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

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Speaker 1: will be the one hundred and twenty fifth meeting between

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Speaker 1: Washington and Dallas. Of course, the game will be held

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Speaker 1: in Big Dean. Washington will be debuting they're all black

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Speaker 1: uniforms for the first time. But how can Washington that's

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Speaker 1: lost two straight games get a win over a team

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Speaker 1: that has one two straight games with a backup quarterback.

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Speaker 1: We'll hear some of the matchups to look out for

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Speaker 1: with Logan Falston and Santana Moss. He's to winning, Logan. Thanks,

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Speaker 1: Julie Danna. This to me is the most important factor

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Speaker 1: for this football team to win the game. Forced Cooper

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Speaker 1: Rush to beat you from the pocket. And the reason

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Speaker 1: I say that is because he's a good player. He's

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Speaker 1: very solid, But there's a reason he's a backup, right.

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Speaker 1: He struggles with anticipation in times and he's not super dynamic, right,

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Speaker 1: So they want to run the football, they want to

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Speaker 1: insulate him. Can you stop the run? Can you put

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Speaker 1: some points upon offense and force this guy to have

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Speaker 1: to win from the pocket. I think that's huge in

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Speaker 1: this game. Well, I'm definitely dig you on that, and

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Speaker 1: I bet you that minds trump yours. Honestly, check this out.

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Speaker 1: The last two weeks to offense just haven't scored a

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Speaker 1: point in the first half. That's impossible almost, but it's

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Speaker 1: possible because we saw that our guests haven't done so,

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Speaker 1: so the offense must get off to earlis good. We

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Speaker 1: have to put some points on the board. Sometimes the

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Speaker 1: best defense is a good offense, and our offense hasn't

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Speaker 1: been standing you know, um, you know, being the offense

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Speaker 1: that we expect them to be, and our defense as

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Speaker 1: being getting you know, hammered at times. So offense have

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Speaker 1: to score early to basically being seen with what our

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Speaker 1: defense has been bringing. So I think that's a great point.

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Speaker 1: And that also goes in this like if you do

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Speaker 1: those things, you're gonna stretch Cooper rush out quite a bit. Also,

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Speaker 1: Smart gets play actually just to get Cooper rushed to

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Speaker 1: Beacher gotta stop the run. But don't sell out too

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Speaker 1: much because they are an excellent play pass team that

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Speaker 1: do an outstanding drive finding those matchups. And you know,

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Speaker 1: it's hard to win on the road. So to the

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Speaker 1: number one thing you could do, you could come away

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Speaker 1: with a couple of turnovers. We need some turnovers. I

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Speaker 1: think our defense had one turnover right now in three games.

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Speaker 1: We lead into the fourth game, this is the last

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Speaker 1: game of our first quarter. Deefen's got to come away

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Speaker 1: or at least two of them. I mean, I say

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Speaker 1: at least two. You get two turnovers on the road,

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Speaker 1: you win in that game. If you're nice to get

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Speaker 1: that in the All Blacks, you think so, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: I am taking it all and hopefully we'll be talking

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Speaker 1: about a win on Monday. Washington's defense will for sure

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Speaker 1: be tested, especially in the passing game. While they have

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Speaker 1: played better, they still are giving up some pretty big

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Speaker 1: explosive plays well. Our captain London Fletcher talks with Kendall

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Speaker 1: Fuller on the state of the secondary. Kendall, so you

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Speaker 1: guys just finished practice first of all, got the black

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Speaker 1: helmets out today, going with all black. What do you

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Speaker 1: think about that look for this weekend's game. I'm excited

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Speaker 1: about it. We just got the taste, small little taste

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Speaker 1: with the with the helmet, so it's gonna be fun

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Speaker 1: to see it all together on Sunday. That thing's gonna

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Speaker 1: be clean. Man. I'm jealous about you know. You guys

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Speaker 1: are coming off a tough loss against the Eagles, but

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Speaker 1: you get another chance, another opportunity this weekend going against

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Speaker 1: our biggest rival around here to Dallas Cowboys. What's the

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Speaker 1: message to the team as we prepare to play the Cowboys?

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Speaker 1: Just just learning from our mistakes. Um, you know, you go,

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Speaker 1: you take that Monday Tuesday, you learn and you know

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Speaker 1: how they always say twenty four hour rule, you get

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Speaker 1: over it because you always got an opportunity coming. And

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Speaker 1: uh So said after the after the practice, just being

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Speaker 1: where your feet are, you know what I mean, taking

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Speaker 1: advantage of each practice, each walk through, each meeting that

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Speaker 1: we have and stuff like that. So guys are excited

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Speaker 1: and just ready to get back out there on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: You know, one of the things that's kind of been

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Speaker 1: art Achilles Hill this year has been the big plays

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Speaker 1: on defense. This pass ball game the Eagles, they made

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Speaker 1: some big plays, but the coverage was tight out of

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Speaker 1: you know, the guys get paid they make some plays. Also,

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Speaker 1: what are something you guys can do and practice to

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Speaker 1: kind of help tighten up on the back end and

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Speaker 1: eliminate those big plays. I think just being one step closer,

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Speaker 1: Uh I know, for me, I think I gave up

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Speaker 1: two explosives in that second quarter, and just being in

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Speaker 1: a better position to where I can go up with

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Speaker 1: waiting on them to play off playoff his hands and

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Speaker 1: stuff like that. So just being in one step in

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Speaker 1: a better better position. And at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: it's about either they made the player, you made to

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Speaker 1: play and uh, well heard of Sunday was they made

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Speaker 1: to play? So we go back out there and keep

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Speaker 1: on competing and I'll play. Definitely gonna come. I got

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Speaker 1: a chance to watch Monday Night Football, the night with

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Speaker 1: the Kyle Boys and Johns. I'm sure you're probably watching

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Speaker 1: as well. Cooper Rush. Dallas's backup quarterback Mason Plays. Is

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Speaker 1: it tougher to prepare for a quarterback like him who

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Speaker 1: you don't have as many, you know, games to watch

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Speaker 1: and get ready for as a backup quarterback? Uh, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I guess, I guess. Luckily we got a couple of

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Speaker 1: games that he's been been in there when he came

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Speaker 1: in Week one, Yeah, with the Tampa Bay so we

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Speaker 1: got a couple of games to go off of. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's definitely a little bit tougher when you're trying to

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Speaker 1: scheme for a guy you know nothing about him. So

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Speaker 1: being being able to have a couple of games to

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Speaker 1: be able to watch and stuff watching stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: But they got a good offensive system, good talent um,

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, it's just I's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: fun challenge with out there and go to work. This

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Speaker 1: is this Cowboys Receiving cord. They're led by cdee Lamb.

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Speaker 1: What what kind of challenges does this Cowboys receiving group

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Speaker 1: present for you guys? Yeah, I mean just moving them

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Speaker 1: all around, you know, just trying to put them in

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Speaker 1: different opportunities to make plays. Um, whether it's they put

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Speaker 1: them all over the field. So just good, good routes, physical,

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Speaker 1: physical guys. So it's gonna be a it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a fun challenge and something that we're definitely preparing for.

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Speaker 1: All right. One last question was up when you're gonna

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Speaker 1: stop running from me on that golf course? Man, after

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Speaker 1: the season. The clouds in the closet right now, But

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Speaker 1: after the season we get out there, all right. All right,

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Speaker 1: that's good man. I appreciate you, no doubt appreciate you

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