Commanders Have a Chance to Turn Heads

Jayden Daniels has a chance tonight to rewrite the narrative on the Washington Commanders in primetime.

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00:00This is one of those, the opportunity, you always hear about this, like when it's the

00:04only game in town, it's the only game on TV, even though tonight there are two, but still,

00:08it's primetime, there's something special, the mystique of that Monday night football,

00:12right?

00:13This is one of those opportunities to change the perception.

00:16Everybody whines, Washington fans have whined for years, and some of it's justified to be

00:19honest with you, about the league-wide perception, about how everybody always picks Washington

00:24to be 31st in their power rankings before the season starts, or this isn't going to

00:28work, or this is a failure.

00:29A lot of times it doesn't work out, but even when things are good or happening, nobody

00:33gives you credit for it.

00:34It feels like everybody's against you, you can't get your own players who have been excellent

00:37into the Hall of Fame because the reputation has been so bad.

00:40There's a lot of that stuff.

00:41Here's how you change the perception.

00:44One time, when the football and sporting world is watching, not a Red Zone highlight, not

00:48a little bit here and there with the seventh team on Fox, this is the country is watching

00:54you play football.

00:55You don't embarrass yourself, you don't go down there like, you actually look the part

00:59and dare I say, win a football game, look good doing it, be there in prime time and

01:04showcase yourself.

01:05That's how you build a couple of those, you stack a few, you change the perception of

01:09the organization.

01:10They're working hard.

01:11Locally, we kind of know it's different than it was before, that's obvious, but if you're

01:14in, say, Cincinnati, Ohio, you're not really plugged into the latest with Josh Harris and

01:19Mitch Rales.

01:20You're not really that concerned with Adam Peters and company.

01:22That's Washington.

01:23They're always a tire fire.

01:25Don't be that.

01:26Go out and do something special and people start to believe in you.