Commanders Are Building Pipelines For Success
Grant and Danny discuss Johnny Newton's potential and why we are seeing a new era in Washington where the team is building depth behind even its superstar talents.
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00:00You know, this was the same logic and I guess different players, different circumstances,
00:04but you know, similar logic to why they loved Fidari and Mathis and didn't retain Tim settle
00:08on the cheap. And, you know, we kind of did this before Matt has got hurt, derailed his
00:11career. Who knows if he can play or not. I feel like I've never seen the guy, but he's
00:14been superseded and surpassed and now it's a different regime. So he'll be, he'll be
00:17passed over.
00:18I hope, let me say real quick, I know you're not comparing the two, but I think it would
00:22be, we'd be remiss if we didn't acknowledge this, but area in Mathis who was drafted at
00:27was it 40? No, probably in the fifties. If I had to guess late forties, something like
00:32that. I don't, I don't remember. He was the 15th pick in the second round. So I think
00:37he was in the fifties. He was an overdraft when he was drafted and everyone kind of acknowledged
00:40that the book at that time, if you go back was, wow, they really liked this Fidari and
00:46Mathis guy more than everyone else. And when they like it more than everyone else, they're
00:49usually, what's that wrong? Every time people had him graded in the third round. Yeah. Fidari
00:53and Mathis and Johnny Newton have nothing in common other than that they played offensive
00:56tackle. In my opinion, when you watch Fidari and Mathis after the draft, you go, this guy
01:00probably will help him stuff the run a little bit. At some point when you watch Johnny Newton,
01:05it doesn't matter who on the defense you're trying to watch. You can't help but notice
01:08the big guy who constantly lives in the backfield. So other than that, they play the same position.
01:13I don't know how comparable it is, but yeah, in the past they have drafted defensive tackles
01:18thinking maybe they'd be starters. His career, as you said, has been completely derailed.
01:22He's been hurt, but he's also kind of a big smart car, run stopper. And Johnny Newton
01:28could be, I'm not saying he will be, but he could be an elite pass rusher on the inside.
01:32Right. So, yeah, I mean, I, I get different players, different regimes, different everything,
01:36but I'm, I'm a little bit worried because of the feet already that we we've had a couple
01:40surgeries now. And sometimes it just, I don't know, it's hard to put my finger on exactly
01:46what I'm trying to say here. When you have this, this, this it's almost like a video
01:51game or like a, an on paper sort of thing where you go, one player will move on.
01:56Another player will ascend. This is not something we're used to doing here really well. Baltimore
02:00does this really well, right? Where they let, they let a guy go and everyone's going, what
02:04the hell are they going to do? And then someone you haven't heard of steps in and plays. Well,
02:08you're trying to establish that here, right here in Washington, where you can let someone
02:12go because his replacement is already on the roster has already worked his way up. Kind
02:15of like a Jeremy Reeves type situation, but, but kind of throughout the roster, especially
02:19a big ticket item, a place like where John Allen is, you know, earning 23 million bucks
02:23or so against the cap, you'll save 17 million next year. If you let them walk, that makes
02:27a lot of sense. You're just sort of hoping that it works out. Cause we're not used to
02:30that happening.