Coach Quinn announces Terry McLaurin will miss the rest of the season

This game a blowout until it wasn't, then it was a comeback that just came up short after getting down 23-3. The Commanders woke up late in the second half, but after scoring two touchdowns to get within range of the lead, the comeback fell flat. A pass to Traylon Burks with just under two minutes remaining, broken up, and then with six seconds left in the game, JD5 sacked. The Commanders are now 1-4-1 on the season. Managing Editor for Sports Illustrated, Peter Dewey, we talked yesterday, here we are again. And it's very typical of the Commanders to come up against these 5-0 kind of teams and be like, okay, somehow they pulled it out. And they seemed like they were getting close to that. And then it was just a debacle and so much to break down. Where do we start, Peter? Yeah, I think this starts with the early game decision-making across the board. They had a chance to get a field goal early in the game, and they went on a fourth down. Jaden Daniels just inexplicably threw the ball away. I know there's a lot being made, whether Dan Quinn seemed to know that it was fourth down on that possession. But that's a spot where you kind of need to get some points if you're Washington, especially playing a team as good as San Francisco. And to just get nothing out of that play, obviously, was concerning early in the game. And I think we talked about it yesterday, but they came out flat once again where they're down big early in the game. And it's just hard to climb out of a hole like that against a 49ers team. I thought the resolve in the second half showed that this team's really stayed together over, you know, the last couple of weeks with everything that's happened and the tie they had against New York. But at the end of the day, 1-4-1 is not pretty. Yeah, and I think that play that you're talking about, right, that was right before you go into halftime here. It seems that it's a fourth down. J.D. Fives got it, and he throws it away. What do you make of that? Because the lip readers, right, I mean, everybody on social media saying that Dan Quinn had no idea that it was a fourth down, was surprised when in his headset he's told that it's a fourth down. He drops the F-bomb. Obviously, they go into the locker room. Okay, Coach Quinn is on the mic. Peter, stay with me here. Let's listen in to head coach here, Dan Quinn, as of last night's loss. Surgery, and he's going to miss the rest of the season. So I had a chance to speak with him last night on the plane and again after testing today. And, man, I'm gutted for him as captain and, like, one of our real leaders. And so we're all here to support him, but that was certainly tough news. Fill you in a little bit on team meeting, what I discussed with the team. They're still continuing to go through the game now to close the chapter on San Francisco. And I also gave a quick assessment, you know, from like the first six haven't gone as planned and had a season of adversity in six games. And so the reset, the response is what I'm most looking forward to. But I would also say as a staff, you can bet as a staff and as a team, we'll work our ass off. They've become more decisive, more exacting, and stronger in the execution. We need that. This week, as a bye, is a chance for us to look even more closely at why we're in this situation and how we're going to do things to absolutely get our way out of it. So for a stretch last night, we saw the way. And now for me, how do we sustain that for four quarters of football? And that's a must. So with all that said, glad to open it up to you, Charlie. Let's get it ripping. Yeah, go ahead, Con. All right, Dan, first, real quick, do you have any other injury updates, Javon, Trey Burks? I don't have those yet, John, with the late return. Some of the imaging is still going on. So on Monday, I can give you some of the updates there and potentially some people working back as well. But I wanted to give you the update on Terry. And then with Terry, obviously, he's meant a lot to this franchise. talk about the significance of the loss but also do you feel this room is maybe better prepared to absorb a loss than in the past yeah i haven't gotten that far down the road yet but um man he brings a lot john on and off the field and um i felt him in so many unique ways this season from training camp to in season and uh like for him to even like to start the game like he did I thought was significant um so we do have a deep crew at that position and we'll lean in you know on a number of the guys to find some of the unique roles that Terry does Nikki okay sorry uh David Aldridge Dan um just to follow up on on Terry um you've got Van and you've got Bradley and they both had pretty decent camps there's likelihood that one or both of those guys gets elevated it yeah Van would be um you know somebody like we've already done once and um I agree that he had an excellent camp to go and Jalen as well you feel some of the deep plays with Jalen and that's some of the unique things that Terry has as well um Burks has some of that Diame has some of that and so um probably to you know follow up with John there are guys who have the over the top speed Terry's superpowers really on the contested catches and uh that's one of the things that make him excellent but um it's a big it's a big hit and uh we'll lean on a number of guys Dan I know it's hard to compartmentalize a loss but was it important for your team to show more competitiveness in the second half and give yourselves a chance to win the game just going forward for the rest of the season yes and uh I was surprised we started as slowly as we did the a um I love the week I liked where we set ourselves up to go and just to you know come out and you know not have the first half that we wanted was certainly disappointing it felt worse at the half than what it was and let's get back into it from about the middle of the third quarter on i liked the switch i liked the aggressiveness um of what i had saw it was interesting like defensively i've been starting fast this was just the opposite you know where the second half was so much stronger and um i'm excited to see our team get in sync for the whole time when i've seen it in spurts i saw it you know in a half last night and to me that's when we're gonna be at our best there was parts that in seattle parts that in many other games but man truly david that's like to me that's the secret sauce that's what i'm digging into as hard as i can to make sure like that stays consistent the whole way through man all right back to nikki i did um just curious what did you see from the o-line um throughout the game and i know you had said recently that you're still kind of tinkering with the interior group do you still feel like that or do you have the group that should be set for the rest of the season yeah i wouldn't say that i i wasn't um i thought this performance was below the standard that we've set for ourself um at offensive line um and that's like gonna continue to look and find the right combination nikki so um i wasn't pleased with uh like the standard that we have set for our group. And I don't think we met that yesterday. I thought we left ourselves short.