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Kime. If you're a new customer, you can get 15% off your order, but you got to see the terms and conditions, folks. Anyways, let's get to the commander's preseason opening 48 to 18 drubbing against the New England Patriots. Let's get right into it, folks, because it was not pretty. Now, a couple of things you need to keep in mind before you jump off that

ledge. And I don't think many of you are going to do that because I think you understand that

there were 30 guys who did not play tonight for Washington. Pretty much every starter did not play.

There are a couple guys who did play a lot, who were or played early on, who very well

could be starters or at least playing key roles, guys like Trey Amos, Josh Connolly Jr. They played a lot,

but they need to. But the key guys, they did not. The Patriots mostly played their starters.

So most of their starters were playing. That's going to lead to a

lot, maybe a slightly lopsided situation to begin with. However, even Dan Quinn said,

this is something I like about what goes on here. That the standards, they talk about a standard

being set. Well, tonight they did not meet up to that standard, especially, especially on special teams.

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