, I see what you
did there. I'm waiting to see Jayman Davis this week. This is a big week for Jayman Davis. Let's call this what it is. It's hard to show out if you're a lineback or before the pads come on. The pads are on. This week, I think we're all really excited to see has there been a second year leap? Will he be a guy they can count on every down? That's the big question to me this week. I'm have my eyes on jam and David c What has he achieved this offseason? Whereas he where is he ready to go?
William Jackson Man, I mean, we're gonna talk about defensive players who have popped and look, it's become almost cliche to say now Core and Elder he's having he's having himself a camp. I mean in the hoodie too, in the hoodie in the hood the land in Collins hoodie. You know the guys who wear the hoodie out here on these day. I am sweating just standing here doing this, Sames with you. I always feel back over the guys after practice like I'm I'm sweaty, like, well what did
you do? Like watched you? You know? I don't know. It's high out here though, it's it's camp weather. Well that airhorn has said, we're doing eleven eleventh, let's go back and check in it. Let's do it all right with us? We have Curtis hodd Is the Curtis first day in pass Man. How would feel out there? It was good. Everybody got after it. Uh, siding day. Yeah. So you know coach was talking about you the other day. He said, you're very coachable. Um, what's some of thing
things that you've been kind of learning so far? And as you go through, you know, the first few days with the team. Definitely the technique exput to the game. I'm just trying to soak it all in. Uh, learn from the VET guys like like John Bass and um like uh Logan all those guys, UM, just learn from them. What what is what is this process been like for yourself far? You know, good at like Arizona State, right and then like you know you you you didn't you
didn't go draft, get drafted. It's like, what's the process has been like for you so far? Uh? You know it's an underdog role. We drafted the tight end too, so I gotta prove myself Yeah, what's it like to be an underdog, you know, trying to make yourself known, that being make a name for yourself on the roster um. I kind of been fucking up that rolled my whole career. I'm used to it. I just gotta come out and
make plays and be consistent every day. Last thing for you is, you know you mentioned John Bass and Logan. What are some of the biggest things you've learned from them as you kind of go through the first few days here. It's just a little thing as a technique, how to get out quicker, how to how to block somebody easier, um stance alignment. Uh, it's really just a lot small, a little things aren't really in the playbook that you know, they'll tell you when you got to
kind of just remember. And it goes along with all right, man, appreciate you, and now whether we have the big man of stuff. Miss Tisler from NBC Sports Washington, Mitch is the first day it passed, it's really the time that you can really evaluate the offensive lineman or as my old coach say, the big skill back in the day. So, I mean, what does having the full pads really allow you to do when you're looking at how often the aliment are doing you know, so far in practice, it
allows them to be more physical. I mean, we talked about they're the big skill guys. They're the big guys. They got to be able to get their hands on them. They got to be able to put put their bodies into it. And when they're just wearing shells or not wearing full pads, it's difficult sometimes to to really set to really set themselves. So I thought today sounded a lot different with everyone wearing the Guardian, the Guardian. You
didn't hear the the Guardian cops. You didn't hear like you know, the bang bang that you're used to hearing on the first day of pads. But they got a lot of good work in there. The old line D line one on ones, we're exciting to watch. Andrew Normal really stuck out to me. He is big, strong hands. The second that he got his hands on any of those D linemen, he would he would stop him in their in their tracks. It was an impressive day. Yeah,
you know, I was. I was telling Michae phillips Is, I do understand why the guarding caps are out there. They are very important, But I do feel like I missed the clack of a helmet because it does sort of like give you like, oh I'm back. You know, a camp, the full pad practice, it is ready to go. You mentioned Andrew Norwell, and you know he did do well, but it seemed like John Allen was just on another level today. I mean, you know you were watching out
there eleven elevens and everything. What did you see out of him? I mean John Allen and Montes Seat, the two of them have launsters really good in camp so far, and then when you put him in pads, and you know, the first couple of days in camp you always had the excuse of the old linemen didn't have full pads on, so they weren't able to to really do their thing.
No different today. You saw him ante sweat in the backfield every other play in eleven on eleven you saw him bottling up every run to the outside and diving inside making plays. I mean, the two of those guys, you can't understated their importance. How how well they play will very much tell how well this defense is going to play. You know, this line obviously performed a little bit under expectations last year. It does what you've seen
at John and Sweat. Did that give you a little more confident that thinks they're gonna be maybe a little bit different heading into you know, twenty twenty two. To be honest, they looked really good last year too. We were talking about it the other day that, you know, last year when Ryan Fitzpatrick is that quarterback, we talked a little bit about how the defense was so far ahead of the offense, and you kind of explained it away, is, hey, this defense was top five, you know, so hey, it's
gonna be tough sludding for the offense. You know, we're seeing a little bit more of that this year as well, and I think early on in camp you see the defense is the defense being ahead of the offense in general, to me, the biggest addition to this defensive line is gonna be fe Obada. I've been very impressed with what
I've seen from him earlier. I think he's gonna have a lot of opportunities both on the inside on pass plays and kind of on the outside in kind of the short the short run plays to make an impact. I mean, he's a guy who is knifing through the old line. He's a guy who is playing with great pad level and making plays left and right. I'm excited to see him. And he's got the coolest socks in the game. He's got the burgundy and gold FA socks
which are which are awesome. So I'm excited to see when the when they get out there and can really start hitting, to see to see what he can do. But but he's been he's been a standout for me. And he has sweet British accent too, so he has like a triple or he can pet rest passer. He has the socks, he has the accent. Let's go over to the offense here, and you know, we offense, you know, didn't have as great a day probably on Monday. Do you think it was a little bit better, you know,
hit with the pads on, Definitely, I think they. I think they took a big step forward today. You didn't see the defensive backs getting their hands on nearly as many balls, but more so, I think when you saw them with run plays, the running backs we're running pretty free. You saw, you know, Antonio Gibson, Jennie McKissick, and Jared Patterson all break what would have been twenty plus yard runs.
And I think that's really the the you know, the the guys wearing pads, the old line being able to wall off guys without having to worry about, you know, pulling up so that you're not you know, hurting anybody. And then in the past game you saw the receivers being able to use their physicality a little bit more. You saw him be able to you know, a couple those little nudges that that receivers love to get away with.
That aren't that aren't opis, but certainly are are there are are part of everyone being in pads and being a little more physical. Yeah, you're banging, you know, you're doing what you need to. Yeah. So you know you've been to the running backs and you have a g you have Mekissic, you have Brian Robinson. How do you think that you know that three hitten monster of the at the back though, is really gonna work out. It's gonna be fun to watch. There's there's a lot of
good running backs back there. I love what Brian Robinson can do between the tackles, but I've started to see a little more shiftingness, a little more speed around the outside from him. I mean, I think it's gonna be a true three headed monster. I think you're gonna see you know, ag probably in the early downs. You're gonna see m Kissic in the clear passing downs. But they're
gonna mix in Brian Robinson in both situations. And I think he's gonna be a little bit of a little bit of an X factor back there for that for that running back group, because he's a guy who can kind of do it all between the tackles and around the outside. I called Brian Robinson Peyton Barber back when he was there in twenty twenty, mister third and two. I feel like Brian Robins could probably feel that role pretty well. And that's the thing is he's definitely mister
third and two. But I think he can be more than that. And that's what I think he's exciting about is that he's not just a guy who's going to stick his nose in there and fall forward for two three yards. You know, Washington fans remember some J. P. Ryan back in the day, you have, I mean, you ei, there have been those guys who have been the you know, we'll fall forward for two three yards and that's their
role on this team. And I think ultimately that's probably what Ron Rivera in this front office wanted when they picked Brian Robinson. But I think he's starting to show a little bit more and I think he could be, like I said, a nice little ex factor for the little extra wiggle, A little extra wiggle. Yeah, it's like a little wiggle, right, So yeah, exactly. Yeah, there's a
lot of wiggling in the big Seal guys. But so last one is, you know, what are some things you're looking forward to seeing, you know, for the rest of the week now that we're gonna be having a little more PAD today, I think Tomorrow, Friday, some of those other days. Honestly, I want to see a little bit more from Carson Wentz. I want to see a little bit more from the first team offense. They looked better today.
They were completing some balls downfield. They were able to move the offense, especially when they went to the eleven on eleven move the ball period. I want to see him hit a couple of big plays. I want to see Terry, you know, Terry catch the forty yards for a touchdown. I want to see you know, Johan over the middle. I want to see Tiami, you know, breaking up,
break breaking nine pattern out. I want to see a couple more, you know, kind of kind of big clutch plays because we know that's what Carson wants to do. We know that he wants to push the ball downfield, see in practice. Let's let's we know, we know the offense is capable of it on paper, but you know, we all we all love seeing any purpose a person over paper, for sure. Yeah, absolutely, there's it's great to be great on paper. It doesn't matter if you can't
translate it to the field. And all right, match man, I appreciate you, Thank you so much. That's all we have for you today. But be sure to check out your daily Command Center camp coverage every weekday on the Commander's YouTube channel. I'm gonna go back to my tank because I basically live here like everybody else, and I will see you tomorrow.