It's time to take command with former NFL tight end, Logan Paulson, and former commander's beat reporter Craig Hoffman.

What's up? What's happening? Welcome in. It's the Take Command podcast. I'm Craig Hoffman. He is Logan Paulson.

And Logan, I hope everybody had a happy Mother's Day.

As folks are listening to this, hopefully coming off a fantastic weekend.

And we're actually going to have a mom on the show on Thursday.

Mina Kimes, she's got a little one running around.

So don't forget that Mina's coming on the show on Thursday.

But today we'll answer a couple of mailback questions, Logan, and talk about rookie mini camp, which you went to on Saturday. Yeah. And, you know, obviously looking forward to

having me on the show. That's always going to be a great time. But the, yeah, rookie minicamp is a

funny deal. You know what I mean? Because I think everyone thinks it's this really grand thing.

It's about an hour. You know, they do a warm-up. They do a little bit individual.

They do one competitive period. And I'm going to put air quotes on the competitiveness of it because

it's just seven-on-seven. And so it's really hard to kind of get a feel for, you know, players

and athletes. And I think people say, well, you know, what is the benefit of rookie minicamp? And I would say it lets you kind of get, with some of these like trial guys specifically,

like I think we talked about this maybe leading in.

It's like really hard for a trial guy to make it.

Yeah.

But it does let you kind of get a feel for the guy, how they're wired, what they're,

you know, how they study.

And I think that that's something that you can get out of it when you're watching

practices. know how they study and i think that that's something that you can get out of it when you're watching practices just like general modus operandi for the individual do they look the part

generally and do they show anything uh maybe a little bit more a little bit upside and i think that's

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