Tobi and BMitch believe the Commanders will need to earn victories by a larger margin in 2025 if they hope to compete with the best teams in the NFC.
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00:00What's the next step for Jaden Daniels?
00:03And I think you bring up a good point about the offensive line be Mitch, because one of
00:06the things that I liked about drafting Jaden and look, you know, you guys have brought
00:11it up plenty of times.
00:12JP always loves to bring it up.
00:14I was a Drake May guy.
00:15I was wrong.
00:16I'm glad that they went with Jaden Daniels.
00:18One of the reasons that I like that you went with Jaden and you're able to work at the
00:22offense now is it seems like you can win in however you need to attack a defense.
00:28You need to run the quarterback and the read option or run some option plays.
00:32You can do that.
00:33If you need to sit back there and run RPOs all game, you can do that.
00:36If you need to run a drop back pass game, he can do that.
00:39And so I think if you can give him an offensive line where if Cliff gets into a game where
00:44he says, we're just going to have to drop back 35 times and we're going to have Jaden
00:48make the decisions, you need to have an offensive line that allows him to stay in the pocket
00:53and do that.
00:54I totally agree with you.
00:55It all starts with the O-line because we looked last year and let's be real, there were games
01:00when they were good.
01:01There were games when they didn't look as effective as they should be.
01:07When they got injured a little bit, we began to see about our depth and things of that
01:12nature.
01:13And let's be real, you can win a Super Bowl, your team still changes.
01:17So you have to improve to try to get, and you're competing.
01:21You're competing against the Super Bowl champs who are in our division, not like we're going
01:27to see them play in the Super Bowl, we got to play them twice.
01:31If we're going to get to the Super Bowl, we probably got to beat them.
01:33So I think the ultimate thing is having that O-line that can, I watch football in these
01:40days where it's fourth and inches and I see somebody in shotgun, it runs me crazy.
01:50If you can't block to get an inch or five inches or a yard, that's a problem.
01:57You got to, if they get an O-line that is effective, pass-protecting because they can
02:02extend more time, but they better be able to block one yard.
02:07You know, I love that we went for a lot of our fourth downs last year.
02:10It showed a lot and it made the offensive lineman understand your coach have a belief
02:15in you, has a belief in you to where you're going to be okay.
02:19But when it's fourth and inches, we should be able to line up and get against any defense,
02:23no matter who the hell they are.
02:25And that's going to take some bigger, more athletic guys, point blank.
02:28Well, and if you want him to take that next step, I mean, this year he played at a top
02:32five level, right?
02:33He played as a top five quarterback this season.
02:36And so I don't even know that I'm worried about next step.
02:38Replicate what you did at the end of this season.
02:41That's good enough.
02:42Like the way that he played at the end of this season was MVP caliber.
02:45I need him to improve year after year, right?
02:47You know what?
02:48What I don't want to see Toby for every fan out there, I don't want every game to come
02:53down to the last play.
02:54That's so true.
02:55That's so true.
02:56We're going to have the cardiovascular units all around here.
03:01How about that poise that they showed at the end of the season?
03:05This is a, it's not a question.
03:07This is something I'm hoping for the poise that they showed defensively because let's
03:12be real.
03:14In multiple games, our defense had to go get the ball back for us.
03:18And then the office had a chance to go do their job.
03:20So the poise that they showed, the resolve that they showed late in games, let's show
03:24that a little bit more first half in the game to where you don't have to worry about it
03:29until then.
03:30But we know they're capable.
03:33Blow some people out there once in a while.
03:35Yeah, please.
03:36And they did that a few times last year, but you went down a stretch six in a row.
03:40Yeah.
03:41Against the team that is above 500 or a potential playoff team, blow the doors off of them.
03:46You know, I think maybe Arizona was kind of in that mix before, you know, around that
03:50timeframe and at the end of the year, they're kind of right there around that 500 mark.
03:54Maybe you want to throw them, but yeah, like down the stretch, every game was one on the
03:57last play.
03:58You don't want that.
04:00And it's remarkable.
04:02It builds for a great story.