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Another gut punch for the commanders.

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but maybe some encouraging signs for the commanders. Maybe the best of both worlds can occur over the next five weeks where they actually continue to play well, but maybe they don't fall too far in their draft status.

That, to me, would be the best of both worlds because you can get a higher pick,

but you can look like you're a competitive team.

And that, to me, is the key here.

You cannot finish in a very bad way here because I can't underscore and you talk to a lot of people

here that the feeling is like you just have a disaster of a finish for the season, then that

carries into next season and that locker room would be this close to being maybe like as one

person in the organization said detonating if things go wrong so you don't want that to

happen so you do want to finish strong you do want i think they need to be rewarded for some of these

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