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The Washington Commanders are headed back to Philadelphia to take on the Eagles in the NFC Championship! Senior Writer Zach Selby is joined by Al Galdi and Juan Romero to break down how Washington can get to the Super Bowl for the first time since 1991.   Hosts: Zach Selby   Guests: Al Galdi, Juan Romero

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Speaker 1

What is that? What's going on, y'all? This is another episode of the Beatdown podcast and we're back. We are here. We have survived in at least another week because the Washington Commanders have advanced to the conference championship for the first time since the nineteen ninety one season. And how about that win, right, a forty five to thirty one

victory over the Detroit Lions. Is just I remember sitting there just listening to the broadcast and thinking, oh my god, this is actually going to happen, because you always want something like this to happen, right, You always vision and vision whenever you work in sports, or whether you're like me or you're somebody else, you always want to be able to go to a championship game. And still don't know if it's really it really hit me yet because I've been working for this team's going on my six

years now and we haven't really gotten close. This is the first time I've been to playoff games is twenty twenty longest I've been working this intensely for a season. But here we are, and it's one of those pincherrself ones because it truly is, truly is magical and They're going to have a three match, if you will, against the Philadelphia Eagles for a ticket to the Super Bowl in New Orleans against the the AFC champion. And surprise, surprise, this Eagles team is still as dominant as they were

the first two times that they played the Commanders. Jalen Carter is phenomenal. Taekwon Barkley has since rushed for two thousand and five yards in a season. Jalen hurts good, but we'll maybe he's a little bit injured there. We'll see. We'll see what he's got going on for the rest of the week. And how are the Commanders going to do this? How are they going to advantage to a Super Bowl for the first time since ninety one and

the first time in dan Quinn's regime. Well, that is exactly what we're going to be talking about today and with when we have Wander Marrow from the Spanish broadcast one. How you doing doing good?

Speaker 2

Doing good? This? As excited as you are? Man Championship week?

Speaker 1

Oh okay through the roof Cloud nine, still am. And on the other side of this, we have Alcoholty. You can find him on the Alghaloty podcast out high You.

Speaker 3

Doing doing well, super pumped, amazing that we are here. But here we are, and let the good times continue, guys.

Speaker 1

Yes, let the good times keep on rolling. And guys listening to this, they know the deal by now. They've listen to this for better part of four months. Now, debates, questions, points, winners, losers. I get to decide who the winner is. With all that being said, let's just jump right into it here, and I think we have to start with this Philadelphia Eagles defense, specifically one guy, Jalen Carter, because, my god, as I mentioned at the top of the show, he

has just been a dominant force up front this year. Definitely, if he's not top of the top defensive tackle in the league, he's definitely top two or three. This guy has been a mauler. He has just been this. He's been the same player in the postseason as he has been in the regular season. Right he has seven tackles, two sacks to sixteen sack yards loss, two tackles for loss, twas, two bass breakups, had a forced fumble he had last

week against the Los Angeles Rams. And he's going to be a problem for this for this Washington Commanders offense. That is gonna be without Sam Cosmy as he had an ACL injury against the Lions and he will be out for the remainder of the playoffs. Is going to be again, it's going to be I think one of the one of the top priorities, if not the top priority to get a final answer for him. So one, we shall start with you, what do you do with this guy? Like, what do you do with Davin Carter?

Especially if you're down you're starting right guard heading into this NFC Championship matchup.

Speaker 2

Well, I think the first thing you have to do is get hands on him. Don't hold him. I get your hands on and get your shoulder pads on him. Don't let him have a free run like he did to basically kill the game for the Rams last week and on that last minute drive that the Rams were I mean a lot of success on he single handedly killed the game right there. He had freedom run because

of a confusion on the offensive line. I think that's what you know, Dan Quinn and the offensive coaches need to make focus here on this game is no mistakes, no mistakes on the line. Make sure you know your assignment and always know where ninety eight is at.

Speaker 1

Yeah, I think that's definitely the case. And again, even if you know where he's at, he's he's really hard to stop because he's got such quick canes, he's got such quick feed. He's a powerful dude. He's got a rare blend of skills here and the quarter of PFF you know, regular in postseason, he's the fourth highest graded pass rusher for his position. He has sixty five total pressures, seven sacks. I mean, he's got fifteen his forty three hurries.

I mean this, this dude is such a big presence in the past game and I think you know, Jaydon Jane Dannis has proven he can make a guy miss. But again, Jalen Carter has just been He's been a big challenge for the for any interior off at the line that he's gone up against. And I'll go over

you next and we save question. I mean, if you're Cliff Kingsbury, if you're Jaden Daniels, and you're all this guy at all the guys in this this oppensive meeting room trying to figure out how you stop Jalen Carter, what are you doing?

Speaker 3

Yeah, so I don't think you stop Jalen Carter. I think you survive Jalen Carter as best as you can. I mean, Cliff Kingsbury has said it. Now that Aaron Donald is retired, Carter may well be the single best interior defensive lineman in the NFL. We saw the at least somewhat surprising tactic of Trent Scott put in place of Cosme during the winning at the Lions, but you

know that was an in game thing. I really do wonder, with a week to prepare, if we see another path taken and to me and you know it's always tricky with offensive line play, but just outside looking in, what you always want to do is get your five best offensive linemen on the field. In theory, you could do that if you shifted Andrew Willie from right tackle to right guard and to put Cornelia's luck is at right tackle.

Wiley has played guard. I don't know that that necessarily is where he is at his best, but generally speaking, guard is easier than tackle. So if a guy can do reasonably well at tackle, he should be able to do at least reasonably well at guard. I would think

that that's on the table now. We don't know what you know, Cliff Kingsbury and Dan Quinn are necessarily thinking here, But I think it starts with coming up with, Okay, what is our best setup when it comes to starting front five for this game, and then you go from there, because look, even if Cosmy was healthy, I mean, Cosmey had issues with Jalen Carter, like he's a really tough matchup. So I think you got to figure out, Okay, what

is our best way to make up for Cosmy being out? Personally, I would do Wiley at guard, Lucas at tackle, and then you go from there and you hope for the best, but it's not easy. Carter is a force. The Eagles defense has been tremendous this season. The Commanders know that, and this is probably the same biggest concern for Washington in this game, handling that mighty interior of the Eagles defensive line. Given that caused me is out.

Speaker 1

Yeah, it really, it really is. And again, really tough for cose Me to see him go out like that, because I mean, that's one of the biggest fears as an off the lineman because you're getting rolled up from the back like that. There's really nothing you can do about except it's move your feet, and even then it's kind of a little bit of a gamble. But you mentioned you mentioned the difference between garden tackle, and I mean you are right. I mean, gard in some ways

is definitely a little bit easier than tackle. But uh, you know, I think you know, Trent Scott or Andrew Walla, do you have the size, I think the girth to to be able to handle that position swap because you need to be wide up. But you also have really quick feed, the ability to pull, and you be able to dig out those nose guards. You got those three techniques and work on those combos up to the second level. I think Andrew Willy and Tren Scott do have that ability.

But you mentioned Trent Squatt, and I think he did do well for what he was given. You know, for what it's worth, he did have the best pastors in great cording to PFF, among all of Washington's off of the lineman. After that game, so one, you know, al brings up the prospect of maybe maybe moving Andrew Willie over to guard, putting Cornelis who was the right tackle.

I mean, what would you what would you do between those two between you know what that first proposition also just letting Trent s God, just state that guard position is letting it roll there.

Speaker 2

I mean, we don't see the practices, right, we don't see what they're doing every day. I mean, they have an active Chris Paul for most of the year, but we've seen that he's actually handled guard pretty well at time. I don't know if that's an option that's on the table as well. Moving Andrew Wiley to the inside might be might be probably the best move, because you're right, we want to put Lucas on the field. He's played both sides of the line at tackle, and you need

your best offensive lineman. I think Al has a point. You want your best five out there. And you know, I think that Andrew has done a great job at right tackle, but it's not anything that you know, you'd say, oh, it's a spectacular You're you're gonna miss, you know, something super out there on the outside. So I think Cornelius Lucas stepping in for him on the right side and maybe Wiley on the inside it might be a good combination.

Speaker 1

Yeah, I think it might be. And again, this is one of those things that Cliff d Q, they're not going to tell us. This is one of those things that we're not going to see in the open portion of practice there if they if that is the decision they go, they're going to tweak that and and play with that as best they can. And I think it is very key that, you know, you do have Corniscus who has played very well at tackle whenever he's been put in there, and also that experience of guard with Wiley.

It just seems like that would be a good option. But again, I think I think Trend has shown that he can at least do some something in the run game, just straight up against against some guys that granted, Dylan Carter is a different kind of guy compared to what they were seeing with the Lions, I think that he can at least maybe handles on it if he gets some chip held and he gets some help from the set from tallabadish or or Andrew Wiley up their tackle.

But al before we move on to the next question, I want to ask you, like in terms of establishing this run game against I guess a really really good you know, deep in the front with the Eagles. I mean, obviously Jaen card is gonna pay big role in that, but like, what else can they do to replicate the one hundred and eighty two yards that they had against the Lions, because I think that was a really big point in keeping the town possession and keeping that offense churning while

they were able to establish some points. Yeah, that was massive.

Speaker 3

I mean, it's funny the Commanders have won seven consecutive games, but that was the best the rushing offense in terms of running backs had been since the first game of that winning streak to win over the Titans. I mean, throughout the winning streak, the rushing offense had not been that good. Dan Quinn has been pretty you know, blunt about that. So a lot of what the Commanders did in the win at the Lions in terms of the

rushing offense was spread the Lions out. The RPO game really opened things up, and that allowed for the Commanders to do which I always want to do, which is run against light boxes. The problem with the Eagles is, first of all, their defense is not nearly as banged up as the Lions defense. Second of all, the Eagles defense is a lot better than the Lions defense. And third of all, there ain't nothing light about those Eagles boxes.

Well mighty Jalen Carter in the middle, So it's gonna be a tall task to run the ball as well as the Commanders did this past Saturday night, this coming Sunday afternoon. Now, that doesn't mean that that can't happen. You know, It's funny I mentioned that game against the Titans. One of the things that gets forgotten about that game. The Titans went into that game with one of the best run defenses in the NFL, and the Commanders ran

the ball down the throat of the Titans. So, you know, we can talk about stats and matchups all we want. Sometimes it's just about, hey, how you perform on that day. So I'm not dismissing any possibility, but I do think we have to be realistic here. I mean, even when the Commanders beat the Eagles about a month ago. Now, it's not like the Commanders ran the ball exceptlutely well in that game, Like that was a Jade and Daniel

specialty that was airing the ball out. And I think when it comes to offensive success, that's a lot of what you're going to have to be looking at. Doesn't mean that you give up on the running game, but I think that we do have to be mindful of what happened last Saturday night, Is it necessarily what's gonna be happening in this Sunday afternoon.

Speaker 1

No, that's that's absolutely true. And I think you know, it's gonna come down to how much they really trust the run game, because they they run the ball forty two times against the Lions, and that's that'd be great

if they were able to do that. I don't know if they're going to be able to do so, especially with me the kind of path, kind of passer that that Jaden is, and also considering what happened with Kenyon on Mitchell, I think that could be an golden opportunity for them to establish a good presence through the passing game and maybe that'll set up the run game. I think it also b Rob continues to improve the way he did against the Lions. I think that's a good

positive sign here. We will move on to the next question. But score update here, you guys are tied heading into this. Really good points made by both guys, and we're to move on to the second question here, which will gonna be the have the Commanders defense deals with Jailen Hurts. We've been mentioning this a couple of times. He Jalen Hurts did come out a little hobbled in that game, and Nix, you're on to say, we'll see how the week goes. You know, I think it was Jalen Hurts

who's sat out of the game. Look, I finished the game. That's all that really matters. At this point, he seems like he's gonna be ready to go, And just from a competitor standpoint, I would be very shocked if he didn't go out there and play, because this is a you never know when you're going to get back out of this opportunity again, even when you're a talented team is the Eagles. But he really has not put up

solid numbers of the passer this year. Nine of his nine games through nine games this year, he throw for fewer than two hundred yards. And also it just seems like whenever you put the ball in his hands more often than not, that's kind of the way that you beat the Eagles, as weird as that sounds. If you if you make him become a passer, it makes it

a lot harder for him to do things. So all will start with you here, and I want to ask you, like, what's the best way that this secondary and this defense can take advantage of Jalen hurts deficiencies as a passer because again hasn't really done what you would want from from an offense as just talent wise stacked as that group is. Yeah, it's been an ideal.

Speaker 3

I mean the Eagles, of course two and zero postseason, but you look at their total net yards passing in each game, just a buck twenty one in the win over the Packers, just sixty five in the win over the Rams. Hurts sacks seven times in that game, didn't miss an offensive snap, but got fitted for a knee brace on his left knee during the game. So he's not one hundred percent now you know, like how much less than one hundred percent he is? Who the heck knows,

But like he clearly is not one hundred percent. If you see the sack on which he suffered the safety, I mean, he did not look like the Jalen Hurts who we have come to know. You know, it's an ideal with Hurts because I don't think he's a bad quarterback, but I think the last year or two has kind of shown us he's maybe not as good as it was looking like he might be. Given the restricted mobility. Given that the Eagles passing offense right now is not hummin'.

I think this is a pressure situation. Some of the especially like sim pressures from the Rams in the last game, really gave Hurt some problems. I think that might be a way to go if you're Joe Wit junior. You know, Joe Whit does like to blitz a decent amount. Obviously there's always risk in doing that, but I think you can get to Hurts here. I mean the guy again, seven sacks he took in that game against the Rams.

That's that's a very significant number. And when it comes to the other aspect of the Eagles offense, Saquon Barkley, Look, he's gonna get his to at least some degree, especially with how this Commander's run defense has been this season. And again, you've got to be realistic about things. If you shut Saquon down, awesome, but you know, are you counting on that? So I think the path to defensive success here is can you do a good job against

this Eagles passing offense. I think that you can, especially if Hertz is in fact ailing. I would like to think that Marshawn Lattimore in this game will be better than he was in that last game against the Eagles. I was a tough spot for Latimore coming off the hamstring being tasked with AJ Brown. I thought Latimore was better in the win at the Lions, and I look for him to continue to do well. Mikey sand was still is doing really well. Kwan Martin's doing really well.

So I think the Commander's secondary is in a good place. Noah igbanagany, I don't think he gets enough credit, So secondary, I think is in a good place. Firts does not appear to be in a good place. This is the defensive matchup for the Commanders that actually way well break in their favor.

Speaker 1

Yeah, I mean you mentioned Saquon, and like the struct of the question, because I mean, the key to the key to this game at all, it is the stopping Saquon. If you do that, it's great. But nobody has done that all year. So it's it's more like, Okay, tackle him, great, that's fantastic if you can do it. Nobody really has been able to do so. But one will switch over to you here and the same sort of question, but I want to also just kind of focus on the

secondary here. Because it brings up you know, Latimore, Ignogny, Sammer. Still, all those guys have really seemed to come into their own recently, especially with Latimore. Seemed like in that that lines game, he really don't play that one size was moving around. So what do you what do you see out of that out of that group there, and how can they do their job to affect Jalen Hurst's options heading into heading into Sunday.

Speaker 2

Yeah, I mean that's what I was going to say that you know, in the first few games with Latimore, you know, you had them following the the number one receiver all over the field, and I think over these last couple of games where you've just given him at least at the second half of the Tampa game, uh and versus the Lions, he played half the field and he did well. He did very good. He did very good.

You know, you saw them testing out Sanders still, golf tested sander Is still quite a few times, and Sander still came through. So I think the key is our pass rush and al mentioned it seven sacks. A lot of those weren't Hurts to be honest, a lot of those is not on this offensive line. The offensive line is a great offensive line. But if you confuse hurts, if you if you give him looks that he doesn't like, he doesn't like to throw turn off, he doesn't like

to risk throwing interceptions. So you got you have to get to him. You have to make sure that you're giving them different looks and confusing him.

Speaker 1

Uh.

Speaker 2

You know, I prefer more coverage than than blitzing him because he if you know he's hurt, you got you gotta see this injury report the next couple of days. If you know he's hurt, he's not gonna run, So there's no threat of him running. So I feel like you just need to play the coverage and make sure that you're confusing him.

Speaker 1

Yeah, and I think, you know, the pass rushing against his offensive line is so interesting because to my to my eye, the Eagles have the best offensive line of the game. Uh. They they're they're full of all Pro They're full of Pro Bowlers. I mean, they're these are guys that they have homegrown, talent, driven guys are I mean, they're the best of their craft in a lot of

different ways. So you mentioned bringing the simulated pressures, and I mean, do you think that's that's enough to get passes off of the line to put pressure on Jailing because it seems like whenever he's out there, he just has all day to throw. And you know, that's probably one of the reasons why he hasn't been able to throw the hadn't had to throw the ball so much because he doesn't really need to, especially with Saquan and

all them. So like, I mean, how do you how do you is there is there a simple way to get past this offensive line put pressure on jail In and maybe the injury plays the part in there as well.

Speaker 3

Yeah, no, there isn't a simple way. I mean a simp pressure. The idea would that you can confuse Hurts enough pause, enough pause to wear he's a bit off. But yeah, the Eagles offensive line is outstanding and there's probably only so much penetration you're going to be generating. So the hurt sacks, to Want's point, a lot of them are going to have to be on him. Now we know how it is a lot of mobile quarterbacks take sacks because they're out there scrambling buying time. So

that is part of this equation too. But again, seven sacks, I mean, that's an unacceptable total. That's not something that any quarterback should ever be taken. And I don't care you know what his characteristics happened to be. So yeah, I mean, we don't know the status of this knee. Again, it's a weird deal. He did not miss a snap in that game against the Rims. He played on one hundred percent of the Eagles offensive snaps. But he got fitted for a knee brace, So that's significant. Like, that's

not nothing. And again, if you watch the game, he did not appear to be himself. So we'll see. But I think there's an overarching theme here, which is the Eagles passing offense is not in a great place right now. It's not killing it, it's not thriving the way Saquon Barkley is thriving. And so if you can keep that going for just one more week, that very much plays into the Commander's favor as much as the Commander's run

defense has been an issue the past. Defense, if you look at some of the stats, if you're looking out of the season has gone on, it has not been as bad. Like I don't want to say it's been great, but it's it's been better, you know, Like I think you have to differentiate commander's run defense, commander's pass defense, commander's pass defense. Commanders have gotten some sacks. Commander's defensive backs, like we talked about, have done some good things here lately.

So I don't think that's so reasonable to think that this commander's pass defense in this game could end up being a positive. We'll see.

Speaker 1

Yeah, And I mentioned in the knee brace, and I don't know how much time he's ever played in a knee brace, but I can tell you that from my personal experience, it takes a little bit of time to getting used to just of how awkward it is, a little bit of a like movement deficiency there. So I wonder how much that's going to play if he doesn't wear the knee brace on Sunday, how much of a factor that's going to play. But one before we move on here, just kind of focusing on the injury a

little bit. And I mean, one of the things that I noticed in that second matchup with the Eagles was how it seemed like they like, once once he got past the initial commander's rush in the few stands that he played there really wasn't like too much of an answer for it. It seemed like he was able to pull out these big, long chunks of rushing yards whenever he

was just get past that initial rush. So, like, how how much do you think his inability maybe to move around is going to play a role in getting Jalen hurt to stay him is keeping in the pocket. And do you expect the commanders to test that a little bit to see how much he can actually move at least in the first quarter.

Speaker 2

I mean, it would be huge if he's not able to use his legs because you know who also cooked in that first quarter when he was in the game was Saquan After uh you know, he did have that long run after the series after he got hurt. But other than that, the Commanders kept them in check for the rest of the game because the game plan was, let's dare can he pick get to beat us? I think it kind of has to switch to list there for Jalen hurts and this uh you know, hurt passing

game to beat us. You know, let's let's let's bet on that rather than focus all our attention on on Saquon, We're gonna we're gonna have to dare Jalen to try and throw over the top and hopefully you know our secondary is up for the task this time. You know that the Kenny pickt did lead a drive that could have ended the game right there, with the with the drop, with the drop by Smith right basically before that could

have killed the clock. Now we have to ask ourselves if you know, if you as a secondary, are you willing to test that again? Are you willing to take that risk and make sure that it's on? It hurts to be either rather than squon.

Speaker 1

We will move on to the final question here and I will keep the score to myself. I'll do that. I did that last week. I think it add a little more intrigue. I think we do so again and we'll stick. We'll switch back over to the offense here. And I think obviously J Jalen Jayden has to play fantastic, right he has throughout his entire playoffs. He's top five and all among all postseason quarterbacks in passing yards, completing

rating QBR. He's he has just been by far. I think objectively speaking, just about the numbers show the most consistent quarterback that we've seen throughout the postseason. But aside from Jayden, aside from those guys. Uh, there are obviously a lot of other offensive players are there who could

who had a big role in this game. So one we'll start with you here, really simple, which offensive player besides Jayden needs to have an impact on Sunday for the Commanders to punchter take it to the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2

I think it has to be Austin Eckler to be honest. The first game, we saw a lot of him, especially in the passing game. Uh. He was basically the only option that we could throw down to because Philly likes to dare you to try to throw deep with their with their two deep safety looks. So he's gonna have to be eating there in the short game and in the in the short passing game. He wasn't available for the second game, which you know, obviously, I think the Keys took more of that role of his job in

in that game. But I definitely think Austin Eckler being back it might be a wildcard for the Eagles defense.

Speaker 1

It might be. And for what it's worth, among all all all pass catchers through the postseason, Austin Eckler leaves the leads all pass catchers in receiving grade. He really has been such a key part of this off especially since he's come back. A lot of people didn't think he could, but here he is making an impact for this team. Al will switch over to you same question aside from Jayden, which after the player needs to have an impact on Sunday.

Speaker 3

I would say Diami Brown. So if you look at the two games between the Commanders and Eagles during the regular season, the loss for the Commanders at the Eagles in the Thursday night or, Terry mcclaurin ended up being like a total non factor in that game got taken out of that game. Second game, Terry was much more of a factor the win. Five catches, sixty yards and

a touchdown on six targets. But whatever happens this Sunday afternoon, and look, I don't expect Terry to be taken out of the game like he was in that first game against Eagles. But Legals defense is good. Legals secondary has been really impressive this season. So you know, we can't just count on Terry necessarily having you know, ten for a buck fifteen if he does, awesome, But if Terry is removed from the game to whatever degree, is there

another Commander's receiver who can emerge. And this rise of Diami Brown this postseason has been nothing short of stunning. I mean, you look at Diami Brown. Over his first four regular seasons, he never had at least four catches in each of at least two consecutive games. He has had at least five catches in each of these two games this postseason. I mean, statistically speaking, that's not supposed to happen, and yet it has. He's doing a really

good job. He has emerged as the team's number two receiver in these playoffs, as the commander is remember, and I feel like this gets forgotten. They're playing without their number two receiver, Noah Brown. I know Dan Quinn doesn't like to say there's a number two receiver Noah Brown. Was there a number two receiver this season, like you go by basically any stat that was the case. Noah Brown's been out for about a month now, and Diamy Brown is really stapped up.

Speaker 1

And so you know, with this game, obviously you.

Speaker 3

Want and need Terry to be Terry, and I think he will be, but you need more than that, Like it can't just be the Terry McLaurin show. And you know, as odd as it may sound, I think there is a need here for Diami Brown to keep doing what he's doing. He has been a revelation these last few weeks. You know, there are of course other options. A Lama days the keys is certainly perfectly capable, but Diamy Brown has got it going right now. And you know he's

making deep catches. He's generating yardage after catch, which which is obviously always key. So would love to see Diami have himself a third consecutive impressed about him.

Speaker 1

You know, I've been really happy for diam in the last few weeks. He leaves the team in yard lead, the team receptions. It's taking a while for him to really get going, but over the last two weeks, I mean, he's been, as you said, a revelation because you could argue the Commanders don't win these games without Dimmy Brown. The clutch catch he had, you know, to get the get the the the Commanders on the plus side of the Buccaneers territory to get set up that game leaving

field goal. That insane catch he had uh near the the goal line of the Lions with a defender like hand in his face mask, making that catch. His trust in jaden Is was tremendous, really happy for Dioma to see what he's been able to do. All right, winner here this is That's why I always call it a burden because this was really really tough. You guys were

tied heading into it. Both made excellent points. Both really made a strong case for the final question here who As much as I love Eckler, I think I have to go with Yami and now because as I said, like there's a big key that there's an argument that they don't win these games without without Diami. He really has stepped up. And I think, Alvali, you have won. You've got your win for the Beatdown podcast in the NFC Championship. Addition, do you have any words of victory for us?

Speaker 3

Well, I appreciate that. You know, it's like Jade and Daniels, you stay humble, you stay focused. Fourth quarter over time becomes winning time, like Dan Quinn likes to say. And we did what we could do, but it was not easy one. It was a very difficult opponent. Not unlike the Eagles this Sunday afternoon. This was a battle as big of a battle as we have this Sunday afternoon.

Speaker 1

Uh Yes, and one. Again, I appreciate the afford. It was fantastic And again you made a really good point. I think Austin ecler is going to have a great impact in this game as well, because he was one of my favorite players that we signed this offseason. Actink timetime. Again, he has proven to be such a big key to what makes his offense right, makes what I think what makes them into a really good offense into like a really great offense.

Speaker 2

And I'm just happy that we can say we need Diyami to have a big game. You know, if we didn't have that in a Bengal card two months ago, I don't think so. Now that he's stepped up and he's doing good, I'm just happy that, you know, finally he's getting some shine, he's getting a chance to flourish into this offense.

Speaker 1

Yeah. Same. And look, we're all living in some crazy times because nobody thought this team was going to be an NFC championship. Just I mean, just a year into this new regime for dan Quinn Adam Pears, here we are and I think, as I said on Twitter after that game, the Commanders made a statement to the rest of the world that they're here and they are going

to be a problem for a long time. And hopefully we will see you guys again next week covering the Super Bowl, which is just wild for me to even say, but like al, hopefully the Commanders will be celebrating a win at Lincoln Financial Field, which by the way, would be just so sweet, so sweet to be celebrating on their own on that turf. But anyway, again, hopefully we'll see you guys next week. No matter what happens, be sure to rare or be subscribe wherever you get your podcast.

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