Grant and Danny

Dan Quinn Speaks On McLaurin, Who's Hot & Who's Not: QB Edition, Double Play

9.19.24 Hour 2

1:00- We take your calls on Terry McLaurin and his slow start. Do we believe in Terry getting back to form?

22:00- We go around the NFL with the latest report on QB's, who's been hot and who's been not?

33:45- What's going on in our lives that has nothing to do with sports?

Broadcast on:: 19 Sep 2024
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He does have the two big plays he's made that have led to the only two sacks of the season for the commanders, one in each game both by Cleal and Farrell. And then Terry McClurent has started similarly to last year frankly, very, very slowly. He ended up picking it up, getting to more traditional numbers. He's one of the only five receivers in the league to go for a thousand yards, four straight seasons. He got to 10-02 last year, just barely got over the threshold, but he's got eight catches for 39 yards. Some five yards per reception. Which is wild by the way, that's hard to do. I think he'll be better, just like I think Allen and Payne will be better, but the guy I'm saying is going to have the best years, Payne. So I've got Allen and it's not, I don't think anybody's doing this in a walk, right? I don't think anybody's going to have that ridiculous year that we, you know, reference and think about for, you know, for decades to come. But to me, Allen's been so consistent. His sort of metrics that aren't the counting stats, like the ones we look at, we always look at sacks. We look at, you know, forced fumbles, tackles, floss, et cetera. And those are usually their form, but his pressures, quarterback hits, TFLs, stuff, meaning that he is having an impact are pretty consistent throughout the last four or five seasons. Even when he's had higher sack totals, like he said, out of nine, had a seven and a half. Even when they're down, it's still those numbers have always been there for Allen. I expect him to get back to that. We'll get back to what Dan Quinn said about Terry McClellan in a minute. Because I want to get to that audio on basically this idea of not forcing him the ball and operating the offense based on whoever comes open, not making sure McClellan is more involved. Let's go back to the phones. Pete's and Lanham wants to hop in on Grant and Danny. What's up, Pete? Hey, guys. Hey, you want to take my call? Good, buddy. Oh, look, out of the three, I'm listening. It has to be Terry because I know pain and now it just gets doubled up on one and I think they are kind of wore out. But Terry is a little slower, but he's also a little smarter. Terry's been back in Jayden from day one that he knows. He's a young man and it'll come. He's not pressing. I'm not going to press it, but I think it's going to break out. It's going to be Terry. Maybe he's not going to burn somebody deep, but he certainly can. You still get open. He has that ability and I think he could make an impact tomorrow. Appreciate you, bud. I want to double click on this idea because you brought it up that he's not as fast as he was a few years ago. What are we basing that on? Like, why do you say that? Is it just anecdotal to what you noticed? Yeah, I don't have any measurements. I don't have any, you know, any pop times in front of me or, you know, any kind of PFS analytics. He ran by his assignment on the play design for him to catch a nine route. He was there. He did everything right. He's free on that post where he was kind of clearing out and then as a chance to get into space. People may not have even noticed the play, but it was one of the Jaden Daniels scrambles against Tampa. He was wide open down the field. He has gotten free behind everybody twice already this season. So to me, it doesn't feel like speed is a problem, but I will say separation with him has been an issue. It feels like over the last couple of years. And that sometimes is an explosiveness thing. Yeah, I think it's all part of it to me. Like, I don't know how to describe this because again, he might be able to sit down. Sit down. I'm sure that you would do this, but he might be able to like race his former self and come close, like in a straight line thing, right? On the markets that go and maybe they're maybe they're tied through the 40 or the 50 or whatever. It just doesn't feel like he's as quick, explosive, dangerous as he once was, 20. Now, part of that could just be everyone knows it's him or bust and there's defenders everywhere. He's got nowhere to go. Maybe that's something. I don't know. It's a feeling. Because all I'm working for or working towards is or working back from is where is that production? Where is the, okay, an offense that threw it a million times last year, he barely cracked a thousand yards. Like, how are we getting that, you know, just still just I'm reaching for an explanation. I don't have anything definitive. I would love and I just don't know that we're going to get this. I don't know that's going to happen, but I would love the chance to see what McClellan would look like in a really good passing offense with a really good quarterback. And hopefully that is what Washington becomes this year. It's very possible, but in his career to this point this minute, this is not an indictment on Kingsbury or Daniels or the current teams or everyone stay out of your feelings. I'm just saying for Terry McClellan's career, he is never at any point. It's a lot of case Keenum and Sam howl and Alex Smith and just a bunch of busters, dude. He's never had the chance to just go out with Annie Reed and Patrick Mahomes and see what happens. Or even just a reasonable situation, you know, a cousins or a dare car or whatever, like nothing. I would love to see what that look like, but hopefully Daniels becomes that guy as the year goes on. Edward, Silver Spring, you're on G&D. What's good. Hey, Edwin, well, how are you guys doing? Great. Thank you. What do you got? Definitely Terry. Definitely Terry. It's frustrating just seeing lately it's like, it's like being a group. So just to finish it, or again, number one on the, you know, social media, which, which guy better than he is as good as this guy over here at this guy over there. You know, you guys are in the play with functional quote about functional or passive schemes. We were barely even a four-passing team, honestly, you know? Fair. But, but let me ask you this, because this is not just about two games. I would agree with you if he was coming off 1400 last year or something. I would make two cases and then I want to get your response to them. Number one, you just watched Malik Neighbors for the Giants in his second career game. That's, Terry does not do, like, that it, whatever that is, is not Terry. And that guy's better. Now, that's not, I'm not trying to knock Terry McLaurin. My point is just, that's what an elite, young wide receiver talent looks like. I know he was drafted in the top 10, McLaurin was a third round pick. But that in and of itself is an acknowledgement. That means something I would think. He got more targets in the second game of his career than he's ever gotten his whole career. Number one. The number two point I would make is, you're bristling at the idea of people asking questions about McLaurin. When are they allowed to? You know, his, his catch percentage, his yards per catch, his yards after contact, like all of those numbers are going down, essentially year by year. When are they allowed to ask questions or you're just never allowed to? Well, I'll ask you about questions, last year in the spring, we're going to go to a complete film in fact. Now, when they seem in a functional team, like we're leaving a decent, like, just a bit added to a professional, a consistent quarterback, like, cause me, like, you said, call. Get your phone. I appreciate the call. Yeah. I hear the passion. Because he's, you're a fan of Terry McLaurin. And my response, and again, this is, this is like the unpleasant part of it because no one, no one just likes Terry McLaurin. He's an awesome dude. He is one of my favorite players in DC sports of the last 30 years. If I had a daughter, I'd be like, it was the appropriate age. Please date Terry McLaurin. Bring him home. I can't wait to have Thanksgiving dinner with him. But DJ Moore had Justin Fields and Matt Eberfluce who went for 1300 yards. Amari Cooper had Joe Flacco off the bleeping couch who went for 1250 yards. You see what I'm saying? Like, yes. Also through the ball a million times last year. Yeah. So yeah, I understand that Eric B. Enemy is currently not scoring at UCLA because nobody in the NFL wanted to give him a job and Sam Howls a backup, but they also threw it a million times. Like his targets last year, he had 132 targets, which was essentially the most he's ever had before. The other time he had that many targets, he caught almost 90 balls. Last year he caught fewer than 80. Yeah. Two years ago when Devonta Adams was in Vegas, David, David, David, I just did it. Damn it. Derek Carr got benched. He went for 1500 yards and 14 touchdowns in a year where Carr was ultimately replaced, right? Like, I understand that it has been an idea. Devonta Adams was on a Raiders team where they benched Jimi Garoppolo 1100 yards last year. And he got benched and then they went to AOC, not the politician lady. But the quarterback who may or may not be any good, nobody knows yet. And he had a pretty good year statistically, I think he had a hundred catches for 1100 yards or whatever. Garrett Wilson had infinitely better numbers slash, not infinitely, but better numbers last year than Terram McConan, especially on a per game basis, with garbage and water back. You see, now he sounds like we're killing Terry, which was not my goal. It's not my goal either, but I'm, but like when you are like, oh, it's a bad situation. It absolutely is. No one's ever. I've argued this for years. Like, of course, it's a bad situation. I think it's a bad situation now that should have gotten someone else to help him. But the point is, like, that's the only reason I can't have that. That's kind of my point here. It's not the only reason. This is one of my big frustrations, just generally, with a fan base that I love, of which I am one, and with a group of people that I adore, okay? You guys are the reason that it's still fun to be a fan of this team, the people that are still here, that are still grinding, that are still watching. But there is, and this is not specific to DC or commander's fans. I think this is team by team, but there is this community of folks that any questioning of any of the players that we've just decided are awesome, and he is awesome, but they're above reproach. This team never wins ever. They haven't won anything since he got here ever, not his fault, but we're not the group that is too good to be questioned. They haven't had good passing offenses. They haven't had good offenses. They haven't scored a lot, and they've never won. So this idea that you just can't question anything, no, no, no, no, no, no. You want to do that with the Chiefs or something, be my guest. We should be questioning everything all the time. We should be asking tough questions, and it's just, you know, if a five-year-old with his jersey doesn't like the question, I can understand that. But big boys and girls driving to and from work, I think it's okay to have a discussion about what is he? And I also agree with the caller to say, man, it would be fun to know what it looked like with a real passer for a full season. And he was the number two with Jefferson with Kevin O'Connell and Kirk Cousins in Minnesota the last couple of years, instead of, you know, Jordan Addison last year or whatever, or KJ Osborne. My guest is Terry McClellan and put up some damn good numbers. I agree with you. Brian's in Leesburg. What's up, Brian? Hey, Brad. Hey, first of all, I hope you guys have a great time this weekend. I can't wait to hear all the details. Secondly, I think it's going to be either one of the two tackles pick them, and I have a different take on it. I think it's going to be one of them because for them, it's about their own effort. Terry is hamstrung by the system he's in. They are not. I think it's more about their effort, and for him, it's about the systems he's in, and I'll hang up to hear your response. Yeah, another way to say, kind of something I alluded to earlier, the other details can dictate a little more directly how they play. McClellan is a product of an environment. It is such a dependent position that he could do everything right all day long, be running free constantly and have two catches for 29 yards, and nobody would know the difference. It's fair. I mean, think about what we said about Luke McCaffrey, sorry to cut you off. No, that's right. After week two. Where the hell was Luke McCaffrey? What's going on? And then the numbers come out, and he was the third most open receiver in the NFL according to separation on that day, but he just, the plays didn't go his way, it didn't get funneled that way, Jaden didn't see him, whatever happened, and there's a feeling about him, a negative feeling about his performance that he had nothing to do with, basically. And yeah, it is super dependent, but it's also, it's something that when you're not one of the two or three guys that are literally unstoppable, the uncheckable monsters of Justin Jefferson, Tyree Kill, you know, at times, Jamar Chase, although it hadn't been the case this year, but in years past, if you're not one of those guys that it does not matter what the scheme is, doesn't matter how you bracket or cloud or cover or jam or in and out or whatever the hell you want to call it, those guys are going to get theirs. What a burger. They're there, which is not a crime to not be there. There's hundreds of guys that aren't at that level, Jack and you can be taken away. And McCorn can do a degree. There's also the limiting of the offense. I really think that's a huge factor. They're not right now in the business of, Terry, let's block something up for you. You go 20 yards and run a, you know, a deep comeback or you run this square and it's going to take three or four seconds for us to really get what we want. They're not in the business of doing that right now because they got a rookie quarterback in an unsure line. Shane's in Oxon Hill on Grant and Danny. What's up, Shane? I just wanted to say, man, that I think that Terry will be awesome in another offense. Let me turn off this background. I think that he will be great in another offense. You know, I think that he's comparable to guys like Brandon, I you can, you know, some of the other top guys in the league, he may not be as dynamic with the ball in his hands after the catch. But if he was in a Shanahan offense and the ball was being delivered on time, I think that he gives enough inspiration, he has a beat and he has a hand to be a standout receiver. I think in a lot of the offense is in the league. And that's one of the reasons why not to make this about Jaden Daniels. But it's the reason why I wanted another like a true quarterback, so to say prospect. And I'm going to say that I wasn't a guy, you know, because I just thought that he was better at the quarterbacking aspect of things, not being an athlete first. But I just wanted to say that that I thought that Terry is underappreciated. And I think that kind of undervalued still with this officer thing is like that I thought it would be different than what we say would be enemy. And yeah, I just hope that we finally can came up something and that he gets the credit that he's due because I think that a lot of the things that he, you know, it's not his fault. We know that he doesn't get the ball. Like you said, it's on the quarterback to get it and the blocking and I think that he's just been dealt a bad hand, honestly. I get it. And I'm with you, Shane. Thank you, buddy. Appreciate you. Let me ask you this. Yep. I'm a Kyle Mark. Everybody knows that. It's just so correct, by the way. Anyway, 85 catches for 11 or 97 yards. That's what I predict Terry McLaurin to have in San Francisco this year, 85 for 11 97. He runs those square rings, those digs like all that stuff underneath crossers and drags beautifully. I think they would have, basically, he'd be more of the Ayuk, I would call it, to like the Debo or whatever. But to me, he would be like the Pierre of the Kyle offense in a sense. Do you agree with that? Like in that offense, with that kind of play caller, he would eat. He would, he would do better than here. Yes. My whole thing with him is I don't even want to use the word dynamic, but like he is not a separator, the only word I keep coming back to is like, from a weapon standpoint, is a dynamicism or something, but like that ability, neighbors, you all watch neighbors. I'll just use that. Whatever that is, it's just not his game. You see what I'm saying? Yeah. Jamar, Chase, some of these young, he is a very, he's like an art monk. Nothing wrong with that, by the way, one of the greatest ever do it, but it's, it's kind of like run, cut guy on your back, catch the ball. Like to me, that's more of what he is than what the league is trending to, which is it be nice to have a Malik neighbors. You know, that's what to me, the, the 1300, 1500, 1700 yard guy looks like, try to use it a different analogy. Think, think of basketball. Who's the best score in the league right now to, in top of your head? Luca Doncic, just who I thought of. Okay. How's that work for you? Uh, out of season on the NBA, but yeah, I was, I was going to say, step shooter, Luca score. Yeah. Luca score in 25 again. I'd assume he 34 a game. You know what? What everyone knows? He's getting the ball. It's worth it for that coach to go. I don't care that they know I'm going to dial stuff up for Luca Doncic at all times. So I'm glad you said that. This was Dan Quinn today talking about not wanting to force the ball to Terri McClellan. And instead, instead of wanting Jaden Daniels and he's happy that he's basically going, I'm not going to fit that in there to him. Let's find somebody else. Try to move Terri around into different spots, which is important because he is, you know, has that like play making ability to want to find the spots to go. As we're going just into our second, you know, full lap together, there'll be more ops for him than we need them to be. What you don't want to do is force the ones that aren't there and make sure even though in a certain route, he may be the primary read. But if that one's taken away, that you don't force that one and go to somewhere else. I really respect that about Jaden of making good processing decision. Stop it there. Here's my point on this. Terri is a contested catch king. Think about that catch against the Colts and anecdotally. But like over the years, Terri McClellan is a contested catch star, right? The idea, it's not it's rarely going to be ass open. It's just not going to be wide open all the time. That quote worries me a little bit like, I don't force it. No, no, no, no, no. To Terri McClellan, he doesn't need to be open to catch the football. In fact, most of the time the defender is going to be close and he's going to make you look right. It's that slant that Jaden threw a dime and there's six, seven yards, slant, whatever. But it was like the best throw to me in a small window that he's made. NFL drove it in type throw. That's Terri. He gets, takes some big hits, got a guy hanging from his back, draped over him like a blanket. And Quinn's point is if it's not there, let's not throw it. Well, if it's got to be there, then he's not going to get as many looks. I will say, isn't that the beauty of McClellan? That's, that's part of the appeal, right? Is, is on a 50 50, he makes you right because it's not 50 50. He's winning. So the point I was trying to make with, with Donchich, and you could pick any of a dozen scores or so. It doesn't matter that they know the whole priorities they get to get in the ball. Even if they know it's critical, there are receivers that would fit that bill. I bet you Justin Jefferson appears on the scouting report when you play the Minnesota Vikings. That doesn't matter. It's too important. They can know all they want. He has to get the ball. Now, there's nothing wrong picking against the NBA example. Nothing wrong with, I don't know, Miles Bridges. That's a good player. Miles Bridges is a very nice player. That cost balance is not worth it anymore. In other words, I can't stop everything that I'm doing and go, I need Miles Bridges to have 25 shots. Otherwise, we had a bad night at the office, right? He'll get his. He'll get some. He's a good player. He will, he will make some plays and make it happen for you. But he ain't, Luca Donchich, because nobody is. That's an MVP candidate. Right? And that's an extreme example. But the same kind of applies here. There's a tier of receiver where it doesn't matter the day, the weather, the opponent. That dude is getting the football and that's the only thing I'm walking in my offensive coordinator's office that week going, do you have enough for a Tyree kill this week? Because we had it. We only had a couple of catches this past week and you could see our offense really struggling. Do you have enough in for him this week? Great. I'll see you Sunday. We're not doing that with McClorne. The Giants. I'm over talking about Malik neighbors, but I love Malik. Well, you just saw it. Yeah. Also, I just love Malik neighbors. How do you feel about Malik neighbors? I like them a little bit. There was nobody else on that offense that worried you even a little bit, not in Iota. Devin Singletary plowing for five is cute. Go, go get your five, sir, 20 of those and you get to score a touchdown. The rest of the receiving core, it's just jags. If they improve a little bit, they'd be the 80th best receiver in the league. And Washington knowing that 16 targets, 10 catches, buck 27, would have been 11 for one 35 if he made the nice catch on the sideline to put the game away. They couldn't do anything with him. You're right. I mean, that's you got if you got that skill set, it doesn't really matter. You just find a way, but we're going to see if they can continue to scheme it to make it work for Terry McLaurin, Grant and Danny on the family. Let's talk about the quarterback position. Who's hot and who's not through a couple of games, including some odds on who the quarterback most likely to be benched next after Bryce Young lost his job is in the NFL. We'll get to that on Grant and Danny. Extraordinary happens, it's not just the ultra fast charging capability and long range in the Ionic 5 and Ionic 6, or the adventure seeking spirit of the Kona electric or the ground breaking 601 horsepower Ionic 5N. And it's not just the comfort in knowing that every Hyundai EV is backed by a 10 year, 100,000 mile limited electric battery warranty, Hyundai's EVs transform a low hum into a loud adventure. They bring color to your journey and turn energy into main character energy. So forget everything you thought you knew about EVs and turn the extraordinary into something true. Electrifying. There's joy in every journey. GND on the fan, DC Richmond Odyssey app and 1067 the fan YouTube, you can go watch us right now. I want to talk about the quarterback position who's hot, who's not in the NFL are double plays coming up at 345 and in 30 minutes on the nose. We're giving away those tickets for you to go see the HF festival at Nat's Park on Saturday. All right, let's start with the quarterbacks who have played the best so far this season because it's a pretty surprising list. How about what Derek Carr has turned in for his homework in New Orleans to this point through two games, Carr, five touchdowns in a pick, completing 77% 443 yards. Carr went for 203 scores against the Panthers and then took the second half off. And then 243 in a pair against the Cowboys was intercepted once. They have scored on every single drive. Clint Kubiak's got them under center 70% of the time, the most of anybody in the league and it is working thrown it back to the, you know, early 2000s Shanahan style, right? I mean, their office has been unbelievable. Good. They haven't even needed Chris Olave at this point. I mean, he's barely been involved as they've scored 90 plus points through two games. What an absolute display level of confidence. Let's go one to 10 scale here that Derek Carr has a great season. I'm going to say seven and a half. I actually really like the fit for him in this offense under center dropback play action. I like their weapons. Okay. He's not going to sustain this eater. That would be impossible. But I think it's going to, I think it's going to be okay. I think he's going to be good. I, yeah, we're not doing MVP record setting type stuff, right? But he's going to have a decent year because they run the ball tremendously well there. Everything's kind of, you know, one look leads to another. Everything's related. They're doing fakes off of fakes and counters off counters, et cetera. Everything looks right for them. I think once the league adjusts, this will cool off, which is I'm sure a hot take after they've averaged 45 points a game. This is me saying they won't average 45 points again the rest of the way as there's more tape out there. But I think he has a nice year. Another quarterback who has played very well, Sam Darnold in Minnesota, 72% complete 476 yards with four touchdowns and two picks. They're two and oh, by the way, their defense is number one in blitzes, number one in pressures, number one in sacks, pretty much every single category right now under Brian Flores. But as far as the quarterback goes, he had a walk in the park kind of game against the Giants 19 of 24 with a couple of touchdowns and then he was very solid against San Francisco. Now the numbers are buoyed by a 97 yard touchdown, obviously the Justin Jefferson and Jefferson did the heavy lifting on that play. But who cares? I mean, otherwise he's still through for right around, you know, 170 yards a touchdown and was 16 of 25 passing. So it was a much more pedestrian Darnold performance in week two, but hard to argue with what they've gotten out of him in their first two games post cousins. He's been fantastic. There's no changing that. There's the period. Here's the next paragraph. I just can't. Give me your one to 10. I'm not mentally there that Sam Darnold is going to have a good year. I, I'm two out of 10 confident. I just don't. I can't, I, without him, if his name was Sam Stevens, I go out, maybe, maybe they found somebody. There's too much. Oh my God. What are you doing? Sam Darnold in my, in my memory back. How old do you think he is? 27. 27. Not very old, still a guy that was in terrible situations earlier in his career. Totally was with the jets in the panther specifically. He has since worked with Kyle Shanahan and Kevin O'Connell. That'll turn you around a little bit. I'm going to give him a four and a half out of 10. Like you, I don't completely believe in the player, but I believe in O'Connell. I believe in Jefferson in the scheme. I believe in receivers are going to get open from time to time. And I think that the way Minnesota is playing defense, he's going to be put in some admirable positions where they're going to be in and a lot of football games are going to be leading a lot of football games. So that helps too. They also are running the ball really well with Aaron Jones, who they just brought over this offseason last year there, Alex Madison was the guy and they struggled this year. It's like Aaron Jones and Ty Chandler. Those guys are pretty explosive. How about Baker Mayfield? We saw the Baker Mayfield show in week one, he crashed back to earth a little bit against the Detroit Lions in week two. But through two games, listen to these numbers, four hundred seventy four yards, five touchdowns in a pick. Two and O. Tampa is completed. Seventy four percent of his passes. He's also rushed for a touchdown as well. Baker Mayfield, just 12 of 19 for a buck eighty five in his last game. But that first jam against Washington still looms pretty large level of confidence that Mayfield, who was good last year as a strong season for the bucks. So probably right in the middle of five, this is a really good fit, right? Just the, you mentioned it, Evans, Godwin and Rashad White, all excellent pass captures on their own rights. Having all through those guys would help anybody. I like that O line. The division doesn't scare the hell out of me. I think he ends up having an okay year. What I said before the play Washington is he'll have a great first week and then slowly Peter out as the season progresses and not do what he did last year. Last year to me was more like, that's, that's the positive top end extreme. I think he settles into just underneath that seven out of 10 confident he'll be good again. Last year was 4,000 yards, nearly 30 touchdown passes, 10 or fewer interceptions, I think, something like that. I think it'll be similar again this year. Evans, Godwin, solid defense, bad division, no reason. I don't think that Mayfield in his second year there isn't going to be pretty comfortable. Now, week one was the Lions game and he didn't play Washington yet. We wouldn't be talking about him at all. It was kind of pedestrian, but you get to play the commanders. Their numbers are going to be pretty good. And I just think, as you said, it's a solid fit as we saw last year. Last one of the hot quarterbacks to start the season here on Grant and Danny. Kyler Murray lit it up against the Rams in week two, four in completion, 17 of 21. That's 81 percent, 265 yards, three touchdowns and basically he did a lot of the heavy lifting in the first quarter when he went four for 130 to Marvin Harrison for a couple of touchdowns. They ended up taking their foot off the gas pedal because they were just embarrassing the Rams should have gone running clock like high school football. Week one, he was solid as well. 2834 loss of the hands of the bills for Arizona, but he was 21 of 31 for a buck 60 and a touchdown. Kyler Murray playing lights out football for tuddies and zero picks this season, 73 percent passer. What do you think? I am a believer. I am buying heavy stock in this one. To me, not having Cliff Kingsbury around and him being healthy with a bit more rejuvenated roster around him. I think he's in for a huge year. I don't know how huge, but I think it's going to be a big. So give me an eight and a half out of 10. I'm going to go with a eight out of 10 as well. Adding Harrison to that offense is going to be really, really helpful for Murray. He needed a guy like that to alleviate some pressure. All right. Let's look at the flip side. These are the bad quarterbacks in the league, I suppose. The category is who is the next quarterback to be benched? Post the benching in Carolina of Bryce Young. This is from bed online. They've got odds here. The odds read, most likely Daniel Jones of the Giants at four to one. I guess they'd go to Drew Locke. Although that fan base loves Tommy DeVito, Bo Nix at six to one, you'd be benching a rookie to go to Zach Wilson, a little harder for me to believe unless he just plays really badly for several weeks. Jacobi Brissette at six to one, even though no England's overachieved, I think the argument here is rookie waiting in the wings draft or third overall. Drake may is nipping at his heels. Will Levis hate to one? This one's interesting. Who's the backup to Will Levis in Tennessee? I'm trying to look it up just now, but I'm getting a little slow internet situation. Will Levis has had a back-breaking awful turnover in each of the two games the Titans have played. It's really cost them to the point where he walked over and his coach said to him, what in the bleep is the matter with you? Mason Rudolph is their backup. Oh, there you go. I guess I could see that. He's a first-year head coach, you're off to a bad start. Everyone's going to be questioning you. If Will Levis doesn't pick it up, I can see a path to that. The other one's Gardner Menchoo in Vegas with the Raiders because Aiden O'Connell is backing him up who played last year and they were in a nipping tuck competition until basically right before the season. That was the last competition to end, in fact. So if those guys where you could take somebody else, who's the next QB in the NFL to be bent? I guess they're just because of these galling mistakes, right? Where Tennessee's been in these games that they've played defensively, they've been pretty damn good, I would say. They've frustrated opponents and really made them work for stuff and it's been lead relinquished because of a horrendous play in week one against Chicago and a similar story in week number two against the Jets. You can't do that as you're trying to establish this new way of doing things. It doesn't necessarily mean it sort of does that you wouldn't go back to them at any point, but as you're trying to build the Callahan way, so to speak, you can't do that, right? This is how we're going to win. It's take care of the football place of defense ground and pound. Oh my God. We'll love us. You're not fitting the program. So maybe then they go to Mason Rudolph. I'm going to go with Jacobi Brissette at six to one third, most likely, according to the odds. New England plays the Jets tonight on Thursday night football. They may beat the Jets. I think they're so far through two weeks, a comparable team. If they play close though and lose, they then have the 49ers next week in San Francisco. Let's say they lose that game and they're one in three and they're playing close. I think with the dolphins, Texans, Jags, Jets coming up on the schedule, that's a little softish landing spot where if they wanted to get Drake May into the fold, that would be a time where you could do it. The dolphins without tour, you're going to lose to the Texans, but it's back to back home games. Then you go to Jacksonville, be a nice weather game against the Jaguars, then you're back at home for the third time in four weeks against the Jets. Then you play the Titans, the Bears, which doesn't look like a big deal, the Rams, maybe they're healthier, but it's it. Then the dolphins again, the Colts, that is a easy schedule, by the way, for the Patriots. So I'll say in the next few weeks, we see Drake May or settle up something to say about that. If he plays well and they win, I don't think they make a change. So the only the obstacle there to me is first year head coach trying to, you know, sort of puff his chest out a little bit and say, this is how we're going to do it and a framework team made up Jacoby. Yeah. It's like we're going to compete and we're going to the best player is going to chance is going to win and blah, blah, blah, or the best chance to win and that player's going to play and we're going to eat nails and crap lightning. I don't know. That to me would be the obstacle, right, is the is like sort of the macho attitude of it. But big picture for the organization, May is the answer just a matter of when if you're going to do that with lightning, then what is thunder in that analogy? Exactly. See what I'm saying? I think we know it's thunder. Mm hmm. Little roaring thunder. The roaring thunder. And you never admitted to doing that at work. You okay in there? Knock knock. That's just some run thunder. Can we get a courtesy flush? The double play comes your way next on Grant and Danny. What's going on in our lives? Nothing to do with sports. And then right at the top of the hour and 20 minutes from right now, we are giving away tickets to the HF Estible on the fan. a lot of people are going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. Here's my question. I thought this was more ubiquitous than it is. It's the fall, which is wonderful. It's our time. The wife gets inspired in the fall for delicious food stuff. We had wings over the weekend that she got from Wegmans. She's made chili a couple of different times. It's the weather starting to turn, which is just so nice. Dinner, the other night, okay, and chili from Sunday. The dinner from the other night, I think it was either Monday or Tuesday, had rice as part of the meal. I love rice so much. It's one of the reasons why I find it impossible to lose weight. Amy Hoodles, I combined leftovers, like Voltron. I put a base of rice down. Then I put the chili on top of it, mixed it up, put it on the microwave. Then, as I'm stirring it, heating it up, add a little cheese, kind of the normal topics. I got looks like I had just, I don't know, like, invaded another country. Like, I was a space alien with a million heads. I thought the chili rice combo was fairly standard. Because I remember it from being a little kid going to elementary school, and that was one of the lunches, like in the rotating group of lunches that you had when you just went to school, and like, "Here's the lunch from the cafeteria." We had chili and rice, and it was a pretty standard thing. I've always thought that goes together. Apparently, I'm one of the weird ones. So, I ask all three of you that work on this radio program together with yours truly. Is that a standard combo or like an eccentric combo? Is that a weird combo? Having a little rice with your chili? I would prefer rice because I like rice with anything. Yeah. Especially in that situation. You put the rice down as your base. You plop the chili on top. It's wet, tops it up, makes perfect sense as far as I'm concerned. Having said that, one, I don't do chili. Not a chili guy, always something better. It's just not something that's for me. There's beans in it, so I'm out. Two, when chili is done at my house, and I don't take part, there's never rice involved. But if I was eating chili, and rice was an option every time I'm putting it right on top of that rice. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Dude, before we go on, chili, you guys are generally aware of chili. Yeah. It's merits. Okay. Just give us a second. I'm also aware of chili and it's merit. Yeah. So we're good. Dearest, please continue. I can't, I'm trying to recall if I've ever had chili and rice. It sounds phenomenal. And it sounds like something I would do. I don't recall ever having it made that way. Now, my one seed for bases, if we're calling it that, like you think of an ice cream sundae, like it's got that cookie base or like a piece of cake or brownie or whatever. My favorite base is cornbread. Of course. That's the one. And it's perfect. It just goes and now you're going, you're chopping it up. I like to do a base of cornbread, chili, and then take a piece of cornbread and crumble it on top, almost like a topping. It's a base and a topping. It's like a big cornbread sandwich, but I beat it with a spoon. Of course. In lieu of cornbread, the rice to me serves a similar purpose. Right? So you're a cornbread guy at the base of chili? Yeah. It sounds like it works to me. I don't see why that's such an issue. But yeah, if it's whether or not it's standard, I can't say I'm familiar enough with it to know if that's standard. Rhino, what do you got? So, first and foremost, you actually sleep on Wendy's chili, some of the best chili in the game, but that's another topic for another day. But I think rice and chili sounds really good. But you don't really. It's not normal. No, it's not normal, but still though, like it sounds good and it kind of seems like a form of like a jambalaya, in a sense, like kind of like an Americanized version of a jambalaya. Yeah, especially if you've got a soupier chili on the spectrum, I was like, if you've got the Texas, like that Turlingua Red, which really is just a bunch of beef with seasoning and it's delightful. You're not getting me to say anything bad about the Texas chili. Almost flossing Joe in a sense. Yeah. But in a minute, it's got that like anger to it. It's got that heartless. Yeah, that's right. You don't need. You don't need the rice there. No. For that. Rice always makes everything better. So if you're asking, should rice be with it, my answer would be yes, I just, it's traditionally not with it, but rice with anything that is soup like and or scooped out of anything. I think rice is perfect. So send your pal a tweet. I'm at funny, Danny. Not that is this good because I know it's good. I have no doubt there. There's no problem. That's not the question. Is this normal? Like, is this as mainstream as I think it is or thought it was before I've now had a cross sampling of about a dozen people that have been like, I've never heard of that. And that feels weird to me. That's where I'm at. I finished the mini series on Netflix, the perfect couple. I told you about this a few days ago. It took me a little while to bang through it, what with football, Monday night, Thursday night, Sunday night, there's just a lot of football, but I got through it. It's six episodes. It is your prototypical. It's like the length of one of the old HBO mini series. Netflix calls it a mini series and came out on Netflix on September 5th. It's got an awesome cast. I think it's a Netflix OG, but they pay a lot of money for these because Nicole Kidman and Leave Shriver and Eve Hewson and some other stars are in it. It was very, very good twists and turns like a roller coaster, which is what we all want. You're kind of always wondering what's happening. It is exactly what your boy is looking for. It's a Pulsor wheelhouse show. You know who done it? Yeah. I'm going, well, could it be them? Could it be them? Wait? Why did they just shoot that that way? Let me rewind this. What did they just say? Why did the cameras stay on her as she made that face for a second? The perfect dude on it. I'm going to give it eight Buffalo Wings out of 10. Wow. Yes. Wow, dude. A lot of surprising twists. I won't give anything away. A lot of intrigue. They leave open a lot of possibilities until the end and a lot of attractive people, a lot of beautiful women, great actresses, great actresses, a lot of good looking dudes. Just it's a good looking show. All the things we're looking for in the world. So the perfect couple on Netflix gets my highest regards, you can check it out and the beauty of it. I'm like all the shows that you're going to be told to watch by other people where they have to take up like 8,000 hours of your time. This is six episodes that you can knock this thing out five plus hours. You're home free with a conclusion. The way you drew it up, the way it's supposed to be. It's the perfect storm for you. I'm telling you, if something is popular, even if it's just eight episodes per season, if it's in the middle of season two, it's grants just like, ah, I can't. I just can't do it. That's like, you remember mayor of Easttown? Yeah, of course. Who done it mini series? Let's go. That's your wheelhouse, man. You're never getting this group of characters again. You want them that one time, single serving, take me on a story and then never talk to me again. That's you. Yes. Track the case. Dude, I've, I've explained like the number of incredible shows. I've begged you, please, please watch this, this history, this amazing thing that we're talking about. They'll teach classes on this stuff, like seasons, too many episodes, 136 episodes. What are we doing here? The belt label, it's at the top of the hour coming your way in just an full of minutes. We're giving away those tickets to go see the HF Festival this weekend right here on Grant and Danny. Plug in a Hyundai EV and the extraordinary happens. It's not just the ultra fast charging capability and long range in the Ionic 5 and Ionic 6, or the adventure seeking spirit of the Kona electric or the groundbreaking 601 horsepower Ionic 5N. 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