BALTIMORE — Not exactly announcing their presence with authority going into the lladelph, are they?Washington’s woeful effort in its preseason finale against the Baltimore Ravens Friday offered almost nothing that will be determinative against the Philadelphia Eagles in two weeks. Thank goodness.The Commanders sat 41 players before a 41-3 loss to the Ravens, capping an ugly end to training camp which started with Baltimore’s first-team defense dominating Washington’s available starters for most of last Wednesday’s joint practice. The Ravens’ third- and fourth-teamers then smacked Washington’s around at M&T Bank Stadium for four quarters. Dan Quinn had clarified going into the week that Wednesday would be the last bit of preseason business for not just Jayden Daniels, but almost everyone on the two-deep chart. Almost no one Friday made a case for making the team that hadn’t already done so, leaving Quinn miffed.Washington can only hope that the weeks which preceded this one show up in Philly. The Commanders’ OTAs and (most of) training camp point to a team that should be more competitive than last season’s 5-12 version — though a brutal schedule the first eight weeks may render that preparation moot. They point to an offense that first-year offensive coordinator David Blough spun up that could put points on the board behind a more balanced attack around Daniels. Though the long-term triceps injury to star tackle Laremy Tunsil has shaken the offensive line’s depth and potential.Still, amid the finite disappointment of this last week, alongside a mistake-filled outing in Detroit a week ago, there’s hope for a turnaround once the games start to count. The staff, including new defensive coordinator Daronte Jones, threw a lot at this group. They absorbed much of it, but there is much to clean up.“When you go, and you put a lot in offensively and defensively (during camp), you want to say, OK, more of that, less of that,” Quinn said Friday. “Now you get to do that with the staff. We’ll have a big volume at the start, and now we can say features, roles, packages … we’ll get into a game plan, and what it looks like. With the volume of packages, there are still errors. And so, I think you always want execution to be high on your list, even in camp.”Top Plays from Commanders @ RavensEvery team’s injuries matter. Washington is razor-thin in a couple of spots. Center Nick Allegretti’s calf injury shelved him for almost all of camp. He is a battler, but he also gets hurt. Much of the time he tries to play through it, but a veteran with a bad calf facing 17 weeks of mayhem does not engender confidence that he’ll make it through the season intact. And behind him … whooo.Julian Good-Jones struggled throughout camp, against his teammates in practice and when he got first-team reps in the exhibitions. Sixth-rounder Matt Gulbin has a lot of work to do to get up to speed at center, after playing guard most of camp. Not optimal with the Eagles’ defensive line, featuring Jordan Davis and Jalen Carter, on the docket. This is something Washington general manager Adam Peters has to level up in the next 14 days.Washington cut incumbent center Tyler Biadasz in the spring, presumably after his play dropped off significantly last season, enough to alarm decision-makers in Ashburn. OK, but unless and until you have his replacement’s signature on a contract, dumping a useful player on a decent contract like Biadasz can backfire. Moving so quickly off Biadasz feels, at present, like a mistake.Obviously, the Commanders’ post-Biadasz plan was to throw enough money at free-agent center Tyler Linderbaum, the three-time Pro Bowler, to ensure he would say yes. The Raiders, though, offered more. Washington was right to pass on paying a center, even one as good as Linderbaum, a cap-stretching $27 million a year for three years; that would have surely cost the Commanders one or two of the defensive players they signed in the spring. Is one Linderbaum worth more than, say, Leo Chenal and Nick Cross combined?Yet, what was the Commanders’ Plan B? I’m sure they had one. Maybe a draft-day trade for a veteran center fell through, or a prospect the Commanders liked on Day 2 or 3 of the draft was scarfed up just before they picked. But if the failsafe was just Allegretti and we’ll figure the rest out later, that didn’t work. Quinn has said that what’s in-house behind Allegretti hasn’t met the standard. Peters and the front office will mine the waiver wire after the league’s final cuts this weekend, but it will be vital to fortify that position with a quality player, not just a body.If the Commanders can get right along the line — guard Sam Cosmi’s long-term health is vital — there’s a pathway to staying alive through September and October, leaning on the defense and special teams to win enough to be viable.Most importantly, there’s Daniels.He had an outstanding camp. He looked in control of Blough’s system and was accurate day in and day out. He looked healthy. His timing with Terry McLaurin, wrecked last year by McLaurin’s contract holdout and injuries, looked to be back in 2024 form. Stefon Diggs’ presence provides a completely different kind of receiver on the other side of formations than Daniels has had in his first two seasons. The Commanders’ depth at wide receiver, along with free agent tight end Chig Okonkwo, should give Daniels many options to push the ball downfield.Daniels got just three snaps from scrimmage in the Commanders’ three preseason games. He got plenty of work in the joint practices, though. He says it’s enough to hit the ground running in Week 1.“In the (preseason) games, you don’t really see a lot of exotic looks,” Daniels said Wednesday. “You got some good work on third downs, first and second downs, versus a coordinator like this (Baltimore’s Anthony Weaver), a team like this, that gave us good work, just to have answers, to go out there and play ball at the end of the day. No matter what, we get paid to play ball. So we’re going to be ready when it’s time to come.”It’s important, as social media rends its garments about the impending doom of the regular season based on the illusory results of preseason, that Washington didn’t show its regular-season hands on offense or defense in the exhibitions, either. Jones’ real defense should be significantly faster at linebacker, much more versatile at safety and deeper along the defensive line. But we’ll find out immediately where it stands when it has to try and slow down Saquon Barkley, Jalen Hurts and Philadelphia’s veteran offensive line.The Ravens’ crowd Friday featured a guy in the stands who spelled out “R-A-V-E-N-S,” as the home team enjoyed a laugher. Washington left Baltimore far more sober. And it faces more spelling from Philly fans at the Linc in 14 days if it doesn’t tighten everything up quickly.