Commanders are back from Spain, back from the by week, and ready for a Sunday night football contest against the Broncos.

Oh, by the way, they've lost six in a row and are desperate for a win.

Let's have a podcast.

What up, everybody? Welcome into Beltway football. I'm J.P. Finley, the big man, Mr. Mitch Tishler.

We are brought to you by MGM National Harbor. We love it over there. You will too. There's very few places on earth you can get the lamb chops from ginger and then go play piegown. But MGM National Harbor is one of them. What about the fried catfish? Sure. Got to get to catfish figures. We'll get to that. That's later. I know, I know, I know.

We're back from the bye.

We're back from the bye.

You're back from Africa.

Yeah. Sure. Got to get to catfish. We'll get to that. That's later. I know, I know.

We're back from the buy.

We're back from the buy. You're back from Africa. Yeah. Heck of a week in Morocco. Incredible time. I was in Florida, not quite Morocco. Yeah. You got some beach time. I got some beach time. Yeah. A little bit of relaxation. These guys got to relax a little bit. Back on the practice field today?

Well, and most importantly, I mean, so they're back from the buy

and they're just

getting a lot of healthy bodies back. Jayden's not going to play this week. It's sure all signs say Jane is not going to play this week, but you're going to get Terry back, it looks like. Noah Brown, maybe will Harris I think is not talked about all that often but a huge part of this thing and I

think you know I was kicking this around for a while. I think it's really important for Dan Quinn and Adam Peters to finish this season strong. Not because their jobs are in jeopardy or there's a hot seat or any of that stuff. I think they need to know that their plan, the roster they put together, what they were trying to execute, works. Because if they get enough guys healthy and it still looks as dysfunctional as it has, then you got to realize, okay, whatever we were trying for is not the answer. And there's going to be massive changes anyway. That's the nature of the NFL, probably even more so here because there's so many one-year deals, aging veterans, whatever the case is. But you've got to just see it work, even if it's a snapshot. Right. And we saw it work last year. So you have the idea that it can. But as you always say, it's a year-to-year league. Things change. And what's been frustrating for me this season, losing games is one thing. Losing games by 30 points, getting blown out, not looking competitive. For a month. For a month. Right. And so injuries are certainly a part of it. But now the guys are starting to come back, I don't know that they're going to go out there and win games, but you got to go out there and be competitive. You got to play good football. You got to play solid football. Clean football. Clean football. Dude, you always say the penalties of aggression coaches can live with. How about the, all the procedural stuff?

Like clean that stuff up. play solid football. Clean football. You always say the penalties of aggression coaches can live with.

How about the all the procedural stuff, like clean that stuff up? Well, and you talk about the foundational pieces, the Terry McLorins, the Jane and Daniels, you know, Duran Payne's coming back, who, you know, obviously next year, who knows. But you want to see those guys get some good football on the field. field. You know, if you go a full a full season without real good football from your core guys, you go into next year kind of how you did this year, hopeful but not confident and not knowing for sure what it is. I know this is a TV show in a pod so we might not have time for this sound. Were you in on Duran when he talked? Yeah. It was remarkable.

It's like,

Duran, you know, what did you learn coming out of this St.

Brown thing? He's like, yeah, I just got to hit him in the moment. Like, I can't wait a couple plays later. And I was like, not the most mature answer from Duran. But you know what, it's real. It's also very real from him, though. But it's, I think that's systematic of what we've seen this year.

I also, but to his point, I think if he swung back in the moment, you're not getting suspended. Right. I think the suspension because it was a few place later and the full wind up. And in the middle of the field, like that whole thing. So I mean, it was, it certainly was something. Shout out to the big man doing his thing. We're doing the show.

Modern technology is incredible. And yet, his phone is still sub-20%. I'm always impressed. Listen, I've spent the last week without having a charge phone. I've spent my whole life without a charge phone. Yeah, dude, the last week, as long as I know you. Particularly, I haven't gotten used to the rhythm of getting things on. Listen, Mitch might not have a plan to keep his phone charge, but Dan Quinn believes he has a plan to get this team this week and for the rest of the season playing hard. I told the team, you know, for a year and a half, we're building something good. The only way it's going to be great is if you find these standards and find the details, John, to take it to the next space and take it to the next space. It's not something that you just turn on and off like a faucet. And so missing the mark on some, you know, that bothers you. That

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