Commanders Versus Eagles Week 1 Offensive Preview | 'Take Command'

0:00Hey, buddy. Hey, where are you going? Hey, buddy. It's time to take command with former NFL tight end Logan Paulson. This past spot by Paulson the tight end and from 1067 the fan Grant Paulson. Welcome in to take command week one, the Philadelphia Eagles hosting the Washington commanders with Logan Paulson spent a decade in the NFL. I'm Grant Paulson, listening to me on 1067 the fan from two to six thirty each and every day. The rhythms of the week have changed. If you guys didn't notice, we're going to be dropping pods now on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. That means we're recording Mondays and Wednesdays for Tuesday, Thursday. And then we've got your post game pods on Sunday as well. But Logan, it is a massive week for the commanders. They are on the practice field and they're getting ready for game number one year three of the Peters Quinn regime and a big test with the Philadelphia Eagles.

1:01Yeah, I feel like the stakes are really high obviously for this team and for this season. And so I'm really excited to see this thing get started. And you know, like against the divisional opponent was so much news around the team this off season. I think it's just really exciting. I'm really excited to see what it looks like all, you know, the new coordinators, the new forage and additions, the draft picks, like what are their roles? What does that look like in a real game? Because I think one of the things that we've talked a lot about on this show is that we haven't really seen the real thing. Like even in practice, we haven't seen the real thing. And so I just want to see again, like what this thing actually is, you know, week one and I think that's the other thing that's kind of disappointing and just need some context on it is you probably don't know what the team is. And so probably week four or five of the season. So even though this is just a, you know, just a small smidge in here, like it's a, it I'm just excited to see some ball. Yeah, that's always important. I think is a cat. Yeah, and I'm not saying that because I don't think it's going to go well. I just think period. This is a big deal. But the NFL season is oftentimes when you look back at the end of the year at week one,

2:09it's an evolving kind of shape shifting thing. And if we assume that week one is gospel, we're going to be wrong on a lot of stuff. Think about the Raiders beating the Patriots last year. You know, some of the really good offenses in the sport, struggling the Rams, I think score like 13 points, the Seahawks last year lost in week one went on to win the Super Bowl. So you get some of those things and I've been kind of wondering how telling how revealing will this game actually be to who the commanders are, who we're going to assume in real time, it's very revealing because it's, it's all we got. They chose not to really use the preseason. We didn't see a lot of what they're going to run. Having said that, let's get into the match up here. I want to start with the Washington offense against the Philadelphia defense. First focusing on the command, Enders, man on my pump to see this David Blowsky, see what he's drawn up here. We're going to get our first look at Nick Alagready in real time as a center. And it's the biggest test, maybe of his entire season against Jalen Carter, Jordan Davis, the interior of this watched an offensive line.

3:09I would say is my least favorite match up here because the Eagles are that dominant and dynamic on the inside of the interior of the other way. But we get to see McLaren and Diggs for the first time. Neither was targeted in the preseason. We can see Jaden Daniels under center. You and I watched it all camp long. He looked great in this offense. People will get to see him dropping back some of the bootleg stuff, making layered throws, middle of the field. And we get to see a healthy bill who hadn't been on the practice field since, you know, prior to the joint practice. Or I should say the final preseason game against the Ravens. Yeah, man, lots of things to be excited about here with regards to, again, what this offense is and what this offense can be. And I think, like, you know, looking back at some of the stuff, like some of the teams that played this similar style offense against the Eagles last year, they had a lot of success. Now, again, like this is going to be tougher, David Blow to kind of figure out like what his identity is and who he wants to be as a play caller. But again, I look back at that Chicago game where Ben Johnson, who was his mentor, is coming up football game and calls one of the best games I've seen against the Eagles in

4:13the last probably four or five years, man. He just did a great job using most engine shifts to kind of move linebackers around using personnel to get them into good complimentary personnel on the other side. And so like, I think that there's a lot here when it comes to what he can do. Now, it's like the question becomes, can he do it? And I think that's something that, again, why this game is so interesting. It's like, you look at Ben Johnson, he's been a play caller for a long time and he absolutely dissected, again, the Eagles. And again, there's a lot of crossover, a lot of principles there that you kind of say, like David Blow can tap into. The question is, like, you know, as a first time play caller, first time play designer, first time, you know, kind of setting up an offense, like, can you scratch the surface of something that stuff Ben Johnson did? What do you think the balance, David Blow wants looks like? What do you think the identity of this offense is going to be? I feel like they want to be a run first heavy play action team. It's kind of been the way that Ben Johnson operates Kevin O'Connell, maybe not to the same

5:17extent, but when the Vikings were going well under him, they've certainly run the ball at a really high level with Dalvin Cook or recently, you know, they've had other backs, but not as effectively. So I guess to me that's what I'm looking for is can they run the ball? Is this offensive line allow them to lean on people a little bit? They're not very deep at running back in terms of quantity. They just have Bill Rashad, why do I practice much at all? And then Kate Trin Allen is a rookie. But how do you think this thing's going to look and what do you think they're going to try to establish? Yeah, I mean, I think it's going to be trying to run the football. And again, like, how do you do that? I think it's going to be an interesting thing. Like, you know, I went back and watched a couple games from last year against Philadelphia and teams that kind of run similar systems. Like I watched the Green Bay game and they're like, we're going to get into 12 and we're just going to try and run against Philadelphia. It's kind of base three, four structure where you get those big kind of three interior players, get those overhangs or sit in violent vertical edges. And they just got kind of worked, man. Like they just didn't do a good job of that. And so like, again, they're trying to run outside, John trying to kind of do some, you

6:19know, gap scheme, duo stuff. And they just couldn't move them up the spot. Like Carter Davis did a great job or a drama, the other kind of defensive tack rotation. And guy did a great job. Phillips who's gone to Carolina now did a great job setting edges, but Nolan Smith is a great headshed or Hux is a great edge setter. So I think what I looked at comparing that match up to what Chicago did, it's really comes down to how you do it. Right? So like what they did is they ran a lot of the same styles of runs. You saw outside's own power, pin pull, all that kind of stuff. When Chicago did it, but what they did is they said, we're going to get an 11 personnel and kind of get into base offensive formations or like what you would try to traditionally think is 21 formations with a receiver. And like it just kind of did really interesting things to where the linebackers were positioned. It created good angles. Like they didn't ask the tight ends to block these hard setting edge shutters really like. And it really created these great vertical creases in the defense because they kind of found a person. Oh, they felt they could attack. They did some things formationally that put them put like physically put the defenders

7:22in the right spot. So yes, you want to run the ball. Absolutely. I think that's going to be a big part of what they do. The question becomes is how you do it. Like I've said this to you before, one of the best ways, one of the one of the number one indicators to me of a smart play collar is a well organized, well constructed run game. And when you watch Ben Johnson in that game last year, the Chicago game against Philly, like it is a master class man. It is so fun. But then you compare that again to other smart guys like I think Matt LaFource, LaFource is smart dude. And it didn't go as well. So like I think that decision, which is happening right now in the game plan week for David Blow is maybe the most important decision for this game. What's the thing you're most pumped about seeing? Like as I think more about this for me, it's offensively for Washington, probably the digs involvement. I mean, once he got here in camp, you saw this logo and everything changed. Like they went from featuring Jake who I think probably pays the pipe for a little bit for the addition or the native one else to everything kind of going through digs.

8:22You and I both said on a recent pod, we could see him leading the team in catches. The first play, the only play really they ran that we got to see develop that they designed the first play of the preseason with their starters on the field was basically a choice route for him where everything revolved around what he was going to do. So I can't wait to see digs McClore and the passing game in that way. How do you think that's going to look? Yeah, I mean, at first thought. So you asked me what the thing I'd be most excited. It's definitely the decisions David Blow makes when it comes to running the football. That's the first and foremost thing. But then the secondary thing is how you then incorporate the pass catchers. How you incorporate digs and Terry and Chig and Antonio Williams and how you use the backs out of the back field. All those things become really, really important because not only are you kind of including the pass catchers, but how to in that dance of kind of making sure we get all these guys who catch football, do some dynamic things with a ball on their hand. How do we then insulate the offensive line? So to me, I guess what I'm obviously the pass catchers are important.

9:24The pass game is important. But I also really am curious to see the tools that David Blow uses to insulate this offensive line versus, again, one of the better fronts in the league. Like Jordan Davis was a machine last year. Jalen Carter, by all accounts, coming out of Philly is healthy. So what does that look like? And if you don't take care of that, if you don't take care of step one of offensive line pass protection, making sure everybody's locked in. And we can't access these great pass catchers. So I think the thing that again, and then this is me as a football nerd that I find most fascinating is how you elevate the offensive lines from a run games perspective because that sets up the play action pass. That sets up the boots. That sets up some of this, the kind of waggle half roll stuff you can do with Jalen Danes and get the ball out of the field. Again, to digs and Terry over the top, you know, Diamey Brown on the nice vertical routry that he can run. And then coupled that with the protection plan, because again, like one of the things coming out of the preseason is again, the offensive line didn't quite gel the way we wanted.

10:25I already wasn't healthy. But to me, that's the, that is the story, man, to me. The playmakers are going to do their thing. I think they have tough matchups on the perimeter. It's Quinnon Mitchell and Rico. And like, I think this, this very well could be one of the better secondaries in the NFL this year when it's all said and done. But we got to protect and we got to give those guys an opportunity to get down the field and distribute the coverage that Vic Fagio is going to play. Yeah, just looking at the defense for the Eagles from a year ago, they ranked seventh in yards per play. Fangeos running it back here, as you said, same coach, many of the same players added Rick Wolland in the secondary. They are a team that ranked seventh against the pass and 16th against the run. They were more susceptible there. Middle of the packet picking off passes, 15 to sacs per pass attempt. That's why they went out and got Jonathan Grenardo. It still seems like there's a decent chance he won't play. But this was a really good defense at a time. It's dominated that I think has a chance to even better. All right, let's look a little heavier into the Eagles personnel. So starting with their defensive front, they return much of the core of their D line,

11:3095.3% of the interior snaps, logged last season, came from players who remain on their roster in week one. That's the second highest percentage in the NFL, only the Seahawks at 98% or higher. 88% of their total snaps of the interior came from four players. So that Jalen Carter, Jordan Davis, Ajomo and then Byron Young, and those guys are back. When that continuity is going to help, they counted for a league guy 16 instances of a defensive tackle, recording a percentage of at least 75% in a game. It's not that heavy a rotation. Those guys stay on the field. So let's start with this. How does Washington manage that? And is this as bad of a matchup as I feel like it is for the interior of the offensive line? I mean, to me, you can mitigate someone what they do really well, because again, they do, they are, and we'll see, because this is something else I think is important to talk about. Like Vic Fange has been kind of traditionally the same guy all the time, very consistent

12:32in terms of what he wants to do. This year, like with Rick Wolland, do they play a little bit more man? Do they bring a little bit more pressure? I think that's really interesting. But when you're talking about fronts, so they're like, I'm going to draw something up real quick for you, because I think it'd be helpful. So like when we're talking about fronts with this group, right? So they, and they like to, again, kind of be in this, I don't know, it's hard to explain. Like they like to be in a four down spacing. So this is the offensive front here. The second we get into nickel, like they get in a nickel, they want to be in this kind of deal here, right here. Like, and tackle, tackle, and they like to set the three technique to the strength as they determine it. So like one of the benefits of this is that you know where they're going to be, right? And then their next change up to this is they go into a, into a five man structure, right? So they go and tackle, tackle, and they put a small body here at the end spot, and they put kind of a nickel player like Cooper D'Agin here on the perimeter.

13:33To get into their five man space, basic and nickel, but they do it with different personnel. So like this match up here is one that you can exploit. This match up here is one that you can exploit. And obviously you can run away for the people listening on the radio. You're saying basically that interior and that's playing over top of a guard on the left side or the nickel, like a corner opposite, a tackle essentially. You're saying you can win those matchups, especially in the run game out thing. Yeah, 100%. You can absolutely win those in the run game. And I think that's kind of what I'm talking about here. So like basically in nickel, they get in these very specific structures, right? So even though those guys are really good, like if we talk about their four down structures, like, and we want to run Wanda. So the back's going to run this way. Like he's running to the offensive right and the three techniques away. Like this is a double team here with good leverage. And you can bring a receiver here and kind of sift this guy out and we can work a cut back here. But we can find double teams in their four man spacing that I think is really important to kind of be aware of. And so, which makes sense, by the way, this is why I mean, they were an average run stopping

14:35team last year when they were really good at just about everything else. Well, I think the other thing too, just to kind of bring attention to this with, you know, with regards to what, like what Vic Fangio wants to do is they don't want to play heavy boxes. So like we're talking about nickel here and like kind of what they want to be like, this is the common structure they want to get into here. They want to get into a nice. This is again, our kind of nickel formation. They want to get into like a four down spacing, right? And let's say we have a tight end attached. They will leave two linebackers in the box here and like that's it. And then the safety is playing nice and high safety, safety, nice and high. So they will play a six man like run defense surface to a six man blocking surface, which is really unusual. Usually if you want to stop the run, if you have six blockies, you play seven defenders, you have seven blocks, you play eight defenders. And so they don't want to do that. They are perfectly content, quite honestly, letting you run the football like they want you to run the football because they're kind of limiting the explosive opportunities in

15:36the past game. They want to play as a past defense. They want to play, you know, four over three in terms of defenders over receivers or three over two and they're letting you nickel and diamond. They want you to take your three to five yards because they're counting on the holding penalty getting you behind the sticks or eventually somebody making a mistake fumbling. You miss an assignment, your second and ten and complete. Now it's third and ten, something like that. So then my question is should Washington come out in 11 personnel to keep them in like with extra DBs on the field or we think there's going to be a lot of 12 some 13 this year with two and three tight ends. If you do that, do they then match with size and then the advantage goes away? Yeah. So I think they would match with size, but then I think you could throw the football out of there. Like is like, what they'll do is they'll take one of those outside linebackers. Let's say you go 12 and baits is attached and then you remove a jig from the blocking surface to account for that depending on what coverage they're playing. They have to take one of those big run-stopping outside linebackers and walk them out over

16:37jig. And so now all of a sudden your hook player is a defensive lineman essentially and it's not Cuperdigene. So like that's where for again, if you're playing Vic Fangio because of what he's shown for the last shoot. He coached me when I was in Chicago. So last 10 years in the league, right? Like that he's been very consistent with how he handles stuff and what he wants to do. So like if you're looking at last year and the year before, again, last year is a little bit of an outlier because they played a little bit less man coverage because their second corner wasn't very good, but assuming he operates kind of in this traditional manner, you can get him with personnel a little bit more than some of these modern defenses like Seattle for example, who wants to stay in nickel like all the time. He's not going to do that. He's going to give you some action when it comes to the personnel you choose to try on the field. So basically like what I love again, looking at Chicago, I think that was one of the best called games, one of the best design games. They ran them all in 11, so nickel and they threw the ball in 12 and they had a really,

17:37really good success with that. And I actually didn't think they threw the ball. Caleb Williams was a very accurate in that game, but the run game and the play action past their overall setup was excellent. So I think that's kind of the way I would attack it just as a starting point. Like if you and I are game planning right now, Grant, I kind of we close the door and I say like, this is something we can exploit. How do we do it now? It becomes a sweet science of coach and football. All right. So a couple of other specific guys on this defense. First, Jalen Carter, who I think you start with, he posted a career low when he was rushing the pasture last year, 7.7% pressure rate, 2.98 seconds, average time to pressure. Those were some of the worst numbers of his career despite getting his lowest double team rate of his career at 41%. I thought he still was dominant. Like when you watch the tape, did he struggle? Was he different? What did you see from Jalen Carter last year? Yeah, I definitely thought he was different, but he's come off like a shoulder surgery last year, right or something like that. And you could definitely see he was a little bit less effective now, a little bit less effective for him still means like he's a plus starter in the.

18:39He go from a 9 to a 7. Yeah, correct. Like so I think when he's at his best, he's probably like a top three guy at the position. Like when he's like really cooking, you're like, oh my gosh, this is a problem. But obviously without the stability and the strength and the shoulder, like guys can get after him a little bit, like kind of wear him down. But every once in a while, you'd be watching kind of going through clips and you'll see like some offensive linemen just get ejected from the screen. You're like watching the tide and you're like, what happened over there? And I'm like, oh, Carter just threw some guy five yards off the ball. As far as pass rushers go, I don't think Jonathan Grinard's playing. Let's pay close attention to that though. I mean, that was just the momentum of the last couple of weeks, but we haven't had a Wednesday practice yet. We're recording Wednesday morning. We don't have an injury report yet. So that's TBD as far as we know. But they bring him in from the Vikings. I really, really like this player. He was awesome with the Texans before that. In fact, last year his average time to pressure was 2.62, which would have been second quickest among all edge defenders who generated at least 25 pressures.

19:40He appeared in 12 games, generated 50 combined quick pressures under two and a half seconds during a couple seasons with the Vikings. Pretty special talent with speed off the edge. So if he doesn't play, it would be a big deal and really help. I think David Blowen in game one. The other guy to know is Jalik's hunt, whereas 58, be curious to get your thoughts on him. But his pressure rate last year was 16 and a half percent in a smaller role than they'll probably have this season. That was the eighth highest rate among 89 edge defenders with at least 200 pass rushes last season. That pressure rate increased by 9 percentage points from his rookie year in 2024. He feels like a guy that could be on the verge of a breakout to me. Yeah. Jalik's hunt is an interesting guy because you're watching it at the beginning of the year and he's a little bit of like a crazy horse. You know, he's like, is a converted DB from like a D3 school somewhere in Texas. So his maturation as a past rusher over the course of even just last year, I thought it was pretty impressive. And so coming out of training camp, everyone's talking about him. Like he didn't play to me at like an elite edge, edge rusher level, but he definitely

20:44got better each and every week. He's more of a power rusher kind of in the classic mold of every Philadelphia edge rusher. You're a Trent Coles, you're Brandon Graham. These guys are going to kind of run down your face. You know, he's a little bit more athletic. You can play in space in a nice way. And then you, and so I think he becomes like a big linchpin here. Like you don't go sign Jonathan or Bernard if you think you're in a good spot from a past first standpoint. Like Jonathan, Bernard, like you talked about, man, has this really interesting way of rushing, which doesn't really play in my mind for 99.9% of the league, but he just all he is doing is he is timing the snap count, getting off the ball and just ripping the edge as fast as he can. Like most guys, like most guys now most tackles are too good for that, but for some reason, his get off his process, his base makes that work at a high level. So I think that stat you alluded to there, Brandon, about like his time to get to the quarterback is significantly better than I've seen anybody that I've studied over the last couple of years. But obviously probably not going to play. So I think that's a huge factor.

21:44Kuinion Mitchell is one of the better young corners in football. We've seen him play really well against Washington. I'll tell you McLorton in a game to one catch at one point. Mitchell's the guy who after week nine when the Eagles had a buy last year, one of the changes they made on defense was instead of moving him all over the place, they kept him on the boundary like 80% of the time. And from week 10 on last year, he had more PBU's than he allowed catches. 9.6. Chris Curley. Across 29 targets. I think Wolland comes in as a fit because he mostly played to the field. I get a 70 some percent clip last year. So maybe those two guys have their roles kind of carved out. Wolland by the way, just 10 catches for 85 yards and two touchdowns on 31 men, coverage targets faced last season. That was a big addition for them. And they've already had a guy who on the interior, inside and the nickel, Cooper DeGene has been considered one of the better talents in the sports since being drafted there. Aligned as an outside corner more last year, like 26% of the time, only had nine snaps

22:46out there as a rookie, but still in the slot over 70% of the time as a rookie. And then last year that number came down a little bit, but I would think that's still where they're going to mostly use him. Just looking at one more stat here, we look at Quinion Mitchell. League high 36 tight windows across 82 targets faced when aligned out wide, Cooper DeGene right behind him amongst some of the numbers. If he had a qualifying amount of reps out there. So these are guys that stick to you that can cover, I think it's a really nice task for McClaren and DeGene's and for Blau. Yeah, I think we want to talk about the front line. And rightfully so those guys are impressive in the Philadelphia front. You know, Zach Bond's really good player, Todd Campbell's a good player. But I think the thing that makes this defense go is the secondary, which is kind of unusual. Usually I'm talking about the fronts and how the pass rush is the thing that insulates the secondary. Like these dudes in the back end are good, are very, very good. And they allow like we just talked about Jelix Hunt going to be more of a power rusher.

23:49Right? Like one of the reasons he's able to get home is because the back end of this thing is beautiful, man. It's beautiful. The way he, the band geocoters it, the way these guys can play, the way they can cover ground. And initially I want to say like, Rick will and would have been a great fit for this because of the checks because of how complicated the coverage stuff is. But he just played in this defense in Seattle or a version of this defense. So obviously he's very familiar. And he played at a high level. So you look at Quinion Mitchell. You look at Rick will and you look at Cooper DeGene. And just their ability to make the throwing windows on stuff that should work versus the covers they're playing. Like this big man is just incredible. Now the one thing that I'm kind of keeping an eye on is the safety room for them. Like obviously they sign veteran Marcus Epps. They bring an Andrew McCuba. But like to me that all of a sudden like McCuba is a second year player, third year player I think out of Texas. Good player. But again, a little bit of injury history there, but they've lost some of that consistent depth there with blank as you've going to Houston. So that's one that I'm kind of like, okay, maybe again the underneath coverage guys, the

24:51bonds, the jeans, the outside guys are like a spot. But can you maybe exploit some of this safety work? So what does that mean for a guy like Stefan Diggs who's going to kind of be in the slot working off a little bit more, right? Is he going to draw a degener? They're going to have to use a safety down there in those like kind of three wide receiver sets that they're going to get into. So again, I think the secondary every year for them is exquisite. Well coached, it's well designed. They match stuff really well like the way they match stuff. It even in zones, it feels like man. And so I think that's really going to be the story. And then not so much, can you win your individual match up? But how do you space them? Because they don't play traditionally big fans, you hasn't played a lot of man. It's more like man match. And the way to beat that is with great kind of spacing and route distribution on the field to make those tight windows just a little bit bigger. So to me, it's really going to kind of bring to the forefront the detail the David Blow has been coaching with and then the experience of guys like Terry McClaur and Stefan Diggs. Logan Paulson, Grant Paulson take command.

25:52Yeah, looking up the official numbers in terms of forced tight window throws like draped in coverage. The Eagles have two of the top three guys in football last year. Is the team was third and Quinyan Mitchell was number one in that stat. 43% of throws to him, by the way, were tight window throws, which is wild. He's one of the best corners in the sport. All right. So before we move on Washington offense, Philly defense and a final thought, your game plan going in, give me your big picture, you're the coordinator. This is what we're doing. This is how we're beating them. Yeah. So I would say like for me, it's got to be like, first off, like, how do we run the ball? Like that's going to be like, we sit down the meeting. We're sitting on the white board. Like, how do we do it? And let's make sure we really invested in it and those guys can own that element of the game plan. Like physically you talked about, you're going to have a hard time moving something on those guys interior guys off the spot. But can we position the linebackers in a way based on formation so that the double team can stay a little bit longer? Can we use a little bit of misdirection to make sure those linebackers are on triggering

26:52downhill? That's one of the things that make those guys so good as well. We didn't talk about it. Is Zach Bond again? And it was a guy from Georgia last year. Gosh, I can't remember. It's Kobe Dean. It's Kobe Dean. Running downhill, peeling doubles and letting those guys win their one-on-ones. But again, when you look at teams that ran the ball successfully and the list is very short, they were able to say, hey, one of my favorite plays that Chicago ran was like, hey, we're going to motion the receiver to the backfield. We're an 11-person now. We're going to switch the side of the tight end. And the receiver is going to run like a quick to the flat on the opposite side. And the linebackers got delayed. They didn't trigger downhill because I thought it was a pass. And so the right guard and the right tackle who were absolute monsters for Chicago just exploded Carter like drove him five yards off the ball because there was no one there to peel the double and end up being a player. The players whooped their butt, dude. Dude, got, I mean, they've called them. And they got asked me some hope because you know, that's what blouse kind of offense, essentially. Now, you don't get to bring all those players with you and it's the first time you're

27:53running it. But there is some reason to have some confidence for sure. Yeah. And so then I'd say that if we can get that established and say, hey, you cannot play like boxes to us, you have to allocate more coverage players or more defenders to stopping the run. Now that open that all these tight throwing windows, all these, this bad math in the past game starts to go away. And then we get these nice one on ones with Terry and Quenyan Mitchell or Stefan Digs and Rick Wullen or Chica Conco on Coupard is Jean. And I like those matchups. You know, in years past, I haven't felt as strong, but I think those are ones you could win. It comes down to running the football, run, run, run, run, run, committing to the run. And again, that comes, that there's a defensive element to this as well. Like they have to keep the game in a close proximity. But run the ball. Let's find these matchups. Let's kind of get them out of what they want to do. And so then we can use these playmakers that we have offensively. You just said something that I think is really interesting, by the way. You like those matchups. I mean, that's a good sign for Washington's skill guys.

28:56And it makes sense. You've got McLaren. You've got digs and Chica Conco. I mean, but it's the best trio of pass catchers they've had this side of probably when Cousins was throwing the Pierre and the Sean and Jordan Reed, who is exceptional at tight end. All right, let's get to the defensive side of the ball. Next, the commanders dealing with a new offense that isn't yet been unveiled. Jalen Hertz at quarterback, no AJ Brown. Do listening to take command.