Joining us right now is Tom Shad. Tom covers the team for the Washington Post. You can follow him on X, on Twitter, at Tom underscore Shad, S-C-H-A-D. He's been in town for a few months now. We had him on the show a few months ago before the season started. So I'm going to

start with a question that I asked callers on the show yesterday. Is the season salvageable?

And by salvageable, I mean make the playoffs, or at least, at the very least, go to the final

week of the season, needing a win to get into the postseason?

Sure.

I mean, I think I'll view that question in a very logical kind of statistical way and say, yeah, it is salvageable.

And I think, you know, one of the interesting things about how the season has

unfolded so far is that it's gone really contrary to what the expectation was. I think, you know,

everybody thought that this upcoming stretch was going to be a really difficult one. And it still is,

but that the commanders would be at a different spot, you know, like they would have a whatever

five and two record at this point as opposed to being three and four.

That said, there's still, I mean, 10 games left.

There's a long way to go.

And we've seen so much parity across the league so far this year.

So, I mean, maybe it's a little bit rose-colored glasses, but sure.

I mean, I think it is salvageable.

I think you do have to get at least one win in this stretch, though, these next couple games.

And if you don't, then I think you reach a point where, yeah, even though on odd, you know, on paper,

the stats might say you have a 5% chance or whatever.

I think it's basically a wrap.

You know, it's, so I agree with you.

We both watched a lot of NFL and this league changes so quickly on a dime.

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