Commanders News: INSTANT REACTION After 29-18 LOSS vs. The Eagles | Mariota Injury Kills Washington

Commanders News: INSTANT REACTION After 29-18 LOSS vs. The Eagles | Mariota Injury Kills Washington

The Commanders lose in week 16 of the 2025 NFL season, losing to the rival Philadelphia Eagles by a final score of 29-8. Um, and the Eagles are currently in Northwest Stadium, wearing a hat and a t-shirt, celebrating their second straight uh NFC East championship. They’re it’s the first repeat champion in this division in 20 years plus. So that sucks that you know your rival is celebrating that um accomplishment in your building and you know it sucks that this commander season has gotten to the point here where you know we can talk about a loss like this and come away with a positive that the commanders are getting a better draft pick because of it. Welcome into the commander support. I’m your host Jack Sperry. Make sure you guys click that subscribe button if you haven’t already. We’re going to have postgame reactions to every single game this year including the one on Christmas. We’ll also be going live on Christmas. Um that’s how dedicated we are here on the Commander Reports. We’re going live on Christmas Day. Um, even though this season is over and there’s really nothing to play for on Thursday, but we love you guys. We appreciate the support that you give to this channel and we’re going to be here for all the rest of the Commanders games this season, uh, no matter how bad they get beat or no matter how well they play. Uh, appreciate all of your guys’ support. So, click that subscribe button if you haven’t already. Now, the story of this game, guys, you know, I thought it was a pretty decent start. You know, defense was getting some stops. You know, Jake Elliott, you know, missed some field goals. uh commanders had a three-point lead going into halftime, had some missed opportunities early and early in the second half. Then Marcus Mariota, who honestly didn’t play great in this game, he only had a 50% completion percentage, had less than 100 yards. When he left with his hand injury, but you know, when he left with his hand injury today, guys, it was over. All right? Like the game was over. Whenever you put Josh Johnson in a football game in the National Football League, there’s just not going to be a chance for you to win that football game. And you know, the refs weren’t necessarily on the commander side in this one. There’s some bad calls in my opinion, but that’s not the reason why you lost this game in my opinion. The Eagles were just the better team. And um maybe this game is different if Marcus Mariota was able to finish the game. Um but yeah, that injury really changed the game in my opinion and the Eagles really stomped on the Commanders the rest of the way. Um some injury updates here. Jaylen Lane left the game early uh with an ankle injury after kind of an awkward tackle on the first punt return of the game. Obviously, Marcus Mariota left with a hand injury. And whenever you have an injury and you can’t finish the game, you you have to wonder the next question is will he be able to play on Thursday against the Cowboys. Um I think it’s because it’s such a short week, I don’t think you can bring in a quarterback and reasonably have them ready to play. So, if Mario can’t play, it’s either going to be Josh Johnson or Sam Hartman. uh probably on Christmas and uh yeah man that would that would not be great. Then Brandon Coleman left the game late with a lower body injury. He immediately went back to the locker room was able to walk on his walk off on his own power but it looked like he was in a lot of pain. Uh last week he lost Laramie Tonsel. This week you lose Brandon Coleman. We’ll see if Tonsel is able to go on Thursday for the Christmas game but um you know we might be looking at a emergency situation at left tackle here in Washington. And then Sam Cosby left the game late as well with a with an injury as well. We don’t know actually if it’s it might be lower body. We don’t know. It looked like he got tumbled over. It might have been his head. Um but you know, we’ll see what that ends up being. Jonah Newton also left the game late with an injury. Might have been lower body. We don’t have confirmation on what that is just yet. Um but we’ll we’ll see what these injuries look like and we’ll get you guys updates as the week goes on here as we get ready for Christmas Day. But we’ll get into some takeaways here. Um, there were some missed opportunities early in my opinion. You get a fumble recovery on the opening kickoff. Um, and you get the ball inside the Eagles 30 and then you have the ball at the three yardd line. There’s a bad nonall on a DPI on Cooper Deian literally holding down the arm of the commander receiver. No call. And then after that, you know, with a great opportunity to go up a touchdown, you’re at your own three yardd line or you’re at the Eagles three yardd line, I should say, they decide to kick the field goal. And I I just can’t explain why Dan Quinn did that. He’s usually known as a pretty aggressive head coach. And, you know, this is a game where it’s kind of like an effort game. You know, go out, try and win the ball game. All right, you don’t have anything to lose in this game. The Eagles are a better team on paper. You got to take those opportunities when when they come. And uh they didn’t. They took the they took the points there and then uh they got a three and out and then they got the ball back with a chance to go up two scores. Got a holding penalty. Missed that opportunity. Then you got the ball to start the second half with a chance to go up two scores. And once again, uh you you can’t get points. So just some missed opportunities in this game to really take this one by the balls and you know uh you know take control of it and and put some pressure on the Eagles. Unfortunately, they fell short of that and then the Mariota injury happened and the game was over. You know, once Josh Johnson came into the game, we said it on the live watch party. We said immediately if Mariota can’t come back in this game, it’s over. And we had a lead at that point. All right. We said the game was over with a lead. That’s how bad Josh Johnson is as a backup option at quarterback, guys. And that’s not to be mean the Josh Johnson or anything like that. It’s just being objective about what he’s capable of doing on an NFL football field at this point in his career. I mean, that interception he threw today off his back foot cross his body right to Cooper Dean. I mean, Cooper Dean probably hasn’t had an interception that easy since high school. Like, it was just floating right to him. Um, so, you know, if Josh Johnson or Sam Hartman has to play for this team next week on Thursday, oh my goodness, it’s not going to be a happy Christmas here in Washington. But then we get to Chris Rodriguez Jr. and, you know, I I appreciate C-Rod. He got a touchdown late. He ran hard all game long, but like there’s just a different quality to Bill Crosky Merritt. And I just don’t understand why he’s not getting the number one running back carries. I mean, maybe they were preserving Bill, but they gave Chris Rodriguez Jr. almost double the carries that Bill got today. Um, now he actually rushed for a bit for for a greater average than than Bill, but that I think that that was kind of padded by the late game kind of, you know, garbage time yards that he got. the Eagles were playing extremely soft at the end of the game. But, you know, I think Bill is pretty clearly the best running back on this team. Um, and to see him being pretty much delegated to run number three running back duties at this point in the season is disappointing to me. I I wish they would use him more and give him more of a true try out to be this team’s number one running back next year. And the fact that they’re not giving him that kind of attention and that kind of reps at this point in the year makes me think that the Commanders might look towards signing a bigger name. in free agency to be this team’s number one running back next year or maybe drafting a running back earlier um in next year’s NFL draft to pair with Bill. Um but certainly disappointing to me that you know after almost a nearly 100yard performance last week against the Giants he only gets eight carries today. Um for me that’s disappointing. So you be the judge for me down there in the comments section. Great today’s performance from the commanders. A B C D or F. Uh for me uh I’ll give them like a D. you know, they they they fought decently well in this one, I guess. Um, you know, they were able to do some good things. They had they had a lead going into halftime and they were very competitive when Marcus Mariota was in the game. And then, you know, you can’t really control injuries. Uh, but I’m I’m still going to give them a D. Not a great performance from the Commanders today. But before we get into the rest of this week’s preview, let’s have a word from our sponsor today at uh Fanatics. You guys can go to chatports.com/daniels to pick up a Jaden Daniels jersey for 30% off with code elf today only, guys. So whether you want the Super Bowl era alternate, uh whether you want the black alternate or what you want to go with the classic home burgundy or the classic away white, you guys can go to chatsports.com/daniels, pick up a 30% off discount uh when you use our link and use code elf um today. So we appreciate your guys’ support. All right, let’s get into the rest of these takeaways here. Uh, first I I want to talk about I want to say that I appreciate the fight. All right, this team is really down bad. On paper, the Commanders had no business being in this football game. Um, you know, you have a ton of injuries on defense, offense, the whole nine yards. You don’t have your starting quarterback. He didn’t have your second string quarterback for much of the second half. Um, a lot of stuff has just not gone the Commander Way on the injury front this year. And that’s just the reality of it. They showed a graphic on the game today that they have the most games missed due to injury for any team in the National Football League by a wide margin, I might add. All right, so this has just been the season from hell in terms of injuries. And I appreciate the fact that this team does, you know, bring the juice and bring the fight every single week on both sides of the ball. They don’t have a lot of talent left on this team. That’s still healthy, but um at least they’re trying. Then the final takeaway here is up we go in the NFL draft here, folks. you know, the positive spin uh when you’re in the position the Commanders are in where the season is over that when you lose games, you go up in the draft order. So, you know, we’ll see where the Commanders end up uh falling uh based on what happens here in week 16. I’m sure they’ll probably move up a spot or two um heading into week 17. If they lo continue to lose against the Cowboys and the Eagles again uh to finish the season, they could end up even with as high as a top five draft pick. So, we’ll just have to see what these other teams in the top 10 of the draft order do here in the coming weeks. But, um certainly the commanders are in position right now to be in pretty good position to trade down in the first round and get a good hall um and you know get an additional high draft pick for trading down in the first round. So, at least uh if you’re looking at at the positive aspect of this loss, that’s where I would point you uh to. Uh so, point the finger for me down there in the comments section. Who’s the most to blame for the loss today? Um, I would blame Marcus Mariota’s injury. I’m not blaming Marcus for getting injured. That would be stupid. But I’m blaming the injury on Marcus Mariota um for the as the reason why you lost as bad as you did because there the the Commander offense was just not competitive um before garbage time with Josh Johnson in there. They just weren’t. So um hopefully it looks better in weeks to come. Uh but that’s who what that’s what I’ll blame the loss on today. Could blame a bunch of other stuff as well. Could blame injuries, could blame the refs if you want to, but um at the end of the day, it’s another loss for the Washington Commanders. And up we go in the draft order here, folks. Just some final thoughts here. Um it just this was the final game of the year where I I kind of cared about winning because I didn’t want the Eagles to celebrate the division championship in our building. And unfortunately, that’s happening right now. And you know, that idea and that thought is, you know, is making me sick. Uh because I hate the Eagles, dude. like I I think, you know, they’re they suck. All right, so listen, man. Philly, enjoy it. Um, first consecutive NFC East championship in a long time. Um, but I think we all kind of expect the Eagles to maybe be one and done in the playoffs this year. They’re not playing particularly great. Commanders were in the lead and really in control of this game for a long time and it had to, you know, you the Eagles needed the Commanders second string quarterback to get injured to take control of this ball game. Um, so that kind of shows you the state that the Philadelphia Eagles are in right now. But, um, listen, man, congratulations to them. We just got to take it week by week at this point here on the Commander Report. And, uh, now we move on to Christmas and the Dallas Cowgirls. So, make sure you guys click that subscribe button if you haven’t already. Greatly appreciate your guys’ support. Uh, again, we’re going to be here on the Commander Report for the rest of the season giving you guys daily informative and free Commanders content. Getting you ready for the 2026 off seasonason. It’s going to be a big one here for Adam Peters, Dan Quinn, and company. Uh, so if you don’t want to miss anything this off seasonason, make sure you guys click that subscribe button if you haven’t already. Till next time, out to the commanders.

Commanders Report by Chat Sports breaks down what went wrong for the Washington Commanders after their 29-18 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. The Commanders allowed the Eagles to clinch the NFC East at their home stadium and now look ahead on this lost season to Christmas day where they face the Dallas Cowboys. Did the Commanders make any progress this week. Jack Sperry breaks it down on today’s Commanders NFL Week 16 Takeaways.

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QB Marcus Mariota vs. PHI:
– 50.0 CMP%
– 95 YDS
– 0 TD
– 0 INT

QB Marcus Mariota left the game in the third quarter with an injury and did not return which spelled the end for the Washington Commanders. The Commanders had the lead when Mariota left and after he left, Philadelphia went on a 22 point unanswered stretch and forced a INT from backup QB Josh Johnson.

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