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Re: 2025 NFL Wild Card Weekend!!!

Kudos to the Commanders. They won and now get to face the Lions. The Eagles will play either the Rams or Vikings.

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Re: 2025 NFL Wild Card Weekend!!!

what a way to end a game!

congrats commanders and their fans!

@Spurt next week will be even tougher! the lions look like the overall team to beat.

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Re: 2025 NFL Wild Card Weekend!!!

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@sunshine45 wrote:

what a way to end a game!

congrats commanders and their fans!

@Spurt next week will be even tougher! the lions look like the overall team to beat.


@sunshine45 

 

ITs been an unbelievable season to go from 4-13 to 12-5 regular season and win a playoff game ....like a dream. I don't see us beating the Lions, but its still been A FANTASTIC SEASON HTTR! HAIL YES!!!

 

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@gardenman wrote:

Kudos to the Commanders. They won and now get to face the Lions. The Eagles will play either the Rams or Vikings.


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Thank you, we won and look what our reward is....lol

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Re: 2025 NFL Wild Card Weekend!!!

Wow Washington / Bucs .....a game decided by Baker's fumble and Washington capitalizing on it....

 

Jayden was poised and confidant even though it was his first playoff game, Terry came thru, as did Dyami Brown, Ertz....We couldn't run the ball at all.  For some reason the team put RB Chris Rodriguez on the inactive list when he'd been more effective than RB BRob the last few games...a puzzlement....I like the wrinkles Kliff added to the offense....The defense was pretty much like a sieve, although a few nice stops by Armstrong, Wagoner, Luvu, Chinn.....Our kicker came thru. There was a few stupid penalties...BUT HAIL TO WASHINGTON!!! WELL DONE JOSH HARRIS AND OWNERSHIP GROUP, GM ADAM PETERS, COACH QUINN, KLIFF KINGSBURY, AND ALL THE COACHES

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Re: 2025 NFL Wild Card Weekend!!!


@teganslaw wrote:

A.J. Brown was reading "Inner Excellence." by Jim Murphy. It's a motivational book dedicated to athletes. Brown wasn't involved in the game much, so he had to do something!. (He could have been studying plays on Microsoft Surface, but the play calling didn't  seem to include him. Why is that?)

 

The defenses are showing up tonight. That could change later. 


@teganslaw @gardenman 

 

Thanks for the info on the book, even Maria Taylor of the SNF Studio Crew was surprised AJ was reading a book....

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Re: 2025 NFL Wild Card Weekend!!!

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE EAGLES!

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Re: 2025 NFL Wild Card Weekend!!!

The Commanders caught Baker on one of his "just a guy" days instead of one of his Superman days and now the Eagles don't have to worry about facing the Superman version of Baker in the playoffs. We'll see the winner of tonight's game instead.

 

We played the Rams in week twelve in LA and Saquon ran for 255 yards as the Eagles won 37-20, so a rematch with them could be interesting. Sam Darnold got rattled last week against the Lions and the Eagles' defense could do the same if we face them. All in all a good outcome to the first round for the Birds.

 

The Bucs with Mayfield are a scary team as the Superman version of Baker can pop up and you just can't beat him. With the Bucs gone, things are a little smoother next week. Either the Rams or Vikings could beat us, but you pretty much know what you're facing with either team. They don't have a wildly variable guy like Baker on their roster. Containing Puka Nacua will be a challenge if the Rams slip through, but he's always good so you can more or less plan for it.

 

The Commanders will have a challenge facing the Lions. The Lions might be off a bit to start the game having not played a meaningful game for a bit. The Commanders will want to get off to a good early start. Not a great draw for the Commanders, but a good test for them. The Lions' defense is vulnerable due to the ten thousand injuries they have, but the Commanders may need to get a TD on each possession to win the game. It'll make for an interesting Saturday game. It won't be a low-scoring game. Something like 37-35 will be the likely final score. The last team with the ball may win.

 

I suspect we'll get more coaching news this week. The Cowboys should make a decision on McCarthy. The Saints are likely to decide on Aaron Glenn if he's willing to go there. (He's debating between them and the Jets.) I don't think the Jets have formally offered him the job yet, but we'll see. The Jets are hoping for Ben Johnson, McCarthy, or Glenn. Ben Johnson seems inclined to go to the Raiders thanks to Tom Brady. McCarthy back to the Cowboys. So that leaves Glenn in a good spot with two teams vying for him. The Jaguars and Bears are sitting around and waiting to see who's available after everyone else gets a new coach. The Bears seem interested in potentially bringing in a college coach, but oddly not the one who knows their kid QB the best. 

 

I would expect one or two, maybe more new head coaching hires or rehires in the case of McCarthy, this week along with lots of assistants/coordinators coming and going. 

 

No official word on Nakobe Dean, but given the knee brace and crutches post-game, there's structural damage. A strained ligament or two at the least if not torn. I suspect a torn ACL though. We'll find out more later today. They've ruled him out for the rest of the playoffs. Oren Burks and Jeremiah Trotter Jr will fill in for now. We've got a couple of linebackers on the practice squad also. We may add more this week. A shame for Nakobe as he was playing well. An opportunity for Burks and Trotter though. 

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Re: 2025 NFL Wild Card Weekend!!!

 Congrats to the Commanders! Last night was the most competitive play off game. Washington's coaches had a good play calling system, and they were ready for the Bucs, Fortunately for them Baker Mayfield had an off day also. 

 

As was mentioned, the Commanders' reward for winning is facing the #1 seeded Lions. They won't take the Commanders lightly and will put out all the stops next weekend. Coaches on both teams are probably already making plans. 

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Reports out of Dallas are that the holdup with McCarthy involve the size of his coaching staff, salary, and contract length. Let's take a look at all three issues.

 

JJ seems to think the current staff is too big (thus too expensive) and they should do more with less. (It looks about the norm, maybe smaller than some to me.) McCarthy wants to keep it the same or bigger. 

 

Jerry stated in an interview that he wants the coaches' salaries to be incentive-based. He said something along the line of paying them half of what they want as a base, but if they win the Super Bowl they'll get five times what they want. Yeah. That's probably not going over so well with the staff since they have no control over the personnel. Give them a stinky roster, like this year, and they stand no chance to make that money. Coaches tend to coach as hard as they can regardless of the money, but they need good players. If you don't think the coaches are coaching as hard as they can, fire them and replace them.

 

And as to the contract length, JJ wants it short so if the coaches don't succeed he can move on at a lower cost. The coaches want more guarantee of time to make things work. 

 

I don't think this is trending in the right way for McCarthy to stay in Dallas unless JJ concedes on most, if not all of those points. Coaching tends not to be the reason a team falls short of the Super Bowl. It's personnel. Some pretty brain-dead coaches have made the Super Bowl with a talented roster. Some great coaches have missed the Super Bowl because they didn't have the players they needed.

 

If you give the coaching staff a blank check and unlimited power to go get the players they want, then fine, make it incentive-based. If you're still the one picking the players, then the coaches are in a bad spot. You force them to make do with inadequate players and expect them to win a Super Bowl. It's not going to happen.

 

If those published reports are right, then McCarthy will be a free man on Wednesday and likely going elsewhere. You don't need an incentive-based salary for coaches. They're coaching as hard as they can anyway. If they're not, fire them and replace them. As a rule, NFL coaches work 18-hour or longer days during the season. Many end up sleeping in their offices. As workers go, they're the hardest working guys you'll find. They can't do more than they're doing.

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