and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here and returning

to the show is Mark Bullock who has just written a terrific film breakdown of J.J. McCarthy for the

purple insider website so go over there purple insider.com find it it is

absolutely fantastic now normally Mark you cover the Washington commanders and do film analysis

on your substack which is just Mark Bullock. Substack.com but you prewrote a J.J. McCarthy piece just in case the commanders decided to go totally

rogue and pick J.J McCarthy. So I benefited from that on Purple Insider.

A tremendous, tremendous look inside of both the things

that make him pro-ready-ish and the things

that he's going to have to improve on.

So why don't we start out with just the way

that the first round went.

It went as expected with Jay and Daniels going number two.

But why did you do a J.J McCarthy breakdown? Did you think that that was actually a possibility that they could go off the map and do it?

Yeah, I think nationally or maybe certainly with individual teams it was probably people

thought there's no way they'd go with J. McCarthy but I think around Washington the kind of

talk was that McCarthy was definitely in the mix and

Adam Peterson, the new GM really, really values traits like leadership and work ethic and culture building stuff.

And obviously there was, we had the saga with Ben Johnson,

the Lions offensive coordinator,

potentially being the head coach that they wanted,

and they were waiting to interview him,

and then, you know, mid-flight to go interview him,

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