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Hail Mary Victory: Washington Wins 18-15 in NFL Thriller
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10/28/2024
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Maybe the most exciting, dreadful, terrific, awful, depending on how you feel about the
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ending yesterday outside the nation's capital, in Landover, Maryland, a matchup of one versus
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two to even see Jaden Daniels, the second overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft was rather
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shocking.
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He had not practiced really all week, came out for a little bit on Friday, but we got
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word that he would start in this game against the number one overall selection in Caleb
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Williams.
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And Jaden Daniels made his impact throughout and especially at the end.
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As time expires, Washington down by three after Roshon Johnson plunges across the pylon
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under a minute to put Chicago up by three points.
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Time expires.
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He's under no pressure.
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He lets all of his wide receivers get down there.
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Tyreke Stevenson is drawing with fans in the stands for the commanders, Bears fans
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sitting there near the goal line are saying, get back.
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The play has started.
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Get back over there.
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So Tyreke Stevenson decides, oh, OK, I'll try to go make a play, tips the ball up and
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into the waiting arms of the commander's wide receiver, Noah Brown, in the end zone, a Hail
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Mary victory for Washington.
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Hail to the commanders.
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Indeed, they win 18 to 15 on one of the wildest plays you'll ever see in the National Football
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League.
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Incredible calamity at the end, but also, Ben, let's get back to the point that the
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Chicago Bears were getting throttled for 98 percent of this game and somehow miraculously
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took a lead at the end.
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Say something for the coaches, which is going to be nice, which I'm going to get angry with
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in just a few moments.
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They had that team battled back and ready to go.
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And this team was believing in each other, but the head coach had no idea how to close
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it out.
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So it was a wonderful starting pitching performance, which means that my starter went eight innings.
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And instead of bringing the closer, I try to bring in the single a guy and he blows
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the lead late in the game.
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Let's get to what actually happened on that last drive, because that's my focus here.
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And I'm going to get to another play in this game, too, which was hilarious in itself.
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But when you're in Hail Mary range, right, Ben, I don't understand why the defenses do
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this.
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Now, do you want to run a zero blitz man on the outside with no single safety high?
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No, you don't want to do that.
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But what you want to do is say, I'm just going to make it a little bit harder.
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The play before the Hail Mary was so egregious and embarrassing that I have no idea what
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they were doing.
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You basically said, we're going to play Hail Mary defense twice.
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If they want to get whatever yards they want, who cares as long as they don't score a touchdown,
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which put them in range for a Hail Mary.
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Now, granted, you still shouldn't be able to get the Hail Mary.
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It's a tough play to pull off.
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But the fact that you rushed three players and the best part about Matt Iberflug is a
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defensive coordinator.
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Ben, he had a spy as his fourth guy out there, as if Dayton Daniels is going to run 75 yards
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through 19 players to score a touchdown all by himself.
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It's so simple, Ben.
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If you rush four players up front and then you have the linebacker who has no job in
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the middle of that field because a dump ball pass doesn't matter at that point, you bring
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him on a delayed blitz.
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The quarterback doesn't have time to step up or stand up in the pocket.
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He's probably not even going to get that pass off.
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You let him do whatever he wanted out there to allow him to throw a pass deep, which still
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should have been knocked down and it didn't happen.
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But two ridiculous errors.
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The play before the Hail Mary and then calling a three-man rush when he had 17 seconds in
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the pocket to throw that football and it ends up in a touchdown.
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