Yahoo Sports senior NFL analyst Nate Tice and NFL writer Charles McDonald react to the Commanders’ 36-33 victory over the Eagles. Listen to the full Football 301 conversation – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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Game one got a lot of attention.

This was the Eagles and the Commanders in their NFC East rematch.

The commanders took this from 136 to 33 and stormed back.

Uh, I thought the Eagles had that and then Jalen Hurts gets a concussion in the first quarter.

Kenny Pickett, Kenny Pickles comes on for the 3rd quarter.

Got a bit sloppy.

I’ll get into some stats in a moment, but Jane Daniels finishes with 5 touchdowns.

The Commanders’ defense strengthened significantly as the game progressed.

Yeah, wow, that was uh, that was uh for about three quarters.

I thought I kind of saw how this game was going to go and then suddenly a few things happened, but what you take away from this game: Charles, uh, Commanders win another wild win in the 4th quarter.

Yes, you call them Kenny Pickles, but I think it would have been better to have Tommy Pickles at quarterback in the 4th quarter, you know, let’s remember the Rugrats days.

It was crazy what happened in that game.

And like you said, in the first three quarters, the Eagles were still in control of this game despite the injury to guard Hurts, which happened fairly early on.

Even with the score, I would still be pretty confident that they are a much better team than the Commanders, as they were up 27-14 for all three quarters in the third quarter.

They went into the fourth quarter in a game they lost 36-33 without overtime.

Um, or didn’t you work overtime?

No, it didn’t come to no because they won on the last drive of the game.

So in the fourth quarter, commanders had a 75% success rate.

Overall success rate of 59%, 0.5% EPA per game, 7.33 points per drive and just one turnover.

So I mean, if you give it all up in the fourth quarter, you definitely deserve to lose.

I mean, this is just a collapse that I don’t think any team would dream of actually having in this scenario.

But I guess you have to give Jayden Daniels a tip.

He had an interception on the third drive of the game.

Then they came back and were able to score a touchdown or score on the final drive to actually get the win.

They got a little lucky because on the Eagles’ last play, Devonta Smith was running around with grease on his hands and just dropped a wide-open pass that, as we’ve seen, he would have made a million times and probably would have iced the game because They had the 2 minute warning and observed a time out.

So if you get just one more first down after that, it’s game over.

Uh, so they were kind of blessed, but shoot.

This is the team with Destiny, right?

We’ve been saying that all season.

They were able to get back in the game, score a touchdown on the field, and now that their playoff hopes are all but solidified by everything else that’s happened in the NFC.

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