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appreciated when you tune. And don't forget, you can read my work on ESPN.com. In a minute, I'll be joined by the voice of the commanders brand Weinstein. As we talk about, no, not really this game. We talk a couple minutes at the end of it. It's going to be a very difficult one for a lot of reasons, but more so about like some big wins that the Washington, the commanders, Redskins football team

have had over the Cowboys over the years and just some memories of those games,

et cetera.

And then kind of taking a big picture look at the roster and an initial look at this.

There's going to be a lot of weeks to talk about this stuff for sure, but it's kind of digging into a little bit about what maybe they need to do here in the offseason strategy that they use in the past maybe cannot be applied this year. And one thing I didn't talk about when we were talking about with Bram is that they can't use this. I don't think the owner is going to want them to take the same strategy they have the last couple off seasons as well, which is signing a lot of the older guys to win your deals. Like it worked and then it didn't. So you need to get a good foundation, build off that. But Bram and I get into all that. So stay tuned for that in a minute. Just a couple things first. One,

injuries. We're going to find out more from Dan Quinn around noon on Wednesday. We have a press

conference with him at a Zoom conference with him on Christmas Eve. So we'll get more information

about Marcus Mariotas status. He was out at a practice Tuesday. His hand has stitches in it.

I think you can do one plus one equals two here, but we don't know for sure yet what they're going to do. Josh Johnson would likely be the guy at that point. I know they brought in Driscoll. They have Sam Hartman. Yes, if you're bringing in Driscoll, it does suggest that you don't have the level of confidence you need in Sam Hartman to be it.

People ask what we've asked the question for them about why Driscoll over Hartman.

You may not like the answer.

You may not feel like they're telling the complete truth on it.

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