CommanderInTheRye

I need to pinch myself.

This is starting to look like we just might have a real Dude under center-- and that would mean that ANYTHING is possible and no team goal is out of reach. 🤞 

Keim on today's open mini-camp...

Direct quotes from Keim:

"They'll (the players) talk about his (Jayden Daniels) poise...his composure...talk about the work he's put in...they all brought that up. It's funny because they do get smiles on their face when they start to talk about him. So there's a noticeable liking of Jayden Daniels already...(Jon Allen) gets there really early and Jayden is ALWAYS here before him...

I asked Jon (privately), What time do you get here and he said--

"Six fourty-five and the **** is always here!" (said jokingly by Allen)

I'm sorry to hear that @clskinsfan. Hang in their brother.

Happy to help provide a diversion.

"...we get to set the tone for how we want this year to go...put the past behind us and attack what's in front of us."

"...He (Jayden) shows the potential. You see the throws, you see the decisions he's making, you see the confidence he has. You see the work he's putting in too. He's coming in early...working out...watching film..."

"Jayden... commands the offense..."

"I'm just so happy. I love the coaching staff I love the direction we've been moving, I love the way we've been working. It's truly been reinvigorating...this is a dream job right now..."

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Hh

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2 hours ago, Riggo#44 said:

 

 

We literally hired an alcoholic who was in such denial that he thought he could do "controlled drinking". 

Then when he finally started to think about going cold turkey he completely fell off the wagon when a jealous Bruce Allen made sure he had a regular supply of Chivas Regal, telling him at one point, "You deserve a break Scotty given how hard you've been working. So I bought this 5th of the good stuff for ya. Enjoy!"

On 5/18/2024 at 6:20 PM, clskinsfan said:

Who knew people actually looked at thumbs down's....Err whatever you call them. I am usually so hammered when I am on this site that I dont even notice that stuff.

Congratulations @clskinsfan!!!

With the trophy emoji I just gave you, the post quoted above now officially enters the "Extremeskins Hall of Fame" as you have become the 24th member to get all 7 emojis in a single post.

You have now achieved forum immortality, and you are entitled to all the rights, privileges, and duties of a certified Hall of Fame member.

Your bronze bust will be hand delivered by Wells Fargo armed escorts next month.

As the member who made the hockey assist that got you there, I also will gain a small inkling of immortality as a footnote to your marvelous achievement.

We are now linked forever.

"Live long and prosper."

37 minutes ago, Chris 44 said:

Surprised that you of all people with your current sig didn't list another classic comedy;  "you big dummy". lol

That alone is reason to do a best comedies poll, take two!

12 hours ago, Warhead36 said:

Smart people attract and want to work for other smart people. It creates a domino effect. 

Damn right!

“High achievers don’t like mediocre people and mediocre people don’t like high achievers, so you have to choose one and be one.”, Nick Saban

2 hours ago, Skinsinparadise said:

 

 

He (Ben Johnson) just don’t got the makings of a varsity player.

Love all the suggestions! 

As far as the tv shows go, I definitely screwed the pooch on that one.

I basically just wrote down the comedies that immediately popped into my head as classics. Left out a bunch of great ones— especially MASH, Cheers, Curb Your Enthusiasm, etc.

I probably should have google searched for “top 20 comedies all time” or something similar. Will be more deliberate next go round.

Thanks fir the great feedback.

43 minutes ago, Conn said:

Maye wasn’t listed under “most likely to bust

****!!!!

He was on my list! All of the first round qbs were. Somehow I didn’t copy and paste it. Damn, he was my choice too.

Some of these questions I will ask again in a future poll during the season to see hiw opinions change after the games are played with live bullets instead of blanks. I’ll remember to add his name if I do that question again.

If anyone notices any other errors please let me know.

Thanks Conn!

On 5/19/2024 at 3:37 PM, PigskinRedskin said:

 

 

A thirty-one year old fast riser. Love it.

I may be old and stuffed, but even I can see the value in hiring young and hungry go getters.

I am weary, but proud.

My apologies for the long delay in getting this poll to you. I can assure you it wasn't out of neglect or inattention.

An explanation is not neccesary, but it would be impolite for me to not at least make the attempt.

Today I feel like Odysseus, having left as a over-confident young man (though in my case I lacked the excuse of youth) to embark on a journey he naively thought would be sweet, glorious, and oh so quick.

Only to finally come home, many agonizing years later as an old man, weakened in frame and body, with only a pyrrhic victory to show for his efforts, but perhaps-- with some much needed wisdom, added to his more formidable almost supernatural gift of cunning.

First, honor is due-- a heartfelt thanks to Jumbo and especially TK, for aiding me in getting this completed.

I finished the original poll weeks ago, just before the rookie mini-camp began, but every time I tried to post it all the questions suddenly disappeared and I got error messages in their place.

The worst thing, is that unlike writing a post on the forum, there is no copy automatically saved of a poll. Which meant I had lost every single question and had to start completely over from scratch.

Which is a soul testing moment when you've spent hours writing 25 questions (the max allowed) only to lose them all to the ether.

After my second failure, I decided it was prudent to write the questions out on inkpad first and save them and then meticulously copy and paste each individual question and the individual multiple choice answers for those questions one by one-- a process that was complicated by my considerable  vision limitations when looking at electronic screens, and the random palsy that occasionally affects  my hands (which only seemed to get worse as I became more agitated and frustrated by repeated failures)  hours of work and failure stretched to days and now unbelievably weeks. 

Part of the blame is certainly my own hubris in attempting such a ridiculously massive poll in the first place. Ignoring the old adage-- keep it simple, brief, direct and concise. Who is even going to spend the time to take such a long poll, old man?

But on I went.

After checking everything carefully before attempting to submit the poll, I would cross my fingers and hit submit. But I kept getting the same frustrating result over and over again:

The poll was lost and in it's place there stood a slew of red error messages.

But still, I stayed determined to find a way to get this out to you.

I've never been a quitter in anything in my life and I wasn't going to let this break me.

I just wasn't, but by God it did get close a time or two.

So from time to time after a failed posting I had to get away from it for a day or so and get my head and my determination set before spending hours starting over again.

Thankfully, I wasn't alone.

TK is a genius!

Full stop.

It was he, who after numerous futile attempts to figure out what the issue was followed by texts and screen shots sent back and forth between us in a truly Eureka moment of insight finally came up with what afterwards was the simplest of solutions.

(*NOTE: I'm assuming that THIS time it's gonna work ) If not you'll never read this anyway and it'll stay my secret. lol.

Hats off to both TK and Jumbo for their indefatigable positive efforts to help this dottering old fool, which allowed me to finally get this off to all of you today. 🤞 

I've worked harder at this than anything I've done in recent memory.

Because it took so long to get this post-draft poll done I've  incorporated some of the more recent events into it, such as the minicamps and so on. 

There are a few biographucal questions which I thought might be illuminating, but only answer the questions you are comfortable answering-- the "I prefer not to answer" option is there for a reason.

I hope that everyone participates, but if I just get one person who does so, and enjoys doing it, I will be satisfied.

For better or worse I humbly offer this poll to the forum.

(Now, hopefully for the last time I'm going to cross my fingers and press submit.)

CITR

P.S. As always, all comments, criticisms, and suggestions are welcome.

5 hours ago, HvyHTTR said:

 

McDouble! Can't wait to see them drive-thru a defense in the fall!

That is clever, funny, and quite frankly a nickname that just might stick if both of them blow up this year.

It's too bad Cheeseman got cut though.

If he was still here we could go for the...wait for it...

McDouble with cheese. <groans>

2 hours ago, sinews said:

Re: Hartman–it was posted in the UDFA thread that he spent the entire pre-draft process with Jayden and that they likely "endorsed" each other, or something to that effect. I believe the phrase "study buddy" was used, so I think he's specifically here to help Jayden and learn alongside him. 

Jayden best be careful messing around with "love 'em and leave 'em" Hartman. 

He's the kind of dude you don't bring home to meet your girlfriend.

Unless you don't mind when she suddenly sends you to the grocery store to get a bag of ice and some Cheetos, then you get back and there's a note on the dining room table saying, "Sam and I decided to go out and  get better acquainted. No need to wait up."

Bullets in the rain from Daniels...

Jj

Zach Ertz on Daniels, "...(his) talent kind of jumps out at you...the arm talent is there, but also he really, really cares about this...he wants to be as good as he can possibly be...I'm really impressed..."

Hh

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Kingsbury on Daniels and the offense...

Bb

Coverage of today's rainy minicamp. Jayden seemed just as accurate and comfortable in the elements as he did in perfect conditions last week...

Hh

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Da boss wit' all da mumbo sauce!

Cc

Everybody's #1 source for hot takes, good old Hot Take Freddy in the house...

Gg

Gg

4 hours ago, Koolblue13 said:

So this dude was that good with bad feet? That's awesome. He is going to be so ****ing good in the future. 

Now that, dear friends, is the true power of positive rhinking!

You are my kinda guy KB13!

I was reading all these worse and "worserer" injury recovery time posts, and feeling down and "downerer" after each one.

Then your post popped up, and it was like mainlining Colt 45 directly past the blood brain barrier and right into my neocortex-- spirits completely lifted! 👍 

First, a quick Sunday morning ESPN coffee break analysis of the rookie mini-camps  of four of the first five qbs, taken off the board, excluding only Drake Maye.

(NOTE: There's a separate video of Maye's very, very, interesting rookie mini-camp experience, posted below this one, that I highly recommend.

In fact, if you only have enough time to watch one of the two, the Drake Maye mini-camp video is definitely  worth watching most.)

Now on to Drake Maye's fascinating minicamp experience.

In a very illuminating video of the Patriots rookie mini-camp they were amazed with the howitzer-like arm and surprising accuracy of late round qb Milton who has literally become the talk of camp, while  third overall pick, Drake Maye, clearly struggled and was described as a bit "robotic", somewhat "inaccurate", and in "need of a lot of work" especially with his feet, in his professional debut...

As we all know, early impressions good or bad in shorts and tee shirts with no pads just ain't football and mean next to nothing in the long run.

However, there's something comforting, all the same, when your newly acquired rookie qb has a promising start to his career, while the quarterback selected one pick after him is struggling mightily.

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1 hour ago, Skinsinparadise said:

 

 

Basically same thing from a different source only Russell seems to think a procedure needs to be done.

Yikes!

@TheShredder, if they do the same surgery on the other foot is he likely done for the majority of the season?

22 hours ago, BringMetheHeadofBruceAllen said:

Jason Wright is in charge of this (Darrell Green) ceremony, I would imagine he would do it during the home game against the Panthers, however. 🙄

Wright has already put in an order for a custom 30 foot neon sign to be posted in the stadium saying:

"THANK YOU DARRELL GREENE FROM ALL OF US"

1 hour ago, formerly4skins said:

And here I was thinking surely no man would attend 3 😁 

 

Sounds like wild times, that's for sure. 

The first time your mind is blown and you were drunk anyway.

So after awhile you start to think--Did I really see what I thought I saw? Cuz that just ain't humanly possible.

So a few months later you go again-- just for scientific purposes. A case study. See if it was mass hypnosis or a hallucination...

Well it wasn't. lol

As for the third time...

I'm flat out of excuses. 😆

24 minutes ago, Skinsinparadise said:

Keim

 

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/40121455/stud

"He's a stud," third-round receiver Luke McCaffrey said. "I know he's one heck of a quarterback and a lot of fun to play with from a personality standpoint. I've had a blast in these 24 hours with him. ... He's just fun to be around; he's good energy."

Added second-round tight end Ben Sinnott: "He has the 'it' factor."

 

Washington selected Daniels with the second pick in last month's draft, making him the franchise's latest hope at quarterback. The team started eight different passers in the last four years and nobody has started for more than three consecutive seasons since Mark Rypien from 1989 to '93. Since that time, Washington has drafted five other quarterbacks in the first round, and none became the long-term answer.

Daniels' presence led to more interest than usual in the Commanders' first rookie workout as approximately 55 media members attended -- at least 20 more than usual, according to a team spokesman. He smiled often and during breaks could be seen laughing with coaches or teammates. He lofted accurate deep passes down the middle of the field against no defenders and was accurate during a 7-on-7 drill, with one off-target pass that resulted in a one-handed grab by undrafted free agent Marcus Rosemy-Jacksaint.

Daniels said Friday was just about "day one install" of the playbook. But he also said he soaked in seeing his helmet in the locker and putting on his yellow No. 5 practice jersey.

"Man, it was awesome," he said. He added that scenes like this brought out "that 9-year-old kid in me, just realizing that his dreams came true, and now I'm here but I've still got a long way to go."

Sinnott said he worked out with Daniels at times in the offseason -- as well as undrafted free agent quarterback Sam Hartman. He said he saw Daniels' accuracy on film and then realized it in person. He saw him, as others did, create plays with his legs as well.

"He's a super talented kid, a great dude I really like to be around and hopefully grow with," Sinnott said. "There are just guys who players naturally get attracted to and revolve around and he's got that personality where you want to work with him and want to watch film with him and you want to be out here working with him."

 

Daniels said this weekend is also about developing his leadership in the NFL, before he starts working with the veterans at OTA practices.

"Just being myself, being a hard worker," he said. "Don't try to be somebody I'm not. People see who's authentic and who's not. Try to make connections, talk to people. Obviously I'm 23, it's a lot of different age ranges in this locker room, so try to relate as much as possible, show them I'm all about the team, I'm all about hard work."

And, for now, it's about learning the playbook and then earning the starting job.

"Just going through the lumps of being a rookie and trying to learn how to be a pro," Daniels said. "I don't have a definitive answer for you what I needed to work on. I'm just trying to learn as much as possible."

Wow, what a friggin debut!

Is this really happening?

Have we possibly stumbled on the holiest grail of grails-- a charismatic qb capable of leading us to the Lombardi promised land?

Am I dreaming?

If I am, I'm gonna stay asleep as long as I possibly can.