Hour 1: Cactus

We didn't have any cacti last night in the 49ers win over the Commanders 23-17, but we did come away with more questions once again about Dan Quinn and the clock management abilities of the Washington Commanders in some pivotal moments.

First off, just the fact that this wound up being a game at all at the end, considering the stat that we walked into halftime with, which was this.

The Commanders, who had a massive 20-3 lead before halftime,

The 49ers.

The 49ers, excuse me, who had 23 lead before halftime.

Had more first downs with 17 than the commanders had run plays with 16 before the final play of the first half.

It was as dominant and lopsided a half of football as you'll ever see.

And it was punctuated, of course...

Coming off Washington's last week where you had this awful gaffe of clock management that winds up with a tie that leaves the NFC East in a really perilous situation that we'll get to in a little bit.

But we had a moment.

It was fourth down and plus territory here.

And Jaden Daniels, they go for it on fourth down, rolls out and throws the ball away.

Inexplicably, Troy Aikman did a great job of calling it out on the broadcast saying it's fourth down.

You've got to at least give your receiver a chance, especially in plus territory.

And then we get the shot.

The camera pans over to Dan Quinn.

And amateur lip readers, it appears to be some sort of question from his part about was that a fourth down.

Now, he came out after the game, Dad, and made very clear that he knew it was fourth down on that play.

But either way, the fact that it even becomes plausible because of what happened last week continues to just cast doubt over whether or not Dan Quinn's going to be the coach of this team going forward.

Well,

I mean, listen, I think he knew it was fourth down.

You could read his lips saying, oh, you know, oh, it was fourth down.

I definitely think it was fourth down.

So again, you go to communication from Dan Quinn to Dave Blau, the offensive coordinator, who's in the year of...

Jaden Daniels, and there was a flag on it.

We didn't have any cacti last night in the 49ers win over the Commanders 23-17, but we did come away with more questions once again about Dan Quinn and the clock management abilities of the Washington Commanders in some pivotal moments.

First off, just the fact that this wound up being a game at all at the end, considering the stat that we walked into halftime with, which was this.

The Commanders, who had a massive 20-3 lead before halftime,

The 49ers.

The 49ers, excuse me, who had 23 lead before halftime.

Had more first downs with 17 than the commanders had run plays with 16 before the final play of the first half.

It was as dominant and lopsided a half of football as you'll ever see.

And it was punctuated, of course...

Coming off Washington's last week where you had this awful gaffe of clock management that winds up with a tie that leaves the NFC East in a really perilous situation that we'll get to in a little bit.

But we had a moment.

It was fourth down and plus territory here.

And Jaden Daniels, they go for it on fourth down, rolls out and throws the ball away.

Inexplicably, Troy Aikman did a great job of calling it out on the broadcast saying it's fourth down.

You've got to at least give your receiver a chance, especially in plus territory.

And then we get the shot.

The camera pans over to Dan Quinn.

And amateur lip readers, it appears to be some sort of question from his part about was that a fourth down.

Now, he came out after the game, Dad, and made very clear that he knew it was fourth down on that play.

But either way, the fact that it even becomes plausible because of what happened last week continues to just cast doubt over whether or not Dan Quinn's going to be the coach of this team going forward.

Well,

I mean, listen, I think he knew it was fourth down.

You could read his lips saying, oh, you know, oh, it was fourth down.

I definitely think it was fourth down.

So again, you go to communication from Dan Quinn to Dave Blau, the offensive coordinator, who's in the year of...

Jaden Daniels, and there was a flag on it.