Grant and Danny
Our Takeaway From The Commanders Loss In Tampa
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Head to Toyota.com for more info or visit your local Toyota dealership today. Toyota, let's go places. Let's start at the top and work our way down. Okay. Okay. Dan Quinn. My fear when he was hired is that he's Ron Rivera with the backwards hat yesterday from a coaching standpoint didn't feel that different than that. He kicked the field goal on a fourth and three from the 29 with a kicker that nobody trusts. They missed from 47. You should almost never be kicking from in that situation when you've got the best athlete and playmaker on the field with his feet running around like Daniels was because you could see what they thought when, Hey, we need it. We need something shortish yardage. We got it. We got a cheat code and they do. They can run that read option and they're going to get it most of the time to have this score. Touchdown. Fourth and three from the 29. You kick a field. Uh huh. I got the ball. They were down 13 points on the road, uh, the extra point over the two point conversion. I didn't have as big a problem with 155 to go in the third quarter, but just the math didn't math. It didn't really make sense. If you don't get it. It's a 10 point game still very much in play. If you do get it, it's a one possession game. You're right there and they decided to kick the extra point there and keep it a two possession game. Not sure how you could have watched what was happening and felt like that was the best idea. So I'm even more extreme on that one. I'm never as bothered as some of the analytics folks on this. It's one of my weird, I don't say anti analytics takes, but I think too much happens in the league where I'm going third quarter to right I'm going if I've the only time I would go for two mathematically is when I had to, like in other words, I mathematically, I will not get enough possessions to come back and tie this game. In general, I default to taking the points. That one I don't hate as much, but totally understand the argument against my view. Don't understand why they didn't call a timeout at the end of the first step. This one I can't get on board with. Yeah. Save some time. Please go get points. Sometimes the best way to get your passing game in rhythm and get your quarterback going is that end of half hurry up where they give you the middle of the field because they're protecting the sidelines. You can make some easy throws and for chunks, even if you don't get anything out of it, it's worth doing. Exactly. Right. But, but I think oftentimes teams do at least get completions out of it, even if you can't get down with spikes and kick a field goal. And they just decided to not call timeout and then take a knee and go to the half didn't really get that. One other coaching issue, they call the timeout at the very start out of half time of the next drive when they were trailing in a game on the road. The misuse of clock management to the point where you're burning those timeouts irrelevant yesterday, I would say Danny, but just big picture, not a great sign. And maybe it's as simple as if you talk to Dan Quinn, hey, I got a rookie quarterback. We were trying to sort some things out. He couldn't quite get it set in at the, you know, the time that was needed. But those types of things you don't see when you watch the real good teams like last night Detroit and the Rams, that kind of crap's not happening. Yeah, that's, that to me is so unacceptable. If it's a, if it's a fourth in one, I guess I can get behind it. It's still like my ducks in a row. It's a third in 10 where it wasn't some genius play call out of the, out of the timeout. It was a, this one's bust that he ran out of the sideline and they got lucky, they got bailed out by defensive holding. They'd go on to score on that drive. So people are going to say, well, I didn't end up working out. It didn't. They're beyond fortunate. That is a waste of a timeout in a game that at that point, by the way, was still pretty close. It was, you know, I think it was a nine point game at, at that juncture, but I, I could be wrong. But the point is it was still not out of reach. You cannot squat those second half timeouts, especially are so unbelievably precious. Right? Like, and it wasn't like the play clock was running down either. It was like, yeah, this isn't going to work. Whatever. You can't have that. This is the NFL. Another thing on Dan Quinn, before we move on, I haven't heard anybody talk about this yet necessarily, but all I've thought about as it pertains to coaching decisions from this game really is at the very end of the game. They were down 37 to 14. So that is quick math here, 23 points. There's two minutes left. They're doing that two minute drill. Number one. I was a little surprised. Jaden Daniels was even still in the game, but okay. No problem. Let's go on. Like I said earlier, what you should have done at the end of the half, a two minute drive is get some confidence, he went five of five 55 yards against a, you know, shot off the fence, like whatever. He falls into the end zone for that one yard touchdown, but he took multiple shots on goal line runs like between the tackles down at the goal line down by almost 20 points. Why? Why is that happening? Oh, sorry. More than 20 points, almost 25 points. Why was he like slamming the football into the line of scrimmage for his 15th and 16th carries of the day, taking shots against the goal line defensive front, trying to make a stop in front of the end zone. That's Brian Robinson territory, Austin Echler territory. I hated that they were even allowing that to be a possibility at that point of the game. Yeah. If you're in a close game next week against the Giants and need one to win the game in the fourth quarter, dial it up. Different story. I'm with you. We're down 37 to 14 with a minute and a half to play. And he is lowering his shoulder, trying to push the pile, getting slammed by 300 pound defensive tackles in week one of an 18 week marathon. Yeah. In a game that's over. Yeah. In a game that's over. Yeah. It's, uh, that was, that was peculiar to me. Again, it's one of those where were, remember Ron Rivera, one of those times, and it's hard to not compare that to, I apologize, but there was, uh, they were getting the doors blown off by somebody. It made was the Baltimore game during his first year, whatever it was. When they kicked a field goal to avoid the shut out, like, I just don't do that kind of crap. Like you wanted the scoreboard to look a little bit better or like try to pretend for some positive reinforcement for the kid or make a stat line look, uh, you know, more interesting with, with the second touchdown. It's just not for me. All right. So that'll be enough on Daniels from a coordinating standpoint, we, we talked about the defense being just utterly outplayed Baker Mayfield look like Baker Manning, uh, I think 13 completions on 14 attempts to wide receivers, Godwin and Mike Evans, the manual Forbes got benched and hurt or both or, or I don't know which order it was, but he had two 15 yard penalties on one play, which I've never seen, where he interfered by grabbing a face mask to save a touchdown when he was beat Benjamin St. Tuesday actually had really good coverage on one touchdown. He gave up and gave up two touchdowns to Evan, almost had a pick on a really nice play. He did, he made a nice play there, but just overall, I thought in the secondary communication issues as if we hadn't heard that before. Like if I, if I hear community, oh, just communication again, I'll, I'll just start driving and won't stop until I get to the sun. Like doesn't matter who the coach is, doesn't matter who the position, uh, coaches, doesn't matter who the defensive coordinator is. It was the same with Josh Norman. It was the same before him when guys are wide open or just jogging in the secondary, uh, where huge gains, touchdowns, et cetera, oh, it's just communication. We'll communicate then, then just communicate to each other. If it's that simple, I bet you it's not though. I bet you have terrible personnel and no scheme is going to cover. You could say whatever you want to. You can't keep up with good receivers and manual forbs, stinks. So talk all you want to each other. You can let each other know whose fault that one was when the big game happens where third and 10 is like first and one. It's too easy against the. I think that the communicating is by the way is, hey, who screwed that one up? You did, right? No. That was me, dude. The community. It's just communication. Oh, respectfully kiss all of my butt with that. Same song and dance there. And then on the offensive side of the ball for talking coordinators, you mentioned this, you know, this idea that maybe they were keeping a secret. That was what I was holding out for. Yeah. Was preseason. You see one thing and then week one is going to be something else because that's the last time they had the number two pick, Heisman Trophy winner, dual threat, new toy. They kind of designed this whole thing around him. That was certainly not the case. Kingsbury's plan or the offense, whether it was his plan or not, basically in the first half was a Jaden go make a play. I don't know if Kingsbury liked that or didn't. They didn't design any runs for him in the first half yet he broke the record for rushing yards by a quarterback in the first half for a Washington QB, just all on pure scrambles. But that was their entire offense, essentially, and we'll get into Jaden Daniel's performance in more detail coming up in just a few minutes here. But from a cliff Kingsbury standpoint, the stuff that I hated about his offense in Arizona for at least one week packed in his luggage and came to Washington and he brought it with them to the nation's capital. Very little motion. You look at what the Rams and so many other really good teams do. Cooper Cup last night caught 12 balls on motion, 42 snaps, 12 catches on motion, 30 of 42 snaps for him. He was put in motion. Terry McCorma's in motion once or twice, who's lined up in the same spot in the formation, essentially every single play, which just sound the alarm and tell the defense where the only good receiver is going to be. Please. Yeah, there is a stop. Never really stacked him up. Never really got him free releases. Like all the stuff I worried about again, it's one game and we'll see if it changes. But four year sample in Arizona said this is how he's going to do it and he did it that way in the first game. Yeah. And there's, there's there's no like, I don't think there's any sort of like white night coming in later either. I don't think there's any kind of rescue plan. No, Brown. I mean, well, I suppose I guess he's an active and maybe it was going to be Byron Pringle, but they cut up so we'll never know. But you know, it's a couple gimmicks here and there. I think I think it was Aaron shots who said Zach Gertz is a catch and fall guy. What do you see Zach Gertz do? Three times. Caught it and fell. Not a lot of separation. It's tough and traffic. It's useful. You can help. But not that much. There's no way to make teams pay. You know, there's no yards after the catch that that to me is the hallmark if my offense is good, not every play because it can't always happen. But guys catch it and they're able to run and you and that's how defense that's like how you get some of your big plays. If you're not going to be able to block it up, have a double move, go and connect 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 yards down the field, you need some of that dynamic stuff and there's nothing there. That to me is an OC epidemic or a kind of a symptom when there's not much that puts the defense in jeopardy. The seasons may be changing, but the deals at the sharpest rides are unbeatable as ever. Hey, what's going on? It's your girl Tasha McKia and I need you to join the sharpest rides for their fall into savings event where they're offering incredible prices on their massive inventory. That's right. Everything is on sale now, shot from sleek sedans to rugged SUVs and sporty convertibles. The sharpest rides has the perfect ride to match your fall adventures plus with their exclusive financing options, getting behind the wheel of your dream car has never been easier. 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