Sunday Night Football Preview: Falcons vs. Commanders Showdown

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00:00Sunday Night Football has actually maybe the best game of the week, one of them at least.

00:04Maybe Packers-Vikings is the best, but Falcons-Commanders is Sunday night.

00:08Matt, I'm confused. Is Washington playing for anything here?

00:11Have they clinched the playoffs already? They're four-and-a-half-point favorites against Atlanta.

00:16I know how much the game means to Atlanta, but I believe for Washington, they're not going to win the division.

00:21Philadelphia is going to win, so they're going to be in a wild-card position is my guess.

00:27Yeah, probably. I definitely think they want to get this win and sort of just leave nothing to doubt.

00:34Get as many wins as possible. You have a rookie quarterback.

00:37I think you want to go into the playoffs on as high a note as possible.

00:41Certainly, they've won a couple games that they probably shouldn't have won.

00:45So you look at the 10 wins, you think, wow, what a great year.

00:48Yes, obviously it is, but at the same time, they had a little bit more precarious of a season than maybe the record indicates.

00:55So they're not going to leave anything to chance, and they want to go in and take care of business and get that momentum going.

01:01You know, Michael Penix, I saw some people raving about him after his first game.

01:05I just didn't see it. He was competent. I guess that's all they needed in that game.

01:09They got the win. They stopped the bleeding from what Kirk Cousins had kind of been doing at quarterback there.

01:14But I didn't see enough to get me too excited about him yet.

01:18And certainly, I think that that commander's offense is pretty solid.

01:23And I think they're going to be tough for Atlanta to stop.

01:27And I just don't know if that offense is going to be there yet for Atlanta.

01:30It could be. We just don't know.

01:32But I think Washington's a pretty safe bet with what they got going offensively right now.

01:37Atlanta is still the underdog to win the NFC South because of the game this week.

01:41Tampa Bay is minus 130 to win that division.