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It's Ben Standig, Commander's NFL reporter.

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What's going on, Ben?

Oh, not much.

Not too much.

Hey, you know what?

Rewind a month, okay?

Would you have expected Cliff to be out?

No, no, no.

I don't think that was a reasonable thing.

I mean, you know, I think by and large, we understood the challenges the offense is facing because of the injuries in particular.

And, you know, as we were watching these games, even the losing, you're like, all right,

you know, the offense, at least in some of these games, is sort of holding up.

They're just having no chance because the defense has been so bad.

I think for me, though, it was the Minnesota game where I started to look a little bit closer,

like, okay, wait a minute, what is the actual playing here, the play calling, you know, and that one, I think we all recall, was a, felt a little questionable. And it got closer to remind people that aren't as clocked in as you and us. Yeah, yeah. Well, there was the very first drive of the game. Chris Rodriguez is running pretty hard. It gets them all the way down to the two. It's second and goal with the two, and they call three straight passes. And yeah, I know Debo Samuel had one ball in his hands and could have caught it for the touchdown. But it was just like, wait, why are you running it or throwing it three times in a row? And this is also, you know, Jane Daniels is just coming back from an injury, you know, all these things. And then, you know, that's when the picks, when Jane throws the interception, gets hurt. And all these things happening. And I just started thinking, you know, they talk about complimentary football so much. Is that what's really happening here? And at least for me, that was a bit of a trigger. But no, I still wouldn't have thought that that was definitely going to happen. That seems to be the tipping point, though, right? But that game almost. That's what it felt like, yeah. I mean, that's what it felt like to me. I mean, when we focus on the 31, but the

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