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The Sports Junkies

Best Of Nationals on 106.7 The Fan/The Team 980: Reacting to the Connelly Early-Curtis Mead Trade

The Sports Junkies

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4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2026

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

106.7 The Fan and The Team 980 bring you a collection of discussions from The Sports Junkies, BMitch & Finlay, Grant & Danny, and The Kevin Sheehan Show reacting to the Nationals trading slugging corner infielder Curtis Mead to the Boston Red Sox for intriguing young starter Connelly Early. We break down whether this signals Paul Toboni is picking a lane, what this all means for Foster Griffin, and what the move against the backdrop of a strong series say about Washington's wild-card hopes.

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0:00.0

B. Mitch and Finley, 106, 7, the fan.

0:04.9

A lot has happened in the last half hour.

0:07.3

Certainly, you know, we're all thinking of the B enemy family.

0:10.6

Hell yeah.

0:11.0

Whatever happened there in Loudoun County.

0:13.9

The commander's also made a coaching move this morning, firing their tight ends coach, Ben Steele.

0:19.4

And as they kind of get into a scramble mode for what you do there,

0:22.7

I did have one thought,

0:23.6

B.

0:24.0

Yeah.

0:26.6

Wes Welker worked with the tight ends during minicamp.

0:29.1

He's got this nebulous offensive assistant title.

0:32.5

They could try to slide him in there.

0:34.0

It was a defense last year.

0:35.6

There's probably a hundred guys they could call to take over that job. There is one dude I thought of, though. Oh. Does a lot of in-house media. Played the position. Played for Dan Quinn. Paulson. On the low. Logan. I mean, Logan Paulson. He would have to be wanting that, though. Certainly, and that's a lifestyle change and a million different things. But it's just kind of interesting. Logan is very much like you with the kids. I don't see him coaching. I think high school, yes, because he has a better schedule. But the way pro coaching is, nah. Yeah. And I, like when people call in and say what beam is why

1:14.8

don't you coach special teams like that's generally a simple idea that sounds cool but doesn't

1:20.0

usually extrapolate so maybe i shouldn't even be suggesting it because i'm sure on social

1:23.9

media it's everywhere i'm, but I don't know.

1:32.8

He is a intuitive football mind that knows Dan Quinn very well, played for Dan Quinn. You know what I mean?

1:33.5

Like there's a little more to it to me.

1:37.8

So all that said, the biggest story walking in this morning was, yeah, we got to get ready for training camp.

1:46.9

But the Nats, the Nats made a big move.

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