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What everyone said after the Commanders’ loss to Cowboys

Here’s what everyone said after Commanders’ loss to Cowboys.

The Commanders were again outscored in the fourth quarter and lost their third consecutive game, Sunday, when they fell to the Dallas Cowboys 34-26 at Northwest Stadium.

Here is a collection of post-game quotes from players, analysts, coaches, and media personalities.

Dan Quinn

“What I told the team after the game was that this is the most challenged we’ve been in our time together. And I reminded them, it’s not enough to learn the lessons, but we have to apply them.”

“I remind them it’s never about one play. And so, that execution falls on all of us players and coaches, and I firmly believe that. And so, we’ll get to it tomorrow. We’ll look at the tape and get right to the truth of it all.”

“Yeah, I want to make sure like this confidence is rolling whoever we’re playing. And I don’t want it to go up and down and up and down. So again, I look back at the tape and the best part of this is you get to go dig in and go forward again, man. But from a performance side, is there plenty to clean up on? You bet. And you don’t want to miss an opportunity and when you got a home game and going forward in the division, you want to take advantage of those. And when you miss them, it stings.”

Jayden Daniels

“We’ve been in third and longer a lot, you know, these past couple games. So, that’s kind of where you get into the exotic pressures and stuff like that. You know, we’ve just gotta be better on first and second downs and stay ahead of the chains.”

Chris Russell (Team 980)

“I fully expected the #Commanders to win this game & begrudgingly picked them -10.5 on Friday. As I kept mentioning – the notion they were going to cruise over these next few weeks (Dallas, Tennessee & New Orleans) was laughable. It’s a potential nightmare now.”
Ben Standig (The Athletic)
“From a team spokesperson: Out of an abundance of caution, Austin Ekeler (concussion) is headed to the hospital for further testing.“
John Keim (ESPN)
“Wow. Just a brutal finish to cap a horrendous performance.“
Bobby Wagner

Jason Garrett (NBC)
“They’ve got to start getting the ball down the field. [Terry] McLaurin has got to get involved in this game earlier. That’s the only way they get this offense going again.”

Austin Seibert

“It didn’t make a difference at all. It’s on me.”
“I felt fine. That’s why I made the decision to play and here we are.”

Tress Way

“This dude is just making freaking kicks all year long so we still have a lot of ball left and making a little playoff run. It’s just really tough. Rinse and repeat and come back and get ready for Tennessee.”

“I would have to…..I’d really like to see the film. They always say the eye in the sky don’t lie but [LS] Tyler [Ott] and I talked after and our job is to make it as seamless as possible for Austin and we just didn’t feel like we quite had it there. Rinse and repeat. Get ready to go again.”

Terry McLaurin

“It doesn’t come down to one play. It doesn’t come down to one kick. We had our opportunities to take control of the game and we didn’t.”

Rick ‘Doc’ Walker

“I’d love to learn a lesson while Winning.”

Grant Paulsen (106.7 The Fan)

“The Commanders have fallen to 7-5. Lots of football left this season but this was a cold water performance. Hard to count wins against the bad teams they play in future after losing as an 11-point favorite.”

Thom Loverro (Washington Times)

“George Allen spinning in his grave — special teams allow 99-yard kickoff return. Remember the days when the Commanders went the entire game without punting?”

 

 

Michael Jordan, Charlotte Hornets & Washington Commanders connection?

If nothing else, the timing is interesting.

So Michael Jordan is discussing selling his majority stake ownership of the Charlotte Hornets, and Washington Commanders fans perhaps should be interested?

How might this be connected to the Commanders?

Well, Washington Times reporter Thom Loverro is sharing that he was told in November by someone (whom Loverro has not named) who claimed they possessed inside information, of a NY investment firm being interested in ownership of the Commanders. In addition, the person explained to Loverro that Jordan would himself be interested in becoming part of an official bid for the Commanders.

Loverro has expressed he was also informed that included in this Jordan process would be him first selling his stake in the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets.

Jordan paid a reported $275 million for a majority stake in the Hornets in 2010, thus being the majority owner for 13 years.
Jordan played for the Chicago Bulls for 13 seasons, the last being the 1997-98 season, in which he led the NBA in scoring (28.7) for the tenth season. Jordan then retired as a player for three seasons, returning to play two seasons with the Washington Wizards (2001-2003).
Jordan, arguably the greatest player in NBA history, struggled as President of Basketball Operations for Washington in evaluating and drafting talent. For instance, in the 2001 NBA draft: Jordan passed on the likes of Tyson Chandler, Pau Gasol, Joe Johnson, Richard Jefferson and Shane Battier to choose high schooler Kwame Brown to be the first-ever high schooler to go No. 1 overall. Each of the other players mentioned here had much more productive careers than Brown.
Another example was the Charlotte 2006 draft when Jordan, as head of basketball operations, chose Gonzaga’s Adam Morrison as the third overall selection. An astounding selection, seeing Brandon Roy and Rudy Gay were much better athletes and still available for Jordan to select.
If anything comes of this, Commanders fans will be instantly hoping Jordan remains outside of evaluating player talent.