let's get to the commander news of the day Sam cosmi got a four-year extension from Washington's front office the former second round pick out of Texas the fouryear extension gets tacked on to the final year of his rookie deal entering the fourth year of as a second rounder know year four of of four so that means five more seasons through 2028 for cosmi who is kicked inside from tackle to guard and really found a home Danny last year he was the sixth highest graded guard according to PFF in football he had the number seven grade in the Run game according to Pro Football Focus and he played the 12th most snaps in the entire NFL at the guard position because for the first time he proved really durable played in all 17 games played at a high level and at 25 going into his prime he got paid love that this is one of those things where when you look back and and I will still say on on the whole on the balance sheet the Marty party and Ron Rivera were terrible at player acquisition evaluation contracts drafting Etc this is one of their wins now they drafted him as a tackle so it's downgraded slightly but still you identify a core player whose arrow is on the rise as you rightly said and he's in his mid 20s he's playing better than he did two years ago at this point he's playing better than he was a year ago at this point this is now a really really good uh you know asset that you have you keep guys like that around even if it even if it wasn't your guy you quickly figure out this is a guy that you want to build around so good for them right call we were sort of wondering not in a critical way but kind of wondering hey is this coming this seems pretty reasonable seems like you want to do that and before week one you kind of get that business attended to and get it done and lock him up really good player and I'm happy for the dude yeah I mean from a playing standpoint and on the field he's their best offensive lineman and I don't know that it's particularly close at this point and you can make the case he's one of the best players on the team know for a few years that's been John Allen donon Payne and there's a conversation thereafter I think Sam cosm's really closed the Gap in that area and with Terry mclen those are the core guys in the offensive huddle at this point but as you said personally just for the the person that we've had on the show and I've talked to out there a few times really really uh entertaining interview and just an honest guy and very candid he's 25 he's going into his prime he's married now he's kind of growing up in front of our eyes in DC he's got a baby girl so his wife Blair and the nine-month old baby I believe Clara you're not going anywhere you're setting up shop you are digging in in the DMV and you're now a Texas guy who's going to call this place home at least half of the year for the next several years so I like that and this is what you want to do we've seen a lot of teams this offseason prioritize signing their own guys both the good teams that have done this for a long time and then some bad teams that are trying to get good like the New England Patriots who have extended I don't know seven or eight of their own players Washington over the years has not done a good enough job at this mostly because they haven't drafted enough guys that they want to keep around they haven't hit in the draft frequently enough so I think now you can say well that's a win for Ron Rivera and his staff they drafted him as a tackle he ended up at guard so there's an asteris there because they thought he would be their long-term right tackle but I don't think we need to get cute and look for style points especially with the Rivera era that went you got a good player and a good dude exactly you do it I say this about Brandon Sheriff all the time people talk about him because remember at number five I think that was mcl's first pick in in his first draft he was taken as a tackle out of Iowa and about an hour into his first practice at training camp ever he was moved to guard because Morgan Moses showed up after having a whale of an off season going into his second year with the organization and they realized our best line right now is Moses at right tackle and Sheriff as a plus guard and so they just made the move and a lot of people have suggested since then that that was not a slam dunk pick or the value wasn't good at number five and I don't really play that game I'm in the business of getting good football players period And so with Sam Cosby I don't care if he drafted him as a tackler or guard you've got a pro bowler hasn't made that yet but he will and maybe eventually an all pro which they don't have around here I'm not going to ask any questions right yeah it's the the road wasn't uh you know paved and straight we had a a few twists and turns there but you're right we got to the point where there's a a good player good core guy uh that's going to be here so I'm a fan I mean he's in that company with with guys like Quinton Nelson uh you know Landon Dickerson and Philadelphia there's a whole bunch of guys in that 25 26 age range who are making a pretty good chunk of change as uh you know kind of lynchpin guards there on uh on on rosters that are either improving or already pretty good and it gets to the point where eventually you don't love the idea of like I'd rather pay a tackle over paying a guard I'd rather pay a wide receiver over paying a guard you know a quarterback a quarterback few different positions but you're not in a spot where you can just sort letting guys go and and and having their talent uh a talented replacement you know waiting in the wings so at this stage it makes a lot of sense to me to to retain him because again he's done everything ever been asked of him he's performed well and the AR was still trending up but a guy that you know was at one point learning the position now he's learned it now he's one of the better players in the league at that spot4 million 74 million over four years 18 and a half per for Sam cosmi as one of the best young guards in football so let's make this quick list then Danny how many players right now on the commanders would you say are better than Sam cosm I think it's a very very short list but if you're just ranking their roster one to 53 how high up could cosm show up so start the list so you're not gonna like the answer he's my number one I think he's their best player I think he's better at his position than anybody else is at theirs I think if you're forecasting out with potential and growth opportunities I could see that based on back of the football card I would still say John Allen who's made pro bowls M Don Payne Terry McClaren just because they've actually played in pro bowl games right kind of gotten that a claim but if you you looked at it a different way which I think is really intuitive where does each guy rank at their own position right now in the NFL at some point John Allen was Fringe top five at the tackle I don't think he is right now Don Payne coming off of his 11 plus sacks was in that conversation fell off with some of the counting stats as a pass rusher last year probably would slide down the board a little bit right I would say the same thing about mcloren who last year yards per catch some of the explosivity metrics dropped off some still very good but in that 15 to 20 range at wide receiver maybe in the NFL and there are great players at that position probably more competitive than the spot that cosm plays but in a a position where there are 64 starters because there's two guards on every team Sam Cosby is a top 10 guard in football and that's that's kind of my point so for the the the toughest debate to me is not again I love Teran mcen but you start going on the list of Jefferson Adams lamb St Brown auk DJ Moore uh AJ Brown Tyreek Hill Jaylen Wadd you get a goal while before you get to ter mcin again really good player glad he's here he's my dude but there are a whole bunch of folks that would go ahead of him if people were being objective you know sort of looking around League wide the tougher cell is the one you mentioned is is defensive tackle and at points you've seen both of those guys talking Allen and Payne be in that top 10 type range I mean donon Payne had a top 10 season a couple years ago that got him paid John Allen uh did that before but right now this minute coming into the year I don't know that either one of those guys is top 10 again not not a bad player by any stretch and they're as good a tandem as you're going to find but maybe they're both sort of in the teens and my point is this may be a little bit bullish but I put cosmi in that top 10 guard group I mean it's hard I'm not breaking down offensive line play from uh you know the interior offensive line player from every single Squad at this stage but that's kind of my sense of it at this point so that that's how I come to that conclusion Dan Quinn just had his Daily Press Conference out in Ashburn as the commanders are getting ready for the bucks today at their team facility this is what DQ had to say about the new extension for his guard Sam cosm that's it's cool day for him for uh for his wife Flair his daughter Claire who are here and so for um Adam and his staff to get that done prior to the season that's a big deal and uh this guy's a commander you know through and through he's tough plays Square he's strong and we're really you know are fortunate that he'll be an anchor inside you know for years to come it's a big deal this is something you and I talked a lot about all offseason that needed to get done I hadn't given up on it I just kind of moved on and forgotten about it honestly because about a week ago I turned the page into regular season mode but them getting this out of the way was a no-brainer and there's just no reason not to do this I remember back in 1999 when Champ Bailey was drafted out of Georgia and at that time there was this culture going into year one of the old owner in 2000 when they spent $100 million where they took care of other people's guys but not their own and so four years later when it was time for champ to get paid he had watched Deion Sanders and Mark Carrier and one guy after another coming here in the secondary to get their money and he had become one of the best players in the league at his position on his way to what would eventually be Hall of Fame career and he went to the team and he said let's go it's time to pay me and they dragged their feet and it became so difficult the relationship became uh so bad between he and the club that they ended up trading him for Clinton poris with a draft pick obviously and I bring that up just to say you want to be the organization where everybody knows if you deliver on the promise if you deliver the goods after being taken you will be rewarded that's what the healthy organizations do it's whatever and I don't just mean in football right but I bring you in I give you these goals here's what we're trying to accomplish you go out and get it done you get your raise you get to grow that's what everybody's looking for in life in some ways what's next how do I become the best version of myself and to reward Sam cosmi was a no-brainer but the fact that they did it just tells you that they had their priorities in order and they get it yeah I think it's well said now you can't as Ryan zimman famously told us you can't pay everybody so there're GNA be some times where you know a good player has you have to let him walk at the expense of maybe somebody else but when you're in this position right when you're in the building phase what better building block than as you said the guy that's we said hey please turn in a work and he he's here's my a homework I did it I turned in the a work then you reward that guy that makes sense they had two things going for them one they have a shortage of really good football players he's one of them so you pay him two they have a lot of money yeah and they have very little on the books moving forward so this was easy there was just no reason not to do it