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

KapadiaI think he's established that level of competence that they were looking for. When you have a backup quarterback in and you're winning games, I just don't think that happens with their previous regimes and their previous infrastructure on that coaching staff. So I don't think it's perfect. I think there are little morsels that you like.

KapadiaArvel Reese, the rookie, looks like he's a player. Instant impact. Instant impact for Arvel Reese. Even a guy like Deontay Banks. You know, these stories are always good sort of indicators about a coaching staff where it's like he's kind of buried. It looks like that wasn't a good pick. He's the cornerback. He was a first round pick in 2023.

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.