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Falcons Postgame Pod: Shorthanded Commanders Struggle, Fall in Atlanta

Beltway Football

Monumental Sports Network

Sports News, Football, Mitch Tischler, Washington Football Team, News, Sports, Jp Finlay, Nfl

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

JP Finlay and Mitch Tischler join you from Atlanta with instant reaction from the Washington Commanders' Week 4 loss to the Atlanta Falcons. The guys discuss Marcus Mariota's performance, the defensive struggles and everything else that went wrong in Atlanta. The episode concludes with a discussion whether fans should be optimistic or pessimistic through four weeks.

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0:00.0

What up everybody? It's Belway Football live for Mercedes-Benz Dome.

0:15.5

Stadium.

0:16.1

Steadies Ben Stadium, Atlanta, Georgia.

0:19.2

The commander's defense couldn't stop anything.

0:22.5

Michael Pennix last week went for a buck 70, went for 310 today.

0:26.3

Career high.

0:27.9

Drake London was everywhere.

0:29.7

Bejohn Robinson was everywhere.

0:31.9

Washington's offense started poorly, but we're able to kind of get it going.

0:35.1

But you're not going to win many games when you give up, you know, 450 total yards or whatever. Really just a disappointing effort. What's not disappointing, our friends over at NGM National Harbor, they sponsor us, send us on the road. Keep big man looking fly. Hello. How you doing? You're looking fly too. Thanks, bro. Yo, can I shout out collars and co? Yeah, go for it. Dude, I flew down here this morning. I put this shirt in my backpack. What about? Yeah, that's chocolate sauce. Oh, okay. We're not worried about that one. Kyle Pitts was great. Bison Robinson was great. The whole Falcon's offense was great. They barely got any pressure on Michael Pennix. He was able to sit back there and pick them apart. The same mistakes the defense is making. Is your voice a week four, dude? No. This is a sound canceling headphones. Well, it's a little raspy. Dude. It's the same mistakes week after week after week now. So the questions we're going to get, and I tried to ask the Q this, and he didn't answer it, he's not going to. Of course. Like, the personnel's not going to change. Odds are you're not bringing new people in. You're not getting Harris back. You're not getting Wise back. The Harris loss, I think, might be proving to be a very big deal.

1:47.1

Jemante Jean Baptiste walking out of there with an arm in a sling.

1:48.5

He had a peck injury.

1:50.5

We'll see what happens.

1:54.1

I think they've got to alter the scheme.

2:00.0

Something has to happen where, like, if you and I can easily identify sitting up, where's the press box?

2:00.4

Over there?

2:01.7

Right up. Right up. Yeah. Over there? Right up, right up.

2:02.0

Where there?

2:03.4

Yeah, over behind us.

2:04.0

Yeah, over there. Please God, end open-air press boxes. That's what I blame for my voice. I'm trying to talk to you in the press box. I just don't talk. I just don't talk. If everyone in the stadium can identify how much trouble Washington has when its corners are in man and then they run motion like you got to change something and Lattimore to his credit kind of opened up a little talking about sometimes we're over aggressive sometimes we watch the film watch the film and then we're expecting that play and then they run something different off of that play, and it gets us. Now, Latimore also is just getting burnt. Like, he's not playing well, but my point is, and I don't know if you agree with me, defensively, you're not going to be able to alter the personnel significantly. Maybe make some changes or whatever, but it's not going to be significant. There's not, like, there's not an all-pro guy that's just going to show up. And I think you've got to do something schematically. See, I think something has to change, but I think that there's personnel changes that you can make. What would you do? I think you move Mikey back to the outside. Maybe you're not, you don't have Lattimore on the field quite as much as he is okay see you see who you can work in in that slot corner maybe ladimore moves inside i mean you're down jones right listen it's tough i don't think you can move laddimore inside i don't think so either that was a bad but you just have to cover too much ground right and i think the interior quickness stuff i don't think he's an inside corner i think maybe think maybe Jordan McGee needs to be out there on passing downs, or at least something needs to change with the linebacker rotation. We also didn't get to talk to Bobby after the game, which was interesting. Franklin Louvo was pretty, you know, disappointed, obviously. But some of it, they're all upset about the tackling. You know. We can talk scheme and stuff. Tackling is not skiing or coaching. The tackling is on the player. Yeah. And one thing Frankie said, which is sadly, I think, accurate. He's like, man, it's still early. It's week four. They don't tackle. There's no hitting. There's no tackling. And this team had a light training camp, but nobody really hits the tackle. Nobody tackles to the ground.

3:58.8

And so in a lot of ways, you see bad tackling early on in the season.

4:03.1

Really frustrating loss.

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