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Here's the big picture point I would make today. If you're hesitant to come around on the commanders, you don't want to sip the Kool-Aid. Fine, whatever. In fact, I'm waiting till after the Browns game to really jump all the way into the deep end. They beat Cleveland back at home. Not that the Browns are particularly good, but it's a let down type spot. Winners of three in a row, coming home, reading your press glippings. Family and friends seeing you first time since you got on the bird to go to Cincinnati. I could see them losing that game. That's certainly the way things have gone over the years around here. Right when everything starts trending in the right direction, one thing goes wrong. Rod pulled, yeah. Quick sand begins and they lose to Cleveland and they're really three and two. But if they're four and one, you start talking about percentages of making the playoffs, being pretty astronomical. It becomes pretty hard when you're four and one with their schedule, not to be in the eight, nine win mix. You get to 10, you almost certainly get in. And you can start finding some wins. They've got games at the Giants again, the Panthers. The Bears don't look all that good. The East Division games against Dallas and Philadelphia, Danny, even those games, four of them look a lot more winnable because that's the point I guess I wanted to make. Big picture is nobody in this divisions any good. Washington's the only team that has looked good this season. The Eagles got destroyed by the Bucks. I don't know why everyone keeps telling me how good Philadelphia is. They're not. They haven't been since October of last year. This is who they are. The Cowboys are two and two. They deserve to be two and two. They're not that good. They got one weapon on offense. One, this division is there for you. It's winnable. It is winnable. And the longer you're in it, the more of a possibility that becomes. You're talking about math. I mean, you and I years ago, in 2019, when the Nationals started off so terribly, right? And we're going, here's what they've done. They're not eliminated. It's not over. It's not going very well right now, obviously. But the math is not on their side. You have no margin for error. You can't do that bad two weeks where, you know, two starting pitchers get the flu. Someone's got dead arm and your best two hitters are in a slump and you lose eight of 10. You can't do that anymore. And you may and still make the postseason. Well, they didn't have that. They went on this rip roaring run where they had the second best winning percentage in baseball. And we're right how it going to the postseason. Flip it here for this local 53. If you're four and one by hooker by quote. Doesn't matter how you get there, let's say you're four and one. If you're just average, if you're 500 the rest of the way, that's a 10 win season. If you dare, I say above average and God forbid there's no huge regression and you just kind of keep plugging away and you win a couple of a game or two more than you lose. You win 11 games for the first time in more than three decades. That's the kind of position you put yourself in. Now, collapses are certainly possible. An injury here or there happens. I want, you know, one too many key guys go out, schemes get figured out. Bad stuff happens all the time. It's the league, but the point is the math and the path is now something that you've earned. You've created the ability to have meaningful football games. There are to the point where there's a great chance they play meaningful football in December and maybe even in January that that is 100% on the table now. Whereas I didn't know that it would be before now, but they've earned that right, which is really cool. Yeah, I just think that if they play the way they've played the last two weeks, they can beat anybody. If they play the way they played against the Bengals, not a team in the NFL, they can't be. The only four and O team other than the Chiefs is the Vikings. They could be either Kansas City or Minnesota playing that game. Kansas City is about as unimpressive a four and O team as you're going to find. They just have the ability to squeak out wins. It's a superpower. I don't really get it. It's ugly. There's no style points, but they just do it. And then they flip the switch and the playoffs. The Vikings, I think you asked Nate Davis about it. They got out to a 28 nothing lead yesterday and looked amazing. From that moment until the end of the game, they got. They were quicksand dominated by the Packers for the most part. And by the way, there were a couple of drop picks by Green Bay in that game. It could have gone very, very differently than it did. I wouldn't be scared of Minnesota. Wouldn't be a fun game necessarily. But I guess my point is there's not really great teams. I was talking to someone last night who said the Bucks are the best team in the NFC. Maybe. I mean, I don't know if that's true or that's not. I know that last week, the Bucks lost to the Denver Broncos 26 to 7. So maybe they are the best team in the NFC after beating Philly by 17. My point is nobody's that good. Washington at three and one. Just your resume style. If you take commanders off of the ballot, if you take their name out of the equation and everyone's resumes were lined up, I think a lot of people would pick them out of the pile and go. This team's punted once since week one. This team has more scoring drives than incompletions. This team has three punts all year. I'll take that team. They have averaged 40 points each of the last two games and their defense seems to be going in the right direction. Give me them and you go. All right. You pick the commanders. You go wait. Are you sure? Can I turn it? This quarterback is number one in QB DVOA this season. I'll take this team. It's Washington, right? So I'm not trying to convince anybody that they're going to continue winning every single week or that this is all not going to come crashing down. But I do think that when you can move the ball and score, you have a chance. And for the first time since Jay Gruden, who joins us at five, they can move the ball and they can score. So they're going to have a chance every week. When you have a quality quarterback, you're going to win and like with cousins as an example, they were never an 11, 12, when team, but the floor was always, you're going to be an eight, nine, win-ish type team. If you can squeak out some wins and kick a field goal and make some plays, you get a big takeaway, block a kick, maybe it becomes 10 wins. The floor gets higher and they are in that bucket right now. It would appear. But I just love the fact that the division is there for you. Take Washington out of the equation. The Eagles have lost to the Falcons in a collapse and the box in a game where they didn't really show up. They were lucky to beat New Orleans and they barely beat Green Bay on a slip and slide. You start that game over. It's 50-50 toss up. They're going into a bye week. Cowboys, anybody like what they saw from Dallas on Monday night football against the Giants? Squeaking out a win against New York after getting embarrassed by the Saints and destroyed for three quarters by the Ravens? It's there for you, man. This is fun. 800-6-36-1067. All right, let's talk Jaden Daniels. What do you think? There's, we don't have enough time for all the different things that I like or that I'm excited about. To me, here's one and this goes directly to one of the questions, criticisms, whatever I want to call it that people had. Everyone was panicked about the number of sacks that he took. And for those of us that are devotees kept yelling, not all sacks are created equal. The reason we care about a sack is not just to hear ourselves talk, but it means it's usually a drive killer. Warren Sharp has some great stats. If you're curious about what happens, typical on a drive where there is a sack, pretty much almost to a percentage point, points don't get scored on that drive. It is a drive killer. That's because it's an eight, nine, 10-yard loss. Oftentimes it leads to fumbles or turnovers, that kind of pressure. For those of us that kept screaming this, Daniels isn't taking 10-yard losses very often, right? It's not the 12-yard loss. It's a two-yard loss. Now it's not good, but it's not a drive killer. Even at that point, he's been sacked fewer times than Kyler Murray, than Sam Donald, than CJ Stroud, the Jalen Hertz, the Matt Stafford, half the sacks of Caleb Williams. Some of these things are credit to the offensive line, credit to Cliff Kingsbury and the design, but also Jaden Daniels'ers are a ton of credit here. Yesterday especially. Yeah. 10 pressure zero sacks. It's not zero point zero. It's not Mark Rippen behind the 91 Redskins offensive line, but for a rookie quarterback going through this, having to make some plays here or there, to get out of trouble jing, he's got in spades. That's been really impressive to me. 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. You tell Progressive how much you want to pay for car insurance, and they'll show you coverage options that fit your budget. Get your quote today at Progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Progressive Casualty Insurance Company and affiliates. Price and coverage match limited by state law. Oh, it's such a clutch off-season pickup Dave. I know, right? I was worried we'd be bringing back the same team. Oh no, I meant those blackout motorized shades. MVP of the room. And a minimal salary cap hit. Blinds.com made it crazy affordable to replace our old blinds. Hard to install? No, it was easy. Even you could do it. Nice. I installed these and then got some from my mom too. You fly across the country to do the install? Nope, Blinds.com can do it all. All she had to do was pick what she wanted. She talked to a design consultant for free and scheduled a professional measure and install. Look at you, Hall of Fame Sun. Oh, I just picked the winning team. They're the number one online retailer of custom window coverings in the world. Oh, Blinds.com is the goat? The goat? 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