Commanders Final Preseason Game & Wrap up of training camp

1 2 3 Let's [Music] Go teach them to relax where they're not pressing too much and then what are some of the things that you you will be looking at uh Sunday for those guys that are trying to still make uh this team yeah and fortunately there's some some spaces maybe I've even seen that in practice this week where even before we get to the game and so I may pull a player aside and have that conversation you look tight you know in the way that you're going about it so the the ability to control what you can all right man is your effort and your performance but willing it and being tight about it isn't going to help you be at your best so it is a real thing and something that I want to acknowledge as opposed to say you know like oh don't worry about it or you know that's you know not a good technique so from those of us who have that makes you worry more you know it's kind of like don't drop the ball or don't miss the kick you know it's like just the opposite so I wanted to be front and center about it about controlling the things they can and also like the other acronym I use are ET expect the expected like it's normal to have these emotions right now like this game that you love so much is at hand and you want to keep playing and keep competing so like it's normal and expected to have those kind of emotions that you wanted this badly however over trying is a real thing and I wanted to make sure the best version of them is their past performance where they were really letting it rip and in that flow so I want to just keep an encourage them to be into that state hey Jeremy uh in of another training camp just talk to me about this uh training Campa what do you see as far as this team right now uh just continue to grow as a unit you know it's a lot of new faces a lot of new pieces in different places and just trying to learn how to play together you know the leagues different different rules you know in different you know spots of the game so uh just trying to learn how to adapt to things as fast as we can so we can go out there and play fast but um it's been it's been great you know learning the new guys and getting comfortable with everybody just going out and playing ball what are the final preseason game this week you've been there before uh could you just talk about you know what that means for a lot of guys still trying to jar for a position and then even yourself M uh man it's just something that you can't can't over stress it you know I think I think a lot of the times what happens is you get so anxious about it and you get so consumed by the thought of oh if I'm I going to be here to have I done enough that you kind of lose sight of just how far you've come and and the things that you've done to get here and just continuing to do those things so um it's uh I've I've been there a lot you know I always like to think that I'm always going to be there um and so it's a constant battle every day to just you know focus on the daily task and not worry about the outcome of everything so um just to these young guys man I preach man just just live in the moment now don't worry about tomorrow if you handle today today will handle tomorrow so um that's the biggest thing looking at this team overall how would you assess you know this team with the new coaching staff at this stage coming through uh the OTAs the the this final training camp how would you assess this team overall uh just a hungry hungry team man I mean I can say for the guys that have been here including myself for a long time I'm tired of losing I'm sick of it man it's been just I'm tired of status quo um and we got a lot of guys in here that feel the same way that come from a bunch of different places um we got dudes that are hungry and just want to go win and go play fast and that care about each other you know so um I'm excited man I'm just excited honestly just to be back on my feet and getting to play ball again and you know last year kind of sucked for me so uh just getting back to myself and uh going and doing what I know I'm capable of doing