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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Command Center Podcast. I'm Julie Donaldson and

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Speaker 1: a tough divisional matchup with the New York Giants. The

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Speaker 1: Commander's left MetLife Stadium with an even twenty twenty tie.

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Speaker 1: Quarterback Taylor Heineke through for two touch dumps, including one

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Speaker 1: to Terry mclauren. The wide receiver recorded his fourth one

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Speaker 1: hundred yard game of the season, totaling one hundred and

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Speaker 1: five yards on eight receptions. Logan Paulson and Fred Smoot

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Speaker 1: joined me to give their biggest takeaways from Washington's Week

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Speaker 1: thirteen matchup. John Ellen's like, I play this game to win.

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Speaker 1: He's with you. Fred, He's like, I don't like a tie.

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Speaker 1: A tie ticks me off. I don't know what to

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Speaker 1: think or make of it. But look, they had their chances,

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Speaker 1: especially even early on the game. They had their chances

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Speaker 1: to probably put up more They should have blown off

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Speaker 1: the Giants. They did not. But Tyler Heineke once again

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Speaker 1: does some crazy magic at the end of the game,

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Speaker 1: just like he always seems to do, and it worked.

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Speaker 1: It got the game tangle. What do we make of

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Speaker 1: what Taylor did, especially there in that final drive. I

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Speaker 1: think obviously got to be really excited about what Taylor did.

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Speaker 1: He brings that, like you said, that magic, that that

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Speaker 1: special something that other quarterbacks in this system have not

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Speaker 1: been able to do so far, so that's really exciting.

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Speaker 1: I do think he still puts the ball in harms

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Speaker 1: way too much. There's those gas from the crowd. Ohs

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Speaker 1: this interception, this is what it is. But again, those

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Speaker 1: are kind of the variants you're writing with him at

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Speaker 1: the quarterback position, and I think he does enough good stuff.

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Speaker 1: He elevates the offensive line enough, he finds a way

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Speaker 1: to make big plays in crunch situations, and I think

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Speaker 1: get to just tip your heart to him because that's

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Speaker 1: that's an outstanding efforboy, well, I felt like this was

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Speaker 1: his best game in the year. I feel like he

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Speaker 1: felt good. He was throwing the passes where they need

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Speaker 1: to be in and him and Curtis standing my hands

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Speaker 1: a connection. Him and Tarry mcloan have a connection. I

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Speaker 1: just want to see him make the plays when they

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Speaker 1: need to be made. I just felt like we left

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Speaker 1: some plays on the field. We could have won this game.

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Speaker 1: And listen, New York Jazz are very similar to us.

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Speaker 1: People don't know how we're winning. They don't know how

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Speaker 1: New York is winning. All I know is this, when

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Speaker 1: it's a close game in the fourth quarter, these two teams,

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Speaker 1: they do come to play. As John Allen said, maybe

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Speaker 1: I can't quite entirely repeat the words about the way

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Speaker 1: that Taylor Hanege played, but basically he showed a lot

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Speaker 1: of guts on that final drive and getting John Dotson

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Speaker 1: into the end zone. We were talking about we wanted

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Speaker 1: him to be much more involved in the game plan.

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Speaker 1: He was able to make that score and showed some

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Speaker 1: of those fancy moves of the footwork. My goodness, we

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Speaker 1: have playmakers. And that's also the challenge that Scott Turner

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Speaker 1: has had of having to adjust his game plan to

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Speaker 1: what Tayler can do. With the guys that we have

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Speaker 1: out there are plenty of guys that can make moves. Fred,

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Speaker 1: what did you make of Scott Turner's game plan through

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Speaker 1: I thought Scott caled a good game yesterday. I thought

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Speaker 1: execution was the key. I thought offensive line play. I

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Speaker 1: think the offensive line in the quarterbay have to get

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Speaker 1: on the same page because once the white player is kyled,

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Speaker 1: now it's all about execution getting the ball to where

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Speaker 1: they need to be. It and making sure that you

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Speaker 1: protect Taylor. Henken, we talked earlier, well, we broke some

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Speaker 1: stuff down and we tried to figure out how the

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Speaker 1: guys getting in there. When you play a great defensive coordinator,

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Speaker 1: it tests the offensive coordinator. Yeah, absolutely and totally. I

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Speaker 1: think Scott did an excellent job. I think there's some

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Speaker 1: areas that he can improve, and I think he tell

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Speaker 1: you that himself. And I think overall, you say, man,

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Speaker 1: this is kind of shades of what this offense can be.

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Speaker 1: And I think you know, everyone talks about Taylor being

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Speaker 1: limited factor. The offensive line is a group that they

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Speaker 1: have to insulate from a pass protection standpoint, So I

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Speaker 1: think it's kind of both things. It's not just Taylor

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Speaker 1: by himself, it's the offensive line. It's about speaking to

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Speaker 1: this team's skill set right, finding ways to run the football,

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Speaker 1: get those guys in the best position to be successful.

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Speaker 1: And then the defense they gave more certainly against Daniel

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Speaker 1: Jones and Saquon Barkley in the first half, especially than

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Speaker 1: we would like what was going on that we've seen

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Speaker 1: from the defense, and you saw this game. We ain't

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Speaker 1: never been able to stop Daniel Jones. But let's be honest,

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Speaker 1: if Daniel Jones could play US sixteen games a year,

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Speaker 1: he would be a pro bowler. He feels comfortable with

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Speaker 1: playing those and people don't give Daniel Jones to pros.

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Speaker 1: Play his wheels. Daniel Jones can flat out and running

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Speaker 1: and you can see he could push the ball down

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Speaker 1: in the field. He's getting better, the team is getting better.

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Speaker 1: I thought the defense came out in the second half

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Speaker 1: and limited him to sixty seventy yards. I thought the

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Speaker 1: defense fabbed out what they was doing. They field him out,

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Speaker 1: and then in second half they came and had a

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Speaker 1: playing bol Yeah, and I think you know, one of

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Speaker 1: the thing is hots off to Brian Dable. They had

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Speaker 1: a nice little wrinkle to get Jones on the edge

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Speaker 1: with their keeper game blocked down with the tight ends,

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Speaker 1: and as the defense kind of said, this is what

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Speaker 1: you're trying to do, they were able to figure out,

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Speaker 1: make adjustments and make some place but it took some time.

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Speaker 1: And that's what a good football it's fun in those matchups.

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Speaker 1: And as apparently defensive coordinator Jack Doru said the halftime,

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Speaker 1: did they do anything that's surprised? You know, you knew

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Speaker 1: what you're going to get from Daniel Jones and sae

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Speaker 1: Quon Barkley. I'll stay to your assignment. Don't really need

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Speaker 1: to make adjustments to see stay doing your job. And

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Speaker 1: of course now that means they've got to do it

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Speaker 1: again in two weeks. For all of your news and analysis,

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