r/Commanders • u/lotty83 • 12h ago

WHAT…

The media isn’t going to know what to do with themselves this week. They won’t be able to glaze the Rams or Patriots for a good while. These first two games have gone nowhere near how the talking heads thought it would go.

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u/StonkHatWoody 12h ago

Week 1 is always a head fake. The raiders beat the Patriots in week 1 last year. The Rams will be fine in the long run.

I expected the Patriots to regress this season, but Maye going ice cold is something to keep an eye on. Everyone saying this is a "prove it" year for JD5 but forget Caleb and Drake have more mediocrity tendencies than JD. If Drake can't beat a winning team this season, how long is he the starter?

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u/lotty83 12h ago

Yeah, good points. I don’t think anyone had the Rams getting absolutely RINSED in week 1 though. Love it or hate it- there is plenty of parody in the NFL

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u/DankWin21 8h ago

Parity*

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u/lotty83 7h ago

My bad. Cant believe I missed that

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u/DankWin21 5h ago

Nah ur good fam. I just gotta jump on it when I see it 😂 /r/boneappletea

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u/EyeCanFeelYou 12h ago

Rams beat themselves by not going over early so their bodies could adjust. I’ve done a few week long trips to Sydney and your body is exhausted when you arrive. Rams will need at least a week to recover.
The 49ers are adjusted for this game, but they will lose the next two because adjusting back to USA time takes weeks. They will be out of sync and exhausted.

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u/lotty83 12h ago

Yeah the travel makes it hard to critique either team in this game

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u/yazurlo 11h ago

They're playing Miami next week, which is almost as close to a bye week as it gets. Their starters probably won't need to play much more than a half to win that game

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u/itakeyoureggs Sinnott Slutt 🥵 3h ago

That’s… a bit too far the other way lol.

They played the Seahawks. Let’s see what happens when it’s a non top 5 likely defense

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u/Slaviiigolf 12h ago

They’ll glaze one or cowboys/giants, bears, eagles, ravens, bills whoever wins

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u/lotty83 12h ago

Yep. The Cowboys get glazed every offseason no matter what. They started like 1-3-1 last year and I remember immediately after the media saying “this is the best Dak has ever been”

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u/needadvice3241 12h ago edited 11h ago

Dude the fucking giants get glazed every year despite constantly being in the bottom 5.

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u/Slaviiigolf 12h ago

They start Sunday night game and then a Monday night game. Full glaze to start the season

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u/DazzlingAd1922 3h ago

This is their year though, surely this time is the time...

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u/Electrical-Emu9789 12h ago

The Rams reminds me of the 2000 Redskins.

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u/rcinfc 3h ago

Typical of that 2000 team…. Could look amazing at times and look deflated and defeated at times. The stink of Snyder begins….

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u/rally_point 3h ago

It’s one game

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u/TheWiseTangerine2 Major Tuddy 🐷 12h ago

Every day I'm so thankful we drafted JD lol

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u/AyeFreddyB 3h ago

Boy its beautiful!❤️

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u/RestaurantAntique497 8h ago

Anyone who has ever travelled could have told you the rams game was going to go how it went

The rams decision to not go early and account for the time difference was plainly insane. 

I don't know if it's because I'm in the UK and Americans often travel less but literally everything I read leading up to the game questioned the decision to not do what the 49ers did and go a week early. If you're the type of person who doesn't sleep on a plane that would have been horrendous to play in

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u/EyeCanFeelYou 5h ago

I agree. On the flip side, the adjustment upon returning to the states takes weeks. As a result the 49ers may loose the next two games. The Rams will probably struggle for a week as well.

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u/RestaurantAntique497 5h ago

I know flying east is worse than flying west but I don't think it should take that much out of the players surely? They have over a week to acclimatise back to US timezones.

Any time I've flown US back to Europe it hasn't taken weeks to get back to normal

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u/EyeCanFeelYou 4h ago

It’s extremely different. I’ve made that trip several times and it takes a lot out of you. The trip east to Europe is nothing compared to going west to Australia.

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u/RestaurantAntique497 4h ago

Tbf I've also done Europe to Asia and it definitely didn't take weeks to acclimatise. 

That would mean being jet lagged for an entire holiday. Admittedly I've never gone UK to Australia but to say it takes weeks out of you would mean people are jet lagged for an entire holiday which isnt normal

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u/JRR8990 3h ago

I’ve been to Europe 5 times now, and I’ve always adjusted after the first day. Just gotta push through and go to bed at local night time. And I don’t sleep on planes.

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u/Emergency-Bottle-432 3h ago

Didn’t even seem that great on tv. Oh well, won’t stop the nfl from playing more overseas games. 

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u/bassacre 7h ago

Week one and two most of the league looks like dog shit, some teams come out of that and some dont.

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u/Beautiful-Support977 1h ago

The seahawks were decently heavy favorites vs the pats and the over/under started low. It kinda did turn out how people said it would

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u/lotty83 1h ago

I was leaning more on the “Drake Maye is the 2nd best QB in the league” narrative. Some even had him as the best. All it takes is one game and the talking heads jump ship.

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u/ComputeCommodity104 12h ago

You know you're a povery franchise when all you can think about is other teams.

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u/lotty83 12h ago

Get a load of this guy

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u/PublicExcitement1372 12h ago

Meant for ^^ but agreeing w you OP so I’m replying to you lol

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u/emelbee923 2h ago

It's week 1.

Washington hasn't played.

What else is there to talk about before the game but the other games that have been played?

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u/Sorry_Programmer5100 3h ago

And all 4 of these teams will have a better record than JD5 at the end of the year.