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Doc Walker and Ben Strober react live to the Washington Commanders' Week 2 loss to the Dallas Cowboys. From early offensive promise to growing concerns over Jayden Daniels' elbow injury and defensive struggles, Doc breaks down what went wrong and what Washington must fix moving forward.

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00:02what a disaster what an unmitigated disaster burgundy gold post game show ben strover
00:12and redskins legend rick doc walker with you trying to make sense of what just happened
00:19not our job stood we don't have to make sense of it that's their job road team take the points
00:26we'll get we'll definitely get into the decision you cannot not take points when you're on the road
00:33and you're not really you're playing well enough to be in it but not to dominate it so we got
00:40a lot
00:40on the plate and guess what year's not over you can't just hang it up now we got to keep
00:45going
00:45the question is are we going up or down it's week two it is week two doc 37 to 20
00:53dallas stomps the
00:55commanders you had that feeling at the end of the first half doc you and i are sitting here
01:00watching this game jayden daniels is rolling it feels like 2024 and dallas is on the ropes yeah
01:07it was a great feeling it was and we left a lot on the table in that they were like
01:15taking candy from
01:16a baby for a moment and then it's we you could see the momentum shifting they're supposed to be that
01:22good at their place coming off the rotten performance they had they had a lot to make up for too
01:28so there was a lot going on it but it didn't look like we were out of place it looked
01:32like
01:32we were just getting settled in here to make a move without really making up big plays but
01:41you could just feel it i wish i could keep that feeling going but you know you can't and we
01:47were
01:47doing it without really having we were kind of thumbing away at a ground attack we weren't
01:52completely out of the run game but we got to do better and and i think they can the question
01:59is
01:59will they we're going to open these phone lines up 800-636-1067 800-636-1067 if you want to
02:07chime
02:07in make this your therapy session for well it's not a panic deal mariotta give them credit for having a
02:13guy that can you can still win with correct we didn't just go from the luxury line to the used
02:19car lot we didn't do that we still had a chance but other areas have got to do their part
02:25we have
02:27got to be better on the back end you know we had some pressure we got to get more there
02:33are a lot of
02:33things that if this were week nine maybe we'd be talking draft i'm not doing doing that week two
02:40correct and you can still got a chance to control your destiny and nobody's going to feel sorry for
02:45you but i just think that we can get more out of our own people let's let's talk timeline here
02:51because we don't know the status of daniels and his injury we're not going to speculate that here
02:55but chris paul stepped on jayden he fell he put down that same left elbow that he injured against
03:00seattle last year playing left guard yeah okay what's chris paul okay so he falls he uses that left
03:06elbow to stop his momentum going to the ground and his elbow you could see it on the screen tom
03:11brady
03:12dropped the s word on the broadcast same elbow he was shocked same elbows last year so would we would
03:17it be really crazy for us to say you know what maybe we need a brace on that elbow since
03:24this is
03:24this is not the first time it's happened well the question could be do you consider surgery to
03:30prevent this from happening in the future is one thing that people have speculated but i don't know
03:33the nature of the injury if it's a dislocation what is surgery on the dislocation possibly to
03:39repair it in a way where it'd be less likely to happen again i'm strong where to brace when you
03:43you don't throw off that arm correct this is not throwing arm yes so brace it up the thing about
03:50this wrap it up brace it up i mean whatever it feels like such a massive gut punch regardless doc
03:56because you start getting that feeling again i know as he's carving through dallas's defense
04:0269 passing yards seven carries or sorry 69 rushing yards 111 oh he's a difference maker
04:08it was we were looking at this thing looking at each other going wow he's one of three people in
04:13the
04:13league that can do that and it is game changer and both of those guys have been mvps
04:21it's an unbelievable ability to where the defense should have you down and you end up picking up 15 yards
04:30on demand and he's one of the few people in the world that can do that and mariotta comes in
04:36and
04:36why i'm not disappointed and i felt this the whole way with him because he's got a lot of the
04:44same
04:44attributes not as defined but we go right back into where we still could win the game you still
04:50have a chance to do it i hate to be a sour grapes on the call it was a touchdown
04:57they didn't get you
04:58shouldn't get it on the road i mean but he had it he put the ball where it needed to
05:04be we got to get
05:05more out of our playmakers we need to make more plays but we got more pressure there were a lot
05:10of
05:10good things that i saw that i feel good about but new york beat them so we see in new
05:19york
05:20has turned their program around quicker than our what are we saying it's a week one thing and dallas
05:26defensively didn't look much better i will say that it's only 20 on the board for the commanders
05:31but there was a point in that game in that first half as they're driving down the field there and
05:35you
05:35start thinking this offense is going to roll the rest of the way and you start to feel like you
05:40have a chance i thought the turning point which should have been in the game was when kinlaw got
05:44the sack on first down the possession before you saw them finally get a stop because remember they
05:48dug themselves yeah in a 17-3 hole yeah good point and jayden starts leading them back and at the
05:56end
05:56of the first half you and i are sitting there doc watching saying this is where it gets kind of
06:00dangerous when you'll leave a few seconds because even if pressure breaks in and you have to throw that
06:05ball away you risk an intentional grounding call you have a 10 second runoff you get no points
06:09not only do you get no points with three seconds left there but you're going to be without your
06:15quarterback for some time and this could have major implications on the future of the entire
06:21franchise do you agree with that it could but again that's why you have backups i've found this
06:26my experience tells me you have you're prepared to lose everybody on your team they have to have
06:35gone through that scenario then you should resign if you can't handle it season goes on you got to
06:40move everybody has to do with it seattle's doing the champs are playing with a backup they're not
06:46crying they're winning games right then when's your defense gonna step up and do it we look like we had
06:52no way to defend their receivers and for a moment it looked like they were just on a joystick
07:00then we got a little bit better at it we've got to be better if we don't cover well we
07:05got to
07:05pressure better our safeties we got some hits it didn't fall apart but you're not as good as you
07:12want to be yet and i don't know if we blitzed as much as i hoped that we would but
07:17then you're playing
07:18back and we're not the first program to go into they won 80 of these games down there so let's
07:25not act
07:25like this was an upset we would winning would have been the upset but i just thought we had a
07:32chance until we decided that we didn't and that's where you wanted to be in your hands not the
07:37opponents it also just felt like one of those games doc now two weeks into the season you see
07:42you have two nfc's rivals on your schedule and then you have seattle to welcome the home slate of
07:47your schedule in week three you figured yourself you have to get one of the first two and they had
07:53chances to win both of these first two games throwing support they're owing two but what's
07:58important is that you weren't dominated you lost and now can you learn from those mistakes are you
08:06going to let a seattle team come in here as a headless horse if their starter doesn't play
08:14where's your manhood now both teams can say that seattle's gonna go a two backup quarter
08:21quarterback's gonna come out and beat us some point they it's not my job to fire them up it's
08:27their job to let their check fire them up and decide that well were you slaughtered no you weren't but
08:33you didn't win the game object is to win you don't get brownie points in this league for being close
08:39so i would assess it and going moving forward that what was i feeling during the game we got to
08:46get more
08:46of a running attack we just got to get more out of it whatever it takes to do that but
08:53it's not like
08:53we didn't have anything going we got something but it's not enough what are we going to be done what
08:59do we do best whatever that is we need to do it scary was minimized in this it's one of
09:08the few times
09:08i've ever seen him not be a dominant factor in the first two games but digs seems to be unstoppable
09:16so it's playing off each other so now you got a chance to be and the third and fourth guys
09:22are showing presence that's a plus as far as i'm concerned did a tight end touch the ball
09:32i can't do it off memory first play of the game oh that was it they threw to ben sinning
09:36ben sinning
09:36the first play of the game but then that was it he was no factor the cowboys tied in was
09:41a major
09:42factor two touchdowns for ferguson major factor so we can't keep keep having these zeros you got
09:49second round pick we got more second round picks to do less to contribute to winning than anything i've
09:56ever seen in my life but i don't care about rounds pick it's production i can get an undrafted free
10:02agent to outproduce all of them and all great teams have that the question is how do we beat seattle
10:09because eventually you have to get a victory in a month you have to start stacking up wins
10:19otherwise it's going to get ugly because once people start losing hope in your ability to turn it
10:25around you'll be beheaded bottom line a lot of mistakes a lot of points left on the table and
10:32things that washington could have done better to come away with a win over the first two weeks
10:37commanders oh and two they fall 37 to 20 the dallas cowboys
10:41and two they fall 37 to 20 the old they fall 37 to 20 the old they fall 37 to
10:4120 the old they fall 37 to 20 the old
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