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I'm joined by my pal Nikki Jabala from the Washington Post. A couple days after the commanders

lost to the Eagles up in Philadelphia, their second straight loss. It's kind of nice to have

an off weekend, isn't it? Yeah. I'm watching football from my couch today. It's wild. Now I see why people

like it so much. I know. Well, it's nice to be able to wake up. It's like, oh, yeah, I can have a

second cup of coffee at home and, you know, watch some things maybe on the game film from the other

night that I wouldn't have gotten

a chance to watch ordinarily. So it's kind of nice. And it's nice to feel normal to have a

second day in a row off because we just, not complaining. You don't get those. Once camp starts,

you don't get those. So that's fine. It's part of life. But it's nice to

experience it. Yeah. And there's a good plate of games on today. So even better. Yeah. So I was shocked

that Detroit was beating Jacksonville like that. Yeah. Yeah. Shocking. Totally. So I saw that.

Totally. Anyways. So nobody cares about that. So I am curious, though,

let's start with this one,

Nikki,

because it's two losses in a row

with the commanders.

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