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Let's kick off the beltway blitz right now We begin with our buddy Bobby Blanco of mass and sports dot-com on the Nationals So Bobby we've not talked to you since the big CJ Abrams news a few days ago over the weekend What did you make of their decision to just punt him for the remainder of the season and send him to West Palm Beach? Yeah, when you start seeing the news trickle out that he's being optioned down a triple a a lot of red flags pop up because That didn't make a whole lot of sense the triple a season was ending the next day You know if he's injured you could just throw him on the injured list for the last week of the season So it was kind of confusing and then you see the story come out. You see what Dave Martinez told the media in Chicago Probably heard like Rizzo this morning on your station with the junkies talking about situation and now we know why and I Think it was a good decision by the Nationals. I do believe it came straight from Mike Rizzo I mean he famously said, you know when they D F H on Kelly you're either in or you're in the way And I think this is kind of What CJ did was kind of not totally in the way, but you know catering along those lines. He didn't break any team rules technically But he was caught, you know leaving a casino at 8 a.m. While they're on the road before a day game And you just can't do that. That's not a professional way to act in the Nationals hold their players to a high standard I think is the very young team I think this was a wave that Davey and Mike could send a message to this a lot of these guys and say hey This is not acceptable. It's not how we want our players to to behave when they're not around the club Especially in season. I think the frustrating part too is that there's only a week left All CJ had to do was wait one week and he could have done this as much as he wanted But instead he's not gonna be down to West Palm Beach is fetching out the season with triple A It's gonna be a pretty big storyline this offseason and next February as we head down to West Palm for stars from training Yeah, Bobby. He's a higher profile player Then Luis Garcia, but something similar to Garcia. It wasn't 8 a.m. The casino, but it was a very hard conversation Hey, you are out of shape. This is not professional. You're what you're doing away from the field You know is is not good enough for a major league standard and he got sent down and he's having a really good season He's you know been unheralded, but he's gonna finish you know close 20 homers 20 plus stolen bases And if they would just play him every day even against left these you might see more of those stats But I digress he hit the ground running so to speak. I'm still bullish on CJ Abrams I think this is a crossroads and this is you know Blessing in disguise to a degree that hey, this is you're great You were an all-star this year But this can all be taken away and I'm hoping he takes it to heart. What's your prediction for how he will handle it? Yeah, I'm with you. I first and foremost just hope CJ the person is doing well And like there's nothing going on with him in his personal life Maybe it was just hopefully it was just like one bad night or I guess we now know that it's been a couple of instances So just a couple of nights where he's just you know wanted to go out and have a little fun Hopefully it's not like a serious issue But and if it is hopefully he finds the help that he needs and gets back on track in his personal life So that doesn't affect his baseball life anymore from a baseball standpoint I mean yet CJ, it's not a direct comparison, but you know We saw the weak rest of your junior go go down at the end of last year We saw him has to have some tough conversations even this spring training right before the season started He almost didn't make the open day roster because he was making some bone-headed mistakes in spring training games And then now here you already probably their most consistent player of the on the year and had a great season So, you know, I think my prediction is you know, it's tough to predict. I think you know, it's all in CJ's hands I agree with you. Like I don't you know, I'm not mad at you. Yeah, sure. You can be disappointed But I don't think this is an indictment on him as a person or as a player But everything's in his court right now. How does he respond to this? How does he react? He's probably a little upset with himself. Maybe a whole some hard feelings against the organization But you know, you were caught doing something you probably shouldn't have been doing You have to pay the consequences, but how does he kind of process this react to this over this offseason? And is he channel that into a positive way heading into next spring training have really good season? That's gonna be something to follow Bobbie DJ hers pitches tonight. He's got a 370 RA Since the all-star break was 5-1 before the break He's probably been the Nat's best pitcher in the second half now his last time out He did actually get hit pretty good for the first time in a long time He gave up seven earnings and left in the fourth inning But his ERA is barely over four and 18 starts this year And this has been a real revelation for them to find this 23 year old Not only in the rotation, but excelling what do you make of his year and give us a thought on him pitching against the team Trying to fight its way into the playoffs tonight in the Royals Yeah, he's been a great revelation You can even add Mitchell Parker to that conversation as well who who had a really strong final start of the season last night Five four listening to finish a pretty solid rookie career But this these are two guys that are good player development stories for the Nationals, you know Mitchell Parker was a late round draft pick DJ hers was acquired via trade So these are guys that the Nationals targeted both in their amateur scouting and the professional scouting to bring into the organization And then from there on The new revamp player development staff kind of took over and and made them into everyday major leaguers this quickly You know we can go back to last year Jacob was that story Mitchell Parker was at the beginning of this year You know that version of the story and then now when DJ came up You know he was good enough to not only make his debut this year, but stick in the rotation for the rest of the season Yeah, he's been I think by far their best and most consistent starter for this second half You've seen Jake Urban kind of get a little exhausted as we get down near the end here But yeah, hopefully he has a really strong start tonight finishes in the rookie season strong And then that going to next year now you're talking about him Maybe fighting for that fifth starter spot. Obviously, they might add someone in for agency But they've got some really decent starting pitching depth now because of these good Developmental player development stories that they haven't had in a while Bobby. Thank you, buddy Yeah, thank you guys. Welcome home to daddy chili sucks Here here tip of the old cat Bobby good clothes. I hit that NFL sounder dares All right, Mike Jones of the athletic to talk about the national football league Mike through three games Just as we thought the Cincinnati Bengals are in last place San Francisco is also in last place. Just ho hum normal things happening the first month of the NFL season Yeah, you know Cincinnati hit we've seen them start slowly the last couple years I don't know that I saw them being 0 and 3, you know when they they didn't have that first loss of the season They're gonna well, you know, it might take them a couple weeks, but here they are. Oh and three here. I thought that Monday night was kind of a good opportunity for a get right game going against a defense like Washington's which has struggled but hey Washington came out there and You know Cincinnati looked better in some ways, but they still aren't quite right San Francisco that Super will hang over is real man. Um, you know the teams that lose the Super Bowl It's you know the percentage of them making it back to the playoffs is very small They had some holdouts now the injury bug is really getting them all over the place It's it's tough going for some of these teams that we thought were gonna be competitors or contenders And you know, it's gonna be interesting see it's a long season obviously, but you get in too big of a hole like Cincinnati I think only one team since 1990 has made it to the playoffs After start knowing for Mike I want to take you to Cleveland Browns for a moment Washington plays them in two weeks But I was really surprised by these comments today by the Sean Watson and if he was playing better I'd actually probably applaud them and love them But he's stunk and the team has been bad. So it kind of that rubs me the wrong way He was asked about running the ball more to help out and a rushing offense. That's bad I think they're 25th in the NFL. They don't have Nick Chub right now, obviously and he basically said I'm not gonna run I'm not a running back. I'm here to throw the football on the quarterback There's kind of shades of like the 2012 Griffin year you and I covered where he hated like any time he ran He thought it was an indictment on him as a quarterback And like I said, I loved it the Sean's a pocket passer who can be an athlete and he prefers to be in the pocket But when your team's struggling and the offense is struggling It just rubs me the wrong way that he would go. Yeah, I'm not I don't want to do that other thing if it makes us better That's not why I'm here. What do you make of all that? Yeah, I mean the show much is I have a lot of credibility with anything that he says now, you know Um, whether it's you know is play or anything about him. I mean because He should be happy to be on the field and that a team wants him to try to do something to help them win You know Obviously, yeah, you would like to be able to sit back and throw but you have an offensive line that's really beaten up You don't have, you know, Nick Chub a special running back And if that's what it takes to put you in more third manageable situations, you know Yeah, you should be happy to run and do whatever you got to do I I haven't heard anybody, you know Pat's my home. Josh Allen. You think Josh Allen wants to be running all the time Josh Allen, you know who is out there doing whatever it takes. So I just don't like the attitude the entitlement Um, he's talking like he's a superstar and he hasn't been a superstar in a long time Mike that minnesota houston match up. I mean, it's one week, but it's a referendum league That I feel like that went a long way to sort of explaining some stuff at how good baby bonafide minnesota is And we're gonna have to take it seriously and that houston still good. But what the hell was that? Yeah, well, I mean you went up against a really good defensive coordinator and brian flores, you know He sends a lot of pressure, um, you know, and he knows how to make very good quarterbacks look very, you know You know, not very good. Um, and then look sam darnold continues to Uh prove that hey Maybe this isn't a fluke and maybe just took time and him landing in the right situation I really thought that we were going to see them the the Vikings really struggled this year Uh, but you know, they really have a chance, you know, it's competitive division injuries Kind of changed some things, but who would have thought that green bay would win two games without dorett love So it's going to be interesting to see how that goes and look. I think that Um, you know, we saw The week before last houston they moved the ball array, but then against chicago's defense They really struggled in the second half so they have some things they still have to work out They're still trying to get on the same page Uh cj shroud with some of his uh wider stevers and and things like that So I think they're going to be okay But they've got some things they got to work on to shore up and and make sure that he's protected Well, jonesy. I remember when matt flore got hired in green bay man. You were on the phone and we were like Really mattie is going to get to coach erin rogers. He's getting like this hallmark institutional organization Green bay and we were thrilled for him because he's the nicest guy in the world He's the hardest worker in the world like you can see shawn mcveibian or a superstar You can see cal shanahan being a superstar. We were kind of curious like all right. Let's hope for the best But we'll see matt la floor Is awesome with rogers. He's been awesome with love and with love out the last two weeks He's mixing potions like a high school coach on a friday night with malik willis like matt la floor is a dude Dude matt in the floor his last year in l.a. I was talking to him pregame in the tunnel And I said man like this is great. You're next man. And he was like man. I'm not a head coach I don't know if I want that And then he went to you know, tennessee and you know, I said something to him at the combine I don't know but And his first press conference member. I mean how painful that was and it was steps, but this dude Everybody who would work with them knew he was really sharp really smart. I don't know that anybody expected that okay Yes, you had erin rogers, but now he has shown he is really good at game planning really good at x and knowing And finding a way to accentuate a player's strength and put him in positions to succeed because look The the I don't know the titans thought malik willis was pretty bad if they passed Up, you know keeping him to keep um, you know rolling with will levis who is terrible Um, you know and they did not see redeeming qualities and malik willis and matt la floor Is cooking it up for him and he looks you know like a service a little quarterback the first game good game manager We saw him take more steps forward and look like a competent nfo quarterback this past game Uh, it's just really like he said hats off to matt la floor the guy is sharp I remember talking to mike shanahan about him when he had gotten that job and he said nobody is more detail oriented Uh than him, which I thought was crazy because we knew shan is very detail oriented But he really was really proud of and hyaline match chances of succeeding as a head coach because he saw how Much he paid attention to the tiny details when he prepared and it taught and coached his players Just a whole hum six 74 winning percentage since taken over mike. Thank you, buddy is always Thanks. I'll see you guys. We'll see you man hit that local 53 center Michael phillips joins us to discuss that local 53 at michael p in rva the richminder and Her sister station 9 10 the fan down in the capital the commonwealth, uh michael. That was pretty fun on monday We devoted the entire two hours show tuesday just to the uh jane daniel's to terry michlorin path Uh, it was considering the stakes considering the game considering the moment I believe the best It's single individual play that the commander's washington redskins football team has made and at least the last decade It was an unbelievable throw. I mean the next gen stats 10 percent chance of it being completed the more I watch it The more I marvel about it. It was his thrower the game Obviously he had a couple of really impressive throws though The deep shot to michlorin earlier in the game for 55 was pretty amazing as well. What about cliff kingsberry? Without taking any credit away from daniels like when he needed to make the miraculous throw he did But i'd say 90 percent of the throws on a night where he completed 91 Percent passes were kind of designed pretty well for him with open receivers and big spots Now big marks so far for sure, and you know, everybody's got the ipads on the sideline now like the defense goes back to the sideline They watch the ipads cliff is coaching to the ipad every drive you you just watch and he throws something at them Just brand new a new formation a new look a new wrinkle He had one where the two guards both like instead of pulling like pulled in and created an interior run He does something where the defense is going to have to go back to the sideline Gonna have to put on you know hit the button on their ipad and say what the hell was that? We've never seen that we weren't ready for that Uh, and then they're going to have to spend a few minutes preparing for that and then they might see it again But they might not see it again over the course of the game Uh, which i've really enjoyed just the way he You know here and mike talk about la floor and chanahan and and mcveigh and those guys the way they call offenses I think generally is with a very nice flow. I think they go into the game thing I want to do a and it's going to lead to b and it's going to lead to c I watch cliff king the very and I think he just on a wheel of fortune for he just pulling letters down and at random There's no flow to it and I think it's perfect So There's the bad news no loss the neckler this week. We know that I think that's an enormous loss even an underrated loss I know it's not a huge volume of touches, but his per touch effectiveness is unlike anybody else on this roster How big of a loss is it going into a game? You think you probably need to score a bunch of points to win Well, I've tipped my hand on what I thought the biggest play was monday I thought the second biggest play monday was his kickoff return to start the second half Right second half momentum can swing coming out of the locker room bangles certainly felt good about what they were accomplishing offensively It was very important to put points on the board on that drive and all the drives that turned out But that kickoff return set up what you knew would be a scoring drive Brought the momentum right back out of half time kept the bangles from seizing any of it. I loved it I'm also a big fan and I don't know in depth about the injury But I think this is the right move long-term for austin equity You don't need to fly him across the country twice and have him be playing in a short week Whatever the status is this is the right call You need him down the line because as you mentioned he is a transformational player when he gets the ball in his hands michael phillips Enrichment the rich minder if you want your news done the right way enrichment and of course odyssey down there our sister station Thank you, buddy be good Absolutely. See man. That is your belt label. It's well blitz the division coming up on grant and danny At five o'clock on the fan. I want to dive into the defensive struggles against Cincinnati and what can be done for washington But the news of the day is that austin echler is going to be out against the cardinals Just how much will that change this offense? Let's get into that next on the fan You You You You Grant and danny On the fan we took a dive around the nfl at three o'clock today Broke down all of the teams that are three and oh and the three clubs that have yet to win as well If you miss that conversation you can podcast it at the fan dc.com When we are done all of our football coverage today is Presented by t mobile head to t mobile dot com and get a great deal on iphone 16 pro The iphone 16 dropped danny. That's unbelievable. Are you one of these guys that keeps up with the iphones? And you just get the next one asap i'm i'm not that Quick on it. I mean I will get a new one eventually when because i beat up my phones Not like gonna drop them and break them sort of way but the like all the things you're not supposed to do Which is like leave it charged overnight i run the battery down and all that other kind of stuff So i'll be in the market pretty soon I'm old enough to remember when you could you would break an iphone every time you dropped it I didn't have one at that time, but everyone I knew had the cracked iphone screen Yeah, it was just because they dropped it once i haven't had a cover on my iphone in months It's amazing. I mean you're just tempting fate with as much as you use your phone. I've dropped it probably 30 times It's a little bit cracked at the top. I've got the little like looping crack, but it's not rolling or anything and my situation is basically that when it breaks for keeps like it's actually Bad on the screen then i'll go get another one or whatever probably won't be a 16 I'm I don't think i'm in the market for a 16. I'll get whatever this thing is but Yeah, I don't know why like I remember when I had a droid I used to make fun of iphone people This was probably a decade ago The second you dropped your phone doesn't matter if you dropped it On just a big foam pillow and the phone had three covers on it. It was gonna break it cracked. Yeah iPhones more durable now i'm proof of this The because it used to be you had to have that like otterbox Thing where like the phone itself weighed not that much but it weighs four times as much because it's got like this four knocks Thing around it just to prevent dolts like me from dropping it. I carry my iphone like i'm tiki barber Without a cover just high and tight still fine Darris the iphone 16 is out you had something on there Well, I was just going to say that I get joned on so hard because I still have an iphone 8 Which is I mean What maybe like eight years ago now? You got or have you gotten a new one since and stuck with the eight I have the same phone that I've had Once since I purchased it so many years ago. I wish I was more of an iphone guy to even be able to like enjoy the What this conversation is what an eight is versus a 16 versus a 12 versus a four I have no idea. I at my heart really i'm still a droid guy I just have an iphone so that I can FaceTime my kids when i'm away in Cincinnati with danny Pretty much the whole reason and not turn the chat green Like they're not ruined the chat I used to think that was outrageous that everyone cared about that and now as an iphone guy I've become snobby about that too. It doesn't furyate me when I can't name my group chat and post a picture But they're changing all those rules. You know that yeah, this the the crossovers coming This is I mean if I can say this sony and microsoft working it out for cross-platform play Willy built the bridge here so that rival companies can acknowledge okay find everybody still text each other I don't know why this was important enough to care about and I won't dare name the senator Who I saw complaining about this because it might be someone people don't like but keep in mind we're on your team Yeah, whatever you think I think we agree with you. I'm outraged by that outrageous thing In fact your opinion on that senator is one. I share. Yes. I'm not gonna do it is totally We're in lockstep on that senator. Yep, but anyway, I saw like a commercial about it about like I almost did an impression of that senator, but I would never impression of that senator But the point of the dude story is danny. Uh-huh that Senator what was it senator? It's not important. Okay What state I think danny. We're not gonna talk about this. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay, but I do now agree like It's at a point where I will not include someone on a text group Who might give a little more to the text group that might be fun to have in the group If everyone else is blue. Yeah, because now I can't name it. I can't drag it to the top of my phone with a picture It's just it's an annoying like eight. You know, it's just their initials totally awful. It's awful. Yeah We we've been beating this drum to you for years and and you finally covered this is my point about the senator Uh-huh. It's it's not their fault. It's apples fault And it's iPhones fault that more than anything else in my opinion because what they're getting rid of is like the Oh that there you droid will have a different color. You can't interact with us. They're like this is stupid You're just making people do your thing by not adjusting and having the same technology and abilities as everybody else So you're you're basically shaming. Yes droid users. That's right and like legally. I could be making this up a little bit Industry term legal shaming. That's real legal jargon, but I mean like legally they're they're going to the company and be like You can't do this anymore. You have to it has to operate with everyone so that green bubble people don't get excluded from conversations That's what's happening. I know it's pretty crazy. Like it is nothing. It's gotten that level by the way Maybe the senator should focus on something else like maybe again. I agree with you on the senator I mean, I'm with you. We're both with you But that green bubble struggle right there did that's what it is. It seems like it's not that like it's a funny thing to talk about Yeah, probably not that big of a deal really Like like it's it's it's on a list but the list is really long You need to have 200 items on that list of things that need to be fixed in your life before There should be no green and blue text messages. It's a minor giving it's like there's like there's like a there's like a neighborhood Group, right? We're all our kids are around the same age or whatever And so it's annoying when you think there's new information in the group and it's simply just one of these green chat people that they liked something or they laughed at something from like six months ago and finally just got to the chat And so it's like then it repeats the message over again so instead of like with when you have the correct iPhone and Like say daris hearts something we thumbs up something It just shows the message with a little thumb up saying oh daris did it daris liked it The green folks what they do is it somehow repeats the whole message. Yeah, and it's like Uh steve like this and then the whole thing repeats itself. It's so you're too It's aesthetically gross. It's so gross and I have some type of disorder Probably like an ocd or something But like the aesthetics of things really a matter to me. Yeah, so on twitter as an example I hate the quote retweet. I think it looks terrible, right? So I will often just like either retweet or Credit with a thought like it just saw this from so-and-so and but I think that the look just ruins the feed Same with like posting a video. I'll do the thing where you just like grab the video Then you can repost it. It gives them the credit on the bottom or whatever, but it just looks cleaner. You see what i'm saying? I don't want you ruining my feed with your weird, uh, danny Accentuated your text or whatever the hell the words like what does that mean? Also enough with that response I hate that when people do that like hey, man. I'll be there in five minutes the Confirmed to exclamation point the heart button use words Got it Confirmed. Oh, you know, you don't seem to like the thumbs up. Like hey, I got it. Tells god you're that 10 4 Bet that's probably the hip one the cool one So my six-year-old says now bet I told him this morning. No. Yeah, I said I said hey, but it's time to brush those teeth Let's get those teafees like, you know, you're trying to just encourage him to get up. Yeah, the teeth. Yeah, and he goes bet Okay, that is great. Okay Um, I don't know if I'm ready for that sir. How old's your kid six? This is what I would have done Sitting at the table. Uh-huh. I'm looking over it. Is it where we're talking bill or buyer buyer? Byron says bet. I would have looked at him. I'd opened my mouth and I would have built it out And he would have been like man, I miss you brian peck Anybody sweet sweet boy brian peck the second I phone eight by the way was from 2017. So that's all I would have said it's like Robert Griffin's rookie. So by the way, that means in seven years. We've had eight new iPhones. Yeah, that's an outrageous pace That's ridiculous again. That is that's that's uncold for like more than marvel films That is unnecessary So if you're keeping up with the benjamins on an average of more than once per year, you need the latest thing Now most people probably are not going to get the newest latest iphone. I would imagine But I see those lines. Yeah, I see the local news doing the same bit every eight months where they're like Frederick just walked out of the store in Frederick no less That's fun Frederick would you think of the new iphone? He's like I just bought it. I'll tell you in a few minutes I haven't opened it yet. She's like, but give us your thoughts. He's like, yeah, again I haven't opened it yet, but how long did you wait out front? He's like, I actually just walked up There was no line, but give us a better answer and he's like I had two hours Just that'll work back to you back to you the same thing every time. Yeah, that's that story writes itself And they love telling it by the way lock. I promise you you're gonna see this tonight the night for the iphone It's gonna be like snow coverage. Mm-hmm. No, I believe it actually came out last thursday And I saw the apple store in clairndon It was like wrapped around the side of the building like it was insane They had like little ropes there to cross all that all the money all the tv cameras were set up doing stand-ups right outside Did you see any cameras out front? I did not see any cameras out front I mean it was the middle of the day like on a weekday So like people should be working, but they weren't it was literally a block long line So how long till danny who has the 16 does I feel like you you update your file on these iphone? Yeah, I don't have the I've got to get the newest one right away thing I have buddies to do I'm not like is I just I am not as much of a stickleball racket Then I need that but I'm not as much of I need my iphone to work Like in other words and as long as it's working and I don't have too many too many conveniences Like the reason I finally got rid of my last one It was like every time over to do anything. It's like hey man, you're out of memory Hey, you right there pudgy zilch you're out of memory You're not athletic anymore and your metabolism sucks right of memory So like fine. I just never want to see that again. So I upgraded to a just delete something Yeah, but it's I every time I want to take a picture of my kid who's doing something I gotta go in and find something else. I'm gonna delete and it's a pain in the butt You can't like knock it down by half the gigs or whatever to do not have that problem Yeah, but you're doing that all the time and it's so annoying and you got to upload Photos to your computer to keep them and then you're not sure if you got a new phone instead Yeah to never see that again because it's unbelievable pain in the butt So that's why I got one with I go give me the most memory you can get So I never want to deal with that crap again. I have that problem and I don't have the problem And so I'm not close to that. I imagine the new joints have like better cameras That's always the thing right and that's the next I don't care about that. I care so much about that That's that's where you can get me right. I love a good camera. There's these cameras now I don't think it's an iphone versus a droid thing. I think it could be both. I don't really know But where you use you can zoom in For miles Like you're like you're the American sniper or something like you are sitting on a building and you just keep going You know you do the move like Danny does on instagram when he's looking at certainly not models But whatever it is that you look at on instagram. It would not be any modernist influence people But you do the thumb and the pointer finger and you pull them apart while touching the screen to zoom to really gonna Go look at the fitness and all of the it's like the workout that they're doing yeah in the pickleball playing Yeah, but anyway, you zoom in on that 10 times you just keep going and going and going Yep, like true story danny zoomed in on our hotel Insince and adi from his house today and you can just see like people walking around just from your camera while you're about to take A picture from the camera I think that's probably the difference, but maybe there's other stuff. I don't know. Yeah, they're always trying to like Do different things to try to make you need to know because remember it's like with tv's like tv's have gotten so good That remember a couple years ago. They're like, you know what you need a curved television If you don't have a curved television, you don't have a tv. I almost I was almost a sucker Yeah, I was this close to buying a curved tv for my basement because that's the now that's gonna be the next thing It's like you don't do you have 4k tracking your tv doesn't have 4k tracking You might even not have a minus will not go watch the game. Yeah, do you have dynamic read? Did I make that one up or is that real? You don't know like they always because tv's are now so good And they're so easy to produce that you know you're getting awesome one for whatever it's five six hundred seven hundred bucks Yep, and they need to get you to buy new tv's so they got to come up with like the latest gimmick It's the same thing with phones any kind of tech Austin echler is not going to play against the cardinals He's already been ruled out how damaging a loss will that be for washington's offense and how will they? Operate as effectively as they have been without him. What's the game plan going to be to replace him? That's next on gnd You You You Yeah, we'll be Austin won't make it you know for the game and it's the right call for him not On our short week to go up a little of a chance to see what next week looks like then Uh, but we have do have a lot of confidence It's uh one of the the groups that we have a deep crew that can roll strong and uh, so when called upon We're certainly ready to do that and uh, we're also excited for for jay mac He's somebody you know hasn't got a lot of touches a lot of opportunities But I do know that he is somebody when given those chances. He does not miss his ops Dan quinn announcing that austin echler would not Play for the commander sunday in arizona No wasting time with that announcement already comes down the pike on wednesday My guess is they're not even going to fly him out there then no reason right? I mean why would he even join the team? He will join this show though on friday at five p.m So he'll be in virginia presumably when we talk to him and get ready for the commanders and the cardinals On a football friday here on grant and danny. He mentioned j mac. That's german mc nickels He barely played at all in san francisco last year a couple of snaps on special teams never touched the football He's already had one more run here in washington than he had with the niners That was on monday night filling in for echler, but he had two seasons in a row in tennessee in 2020 and 2021 We had over 40 carries the average 4.3 yards per carry in 2020 3.8 yards per carry in 2021 I think they'll use him quite a bit actually in the echler role Not as many snaps as austin would get but on those important downs with past protection He had a monster Blitz pick up with a deep leader against the line backer Actually on the play where jadon took the shot and threw the touchdown to tarry mclaurin to win the game I think they trust him in past pro he can catch the football a little bit You know he can run it because it's what he's done his entire career in his entire life So for all those reasons danny, I think he's gonna play plenty, but this will be the brian robinson show to me You maybe don't use him on third down. You're gonna try to spell him Obviously you're gonna have him thump one early downs But i'll bet you robinson if they stay ahead of schedule and game script is how they want their closer leading He's gonna be close to 20 rushes probably five or six catches. Yeah, I would think 20 touches in the cards. I think I'll take the overall. I mean carries. I think he'll be over 20 close to 20 carries over 20 touches from me close to 25 maybe I think it's gonna be a big time be rob day Yeah, if they're successful they're standing on the field as they have been if they're standing ahead of the chains Um, there wasn't a lot of early down running success for the for washington. Uh this this past week Um, you know robinson only I think to the tune of like two and change per carry Uh, you know hard yards though in a lot of ways right and those are necessary to kind of set up everything else But I think you're gonna see a steady diet of brian robinson early and often and I was surprised He didn't catch a ton of passes once ekler went out. I thought you'd see a couple of those things Those kind of swing passes are kind of keeping easy stuff on early downs instead of trying to thump down the middle But there was a plan the method to that mad to certainly I'd like to see them spread Arizona out And still have that short passing game going even without ekler when not with b rober mc nickels Involving the tight ends a little more like maybe this has been senate remember. Let's not forget sennets got some h back to him He is a tight end, but he also can play that full back role a little bit You could go split eye and and get him into the flat larry center style You could have him in motion and then a line behind the tackle like a wing or whatever Yeah, some of those eye formation and kind of shuffles and looks like it's a lead block But it's not and you know you work off the different looks There's a lot of different ways. I think that they could get him out into space. He has not caught a pass yet He's been open plenty including in this game early in the game and we talked about this yesterday chadon daniels because he picks up a handful every time he runs where occasionally we'll throw it elsewhere and Pretty much all the plays that he made and they made worked out It didn't matter that he missed senate on a couple of occasions way down the field I think aekman even on the broadcast showed a couple of them and said Hey, I know this guy hasn't doing anything yet and commanders fans are kind of wondering where he is But just know on the tape he's open more often than you think i was saying the same thing last We get this time about luke macafra. Yeah, he was number three among all wide receivers via pff And separation score and he popped one for 40 on a fourth and two which was a great play by daniels That was not the design of that play by the way to find him was awesome And he had another catch later in the game again where he kind of got some separation But I think we could see senate without echler having two or three catches for the first time And they could use him a little more in that h back full back role as a pass catcher Someone's got to make up for those echler touches right and it could be the Do we force feed for the sake of our good we we feed rovitz and more? Do we feed michlorin more no a brown more or do we kind of go against type something? We haven't shown just yet which you just saw this past week and if there are more tricks in the bag The easy button is having lost an echler do it, right? Like so there's two ways that I think of offense as easy and I put that in quotes Easy is you've got a home run threat where you throw it as far as you can and the shawn jaxon goes and catches it That's easy Right tyree kill makes offense easy for teams because defense is a threatened He could either take it to the house or the threat of them doing so open stuff up Then there's the my two-yard dumpoff goes for eight My checkdown goes for 14 Right, that's what echler does and that's i'm saying as valuable but close to me right i'm standing ahead of the chains It's those hidden yards there's nothing sexy about austin echler catching a screen and going for 14 Well, those are Huge drive sustaining plays that are afterthoughts in a game where we saw the throws to terra mcclorn and you know Some of those fourth downs and this and that that a second and ten becomes the first down because echler Wiggled his way through 17 different people broke a tackle carried two dudes forward and gets the first down Yeah, just right in the middle of the field like those kinds of hidden plays it makes everybody look smart And he that's the easy offense the first drive of the game was the echler show seven-yard plus probably closer to eight run on first down catch for the First down getting play on second and short back-to-back plays 10 plus yards chains moved and now you're almost at midfield That's the other funny thing with this new kickoff rule when you start at the 30 We were talking about this you get one 14 or so yard completion in the middle of the field You're basically at midfield in one play. It doesn't feel like the five-yard Closer to midfield Rule change would make a big difference, but it absolutely has but then the screen to echler later on that drive that your referencing was huge And then you had the 24-yard touchdown later in the half. I mean, there were two drives that were basically his So here's your opening drive you referenced this but here's the specifics echler right tackle eight yards to start the game echler Short right pass to the same side for eight yards There's your 16 and all of a sudden you to your point you're just shy of midfield first and 10 at the 46 First and 10 at the 46 brian rabbits in no game. That was a theme of the day They tried to thump him inside and there was not much happening there. So now your second and 10 again that those are Difficult situations for any offense to be in let alone one with a rookie quarterback and the whole yin and the yang and the blah blah You need four there to feel like third down is manageable. How about 14 lost an echler a little hitch little screen pass It above what we ever want to call it call to smoke I don't care but he turned a pass at the line of scrimmage into a 14-yard first down with now you're in setsy territory Yes, it's a play you're talking about and now your first and 10 from the bangles side of the field And where were they there? It was like they're 45. They're 40. They're 40. Yeah, so I mean we're talking You're basically five yards away from field goal range on three echler plays to start the game And you've asked very little to nothing from your quarterback yet He's thrown two balls behind the line of scrimmage to run back and handed the ball off And you are now in field goal range almost and it it came that easily for much of the night But the easy button goes away in Arizona with no Austin echler I think b-rob can do some of that remember he had the 30-yard catch and run to the goal line In Tampa. So he's got that club in the bag still I think as a pass catcher and I won't pretend to know what mcnickel's is capable of because he just haven't seen Enough of him. We haven't seen really any of him in that regard in this offense Next on grant and daniel, let's put the east we'll check in on the other teams in the division I still want to play that erin rogers audio on jade and daniels. 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