What are the chances Commanders can go worst-to-first?
JP and BMitch break down the likelihood and what has to happen for the Commanders to go from worst-to-first in the NFC East.
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00:00We normally are talking about trying to improve a position or one side of the ball.
00:07I think they incrementally are improving both sides of the ball.
00:12I, for one, think that they got to get a legitimate kicker.
00:16I know a lot of people don't give a damn about kicking and special teams,
00:19but you don't have a good kicker, you have a problem.
00:23I think that they can jump up, and the coaching, I think,
00:27that they're going to get more out of some players than they did previously,
00:31which means that instead of us saying, well, we don't have,
00:35we'll start to say, oh, we're getting better coaching.
00:38They're playing a lot better if we had one or two more pieces here and there.
00:42Yeah, I don't think the kicker's on the roster.
00:47I don't think the kicker from week one is on the roster.
00:52You said about 35%, 40%.
00:54I think one in three sounds fair because we've seen, dude,
01:00almost every NFL team is an injury away.
01:04Injuries happen, so something could happen.
01:08They are more talented teams.
01:10I don't want to be unclear about that whatsoever.
01:13The Eagles and the Cowboys have more talent, period.
01:17But they also got stuff floating around.
01:19There's no stuff in Washington.
01:21They're pulling the same rope, to borrow the P.J. Fleck phrase.
01:24They're moving forward.
01:25Now, what is the path to going worse to first?
01:29Jayden Hitts.
01:31Jayden Hitts?
01:32Jayden Hitts is the top of the list.
01:34Significant defensive improvement.
01:36You stop having these breakdowns over and over and over in the secondary.
01:41You get better play out of Emmanuel Forbes.
01:43Jamin Davis emerges as a pass rusher.
01:46Dorrance Armstrong proves that his snap-to-sack ratio is legitimate.
01:52And with more snaps, can have more sacks.
01:56There's a path for it to work.
01:58I think there's a reason they're a long shot.
02:01But if you're telling me it's plus $1,000, Jeff,
02:04$10 wins you $100?
02:06$100 wins you a G?
02:08Lots of light there.
02:10It's tempting.
02:12It's tempting.
02:15I don't know.
02:16It's kind of tempting anyway.
02:18Hey, man, sometimes you got to just take a flyer.