Let's head to the Bet-QL guest hotline, shall we?

Shortly will be joined by Barry's Verluga

from the Washington Post.

I believe he's joining us right now.

Washington Post sports columnist extraordinaire.

Barry's Verluga joins the show good morning

Barry how are you great guys hope you're doing well we are doing well so what

were your takeaways from the commanders close game against the Ravens look the Ravens clearly

outclassed them as far as offense rushing I mean that the commanders blueprint is

to beat people on the ground to bully them kind of like the ravens do the

ravens do it better but give them credit a rookie in his sixth game on the road

in a hostile environment acquitted himself rather well, and I'm guessing if I told you a couple months ago,

the commanders are going to be four and two heading into week seven, you would have been pretty pleasantly surprised with that.

Yeah, I mean, I think the takeaway is pretty universal.

I mean, I don't know how you could say,

while they were just blown off the ball and outclassed in every facet of the game and they have so much work to do to get to that level and I don't think you can say

wow this means they're Super Bowl contenders.

I think you're in the middle there with, and the most important part is Daniels.

It's not that the defense can't stop the run because one, a lot of people are not going to be able to stop

Lamar Jackson and Derek Henry as a combination and two we know that this defense has holes I mean we

The conversation we could have had on September 1st that we all would believe is man they need help at Corner man they need an Edrusher. That

doesn't change. What's changed from September 1st i think is

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