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Beltway Blitz: Mitch Tischler on the NFL
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Limited battery warranty covers defects and materials for 10 years or 100,000 miles whichever occurs first. Sea owners manual for complete warranty details and limitations visit 100usa.com or call 5623144603 for more details. Let's talk football. Mitch Tischler, Monumental Sports joins us now. Mitch, I thought the X was a good place to be on Sunday. Not only did the locals get a win, but there were a lot of fans there wearing a burgundy and gold. The vibes were pretty good and there've been a lot of changes to the stadium. Yeah, I mean, I think the stadium showed out well. Brandon, I think it helps a little bit that the Giants are down and fans are a little angry about it, but you know what? There wasn't nearly as much blue in the stands as we've seen in years past and the crowd was into it and they were loud and they got to watch a win. How do you, I mean, listen, it's obviously so important to win football games. You look at the home opener and the image and the vibes and everything else, but big picture. You glass out full or glass half empty when it comes to the offense where they've been moving down the field. Well-reported yards, the rushing game looked really good. You get to the red zone six times, I normally take by chances. But then when they got there, we all kind of know what ended up happening. Glass out full or half empty, Mitch? Oh, I mean, more than half full. I am very excited about what I've seen from this offense in two weeks and particularly this week. I mean, they racked up 425 yards of total offense, which is just a really good number. They didn't punt a single time. You mentioned the red zone appearances. Part of what I've kind of come across when I look at what happened in the red zone is I think they got a little conservative. And I think part of it was they knew the Giants weren't going to be able to kick field goals. So they were just trying to put points on the board. And certainly the fall start penalties didn't help at all. And that's certainly something they need to clean up a little bit. But I think when you look at the play calling, especially when you got to those, you know, third in goals from the 10, they were a little more conservative because they knew if they just sat back and kicked the field goal, that was ultimately probably going to be enough to win the football game. And it was. Austin cyber named special teams player of the week today, a guy who had a really good game kicking a bunch of chip shots or the answer to the kicking problem in 2024. Yeah, I'm not ready to say the answer to the kicking problem because the aggregate yards on those seven field goals had to have been the, the fewest aggregate yards of any guy. They're all so short, but it's good to see him go seven for seven and hopefully you can continue doing it and keep doing well in the kickoff. And ultimately, you know, you want to kick her can be consistent inside of 50, but in this day and age in the NFL, if you want to, you know, put a stamp on answering that kicker question, you got to prove you can kick some of the longer field goals. So I'm not ready to say it yet, but certainly great to see a commander's kicker go seven or seven defense. It's only been a couple of weeks, but right down at the bottom of those rankings, you got to really work that, you know, wrist and kind of scroll down motion on the computer mouse there to find where they are. And most of the searches there, Mitch, how much improvement do you expect over the course of this year. That's a good question. I would say marginal. I mean, you hope that they get better in their, you know, communication on the back end, which quite frankly, commanders teams, Washington football teams, Redskins teams, as long as I've covered the team have always talked about. Improved communication and per communication. So it's a little bit of a coach speak from the players. To me, I think as much as we harp on the secondary and the issues back there, I think it starts up front. And the fact that that teams are able to run the ball on them as consistently as they do as well combined with the fact that they're not getting to the quarterback. And, you know, you want to run pain and John Allen, you're two second and third highest players, highest paid players on the team to go out and make plays and get after them. But you can't excuse the edge rushers who aren't getting any pressure either. And so I think as this thing moves forward, I think Mike starts seeing Joe Witt and Dan Quinn get a little more aggressive and start bringing some extra bodies and hopefully they can put pressure on that quarterback early. And so their secondary doesn't have to cover so long. But I mean, I don't know what players we're looking at on the defensive side of the ball that we think are going to take big steps between now and the end of the season. I mean, a couple of young guys, Mikey Sanders still, you know, Jordan McGee when he comes back hopefully a little bit. But most of these guys are kind of known entities and you kind of know what you're going to get from him. Give me something you love from Jaden Daniels's game so far and something you want him to work on. Well, the number one thing I want him to work on is throwing the ball away. I think we've seen a couple of times down in the two weeks, he has a good awareness in the pocket and he gets outside. There are times that, you know, it's better to be a little safe and throw the ball away and, you know, live for another down and not take, you know, some of those, some of those extra big hits. But at the same time, I like his aggressive this and I don't want to necessarily take away from that. I just think you need to kind of curve it down a little bit and that aggressiveness is both in the run game and the past game. And, you know, I really like the throw that he made to deck earths on the right sideline for the first down that are kind of to wrestle the ball away from the defender to get there. Throw that ball online, get that ball out there to him and let him catch that ball and not have to fight a defender for it. So I like the aggressiveness. I just wanted to play with it himself and play within the offense a little bit more. Mitch, thank you as always, buddy, talk soon. Absolutely. Thanks so much, guys. Be good, bro. That's Mitch Tischler from Monumental Sports on Grant and Danny. Plug in a Hyundai EV and the extraordinary happens. It's not just the ultra-fast charging capability in long range in the Ionic 5 and Ionic 6, or the adventure-seeking spirit of the Kona Electric, or the groundbreaking 601 horsepower Ionic 5N. 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