12TH CAMP PRACTICE RECAP: Why the Commanders firing their defensive line coach, Sam Mills III, is a big deal
Beltway Football
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🗓️ 9 August 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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JP Finlay, Mitch Tischler and Pete Hailey have some major news to react to, as the Commanders fired defensive line coach Sam Mills III and replaced him with Jeff Zgonina on Tuesday. The guys mostly discuss that change, theorize why it happened and explain why it's possibly going to be a useful one. After that, the trio also walks you through what was a promising morning for Carson Wentz and the offense, before tossing to Zgonina's first press conference as the team's D-line coach as well as Jonathan Allen's scrum with the media, too. If you like podcasts where a shocking medical discovery about Pete is unearthed, then this is the episode for you.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up? This is Terry McLearn, Mrs. Carson Wentz, and you're listening to Washington Football Talk Podcast. |
| 0:18.0 | Major news in Ashburn as Ron Rivera fires defensive line coach Sam Mills. |
| 0:22.0 | This is something that honestly I called in January or suggested was a good idea. |
| 0:27.0 | It's pretty weird that it's happening now, but I think it's a positive step for the organization we're diving into. All of it next. |
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| 1:23.0 | Right move, super-weird timing, borderline shocking. |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah, I think all three of those things, I think it's a positive move in the long run because you can't run back the same defense with essentially the same coaches and essentially the same personnel definition of craziness is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. |
| 1:46.0 | We knew last year, we talked about evidence podcasts, the friction there was between some of the delinement and Sam Mills III. |
| 1:55.0 | The timing is bizarre, he was in Canton this weekend for his father's induction into the Hall of Fame posthumously. |
| 2:04.0 | And he came back, he was at practice yesterday, he didn't come out to the field today. |
| 2:11.0 | I happened to be over in that corner of the field where the delinement is. |
| 2:15.0 | I noticed Warren Sapp, I was taking a picture slash video of him that we tweeted. |
| 2:19.0 | I saw Ron walk out and go walk over to Jessica Nina and talk. |
| 2:24.0 | And in my head I was thinking, oh cool, maybe Ron's gonna go talk to Warren Sapp, that'd be a great video for Twitter. |
| 2:30.0 | I didn't notice that Sam Mills wasn't there. |
| 2:32.0 | Ron then circled up the defensive line. |
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