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Baldi. Good morning. Good morning to you guys. How are you?

We are doing well.

I want your input on what did you think of Marcus Mario to taking over for Jaden Daniels last week?

Looked pretty good against the Raiders.

Jaden Daniels' health status in question again this week.

If you were running the commanders, do you trot out Jaden Daniels if he's not 100% or do you lean more into Marcus Marriota in week or?

I thought it was really interesting.

You know, I mean, his college coach is up in a booth for the Raiders

call him plays, and Chip must have been looking at it going,

man, I wish I could get my Heisman trophy quarterback back in the Raiders here. I thought Marcus, as the best game, I've seen him play in a long time. You know, they ran the ball really, really well. They ran for over 200 yards. They did it in a variety of ways, but, you know, he got everybody lined up, and I thought he executed everything really good, and a couple throws that he had to make, you know, that were really substantial. I thought he executed everything really good. And a couple of throws that he had to make,

you know, that were really substantial. I thought he made all the throws. It made it look pretty easy.

It's the best game I see Marcus play in a long time. And to answer your question against the

Falcons this week, if Jaden is, and it's kind of mysterious, just what this whole injury thing is,

not being really relayed very well.

But, and I don't have any insight to it.

But if he's not 100%, I wouldn't have any problem putting Marcus out there.

The Falcons were awful last week, but it's not to say that, you know, they're going to be like that, again, this week like they were against Carolina. Yeah, I wanted to ask you about the Falcons. I know that you tweeted out a couple things film-wise of the Carolina matchup against the Falcons last week. Of course, Carolina won that game 30-0. But you pointed out that Atlanta just got dominated in the trenches. Yeah, totally. I mean, it was because the week before, they played really, really well. All the rookies played well. The pass rush was there, and last week, none of it was there. Now, you know, Michael Pennix Jr. was, he just, I'm a big fan of Mike, but he was awful in that game. And it wasn't just at two interceptions. I mean, he was sailing balls over guys' heads.

He was bouncing into the turf.

I mean, he didn't look right from the beginning.

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