down 31 to 16 fourth down mariotta looking for it all end zone touchdown debo samuel with the silencer

you know the big injuries were on offense the offense the offense really wasn't the problem yesterday, although I did have some thoughts,

and I will share them with you about Cliff Kingsbury's play calling. Good morning, everybody.

Max is back. Ben will join us at 12, but the next hour and a half are you and me, 3427, the final, a loss that drops Washington

to 2 and 2.

It is way too early to think anything is the thing.

You know, Green Bay was the best defensive team in the league.

Over the first three weeks, they gave up 40 last night.

The Falcons got beat 30 to nothing last week and couldn't do anything on offense.

They put up 34 and 435 yards yesterday.

The NFL, I mean, I don't know how much I need to beat this horse because we've been doing it for years, but it is a puzzle that never, ever gets close to being solved this time of the year.

You think a piece fits, but it never does, which is why Atlanta was going to be a difficult

game going into it yesterday, despite how horrible that team looked a week ago.

Recency bias as an NFL fan or as an NFL better or as an NFL pundit is so stupid and dangerous. Maybe in another

four weeks. It'll probably take another six to have any clue as to who's really, really good

and who isn't. We still have time. This team still has time. They are two and two, and they are

two full games back of the undefeated Eagles at 4-0 in the division, and all of a sudden

there are lots of two-and-two-and-one teams, and there's a one-two-and-one team. Two of them in our

conference. By the way, unless they tie with

each other, Green Bay and Dallas, you can't have a tiebreaker used when one team has a tie, and the

other one doesn't at the end of the year. We learned that a few years ago at 8-8-1, or when they

were, you know, 7-5-1 and we were trying to figure

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