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The Sports Junkies

Best Interviews on 106.7 The Fan/Team 980: Commanders Week 18

The Sports Junkies

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Sports

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

As we head into the Commanders’ finale, hear from Jay Gruden about the Christmas loss to Dallas, and Von Miller, Sam Cosmi, and Jacory Croskey-Merritt discuss that game and the finale against Philly in their final regular-season visits!

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0:00.0

Ben Standing will join us at 12. We'll talk draft position for Washington. By the way, I haven't

0:05.9

mentioned this, but I'm assuming most of you know. They'll finish the season Sunday in Philadelphia.

0:12.1

That game is a Sunday 425 p.m. game on CBS, Philadelphia, currently an eight and a half

0:19.9

point favorite.

0:21.5

What do the Eagles have to play for?

0:23.1

Well, they can actually still capture the two-seed with a win over Washington and a Chicago

0:30.8

loss at home against the Lions.

0:34.6

Who knows how the Lions will play that one, but that remember that two seed, even

0:39.8

though they play opening weekend, they have an opportunity to play two home games before

0:45.7

championship Sunday. Whereas if you're the three seed, you win at home and the two seed wins,

0:53.4

you're going to the two seed to play in that game.

0:58.3

So that, you know, Chicago and Philly likely to be the two and three seeds, not likely, they will in some order,

1:06.5

because the San Francisco Seattle winner will be the one in and the NFC South winner will be the four.

1:12.2

So if both of those teams end up winning first round games,

1:17.2

Sunday's action will determine where that divisional round game would be played if they end up playing each other on divisional round weekend.

1:26.3

Remember, they played, which is why Chicago owns the tiebreaker

1:30.2

on Black Friday, and Chicago rushed for 281 yards in their 24 to 15 win over the Eagles.

1:38.8

On Friday, Jay Gruden joined me on my podcast as he does every Friday during football season,

1:43.8

right through the Super Bowl.

1:45.8

And we were talking, and I wanted to play some of this back for you, because he did get into, after talking about the game on Christmas Day against the Cowboys, he did get into sort of the defensive coordinator conversation around here, talked about some of his experiences.

2:02.0

Remember, everybody was always asking Jay to fire whoever he had and hire somebody

2:07.4

knew.

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