How Lane Johnson’s Retirement Will Affect the Eagles and More Questions for Week 5
Oct 7, 2026 · 1h 17m · take 28 of 39
- The Commanders could make noise this season.
Restating his preseason call on Washington.
“The commanders for my team before the season, I said, could be the one no one's talking about that I thought could make noise”
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PelisseroThere's no doubt. And if the commanders are one of those teams, if they fall to one and four. I anticipate that they continue to compete. They're not going to blow it up immediately, but just have to start to look at some of the veteran players on their roster because you're going to get calls.
PelisseroYou're going to get calls about Stefan Diggs, who looks excellent in the early portion of the season. Jaden Daniels, I keep saying it, second half of the first game, first half of the second game until he got hurt, looked like Jaden Daniels again. So if you want to buy into the optimism, David Blau with multiple backup quarterbacks, it seems like it's called really good games.
PelisseroAgain, Durante Jones, what he's doing defensively, all those different walk everybody up to the line. Don't let them know where the blitz is coming from.
PelisseroIt's been pretty effective for them. I'm not counting them out. The commanders for my team before the season, I said, could be the one no one's talking about that I thought could make noise. I still feel that way. They got a lot of injuries.
PelisseroThey're banged up at a bunch of spots. You look at their offense right now. It started when Tunsil went down before the season.
PelisseroThey've got their challenges. But again, get this win. The whole division then is clumped at that point, right? No one's going to be better than 3 -2. No one's going to be worse than 2 -3.
PelisseroLet's see how it shakes. It's a sneaky, fun game in week five where I feel like we've got a bunch
From the episode transcript around 00:54:54. Speaker names are recognized by voice.
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