Nick Hach you win for Kevin Sheehan. Navy Moe on Twitter wants to know why the commanders are operating like a poverty franchise when other teams like, it's always the Eagles, right? It comes back to the Eagles. Listen, the commanders are rebuilding a team that also has to compete with a very aggressive front office in Howie Roseman, one of the best GMs, not just in the NFL, but in sports. And it's true. Like, they're going to have to spend, but you've got to spend smartly.

You can't just go throwing money around.

We've seen how that works in the NFL, and we've seen how that works with this franchise. But it's true. That has now become the trend. I mean, Chi K. Kamara, hope I said your name right, buddy, on YouTube. It should be noted. That's why the commanders don't have any depth.

They did not spend.

Meanwhile, the Patriots did.

They did.

The Patriots built a much better team. And we're seeing the results, both Drake May and everybody else, with the way those teams have built. And don't think for one second that this commander's organization doesn't know they got to spend. It's just how they spend it is really important because, as we've all seen, you can waste your money and the team can go absolutely nowhere. And then you end up right back in the spot you're now versus where a lot of teams are in the NFL, which is, oh, looking at playoff positioning or at least playoff spots as we had in a week 18 of the NFL season. Brian De Ardo jumps on with us now, NFL writer for CBS Sports. And I'll get to the commanders with you in a bit, but let's be honest.

We've got actually meaningful NFL games coming up in week 18 in the NFL season.

You want to start with this with you, Brian, though.

Before we even get into any of these games, I am a huge supporter, and I've been yelling this for years.

Control the yell, of course.

I would much rather see expanded playoffs than an 18th game in the NFL regular season.

If I gave you the choice, Brian, what would you prefer?

An extra week of playoff football or an extra week of regular season NFL?

Well, hey, great to be on with you. I, yeah, I mean, I'm emphatically in support of what you're saying.

I do not understand it at all this 18th a week.

I mean, there was a few weeks ago I was looking at the standings.

A third of the league was already out of the playoffs.

Like, how is that good for the league?

And, you know, we talk about player safety and the, you know, trying to improve it.

I do think on a day-and-day-out basis, the league has made a lot of strides to help

player safety with the limited padded practices, with the technology advances with the

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