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Speaker 1: What is up? What's going on? Y'all? This is another

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Speaker 1: episode of the Beatdown Podcast, Week fifteenth edition. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: senior writer for the Commanders, Zach Selby, And if I

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Speaker 1: sound like I'm in a somber mood, probably as you

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Speaker 1: know by now, the Commanders have officially been eliminated from

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Speaker 1: playoff contention after their thirty one to zero loss to

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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings. Not really that much to say about

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Speaker 1: that game that hadn't already been said, other than, in

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Speaker 1: case you haven't already heard by now, Jane Daniels seems

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Speaker 1: to have reaggravated aggravated his elbow, Zach Ertz. Unfortunately toward

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Speaker 1: his acl he will be out for the rest of

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Speaker 1: the year. Not great, but we will soldier on. As

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Speaker 1: Zeke said, for the next four games, try to end

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Speaker 1: things on a positive note. In that begins with a

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Speaker 1: road trip to the Giants at MetLife Stadium and with

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Speaker 1: me to discuss how the Commanders can pull off a

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Speaker 1: win streak and hopefully hopefully end this eight game losing streak.

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Speaker 1: Is Jake Ron from DC News. Now, how you doing, Jake?

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Speaker 2: So good, Zach good to be here, and.

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Speaker 1: We had George Wilson, W t O P. George, how

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Speaker 1: are we doing?

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Speaker 3: I'm good, Zach ran a rock and roll I can

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Speaker 3: tell in your voice though, that you're you're feeling it,

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Speaker 3: you really.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 1: I think we're all feeling it here. And it's such

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Speaker 1: a whiplash from last year because this time last year

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Speaker 1: we were, you know, we're in contention for the playoffs

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Speaker 1: and maybe a little bit more. And now it's, uh, well,

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Speaker 1: it is what it is, and losing, losing for two

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Speaker 1: months straight is not fun for anybody. Case Case didn't know.

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Speaker 1: I did not recommended zero stars here, but we will

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Speaker 1: continue on with this podcast here, winners, losers, points, questions,

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Speaker 1: all that stuff. By god, you should know how this

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Speaker 1: podcast goes by now you've been listening. Thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for listening over through these through this losing streak.

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Speaker 1: And with all that being said, we're gonna jump right

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Speaker 1: into it and we're gonna start with what I was

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Speaker 1: part of what I opened up with the podcast with here,

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Speaker 1: and as I mentioned, zach Ertz down for the year,

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Speaker 1: torny I cel tough, tough look for a guy who's

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Speaker 1: really had a Hall of Fame career in a lot

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Speaker 1: of ways, and you can just tell how important he

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Speaker 1: seeing him go down like that. It's something that no

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Speaker 1: one ever wants to experience in their career or in life.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be. It's gonna be tough, and I wish

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Speaker 1: him all the best in recovery. But for the short term,

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Speaker 1: we have to figure out what the Commanders are going

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Speaker 1: to be doing in his absence, And there are some

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Speaker 1: But it's either either way. It's gonna be. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: So that'll be the first topic of the question, is like,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, when you think of replacing a guy

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's the obvious answer. And I'm glad

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Speaker 1: Be first, we want to get Georgia's answers. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think I think you know, you talk

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Speaker 3: Think you could also see Colston Yankoff get more involved

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Speaker 3: You know, we've seen John Bates being able to block.

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Speaker 4: And as Jake met you cannot replace that.

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Speaker 3: You felt just your heart broke for him just seeing

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Speaker 1: And you could also see Marcus kind of giving him

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Speaker 2: it's maybe just a little more production, a little more

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Speaker 2: in the past game for four to five targets a game,

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Speaker 1: And I don't know either you'll remember, but in the

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Speaker 1: I think he has about like a seventy ish percent catchphrase.

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Speaker 2: Commanders for years to come.

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Speaker 1: I think I definitely do like Madrono a lot, and

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Speaker 1: I really hope we see more of him. I think

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Speaker 1: you make great points there, all right, winner, and it

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Speaker 1: was really tough as it was. I think it was

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Speaker 1: a rematch right between you two. Oh yeah, and it

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Speaker 1: was definitely it was definitely posted. It's close now and

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Speaker 1: I think by a hair, I gotta go with George

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Speaker 1: here on this because I love the McGee pick. I

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Speaker 1: think that's gonna be something. It's gonna be really interesting.

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Speaker 1: And I know you gotta leave in like a minute, George,

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Speaker 1: so go ahead and give us some partying wards a victory.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate the rematch, Jake.

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Speaker 3: You know, I've been training for this since we were

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Speaker 3: on last time, and you just edged me out in

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Speaker 3: that twelfth round, so I appreciate you giving me another shot.

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Speaker 4: Oh it's always a pleasure. George and Zach thank you as.

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Speaker 1: Well, of course. Absolutely it was great having you both

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Speaker 1: on here. Really appreciate you guys coming on on a Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: on the day off that we have here before we

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Speaker 1: get right back into it, and for everyone listening, thank

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