Kevin's Keys To A Victory: Commanders will BEAT the Eagles if they do these 4 things!

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2:00All right, the first Washington wins if Washington beats the Philadelphia Eagles. If I'll give you my reasons in a moment. But I wanted to mention this for starters, you know, week one is like I keep beating this dead horse, but who the hell knows, you know, especially when one team is rolling out two new coordinators, two new schemes. And a lot of new players on defense in particular. And the other team, you know, they're rolling out a completely new offensive scheme with a new coordinator. And one of their best players in recent years is no longer there, AJ Brown. I'm going to say this before I might need to say it, but this one game is just one game. And it's the first game. And the first game of the year is usually not a great indicator of what the other 16 will be. Just remember that, okay? When we get to Monday, if it doesn't go well, or if it goes well,

3:01like this is a gym zone, stay medium situation on Monday. You really have to feel that way about the first few weeks of the NFL season. Now, I'll be disappointed if the team doesn't come out with a ton of energy, a ton of aggressiveness, you know, the old coaching, you know, adage, make mistakes at full speed, you know, nothing else. We don't care if you make mistakes, but it better be at full speed. You want to see that obviously in the opener. I'm actually not sure what I'm interested in seeing more or excited about seeing more the new defense or the new offense. But as it relates to the offense, the one thing that I feel confident about going into this season is it relates to how both sides of the ball will play, is that offensively, David Blowell's going to have our quarterback under center more than he's been in the first two seasons, not exclusively

4:03under center. Just so everybody knows that even the league leaders in under center snaps, the last few years, it wasn't like 75 or 80% of the snaps. It was like 54% of the snaps were under center, but Washington was near the bottom, you know, along with teams like Philadelphia and Kansas City, you know, both ways have worked. And I know that there's been a recent trend of pushing everybody towards under center football, but the Super Bowl champs two years ago, Philadelphia didn't take much under center in the year before that. The chiefs didn't take much under center, but we're going to see more under center snaps in the David Blowel system. And under center more will include an attempt to run the football in a more zone run centric scheme. We'll see less quarterback dual threat than we've seen in the first two years, definitely less quarterback designed runs. You know, they've basically already told us, Jaden pretty much told us that the

5:06quarterback counters, the quarterback, you know, off tackles, the quarterback, traps the quarterback sweeps, they're not even in the playbook. So we're not going to see that anymore. And I think we'll see less true quarterback option quarterback dual threat stuff. We'll see a major increase in play action pass attempts. That's a given, you know, this offense will be much more of a play action pass offense, whether that's play action and dropback or play action and bootleg. And by the way, you know, Koolie used to remind us of this. And I always felt it was interesting. He's like, you know, you don't have to be a consistently great run team for play action to work. If you scheme it up well and your quarterback is really good as a ball handler, you know, as a guy that can really sell the run fakes.

6:10And I think Jaden will be good at that. And I think Blau is going to have to be good at showing a lot of those pre snap, you know, motions and pre snap formations that end up maybe indicating run more when they're going to go play action. Logan talked about that a little bit in the segment that I played last hour for you, but yeah, it's going to be really interesting to see what it looks like. I mean, they made major changes in the off season. And on the defensive side of the ball, it's not just a major scheme change with a new play collar. It is 10 to 11 guys, all of whom are expected to contribute somehow. If not start, there's going to be a moment either on Sunday or next Sunday, or the Sunday after that where the 11 players on the field are going to be all new players or 10 of the 11 will be new players to the franchise

7:12and to the roster. I mean, a lot of a lot of mystery around this team heading into the season. And again, like we talked about yesterday, for me, the quarterback is number one. The quarterbacks health is number one. If he plays 17 games, you got a shot to win more than you lose a good shot. And then number two for me is defensively. You've got to see a jump from where it's been the last three seasons, especially from where it was. And if you can improve defensively to just somewhere in the middle of the pack, then you got a chance to be a pretty good. Hey, all right. It's almost here. Are you ready? Just grabbing my shoes. That's what you said 10 minutes ago. I just wrapped a video call uploading this giant file on my tablet, looking at my watch group and Nana's with the group chat. And of course, still lining up tonight's playlist on my phone. All at once. Yep. Story of my life. That's why I switched to D-Mobile.

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10:17So this is really the first matchup between this Washington defense and this Philly offense with say one, Barclay, but you got to be disciplined in the zone run scheme, which you'll see a lot with Sean Manion is the offensive coordinator. You got to be disciplined and cutting off those cut back lanes, stretching it out to the sideline, using that sideline is the extra 12th defender in your run defense. And you got to tackle well. This team was such a poor tackling team last year and you're up against a very talented offensive line. You got to get off blocks. You got to maintain gaps. You got to cut off those cutbacks in the zone run scheme. And you got to stop their best offensive player, say, Juan Barclay. Imagine how much easier the first game for Sean Manion will would be as a play caller. If you know, say, Juan's averaging four plus yards per carry, it's got to be less than that Sunday. Number one, stop the run. Number two, very cliche, but critical early season games.

11:21You've got to win the turnover margin when you have a lesser talent, which Washington does. And I would say that, you know, a plus one to plus two means you're in the game at the very least, you know, you're not getting handed it to you. You get to plus two, which would be nice. That would require two takeaways minimum, which they didn't do really much at all last year. But if you want to feel good about the chances of winning the game, I think you got to come out of this one right around plus two in the turnover margin. Number three, you cannot make this game a dropback game for Jaden Daniels. You know, when I say dropback, I'm talking about true. We're dropping them back into the pocket because it's third and 10. They know we're passing and we have to pass. And we got to let guys get down the field and he's going to be in the pocket. No, drop back right now against this defense, whether it's a good offensive line or a bad offensive line, it's a bad idea.

12:23So you have to stay in good, down in distance, you know, whether they do it by running the ball or with quick game as their primary pass offense, you've got to stay in solid, down distance situations because dropping back Jaden too much against that defense is not something that would be recommended. And I'm not just saying it because of the offensive line. I'm saying it because that defense talent wise is nasty and asking any quarterback to drop back over and over again against that defense is asking for trouble. Move the football without having to call pure drop back in obvious passing situations. And you'll be in good shape. And then lastly, we know these week one games are slapfests often be less sloppy than the opponent. Slopping this, you know, happens because there's no real preseason. There's no real playing football until week one penalties, wasted timeouts,

13:25bad tackling, dropped passes, you know, you've got to be on the less side of all of that than your opponent. The cleaner team always early in the season has a much better chance of winning the game. So there you go. Those are the four keys to beating the Eagles are prediction on the team's record this season and on the game Sunday next hour, up next, Eric Edholm from the NFL network will jump on to talk about last night and help preview week one. Hey, all right. It's almost here. Are you ready? Just grabbing my shoes. That's what you said 10 minutes ago. I just wrapped the video call, uploading this giant file on my tablet, looking at my watch group and Nana's with the group chat and of course, still lining up tonight's playlist on my phone. All at once. Yep. Story of my life. That's why I switched to D-Mobile. They have the fastest 5G network.

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