Mic’d up always brings out the best (and sometimes the worst) in player’s personalities.
The Commanders have produced a 10:03 video of what they feel were the best Mic’d-up moments of this past 2022 season.
For me, the best was second-year safety Darrick Forrest. Forrest is captured on the Commanders bench, with his back to the camera. He apparently hears players discussing which player(s) were mic’d up for that particular game.
An unseen teammate is heard declaring to Forrest that Forrest is mic’d up. In disbelief, Forrest suddenly sits up, and turns to his right back, looking behind the bench at a camera person he has been noticing filming the players.
Forrest then asks, “I’m mic’d up?” He pauses for a second, audibly thinks out loud, “What the (pause)?” Realizing he is being filmed, he then asks, “Why ain’t nobody tell me?”
To which the unseen teammate tells Forrest, “Stop cursing, there’s kids watching.” Forrest then turns again to the camera person behind and simply says, “My bad.”
Another favorite is Kam Curl on the sidelines when he is absolutely amazed by an acrobatic catch by Terry McLaurin.
