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What's Been The Issue For The Commanders Their Last 3 Losses?
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I actually think that's true on both sides of the ball, but to me, scheme will get you so far. In other words, the design of a schemer or the plan of a schemer is to basically go, I'm going to get Grant Paulson one-on-one with somebody. That's the best you can hope for reasonably. Sometimes you get somebody unblocked. Sometimes you get someone running free when that happens. That's great. That's great design, great everything. But eventually you have to win and as teams get tape on you, as other coaches and other programs, figure out what your tendencies are, what you do, and what you don't, there's got to be a time when your guy can beat their guy and that has run out. Their second best receiver was cut by a competitive team. That's where we are. In terms of the secondary, they got a guy that was drafted to be a slot corner that's been their best corner, all season long playing on the outside. Nothing wrong with Michael Sandristo, by the way, I love the kit. But he's going to be a great player for a long time. It's really good. But the design was to have him be your number three, your slot corner, and he's been basically their ace. Now, hopefully a lot of more comes and helps everything and everybody kind of slots down more in a more appropriate place, but they lack elite pass rush, they lack dominance on the defensive line, they're probably not unbelievable at safety. To me, they're under talented and scheme has covered for a lot of it. And now that you get in some adverse situations, which is going to happen in football, you lose some of the turnover luck that you've had, you know, adversity strikes on your third and nines, your guys can't win. People play man against you. You can't separate. You punt. That to me is what's happened. The lack of talent in a lot of spots. And I understand it's you're one of this rebuild for trying to turn over the roster. Usually what happens is what happened around Rivera, you're pretty much garbage in the first year after the old regime when you're cleaning stuff out here, this clean out has got them into a playoff race. I'm not complaining. Just simply observing. When you leave a hundred million dollar cap space on the table, when you're not signing guys long term, when you're not trying to transform everything overnight, things don't transform overnight. Usually to this degree. So it's more of an observation as to where they are, but I think it's finally caught up with it. And they didn't really have 12 win talent. And they were on their way to 12 wins and a regressions happening, but that doesn't explain a way why they couldn't finish when they were up 10 against Pittsburgh or why when they had a chance to take the lead in the fourth quarter against the Eagles. The game went the way that it did or why you have a letdown game because they got plenty of talent as it pertains to beaten Dallas, right? I mean, individually, like that makes sense when you're in the hot air balloon looking down at their season from several thousand feet up, but that doesn't work for me game by game. And game by game, how we actually got here with the three straight losses to me. This is that there's a bevy of issues. You could make a list of probably 10 to 15. The biggest one for me when I look at all the numbers is third down on offense. I think on offense, they have a third down problem right now. If you compare their three game losing streak to the Cincinnati game, when Jayden Daniels was the best, he's been all season long, it's a pretty substantial juxtaposition, right? In the Cincinnati game, they averaged third and four point three over the duration of the game. In the last three games, they've averaged on third down needing seven point three, six point three and six yards, at least a two to three yard difference. That is massive against the Bengals in that game where Daniels was amazing. 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In fact, I saw a piece in the Washington Post suggested that they average second and eight point one this past week against the Cowboys, which was second worst on second down for what they needed to get all season. That same piece cited a stat on third and long that Sam Fortier wrote, converted third and long opportunities, their rate up until the three game losing streak was 36%, which would have been the best in the NFL in the last two plus years. The last three games, they're at 11%. So they've fallen off by almost a quarter of what they were doing earlier and this would be worst in football. So they've gone from the best on third and long in the NFL over two plus years to the worst and the truth eventually will be in the middle. But this is the correction that we all knew was coming. You can't convert 36% of third and longs. That's not going to happen. And when you start not doing that, you start punting, which they weren't doing. The no pun offense, 17 punts in their first eight games, 17 punts in their last three games. So I think Danny, the biggest problem is on first down, they're not winning enough. Second down has not gotten them to third and short and that bangles game. Do you know that their first four third downs were third and one? I remember they felt short. I didn't know those were all third one. Third and one, like, do you know how easy it is to operate offensively if you're constantly in third and one? That was the team first half of the year is they're doing that. Incestantly, and they're not anymore. So that's that's documented. That's correct. That's in arguable. And I guess where you and I differ is why that's happening. I think everyone's on to the scheme. I think everyone's on to. Why do we differ? Well, I think it's I think it's a talent problem. Like now. Have I said I disagree with that? Well, when everybody, that's I that's I that's how you started your absolute quick. But either way, to me, the word is out. It's been solved. There's no wrinkle. There's no counter punch. Different, you know, set a bag of tricks here consistently to get teams off of what they're doing. Dallas can Cox a great pass rush and Washington has no idea what to do about it because their scheme says X, we chip the edges and this is how we chip the edges where they go, fine, we're not going to have any edges. We're not going to bother with that. We don't care. And there was no answer to it. I think that's that's a theme of what's going on here. And to me, it comes down to the guys, the line where we're going. These guys are amazing. They're way outperforming. They're now getting mauled and pushed around. Now you go up against good players, Jalen Carter had a week, had a month last week against Washington. Pittsburgh's had a bunch of guys that are outstanding up front too. So okay, maybe it's that one out Dallas is a bunch of bombs that are looking to quit that threw you around to and you go, Oh, okay, maybe one on one. We're not good enough anymore. And everybody's kind of on to it and they're getting almost getting a head start with what you want to run and how you want to run it. So they're behind the sticks constantly, it feels like. Yeah, I agree with you on the talent at certain positions for sure. The areas where it was pretty obvious in the off season, you know, where we're not breaking any news to say when you're starting a wide receiver. That was the number five in Houston, probably need some help there, right? I don't think the old line is nearly as bad as everybody thought coming into the year. And I would point to kind of how this year is gone as evidence of that, but they are on my list right now just because they're so banged up, like we can say, oh, they didn't play well enough against the Cowboys and you're out there just like Jaden Daniels, right? We can make the excuse of the river or not, but there's an expectation when you play that you can help. Yeah. Tyler Biotich has come on and off the field and I've watched him on two or three straight home games go back to the locker room for treatment while the defense is on the field. Like, I don't know what's going on with him, but he's not 100% healthy like he was early in the year. Yeah. Andrew Wiley missed games missed another couple of quarters this past week replaced with Trent Scott. They haven't had Cornelius Lucas, who was a big starting left tackle beginning of the year. Big part of the rotation. So you're talking about multiple tackles and your center being on and off the field. Allegretti has been kind of in and out a couple of different times this year. So I do think they are banged up on the O line for sure. And the other thing is, while we're talking about maybe a lack of talent or execution or whatever with pass catchers, they're dropping more passes. Yep. They did not really drop passes early in the year through their eighth game. They had three drops over the last month. They've got 10 drops. That's according to PFF. But if you watch the game, you feel like it's probably even more than that. Like more than 10, that's just the statistical like receiver friendly version of how they grade drops. But that's a big deal and they were not dropping anything early on. That was coming. Again, there's just going to be a correction. There's going to be a regression to the mean, but they've gone even beyond that. It's like, you know, three or four drops here or there you're, you're banking on. When it's six. Right. When it's three times that. Yeah. Maybe settled down. It's anything would turn over luck. They had incredible fortune. And now some of that's run out where they're turning it over at three times. But they were record setting for God six through nine weeks with a rookie quarterback and it doesn't happen with veteran quarterbacks, let alone a rookie. A lot of what was happening was unsustainable and we knew that and the correction has come loudly and it's all kind of at once, but it's even swung back further than I anticipated. Getting help for mental health shouldn't be as hard as it is. Thankfully, mindful therapy group is here to make your mental health journey as painless as possible. Be seen in as little as 48 hours for in person or tell health appointments. People partners with thousands of licensed clinicians to find the perfect fit for you. Whether you need talk therapy, psychological testing, even medication management, mindful has you covered. 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As the Commander have now lost 3 straight games, what do you think is the biggest reason for their downfall?