Grant and Danny
Which Commanders Stud From MNF Will Carry Over?
Set the plate clock they don't the three seconds left annuals flips. He's got another and this time it's Trent Scott Tackle was the extra offensive lineman And what a night for the commanders Which offensive linemen's gonna score against the Cardinals? That's the question. That is the real question welcome back Grant and Danny on the fan of the breakout performers and or just Success stories of Monday night. What's gonna carry over and what won't? Short week you stayed on the road Arizona's up next. That's the question 800 636 1067 is the number will open up the MGM National Harbor listener lines for you guys right now So Danny will start with you what's something that worked really well on Monday that you think they'll go back to and we'll have plenty of Success with on Sunday the chance for one-on-one opportunities I think you're gonna see that I think based on the fact that you've got a cut. It's like I always use a boxing analogy It's not a good one But you've got to cover your gut because right Brian Robinson's giving you those body punches Right, you've got to cover because Jaden Daniels is gonna scramble outside You've got to cover because Austin Echler when he's healthy is a weapon You've got to cover because Zach Kurtz is operating in that underneath middle of the field You're going to be able to get some pretty good looks for wide receivers now I don't know that they've got a wide receiver cord that's capable of taking advantage every week You know, I know that this isn't the week to do it because of how awesome that this past Monday was but down and down out I still don't think this is among the better or even really top 20 wide receiver cores in the game But you're going to be able to get some good looks and guys are gonna have a chance to make some plays I think that's sustainable based on everything else that they do Yeah, I think that one thing that will carry over is I feel really good about the Trejectory of Luke McCaffery I think he runs really good routes. He's very smart and the more they want to involve him the better now That doesn't mean he has to be the number two wide receiver in fact I don't think that's the plan, but I think he could play the slot for them It's just six catches through three games But he had three in week one he had three in week three and he had forty four yards including a 42 yard catch and run To set up a first and goal on a fourth and two I Think that they need to continue to incorporate him. I'm not suggesting majorly for the record But I do think it you know a minimum of two and probably in the range of four to five targets every single week in the slot Is probably about right he gets open at a rate that is amongst the best in the national football league And he's just learning he's figuring this thing out as he goes. He's only gonna get better, but I think there's something there Down the depth chart at wide receiver. Mm-hmm. I'm not telling you they have a great number two We're an awesome slot receiver, but I think the way they're gonna use Noah Brown as their receiver opposite McCorn on those in-breaking type things out wide. I think that works. I think he can box guys out He can use his size. He's got a big catch radius. He can make Daniels right with the lunging diving catch You saw him go to the ground and scoop a ball off the grass basically to make a big reception He had a nice 16 yard catch the goal line We had a guy on his back that you know, he had kind of stacked behind him I think that's a good role for him and then McCaffery in the slot on smaller DB's is a win at six to two hundred That's a rare size for what they're asking him to do in the middle of the field I think some of those things carry over. I don't think you're gonna hit the 55 yarder to McClorin necessarily every single week and This has nothing to do with McClorin who's good and Daniels who looked amazing But that throw and catch at the end of the game is so low percentage. That's incomplete I'm gonna say like three quarters of the time Yeah, an inch to the right with Terry's knee when it hits first you're out of bounds and it's an almost play There's a reason the next gen stat said there was a 10% chance of them all being completed the moment at left Jaden Daniels hand so I think maybe the McClorin performance I'd say has less of a chance of carrying over but I think Turning up the knob on Noah Brown Luke McCaffery and kind of down-the-depth truck receivers now that there'll be more respect played to McClorin and maybe there's gonna be you know a second safety kind of Shading his way on some of the deep stuff. I actually think you're gonna see plenty of that underneath Opportunity for Jaden Daniels this week. Yeah, so things something it won't carry over. It can't be that clean You can't have zero turnovers zero penalties until you know moments left in the game there on the fourth quarter stuff happens adversity happens The tip pass the muff snap the the the miscommunication the tip pass the the ball that juggles out of the receiver's hands The overthrow a mistake is coming and multiple mistakes are coming by the way It's the league it's what happens this sport. We have too much data to know that right? You're not gonna go penalty free again for for 50 minutes give or take a football So you all of a sudden are going to face more bad down-and-distance. They've been unbelievable even when it's gone poorly on first down They've had great make-ups right whether it's you know But fighting back from a first and I'm assuming a second and 12 or a second and 20 or things like that They've done an amazing job. That's not sustainable though to have a you know first down penalty Be backed up 20 yards and still get that first down and walk down and score and never punt some of the the adversity is coming in that regard So I'll circle a different point in that same category, which is They're gonna turn the ball over at some point Probably this weekend. Yeah, it's gonna happen You're gonna go four straight weeks to start the year without turning the ball over I guess it's possible now oddly you don't expect a Jaden Daniels pick because he just so rarely puts the ball and harms way I think there's a couple of things really good about that and a couple things kind of I Don't even use the word bad Because it's a trade-off but that that keep you from maybe being better offensively about that so the good is he reads things out pretty well number one number two He is not taking big-time risks and he almost never takes a bad risk, right? That's really good what I would say is less than ideal about never turning the ball over or kind of the way he's played the position is it feels like With a couple of the throws to McClure and notwithstanding. He's got to see it open if you see what I mean Like he is not Anticipating and throwing before a guy's breaking. That's sometimes where oh, I thought you were gonna do this But you did that and that's where you get the pick or the PBU It is fourth and two. I'm gonna keep drifting backwards backwards backwards. I'm 11 yards behind the line But now Zach hurts just came free in the middle of the field and I'll drive it in there because he's wide open The more of that and you're gonna get fewer takeaways that way, which is a good thing But also when that doesn't come open when you've now drifted drifted drifted and you're waiting that play might be dead Whereas if you're anticipating and you're driving it into a window before a guy's there, you know, that's where you're gonna be most efficient So I think occasionally When you see guys like you almost will always see with a really low interception rate comes a very low touchdown rate Or a very low big 20 plus 40 plus explosive play rate It's like eating fast food every day and not gaining weight to have almost no picks and to have those explosive big things also Yeah, every once in a while you get an error Rogers 50 touchdown six interception season and then you realize how remarkable those things are in the MVP award And you get the whole thing precisely but it just doesn't happen like the 30 some touchdown season is normally accompanied by For the best quarterbacks 8 to 13 interceptions or whatever Yep, and it's just because it happens sometimes So I view the no interceptions thing as good obviously, but it's there's also some telling there that isn't always great So it's all like I'm looking forward to a pick but hey, I want to see how he responds when it happens with which I think people can relate to and be I want a little bit more Anticipating unless he's open. He's clapping his flat footed Let me throw it to him and they've gotten guys open which is awesome. If that keeps happening They're not punting don't change anything, but that will not keep happening. That's not how it works It's not always like that so the thing that is sustainable to me or another thing It's sustainable that we'll see going forward is even if Daniels is wrong It's still helpful the hidden yards that he provides in what should be a 12 yard loss That's turned into a sack for minus 2 a incomplete pass that he could have forced or thrown away is a five-yard Again in a first-down those little hidden things aren't sexy that don't you know Make sport center or you know the fastest whatever it is in television Those hidden yards are so helpful for the script to stay ahead of the sticks for them to find something where maybe there Wouldn't be a drive otherwise right a second and ten is a lot worse than the second and seven after he scrambles and makes a small play Maybe you're missing out on the occasional 12-yard pass or 15 yard pass which you'd like eventually for him to grow into But there are a couple those times in that Cincinnati game where you're like oh that was open right then if it was perfect Okay, it's not now nothing's open so instead of a loss of seven. It's a four-yard game. So those plays are huge