Previewing The Commanders Christmas Eve Matchup With San Francisco

Commanders are up against the San Francisco 49ers It’s time to preview the final Logan Paulsen bowl of the season.

Craig and Logan start out the pod by talking about Kyle Shanahan and attempting to explain what makes him such a good offensive coordinator. Logan gives some insight from his years of playing in Kyle’s offenses both in DC and in San Francisco. The overall impression is that Kyle gets how offenses and defenses operate and lives for football.

Next, the guys do their scouting for San Francisco. While the 49ers had a decent start to the season offensively, Once Christian McCaffrey joined the squad this has become next level. Logan goes in depth as to what McCaffery brings as a matchup. Craig says that if the 49ers are still trying to win, Christian will get at least 25 touches. Logan also says that we need to be wary of the San Fran defense as it is “dynamic as heck” and Craig points out that we need to play our style of football from the start.

The guys react to the breaking news that Chase Young will play this week. Logan says that it's good he’s back but he doesn’t think it will be dramatic and Craig believes that he realized he had to play after Kayvon Thibodeaux tore us up last week. The guys close out by talking about the seasons of all our players nominated to the 2022-2023 Pro Bowl team: Jonathan Allen, Tress Way, Jeremy Reaves, Terry McLaurin