Getting the Band Back Together: Commanders Lock Up Key Vets Before Free Agency Opens

Beltway Football

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Sports News, Football, Mitch Tischler, Washington Football Team, News, Sports, Jp Finlay, Nfl

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🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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JP Finlay and Mitch Tischler join you just before free agency starts to discuss a few key veteran players being re-signed. The guys open talking about the tight end room filling up with Zach Ertz and John Bates inking deals and what it means for the offense moving forward, and the return of all time good guy Tress Way. Once getting the news out of the way, the discussion turns to big game hunting and what the Commanders would\could do to get Trey Hendrickson in the mix for the Burgundy and Gold.

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0:00.0	Free agency in full swing.
0:05.9	Commanders haven't brought anybody else in, but they're starting to take care of business in-house.
0:10.5	Taking care of all family business like Michael Corley-Oleman and said, let's have a podcast.
0:18.7	What up, everybody. It is Beltway Football, Monumental Sports Network.
0:23.3	I'm J.P. Finley, joined by the big man, Mitch Tishler.
0:26.0	And we got some news.
0:27.1	Big Man, Saturday night.
0:29.0	Zach Ertz gets a deal done.
0:31.6	Some point Sunday, I think I actually woke up to a text about John Bates.
0:37.1	So John Bates gets a three-year deal, which is pretty damn interesting.
0:40.9	And Tress Way, Monday morning, gets a one-year deal.
0:44.9	So the veterans, all the vets that we kind of expected them to bring back,
0:50.1	they're taken care of, and Ert and Tress.
0:54.0	I'm not shocked by the Bates thing, but I am, it wasn't something I definitely thought would happen.
1:02.8	I thought they'd like him back.
1:04.3	He's such a hard worker and just a grinder and a super physical player.
1:08.8	Like, he checks all the boxes of what these guys want.
1:12.7	Ertz and Tress, I fully expected.
1:14.7	Bates, you know, somewhat.
1:17.5	I need a different word about surprise,
1:20.1	but I think you know what I mean.
1:22.3	Listen, I think I was surprised that that got done kind of when it did.
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