Does Hiring Adam Peters Mean The Commanders Are BACK?!

Washington Football’s history is matched by few teams in the NFL, but the last 24 years under Dan Snyder have ruined the franchise’s luster. With Josh Harris taking over, and immediately hiring the best candidate on the market in Adam Peters, can we say the prestige is back?

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[Applause] on a just Monumental day for the Washington commanders hiring Adam Peters as their new general manager now I will admit uh saying it’s a Monumental day does feel a bit preemptive on some level we have no idea how Adam Peters is going to do in this job everyone seems to

Think this guy’s the perfect guy for it that he has the demeanor he has The Scouting acument he’s got the relationships um he understands to me what is the most important thing that a front office person can understand which is um as Scott peoli put it like you

Kind of work for the head coach even if the head coach works for you they have to implement the stuff and it by the way this is this is true on some level um down chain regardless right like the head coach serves the GM the uh or sorry

The the GM serves the head coach The head coach serves the coordinators like one thing that I’ve learned from doing the podcast with Logan is how much say a coordinat has over the actual x’s and o’s in the football and thus what you need from a roster standpoint now with

The modern head coach being what it is your Shanahan’s Kyle your OK connell’s Kevin uh etc etc Shawn McVey Mike McDaniels uh on down the list of guys who are combo head coach coordinators that obviously becomes a little bit easier a little bit more direct uh in

Terms of what you’re searching for But ultimately like players don’t play football in a in like they don’t play Fantasy Football and they don’t play Sandlot football they are playing in highly organized highly orchestrated structures AKA scheme AKA uh a system and if you don’t have Players whose skill sets fit the system

I don’t care what their 40 time is and it’s not me being obtuse about like athleticism but like in some systems that speed really matters in a way that’s different than other systems and it’s depending on position and you know I think we’ve seen it here with the

Offensive line This o line was built to run block and they ran a pass heavy system and thus they looked really bad when they weren’t actually probably as bad if you’re running what they run in Atlanta um Caleb McGary is a great example of this um we used him as an

Example the other day on the Pod Caleb McGary was graded as one of the worst right tackles in football a couple years ago and it was because he was asked to pass block all the time dude is a road grater and so all of a sudden he goes to

Atlanta and Arthur Smith runs the football as much as pretty much anybody and he’s grading in the 90s on PFF every week why because he’s asked to do things he’s good at and they limit the times that he has to do things he’s bad at and

He found a place where that was possible and that his skill set was needed warranted and appreciated and it sounds like Adam Peters understands that in a major way and he’s helped do it to serve a coach like Bill Bel he’s helped do it to serve the coaches that he was with in

Denver uh and Surround pton Manning uh with with what he needed and obviously he’s been a big part of drafting this unbelievable roster in San Francisco that just got named or just had seven AP All Pros name to it the Washington commanders have had one in recent memory

His name is Brandon sheriff and he ain’t here anymore so that is all very encouraging and good and when I talk about like Adam Peters is a good hire there’s that but I think there’s actually an even bigger higher level to this that is obviously very very significant and that higher

Level is the Washington commanders and Josh Harris got their guy now like he said thorough uh but rapid and he got his guy by Friday and that guy wasn’t even been willing to interview other places a year ago he’s like look if I’m leaving San Francisco

Where I got it pretty good and by the way the rumors were by the end of the season like I i’ said on this show like I don’t think that Adam Peters is going to leave San Francisco don’t get your hopes up but it’s worth a try Josh Harris got him by

Friday done he was the guy and whether it was like I mean talk about being pointed with who you use I mean to evaluate but also the connections like to hi to be to for Josh Harris to probably know hey Adam Peters is who I want he’s EV everyone says this is the

Guy I need to make sure but I’m gonna get Bob Myers as a personal relationship with him to help me because I have that kind of network and I can get Bob Myers to come like that probably helped a lot and again when you’re when you’re the

Guy when you’re you are the one that everyone wants in Social settings in in work settings in any place where we’re talking about supply and demand if you’re the one in demand you got options and so while yes Harris and the commanders were interviewing Adam Peters he was also

Interviewing them because if he didn’t like what he saw and heard here he could have gotten any other open job or probably gone into the offices in San Francisco and said hey give me a new contract a new title and pay me more that’s how coveted this guy

Is he could have used the commanders for leverage he could have gone to other jobs and he didn’t do any of that dude interviewed here and was like I’m good I want to work for those guys I want to work for Josh Harris Mitchell rails Magic Johnson sick sign me

Up I’ll build it from scratch let’s go and the idea that less than a year ago this team was owned by Daniel M Snider and we spent Summers tracking Yachts as he was dodging Congressional subpoenas and we spent time having to deal with all of the stuff that he brought onto this

Organization and by the way 24 years of total unbelievable incompetence like this dude couldn’t get out of his own way if he tried and that’s the same organization and a year later less than a year later he bought the thing in July we’re here in January and they got

Peters even if he doesn’t turn out that’s already a win the status of this organization the the light that it is seeing in we’ve got proof now Washington is back it’s going to take time to rebuild it on the field but from a Prestige standpoint as a crown jewel franchise of the

NFL the fact that they already got Adam Peters to me says Washington is back and that is a testament to all of you listening who are commanders fans who I don’t want to say just who stuck by it because if you boycotted and helped get SNY out or you just didn’t

Care while Dan was here because you knew it was crap that’s fine you didn’t hurt anything the point is you came back this thing that you cared about that you have the memories of going with your parents to RFK or even to FedEx those memories probably aren’t as happy based off the

Timelines of things but whatever it is that you showed when we threw the burgundy and sold party all the way through the preseason all the way through basically until the team started losing so much that it’s like okay we’ll probably try again next year but the fact that you made that statement to

Sell out every single game at FedEx Field this year which Josh Harris is trying to make a better experience but hasn’t been able to do too much yet because again he bought the team in July the fact that there is that much interest that much history that much all the good

Stuff that this guy comes in and don’t get it twisted who Josh Harris is is really important too it’s not just that he’s not Dan Dan Snider it’s that he is Josh Harris and he is incredibly highly thought of in sport circles is really really encouraging to

Say the least and the idea that yes if if our digital Department pulls this segment and writes it up and they put the headline Craig Hoffman declar players Washington is back am I going to get clowned by a bunch of people on Twitter probably because they just went

4 and 13 they haven’t even done anything about the roster yet because they can’t and we’re a long way presumably from Adam Peters even in best case andario building a team that can let’s say at least two years if not longer from really building what we think this team

Can be from a football standpoint but they landed Adam Peters in five days don’t tell me that almost any other team the Cowboys could do that the Giants might be able to do that are there others sure but this team wasn’t one of those teams seven months

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