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On this segment of Burgundy & Gold Postgame Live, host Doc Walker reacts to Washington's hard-fought victory against the Seattle Seahawks. Doc and callers break down how the roster stepped up, the impact of defensive turnovers like Kain Medrano's pick-six, and how Marcus Mariota managed the offense in a crucial early-season matchup.
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00:00It's the Burgundy and Gold Post Game Show is live, and it's, I can only imagine how
00:08brutal this would have been had we not come out victorious.
00:12I hate to think about that after a win, but I got to be honest with you, it's what goes
00:16through my mind.
00:17I keep wondering how close we were, and having been on that long ride back to Seattle, I'm
00:25telling you, man, it is an awful, awful flight to be on when you are sucking your thumb and
00:32you lose, when you don't get the victory, when you don't get what you're looking for.
00:36It is absolutely brutal.
00:40I mean, and I do mean it is brutal.
00:44301-230-0980 is our number.
00:48It's victorious, and you know, you just didn't win a game.
00:52I mean, you beat the world champions.
00:55I don't know how you schedule.
00:57I mean, every victory should be scheduled as a win, but I got to believe that these a
01:02little bit more, does it add more?
01:06Does it count more?
01:07Well, technically, no.
01:10But how does it feel?
01:12Just to get a win, man, it feels great.
01:15Feels great to be, well, I can't wait to hear some of our younger compadres as they get a
01:20hold of a microphone a little later on and start, you know, screaming and hollering about
01:26this.
01:26Was it perfect?
01:27Most victories aren't.
01:29But it's just doing whatever you have to do in order to get a victory.
01:37301-230-0980, excuse me, is the number.
01:43I know that Toothpick being down in Cowboy Country is probably as excited about that.
01:51I love Cowboy Nation.
01:54301, hit me again.
01:58Toothpick, let's try it again.
02:02Toothpick, you there?
02:03Pick, pick.
02:05Hello?
02:06No, there we go.
02:08What's going on, man?
02:09You sound like you're in a tunnel.
02:14Hello?
02:15Toothpick?
02:18I just hear hello.
02:19Yeah, I don't know.
02:20I got to drop him.
02:21Okay.
02:22But anyway, like you were saying, it was a good game all around.
02:26And I'm like how many wide receivers Mariota has gone to today.
02:34Man, I was hoping for even more.
02:36I mean, it's hard to get the time.
02:40One of the most dominant fronts is Seattle's.
02:46I mean, that defensive line.
02:49And our guys, I can't wait to watch the game because I really want to know what our guys did.
02:55Because it was hard for me to tell during the game.
02:58I mean, it may have been steady.
03:01Couldn't tell you.
03:02I know there wasn't a whole bunch.
03:04And Sam did have to move.
03:05He had to get off his spot.
03:07I give him credit for that.
03:09Being shorthanded is not an excuse.
03:11Nobody cares.
03:13If you guys are out, nobody cares.
03:16That's why you have a 53-man roster.
03:19If you can't win when your stars are out, then your backups are poor and you pick them.
03:25There's no excuses out of this thing.
03:28The teams that win it all in the end get the most depth.
03:31Get the work off their depth and everybody else.
03:34Get the job done.
03:36Okay.
03:37And no excuses.
03:39They had guys that stepped up, came in there, and made some plays, man.
03:44That's what it's all about.
03:46The game is physical.
03:47So, with these powderpuff preseasons that we're going through, September can play jokes on you.
03:54Well, guess what?
03:56September's almost over.
03:58So, you can see it rolling into form right now.
04:04Higher level of football.
04:06Physical football.
04:08So, we're almost there.
04:10October's absolutely no excuses.
04:12You just got to hope you still got a chance.
04:15Once you get into October.
04:17And that's what today's victory did.
04:19It gives you a chance now to not be totally eliminated from postseason play.
04:26You got a chance.
04:28Huge win.
04:29And when you knock King Kong off his porch, people look at you a different way.
04:37Your swagger is...
04:40You can't sneak up on anybody.
04:42You just beat the champs.
04:45Nobody's been able to do that.
04:47You just beat the champs.
04:48No more excuses.
04:50Don't talk about Jaden's out.
04:52And nobody cares about anybody that's out.
04:54We're worried about the guys that are in.
04:57And you got enough of them to win.
04:58You proved that today.
05:01So, you can cry.
05:02You can do whatever the heck you want to do.
05:05But I think you're in a good position right now.
05:08And if you get people healthier, if you get Sam back...
05:12You won without Sam.
05:14You asked me before the game, are they going to beat the Seahawks without Sam?
05:18How the hell is that going to happen?
05:19And they did it.
05:23And they did it.
05:25There's something about this team that you have to respect.
05:30And you have to say...
05:36They got something.
05:41I don't know what you call it.
05:44But they've got something.
05:47Is that enough?
05:49We shall see.
05:51We shall see.
05:52Anthony in the district of Columbia.
05:55What up?
05:57So, over the first two weeks, you can see glimpses that they can play with anybody in the league.
06:06And that they put it together as much as you can put it together without actually putting it together, if
06:14you know what I mean.
06:17They got to kill those penalties.
06:21And they got to do something with that zone.
06:25Because they...
06:27Between Dallas and today, they've been playing pitch and catch all day long.
06:32They got to tighten that up some kind of way.
06:34I don't know if they got to do more man mixed in or what.
06:39But something got to improve because the way they came down the field after we got that field goal was
06:46absolutely ridiculous.
06:49But I'm happy we won.
06:53We're in there.
06:54So, we got a chance.
06:56We just got to keep it going and tighten up on those things.
06:59Because I would hate to see us be in contention but be on the fringe because too many mistakes here
07:11and there.
07:12But we're in play.
07:14That's all that matters right now.
07:15Yeah.
07:16Well, that's football.
07:17Whoever makes the most mistakes, least mistakes.
07:19Whoever can convert.
07:21Whoever can stop.
07:24Today up front.
07:25That's the meanest front in the league.
07:27And we had injuries.
07:28We're depleted.
07:29And we won.
07:31That's why you got to keep fighting.
07:32Because anything's possible.
07:34Did I think that would happen coming in?
07:36Heck no.
07:37But it happened.
07:38Oh, not many did.
07:40But you said you won a thumper in the backfield.
07:43I don't think a thumper would have made a difference today.
07:48Well, you're entitling your opinion.
07:51Appreciate you.
07:52Casey, welcome home.
07:55Hey, Doc.
07:56Appreciate you taking my call.
07:58Long-time caller.
07:59Long-time listener, my friend.
08:00Just a couple quick things.
08:02I know you've always been about next man up.
08:04But I have to say, this is a gutsy, gritty win and a seminal moment for this team if they're
08:12able to take the same energy and passion.
08:14I mean, they just beat a team that hadn't lost in 12 games, Super Bowl champions.
08:20Right?
08:21We have 13 starters out.
08:23I mean, I'm sorry.
08:24You look around the league.
08:26Regardless of next man up, you got 13 starters out.
08:29The chance of you beating Seattle is slim to none.
08:31So we brought it today, the physicality.
08:35I thought we played really well.
08:36And the turnovers, right?
08:37We haven't gotten turnovers in how long.
08:39So the last thing I want to mention is I got to give credit to Blau for those last two
08:45calls.
08:45That Rashad White running play on third down.
08:49And then that Mariota keeper, right, to get the first down.
08:53Like, I felt like that Mariota keeper might have been there a couple times all day.
08:58And they waited for that moment to call it.
09:00So I thought, you know, great job by Blau.
09:03And let's go.
09:05Hail to the commanders.
09:07Appreciate that, man.
09:08Team effort.
09:08They all work as a team.
09:09I guarantee a coach would say that.
09:11And the players would agree.
09:12Trey, you are next.
09:15What's going on, Doc?
09:17A basket and victory.
09:20Yeah, seriously.
09:22Hey, look, man.
09:22I just wanted to say, you know, this is a win that, you know, we really needed.
09:26And truth be told, the whole league, they wrote us off.
09:31Not since the first week.
09:33They wrote us off since the offseason.
09:37First it was our O-line.
09:39Then it was our secondary.
09:41Nobody paid attention to all the pieces that we picked up during the offseason.
09:45So to come in our home opener and get a win like this without our starting quarterback
09:52was a huge FU to the league, to the mainstream media, and everybody who's been counting us out.
10:00We fought.
10:01Our key players made plays.
10:03Sony Styles was a dog out there.
10:05You know what I'm saying?
10:06So I'm really happy for the team.
10:10I'm looking forward to what else we do this year.
10:13You know what I'm saying?
10:14And I think our key players are going to continue to shock the world.
10:17You know what I'm saying?
10:18And don't let JV5 come back sooner than expected because it's going to be scary after that.
10:23Terry went off today.
10:25Terry went off today.
10:26They said, oh, where's Terry?
10:27Come on, man.
10:29The man had himself a day.
10:31That's all I got to say, Doc.
10:33Appreciate you, man.
10:34It's a week-to-week league, but you get your check.
10:37Win, lose, or draw.
10:38Don't ever forget that.
10:40James, you are next.
10:42I'm in Southwest.
10:44I want to start off by saying I've been a fan of the team since the days of Larry Brown
10:51and Chris Hamburger.
10:53After the game, I was talking to some so-called Commanders fans today, and they said, you tell me what
11:01you think it is.
11:02They said because Jaden Daniels was not playing, they wanted the Commanders to lose.
11:09Now, what do you think of that, man?
11:12If they paid for those tickets, they have the right to their own opinion.
11:16And we obviously don't need them to win.
11:21I know, but how can they call themselves fans, man, is what I'm saying, you know?
11:25Well, I mean, they're doing this, they're paying their money for all this, so they have the right to choose
11:31either way to go.
11:32Why you let garbage slow you up?
11:36Move on.
11:37Drew, you're next.
11:38Hey, Doc.
11:40Hey, one thing to the last caller.
11:41I'm in the parking lot of Northwest right now leaving, and the fans here wanted this team to win.
11:47So I don't know where he's getting his information from, but people wanted to win, and it was a great
11:53win.
11:54I don't know when we saw, you know, last defensive points scored, but, you know, getting a pick six, that
12:01makes a big difference.
12:02And we also, you know, I think it's easy in the ebb and flow of the game to overlook.
12:07We got that ball, two minutes left, and we ran out the clock and took a victory formation.
12:13That makes me feel good.
12:14I mean, there was a couple of plays in there that were tense.
12:17And the other thing I would say is, you know, I get to be down on the sideline watching the
12:22game.
12:22I don't know how I stepped in it, but it's awesome.
12:25And watching this stuff to Riggins and the guys that were there honoring him,
12:29and then watching our new young men on the field, you do get a feeling like this team is putting
12:35together,
12:36you know, the relationships, you can call it the brother, whatever you want to call it.
12:40You know, these guys play for each other, and they play as a team, and there's a lot more coming.
12:46We're not done yet.
12:47We had all these guys hurt, but the guys that were playing were playing hard.
12:53And it's just fun to see, and it's great to see.
12:57And anyone who counted us out, you know, they got another thing coming,
13:01because this team is showing they can take a punch and bounce back.
13:04And I think they're ready to deliver some punches.
13:08And I'm glad.
13:08Appreciate that.
13:09And don't forget, James, everybody there is under contract.
13:13Everybody there did what they had to do for their job.
13:17That's what they're paid to do.
13:20So they did their job.
13:21They didn't do anything outside of that.
13:23That's what they're paid for.
13:24And they earned it.
13:26James, you're next.
13:28Hey, Doc, how you doing?
13:30I'm going to say.
13:31How am I doing?
13:32Hell, we won.
13:33Yeah, we won.
13:35And we threw this extended preseason that this NFL league has gone now.
13:41Yes.
13:42But this running game needs to get a whole lot better.
13:46I agree.
13:47I'm so sorry for Austin Murray.
13:48I mean, he's hitting these holes, and they're closing like, you know,
13:51like it's a rotating door on him.
13:54I mean, he can't get anything.
13:55And then these pre-snap penalties are also killing us.
14:01And Mariota's got to complete the ball when the man is inbounds,
14:05not out of bounds.
14:07So, I mean, we're getting there.
14:09We're tightening it up.
14:10But that offense has got to do a little bit more better.
14:13You know, I appreciate that.
14:14Yeah.
14:14Yeah, Mariota was under a lot of pressure.
14:18He was slinging that bad boy.
14:20I mean, I don't know what more you want.
14:23I guess we don't get enough examples around the league.
14:28Don't bite the hand to feed you.
14:30Trust me.
14:31You're lucky as all diggings to have Mariota.
14:35I mean, you're in every game if you have Mariota.
14:38And I'm just telling you, if we run the ball better,
14:43if we get more out of that, he's going to even be better on the options.
14:47So, I mean, it's a beautiful thing.
14:49I'm telling you, it is amazing the character and the fight back these guys have.
14:57They got some dog in them.
15:00Wes, you've been awful quiet, man.
15:02Are you just relieved?
15:05Or are you in shock?
15:07I'm not either.
15:08I'm relieved.
15:09Okay.
15:09Actually, yeah, no, no.
15:10Yeah, I'm relieved.
15:11I'm not shocked.
15:11That's okay.
15:12Yeah, thank you.
15:14Because these are professionals.
15:15Terry, Diggs, even Marcus.
15:18These guys have been in games like this.
15:21They've played the champions.
15:22Diggs, what a competitor.
15:24Right.
15:24He's going to go out there every single week.
15:26And if you have him on your fantasy team, you better play him every single week.
15:29Because he goes out there and score.
15:31And he didn't score today.
15:32But he created opportunities for the rest of the team.
15:35And Terry obviously got involved.
15:37You saw White ends that game.
15:40Well, gets that first down at the end of the game.
15:44So, all together, from defense and, you know, Sonny Stiles, looked like back in his days when he was at
15:50Ohio State as a freshman playing safety.
15:53And then has the interception later in the game.
15:55And then Terry McLaurin a few plays later scoring that touchdown.
15:58It all came together today.
16:02Yeah, they were clutch.
16:03They were clutch.
16:05And it's early and just couldn't be proud.
16:08And, again, it's about who you did it to.
16:12Who'd you beat?
16:13We beat the champs.
16:16The champs, would they have 22-game win streak or something like that?
16:19I mean, they beat the champs.
16:21Of 12.
16:22Okay, beat the champs.
16:23They probably lost one out of the last 22.
16:26And the games they're in are tight.
16:28And they're in the dogfights.
16:29And they're used to it.
16:32But I just think under the circumstance.
16:35And that's why.
16:36And you did ask the question last week.
16:38What I thought.
16:39And I shared with you what I thought.
16:41You got no way in hell.
16:43You're going to beat these guys without Cosme.
16:45Without this guy and that guy.
16:47Because they're going to punk you.
16:49And if you don't cover better than you've been covering.
16:52You're never going to stop Jason.
16:54Never.
16:55This dude.
16:56And he's not doing it alone.
16:58I know Sam takes a lot of hits.
17:01Sam was coming off injury.
17:03And Sam was throwing lasers.
17:07I mean.
17:12Telling me you wouldn't sign up to watch them every week.
17:15I mean.
17:16That is something.
17:19Something to behold.
17:21The 520 here.
17:22In the nation's capital.
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