Yahoo Sports NFL analyst Nate Tice and NFL writer Charles McDonald look ahead to Sunday night’s meeting of NFC Wild Card contenders led by their rookie quarterbacks. Hear the full conversation on “Football 301” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
Story here is is panics, um.
And they, they, they did dust off some, a lot more play actions look looks than they did last week.
I think they’re at like.
23% play action usage for the game, which is way higher, significantly higher before the game, yeah, yeah, for, for a single game like that was way higher than any usage that they had, uh, up to this point, which just goes to show like what the actual problem was in terms of, you know, holding back some of the schematic stuff on the offense, which, which you already knew.
Um, and luckily for panics, you know, this isn’t the toughest test.
I think the commander’s defense is definitely playing better than.
Um, at the start of the season, they’re not just like a total pushover anymore, but.
You know, it’s not going to get, you know, like where the Ravens are now or where the Vikings have been, or the, you know, the Broncos or, you know, some of those other top teams that we’ve talked about.
So it’s doable, it’s doable.
I think this is gonna be a really good game for Jane Daniels to kind of nickel and dime and and run around a little bit like you said, like I think this is a, it’s a team, like if they go tempo, the Falcons run a lot, a cover 3, like that’s kind of like they’re like panic call.
Well, what the commanders do when they get that is that’s the go balls to Terry McCord.
So, all right, we get Terry against non-AJ Terrell, and then we’ll go tempo, and we get single high boom, touchdown.
Like I already can picture that in my head.
So I, I do think that uh this uh this Falcons defense actually tackles pretty well underneath, but I just think the commanders have a lot of nice natural answers.
They can run the ball.
Daniels can scramble, Falcons are OK against the scramble, but he can scramble, he can attack underneath, so I think they have some natural answers where it’s not gonna really hinder them, um, at all.
This game, like I mentioned before, commanders are 4 point favorites at home, right, who are you leaning in here?
Our commanders, commanders, I’m also going commanders here.
Yeah, I just think, I think Jay Daniels is able to make enough plays that just kind of kill you at the end, whether it’s like a 3rd down scrambles or go ball or, you know, maybe you can get them on 1st and 2nd down, but the plays where his talent gets to shine and things could be tough for the defense.
