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Hall and Oats Tuesday on Grant and Danny on the fan the commanders went to Cincinnati and beat the Bengals ass Hung 38 on a team trying to get right Washington's offense Terrific all night long. We are at Thumbs Watch Bar the Hollywood Casino Downtown into Sportsbook and Lawrenceburg in Indiana the tri-state areas have been kind to the boys We've been traveling all over Kentucky Cincinnati in Indiana the last few nights It has been a lot of fun. We are flying back to the DMV today so that Fat guy touchdown there for Trent Scott the fix six as it were later in the show when I played Kevin Harlan's call The cannon break it down. It's just so good, but There's a little discussion after the game it sounds like between Trent Scott the lineman who will never again cut your touchdown and Jaden Daniels who through his first touchdown pass as we all bet it he would to an offensive lineman who gets the football It would be intuitive generally for the Heisman trophy winner the face of the franchise the guy hopefully who's gonna Be the answer here for many many years to come To just keep the football But Trent Scott man. He's an offensive lineman. He doesn't get to do that. So Danny. I ask you Trent Scott or Jaden Daniels who should get the ball it's Jaden Daniels and I don't think there's any Question about that Trent Scott. That's adorable. That's a cool story. You're the answer to a trivia question. Hopefully that's people are gonna care about in a long time Respectfully, I'm not that interested in Trent Scott. I need Jaden Daniels to get everything at all times So it's his football as far as I'm concerned I'd give it to Trent Scott if I'm Jaden and I would say listen man There's gonna be a few hundred more of these coming for me. This is the one you're gonna get. So you enjoy this one I'll keep my dime to Terry McClellan, which was one of the most amazing throws I've seen in person. He got Destroyed on that play and he knew it too absolutely Walloped basically crown of the helmet to the chin Laid out on his back Annihilated he threw the ball into the corner of the end zone when Terry was still not even at the defensive back Who was playing off coverage? You normally wouldn't even run that play there But McClellan called the play went over to the sideline told Cliff Kingsbury put me on the right by myself Let me run a go ball and let's go home. Let's win this football game and Terry after the game was essentially saying how this Was the first time I was empowered and they trusted me to let me call my number and they said okay Let's do it and they ran it anyway that play by the way had a 10% chance of being completed via next-gen stats at the moment of the throw the lowest Percentage chance of a completion for a completed pass all season in the NFL by far the throw of the early year for Jaden Daniels It was just amazing, but this was Daniels after the game talking about the football in question We'll get to that in just a couple of moments. The numbers 800 six three six one oh six seven eight hundred six three six one oh six Seven on Grant and Danny here on the fan. I want to hit the phones in a moment Danny, why don't you answer the question that we're gonna go to the phones on here? When is the last time you felt this excited about a commander's win November 22nd 2012 Against the Dallas Cowboys on Thanksgiving There would been some nice moments for sure of that season, but they were three and six going into the bye week They'd beaten Philadelphia who was kind of falling apart and a little bit of a mess and they were four and six It didn't really feel like anything special was happening It felt like this is a nice novelty act but the offense had really scuffled since putting up 38 points in Minnesota more than a month before and They'd been shut down by Pittsburgh by Carolina The Giants had beaten them when they couldn't execute very well And it wasn't going in the right direction and they came out and also Ironically, I suppose put up 38 points on Thanksgiving against Dallas and could not be stopped Little did we know at the time that was gonna be win two of that seven win stretch the catapult to them in the playoffs But that was the this isn't just a gimmick that the league has adjusted to this is real and we have something really special So I was thinking about my favorite games that I've either attended or watched over the years And I was at most of these but I came up with five before last night Since 2012 so 12 years of football that I would consider to be the games that made me really proud to be a DMV guy who grew up rooting for this team and To be the dad of a kid who this morning is wearing a Jaden Daniels jersey as he's hanging out on the playground 2017 was the last time there was a game That I thought leaving the game. It was like oh my god. That was amazing What a feeling and it was the Sunday night football went over the Raiders It was early in the year Kirk went 365 and three through the air and they dominated a 2-0 Raiders team in week three Do you remember that of course? Yeah, cuz that Raiders team had come off a 12-1 season the year before they were really good They were 2-0 and Washington whooped them. I thought maybe the commanders I guess it wouldn't have been the commanders at the time But maybe the Redskins are pretty good year before that 2016 a lot of these are based on prime time I think that's actually a big part of it because it just feels different if it's not a 1 o'clock Sunday game But how about that windy game for the the Redskins and the Packers in 2016 on Sunday night football? Another really good opponent in green Bay under the lights and in that game remember 42 24 Washington they had the huge Rob Kelly game. I think you ran for 130 Oh, I love Rob Kelly man Kelly man Kirk went 375 and three through the air 2015 when they won the division championship in Philadelphia in week 16 division title on the line between the Eagles and The Redskins cousins 365 and 4 through the air that was kind of one of those nights They wanted a vision championship is that cheating because it's a playoff clinching win. No, it's not cheating at all Okay, that's you're excited. Yeah, you're excitement level and then there was three in 2012 I would go at the week 17 game where Griffin Alfred Morris 200 yards three touchdowns on the ground When the division at FedEx Field against the Cowboys the Thanksgiving game you re referenced And then the Saints game in a week one of 2012 the debut of Griffin where Robert threw for 320 and a pair And he also ran for 50 yards and alph and his debut ran for a couple touchdowns and 95 yards for Kyle Shanahan So those are I just went through six games of the count last night. Mm-hmm has my favorite games of the last decade plus That said to answer the question directly Danny the last time I felt as hopeful and as Excited and that little voice in the back of my head saying maybe this is a thing. Maybe they're good Maybe they got the guy. It was as loud as it is this morning Week one 2012 in New Orleans. Yep, that's what last night felt like to me. I woke up this morning going Don't get ahead of yourself Don't rush to judgment everyone everywhere is going to be throwing the party and saying it's over and saying nothing matters Everyone's gonna have the big we got the guy celebration and after last night God is it hard not to think that way There's no reason to rush. We don't we don't have to slam the gavel today, but I have not felt this way about this team Since I have after the Griffin game in week one in New Orleans And it's because of the quarterback how young he is how good he looked How can you not feel good this morning? How can you not feel like? Everything is possible. Yeah, 100% I mean in the ups and downs of that season if you remember it I know you obviously were on the beat and you you were there You know firsthand seeing all these different things but the start was incredible and then that swoon happened where you know They got beat by Cincinnati Griffin was concussed against Atlanta and there was all the is he running too much. What's happening? What are we doing and is the offense really that good and you know because they were they were kind of in a slump By week happens Chan Han does the we're evaluating everybody Which doesn't sound like a team. It's about to rip off seven in a row and then of course they did it was this magical ride So like the the undulations of that year you go back to that New Orleans game where nobody'd see anything like it You went oh my god, look at this song. This is so Beyond what anybody had expected or hoped for we didn't see it in the preseason We had no clue. They kind of took the league by storm and then that late season run made it seem Hey, this is more than a flash in a pan This is more than something that people hadn't seen this is for real and we of course know how it ended And so there's a lot of us myself included where I'm pretty scarred from that where I've I'm feeling These feelings again, you know and and the last girl that did that left me at the altar and broke my heart ripped it out and Shot my heart with up with a 12 gauge and then lit it on fire with a witching ceremony So I'm a little bit reticent to hope again, but I'll be damned if I don't feel those feelings You're the guy on the bachelor's like I just put my walls up. I can't take my walls down I've been burned too many times my walls. That's a great bit your walls are up, man I do I have my johns up. You know what happened last night Washington took the field against a bangles team that is better than them Mm-hmm and the commanders had the best player on the field that evened everything out Yeah, I will also say though that I think the Kingsbury plan was amazing I grew this because I don't want to take anything away from Jayden Daniels the throw we made to Terry down the field on the 55 Yarder was a Dye that's a Rembrandt right there. You cannot walk that to the player better and that wasn't even his best Rotatory the touchdown to Maclaurin was even better But they had receivers open all night on huge downs and distances like there was never really a play where Kingsbury got got by Enorama Was there third and one fourth and one fourth and two fourth and four zak hurts was always open That they always had an answer there. There was one step ahead of Cincinnati It was just a clinic to watch and while we're talking about fourth downs Dan Quinn Went for a fourth and two on the opening drive from the 34 the 30-yard completion the Luke McCaffrey We had his own coming out party last night fourth and one at the 33 They went for it got four yards. That was the Jayden Daniels scramble He kind of ran this get powerful lowered his shoulders Lamar style and then fourth and fourth to 39 Late in the game with 430 to go. They could have kicked a long field goal would have been Like a 52 yarder. I don't know that I trust cyber there So they rolled the dice put the ball in Daniels hands and Earth's got free for nine But there were three for three on fourth down in addition to being really good on third down