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Why Ali picked the Commanders: The Raiders enter this cross-country affair on short rest, needing to rebound after a brutal offensive outing<\/a> on Monday night. So far, Vegas has been unable to unlock rookie Ashton Jeanty<\/a>, who ranks bottom-five among backs in several rushing efficiency metrics. The lack of a functioning ground game has unsurprisingly put undue pressure on Geno Smith<\/a> and his bevy of No. 2 receivers, as well as the team’s defense (which has played admirably thus far). If Jeanty stalls again this weekend, I’m worried the same could be true for Geno — particularly against a Commanders defense that ranks second overall in pressure percentage through Week 2 (48.1%, per NGS). Washington, meanwhile, is bouncing back from a lopsided prime-time loss<\/a> of its own, and potentially without reigning Offensive Rookie of the Year Jayden Daniels<\/a> (knee<\/a>). Marcus Mariota<\/a> would get the start in Daniels’ absence, which, while a step down, perhaps isn’t as steep of one as it might seem. In three appearances for the Commanders last year, Mariota went 34-of-44 passing, with a 4:0 TD-to-INT ratio, 92 rushing yards and one rushing score. So, even if Washington is forced to roll with its QB2, I think I ultimately like the home team on nine days’ rest more than the visiting squad with a suspect ground game. But I certainly wouldn’t write off Geno & Co. from securing their second East Coast upset<\/a> of this young season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why Ali picked the Commanders: The Raiders enter this cross-country affair on short rest, needing to rebound after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2049],"tags":[90,390,254,117,53,260,391,256,54,257,258,113,217,7,1996,345,253,392,125,110,393,262,58,216,251,2087,259,249,55,56,255,6,609,109,57,252,261,250,394,111],"class_list":{"0":"post-378219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-dolphins","8":"tag-analysis","9":"tag-arizona-cardinals","10":"tag-atlanta-falcons","11":"tag-baltimore-ravens","12":"tag-buffalo-bills","13":"tag-carolina-panthers","14":"tag-chicago-bears","15":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","16":"tag-cleveland-browns","17":"tag-dallas-cowboys","18":"tag-denver-broncos","19":"tag-detroit-lions","20":"tag-dolphins","21":"tag-football","22":"tag-game-picks","23":"tag-green-bay-packers","24":"tag-houston-texans","25":"tag-indianapolis-colts","26":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","27":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","28":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","29":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","30":"tag-los-angeles-rams","31":"tag-miami","32":"tag-miami-dolphins","33":"tag-miamidolphins","34":"tag-minnesota-vikings","35":"tag-new-england-patriots","36":"tag-new-orleans-saints","37":"tag-new-york-giants","38":"tag-new-york-jets","39":"tag-nfl","40":"tag-no-minute","41":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","42":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","43":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","44":"tag-seattle-seahawks","45":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","46":"tag-tennessee-titans","47":"tag-washington-commanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}