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Doc Walker believes the Washington Commanders won't turn things around until they show more effort on both sides of the football.
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00:00Hello, Doc. How are you doing this morning?
00:03Well, guys, you know, we're kind of used to it, unfortunately, being in this situation.
00:10Although, I do see light at the end of the tunnel, because who would have predicted that New York and
00:16Philadelphia and New York would be just as bad?
00:19Yeah.
00:19So, even in this ridiculous result-based business that we're watching, we still got shots.
00:28And so, if they could some kind of, some way right the ship or get their head out of the
00:34rear end, this could be flipped around.
00:39Doc, I was talking earlier about, you know, competing and matching intensity and things of that nature.
00:47You talk about, like you said, it's still wide open.
00:51They have a shot.
00:52Yeah, that's all that matters.
00:53How do you get there?
00:57Well, it's up to the dudes.
00:59I mean, the coaches have a fraternity.
01:02We've seen they recycle garbage all the time.
01:06But these players, you mess around and lose an opportunity, you may not get it again.
01:12They need to act like their livelihood is on the line and quit waiting on somebody to motivate them.
01:18Your check is supposed to do all the motivating you need.
01:22And if you can't get protection, see, we're talking about basics now.
01:27Protections and running the ball.
01:30If they're not going to do that, which they don't seem to want to commit to, how on earth are
01:35you ever going to get out this bubble?
01:40Doc, how many defensive ends have you chipped on?
01:43Oh, boy.
01:44How can one guy on the edge be creating all these problems?
01:50He should have sore shoulders today.
01:53Yeah.
01:58Doc, I asked this question and I don't know the answer on this.
02:02And you and I talked about it late last night.
02:06Is this team the team that showed up in the first half or the second half?
02:13Or are they just some combination of all of it?
02:18Well, they showed you what they're capable of.
02:20They're schizophrenic.
02:21No doubt about that.
02:23And we're waiting on somebody to push a button that's not – there is no button.
02:29There is no button.
02:30All the catchphrases and all the posters and stuff that they had, what did it give you?
02:35What did it amount to?
02:37In crunch, this is a new group of people.
02:41We got to get this group to find out what – something motivates them.
02:44Something made them fight.
02:46Hell, they could have won the game.
02:50That's why, you know, I'm going – if you want to fight for something in this division this year, this
02:56is it.
02:57You still have a chance to pull this thing out if you can find some direction.
03:03If you can be half of what you claim to be, you might end up getting the last laugh.
03:09If not, this is Chernobyl.
03:12This is scorched earth.
03:15Chernobyl is a hell of a word, Doc.
03:17You know, it's like, Doc, have you seen so many, like, penalties and things at the most inopportune times?
03:26They don't – they have a lot of penalties.
03:28But if it's a big play, you damn well bet some of it's going to be a penalty being thrown.
03:34Yeah.
03:34It's like, you know, our environment was so much more aggressive.
03:42And it doesn't mean I'm right.
03:44But that's all I know.
03:46Mm-hmm.
03:47So I hear people throwing projectors up against walls and stuff.
03:52Over there, I see people over there reading, being read, daytime stories and bedtime stories.
03:57Mm-hmm.
03:59Unfortunately, it's a brutal business.
04:03They can commercialize this and do all that they want to do, but you know the difference, and it's not
04:09that far off.
04:11But it does matter when people have to be intimidated into doing things as opposed to being hugged and persuaded.
04:21I've never seen that.
04:22I've never seen that work.
04:23We don't run the ball well enough to be able to dictate anything.
04:28And if you refuse to run the ball, if it's not in your nature, then it's just not who you
04:33are.
04:34It's just not who you are.
04:36But how long are we going to beg for that?
04:39Yeah.
04:40I mean, there's certain things that self-inflicted wounds.
04:45And if it weren't for injuries, I'm scared to death thinking, who's going to guard him?
04:54We ain't got no options.
04:55So I just look at it.
04:57I can take it two ways.
04:59You can be ripped up and disappointed.
05:02And I go, well, why are we still in the fight?
05:05It's an ugly fight.
05:06Yeah.
05:08But we're still in the fight.
05:10So you're going to give up.
05:12And everybody's on all these changes.
05:15That's all we do is change.
05:17Who's picking the people for change?
05:20Same people to pick these.
05:24Yeah, see, like the thing for me, like I mentioned earlier that I think of this whole thing as I'm
05:29a person in that locker room.
05:31And when you see hope, that's what you drive yourself.
05:34That drives you.
05:36You know, so it's kind of hard for me to just give up.
05:40Like the average person just gives up.
05:42I don't know how to do that, especially when I see a chance.
05:45And I know some of these guys are fighters.
05:48Some of them aren't.
05:49Some of them are fighters.
05:50No, they proved it, though.
05:52Yeah.
05:52They proved it.
05:54Guys, how are they still even in this?
05:56Why weren't they slaughtered?
06:01Because some guys over there, they had it.
06:04They have whatever it is.
06:05They have it.
06:07We just got to get more people recruited to that club.
06:13Because all these memes and things going on social media, people reading lips now trying to figure out.
06:19And why did DQ turn his hat forward?
06:21For what?
06:25Doc, here's what I'm curious about.
06:27When you watch last night, they absolutely fought hard at the end.
06:33Yes.
06:34The fourth quarter was really impressive defensively.
06:38I mean, San Fran had negative seven yards in the fourth quarter over three drives.
06:42Yeah, no.
06:43Can't make that up.
06:44Can't make it up.
06:45Do you deserve a lot of credit for the comeback?
06:48Or do you have to consider why the hell you got down so early in the first place?
06:54I got to give them a comeback for me, BJP, because if they didn't have it in them, they'd be
07:00slaughtered.
07:03But they won't die that way.
07:05That's the only hope you have.
07:09There's stuff in the bottom that makes it look like they're hard to kill.
07:14I just got to believe with a little adjusting and the proper direction, I don't think you're going to hug
07:22your way to a championship.
07:23I think people have to see somebody's boot going up their behind or find out the problem.
07:30I keep going, are the people behind them worse?
07:35Well, then who the hell's picking them?
07:38Yeah, it makes you think about it.
07:39Like, if you're not, the people that constantly make mistakes, if they keep getting put out there, then what the
07:44hell?
07:46There you go.
07:47And that tells you the whole secret.
07:48The whole problem about this is that it didn't just start.
07:52They didn't just walk into this.
07:55This has always been there.
07:57What's the difference?
07:59Are you telling me that this group cannot motivate these players to try to reach their incentives?
08:06As many people want to be a part of the National Football League, and you tell them we don't have
08:10people that are hungry enough?
08:11I told you what they're capable of doing.
08:13On the road, against a much more talented team, it didn't matter.
08:18They damn near won the game.
08:22But we don't seem to be able to come to get a collective, pass protection, running the ball.
08:29Is it ever going to get solved?
08:34Doc, are we blitzing?
08:35Are we creating havoc or what?
08:38They did late.
08:39They did not early.
08:41How much of an impact, Doc?
08:43We're talking with our friend Rick Doc Walker.
08:44You can listen to him on the post-game show last night.
08:47Doc was working late, late, late.
08:52How much of an impact do you think the Mike Evans injury made?
08:55Because I think that was significant in the second half comeback.
08:58It saved us.
08:59They had no option.
09:00They had no remedy for him.
09:02Yep.
09:03To me, seriously, it looked like this dude had been, he was 20 playing high school football.
09:11So, I mean, I was like, but he gave us the, also, we lost Terry.
09:16Yep.
09:17I'd like to say, but impactfully, it is what it is.
09:23Damn, Doc, where the hell you at, man?
09:25Fire department?
09:26I'm sorry, guys.
09:27That ain't me, man.
09:27That's y'all.
09:28That's me.
09:29I'm sorry.
09:31There's a fire alarm announcement in my hotel room.
09:33Sorry.
09:34He just got me like he got me.
09:36I'm in the hood.
09:37I got a bad feeling there might be more of this coming.
09:40Based on that announcement.
09:42So, if that happens, I will bail out.
09:44I'll turn my mic down.
09:47Doc, what did you make of the confusion on the fourth down in the first half there?
09:52I think Dan Quinn clarified that he did not.
09:55He was absolutely aware of what was going on.
09:58Yeah, Vic had, we had people doing analysis of reading lips and doing the whole thing.
10:06It was, like I say, he, right now, he's being pursued.
10:11Yeah.
10:12He got to be, it's got to be miserable right now because people have given up.
10:18Some have.
10:19And it's like he's, they're making him seem like he's incompetent.
10:23Like they're incompetent.
10:26Like, who's in charge?
10:28What are they doing?
10:29What's the system?
10:31You know, and nobody made that up.
10:33That's the position that they're in.
10:35And the only way to get out of it is to win.
10:37Yep.
10:38Got to fight yourself out of that.
10:39You can't talk your way out of none of this.
10:42You have to win games.
10:44It's still a business.
10:45It's winning.
10:46It's about winning.
10:48I personally wish they would stop talking.
10:51You know, I don't know where the value comes in it, but people, y'all still keep putting
10:55their mics in front of them.
10:56They have to talk.
10:57They talk to me on game day.
10:59That's their job.
10:59They talk to me on the scoreboard.
11:01We need them to talk, dog.
11:03We got four hours of radio every day, dog.
11:06Yeah, I understand.
11:06Well, you know what?
11:07We can play music, too.
11:11I don't think they'll pay us the same for playing music.
11:13This is a dead end.
11:15And you know it, and I know it.
11:17The only question about this is that what are they going to do about it?
11:21Yep.
11:22Doc, I think they were outgunned against the Niners.
11:25That's a really good roster.
11:27I'm not sure how good Washington's is.
11:29The Niners have five dudes, I think, going to Canton.
11:32I'm not sure Washington has one.
11:34Let's see how they could have beat them, though.
11:36Sure.
11:36That makes no difference.
11:37Yeah, yeah.
11:38If you don't make the mistakes, you can beat them.
11:41Right, exactly.
11:43The schedule, though.
11:44Go ahead.
11:45Why hasn't the East been this bad?
11:47They shouldn't even have a chance for anything, but yet they do.
11:51Talk me into that one.
11:54Next thing, you're going to tell me Dallas is good?
11:56You're going to tell me Giants are for real?
11:59Philly's as bad as we are, if not worse.
12:02This is an opportunity.
12:04If somebody will simply go grab the ring and go pull together,
12:09this will be one of the best stories we've ever had, we've ever seen.
12:13I'm not making it up.
12:15It's right there.
12:16The question is, do we have the people hungry enough to go get it?
12:23I'm curious.
12:24Or is it going to be another FA?
12:25It's going to be another assembly.
12:30I was pointing out the talent on the Niners roster to suggest that after the bye week,
12:37presumably Washington's going to have more opportunities against teams where they could even be favored.
12:43We'll see, right?
12:44And what happens on the field is not indicative always of what Vegas thinks.
12:48But how real do you think a run at a bad division title is going forward here?
12:56Or do you think this is all just window dressing to allow a bad team to kind of keep everything
13:06intact?
13:07Don't you believe that they should be playing for their jobs?
13:12Coaching for their jobs?
13:14Yeah.
13:15It should be win or go home.
13:20It should be – the management should make it very clear that you can work your way out of this.
13:26Mm-hmm.
13:27But we will not be running this bad boy back as a broken record.
13:34But somebody should have that job.
13:37Somebody should be in charge of relaying a reality check and get them out of this delusion.
13:47Because I see mixed messages, and that bothers me.
13:50What are the mixed messages?
13:55Who's in charge?
13:57Of what, when, why, and who fixes things?
14:00How do we get the tide to turn?
14:04Who's that person that makes that happen?
14:08The coordinators, the head coach, D.C., too many voices.
14:17That's how people hide from things.
14:19No, not me.
14:19It's him.
14:20It's him.
14:20Who the hell's in charge?
14:22Mm-hmm.
14:29It's a fair question.
14:31What did you think of Jaden last night?
14:37He's been so spectacular that when he's not, then he looks normalized.
14:43We're just not used to seeing that.
14:46I just keep waiting for something to happen.
14:48He competed his butt off.
14:51But he didn't get enough help.
14:52I'm going to turn my mic down.
14:53Sorry, guys.
14:54That's J.P., man.
14:55Yeah.
14:56He didn't get enough help.
14:57Yeah.
14:58See, I need help.
14:59What I just, early in the show, I was saying, people always, the thing I hear about, oh, yeah,
15:06the quarterback makes everybody better.
15:08I hate hearing that.
15:10The quarterback that gets help can make you better.
15:14But he needs your help, too.
15:16You got to be playing above average, average to above average.
15:19If you're playing below average, then how the hell do you expect him to be a magician and make everybody
15:23better?
15:24Hell, he depends on everything.
15:28Exactly.
15:29So.
15:30With no running game.
15:32Yeah.
15:32You don't have a running game.
15:34You're not getting a lot of blocking, but you want him to do everything.
15:37But then on top of it, you don't want him to be himself.
15:39You don't want him to run.
15:40You don't want him to put himself in harm's way.
15:41If he keeps having to make everybody better, he has to put himself in harm's way.
15:48That's the only way it works.
15:49Yeah.
15:51Have you heard from anybody on that?
15:52See, there's the thing about it.
15:53You know, it's, but again, it still would just be talk.
15:59I just don't, I just hope they don't squander the opportunity because the division is sleep.
16:06It's sleep.
16:08And if they could just wake up and compete and they got it in them because they've shown
16:12that.
16:13If I didn't think they have it in them, I'd just go, why are we wasting time?
16:16I don't think we're wasting time.
16:19I think we got to get some people on the team, not the staff, to take ownership of their
16:24own team.
16:25Yeah.
16:26Yeah.
16:27Way too much DQ talk for me.
16:29See, Doc, I've mentioned that.
16:31I know when I got here, I remember you telling me, you wouldn't even in the locker room anymore
16:35about the, what y'all call it, the, um, with the, with the, the team, the kangaroo court.
16:43Oh yeah.
16:44Well, the team basically ran the team.
16:47Then I get here and I noticed they were still doing it.
16:50But if you say the players, like, I think the, uh, whoever had the coaches only meeting,
16:56I mean, the players only meeting and many people say, Oh boy, even Mike Tomlin stated,
17:02Oh, you're done as a coach.
17:04No, you're not.
17:05That's players who have a feel of their players.
17:09For me the whole time.
17:11Listen, the problem I have with players only meetings today is that the media knows about
17:15it.