00:02all right once again that was al michael's amazon prime last night i was very thankful
00:08that the game was locally broadcast as is required uh when it's these over-the-air
00:14streaming uh thingies um to um have the game on a local channel why why is that important just
00:24as a quick aside well most of us who watch thursday night football we either watch it on
00:30our phone right on on an app prime video what have you if i'm bouncing around which i always am
00:36um believe it or not i don't i'm not a robot i don't watch sports 24 7 but i got
00:42a lot of things
00:43to do so a lot of times i'll watch at least the first half on my phone on thursday nights
00:47right
00:48whatever but last night because the wizards were going toe-to-toe with the detroit pistons and the
00:56caps were playing the devils and that was obviously not as close i was thankful that the game was
01:02locally aired on fox 5 because i could then watch it on fox 5 instead of amazon prime which on
01:09my smart
01:09tv meant i could just flip channels back and forth during commercials and go check in on the wizards
01:16and pistons largely instead of having to go from app to tv and hit all these buttons and you know
01:23you can't go back and forth it's a lot harder it's a lot more um i mean it's not complicated
01:31but it's
01:32more complicated so i was very thankful for that especially with everything going on and what a
01:39hell of an effort by the way by the wizards they lost but what a hell of an effort all
01:44right let me get
01:45you uh three and out the three biggest reasons why the commanders beat the new york giants last night
01:53you just heard the ben sinnet touchdown right uh we're gonna get more into that play coming up but
02:02number one and we start we go one two three obviously in how you would go first down second
02:08down third down just so you know with third down being the most important the money down what have you
02:13the most important thing number one resiliency you've heard that term a lot i think everybody
02:24knows what it means here's how i define it they faced a short week on the road the weather was
02:32i think
02:32better than we were all expecting but that was a part of the pregame warm-ups they were practice or
02:40they were warming up in the pouring rain then they had to clear the field right so maybe their routine
02:46was a little bit off but more importantly short week
02:51and on top of that they were also dealing with a divisional road game
02:59a team in the giants that quite honestly is more physical than they are meaning the commanders
03:08and i think coached harder and more prepared
03:17for adverse situations so they were resilient because of some of those reasons and also think
03:25about it again as we mentioned in the opening segment you throw back-to-back interceptions
03:29nobody expects to win you hope you pray you wish but you don't expect to win on top of that
03:41all the stuff with dq and his future and the season being on the line not mathematically
03:50but theoretically or realistically on top of that your defense which has been much much better
04:01gets gashed on a big touchdown and you're like oh no we just got beat with our bread and butter
04:08it's just not going to be our night and yet the defense comes back and gets a couple of big
04:14stops
04:17the resiliency to punch back and to not be knocked out and to not be kicked and stomped on
04:27is everything that dan quinn preaches about the brotherhood any place any time anywhere any how
04:36any this winning moments all the nonsense that we hear about constantly
04:42we saw it on display last night they weren't perfect by any means they almost didn't pull it out of
04:52their bippy but they did when i and anyone realistically counted them out realistically now luckily lucky lucky
05:07for them they're not paying attention to what we're saying so maybe they had some sort of unwavering
05:16belief that they were going to win that game i don't know how but maybe they did and they did
05:23resiliency for all of those reasons again short week division game on the road season on the line
05:29all the stuff about dq um you know loud giants crowd for a change right it hadn't been that loud
05:38in that
05:38place in a long time the the weather new center or new old once again whatever center all of that
05:49still without your starting running back still without your top receiver all of that and they won
05:57number two all four units while they didn't play perfect or coach perfect they were good enough
06:07all four units
06:12what might you be thinking about all four units right offense defense and unlike most radio shows
06:22and fans i care very much about special teams and then the coaching which you guys care a lot more
06:30about than i do was not perfect but it was by far and i mean by far the best it's
06:42been in a while
06:44offensive coordinator defensive coordinator head coach game clock strategist what have you
06:51design design execution plan all of that everybody came together all four units offense defense special
07:00teams coaching special teams you might be saying well wait they didn't have any big returns no splash
07:06plays no big hits from tyler owens who cares luke mccaffrey had that play inside the five yard line
07:14which i didn't even know the rule on that thank god he did and he executed it brilliantly
07:20and then a guy that i don't have a whole lot of faith in because he's missed i don't know
07:27three or
07:27four extra pointers drew stevens it's all his three his extra pointers and hits a big critical field goal
07:34to get them on the board and they don't have any coverage breakdowns
07:40and somehow by the grace of god they got a 12 yard punt from the giants they didn't do anything
07:46to
07:47deserve that or to earn that i should say but hey man sometimes a little good karma and then lastly
07:57attack attack attack and attack some more the commanders even when they were punched in the mouth
08:07just kept attacking even when jaden daniels throws the two interceptions now you kind of almost sort
08:15of have to so maybe some of you are going to say well of course they had to throw the
08:19football i didn't
08:20have to but they did but they didn't have to throw it down the field and without throwing it down
08:27the
08:28field maybe they don't get the big chunky yardage on the
08:32tralen burke's defensive pass interference play situation right and maybe they don't get
08:38everything else that comes after that
08:42on top of that the last series for the defense and really before that sunny styles on third down
08:48detrick wise uh on the fourth down um or on the third down stop inside the giant 10 yard line
08:55and then all the merry-go-round with jamis who let the dogs out and all this stuff and not
09:00jumping
09:01offsides and forcing the punt and all of that special teams uh defense offense again attack attack attack
09:13they kept their foot on the pedal the defense on that last series was going down whether they were
09:24going down swinging and throwing haymakers that wasn't just oh we're gonna roll out a five-man
09:31blitz that was hey man we're throwing the kitchen freaking sink at you come and get it beat us if
09:38you
09:38can and they did beat them earlier in the fourth quarter they didn't beat them later in the fourth
09:43quarter so three and out resiliency for all the reasons that we mentioned short week road division
09:49game all the nonsense um all the times that they had shot themselves in the foot all of that
09:54overcoming what happened at the start of the third quarter overcoming the two interceptions not
10:01folding like a cheap suit all of that number two all four units offense defense special teams
10:07and the coaching and game clock management all good enough not perfect good enough maybe even
10:15bordering on very good which is the first time and then on top of that number three the most
10:22important reason i think why they won is the attack mindset on offense defense and every which way
10:29they never said oh we're done here we're gonna get soft as vanilla we're gonna get bland and
10:37conservative because we've got this like they did in the week five matchup like they did in the week
10:44five matchup so good job by the commanders we're gonna get to your calls next right here on the team
10:51983-0123-0983-0123-0980 let me first give you a number on sunny styles who had one of those
10:59big big big defensive stops and great overall game sunny styles according to true media has the highest
11:07percentage of pressure rates among nfl rookie defenders this year 19 david bailey the number
11:17two overall pick of the jets 16 and then the list goes from there but sunny styles an off-ball
11:24linebacker
11:25who obviously can be used in a lot of different ways and is the highest pressure percentage among
11:31rookie defenders in the nfl this year come on back 301-230-0980 the rest of the way is your
11:37calls
11:38and your reaction to a season saving win right here on the team 980 stay with us
11:44good night here on the team 980 stay with us
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