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DeSean Jackson: "The Mood Out Here is Great"

Djax interview

 

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Them

lol love this can't wait to see him and Morris tear teams up this year

 

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Really enjoyable article with some classic quotes from teammates and himself! Love this pick up this off season.


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Lulz...

“He’s the biggest person I’ve ever seen,” tight end Logan Paulsen said.

“He makes us all look like children out there,” 258-pound linebacker Trent Murphy said.

“Unblockable, man,” said middle linebacker Keenan Robinson, whose life figures to be easier in the shadow of Mount Knighton. “That’s an immovable force.”


He also spent as much time as he could with guys such as Manning and DeMarcus Ware, learning “what a true professional looks like,” and he hasn’t been shy about bringing those observations to Ashburn. He talks frequently to Robert Griffin III about how Manning prepared, and asks Griffin every day what he did to get better.

“When you have a man of that size, you think he’s just gonna be a blob that just sits in the middle and gets his hands on the center,” Barry said. “His movement skills, and his ability to bend his knees, and his ability to redirect laterally, for a man that big, I’ve never seen anything like it. So it’s very, very impressive, and I think we’re going to be able to have a lot of fun with him.”

Knighton said he played at around 350 pounds last year and weighs more than 360 now, but promised “the arrow’s going down, I know that.” His goal is to stay in on third downs this season, because “that’s where the money’s made,” so he hopes to lose at least 15 pounds before the season begins, and ideally to drop into the 340s.

 

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I thought DJax gave some credible answers for not being at 'voluntary' OTAs last week. I remain ok with his absence last week and truly do think it was no big deal.

 

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Love the competition mentality going on here.


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"I'm not concerned with the future," Long said Wednesday inside the Redskins practice bubble. "You've got to be on your stuff now."

Long's message was clear. After working out with the first team offense since Chester's release, Long now has pole position on the starting right guard spot. But leading the depth chart in June means very little come September, which is why he will continue to work, compete, and improve. There is no time for celebration.

"You've always got to be constantly fighting for your job every day," he said.

This time last year, Long was not only an NFL rookie but also working his way back from a college knee injury. This year, Long feels healthy and instead of working to learn the Washington offense, he is striving to master it. The former Nebraska guard talked about his focus on growing his mental game, understanding the intricacies and nuances of the offense.

"I think having a year under his belt, knowing the system, I think the confidence coming into Year 2, we feel good about his progress," Gruden said of Long.

New offensive line coach Bill Callahan might help. Long called Callahan "one of the best in the business" and said that the new position coach works the lineman every minute of every practice.

"He's a tough coach but I embrace it," Long said. "When we're working, we're going to work hard."

 

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Barry, who most recently coached linebackers in San Diego, said he views safeties and corners as distinctly different specialists, making it highly unlikely that he’ll ask anyone to serve double-duty on occasion or convert one to the other.

“Corners are corners; safeties are safeties,” Barry said this week. “We ask, respectively, both sets – both our corners and our safeties – we ask them to do a lot. We ask them to blitz, we ask them to cover, we ask them to play zone coverage, we ask them to defend the run. So, yes, they’re interchangeable in that sense, but no – our corners are going to play corner and our safeties are going to play safety.”

 

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