It's time to take command with former NFL tight end, Logan Paulson, and former commander's beat reporter Craig Hoffman.

What's up? What's happening? Welcome in to the Take Command podcast. I'm Craig Hoffman. That's Logan Paulson. And if you're watching on the old YouTube's, you see another face in the middle.

Ladies and gentlemen, that is John Kye from ESPN. What's up, Kakes?

What up? How are you guys? Good to see you. Good to see you. Doing well, doing well.

John back from the trip to New England, where he was at the joint practice yesterday. Of course,

the commanders and patriots are going to play tomorrow night for the first preseason

game. And there's no starters playing Logan. So that's why John came home.

Oh, is that why? Yeah. Like John's a starter. So he's excused from the game. That's how that

works. I love that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So we will, Logan and I a little bit later,

we'll hit on a couple of things after we do our joint practice review with John. But we will hit on a few things in terms of what we're looking for for the game on Friday. But John, when you think about what you saw yesterday, you're flying back home last night, wake up this morning thinking about what you want to write about. What's the biggest takeaway you had from that joint practice yesterday in New England?

Okay. So biggest takeaway, I don't know. It's a surprise to say that they kind of need Terry

McLaren on the field. And not only Terry, but Noah Brown as well, two guys who can make plays on

the outside. But that's what we've seen throughout training camp racks.

Like the receivers, are they getting enough separation down the field?

Can they make plays down the field because you need that to open up other areas for Zach Ertz and Debo

Samuel?

Zach Ertz has had a really good camp and looked really good again the other day.

I think the other thing, too,

Craig, was the defense. And you always take these things with a grain of assault because,

like, what are they trying to work on? How many of their pressures are they really showing?

But they didn't produce the way I thought they would, given how we've seen them play

in training camp.

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