The Commanders are heading to the playoffs! I BMitch & Finaly Show

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The Washington Commanders have won 11 games in the first season with Jayden Daniels and Dan Quinn. BMitch and Finlay discuss the impact of the new regime, and what Washington's playoff run means to the city.

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00:00Oh, Z last night, just the eight for 85 with a touchdown or S and dude, I don't know if

00:06you've heard this, but I think, I think a lot of people have been real dumb about Zach

00:11hurts that people want to yell about his inability for yards after the catch or, or, or whatever

00:17it is last night. One for starters, he showed serious yet. Yo, he sure did, dude. But you

00:23know, like the thing about it, he's able to get open a veteran tight end has to be available

00:29for a quarterback in certain situations. And he was available and Jayden found it.

00:35Bro. Zach hurts. Honestly. I wonder if we can look this up, Jeff or Brian Zach hurts.

00:42Now with one game to go has 61 catches for 610 yards and six touchdowns. I think that's

00:47easily the best season for a Washington tight end since Logan Thomas's year here back in

00:54whenever LT showed up, which was 20 or 21. I'm guess those are really solid, strong

01:00numbers. I arts has helped you time and time again, his ability to get open and what it

01:07just shows me more than anything is this team.

01:12And the message comes from, I think the absolute top certainly DQ preaches. It's overly simple

01:20to just say it's next man up next man up. Yeah. Because what it is, is when they get

01:24it, you get the next man up avail. I've been prepared. Totally. They don't have guys that's

01:28not prepared. Yeah. There's a level of preparation. They coach it that way. And let's see. I understand

01:36people like to be skeptical, but at this point, I don't know how you can be. There is a belief.

01:41Only skeptical people now are haters. Yeah. I think that's my thing. I think you're so

01:47right. Because I think, I think they have been coached and honestly put together in

01:54a, in a manner of which they got like-minded people to join in the same mission of winning.

02:02But when you put five out there with this group makes it special when you have a quarterback

02:06that no matter what his willingness to do, whatever is required to win shines through

02:14week after week, after week, after week, month after month, the ability to put the work in

02:20that carries over to the whole team. And when you have that, that guy right there is as

02:26dedicated as he is and does the things he does. I used to use Alex or Veskin as that example.

02:32Sure. When your best player is your hardest worker, not easy to get the rest of your guys

02:38to fall in place. Then you're more deck, your most decorated player, Bobby Wagner,

02:44that dude right there just works after the game. You know, everybody coming through there and you

02:50looking at how hype they are. First time I saw a smile was last night and it was very slight

02:55for Bobby. It wasn't the biggest Bob, but he dabbed me up. You've got some rough hands,

03:00but he actually, why he big, he's wrong though. But you know, it was, it's been a pleasure,

03:07man, watching this team because people don't understand when you play for something,

03:12you become indebted to it in a sense, you know, and you want to see them perform well.

03:19But if you're doing this job that we do, sometimes you have to discuss bad stuff.

03:23Yeah. You know, it doesn't mean you dislike or you don't care about the team. That's your job.

03:30But the ultimate thing is you want to be able to praise them. And we've had a lot about this year.

03:35And I think it's still going to be more praising coming up.

03:39Yeah. I mean, there's, there's, we've been saying this for a while now there's warts involved.

03:44They're run game, especially early as serious trouble. I, I love the fact that Jaden is capable

03:54of leading this team in rush yards. He's now done it three games in a row. I don't love that. It's

04:01yeah. Out of necessity that he's the only one that can really get it going on the ground.

04:06I do Rob yesterday in there with 4.8 to carry. It's fun. 60 yards. The numbers feel better than

04:14the, than it looked then watching it. But late in that game, B Rob was able to carve them up a

04:19little bit. Part of the reason was halftime. The numbers got hurt. Yeah. But the first half

04:25was healthy. Yeah. I think, I think Atlanta's defense surprised big 99. It looked like he was

04:31a big truck. Yeah. And 97, I don't know his name, but that dude was following. Yeah. I

04:36Brandon Coleman had a rough night, especially in past pro the penalties. It it's easy to just

04:47dismiss the penalties. And some of them are really egregious. I thought the hold

04:51the pass interference call that allowed Atlanta that late field goal opportunity to maybe win the

04:58game. I thought that was among the worst calls in that situation. I've seen all year at best.

05:05That's a hold the catches. The ball is completely uncatchable. There's no way you should ever call

05:11that freaking as a pass interference to give them all that yardage. I thought that was just

05:16egregiously awful. I mean, if you just look B, do you know what the numbers are on the

05:21penalty breakdown? No. I think we had 10 Atlanta had four for 25 and we had 10 for what?

05:28325, 13 for one Oh eight. See, this is about, and then I said this last night and I really believe

05:36this. Dan has been a standup guy the whole time. He doesn't call out the refs publicly or nothing.

05:44He does. He doesn't call him out, but there are times when he has to send stuff in

05:49and he's been right. A lot of times I have to believe the referees are making certain calls

05:57and calling things against us because they're pissed that they're being reprimanded. And I,

06:02I have a problem with the ref not being able to be questioned publicly. But if you're going,

06:07if your only way is to send that little thing in and the league, send you these,

06:13your, your, your explanations, but your FedEx package and you think they don't do anything.

06:20These referees got to understand. And the league got to understand too,

06:23when you see things, so one side like that, this team is not that team, but that was a little bit

06:30over the board overboard last night. And I, and they need to be able to tell her if you get worse,

06:35then you don't, you sit down. You also, you really seen why they traded for Marshall and

06:43Lattimore. And I mean, at this point, don't play them against Dallas. You're in now. I I'm not,

06:51I'm not one of these dudes is going to sit here and talk about benching guys and blah, blah, blah.

06:54Cause I think that's stupid, but specific to Lattimore, like you're in the playoffs and this

07:00hamstring thing doesn't go away. You wait till week 19 for a lot of more to come back,

07:06but damn, they're significantly better. And I know a lot of folks don't love Benjamin St.

07:10Juice, but Mike Davis didn't better like, like, and they're just, some of the flags are legit.

07:16Cause those dudes are grabby. Cause they're getting beat. You reach out and touch when you're

07:24there's times you want to reach out and touch. There's times when you don't

07:27I'm perhaps the most importantly for all this, for the city, just as we like

07:34heal from 25 years of awful Burgundy and gold to what the future looks like when it five years of

07:40BS, I mean, think about where we were and where we are and think about all the people involved.

07:49You've got Josh Harris, all of the partners, right? Right. Rails, I'm magic.

07:56Blitzer. I mean, there's just so many people involved in that ownership group that deserve

08:00just so much credit. And then the way they built an organization in hiring Adam Peters,

08:06letting him take it from there. Yeah. The basketball guy. Right, right, right, right.

08:13Dan Johnson didn't like the basketball guy asking him a question, Dan Quinn, who a lot of people

08:20had a lot of questions about that dude knows how to build a team. And when you, when you hear the

08:27leader of men thing, he's it he's absolutely it. And he just, he, he acts with a level of

08:33class and decorum at all times. That is really hard to find in the, in the intense pressure

08:39cooker. That is pro football. And then, and then you add Jaden Daniels who just has this level of

08:46unflappability. He's a phenomenal football player. Last night he goes 24 for 36 to 27,

08:53three touchdowns has the pick another 16 for one 27 on the ground and just shows guts.

09:00Just does the Sam Cassell dance every time he has to like unafraid of all situations,

09:06willing to put his body on the line and just pops right back up when you, when you get that

09:11sort of organizational alignment, then you add veterans, then you add young players.

09:15It's just, you have everything working for you. And yet landfill, I'm not entirely sure.

09:21Everybody understands for years and years and years landfill on this program. We have questioned

09:27the alumni's commitment to the organization. We have questioned if the former players,

09:34if the, if the folks that wore the burgundy and the old helmet and the old logo and got

09:39super bowl rings and played for Joe Gibbs, we have questioned their commitment to burgundy

09:45and gold winning football. And today we need it. We need to be invited to do it.

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