00:00And the Giants are home tomorrow night.
00:02In some ways, I don't mind that for the commanders.
00:05The commanders don't seemingly ever do well on primetime home games.
00:12I mean, there was limited exception, obviously, in 2024.
00:16But for the most part, it's been kind of a disaster.
00:20And they, of course, absolutely need to win.
00:23And in every bit of evidence that we have, suggested that they valued tomorrow night's game and the rest of
00:32the season an unlikely run to the playoffs through the division as way more important than the future.
00:40Adam Peters was on the phone with the Junks this morning, and they asked him about the trade deadline.
00:45I want you to hear what he had to say in case you haven't heard it, and then we'll react
00:49together.
00:52Yeah, I think you're always looking to do things that you think you can help to make your team better.
00:57And our guys were really, really over the last month, like working tirelessly, like making calls, inquiring on guys, you
01:05know, taking inquiries on our guys.
01:08And really, there's calls that were made on our players.
01:11And, you know, I had a lot of – I was on the phone a lot the last few days,
01:15you know, with teams inquiring on our guys.
01:18And same thing with us.
01:20We looked and tried to find guys that could help us really short and long term.
01:24And, you know, we made some efforts.
01:26But ultimately, you know, those guys weren't moved.
01:29So – but we definitely, in a time when you can make player acquisitions and make your teams better, we
01:37wanted to do that.
01:38But nothing really made sense in the end that was a great value for us.
01:42And then other teams, you know, decided to hold on to their guys.
01:44All right, so here's the thing.
01:47I understand what Adam Peters – you're not just giving players away, right?
01:52But he said, we actually looked into bringing some guys here, which we had heard, right, that they were kind
01:59of poking around maybe with Indianapolis.
02:00And they were mentioned as one of the teams with Jonathan Taylor.
02:05Nobody seemingly around here thought at 2-5-1 it would be a good idea to go shopping and sacrifice
02:12more assets for a team that nobody outside of the building thinks is any good.
02:18But that's kind of the problem.
02:21We're sitting here, and for a second year in a row – 3-6 last year, 2-5-1 this
02:30year.
02:34And not only did they not make a move to add somebody, which is the correct approach, but they didn't
02:42make a move to subtract anybody, to get something for an expiring contract.
02:50And you say, well, wait a second, hold on.
02:55Why would they trade an expiring contract with half the season to go and a must-win game on Thursday
03:01night?
03:02And you're right.
03:03That's why I didn't think they were going to make a move.
03:06And sounds like Johnny-come-lately style, everyone else believed the same.
03:11It's funny.
03:12I mean, been screaming about this for a week and a half.
03:16Just Monday, I hammered home the point of, hey, man, it's a short week.
03:21There's no way they're making a trade and subtracting and making their roster weaker for what they view a must
03:27-win game on a short week with no chance to recover.
03:31They're already short.
03:32No chance they were making a trade of any significance, no matter who you had.
03:39The NFL put the screws to them as usual, scheduling-wise.
03:43Nobody cared about it.
03:44I'm the only one that does, and I'm the only one that's right.
03:49The short week absolutely, absolutely affected what the commanders didn't do, make a trade of any sort.
04:01Absolutely it did.
04:04They drew, as usual, the unlucky straw.
04:07Next week, they got a bazillion days off.
04:10Now, the players are all going to Aruba for a six-day vacation, win or lose.
04:16They don't care, because they're not coming to work.
04:21We're going to have to clean up the mess.
04:24They're going to be on vacation.
04:28But because they played on a Thursday of NFL trade deadline week, which is on a Tuesday at 4 o
04:35'clock, and the Giants too, obviously.
04:41You would have had to have basically made trades to be able to kind of account for them and recover
04:48from them earlier, not on deadline day.
04:53So, there were ways to make trades before, but when they got to Monday, what the hell were you going
04:59to do?
05:01You were going to trade Stephon Diggs and go into the game with Van Jefferson, Luke McCaffrey, Antonio Williams?
05:11And, you know, I guess now you're getting Traylon Burr.
05:14I mean, could you?
05:16Sure.
05:17Smart idea?
05:18No.
05:22Like, if you were going to trade Chris Paul, just for argument's sake, who's only on a one-year deal.
05:33And I know Chris Paul hadn't played well this year, or well enough, certainly, but he's the starting left guard
05:39on a two-of-five-in-one team.
05:42You're going to trade him.
05:43Who's going to play left guard?
05:45Oh, Brandon Coleman's going to play left guard.
05:47Oh, because he stinks at left tackle.
05:50Well, not sure about that.
05:52On a short week when you don't have any practices?
05:56Oh, is Andrew Wiley going to switch over and play left tackle?
06:00On a short week with no real practices, so much so that they did a walkthrough yesterday, and they did
06:09more than normal the day before the game, which is normally a walkthrough.
06:13They kind of flipped the schedule a little bit because they believe so much in rest and recovery because it's
06:21so helpful.
06:22I mean, this team really seems fresh and energetic every game, right?
06:26They really seem like they benefit from six days of vacation during the bye week.
06:34They really seem like they've got their heads squared on straight every time they come out and play.
06:44So I think the commanders, as usual, did a disservice to their team by thinking that they're better than they
06:55are.
06:55They're not.
06:57They're not.
06:58Now, that being said, they could win tomorrow night and mathematically and semi-realistically improve their chances of winning the
07:11division.
07:11That's likely the only way in.
07:14It's not definitively the only way in, but it's likely the only way in.
07:18They could win tomorrow night and be in better position.
07:21Then you've got the Cincinnati Bengals and their high-octane offense after a lot of rest and after a big
07:29vacation to Aruba for all the boys who have been working so hard, so hard to get us a 2
07:35-5-1 record.
07:37Some of them are going to go to Barbados, I've been told.
07:43Sources tell me.
07:46They are already planning the vacations, you know, to make sure that they get enough rest.
07:56I mean, with Cincinnati ahead, even if you win this game, you still could get pummeled next Monday night, a
08:05week from this Monday night.
08:07And then you've got a short week with Thanksgiving in between to Arizona, which, okay, they're starting Corson back and
08:16they're short their two receivers and Jeremiah Love is out, but they're still capable.
08:22They beat the Rams a couple of weeks ago.
08:25They hung in there with the Seahawks, hung in there a little bit.
08:28They were offensively challenged.
08:31They beat the Cowboys on the road.
08:33Not a walk in the park.
08:34Not for this team.
08:36Not for this team.
08:37And by the way, neither of the Tennessee Titans in early December.
08:42Not for this team.
08:43Nope.
08:44Sorry.
08:47As usual, the commanders valued the now, the short term, the immediate prism instead of the big picture.
08:57Now, what I always want a general manager to do, a team, an organization to do, is to self-scalp,
09:03be self-aware.
09:05Know what you are.
09:06Know what you're not.
09:07Know what you are.
09:09Knowing what you're not is just as important as knowing what you are or knowing what you think.
09:15See, they think they're better than a 2-5-1 record.
09:20And you might as well.
09:22Because you might say, well, they should have won the Giants game.
09:24And you're right.
09:24They should have won the Giants game.
09:25They also should have lost the Giants game.
09:27So think about it.
09:28They could be 2-6.
09:33Remember that?
09:35I hope you do.
09:38Know what you are.
09:40They don't know what they are.
09:41They have no recognition that there is not one bit of evidence that would suggest they're capable of going on
09:54a...
09:56They played eight games.
09:58Out of the remaining nine, they probably need to go 7-2 minimum.
10:04What evidence would be there to suggest that?
10:07Now, anything can happen in the NFL.
10:09I got it.
10:10And if that's your modus operandi, hey, man, you never know what's going to happen.
10:17Anything can happen.
10:18I get that in the playoffs.
10:22I don't get that at the trade deadline.
10:26Because in the playoffs, it's a one-game deal.
10:30Right?
10:31Sometimes you're meeting an opponent, a common opponent, for a third time or a second time or whatever.
10:36But it's a one-game deal.
10:38We're talking about having to be good or probably very good for seven out of nine games.
10:49Right?
10:50I mean, if they win seven more games out of their remaining nine,
10:54to add to their 2-5-1 schedule or record right now,
10:59that puts them at 9-7-1.
11:01Not a guarantee for the playoffs.
11:04Not a guarantee, certainly, for the division.
11:07They'd only beat 2-3-1 in the division.
11:09I'm not sure if they would win tiebreakers.
11:15Maybe they would get lucky and the Giants would completely collapse
11:18and the Cowboys would never wake up and we know the Eagles are dead
11:22and nine wins would be good enough to win straight up.
11:26You want to play maybes?
11:28You want to play mightbes?
11:30You want to play, well, let's hope for the best.
11:35See, this is the problem.
11:37They're unaware.
11:38They lack common sense, honestly.
11:41And I hate to say this, but I'm going to say it.
11:44They are tone deaf.
11:47They have no idea just how not good they are.
11:52They think they're really good.
11:55They think they're just a hair short here, an eyelash short here,
12:04a thumbnail here.
12:06That's what they think.
12:09And some of you might think that as well.
12:12And good on you.
12:15I think they are better than what their record says they are,
12:19but I think they are much closer to their record.
12:24Then they are closer to a team that's actually good.
12:29And that has just been unlucky.
12:32They haven't been that unlucky.
12:36Every team's got injuries, significant ones.
12:40They've beaten themselves more times than fingers on your hand.
12:48That's not luck.
12:50That's not being good.
12:53And yet they think they're pretty good.
12:57They think their record is not representative of what they are.
13:02The only problem is, again, they've yet to show it.
13:08They've yet to show it.
13:10The one game they won recently was against a sorry sack of suds football team
13:16in every phase who had lost five in a row coming in at home off a bye week
13:25with a third-string quarterback that they benched immediately afterwards.
13:29And then the game they won earlier this year was against Seattle.
13:33Granted, defending Super Bowl champions.
13:35We thought that was going to be the catalyst.
13:39But Seattle had Hershey squirts in their pants in that game.
13:47Let me wrap this up, and then we'll take a timeout.
13:50They are not good.
13:52They are not good.
13:53They are not good.
13:54They are not good.
13:56If that means I'm mean, thank you.
14:00I'm doing my job.
14:01I'm telling you the truth.
14:03They are not good.
14:04They can believe whatever they want to believe.
14:08I can believe that I'm not overweight and in perfectly good health.
14:13I'm not.
14:16The rest of the world sees that.
14:20The rest of the world sees they're not good.
14:24They think they're good.
14:25The rest of the world sees that they're not good.
14:28And often, boys and girls, the proof is in the pudding.
14:31He's the proof.
14:31The proof is in ish why.
14:31He stands for proof.
