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The moment we've all been waiting for week one, Commanders Against the Giants.

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How are you? I'm doing fantastic. It was this time last year. We hope Jaden Daniels was going to be good. We didn't know. Now we know he's good. I am really, really excited for this season. How about when Jaden earlier in the week was talking about, yeah, you know, this time last year, I didn't know what I didn't know.

Now I feel really comfortable.

The rest of the league should be pretty scared that Jayton Day. How about when Jaden earlier in the week was talking about, yeah, you know, this time last year, I didn't know what I didn't know.

Now I feel really comfortable. The rest of the league should be pretty scared that Jaden Daniels feels really comfortable.

We made it through the wilderness, man. I'm so excited for week one. I think Northwest Stadium is going to be bumping. We know it's sold out. There's just so much momentum, so much excitement for this team.

And, you know, for all like the haters, naysayers, doubters, whatever, like, now we get to find out. List seasons over, ranking seasons over, bug season. Lantern flies killing. The lantern flies are the worst. Kill them on site. Those are the directions from the scientists, not just us. But beyond the lantern flies, like, there's just so much to be excited about. Yeah, I mean, you finally have this offense back together with Terry, Noah Brown being back at practice this week. Looks like they're both going to be full go come Sunday. And listen, you look at the games against the Giants last year, and they certainly were closer than they should have been, particularly the one where the Giants didn't have a kicker. This is a time that I expect Washington to come out. We certainly hope so. And as excited as you and I are and all the fans are and everybody got in the survivor pool, like as much as we're excited, the players also have to wait these months and months and get through training camp and just kind of the minutia of the buildup to football and then nothing beats the

actual football players are fired up here comes jaden daniels dan quinn austin eckler and bill

i think it starts with the veteran leadership you know we added more veteran experience and you know

we got guys last year i was with dq and we kind of know the standard how we want to play.

And you can tell that people are bought in.

Everybody's showing up, working hard.

And we all love one of each other in the locker and we take care of one another on the practice field.

But we know at the end of the day we've got to push each other to get better.

You still got to go out there, prove each and every year. People have expectations. They could say you could do this or hope you fail and do that. I mean, it really doesn't matter at the end of day. The pressure you give is on yourself to go out there and you prepare the right way. You give yourself the best chance of success. We're gearing up for the season,

you know, to begin, my thoughts really have been, they keep coming back to identity. And as fun as

last year was, I don't think an identity is fully formed in one year. And you add players and that

fully develops over time.

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