Commanders RB Austin Ekeler reacts to the Marshon Lattimore trade and the mentality of the team.
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00:00I think it's more so for us look we have a great thing going absolutely
00:03um and we are trying to win now like that's the mentality of the NFL you got
00:07to win now you know if you're thinking about oh
00:10you know down the road maybe as a GM that's something you can think of but as
00:13far as us as players as far as me on this team like we're trying to win
00:16right now because I don't know if I'm going to be here or be around for next
00:19year right it's not it's not ever promised
00:21all I know is I have this opportunity right now and if we have guys that can
00:24come in and help us win and do that right now then
00:26look that's a good move let's get it done and let's get these guys in the
00:29locker rooms along those lines you mentioned the GM
00:32I mean what does it say that clearly Adam Peters thinks enough of you guys as
00:36a contender to be a buyer you know he could have
00:39just stood pad or around here I mean you don't have to
00:42experience this in the past but we did it's been a lot of years as a seller and
00:45that is not the case anymore again hey this is this is some of the
00:51other side right we have a lot of new things going on obviously Adam Peters is
00:55one of those some new ownership as well new head
00:58coach and so those are the decisions that they're going to sit down and
01:01they're going to look at the team they're going to see where can we use
01:03help is this going to affect us in the long term but
01:06in my opinion these guys want to win now as well like they're in the place where
01:10yes we want something for the long run but
01:12guess what leads to that well we need to have success now because
01:16if we don't we're not here in the long run you know how this league works so
01:19hey let's show some success let's do everything we can to win now to deal
01:22with later later