This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! Seattle still deserves an NBA team. For more than three quarters, last night’s Eagles-Commanders game was a brutish defensive struggle.

Over at NFL.com, the league's website recounted a handful of things they learned about the Commanders and the Eagles in the Thursday night bout. And one of them was singling out the play of the Eagles' secondary in totally shutting down rookie phenom Jayden Daniels and the Washington passing attack:

Saquon Barkley took that opening kickoff 97 yards for a touchdown, sending the crowd into a frenzy, and shaking me and everyone else in that press box: That same electricity is back in Pennsylvania thanks to Barkley,