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AMP, IRE. As you can see, I am joined by the voice of the commanders, Graham Weinstein,

as we're going to discuss the Washington commander's first pick in the draft,

corner Emmanuel Forbes with the 16th overall selection.

Graham, your quick reaction here.

Has anyone talked to Fred Smoot?

Is he popping champagne somewhere?

Smooth is, Smoot is ecstatic.

This is, he loves being, nobody loves being right more than Smoot.

Smoot's been talking about this guy.

First, you went to Mississippi State. Two, he's been talking about this guy. First, he went to Mississippi State.

Two, he's been talking about this guy.

Three, I think they have the same build.

Four, I think, you know, this is probably the biggest day for him since he tried to

herald Red Wolves as the new name of the team. So this is big night for Fred Smoot. This is his,

this is his redemption for not getting that. What do you think of the pick, though?

I, I, first of all, I really like this kid. And I'll get into that in a few minutes, but what do you

think? So I'm a little, you know, when Christian Gonzalez was on the board, I think I even tweeted

Christian Gonzalez. The second it got to the Jets picking ahead of them and clearly they're not

taking a corner, I thought like that was the pick, kind of seeing that the tackles that I assumed

they'd be interested in were gone. Then I thought that, you know, that was the pick. So I'm a little bit

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