WEBVTT - MVP Jayden Daniels Debate + Playoffs! + Dallas Preview | Command Center Podcast | Washington Commanders | NFL 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:03.320 Welcome into the Command Center Podcast. On today's show, presented 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:06.440 by Cognier Technologies. We won and we're in. 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:07.800 Yes, most stays. 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:10.040 Feels good to be in the playoffs, Jaydon Daniels, I mean, 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:11.760 you must have been a history major in college, because 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:15.600 he just loves making history every single game, every single week, 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:17.160 doing special stuff. 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:19.079 You got the Rookie of the Year on Lock in 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:21.239 the Bag, put them on it in the bank. 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:24.880 Is he the most valuable player for this team? Great quest, 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:27.400 great question. And then we've got the Dallas preview. Make 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:29.320 sure you bring your shades at games at one o'clock. 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:36.560 It all starts right now, and welcome into the Command 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:38.840 Center Podcast. I'm Logan falls in here with Fred Spoots 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:41.400 and Tenemas and from all of us to all of you, 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:45.360 Happy New Year. And what a way to bring the 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:49.080 new year in with a kind of a pseudo playoff win, 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:50.400 you know what I'm saying, Like. 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:52.960 No, everything from here, folks is the playoffs, Like this is. 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:55.520 You started the playoffs actually before the Eagle game to 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:57.600 be so everything. 0:00:57.320 --> 0:00:59.280 Has playoff status to it. 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:01.840 And that's why I think people are kind of mixed 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:05.640 feelings about this Cowboy game, Like do you wrench the 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:08.960 players and get ready for the playoff game. Do you say, 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:11.640 let's go beat the Cowboys and put some people that 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:13.720 might be limping into the playoffs in there. 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:15.279 That's a good question, it's. 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:15.679 A great question. 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:17.240 I don't know, I don't I don't have an answer 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:19.399 to that, but damn sure. Feel good to know that 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:24.240 we clinched. Yeah, spot. I mean it was gut wrenching 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:26.679 man sitting here. Yeah, I'm here we go again. 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:28.360 Emotions all over the playff West. 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:30.880 That's one thing about Northwest stateium. Man, has it failed us? 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:31.080 Boy? 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.320 Yeah, I told you at the beginning of the year 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:35.399 it had this thing about it. 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:35.680 Man. 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:38.240 Yeah, Man, I'm glad they got it done. 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:40.120 And now it's time to say, Okay, at least we 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:42.480 could go into this week already knowing that we have 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:42.919 a spot. 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:46.040 And it's so funny, fellas, we've been in the opposite 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:49.160 position of the Cowboys. We was usually hating, no nim 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:51.560 going into the playoffs, trying to get that last victory 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:54.080 before the off season start, And now they looking at 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.520 us like, you know what they want to say this, Well, 0:01:57.600 --> 0:01:58.559 you didn't beat the. 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:02.080 Cowboys this year. Period. This is what they want to say. 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:04.960 Yeah, absolutely. But before we start talking about the Cowboys, 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:09.160 let's kind of kind of recap the Falcons Falcons game, right, so, 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:10.959 you know, let's just start off like we always doing it. 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:13.200 I'll start with Tannel, like, what were your guess high 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:16.240 level thoughts offense, defense, and anything that stuck out to you. 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:17.000 You know, high level thoughts. 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:19.560 Man, What stood out to me is just and I 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.320 spoke to you about about this a minute ago, how 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:25.920 we are able to make adjustments in game, adjustments as 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.720 a team. You know, you very rarely see a team 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:32.200 that can't do something in the first half or throughout 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:33.960 the game, that something that just seemed to be a 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:37.120 throwing and you know what, and for some of our 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:40.120 reason through while they're playing in that first half, just 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:42.920 seemed like we couldn't stop John Robinson, Like this guy 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:44.240 is like every time he ran. 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:47.040 It was almost like watching Alfred Morris the. 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:49.200 First couple of years of his year's hit in that 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:51.520 offense that we had with cal and them, Like, no 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:52.440 one can stop Alfred. 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:54.320 I don't care what what they tried to do. We 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:56.200 just found a way. He found a way. 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:57.959 And that's how I was looking at I'm like, man, 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:00.480 you know I know this offense is similar to what 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:03.320 we ran. Yeah, but wow, why we can't seem to 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:07.360 you know, that slow him down. 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:10.079 They're going in halftime and it's a different ballgame. 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:13.120 Like the defense came out once we got chewed out, 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:15.079 you know, back then at halftime in the locker room, 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:17.440 and even offensively, you know what I mean, they sparked 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:19.560 that second half and it was a whole different team. 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:22.639 So to me, that's what stood out, Like the last 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:25.240 few weeks, we were able to make in game, you know, 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:27.560 adjustments and come out a different team. 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:28.399 Man. 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:31.960 I felt like, hey, just be honest, Michael Pennis can 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:35.760 play some football. Like he looked good and we just 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.920 played an offense with I thought they offensive lied to me. 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.160 Is a top ten offensive lie in football. B John 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:46.000 Robinson to see him in live in action. 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:51.119 Dude, dude, Like he was again like on the sideline 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.600 and stuff like just his ability to BA I think 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.280 I think someone told me he was number one in 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:59.440 the NFL and mistackle rates Yeah, like close to one 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:01.200 hundred of year ninety nine before the game, and I 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:02.760 think he left for like one hundred and ten or 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:05.320 hundred and fifteen. Yeah, But like his ability to consistently 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:08.240 make the first guy miss, his ability to consistently get skinny, 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:11.040 his ability to get his shoulder square on contact. Like 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:13.080 when he that dude special. 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:14.000 When he turns the corner. 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:18.239 I'm watching him with other pro ad warm speed making 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:21.520 him look like all of them run five flats. Yeah, 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:24.279 Like I was like, this dude is an ankle breaker, 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:26.760 Like he breaks angles. I didn't play it against a bat. 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:27.480 Couple of backs like that. 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:29.760 Riggie Bush was very much. 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:33.080 Funny because he's not like like track fast. He didn't 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:35.719 time super fast. I think around like a four four five. 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:39.279 With that ball. He got power and speed like a combination. 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.480 Is he's five elevenies to twenty five. People forget how 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:43.000 big he is. 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:46.080 Yeah he's yeah, Like you know what. You know. What's 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.280 strange to me is just how they haven't tapped into 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:49.640 his potentially. 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:51.160 Yeah, because they don't. 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:56.920 It's like I'm watching Kristin McCaffrey, A bigger Kristin McCaffrey 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:59.240 more dangerous. When I when I say dangerous, I mean 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:02.160 he has a different kind of Uh he gets behind 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:03.039 his past a little. 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:04.040 Different Yeah, yeah, you know what I mean. 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:06.800 He comes with a different force, a different power, But 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:09.359 he has the same kind of look like like gears 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:12.839 and just agility, and he doesn't get used enough. And 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:14.680 I mean maybe because they have the other back there, 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:18.080 and and maybe because he's still young and they're trying 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.159 to allow him to just tap into, you know, getting 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:21.200 to get out his own head. 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:24.600 But man, I see so much potential that's not being used. 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:26.279 I mean I think also to that point, like dude, 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:29.159 run that double move that slant and go where he's 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:32.520 one on one with Kwan and he runs and that 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:35.440 should have been probably an exposive play. Again, like I 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:39.080 agree Tanner, Like when you watch him, he's Christian McCaffer 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:40.599 I think it's a really good comp and and I 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:42.720 know that's kind of a gotty comp feels gotty because 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:44.679 he's the best back we've seen in the last ten years, 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:47.040 fifteen years. He's probably a Hall of Famer, but like 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:50.080 he's he's very sid when you watch him in person. Yeah, 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:52.279 it feels that way. And so the other thing I 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.000 wanted to kind of ask you, Fred, because Tanner brought 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:56.400 it up, was like, we couldn't we having a hard 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:58.280 time stopping to run the first half. Obviously they did 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:01.200 make some adjustments, but when I look at the secondary 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:03.680 some of the linebacker play, it just feels like there's 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.200 some issues with run fits. Yeah, and is that stuff 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:08.599 that they can get corrected? And most of den like, 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:10.320 what's the best way to kind of clean that up? 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:11.120 Well, think about it. 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:12.880 Also, you have to get to the point where a 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:15.480 lot of people playing a lot of too high safety 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.720 right now, and you have to have confidence in the 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:20.839 outside corners to bring them safeties in the box to 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:23.479 help you stop the run. Now, yesterday was kind of 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.880 odd because we knew before this game started they run 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:29.560 outsides on more than any team in the NFL. 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:31.599 They don't straight away from it. 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:34.360 They're not really an a gap be get running team 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.960 until our gier comes into the game and with them 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:40.280 knowing as attacking us. I was very shocked to look 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:43.680 at the paper yesterday and Bobby wagging only seven tackles, 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.560 So they're telling me they had those linebackers running sideline 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:47.200 to sideline. 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:50.360 Frankie Louvu one tackle. I was blown away by. 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:52.200 But then when I looked at who leads the team 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:55.320 in tackles on one morning and Jeremy chin So I 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:57.200 was like, all right, so now it's telling me that 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:59.599 the running backs getting to the second level. 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:01.560 These guys are forced to make a tackle. 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:02.600 Now you switch it. 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:06.560 After the halftime, they brought Kun and Chin down into 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:09.880 the box and forced them to beat us with Drake London, 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:14.320 which Drake London, Yeah, start to give us, give us problems. 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:16.000 So I think it has a lot to do with 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:19.560 kind of the marsh On Lattimore effect. How should I 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:23.440 say that he is almost the key to freeing Coach 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:25.680 witt up to say, I can call it whatever I want, 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:28.400 but until then I had to kind of pace myself 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.680 in and try to keep everything in front of me. 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:33.120 That's how I feel like they was playing, and to me, 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:35.960 I would have been more funnling than everything. Back to 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:37.560 the A and the B gap and try to protect 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:40.600 them edges because I know that he's a he's an 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:41.560 edge runner. 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:44.160 And I got really excited with the happy New Year 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.200 stuff because it's the New Year today. I forgot to 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:49.960 thank Cognire. They're representing sponsor Secure Today, Shape Tomorrow. We 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:51.800 really appreciate Cognore and all they do for the show. 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:53.360 We couldn't do the show without them, So thank you. 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:56.000 So New Year to Cognire as well. 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:57.240 Yeah, most definitely so again. 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:58.480 One of the things I wanted to bring up about 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:00.560 the run fits. It's like sometimes when I watch, especially 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:02.880 in sub and Atlanta did a really good job. I 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.360 thought of like saying, Hey, we're gonna take a little motion, 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:07.840 kind of like that jet motion where the machine receivers 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:12.400 motioning away, kind of out the Nichol's gonna bump out, 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:13.800 and then all of a sudden there are a gap 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:17.320 sure to the front side, you know what I'm saying. 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:19.680 And then obviously you get Drake London blocking the safety 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:21.480 at a really high level. It just seemed like they 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:24.400 presented a lot of problems in the first half. Formationally, Yeah, 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:25.600 they made it really challenging. 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.520 They schemed it up, well, yeah, they schemed it the 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:30.680 real will and and and and just to add to 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:31.280 what you saw. 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:34.640 I saw that too, and I didn't know how how 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:38.439 much they used. McCloud. I think his name Ray Ray, McLoud. 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.360 Ray, because I've been knowing Raray for a while. Then 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:42.160 his dad used to text back and forth when he 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.600 was in college, and he's just telling me how special 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:46.160 his son was, and he was a big his dad 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:47.840 was a big fan of mine, you know, back when 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:49.199 I was in UM He's like, man, I want you 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:50.600 to get him my son here and so me and 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:52.680 Ray Ray will always text, especially when he was in 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:55.079 San France. He would ask me questions, you know, how 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:57.120 he should take on you know, Lennon Hankerson being a 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:57.800 receiver coach. 0:08:58.160 --> 0:08:59.480 I just give him the tips. 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:01.240 But I had been watching them this year and I 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:03.640 know they're using primarily as a special team guy. But 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:05.079 when I saw him in the office, I was like, man, 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:07.360 he really makes this offense they use, you know. 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:08.240 So when I saw. 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:10.120 Him moving and they was giving the ball here and there, 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:12.360 I'm like, well, damn, he might be the he might 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:14.000 be the guy we need the team and slow down. 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:16.280 But then the other guys got active. So it was 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:16.720 just to me. 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.600 I think schematically they found a way to put us 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:21.920 in some fits where we couldn't get out of it. 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:23.800 And then we had to say, Okay, you know I 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.240 told you about home. You know, Bo, you were talking football. 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:28.160 Both was like, Bro, we gotta cloud it, we gotta, 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:29.840 we gotta, we gotta, we gotta go out there and 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:32.560 zone it because we gotta match up with these guys. 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:35.440 They kind of pound for pound got us because they 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:36.880 got elite athletes. 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:38.160 Cale Pencon's elite. 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:41.480 He hasn't played elite, but he's an elite tight end 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:44.840 when it comes to skill set. And Drake London, for 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:47.480 all the talk they talk about, he's a true number 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:53.280 one wide receiver lead. So they can actually attack you, however, 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:56.880 at whatever level they want to, with whichever player they 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.319 want to. So I can see a defensive coat, I 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:02.800 mean coordinator in like sensory overload. Say, I'm gonna play 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:04.760 this safe, so I keep all of these guys in 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:08.040 front of me instead of trying to individually win battles 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:11.600 with them. Like this what I think took away from 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:13.920 not having Marshall on because think about it, here we go, 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:15.440 he go had a dumbino's file. 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:18.679 I put marsha On on Drake London. Damn, that's taken 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:19.000 care of. 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:23.360 I could put Jeremy Chin on Kyle Pitts like taking 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:23.760 care of. 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:26.600 May be nervous in the game watching it from the sideline, 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:28.920 just because like Kyle Pitts is, like you said, maybe 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:32.280 hasn't played elite, but he can still win get down 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:33.800 the field. But yeah, sorry, Fred, go ahead. 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.839 You know, I just feel like with having that many whips, 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:39.520 it's better just to play zone and try to keep 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:40.480 everything in front of him. 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:42.920 Yeah, so one of the things they did a lot 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:44.600 of and they were really successful with it where they 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:46.240 played a lot more to man than they played the 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.040 last couple of weeks. Right, they kind of you know, 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:51.319 had man up underneath the pick is in two man. Yeah, 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:54.000 they have a two sacks and two man And again 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:55.839 that's like kind of a nice little wrinkle and a 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:57.640 little bit more aggressive than I thought they would be. 0:10:57.640 --> 0:10:59.520 But again it allows the DBS to kind of play 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:03.080 that trail technique, be behind the rest, have a little 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:05.240 bit of help over top, take away those digs and 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:08.280 in cuts that which again that offense really you know, 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.200 think about drift, think about tana like those types of 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:14.760 deep in breaking routes that really are problematic. But you know, 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:18.600 Teddy also mentioned adjustments. One of the things that jumps 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:20.520 out as a difference from the first half to the 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:22.160 second half, and they didn't do a ton of it 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:24.280 because only had like six rushes in the second half, 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:27.600 was they moved around paying a defensive end. So you know, 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:29.800 back in when Dan was in Seattle used to have 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:31.800 like a like a big end who was like a 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:33.720 defensive tackle that would play over the tight end, and 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:36.520 it was awesome for them because he could really blunt 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:40.400 the edge and keep everything inside. So yeah, so they 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:43.360 moved Derwan to that position. They brought in homes for 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:45.680 the weekend, and they had these two basically three hundred 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:48.720 pound ends. They kind of boxed everything up. I think 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.840 the corners Davis, for example, the first outside zone, did 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.120 a great job kind of fit in the run, getting 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:56.559 nice and tight. So they did make some adjustments and 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:57.880 they did play a little bit more physically in the 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.760 second half. But I think maybe the number one driver 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.320 in the difference in the first half from the second 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:07.480 half in defensive reduction was how the offense possessed the football. 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:09.320 Just Kip kept it. 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.560 On the sideline most definitely, that's how you stop off 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.320 and and that was Jayden by himself at times. 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:20.480 You know that five basically be with you. 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:23.840 Yeah, and you know, uh, Jason always does such a 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:26.680 great job finding like research notes, but this is the 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:30.960 first time two scoring drives of seven plus minutes, Like, 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:32.960 think about that, they possessed the ball on two scoring 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:34.640 drives for seven plus minutes. 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:37.560 Yeah, and the entire overttack, the entire it was. 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:39.160 It was crazy to watch it again. A lot of 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:40.840 that's Jade and we're going to talk about Jaden here 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:43.200 in a second. But the one thing in addition to 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:45.800 kind of stopping the run, in addition to the offensive 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:49.920 efficiencies in the third quarter, is this felt a lot 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:53.160 like the Eagles game. A little bit of a slow start, 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:55.120 had a hard time stopping the run in the first half. 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:56.199 A lot of. 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:58.360 Penalties, tons of penalties. 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:01.080 Is the question that I've been getting naked. It's like, 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:04.200 is this is this who the team is? Right? 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:07.040 I think they who they need to be like, they 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:09.800 are team that they figure it out, they problem solve 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:14.000 doing a game, and they ended he's a closer and 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:16.920 when you have a closer, he waits like. The one 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:19.160 thing I can say about it when you in trouble 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:22.040 called the Avengers right because they got a superhero fuck 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:26.760 and JD five, Jedi five said I'm gonna take this 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:30.120 into my hands yesterday. That's what it felt like to me. 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:31.760 I'm gonna go out here and I'm gonna try to 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:34.800 win this game and I'm going to like I hate 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:37.040 like Hi, goa think about it. It's a couple of 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:39.800 quarterbacks in this league. If they get the last possession, 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:41.920 we automatic think they win the game. If I say 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:44.160 Tom Brady in the game, last possession, you tell me 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:47.040 what victory. If I say Pat Mahone's last possession of 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:48.959 the game, you don't care if it's ninety nine yards 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:49.480 he got to go. 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:54.080 Well, Jaden is developing this. If you give me the ball, 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:55.520 you have lost. 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:58.360 Yeah. But I guess what I'm saying is like they 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:01.720 I heard this analogy about Andrew Luck. It was on 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:03.719 a podcast. I was listening to it. Basically, like, you know, 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:07.360 Andrew Luck is notorious for two minute drives into game right, 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:11.000 just winning football games, but it's also the reason they're 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:14.520 in The reason they're in those is because what happened before. 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:16.640 And I look at again the penalties, and again this 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:20.160 crew seemed a little bit penalty heavy. Yeah, and then 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:22.960 the defensive slow start, the offensive slow start, you kind 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:24.520 of put yourself in this position where you got to 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:27.880 be great down the stretch. I know we've seen elements 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:29.480 of this team look different, but I guess that's what 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:31.520 I'm saying, is like, what can they do to kind 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:35.160 of get themselves going a little bit? Clean up some 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:36.720 of the penalties. And again, some of those penalties are 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.360 on the fact that theaters in the game pre snap penalties, 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:41.640 snapcount stuff, and that that happens with the new center. 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.000 But just that's something that I think a lot of 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:45.800 fans are maybe a little bit concerned about heading to 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:47.440 the playoffs. And you know, you guys are smart guys, 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:48.960 So I figured i'd ask you about. 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:51.200 It to me and just just my take on it. Offensive. 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:53.040 But you got to get back to just being able 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:55.240 to run run effectively, you know what I mean. I 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:57.880 think that put a stop to a lot of the 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:01.240 things that we saw. We have seen you know, the 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:03.960 last what about five or six games, you know, when 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:05.880 it comes to us not being able to be effective 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:07.920 in the run game with our running backs. Do you 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:12.400 think it's it's kind of both to me. I look 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:14.360 at it from an old line standpoint. When we had 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:17.160 you know, Beyondah out, the game got wildly nicked up. 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:19.960 We got these changing you know, you got Goldman, compress. 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:21.560 Paul coming in, you got you know, you got Coleman 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:23.960 being looking like a rookie lately, you know what I mean, 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:25.880 Like guys are being able to hone in on certain 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:28.240 things that that we didn't know what was weak. But 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:30.560 they're saying Okay, that week here, that's going ahead and 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:33.000 attack this. So to me, that's to me, that's the 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.600 big picture. But at the same time too, when it 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:39.080 comes to as a whole defensively offensively, you know, you 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:41.560 have key spots on the defensive side. You mentioned my 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:43.720 Sean Ademore. We only had a one game, but that 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:45.560 one game into a lot when we were able to 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:48.160 do things up front. Then you get johnnan Athlen back. 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:51.000 You know, he plays different. They played different together with 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:53.080 you know, Ja and the game. So I think a 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:55.120 lot of that stuff will kind of be something that 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:56.960 they work on, you know what I mean, just with 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:59.320 the new bodies and the bodies that's not here going 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:01.680 forward because we have to and I think the adjustments 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:03.880 being made in the second half show what we can 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.280 do with those guys, because you look at our center. 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:09.200 He played a completely different game than we saw two 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:11.200 weeks ago when he got in there and played. Look 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:13.680 at defense. Whatever they did first half they didn't do 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:15.600 second half. They hone in on all of that stuff. 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.320 So to me, it's just about knowing what we can 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:20.120 do with the guys that we have at hand. Hey, 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:21.880 if we don't have Marshawn we got to be better 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:23.760 in the secondary. We got to be better at corner. 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:25.120 We got to be able to do some things that 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:28.240 we want to do upfront just to protect you guys, 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.720