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I have a story up now about the commanders,

55 to 23, ugly NFC championship game lost to the Philadelphia Eagles. So the dream dies in Philadelphia.

No Super Bowl this year. But again, this is a journey that's just beginning because nobody

expected this team to be here a long, long time ago,

maybe not even two weeks ago. Yet here they were. Not a good game at all. Kind of a nightmare

of a game for them for turnovers, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. You saw the game. It was not pretty,

but I think this team has obviously come a long way and still

has work to do. I think, and I'll get into all this, but I do think that this game kind of highlighted

some flaws and things that they need to address in the off season, but I also don't think that you can

just get wrapped up into one game and think that, oh, this is the only indicator of where they are.

Because if you do that, then, you know, which game do you always measure?

It's just this one?

Is it other ones?

So I think you have to be careful with that.

But I do think when you look at this, this is a team that you need to beat for NFC supremacy,

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