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In a couple minutes, I'll be joined by Matthew Perez from the Washington Times

and Sam 48 from the Washington Post as we kind of dig into a lot of the defensive issues.

I didn't really, I didn't think it was going to go all defense, but it a lot did.

And we kind of close on Sam Howell, but a lot of it was what's wrong with the defense?

What can they change?

Is it can they change scheme?

What can they do to maybe get things turned? What can they change? Is it, can they change scheme? What can they do

to maybe get things turned around? Will they get it turned around? I know what a lot of your

confidence is. There's 12 games left. So you got to ask the question. What can they do to do that?

And so stay tuned for that in a couple minutes. A couple news items that, as you know, Derek Forrest and Jeremy Reeves were placed

on injured reserve. They're both, obviously both injured. Derek Forrest, fractured his shoulder,

and then Jeremy Reeves partially tore his ACL. Now, the length of their stay is still kind of to be

determined, whether I know with Forrest, for force for example fractured shoulder that could be a

six week thing but there's you know I think there's certainly the feeling is that he'll be back at some

point but is it a four weeks day well it's too early for that they're still waiting to get results as

I talk right now from the bone scan and so I think that will determine more of how

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