Patriots vs. Commanders: Game Analysis & Predictions
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00:00 a field goal favorite at home against the commanders?
00:05 Donnie, should New England be a favorite
00:06 in any NFL football game this season?
00:09 - Not necessarily, but I guess you sort of balance
00:12 the scales when it's Ron Rivera coaching you,
00:15 who each and every week gives us some odd anecdotes.
00:17 Like, yeah, I believe we have our franchise quarterback
00:20 right here still in town,
00:21 the same guy I told you last year.
00:23 Boy, if I would've known my own football player
00:24 was a decent football player,
00:26 I might've put him in sooner.
00:27 That's what we're dealing with here,
00:28 the competency at the coaching position here
00:31 for the commanders doesn't seem to be there.
00:32 But if we're lining this game up and taking a look,
00:35 Washington is three and five on the season,
00:36 New England is two and six.
00:38 The reason I say this is,
00:39 you saw the white flag go up in Washington,
00:41 and bad franchises do this,
00:43 and we joked about it last week.
00:44 You know what?
00:45 If we beat the Eagles, we'll go all in.
00:47 But if we lose this one football game, we'll sell.
00:49 Well, they turned out to be sellers here,
00:50 but that doesn't mean Eric Biennini's offense
00:52 is selling at this point.
00:53 You made your defense weaker,
00:55 which is going to help the New England Patriots.
00:57 Eric Biennini is coaching for his life right now.
01:00 And I don't mean he's not going to be out of football
01:01 next year, regardless of what happens.
01:03 He will be a coordinator.
01:04 But if that offense cooks the remaining part of the season,
01:09 maybe Josh Harris and that ownership group goes,
01:11 "Okay, we're going to bring a new GM in,
01:12 but I think we have our head coach already."
01:15 Ron Rivera, regardless, is not coming back here.
01:17 So then you take a look at the New England Patriots here,
01:19 who, what, Josh McDana's going to come back
01:21 and set things right.
01:22 If you are Mac Jones and that offense, and Bill O'Brien,
01:25 your season is up in smoke already.
01:27 Try some new things here.
01:29 Do we really think the game plan's going to be like,
01:31 "Let's give Zeke 11 carries.
01:33 Let's give Romandre 11 carries.
01:34 Maybe a backup guy.
01:35 We'll throw five yard outs here
01:37 and see if we can wait out the commanders."
01:39 You're not going anywhere this season.
01:40 I actually look for this game
01:42 to be much, much more wide open
01:44 than maybe it would have been about two or three weeks ago.
01:46 These two teams are dead in the water.
01:48 It's time to throw the kitchen sink out there
01:50 for both of these quarterbacks to see what we have.
01:53 How about this, in a game where I can't stand
01:55 the Patriots offense,
01:56 they could probably move the football in Washington
01:58 because why?
01:59 Two pass rush, top pass rushers have been traded.
02:01 And that defense stunk anyway, Ben.
02:03 Maybe we get some points in New England.