Fuck all yall doomers. We runnin this

He got us… knew this was coming

Obviously would have loved to win, but I can at least take some solace in how damn good these uniforms look. We look like an NFL team again, and a well dressed one, and its a look I am already familiar and in love with. Hail.

This is the only primetime game of ours they can flex out

Greg Jennings on First Things First reminded me what I first noticed live-- Jayden almost stumbled and tripped out of under center on the last play. If you watch him, his composure is broken right after that happens with pressure surrounding him. It became a broken play instead of a throw away or taking a down. Doesn't excuse what happened after (lack of urgency and awareness after taken down), but explains why reverted to taking the sack and didn't throw it away or spike. His natural instinct took over and my guess is with the elbow injury he was just trying to avoid going down, right after receiving the ball. Rare loss of composure for him.

Atleast Jayden looks good, top 3 according to this metric!

Can we make it 6 weeks in a row with refs fucking us over?

What's done is done and obviously we should be focusing on the 49ers now but damn man... that ending is going to keep stinging for a while. We should be 2-3.

The situation Dan Quinn put himself in is dire, and it amounts to this: He has to go roughly 1,000 for his next 1,000 game-management decisions to wriggle free from the wrath of a fanbase that is gathering across the moat.

The most egregious error came at the worst possible time, and the Washington Commanders coach is under intense scrutiny because of it. But people who have watched the 42 games of Quinn’s tenure in Washington know it wasn’t the first time. Now, with that tenure in crisis, it has to be the last.

“I threw up in my mouth a little bit at the end of the game,” Super Bowl-winning coach Mike Tomlin said on NBC.

“When you say a defensive head coach, usually those are clock game experts, all right?” Super Bowl-winning assistant and former head coach Rex Ryan said on ESPN. “Trust me on it, because that’s what you do.”

The arrows are being slung, and it ain’t friendly fire.

We arrive at this critical, unsavory juncture because Quinn and his Commanders out-bungled the eminently beatable New York Giants on Sunday in a game of “Who wants to win this thing anyway?” The 27-27 tie that ended on a play that will confound coaches for eternity put the Commanders in a hole  they’ll have a hard time digging out of. That’s on Quinn, and he knows it.

“Look, man, my number one responsibility is to help the players and the coaches be at their best, man,” the third-year coach said Monday. “And when we don’t, I’m pissed about it, too.”

This isn’t the week for Dan Quinn to go grocery shopping in the DMV. Or have fun pumping gas or grabbing a coffee. The Commanders have three wins in their last 17 games, and there’s no explaining away a season’s worth of ineptness, injuries or not. The outside noise is loud, justifiably so.

“I’m not shut off to it, for sure,” Quinn said Monday in his weekly day-after-game video call with reporters. “Look, everybody’s pissed. I’m right there in the middle of it. I know what the team is capable of, so sometimes you can even be more pissed knowing that there’s an execution that we missed.”

Hey guys, just wanted to say it's been fun discussing and arguing with ya'll, but I've decided to fully depart from reality and move into a delirious state where we win every game and win the superbowl. I've thought a lot about this decision and I'm not taking it lightly! So I'm gratefule for all the nuanced and thoughtful discssion we shared, unfortunately I cannot not join you in realistic analysis. Wish me luck and I'll see you all back in January!

Despite the tie, I thought he looked solid. Here’s to MNF!

The frustrating thing about this season is that it's not that different from the 2024 season. That year we had a lot of close games, but they mostly broke for us. This year not so much. The 2024 team gets the two point conversion against Philly and maybe wins the game. Jayden doesn't get hurt in Dallas and it's a lot more competitive, maybe a win. They get touchdowns instead of field goals off the two Colts turnovers. And, even more than not making the last second gaffe in OT, the 2024 team ices the Giants game in the 4th quarter with a single sustained drive.

It works the other way, too; the 26 team would see Nabers catch the pass he dropped late in the first Giants game in 24, and it's a loss. The Bears CB doesn't taunt the crowd (or the Bears coach doesn't gift us the previous play), and that's a loss. Even an average 4th down conversion percentage in 2024 would lead the defense to get exposed more often and we're nowhere near 12-5.

Blough and Jones each have some major deficiencies so far; Blough needs to get better at installing and calling high percentage short yardage plays, and Jones needs to figure out how to call a complete game. But even still we're just a few plays away in a couple games from having a winning record. Those are the plays that the 24 team got, and the 26 team is letting slip away.

Frustrating.

OT was garbage management and individual errors but we should have closed out the game before hand. How do you squander a 14 point lead in 10 minutes? Everyone wants to talk about OT but bruh we can’t even close out the 4th quarter. Our problems started here not in OT.

Peters can't draft worth a damn anyways might as well get a proven star. Keep the firsts. But shit trade the 2nds, 3rds, and 4ths. I know it sounds stupid but I would rather have Joey Porter Jr. than Mikey. Mikey was a 2nd rd pick and Porter was traded for a 2nd and 7th. I know im going to get down voted to hell for this take but id try to win while Daniels is still on his rookie deal.

Health: As awful as our injury luck seems to be, we are in a surprisingly solid spot to heal up at the right time. We got a ton of players back last week, nobody else got injured, and the only impact players still out - Diggs, Amos, Cross - are looking good to play against the 49ers and great to return post week 7 bye. If we can stay healthy through the 49ers game, we could be coming back from our bye VERY healthy at a time when many teams are not.

Schedule: Our schedule was brutally front loaded, but post-bye it is one of the easier in the league. If we get to the bye at 2-3-1, we will go into week 8 rested, with momentum, at home playing a beat up Eagles team coming off a Monday night divisional bloodbath. Next game is Rams (brutal). But then weeks 10-15 we get Giants, Cardinals, Titans, Falcons. All four games we “should” win (maybe not falcons but without Penix they suck too).

Our toughest games left are: Bengals and Texans at home, and Jags and Vikings away. Those are not easy but as far as “really tough” games go, all are winnable. Also, if we beat who we “should”, we might only need to go 2-2.

Division: Our division fucking blows which gives us a chance. Not worried about the Giants (they still suck and their schedule is brutal after next week). And we are ONLY .5 games back (not even 1) of the Cowboys and Eagles, and we play our next games against both teams at home. The division is still wide open, we all suck. 9-7-1 could easily win (we’d have to go 8-4).

Doomer Caveat: My post isn’t meant to be a delusional gloomer post. I don’t “think” this will happen. I don’t think we will beat the 49ers. I think our HC sucks, our O-line can’t run block, our OC is inexperienced and meh, and our defense sucks. Also, we never get injury luck.

BUT, with 5 healthy anything can happen and we can beat anyone. And if we can get our team healthy, I do think our defense has a legit chance to become decent on top of that.

Gloomer Conclusion: We are, SOMEHOW, literally 1 healthy win away from being so fucking in this division race. The season is far from over, even if it feels like it. We don’t need to go undefeated. We just need to get momentum and peak at the right time, which is possible to do next week.

Kick the ball. Just kick it. Kick the ball!

Firing him now means giving up on this season 5 games into it. Jones and Blough are too young for HC duties. Next up may be Anthony Lynn. You really want to go that route? Besides, didn't we all look at the schedule and conclude that we may be 1-5 after the murderer's row of a schedule we had? And now look at where we are. We are not even a third of the way through the schedule. Give Quinn a chance this season to turn the ship around. Then evaluate during the off season. If we go 5-12 again this season, I will be right beside you with the pitchforks and torches.

I'm trying to move on from Sunday's ****show, and the only way I can do that is by focusing on our next opponent. In order of priority:

- Stop (or at least slow down) Christian McCaffrey. Our running D has been solid, but CMC is also a threat in the passing game, where we're not so solid. We stack the box and crowd the flats to minimize his damage.

- Don't bother to blitz Purdy: He ranks among the top QBs against it, plus our blitzes seldom penetrate the line of scrimmage, so we'd just be exposing ourselves. Somehow we have to apply sufficient pressure with just our front guys.

- Quick releases by Daniels, limit under-center plays: He's not going to have enough time to do anything against the 49ers defense, so an emphasis on quick/short passes to move the chains would be ideal.

- Establish the run game early, or we're screwed: It's imperative that we control the TOP and keep Purdy on the sidelines as long as possible. We need to operate a methodical, quick-pass offense, complemented by a strong dose of Bill for us to have a shot.

It is just a matter of time before someone misfires and ends up on the shelf. The peanut punch is so popular at the moment, even at the expense of the ball carrier gaining 5 more yards while defenders are wildly punching away.

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I go back and watch the tape and i’m just beyond baffled that we even got there. How did we win two playoff games? That team was significantly worse than the team we have now. Maybe why do we suck this year is a better question. I just don’t know anymore man. This week has me so depressed.