The NFL has changed its rules surrounding Hard Knocks, and we want your Commanders to be on it!
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00:00I wanted to bring up something that did not make the show yesterday against my better
00:05judgment.
00:06All I've ever wanted in my life, one of my great goals as a sports fan before I die,
00:14Danny who is to see the Washington commanders beyond hard knocks on HBO.
00:22That's all I want.
00:23I want to see my team on hard knocks.
00:25I want to see my GM and my coach debating the roster.
00:29I want the magnets on the white board behind Dan Quinn to show the linebacker position
00:36and how they view it.
00:37I want to get that inside intel that I'm not supposed to have because the cameras are showing
00:40me more than they generally would.
00:43I want to see the interactions between Cliff Kingsbury and Dan Quinn and Cliff Kingsbury
00:48and position coach to be named later.
00:51I want the story about the Johnny come lately, little engine who could, Richmond flowers
00:58isn't supposed to be here but maybe he'll make the team for the Cowboys this time.
01:02I want that to be the guy that makes the catch in the Washington's preseason game and it's
01:06never happened because mostly they've never really had interest and more often than not,
01:10they are not eligible.
01:12Danny some rules were changed by the National Football League yesterday and the rules that
01:17they have changed make it easier for them to force teams to do hard knocks.
01:24There are more teams eligible than were because clearly teams do not want to do this.
01:28They keep having to basically loosen the restrictions like, Hey, if you satisfy any
01:33of these requirements, you don't have to do hard knocks, but that list is getting smaller
01:38and smaller and smaller.
01:40So the NFL changed and I say all this to tell you, Washington is very much an option this
01:45year.
01:46But what do you think of this?
01:47So these are now the rule changes that will allow for teams to do hard knocks that maybe
01:55couldn't opt out.
01:58Teams don't have to do it.
02:00If they were featured on the training camp edition of hard knocks in any of the previous
02:05eight seasons.
02:07So if you have been the team chosen for the OG training camp, hard knocks over the last
02:12eight iterations, you can get out.
02:14I think that's reasonable because I shouldn't have to do it multiple times, but you could
02:18want to and you could do as many times you want, but this is the, Hey man, we've already
02:22done this once.
02:23Let's not.
02:24There's only about 24 teams that could do it, right?
02:26Number two teams do not have to be on the show if they have a first year head coach.
02:31I like that too.
02:32Makes sense to me.
02:33You were terrible last year.
02:34You bottomed out.
02:36Someone's trying to set a culture.
02:37We don't need a bunch of cameras looking under the hood and seeing what we're all about when
02:40we don't even, we haven't even built the engine yet.
02:42Right?
02:43No problem.
02:44So that is generally right around four to six other teams.
02:46This year it's about a half dozen teams or so that also don't have to do it.
02:50So now we are up to right around 14 teams, right?
02:54Half the league is still eligible.
02:55A little more than that.
02:57If not exempt from selection based on club participation in hard knocks on a similar
03:02access show prior to the 2024 pursuant parameters that existed at the time of such clubs prior
03:08participation.
03:09So what is this?
03:10That's an easy sentence to say.
03:11Yes.
03:12Here's what this means.
03:14Are you on another all access show that the league is producing in some capacity that
03:19could be the hard knocks off Steve's and if they were to bring it back, that could
03:22be the hard knocks in season because they're doing it now by division with 14.
03:27So like let's say they pick the NFC East this year.
03:29You'll know that in advance.
03:30We don't know yet, but the league will put that out and then you could say, look, I'm
03:34not doing training camp.
03:35You guys are going to be here all season.
03:36So assuming it's not the NFC East, that means Washington very much an option.
03:42And what we're looking at is 20 possible teams to include in the NFC East, your commanders
03:48with the Eagles and the Giants who would be eligible.
03:52Assuming NFC East is not the featured division, which, by the way, if that happens, it's still
03:56cool because I still feel good.
03:57Might even be better, honestly, because I get in season hard knocks now and you're sharing
04:01the spotlight with three teams, which is a bummer.
04:04But beggars can't be choosers here.
04:06It's yeah, that in season was actually really, really cool.
04:08My favorite thing that they would do is when opponents in the division were playing each
04:13other and they would kind of go back and forth between those meetings where it's like, we're
04:18going to have to deal with with Jamar Chase.
04:20How do we stop Jamar Chase?
04:21And then they cut the Cincinnati goal.
04:23We're going to have to deal with, well, what nobody on Pittsburgh, we don't have to deal
04:26with it.
04:27I thought that stuff was so cool and, you know, kind of showed you the way preparation
04:31happened.
04:32I was into that.
04:33That'd be cool for the NFC East as well.
04:34You get at least 25 percent of that shine.
04:36I think this ownership group is smart.
04:38That's that's where I'm starting.
04:40That's my premise here.
04:41I think they're smart enough to know that this would be the best thing they could do.
04:48I'm not, I'm not even hyperbolic.
04:51This would be the best thing they could do.
04:53They've got their people where they want them now.
04:55Right.
04:56There was a, there was a cleansing that had to take place.
04:57There were some guys or gals that was doing a contract and slowly but surely they got
05:01their business guy.
05:02And now they got their, uh, you know, uh, this administrator, this guy selling this,
05:06this guy doing that.
05:07The house is cleaned up.
05:08You're still dealing with the worst stadium in sports.
05:10But everyone knows it's not their fault.
05:12There is so much to be featured either.
05:13Yeah.
05:14And there's, well, maybe there's a preseason game that nubs field, but they're not taking
05:19away from the show to go.
05:20Do you guys know how terrible this stadium is by the way?
05:22Look at this leak.
05:23I mean, it's not, it's irrelevant that your stadium stinks.
05:26Make yourself cool again is the point that, and that is the point.
05:29So yeah, I was, I was glossing over the point is the, they could showcase themselves in
05:35a way, not to say we're back, but this is, this is so new.
05:40This is so much better than it was.
05:41And then the show would do a really good job of this acknowledging, look at where they,
05:44look where they just came from.
05:46Look at how incompetent, how stupid, look at how there's no first round picks from the
05:50previous regime on this roster.
05:51Look at all the incompetence, all the investigations, look at all the nonsense that took place.
05:56And they went to the NFC title game last year and they've got a belief internally.
05:59This would be the best winsome fans locally, nationally, everywhere else move.
06:06They could make the best singular move they could make right now before this year.
06:11I think the national interest in the commanders in the sense of a show like this was just
06:16not high enough.
06:18It was too low now with Jaden Daniels has a superstar with this team, having gotten
06:25to the NFC championship game.
06:27Come on.
06:29I think California, Texas, Florida, I think it plays right.
06:35In a way that it has not probably since the Gibbs Superbowl years, honestly, if you were
06:41doing a Q rating on just every team in the NFL, whether that's by interest and or excitement
06:51level, popularity, likeability, they're the highest they've been.
06:55We talk about the only real quantifiable thing that we have is the listing from the NFL PA
07:01on how good it is to work for Washington.
07:04Where do they rank among teams that you'd want to play for?
07:06They were 32nd for a couple straight years before this year, which is really year one
07:11with this ownership group having their fingerprints on this thing with Adam Peters.
07:14They went up to just outside the top 10, 11.
07:17That's quantifiable.
07:19From a national fan perspective, Jaden Daniels is an it guy.
07:22He's cool.
07:23Now, I'm not sitting here telling you the chiefs with Taylor Swift, Kiston Travis, Kelsey
07:28on the sideline on family day at training camp or whatever wouldn't be better.
07:33With their Superbowl rings, with my homes as the quarterback in the league, with Kelsey
07:36as one of the biggest stars in the league.
07:39I understand that they're probably not number one, but they're not that low on that list
07:43either.
07:44This is the best chance I've ever had, Danny.
07:47This is it.
07:48This is my shot.
07:49This is the best chance I've had to get my hard knock series for this football.
07:53I tend to agree with you because now if you get like last year, Houston would have been
07:57where Washington is now, right?
07:59Houston with the quarterback that took the league by storm, that everybody's darling
08:03with a new head coach that everyone loves, and D'Amico Ryan's a company.
08:07They jumped up, won a playoff game after being terrible for a long time before and being
08:11frankly one of the disgraces of the league.
08:14Houston was kind of that sexy team.
08:15What can happen with a relatively disappointing season, even though Houston, by the way, went
08:19to the playoffs, won a game, but it wasn't what everyone thought.
08:22Everyone thought they were going to be up there competing with the chiefs and the Bills
08:24and company.
08:25They just weren't that good.
08:26The shine can wear off a little bit.
08:28We'll move on to that.
08:30You and I, we're here.
08:31We love Jaden Daniels and the team nationally.
08:33That window can close and through nobody's fault, your football happens, right?
08:38This is the hottest the iron is going to be is right now.
08:42It is time to strike.
08:43If you're trying to squeeze as many drops out of commander's fame and commander's interest
08:49as a league, as you can now, if they were to win the Super Bowl, it would skyrocket.
08:53But the odds are, I would say are against that in year two for Jaden Daniels.
08:57But the shift in rules, making it a little more likely for Washington to be that team
09:02on hard knocks.