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Commander's Rookies

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But anyways, he'll be either, he'll air either Monday or Tuesday, have other guests coming up this week that I think you're going to enjoy and learn something from and enjoy hearing from for sure.

So anyway, I got all that coming up. So stay tuned for all that. But today is about the rookie minicamp.

Our first impressions watching the rookies. We only get about an about an hour 15 minutes but i will say it was a beautiful day

and it was really fun to be back out here watching football rather than sitting somewhere and

talking about it nice to go out and watch what these guys can do is just a first impression

it's just a very very very very initial step so very initial step. So you don't want to,

you don't want to extrapolate too much from these, but you want to see what are some traits that

you can build on going forward. So you see what you have here. Then you compare to what it is

when they're practicing with the veterans in a few weeks and during the mini camp next month. And

then what happens? Then you take that

knowledge, you go to training camp and what is their progression. Like I always go back to

Terry McClure and how you could see that progression from spring, from this time,

the rookie minicamp to mini camp, the veteran mini camp, to training camp, and then to the season. There was a steady progression of improvement. And just like each step along the way, he was making plays. And it just continues. So that's what you want to see from this. So that was really, like I said, this is our first impression. And you don't want to draw too much. But there are things that you can talk about. And like,, and again, you put it in context. It's just a rookie minicamp. If you're a high pick, you better look good. You better stand out because if you don't, that's a problem. And I will say these guys did stand out, the top picks for sure. So, and again, it's just fun to go watch it. So I'm going to talk about

Antonio Williams first for no reason other than he's the first guy in my notes when I was jotting

stuff down. So I'm just going to follow my notes. Let's talk about Antonio Williams. You could see

the suddenness that he operates with. You could see that like you could see that on the way he ran

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