Gut-Check WIN! Recapping the Thriller in New Orleans | The Booth Review Podcast | Washington Commanders | NFL

Legendary Washington Linebacker London Fletcher and Bram Weinstein recap the Commanders narrow victory over the Saints. They talk about how good teams find ways to win, overcoming outside factors, and how the team managed to keep their composure.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On this edition of The Booth Review. I've had a
bunch of long days in New Orleans, but nothing like
that one, London.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
I know, a big win and a big easy, but
it was anything but easy.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
How about the magic of Jaden Daniels in the state
where he won the Heisman?

Speaker 2 (00:16):
And finally the highly anticipated debut I've boshed at Alatimer.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
And you got to give out the belt to somebody
this week. Welcome into this week's edition of The Booth Review.
I'm Brad Weinstein with London Fletcher, Big Fletch. We are
brought to you by Microsoft Surface Powering a better game.
Oh we're dodging bullets these days, London, bull that was
something down.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
There, man, You ain't kid man. We made that a
lot tougher than it should have been, but at the
end of the day, game came out of there with
a victory. One thing about the mistakes we made in
all those things, the corrections that need to be taken,
that need to take places. It's better to be celebrating
and correct making those corrections in a victory. Then all

(01:04):
of a sudden we're here on a Monday discussing a defeat.
So they'll get those things corrected and get ready for
Philadelphia this Sunday.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
I gotta tell you too, I don't remember a season
like this in a long time. Like the way the
Cincinnati game ended, the way the Dallas game ended, obviously,
the way the Chicago game ended, the way this game ended.
This is one of the strangest up and down You're
gonna have a heart attack type season every week that

(01:35):
I've ever been a part of.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
I know. I don't know if you remember what I
said on the broadcast. I was like, man, down in
New Orleans, my body fat is up and my blood
pressures up. I definitely enjoyed some of that good New
Orleans food. But then after during the game or as
we got down, especially in the second half, my blood
pressure was up a little bit.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Well, listen, anybody who's been in the French quarter walking
up and down Bourbon Street. There's highs and lows. It
could be a very long day, very long day. You
never know which direction things are going to go out there.
I was, Oh, I was worried at the end there
when they had one shot to go forward and win.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yeah. And the crazy thing is as we're as they're going,
you know, driving trying to get in the score position
score their touchdown. In my mind, I'm thinking, I feel
like they're going to go for two, because if you
look at the Saints, they don't have they didn't have
anything to lose. Hey, let's you're at home. You got
momentum in your favor. Why not try to win it

(02:35):
in regulation and not risk going to overtime. So I
felt like it was the right call by Rizzy to
do what he did, and you know, fortunate for us,
we were able to make one more play defensively and
get out of there with a victory.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
I mean, listen too, I mean he said this to
his post game, like they didn't want to give Jayden
Datels the ball back. You know, I think this is
very similar to when Dan quinn Is to not kick
a field goal in Philadelphia when we were down two
eight minutes to go, and part of his reasoning was
we had to score touchdowns like we were having trouble
stopping them. Rizzy admitted that after the game. I think

(03:12):
his quote was, if I you told me before the
game we were going to hold them to twenty points
and six in the second half, I would have told
you we were going to win, and that we didn't
want to get the ball back to that guy. So
the respect for Jade Daniels earned here obviously is growing
and growing and growing around the league.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
No, no, and without a doubt. And you know, it's
a situation again, they have momentum in their favor, so
getting that getting that lay score the dawn was rocking.
They had come back from they were down seventeen points
at one point at one time in that game, seventeen
nothing to five back callback and put themselves in position
to have a convert that two point conversion and win

(03:51):
the game. I thought it was the right decision for
him to make. And you know, fortunately flew us that
the ig binogay he had tied enough coverage and you
know we're able to get out of there with that victory.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, let's go through what I'd like to call to
start it, because this is a weird game. Statue love
and statue don't And I want to start with those
statue of love because I think there's a lot here
that there's you know the best part about this is
they won. So when they do tell the truth Monday,
there's a lot of truth telling to be told here
of a number of things ye, sacks, penalties, all that
type of stuff that occurred in the game that kept it,

(04:24):
in my opinion, kept it close because you go look
at some of these stats I will read you now,
and you're not going to believe that this was a
one point game that came down to one play time
of possession. They have the ball almost forty one minutes,
they won the turnover margin, didn't turn the ball over,
had the ball for forty minutes and almost lost like

(04:46):
that almost never happens at all.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Not at all, and you and you're scratching your hand
and they probably steal, like, man, how do you dominate
the time of possession? Do a do the things that
you did? Why was that game so close and nearly
a loss? As you said at the at the at
the end. But then you delve into it and you
see all of the self inflicted wounds, the penalties that

(05:14):
there were, killing drives, they were chilling momentum, the missfield goal,
the offensive penalty, of defensive penalties, all those different things
that took place, where when you add those things up,
especially the penalties, you say, okay, this is the reason
why the game wash was this.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Let me give you another one too, And I think
this was one of my favorite ones. Third downs nine
of seventeen. You're going to take that all day. This
was this was now and a lot of this was Jaden,
And I think there's there's ups and downs with Jayden's
play is numbers. Again, if you just look at the
box score at the day, he had, didn't turn the
ball over, rushed the ball the way he did obviously

(05:57):
most of none of it was really very few of
it was. Most of it was scrambles of the major
yardage that he got, passing stats, high percentage, completion percentage,
no turnovers, over two hundred yards passing again, a couple
of touchdown passes, and then you'll see the other stuff later,
like the misses to Terry, the sacks. You know, like
there's a lot here on both sides. But again, if

(06:19):
you just look at his line, you go, here's the
Heisman winner striking oppose the Louisiana again.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
You know, no, without a doubt, I will say this
the one thing, like you mentioned, the running, it was
it wasn't necessarily design runs. It was a lot of
the scrambles, the plays that he made, especially on third
down to convert some some third downs. From the passing
game standpoint, we didn't really have the explosive plays. He

(06:46):
missed Terry. He overthrew Terry on on one play down
the middle, and on the other one that Terry nearly
caught two or three times, Terry actually slowed down for
half a second and that kind of threw the time
and off of that. But didn't have the explosive plays
in the passing game. New Orleans they did. They did
a They played a ton of cover too, and with

(07:08):
that they were able to stop the run playing cover
two as you as we mentioned, a lot of the
run success that they had was Jaden off schedule plays,
scrambles and things like that. So those those run yards
you see, Hey we rush for over with over one
hundred and twenty something yards, But it really wasn't in
the course of the structured Hey we're gonna design run

(07:31):
plays either for Jayden or b Rob or McNichols. It
was more Jaden scrambling. The Saints they did a great
job taking away the deep stuff, taking away the the
shot plays, taking away the crossing routes. Kudos to them.
I didn't think their defense was as good as they played,

(07:51):
and they dominated the point of attack in the run game.
So that's something as you're looking at the film and
you talk about tell the truth Monday when they're in
their meanings. We had some mental errors on blocking assignments
in the run game, guys not sustaining blocks and not
you know, leaving some guys unblocked and also losing their

(08:12):
one on one battle. So it's a lot that we
need to correct. But it's good that we're correcting these
things in a victory. But we got to be better,
especially against the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
Yeah, let me get to one of those stats you
don't love here, which is this was going in one
of those let's not overthink this thing. The Saints give
up the most yards per carry in the NFL heading
into this game. They have a bottom five rush defense.
There's a lot of reasons I think for that. And

(08:42):
Washington's got a top five rush offense, and they've got
dynamic playmakers running the ball, great scheme, all this stuff.
I walked in going, if they can get a lead,
they're just gonna run the ball down. This team's throat
will probably you know, end up winning the game. And
I want to give the Saints a lot of credit
here because the statt love Jayden's numbers look really good,
but a lot of it again was off schedule. Really

(09:04):
just great athletic plays that he.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
Made on his own.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
B Rob and Chris Rodriguez, Jeremy McNichols twenty four carries
seventy one yards b Rob three point one a carry
that's a surprise off of I mean a surprise off
of this game. Here's a rush defense that's struggling, here's
a rush offense that thrives, And really is the identity
of the team offensively? What do you make of what
the Saints were able to do yesterday? Well, as I mentioned,

(09:31):
it was more of us the Saints were. They were
more physical at the point of attack, They defeated blocks.
There were times where we didn't work our double team
to work up to this the second second level getting.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
To the linebacker. There was times where when there were
mental erason, you know, if we're running our counterplays and
some of the other things where not identifying who you're
supposed to block. There were times where we just ran
past unblocked defenders thinking we're going going up to the
second level when there was a guy on the first
level that you should have blocked, and we left him

(10:07):
free and then he's making a tackle either in the
backfield or at the line of scrimmage. Again, it wasn't
the Saints. The Saints won their one on one matchups.
They're one on one battles more times than more often
than we did, and that was the reason. And they
didn't have to and they did it brahm with the
seven man box. It wasn't like they had the safeties.

(10:30):
We played a lot. They played a lot of cover two,
a lot of two deep looks, and their front seven
was able to stop our run game. And that when
you're able to do that and you don't have to
rotate a safety to the box, play eight man fronts,
they called a couple of run blisses and you know,
timely run business and that that that played the part.

(10:51):
But for the majority of that game it was a
it was a seven man box, and their front won
those matchups and that was the reason why we weren't
able to run the ball. We I don't know if
we got caught up in looking at their their rankings
coming into the game and feeling like, okay, yeah, we
just came off a game where we ran for two
hundred and sixty seven yards against the Titans, who was

(11:12):
a really good run defense, and then you know, you
come into this game against the Saints and like they're
not that great. You know, we should be able to
run the ball effectively against them, and did have the
proper mindset going into the game. I don't know if
that was the case, but whatever, for whatever reason, it
has to be better. It has to be a whole
lot better. I guess a much better Philadelphia Eagles defensive front.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
Yeah, I think going in what I saw and you know,
obviously tell me if you think it's just off. What
I saw at the Saints defense is this very fast,
active front. Actually, Chase Young's having a very nice year
for them. He was top five in quarterback pressures. The
other side, Carl Granderson, Cam Jordan, these are good pros.
They're very good pass rushing players up the middle. Though

(11:56):
that they're quick but not necessarily stout. Their linebackers are outstanding.
To Mario Davis is kind of you light. He's had
a terrific, terrific career. Pete Warner's very good linebacker, good
tackler if you can get to the second level, though,
that's where you don't see the willingness of their secondary
to make the type of plays to support the run game.
And that's where I thought over time that Washington would

(12:18):
kind of break their back if they could get just
a few runs to get to the secondary. You're going
to test them whether they want to be physical and
stop people like Brian Robinson, and it just never got
tested because they were losing up front. So I'm not
really sure if this was just a well schemed day
for New Orleans, but I do think there's some self
scouting that needs to go in off of the bye week,

(12:40):
that this was the one team who struggled against the run,
where maybe as physical in the back end as you
would expect a team to be good against the run,
and yet they didn't need them to make those plays
against the run game.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, you actually wasn't a wal scheme day. The scheme
that they run, it wasn't exotic, It wasn't anything you
know where you want a bunch of run blitz a
bunch of run blitzing or stunning or or all kind
of you know, cross dogs and all that. It was
literally they won their one on one matchups. They were

(13:12):
more physical at the point of attack. They defeated blocks.
Sometimes guys just flat out miss their blocks, either by
quick movement and stuff like that. I mean it was
there were mental errors in the blocking game, not not
uh getting their right targets in the run game, and
again also just having some leaving some unblocked defenders where
you should have. Hey, you gotta you gotta take away

(13:34):
the next the first color that shows up, and you know,
two guys. Sometimes there were two guys blocking the blocking
the same guy. There was also penetration that took place
that are that knocked off some of the pullers in
our counter games and our and our power type run plays.
So it was a combination of a lot of different things.
And it wasn't even about scheme. It was just these guys.

(13:56):
The New Orleans Saints defensive front, especially the defensive line,
they won at the point of attack more often than not.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
The other number that obviously is troubling is eight sacks.
That's a season high. We were talking about this early
in the game. Jade Daniels admitted this. Dan Quinn said
it too. This isn't all on the offensive line. Daniels
was a little more indecisive than he's been. He took
some of those sacks. They were either however you want
to call him coverage sacks, or he didn't let it

(14:25):
rip a few times and he got caught with it.
And that's why I think the number ended up with
it once. And I remember early in the game when
we were doing it, I was talking to you, going,
he's seen things that he's not expecting here. So I
don't know, in thinking about it again and reviewing it again,
what was New Orleans doing to make him indecisive with
the ball early in the game.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
Again, they were playing a lot of cover too, so
again it wasn't some exotic schemes on the back end.
He held the ball at least two or three cages.
Two or three of those sacks were Jay just hold
on to the foot ball too long where he had
opportunity to take a check down to get rid of
the football. But there also were times where our offensive

(15:10):
lineman got beat too. They got beat and there was
immediate pressure in his face, and you know somebody like
the the one sack in the goal line on the
third and one where it was a designed bootleg, he
was gonna boot out and Cam Jordan just makes a
phenomenal play. So that's the sack right there that goes down.
There was a couple other times where there was just

(15:31):
immediate pressure. So I would say maybe two three of
those two or three of those sacks row Jaden. There
was also some times where he scrambled and he may
have got lost the yard trying to trying to scrolls
to throw the football away, and those go down in
the sack. So it was it was just they never
really got into a real flow offensively, and that true

(15:53):
really helped somebody. Put the penalties put us in thirty
longer situations obvious pass I see passing downs, and the
Saints were able to depend their ears back. You mentioned Chase.
I thought Chase Chase. Chase had a couple of really
nice rushes against Brandon Coleman, and and he was able
to get to get to uh, get to Jayden a

(16:14):
couple of times. And you know a lot of those guys, man,
they just they played really good football on the on
the defensive front for the for the New Orleans station.
And that's that's really the bottom line. It wasn't it
wasn't all of a sudden these exotic schemes where they're
showing you one look and then at the snap they're
they're rotating to these other different coverages, and that forced

(16:36):
you to hold on to the ball a little bit longer.
It was not that at all.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yeah. The other thing that, like it's worth pointing out
here is I don't know how much we're talking about
this had they hit on some of the opportunities that
they had. Yeah, there were three deep chances to Terry McLaurin.
One that was down the middle that you referenced that
was just overthrown by hair. He would have had to
hit it on the stride. There was a second one

(17:02):
down the field that probably maybe deserve the call, just
didn't get it. It was subjective whatever that one was,
that was the underthrown one that was close coverage, whatever
the call was made. The one that feels like the
myth to me was the one you referenced about him
down the sideline where was a total blown coverage. He
was wide open. It did slow down a hair on

(17:25):
that route. However, that's the one I wish Jayden just
took a touch off of it because he was so
wide open that that bare minimum even if he has
to slow down to make the catch. It's a thirty
forty fifty yard play, but there wasn't anybody within ten
yards of him. Even if he took a little bit
off of it to make sure the catch was made,
it still might have been a touchdown.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yeah No, and so what in that plan? They went
to a cover too, and the corner didn't disrupt Terry's
rod at all, so Terry got a free release. Jada's
trying to hold the safeties, so he's looking down the
middle of the field to hold that cover to saye
and the cover to safety he had, he was terrible
in his landmark, So I'm sure in practice Jade is

(18:06):
is hitting Terry in stride, so it said, hey, I'm
gonna hold the safety, then come throw it, and he
from a timing standpoint, Terry probably is running full speed
the whole time, and as Terry came out, he was
probably thinking. In practice, it was probably a honey hole
shot where you're hitting it between the corner and the safety,

(18:26):
so it's more of a honey hole shot where because
the safety was so bad, he didn't get He never
even got in the position to where he was even
going to be over top of Terry. Jaden sees that,
and he's throwing in more like a go ball, a
deep goal ball. So it just was a little Terry initially.
I'm sure he's feeling like in practice this was always

(18:48):
a honey hole shot between the safety between the corner.
Terry's like, oh, I mean, Jaden sees, hey, this safety
is not getting over there at all. This is just
a true go ball. So that was probably why Terry
slowed down just say here when he you know, when
he beat the corner, he still show down just at here.
And that's that's what led to that being any complation.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
We deal with this every week. I can't decide if
your dog likes this show or dislikes this show. You
have to tell me.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
Do you like the show or not? Come at baby girl.
I mean, let me put Reese rees come back to debut.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
I feel like I feel like every time we bring
up anything with r Terry fan that if you say
anything it's critical about Terry, the dog gets very angry
and tries to a buddle.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
She's a Terry fan too. Yeah, Reese is making it.
She she loves being around me, Like wherever I go,
she's gonna always be right at me, right at my feet.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
So anyway, like I want to get back to the
point about the missed opportunities here, Like, either way we'd
be talking about the penalties. Either way, we'd be talking
about the sacks. Either way, we'd be talking about some
of these missed opportunities. But just think about this for
a second. They missed the field will all be in
a long one fifty four yards attempt, and we can
talk about that decision if you want, in a little bit.
They missed three. Any of the three could have been

(20:06):
touchdowns to Terry. They hit any of them right. There
was the inside the five goal line call where they
called a design where Jaden Kepp went to the outside
Saints where it fooled ended up kicking a field goal there.
So let's see by my math, that's if they hit
one of these deep shots to Terry, and I feel
like the one miss is the one that we just
went through. We're talking about a thirty five to forty

(20:28):
point game. Again, even with all the miscues, that's where
they are that they could be off. They could not
have what I think is their best attribute, their run
game going the way they're accustomed to it going. And
it was self inflicted wounds and mistakes that kept them
away from scoring thirty to forty points again, and the
game's never close.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
No, no, you're you're absolutely right. But just from a
standpoint of being sharp, especially you want to be sharp
right now. December football, January football, coming off sometimes with
the buye, we needed it from a physical standpoint, getting
guys healthy. We were guys were, as Dad Quinn mentioned,

(21:11):
guys were running on fume. So you needed that that
bye week from a recharging your your physical recharging physically,
recharging mentally and emotionally, but off sometimes too, you can
all it can also throw off your rhythm. That game
against Tennessee Man, we were outstanding offensively, just especially in
a run game. You have that that two weeks off

(21:32):
and coming to the game and just it just didn't
look the same from a run game standpoint. And yet
we're still put ourselves in present potential position too, as
you mentioned, hit a couple more plays and it's thirty
point thirty five point game, and we're feeling really good
about ourselves. But it's a you know, it's it's it's
great to be able to have this discussion and say,

(21:56):
and it's after a victory. We got to have more focus,
got to be better against the Philadelphia Eagles. And I'll
say this, in some way, it's actually better that we
had that type of performance, and from a run game standpoint,
also from a penalty standpoint, because now in practice, guys
going to be ultra focused, uber focused in like, hey,

(22:17):
we gotta be better. We got to make sure we're
blocking the right guys, we're sustaining blocks, we're doing all
the right things. So it's actually a good thing that
we got the victory but didn't play as well as
we need to play, so practice will be outstanding.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
In my opinion, I think it's worth pointing out too.
Tyler be honest, woke up with an illness and was
all a sudden out. So you're switching out a guy
who might be a pro bowler this year at the
center position.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
She'll be a pro bowler. Uh huh.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
Last minute. Yeah, that's a that's a big deal. You
know that, like last minute, ninety minutes before the game,
you're starting center who might be a pro bowler this
year is suddenly just out. That's a big deal.

Speaker 2 (22:59):
Yesterday, yeah, yeah, absolutely, and early in that ball game,
and you know when you saw a couple of procedure
penalties or snaps where they was just a little bit off.
There was a snap that was off that threw off
the time and on the on the RP a zone
read that was just that you saw that the the
timing of the offense wasn't as fluid as we had

(23:20):
grown accustomed to. And and to Deeter's credit to be
able to be called on and I don't know how
many plays he took actually in practice with the what
the starting offensive line, because you know, typically he's probably
working more the scout team stuff. He may get two
snaps of a series in those periods with the first

(23:40):
team offense. So he was for him to be able
to go in there and do what he needed to do,
you know, hats off to him, But there was just
the offense was a hair off and timing. The Saints
also they took advantage of the crowd noise playing in
that in that down the silent counts, they jumped. They

(24:00):
jumped a snap a couple of times because they felt like, Okay,
they're not going to be a bunch of hard counts.
I don't even think we I don't think we did
any hard counts. And so they were they were jumping.
They were jumping a snap count getting off, and that
allowed penetration to happen, you know, immediately. There were some
times where you know, the ball was snapped or the
ball was snapped in the same defensive lineman he was

(24:22):
already you know, across the line of scrimmage and and
right it to our tiery office a line. So they
took advantage of that as well.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
I mean speaking of the crowd noise too. I mean,
like we're gonna get a new stadium wherever it's going
to be at some point in time, go listen to
the acoustics in that place. It's you just want to
duplicate that brown that's amazing, Like you when you're there one.
I don't know how it's built, but it's big, but
it feels like everybody's on top of the field. It's loud.

(24:52):
Their fans are into it. I thought we can talk
about this later. There were Commanders fans everywhere in the
French quarter down there. That was really cool to see
over the weekend how many people were down there wearing bergundiagold.
It was awesome. But like that place acoustically, if you
can replicate that because that environment feel like you see
why the Saints home record is what it is through

(25:13):
the years. It is hard to win in that place.
It is loud. You feel like these people are on
top of you. It's a true home field advantage down there.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
Hey, listen, you were loving that acoustic because you you
mentioned that to me probably about ten times.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
You will probably love to go to a concert and
a doll would.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
I'd love to go to a concert of the Dome,
but I'd be like, this is what you want though.
People show up for this. You feel like you're hopew
You own your home field, and the acoustics matter. It's
crazy in there, how loud it is, the atmosphere they
put together. It's really cool, really really cool environment. Right,
here's another thing.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
I thought it so Brah, you want to go to
ownership and be like, hey, duplicate this, doll, this is
what we want.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
I got a lot of ideas once we get through Congress,
the legislation and all of that stuff, and we could
start talking about where the stadium's going to go and
actually build the thing wherever it's I don't even care
where it goes, wherever it ends up. I got a
lot of ideas. Shoot me a text. I'd love to
meet with you. I got the acoustics, the materials. I

(26:17):
want this to feel very Washington like. It's got to
feel like you're a home. I got a lot of
ideas that I would love to share with them if
they're interested.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
All right, I don't know you had an architectural background.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
I do it all, London. Haven't you figured this out
yet to do it all? Or at least I've told
myself I do it all. Here's another one I thought
that stood out from the game that I thought was
good because I think a big, big question coming in
the Noah Brown injury is a big deal for this offense.
He had emerged, as I know, throughout the summer and
into the season, they were like, it's number two by committee.
There is no real number two receiver. But it's hard

(26:56):
to deny that over the course of the season he'd
become that top seat of Terry mclauurin that he'd become
the secondary wide receiver target for them. Going into the game,
there was something like everyone outside of Terry that was
a wide receiver was I think collectively they had like
sixty five catches thirty five of those were Noah Brown,
so there was gonna have to find a way to

(27:18):
get production from the other group. Here's the target number.
Alamide's the key is four, Dammy Brown four, Jameison Crowder.
I thought a couple of really big catches. Three the
vast majority of them. Obviously, Jaden was twenty five to
thirty one, very accurate. Yesterday. Three of the misses were
the three long attempts to Terry McLaurin. So almost everything

(27:38):
in the intermediate to short zone was completed to a
variety of different receivers. So I think that was a
very good sign of that they're going to figure out
a way to incorporate the other receivers now that Brown
is out and lightly out for a long period of time.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
Yeah, And you know, one of the things that they did,
and I know they talked about this about moving Terry around.
So you look at Terry's targets, ten targets in that
ball game, but he was he wasn't primarily lining up
at on the left side. They moved him around, they
put him in motion, They did a lot lot of
different things. So really a lot of the targets that

(28:17):
that Brown was getting there was more opportunities and more
targets for Terry. This is it was ten targets. I
don't know if that was a season high in terms
of targets for terriers Terry, but I know it was
a lot more than he typically gets in the ball game. So,
you know, credit to credit the Cliff Kingsbury in the
offensive staff saying, hey, identified all right, we no longer

(28:39):
have no Brown. Terry's our guy that we definitely can
can count on. But let's move him around. Let's put
him in favorable matchups. And as you as you just
alluded to, there were opportunities that you know, he hits
on one of those and Terry's well over one hundred yards,
He's probably close to one hundred and fifty has there
he had to touchdowns. We're talking about a three or

(29:01):
four touchdown game. Yeah, they just connect. Make a couple
of those connections.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
The other thing too, I want to go make something
you'd said earlier that I noticed as well, like there
were some opportunities where you got to hit the first
guy in the black jersey first, and they let some
of that stuff go. Noah Brown, you know, obviously was
had become a primary target for them a secondary primary target.
He also was very good at drawing penalties down the field.
That was another attribute that he had. But he also

(29:29):
was a very willing participant blocking down the field. This
is not to suggest that this group does it, but
that is also another thing that's going to have to
be replicated here. The physicality when the ball's just not
coming your way is going to have to happen. And
I think there's going to be a lot here to
see in that realm for the receivers as well, that
when they are part of the lack of success running
the ball the traditional run plays. Was some of that yesterday?

Speaker 2 (29:51):
Now? It was, it was, and it was and it
wasn't just the wire receiver. It was a collection to everybody, Braham.
I mean it was office and I'm not not blocking,
you know, the right people are not sustaining blocks. It
was tight ends having issues with blocks. And it was
receivers also, you know, with the blocking downfield or even
blocking at the point of attack at the perimeter, some

(30:13):
of the outside some of the outside type runs. So
it was again a collection of everybody in order to
have success running the football. Most people just focus on
the offensive line. Hey, the offensive line not doing the
job officer line, But it's so many more. Same thing
like with past blocking. If a guy gets if the
quarterbacks getting sacked, all the offensive line didn't do the

(30:36):
job well. Sometimes it might be a running back not
picking up the blitz. It might be a tight end,
you know, not losing the battle. It may be somebody
with an offensive line. It may be, you know, a
quarterback holding on to the ball. It's a lot of
different things that going to it. But collectively as a group,
they definitely missed Norah Brown because of his run prowess,

(30:58):
but you know it was also tight ends online and
wide receivers. That was a part of the problem with
the run game.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
So coming into the game, I was anticipating that, and
this is from the coaches, that Terry was going to
move around more, that they were going to target him more.
That played out. The other thing that we anticipated is
when you're trying to figure out, okay, where do you
get this production from outside of Terry, that Diami Brown
was going to get more opportunities. He did. They handled

(31:27):
the ball off to him a couple of times, try
to use his speed on the end of rounds. They
targeted him four times, which is more than usual. But
someone's gonna have to step up. So let me ask
you about him, because we've kind of waited for a
role to emerge for him for a number of years
now actually, and here it is in front of him.
It started yesterday with the Saints. He's got a few

(31:47):
more games here to really emerge as a primary secondary
target to Terry McLaurin on this team.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
Yeah, it's a great opportunity for Diami, you know, being
counted on. You mentioned he had to Ford target. There
will be more opportunities for him down the stretch if
if he plays well. He's a free agent after this
this year, and you don't want to focus on strictly
that piece, but if he's able to have an uptick
in production, he can he can really put himself in

(32:15):
a great position to either re sign here or you know,
hit the market and and put himself in in a
position to make some money. But he's gotta, he's gotta,
he's got to continue to evolve and and add more
to his plate and and and let him there were
times where I know he was uh, there were probably
some other opportunities where he was targeted or he would

(32:35):
have been a primary but for some reason, the Saints
did a good job of taking those things away, and
there were there was going to be more targets towards them,
but the Saints, the Saints defensive backs, they did a
good job with their coverage and and then also some
of the pass rush then to allow those places to develop.
But I'm sure we'll see more of a role for

(32:58):
for more shots on the field with him, more intermediate stuff,
more opportunities to get him the ball because of his
speed and he's he has a really good feel for
you know, one of those tunnel screens and wide receiver
screens and all those types of things. So I can
definitely see him playing a bigger role. And you mentioned

(33:19):
Jamison Crowder. Yeah, I thought Jamison is really good and
he didn't play a ton of snaps, but I also
can see them playing him a lot more because Jamison
has has been a guy who's who's had success as
a receiver in this league, and he looks he knows
how to get open the zones, he knows how to

(33:40):
win routes, especially in that intermediate level, or winning with
his quickness, So I can see him playing a bigger
role too.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
Moving forward, I want to do one more on the offense.
We'll get to the defense here, and that's Jaden Daniels.
Like obviously he took too many sacks. He's the first
one to admit this. The penalties. I think part of
it was there was some indecision on his part, so
some of that was there. There were a couple prominent misses.
I'm sure he wishes he had back because any one
of those three to McLaurin, I don't think this game's close.

(34:09):
Any of them hit and they score touchdown there, I'm
not sure the game hadn't been closed. So there are
these near misses. Right that said, he on that fourth
and one put his body on the line and leaped
over to people to keep a drive going. He had
one in the first half that was got out of
a sack of Carl Granderson on a third down play,
got out of a dead to right sack, beat Werner

(34:32):
to the corner and got to the line to gain
to extend a drive. On a long third down, he
had a crazy twenty four yard rush that he was
able to scramble that he was able to continue a drive.
He had a long third down. We went through the
third down stats where he hit a strike to z
A Kias, he had the one to Crowder that was
low that Crowder made a terrific catch on. He had

(34:53):
the touchdown throw to Terry that we've had a year
of highlights. This one was ridiculous where he extended play,
dropped the ball, picked it up, throws it into traffic
dime to McLaurin in between his own teammate and two
Saints defenders. We can complain all we want if that's
his bad game, the way do you see his good games?

(35:17):
Because honestly, he had five or six And this goes
back to what the head coach of the Saints said,
Darren Rizzy. He's like, there's just some things about this
guy you can't defend, which is why he said, if
we're gonna hold him to twenty, we're happy with that.
They're like, that's a good outcome. He had again a

(35:37):
handful of magic moments that separates him from so many
other players.

Speaker 2 (35:43):
Oh yeah, no, absolutely, and making noble state he didn't
have a bad game. He held he took a couple
of saxy you know, could have avoided just by getting
rid of football. But in term without Jay Daniels, we
don't win this ball game. No, I'm sorry. Without If
Jaden doesn't make the plays that he made, especially the

(36:04):
off schedule stuff, we don't win that ball game. And
that's how that's how good the whole conversation about is
bo Nick's gonna be in contention with him Rookie of
the Year. That that conversation is over. This is this
is Jayden's award to you know, he's done, he's done
enough to win that award. But the plays that he made,

(36:26):
especially off schedule with his legs converting you know, whether
it was running getting the first downs on a couple
of occasions, or the play that you describe where he's
just he's back there looting traffic, looting Saints defenders, drops
the ball, picks it up and hiss Terry. I mean

(36:46):
the one the one throw that he made in the
goldout Aria riz Ont where they go play action and
he hits Terry on a crosser. I mean, he threw
a missile in there to Terry. Just absolutely another beautiful throw.
You know, Jaden was outstanding and he he his performance
definitely key us to that victory.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
Yeah, I mean, like I want to, I don't want
to dismiss brock powers. He's having maybe the best rookie
season any tight end has ever had. He's gonna have
over a thousand yards receiving. Obviously, he's on a bad team,
so he's not getting as much publicity because they're not
in the playoff hunt. He's having a great year. But
this comparison to him and bo Nicks, to me, I'm
like you, that's off the table now. Like he is

(37:28):
clearly the rookie of the year. It's and it's I
don't even think it's close. Like they sent out some
statistics that he's one of three rookie quarterbacks ever to
hit a certain amount of passing yards and a certain
amount of rushing yards every single week. He's got unprecedented numbers.
He's number three or four in completion percentage. I cited
this before. If he ends up leading the league in

(37:49):
completion percentage, he'll be the first rookie quarterback to do
that since the nineteen thirties. Like, he's doing historic, unprecedented things.
And then his highlights are off the charts, and yesterday
was the epitome of it. Everyone's going to see the
end of this game or how this team nearly lost.
They're not going to see these crazy plays that he makes.

(38:09):
And even we were talking earlier about him, like, yes,
he took a lot of sacks, there was some indecision
on his part. He never puts the ball in harm's way,
never like even in those moments, he never does. I
e again, no turnovers yesterday.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
And no turner was in a situation where in a
game that he took eight sacks and was under pressure
on other occasions. But as you mentioned, and I just
when you mentioned his completion percent I went and looked
at where he's at right now. He's fourth in the league,
completing seventy point five percent of his passes to us,

(38:45):
completing almost seventy four percent of his past he's number one.
So you know, Jaya has a few more games like
he had yesterday, from a completion standpoint, he'll put himself
in in a you know, great position to potentially over
ten to him. But he has still has a little
bit of work to do in order to lead the
league and complete your percentages.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
Let's get to the defense. Obviously very different halves again.
First half, Jay Cayner makes his first start. They had
that guy confused. He slipped and fell a few times
when he had the pressure. They held him to thirty
eight yards in the first half, and I think the
number that really stands out before Alvin Kamara got hurt.
He made a great couple of catches, the one big
play they had in the first half with him in

(39:28):
the middle of the field, and of course he had
the great catch touchdown on the first score for New
Orleans on the throwback pass from Cedric Wilson the second half,
but carrying the ball five carries twelve yards, Yeah, you
can do any better than that against that guy.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
No, that was I thought the defense, as you mentioned,
especially in the first half. Man, they really stammed in
the States. The Saints offense. They the defensive front put
a lot of pressure on on a hangar they played.
They played hangter so well he ended up getting bent.
Like all right, man, we're going back to We're going
to go to the rookie and see if he can

(40:04):
he can spark this offense and give us some type
of life. But I thought the something the penalties really
hurt the defense in the second half. There were times
where I felt like getting sacked, getting pressure on the
quarterback off the field and it was a couple questionable
rough in the pastor penalties that you're just like, man,

(40:25):
was that really a rough in the passive penalty? That's uh.
I'm sure the league, I'm sure Dan Quinn and the team,
they'll send those plays in and look for an explanation
and they might get a response back from the league
saying you were correct, this wasn't necessarily a pass a
rough in the passer, and so there was a There

(40:47):
was definitely some things that hurt us defensively in the
second half from a penalty standpoint, but I thought definitely
in the first half, man, they were they were on it.

Speaker 1 (40:57):
So this needs to be mentioned to This has been
going on for weeks, but they give them a lot
of points in the second half, you know, pretty regularly.
It's been happening. It happened again yesterday nineteen points. Saints
made the change. Remember Washington started the second half with
a near seven minute drive to make it seventeen to nothing.
So in the last twenty three minutes of the game,

(41:17):
the Saints put up nineteen points on them, and some
of it, I agree, was aided by what I think
was some very questionable officiating. But that's not the whole
story here. Things changed when Spencer Rattler came in. It's
been a theme for this team that in the second half,
like I looked up like before the game, in point
differential in the first half, Washington was plus seventy seven
coming in, so now it's plus ninety one after being

(41:39):
up fourteen to nothing at a half. In the second half,
preat differential for them overall though, was plus eighty now
plus eighty one because they won by what point? So
plus seventy seven first half overall plus eighty one tells
you what's happening in the second halves of these games.
They talk a lot about finishing there is when we

(42:00):
do tell the truth Monday. There's a lot of work
to be done here because this one should have never
gotten away from them and almost did.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
No, no, not at all. And and again I know
Joe wy Jr. He talked about during the during the
bye week, they really looked at what they were doing
in the second half of games, trying to figure out
what's the reasoning behind the you know, the allowing so
many points in the second half and all and particularly

(42:29):
the fourth quarter. Is it the calls that they're making,
Is it the technique that they're teaching as it, you know,
the players and all those types of things. And and
for for some reason or another, a lot of a
lot of the same success in the second half of
that game were penalties. There was we had two rough
in the passers. There was a third down play where

(42:51):
we're off the field and they get Benjamin Saint Juice
with the legal hands to the face and that actually
was a correct call. The the second rough in the
pasture against a Fowler was after a nineteen yard completion.
Then you tack on another fifteen yards. I mean, that's
a thirty four yards of a you know, field position
right there. And those two plays and you know, the

(43:12):
Saints end up going down And and especially Ratler's credit,
there was times they he completed a big pass down
the middle to to mvs. Marquez Valdis Scantling where Jeremy
Chen it's against the cover too. Jeremy Chen he's in
a position and he's thinking he's going to intercept it,
and Scantling makes a play in front of him. So

(43:33):
that right there, that thirty nine yard play completion shouldn't
shouldn't happen. That's hey, Jeremy Chen either I can't either
you catch it or nobody catches it. And you know
so for Joe Wi Jr. He's like, okay, we can't
allow that explosive play to happen.

Speaker 1 (43:49):
I'll tell you what that Jeremy Chin play. And Kwon
Martin was there too on the big play down the
fielder MBS one rattler got hit when he threw it,
so I give him a lot of credit there. Oh yeah,
back need that throw scantly made of Valles. Scantly made
a terrific catch, So I want to give them credit
where credit is due. This is one of those you
can't win situations. He's going for the ball to try
to get it. He doesn't make the interception. Jeremy Chin
could also lay out Valdas scanting on that play, and

(44:12):
if he does, you very likely get a defenseless receiver call.
It's tough to play it seriously and then think about
the official. I don't think you can't win sometimes.

Speaker 2 (44:25):
Now you're telling me I actually was. I played played
in the league old enough to where it became so
difficult for a defender to play defense, especially for safeties.
Those are the guys that typically are a position to
to have the big hits on on receivers come across
the middle linebackers. There are occasions where we where we

(44:48):
potentially hit her across the receiver, but it's really the safeties.
The corner, uh you know from time to time, but
there's a lot of times the safeties are the ones
in position to where they got a make a decision,
and especially a lot of it's a split second decision.
You can have all the right attentions, Hey, I'm gonna
hit the guy in this chest area, God sees you,

(45:09):
he loves his head, and now the target changes and
you're hitting the guy in the helmet, getting a penalty,
getting fined. All those types of thing. It's extremely difficult
to play defense. It's even more difficult even to hit
the quarterback. You can't fall with your full body weight
on the guys, you can't hit him low, can't hit
him and head of neck area. So it's it's definitely

(45:32):
from a defensive standpoint, were at a disadvantaging and you
got to worry about all these types of things when
you're tackling tackling ball carriers on the quarterbacks.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
So one more thing on the defense. So, as you
probably know, I don't pre plan anything I'm going to
say on the air, like during the game, Like I
don't like I don't wait for anything, with the exception
of if someone's gonna break a record or there's some
kind of big moment, like I mark it down so
that I say it on the broadcast so it can
be marked for it, and then you know, hopefully this

(46:01):
team makes the playoffs. If they do, all have something
kind of pre planned thought about if they do qualify
for the playoffs or you know, win the division or
something like that, I'll have something pre planned. Very very
rarely do I think there's a moment where I want
to pull something out. And I had who Dad in
the holster waiting for Marshawn Lattimore to do something in
the game, and the Saints didn't throw the ball at him,

(46:26):
whether he broke a pass up hopefully in interception, I
had who dat ready ready for that call, and they
never threw the ball at him. So you want the
utmost respect, the team that traded him away didn't even
test him on any target, not at all.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
And if fans who weren't watching it closer, they were like, man,
did marshaan play? He played? He played the whole game.
But to like you said, nobody, they didn't. They didn't
test him at all. I watched him closely. He was
he was in right position a lot of players. I'm
sure he was hoping that they tested him, because what
better opportunity. Hey, you're making debut, your debut to a

(47:08):
new football team, gets your old former team, and it's
at the place that you spent the majority of your career,
probably to being traded, and you don't even get you
don't get one opportunity. So I know he's like, man,
I wish, I wish I could have got at least opportunity,
because you those are moments you dream. I was like, Okay,

(47:28):
they're gonna test me. Yeah, I'm gonna get a interception,
we get it, picked six and do something. And they
didn't even test him at all.

Speaker 1 (47:35):
You know, and all the people who you know, kind
of on the outside were going, Okay, he comes in,
Sandra's still goes back to the slot. That's not how
it played out yesterday. I'm not surprised by that. And
Sandra's still again had that interception. Was outstanding. His emergence
as a clear you know, number two, number one reliable

(47:55):
corner inside outside is a major development for this team
this year.

Speaker 2 (48:00):
It is his his poison is understanding. He was he
explained how he made that interception. He was going to
get Alva Kamara's like, hey, running backs, they're typically gonna run,
you know, clear our route or like a hitch something quick,
and he's just understanding baiting hang to throwing that football.
I'll say this. You mentioned when when we got a

(48:22):
lot of more you know, people were wondering, hey, was
was Sama still gonna go back to the slide. I
think the player ig Monoghany as a slot defender has
also uh creating a situation where we got a guy
we got Marshaw and we know he can play outside.
Sarah Still is doing a really good job playing outside,
and ig Monoghany is really, you know, a guy who

(48:46):
who's done a really good job in the in the
nickel spot. And and that left Benjamin Saint Jus die
Man out in this situation because you know, those other
those other guys, especially Samarah Still in Igmanoghany, they excelled
in the roads they're playing now.

Speaker 1 (49:01):
Yeah, all right, one more thing from the game. Elephant
in the room. The referees admit they made a mistake.
At the end of the game. I was screaming at
that clock stick. You you were not as stopped. Obviously,
if you see the replay, you'll see the side judge
made a mistake by running in and this is not
college football. You don't stop the clock on a first down.

(49:23):
They didn't have a time out. He was clearly in bounds.
I don't know what they were thinking, and then obviously
the clock operator on that signal stopped the clock. It
was just a mistake. Through the pool reporting, they've admitted
that mistake. Dan Quinn doesn't want to get fine because
he's not gonna say anything about it. A team can't
say anything about it. I gotta tell you, I think

(49:43):
the NFL's very lucky that Washington won, otherwise they get
this wrong. And I couldn't tell you on the top
of my head. Would they have had enough time to
run one more play anyway and then it wouldn't have
mattered if there was one second on the clock, or
should it have hit zero and it should have never happened.
I don't know, but I do know that if the
Saints had won that game, it would have affected the

(50:05):
entire NFC playoff race, and it would have been a massive,
massive mistake had they had it gone that way. And
I think they're lucky that Washington ended up winning and
it didn't affect it in that way because there's just
no excuse for what happened at the end of the
game with the clock.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
Yeah, no, you were, you were spot on, you were
all over it.

Speaker 1 (50:27):
All right, it's time to give out the belt. Time
to do it Big Fletcher's Championship heavyweight belt because we
got to win. The current champion, right is Terry McLaurin.
Is that right, Jason Terry McLaurin, who is the contender
this year for the belt?

Speaker 2 (50:41):
All right, man, So it was you know, it was
a situation where a lot of a lot of a
lot of black guys play some good football. This good
things and uh, the thing is, though, I had to
look at what what Jada did in that ball game,
and you know, yeah, you would love to look at
somebody on the defensive side. And there were some guys

(51:03):
on the defense side that did some good things. Savag Steel,
he had that deception, a couple of sacksbots some guys.
But Terry's stats seven receptions, seventy three yards, two touchdowns.
He as a rating champion. He he did some good
things to put himself in a position to keep his belt.

(51:23):
And then I was like, Okay, who else is a
real legitimate contender. I said, man, it gotta be. It
has to be. Jaden pleaded eighty percent of his passes
two hundred twenty six yards, but he threw the two touchdowns.
But then you look at the rushing yards sixty six
yards rushing, and he just made so many plays in

(51:44):
that game to extend drives, to do it, the play
that he made to throw the first touchdown in Terry,
jumping over over a pile on fourth and one to
convert the first down, all the things he did in
that ball game. And I think you can tell what
I'm leading. I'm leading with this. It's a situation where

(52:06):
I have to announce and now heavyweight champion of the
Big Fletcher Commander's Championship Belt, Jane and Daniels.

Speaker 1 (52:19):
Jane Daniels winner. I'm gonna give a secondary belt out
to you because I didn't know this in real time,
but you made the broadcast on Fox yesterday because of
the Bobby Wagner stuff from a couple of weeks ago
where he got his thirteenth consecutive one hundred tackle season.
You're the only one with more fourteenth consecutive. You're getting

(52:41):
some run. You got the run. Yesterday they showed our
booth on Fox talking about your record.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
Yeah. I was getting we're calling the game. And next thing,
you know, I'm getting text messages of me and the booth,
and I was like, what's going on, and then you know,
obviously found out what happened, and uh, you know, I
I appreciate that. I told Bobby, you know, I appreciate
him keeping me relevant and it's good to get a
little you know, get this face on television.

Speaker 1 (53:07):
Man, got that run, you got that run. It's nice.
I know, it's funny, like whatever, it's so funny, like
we're there, we're calling the game, but if anyone else
says anything about it, that seems to be more important
than us just being there calling the game. People are like,
I know, they're profiling London, they're showing your boots that.
I'm like, I know, we're here every week.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
Right, Yeah, that's fine, man, I'm glad. I'm glad you
were CJ. You made the broadcast as well. CJ's forehand
made it.

Speaker 1 (53:37):
Sounds very cool. I thought that was really nice of
them to do that, Ol Budy, Kenny Albert, Jonathan Wilmachers,
great linebackers through the years, profiling you. I thought that
was really cool. On the Fox broadcast all right, before
we go rematch Philadelphia, because they won against Pittsburgh, they've
won ten in a row. Now they'd have to lose
out for Washington to get the have a shot at
the division, so that seems unlikely. They have two home

(53:58):
games then of the season, Dallas and New York. Obviously,
New York's already eliminated and Dallas probably will be by
the time we get around the next week because of
everyone's record. So the idea that they're going to lose
three in a row is probably a little far fetched.
But there's a big opportunity for Washington. So think back
to the first matchup first go around. What are you

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thinking about that Washington needs to do a little differently
when they face Philadelphia this weekend.

Speaker 2 (54:23):
Yeah, they're gonna have to have a better plan to
deal with Jalen Carter. Jalen Carter was He was extremely
disruptive in that ball game. He really, you know, from
a run game standpoint, he just single headedly just was
destroying everything we were trying to do. So having a
better plan to block him, I thought. Defensively, we did

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a lot of good things, especially containing Ta Kwan early
in that ball game, and then at for three and
a half quarters, defense did a lot of really good things,
and late in the game he was able to break
off a couple of long runs. So understanding that, hey,
it's going to be a sixty minute five, got to
have a better plan to block Jalen Carter. And also,
you know, the Philadelphia's defensive front again I mentioned, you

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know how the New Orleans Saints defensive front really really
did some really good things against our offense. So the
Saint's defensive line is even better. So we're gonna have
to have a better game plan against against them defensively,
How we're gonna stop Sakwan, That's that's gonna be, you know,
the publican tomy wanet. I love the fact that we

(55:27):
have We're gonna have Marshall Lattimore for this game, so
you know, is he gonna is he gonna follow a J. Brown?
That's that's the question, or will we be able to
just continue to be shore up the run the past
defense not have to play so much to shell commit
a little bit more to stopping and run. So I'm

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interested see what what Marshall Latimar's impact on this ball
game will be.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
There's a few things too, just to note, like historically,
if Washington was one more game this season for dan
quinnit will be his tenth in his rookie at first
season is Washington's head coach, that would be the most
ever by any head coach in their first season coaching
this team. He tied George Allen yesterday, who did that
in actually fourteen games in the early nineteen seventies when
that was fourteen game schedule. But he got number nine,

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so that ties him most ever for rookie head coach.
That'd be very cool at least one of the next
three for dan Quinn to get that. Terry McLaurin got
touchdown catches ten and eleven, the record twelve, you know
for receiver all time, so he's got a chance to
break that record. He almost had five yesterday, but he's
got a chance to break that record. And Jayden Daniels,
I think he has some kind of premiere performance where

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Washington beats Philadelphia, We're going to completely end nationally the
conversation about who Rookie of the Year is.

Speaker 2 (56:41):
I think, yeah, yeah, absolutely, it's a yeah, that's that
that conversation is. And in my opinion, I mean, yeah,
you still have three games. You want him to continue
to play well down to stretch. But just from a
look at it from a DQ standpoint, and just think
about how many people, all the the noise made when
he was hired and like, hey, we should have hired

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this guy. Wanted to get somebody with the offensive background,
his ability to just turn this thing around so quickly,
him Adam Peters. But you know the culture and the
way he's he has these guys believing in each other,
competing at a high level weekend and week out. The
brotherhood that they talk about it, you can you can
feel it. You can feel it. You and I we're

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we're around it. We know how how connected they are
as a football team, how competitive they are. And you know,
Dan Quinn, he needs to get some consideration for colch
of the Year, especially when you look at all the
turnover for this roster. The team wasn't expected to be
in this position at they're in. He definitely needs to
get some consideration for Coach of the Year.

Speaker 1 (57:47):
Adam Peters too, Executive of the Year. I mean, think
about the turnover and what this roster looks like, and
they're this close to making the playoffs and qualifying and
being competitive in a division. You know, I think that
that's worth discussing as well. There's a lot of accolades
that are deserve, but first things first. Let's get to
Philadelphia this week, another heavyweight battle for the stage. I'm
really excited about it, and we'll review that next week

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