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Have a story about the run defense now. And I'll have another story up actually shortly.

We're having an NFCs roundtable coming up in about a week or so.

So anyways, look for that on ESPN.com.

In a minute, I'll be joined by Sam Fortier from the Washington Post.

I wanted to have Sam on.

He's got some news about his time on the beat.

So stay tuned for that.

But also, he just recently wrote a story on the factor of luck in the beat. So stay tuned for that. But also, he just recently wrote a story on the

factor of luck in the commander's season last year. And what, and he'll like, you can, he'll

define it for you and just what would qualify is that. It could be dropped passes by the opposition,

Malik neighbors, Devante Smith, et cetera. But there also, you can, I try to balance some of that out by saying, okay, what about

this factor that would have affected the commanders in a different way?

Or does this something that carries over a year to year?

Does it, does it self-correct?

Like if you have too much one year, it goes back the other way, because there are ways that you can prevent from needing to have those drop passes go your way

to win a game. And have they done enough of that. And then we do, we have a long talk about Jaden

Daniels. And just one of the things that Sam talked about were some drop passes. And one of the things

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