This is the stinking truth. I thought this was kind of a cool story. Drew Brees definitely, you know, paying it forward with his Saints roots, helping Tyler Shuck set up a passing camp. Quarterback, wide receiver, they get together. We see a lot of quarterbacks do this. He helped Shuck set it up in the San Diego area. How much benefit come with these QB camps that get run around this time of year? It seems like, I question how much it's worth, but it seems to be one of those things that if you're a quarterback and you don't set it up.
You don't do it. People kind of look at you like, what's the matter with you? Yeah, I do think, I mean, I think there's value to it. I think the value is just being together. Right. And, you know, I mean, we can run routes on air and we can do all that stuff. And that's great. And it's fun. We're playing catch. Woo. You know, whoop-dee-doo. It's awesome. I think really the value is just being together, getting to know each other. Right. And, you know, obviously the throwing and all that stuff. I mean, you're calling out plays. You're running, you know, you're running your plays against air. So there is familiarity, you know, with the.
The cadence and just the verbal communication and the nonverbal communication as well. You know, so all that stuff, I think it's great. I do think part of it is, you know, you have to succumb to peer pressure because if you don't do it and you guys struggle in offense early, there's going to be the questions about your leadership and they didn't go to, you know, they didn't put a passing camp together. But, you know, I think just as much of it could probably be done is if you guys all got together on a lake and... Barbecued and drank beer. Yeah. I think it would, like, that might even be more beneficial than running routes and doing all that stuff. So I think the value of any of that stuff, Mike, is just being together. Just hanging out. We would do it as an offensive line when I was in Washington. We go down, we did a couple times before camp in the summertime, about this time of year after everything kind of broke, go down to Ocean City, Maryland.
Just kind of hang out on the beach and, you know, go down and have some dinners with your families and, you know, just be together. So I think that, I think that, I don't think there's any question that it has value. I just question how much value you're getting running around. Right. So the chemistry value is undeniable, but you're telling me that doing this in June, early July is going to make a difference when it's third and 10 week five and you're on the road in front of 70,000 people. Right. You know, probably not, but I do, I understand the merit of it. I just don't like the, I don't like the fact that if you don't do it. Right. Right. Like nobody sits there and says, if you do it and then your offense struggles early.
Nobody goes, you know, they got together, and they were really practicing the wrong stuff. They had the wrong playbook. That's why they're so far behind. So it's only, if you don't do it and you don't have success, there's nothing but bad things that can happen to you, right? Nothing but bad publicity coming off of that. But if you don't do it and you come out and have great offensive success, nobody goes, well, it's surprising they've been having this great offensive success because they didn't get together in the offseason in the passing game. Right, right, right. Last one, your favorite subject, Brandon Ayuk, in one of his latest videos that he put out, had Go Commanders in it.
Right. Let me ask this question to all of you out there watching, listening to this podcast. Would you want Brandon Ayuk on your football team? Isn't that a great question? Would you want him on your football team, knowing everything, knowing his talent, but knowing he can also be a major pain in the butt? Yeah, I don't like, I mean, be personal, like any of, and I don't have all the inside information, right? But I don't like the look, right? I don't. I don't like the fact that you were, you know, you signed a big contract and then you didn't show up.
None of it looks really good. And I would genuinely be concerned if I was Washington with a young quarterback coming off an injury-riddled second year, what that looks like when all of a sudden you go two games and you only get two or three targets. You go through three games and you come away with five catches for 68 yards and no touchdowns. At what point does that become a boiling over point? I would be very concerned about that. I guess if I was going to go down that road and I looked at him and said, the talent is undeniable.
And we need talent. We need somebody opposite of Terry McLaurin, who's a, you know, an established big time wide receiver in this league. We need somebody else to take pressure off him. And you look, they've got a rookie. They've got, you know, other guys that, you know, are quote unquote NFL also runs. So you say this really takes some pressure and gives us far more talent than we've had in the past. And we're gonna take this flyer on him. I think I would have to treat him like like people have treated Stefan Diggs. And I would say, OK, hey, we're gonna give you a one year deal.
Prove that you can be the guy you were. early in San Francisco, or at least in 2023 in San Francisco, or whatever season he had, his kind of breakout season. So prove that you can be that guy, and then we'll sit there in the offseason and reevaluate kind of where you are. But I would be, if I was an NFL general manager, and I'm not, but if I was, I would be very concerned about bringing that element into my locker room without some guarantees. And I think the biggest guarantee you can have is, hey, man, one-year deal. If it doesn't work out, we're going to move on. All right, sounds good. Sounds good. We'll see what happens with him.