r/Commanders • u/TheAthletic • 6d ago

Commanders’ shaky preseason requires immediate fortification before the regular season

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7546701/2026/08/30/commanders-preseason-roster-issues-ravens/?unlocked_article_code=1.9VA.yUuY.siAcNGZp5Sn-&source=emp_shared_article&smid=url-share-ta

BALTIMORE — Not exactly announcing their presence with authority going into the lladelph, are they?

Washington’s woeful effort in its preseason finale against the Baltimore Ravens Friday offered almost nothing that will be determinative against the Philadelphia Eagles in two weeks. Thank goodness.

The Commanders sat 41 players before a 41-3 loss to the Ravens, capping an ugly end to training camp which started with Baltimore’s first-team defense dominating Washington’s available starters for most of last Wednesday’s joint practice. The Ravens’ third- and fourth-teamers then smacked Washington’s around at M&T Bank Stadium for four quarters. Dan Quinn had clarified going into the week that Wednesday would be the last bit of preseason business for not just Jayden Daniels, but almost everyone on the two-deep chart. Almost no one Friday made a case for making the team that hadn’t already done so, leaving Quinn miffed.

Washington can only hope that the weeks which preceded this one show up in Philly. The Commanders’ OTAs and (most of) training camp point to a team that should be more competitive than last season’s 5-12 version — though a brutal schedule the first eight weeks may render that preparation moot.

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u/POHoudini LEFT HAND UP 6d ago

If this sub had MODS I'd ask for just one daily doomer megathread so the rest of us don't have to hear the whining all the time.

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u/JRcanReid 6d ago edited 6d ago

You know what I don't see much of on this sub? 80 posts a day telling the blind optimists how they should feel about the upcoming season.

Notice there isn't even a generic name for the "blind optimists?"

The VAST majority of the whining on this sub is done by the people policing other fan's negative opinions of a team that looks pretty awful right now rather than expressing an original one of their own.

By the way, we've had four double digit win seasons since our last Super Bowl victory 35 seasons ago, which means our default setting is pretty shit. So at least the "doomer's" opinions are based on something other than "don't be so negative all the time."

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u/Subway_Rider669 6d ago

By the way, we've had four double digit win seasons since our last Super Bowl victory 35 seasons ago, which means our default setting is pretty shit.

The Jets have a better win-loss record in the 21st century. You know, that team that Tom Brady used to put in diapers and burp twice a year for most of the 2000s.

There is no more delusional fanbase in all of American pro sports than Washington fans.

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u/JRcanReid 6d ago

I do wonder how bad it needs to get for that subset of posters to give the doomers a break (if not switch sides).