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The commanders are one and oh. Hello and welcome to my podcast. Do me a favor,

subscribe to the John Conn Report, wherever you get your podcast. If you're watching on YouTube, hit that like button, hit that subscribe button. You can find us there as part of Empire Media, AMPIRE. Always much appreciated when you tune in. Don't forget, you can read my work on ESPN.com. We'll have a story up for Tuesday about the commander's run game. So much worked well. And then also, we're actually about the addition of Debo Samuel, but also incorporating some other parts of the offense that really worked well on Sunday in the 21 to 6 win over the New York Giants indie season opener before a sold-out crowd. And by the way, just one little note. First of all, the John Com Report is presented by AAA.

And don't forget my friends at chubbyshorts.com. Get $10 off. When you go to chubbyshorts.com, you can, I've shown you the, the, the, the, the fun shirt that they have for sale. They have shorts. They have swim trunks, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, chubby shorts.com slash com. Now, before I get into the game recap, just one little note for you for the live stream this week. There will not be a live stream this week because usually Bram and I do it Tuesday night because it's a short week makes it awfully tough. I also have a lot more, I will have some TV responsibilities on Tuesday. It just makes things a lot tougher. I don't know what time I'll be done. And because of the short week, it's just going to make it very, very tough. So this week, it will not, we will not have a live stream. We will get to that after next Tuesday after the Packers game for sure. And one reminder for ESPN.com, I will have a story about Jayden Daniels coming out Thursday. So look for that and give that a read. And I want to thank the club members that join me Sunday morning. I hope more of you guys can take advantage of that. Had a handful, would like to see a lot more in there because I'm going to be willing to talk to you guys for about 15, 20 minutes before the game. Good opportunity to just kind of check in from the stadium. So anyway, let's get to the game because that's what you want to.

That's really what you want to get to.

And it was an opener that was it a scintillating win? It doesn't have to be. It's a 21 to 6 win over the New York Giants. It's the first time they've won three in a row over the Giants since the 1999-2000 season. and actually goes back, that goes back to a four-game win streak to 98.

But that's why, like this is a very good win for a couple of reasons one of which is there are things that they

didn't do well and that's not bad because they can do much better offensively defensively a

dominant performance against an offense that I think is going to struggle a lot of the year. But I will say you want to start that way. If you're facing an offense like that and they faced offenses before that maybe weren't that great, especially in New York and seem to do well against them, not today, folks. So we'll get into that in a minute but i'm going to start with a couple things

and some things that dan quinn talked about about like binding the identity like they are not

anywhere near as good as they're going to be down the road and this um so in terms of like how

they're going to play consistently all that but what dan quinn liked and i would agree with them is

it's the early games are about establishing

your identity.

How are you going to play that season?

The rest of the stuff, the penalties, not good. Like they've got to clean that up. Some of the issues on offense, a drop, some of the, you know, passing game was a little bit off in the timing. You can clean that up. but you can't but you if you want to be a tough, physical, smart team, you've got to

show that right away. And I think they did, especially the tough and physical part, for sure,

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