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Speaker 1: What's up with happening?

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Speaker 2: All?

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Speaker 1: This is the Beatdown Podcast, and guys, we're ready to

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Speaker 1: get started into week two. And today we have two

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Speaker 1: more guests. Last week we had Lake Lewis and David Harrison.

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Speaker 1: This week we have Candy Waller, president of Booie TV Sports,

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Speaker 1: and Alex Flohm from DC News. Now, guys, how we

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Speaker 1: doing pretty good?

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Speaker 3: Zach? Ready for week two?

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Speaker 4: Yep? Same here? Ready to get rocking, as DQ would say, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think we're all ready to move on from whatever

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Speaker 1: that was in week one for sure. You know, this

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Speaker 1: week we have our home debut against the New York Giants,

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Speaker 1: which I've been saying all week it seems to be

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Speaker 1: more of a quote unquote in the Washington Commander's weight

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Speaker 1: class as opposed to the perennial playoff contenditor that the

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Speaker 1: Buccaneers were. But yeah, I think I think this is

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Speaker 1: going to be a little bit more of a competitive matchup.

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Speaker 1: And guys, let's go ahead and get jumping right into

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Speaker 1: it here. Starting with the first question that we will

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Speaker 1: be debating over between you two is you know Washington's

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Speaker 1: offense went up against the buzz Saw in Todd Bowles's

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Speaker 1: defense and you know, they blitsed them about forty two

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Speaker 1: percent of the time, which is gonna make it gonna

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Speaker 1: speed up Danny Daniels process and led to him runs

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Speaker 1: in the ball sixteen times, which nobody wants. But Katy,

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Speaker 1: we'll start with you here, and you know, the big

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Speaker 1: question is what do you want to see from Washington's

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Speaker 1: offense that Cindy struggle a little bit there going against

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Speaker 1: the Todd Bowles. What do you want to see them

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Speaker 1: do against the Giants defense that likely is not going

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Speaker 1: to blitz as much as the Buccaneers.

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Speaker 2: I would really like to see from Washington's offense a

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Speaker 2: bit more, just you know, creativity. How can they get

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Speaker 2: the other players involved? If we saw the run game

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Speaker 2: get going a bit, we saw you know, a big

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Speaker 2: run by Austin Eckler, We saw you know, b Rob

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Speaker 2: a bit of that.

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Speaker 4: Can they connect?

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Speaker 2: Can can we see where Jaden will have a chemistry

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Speaker 4: With Diami o Z.

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Speaker 2: Let's see how that works out and then just the

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Speaker 4: All Duram Camp. We saw, you know, zach Ertz being kind.

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Speaker 2: Of like that security blanket but just couldn't get that

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Speaker 2: going so where they can really be creative and utilizing

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Speaker 4: Love to see that happening in week two.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you very have a good point about the

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Speaker 1: wide receivers because in the first half the wide receiver

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Speaker 1: group as a whole had one catch for no yards

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Speaker 1: and that was for Luke McCaffrey, who who did have

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Speaker 1: end up having a pretty solid game. But that you're right,

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Speaker 1: that is nowhere close to what you'd want from from

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Speaker 1: And you know, she brings up the wide receivers now,

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Speaker 1: like what do you think they can do to get

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I think it seemed did seem like the

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Speaker 5: So I think the receivers need to do a little

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Speaker 5: one thing under the radar that I'm going to be

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Speaker 3: Brandon Coleman on the field.

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Speaker 5: They were about two drives where he had a lot

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Speaker 5: I don't think anything was exactly jayde Daniel's fault last week.

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Speaker 3: But I think a little more.

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Speaker 5: Protection and a little more separation from the receivers, which

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I really think so too. And if you look

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Speaker 1: So either way, no matter what we're gonna see from

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Speaker 1: less pressure at least from you know, blitzing you know,

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Speaker 4: Think it will help Jayden even probably.

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Speaker 2: Get a bit more comfortable to the pace of the game.

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Speaker 2: It's almost like at times in Week one, you know,

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Speaker 2: Because he just was a you know, we know that

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Speaker 2: also can resemble like panic mode as well, like oh

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Speaker 2: my gosh. So it's almost like wanting to see that calm,

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Speaker 4: Perhaps this is a week where he can really.

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Speaker 2: Get comfortable into the maybe passing first QB that we

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Speaker 4: Cliff Kingsbury has said they would like to see him do.

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Speaker 2: So I think it's more of a is this the

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Speaker 4: Like y'all said, it was a solid.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're right, I mean in training camp it

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Speaker 1: what you said, no, No, Granted, some of that is

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Speaker 1: Jade and the rest of the offense along. But fum,

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Speaker 1: on to the next question, is you know she mentioned

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Speaker 5: Well, we did see a couple of times they tried

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Speaker 5: did look closer, you know, close last week, and like

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Speaker 5: the Candy said, we saw it in preseason. We know that,

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Speaker 3: These plays in practice.

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Speaker 5: It's just a matter of seeing that happen for the

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Speaker 3: Like we said, the Bucks a little bit.

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Speaker 3: He's going to see that he's capable.

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Speaker 5: Of doing that in an NFL game, and I'm sure

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Speaker 1: Know, the Commanders were last in the league in quitted

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Speaker 1: score update. Alex. You were in the league four to three,

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Speaker 1: so it's still pretty tightly contested battle here, but we

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Speaker 1: of a general one. You know, obviously the offense was

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Speaker 1: Nine plays of at least fifteen yards or more and

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Speaker 1: that the Buccaneers hit about sixty nine percent of their

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Speaker 1: third downs, which is just, you know, not acceptable in

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Speaker 1: any any sense, not a winning formula at all. But

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Speaker 1: Alex will start with you first. There's a lot of

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Speaker 1: things to improve upon for this Commander's defense, for sure,

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Speaker 1: But what do you want to see the most in

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I definitely want to see the secondary step

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Speaker 5: with the Bucks passing attack, but I do think it

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Speaker 3: Just having a slightly better day.

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Speaker 5: I mean, Coach Quinn talked about it yesterday at practice.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're exactly right, And you know this kind of

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Speaker 5: I would say I'm pretty concerned about the secondary just

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Speaker 1: Candy same qu Before we move on to the final

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Speaker 4: Absolutely. I mean it was glaring right that you can

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Speaker 2: Definitely going to have to tighten up a great deal

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Speaker 1: Yes, completely right, And you know this kind of goes

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Speaker 1: Finish the sentence. Washington will win on Sunday if what happens.

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Speaker 2: Washington will win on Sunday. If the defense actually makes

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what, You're completely right on that, Alex,

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Speaker 4: I mean, whoo really no, of course, it was great

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Speaker 3: Zach and congrats hard to go against the goat. Congrats

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