Speaker 1: Welcome to the Command Center Podcast. I'm Julie Donaldson. It
Speaker 1: is Victory Monday here in Washington. The Commanders recorded it
Speaker 1: their second straight victory with the twenty three twenty one
Speaker 1: win over the Green Bay Packers. The Commander's dominant third
Speaker 1: down defense and strong run game are just a few
Speaker 1: of the notables that Logan Paulson and Fred Smooth joined
Speaker 1: me to break down. So, Taylor haneke a little bit
Speaker 1: of a rough start there, but man, over the second half,
Speaker 1: he really settled in. And you know he talks about
Speaker 1: a lot of it. It's timing, it's chemistry with your receivers. Fred,
Speaker 1: we saw him be able to get in sync there
Speaker 1: later in the game. Well. Even a great thing about
Speaker 1: him as a backup. He has a relationship with everybody
Speaker 1: on the team already and especially with Tear Meglan, listen,
Speaker 1: if I want to keep my job, I'm gonna throw
Speaker 1: the ball to tear like he makes it easy. And
Speaker 1: when you have a guy on the outside like that,
Speaker 1: and you can see they passion when they talk, when
Speaker 1: they go up before the play, after the play, in
Speaker 1: constant communication. He has the post of this team. This
Speaker 1: is the best situation we could ever have. He's not
Speaker 1: a backup and he's a start. He just right around
Speaker 1: thirty five thirty four when he comes into it. And
Speaker 1: what's the challenge for that logan? You're an offense trying
Speaker 1: to catch balls when the quarterbacks keep shifting to be
Speaker 1: able to try and be in sync. Obviously at SUSK
Speaker 1: if everyone has a different style, right in terms of
Speaker 1: how they throw the ball, how the ball comes out
Speaker 1: of your hand, Like there's times where you catch a
Speaker 1: ball from a left handered quarterbackers the right hand quarterback.
Speaker 1: It's different ball valos these different so getting adjusted that's
Speaker 1: a big deal. But like Fred said, he's been in
Speaker 1: the building, he's caught balls, or these receivers have caught
Speaker 1: balls from Taylor and you can tell it took Taylor
Speaker 1: a minute to knock the rust off. But I think
Speaker 1: the receivers are ready for it. Yep, and his team
Speaker 1: believes in him as well. The way that he goes,
Speaker 1: no play is up until that final whistle goes. They
Speaker 1: also ran the ball really well sixty six yards on
Speaker 1: the ground. Have we found a key to running the
Speaker 1: game with Gibson and Robinson. I never thought a thunderstorm
Speaker 1: would be so fun like lightning and thunder. Yes, we
Speaker 1: do heavy and listen, Robinson gets in here, he wears
Speaker 1: people down. So when you put Gibson in the game,
Speaker 1: now he can come through the A and the B
Speaker 1: get but he could bliss out to own the side
Speaker 1: and make some plays. So I thought they made it
Speaker 1: hard and in tiia for Green Bay. And I also
Speaker 1: thought they made the Green Bay defensive backs tackle. We
Speaker 1: don't like tackling that all the time. Yeah. Absolutely. I
Speaker 1: think the other thing there is they were excellent on
Speaker 1: third down. And when you want to run the football,
Speaker 1: ever since you got to run the football, run the football,
Speaker 1: you gotta be great on third down yea. And Taylor
Speaker 1: elevated this offense. So they were great on third down.
Speaker 1: They were able to execute in those situations. And then
Speaker 1: you get those guys more touches. They had thirty six,
Speaker 1: thirty eight touches something like that. You don't get that
Speaker 1: if you're not possessing the football. And that's what Taylor
Speaker 1: brought to this offense, theirs of timing and execution. And
Speaker 1: if we are going to keep it on third down,
Speaker 1: how about their third down defense? Yes, their achilles heel
Speaker 1: last season. Meanwhile, the Packers did not convert a third
Speaker 1: down in this game, not a single one. That's the
Speaker 1: first time in Aaron Rodgers' career he has not converted
Speaker 1: a third down, and it's the first time since nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety nine the Packers have not read Julie, you see
Speaker 1: this tier coming down? Hey, listen, I enjoyed watching these.
Speaker 1: You got to realize a Rodley one of the greatest
Speaker 1: quarterbacks out of time, heads and many third down completions.
Speaker 1: It's Abraham Lincoln yesterday. So listen, they told me yesterday
Speaker 1: the defense was ready to play out these we got
Speaker 1: third down, Oh deefense, they did not get third down
Speaker 1: this The difference between seventy two plays was in forty
Speaker 1: two plays with him. Yeah. Everyone was talking about this
Speaker 1: being to get right game for the Packers and the
Speaker 1: defense had to step up and n't sure that didn't
Speaker 1: happen right, tight coverage, punching balls out. There was times
Speaker 1: when they could have caught the football. The defenders were
Speaker 1: closing windows quickly and taking advantage of like just being
Speaker 1: aggressive in terms of that area. Love that love the
Speaker 1: way the defensive line pushed, pushed Aaron Rodgers made him
Speaker 1: more comfortable, really nice day for the defense. You know.
Speaker 1: One of the reasons this one does feel good because
Speaker 1: it was offense defense and it was special teams that
Speaker 1: all stepped up. And we got to give some major
Speaker 1: props to trust Way man. Every putting in work, he
Speaker 1: is paying them inside the twenty three times he had not. Yes,
Speaker 1: there are plenty of top performers from Sunday's game. We
Speaker 1: decided to hand out a few players dubs, and with that,
Speaker 1: Washington is on a streak two wins in a row.
Speaker 1: We're not going to give out player balls after this.
Speaker 1: We're gonna save that for head coach Ron Rivera. We're
Speaker 1: gonna be giving hell the players dub the players dubh Right,
Speaker 1: what do you think the players know? They know what
Speaker 1: you do. We we e ws like James wins. We're
Speaker 1: giving that to doub. So I got to throw the
Speaker 1: dub up. And my player is Terry. I got a
Speaker 1: man this easy one though, listen, but he's crunching. He
Speaker 1: never and this is way I love about him. No deva,
Speaker 1: no defense at this man, I don't get the ball,
Speaker 1: I'm still gonna play hard. You get me the ball
Speaker 1: anytime you need to, I will be there. He's always there.
Speaker 1: I love you, man, what's favorit player the game with him?
Speaker 1: It's the last play to steal the game. I know
Speaker 1: the touchdown. I had to see him. They play a
Speaker 1: hundred times. That played to seal the game was all
Speaker 1: I want to And I'm not gonna let you Jazz,
Speaker 1: I mean Alexander one of the basically league. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna let you stop me. Absolutely, and mine mine is
Speaker 1: kind of goes hand in hand with yours. It's Taylor Haneke,
Speaker 1: and I think Taylor Haneke is a guy who deserves
Speaker 1: a ton of credit. He started the game really slow, friends,
Speaker 1: looked like kind of rusty, looked a little nervous. But
Speaker 1: then he gets out there and starts making place. He's
Speaker 1: avoiding sacks, He's distributing that football to his playmakers, Curtis,
Speaker 1: Samuel Gibson, Terry, all these guys, and he just did
Speaker 1: a great job taking hits, getting the ball out, making
Speaker 1: the old line better. And he deserves a ton of credit.
Speaker 1: That third down conversions, all that stuff. Love what he's doing.
Speaker 1: He gets the dove, he's gonna take it off her.
Speaker 1: He's gonna take that off the neck, all right, And
Speaker 1: who else you got Fred, you got one more? Oh,
Speaker 1: this is my guy. If you talk about him when
Speaker 1: he don't do it, don't come a good game. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you your profit. It's all about Jack Dale
Speaker 1: Rio over six. They went in third. Els is Mining
Speaker 1: is Abraham Lincoln. He didn't play yesterday, Jack Delriel. For
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