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The Sports Junkies

Seth Walder Says The Commanders HC Role Is Enticing

The Sports Junkies

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🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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From 01/31 Hour 4:

Seth Walder joins The Sports Junkies to break down how enticing the Washington Commanders HC role is for candidates.

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0:00.0

spent a big portion of the show talking about the commander's coaching vacancy.

0:06.4

It's not going to be Ben Johnson, which everybody presumed.

0:10.3

Not going to be Bobby Sloick.

0:11.3

Including our next guest, Seth Walder, who believed that Ben Johnson was a perfect fit here.

0:16.2

Let's talk to Seth Walder, Analytics Guy for ESP&A, Seth.

0:20.1

Hey, how are you?

0:21.3

So Seth, I saw you tweet that you were surprised. Actually, you said it was shocking that Ben Johnson is not coming to the commanders why. Tell us why you thought it was a great job for him.

0:33.0

Well, just to me, it seemed like Johnson was top candidate from the sort of coordinator pool, all these sort of attractive qualities you would look for from the things that we can see on the outside right obviously there's there's lots of

0:47.4

Coaching that we don't necessarily have a purview to

0:50.8

but there's a coordinator who's had a lot of success

0:54.0

seems to have raised the ability of the players that he's given

0:58.0

and then really to me what why was surprising is because I look at the commander's job as being extremely attractive.

1:06.0

He's got a team that has the number two overall pick you have a lot of cap space you have extra draft picks you have an owner that seems

1:16.0

willing to invest like that's all really good like you know I, I understand there's a, it's great when you can get into a situation

1:26.2

with an elite quarterback already, but short of that, this is like, it's kind of like a rebuild

1:31.2

but you already did all the hard part already.

1:34.4

But Seth, I also look at his situation in Detroit, like he feels like there's unfinished

1:39.1

business there. He clearly loves Dan Campbell and his setup there offensively is just optimal. I mean he's turned

1:46.8

Jared golf into a guy who's going to throw for basically 30 touchdowns each season. He's got two running backs that combined for nearly 2,000

1:54.6

rushing yards, really good combo there. He's got a top five receiver in a

1:58.5

Monra. He's got a stud will be a second year player in the Porta at tight end like he looks at that and says

2:04.7

maybe I'm not ready to move on from this so I can kind of understand him being

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