Athan Kaliakmanis

He'll be in all that stuff, but he'll be inactive on the game day roster, be the emergency quarterback.

And basically what happens is if one of the quarterbacks gets knocked out of the game, they can activate eighth and Kaliak Manis, make that quarterback inactive.

But ultimately, eighth and Kaliak Manis will start the game inactive.

And the hope is knock on wood.

He stays that way.

But at the end of the day, it really doesn't matter that much, and it's not worth getting all that excited over.

But they kept three, and more importantly, Kaliak Manis is on the roster.

Let's talk about the defense next.

The Commanders put their 53-man roster together.

I think, and I may be in the minority here with Sam.

I don't want to, I want to talk about Kaliak Manis.

So we'll talk about Sam in a second, but with Kaliak Manis, like I just think like how many preseason games have you watched Grant where you're like, this is non, this is not NFL quarterback a ton.

I've watched a ton, right? You're like, this is like, we can't do this.

But when you see Kaliak Manis roll to his right and rip a 50 yard bomb down the field, it's overthrown to Antonio Williams.

You're like, we got action coach.

We got action.

There's just some other things that I would do at that spot.

Yeah.

Uh, three quarterbacks, including Kaliak Manis, um, Hartman.

This was, this has been obvious since last winter when Johnson had to start and they didn't elevate Hartman and they signed Driscoll.

Do you think Hartman gets another practice squad run here?

No, 'cause quite frankly I like Kaliak Manis a lot, and I think that he's had a pretty good camp.

But if you get to a situation where both Jayden and Marcus go down, I, I think that they're gonna, that they, they'll be looking for a veteran guy to-

Josh Johnson got released.

Yeah.

No, that dude was wild.

Taking your calls, what positions are you watching tonight? B, if they're going to keep three quarterbacks, and I think Kaliak Manis – It'd be tough to cut him.

I think he might get scooped.

I don't know.

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Um, to me, there's zero question that Kaliak Manis has outplayed Hartman.

Kaliak Manis has showed you something that's at least intriguing and, and makes you want to watch going forward.

Um, do you think they carry three quarterbacks?

I think it's a very real possibility.

And it, it, it made me wonder What is the availability for week one? And, and then that made me wonder-

Right

... i- if Marcus still is banged up for week one, as much as you like Kaliak Manis, like can you go-