Laremy Tunsil was introduced to media covering the Washington Commanders this week and talked about his time in Houston. Watch Seth Payne and Sean Pendergast react to it here.
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00:00He met with the media in Washington yesterday.
00:07I don't think he was in he went to the building and visited and but the press conference he
00:12did yesterday looked like it was on a zoom where he was sitting on his front porch.
00:16So I don't know the logistics of his travel but he's he's he's a Washington commander
00:21now and he did a press conference yesterday and he said he said no hard feelings in leaving
00:28Houston.
00:29In this position so what I learned don't take anything personal and it's just strictly just
00:36a business.
00:37And I actually before I left the building I talked to those guys pretty much they're
00:43just trying to keep the young guys together as simple as that.
00:47When I was a when I was a rookie and I would talk to my OG who was Brandon Albert and Jermond
00:53Bushrod and Mike Pouncey they told me it's a young man's game and you know I've seen
00:57it for myself.
00:59You know they drafted some young guys and they hit on every draft pick you know they're
01:03trying to keep those guys together.
01:04So I fully understand like they just paid stingy today.
01:08They just gave that boy that bag.
01:09So I truly understand like it's no hard feelings like at the end of the day it's a business.
01:14You know I mean don't take anything personal there's no hard feelings against the Houston
01:17Texans.
01:18You know I thank them for just put me in this position and I thank you for everything they
01:22did for me and my family and changing my life.
01:24So I get it man.
01:27When I was with Miami I didn't get the courtesy call from Miami you know I kind of woke up
01:31out of my nap and got traded so at least this time I was a little bit different.
01:35Okay so he's talking about when Bill O'Brien traded for him he probably woke up and found
01:40out on Twitter or got some text messages or something like that.
01:43Well remember when he got traded for Miami he had a pretty funny comment about it when
01:47he found out he'd been traded for two first round picks he said I would have traded me
01:51too.
01:52Yeah.
01:53So it was easier probably not to take it personally that time around and everything he said is
01:57true and accurate and I think that's where there was kind of an emotional upheaval in
02:02a good way or it just felt like an emotional cleansing in a lot of ways because so many
02:06people were so tired of Laramie Tunsell's consistent false.
02:12Starts and it's all starting for the entire duration of time he was here he was a league
02:16leader almost every single year but that also it does just financially make sense that when
02:23you pay guys like Derrick Singley when you're probably going to pay guys like Will Anderson
02:27when the Texans are in the situation they're in right now two things can be true one yes
02:32they're going to have to make some tough decisions on veterans and clear some space but you do
02:37get to choose which expensive veterans you do that with and there's some guy an offensive
02:43tackle who's a genuinely if you're as genuinely good as some people want to talk about Laramie
02:49Tunsell which is like a Trent Williams type you don't let those guys go that there's so
02:55there's a little bit to both sides of the issue here with Laramie Tunsell both the fact
03:00that he wasn't a truly great all-around offensive tackle he was a past protection specialist
03:05but then also yeah you cleared almost 20 million dollars off the cap this year you clear way
03:11more than that next year and it does open up things to be able to give guys these future
03:16contracts yeah that was clearly the story that was told to him by D'Amico and Nick that's
03:21very evident is that yeah when he you know if he wanted a reason as to why the reason
03:25because I agree with you as he was laying that out I'm going yeah okay dude as he's
03:30laying that out and him being told that's the reason why they got some young guys they
03:34want to take care of you know I know this I was one of those young guys at one time
03:37when I was in Miami I talked to Brandon Albert he was my OG I'm the OG now blah blah blah
03:42I was thinking the same thing you were I'm like okay the toxic nature of the offensive
03:48line room that we read about with Albert Breer you know it's here in to us now that
03:53this is what Laramie was told it's like no it's probably both it's it's probably maybe
03:58toxic is overstating it a little bit but it's probably both the issue I had with that Albert
04:02Breer statement was that Albert Breer talked about the talk the O-line room having a near
04:08toxic atmosphere but that that doesn't really fill in any details as far as whether it was
04:14Laramie Tunsell's fault whether it was Chris Strouser's fault or Bobby Slowick's fault
04:18so I didn't I didn't really feel comfortable using that as some kind of ammunition against
04:24Laramie Tunsell there's lots of reasons a room can be toxic and it doesn't doesn't like
04:29Breer didn't specifically point out Tunsell necessarily so I don't know exactly what all
04:34that was about and I feel like it's it's a little irresponsible to act like it but I
04:39am not as I was talking about Trent Williams the irony is not lost on me that Trent Williams
04:44forced his way out of Washington DC yeah when you talk about not letting go of a guy who's
04:49as good as Trent Williams Trent Williams sat out an entire season because he flat out hated
04:54the commanders yeah when they were owned by Dan Snyder it's obviously a different environment
04:59there now with the new ownership yep Laramie talked about the penalties he was asked about
05:04the penalties as he should be with his new team that is the one glaring thing at least
05:09on the stat sheet it sticks out about Laramie Tunsell he said he wants to fix that I kind
05:13of just like challenging myself to to find new challenges in my game to get better so
05:18every year I try to find something I could do this but I want to do this better I want
05:22to be known for this you know so I kind of just put that chip on my shoulder by myself
05:25um it's really just me versus me at the end of the day um you know
05:2919 penalties I had last season was unacceptable so that's something I want to address for
05:37sure get that number down or even having none um you know I want to keep growing as a player
05:42honestly as a pass blocker a run blocker it doesn't matter you know I'm always trying
05:47to improve in each of those fields um yeah the always part I guess I would have an issue
05:53with because he hasn't he he never really showed uh all that much interest in being
05:57a good run blocker really until this last year I think he made some improvements by
06:01about midway through the season he looked like oh here we go um I mean the penalties
06:05he's had in his entire career to start working on that he's been he's been amongst the worst
06:10and the the part that's always bothered me about Laramie Tunsell being so good in pass
06:14protection as he is is that he does game the system a little bit in having all those false
06:19starts in pre-snap alignment penalties the other genuinely great pass protectors don't
06:26don't get that many they go back to Trent Williams Trent Williams on average over the
06:29last five years has somewhere between zero to two pre-snap penalties per year it took
06:36me it took me going back through Trent Williams for five years for him to have the same number
06:41in the last five seasons Trent Williams had the same number of pre-snap penalties as Laramie
06:46Tunsell had this season so like Tunsell gets away with hey no big deal if I turn a third
06:54and six into third and eleven because it doesn't show up on my pass protection stats I don't
06:58get marked against it in pass protection but it's it's it's cheating the system a little
07:03bit yeah in a very selfish way and that's where that's what gets annoying to people
07:07it's that the manner in which he would fall start possible and he's just continually stepping
07:15over the line in hurting his team that's that's pure unadulterated selfishness and
07:21there's no other excuse around it that's the part that gets really really old with
07:25family and it was in a number that couldn't be ignored this year you know there was a
07:29four or five instead of Trent Williams getting to you can brush that under the rug when you
07:33get traded to a new team when you have I think it was 12 procedure penalties is the number
07:3719 total penalties because that's the number he just gave out yeah it was 12 false starts
07:43I believe it was two or three illegal formations line it up too deep there was then there was
07:49the illegal man downfield on that Nico screen that would have been a touchdown I know yeah
07:53that one I actually you know what that's where it kind of turned where I started like trying
07:57to give him the benefit of the doubt because he looked genuinely upset at himself for that
08:01it was the first time I remember Larry Tunsell looking like he was genuinely upset that he
08:07had screwed over the entire team look like you care that's the bar instead of right instead
08:11of blaming others yes it was a it was a big moment of progress for him because he's always
08:16working on something yeah one more from Larry Tunsell says he's very excited to block for
08:20Jaden Daniels I could tell you this I damn sure can't wait but he's a baller and it's
08:25just been seeing this this on TV and watching film and it seemed like he's a better dude
08:30to you know just hearing that from a lot of people just around the locker room his teammates
08:37is a good person to bother so I can't wait to make my job a little disappointed he didn't
08:45call it a dog he's not a baller he's a baller not a dog knows a dog who knows it Jaden Daniels
08:54just a baller he's not a dog man not a dog baby don't need no don't need no virtual reality
09:00goggles you know maybe Davis just goes out there and guns it that's right man um maybe
09:06he's around Laramie enough he'll become a dog you know you get in Laramie's orbit right
09:11there you know in his face yeah he'll get he'll he'll draw some dog-like qualities from
09:16Laramie Tunsell I actually I had a horrible horrible dream about Laramie Tunsell a couple
09:21nights ago and I think it was I think it was because I had there's a combination it feels
09:27redundant by the way I had a horrible as opposed to the amazing dreams about Laramie
09:31Tunsell I had had well no I feel guilty about it but I know I woke up and I was kind of
09:36freaked out because I had a dream that Washington was playing in Philadelphia and in Tunsell
09:43was nowhere to be seen it is because he just decided not to play that day so everybody
09:48in the Washington locker room was freaking out trying to figure out what the hell's going
09:52on with Laramie what the hell's going on with Laramie and and so this was playing out
09:57like a movie and I jumped I jump cut to the scene where Laramie is driving over a bridge
10:07in Philadelphia they have many bridges there away from the stadium and he had some staffer
10:13with him who was there with him against his will and Laramie said they were in a convertible
10:20and at one point Laramie said watch this maneuver he actually said that this is all
10:25happening in your dream yes and he goes and he jerks the wheel to the side
10:32like he was 1A turnaround or something but he hits the embankment and they go over the
10:37edge and and as they're going over the edge they have their hands up they they have their
10:44hands up like they're going down a roller coaster and then then then scene cut it goes
10:51to black and I presume that they perished in this movie but it and I felt I woke up
10:58and I was like what the hell am I wishing on people and then I remembered I had put
11:02a gif of Thelma and Louise in a video I did on my YouTube a couple days before that Wow
11:06so I basically put Laramie Tunsell and some staffer into a Thelma and Louise type okay
11:12it's that simple to just weave the themes of certain movies into your dreams I'm just
11:16gonna start putting gifs up of some much more pleasant stuff than that if it's just gonna
11:19find it seep its way into my brain here's my question that is you were laying that out let
11:22me ask you this were you like a third person watching this whole car scene go on or were
11:28you in the back seat it was like I was watching a movie oh yeah I was third person and I was
11:34watching it as if it was a movie or a news report or something because then later they
11:39showed they showed still frame footage caught from traffic cameras yeah and in it this is this
11:46is a symbolic part that I think is related to the false starts in it Laramie as they were
11:53plummeting to their death in this convertible had this huge smile on his face like he was having the
11:58time of his life whereas the staffer was petrified yeah and like clutching the clutching the door only
12:06Laramie had his hands up and it was like this grainy black and white photo but like he like it
12:14was his birthday but the staffer was going down into his watery death so you didn't get to see
12:19exactly what led to the staffer being in the car you just know from your dream that the staffer
12:24was in there against his or her will I vaguely remember yeah some kind of drama or something
12:29where Laramie he'd forgotten something at home or something maybe maybe it was his bright green
12:34gloves yeah yeah he wanted to go get his bright red gloves at home so he had some so he had some
12:40pizzazz on camera decided to go with him yeah oh yeah we should point that out okay the vast
12:49majority of his penalties were pre-snap or were pre-snap penalties he did have a couple of holds
12:55and one of those holds was in the game where he was wearing the bright red gloves against the
12:59opponent's white jersey right that make it extra easy to see that whether or not an offensive lineman
13:04is holding or not he'll probably go with what like bright gold gloves with the with the commanders I
13:09would think he started wearing to his credit again when he started caring about run blocking this
13:15year he was wearing white gloves the rest your whiter black gloves the rest of the year I gotta
13:18tell you like I it was a very deja vu feeling watching these clips I didn't watch the whole
13:23press conference I just went and found the clips you know the two or three that everybody was you
13:27know kind of talking about afterwards and it did remind me that at various times throughout
13:33Laramie Tunsell's careers at Texan I was not happy with Laramie Tunsell for whatever reason I
13:37acknowledge he's a good player and all that but Texan fans can relate to this but it seems like
13:42he would do a press conference and I would start to feel good about him again every time like I
13:47liked him in press conference in this one yesterday I'm like ah I gotta like Laramie
13:54Tunsell he's uh it's his voice yeah he's got a very reassuring voice yeah yeah I remember that I
13:59remember that being my first impression when he met with the Houston media I was like oh this guy
14:03this guy could do voiceovers or something he could definitely speak for an insurance company I would
14:08buy that insurance yes knowing that they're gonna screw me eventually but at the very least Laramie
14:13Tunsell would make me feel good about it up soothing very white voice yes yes for sure when
14:19CJ's feeling about I wonder how CJ is feeling watching clips of Laramie Tunsell blocking for
14:24his new friend Jaden Daniels I wonder how CJ's feeling about all of this yeah he hasn't has
14:30there been a an emoji tweeted out or anything like that's not his game it is he's not it he's
14:35not right right well that but you know I wonder he probably wanted to express something publicly
14:42this is me just guessing yeah if I were CJ Stroud if I put myself hold on a second let me do a
14:46little empathy exercise all right CJ Stroud tries to do right by his teammates and he personally
14:51loves those guys all that he wants to maybe publicly express his feelings about Laramie
14:57Tunsell individually but he also knows that anything he does is going to be hyper scrutinized
15:04yes and that it's a dicey it's a dicey position to be in so I'm guessing that CJ called or texted
15:10Laramie and maybe had a conversation with him but he's he's withheld any kind of public statement
15:15just because you know how those things there's almost nothing he can say that won't be interpreted
15:19is like oh well see CJ's pissed especially the more you leave open to to interpretation if it's
15:26an emoji it's it's the wild wild west you know remember Stefan Diggs when he got a handle almost
15:33perfectly mm-hmm and yet people found ways to act like he was trying to throw shade at the
15:39Bills as he was flat-out saying I love those people I love Josh Allen I love people found a
15:45way to twist that into shade at the Bills now I feel like a hundred percent something you just
15:50said happened which was I feel like they've definitely communicated Laramie and CJ's oh
15:54yeah a hundred percent unless CJ was unless CJ was the one catalyst the knife yeah and I got a
16:01whole new feeling about CJ I you know by the way that's something I learned late in life when
16:06somebody gets fired if you don't reach out to them oftentimes they think that you were the person who
16:12was behind doing that may I reach out to everybody who gets fired yeah I guess I never really thought
16:18of it that way okay so now and so definitely the word the other life lesson there is a so a chief
16:26life lesson for one it's a nice thing to do is to reach out to somebody even if you weren't that
16:30close to him but B if you are the person that did them in I'm sure you reach out oh yeah good
16:35subterfuge Machiavelli if you're gonna play the game go all the way oh yeah