Time to head out to the rude guest hotline where we're joined by Odyssey NFL Insider Brian Baldinger,

host of the Best Football Show podcast. Insider calls are brought you by Nationwide.

For your insurance and financial needs, nationwide is on your side. Baldi, hello. Good morning.

Hey, good morning, guys.

It's good to be with you.

Yeah, it's good to have you, man.

So what were your takeaways from the Commanders opening 21-6 win over the Giants?

The Giants offense is miserable.

They haven't scored a touchdown in three straight opening games, held the two field goals in the loss here.

What did you think of Commander's Giants?

Well, I thought the, you know, the Giants were dreadful.

I mean, there's just, it was worse actually going back and rewatching it after announcing

it.

But I thought, you know, look, there was a big emphasis in Washington this offseason to improve

their run defense. And the three running back to the Giants ran it 15 times for 30 yards. I would say

that, you know, Dietrich Wise and Javon Kinlaw and Eddie Goldman and Jerry Newton and all those guys,

I would say, did their job.

I mean, they shut down that run game.

They had first and goal at the one.

They couldn't get it across the goal line.

So that was good.

And then, you know, offensively, to see Bill Kroski Merritt, who I knew very little about.

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