HR3: Ben Standig’s Commanders vs Eagles Preview & injury update | Kevin’s official Commanders record & week 1 score prediction

0:00Ben Standings going to join us here momentarily. The team released offensive tackle DJ Humphries today. Remember they signed them a few weeks ago, veteran tackle made the 53. But let me just mention and Ben tweeted this out as well and it's the first thing that came to my mind. Good veteran players, you know, get their contracts guaranteed for the season if they're on the week one roster. That's why you see sometimes, you know, guys that are veterans that are sort of at the bottom of the roster, they'll get let go, but then resigned before a week two. If they're on the week one roster, their contracts are guaranteed for the entire year. So the team's got to pay them for the entire season. And if their plan is this particular player is going to be a backup player until our younger players are ready or maybe he'll end up start who knows what the role will be. You don't want to commit to paying that player for entire

1:04season. So it could be that now we'll see who they activate from the practice squad for Sunday to be on the roster in DJ Humphreys place. Do we have Ben yet? Okay, we're efforting to get Ben. By the way, the injury report yesterday included Doron pain being limited in practice with some sort of knee issue. We'll ask Ben about that Adafee away, Jocorri Krasky merit and Kalevan Chase on were also limited. Everybody else was a full go. So those are the four players now, I guess in question for Sunday and we'll find out more when the actual injury report comes out later today, the last one before the game on Sunday. But I have thought kind of since last week that it away was the one that was at great risk. That would stink if pain is all the sudden

2:09banged up a little bit before the opener and has to sit given right now in that front three in a base four three, you've got Ken Law settle and pain and then you've got guys like Tuddle, Barber and a Menihu who would come in and play some if Doron can't go. Ben is with us at Ben standing on X. Of course, he covers the team with his own sub stack. I would highly recommend subscribing to it. I am a subscriber. We'll get Ben's season prediction before he leaves us in about 15 minutes. But I do want to just start with the injury report from yesterday and Doron pain appearing on it. What's the issue with him? Yeah, so I mean it listed as a knee. He obviously had missed time towards the end of camp. We did with an underscores injury because they didn't have to tell us. So my best guess is that they were best read. This is just sort of an extension of

3:11that. I'm not viewing this as maybe anything more than just we're going to be following the hey, he technically didn't do a ton today. So we need to list him as limited as opposed to, oh, he had a setback and now he's limited. That's my best read on it just like shape like, you know, my sense is chase on is going to play even though he looks as limited, same with Bill. He always the one where I'm a little less clear. So I'm punnig just lumping him in with that that it's stuffed. Hey, technically he didn't do a ton of braggers because whatever the reason, you know, they don't feel like they had to push him or what have you more than like, uh-oh, he's got some injury. But, you know, the the final injury report so we come down a few hours. Obviously we have a better field end, but at the moment, he was like in the locker room yesterday. Not that that means anything per se, but it didn't, yeah, didn't have any chance to like, oh, boy, he's drag and or anything like that. So I don't think it's a big deal at the moment, but, you know, while we have more clarification on all this this afternoon. So trust away, mentioned yesterday or the day before that this is going to be his final season.

4:17Yeah, yesterday. He, uh, he laid that out there and, uh, you know, I mean, uh, you know, all this player on the team, longest tenured player on the team. He's been here since 2014. Nobody else has been around since 2018. You know, since, uh, 2018 is the next guy has been around the longest, uh, drawn pain. So yeah, I mean, you know, uh, why he decided to to get this out of the way now. Uh, not sure, but hey, he wanted to do it and, uh, you know, obviously it's been an incredibly interesting run. There's can't be too many punters in the league now, let alone, maybe even in the history of the league, who have been as popular as a figure at, as Tress has, and I think obviously a lot of that has to do with, there's been somewhat the bleak times during, during his, uh, his run that it was, you know, not only was he good at his job, but he was just a, uh, a sunny disposition kind of a guy, um, and, um, think about that. And, you know, I think the last two years of Tressway really sort of symbolized what this franchise is going through the ups and downs because, you know, of course, 2024,

5:20what was it? From the end of the first week, all the way through in the week four, he didn't punt because the offense was just so efficient. And then last year, he's the only guy that go to the Pro Bowl. He had a year where they were terrible. So you got to, you got to punt a lot to, to go to the Pro Bowl. Yeah, he only put it 50 times in 2024 over seven teams. So yeah, so, let me look, obviously, you know, for what it is, I mean, you know, we, we all have appreciated what he does, how he's been able to change the field often, uh, you know, obviously, you know, as a holder, I can't think of too many times, it's really almost any where we've been like, oh, boy, what, what happened on that, on that play? Uh, so he's a completely rock solid guy who, again, it's been a, uh, a fun person to be around. And, uh, yeah, it'll be, you know, something we can discuss. Uh, it's not, it's not the same as a quarterback search, but when punter search, it looks like at the end of the year. Well, he's, you know, he's only 36. This could be a subject to change, but someone like him, he's got a bright future in media if he wants to be a part of that

6:24because he has been not only, you know, a very likable guy and a successful punter, um, but he can definitely communicate. Um, all right, let's get to it. How do they beat the Eagles on Sunday? Yeah, I mean, putting aside the obvious don't turn the ball over things along those lines, I think, you know, offensively, how the offensive line going to handle the Jalen Carter, Jordan Davis, along with the interior tandem, as well as just the rest of that front seven of the Eagle tab. That's, uh, and we're easily a strength for, for Philly, and it's a question here, but, you know, again, I think if the starting five is what we believe it to be, then for Washington, then it's not nearly as bad as people are making it out to be. It's not to say it's the hogs. It's not to say that it's one of the top half of the lines in the league. It could even be in the top in the bottom 10, but it's not, you know, the, you guys can walk and shoot them at the same time, the way the way people have been acting about it, the issue is the lack of depth, but the, in terms of the starters, you know, I think it can be solid enough, hopefully, aligrading. You know, we've

7:27been back now, uh, two weeks, or it will be two weeks by the end of this week, uh, from his, uh, camp injuries. And hopefully that's giving him enough time to, to get going and get, you know, um, get better game shape to, you know, work more of a jaden Daniels. I think that's, me is going to become the whole game. If the Eagles of Defensive Front is allowed to beat Washington up and cause, you know, call play breakdowns and anything David Blow is trying to accomplish, this may not be there for him, but we know they have better weapons around jaden than they've ever had before. And then, um, defensively, look, this is a different, looking Eagles team, no AJ Brown, their receivers are, you know, they've got Devante Smith, you know, the guy guys are capable, they drafted McIleman in the first round, but they don't have any like big hulking guys, the way AJ Brown was and tormented Washington, it felt like every time they, uh, they played, if the pass rush is there, and that's been, you know, the whole point of the solve season to bring in all these different pass rushers, to bring in a defensive coordinator, who is going to be ultra aggressive, you know, if they can get jail in the Hertz, having to, to, to be on, to not be

8:31sure where the blitz is coming from, then that's going to be a huge deal. They obviously, you know, Philly knows the Brian Flores, the able to haven't seen this version yet. So I just think, you know, it's pretty basic fundamentals block up front on offense and get after the quarterback on defensive. They can do those things and not turn the ball over. Then I think jaden can do what he does. And I think they could potentially win the game based on that. Yeah. You know, there's been a lot of conversation in, you know, the bubble that we're in, when I, when I say the bubble we're in, not just, you know, fans of the team, media covering the team, media talking about the team, but even that smaller bubble, which is the summer bubble, the people that are actually into the day to day training camp, joint practices, preseason games, etc. And you've said it, and I've said it, they're definitely, we went from the dig signing and a lot of optimism to the tonsil injury and two snaps into Troy and a joint practice against the Ravens, and it's doom and gloom in that small bubble. But I'm wondering, you know, because I think we

9:37heard it from Adam Peters when he and Quinn met with the media a week or so ago in his comment about the fans and what they don't see, etc. I am wondering though, what do you have like a sense of if there is something that they are truly concerned about, even if we can't see it? Do you know what it is? I mean, again, I think they can say what they want about the offensive line, but it obviously become much more unsettled. I mean, those are the same cause of me right now. I think it would be hard press to say that guys on this group would be starting for everybody else in the league, you know what I mean? Like I don't know, like Josh Connerley's got some potential, but it's been a bit of an up and down summer for him off of, you know, was a better last finish last year. You know, Brandon Coleman has a ton of athletic potential. He played the position. I don't think he's going to fall, you know, fall in his face or anything like that at the same time. There's a reason why they moved on and got tonsil and

10:39Josh Connerley rather than leaving him at tackle. And you know, he had tough day against Trey Hendricks and a lot of people do, but against Trey Hendricks and that joint practice. So that's a little unclear. The Nick Allegretti part, they've talked about how his smart should really help the group and his ability to kind of see what's that going on articulate. That's all good, but you will wind up every center in the league. It's conceivable he's towards the bottom of the options in Chris Paul, one of the bigger surprises last year for sure, but that came with playing with tonsil. Has that got to be the same playing inside of Coleman and Allegretti? I think it would be foolish to say that's a definite lock that he's all that. And again, he also was back here because he didn't find the offers and free agency that were anticipated. So I think the offensive line has got to be the bigger question. And then of course, all that ties into the health of the quarterback, you know, Jaden obviously had the injuries. I think there's something to be said for the fact he's got this like Dumbie like body that that that's able to take hit that not necessarily be have these significant

11:43injuries, but obviously he's also missed a bunch of games last year with multiple injuries. But I think that all ties in together, you know, to me, the quarterback situation is another one where I'm a little concerned, but they may not be because we all know that based on what Minnesota did with their personnel, they went wider at corner because they're believed that with the blitz, they can get after the quarterback that they can have a little bit less there. And the quarterbacks are going to have to throw the ball off rhythm or what have you. And then if they have defensive back that can make plays on the ball, they should be okay. So to me, the line would be the issue. And again, I think, you know, anybody who's having the conversations or line is terrible. Don't listen to them. Because the issue isn't that. The issue is they have no depth. The issue is that they have one injury, they are up against it. So that's the problem more than it is. Who's the starting center, which is what most of the conversation nationally is now morphed into. But yeah, I don't know how they can't be somewhat concerned

12:43about that, but obviously they're going stiff upper lip. I'm not going to tell us that. Yeah, I think that's a really good point. You made this point last year at this time about the wide receiver group. But we haven't seen Nick Gallagherty play center in the NFL other than a gamer to they seem confident. So I don't know why we, you know, would be negative or pessimistic. I'm not saying they're going to be right, but we haven't seen it necessarily. To me, the one thing that we know for sure about that offensive line is that they're going to miss not having Larry me, Larry, me tonsil on it. Period. It's impossible to say that Brandon Coleman is going to be Larry me tonsil. Now he may be adequate enough. He may be good enough. He may end up being a really good left tackle, but he's not Larry me tonsil as far as we know. Missing that piece is going to be impactful. And to your point, it affects obviously the depth because Brandon Coleman's got a start in Chris Paul is now a definite starter, et cetera. You gave us, you know,

13:51the other day in terms of your kind of a bold prediction. You said you think, cross-gamer, it'll rush for a thousand plus. Who's going to lead this team in sacks? Yeah, good question. You know, again, I was thinking the way there. Are you really thinking about? No, no, no, no, no, I'm just trying to figure out how I'm going to head this for you. No, look, if you tell me that always playing, you know, almost all of the season, all the way into him, I mean, they obviously signed him to the big money contract accordingly now, you know, because they're going to have so many guys coming from so many different angles, it's possible, you know, it just like balances out and nobody gets like a significant amount, but, you know, look, they brought in no way for a reason. He was tearing it up earlier in camp, you know, from a pure speed size athleticism aspect, you know, it's wildly impressive, watching him out in camp this summer before he started to sit with his cap injury. So, you know, obviously, you know, chase on is there, they'll get the orange trauma strike back next week, and we can go on, but like, I don't know, much or why I would go against O.A., I think I said,

14:56I don't know that he's getting 14 sacks, he might leave the team with eight because they have a bunch of guys who are going to get four or five, etc. But I would, I would lean towards O.A., assuming that he's in good health, and hopefully that's the case. Give me the guy that you'll be surprised. You won't be surprised, but most will, if he's on the inactive list on Sunday, forget the injured players, somebody else. Oh boy. Um, who could be inactive? I mean, I, I, I, I, I guess I'll just off time. I'll throw in Traylon Berks. Now they technically list him as like the third receiver, but that doesn't only mean that's just the unofficial depth threat that they have acknowledged doesn't mean squat. Typically, the only reason I'm saying him is he can play special teams, but relative to Luke McAfry, the kick returner, Jail Lane, the pun returner, Deami Brown, it was just a better special teams player. I don't know that he is that guy. Now again, when you have McCorn and digs that make life a little bit easier. Okay, we have two stud receivers. How do we fill in the rest?

15:57Berks has obviously the size. And I'm not, again, if he plays, sure, I mean, we'll go for it, but, you know, they're not going to keep seven receivers up. I wouldn't think. And if you're going to sit somebody, you know, it was just based on a receiver, you can say Luke McAfry called a day, but if he's a kick returner, then that's not the case. So, you know, trailer Berks might be somebody I would think would not surprise me if that, but might surprise the rest of the world. If he sits because of that special teams aspect. All right, prediction time. Who wins Sunday and then what's your season record prediction? Well, I want to sort of tie this both of these things into your famous smell test because, you know, you're, when you're doing your smell test, you're looking at the data. What is the public going one way so hard that it's going counter to the sharp money or just what's almost logical? Washington's, I've already done my smell test. Washington's in it. Yes. Plus the five and a half. Philadelphia is a major public play for sure. Yeah. Okay. So I didn't realize it was even up a little bit there, but okay. So like to me, like, the, you know, the only people who are being sober about

17:00anything is they're going to be a few entrepreneurs. And, you know, I think, you know, based on how the public is, Philly should be a 12 point favorite, but that's not how they're looking at it. And then same thing with this season, I mean, if we do a factory reset on how we're looking at this group, when we go back to the Miami joint practice, right? Now, tonsils already hurt, but digs is here and always playing and chase on's playing. And I know Miami's terrible, but Washington just absolutely throttled them on both sides of the ball. It was soon after that when the injury started to pile up. And, you know, when the concern started to go and then they go to Detroit, then they go to Baltimore. And that's when things went nuts. But if we go back to that Miami part of it, oh wait, the defense really was looking like the way we all envision it when Durante don't explain his vision. And you see Stefan digs again, easily the best number two receiver that Jayden's had let alone the best partner that McHorrent had. They've got better weapons or speed more athleticism and factor in the, the commanders play that's out there. You know, I'm going to slightly be conservative and not go crazy,

18:04but you know, I think it's like a nine and eight ten and seven. I'll say nine and eight just to be a little a little conservative because you never know. They are of course a Daniel Dinger away from problems, which would be the case for most teams. So I'll go nine and eight. I don't know if that's good enough for the playoffs, but I guess my general vibe is this idea that they're going to be one of the worst teams in the league. We'll see. I just, it does not make any sense based on the reality. I mean, I think people act like the biggest problem in the entire league is Washington's offensive lines. I promise that's not the case. I mean, every team has an issue. I don't care who it is. That could be if everybody starts to go down on Sunday, but based on the depth they have, but 100%. I mean, again, like you said, this was the issue last year at receiver. Yeah, you could get by with McCormick and know what Brown, if they're playing, you lose them and now the sudden it's a mess. So that could absolutely be the case. But yeah, I mean, I think like I said, I mean, I'll give you the nine and eight just to pick something, but I love that has to do with the fact

19:05that just think the public conversation just makes no sense to me anymore. And the reason I'm not going higher is, you know, half the league is in that eight win, nine win range and, you know, it's just a break here, a break there. So I'll go nine wins, but it's like nine pointing up in part because of everything that's going on. I was hoping Jayden Daniels, you know, this idea, like I said the other day, like if you're telling me that Drake May is better than Jayden Daniels, which is what everybody is saying. It's not even close when I really have any discussion about this based on the national conversation. I don't know how Jayden walks and choose gum because Drake May is five straight games now where he does not look good. I think Jayden's going to be not just fine. I think Jayden is going to be really good. I think just again, the best weapon where he's had, it's just a matter of how, you know, can you stay on the field and does that line do enough to give him time. But if it does, I think he's going to have a pretty special year. Nine and eight from Ben. I'll talk to you Monday. Enjoy the game. Thanks. Yeah, man. See you. Ben standing everybody. I want to tell you about

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22:12you're throwing out there. 301230 0980 and we'll have hours for you for you guys next. All right. Ben and I, Ben and I, Max and I did our AFC predictions on Wednesday. We did our NFC predictions yesterday, which meant we had to give out whether or not we had Washington as a division winner or a wild card participant. But while I did give Washington out as a division winner and I'm being serious, I mean, the bottom line is if you don't predict kind of unexpected outcomes in the NFL each year, you're probably not going to get a lot right. Most of the teams last year that won divisions like seven of the eight were not predicted to win the divisions. I had Washington winning the division. Max had Washington as a wild card. Neither one of us had

23:15Washington in the NFC championship game. We both landed on the Rams as Super Bowl champions. Max had the Rams beating Denver and I had the Rams beating the chiefs. Now we get to our season record prediction for our own team and we've got phone lines open at 301230 0980. So what I want from you is what you think their final record will be with a footnote or two. You know, we've done some bold predictions this week. I had Mikey Sanderson still leaving the league in interceptions, but I've got a couple of others as well. But the record prediction is what I'm looking for along with a footnote. So if I have Washington winning the NFC East, they're obviously going to have more likely than not a winning record. I've got them winning 10 games.

24:1610 and 7. I think there'll be the three seed in the NFC playoffs. I think the Rams in Green Bay, even after last night, I'm not bailing on the Rams because of a week one result even though it was a little bit disconcerting. But I like Washington to go 10 and 7. And the footnote is I do think that Jaden Daniels is going to have an exceptional year that will result in him being a very strong candidate for comeback player of the year. But the other part of it, and this is really not going to make some of you happy. But I've got Dan Quinn finishing in the top three for NFL coach of the year. And the logic here is that if you go from a team that essentially is expected to win seven games to a team that wins 10 and a division that they were picked

25:19pretty much across the board to finish either third or fourth in, those are the coaches that usually win coach of the year or are very close to winning coach of the year. So like if Kellyn Moore leads the Saints to an NFC South title with a 10 win season, he's going to be in the mix. So if I've got Washington going 10 and 7 and winning the division, by natural extension, the head coach is going to be in the running for coach of the year because no one expected Washington to do what they did. So there is a footnote. Jaden come back player of the year, Dan Quinn top three coach of the year after a 10 and 7 season. And again, I'll say what I've said for a while now going back to post 2025. The number one, the number one most important thing for this team is that Jaden Daniels in my view, a truly elite level talent at the most important position

26:25on the field in this sport and maybe in all of sports. If he is healthy and upright for 17 games, I find it very difficult to think that this team would be a bad team or a non competitive team or even a losing record team. Now Joe Burrow two years ago had a borderline MVP season. And the Bengals went, you know, nine and eight and missed the playoffs by a game. And they were flirting with a losing record because the defense was terrible. So you can have a great quarterback who plays all 17 games and plays at a high level. And the team around them just is so bad that you're fighting for that nine and 10 wins to get you into the post season. But to me, that's a number one. And if he stays upright and healthy, I just don't see how this team could be a bad football team. I don't. I think the defense is a big, big mystery as is much of

27:27the team. But I also think less mysteriously about it being as bad as it was last year. I just don't see how that's possible. And a marginal improvement would give this team a big lift from where it was last year. And with all the new players and the new coordinator, who knows, maybe it's a big jump in improvement. And if it is and Jayden's healthy, you've got a pretty good football team. I think this year, maybe not anywhere near the elite level teams. That's why I didn't go 11 wins or 12 wins. But I do think if he's healthy and the defense improves a little bit, they they can win nine or 10 games and I'll go with them or optimistic. I think they are one of those teams seven and 10 to 10 and seven, 10 and seven with a great quarterback who stays healthy. And the team stays relatively healthy. I'm going 10 and seven max go ahead. All right, I'm going nine and eight. That's where I've got them finishing. I think we're going to get out to a little bit of a rough start

28:27here. You've got a wild card nine and eight team just pointing that out. Yeah. I think they think they sneak in. But I do think we're going to get off to a rough start here. I think Sam Darnold, there are reports that he could be back for the home opener in just a few weeks. So Seattle's going to be an interesting test. Kind of a barometer for me after these first two weeks because going into Philly and Dallas are going to be real tough. And I'm not, I don't, I mean, I want to expect that they're going to play well, but I also don't want to get my hopes up and have them dashed. But that's the NFL. But beyond that, I mean, there's a tough stretch in the middle and then it really lightens up towards the back half. And I think that's really when they're going to start coming into their own. So to speak, going into the post season. And then I mean, I did predict that the Rams are going to be coming out of the NFC. But listen with how they look last night, I don't know anymore. So NFC is going to be interesting. I yeah, 9 and 8, I think they could make a run. But we shall see. We shall see. All right, everybody ready, 3012, 300980. I want you to give me the

29:34record prediction with a couple of footnotes, Max. And then we'll move on to try to get to as many of you as we can. First up. And yes, I'm going to go to him since he's first up is I am I am go ahead. Yeah, I'm going to go six in the 11 Dan Quinn gone by week 10 first coaching NFL fire for this season. And I think it'll just be a reset for next year. I think it'll be a new head coaching staff. I'm not sure Peter survives this because I think the roster is poor. It's so many different areas and he had plenty of time to do better. So I think it'll just be Quinn with a new OCDC coming in for next season six and 11. All right, 6 and 11 for Mayan. The roster's terrible. Quinn gets fired. Maybe Peters gets fired too. We'll see. John in Manassas. John go ahead. I agree with I and it's going to be five and 12. We got a Swiss cheese secondary hard schedule. No

30:39depth on the whole line. Heads will be rolling at the end of the year like a good episode of Game of Thrones. All right, great start to the segment. But this is what I want. I want what you guys really think. Jalen enrichment. Go ahead. What's up, Kevin? No time to talk. What's up? I'm doing fantastic. Man, I'm excited for the season and looking forward to seeing what we do. My season prediction. I'm very optimistic about the team this year. I definitely feel like that we can win 12 games. I feel like with the roster that we have. I'm a lot more bullish than most people are considering the fact that I just look at the defense. I look at the makeover. The influx of players that we've been able to acquire. From top to bottom, the guys are experienced. They played in big games. And I think the front seven is really going to wake some people up when it's always chased on. Tim Sattel, DeRoyne Payne, Javine Kenlaw, and then our linebackers, Chanel, styles. I think we got a really good front seven.

31:43And that's going to take some pressure off of the back end. But yeah, my foot notes. Jane Daniels has an MVP season and our defense finishes top half for the league. So that's what's going for Perlis to 12 games. Winning those 12 games. So thank you for taking my call. Max Kevin, I'm really appreciated. Let's get this. Thank you. Appreciate that. Let's go to Bobby in North Carolina. Bobby go ahead. Season prediction with a footnote or two. Go ahead. Hey, Kevin. Before I give you my record, I love the job that Ape is done on this roster. As many players as he flipped over from last year to this year, I love the roster. I've got his 10 and 7 also. And my footnote is this and I really believe this. And I'm not being a home or not. Our defense has got a chance to be top 10 this year, Kevin, with the players that we've added and the new scheme, which is going to be aggression. He's going to send people. They put the quarterback on his backside. I love this team. I think we got a chance. So all you got to do is

32:44make the playoffs and get in the tournament. And I think they have a good chance at it at 10 and 7, brother. And it all starts at 425 Sunday afternoon. You go up there and you hit them into fricking mouth and let them go. We'll go be there for 60 minutes, Kevin. That's how you win the game. Have a good week, you know, brother. I'll tell you the defense can't be worse, but I don't know what that means. I mean, a top 10 defense. Look, you get that on occasion in the NFL. It's very, very year to year more so with defense and offense because there tends to be more consistency. At the quarterback position, which is so impactful, but could you jump to a top 10 defense? I'll tell you what it starts with. They better be a solid run stopping team. You got to be a solid run stopping team because they have really been horrible against the run for three straight years. And it is hard to win double digit games and then to be a threat in the postseason. If you get there, if you can't stop the run, stopping the run and winning that turnover battle are two of

33:49the biggest indicators to success. Mark and Largo, Mark go ahead. All of y'all, I'm sorry. All of us are what? All y'all. I said, all y'all, I got to win WIMPS. Yes, WIMPS. And by the way, I'm going to get to my point in a second. I got them going 13 to 4. I got them wanting to have the best record in the conference. I got them winning the Super Bowl, beating San Francisco here in an FC title game, going to so far and winning the Super Bowl. This is the best team the Jaden Daniels has ever had ever, ever around him. Period. Why are you? Why are you being? Why are you treading so lightly on the record then? Like it just seems like you should be less wimpy and a little bit more aggressive if they're going to go win the Super Bowl with 13 wins. I mean, Super Bowl teams usually have 14 plus.

34:50You know, why they're going to have 13 wins because Kevin, they're going to come and throw field of bad. It's probably right after they lose to at the end of the year when they're not playing it. They're going to lose the last two games Jacksonville and because they're going to see his mark mark and largo always thinking ahead. Yeah, no, they see. We had of us. Yeah, look, look, look, look, let me get this out here. Chris has this opinion that you two have got to take my guys. Who does? I love you, Mark. What are you talking about? Wait, who's got this opinion? Chris Russell. He's wrong. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, that first of all, you know, that's not true. You have become one of my favorite conversations in many, many years doing this. So I don't know why Chris would say that. I have feeling you're making it up that Chris said that. No, no, no, no, Chris has said that to me repeatedly. I'll ask him myself. Yeah. Well, it's not true. You just heard it from the courses. Not true. I like you a lot. And by the way, I hear about you from people

35:52as much as I hear about anybody. So that's a positive thing. So go ahead. But a lot of way, I do think Jay to win home with MVP. Can you, can you win, come back, player and MVP to say no one's ever done it. Adrian Peterson and Pete Manning in 2012. Peterson was the MVP Manning was second. Manning one come back and Adrian Peterson was second, which is kind of weird. But no one's ever done it. Okay. All right. Okay. Good call. Thanks, Mark. Yes. I get a lot of people that talk about Mark and Largo. Now what did they say about Mark and Largo? We'll save that for another day. One of one. He is, he's up there. He's up there. He's enjoyable. Little bit, you know, off occasionally, but enjoyable and entertaining. As is one of my all-time favorites, Paulie from the 757. Hail to the W. What's your season prediction?

36:55Big guy. Hail to the W. I got a bet 11 and six. I got Jayden in the MVP. And I got, I got Croskey Merit 13 or eight touchdowns, Russian 35 receptives. He touchdowns the season. 13 hundred plus yards, Russian. God, that would be great. You don't have to back down. I wasn't trying to make you back down. I was, I was excited about it. 1300 would be a hell of a season. He bold. So, so we're 1250. Yeah, it would be, it would be, but it wouldn't be as good as 1300 plus. And I'm with you because I've been saying it, I've been saying it all all season. I said it all last all season. So, I'm going Mikey on the outside as we go off, as we go and thrive. And I'm with you with a, you go lead the lead and the

37:56substance. So I'm ready, bro. It's like, like Jarrett said, we just got to be aggressive against really can be tasked. You know, the way the way to beat a bully is personally to face. Let's go out there and bully him. They're up to the dub. Paulie with 11 and six. Darrell, what do you got? Hey, I'm with Paulie at 11 and six. And here's why it kind of goes along with my bold prediction. So I didn't get a chance to call in. I was on the fence around nine or 10, but here's my bold prediction. I think Drew Stevens is going to have four or more field goals of 60 plus yards. Wow. I'm going to get us a couple extra games. Wow. That's a good, that's a good footnote. What is, I'm going to guess that that would be an NFL record if there are four made 60 plus field goals. We've seen in recent years, multiple 60. What a brand in Aubrey's had. Maybe Brandon Aubrey's had four at this point. I don't know. You had a bunch. Yeah. But that's why I think we get an extra couple of wins out of it. And

39:01by the way, I just want to, I'm not quite as optimistic as Mark and Largo, but I did already book a hotel room. You're so fine. Just in case. Well, good. Yeah, because they'll be hard to find. I got a quick question for you, Kevin. You said a number of times that you think we're good as long as JD five is on the field. And I'm just wondering what would you set the overrunner as for complete games for JD five this year? God, Tommy did this on the podcast. And I think he said, I think we both kind of came to the conclusion that 13 and a half would be the number. Something like that. That's all. Yeah, I mean, you know, that would probably be a decent number to throw out there. 13 and a half is the overrunner in games played. You can't bet that. No one's putting that out there. But I'm right. Right. Yeah. I think over. You think it will. If you take, look, if he plays in 14 plus, this team's got a good chance to be healthy. But I'd be concerned about the three that he missed

40:04if they were injury related. And then how many games he didn't play at 100%. Yeah. All right. Good call. Appreciate that. The Drew Stevens four plus 60 yard field goals. 60 plus four 60 plus field goals. I don't know what the record for 60 plus yard field goals in a season is Brandon Aubrey has made six in his career. I do have that. But I don't know how many if he made four of them in one season. Let's go to cam cam. Go ahead. What's up, Kevin? How you doing? I'm well, Cam. So I'm thinking eight and nine. The starters look good, but we just have some entries and we can't get over depth issues and we just miss the playoffs because of some starter. You go down. You said, I'm sorry. You said eight and nine. Yeah. Nine. The starters look good, but we get hit by the injury bug. We just can't get over it. So we just miss the playoffs at eight and nine. All right. Well, let's hope that the injuries don't

41:08mount like they did last year or look at that point. We are talking about, you know, Doomsday scenario again, especially if one of them is the quarterback. Thanks, Cam. Let's go to Joe in Westminster. Joe go ahead. Good morning, Kevin. I got good afternoon. I got to say 11 and one. I like trying the Eagles. Trying the Eagles at the home game, which everybody leaves a stadium pissed off about, but then the season plays out that tie makes it so we win the East and keeps the Eagles out of the playoffs with Dallas as the wild card coming out of the East. That's a good one. I actually considered the tie because I threw out a tie a few years ago, eight eight and one in 2022. And that may have been my greatest season prediction of all time because they went eight eight and one. 11, five and one for Joe Robert and Annapolis finish it up for us. Go ahead. All right. Well, I hate to tell you, I think you're actually going to have

42:10season over there. I don't want to say that again. Go say that again. You were breaking. I think it's going to be, I think it's going to be a disappointing season over there. I just see too many question marks, new coordinators. I think, uh, Daniels might have another situation where I'll miss some games. I got you at seven and ten. I bet the over with the book. I mean, the under on the book on that. So, okay. I think it's, yeah, I think you're going to go seven and ten. I don't think the Ravens are going to do as well as the, as everyone say, and they're going to do either. So I usually be a little pessimistic. But we'll see what'll happen. There's just so many question marks with the team over there, especially with the new coordinators. I just think that's a big question mark. I get some talent. They've improved the town a little bit. But, but like you say, there's so, I think you could say this about all teams. They're just so dependent on that one guy. If he's just not right, just everything else might fall apart on you. I, well, they're going to be dependent on him. There's no way to get around that. I just hope

43:14more than anything that defensively it's not one of those painful slow and sometimes quick deaths that the team had last year. Because I don't think there's anything more frustrating when you're rooting for a football team than when the defense can't get off the field. That is so painful. And it's been painful to watch that for a few years now. They got to get off the field and then they got to get takeaways this year. They got to be on the right side of the turnover margin this year. They were at minus 13 second worst in the league last year. And that's why they brought in Gerontet Jones and a Brian Forrest types scheme and added all of these playmakers and pass rushers. All right. Take a quick break. When we come back, I'll give you my Eagles, Washington final score prediction to finish up the show. And there's an injury update from Ashburn. All right. Dan Quinn said moments ago that everybody that was limited and that would include

44:18Gerontaine, Caleb on Cheson, Bill Croskey Merritt and Adafee O'Way. They've all been medically cleared to play Sunday in Philadelphia. It doesn't make it a lock, but they've all been medically cleared to play. So it's very possible. Washington will go in as a healthy football team with everything available with the exception of Doran Saramstrong who is suspended. And of course, the players that found their way to injured reserve, Laramie Tonsul, Trey Amos, Johnny Newton, etc. All right. Sunday 425. It begins the first of 17 over an 18 week period. And to me, it's going to be really, really intriguing to watch this because I don't know what to expect. But I do believe that the quarterback will play well this year. And early in the season is really hard. And you got to stay medium, as I said earlier, like Jim Zorn used to say, because it really is very much a process

45:21to get to the point where you really know what you have. But based on the fact that the world is on the Philadelphia Eagles to not only win, but cover, I'll go with the week one upset. Washington wins 27 to 24 in overtime. And the key play is a sack on Jalen Hertz and a forced fumble by somebody. I don't want to say oh, wait, yet, by somebody that sets up a game winning overtime field goal by Drew Stevens, the rookie 27, 24 in overtime, a thriller in the opener. What do you have? 23, 20 final score. Commanders come away with the win. Back on Monday. Enjoy all the football this weekend, everybody.