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We begin with an NFC East battle in Metife Stadium. Cam Scataboo back with the Iron Man helmet and he's healthy and out there on the field and his impact being felt here. Early third, a second and three toss. Scatter his second touchdown of the game. And Malachi Fields hits the back flip. Cam Scatteraboo hits the back flip. Darnell Mooney hits the back flip. The Gman have the lead, but not for long. Ensuing Washington drive. Third and one. Jaden Daniels, the rookie from Clemson, Antonio Williams continues to make an impact. Touchdown there puts the Commanders in front. Back-to-back scores. 1714. There was a huge weather system that ripped through earlier. The temperatures dropped, but it was played largely in
good weather. Here, a fourth and two toss from Daniels to Stefon Digs. Broken up. Commanders turn it over now. Third and seven under pressure. JJ McCarthy, Isaiah Likely. A couple of Commanders collide with one another and Likely goes for a 66-yd touchdown. The longest reception of his career. The Giants back in front. 217. About five to go in the fourth. Daniels looking for Chick Awell down the sideline. Javon Holland picks it off. He turns his head at the perfect moment. and Holland with the pick. Daniels frustration on the sideline. The Giants trying to run the old four-minute drill.
Instead of giving it to Scataboo on third and one, they went Jaden uh they went uh Jameus Winston. And here he is on fourth and one hard count. The Baja men not compelling. Sunny Styles is like, "Come on, man. Nobody's jumping and falling for that nonsense." They punt. So Washington with the ball back now on fourth and one. Daniels looking for a compl. And it's picked. It's picked. A clutch pick there. Our Darius Washington with a gigantic play. Third and three. JJ McCarthy. You're not going to outrun Sunny Styles, who I'm sure doesn't miss the fact that's a Michigan man and he's from the
Ohio State University. That's neither here nor there. This is Washington and New York. So now Daniels and the Commander offense has a chance. They've still got timeouts and they look deep and it's a PI call as Daniels looks for Trayon Burks. Deontay Banks called for a significant penalty. So now it's third and four and he hits Stefon Diggs and Diggs is on the loose and no flag for enjoying the score. He takes the nest plunge. The old schoolers know what I'm talking about. Washington now leads third and 10. Styles on the rush. Does he get home enough to deflect this as he's looking deep for Malik Neighbors? Rasul Douglas. Welcome to town. He's new in town in a commander uniform and that man can enjoy this
victory. Commanders by three. Baby Kobe, you know what I'm saying? He ain't flinch. He's going to be the same kind of player he is in the beginning of the game and at the end of the game. So for me it's like things going to happen, you know, good and bad. He isn't going to change. So I mean I got 100% faith. Don't make the moment more than what it is. We know what it is. Uh we know what's at risk. And um I mean you make it more than what it is, you kind of forget like the details of it, the fundamentals of it. just getting open and catching the ball. It's the same thing you, my job isn't going to change.
I promise. I mean, I'm never going to ask, they're never going to ask me to throw the ball in those situations or to, you know, have a big block. Uh, I feel like, uh, I get open and catch the ball. And if you just stay true to it and stay fast, you'll be fine. It's a pleasure to welcome back to the program, Jaden Daniels. A late touchdown and Washington gets a victory. Jaden, if I say this is a had to have it game, I don't think I'm overstating it given where the schedule is and given what the East looks like. H the way you got it and you just walked out of that locker room. How does it change the feeling inside that Washington locker room after the victory?
Um I think it's just the same feeling that we always had. We always knew that we could go out there and compete. Uh we just had when those moments came, we had to go out there, capitalize, and finish the game off. But I think I'll ask you, how do you feel about it? I feel I got my left hand up and uh when we come for Monday night countdown against the Bengals next week, it'll be a totally different vibe in that stadium. I'll get to that in a minute. How you won this tonight felt like it I don't know. It felt important, right? There's a turnover late, you throw a pick, but then the defense gets the ball back and no one blinks. A drive that ends in a Stefon Digs touchdown. and I see him telling the crowd, "I'm like that."
What's it like to have a guy on your team that's like that? Uh, it's great. It's a great feeling. He's been doing this for a very long time. Uh, yes, I am Agent Steph, but man, it's been great to have him part of the team. I know he's from the area, man. He wanted to put on for his hometown team. So, I'm super happy that he's able to do that. Yeah, he's been hometown forever. Good council, Maryland, and now here back in the DMV and a gigantic victory. And Jaden, man, this season for you personally, I feel like it's been a 10 years worth of stuff of ups and downs, the injury, the way the first Giant game ends, but this game tonight, I again, it feels like it changes the whole vibe around things. What's been the key to
keep everything together and keep the group together? Uh, just trusting the process, just a consistency day in and day out, showing up, um, giving it y'all each and every day, man. And uh you can't really focus on the outcome. You just got to stick to the process. All right. So I mentioned Cincinnati Monday. You get that mini buy and then they come in for a big one. That's a really good team. And then in theory the schedule starts to ease a little bit. You played a ridiculously challenging schedule. What's this what's the sense of what can be especially after this win tonight? How are you all focusing this next game and then the rest of the season ahead?
Man, Scott, you just got to take it one game at a time. Uh just trust the process. Like I say, you can't really focus on the outcomes. Those will come and the results. Uh but when we stick stay true to our process and stay true to the routine and be consistent each and every day, I think we'll like where we're at when the season's done. All right, last quick thought. Uh again, I can hear some screams and uh you just came out of that locker room. What's it like in a locker room after a victory like this against a division rival with you leading a comeback late
and snatching one away? What's that room like, Jaden? Ah, man, it's awesome. Um, we're going to enjoy this win. Uh, but we know we still got more to improve on. We got more to go and work for. Um, but we're going to enjoy this one tonight. You should stay healthy. I look forward to seeing you and uh everybody out there in Landover. Come next Monday night. Tell everybody I said hello. All right. I appreciate your time. All right, Scott. I'll see you soon. You get to see Kevin Clark right now. This is football. And it's remarkable to think about how everyone in this area felt about everything the way the last game against the Giants ended.
It wasn't great. This you get the ball back after a turnover. You go down, score a touchdown, get a pick, and does it change the season? Well, now at least they have a chance to change the season. H what do you make of how they won tonight? Well, it changes the season because a loss would have ended the season effectively. And I'm confused, Scott, because I read on Twitter you can make broad sweeping conclusions about a new offense and a new play caller after two months. I thought that was final. I thought you couldn't change. No, but tonight, for some reason, I saw a guy who was perfect under center, three for three, perfect on play action, six for
six, explosives all over the place. He was finding guy Antonio Williams, the rookie, obviously had a out of Clemson, had a touchdown there. There was real growth from Jaden Daniels in this offense and it's everything. I talked to Dan Quinn in March and he said, "Hey, once this new offense gets going, we're able to use the play action, build explosives off of it." And guess what? We're starting to see that. You're starting to see real deal comfort against the Blitz. All three of his touchdowns today were against cover zero. He knew where to go with the ball.
There's real deal comfort here and real growth. And it's not just about sometimes wins are about math and you say, "Okay, they're still in this race." This is also about an offense that's looking more and more comfortable every single week. And on defense, Nick Cross had a great game. Sunny Styles obviously, who I thought was going to end up being the best player in the draft, is having an absolute leap the last couple of weeks. Arll Reese, the other side up, by the way, also had 13 tackles. Same as Styles. But to me, this is a commander team that's getting better all the time.
Yeah. Yeah, and they have not lost to the uh Giants in six consecutive games. That does include a tie. I always say the NFC East historically has been the best division in the NFL because everyone's won multiple Super Bowls and everyone hates everyone equally. At least I presume it to be that way. You mentioned Sunny Styles. How do you frame the impact that this young man from Ohio State has on games particularly like that last burst of speed? He ran like a 46 at the combine. I mean, the guy can move. You saw it. And he was he's a converted safety. You know, I talked to Ryan Day about him. He didn't want to move to linebacker and then obviously it became one of the best moves of the last few
years when you look at the athleticism that we see on the screen there. He got the pressure late that entire front seven. So after the likely touchdown which was obviously a huge bust for them and they didn't get the blitz home. JJ McCarthy went 0 for three against the blitz the rest of the way. That's significant. That shows you the athleticism that front seven has. Sunny Styles to me you know that Dan Quinn can use athletic linebackers. you've seen it before and you understand what kind of a racer a guy like that can be and that's why I would have drafted him as you know as high as possible
because I just think modern defense is the way they go. He can do anything and you saw that in the fourth quarter. He can take over a game. I know the Giants and Washington were both thrilled to see a couple of teams ahead of him like Arizona and Tennessee go offense because that allowed them to get impactful players like Ree who you mentioned who's been brilliant and uh Sunny who was great as well. So, New York on the other side of this one. A really disappointing game to have stolen in the end. Here's some thoughts from their perspective.
It's a missed opportunity, but like I told the guys, it would have been great to win the game, but it doesn't change our goals or our opportunity going forward. So, it's a tough loss. It's a National Football League. You're going to lose some games. And uh and everybody in this league is good. The commanders are good. Everybody's good. So, and we got a really good team coming in here next Sunday. So, a team that we can beat. So, uh, we just got to get back to work. Obviously, absolutely sucks. You know, no matter what, we got to find a way to get the win. You know, credit them for making more plays than we did. And at the end of the day, this is National Football League. It's going to be tight
games all the way down to the wire. And, uh, we just got to learn from this and find a way to get better and keep progressing through this loss and, uh, make sure it doesn't happen again in those critical situations. and uh yeah, thought the boys battled, but uh just didn't get what we wanted and uh we got to make more plays next time. Curious about play calls. I don't know if people really wanted the Giants to go for it on fourth and one from their own 14 or whatever it was, but maybe you could have given it to Scataboo uh prior to and maybe you could have gone for some earlier fourth downs. What' you make of the somewhat conservative play call?
Well, I didn't like the JJ McCarthy run to the left that Sunny Styles snuffed out immediately. I mean that's part of the problem there. And then I probably would have gone forward on fourth down there. Cam Scatabo doesn't go backwards. I would do a lot of short yardage here. There's a very funny clip that's out there of him going backwards in Madden and he's screaming at the screen. That's unrealistic. That's never happened. It really doesn't happen in real life. So I I don't like to overthink things when it's short yardage. I would have given it more to Cam Scatter and let him do the work.
