Ben Standig's with us every Monday and Friday at 12 noon on this show is our Washington

Commander's insider. He writes a substack report and column called Last Man Standing. He's got a

podcast by the same name and you can follow him on X on Twitter at Ben Standing. Let's start

where we always start. Your big takeaways from the 34 to 27 loss

in Atlanta.

Do we have Ben?

We do.

Yeah. Well, it'd be nice if I could hear him.

It would. Give me one second.

Yeah. Let's try to get Ben into a

spot where it makes sense. By the way, one of the callers mentioned, and I didn't mention that.

Yeah, there was a face mask. On that first drive of the second half, Caden Ellis got away with a

face mask on that second and 14 when Marcus Mariotta unloaded it

incomplete. And then it did look like Hughes interfered with Chris Moore on a third and seven

on that drive before the Matt gave 52-yard field goal that made it 17 to 13.

Yeah, I thought those were two missed calls.

Do we have Ben?

Okay, so go ahead, give me your big thoughts about yesterday's loss in Atlanta.

Yeah, look, I mean, I think, you know, if we're going to, if we want to talk a certain reality of the world, right? They were missing a lot of players on offense. And, you know, that side of the ball was, you know, a little up and down. But I thought, you know, they competed. And, you know, to put up 27 points when you had, you know, all the pieces they were missing and who they had out there, I think that's pretty credible. But of course, I don't really, that's not really the story, almost on any level,

because all that could go away by next week. The story is what's going to continue, and that's the defense.

And, you know, it's now four weeks into the season,

and it's been two games where they look really good against two teams that were just,

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