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The Kevin Sheehan Show

Fred Smoot breaks down the Commanders' defense & how it can be fixed

The Kevin Sheehan Show

Audacy

Sports, News

4.7696 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

10.1.25, Former Washington Redskins Cornerback Fred Smoot joins The Kevin Sheehan Show to give his analysis on why the Commanders’ defense is underperforming and what they can do to improve.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:13.3

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0:15.2

I had Fred Smoot on the podcast the other day, and I wanted you to hear his answers to what we were talking about earlier, and that is,

0:25.9

you know, what are the issues defensively and what are the fixes?

0:31.6

We started off with what are the issues?

0:35.8

The issues to me, and here go another unsung hero, people don't, you know,

0:42.5

Will Harris.

0:43.7

Let me tell you what this guy brought to this team.

0:47.4

He became the vocal, Liza up the back end.

0:52.4

He had the ability to play tight ends in a way that no other safety on his roster.

0:58.2

I've watched him in Zach Ertz battle all season.

1:02.8

He didn't play Tucker Crafts very well.

1:05.4

Listen to me.

1:06.5

I'm never judging nobody about one day.

1:08.3

I know what this got brought to his team.

1:10.2

And now that he is missing in his defensive backfield,

1:13.3

now that in there continue to try to play out of man-and-man.

1:15.9

If you can't play man-in-man, if you ain't got people changing it to boxes and triangles

1:21.1

and doing checks when they motioning and understanding how to get the most play out of the less putting people in the

1:30.0

less spots that's going to get them.

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