Mitchell Schwartz
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
Big Cat, I told you when I was visiting that this was biblical. This has already been written. Do you remember Daniel 5-17 when he has to walk into the lion's den and have to conquer those lions? I told you we had something going here that was special. Dan Quinn and his leadership. And don't forget about the fact that we got a Jedi, a quarterback, Jedi 5, the ultimate force multiplier.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
It's changed everything, but it ain't just them. It ain't just the coaches and the players. I got to give a lot of love to this new ownership. Josh Harris and those guys, they have changed everything. They have set a standard that's a very high standard, and I think everybody's getting to see right now that America's had a new team.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
We are America's new team, the nation's capital, the Washington Commanders.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
I'm going to be honest with you. I understand where everybody's coming from because we're at ground zero right now. When I say ground zero, this was our quarterback's first year. This was our offensive coordinator's first year. This was Dan Quinn's first year installing his culture. So what they're saying is it can only go up from here. Think about it. We got 80 million plus in cap room.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
So that means we can go out here and sign the vets. We got draft capital. We're only going to put better pieces around him. And the thing about it, I think this is what Jaden has did a good job of. He's shown you how he's going to play when we have to pay him $300 million, $400 million. And we can't buy all the receivers. We can't have all the tight ends.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
He's showing you I am the ultimate force multiplier. I'm going to make everybody around me better no matter what so I can understand why people are so excited. But when we talk about Philadelphia, the only thing I can say is different when it comes to them and Detroit.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
I think Detroit, especially the way that Jalen Hurts is throwing the ball right now, the Detroit Lions had another level to their offense because not only can they run the ball with their great offensive line, they could push the ball down the field with J-Mo and St. Brown. And when I look at Philadelphia, even though they got A.J.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
Brown and Devontae Smith, something's going on with Jalen Hurts where he's not pushing the ball down the field. Then he gets another anchor injury this week. So I'm wondering how they're going to use him. Is it one of those things where we need to crowd the box and stop, I mean, Saquon Barkley and force Jalen Hurts to beat us?
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
I'm very eager to see what Coach Witt does when it comes to that figure in that situation. Now, because you said it, our defensive backs played well last week. All right, Sarah Steele making two interceptions. But we got guys taking balls to the house. So it's a different defense. And I knew it was going to be a different defense from week one to, what, week 18, 19, 20 right now.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
They have gelled together. They have grown.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
Hand down one of the best defenses in football. You're right. They got Jalen Doomsday Carter at the defensive line. They got Sweat coming off the edge. They got linebackers. They got defensive big backs. But I don't know how healthy Quinn Young Mitchell is, one of the best rookie cornerbacks to come out in a long time. They do have – But don't forget, guys, we played this team twice.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
Last time James Daniels played this team, he threw for five touchdowns against this vaunted defensive backfield when they was fully healthy. And then you go to the first game. I always tell people, everybody's talking about the game that we won.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
I'm more impressed with the game that we lost because that game was in Philadelphia, and we turned the ball over a ton, and Steele was at the end of that game. So when we're playing against an in-division of four and you're playing them for the third time, Everything kind of... It comes together at that point. And it's like fighting your little brother or your big brother.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
I know all of your moves. Now it's all about who can withstand it, who can play four quarters, and who's not going to make mistakes. And my quarterback doesn't turn the ball over. Jalen Hurts turns the ball over. He's the key to this game. Jalen Hurts is the key to this game.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
I am scared of Saquon Barkley, though, because it seems like every – I couldn't sleep last night because of Saquon Barkley. Nightmare.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
So I don't think you can stop him. Let me give you a fact right quick. He has those four long runs against us. You take those four long runs out and he's averaging 3.2 yards a carry against us. So we found a way to bottle him up. Like that first game, he broke those runs in the fourth quarter. Joe Witt has found a way to bottle him up.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
But can we consistently do it and not let him come with the back-breaking run that he's done week in and week out? The guy is special.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
Well, he's a penetrator. He's organized chaos in a bottle. He's the Tasmanian devil. He's everything that you want at the linebacker position. Yes, he can make plays, but we need the D-line to play on the other side of the ball because they get behind that mammoth offensive line, and they let Saquon pick his holes. So they're running a zone scheme.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
That's why you see him bouncing from hole to hole, and once he finds that crack, that's when he hit him. So it ain't going to be one of them things where it's just Frankie Lukewood. Frankie Luke is going to have to bring some of his homeboys to the party. It's going to take a group to stop Saquon Barkley.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
So it's one of those things where it's going to have to be Bobby Wagner to the bowl, Corey Martin to it, and Jeremy Chin has been an enforcer. I don't know if people have been watching Jeremy Chin, but Jeremy Chin has been playing light side at the strong safety position. It's going to take a group. It's going to take a family to stop Saquon Barkley.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
Luckily, I think we got the guys with Payne, Allen, rest of those guys, Lawrence. I think we got the guys to make this happen.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
You know what? I love the fact that you got your version and I got the truth. Now let me give you a couple of facts when it comes to the truth. Like, you've already beaten y'all. We let you off the hook when we was in Philadelphia. And let's be honest.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
When we played in Detroit, we could go position by position comparing our offenses, and they got better players than us at every position besides one. That's quarterback. Like, my quarterback is better than yours. That's what I told him against Jared Goff. Well, guess what I'm going to say against the Philadelphia Eagles? My quarterback is better than yours. So at the end of the day...
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
The quarterback position sometimes defines that. And don't forget, don't forget, I know you like to forget. You say, yeah, I've been praying so well. We threw five touchdowns against you when we beat you on the walk-off. Touchdown the last time we played you. So this is all I'm going to say. One of them always told me the truth hurt just a little bit more than a lie.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
But if you want me to lie to you, I'll make it sound fly to you.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
It happens when you go across the line. Like, the one thing about it is our team doesn't hurt itself in that type of way. Our team plays with discipline. It's a difference between a Dan Quinn coach team and a Seriani coach team. Your guy punched him in the face. No, no. The one thing, y'all got guys on the sideline reading the Bible. We don't do that over here. Don't do that in Washington.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
Actually, it's not a backup. We got Taylor Biotis at center. And I don't know if we can introduce you to him because he's dominated everybody from Dexter Lawrence and anybody else he's played. We're going to be fine. Next man up mentality. At this point of the year, everybody got people hurt. Philadelphia got people hurt.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
Will you tell us how hurt is your quarterback, the one that you got the fat head of right behind you? How hurt is he?
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
Yeah. In the last time we played, y'all right, he was out for two weeks after we ran into him a couple of times, Mr. Frankie Louvu.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
I just think we're in an unexpected window. I don't think we want to call ourselves underdogs. That ain't what Coach Quinn teaches. He said that word a couple of times. Like, that ain't what we do. We're here because we're supposed to be here. We're a team of destiny. It's a different – like, everything's going – like, you know, sometimes it takes the football guys for things to follow y'all way.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
Y'all remember the open hand with Tom Brady and Childs Woodson? Y'all remember Pat Mahomes numerous times – Things happen in this game, and the one thing we're not doing is saying we're not supposed to be here. We're playing with house money. No, we're not playing with house money.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
We're a team of destiny, and the only thing that's in our way is a city with a broken belt in there and a statue of a man that don't exist in Rocky. So at the end of the day, we're going to Philadelphia, and we're not going there to eat chili steaks. We're going there to get a victory. We're four quarters away from a Super Bowl.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
Nobody would have gave us a chance to say that at the beginning of the year. And the team that's in front of us that's trying to stop us is a team that we already beat one time and we took to the brink at home. We're not afraid of the Philadelphia Eagles. I can't wait because I really do. I'm loving this. Everybody say it all year long. The NFC North was the best conference in football.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
Psych is the NFC Eagles.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
Look, we want your backup quarterback. Just like when Marcus Mariota comes in the game for us, all he do is ball. Because guess what? We took time and we picked the right guy. Y'all pick Kenny Pickett. He's nothing like your starter. Your whole office changed when he come in the game. So I can't blame the fan base, but I can't blame the front office.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
One stop shoot from saying that because I don't think we're playing with house money because I think house money means we lucked up and got here. We beat legit playoff teams. We went to Tampa and beat them on the road. We went to Detroit and beat them on the road. We have beat playoff teams all year long. We beat Philadelphia. We have beat playoff teams. We have get bro to bro with giants.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
We have back down from mode one. Like I said, as long as we enter a game and my quarterback is the best quarterback on the field, we feel like we can win the game. We walk in Philadelphia this week. We're going to feel like our quarterback is better than yours.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
That's quiet self-confidence. They're saying that we're not playing with house money. Like when you say you're playing with house money, we're smoking to the Brails. That's a hint of we're not supposed to be here.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
Big Cat, let me ask you this, Big Cat. All right, let's just say the game is 25-25. We got the ball, Les, with two minutes left. Who are we going to gain?
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
Actually, we've been more dangerous because we've been doing it on fourth and seven, fourth and eight. The thing about it is the four best fourth down teams are the four teams that's left in the playoff right now.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
The Tush Push in Philadelphia, Josh Allen in Buffalo, and of course, of course, the God's gift, the Prince that was promised, Patrick Mahomes in Kansas City, they all four are ranked one, two, three and four and fourth down, I think that has a lot to do with who makes it to the Super Bowl because of that. Because you're talking about four teams that don't turn the ball over much.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
You're talking about four teams that can run the ball not with just their running backs, but they can legitimately run it with their quarterbacks. You're talking about four teams that's optimistic on defense and play great special teams. So this is going to come down to the end. Both games are going to come down to the end. And if Jedi Five gets their ball last, may the force be with you.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
Do you have a pick? I think it's going to be another classic, man. Think about it. End game with Pat Mahomes and Josh Allen. Handline this game. This game can go either way. And for the first time in a long time, somebody's going to go to Kansas City that's not afraid of the cold. Because Buffalo's not afraid of the cold. And one thing we know about Buffalo is James Cook.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
get to running that ball downhill, and they get to possessing that ball and making Pat Mahomes watch that game, we could have that old rematchup. I don't know if that was Super Bowl XXIII or XXIV, but you remember Washington and Buffalo played a Super Bowl that we ended up beating them in. I don't know. Maybe we get another replay of that.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
What do you think? Yes, we should. Yes, we should. Get a boat out there.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
We need to go there and bathe in Bourbon Street. That's what we need to do. We need to go and take on New Orleans like never before. You're talking about a fan base that hasn't had this chance in three decades, almost four decades. Y'all have awakened a sleeping giant. We got fans from Australia to Canada to China. We got so many fans when it comes to it.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
They have nothing to cheer for for over three decades, and now we are back. As America's new team, that's the new moniker.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
Make sure it's a yacht.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
It's got to be a yacht. Or maybe a fan boat.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
That would be fun. Don't come out there in a tugboat. You get no love.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
Final score, I think it's going to be a rock'em, sock'em, bring your ride out, a little snot bubble football game. It's going to be physical, old NFC East. I wish we had men calling this game. I think it's going to be a 30-27 game. It's going to come down to the wire. It's going to come down to the lid of a kick. I call them Big Game Gonzalez. So hopefully he can close it for us.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
30-27, Washington going to New Orleans. I think we will outlast Philadelphia here.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
That's what Philadelphia is usually doing to us. And, you know, it has got to a point where Philadelphia fan base is so hostile that our fans are afraid to just travel up 95 and go to a game. But we kind of acted this because everybody got a cousin, nephew, brother, somebody with a teardrop on their eye that don't believe in following the rules.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
So we're going to get all of them in the car and we're heading to Philadelphia to fight back this week.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
No.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
Do you remember Sexy Dexy Lawrence from the New York Giants who dominated everybody this year? He didn't dominate us. Deontay shut him down. Do you remember Villavella, one of the best defensive tacklers in football? Deontay's made him come up missing instead of putting him on the mail cart. Do you remember all the D tacklers that we faced all year?
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
And Jake, he's kind of included in that, him and Boyden Davis. We've been there. We've done that. The only people we're afraid of is Jesus. If you ain't pulling him out, He ain't afraid.
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
We got a couple of weeks, fellas, but we don't know after this weekend are we back in. Are we back in the Super Bowl window? Coach Gills talked about it this week, and you know when the Josephs talks, we listen. Darrell Green been talking about it. So, come on, man. The football guys are lining for Washington right now. Right now between –
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Championship Sunday, Fred Smoot, SB Champ Mitchell Schwartz, PFT vs Max and Fyre Fest
the football team in Washington, the baseball team in Washington, the Capitals are number one. This is Washington District of Champions. And if y'all want to come and jump on the bandwagon, you're welcome to.