How Lane Johnson’s Retirement Will Affect the Eagles and More Questions for Week 5

KapadiaPlayed fewer than 50 percent of the snaps last year. You think, all right, I'll play out his rookie contract. He'll go somewhere else. They throw him in the lineup and he had a big, you know, big interception at the end of that game. He had some other good plays. It wasn't perfect. He gave up a touchdown, but like they're getting something out of him that wasn't there previously.

Kapadiapreviously. I think that's a good sign of the coaching staff as well. So yeah, this is sort of a weird game in Washington. They're three and a half point underdogs, even though they're three and one on the season. It's NFC East. It's probably going to be ugly. It's going to be grimy. You look at some of the talent, you're like, all right, this isn't a marquee matchup in week five.

KapadiaBut if they're four and one, then we got to continue talking about them if they can win that game in Washington.

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.