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Hello and welcome to my podcast. Do me a favor, subscribe to the John Com Report, wherever

you get your podcast if you're watching on YouTube, hit that like button, hit that subscribe button. You can find us there as part of Empire Media, AMPI, RE. Always much appreciated when you tune and don't forget you can read my work on ESPN.com. I have a story up. I do have a story up now about the commanders of free agency and just how they're going to be aggressive. So I'm going to talk more about that over the weekend and maybe play you a clip or two from an interview I had with Dan Quinn that, you know, and clearly, you know, they have a good feel for their approach. Now the direction they go in all these spots, we'll see. But I am going to talk a little bit about over the weekend. Today, though, I'm bringing on Dan Graziano from ESPN. Of course, you know him. He's covered the league for a long time. And he writes a column with Jeremy Fowler, every, all these news and notes, like after the combine, they wrote it, so you can check that out. Good stuff on free agency, always plugged in. So I wanted to talk to Dan about things that is hearing about, whether it's about this team or other players,

players that these guys might be interested in what the market is for them, the cost perhaps, and all that good stuff.

So stay tuned for that.

And really, I don't have a whole lot else to say before we get there because the commanders, as I record this, have not resigned. Well, actually, they resigned Drake Jackson Thursday morning. That was an ex. I kind of, I anticipated that one because it made sense. I knew that they liked him. And, you know, he's coming off the, he just got back from an injury. And they liked him enough to keep him around while he rehabed, then went and played a couple games. So the plan was always to then bring him back, see what he has and what he can offer after recovering from a really bad knee injury. I mean, that was a – you get that torn Patelor tendon. Like, that is a tough, tough deal. But he came back, and so, you know, he showed enough in two games that they wanted back.

But this, so anyways, but him resigning on Thursday one-year deal, not a surprise at all.

It's what I anticipated.

Again, they brought back Dietrich Wise, shy Tuttle.

I think they're going to address that D-Line for sure, not just edge, but I think when you, you'll start to see some backup type

coming in, that guys, you know, rotational pieces for sure. So anyways, just going to be a part

of, like, they need to build up both of those lines. Like they have a, you know, I like the

foundation what they have on their offensive line. They have three very good players in place.

And I think they can make, I think they can make that work very well still.

I think in this offense, it should help them as well.

But you've got to build up that defensive line.

And I think as we've seen in the past, it's not just about talent.

It's about fit.

But there are some guys available that are going to be very tempting for them. And then also, again, building up that depth to fit what Durante Jones wants from that defensive front. So anyways, I'm going to be talking a lot about that over the weekend, but I want to bring Dan on today, since I talked to him today and like, I don't want any of the stuff to get old that he and i talked about so that's why i'm running this one today so and by the way if you haven't checked

out like bram and ben standing and i did like a little trilogy of of doing each of our podcast so

ben took the first leg and talked about the offense i had you know part two which was about

the defense that was on my

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