2026 Commanders Training Camp

What's interesting is the reviews on Mikey have been somewhat inconsistent. I hear some good things from some people, some not so good things from other people, so we'll just have to see how that plays out.

But it is concerning that it's not consistently good.
I'm not sure if Mike is doing badly either. One of the recurring riffs I keep hearing is, Daniels with a perfect throw. So, is the problem Mike being out of position/beat or Daniels being great? I think we'll begin to discover the answer tomorrow. I don't think the Dolphins' QBs are on Daniels' level.
 
I'm not sure if Mike is doing badly either. One of the recurring riffs I keep hearing is, Daniels with a perfect throw. So, is the problem Mike being out of position/beat or Daniels being great? I think we'll begin to discover the answer tomorrow. I don't think the Dolphins' QBs are on Daniels' level.

It's possible that, just by chance, the precision passes are disproportionately going Sainristil's direction — the poor guy is draped on the receiver but losing by inches, even when he's in the right spot positionally. Meanwhile, Rasul Douglas has had some fortunate bounces where Jayden just isn't targeting his side as much.

You never know. But from my experience at camp, you'd have to be pretty dense not to pick up on that kind of thing. You can watch a corner draped on a WR and still get beat because the QB's accuracy is just that precise — it's not hard to spot a corner getting smoked. As I've mentioned before, the two easiest positions to judge from camp are WR and CB — though the chicken-and-egg problem is real: are the WRs making the CBs look good, or is it the other way around?

As for the Sainristil defense Logan brought up on the podcast — he didn't push back on Grant's observation directly, but suggested Sainristil might just be more exposed depending on which defensive looks they're running.
 
Yeah, I don't know. I thought I remembered hearing some positive stuff about Mike, too. Don't remember where or when though. I'd love him to have a bounce back year from a down sophomore season.

(Semi-related) One thing I've been wondering about is how the confusion Jones' system seems to cause impacts the defensive backfield? We all know how reliant the DBs are on communication in a zone heavy system.
 
Yeah, I don't know. I thought I remembered hearing some positive stuff about Mike, too. Don't remember where or when though. I'd love him to have a bounce back year from a down sophomore season.

(Semi-related) One thing I've been wondering about is how the confusion Jones' system seems to cause impacts the defensive backfield? We all know how reliant the DBs are on communication in a zone heavy system.

Have heard a lot of good things about the scheme -- according to some: Styles-Luvu look great. Chenal started slow but is coming on now. Chaisson and Oweh look great. Payne looks good. Settle. R. Douglas supposedly looking good.

On offense, my guy before the draft, your guy this off season Croskey-Merritt looks really good. Have heard mostly good things about Antonio, Dyami, Burks -- depends on the reporter. Yankoff supposedly with a big camp. Jayden looks great. And Diggs supposedly looks great from the jump.

Part of the reason why i am dismissing Taylor's take on Sainristil is because there are a couple of others echoing it and they are so positive about everything else.
 
Apparently now that Diggs is here McCaffrey hasn't been mentioned much. Before he was the one impressing everyone.
 
How can that be? Jayden hardly played last year and honestly, when he did, he was far less effective at running.
Fair point, I was thinking of 2024. But with that said between Jayden and MM that is nearly 600 yards of rushing yards. Put that with JCM and his explosiveness including a 72 yarder and that accounts for a lot of it.

But it's the eye test for me. Never did they look like a good run blocking team who could control a game. They are weak on the interior and unproven at RT.
 
Can’t argue there.

I don’t know how many times I yelled at my TV screen begging them to run something other than a dive play. When you got a twitchy, fast running back you can occasionally run a play off tackle or even wide.
 
Can’t argue there.

I don’t know how many times I yelled at my TV screen begging them to run something other than a dive play. When you got a twitchy, fast running back you can occasionally run a play off tackle or even wide.

Exactly. That run game was probably the most unimaginative thing I've seen in the NFL in a long time. I kept imagining how well it worked with RG3 and Morris in 2012 compared to the crap Klifford was running.

Overall his offense was really good so I have no idea why he just blew off the running game like that
 
Exactly. That run game was probably the most unimaginative thing I've seen in the NFL in a long time. I kept imagining how well it worked with RG3 and Morris in 2012 compared to the crap Klifford was running.

Overall his offense was really good so I have no idea why he just blew off the running game like that
I have a feeling it was a bug of the RPO. He only wanted hand it off during an RPO play. I think in it's most basic form, The Quarterback keeps, runs wide, or hands the ball off on a dive play.
 
It's possible that, just by chance, the precision passes are disproportionately going Sainristil's direction — the poor guy is draped on the receiver but losing by inches, even when he's in the right spot positionally. Meanwhile, Rasul Douglas has had some fortunate bounces where Jayden just isn't targeting his side as much.

You never know. But from my experience at camp, you'd have to be pretty dense not to pick up on that kind of thing. You can watch a corner draped on a WR and still get beat because the QB's accuracy is just that precise — it's not hard to spot a corner getting smoked. As I've mentioned before, the two easiest positions to judge from camp are WR and CB — though the chicken-and-egg problem is real: are the WRs making the CBs look good, or is it the other way around?

As for the Sainristil defense Logan brought up on the podcast — he didn't push back on Grant's observation directly, but suggested Sainristil might just be more exposed depending on which defensive looks they're running.

Yeah and I have always been of the mindset that a good WR beats a good DB 9/10 if it is truly a 1 on 1 situation because there are just so many possible routes being ran and reacting is always harder than acting. There are a small handful of elite DB's who I'd expect to regularly lock up a #1 WR but I don't even think most good tier DB's are going to consistently do it 1 on 1 unless they know the routes being run beforehand.
 
We’re going to learn a lot from the reports of these upcoming joint practices. We got beat up by the Patriots last year, practiced more lackadaisically than them, were less physical than they were…and it turned out to be for good reason.

We’re working against a team tomorrow that everyone expects to be terrible first in Miami. We’ll set our baseline against them, we should be winning a lot of battles there if we have a decent roster. Then later in preseason we’ll travel to have a joint practice with the Ravens, who should be a good but new-look team. The contrast between those two practices should tell us a lot about where some of our position groups are, just like past joint practices did.
 

Well it's only $15m a year, which puts him at what 25th or so in the NFL? Top tier DT's get more than double that. Like $35-38m a year.

He's really not that overpaid, he still needs to figure out how to play better though. Like generate more push or something.
 

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