September 14, 2024 • 20 mins
How the Commanders can get a home win against the Giants. Candi Waller from Bowie TV Sports and Alex Flum from DC News Now debate improvements for both sides of the ball and what MUST happen for Washington to get the first win of the season.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
What's up with happening?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
All?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
This is the Beatdown Podcast, and guys, we're ready to
get started into week two. And today we have two
more guests. Last week we had Lake Lewis and David Harrison.
This week we have Candy Waller, president of Booie TV Sports,
and Alex Flohm from DC News. Now, guys, how we
doing pretty good?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Zach? Ready for week two?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Yep? Same here? Ready to get rocking, as DQ would say, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I think we're all ready to move on from whatever
that was in week one for sure. You know, this
week we have our home debut against the New York Giants,
which I've been saying all week it seems to be
more of a quote unquote in the Washington Commander's weight
class as opposed to the perennial playoff contenditor that the
Buccaneers were. But yeah, I think I think this is
going to be a little bit more of a competitive matchup.
(00:55):
And guys, let's go ahead and get jumping right into
it here. Starting with the first question that we will
be debating over between you two is you know Washington's
offense went up against the buzz Saw in Todd Bowles's
defense and you know, they blitsed them about forty two
percent of the time, which is gonna make it gonna
speed up Danny Daniels process and led to him runs
(01:18):
in the ball sixteen times, which nobody wants. But Katy,
we'll start with you here, and you know, the big
question is what do you want to see from Washington's
offense that Cindy struggle a little bit there going against
the Todd Bowles. What do you want to see them
do against the Giants defense that likely is not going
to blitz as much as the Buccaneers.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I would really like to see from Washington's offense a
bit more, just you know, creativity. How can they get
the other players involved? If we saw the run game
get going a bit, we saw you know, a big
run by Austin Eckler, We saw you know, b Rob
doing what he does, but perhaps getting Austin Eckler involved
(01:55):
a little bit more kind of couldn't get the wide
receiver group going, so, you know, would love to see
a bit of that.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Can they connect?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Can can we see where Jaden will have a chemistry
or connection with Terry or with Luke or.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
With Diami o Z.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Let's see how that works out and then just the
tight ends like.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
All Duram Camp. We saw, you know, zach Ertz being kind.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Of like that security blanket but just couldn't get that
going so where they can really be creative and utilizing
the different position groups on offense.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Love to see that happening in week two.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yeah, and you very have a good point about the
wide receivers because in the first half the wide receiver
group as a whole had one catch for no yards
and that was for Luke McCaffrey, who who did have
end up having a pretty solid game. But that you're right,
that is nowhere close to what you'd want from from
those receivers. And else we'll bring this to you here.
(02:52):
And you know, she brings up the wide receivers now,
like what do you think they can do to get
more get more action from their years? It doesn't matter
just giving Jane more protection or is it just the
receivers getting up it? Like what do you think about that?
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Yeah, well, I think it seemed did seem like the
receivers were struggling a bit to get opened last week. Obviously,
you know, we barely heard Terry mcclaurin's name. We didn't
see much, you know, from Dimmie Brown, from Luke from Alamide.
So I think the receivers need to do a little
bit of a better job this week getting separation. But
one thing under the radar that I'm going to be
(03:26):
keeping my eyes on this week is how much we see.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Brandon Coleman on the field.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
They were about two drives where he had a lot
of time on the field, and those two drives were
the two drives that the Commanders scored a touchdown this
past week. So I think seeing him on the field
little more. And I know he dealt with some injuries
in preseason, so I think if they can get Coleman
in more, and you know, I think a lot of.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Factors play a role here.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
I don't think anything was exactly jayde Daniel's fault last week.
I thought he had a pretty nice and solid debut.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
But I think a little more.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Protection and a little more separation from the receivers, which
they hopefully should get against the Giants this week, I
think we could see a much bigger day from the
passing offense.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, I really think so too. And if you look
in I mentioned at the top of the show that
the Commanders were blitzed about forty two percent of the time,
which was the second highest across the league in general.
Now the Giants, their hand, they blitzed about half of
that and that was about twenty six in the league.
So either way, no matter what we're gonna see from
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this Giants kind of defense with that new deeps of
coordinator and Shane Bowen, you're you're gonna get a lot
less pressure at least from you know, blitzing you know,
five or six different guys. Now the defensive line is
for the Giants a little bit a little bit different
question just because they're so dominant. But Candy, I'll ask
you this is, you know, say, say Jayden does get
(04:52):
less pressure, which we I think is gonna be expected
compared to what we saw from from the Buccaneers, how
do you think that that fewer amounts of pressure is
really going to help him in his progressions, in his
process and trying to you know, get some of these
wide receivers up and get some of these some of
these weapons more involved. As you said earlier, I.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Think it will help Jayden even probably.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Get a bit more comfortable to the pace of the game.
It's almost like at times in Week one, you know,
it was like, Okay, is Jayden panicking?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Is it? Like, you know, did he did he? Did
he run?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Because he just was a you know, we know that
he's a competitor and he needs to go, but it
also can resemble like panic mode as well, like oh
my gosh. So it's almost like wanting to see that calm,
collected poise that we've seen throughout camp.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Perhaps this is a week where he can really.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Get comfortable into the maybe passing first QB that we
know dead Quinn and uh, you know all offensive coordinated.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Cliff Kingsbury has said they would like to see him do.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
So I think it's more of a is this the
week where we see him really get comfortable into his role?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Like y'all said, it was a solid.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Game, but at times it looked a little haywire, and
so maybe it looks a bit more collected and confident
even and the weapons that he currently has the round him.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, and you're right, I mean in training camp it
seeing what we saw not so a completely different offense,
but it did seem like it was a little bit
more uh polished, a little bit more in synct than
what you said, no, No, Granted, some of that is
to be expected because they're doing more vanilla stuff. They're
not doing these these complicated concepts. They're keeping things simple
for the you know, the fact they want to bring
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Jade and the rest of the offense along. But fum,
I'll bring this to you, you know, before we move
on to the next question, is you know she mentioned
that the quote unquote the freak out stuff that would
happen occasionally, and how Jade would sort of speed up
his progressions. That Another thing we didn't really see that
much in the game was the amount of exposive play
that seemed to be starting to open up a little
bit more during training camp. And we do know that
(07:06):
that Jayden has the ability to launch the ball down field.
So say he does get more protection from from Brandon Coleman,
like you said, assuming he plays or Cornelia suits whoever's
out there, how do you expect that to to help
him in terms of like stretching the offense down the
field and getting some of these guys open, like Terry
Luke and even Diami.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Well, we did see a couple of times they tried
to launch it downfield and a couple of times. It
did look closer, you know, close last week, and like
the Candy said, we saw it in preseason. We know that,
you know, he's capable of making.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
These plays in practice.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
It's just a matter of seeing that happen for the
first time in a game, and you know it should
happen this week against the Giants.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Like we said, the Bucks a little bit.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Stronger of a team, stronger of a defense, and I think,
to me, I think they're gonna want to get one
of those plays off early. And you know, it's week two,
it's early in the season. I would have to imagine
we're going to see dan Quinn with Kingsbury taking a
couple maybe extra chances early, just so Jayden could get
(08:12):
one of those big plays. Because you know, this is
the start of his career. You know, we have to
remember that. You know, he's just getting rolling, and you know,
I think once he hits one of those big plays,
we're going to see that he's capable of doing that.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
He's going to see that he's capable.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Of doing that in an NFL game, and I'm sure
we're going to see it a lot more than once
going forward to you.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Know, the Commanders were last in the league in quitted
air yards last year with thirty or last week with thirty,
So we we definitely do expect them to at least
be better than that, especially with the you know, they
don't have the best receiving corps out there, but they
do have some explosive weapons that can definitely help them.
So we're gonna move on to the next question, but
right now we'll give you a little bit of a
(08:52):
score update. Alex. You were in the league four to three,
so it's still pretty tightly contested battle here, but we
do have a chance to to even the odds a
little bit with a defensive question, and it's even more
of a general one. You know, obviously the offense was
had its up and down performances, but it was still
largely and i'd say, closer to the mean in terms
of stats around the league. The defense, at the other hand,
(09:14):
was definitely closer to what we saw last year, which
is a little bit disappointing in terms of allowing explosive plays.
Nine plays of at least fifteen yards or more and
then third downs was the one of the biggest concerns
that the Buccaneers hit about sixty nine percent of their
third downs, which is just, you know, not acceptable in
any any sense, not a winning formula at all. But
(09:35):
Alex will start with you first. There's a lot of
things to improve upon for this Commander's defense, for sure,
But what do you want to see the most in
order to get a bounced back performance from this unit?
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Yeah, well, I definitely want to see the secondary step
up a bit. I know they had a tough time
with the Bucks passing attack, but I do think it
starts with the pass r us.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Just having a slightly better day.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
I mean, Coach Quinn talked about it yesterday at practice.
There were a lot of points where they were getting
back there and applying pressure, but there were many many
points where they were not finishing and not picking up
a sack in those instances. So I think the pass
rush has to be better than it was last week.
And like we said about the offense, I think the
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defense itself should be better. You know, this Giants team
is a team that looked very, very bad in Week one.
You know, they're the only team that didn't win and
also didn't score a touchdown in their first game. So
the Commanders just have to make sure, you know that
they don't play down to the Giants, and I think
(10:40):
a lot of that.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Will start with the pass rush getting back there.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Cand It. We'll go over to you next, because you know,
the inability to finish was so critical against Baker Mayfield
and now they go up against Daniel Jones, who has
round every other team in the league has not really
performed up to his from caliber that he was that
he was drafted in. When he goes against the Commanders,
(11:04):
for whatever reason, he seems to play like he's one
of the top quarterbacks in the league. So in terms
of getting to Daniel Jones, what do you want to
see from them to get him on the ground and
get him to get him you know, speed of the process,
and get him under pressure, because for whatever reason, Daniel
Jones seems to be a big problem for this unit.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Yeah, it is kind of exactly what Alex was saying.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
You know, the defense is inability to finish last week
was glaring.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
So as you just mentioned, Zach, yes, Daniel Jones has
like career games against.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
The Commanders and I'm sure everyone is thinking, you know,
the Commanders can't lose to the Giants. But guess what,
I'm pretty sure the Giants are thinking the same thing. Oh,
we cannot lose to the Commanders. So I think you'll
probably see a different team on both for both teams.
But the ability to just finish. The defense missed so
(12:02):
many tackles on Sunday and they need to they need
to make Daniel throw, but don't even give him an
opportunity to The more there could be a bit more
grass or mud on his jersey, the better off for
this defense. So this is the game where we don't
want it to be another so many high houses for
(12:25):
the defense, and here we go again with it being
down the tubes. This is an opportunity for the defense
to say, hey, we had to get the kinks out,
we had to knock the dust off a bit in
week one, but we are legit and Daniel Jones will
not be successful against us.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yeah, you're exactly right, And you know this kind of
goes into you know the other part of the question
for as far as Daniel Jones' performance is his weapons, right,
I mean, he's not gonna have Sagon Barkley or he's gone.
He's playing for Philadelphia. Darius Slayton seems to be in
the concussion protocol, so I don't know if he's going
to be playing or not. We'll see what monitor that
to see how he how he does, but blite Neighbors
(13:02):
is gonna be it would seem to be a big,
big problem for this secondary which allowed only six incompletions
for Baker Mayfield. He had two or eight nine yards
four touchdowns. He was bawling out in a way that
we really haven't seen him in quite a while. So
Alex will switch back over to you here in like
(13:22):
how concerned are you about this secondary or about the
secondary which allowed so many exposive plays as far as
you know in communication probably had to play a role
in that, But like, how concerned do you and what
do you what do you expect them to do? Going
against a different receiving court that is not as as
talented and harold as the Buccaneers, but still pretty solid
ish group.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
I would say I'm pretty concerned about the secondary just
because it resembled a lot of what we saw last
year with their struggles. I think a lot of people
were expecting to see a different look, a stronger play.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Emmanuel four.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Obviously, he had his struggles in his rookie year, and
you know, didn't really show many signs of a step
forward this past week, though I know he was dealing
with a bit of an injury, but I know, I think.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
The secondary definitely needs to step up.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
It's a little bit of a concern, and Malik Naghbors
does concern me a little bit from the Giant side
because we talked about the fact that their game last
week was a disaster.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
He was one of the lone bright spots in that
game for them.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
He had five catches for sixty six yards, including a
twenty five yard grab. So I think they're gonna, like,
just like we talked about the Commanders needing to have
big plays, they're gonna need to limit the Giants big
plays because it's one thing when it's Mike Evans and
Chris Godwin, that really tough passing attack led by Baker Mayfield.
But this week he said, it's a different story. It's
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not as strong of a group. And you know, I
think for this secondary, this is a chance to prove
themselves and a chance to show after last week that
you know, this is a different group this year and
they are ready to take that step forward.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Candy same qu Before we move on to the final
question how big is the communication going to be, because
I mean Bendamussain's you said after the game there was
a big deal, and dan Quinn even said during Alla's
money prescotens this was also a big deal they need
to fix going forward.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Absolutely. I mean it was glaring right that you can
see that they could.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Almost look like they did not know what was going on,
and so this is going to have to really look
like these guys are much more sync and being able
to read any verbal and nonverbal cues as well, because
not sure what it you know, came off on the TV,
but even watching it live it was like, oh my gosh,
they don't know where to go and they have no
idea where the football is.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
So that is.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Definitely going to have to tighten up a great deal
much of what we saw last week, and I know
dan Quinn has been saying it that you know, we'll
all see a much improved team, more aligned.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
In the brand of football that they want to play.
But if that's what, If that's.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
True, this is to this is the week to prove
that against a very much struggle Giants team.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Yes, completely right, And you know this kind of goes
into the last question here, but before the quick scoretate again, Kenny,
you are now ahead again with one point, so see
if l Alex can get back in the lead here.
But for this last question, Canny, we'll start with you here.
Finish the sentence. Washington will win on Sunday if what happens.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Washington will win on Sunday. If the defense actually makes
Daniel Jones look like.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
The real quarterback that he is in real life and
not Tom Brady.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Yeah, you know what, You're completely right on that, Alex,
same question. Washington will win on Sunday if what.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Happens, Well, Kendy went with defense, I'm gonna go with
the offense. Washington will win Sunday if the offense gives
Jaden just a tiny bit more time and the receivers.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Get a little bit more open.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
I think we saw what he can do with his
feet last week. We've seen what he can do with
his arm this entire preseason, and I think he's ready
to unleash that and show it to the NFL. And
I think even if Daniel Jones doesn't have an awful game,
if the Commander's offense can counteract that and step up
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and make.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Some big plays like we talked about.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
I think people are going to be talking about Jaydon
Daniels's Rookie of the Year already, and the Commanders are
going to be celebrating with a win at home to
start the season.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
You know that that is such a good point, because
I really do think this this offense is much better
than the twenty points that it put up, especially considering
that they had a were in scoring opportunity twice and
came away with two missfield goals. Now we hope that
Sebert is going to be a little bit better than
what k you're put together again last week against the Buccaneers.
But and you know, ultimately, though those six points may
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not have played too much of a role in the outcome,
But you know, thirty seven to twenty six whole looks
a whole lot better than thirty seven to twenty and
I think it is a little bit more indicative of
how the offense played. And especially I think going against
the defense that is gonna play a little more straight
up with him, I don't think they're gonna blitz him
as much. I think they're gonna be able to protect
him a little bit better. Even with Dector Lawrence and
Brian Burns and Kevon Thibodeau. I think I think this
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offensive line is going to play a little bit better
than the I think it was two point three five
seconds of time to throw that they gave Jayden Daniels
in Week one. I think that's gonna be a little
bit better. But as as valid as those points are, Alex,
I have to give it to Candy here because I mean,
Daniel Jones has been the bugaboo for this team for
the better part of three years now. They have not
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beaten him in a while. They have They had a
chance to beat him twice in twenty twenty two, they
came with a tie and the loss. Twenty twenty three,
they you know, they underperformed in several aspects in twenty
twenty three and ended up losing both of those games.
So Candy, I have to give you the win here,
because Daniel Jones it seems as weird as it sounds.
He is the factory. So you're you're the victor. How
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do you have any parting words for us?
Speaker 4 (19:03):
I mean, whoo really no, of course, it was great
to do this with you all.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Algie brought up some fantastic points as well, So this
this was great, but this is absolutely if I know
it's just sweek two, and I know that folks continue
to say it's just one game and this will just
be Week two, but I do think that this is
a must win this week for the Commanders.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I would agree. I would agree with that in some
in some instances because I think, yeah, it's week two.
If they go into it's not great, and it definitely
the number of the probability of you making the playoffs
though and two definitely goes down. But at the same time,
I think from just a larger perspective, just winning against
the Giants does bring a little bit more of a
morale boost to this to this team, especially for the
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players who have who or who are still here, the
few that are still here from last year, the last couples,
last couple of years. If they can be the Giants,
I think things are all the way back. They get
a one to oh start in the division, and I
think they get if they get back on track and
get ready to face the Cincinna Bigel. So it's gonna
be another tough test. But guys, I really appreciate you
coming on. It's been fantastic having you guys, uh, and
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we will see you in the press box on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Zach and congrats hard to go against the goat. Congrats
on the room.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
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What's up with happening?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
All?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
This is the Beatdown Podcast, and guys, we're ready to
get started into week two. And today we have two
more guests. Last week we had Lake Lewis and David Harrison.
This week we have Candy Waller, president of Booie TV Sports,
and Alex Flohm from DC News. Now, guys, how we
doing pretty good?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Zach? Ready for week two?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Yep? Same here? Ready to get rocking, as DQ would say, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I think we're all ready to move on from whatever
that was in week one for sure. You know, this
week we have our home debut against the New York Giants,
which I've been saying all week it seems to be
more of a quote unquote in the Washington Commander's weight
class as opposed to the perennial playoff contenditor that the
Buccaneers were. But yeah, I think I think this is
going to be a little bit more of a competitive matchup.
(00:55):
And guys, let's go ahead and get jumping right into
it here. Starting with the first question that we will
be debating over between you two is you know Washington's
offense went up against the buzz Saw in Todd Bowles's
defense and you know, they blitsed them about forty two
percent of the time, which is gonna make it gonna
speed up Danny Daniels process and led to him runs
(01:18):
in the ball sixteen times, which nobody wants. But Katy,
we'll start with you here, and you know, the big
question is what do you want to see from Washington's
offense that Cindy struggle a little bit there going against
the Todd Bowles. What do you want to see them
do against the Giants defense that likely is not going
to blitz as much as the Buccaneers.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I would really like to see from Washington's offense a
bit more, just you know, creativity. How can they get
the other players involved? If we saw the run game
get going a bit, we saw you know, a big
run by Austin Eckler, We saw you know, b Rob
doing what he does, but perhaps getting Austin Eckler involved
(01:55):
a little bit more kind of couldn't get the wide
receiver group going, so, you know, would love to see
a bit of that.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Can they connect?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Can can we see where Jaden will have a chemistry
or connection with Terry or with Luke or.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
With Diami o Z.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Let's see how that works out and then just the
tight ends like.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
All Duram Camp. We saw, you know, zach Ertz being kind.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Of like that security blanket but just couldn't get that
going so where they can really be creative and utilizing
the different position groups on offense.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Love to see that happening in week two.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yeah, and you very have a good point about the
wide receivers because in the first half the wide receiver
group as a whole had one catch for no yards
and that was for Luke McCaffrey, who who did have
end up having a pretty solid game. But that you're right,
that is nowhere close to what you'd want from from
those receivers. And else we'll bring this to you here.
(02:52):
And you know, she brings up the wide receivers now,
like what do you think they can do to get
more get more action from their years? It doesn't matter
just giving Jane more protection or is it just the
receivers getting up it? Like what do you think about that?
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Yeah, well, I think it seemed did seem like the
receivers were struggling a bit to get opened last week. Obviously,
you know, we barely heard Terry mcclaurin's name. We didn't
see much, you know, from Dimmie Brown, from Luke from Alamide.
So I think the receivers need to do a little
bit of a better job this week getting separation. But
one thing under the radar that I'm going to be
(03:26):
keeping my eyes on this week is how much we see.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Brandon Coleman on the field.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
They were about two drives where he had a lot
of time on the field, and those two drives were
the two drives that the Commanders scored a touchdown this
past week. So I think seeing him on the field
little more. And I know he dealt with some injuries
in preseason, so I think if they can get Coleman
in more, and you know, I think a lot of.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Factors play a role here.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
I don't think anything was exactly jayde Daniel's fault last week.
I thought he had a pretty nice and solid debut.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
But I think a little more.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Protection and a little more separation from the receivers, which
they hopefully should get against the Giants this week, I
think we could see a much bigger day from the
passing offense.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, I really think so too. And if you look
in I mentioned at the top of the show that
the Commanders were blitzed about forty two percent of the time,
which was the second highest across the league in general.
Now the Giants, their hand, they blitzed about half of
that and that was about twenty six in the league.
So either way, no matter what we're gonna see from
(04:30):
this Giants kind of defense with that new deeps of
coordinator and Shane Bowen, you're you're gonna get a lot
less pressure at least from you know, blitzing you know,
five or six different guys. Now the defensive line is
for the Giants a little bit a little bit different
question just because they're so dominant. But Candy, I'll ask
you this is, you know, say, say Jayden does get
(04:52):
less pressure, which we I think is gonna be expected
compared to what we saw from from the Buccaneers, how
do you think that that fewer amounts of pressure is
really going to help him in his progressions, in his
process and trying to you know, get some of these
wide receivers up and get some of these some of
these weapons more involved. As you said earlier, I.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Think it will help Jayden even probably.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Get a bit more comfortable to the pace of the game.
It's almost like at times in Week one, you know,
it was like, Okay, is Jayden panicking?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Is it? Like, you know, did he did he? Did
he run?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Because he just was a you know, we know that
he's a competitor and he needs to go, but it
also can resemble like panic mode as well, like oh
my gosh. So it's almost like wanting to see that calm,
collected poise that we've seen throughout camp.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Perhaps this is a week where he can really.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Get comfortable into the maybe passing first QB that we
know dead Quinn and uh, you know all offensive coordinated.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Cliff Kingsbury has said they would like to see him do.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
So I think it's more of a is this the
week where we see him really get comfortable into his role?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Like y'all said, it was a solid.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Game, but at times it looked a little haywire, and
so maybe it looks a bit more collected and confident
even and the weapons that he currently has the round him.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, and you're right, I mean in training camp it
seeing what we saw not so a completely different offense,
but it did seem like it was a little bit
more uh polished, a little bit more in synct than
what you said, no, No, Granted, some of that is
to be expected because they're doing more vanilla stuff. They're
not doing these these complicated concepts. They're keeping things simple
for the you know, the fact they want to bring
(06:44):
Jade and the rest of the offense along. But fum,
I'll bring this to you, you know, before we move
on to the next question, is you know she mentioned
that the quote unquote the freak out stuff that would
happen occasionally, and how Jade would sort of speed up
his progressions. That Another thing we didn't really see that
much in the game was the amount of exposive play
that seemed to be starting to open up a little
bit more during training camp. And we do know that
(07:06):
that Jayden has the ability to launch the ball down field.
So say he does get more protection from from Brandon Coleman,
like you said, assuming he plays or Cornelia suits whoever's
out there, how do you expect that to to help
him in terms of like stretching the offense down the
field and getting some of these guys open, like Terry
Luke and even Diami.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Well, we did see a couple of times they tried
to launch it downfield and a couple of times. It
did look closer, you know, close last week, and like
the Candy said, we saw it in preseason. We know that,
you know, he's capable of making.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
These plays in practice.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
It's just a matter of seeing that happen for the
first time in a game, and you know it should
happen this week against the Giants.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Like we said, the Bucks a little bit.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Stronger of a team, stronger of a defense, and I think,
to me, I think they're gonna want to get one
of those plays off early. And you know, it's week two,
it's early in the season. I would have to imagine
we're going to see dan Quinn with Kingsbury taking a
couple maybe extra chances early, just so Jayden could get
(08:12):
one of those big plays. Because you know, this is
the start of his career. You know, we have to
remember that. You know, he's just getting rolling, and you know,
I think once he hits one of those big plays,
we're going to see that he's capable of doing that.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
He's going to see that he's capable.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Of doing that in an NFL game, and I'm sure
we're going to see it a lot more than once
going forward to you.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Know, the Commanders were last in the league in quitted
air yards last year with thirty or last week with thirty,
So we we definitely do expect them to at least
be better than that, especially with the you know, they
don't have the best receiving corps out there, but they
do have some explosive weapons that can definitely help them.
So we're gonna move on to the next question, but
right now we'll give you a little bit of a
(08:52):
score update. Alex. You were in the league four to three,
so it's still pretty tightly contested battle here, but we
do have a chance to to even the odds a
little bit with a defensive question, and it's even more
of a general one. You know, obviously the offense was
had its up and down performances, but it was still
largely and i'd say, closer to the mean in terms
of stats around the league. The defense, at the other hand,
(09:14):
was definitely closer to what we saw last year, which
is a little bit disappointing in terms of allowing explosive plays.
Nine plays of at least fifteen yards or more and
then third downs was the one of the biggest concerns
that the Buccaneers hit about sixty nine percent of their
third downs, which is just, you know, not acceptable in
any any sense, not a winning formula at all. But
(09:35):
Alex will start with you first. There's a lot of
things to improve upon for this Commander's defense, for sure,
But what do you want to see the most in
order to get a bounced back performance from this unit?
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Yeah, well, I definitely want to see the secondary step
up a bit. I know they had a tough time
with the Bucks passing attack, but I do think it
starts with the pass r us.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Just having a slightly better day.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
I mean, Coach Quinn talked about it yesterday at practice.
There were a lot of points where they were getting
back there and applying pressure, but there were many many
points where they were not finishing and not picking up
a sack in those instances. So I think the pass
rush has to be better than it was last week.
And like we said about the offense, I think the
(10:20):
defense itself should be better. You know, this Giants team
is a team that looked very, very bad in Week one.
You know, they're the only team that didn't win and
also didn't score a touchdown in their first game. So
the Commanders just have to make sure, you know that
they don't play down to the Giants, and I think
(10:40):
a lot of that.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Will start with the pass rush getting back there.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Cand It. We'll go over to you next, because you know,
the inability to finish was so critical against Baker Mayfield
and now they go up against Daniel Jones, who has
round every other team in the league has not really
performed up to his from caliber that he was that
he was drafted in. When he goes against the Commanders,
(11:04):
for whatever reason, he seems to play like he's one
of the top quarterbacks in the league. So in terms
of getting to Daniel Jones, what do you want to
see from them to get him on the ground and
get him to get him you know, speed of the process,
and get him under pressure, because for whatever reason, Daniel
Jones seems to be a big problem for this unit.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Yeah, it is kind of exactly what Alex was saying.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
You know, the defense is inability to finish last week
was glaring.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
So as you just mentioned, Zach, yes, Daniel Jones has
like career games against.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
The Commanders and I'm sure everyone is thinking, you know,
the Commanders can't lose to the Giants. But guess what,
I'm pretty sure the Giants are thinking the same thing. Oh,
we cannot lose to the Commanders. So I think you'll
probably see a different team on both for both teams.
But the ability to just finish. The defense missed so
(12:02):
many tackles on Sunday and they need to they need
to make Daniel throw, but don't even give him an
opportunity to The more there could be a bit more
grass or mud on his jersey, the better off for
this defense. So this is the game where we don't
want it to be another so many high houses for
(12:25):
the defense, and here we go again with it being
down the tubes. This is an opportunity for the defense
to say, hey, we had to get the kinks out,
we had to knock the dust off a bit in
week one, but we are legit and Daniel Jones will
not be successful against us.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yeah, you're exactly right, And you know this kind of
goes into you know the other part of the question
for as far as Daniel Jones' performance is his weapons, right,
I mean, he's not gonna have Sagon Barkley or he's gone.
He's playing for Philadelphia. Darius Slayton seems to be in
the concussion protocol, so I don't know if he's going
to be playing or not. We'll see what monitor that
to see how he how he does, but blite Neighbors
(13:02):
is gonna be it would seem to be a big,
big problem for this secondary which allowed only six incompletions
for Baker Mayfield. He had two or eight nine yards
four touchdowns. He was bawling out in a way that
we really haven't seen him in quite a while. So
Alex will switch back over to you here in like
(13:22):
how concerned are you about this secondary or about the
secondary which allowed so many exposive plays as far as
you know in communication probably had to play a role
in that, But like, how concerned do you and what
do you what do you expect them to do? Going
against a different receiving court that is not as as
talented and harold as the Buccaneers, but still pretty solid
ish group.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
I would say I'm pretty concerned about the secondary just
because it resembled a lot of what we saw last
year with their struggles. I think a lot of people
were expecting to see a different look, a stronger play.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Emmanuel four.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Obviously, he had his struggles in his rookie year, and
you know, didn't really show many signs of a step
forward this past week, though I know he was dealing
with a bit of an injury, but I know, I think.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
The secondary definitely needs to step up.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
It's a little bit of a concern, and Malik Naghbors
does concern me a little bit from the Giant side
because we talked about the fact that their game last
week was a disaster.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
He was one of the lone bright spots in that
game for them.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
He had five catches for sixty six yards, including a
twenty five yard grab. So I think they're gonna, like,
just like we talked about the Commanders needing to have
big plays, they're gonna need to limit the Giants big
plays because it's one thing when it's Mike Evans and
Chris Godwin, that really tough passing attack led by Baker Mayfield.
But this week he said, it's a different story. It's
(14:46):
not as strong of a group. And you know, I
think for this secondary, this is a chance to prove
themselves and a chance to show after last week that
you know, this is a different group this year and
they are ready to take that step forward.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Candy same qu Before we move on to the final
question how big is the communication going to be, because
I mean Bendamussain's you said after the game there was
a big deal, and dan Quinn even said during Alla's
money prescotens this was also a big deal they need
to fix going forward.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Absolutely. I mean it was glaring right that you can
see that they could.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Almost look like they did not know what was going on,
and so this is going to have to really look
like these guys are much more sync and being able
to read any verbal and nonverbal cues as well, because
not sure what it you know, came off on the TV,
but even watching it live it was like, oh my gosh,
they don't know where to go and they have no
idea where the football is.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
So that is.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Definitely going to have to tighten up a great deal
much of what we saw last week, and I know
dan Quinn has been saying it that you know, we'll
all see a much improved team, more aligned.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
In the brand of football that they want to play.
But if that's what, If that's.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
True, this is to this is the week to prove
that against a very much struggle Giants team.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Yes, completely right, And you know this kind of goes
into the last question here, but before the quick scoretate again, Kenny,
you are now ahead again with one point, so see
if l Alex can get back in the lead here.
But for this last question, Canny, we'll start with you here.
Finish the sentence. Washington will win on Sunday if what happens.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Washington will win on Sunday. If the defense actually makes
Daniel Jones look like.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
The real quarterback that he is in real life and
not Tom Brady.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Yeah, you know what, You're completely right on that, Alex,
same question. Washington will win on Sunday if what.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Happens, Well, Kendy went with defense, I'm gonna go with
the offense. Washington will win Sunday if the offense gives
Jaden just a tiny bit more time and the receivers.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Get a little bit more open.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
I think we saw what he can do with his
feet last week. We've seen what he can do with
his arm this entire preseason, and I think he's ready
to unleash that and show it to the NFL. And
I think even if Daniel Jones doesn't have an awful game,
if the Commander's offense can counteract that and step up
(17:18):
and make.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Some big plays like we talked about.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
I think people are going to be talking about Jaydon
Daniels's Rookie of the Year already, and the Commanders are
going to be celebrating with a win at home to
start the season.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
You know that that is such a good point, because
I really do think this this offense is much better
than the twenty points that it put up, especially considering
that they had a were in scoring opportunity twice and
came away with two missfield goals. Now we hope that
Sebert is going to be a little bit better than
what k you're put together again last week against the Buccaneers.
But and you know, ultimately, though those six points may
(17:53):
not have played too much of a role in the outcome,
But you know, thirty seven to twenty six whole looks
a whole lot better than thirty seven to twenty and
I think it is a little bit more indicative of
how the offense played. And especially I think going against
the defense that is gonna play a little more straight
up with him, I don't think they're gonna blitz him
as much. I think they're gonna be able to protect
him a little bit better. Even with Dector Lawrence and
Brian Burns and Kevon Thibodeau. I think I think this
(18:16):
offensive line is going to play a little bit better
than the I think it was two point three five
seconds of time to throw that they gave Jayden Daniels
in Week one. I think that's gonna be a little
bit better. But as as valid as those points are, Alex,
I have to give it to Candy here because I mean,
Daniel Jones has been the bugaboo for this team for
the better part of three years now. They have not
(18:39):
beaten him in a while. They have They had a
chance to beat him twice in twenty twenty two, they
came with a tie and the loss. Twenty twenty three,
they you know, they underperformed in several aspects in twenty
twenty three and ended up losing both of those games.
So Candy, I have to give you the win here,
because Daniel Jones it seems as weird as it sounds.
He is the factory. So you're you're the victor. How
(19:01):
do you have any parting words for us?
Speaker 4 (19:03):
I mean, whoo really no, of course, it was great
to do this with you all.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Algie brought up some fantastic points as well, So this
this was great, but this is absolutely if I know
it's just sweek two, and I know that folks continue
to say it's just one game and this will just
be Week two, but I do think that this is
a must win this week for the Commanders.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I would agree. I would agree with that in some
in some instances because I think, yeah, it's week two.
If they go into it's not great, and it definitely
the number of the probability of you making the playoffs
though and two definitely goes down. But at the same time,
I think from just a larger perspective, just winning against
the Giants does bring a little bit more of a
morale boost to this to this team, especially for the
(19:50):
players who have who or who are still here, the
few that are still here from last year, the last couples,
last couple of years. If they can be the Giants,
I think things are all the way back. They get
a one to oh start in the division, and I
think they get if they get back on track and
get ready to face the Cincinna Bigel. So it's gonna
be another tough test. But guys, I really appreciate you
coming on. It's been fantastic having you guys, uh, and
(20:10):
we will see you in the press box on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Zach and congrats hard to go against the goat. Congrats
on the room.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
All right, guys, we shures a rate review. Subscribe to
the DM podcast and we will see you next week.
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