00:00Washington beats Seattle 33-31.
00:03Jaden Daniels was out.
00:04Marcus Mariota threw three touchdowns without an interception.
00:08Washington's defense forced three turnovers against the defending champs.
00:14That's a big win for Washington.
00:16I feel like Washington, they're playing better than what their record has suggested.
00:21Even if they would have lost this game, I actually kind of like the way their offense is playing.
00:26I like the way they're flying around.
00:27John Sonny Stiles, by the way, he is a legit superstar.
00:31I think he's going to be a superstar.
00:33That guy is unbelievable.
00:35He's doing what I was told Caleb Downs was supposed to do for the Dallas Cowboys.
00:39That's your guy, Caleb Downs, John.
00:41Yeah.
00:42You know how many stories I had to read and watch about Caleb Downs changing the Cowboys defense
00:47and how they were going to be, how he was the missing piece
00:50and how much of a difference he was going to make?
00:52Huh.
00:53See how that actually looks when you do it?
00:56Huh.
00:56Interesting.
00:57Just write it down, John.
00:58Just keep it in your notes.
01:00Interesting.
01:01So, Mariota had a nine-yard run on a late third and seven that allowed the commanders
01:06to kind of run out the clock there.
01:09Was this kind of just a product of an isolated road loss for Seattle,
01:15or do you think this is more so a concern for them?
01:18Because I think this is just like one of those games.
01:20Washington played well.
01:21It was a weird environment, raining a little bit, sloppy.
01:24And Washington just played really well at home.
01:27I'm not going to be too worried about Seattle.
01:30If you're Seattle, this cannot happen to you again.
01:34Oh.
01:36You gave up 31 points to a backup quarterback who there's years of film on.
01:41There's film of him last year in this offense.
01:45So, there's no excuse that you didn't know what he was doing or what he was capable of.
01:50So, Seattle absolutely dropped the ball on a week they could not afford to drop the ball.
01:57I did not see anything in the portions of this game that I watched from the Seattle defense
02:03that they had a clue.
02:06It looked as if they thought Jaden Daniels was still playing until kickoff.
02:10And went, oh, wait, no.
02:11He's not playing.
02:12Uh-oh.
02:13What are we going to do?
02:14Because if you look across the board, Mariota only had 183 yards passing.
02:19Yeah.
02:19There was no real run game.
02:21They didn't do anything spectacular, but they still managed to put up 33 points.
02:28So, if you're the Seahawks and you want people to respect your championship, if you're supposed
02:35to have a championship defense on the week where your championship quarterback comes back,
02:39you get rolled pretty much.
02:42Like, silently rolled.
02:43But you got rolled because the defense gave up 33 points.
02:47Yeah, you know, this is a team in Seattle that everyone is crowning as one of these
02:54better defensive teams, this team that should stop everybody.
02:58And especially, like you said, going up against a backup quarterback in Mariota, I would expect
03:03a better performance than this.
03:05Now, does this make me concerned about Seattle moving forward?
03:09Not really.
03:09They are still missing a lot of guys.
03:11I think we forget about that.
03:13But in any case, like, it still shouldn't have been like this.
03:17Maybe down the line, they're going to look at this game and be like, man, probably shouldn't
03:20have lost that one to Washington.
03:22That kind of hampered us.
03:23And I know it keeps saying these things where, hey, down the line, it's going to matter.
03:29It absolutely will.
03:30All of these games are going to matter, like, a lot.
03:33Because I feel like everybody is going to be jumbled up.
03:36And we're going to have teams that don't win divisions, that should have won divisions.
03:41We're going to have wild card teams that could have won divisions and stuff like that.
03:45So you never know.
03:47If you're looking at it, if you're like here in this, this is why I think what you're making
03:51is a very valid point.
03:52If you look at the NFC West, you look at where the Rams are, you look at where the Cardinals
03:57are, you look at where the 49ers are, you look at where the Seahawks are.
04:02The 49ers may be 3-0.
04:04But they're literally almost a walking dead.
04:06Mike Evans got hit so hard today, I've never seen a football player in that much physical
04:14pain not carted off.
04:17Like, he was hurting so bad, it took multiple people and multiple times.
04:23He wouldn't accept help.
04:24But it took multiple times for him to get off a knee and walk to the sideline to where
04:29when he got across the sideline, he just, you know, lay down damn near.
04:34So, they're going to do the 49er thing where they just start falling apart.
04:39Bosa didn't play today.
04:41And again, like I said, Mike Evans looked like he got hit by a truck by the time he got
04:45to
04:45the sideline.
04:46So, as much as the 3-0 looks great in September for the Niners, they have a lot of dudes
04:52down.
04:52I mean, a lot of guys down really, really early.
