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Not a huge surprise here, David, that the commanders come in here,

one and no off the opener against the New York Giants, though, I will say, I saw a lot of people saying, I don't know, Gi, that the commanders come in here, one and no off the opener against the New York

Giants, though, I will say, I saw a lot of people saying, I don't know, giants with the points,

they're sneaky, that front against the commander's offensive line. It didn't play out that way,

though. First half, there was some, there were some, you know, questions, I think, that were

able to be asked. Coming out of that game, though, I think everyone is going, what's real and what's not in week one? What is that part of it for the commander's side? Yeah, man, that is, that is, you just nailed it, right? I know it's a week one question for everybody, but for this Washington commander's team, man, it's that run defense. That run defense was putrid last year. If you don't believe me, go turn on any Philadelphia Eagles game, specifically in the fourth quarter and just watch Seekwon Barkley. Or if you don't have that much time, turn on the NFC championship game. Just watch the very first run that Seekwan had against this commander's run defense, and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about. The run defense, which is absolutely horrible. General manager Adam Peters made it his mission this offseason. Like the trade for Laramie Tunsell, the trade for Debo, Samu, got all the headlines. But the real work was done on the defensive side in the trenches. Javon Kinlaw inside and outside. Dietrich Wise Jr. also inside and outside. Bringing up Johnny Newton a little bit. challengingenging to Ron Payne. Like, don't just be a leader in the room, be a leader on the field. Go get Eddie Goldman to eat up space in the front man. And last week against the New York Giants, who are a team, which is kind of historically known under this staff, to be a run first guy, you know, kind of team, Tyrone Tracy, trying to pound it down,

Cam Scadaboo, I thought we'd see more of him from the New York Giants.

I think after what he did and a little bit of work that he did get, you probably will

moving forward. But that defensive frontman just completely bottled up the run attack,

rush attack of the Giants and harassed Russell Wilson all game long. Very impressive. Is it real? Or is it because

you winning up against the New York Giants who also didn't have Andrew Thomas, their best offensive

linemen? You know what I mean? Those are a valid questions, I think. Well, and, you know,

if you're a commander's optimist here, you say you say, okay, they added Javon Kinla,

but everyone, I mean, the unanimous opinion on that was, why did you have to give him all of that money? Who are you bidding for for Javon Kinla? And then right away in game one, commanders fans are going, hey, look, this, this is the guy that we paid. And I'm sure 49ers fans are going, hey, what the hell, John Kinla? Like, we never saw that guy in San Francisco,

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