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The Sports Junkies

Calls On Fixing Washington's Defense

The Sports Junkies

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Sports

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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From 09/30 Hour 3: The Sports Junkies break down Washington's defense with callers.

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0:00.0

Everybody fancies themselves an armchair defensive coordinator.

0:05.0

There are a lot of suggestions for Joe Witt Jr.

0:08.0

That are coming in at 800636-106-7.

0:12.2

He's trying to fix the bunch of issues that are facing this team.

0:16.9

Some of the stuff probably isn't fixable.

0:21.2

Yeah, it's not like you can't like, wave a magic wand and have two or three

0:25.5

corners.

0:26.5

Well, you can't just turn a, you know, wave the wand and then turn a, a 26th ranked

0:32.6

defense into a top 10 defense.

0:35.5

Here's the other part of the equation is, you know, I said as a fan watching the game on TV,

0:42.7

not the all 22, it looked to me like they're running a lot of zone.

0:46.5

There's a million kinds of zones.

0:48.2

Like that is the most simple statement ever.

0:50.8

You can run quarters.

0:52.0

You can run cover two.

0:53.4

You can run cover zero. There's like,

0:56.2

there's like a million different combinations out there, which by the way, they're probably doing.

1:01.1

The problem is what you're getting to, the personnel. There's not much you can do about the personnel at

1:07.0

this point. Right. Especially when you have all these injuries and you're on an older team anyway. Right. And when the older guys are playing more snaps and more downs as you get into the middle part of the season, later part of the season, I mean, they're going to be gassed. I'll be honest. I kind of scoffed at the whole, they're the oldest team in the league at the beginning of the year.

1:29.4

Four games in.

1:30.2

Now you're saying it.

1:33.7

They're kind of older and slow, especially on defense.

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