Speaker 1: Welcome to the Command Center Podcast. I'm Julie Donaldson. The
Speaker 1: Commanders dropped their first division matchup at the season and
Speaker 1: Sunday's loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. Santana Moss and Logan
Speaker 1: Paulson joined me to break down Washington's Week three matchup.
Speaker 1: There is still plenty of football to be played here,
Speaker 1: but it was the second straight week that Washington was
Speaker 1: totally shut out of that first half, the offense could
Speaker 1: not get anything going. I mean, just fifty total yards
Speaker 1: in the first half and nothing to show for it.
Speaker 1: What do they need to do, Logan to sustain drives?
Speaker 1: I think that's a million dollar question. I think it
Speaker 1: comes down to early down execution. When you look at
Speaker 1: how they performed on first second down, especially in this ballgame,
Speaker 1: they just did not do a good enough job. And
Speaker 1: then when you get into those third log situations, that's
Speaker 1: when that pressure comes. That's when that defensive line can
Speaker 1: eat and no one wants to be pass protecting a
Speaker 1: third and tenth situation, right, So can we get better
Speaker 1: execution on first second down? Obviously there was a bright
Speaker 1: spot in the offense with ag running the football, but
Speaker 1: they need more in terms of quick game screens. Can
Speaker 1: they get to those touches for some of those space players.
Speaker 1: That's what needs to happen to get this off and sticking.
Speaker 1: I think to some everything that logan just said, every
Speaker 1: man's got to do their job, you know, at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, beat the guy in front of
Speaker 1: you and less execute. And I think when you watch
Speaker 1: that game, he saw a lot of that going on
Speaker 1: early and you can point out different spots where key
Speaker 1: guys didn't do enough of their job for us to
Speaker 1: be successful. And I think that's a great point, Like
Speaker 1: they it wasn't like one guy made a disastrous mistake.
Speaker 1: It's like everyone took a turn making a mistake, running
Speaker 1: the wrong route, not getting the past protection right, holding
Speaker 1: the ball too long, maybe a bad play call here
Speaker 1: and there, So that all needs to go by the wayside.
Speaker 1: They need to get on the same page and then
Speaker 1: you start executing better. When I hear that, it's a
Speaker 1: little confusing because you would think at this point guys
Speaker 1: know how to do their job and where they're supposed
Speaker 1: to be. But you have nine sacks as well in
Speaker 1: this game, and if you want to point the finger
Speaker 1: to where that falls, I think we're saying it's not
Speaker 1: just one guy, it's a lot of different guys not
Speaker 1: necessarily doing their job right. So what happens on those
Speaker 1: nice sacks, Well, I think it just depends. Like you
Speaker 1: look at the first sackets, I think you know, Leno
Speaker 1: has been uber consistent, you know, and the one bloomshone
Speaker 1: is is the sack Josh Sweat just beats him. Right.
Speaker 1: Then you go down to the ticker and you say,
Speaker 1: the next play, Carson Wentz holds the football too long,
Speaker 1: or maybe the play call isn't quite right, or maybe
Speaker 1: in this third and ten situation, Scott Turner's not helping
Speaker 1: out with chip chip protection, or maybe the concepts too deep.
Speaker 1: So I think that's what people need to understand. Pass
Speaker 1: protection in the l NFL is a complicated, nuanced thing.
Speaker 1: That's not just one person, not just five guys. It's
Speaker 1: a team. Statistic receivers running the right routes, receivers not
Speaker 1: getting up through the time of the play, all those
Speaker 1: things contribute. Yeah, And then then playing the Eagles, you
Speaker 1: would you would have hope Carson would had a better out,
Speaker 1: and just knowing that this his former team, all the
Speaker 1: hooplaud that was going on around his game lead up
Speaker 1: until the game. But for some of our reason, those
Speaker 1: guys was more ready than he was. No, they came ready.
Speaker 1: They had billboards up saying we're coming for the person.
Speaker 1: But it's not easy to have to address, you know,
Speaker 1: I had to interview him after the game. It's not
Speaker 1: easy for that becauseas look, I've just got to do better,
Speaker 1: And of course every player probably would say that as well.
Speaker 1: Even defensively, there were some bright spots, but they just
Speaker 1: still once again gave up one too many big play Santana,
Speaker 1: Yeah they did. But man, look I said again, you know,
Speaker 1: I tipped my head off to Can Fuller and Saint Juice.
Speaker 1: I think those guys play a great game collectively. You know,
Speaker 1: the defense went out dan and flew around and made
Speaker 1: a lot of plays that you might not see when
Speaker 1: it comes to score and call them. You know, I
Speaker 1: understand we want to see our defense played better. I
Speaker 1: undersee one. I understand we want to see teams not
Speaker 1: score as much. But when you don't have the other
Speaker 1: side plan up to their level of play, then it
Speaker 1: puts too much on the defense. And we've already been
Speaker 1: harping on them already earlier this year. To me, I
Speaker 1: think that was their best their best game this year,
Speaker 1: and it don't show that way because we lost twenty
Speaker 1: four eight. Yeah. I mean if you would have told
Speaker 1: me that they would only score twenty four points to
Speaker 1: the Philadelphiagles and we would lose the game, I'd be
Speaker 1: like something happened with the offense, and that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 1: Benjamin Saint Jews proved to be a bright spot for
Speaker 1: the Commander's defense, recording three solo tackles in three passes defended.
Speaker 1: London Fletcher and I spoke with the cornerback post game.
Speaker 1: You yourself getting there to start on the outside when
Speaker 1: William Jackson third can't go. When we saw you a
Speaker 1: couple of times doing that double lock signature move of
Speaker 1: your owns, when did you realize in how what prep
Speaker 1: kind of went into you kind of taking over the
Speaker 1: outside for him in the game. I mean that just
Speaker 1: goes with the verse facility that I have. I started
Speaker 1: a corner like last year, so I mean I still
Speaker 1: study the outside and in so I just in case
Speaker 1: things like that happened, so I can go on the
Speaker 1: outside and it's you know, there's no pressure. I'm I'm good.
Speaker 1: So um, it was like, uh, it was it was
Speaker 1: nothing new to me. So it was I was already
Speaker 1: ready to go go on outside if I needed to.
Speaker 1: You mentioned going on the outside, studying outside of the cornerback.
Speaker 1: Were you able to study kind of the A. J.
Speaker 1: Brown and the routes that he'd like to run, knowing that, hey,
Speaker 1: a lot of times you might be rep match type
Speaker 1: with him or even um DeVante Smith knowing, hey, studying
Speaker 1: those guys on the outside because it's a different type
Speaker 1: of routes you get playing the slide as opposed to
Speaker 1: being outside. Oh yeah, definitely. I mean we we knew
Speaker 1: certain formation that they were gonna run like certain from
Speaker 1: certain routes. Uh, and that definitely helped. Having guys like
Speaker 1: Kendall Fuller. That's that's very smart. Um, he's letting me know,
Speaker 1: you know, when certain routes are coming up, some formation
Speaker 1: is coming up. But yeah, like you said, I do
Speaker 1: need to kind of like switch my mind because I'm
Speaker 1: so used to like playing the so so now I
Speaker 1: gotta think about you know, sin Rose to coon out
Speaker 1: like what they run on the outside. For all of
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