welcome to the first addition of countdown the kicked off of what set out
to washington d_c_ with mike jones of the washington post my calorie today and
a lot better john beck verses rex grossman the quarterback battle while
uh... back has been on the sidelines for the strain right corrine
rex look good in the first three seasons in augusta steelers nineteen eighty one
e six
two hundred seventy yards a touchdown back appears to be running with the
first team today in practice on monday august fifteenth and reports are saying
he is
incredibly rusty
who was in the lead right now for the starting job and who do you see as the
starter come september eleventh
opal right now
yet i think that that
format that rex grossman showed on friday
they've given him a little bit of an edge
obviously uh... coaches said it
jab ek din loony ground because the interest of the unit and her but the
pressure is really on him to come out here this friday and playing a
high-level um... obviously you know that uh...
duplicate what rex
would wreck they're just too
due to solidify things but you need to do something
in a positive light father there are so that way
he can keep pace with them
so i think it will have a better idea of who the leading
after this friday
obviously lecturers military couple with the system having whether this is
third-year now he's been in that system
you struggle after getting the last year
we've got a good connection with clinton a martyr toppers
the author of the good route connection with too broad gaffney the receiver they
brought in he would've team in the florida
john back
team with the backup black shirt but strangely wrenched out team we haven't
had much time to work with either of those receivers
other than here in training camp so
they'll be instantly i come down
now it's it's the running-backs ryan saran out with a broken right hand hurts
has been broken hands
newcomer tonight's hour who specialized in goal line situations with their zona
appears to be the front runner at running back until terrain returns yeah
i think that uh... when
bill this year when turning point back because
collect our comes out here on part
into physical baggy
because it would be adult picking up that collectors
and that's one thing that terrain govindan so much of that third down back
situation
mike chinoy like a bushel back intranet
pretty good rainfall but the question about him also
is if you can stay healthy
and this is thirty year in the n_f_l_ and the first two years
but she retorted n c l_ the next year and shattered is up
i'll go on at home at last year he had
uh... hamstring injury celebrated to the port for this year
it's started off with a degree
can you come back at you know when
produced a high level
in the last two preseason games organising e-books
you have to really weigh keep your direct into lake which is fun invites
are left with sticking with running-backs any chance clinton
portance is still a freezer returns to washington mice
well picture convective moved on
uh... i think that they're happy with what they have in the young back
retracted work eleven oppressed cut
and they drafted on the richter out of penn state those too young guys open the
vacant diplomats roster archie victory for hightower
porter so i think the huge hoping they can get somewhere where he got more
feature back world but it doesn't look like those options are coming his way or
another help and up
he workpiece immature working while the third comeback but right now
she's kinda looking elsewhere doesn't seem like
the red intern the card for him
now the senate hands on the gmat merits did not go well let's hear what is a
feeling in d_c_ towards
mike untill shanahan
you know it's kind of split
a lot of the people well-lit mcnair didn't get a fair shake
uh... he got one year in the offense in
that mike shannon hall of fame takes awhile to learn and they need to get
more all he did
but then another you know group of people who say well
think that came out he never looked really because you never looked like he
was
really in shaping the rhythm and thing like that to their liking them out of
town though you know i think it's probably about
sixty forty right now people who
if she needed to come out here in
percent of back can come out and do well then
everyone will forgive and forget the question the people mostly rio
it's okay maybe mcnally with with the answer
but our growth send it back really better option
then that fixed on po boy that's what people are are hard to believe
clarifies sixty forty in favor or against right now try sixty forty
who are attempting to rub without provocation and the better and all but
assured of better deal
shanahan mishandled the situation
and going with john back
correction person
overlook nablus trouble altman
now another experiment that clearly failed was the same hansen
nal retains with of course dealership that it's not a new england what was the
reaction to his worth living
valid everybody would basically let me know
do you know i mean you know good riddance here
this is a guy to we first in washington d
fan issues contract but forty one million guaranteed he talked about
proven carried by the he was going to be that
one of the best
he put the lyman ever to play the game in heat
wasn't happy in the fourth recess and let the redskins rare in the first year
that he was here
antennae duffel and a half billion three four it was just one thing after another
wrote reagan to them
cartilage sexual assault ban for them
and so every book he would basically
of look
the mindset that this guy needs to get outta here teammates evidence traction
they were just tired having something distinct hanging over them constantly so
there was a relief
that there were a police often they were they would have to go to camp
worrying and wondering about it that we're going to play
if you're going to get along and what they were going to do with them
michael b
ask you because you covered the team and of course we can we can read anything
about it on the sdn
area in the papers online big you follow this team every single day
going back to the shannon hands do players have a lot of faith in them and
do they look up to them they definitely do have a
in my training and i think last year was sort of
early on a little bit of a feeling out but even kiss
light the the pension amid navin the whole his work then there was nobody
questioning
and private question civilian
bday
bought into awaited u_n_ him to run the way you want to the pic
and then i get to resume spoke for them after coming from your religion or no
with a quarterback coach
by the forgot the head coaching job the weight of mikey here i was just more
discipline
a lot more structured and they knew that this was approach to
been there done that
tactics s
to nobody was really questioning the weather people
speaking up taken type of mcnair applicant is worth and now this year
everybody's saying they're glad the distractions rover they believe in
shanahan they're more comfortable in the system
uh... signed that they can pick things will work
it's now what is the one position that'll be to keep our eyes on
this pre-season with the redskins
bought outside of quarterback
um...
you know
though running back this is the one that's most intriguing on defense
everything is pretty set you have
you know they've made nine tradition to be a total billed even though on on the
front line
they drafted alright kerrigan outside linebacker jarvis ticketed beautiful i
mean the apprenticeship hematologic part way to go for onli injury
but on offense
that the men questioned a running back and the quarterback obviously dot but
the line
inmates fellows cup grated ic probably be better but there's no real position
battle
along that line wide receiver look lexington a martian jabbar gap you're
going to be your started if neil armstrong has your number three so up in
the air
is that quarterbacks
and then i want him back spotted a gotta go to grossman are back in a running
back at the high power or terrain
at the end of training camp beginning of the season do you see grossman
solidifying that's not n_b_c_ terrain solidifying that spot
i hate i would be more surprises killing solidified it just the way high-power
look she's more durable
the way he is
are performed in practically i believe that you find them you're starting
running back
it would make more sense to go with grossman because
unfamiliar team with the system prominent chemistry with both the
running-backs but
you never know
the shooting into a very high on our john back when he came out of college
mike shanahan if they hadn't got to take all of the year before
keith said he will travel to them
uh... in uh... so they have different nil
cover it up
infatuation with m_t_v_ unknown
but if you're looking at the performance in practice
shopper passes from rex grossman
we'll have a better feel better temple a better people arm job exp patents water
a little bit arm so i a it was on me i would say that they go grossman at the
start of what about now a few more questions for you mike the rest is
currently have ul
eleven wide receivers on the roster in this short free agency period it seem
like they were signing a different veteran free agent every single day in
uses that stands in a monster broadcasting i assume dante stalwarts
will be in there who also makes the cut and how many receivers to date keep
for the season opener
u_s_ history and keeping more than six we've been going back and forth out here
in their menfolk sportswriters obviously you know that
sent him often jabbar gap near locks
intramural strong last year became one of the number two receiver
uh... second-year guys you've got to be a lock
you have dont install oracle looks pretty good
three young tracking your guide care talking we've been solid as well
bachelor one goes to work there you could almost two men are out from what
we've seen so far then you have the rookie
will entertain person around picked out of miami
who make spectacular grab it
but cannot make t_v_ catches and then the other two rookies
niles hall padova
nebraska an autocratic another renewal
but that they're trying to catch subsidize a special team
brennan thanks
hit the wide receiver but mostly been tempted to just be special came back
though
if i had to go to accept remarked japanese armstrong
uh... i'd keep going back and forth by set about
stalwart them often
and then the
you have ten percent and then probably bank maybe the other two guys hall and
robert and click on the practice spot
last lesson for e mike over under six-and-a-half wins this season for the
residence
just barely over i'm thinkin seven nine eight make
seven nine eight minutes of the steamy zensar
i think so thirty since we're going to be much improved
uh... that the way they have the guts out there who actually had a bunch of or
regard
being forced into the three-four defense now they have the pieces and placed that
would permit the report defense
i think that's gonna pull them out of a few typescript i think they have five
game last year when they walked by three point
but i can make a difference where it also i think that they can definitely
have a in-game improvement will see about the quarterback thing we could
have a different quarterback
you know a bye week four
and i would be surprise if the two guys shuttle we seek alan quinn of their
quarterback
but i hope we will see
mike jones of the washington post things are taken off the first dissonance
countdown to kick off we look forward to uh... to talking to you during the
season great job
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