Positives from Commanders' first preseason game: Bill Merritt looks good!
The Kevin Sheehan Show
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🗓️ 11 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Your calls on the preseason, 301, 2300.0.0.0.0.980. We will get to them in about 15 minutes. |
| 0:09.8 | We got a poll question up right now on the Team 980's Twitter page at the Team 980. |
| 0:15.7 | Who looked the best to you in the preseason? Who had the best showing? |
| 0:20.0 | Johnny Newton, Jacori Kroski, Merritt, |
| 0:23.1 | aka Bill, Josh Connerley, or other? Apply if you choose other. Don't just choose other. |
| 0:30.4 | You got to tell us who the other is. Right now, Johnny Newton is very much ahead, |
| 0:35.3 | but we'll allow some people to go and vote on that poll. We'll get Max's answer in just a second. It's time to do some takeaways, though, and look, it's the preseason. I'm not going to get two out of my skis here and be like, wow, I think Johnny Newton is going to be a Hall of Famer now. I'm not going to do that. Now, could he be a Hall of Famer that is possible. I don't know. There's a long career, hopefully, hopefully ahead of him and hopefully all that career is here if he ends up being a Hall of Famer. But here's some of my takeaways from the preseason game number one. Who cares about the results? I don't. The Patriots whooped our ass. I don't really care. It's a bunch of twos and threes and guys that hopefully never actually play a game for Washington for a large majority |
| 1:12.5 | of who are playing on Friday. So I don't really care what happened in like the third and fourth |
| 1:16.7 | quarter. I barely care what happened in the second quarter. Outside of the penalties, I think |
| 1:21.2 | the penalty speaks to a little bit of a larger issue of maybe not taking practice as seriously |
| 1:26.8 | as practice needs to be taken. So that I think is a fair |
| 1:31.3 | takeaway here. The biggest standout to me, though, was Johnny Newton because Johnny Newton was |
| 1:36.0 | going up against the ones for the Patriots. They played their offensive line, especially |
| 1:40.5 | on the interior of their offensive line. How do we know this? |
| 1:44.6 | Because you have to be the biggest imbecile, and Mike Vrable is not, you have to be the biggest |
| 1:50.9 | imbecile if you're going to trot your starting day one quarterback, the future of your franchise, |
| 1:56.3 | Drake May, out behind number two's on the offensive line. You're not going to do that. |
| 2:01.1 | When Jane Daniels plays in the preseason, |
| 2:03.1 | which is hopefully going to be against Cincinnati, |
| 2:05.8 | we will get more confirmation on that this week. |
| 2:09.9 | When Jaden goes out there, |
| 2:11.2 | he's not going to be playing behind the number twos |
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