Empire. It was ugly, but it was a win. Hello and welcome to my podcast. Do me a favor,

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you can read my work on ESPN.com. I have a story up now about some of the officiating issues in the game, especially with that clock stoppage near the

end that shouldn't have stopped but did and just some of what people had to say about that.

But also some other nuggets from the commander's 20 to 19 win over the New Orleans Saints.

Let me get to all that in a minute.

And also don't forget on Tuesday night, 7.30 Eastern time, I'll be doing a live stream with Bram

Weinstein, the voice of the commanders. So tune in for that and also be doing a game review

for Tuesday morning, taking a look at some of the key plays, some highlights from the game,

etc. But let's get to some of the stuff right away. And first of all, it's an ugly win,

and we know it. Everybody knows it. They were fortunate to pull this one out,

and it shouldn't have been that close. We all know it, you know it, they know it, period.

So we didn't even need to say it too much because it's true. Like that's not a game. They were up

17-0. You're playing teams that are, that a team that is banged up, a team that's went to is using two backup quarterbacks and it shouldn't have been that close

and that that's all there's to it now the commanders had a couple issues of their own to deal with

but by and large they were in better shape and they had a 17 to nothing lead they dominated the time

of the possession more than 40 minutes holding the ball and it still came down to a two-point

conversion so but let's get into some of the ramifications of this win.

Again, it's a win.

And they are nine and five, and that's the best record they've had at this point in the season

since 1992.

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