Logan Paulsen breaks down how the Commanders can BEAT the Eagles in week 1 & gives a record prediction

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1:07I just wrapped the video call, uploading this giant file on my tablet, looking at my watch group and Nana's with the group chat, and of course, still lining up tonight's playlist on my phone. All at once? Yep, story of my life. That's why I switched to T-Mobile. They have the fastest 5G network. Okay, multi-tasker. I see you. Honestly, I never imagined I could do all this at once. It's awesome. Say no more, I'm totally switching. My post is taking way too long to upload. That's a sign you've got to get T-Mobile. So many reasons to join T-Mobile. Find yours at T-Mobile.com. Fastest based on analysis by Uglospeed Distant Intelligence Theatre of National Speed School Results incorporating 5G download and upload speeds for the first half of 2026. Logan Paulson joins me right now. Of course, Logan played tight end in the NFL, including here in Washington.

2:08And I think for the last few years, he's been as good as any former player has ever been analyzing our football team. He does it as a part of the team's radio broadcast with Brahm and London Fletcher. He does it on all of the teams. YouTube and website shows. He does it on a podcast called Take Command. He's also a current coach. He's the offensive coordinator at Stonebridge in Northern Virginia, where former Skins defensive lineman, Kendrick Gullston, is the head coach. You can follow Logan on Instagram at Logan underscore Paulson 82 and on X at Logan Paulson NFL. I love having you on. The season is finally here. The outlook on our team hasn't been super optimistic, certainly not nationally. And I think there's been some doom and gloom here locally as well over the last month. Where are you on this team as it prepares

3:09for its season opener in Philadelphia in four days? Yeah, I mean, I don't know, like probably somewhere in the middle. I try not to swing too far, like the positive. Swing too far with the negative. Because I just don't think it's either one of those extremes I think they characterize the team currently. Like I think, when you look at the additions in the off season, I'm excited about it. I feel like Caleb I'm chasing on the additional sunny styles. Mid-cross, that defense is different. Tim Settle, right? Like that defense has a different kind of timber to it when it walks into a room. You know what I mean? Offensively, like I think Jay Daniels looks great. I think obviously losing Miami-Tunnels is a big deal. And I think it's going to feel the ripple effect to that depth. But like in my career, I've played with worse offensive lines that have been very, very productive over the course of the season as long as the scheme and as long as the coaches understand like what they're good at. And they find an identity to set groups. So I think right now people have a lot of things that they have big feelings about, which is totally cool feeling the way you want to feel.

4:10But like, we don't know. We don't know what they're going to do. We don't know what this defense is going to look like. We don't know what this offense is going to look like. We can speculate. And like I've been in every practice so I have a decent idea of what they're going to go. But I also looked back to like 2012. We had a certain playbook that we ran during training camp when I was playing for the team here. And we ran something completely different for week one. Like it's just that we, that's one of the reasons I'm so excited for week one. I think it's going to help kind of quell a lot of the anxiety some of the fan base has and show that like this is it, the house isn't on fire. Right? Everything's okay. Like is this the best roster in football? No. But are they going to be the worst even the NFL? That is also, you know, infatically no. Oh my God. I mean, you're just way too reasonable. That's just, that's way too common senseical for many. Look, I'm with you. I actually think all of the conversations where most of them over the summer about summer football are just silly. And they are rarely, rarely predictors of things to come.

5:14Why? Because nobody shows anything and nobody plays. And the games and the joint practices, they don't mean anything. Like we're not going to know for 25 to 28 teams in this league until they start to play games plural. Like even the first few tend to not be necessarily huge predictors of what's to come down the road. Although they are much bigger and better predictors than, you know, talking about, you know, a couple of snaps, two snaps in particular in the second preseason game when you're starting center and you're starting guard weren't even on the field and there was no game planning. So that is, I'm with you on all this. And look, it sounds, I can hear it in your voice too. Like thank God we finally arrived at the moment where we can have real conversations about real football. You did mention though, because I do think that there are some things you can take that are real like the Laramie Tuncil injury.

6:16That's real, you know, that isn't speculative. The Stefan Digs acquisition is real, you know, but let's start with the Tuncil thing. How impactful will it be? The loss of arguably the second best player on the team? Yeah, I mean, we need to be the best player. You know, obviously maybe not like in terms of impact like Jay Daniels is that guy, but it's just looking at rankings, right? Sure. Of positions like he's the best player at his position. Maybe you know, in the league arguably, right? Probably top three for sure. Anyway, so it's huge. I mean like one of the things I look at like, you know, went back and watched a bunch of games getting ready for the Eagles game and you look at how certain teams Detroit, Chicago kind of weaponized that elite, you know, in Chicago's game. Both those states it's the right tackle. Like it does a lot of things. For the past prediction standpoint, from a run blocking standpoint, from a scheme standpoint, from a matchup standpoint, it's a big deal. I also think it does have a trick, like a kind of a trickle that effect

7:16to the left guard position, right? Like I think Chris Paul did a fine job last year, but I actually thought Coleman was going to beat him out for that left guard spot. That he was playing really, really well. And so yeah, like now Coleman bumps out the left tackle and I think Coleman is going to surprise people with how efficient he is as a pass protector and what he can do from an athletic standpoint in the run game. But I was hoping to see that at guard. So all of a sudden you kind of a weak and two spots on the offensive line, you know, Ali Brady hasn't been around to practice that much because of the injury. I think this last couple weeks, he's in practice, which is great. But it does affect multiple positions in that group. It's all of a sudden you go from being like, okay, we got Chris Paul is like a depth piece. We got, you know, we have some flexibility at center, you know, if we get the pinch for Coleman to bump in and play center and Chris Paul can start a left guard. Like we have a lot of flexibility to now like, oh dang, we're in a little bit of a pinch because these players that we've kind of identified or at least identified early in the off season in like these swing rolls no longer exist because they have to play a lot. So I think that's like why this feels the way it does

8:17and is it impactful? 100% I'm not going to say it's not. But I do think again, I think Coleman's in a better spot than people think. And you know, Chris Paul started the whole year last year and I believe in Ali Brady, at least in the two games that he played at center for this team last year. So yeah, it's not great, but I do think you can overcome that for sure. And you also already mentioned it and that is, you know, you can scheme around your weaknesses and protecting your weaknesses. If indeed that becomes an area of weakness which I don't know that we know for sure until they start playing real games. But explain to people how a good coordinator and hopefully David Blow turns out to be a good coordinator can really mask flaws up front if they end up having them. Yeah, so I looked at, you know, like Chicago, I think it's a good example that they played Philadelphia and they rushed for like 200 years. Oh, yeah, the day after Thanksgiving, yeah, the Black Friday game, right? Yeah, they killed it. And so like basically what they did in Kyle Shannon

9:18used to do this is they're like, well, what is the, what do we want to dictate to them? The big fan geo for all of his genius still will give you some personnel responses. So what I mean, but that is if you're in 12 personnel, they'll match you in the kind of their traditional three, four personnel. And if you want to go nickel, so 11 personnel, they'll go four down. And so they kind of said, you know, Ben Johnson kind of said, we're going to run the ball and nickel because we like the matchups a little bit better. We like the fronts we get. And the thing that I love is they kind of like to your point is they called runs that allowed guys to stay on double teams a little bit longer. They didn't put them in bad matchups. There were a lot of good angles. Now you got to win those matchups when your numbers called. But I thought on the whole like, you know, they ran the ball like 45 times, something like that. They gave them kind of easier responsibility. And they leaned into players' strengths at a high level. And again, like when you run the ball that way, again, big fan geo wants to play a light box. They want to stop it with all those, you know, mad dogs up front they got there. And they said, we're okay with that.

10:18We'll exploit that. And I think that's kind of a good example. At least one that I've studied recently, where it's like, hey man, we're going to use formation to create good angles in the run game. We're going to use personnel to make sure we get matchups we want. And we're going to manipulate how they align to certain formations to help us get our angles. That's just in the run game. Past pro, we can work slides, we can leave people in, we can work chip help. And so I do think there's a lot of things on the table here to help them out. And I'm kind of curious to see what David Blah brings in that area because like one of the things like, I think is underrated from a play calling standpoint. It's how you orchestrate and call a run game. And so like, can you do that? And I think he's getting a really bright dude, man. Like when he's talking to me, he's just so impressive. But that's kind of what I'm keeping an eye on. It's like, how do you inflate and elevate that group, especially in week one, first to fill it up these angles? Yeah, I mean, and you went back to the Chicago game, obviously, because that's a Ben Johnson called game. And there's probably some belief that Blah will be similar.

11:23Like, you know, I know we've talked about this before and the times that we talked before training camp. But ultimately, describe what you think Blah will be in terms of his influences. Will it be mostly Ben Johnson? Will it be more, you know, McVey O'Connell? Will it be some cliff? What do you think it's going to look like? Yeah, so I think from a run game perspective, you're probably going to get a little bit of Ben Johnson because I think like that's coming from Detroit. Like, I kind of think like, what are the, if I was him, what would I take from each spot? So I would take the play action, the run game, probably from Detroit. The next thing I would take is if I'm going from Kevin O'Connell, it's his ability to get the number one guy open, the number one lead open, and how he uses formation, how he uses motion, and how they just put an emphasis on, like, this is our best receiver. How do we put him in the position where he's getting the look and he's getting the touch? And I counted that a little bit. He was growing into that role more like,

12:23he's timing Atlanta and kind of hit that stride when I was with him in 10th and just go my second to 10 with him in the 17th. But like, Kevin O'Connell and Sean McVeigh have taken it to like the 12th level, right? Bukin'aku would get, you know, 15 targets again, Justin Jefferson, obviously before Jay-June McCarthy was there, we've gotten like 10 to 12 targets again. And it's, and they're smart targets. It's not just like spamming kind of gross targets. So that's what I would say. The next thing I'd say in terms of cliff is like, I think tempo is a real thing. You know, tempo is a valuable tool. And I'm not saying you use it all the time, but are there moments where you can regulate a defense like with tempo? Like, when I, again, when I was with Kyle Shanahan in 2011, 2012, obviously, I was with him in 2010, but this is where we started doing this. We had like a thing called like a patchy package, like the helicopter where it's like a pseudo-hurry up, but you can get to a lot of your base offense. And what it was great for was just regulating defense. So I think if I was going to pick something from each of the stops that he's had, those would be those things. And again, like the Kevin O'Connell one is maybe the most impactful for a guy like Terry or stuff

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16:31He's never been used that way. Now to be fair, he didn't have good quarterbacks until Jaden. But could you see that Terry becoming a, I'm not saying the type of receiver, but a target number that's equivalent to a Jefferson or a monerah? Yeah, I do. I could. Obviously before they sent stuff on digs, I thought that was the direction the offense was going. He'd go out to practice and you'd kind of see, not that they're throwing the ball only to Terry, but there was just a different priority. We're going to try to use him on some quick game. We're going to use him on emotion. We're going to shift and then we're going to motion. We're going to get him in a stack. He's going to run this route. And I thought, oh man, they are really going to lean into this. Terry said it in multiple press conferences. Like, yeah, I'm going to be getting 10 targets again. And I think that was reflective of what was happening in practice. Obviously with the addition of stuff on digs, I've said this before other places, like I do think that changes the paradigm

17:34with how you approach Terry McClaurring in this offense. I think the guy that fits that a little bit better is Stefan Diggs because of the route running nuance to 77th, the ability and the consistency that he's shown playing in the slot, at least in recent years. And again, I think that bumps Terry back into that kind of X receiver role. Like some people use the term sacrificial action. Obviously, Terry's not a sacrificial expert. He's kind of that we're going to isolate you one on one. You're going to run a lot of vertical routes. You're going to kind of have to win one on ones and any kind of down and dirty type way, which Terry's shown he's able to do. But I do think that ultimately affects the number of touches he's going to get. I think that those touches that seem so, you know, 10 to 12 touches are now being cannibalized by digs to a certain extent. Got it. Let's just stick with the offense since this is where we started. And you also sort of began the conversation, I think, of sort of what the game plan Sunday might look like. But offensively after Jayden, who are you really excited about? So I'm excited. This is going to sound

18:36like, you know, when you said who's your favorite kid, you said, I love all my kids equally, right? Like Jayden Daniels is obviously the guy, but like I'm really excited for everything about this offense. I know that sounds insane, but I want to like I think the newness of what David Blow is bringing like we haven't had an offense like this here since I've been covering the team for sure, probably in Sean McBale after right where we're going to see a marriage of formations. We're going to see, you know, like some condensed stuff. We're going to see bunches. We're going to see a lot of motions, but a lot of shifts like motions is one thing shifts with another like going back and watching some Ben John's with them like they shift all the time. And so just that dynamic element before the snap, the control the quarterback has one, the script, I want to see all of that. And then I'm curious to see how it affects the playmates, right? Like obviously we've talked about Terry, we talked about DeFon. I think to take a concollege is a really interesting piece here, because in terms of how they were using room practice, like he kind of went from like this third down option runner and then digs comes in and then he becomes almost a vertical element

19:38to the offense. So like what is his role kind of settle in as? And I think we're going to get a data point here against Philadelphia about what he can do. Like he's going to drop pretty good matchup. It's going to be, you know, Cooper Gine or one of the safes, one of the young safes McCuba potentially that hasn't played a lot of ball. Like can you win that match up consistently? And if you can, like you're in for a big year, man, because now people can't focus on you. Like they could exact herch last year or focus on Terry. There's three guys, Antonio Williams, four maybe, right? Who can throw some different stuff at this defense? So I think again, like I said, a lot of stuff because I'm excited about it. I want to see what this thing looks like and see if these pieces that have been brought in. So when the matchups that they purportedly, you know, I've been rewarded to do. So like that's kind of where I'm at with them. How do you think the running back sort of snap percentage will break down or snap count will break down? Yeah, that's a really good question. And one that like I don't like a night of producer on one of my shows asked me that. I was like, it's kind of unknowable. But if I was a betting man, I would say like Bill's going to get the crack at the first and second down stuff. And the only reason I say that is because in practice,

20:42he's looked like a dude, you know what I mean? He's looked really good. Like he has that kind of extra element to him that like lets him make those like short area cuts and make people miss the hole. And he's got a little bit of breakaway speed to him. And that's not to say that White hasn't done a good job in practice. I just think he brings a little bit more to the offense. So I think white was going to be is going to be potentially in the show where he's, you know, kind of a third down pass get your spelling, Bill on versus second down in certain situations. And then I also think K-Tron Allen like, I don't know if he's up on Gain Day, but if he is, I like what he brings as a consistent down to down runner with his vision and contact balance. So I think it's Bill White and then obviously K-Tron will see kind of what he ends up getting, you know, four or five touches of the game. But I think that's kind of what I feel about that background. One last question about the offense. Ben Johnson has incorporated into his playbook and play calling. A lot of unique plays, trick plays, over the last few years going back to it, obviously his time

21:43in Detroit as the offensive coordinator. Will we see a lot of sort of offensive shenanigans and and a trick play or two? Will he be that creative? Will he be given Blau? I'm talking about given that much leeway to be as creative as he wants to be and is he sort of predisposed to being that way like Ben Johnson is. Yeah, you know, I don't know how much leeway he's going to get. That's a Dan Quinn kind of question, but in terms of like creativity, we saw splashes and flashes of that during OTA's and mini camp. And I think, you know, one of the things, obviously I design plays and call plays at the high school level, I always have admired that about Ben Johnson. Your ability to kind of do something that's a little bit fringe, that's a little bit, you know, speculative in terms of success, but you're really like a prospector, man, like you're trying to strike goals with this one opportunity. And I think it's a really awesome approach. And it's really cool how they're able to coach the details of those plays and not get a lot of reps at them. So like to me, like when you

22:45look at offense and success, it's like who can get more explosive plays, and such is what it boils down to. And so if on one of these trick plays, like you can get an explosive play off a leaflet or a reverse or a screen or a double path, like that's huge. That's one less play after worry about in terms of finding and manufacturing explosive plays. So I would expect that David Blassey's the value of that. And I think we'll see that again, I don't know how much. I don't think it'll be turned up the same way Ben Johnson is, but I think it'll be a feature of his offense for sure. I lied one more about the offense because I've just sensed this in your voice. And I'm remembering now our last conversation before camp started. When you said you're excited about the offense, you actually legitimately believe this could be a high level offensive football team, don't you? I do. So I just think the craft of the offense is going to be much better than what we've seen. And I think when I'm talking about the craft, like just the tools, like there's, let's say there's

23:4625 tools a coordinator can use to help receivers and offensive linemen. I think we've just seen, we've seen fractions with that. We've seen five to 10 depending on the coordinator's Ben Johnson. So I'm excited to see Terry move around the formation. I'm excited to see Chick move around the formation. I'm excited to see different run schemes that are will be helped by formation and pre-stat movement. So that's kind of, again, I don't know if it's going to be the, it's not going to be the number one offensive league. But I do think with James Daniels at the helm and again, just more flexibility. I think it could be pretty good now. Like every offense, like there's always bumps and bruises along the way. You talked about how it takes multiple games to kind of see a total vision because you kind of like, oh, I thought we were going to this, but we're actually better at this. Like it just takes some time. But I'm, I'm consciously optimistic because I believe in the system. Like this is what I grew up playing. I've this is what I played in college for 10 years in the league. I played in the version. This is what I believe in 100% and so like that's probably why I feel so optimistic about this.

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29:04league does in my opinion. Like everyone wants to talk about Vic Fangio and this quarter's match that he's playing and how Mike McDonald up in Seattle is doing something similar and how it's sweeping the NFL. Those defense are great and they're fun to watch. But I have not seen a defense like Brian Torres's. It dictates terms to the offense this way, right? Probably since Greg Williams to be quite honest. What about spell lights? Spags. So even spags, like no one brings the amount of zero and first and second down pressure that Torres does. Like when you look at those graphs, like his pressure rate is off the charts and you feel it when you watch the game. And like when I talk to people up there, it's like, yeah, we have to change our whole install structure to accommodate this. It's almost like the triple option of defense, right? So like, you know, it's like a college football. They used to play Georgia Tech or play Navy like Ohio State and it would be like a knockout, dragout fight because they just haven't seen it. There is a uniqueness to this thing that if

30:07Durante Jones can get a coach and get an install is going to give us five points a game, which is so unique to have that in the bag. Now you've got to get a coach, you've got to get executed, you've got to understand when and how to call certain things. But I think that's the thing like you know, we talked about the scheme with David Wow. I'm probably more excited for the Durante Jones thing to be quite honest with you. And he hasn't shown a lot. There's been almost no pressure in the preseason games. The practices he's shown more. But again, it's not the same level as Ryan Forrest, for example. I just the way that that scheme can maximize personnel is something that I think is crazy. Now you got to be on the details, you've got to be on the timing, like there is a lot that has to go into that. But if they can hit that ball, like you get that thing in play, like it's going to be a lot of fun to watch. Who's the most versatile defensive player on this team? That's a great question actually. I'm going to say it across actually, like the more I watch them in India, I'm doing a breakdown for them. So I watch like three or four games

31:07earlier this week. And like is ability to play coverage, play in the box, be an on ball player. Like it reminds me a little bit like Harrison Smith in his role in utilization there. Like and I think like you could be a nickel and he could be like an outside linebacker. You could also be in kind of a nickel structure and he could be in box player. You can also play the post in this quarters kind of stuff that they do. You'll play the post to be a run for a player. So I think it's probably him. I think it's probably him. There's other guys that come to mind that are in contention for sure. But he's the one that I think is going to take the kick this year. I don't know what you said that made me think of this, but I was just reminded of something that you actually said to me the last time you were on before training camp began in July. You were excited about Sanrestil in this defense. You thought that there was going to be a real opportunity for him to have a big bounce back season in this particular Dorante Jones defense after the last month

32:09and a half. Do you still feel that way? Yeah. And I think like obviously there's a learning curve for every player. So Frank, excuse me, Mike, he had his up and down. But I think when it's all said done and they settle in the what he's good at, like he's going to get his hands on a lot of footballs because that's the whole nature of this thing. Like it fits what he does at the highest of level. Like he's an instinctive person with ball skills. And when you go back and watch like the Dorante Jones stuff, like they play their palms, they play their zero, they play everything kind of with what I on the receiver, but they're looking for the ball. And I think when you think about Mike, he's anrestil. Like that's what he's good at. Right? That's what I mean, Roberts is good at. Like too, right? Like they're good at those things. So that's why even though on paper, like people like, oh, we need more defensive acts. We need more whatever. Like we need more established personalities there. I look at that and say to myself, like I think they kind of fit what Dorante Jones and what again, extrapolating from what we saw in Minnesota, they fit this system

33:11very, very well. Will sunny styles hit the ground running, performing at the level of his draft position, or will it take him some time? I actually, you know, that's a great question. And what I say about him is that like I think people got like way out over their skis or that's not the right way to put it. I think they kind of had like a panic attack based on preseason. And all I can say is like what they did in the preseason was so drastically different than what we saw in practice. I think sunny styles will look way, way better than he is in preseason. I think they would say, oh, he's arrived. He'd always seen, but that's kind of how he's been practicing throughout training campus entire time. So I think it will take him some time. He's a young player. Like NFL offenses are hard and they're complicated. NFL offensive linemen are very good. High end. But I think he is role and his utilization in this defense will be better. And I think people say, oh my gosh, like I didn't realize he could do that because he didn't have an opportunity to

34:12really show it in preseason. All right. Two more. Have you made a record prediction for the season yet? And if so, what is it? I have not made a record prediction for the season. So I'd have to tell you what it is. If I haven't made one. Well, if you want to save it for your own shows, that's fine. I totally understand. No, no, no. They're all good. I just, I think I'm cautiously optimistic that this season, because of the scheme, because of some of the free agent additions is going to be better than a lot of people think. So I'm kind of floating around that 10 win mark. You know, maybe they get into a playoff game here, but they have some tough games. They have some tough divisional matchups. Obviously, Philadelphia, I think Dallas is going to be really good this year. And then they have some tough road games too. So I'm going to say 10 because I think they kind of find a little bit of lightning in the bottle. I think Jayden Daniels, I think we didn't talk about that. But like he's probably got the most impressive camp that nobody's talking about. And if he can play as well as he's been practicing, I think this office is going to be in an excellent position. So I'm going to say 10.

35:14That 10 is my win number there. Very good. All right. Last one. How do they beat Philadelphia Sunday? Yeah, they're going to need to play complimentary football first and foremost. And I know people say that all the time, but like it's becoming more and more important than you play this way. It used to be like I think even like five years ago, it was like an offensive driven league. It was like, oh my gosh, like, let's score a lot of points and no one can keep up with us. But now like with the development of these defensive systems, like you're not going to score 30 points into Xanjius team week one, right? And so like, how do we make sure that it's on a both race? Like Dorante Jones, like you need to make sure that we're throwing a monkey wrench into the cogs and the gears of the Philadelphia offense. And so like if we can keep it a nice kind of one position game, we can don't be afraid to pun offensively. And then when the moment strikes, we make some plays on third down, make some plays in the red zone. I think that's the kind of game you want to be in. And I that's the kind of game that they needed to be in a lot last year, but they couldn't do. And I think this year, I feel much more confident about that based on what

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