Grant and Danny
Patrick Corbin's Standing Ovation, Cowboys-Giants Preview
a pleasant Thursday afternoon, September 26, 2024. Welcome into Grant and Danny on the fan. We are taking you up to six 30 tonight, just two hours of programming for you on G and D. And then we'll keep it live and local in the nation's capital with overtime deep into the evening with the Nat's having already played already lost today. It's our time to shine on the Grant and Danny radio program. Hello, Daniel. What's up, buddy? What a soupy, humid, gross day today. Just dumb. That's all. That's all I got for you. It's it's disgusting. I went to the game. Yeah. My son asked a couple of days ago, if we could go to a Nat's game, which is awesome. Very cool. One of the first times he's ever done that. And because I could say yes, for another like week, I decided we kind of had to make it happen. And because they have early bedtimes today was the day to do that. So the kids came out to the ballpark with the wife. We had five year old, three year old and baby and stroller. And they wanted to climb all over me, sit on my lap. They look, they all looked like they had just like come out of the woods after 10 hours unattended to just sweaty hair flopping around. But they have to touch you so much. You know, like I love my kids, but it's the touching. It's the sitting on you. It was just too hot for all of it. The good news is we didn't spend a whole lot on food. The Nat's, I tip my cap once more. Kids eat free all season long. So we got the free brown bag lunch with the hot dog and the chips and the water for the kids. The only thing I had to get them was ice cream. And the person at the ice cream stand was kind enough to divvy up that $110 bowl into two bowls for where we go. So we even saved on that. So victories all over the place except between the lines. Right. But we were winning off of the field. Indeed, sir. Indeed. Bruce would be proud. And then the lovely fam stopped by here in the studio and grab a little bit with Uncle Danny. There was a lot of rough out show with Uncle Danny. It's there's different style of uncle. There's like the Chris Russell style uncle where it's like, Hey, but you guys will throw the corner behind your ear. And he's like yelling and everyone's sure what the production is. He is quarter behind the ear. Yeah. Then there's why don't you come over here and punch Uncle Danny's arm. And then I'll pick you up and turn you upside down. And now all of a sudden there's sound effects and we're webbing each other. That's kind of, you know, that's my style of uncle. You know, who's over it or my nieces? Not into anymore. Oh, well, this was the first time these guys had played some of those games. So not only it's all fresh to them, it's fresh material. Not only are they loving the material, I'm gonna get requested to now like use them as vacuum cleaners. Oh, totally. I don't know if I'm in game shape. I don't know if I've got that in me. You can do it. What you have to do when you turn the kid upside down, you make them kind of sound effect like you're like you're cleaning the floor. Was that the race car driving back? No, so the race cars. Right. That's your race car. Right. Your truck at a truck stop is like that one. Right. The vacuum is like you're going back and forth on the carpet. Then how would Weed Whacker compare? I don't know. Can I do it? Weed Whacker is like a more just feels more like gas run version of that. I don't think I can do that. I tell it. Let me go. Let me go listen really close to a Weed Whacker. You know, a Weed Whacker in your portfolio? Probably should. That's embarrassing. When's the last time you weed whacked? What's today? Day is the 26th to about two weeks ago. True story. And I'm not proud of this. Okay. But my neighbors will tell you this is true. I haven't weed whacked when I cut my grass in years. Yes. I'm the guy that just leaves like, like I do a really good job up until like the stones on the garden or whatever. I don't own a Weed Whacker. I find Weed Whackers to be. I don't know what I do that's wrong. I go through the string constantly. The string always falls out. I can't keep the string in. Like you want to talk about my Eleanor Nicholas Cage trying to steal the Shelby GT. The thing I've never been able to figure out that it seems like no one else has a problem with Weed Whackers. There was one time when I lived in a small townhouse where I had a plug-in basically electric Weed Whacker that didn't rely upon string. It had like almost like this metal bar of a cutter that I feel like that's so dangerous. Is it? I mean, I don't know anything. Yeah. Somebody made it because it's great. They recall it. So I don't think people were dying. I don't know. But that was the only time. And I don't even know whatever happened to that thing. The battery went bad probably. And I just stopped using it. But yeah, I have gone years at a time without Weed Whacker. Not proud of that. But it's just kind of where we are. I bought the combo that uses the same rechargeable battery. Weed Whacker slash leaf blower. Right. So it's like, can we charge the battery? And it's got a slot for each one. That's for the, for the same battery. I hate those. Where do you keep the battery in your garage? Yeah. I'm so bad. Anything that's like battery operated, the battery will be lost in no just pumpled. There's no way. This thing size your heads. It's not going anywhere. I mean, that's, it's one of the worst substantial units. I still never find anything. Yeah, I have. I'm right there with you. But I really like Weed Whacking. I'm, I'm basically, I can't stand the side of them. My wife doesn't care really that much. She's like, do it. Don't, it doesn't really matter. To me, like it's, they're yelling at me. Like they're telling me that I'm wrong. They're like, Hey, you zilch. You don't accomplish very much. And if your wife wasn't around, you'd accomplish nothing. So I'm taunting you. And I'm like, you know what? I can, I can beat that weed. I can, I can destroy that weed in my yard. Highlighted the game today. Ovation for Corbin. That was neat. We talked about it on that's post game just a few minutes ago. But it was a, I thought a respectable moment from the fan base. And it was a prideful moment for me. One of those, this is a good look for us. Like I saw Bobby Whit Jr. in the Royals dug out. I was behind the visitors dug out a handful of rows up with the kids. And I saw them kind of talking to each other and like pointing over toward Corbin, they're probably going, what the hell is this about? This guy just pitched a mediocre game and has an ERA of about six. But I'm sure somebody knew what was going on. Yeah. Final start, final year, six year contract helped win the world series, two players left. And he's the easiest punching bag in the world. And I've been taking some of the swings. I get it. I think we all have taken our turns. Yeah. The jokes right themselves. But if I could be an old man for a second and get on my soapbox at a time in sports and in life, when the little things have never mattered less showing up, caring about doing your job, like the stuff your dad talked about, your curmudgeonly uncle, you know, gives the millennials prop, you know, guff about just punching the time card and saying you're going to be somewhere at the right time and then showing up before you're supposed to be there and never screw in anybody over. Like the baseball version of those things is what Patrick Corbin did. Now it didn't pitch well enough. That's his crime. And I totally get that. It was bad for the last count them five years. He was the worst pitcher in baseball. If 2019 didn't happen, then we could have a different conversation, but it did. It did. And everyone says, well, it was the worst pitcher. There were other pitchers that were worse. And there are other pitchers, pitchers who were equally as bad, who never pitched as much as him. So you don't know it because they were terrible. And the team said kick rocks or they were terrible and got sent down or they were terrible and got cut. And in Corbin's case, because of his contract, like top gun, they just kept sending him up. And I think it's admirable to just kind of keep taking the assignment. No, and you can't fly the jet. Yeah. I mean, you got cases a month ago or so where David Martinez is going, yeah, no matter what, Patrick Corbin's throwing 100 pitches tomorrow because the bullpen's wiped out. How lonely a feeling is that you have lost it. You don't have it. You know, it's not going to go well. And there's going to be thousands of people watching you booing you angry at you as you just keep standing on that mound all by yourself. Get Michelle. They're not. It's it's lonely out there. There's nobody coming to help you. Um, yeah, the, the level of professionalism, I think is, is, is important. It was a good example for, for his teammates. They, they adore him. Understandably. He also, he and his wife made a huge donation of the nat's youth academy that there's a scoreboard now that's in his family's name. That's, that's part of it. So he named it the Grant and Danny scoreboard on our behalf. I think he named it, maybe it's the Corbin scoreboard. I don't know. Weird choice. Yeah. Should have gone with the Grant and Danny nice youth academy scoreboard for like the four interviews we did with him. Yeah. Couple times you talk to him in spring training over six years. Yeah. It is officially G and D now on the fan. The nat's are in the rear view. So let's get to a little preview of tonight. We got an NFC East collision in prime time. Week four kicks off in the NFL Thursday night football Cowboys giants. Let's tee that up next on the fan. All the fans are sensing it. They're coming to their feet. Corbin is going to give him the baseball. Davey pat some on the chest and then pat some on the side of the cheek and makes a single to bullpen and national fans all around nationals park are coming to their feet to salute Patrick Corbin for the final time. Welcome back. Grant and Danny on the fan. The nationals lost to the royals. Your pals now keeping your company until six thirty. Let's turn the page. The NFL gets going tonight week four and it's the NFC East taking center stage in prime time again on Thursday night football with the Cowboys and the Giants. This game feels like a gotta have it game for Dallas. The Cowboys came into the year expected to win the division. It was going to be them or Philly. The two teams at the top of the East. They are one and two. They have now lost back to back games. They got embarrassed by the Saints. And even though they lost close to Baltimore with the comeback, they actually weren't really that close in that game for the majority of the day. Anyway, they played pretty much three bad quarters. So Danny, now you're looking at the Giants this weekend. If you can't beat the Giants tonight on Thursday night football, they've got the Steelers, Lions, 49ers, Falcons coming up, all teams better than New York. All teams probably as good as at least one or both of the teams they've lost to. This thing could go really badly for them really fast after paying CDLAM, paying DAC. They already came into the season, placing their head coach, Mike McCarthy on the hot seat. They lose tonight. The hourglass begins on McCarthy. Yeah, they're in dire straits. Now, I could also see them ripping off a win tonight and then, you know, getting mildly hot to, you know, do what they've done last couple of seasons and get the double digit wins. They, what's happened though with this franchise is they've gotten, they haven't gotten better, right? They've kind of had to stand Pat because of these massive contracts they've had to hand out and then there's up, you know, maybe one or two more coming. So they, they've gotten sort of worse around the edges. And that's really starting to show up here as they've, you know, gotten off to this really, really sluggish start. They're not bad yet, but they're also not that good. Maybe as other teams are kind of getting better and there's some attrition and some of the guys they're counting on are a little bit older, a little bit more chipped away, a little bit more injured, a little bit less explosive. And here they are, as you said, on the road on Thursday night football, where weird stuff happens. I mean, it's a short week and it's a divisional divisional game where the Giants haven't looked as terrible as I thought they would. This might be a slug fest. And you know, you're getting one the following week from Pittsburgh. They are in a tough spot right here. If they end up one and three headed to Pittsburgh, can you imagine the chaos? Look, obviously they should win. They're five and a half point favorites, but when teams are favored by more than five and a half points against the spread this year, they're now two and 14. I mean, against the spread that is, but the season's been utterly unpredictable is my point. Like the underdogs have hung teams like the Giants and matchups like this have performed really, really well either straight up, see Washington against Cincinnati, or just keeping the game really close. In fact, the biggest statistical underdog in the NFL has won in all three weeks, week one, New England over Cincinnati, week two would happen and then week three with the commanders over the Bengals. So something to think about going into Thursday night football. I just think the Giants have actually looked better than the Cowboys for two straight weeks now. Doesn't necessarily have to mean a whole lot, but in week two and the Giants lost to Washington, basically because they didn't have a place kicker. The Cowboys were busy just getting their chest kicked in and the Browns hosting the Giants this past weekend when New York won 21 to 15 made that game closer late than it looked like it was going to be early on, but they didn't really have answers for Malik neighbors who's been unbelievable. That might be what I'm most happy about tonight is to get to see Malik neighbors for four quarters in prime time without multitasking with 10 or 12 other games. Do you realize he's leading the NFL and targets as a rookie? Yeah, there's nothing else on that offense. It's worth a damn. So they're poor speed them. Yeah, the other part of it. He's good. He's damn good. He's got 37 targets. He is chewing up 48% of their receiving yards individually as one guy. Almost half of their passing yards have been to Malik neighbors who's on pace for, I think I looked this up yesterday. So it's not exact, but it's something like this. Over 130 catches and over 1500 yards. We saw Jayden Daniels put on a show when he got his chance the other night. This is the other rookie who looks like a potential rookie of the year so far in the NFL. He gets his opportunity with the country watching this evening. Yeah, I mean, he's almost averaging eight catches per game. You do some quick math on that. And you know, he's, as you said, over 130 catches and just outstanding numbers. He's terrific. So that's the challenge for an opposing defense. It's basically he's lining up everywhere. Whatever we do, we have to worry about him. You don't have to worry about Juan Del Robinson or Darius Slayton or Tyrone Tracy or Daniel Bellinger or anybody else on that roster because it ain't good. Now, Singletary is fine in the running game and they've actually been better there than I thought they'd be. Nothing dynamic or remarkable. That's not going to stop tonight because the Cowboys are the worst run stopping team in the NFL right now. Yeah, but to me, run game stopped themselves, right? You could see these dominant run games like, look at these run totals. The Green Bay ran for a million nerds and scored 16 points a couple of weeks ago. Those, those drives will end up stopping themselves, whether it's a procedure penalty, whether it's holding something, you know, a stuff run, somebody makes a play. To me, it's about, can you slow down? Can you stop? Can you neutralize to some degree like neighbors? You do you in the football game? I think it for doubts. Other side of the ball, biggest storyline is trying to get CD lamb going for the Cowboys and then that defense. Mike Zimmer in week one was lauded for the plan he put together against the Browns, but we've figured out subsequently that the Browns are just not that good. And in the two game since against the Saints and the Ravens, the Cowboys have gotten embarrassed defensively over a two week span. They've been arguably the worst defense in the league right there with Washington. And now we just had a guest on yesterday breaking down the Cowboys when we blitzed the East. The storyline is maybe Mike Zimmer's had the game passed him by. So it's a big night for him as well. I mean, you got to find a plan to slow down the Giants. It shouldn't be that hard. It's, as you said, one receiver in neighbors and it's Daniel Jones at quarterback, and they're going to hand the ball off to Singletary a bunch who's normally between 16 and 20 carries. They could also use a fast start talking about Dallas, by the way, like it feels like they've sleepwalked through a couple of these games New Orleans. They never got back into it. Baltimore, that a furious rally late in the game. But if they play with a lead, I'd like to see what it looks like more on Thursday night football before we get out of here in the six o'clock hour. Next, has your thought on what the commanders could be this season changed at all based on their Monday night performance? Let's get to that on Grant and Danny here on the fan.