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I don't know what Ngakoue's true motives were, but the eye test says that was a dirty hit, completely avoidable and had absolutely zero impact on the play besides ending Logan's season

It would be difficult to argue against Matsko receiving a pay raise. He's a keeper. Concerning Heinicke, I don't think Ron has the time luxury going into his 3rd season next year to quantify how Taylor has performed based on the 10 other players around him. I believe Taylor has to play himself into the starting role based on his performance regardless of his supporting cast. I don't think time pressure will cause Rivera to make a drastic decision like the Haskins gamble, but I can see Ron and Company either giving up legit draft capital for an obvious upgrade or potentially trading up for an elite prospect. I just don't see at this point how he can continue to be overly conservative chasing a franchise QB and/or also give Heinicke more time to develop after this season unless he plays himself into that role now

I believe Heinicke's play based on the entire current season will determine his fate for the upcoming one. I think it's highly probable he will play himself exactly into whatever spot that is - whether it be the 2022 potential starter or the backup

This conversation usually makes me wonder who Ron in his heart of hearts really wanted to start going into the regular season last year. Would be interesting to know, but as he would probably say, not important 😆

I think his choice to not get vaccinated is silly based on the ramifications to each team concerning the differences in penalties between the vaxed and unvaxed like you mentioned above. Getting vaccinated is a personal choice and each situation is different. In the instance of the NFL, not being vaccinated can truly handicap a team's run at a championship. I think it's quite obvious at this point that the biggest medical benefit to getting vaccinated is that it greatly reduces an infected persons chance of dying or getting extremely sick from Covid based on an individuals health. My wife is an accountant for a medical company so she had to get vaccinated or be fired. For her to not get vaccinated would have been a dumb decision because the consequences greatly outweighed getting vaxed. I own a very small high rise window cleaning company and am outside most of the time so there is no medical reason for me to be vaccinated at this point so like you I don't view Sweat as a villain for not getting jabbed I just think he has made a dumb decision specifically related to the consequences.

I think you can chalk this up to the cumulative effect. Instead of the NFL making it mandatory for all players to be vaccinated they wrote rules that basically made it obvious all players should be vaccinated if they wanted their own personal freedoms and to not handicap the team they play for. Sweat is paying for his dumb dumb decision and not only has the team suffered because he was not available on game day but add that to the possibility that he has caused others to be infected just makes him the source of our resentment and anger whether it's rational or not It's not about having Covid. It's about the night and day difference in restrictions the NFL rules apply to those that are unvaccinated compared to those that are and how it affects their availability for game day Sweat played his personal game of Covid Roulette and lost so hopefully he learned his lesson from all of this and gets vaccinated. Obviously it's a choice but in professional team sports where your availability is important you really don't have a choice. 2 negative tests is considerably easier than a mandatory 10 days

Maybe his knee is fine and the Dr's can take some cartilage out and use it to improve his throwing strength

We all have choices and consequences. Hopefully lessons are learned without the consequences ending the team's playoff aspirations

If he learns from this and changes than that would be an even better outcome. Almost no reason for professional athletes to not be vaccinated based on the consequences to your team alone

Hopefully Allen and the "multiple players" are all vaxed and figure it out - get those negative tests in ASAP

Like the other posters mentioned the visiting team is responsible for the benches on their sideline and so Dallas took that principle to an extreme level and flew their own in. If Daniel Snyder wasn't such a degenerate owner it would be somewhat humorous that the opposing team had to deal with defective bench technology on the visitors side of the field, but in this case it just makes him look even more like a cheap ****

My guess is that the coaching staff will use the players they currently have on the team to administer the butt whooping Dallas has coming. The majority of elite competitors don't take well to being disrespected to the degree that Dallas handed it out. I imagine Wash will do it with class regardless of who is healthy enough to lace up their cleats

The entire Dallas organization punked us. It started with their owner bringing in their own benches, their coach guaranteeing a victory, their fans outnumbering ours, the Dallas front seven manhandling our O line and the overall contempt and lack of respect for Wash having any chance of winning the game. Dallas was leaving 10-15 seconds left on the play clock in the 2nd half at times. That's flat out an F you and punk job. Washington better kick their ass in 2 weeks and reclaim their manhood

At least until Heinicke recovers his Jedi mind tricks

My apologies if you took my words 100% literally here. I agree with some of what you're saying but I also believe some of my points have validity too and for that matter I don't agree with the approach I've implied is a dirty or cowardly way. I'm way over being pissed off or emotional over being punked by Dallas without a response by Wash. This has been a fun, lively way to talk about the game and has been helpful

Tone setter. I bet a modern day O lineman is athletic and coordinated enough to punish a defender in a gruesome manner without it being a penalty. That being said it's kind of humorous that talking about punishing the Dallas D line in an extreme manner seems to be more offensive than the way our offense played today

You've created a scenario that was not my intention but I still disagree with you. In structured sports of course that is the case but against Dallas in the 1st quarter it would have been useful.

You're absolutely right but I bet it would have led to a better outcome than what happened in the 1st Quarter but instead our offense played scared

I'm not sure about a street fight but I will say I'd rather see one of our O lineman pick up Parsons and body slam him rather than allowing our QB get pretzeled. Maybe my approach is all wrong and my dislike for Parsons and Gregory has blinded me to reality, but from my experience when you go up against thugs or bullies you punch back hard to set the tone

Sure some of it is hyperbole but if you get disrespected in a backyard fight you either fight back or get your ass beat. This is the way football used to be played and considering the way Dallas disrespected us coming into Sunday some of that mentality would have been useful. Either that or you out class, out maneuver and out play them. For example when T. McLaurin got smashed after a reception at the end of the Bucs game he got up and started pounding his chest. That's symbolic of punching the opposing team in the throat. It's an attitude that you need to win in combative sports

Well said and I agree. When your main rival run their mouth and disrespect you and then bring their own benches you either whip their ass so other teams know that kind of behavior won't be tolerated or you put together a game plan an execute it towards victory

It's not dirty if you're protecting your QB and it's done during gameplay while pass blocking. I did give 3 options to emphasize that they had to answer the Cowboys eye for an eye and chose not to. Doc Walker gets on my nerves when he starts talking X's and O's but he has a point when it comes to football philosophy even if it is outdated

What it means to me is you either literally punch Parsons in the throat during game play, rip his arm off on a blatant holding call instead of letting your QB get molested or you use the Cowboys aggressiveness against them and make them pay until they slow down the pass rush

Losing to a more talented team wasn't what was embarrassing it was being manhandled by Dallas and not being ready for the physicality of their front seven in the 1st quarter of play

I didn't expect Wash to win and being without key players made game planning more difficult, but Dallas guaranteed a victory brought their own benches in, filled half the stadium with their own fans and then proceeded to punch us right in the throat. We got our ass kicked in the 1st quarter and embarrassed. I realize the game has changed, but you still have to respond in a physical way and rip their head off until they understand you won't be embarassed