Grant and Danny
Have Your Expectations Changed For The Commanders?, Calls On Your Expectations
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Yeah, and I'm not trying to allow Something amazing whether it's positive or negative something abnormally good or bad To influence how I feel in a small sample Man, is it hard not to let Monday night change the eyeline a little bit on this season your imagination running away with you is not ridiculous after Monday night The question we want to pose on the phones and they're wide open for you at 800 6361067 right now on GND Does that Monday night win whether it's Daniels's performance the offense going a second straight game without punning the fact that in a hostile Environment the commanders put on a clinic with the football Just how they handled themselves does any part of it change how you feel about this season your prediction for what they're capable of When total wise this season absolutely 100% I Didn't think they had that offensive performance in them at any point in time I didn't think you could take advantage of a bad defense I thought they were the get right week for everybody So the point where you know in some big money fantasy leagues that I'm in that I come in with one of my good buddies They were one of the teams that we had listed as let's stream a defense against them Let's treat them the way we would treat the Giants or the Jaguars now or the Panthers when Bryce Young was quarterback Etc because they're not going to score very much because they're so limited That's not the case this offense Has gotten steadily better each week the week before was a great sort of You know a kind of harbinger for this where they didn't punt they moved up down the field and red zone sabotaging But their own of their own doing prevent touchdowns Well, you take away some of those sabotages and you score a bunch of touchdowns You never stop scoring touchdowns apparently if you're this offense now, that's not they're not getting 38 points a week They're this isn't the greatest show on turf Rams, but I didn't think they had that ceiling I thought their ceiling was a lot lot lot lot lot lower so egg on my face. So yeah, I have certainly upped Kind of what I view is their offensive ceiling because I've just seen it that was tremendous And I didn't think they'd get there all year I would be lying if I said Monday night has not changed how I feel about this season and what they're capable of this season Jayden Daniels in week one in week two was basically exactly what I thought he was going to be early this year Jayden Daniels in week three blew me away Which isn't to say that I didn't think he would make the throws that he made although those are low percentage throws and they were amazing I've always kind of like everybody else you you watch him in college. You see the arm talent is there You go out to one training can't practice. You can see he's immensely accurate. He's got that It's never been a question of can he do it in terms of standing in the pocket and making throws It's does he want to do that? What does he want to be does he want to be a throw first quarterback? Or does he want to take off and run 16 times like he did in his first game ever and that's kind of what I was and still to some extent I'm curious about but he can obviously do everything you need him to do with his arm But I think week one in week two Jayden Daniels and week three Jayden Daniels are two very very different guys in terms of the decision-making Running versus throwing leaving the pocket to reset to throw versus just head down taking off trying to go get yards with my feet Just a different guy That performance coming this early in his career Maybe it ends up being an outlier in a month and it was just a fun thing I think it has to change how you feel that was a really special quarterbacking performance similarly I Was skeptical of Cliff Kingsbury. I still have questions about Kingsbury But through a couple of weeks now week one again notwithstanding, but the majority two of their three games They've had all the answers offensively. They have moved the ball up and down the field now The Bengals defense is terrible. The Giants defense is not particularly good the one good defense They've played they really struggled with but you're gonna play a lot of defenses that aren't that good You get to play Dallas twice as an example a terrible matchup on paper for Washington Meaning from their perspective. I think it's a great matchup for the commanders when they've got the football. No, that's Two games that are gonna be on your schedule just top of my head, right? There are plenty more like that Right, I think you're gonna be able to move the ball on the Eagles who aren't particularly good defensively those are the top two teams in your division I Worry about Washington's defense because I don't think It's gonna get a whole lot better I just don't think they have the personnel and the secondary to be very good the more we watch this thing The more it becomes evident that's gonna be a year-long problem. Yeah, I hope they'll improve I don't know how they couldn't yeah one is more than zero They are the eighth worst defense in terms of DVOA, which basically like takes a lot of Basically stuff out of the equation to level the playing field for how you're performing 8th worst in the DVOA stat era ever. It's just been ugly They're the worst cover team by far in terms of EPA per play allowed in the league. So that worries me It's not gonna come as easily as it did this past week They're gonna commit penalties like they were able to avoid that they're going to turn the ball over more than zero Yeah, the fumble that you recover on a miraculous play by the Allegretti isn't recovered and now all of a sudden the game is different They've they've caught a couple of breaks here and there. So yeah, things are gonna equalize I'm a hundred percent with you, but I think I'm actually answering two questions here. The question is Has your season thought on this team changed? What you think they're capable of your prediction for the year and to that I have to say yes It has because they are better offensively the Kingsbury thing is working better than I thought and Daniel's playing the game He just did I did not expect this early The other question I'm I started answering when I got off track there is Could they be really good and I think that's a whole different thing you see what I'm saying of course I do Yeah, here's why they're not gonna win 10 11 games or whatever. That's different than hey You thought they'd go seven and ten. Uh-huh or do they have a higher ceiling than that now? And I just don't know how you could have watched Monday Maybe it's unsustainable to some extent I get that the Bengals are over for the season and they're just not as good as everyone thought Still people think that they're better than they are and I don't really get it But it's not about the Bengals. It's about Washington. They all Luke McCaffrey made plays the army Brown made plays Terry McClure and look like he was 25 again It was a really eye-openingly impressive performance where we saw the best of a lot of guys So here's this this is how I'm doing it. I know it's we're sort of answering answering ancillary questions based on the on the main question But but I think it's instructive so before the season started I go I think their offense is going to be a two and a half or three and the games that they win Are you know Jaden Daniels miracle work scramble 80 yards like Griffin against Minnesota or you know Something kind of you win a slug fest like they did against the Giants beat another bad team who can't do anything on offense I thought their defense would be also like a three or four that out of ten not good But also not atrocious. Well, I was wrong on both counts Their offense is a higher number than that TBD where they finished but ain't it two or three and their defense probably that good The defense is probably worse. It's probably a one or one and a half even to be sort of a not even opponent dependent So how we get to the record how that affects things that'll be kind of fun to find out But to me, I'm going my evaluation of their offense for the season now looks to be so completely dead wrong Because I didn't think they had that in them. That's the part that I'm stressing here week one week two Okay, you know, we sort of you could excuse each one. Okay, it's the first time they're spoon-feeding Jaden Daniels trying to bring him long slow We're too. Okay, the Giants stink week three. I'm not saying the Bengals are good But you don't do 38 points and you don't punt even against crappy defenses There are plenty of bad defenses that force a punt here or there that get come you're more than two in completions There are more there are plenty defenses that over the last several seasons where Daniels would have had more In completions than total touchdowns in that game that offensive performance was so great I'm going okay. I was wrong about what I thought their offense was or could do yeah for me It's actually two weeks - you know, not just the one it's the Giants game and the Bengals game from an offensive standpoint that have me Ready to reassess a little bit through three weeks So for myself, I never thought they were as bad offensively as you did and I've never hated their personnel to the same extent that you do Mm-hmm having said that I didn't I wasn't high on it like I didn't love it and this was not the greatest show on turf But I really really like the Echler edition. He's been outstanding I think Noah Brown is a decent enough wide receiver to type the fact that he was available as a godsend I actually think Zacchaeus who's been very limitedly involved the army Brown can serve roles It's not to say they're gonna be good or scare anybody, but the way they use receivers I just don't think it's gonna be what they major in or care a whole lot about It's a lot of stuff at and behind the line of scrimmage for the most part. It's gonna work out the way they've run the ball Brian Robinson going for a buck 30 against the Giants the Bengals then said okay guess what Brian Robinson It's not gonna beat us and Washington said cool. No problem. They threw it outside So you saw them do the thing they want to do then a week later a team bow up and say you're not gonna do the thing You want to do and Washington said no problem. We've got another way to move the football the fact that they've been able to zig And then zig and then zig again Gives me some hope as well. So yeah for me that the sight line has changed how good are they probably a different conversation? We can have but it would be hard pressed. I think to find people who shouldn't be optimistic about them Maybe I'll kick in their coverage a little bit After a game like that Bengals game and this is the ultimate Sin as a football fan. We all know it right the one week big reaction But that's why to me I go back now over what is a three-week sample and the growth that we've seen Let's go to the phones 80636 1067 there's a line open did Monday night has the early part of this season changed how you feel about Washington's Next 14 weeks. Let's go to Martin and Landover on Grant and Danny. Hey Martin Hey, how's it going? It's far been but that's okay Gentlemen, I listen to your argument just a few or your conversation and it was making me sway my original opinion but I'm gonna have to stick with my original opinion because I just see That I already had like a really high opinion of Jane Danny was my QB number one coming out of college I wish I had my board in front of everybody like yeah, he was a guy I wanted so already was like high on him I was worried about Brandon Coleman, but he looks like he's more athletic than I thought so they might have got a hit and left I so really I'm kind of happy about that the interior line showing a lot of promise I was skeptical that was actually what I was worried about so the office has been exactly what I thought It's better than I thought but I was thinking that you know the office was gonna be you know pretty good I just thought they were gonna be alright that damn defense. Oh my god. It's bad I don't know what I'm looking at. I don't know if they're playing defense. Yeah, they're not What are they doing? And I'm gonna throw this on Dan Quinn and Joe with their their weakness last year with the Cowboys whether they're run decent and You have to stop the run first. You just have to you'll take your lumps in the past game, but you cannot get gas It's demoralizing. It is just hugely demoralize. It is death by paper cut. Thanks for the call Martin Appreciate you it is it demoralizing is the perfect word because when you give up the big plays down the field in the secondary Like that throw to chase you just feel like you don't have the the billies and the Joe's like, you know what? We don't have the athletes. We can't hang with them It's a scene from remember the Titans where Ryan Gosling like the little white corner comes up to Herman Boone, and he's like I can't play with these guys. I can't run, you know, whatever That's how it feels sometimes when you're getting just toasted by better wide receivers when you're getting just Torched for seven ten twelve eight five on the ground, which has happened at times against this defense this year And you have no answer. You're just getting bullied and demoralizing is the perfect word for it But they're not good at anything. No, it's not like well They take away the run and then they get beaten the pass if you want to run you could do that But if you want to pass you could also do that yeah, what's on the whole menu is available to you guys What would you like today? How do you want to move the football the kitchen's open short passing game? No problem throw it out that way. No one's gonna tackle you But if you want to go over the top of everybody back behind them near the end zone cool There's where you're gonna throw it to what can they hang their hat on defensively right now that they do at a passable level They're not turning people over one through three games. They're not pressuring the quarterback. That's not existing at this point. They're they're not limiting Big plays. I guess there's nothing they've other than week one. I think they've tackled pretty well. Is that fair? I thought in week one they did a terrible job tackling I do think the last couple weeks have been better But when you're tackling people nine yards from the line is from a regular hustles and get catches guys from behind He's he leads the league in the hustle physical tackle. That's true. He's got that going for him So his answer is he doesn't feel any better because the defense is abysmal That's fair. Yeah, so that's that's kind of how I net out right where I go The offense is way better than I thought it was gonna be and the defense is worse But the offense being better is way more important to me certainly But I don't just mean in terms of the future and Jayden Daniels I'm not even saying that I'm saying in the way of being a good football team If you're a great offense, you have a chance to win shootouts But your ceiling is just naturally high just one one. Yeah, then if you're a bad offense So in that net it should still kind of come out in the wash in the plus Right if the offense is better than you thought and the defense is worse than you thought that's actually more ideal than the inverse That's what I would take if I if I had to pick and meaning one's gonna be worse than you thought one's gonna be better I would pick that a hundred percent Josh upper moral burrow on Graham Danny. How you doing sir? I'm doing great Doing great fellas. Yeah, I'm incredibly optimistic for a few reasons first Just because of the competition both that we have faced and that we will face I know that this is not the bingles of years past but guys This is you know a super bowl caliber team two out of the last three seasons right and with a Incredible quarterback who still has a lot of punch to him and some of the best receivers in the league And you know, yes, they did torch us But we we kind of hung in and I do want to say I feel like st. Just is just playing with I was at the home game Obviously watch Monday night really closely. He's playing with a little, you know punch I don't know he's he's got a little like vigor to him that is like I know he's getting beat But he's hanging in there a little bit more than I've seen before and I know that's really squishy But would love for you guys to react to that but also just our competition moving forward We should really win five of the next six games, right? I mean, they're against them either absolute scrubs or Very very beatable teams in the Browns and the Panthers and the Bears and the Giants and in the Steelers And so the momentum coming out of that if we've already banked seven games heading into the more difficult part of our season That's pretty incredible So I think for me It's more about the competition playing to the level of a team like the bingles and then you know the the relatively easy Competition in front of us. Appreciate you Josh. See but his answer there tells you he feels a lot better Yeah, without a day out Monday because he's now saying look at the schedule look who they're playing They're playing a bunch of scrubs where after week one if we looked at that schedule Washington is not going to play with or not on the same level. Let's say is Pittsburgh, right? Looking at just bang through him this Cardinals game I know give them a really good chance to win a bunch of chance in Allen I would go above that. I mean to me It'll be disappointing if they don't win this weekend after what they just did against Cincinnati because the Cardinals are not a playoff team They're just a meh NFC team. They're a pain in the butt to play They play hard, but nobody thought coming into the air. They're more than a seven or so wind team The Browns don't look very good. The Ravens are off to a bad start the Panthers stink the Bears stink the Giants stink That's the schedule all the way until Pittsburgh, which is like you know in November essentially So after week one when we looked at that, we're going Cleveland's probably better But it's a toss-up. You know Carolina's really bad, but can Washington take anyone? For granted they're doing that to us right now in Carolina radio Yeah, Ravens are gonna bully them and the idea now that we could look at it and go Oh, well the commander should beat the Cardinals There's no reason to lose to the Browns at home You can maybe hang with Baltimore. You got to beat Carolina, Chicago That answers the question that people just now view this thing so much differently Which is scary because it was only the one game I guess you could say it's two wins But that's what happens in this league when you haven't felt the loss and been humbled in like 15 18 19 days You just start thinking crazy, but that's where we are now. Yeah, that's but it's it's also again that that ceiling makes Nobody's saying now that well, I mean, maybe the occasional like, you know die hard or lunatic river to call it is going this is who they are now 38 points a week doesn't matter to the defense book it I think that's ludicrous, but to me going I didn't think they had that performance in them So the average of the previous three games is a plus offense, right? That's one bad in Tampa one Solid although, you know, it's a good you didn't finish, but they did. Yeah, so I'd say plus and then one incredible So that's overall way way way way way way better than expectation So yeah, so boom goes it out another way to say it is if they play every game like the last game Which is sometimes I think how you view it as you know Just going through a schedule and what you just saw if they play every game like the Tampa game They're a four and 13 team if they play every game like the Giants game. There are six and 11 team If they play every game like the Bengals game, they're a 13 and four or 14 and three team Seriously, like that's what we're talking about here like the nearly perfect offensive performance with the quarterback playing at an MVP level Every single week you go 13 and 4 12 and 5 So now you're looking at it through the lens of what if they got the Bengals game in the bag Why didn't they just pack that take it Arizona be them by let's do that. Yeah 100 six three six one oh six seven is the number does how Washington played against Cincinnati change how you feel about this team Yes or no, or is that dangerous because lest we forget they were awful in week one and then in week two They survived pretty bad Giants team largely because the Giants had an injury to their kicker They could easily have been Owen to having played one pretty good team and one bad team Now we're looking at this thing after two straight wins with a 40 point nearly victory over the Bengals And it feels like we're starting them as a fan base growing confidence G&D on the fan You You Yeah, they all have their thing. I think she doesn't he's very competitive Fire you see it on the field but So far you haven't seen a negative play impact and or a real positive play. He just kind of Does his job and wants to do it the right way and so I think He's up there with some of the best I've been around as far as being able to play the next half and not let good or bad affect him Offensive coordinator Cliff Kingsbury. How can you be both in your bag and talking into a microphone at the same time? Maybe the microphone is in his bag. Maybe it's a microphone glass All the kids have been telling me he's in his bag, but yet he was at the podium So maybe the podium is also in his bag. I don't know how that works Think about that Jaden Daniels first and completion percentage fourth QB rating fourth and first downs per attempt Seventh in QBR second and quarterback rushing yards first and quarterback rushing scrambles first and quarterback rushing touchdowns Through three games question for you is did that Bengals gym change how you feel about this football team moving forward? Let's go to Vick and I could keep on G&D. What's up, Vick? G&D. What's up, baby? Hey, buddy So Brad I haven't disagree with you in a while But I have a slight disagreement I do not believe if we continue to play like we play versus the bangles that we will be at 12 and 5 13 and 14. I believe we could be a nine win team that could make the playoffs I can go on record of saying this but I said this on overtime with Doc and I said this on Adam Epstein's show right now I believe we are a Seven at least seven and seven plus win team That could make that could make the playoffs and what I said last weekend We you can't make the playoffs with that type of defense I do believe we will win more games and I do believe we can win more than seven games because about the the ability of our offense the coaching of our offenses of Coach coordinators. You got to remember four weeks ago. We were saying the offensive line was in trouble We want to die. Jayden was going to get crushed blah blah blah blah blah Office of line is played very well. Agree. I'm not not thank you And our office of line also has shown that we could run the football and we want to be nasty We want to be aggressive at the point of attack. We mall people over. We're watching it Before I so that changes the tempo of a team And how teams respect you flex you but right now there have been I'll leave with this. I have seen Our defense be better at times that that made me compare Romba various some of his defenses to ours right now and saying his defenses at times were better than our defense What has whatever be I mean, and I appreciate didn't start to cut you off. There's no doubt about that Here's why here's how I know that Through three games. This is the eighth worst defense in history via DVOA During the time of that stat which goes back decades now I don't think that means this is the eighth worst defense of all time or that's where it's gonna end up But I do think he makes a credible point in a reasonable call to say If you play the defense you played against Cincinnati Vicks right you cannot make the playoffs probably I don't think there's ever been a playoff team. There are some of those Saints Breeze teams with bad defenses You know Peyton Manning's Colts teams every single year is my home's chief's time of his career like awful But I don't know that they've been this which is to say when the other team gets the ball They're going and getting point. Yeah one negative thing happens You don't pick up a first down after a first-down penalty and it's you know second in 20 You know down me Brown doesn't make two ridiculous catches and and and runs Subsequently, you know pick up a fourth down like stuff happens, right? There's going to be adversity and if you had one negative thing take place on offense. You lose that game this past week So yeah, I mean that points well seen let's go to Eddie who's in Woodbridge home with the Vikings. What's up, Ed? Hey, hey, how's it going? But thank you for taking my call. So, yeah, so I think we can go from a 413 team to maybe a 7 and 10 or 19 if the offense manages its humility the defense is so bad that we can't we can't do We can't score in six plays because then the other team comes back. They score in three plays We've got to still have a level of a run in the ball of ball control to keep those other offenses off and when I say manage you out there humility a lot of fans are going to be said, oh, hey, Jayden I'll give us another 50 yard bomb do this or yeah, well, okay fun We get that 50 yard bomb on the end of the good play But then someone else comes back and they scored into it's going to play So we've got to got to make sure that we don't score too quickly that we keep their offense off the field if we can manage our Humility we can we can get up to prep a nine and I'll take the home runs when I can get them Mm-hmm. I'll never turn down the 50 yard bomb I will tell you now, but he actually has me thinking about something which is to say Cliff Kingsbury loves pace He loves tempo. I've not really connected these dots yet. I should go back and look but I Know after one week Washington was the fastest offense in terms of pace of plays run in the league I don't know where they rank after three games, but I do remember one time sitting in Mike Shanahan's office Asking him about tempo and pace and why don't they run more hurry up and he was arguing about how detrimental it is to a defense It's kind of what he the caller was just talking about I'm not saying you don't want to move the ball quickly. You always want the explosives bring on the big plays I'll disagree with them on that point, but the tempos worked. It's worked for Daniels It's worked for the offense. It's worked to get good looks against bad Conceptual either designs or packages or the you know the wrong group of players on the field for the defense It's worked for the offense It probably also is fair to say Danny that it makes life a lot harder on the defense well to a degree I think it only happens when you go three and out though and you in you ran hurry up to do it They had 33 minutes of time of possession against Cincinnati 38 against New York So to me time of possession is effectiveness and they put the least of anybody so let me rephrase then maybe to this point It's not an excuse all I'm saying is if you're going tempo and not staying on the field That's it will make a bad defense's life harder because they've stayed on the field at a rate that by the way will not continue It hasn't been a problem yet But it is something Cliff Kingsbury needs to think about if you're gonna be coaching this team and calling plays on this team with a terrible defense Maybe you've got to be a little bit of a good soldier for the coordinator on the other side You're also coordinating the defense too or you get like a half producer credit on that right I mean if you're going hurry up tempo and you go three and out a couple of times You can't do that again the next time right because your defense is right back on the field to give up so many points Let's go to Eric in silver spring. How are you sir? Gentlemen gentlemen, how you doing buddy great? Thank you first of all. I always want to know who's the one that had the MLB gig On the radio. I do an MLB show. Is that what you're referencing? That's you. I knew the voice. I'm like, I know this voice Yeah, I break down the minor leagues for you. Yes. Okay. I knew the voice sound so let me tell you this I know everybody wants to play the game. This is good but I'm gonna be that one game at a time guy with this team because we all know that this thing can crumble fast with this team and I don't want to get my hopes up high and then they bring them back down and then you know by the end of October We're talking about so who do we draft in the first round? So been there. I'm gonna be yeah I'm gonna yes, we've been there. I'm just gonna say this This is when I kind of felt good about this team is when the Bengals scored and we came right back and scored on them That's when I feel wait a minute. We got a different team here because you know in the past We would have been down either 10 nothing or 14 nothing going into the second quarter And it just would have been downhill from there Eric. You're a grown up. Yeah, they did it five times by the way When the bingo scored they came back and score. I mean that is such a grown-up adult Mature way to look at it and it's how it should be done Like I have seen people basically slam the gavel down on Daniels being the answer. I've seen some of the national discourse, which I find Ridiculous three weeks in about Caleb Williams being bad and Daniel's being good and The wrong pick was made by Chicago and all this other stuff We live in a funny time with how this league is covered Mm-hmm, but this is the beauty of the coverage of the league too We have so much time to fill in the blanks. There are games every once a week and then everyone talks for six days Gets themselves frothing at the mouth and then there's another game and we overanalyze and over break that one down So there is an element to your point of Everyone just needing to take a deep breath and if I'm gonna say that on Daniels or Williams or anything else I say it for the goods. Hey for the bad. I think you got to say it about maybe Washington's defense, too Look it if they could play like they did again Cincinnati a handful of times Then we can slam all the gavels down the jury can come back in and everything can be returned My guess is they're not gonna have that performance again offensively Because it's really really hard to do. I mean that one was once every several years kind of stuff Yeah, everything has to break right everything and it did and it was magical. It was fun. I deserved that one seriously I loved it. That was a great experience being in that stadium, but like you know the one time that Daniels Doesn't see anything he likes breaks free instead of wiggling out and doing some kind of weird spin pirouette to then jog for a first down He gets tackled and it's fourth and something and then the snap doesn't work I mean things happen that are going to be adverse and the defense right now can't make up for it right now The offense is making up for everything. I want to ask Danny this question next. We'll hear from you guys on this as well 800 six three six one oh six seven What was your vision for the team before the season and what is it now? after two wins and The craziness of Monday night that nobody saw comment. This is the fan You You You You You It was awesome obviously is a very emotional hard fight went on the road it gets in the hustle very environment gets a very solid team in the Bengals and You know just to go out there and fight it out to the end and you know Be on the other side of the victory meant a lot to see all the fans have traveled all the way out there Go out there and just showing some love see family and just see Doug You know you just said thank you reminisce of like you know Doug was doing this back in his time he put in the time here man, so Me and Doug had their relationship been meant a lot Jaden Daniels talking Doug Williams welcome back Grant and Danny on the fan Danny. How many wins did you have for the commanders before week one seven? So did I how many wins do you have for them now? That's harder I'll say eight so toward nine Their offense has been excellent for two straight weeks. Yeah if they can be Close to as good as they were this week like I'll just say Giants good That's better than I thought that might be eight but the defense is horrific obviously that's where the eight probably makes more sense I also still and I This is not something fun to talk about I still have a hard time envisioning Daniels play in 17 Just based on how he plays at his size It's always been one of my biggest knocks everybody yells at me for the three things that bothered me about him coming out Which isn't a said in like him like them a lot just wasn't my number one Prospect because I had three real big holes. I couldn't get past one of them is durability and I hope I'm wrong but if you were to guarantee me right now that that guy plays 17 Nines in play like I was seven to eight was kind of how I felt. Mm-hmm, and now I'm eight to nine So it sounds like we're similar areas. Yeah, I mean so there's a couple things working against me going up higher than that one Arizona Clint Cliff Kingsbury's time there They would start out like gangbusters People would seem to figure it out or people got tired or something Consistent red zone struggles there in Arizona didn't happen this past week obviously But these are kind of themes that I've been watching we have not talked about this at all But for people that don't know this because you didn't follow the Cardinals. Why would you? Cliff Kingsbury's Cardinals teams as a head coach But namely his offense is what she was in charge of would come out of the shoot as one of the best in the league For several weeks and almost year by year to a season as the year went on they would come back to the pack It's like he would spend the off season figuring things out mixing potions coming up with these plans and then people would adjust I also to that point I We talk I didn't think yesterday or Monday was ever in the cards early in the year Right, but one of the things I have thought if you remember was Jayden Daniels is gonna get off to a really fast start Because the quarterbacks that are the dual threats who can run There's just things that you can't prepare for they've got this cheat code ability third and fourth down And until the team makes an adjustment you saw it with Anthony Richardson I don't think it's good at all last September. You've seen it with a bunch of guys We saw it with Robert Griffin and so many others like the early Start for these guys compared to as the year goes on and the adjustments get made can be different So that that you could bring up in the same realm as like yeah We're seeing this now, but where are they in seven weeks? It doesn't mean it's gonna keep growing yeah in 2021 for example There are other years too, but they started ten and two scoring basically 30 a game in Arizona Finish one and five down the stretch with only one other a point total north of 25, you know, so or it's kind of this Other shoe that's lingering hasn't dropped that I don't know if it's gonna drop But I'm thinking about a little bit again. I didn't think they had this so my I'm already up Yeah, I don't think Kyler Murray ever played a game like Jada. No, he did not play Which makes you think maybe Kingsbury's got a little something he can work with here that he didn't before It's good at shooting in Gainesville on the fan. How are you? Well, how are you guys doing everybody? Yeah, no, so The I'm like the last call I'm taking it one game at a time, you know last I even the last season was last season, you know first four games, you know, Washington was Q&O You're feeling good and then we I didn't expect us to be Buffalo last year But then that horrific Thursday night game with the Chicago Bears and everybody assumed that we would win We all know how that went, but I think the only thing that I like about these current four games I mean three games and moving it to four is that aside from Jaden's growth. I like the growth of our other rookies, you know, especially Luke McCaffrey And I think that the more we play the better he's going to get so that's one thing I'm very optimistic about having an actual additional wide receiver in a core that you know has been not as bad as we Initially thought but could be better. So, you know having a young time and move forward. So I have them at Seven wins. I think right now I'm still at seven wins. So that's where I'm at at the moment Appreciate you Judy much appreciated 40 yard gain from McCaffrey on fourth and two was an eye-opening play He made a couple of really nice plays We talked a lot about the fact that he was third in the league in separation going into that game Bet on bloodlines one of my favorite axoms You got a brother. You got a dad who was in the league. You know what it takes You got people you can lean on you've been in the clubhouse in the locker room before Bet on bloodlines and Brennan Coleman looks pretty good. I Thought he actually had some great snaps You go back and watch now with the the NFL pro stuff like whoever you want to unlock in on them He had a pretty strong performance It was really good Zach, but I was kind of the play you wanted back. Otherwise, I thought at times He was big and physical and powerful Callahan's in Minnesota listening on the Odyssey app. What's up? What's up guys first time caller a long time listener appreciate you man. Thanks for checking us out Yeah Zorn normally isn't really ready, but if you give him a moment he comes out of his office Is it all being now? Okay, and then he comes running in he gathers the show you're good I expected it and then it delays though. It's a new thing. We're trying so we're never really prepared. We're trying it out No worries guys, but I'm 22 years old. I love this team with my heart and soul and to say that I did not break It's here watching that game would be a lie in Daniels, man. I Know it's only week three and I'm taking it week by week because always been as mediocre or below average So I'm taking a week by week, but what I saw from him Everyone says comparisons the thief of joy. I'm always comparing QBs that we have with other stars in the league And it's always pain and misery, but after seeing that Dude if I'm not electric about it. I don't know what I would like it's I'm blown away our defense though buns but other than that Callahan and and no one should rob you of your hope right now in my opinion, but Be excited responsibly as all I would say. I mean like it's week three So everyone's in this rush to figure it all out and to judge it and to scream about what should have happened with the first pig and whatever Just watch the football There's a lot of it still coming and feel like if this guy keeps playing like he played in that game He's gonna be a hell of a player for a really really long time Yeah, three things to be excited about Daniels performance the sale of half a million brake pads and the potential merger was Zelensky auto parts. That's a huge deal for Callahan all of those huge deal huge deal big big deals We're taking you up to 630 on Grant and Danny here on the fan Thursday night football tonight the Cowboys and the Giants Who should commanders fans be rooting for tonight? I think this is actually a really really easy answer that could surprise you That's next on the fan