And away we go! Episode 155 of the Algali podcast. It is Wednesday, September 29th, 2021. Nice to be with you.

It will hopefully be nice to be a Washington football team fan come this Sunday. Washington at the Atlanta Falcons who have been one of the worst teams in the NFL so far this season. Although the Falcons are one and two, just like Washington, you know, that's something that we always have to remind ourselves as Washington fans when we consider an upcoming opponent to be a bad team. That opponent more often than not looks at Washington as a bad team.

You know, the Falcons right now are like, hmm, okay, our schedule is softening here with this home game this Sunday against this team that doesn't have a name. Anyway, I have some thoughts on this game coming up in a bid as well as some harsh statistical realities for four of the most prominent players on Washington's also disappointing defense. I tell you, this game at the Falcons needs to be a get right game for this Washington football team.

For this Washington football team defense and one of the more painful aspects of the defensive struggles through three games is that the big money slash big stature guys aren't producing. You know, if you one thing of those guys were delivering and it was just some others, you know, people who aren't that good, they're the ones who are the real problems. It's not really the case here. You have across the board issues with this Washington defense, but you also have this phenomenon of the big money slash big stature guys.

Not delivering like those guys are supposed to be delivering, but before that conversation, I have a special guest for you, former Washington tight end Logan Paulson Logan came on the podcast back in May. He is terrific when it comes to talking X's and those watches a lot of tape has been putting on his Instagram. Some great breakdowns. You can follow Logan on the Graham Logan underscore Paulson 82.

But you're going to hear Logan's takes on Washington's defense, including whether Jack Del Rio's defense is too complicated. You're going to hear Logan's takes on Taylor Heinecke, including whether Heinecke being a legitimate NFL starting quarterback is realistic. I like to bring on this podcast as guests the truly high level thinkers when it comes to the Washington football team and the NFL had Mark Bullock on the pod last week.

Last week looking forward to bringing you Logan Paulson on this installment of the pod. He's coming up next segment also on the show. Patrick Corbin has the glitch been fixed as one of the two bobs in the classic movie office space said we fixed the glitch.

We fixed the glitch. Yeah, we fixed the glitch. Probably a bit too aggressive to say that the Patrick Corbin glitch has been permanently fixed, but what you can say is that Patrick Corbin was good again on Tuesday night, a three one loss at the Colorado Rockies. Corbin was good for a fourth time in five starts. He has had a horrendous 2021 season, but he is in the process of ending that season.

In a good way. I will talk Orioles late in the show. They won on Tuesday night for two win over the Boston Red Sox at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Another big homer for Ryan Mountcastle and we had the return of Bruce Zimmerman who made his first major league appearance and more than three and a half months. He was the Oriole starting picture and all things considered.

Did a pretty nice job. You can tweet me at Algoldi. You can email me the Algoldi podcast at Yahoo dot com email from Jeffrey Southworth on the Washington football team. Right, Jeffrey, I am just now able to sit after that butt whipping at the hand of the bills. I am convinced that Ron and company are out of touch with today's league and this in Ron we trust experiment is probably not going to work at his Monday press.

He said he wants Taylor Heinecke to be a game manager, a game manager, the kid Heinecke is a gamer. That is what you like about him. Let him compete using the intangibles that are going to lead to his success. If he is to have any, Ron is stuck in the eighties and today's league a 21 nothing whole is not insurmountable. It is 2021. It is an offensive league and we are rebuilding around a stab that is no proven offensive authority.

Not Turner. Stop it. Further proof. They want Alan to be the guy run a quarterback sneak with your 200 pound quarterback after he gets smoked the play before.

Thank you for the email, Jeffrey. So I addressed the whole game manager thing on Tuesday show episode 154. I don't think that Ron Rivera on Monday when he said that he wants Taylor Heinecke to quote do things in more of a game manager way.

He quote meant that he wants Heinecke to become you know this check down Charlie who stops trying to make plays. My sense was that Ron wants Heinecke to just be a little smarter. And by the way, Heinecke for the most part has been smart with his decision making.

But I thought that people over reacted to the whole game manager thing and large part because that phrase game manager carries such a negative connotation whether the phrase should or not.

You're right in saying that Scott Turner is a largely unproven offensive coordinator, but others on the offensive staff are not. And I think it's important to remember this.

The offensive line coach John Matscoe. Very good reputation. The tight ends coach Pete Hainer. Very good reputation. Those guys have coast a lot of good players over the last say 20 years. You know to paraphrase Dan Snyder. You can Google that.

That's very, very hard to do. You should Google that. Yes, Danny. That is hard to do. And you should Google that. And then on the failed quarterback sneak. Yeah, that did not work. Washington and that 4321 loss at the Buffalo Bills this past Sunday afternoon had that fourth quarter turnover on downs. Heinecke got stuffed for a one yard loss on a fourth and one under center quarterback sneak run.

But generally speaking, the quarterback sneak is a high percentage play. I never crushed a team for going with a quarterback sneak. Consider this from pro football focus. And this research is a bit dated now, but it makes a point from 2007 through 2017 when in between the 20 yard lines on a third or fourth down with only one yard to go to get a first down NFL teams converted 86.

0.5% of the time on quarterback sneaks, but only 68.7% of the time on running back carries. How about that discrepancy 86.5% conversion rate on quarterback sneaks 68.7% conversion rate on running back carries. Again, you can Google that. That's very, very hard to do. You should Google that. Yes, Danny. Thank you.

Uh, email from Thelonious Funk on the Washington football team off. Yes, the loss at the Buffalo Bills. Don't fake the funk rights. Thelonious denox did not push off.

Hulkum was stumbling and out of position from the jump. There I say chase young and Montez sweat are the new Kerrigan and Iraq po a lot of hype with little production. Young ran himself out of at least three sacks versus Buffalo sweat was nowhere to be found after the first drive. When will Washington get an OC who can evaluate and grow with a young quarterback like Buffalo if we're modeled after Buffalo.

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