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The Kevin Sheehan Show

Commanders could be at a disadvantage next season

The Kevin Sheehan Show

Audacy

News, Sports

4.8669 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

5.16.25, Kevin Sheehan brings up an underrated stat that could be a detriment to the Commanders for next season.

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So we talked yesterday on the show about the schedule, which came out on Thursday night,

0:22.0

Wednesday night, and was complete.

0:24.6

And we could start to look to see, you know, where and when they played.

0:30.6

And one of the things that you have to focus in on is not, you know, getting into, you know, we knew the opponents, you know, the when and where.

0:40.9

It's about how it relates to the teams that they're playing and who that team is playing the

0:48.2

week before, because that creates something called net rest days. This has been something that's been a big number. Aaron Shats,

0:56.9

among others have sort of focused in on it in recent years. The 49ers, as an example, in

1:02.9

2024, had the worst net rest days in the league, and you know that their season went to, you know, hell in a handbucket.

1:12.6

You had the largest net rest advantage last year was the Lions.

1:20.4

They ended up with 15 wins.

1:24.1

You know, we've seen the net rest day thing work more often than it doesn't.

1:30.4

And the net rest stat, if you will, is essentially the number of days you have over a 17-week season

1:41.8

in terms of advantage days of rest heading into a game or a disadvantage in

1:50.4

days rest heading into a game. So I'll take you through Washington's schedule and kind of

1:56.6

explain what it is. So in week three, they face the Raiders. The Raiders on September 14th,

2:07.2

the week before, play a game, but Washington played the previous Thursday. So after Washington

2:13.8

plays Green Bay in week two on Thursday night football, they have 11 days to prepare

2:21.2

for their game in week three against Las Vegas. The Raiders only have seven days to prepare,

2:28.3

so Washington actually has a four-day net rest advantage. And so you go through every week. Not every week

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