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kind of what's going on with the commanders and i'll 45 minute or 45 minute videos no sorry that's here 45 second to a minute videos on ESPN just

kind of what's going on with the commanders and I'll be having one up I have a couple already from

Indianapolis I have another one up Wednesday evening so state you can check that out as well and I

have some multiple stories coming up on ESPN emanating from Indianapolis what I've learned here

just some things I'm going to take a look at one school that has four prospects who could fill big needs for Washington number seven. Take a guess who that, what school that might be. Ooh, big, big secret there. But why they could, and it's kind of to me, to be honest, it's kind of rare to have one school that is in that position where in a team that has those kind of needs where they could fill for sure. Now, does every player make sense? No. And there's also a fifth guy from Ohio State, Kay McDonald, nose tackle, who if you trade back, that dude would be pretty good too. So anyways, I'll get more into the four guys top seven.

But look for that in several days, whatever it is.

And then a lot of stuff throughout the next couple weeks leading into a free agency from here.

How aggressive the commanders will be.

And I'll be talking about that on here as well.

And I'll be writing that for ESPN.

So, but today, as you can see, I'm still

in Indianapolis. I'm in my lovely Fairfield hotel room, which is connected to the J.W. Merit, which is connected to the convention center and it's all indoors. You're just walking through skywalks. It is better to be here that way. But anyway, so this will be the last one I record from here and it's just I'd love to record it from inside the combine it's just hard to find a good

spot to do that, whether it's music, whether it's acoustics, whether it's lighting, whether it's too many people around. So I do it in my lovely hotel room. Anyway, so, all right, so I'm just going to talk about a little bit about some players that I was able to talk to today and things I've heard about some of those players and what they can offer of the commanders because they were kind of some of their big time targets at number seven. Like this morning, I was in for Arvel Reese's interview for a little bit and a lot of sunny styles and then also Ruben Bain. And I saw David Bailey was there. I did not sit in his interview. I was assigned to Ruben Bain to have to write a story for that for ESPN.com, which is up now about his arm length. So, but I wanted to get there to, to listen to Stiles and Reese for sure because, again, these are guys that are going to be factors possibly, well, the factors in the top 10 in the draft.

So, but let's start with, let's start with Sunny Stiles because I think, I think he's a guy that I was always surprised that he wasn't being mentioned more toward the end of the college season

as a guy like, because a lot of focus in Ohio State was Caleb Downs and Arbel Reese.

And I'm like, Sunny Stal's is really freaking good.

And I think you're seeing, you're seeing that momentum now for him. I think you're going to hear more about that in the coming weeks for him. I think there's going to be some teams that fall in love with him because you see what he did on the field, you see the potential that he can get to, and then you know how he interviews. And so that's where I'm going to see. So from my end, like you can see the play play. And, you know, teams are going to look at and judge things differently. But what I saw in the

interview stuff was a very smart player. And the reason, and a communicator too. And the reason why that's important is because of the position he plays. Like Arvel Reese, not, he's not going to be a guy who's going to be the greatest talker in the world. He doesn't have to be. Ruben Bain was all right,

but he doesn't have to be either. They're edge guys. Like they don't have to be a guy who's going to be the greatest talker in the world. He doesn't have to be. Ruben Bain was all right, but he doesn't have to be either. They're edge guys. Like they don't have to be those great, you got to just go get the quarterback, right? That's what you got to do. Can you get the quarterback? Yes sir, no sir, let's go. But with the with the mic, with a the linebacker you need to be able to communicate and that's something that styles does very well

and so that came across during his interview inbacker you need to be able to communicate and and that's something that

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