Jeffrey Wright Explores a New Era for the Washington Commanders

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🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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For Washington Commanders fans, the Daniel Snyder ownership era was a brutal 24-year stretch. The once proud franchise became a laughingstock both on the football field and off, as the NFL and Congress launched various investigations into misconduct, sexual harassment, and financial improprieties. Then in 2023, financial executive Josh Harris bought the team and oversaw its decision to draft budding superstar quarterback Jayden Daniels. Even with close losses to good teams over the last two weeks, optimism in the nation’s capital is at its highest level in decades. Actor Jeffery Wright has lived that story. The Emmy, Tony and Golden Globe Award-winning performer has not only been rooting for the burgundy and gold since the Nixon administration, but also grew up with Josh Harris. And that made him the perfect person to help our resident D.C. native Clinton Yates explore a complicated relationship with the Commanders. Today, we dig into all that, as well as Wright’s love for Arsenal, his days as a Lacrosse player, and his new TV series “The Agency.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jeffrey Wright, what moment this season?
0:03.5	Did you recall watching Jaden Daniels and say to yourself,
0:07.0	you know what?
0:08.0	We got somebody here.
0:09.7	Oh, it was the first game.
0:13.1	If you recognize that voice,
0:15.2	it's probably because you've heard it in HBO's Westworld
0:18.0	or the Hunger Games films or the James Bond movies, or last year's
0:23.1	American fiction for which actor Jeffrey Wright was nominated for an Oscar.
0:28.5	But I was more keen to talk to him about something literally closer to home for me, that being
0:33.5	his beloved Washington commanders and their newfound star quarterback, Jaden Daniels.
0:39.0	It was the first regular season game. You could see that, you know, he had a decisiveness
0:45.3	about him and an efficiency the way he plays.
0:48.4	Second down at eight. Daniels going to run and he can do this just fine. Daniels scrambling for
0:53.9	his first, first first down you could see
0:56.5	that he was he was making super quick decisions yeah and that there wasn't a lot of hesitation
1:00.4	in his game you know daniels floats it out on the sideline open his robinson he's got a first down
1:06.6	spins off contact as so robinson goes down at the 11-yard line.
1:11.4	Yeah, early on, it was like, oh, this dude is nice.
1:15.2	We had somebody that could do a little work out there.
1:18.0	Yeah.
1:18.9	Back out of Daniels with the keep at his first touchdown in the National Football League.
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