Recapping Philadelphia Matchup & Turning the Page to Dallas Week! | The Booth Review | Washington Commanders

The voice of the Commanders, Bram Weinstein, and former Washington linebacker London Fletcher recap the Commanders’ 26-18 loss to the Eagles and look ahead to this week’s game against their divisional rivals, the Dallas Cowboys.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Coming up on the Booth Review, We're gonna look back
at the game in Philadelphia.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
And which also figure out what the players did during
that Many bye.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Week and turn the page. Because it is Dallas Week, London.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
It does not get much better than Cowboys Week.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Bring on, no Cowboys on the Booth Review. That's next.
Welcome into the Booth Review podcast, brought to you by
Microsoft Surface Powering a Better Game my brand Whiteside. That's
big fletch, London, Fletcher, we had a weekend off after
a Thursday game as we head into our first Dallas
week of the season, London, what'd you do over the weekend?

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Oh man, I've slept most of the day on Saturday.
So Friday night, Friday, when I got back from Philly,
my son they played it in the state championship game.
So the North Carolina Independent State Championship game was played
in Georgia. Now that's a long story as to why
I was played at Georgia. They played a team about

(00:57):
three and a half hours away, rayvend Gap County, Georgia
went down there. It was an epic game. My son's team,
Providence Day School. They ended up losing forty two thirty nine. Oh,
just a little bit short in that game. And you know,
after that, got back on the road, drove back to
Charlotte three and a half hours, so I was exhausted. Saturday,

(01:19):
I sat down, watched a little bit of football, and
then they started watching me. Got to go to church
on Sunday, So that was a that was a good thing.
I didn't do a whole lot other than did sleep
and watch a little bit of football and spend time
with the family.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Forty nine. Was it a controversial finish, No.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
It wasn't a controversial finish. It was It was an
epic game, back and forth. I was the best high
school football game I can remember. Like our our team
would go up three points and they come back, get
a four point lead. We take the lead again by three,
they get four, they were up three, We got stopped.
They they scored, got a two point conversion, went up eight,

(02:00):
we scored a touchdown, got a two point conversion, down
three with about thirty let's call it thirty five thirty
six seconds left, and this their kicker, Providence stage kicker,
my son's team. His kicker had the best on side
kick I've ever seen. I mean, their NFL teams can't

(02:22):
have an on sidekick like this. We recovered, but we
landed out of bounds on the recovery. I mean, it
was just a phenomenal perfect just a couple of box,
small boxes, high bounce. One of our players jumps up,
catches it, but he came down out of bonds. Man
But and they were able to run the clock out,

(02:43):
and that's how they won the game.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Send the film. We needed one of those the other night.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
I know I better yet, send the kicker to Larios
though maybe I don't know if he's able to come.
You know, maybe he can come teach teach our kid,
our kickers how to do this all cats on side kick,
because it was the exact way you want to execute
an all side kick. What about you? How'd you what
you do for the for the whew.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Over the weekend, I got to call the Washington Spirit
take on the Gotham FC in the NWSL semi final,
which had this ridiculous finish at Oudy Field that involved
a stoppage time goal to send it to extra time.
It got to penalty kicks, and this goalkeeper for Washington,
Aubrey Kingsbury, made three straight saves on Pedaly kicks like

(03:31):
it was practically unbelievable. So they're gonna congratulations to the Spirit.
They're gonna be playing in the NWSL Championship Saturday night
against Orlando out in Kansas City, so we wish them
the best of luck. And then, like you, Sunday, I
just had NFL football on, but it was more watching
me than me watching it. I was kind of going
in and out of Pittsburgh Baltimore, going in and out

(03:52):
of green Bay Chicago. Both were really good, really close games.
And I actually want to talk about some of the
results because I don't think a lot of stuff broke
Washington's way over the weekend. I'll get to that in
a little bit. But same thing, like I needed some rest,
and I even gave myself a couple of days in
rewatching the Commanders and Eagles, because I wanted to do
that before we spoke here. But I needed a mental break.
And I think that's like kind of a larger point

(04:14):
of this week. Honestly, I don't know how you feel
about it, but I think the season got long on
this team. The schedule hit them at the worst time
possible with two very very good teams in a four
day span, and I think they needed a mental and
physical break, and unfortunately they didn't get a win in
either one of them. But I don't know how that
kind of sits with you now because I needed it

(04:36):
after Thursday night. I didn't want rewatch that Eagles game
until last night. Honestly.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah, no, you definitely. It's been a long season and
I'm sure the guys, most of the guys really appreciated
the weekend off and just to kind of hit the
reset button, not just the players, but the coaches as well.
It's been emotional too. If you think about it, going
all the way back to the the Hell Mary play
against the Chicago Bears, that was an emotional game. Then

(05:06):
you have to you go to your division rival, the
New York Giants, play that game. Then you come back
and play the short week against Oh No, you play
the Pittsburgh Steelers and another tough football game, and then
short week against the Philadelphia Eagle. So the last let's
called the last four ball games have been extremely emotional
emotion is that the emotional roller coaster. You lose by

(05:28):
one point to the to the Steelers, then you come
up short against the against the Philadelphia Eagle. So no,
it's definitely a situation where you need some time off.
I started watching a little bit of the game. I'm
kind of just weird like this, let's call it early
Friday morning, while still in the hotel in Philly. You know,

(05:52):
I did look at some of it, and I watched
it again on would have would have been Saturday. Yeah, yes, Saturday,
and then again today just looking at it again. And
when you go back, you look at it, and I'm
sure we'll get deep into it. There's so many things,
so many opportunities that we had that we could have
definitely changed the outcome of that ballgame. And I'm sure

(06:14):
coach Quinn felt the same way while stay watched the game.
There were enough things that we could have done differently
to make that outcome go on our favor.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, I think to go back to your point about it,
like that, it's been long, Like go back to the preseason.
They spent two weeks on the road, remember they like
they went to Miami, they went to New York, they
spent full weeks there. They spent a full week in Arizona.
After the Cincinnati game, which was I think it was
so early and everybody was just kind of so excited

(06:44):
about what they saw that and I don't think like
the season had caught up to him at that point.
That was a really emotional thing too that happened. It
was kind of the first reel, like the nation saw them,
they saw them do something amazing. Jaden had that kind
of coming out party to catch them a It was
an incredible win. Nobody natally thought they were gonna win
that game. Then they went straight to Arizona. They were

(07:06):
out there the entire week, turned around, played a really
big game. Then we get to the Hail Mary. I
didn't know how they were gonna respond after that because
that had never happened before. They're getting a tremendous amount
of attention. Remember, Dan could even admitted like it took
an extra couple of days to really get over it
by the time they got to the Giants and they won,
and then you could just feel it, like some of

(07:27):
the injuries were starting to kind of add up, especially
on the offensive line. Jaden was still dealing with a
rib injuries. He's got some minor stuff with his hand,
which I assume is kind of okay. You could feel
the like the attrition and the weight and the length
of the season was catching up to them, and it's
just unfortunate that they lost that Pittsburgh game, because I think,
like I think everybody would feel a little different about

(07:49):
exactly where they are had they won that Pittsburgh game
and they were eight and three instead of seven and four.
I still think they're in an incredible position, but I
kind of largely feel like this is a lot of
the weight of the season hit them at the wrong
time where the schedule was really kind of up against it.
And now long weekend, a couple of home games by

(08:13):
week I'm hoping it regenerates a lot as they kind
of hit the home stretch of the season here.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yeah, no, I definitely feel that way. But even with that,
and you talk about the emotions of the Hill Mary game,
and then we played the Giants and then the Steelers game.
All these games, even in the two losses, I think
you learned a lot more about this football team in
terms of the mental toughness, the physical toughness, the emotional

(08:44):
toughness of these teams because these in these games, you
go total toe blow for blow with the with the
Pittsburgh team, and you had the league late in that
game and obviously Pittsburgh was able to get the lay
scoring and and and win that ball game. You you're
in Philadelphia and Thursday night football on the road, got

(09:06):
the lead in the fourth quarter, got the opportunity maybe
you uh, you know, you you can kick a field
goal to take a take a lead, go up. And
you're battling these teams into the fourth quarter and lating
it into these ball games. So that just shows that
that shows them amount of fighting these football teams and
our football team, where in past past years, maybe these

(09:29):
games aren't that close. They're they're blowouts in the first half,
and you know, you're looking at licking your wounds and like,
oh man, let's just hurry up and get to this weekend.
But as you saw the amount of fighting these and
our team staying with it, it's a it's a testament
to coach Quinn and the way he's built this team.

(09:51):
It's also a testament to the players and how competitive
they are. They're not concerned about what's ahead of them,
you know, they're just worried about what's what's what's what's
right in front of them right now, the game that
they're playing in. You know, we'll We'll deal with next
week when we deal with next week. But let's focus
on the Stealers. Let's focus on the Giants, Let's focus
on the Eagles. Whatever that task is, whatever that opponent is,

(10:14):
whoever that opponent is, and wherever it's at, let's focus
on that. And you know you mentioned the reset and
and hoping not even even we got the Cowboys this Sunday,
and I know we got to buy coming up coming
up in a couple of weeks. I'm sure the messaging
is to them, Let's only focus on the Dallas Cowboys.

(10:35):
Let's focus on how can we get a win in
our building against the division rival to get kind of
this two game losing streak out of our mouth.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
Yeah, I agree. All right, let's go through the Philadelphia
game a little bit, and I want to go back,
and I kind of want to just kind of go
chronological order. I mean, I've seen a trend here with
Washington when they're facing teams that have big time threats
on the outside, which is I'm going to turn to
Marshall Lattimore in a minute, because we have seen him
yet and we don't know what his presence is going
to mean for how they can do things differently, but

(11:05):
for the here and now, a couple of weeks ago
when they played New York, they backed off. I think
that they didn't want Malik Neighbors to beat them deep,
and they openly admitted that after the game. And therefore
the Giants had a lot of rush yards and time
of possession but didn't have a lot of points. It
worked out in their favor. I saw a similar thing.
I don't know if you saw it this week as well.
Aj Brown DeVante Smith is a massive duo. This was

(11:28):
going to be a very difficult matchup for them, and
they knew it's picked your poison with Saquon Barkley. But
early similarly, it felt like they were allowing a run
game to occur and then when the Eagles got into position,
you're hoping for a mistake or in the case of
the other night, missus on field goals, and it worked
out in their favor. So I don't know how you

(11:50):
kind of saw it early, but I saw a similar
at least schematic thought process by Joe Whitten company. You're
just not going to beat us with big plays, and
we're going to play the clock and we're gonna hopefully
have a lead and trust our offense. But what did
you see defensively in the first half that limited to
Philadelphia three points?

Speaker 2 (12:08):
Well, it was a lot of you know, let's call
it two shell type of situations, showing showing you know,
double coverage type type of schemes pre snap, before the
ball snap, just to kind of invite them to run
the football, not allow the explosive plays like you mentioned. Now,
I will say this, they were They may have shown

(12:28):
the two shelves, but then they would rotate to bringing
the eighth man in the box. And sometimes I probably
felt like they probably maybe could have did it a
little even a little bit more, But it was a
situation where hey, we don't want to give up the
explosive plays. Now, say KWHI Barkley for the most part
in the first half, I don't think he he really

(12:49):
was you know, had he maybe had some eight yard
runs stuff like that, but not held.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
He was held the under four yards per carry in
the first half. It was a win. He had like
fifteen carries for fifty something yards. It was a it
was a win in the first half. Hal and Berkley
didn't burn them.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah, and that's and that's what you want. They got
a They got a couple of two explosive plays. One
on a on an r PO where you know, you
go play action or you go run in the quarterback
Hurst's reading our our second level defenders, linebackers or safety.
We come up to stop the run. There's a window open,
and he hit He hit A J. Brown on the

(13:29):
slant and he also hit Devonte Smith on a slap that
That were two big plays there. Those were their explosives
in the first half. Really the only two explosive plays
that I can remember them having in the first half
of that ball game, and those were off of r
pos where hey, you know you got run favorable type
of situation looks we think it's a run. We suck

(13:53):
up on a run game, and he hit the He
hit a couple of quick, quick slants in those voided windows.
But again from a from a standpoint of if you
can hold say Kwhon Barkley under four yards per carry
and the first I have a ballgame and AJ Brown
and and DeVante Smith aren't really chilling you in a game,
you you got to be happy with that from a

(14:13):
defensive standpoint, And and that's what kind of happened. I
think defensively in the second half, especially lay in the game,
we kind of got worn down. We were on a
field a lot, a lot of that uh in that
ball game. Offense never really was able to get it
to a true rhythm in that ball game, so I
think eventually the defense just got worn out. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
One other thing I want to point out too again,
like this felt like the ben don't break scenario. If
they get into a short field you know, uh, situation
in the red zone. This is where this team's gonna
have to stand up and force them into either field
goal attempts. They got fortunate with one early miss. I
want to thank Philadelphia for what was a really poorly

(14:57):
time trick play where they tried to run a reverse
and route back to Hurtz and Luvu just happened to
be waiting for him. If you actually go watch this play,
Louvu got pushed into jail. It hurts like they had
missed a block on him badly, and the last ditch
attempt was to kind of try to push them away
from where the ball was going to be and pushed
him literally directly into them. So this is what they

(15:19):
were looking for. I think the first half couldn't have
gone much better than it did with the exception of
the offense, to your point, really couldn't get into much
of a rhythm outside of a couple of drives.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah, and the resound resound. Defensively, we had them, you know,
while for three in reisound, So if you're you're not
allowing them to get touchdowns and those bag in those
situations keep you in the league, keep you in in
the in the game. And for the most part, it
had a lead up until to the fourth quarter. It

(15:52):
was about eight I can't remember what Philly had there.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
It was twenty eight minutes to go yeah, to to go.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
Ahead, to go ahead score. But defensively, like you said,
Ben don't break, didn't didn't allow too many explosives, forced
him to kick field goals as the red zone and
the field kind of restriction. Now you're okay putting a
lot more man and man coverage because you're not worried
about your corners getting beat deep I thought. Mikey Stammers

(16:19):
still played out standing in a couple of fade balls
that they tried to throw against him in the red area,
so he stood up when he needed to stand up.
In those situations, and you know, it's just a situation
where offensively they were just we just we weren't truly
efficient in the run game. We also kind of shot

(16:43):
ourselves in the foot on the line a couple it
was second and one, we end up you know, not
converting that getting converted second to one, third and one
or fourth and two. That was that was the fourth
down when we're down what thirteen ten in that game,
think it was well thirteen point. Yeah, we'd do all

(17:04):
convert that fourth down situation. It was a third ford.
There was a you know, other like short third and
short situation two to five where we did convert for
one reason or another. Maybe it was an accurate throw
or off. The protection wasn't wasn't good enough in the situation.
So there was enough things that we didn't do well

(17:27):
enough that cost us that game.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yeah, there was one drive in the second quarter when
the team was up seven to three that I really
think ultimately might have been the difference, and it reared
up from what happened in Pittsburgh where there was a
lot of lack of execution. But it was about four
minutes to go second quarter. They had a penalty that
moved them backwards. They had a drop by Eckler on

(17:53):
a ball that might have been deflected, but you remember
Eckler kind of turned his head before he turned off field.
He had an outstanding game, by the way.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
But had to drop first down on it.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
He would have got a first out on that. And
then there was the miss. There was a miss to
Noah Brown where this is unusual with Jaden. It landed
about a yard short of where it needed to get
to and I don't know, maybe Brown ran his route
a little bit too deep, maybe he didn't you know,
we don't know. He'd have to ask them. But this
was the one drive that really in a close game
where things are going how you hope Eagles are moving

(18:24):
the ball, but they're not scoring points. They're making mistakes
when you need them to. You're catching a break with
their kicker missing kicks. That was the one London, that
was the drive. Actually I'll get to the one in
the fourth quarter where they had some decisions, but like
that was the one that me when I watched again,
where I went, they make it ten to three, they
make it fourteen to three at that point, I think
it's a very very different ballgame. But it was their

(18:46):
mistakes and their lack of execution that really stunted them.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
There. Oh, absolutely actually that score if I'm reading this
box score correctly, and at that point toime, the one
where Eckler, Eckler caught the ball and or you know,
he dropped the pass. Maybe he's thinking about running before
before he truly is able to put the ball away,

(19:11):
and he would have got it first out because he
was gonna be against point yard Mitchell, and I like
my eyes of Mitchell against against Eckler. I like Eckler
being able to break that tackle and pick up that
first down.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
Your dog didn't like that drive either.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
I know they get excited. I'm about to shut them,
lock them out. Hold on the second. Yeah, definitely out
come in the game. And you as you mentioned, you know,
you get a score there, it changes the course of
the game too. I feel like phil Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
I do want to talk about one player for Philadelphia
who really showed up and it's gonna be a problem
that they're gonna have to deal with in the rematch
in a few weeks and probably moving forward. Jalen Carter
has really come on here and when you watch, you know,
rewatch how often he disrupted so many plays? How are

(20:05):
you kind of in rewatching thinking about him moving forward?

Speaker 2 (20:10):
He is a problem and I knew that going into
the ball game he was gonna be a problem. And
he didn't disappoint play. He played the entire game, and
that's unheard of for a defensive lineman to play the
entire football game, especially a guy with that type of size.
He played every single snap defensively, So that shows you

(20:31):
what type of conditioning he is in. I would say this,
you know, they'll they'll look at they'll have to look
at changing some things up from a schematic standpoint of
how they they wanted to block him, and they tried
to block him, especially in the run game. You're gonna
have to get him double teams as often as possible,
and yeah, that may, you know, create one on one

(20:52):
situation or maybe may leave a you know, it's not
ideal to always have the double team a guy, but
if you don't, he's gonna wreck and ruled your game
the way he did in that game against against US
on Thursday night. So from when when they look at that,
they'll have a they'll they'll have to have a different
type of approach to go against against Jalen Carter because

(21:17):
he was extremely disruptive, you know, especially when it came
to in the run game. It was the I mean
he on that the second and one situation, laying the
ball game. He single handedly he got into the backfield,
stopped b robb On i think on the third one
scenario as well, And when they tried the fourth and

(21:38):
two play, his penetration blew up that play through off
the time and all those on that fourth and two attempt.
So you're definitely gonna have to figure out a different
way to block him.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
I mean, many people believed a year ago that he
could have been the number one overall pick or at
least go higher than he did. It was off the
field stuff that came up up with him that got
him to drop to where he dropped. So the Eagles
ended up he fell in their lap because they were
picking in the latter stages of the first round. He
easily go watch him, you could see why, like he

(22:12):
could have been the number one overall pick. It's one
of two major difference makers on this team this year
that kind of fell into their lap. Saquon Barkley's is
the other one. In my opinion at this point, I
think he should be a front runner for a Bareman.
I'm a Offensive Player of the Year. He's rushed for
over eleven hundred yards in ten games. His touchdown total

(22:35):
isn't high only because Hertz has so many of them
in the red zone when they get close to the
goal line that he vultures Saquon Barkley through touchdown right, right,
He's a touchdown poacher. But that's it. But like Barkley
again in the second half, and I want to see
what you think about this. It just felt like goes
back to what we were talking about too earlier. The

(22:56):
volume of plays, the weight of the season, the timing
of the turn around, their offensive line, their defensive line.
It just seemed to catch up to them at the
end of this game. And this is where Barkley found space.
The defensive line just kind of lost its leverage and
all of a sudden were turned to do what I

(23:16):
thought was a pretty good first half, limiting him as
much as possible. It turned into an avalanche in the
second half.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yeah, it definitely did. You can tell that. I mean
the Philly's offensive line, they have massive they they were
eventually able to create holes and for forcea kuana. He
has such great vision, Like they ran a play where
he's just looking back at and you get trying to
get him stop, and he just finds a crease and

(23:46):
you get offensive linement pushes our defensive linement passed the
past the hole and he cuts back and he's actually
you know, he's on to your secondary and he has
the speed to take in the distance, which he did
twice against us. It's it's almost not fair to be
able to add him to to that scheme, to that
to that group, with what he's able to do and

(24:06):
what he brings to that. But it's a it's an
all day affair when you're going against the Philadelphia Eagles,
especially in terms of trying to stop their rushing attack,
and it's going to be a as you mentioned, pick
your type poison. Maybe you go into that game you say, hey,
we we may look at Barkley as the focal point
on stot and stopping him and forcing Hurts to beat

(24:28):
us throwing the football, because I didn't think Hurts was
particularly that Chris throwing the football in that ball game.
Now you know he just eventually benefited from from having
a Saquan and what he was able to do and
what they were able to do rushing and rushing the ball.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yeah, I mean from the outside looking in, I mean
there MVP. I mean, he's the one that really is
stirring the drink this year, and again, I think he
could be Offensive Player of the Year or more depended
on what ultimately their record ends up being and what
his stats ultimately look like. But I want to go
back to something we were talking about earlier, which is
we haven't seen Marshawn Latimore yet, and we're taping this

(25:06):
before dan Quinn speaks for the first time this week
as we head into the Dallas game, So I don't
know whether he's going to be available for Dallas or not.
The hope is sooner rather than later. But as you
think about him moving forward and then in a rematch
with this team in a few weeks, I'm not so
sure that schematically they're going to do it the same
way when they get him on the field and probably

(25:29):
have a different level of confidence in their secondary Right,
Am I right? I mean, am I barking up the
right tree here?

Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yeah? I think so, Because I mentioned this well when
we first picked up Marshall. Marshall is not only gone,
you know, be add an addition to the passing pass coverage.
He'll allow the run defense to be better because of
you don't have to play as many kind of cover
two or shale coverage type of looks. You can go

(25:57):
play a single you can play more eight man single
high type safeties. You can allow allow Joe Wood Jr.
To call it call a defense totally different. So he's
not only being brought in to elevate the coverage. His
addition elevates to the run defense because you have a
guy that you trust to be able to hold up

(26:19):
one one on one man man and if you want to,
you know, maybe have a safety lean other to the
other side to help the other cornerback out. You can
do that. But I will say this, I thought, from
a secondary standpoint, I thought the guys played really good
against the Eagles. Man, I thought Saint Juice, but I
had a really really nice bounce back game after you know,

(26:40):
having a giving up to late touchdown against the Eagles.
I thought he I mean against the Pittsburgh Steelers, I
thought he played well even though he was in and
out of the lineup. When he was in the game.
I thought he did a lot of nice stage from
a cover standpoint, mentioned Mikey Samon still already and how
he was able to make some plays. I think he
was the highest graded for us defensively in that ball

(27:02):
game he did. He did another outstanding job. So just
adding adding a Marshaw when he's fully healthy is going
to improve his defense, not just on the back end
from a cover standpoint, but also allow us to maybe
play a little bit more eight man fronts and stopping
a run.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
There's also been this like assumption that when he comes
in here, oh, they'll just put Sarma's still back in
the slot. I don't know about that actually, Like I'm
waiting to see that play out. Like Joe would have
said this over and over and over, we're just gonna
play the best players to give us a chance week
to week. So I don't know what that means yet.
Like Lottimore, clearly they acquired him and his resume speaks

(27:42):
for itself. So he's gonna be on the field. Who's
where and on the field with him? That's a pretty
interesting mystery, and I can't wait to see what that is.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
Yeah, No, I feel the same way because Salmon Steel
has played so well outside, you know, maybe you and
I knocking. He has had his moments in the inside,
So it'll it'll afford them the opportunity to say, hey,
maybe they mix a match, depending on you know, down
the distance, tendencies of the team, you know, kind of

(28:14):
go from there from from a you know who's in
the game. I don't know if you're gonna ease Marshaan
in a little bit just because getting them familiar with
the defense, maybe getting this conditioning back. But there will
be situations where I'm sure you'll have all four corners
on the football field, and I don't know if you
have I Monogamy covering the tight end, or you got

(28:35):
Saint Jews covering the tight end or Sam France, you
got you have options now, and that's the beauty of having,
you know, multiple guys who can go out and play
for you and play well.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
Let's get to the drive in the fourth quarter that
really kind of turned it right. So Washington's finally down
for the first time. It's twelve to ten thanks to
Jake Elliott missing the extra point. They get the ball
back like they have all year. This was a resilient
they turned around. It might have been their best drive
since the first half. Right, they turn around, they move

(29:07):
the ball down the field. They get into position. Second
straight game, they got what, in my opinion, was a
bad spot. The baits play I think was a first down.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
I didn't look like that. I disagree with that. No
bait stepped out of bounds. He stepped out of bounce
short short of the first down.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
Okay, all right, so they get second one.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
You said you, yeah, yeah, he stepped out of bounce
shorter first down.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Okay, so they get second in inches, they run a
run play makes a lot of sense. It doesn't work.
They go backwards about a half a yard. It's now
third and a full yard. They run a run play again.
This is where the other defensive tackle, Jordan Davis, came
up big and just showed up as a run stopper.
Here they ran into a wall. This one also goes

(29:52):
backwards again. Okay, so it's now fourth and almost a
full two. This is the first time that I think
think that this team made a decision that I just
didn't overly agree with at the time. I understand the
Eagles that started moving the ball. I understand that like
the wear and tear were starting to settle in. But
with eight minutes on the clock and down only two,

(30:15):
in a totally manageable field goal situation like this wasn't
a long field goal, I would have kicked there. And listen,
I don't know how you felt about it now rethinking
about it and rewatching it. And of course hindsight is
they lost. So anything that didn't you know, could have
been done different, might have changed the outcome that at
the time, That's where I was on that. I don't
know where you were on it.

Speaker 2 (30:35):
I'm okay. I was okay with them going for it
on fourth and two, and as it was because of
what Dad mentioned, like field goals weren't going to win
this ball game. You weren't going to, you know whin
the win the ball game, win that ball game thirteen
twelve or fifteen, fifteen thirteen, like you you were gonna
need touchdowns to win that ball game. Still a lot

(30:57):
of time left in the game. If they kicked that
field goal there, it's still but about eight minutes left
in the ball game. That's a lot of a lot
of football left. I didn't think the execution was great
of the play, and part of that I mentioned earlier,
was Jalen Carter being able to get penetration? I think
I think Jayden Daniels mentioned the staff count. Maybe him

(31:18):
need to be a little bit louder on the staff count.
When they look at it, they'll they'll look at execution,
but they also may look at play selection. Was that
the best play selection for us? And so those are
the things that they have to really look at. Cliff
has to have to really say, all right going forward?

(31:39):
Was not that wasn't the mistake? Was it the best execution?
That wasn't the best best play call? Those are really
the two things that they need to answer the question
of I don't I don't have a problem with them
going for I thought the second and one Jalen Carter,
I mean he just he disrupted that that second and

(32:00):
one situation could be rob have, you know, maybe try
to stay inside, lowered his head and tried to just
get what he could get. Maybe he picks up the
up the first out, pick up that first down on
second and one, possibly third and one situation. The Eagles
they just as you mentioned, they you ran into a
brick wall. So I'm okay with the play. I'm okay

(32:21):
with them going forward on fourth to two. The execution
and the play selection, those are things that Cliff and
Dan and they'll have to figure out. You know, how
are those things as part of the equation?

Speaker 1 (32:33):
Yeah, I mean the execution wasn't there, So in hindsight,
could they have burned a time out to make sure
they were all on the same page and get it right?
You know? I guess we could ask them if they
could have done that. The only thing that I would
say about it, I agree with you. I don't think
field goals were winning the game. It was clearly going
in a different direction. But I'll just say this about it.
Their kicker had missed two field goals in an extra

(32:54):
point and if you take the lead with eight minutes
to go, you wonder, or I wondered, would Philadelphia make
unusual decisions if put to the test because they didn't
trust their kicker late, And so that was part of
it for me in feeling like I think I just
would have taken the points because if Philadelphia gets down

(33:14):
even to the twenty five yard line and they get
in the same spot that Washington's in, do they trust
their kicker at that point? Based on the night he
was having and that's why I was kind of more
for let's take the points and roll the dice here
that this team is going to be concerned about their
kicking game if put to the test.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
I don't think that. I don't think that was kay
I thought. I think Dad is looking at it like
Philadelphia kind of got momentum in their favorite to get
that to score that touchdown. Final it went on eleventh place,
seventy six yard touchdown drive to get a touchdown to
take the lead. So it wasn't a situation scenario where
you could all of it all of a sudden count on,

(33:55):
hey we're gonna vand a break force them to kick
a field goal, because again they had they made plays.
Jayalen Hurst was starting to make make plays with his legs,
scrambling for first downs, you know, picking up a picking
up plays. The running game was starting to get going
for the for the egos, and that on that drive
they took the lead against US. So again I'm with

(34:18):
Dan feeling like, hey, this is not gonna be a
field goal field goal type of game. Philly has momentum.
They're starting to kind of get some momentum going scoring touchdowns,
and if you look at they scored three straight touchdowns
to close that game out.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
Yeah, it really turned obviously, it really turned all right
at the very end. Let me let me get your
thoughts on this too, because at the time I didn't
think much of this. Once the score got to where
it got to and it kind of turned in that
four minute period. The fact that washing did it took
them as long as it did to score the touchdown
to make it a one score game. If you read
Twitter after that, you would have thought like they weren't

(34:55):
moving quickly enough. So I don't know where you were
because at the time when I was sitting next to
you in the booth, I think either one of us
were like, what's going on here? Like I thought they
were moving about as efficiently as they could could. They
have gone a little bit faster, sure, like I'll hear
that out, but I don't know where you stood on
all of that.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
I still from the standpoint, the Eagles weren't gonna allow
us to get have big plays. That's why it took,
you know, fifteen plays, because they were playing they went
back and they played true split safety coverage where it
forces you to throw check downs. They only rushed four

(35:36):
so they were allowing their four man rush to get
out the get out the jaden. They were having successful
just format rush and they were keeping everything in front
of us. We were still going no huddle, but they
weren't gonna allow you to hit get those big shots.
You're gonna have to settle for a five yard checkdown. Uh,
you know, a seven yard pass. We weren't gonna They

(35:57):
weren't gonna have allowed the explosives to take place to
take place in that against and that's a scenario. It
just weren't going to allow it. So Twitter could say
what they want, but the Eagles were not going to
allow us to have the big plays over the top.
And that was you know some of the some of
the people were like, well, why didn't you Targetary a lot?
Why why did they Targetary a lot? We were the

(36:20):
big plays to the wide receivers. The Philadelphia Eagles defense
of scheme, defensive game plan was not going to allow
the explosive place to happen.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
So all right on the passing game. You know, I
agree with you, and I think what was different really
about this one as opposed to some of the previous
couple Philadelphia was winning with four a lot, and I
think that's testament to Carter, who was extraordinarily disruptive, and
a testament to their team as well. But I agree

(36:51):
with you that I think the passing game was stunted
a lot by how much they were winning with for
the other night.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
No, yeah, that's true, absolutely, you know, and also not
really being able to run the ball as well against
light boxes seven man boxes when you can, when you
can play that seven man box and still effectively stopped
the row we had. We had one drive I think
it was the first the first touchdown we got where

(37:20):
where the run game had success. B Robbles Cup running
downhill and making some plays. But for the most part,
Philly did a really nice job with a lot of
light boxes defending our run game. And when you could
do that, that allows them they were they were having
late rotation to uh to a single high safety or
to you know, bringing an eighth man into the box,

(37:42):
but they they were that eighth man in the box
really didn't even have to wasn't having to get involved
in the run game because the linebackers and the defensive lineman.
Philadelia Philadelphia Eagles really handling all the all the things
that they and therefore you don't get to have the

(38:03):
major play action passes. Now, we were able to get
some play action in the drive, get Jade now on
the edges, hit hit Terry on a comeback when he
finally caught a ball in the fourth quarter. But in
terms of play action, deep shots and things like that,
that wasn't gonna happen. There were opportunities when where you
had receivers open. There was some inaccurate throws by Jaden,

(38:26):
and there also was some protection issues where maybe he
needed half a second more to be able to get
to a certain read, or maybe Jade may have been
reading one side as opposed to read another side. So
you know, there's a again, enough things that we didn't
do well enough in that ballgame, and we can look
at and say, you know what, we correct these things,

(38:47):
the outcome is totally different.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
So every team hits adversity, every single one of them.
I thought dan Quid said it well the other day.
Sometimes it happens early, sometimes it happens in the middle,
sometimes it happens late. I look at this group and
I know they're new and everything's new, and every week
we're like, let's see how they respond to this good
or bad, whether it was the Cincinnati game where I'm like,
that was really emotional. Now they're going on the road

(39:10):
for a week West coast trip, short week. How are
they going to respond? Responded really well? When they had
the loss to Baltimore, we were like, Okay, that's their
first real loss loss. I don't even really count the
opener that way, first loss loss. They called it a
heavyweight fight. They wanted to see where they stood. They
lost the game. How are they going to respond? Really well?
Blew out the team that they played the following week,

(39:32):
the Hail Mary extraordinarily emotional. They had to go on
the road. Giants have to win that game. If they
want to keep their season alive. They win anyway. So
they've answered a lot of these questions. This is now
they're on their first two game losing streak. Clearly physically
they needed a break. It was so obvious even going
into Pittsburgh, let alone playing two games at four games

(39:53):
against really good teams. I look at some of the
veteran leadership and I go zach Ertz, Austin Eckler, Bobby Wagner,
Terry McLaurin, may, hopefully Deron Payne, Jeremy Chick, guys who've
been around the block, especially some of those initial ones.
I'm hoping we're leaning on them to see how do

(40:14):
you get through this? Because a couple of players who
played their best the other night when we're talking about
all these things, Eckler was outstanding, specifically in the passing game.
Ertz came through in the end when they really needed
them and started targeting him. He made a crazy one
handed catch that was kind of lost in all that.
That two point conversion catch was ridiculous, the one that

(40:34):
he made. I'm hoping that that veteran leadership helps this
very new team get things righted and back going in
the right direction again.

Speaker 2 (40:43):
It will. I'm definitely confident in that leadership, not just
with the veterans, but also from the coaching staff standpoint.
You have these coaches who who've had so many experiences
I've been in the NFL, having a long season. We
got a young team in certain certain areas, but we
also have you know, the right players in certain situations

(41:04):
as well. You got you got guys who won Super Bowls.
You have guys who've been through the battles. They're extremely
battle tested and you'll lean on that. Adversity is a
part of sports, and you you love that, and I
think again, you learn so much more about your football

(41:24):
team during times like this then you do when everything
is going well, when you know you're you're on a
four game winning streak and everything is you know, everybody's
patting you on the back, the sun and shine and
and man, you're on top of the world. Then you
get it to a lull, you get into a two
game win a streak, I mean two game losing streak. Now,
how are you gonna respond? How are you going to

(41:46):
look at it and say, truly say, Okay, these are
the areas we haven't been good enough and that have
aided in us being on this two game losing streak.
How do we get better? How do we we do?
What are the things that we need to do? And
a lot of times it's not even when you verbally
say something as a better guy, it's what are you

(42:08):
showing on a weekend, a day and day out basis
in the meeting rooms where you're on that pritice field,
holding guy's accountable, holding yourself accountable, How you're going out
carrying carrying your business, carrying out your business and the
other guys. They see that and they say, man, this
is what winning football, This is what winning players do

(42:29):
in order to get themselves back.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
How about Jaden Daniels. Clearly like the rib injury had
affected him for a little while. You could I'm feeling
like the season's getting a little long on him too,
and maybe this long weekend and the upcoming body is
gonna be very helpful for him as well. I think
I'm hoping you know that that's what's going to be
the case. We haven't seen a lot with his legs
the last couple of weeks. In this particular game, you

(42:54):
saw him backing up in the pocket a little bit
more than I was accustomed to seeing like in recent
So what would you say to Jaydon Daniels is he
took this little weekend off, turn it back around, and
he's got a third of the season to go.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
Sometimes you just need you just need that weekend to
get to get away. You need a few extra days
to to get your body together. I've dealt with the
rib injury, and it's not a situation where in one
week or two weeks, all of a sudden you're back
to one hundred percent. Man, those things because you're constantly he's
still playing, So there's games where he's still taking shots

(43:29):
in those areas. He's getting hit in that in that rib.
So yeah, maybe it's not a situation where he has
to come out of a ball game, but it is
a scenario where it is. It delays the healing process.
He plays a position where you know, he's all all, all,
you know, always exposed in that area, so you're gonna
take shots. Him getting away being able to kind of

(43:52):
get a few extra few more days to recover mentally, physically,
all those things, emotionally, because it has been a long season.
If you think about the three preseason games and now
already played eleven games. That's fourteen games and he's played
that's a that's the college season. Yeah, he's had He's
added college season and we still haven't had that. Buy

(44:16):
this is this is gonna be I think it'll be
wonder for him. As you mentioned, Jayden kind of maybe
retreating a little bit in the pocket more so than
we've accustomed grown accustomed to. It could have been, hey,
the pass rush, he could feel a little bit of
pressure from film filler because of the protection wasn't quite
what it needed to be or it could be, hey,

(44:37):
if I step into this throw, maybe I might get hit.
Things like that. So it definitely wasn't his best showing
in terms of being in the pocket and step it
up and things like that. But you know, they'll they'll
I think he'll be okay.

Speaker 1 (44:51):
Yeah, And I think the old line is needed the
break too. I think that's the unit that's really like
stood out to me. It's needing a bye week really badly.
All right, last player from the game the other night,
just the season in general. I just want to get
your thoughts on him. We've talked about him a lot,
but Frankie Luvu, I mean, I was excited when they
signed him because I saw the energy he played within Carolina.
This might even be better than what I expected out

(45:14):
of him. He has been a chaos agent for them
throughout the entire year. His energy's infectious and he is
consistently week after week making one to five plays that
can change the outcome of games. And as a former
linebacker who I'm hoping one day and very soon is
gonna be in the Hall of Fame, what do you

(45:35):
make of what you're seeing of the season that he's
having This year.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
Just phenomenal, just phenomena. I think you mentioned it him
just being a chaos agent, and you saw what he
did in Carolina. Part of him playing at Carolina, he
was doing a lot of this stuff down here. I
live in Charlotte, as I mentioned multiple times, But when
you're playing in a small market, not a lot of
the country gets to see you. They weren't winning in Carolina,

(46:01):
so not a lot of the country knew about him,
and so it's kind of like, uh, the needle didn't
move with that much outside of the NFL world, Like
the teams knew what Frankie brought to the table, but
you know, fans kind of like maybe underwhelmed by the siding.
But he has been he has been a star. In
his defense, I think the way they utilize him, bringing

(46:24):
him off their heads, rushing, blittening him up the middle,
getting him, getting him one on ones against running backs.
There was a situation where Saquon Barkley tried to pick
him up on a on a Blitz pickup and oh
my goodness, he he runs over. Saquan hits uh his
Jalen Hurst. As he's getting rid of the football, he
folds up Jalen Hurst. But that's the type of disruption

(46:47):
that he plays with. I think the Feed's offense in
he made what two sackses you mentioned in the ball game,
already up to I think eight eight on the season,
and he's got to continue to make plays for us
because of his skill set and also the way they
utilize him in this game.

Speaker 1 (47:08):
All right, so let's move on. Here comes our first
Dallas week of the season, first of two. It'll be
this one and then the finale is down in Dallas.
Very different team. Dak Prescott won't be playing because he's
been injured. He's undergoing surgery for a hamstring Injury's not
going to play. Their record is what it is. The
you know, all the rumors about what's going to be

(47:29):
coming down the pike for them or are what they
are right? This is a long year, kind of a
lost year. But I mean, you live this. I count
no Chickens ever against I don't. I've seen it too
many times on both sides. Where how many times have
you seen the team that they said had no chance
in this rivalry both ways wins. So like, trust me,

(47:54):
then we're taping this before they play this week because
They're playing Houston tonight, So I don't know what they're
going to be coming out of this, but you better
take them seriously. And they always better take this team seriously.
It does not matter what the records are every single
time when they play each other.

Speaker 2 (48:11):
Absolutely absolutely, this this rivalry is real. Dallas. Week is
different when when these teams get together and I can
I go back to my first game against against the
Cowboys when I was, you know, first time playing playing
for Washington Man. That game was so physical, Like we
had that monday after the game. We probably had half

(48:34):
our team in the training room and I'm sure they
had half their team in the training room. Just a
physical matchup, physical battle that takes place. You don't you
don't worry about records. Dallas. They they would love to
ruin our season. You know, they're not playing the type
of football that they want to play right now. They
they they've dealt with a lot of injuries, but they

(48:54):
still got a lot of really good football players and
you have to respect them. Think about you know, Michael Parsons,
he's a problem. CD Lamb, he's a problem. So those
two guys just off the off the bat, that are
two guys that you like. You better have a plan
how you're gonna deal with those guys. And and Danny

(49:16):
dan Quinn and Joe with Junior. They know these guys,
they know CD, they know obviously the defensive personnel with
the Dallas Cowboys. So I don't I don't worry about
us overlooking the Cowboys, especially get considering the rivalry. Where
we're at on the two game losing street. We gotta

(49:36):
get our our season and our situation back righting. We
need to win. I know they'll be, you know, chopping
at the bit to get a win against a division rival,
So it'll be it's gonna be an extremely exciting game.
I'm sure. I can't. I know you feel the same
way I feel that you can't wait to get to
get to the Northwest Stadium on Sunday. Call that game

(49:59):
as just be a part of the atmosphere and be
a part of that excitement.

Speaker 1 (50:03):
I mean, there's nothing like this rivalry. I mean, it's
it's one of the best in the NFL, and it's
it's been an amazing legacy you know here, and I
like that. It feels like because it's been a while
that the tables have turned a little bit here, and
that we're the team that's kind of heading with the
upper trajectory, and they're the ones that are going to
be answering a lot of questions over the next six

(50:23):
weeks into the offseason. So I like that. I mean,
just think about where we were a year ago. We
went down there. Dallas went undefeated at home before the
playoff game, before they played green Bay, they had the
best point differential at home of any team in the NFL.
And one year later, since that Green Bay playoff game,
they're minus one ten point differential at home. They haven't
won a game. Like things could change fast for teams

(50:47):
in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
Man, Yeah, that's perplexing, Like when you just read that
off typically you play a lot better at home, which
I don't. I don't understand that. I truly don't understand.
I mean, Dak got it injured recently, but he was
he was therefore a lot of those ball guys before
before him being out, So I don't know. I can't

(51:11):
explain it. Maybe the roster got a lot older, a
lot quicker than they expected.

Speaker 1 (51:18):
And it could be the defensive staff that had a
top five defense isn't there anymore? So that's like to me,
this is gonna be very interesting. I know, Dan Qudit,
Joe Witt, They're gonna say really nice things about Michael Parsons,
de Marcus Lawrence, if he's playing, Trayvon Diggs, all these
great players that they had, but deep down they know

(51:40):
their weaknesses. And I can't wait to see this this
week of how they shift that knowledge over to Cliff
Kingsbury in the offense to try to hopefully take advantage
of some of the weaknesses of some of those players.
Who knows them better than this coaching staff.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
Nobody, Nobody haven't spent three years in Dallas coaching up
those guys, coaching up the secondary, nor their strengths and weaknesses. Yeah,
this is a It's definitely bows in our favor because
of all that intimate knowledge our coaching staff has of
the Dallas Cowboys personnel.

Speaker 1 (52:19):
So let's talk about Parsons for a moment. He is
a problem. He's a very dynamic player as you kind
of think about him, and what we've seen in the
past is we've tried to deal with him. What do
you think the key is to try to limiting his
impact on the game.

Speaker 2 (52:34):
I think you know I have to chip him especially.
I could see them trying to get him matched up
against Brandon Coleman a lot. Brandon He's had a couple
of issues lately dealing with some speed rushers off the edge,
guys who are able to kind of dip and being
underneath the underneath him Steelers High Smith, he gave him
some problems with that. Last week against the Eagles or

(52:56):
Thursday against the Eagles, Nolan Smith was able to get
a round. I'll get around Brandon Cobo a couple of times.
So anticipate them trying to get Parsons matched up against
against Coleman a lot. So I would say maybe you'll
see a little bit more sliding protection toward h towards

(53:17):
Michael Parsons. Also more chips from the running back, more
chips on the receivers, just to give a little bit
more help to uh to Coleman or even even if
when he is matched up against Andrew Wiley as well,
you got you gotta you gotta get chips on this guy.
It can't be a steady die of one on one
block and that gets to against him. Much like Jalen Carter,

(53:39):
he can ruin your day and our being to be
from the outside as opposed to Jalen Carter disrupted and
ruining your day from the inside. You have to have
a solid game plan in terms of how you're going
to block him in obvious past situations.

Speaker 1 (53:53):
I'll be interested to see too. Listen. For the majority
of the season before he got hurt, Cornelius Lucas was
rotating with Brandon. I don't know that necessarily they're going
to go back to that. He was active for the
Thursday game, albeit he had missed the last two with
an ankle injury. Hopefully the time has helped him become
someone that they could turn to and put in the
game if they want to. I wonder if that's something

(54:15):
that's in play here as we move down the stretch
of the season. As Coleman's been dealing with a shoulder
injury recently, Lucas coming back a veteran, maybe that rotation
starts happening again.

Speaker 2 (54:26):
It's possible, and maybe they feel like okay. Corneius says
he's healthy enough to be dressed in his ball game,
but he's still he was dealing with that Ancho injury.
The added rest of not having played it several weeks
and not even playing in his past ball game against
the Eagles. Another opportunity to give him more days to

(54:47):
rest up, get that Ancho together. Maybe they'll get back
to that rotation like they had prior to Corneus having
that Ancho injury. So we'll see, we'll see, We'll see
what happens.

Speaker 1 (54:59):
Okay, how about Trayvon Diggs, who he can be a
boomer bust player. He will give up big plays. He
will also pick the ball off if you are not
careful with him. Incredible ballhawk, incredible ball skills. So how
do you think about him as Washington tries to re
energize their passing game after last week?

Speaker 2 (55:19):
Well, hey, you know, I could see again. We talked
about the strengths and weaknesses of this Dallas Cowboys personnel.
Because Joe Witt knows them, Dad Quinn knows them, they
will understand when how they can take shots, whether it's
getting a terry and run, a slaphase or diami or

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whatever the case may be. How they want to attack him.
What ways is it, double moves, is it, whatever he
struggles with, they will put those things in the game
plan and from there is the protection good enough? When
you had those shot plays called to take advantage of
of going out against him, But you know he's he's

(56:00):
still a tremendous cornerback and he makes a lot of play.
So you know, I we need more explosives from our
passing game. That's been a part of it. Being able
to run the ball effectively Dallas. I don't I don't
think it. I haven't looked at their stats, but they
hadn't been running, they hadn't been stopping a run too well, yeah,
in the past, not sure if that's still the case.

(56:24):
So maybe being able to run the ball a little
bit more force them to get into that single high
safety looks where you could have one on one opportunities
outside of which your receivers against their corners.

Speaker 1 (56:37):
I mean, this has been going on for a few
years now, that you can run the ball on Dallas,
specifically between the tackles. They haven't been really that strong
up the very good as a pass rushing unit, and
have been for a very long time, but you can
run on them and listen when Washington was, you know,
going at the clip offensively that they were going before
the last really just a couple of weeks, they were

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basically a fifty to fifty run pass team, and they
were rushing for one hundred and fifty to oftentimes and
on multiple occasions over two hundred yards. This screams a
b ROB game. You want, you really want to shut
down someone like Parsons and Digs and take them away
from having a massive impact on it, run it down
their throat, and I have a feeling this is a
b ROB game this weekend.

Speaker 2 (57:18):
Yeah, I just looked at the rush defense tasts to Dallas.
Cowboys are thirty first in the National Football League and
rushing yards allow per game, they average one per game. Yeah, yeah,
the first On the flip side of that with thirtieth,

(57:38):
I allow that point that, but I don't think Dallas
has that type of running game that we could. Uh. Yes,
she had a rub fo one hundred and fifty yards.

Speaker 1 (57:47):
Listen. The last couple of weeks they have faced two
of the better rush offenses in the NFL. Najie Harris
had a three straight hundred plus yard streak going into
the game against Washington. Saquon Barkley's having as good a
season as any running back in the NFL, with the
maybe exception of Derrick Henry. But he may have surpassed
him at this point. He's having just an outstanding offensive
player of the year type season. That's not all due respect.

(58:10):
That's not the situation that's coming in with Dallas. You know,
I think the idea here is can you and this
is what Washington's focused on the last couple of the
last few weeks. They don't want to get hit with
big plays by primary receivers Malik Neighbors, AJ Brown, DeVante Smith.
Those numbers were down in places where you're comfortable feel
pretty good about. They didn't hit you for any real

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big plays. You got to remove CD Lamb. I mean,
that is the primary weapon that they have that can
hurt you specifically down the field. So we'll see how
they handle him this weekend as well.

Speaker 2 (58:41):
Yeah, I think, you know, eliminated CD Lamb will be
major because he's he's the one guy that I look
at on that office that can bring energy to that
office and energy to that team if he's able to
make explosive plays, and that's going to energize the rest
of the team that'll get that that you would have
played better than what they you know, may talent may

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say they should be playing at or just where they're
at in their situation from a health standpoint, and also
it could energize that defense. So limiting him, not allowing
him to make big plays will be the key. You know,
as I as I'm getting back to that Dallas Cowboys
defense brah. But guess even better, over the last three

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games they're allow at one hundred and seventy yards rushing
per game. So this is this Bowl is extremely well
for us.

Speaker 1 (59:32):
Is the b ROB rush football? Yeah, a few years
ago down the famous one in twenty twenty on Thanksgiving
down in Dallas, Antonio Gibson at a three touchdown game
is like one of the most memorable games of the
Ron Rivera era. This feels like a b ROB game
like it just it feels like one of those were
one hundred plus multiple score type of day. He looked good,

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by the way, the other night, I was waiting to
see what that would look like. And he missed a
couple of games with the hamstring. It was a short
turnaround the run he had prior to the one yard
touchdown run that was vintage Robinson against the Eagles.

Speaker 2 (01:00:06):
Oh it was man and just the he showed. He
showed his explosiveness, his ability to cut, cut and get downhills,
breaking tackles. You know it would have been that would
have been an awesome highlight. Think about the call that
would have been if he would have scored on that play.
Felt like we got robbed half a yard short of

(01:00:29):
getting to that is Zoe. But man, you mentioned him,
he did. He did look good. He looked explosive, he
looked he looked like the halmstring was not an issue
for him him. Uh, you know, being able to kind
of get back to where he needs to be, having
a few more days off and before the game next
week against the Cowboys, I think he or this weekend,
I should say, against the Cowboys, that'll that'll make him

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even I think from a from a you know, getting
back to what he was, that'll be even better for him.

Speaker 1 (01:00:58):
So last ones I want to bring up because you
know there are players on Dallas gonna be motivated to
show dan Quinn. I'm sure Chris's great rivalry between these
two teams. I want to see a big one from
Dorrit's Armstrong, Dante Fowler, the ex Cowboys that left Dallas
came with dan Quinn and Joe Wit. Armstrong was really
coming on in the middle of the season, then he

(01:01:20):
suffered that upper body injury took him out for a
game or two. I'm starting to see him starting to
feel himself again, and I'm sure this is a big
weekend for him because he got the contract here, not
in Dallas. He could he could show why to the
Cowboys that he was he should have been valued differently.

Speaker 2 (01:01:40):
Anytime you're playing against your former team, rap, you want
to have a great game against those guys you just
for whatever reason, whatever the scenario, led to you no
longer being on that football team. You want to go
out and show and prove to them that they made
a mistake by not paying you, or they should have

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did whatever they needed to do to ensure that you
were still a part of their football team. And those
guys you mentioned, they're gonna be extremely motivated to to
go out and play well against their former team it happened.
I don't care how how many years you played in
the National Football League, how many times you face your
former team, You're always going to want to perform well

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against those those guys.

Speaker 1 (01:02:25):
All right, First, Dallas Week is on. Can't wait to
get to it. Sunday, Northwest Stadium out in Landover. That's
big fletch on brand Weinstein. This has been the Booth review.
We'll talk to you after the Dallas game next week.