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Who Impressed Us & Dan Quinn The Most In Week 2?
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I felt the guy's speed in the game, and I thought Juan did a good job coming out of the middle field again. That is one of the real strengths of for him. That was Dan Quinn, and I believe Darris, that audio was from Monday, so we know it was truthful. Yes, that was to tell the truth Monday. That wasn't for one of the other days of the week. Lying ass Tuesday, the duplicitous Thursdays, Monday's truth day. Misleading Fridays. What are we doing? I don't know, but I just want to know that that is, in fact, from tell the truth Monday, the commanders have some things to clean up as you heard him talking about there defensively too early, really to look at rankings and take a lot out of them. The Washington right now 29th in yards per plate offensively. They are 29th against the past per play. They are 31st and sack percentage 3.5% of their defensive snaps are ending with a sack. In fact, only the Tampa Bay Bucks, weirdly enough, getting fewer sacks right now than Washington, who they've already played. I want to get into how they can get more out of two positions where they have been weak early on, defensive end coming off the edge and cornerback in the secondary. But first, earlier, we went a little long with calls on stadium experience. And so we did not get to the three guys that Dan Quinn cited as really having impressed him to this point. He gave two defensive players that he singled out from the game and one offensive player. This was specific just a week two against the Giants. He referenced Zach Hertz, Bobby Wagner and Frankie Louvoo of those three guys. What do you make of those being the three players that he singled out of the whole team? I thought that was interesting. Now it corresponds with good games for all three of them. So it's not just patting myself on the back because those are my handpicked dudes, right? Where if Louvoo had gotten beat like a drum and coverage a bunch of times or had missed tackles or shouting him out because he yelled on the sideline or something, whatever, so they all had good games. But it is interesting where it's like these were the dudes brought in to kind of help implement it to help culture change, especially Wagner and her. It's almost like conduits for the coaching staff to a degree. So it is interesting that through a couple of games, those are the dudes that have kind of gotten the shot. And I think specifically this was just as I said, the one game less maybe saying through two games. Here's what I like. But in the Giants game, I kind of get it with Wagner and Louvoo because I know those guys tackled really well. Yes, they did. They played very physically. That was an issue I had coming out of Tampa, really both of those things, but namely the tackling and Wagner was a culprit a couple times with missed tackles. He's going to go to the Hall of Fame because he's one of the great tacklers in the open field in his era. And he's one of the physical players at his position of all time. But he is leading the team right now with 19 tackles. He's actually already got four TFLs. Nobody else on the team playing in the back seven can say that he's got a PBU in coverage as well. Louvoo really hasn't made impactful plays other than getting people on the ground. It's 16 tackles with nothing else on the stat sheet. But I do think that's coming physicality and you saw him on the big hit. In fact, Quinn singled it out. It was early in the game. It probably could have been a penalty, honestly. I think he got some helmet to helmet, but on the long catch and run early from neighbors where they got in the red zone for the first time, Louvoo came across the field, across the formation. It's what they love about him on film. It's what I think is going to make him an eventual fan favorite here. And he brought the wood. Like he was full speed ahead, crushed neighbors. They actually pulled him off the field, remember, right before the next snap, because those independent doctors thought he needed to be like, Hey, that was a big shot. Come over. There's going to be a few of those when Frankie Louvoo's around. So I get why he singled them out offensively. I did think arts was great. I really did. There were two receptions of 20 plus yards in the game before the dart in the middle of the field to Noah Brown on the final drive. Earth's for 21. Earth's for 20. The 21 yarder was a 50 50 ball contested catch. And I think Jaden got hit as he threw it. So it was kind of there to be intercepted. It was one of the only throws all season. I would say that about an arts one of fight with a defensive player for the ball. He's tied for second on the team with seven catches now. He's second with 90 yards to Echler is going to join us coming up in 25 minutes. He's got two 20 plus yard receptions tied for first with Echler. He's got 18 yards after the catch. Very, very little considering seven receptions, 2.5 a pop. But we knew that like he is not, we've jokingly called him a catch and fall guy. He is not a play after the catch guy, Danny, but four first downs. I really believe this having now watched this offense for two weeks and sing McClellan a not being involved a lot beyond the line of scrimmage and be not really being able to separate frequently. I think arts is going to be their primary guy if he stays healthy in the coming weeks. Big gift. But yeah, I think there's something to that. I mean, right now, Terry McClellan is on pace for 340 yards this season. I think he goes over that, but that's what that's what we're looking at. I don't think gets three times that it would be a story if he didn't at least three times would be very nice. But in terms of hurts, you know, there's it's a like it's not what I want. I ultimately want the guy that can do what Earth's does, catch the football and then also like fall forward for another couple of yards or make somebody miss or rumble a little better or be a threat in the open field. But they don't have that right now. Maybe Senate turns into that one day, but there's still value in Zach hurts. If he's available, if he doesn't get banged up too badly and and the maintains, whatever this is, this is helpful. This is a veteran target that gets by on know how setting people up, being physical, using his hands. He knows what to do with the position. He's like that old guy at the YMCA on a Sunday morning that runs every pickup game, but but can't even touch the backboard, but he's down there in the post just putting your butt in the blender. He's got that game right now kind of that post up game and he can help. He's a target. He's a quarterback's best friend. So I'm going to label this who's growing on you. And in the sense that Quinn said Earth's Wagner Louvoo, how they played are growing on them. We're going to ask this on the phones. MGM National Harbor listener lines at 800-636-1067. I want to hear from you guys on this 800-636-1067 to touch the people who is growing on you with this team right now. I've got three names I wrote down. And I want to get one from you as well, Danny. One Brian Robinson. Now doesn't mean I didn't like him before, but the way he's playing and the way things are developing on offense. We're going somewhere with Brian Robinson, I think in DC this year. This guy is going to make plays for the commanders all year long. 173 yards through two games is number seven in the NFL. 55 rushing yards over expected is number three in the NFL. What does that mean? Next-gen stats looks at where defenders are, where the ball carrier is, and where the expectation of a tackle is made and based on contact and where you should have been brought down and what you get after that. There is a stat that I love for running backs called RYOE rushing yards over expected. He's third in the NFL at getting more than basically is blocked for him. Only two guys have been better. In RYOE per attempt, he's also third. He gets over two yards every single run that aren't blocked for him basically. That's a hell of a number for a guy who wasn't rating like that previously. But I think what you're seeing from Robinson and the reason he's growing on me and the reason this running game has been so successful, this is a Jaden Daniels thing. This is 11 on 11. This is the old 2012 Kyle Shanahan, Robert Griffin situation where Alfred Morris rumbles for 16 hunch because you got to account for Daniels on every single play and we're seeing it already. It's not a coincidence to me that after never having a 30 yard run pre Jaden Daniels in 27 career games, it took Robinson two games to do it this year and he ripped off a 40 yarder already. I think he's been awesome. Who's growing on you? No Brown. I mean, I was already, you know, tempered in terms of excitement of him coming in going, Hey, this is a receiver who plays in the NFL. So I'm excited that they're upgrading. Uh, one of my, you know, what I think is the weakest position group on the roster. But after what I've seen, there's some physicality there. There's some suddenness there at kind of, uh, again, the move I keep pointing to is that stutter go where, if it's a different play, you know, if Daniels isn't hit or there's not pressure or he sees him on time, it's a walk in touchdown. And I went, Oh man, that's, that's one of those higher level receiver type maneuvers, right? Where it doesn't feel like the other guys on the roster making that, that route and that adjustment, that sudden move, uh, the big catch there on, uh, in, in the fourth quarter and what ended up being the game winning drive as you still getting his feet wet in this offense that I think they got something here. Two key first downs, three targets, three catches, 56 yards and seemingly the propensity to, to separate at the top of the route. They don't have a lot of guys who seem to be able with certainly not with size to kind of be twitchy enough to separate when they break out or in. He did that small sample, but he did it in Houston frequently. He did it before that in Dallas. I mean, this is part of his game. I think you saw something from him that is sustainable in the sense that he's going to help them. If you told me right now he's going to lead them in catches and yards next week against Cincinnati, I would not be surprised by that at all. This episode is brought to you by progressive insurance. Whether you love true crime or comedy, celebrity interviews or news, you call the shots on what's in your podcast queue. And guess what? Now you can call them on your auto insurance too with the name of your price tool from progressive. It works just the way it sounds. 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