Welcome to the Command Center podcast. I'm Julie Donaldson. OTAs are wrapping up this week for the Commanders. Logan Paulson and Sean Springs joined me to talk about all the stars and sleepers from the past few weeks. Lots of respects for Dotson coming in and early being able to see what he's doing, but he was drafted sixteenth overall. You'd expect somebody drafted six overall to be able to come in and look like they know what they're doing and kind of be able to hit the ground running
and come in as a starter. Who though, from what you've watched us through some stars and sleepers, which starts? Who has really kind of stood out to Logan? Has you've been here pretty much watching practice for all three weeks? Yeah, I mean, obviously Johan Dotson has been outstanding. We already talked about him. The guy that I think deserves a
ton of credit is Carson Wentz. I mean, just the way he's picked up the offense, is ability to put the football down the field and the tight window throws he's been able to make. You know, a lot of people credit Johan, but a lot of that credit deserves you go to Carson Wentz. He's throwing him open. They've been a really nice job. Their chemistry is on point. It just makes this offense look so different. It's a totally different animal going into season with him at the
quarterback position. When when you talk about leadership, I think Carson Wentz. I've heard people say he's paid ands like with his leadership and how he approaches practice, and you will see everyone get better when you have a quarterback who approaches they're like with professionalism. They get excited about his live arm and I believe Carson Wentz is one
of those guys when you see it in person. You can see it on TV, but when you get to see it actually in person, you realize how strong his arm is and how many great throws he can make. So all of that talent and leadership, and that's something that I think this coaching staff really wanted, was to be able to strutt the field, to be able to take advantage of how fast Terry McLaurin is, and of course dots and runtal four three as well. Right, we able to take advantage of that. What about if we
go to the defensive side of the ball. I got the last couple of days especially. It's again you probably know really well as Benjamin say choose ye, his length, his footspeed, his patience, his physicality with the receivers. I mean, Johan has been very, very sharp, except when he goes up against Benjamin Saint Juice, and I think it's just his length, his athleticism, all those things you want check check, check check. He's playing a little buffalo nickel. He fits
runs well. He's just been super impressive for me last year seeing him, you can see the potential. I called him like he was like baby Richard Sherman, and he's like six three guys. It's hard to throw him. Got great ball scales, and he's physical at the line scrimmage, which oftentimes, you know, receivers like to be fancy and give you all these moves. But when you got a guy who's gonna stand in front of you, put his arms on you and can run with you, you can't
dismiss around. You gotta get off the ball. So I expect a great year from him. What about some sleepers, I mean we're talking about a lot of the names you know that kind of should be obvious stars, And it's great to be able to see that they're standing out because that's what you expect of them. But what about some of the guys that maybe we're not really talking about, that are kind of sleeping and should be paying we should be paying attention to. Yeah, I mean
a couple of guys coming to mind. Chris Paul's sethi On Traffick did a great job. Curtis Hodges did a great job. But the guy that I think is probably most surprising to me as Holmes, the quarterback that they dropped in the seventh round. He has just looked very, very sharp and like we watched a little bit of film, you just had nothing but good things to say about. Yeah. I mean, the kid looked like he's has some veteran experience.
You if you watch tape and you didn't know he was a rookie, probably would think that he had at least two or three years in the NFL. I like his size. I think he's a six one kid. He can run. Usually when you see big corners, he look kind of stiff, but he moves well. He has gray hips. She was planning break and turning his hips coming out of the breaks and challenging the receiver. So I see what you see on tape. I love that this kid
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