Grant and Danny
Full Show: Wednesday, September 18th, 2024
Grant and Danny assess Jayden Daniels and the Commanders offensive line after week two. Kicker Austin Seibert wins NFC special teams player of the week and the guys try to figure out why passing numbers are down across the NFL so far this season. A hilarious final segment has Grand and Danny debating whether a team owner should be honoring themselves in their team's ring of fame. There's also great recurring segments such as the Beltway Blitz, Blitzing the NFC East, Grant and Danny's Audio Vault and the Double Play.
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This summer, get away in the Hyundai you've always wanted at the Hyundai Getaway sales event. Get the hottest deals of the season on many of our award-winning Hyundai models, which all come with America's best warranty. But get going, because these deals won't last. Add more joy to your journey at the Hyundai Getaway sales event. Now for a limited time, get 1.99% APR for 60 months on the Hyundai Tucson or Elantra. Hurry into the Hyundai Getaway sales event. Offers end September 3rd. Call 562-314-4603 for details. Good Wednesday afternoon. Welcome into Grandin Danny. It's September 18th, 2024, and you are listening live. Our show coming your way from our half street studios in the Navy Yard near Nats Park. We'll be taking you up to about 6 30 tonight because those of four mentioned nats are taking on the New York Mets tonight at City Field. You'll hear the game right here on the fan. We got tickets for you at four o'clock ahead of the blitz to go to HF Festival. And it's six o'clock before we say bye to caps 50 fest, starting third eye blind. Danny, what's up? I'm much, dude. One of these weird days where I'm not sure how much it's supposed to rain. I don't know how humid it is. Like everything feels like it's supposed to be comfortable outside and it's gross and dumb. So it's much better inside. You ever experienced that where it's like it's supposed to be nice, but it sucks out there. I want to be in here. Why is it supposed to be nice? Because I look at the thermometer and it's like 68 degrees. Okay. I'm like, yeah. And it's the sun's not beating down on me. That feels good. That's a dandy time. And I go outside. I'm in a soup and then it's like sprinkling on me. I'm like, give me back indoors. So you're asking have I ever experienced rain when it's about 65 degrees? Yeah. Have you ever experienced that? I have. How many times do you think? Let me check. I got to check my 31 times. 31 today is the 31st time. Yes. You didn't know that number 31 times. You made it up. I am wearing my Dylan Cruz. Welcome to the show t-shirt. You see you get three hits in a major league game. You get your t-shirt worn. That's right. That's the rule. I was choosing my outfit today. And like a youngster going to school, I wanted to brag about my guy Dylan Cruz with a three hit game. That was about all that went well for the Nationals last night. It was an ugly performance at the hands of the Mets. I was kind of hoping going into this series that they would play some spoiler. I would brag a little bit to some Mets fans because they're scratching and clawing for the wild card. You go in there. You take two out of three. You sweep them maybe you make life a little bit harder. There's nothing I would rather do in this lost 24 season Danny than ruin the Mets chances of making the playoffs. But it does not look like that's in the cards in this series. My couple, my big things when those are draw, I just need, I want the kids to do things like I want to see Dylan Cruz get three hits. James would adjust to left field and keep swinging it. And CJ Abrams to finish strong. Mitchell Parker, who has been still a very positive story this year. Kind of running out of gas. It looks like as a pitcher. And also at some point, I need a coach to kind of pull him aside and go, let's work on some pitcher fielding practice. Let's you and me just do all the things. Now, when the balls goes to the right side, that's towards first base, second base, just start moving towards first, just getting the habit of doing that, for example. But yeah, I mean, he's just from a pitching perspective. He's running out of gas a little bit. It seems like we would have loved for him to have a nice ending to sort of validate all this. But again, success story on the whole. But those are the kind of things I'm looking for. And if you happen to beat the Mets, that would be a real shame. Did not plan on starting the show here. But before we get into Jaden Daniels playing well in the commanders, getting their first win and going into Monday night football at 500. This story broke this afternoon. And I'm actually really intrigued by it. I just heard Byron mentioned it in the update. I'm sure you've seen this. Pennsylvania has sanctioned girls flag football as a high school sport. So the story here is the approval from the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association, statewide body governing high school athletics in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. I think there are four commonwealths of which Virginia is one. I think I have that right. Pennsylvania is another. But they have made flag football and official sport for girls in the nation's fifth most populous state starting in 2526 school year coming up next year. Two questions. One, how ubiquitous will this become? How quickly? Because it's with all the respect to states with less people in them. It's not like it's one of those random states that can just do something and no one notices. Again, it's the fifth, the fifth most populous state in America. It's not Idaho checking this out first. Yeah. So to me, that moves the needle a little more. And then question number two, are we on our way to boys, flag football at the high school level? And if that's the case, does that eventually cut into tackle football at that level? Because I'm thinking there's a parent listening right now who is letting their kid play high school football because they want to, but maybe the kid plays sevens in the summer or something and gets to a point where I can play football. I watch it on ESPN when the Drew Brees league is has a national championship game and it looks pretty fun. And I don't have to deal with potential head trauma or injuries. I don't know. It's 2024. What's it look like in 2034? That's what I always think about. Yeah. What's where's the trend line going? So to your point, yes, because there's no, football is the only animal where there's no female equivalent, so to speak. So at a certain age, they tell girls, all right, thanks for playing baseball. Because you know, the, for example, there was a girl, my son's little league team who was the best part on the team. Eventually they'll say, okay, we've got something for you now. It's softball. That's what you do. It's the quote unquote female equivalent. Yeah. Basketball, soccer, etc. Who went to high school? There was men's and women's soccer. There's baseball and softball. There's men's and women's basketball football. Either you get the very rare story where there's a girl on the football team, which happens. But there's not a team for you to compete against other girls. Well, here we go. Flag football. It's going to be happening in Pennsylvania, potentially next year. And this is a natural progression, because again, in my, talking around again, my son, there are a couple girls on his flag football team. We're trying flag football this year. So like these are six year olds. They don't know which way is up. And you tell them snap the ball and they literally try to snap their fingers with the ball in their hands. They don't really know quite yet, but they're learning. But if somebody really enjoys that, where can they go with it? No, we're just yet, but it's going to happen. I mean, I think there's going to be a new, or say, rash, but a new kind of paradigm or sort of a new outlet where things like, I know you joke, but things like pickleball or our diversity sports in Maryland. I think that's coming as sort of an alternative. I'm sure I think flag football will be a thing. For boys, I don't know. I don't because they're going to be places where it's still like a religion like in Texas or Florida or maybe in Pennsylvania. But I don't know that we'll overtake tackle football, certainly in our lifetime. But I think it's coming at the high school level. But at the youth level, we're already seeing it. Oh, 100%. It is ubiquitous. It's everywhere. And it's just normal. And I actually think it's smart. The data that we have at our disposal right now says the longer you wait to go get into those collisions and the plate tackle and to have any of the banging the head against the opponent, the better off you are. And so that's why I think flag football's really taken over at the youth level. How many girls do you think played flag football in the United States during last academic school year? Oh, gosh. Any guess I'll have is wrong. I'll say 600,000 across the country. Yeah. 43,000 is the number. Yeah. Any basis for 600,000. Well, I mean, there's yeah, I'm just on our little field just looking around where they divide a normal football field up into 10 quadrants. Yeah, there were 15 probably. And that's from four to six years old. So I was trying to go. I got how many counties. And I told you I was off. Yeah, it was a great guess. So I ruined the bit there, right? I'm like 10 million 43,000 girls played in flag football in the United States in the school year last year. I think it's awesome. I think it's really, really cool. It's a good smart idea. And just as an example, and you can call me names if you want to, I don't think I like my little Reagan, my little McKinley. I don't know that I want them getting tackled ever. I don't know if I ever want them getting into collisions, but if they want to go play flag football and get out there and show some athleticism and some twitch and some wiggle, go have fun. Now the other side of it is, I do think that the flag game teaches you all the skills that you need in a really, really safe and instructive and efficient way, right? Without the bad, you get all of the good. Some of the lessons that you get in sports as a young person, which you and I talk about on the show all the time. I think they are not even like helpful, but almost necessary in some ways growing up. Like I want my kids to participate. It doesn't have to be in sports, but in something where you fail and where you get embarrassed and where you get to a point where you've got to be the second best person at something in that room. And I think all of those things are actually really, really good, like being uncomfortable at times. That all said, I do just wonder if you could look into a crystal ball. If we've already seen it at the youth level, let's just stop it at the high school level from eventually being flag football versus tackle football. And then I think college football is always going to be a thing and pro football is always going to be a thing. I don't see that going away, but I guess you're just recruiting off of that. I mean, there's not really quote unquote, line play in the offensive and defensive for the big people in the flag game at this point. Do you go 11 on 11 with blockers at some point in flag football? Could we be trending there? I just wonder what it's all going to look like eventually. That's a great question. I mean, again, the it wasn't available to me as a kid. There was no flag football. That did not exist. It's something you played at recess. I was going to say when I was a kid, which is, you know, 10 years more recently, the only time I'd ever even heard of flag football was on the playground at recess. Yeah, that was like the the the P coach would bring out the flags or for somebody's birthday party. It's like, all right, you got to pull the flag and everyone was just running around trying to do that to each other. Well, now it's gone from that to that's the number one easy option. If you'd like to introduce your kid to sort of the world of football and to your point, you don't learn some of the physicality lessons. Obviously, like how to hit properly. You're not doing any of that or how to block, but everything else that comes with it. And it's an invaluable skill set because it's not just run with the rock. It's not just catch the ball. It's the spatial analysis that kids don't have where I have to worry about not only where I am, where the ball is, but where the person I'm covering is, they don't do that naturally. And it's a great, you know, sort of like microcosm type lesson for how to play all sports. Think about where the NFL is going. So we've got the pro ball now is flag football. Literally, they play a flag football game for the pro ball. And we're going to have flag football in the Olympics in the United States of America in 2028 coming up in four summers. I don't know if we'll get to have NFL players participate or not. I know that those players have been asking to participate. And I think there's a nonzero chance that's going to happen. But can you imagine what it would do for the game? If we're talking about the growth of flag football, let's say team USA wins the gold medal with Tyree kill and Patrick Mahomes and Justin Jefferson and Jamar Chase, you know, fill in the blank on the roster. Look at how big a deal those US men's basketball gold medal games were when they were winning the gold several weeks back. And everybody was watching and the frenzy. I just think the momentum would be over the top, especially if you use the pros in the Olympics. And I don't know why you wouldn't be able to. Maybe some guys are going to miss out on some training camp. I think teams would probably be okay with that for the growth of the game internationally. In a sport where we're already seeing you play all these games all over the world. Yeah, but I just see the trend line. Like people make their jokes all the time. We got guys lining up five yards apart on the kickoff. Let's just play flag football. But that's ridiculous. These collisions are still violent. The game is still every bit as a physical. I have to go check on two in the hospital. I'm sure it's not violent. We're going to be okay. But I do think between the pro ball or the Olympics, like the signs are there. There is a marriage happening between ball and the flags. Totally. And I got off my point a minute ago. But the thing I was going to try to say was it did not exist when I was a kid. Now that I'm an old grown pudgy adult, not only does it exist, but it's the number one option. So the trend doesn't just stop in that regard, right? Where people have found out more and more about safety, how much more accessible it is. I mean, again, the reason we're doing it this fall for my youngest is it's one day a week. There's no like slop them around to practice. There's no, you know, crazy, all elite stuff. It's, you know, eventually it's going to be, you want to play flag football at the highest level. You're going to have to join this travel team in order to get to that travel team. We have to do this travel team. It's going to be traveled like at like baseball, soccer, lacrosse, everything else. But right now, it's the lowest stakes. Hey, man, this is a rec sport where we're literally teaching you where to line up. So do your kids play flag or just one? Both. So my youngest is now doing it. Got you. So have you watched any of the, I always reference it as like, I don't know what it was, but ESPN two middle of the day that Drew Brees league? Yes. We're like, I don't even know what's called the Drew Brees league, but I've seen it. Yeah. Best kids from Dallas are taking on the best kids from Loudoun County or whatever. It is crazy to me how, hey, how good these kids are, but no exaggeration. They're just outstanding, but also the diversity of the playbook and the, they're running legit offenses and they got their wristbands on and they're looking down, like running play 14 and they're running picks. I mean, it's really, really legit. You just, it's very clear to me, you cannot convince me that being exceptional out there doesn't help someone with aspirations of going and playing college ball. 100%. You're learning scheme. You're learning how to put defenders in a bind. You are, I think all of the physical stuff, other than just wearing pads and throwing on a helmet and there's a transition that has to happen. But I'm imagining if guys are playing at that level in flag, they're probably also playing occasionally with helmet and pads on too. But I just think it's a, it's a really good preparatory ground. No question. Cliff on Twitter just hit me up, by the way, at Grand H. Paul Sundani's a funny Danny. He said Montgomery County has started girls flag football this year. It's already been approved by the MPSSAA, which I guess is the secondary school's athletic association. So I guess it's coming even into Maryland sooner than later too. My point is this is not going to be a one off story. I think this is going to be a major trend. And for a long time, I viewed it in a way as a threat to football. And now I don't really view it that way. I think it's more a supplement, in a sense, it's additive. I'm sure there are people that will continue to clamor for the end of tackle football. But I don't know. Yeah, it's an interesting sort of philosophical point, because I think if it may siphon off up small percentage, like from tackle football players to flag football players, I see it though, kind of as you're thinking as a ball to think mine has to, I see it more of a, we're actually just going to cast a wider net for all things football. In other words, I think there's enough people, like parents like us, where I'm going, I do not have a college football player son. Yeah. I can tell that right away. So why am I going to subject him to a bunch of headbutts and a bunch of crazy, you know, Oklahoma drills and workouts and things that don't make any sense for him to, you know, have a potential fun experience? There's other sports that I could do that with. So here's my barrier of entry. It's very low. We can do, we can get some of the benefits without all the violence, all the collisions. It'd be a different story if I had a, you know, a linebacker jeans and my oldest was already venture 225 is an 11 year old. We would have to do a different thing. But I think that is more welcoming to people as opposed to taking away from what's already, what already is. I just find the global discussion on football, my favorite, and according to the TV numbers, most of your favorites. Lots of people's favorite sport as well and where we're headed to be absolutely captivating. But that was big news that dropped this afternoon. Let's get into Jaden Daniels, who, as you heard, Byron mentioned in the update, is the only rookie quarterback to ever amass 500 total yards rushing and throwing through two games without turning the football over. He is off to what you'd have to say is an encouraging start. He has been excellent on the ground and he improved quite a bit in game number two C in the field. I want to play some audio as we go on the day from Danor Lobsky. You liked what he saw like we did in the second half of the game against the Giants here this past weekend. What's impressed you most so far about the Angels? I think it's before now for Daniels. Like, it's very easy to be drafted as high as you were and be the second overall pick. Heisman Trophy winner and you're heralded and everyone's excited for you and to think I've arrived. I've done it. I made the accomplishment and I'm not trying to just kick a guy while he's down. But that's what I always felt about Chase Young. When Chase Young got here was I did it instead of I've got work to do. That's just always kind of how it felt from afar. I never talked to him personally but that was just my impression of it, right? So, Daniels, instead of saying I'm done, like here I am, I'm where I want to be and that's that. Now is out working everybody else. Now is the key card guy. He's in first out last. He's doing the things not just for Instagram, not just to show one time that you got up before the sun did and you know, you ran some stairs. He's really doing it and it's the right attitude, the right mentality, the right sort of energy that he's brought to this organization that's inspired confidence in everybody else. And it's not just lip service. It seems like a real thing and they're going to be struggles and I think that's inevitable because it's really, really hard to do this for anybody let alone, you know, a quarterback transitioning to the NFL. But to me, his approach is temperament and his demeanor. That's what's impressed me the most about him. Yeah, all that stuff I kind of had figured out like you did in the preseason. So I'm kind of over that. I agree with you for the record that those are ultra impressive. I'm looking more now at the games though. We're in season two games in like what's impressing me. And I guess my answer to that would be I like a lot so far how he has gone about threatening with his legs. We can continue to discuss how often he should run and we could continue to discuss and we will whether or not he occasionally runs out of a clean pocket or runs when he shouldn't. But I think the threat of his legs has already made them a great running team. They were against the Giants and we'll see if that continues. I think it will. But when you run for a buck 33 with B Rob and over 200 collectively, this is shades of 2012 to me. It's happening again. And it's because he has pushed the opponent to the brink of being scared with his legs already by putting what he has on film through two contests. So that's what I've been most impressed by. We can open up the phones on this. I want to dive deeper into some of the things we've liked a lot about Jaden Daniels. But the MGM National Harbor listener lines are available for you at 800-636-1067. Is there something that has stood out to you or that you really liked about Daniels to this point? We want to hear from you on GND next. Also, passing around the NFL is down considerably as we get ready for week three and Thursday night football. Why is that? I've got some numbers. I want to go over them with you next, Danny, right here on the fan. 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Jaden Daniels and the commanders are one and one as they get ready for Monday night football in Cincinnati through two games. Daniels has outperformed Caleb Williams and Bo Nix and his rookie class among peers, and he's stacking up decently among efficiency metrics for quarterbacks. What's impressed you most about the first year Washington commander? That's the question at 800-636-1067. A guy, Lorian on Twitter says maybe a backwards compliment, but I've loved how many yards he fights back for with sacks. It says usually drive killers, not with him. And to that point, there have been a couple of near sacks where he gets back toward the line of scrimmage, four or five, six yards gained, and it's a minus two or three or four instead of a minus seven, eight or nine. You saw Caleb Williams take a minus like 16 on a sack in the opener for the Bears. He was just trying to do too much. He's running around. He's going backwards. And even if Daniels does the same thing, he's fast enough that he kind of gets the edge and he makes bad plays less bad, which is, I don't think it's a backwards compliment at all from him. I think it's actually a really observant. Good point. So it's beyond that though. It forces to your point, certain kinds of rush like opposing defensive coordinators are yelling at their guys as they get leading up to the week to play Washington, you have to stay in your rush lanes. You can't lose gap focus. You have to do it certain things this way. Well, that's limiting. Like if you've got, if you've got JJ Watt, I don't want to limit him at all. I'm going to tell JJ Watt, whatever you want to do is fine. We'll work around you, buddy. You can't do that against Washington in theory. And that's, that's an asset. You were super impressed by a lot of the stuff that we saw all preseason and training camp. How about since the ball was putting the air against Tampa in game? What has stood out accuracy? I didn't know that that would translate. Like when dudes are wide open at LSU, okay, you're hitting them. You're hitting neighbors in stride or Brian Thomas in stride down the field. That's all well and good. But accuracy in ball placement, I've been pretty darn impressed with even as things speed up and they do, you know, there's certainly been moments in the first play of the season that minus 15 fumble on a checkdown or the screen pass in his first preseason attempt that he threw a hundred miles an hour straighter style over his running back's head. There have been certainly been moments where it's gone a little fast, but he's been pretty poised and has been accurate as a result. When I went out to practice, the thing that blew me away was how many balls were exactly where they should have been. You know, I look at a, think about baseball. So we consider control to be throwing the ball over the plate. Command, another buzzword in baseball with pitching is locating. So think about it. Like control is, do you walk them or strike them out? Is it a ball or strike? Command is hitting the mitt within the strike zone. You can have control over the plate, but no command, where you're supposed to throw it up and in and you throw it low and away and it gets slapped, you know, the other direction or something because that's the hot part of the grid for a hitter. Jayden Daniels has control, which is accuracy, but I think he also has command, which is ball placement. And I think that's not going away. Like when they actually do throw the ball down the field more in the weeks ahead, which they haven't done a lot of at all, I think he's going to be accurate. He threw a great deep ball in college and it's just part of his game. It was that way in practice. We've seen it in games now in the, you know, 50 or so throws, mostly underneath. I do think he's really, really, really accurate. I'm not as like blown away by the no interceptions. I know that keeps coming up. That's a really good stat. It's an important stat and I'd rather have no picks than picks. I think some of that though, frankly, is a couple of things. Number one, they haven't really thrown balls into small windows and they're not really pushing the ball down the field. I didn't count before the segment, but they're at roughly like 10 throws probably beyond eight or nine yards downfield through two games. So generally speaking, when you're throwing behind the line at the line, stop and hitch routes, as long as you're not like getting undercut by a DB on an out route or something, there's not much of a risk for an interception. But I'll say in terms of the no turnovers, he's only had the one fumble so far. He's been sat six times. Some of those are him, you know, going forward as a runner or whatever. There was only that one play where he dropped the ball kind of at his waist. He got sacked. Yep. Beaudish pounced on it. It's a small sample. It's only two games, but that's encouraging to me because a lot of times as a young quarterback, you can kind of panic and start patting the ball. Next thing you know, you start running and someone hits you and you fumble. I mean, there are our quarterbacks who have fumbled a few times. I know statistically, he's listed as having fumbled a few times. One of them was going out of bounds, remember? Yes. Another one's the backward pass. Exactly. Another one was actually a throw that they ruled as an attempt. But really, to me, truly, it's been like one ball security play for two games, which is a really good sign. And to your point, just about the routes, it's been, I think he has one turnover worthy throw. That's going to come when you don't have a lot of high-risk passes by design. To me, that's a cliff Kingsbury stat. And I agree with that. More than a Jaden Daniel stat so far. And totally, I agree. Whereas you look at Caleb Williams, Bonix, I think I have nine or so between them. And again, they're throwing a little bit more high risk stuff more often, led to turnover worthy throws and et cetera. So he's executing what's been asked of him at this point. He's just been poised. Yes. Maybe there were nerves right before the Tampa game with the weird throw to Robinson, the starter, whatever, as there should have been, you know, but I have not seen moments where it looked at any point like anything was too big for him, which you didn't expect. He was the Heisman Trophy winning number two pick, playing in front of, you know, 70,000 at a time in the SEC for LSU. Let's go to Tom in Waldorf on Grant and Danny. What's impressed you about Daniel so far? Well, guys, there's a couple things that impressed me. One, when he got absolutely shellacked this weekend, and he was able to get up, brush himself off. Good point. He's been, you know, I hope he's going to slide more, run out of bounds more, but that impressed me. The ball placement, you know, not just being accurate, but knowing whether to throw it inside or outside to the receiver, that's actually because the windows are so small in the NFL. That's a very big thing. But guys, we still have to remember. He's got no touchdown passes, zero, and he's not good. He's missing people that are wide open. Yeah, but I say this though, Tom. Yes, it's two games and I don't mean to touch off. I appreciate you, but I want to be clear about something because it's a great point. My goal in this segment is not to crown him, right? I think he has been great as a runner. Fine as a passer. I think there, you know, anybody who's saying he's been awesome throwing the football, he had an awesome half against the Giants. The first three halves, I would not have considered him to have played all that while throwing the football, but it would be hard pressed. I'd say you'd have to be trying not to like what you're seeing through two games. So far to not at least feel like this is really encouraging, that this young quarterback, who seems like he belongs and is operating an offense that is the hardest to get off the field three and out right now because of his feet, isn't doing some pretty good things. Yeah. And also would compound that at this. We know more now than we ever did, right? It used to be just guesswork where you go. He's missing open guys based on what we don't know. Now we do. Now we got every throw. And if you want more, you can get more. You can get more angles of every throw. You could figure it out. So we're, we're very Jayden Daniels focused here in tandem. We should be. It's Washington. He's the Washington quarterback and he's a sensation. Go around the league. You want to tell me everybody that's gotten off to a great start is missing guys that are wide open. Everyone that's gotten off to a bad start is missing guys that are wide open. It's the percentage of are you making more, more plays maybe than the next guy? And to a degree, we're not quite there yet in terms of more than the next guy, but everybody, every week, including Hall of Famers, including the best to do it are missing open receivers all the time. So I want to, we're going to have a bigger conversation about the passing being down in the league and why that is coming up in these next few minutes. I got a bunch of numbers. It is relevant and it's important. And I want to continue to make it part of the conversation. I can tell already through a few days, I don't agree as we'll get into this. You're going to care a lot more maybe about what's going on around the league. Like I'm going to do the Dennis Paulson thing where I don't care what Jeff house grades were. I'm evaluating my quarterback and my place. And that was what we did with Taylor Heineke and it wasn't an issue then. And that's what we did with Carson Wentz and it wasn't an issue then. So I won't six, seven, eight weeks from now be making excuses for him. I do think it's important to acknowledge trends. And I think it's an important to like we just got out of an arrow where it was easiest. It's ever been a throw the ball. Maybe we're leaving that arrow. We don't know. But the numbers right now through a couple of weeks are trending down. But if the plays are there to be made, they still need to be made, right? It doesn't necessarily matter if other people are missing them. If if you got a guy nine yards downfield that you miss fire on, that's a problem. I don't think they've had a ton of those. What the caller might have been talking about is maybe not seeing something. It's going to come. Sure. You're not going to see it's a second NFL game. But we'll get into the trends around the league because I think that is super important for sure. Here's what I'm curious about. Let's say he wasn't running the football at all. Let's say he was, I don't want to say a mobile, but it just a pocket passer through two games. What will we be saying right now? I do think the conversation will be extremely different without a doubt, because you wouldn't have had any offense against Tampa. I mean, it's not hypothetical. But my point is just all along, I always said the legs are what gives him this super high floor where as a passer on a one to 10, he's probably been a five, something like that. And the conversation is like, whoa, man, look at this guy. He's the best of the rookies. Yeah, because he's a seven and a half or an eight because he's been running really well. But if Dwayne Haskins, as an example, didn't have that club in the bag, he's just out there. And Daniels to me already looks way advanced in terms of making throws and getting the ball out to guys and whatever else. But I guess my point is, do we want to have a conversation about him just throwing the football or are we just going all purpose? You see what I'm saying? Of course I do. Yeah. And it's a relevant question. You would, there's so much that it was into that. Like, I think the plan that they've had, Kingsbury company has been smarter and better than what some of these other guys are being asked to do. Like they dropped Kayla Williams and said, be Kayla Williams, go run all the stuff. And they've struggled. I don't think those struggles will continue forever. But there has been way more of a struggle. Same thing in Denver, where Sean Payton wants his offense run Sean Payton's way. And that's led to some really bad results for Bonix. And I happen to think Jayd Daniels is a lot better than Nix is and will be over the course of his career. But you can kind of see it. There are purposely avoiding negative things, which by the way, I am very much in favor of. Now, if we're doing this in two years, very different conversation. If we're, if we're spoon feeding, uh, apple sauce to a grown man, you're going to age popular to cut your own T bump. You know what I mean? Like, we need a little bit more, but to start without much weaponry with, I think one of the worst receiving groups in the sport and, uh, you know, uh, patchwork at best old line, especially at the tackle spots, I would do it just like this. The goal for Cliff Kingsbury is to move the football, right? To move the sticks and to get points. Now the points are going to have to come, but they're certainly moving the football. There's no question about that. 800 636 1067. If you want to hop in, we'll get to some of those numbers of passing being down around the, around the NFL as well. Next. Also, one of the commanders got an award today for his excellent performance this pack past week. We'll get into that on Grant and Danny. Plug in a Hyundai EV and the extraordinary happens. 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One is the release. I mean, when he's thrown, I think he's had one of the quickest releases in the league through two games and the two is the lack of interception that he's putting the ball in safe places and then hopeful that combination can then extend to downfield throws as the field opens up for him. But I think starting him slow and getting good at what he's doing and then increasing the playbook is really positive. And then from a touchdown to interception of the touchdown ratio, obviously, I'm going to get the touchdowns up. But keeping the interceptions down, those are killers. So it's been a lot of fun and the size of limits for this kid. Appreciate you. Yeah, we were beaten up on Kingsbury a little bit last week about some of the things he does before the snap. And I think because of that, there's maybe a perception. And I'll just speak for myself that I haven't liked the way he's gone about these first two games. And actually, as complicated as it sounds, I disagree with that completely. My issues with him philosophically are just his paradigm before the snap on motion, on moving guys around on how he goes about aligning things. What I have really liked is how he's called the games. And the kind of positions he's put his quarterback in. I think it's a massive win for him over Shane wall jr. Sean Payton so far to see how the quarterbacks are performing. Also, even though like I'm saying if I'm giving out a pie for the lack of interceptions, a bigger piece of the pie is Kingsbury than Daniels because they're just it's not high difficult throws. It's not like covered receivers that he's forcing the ball into with an aggressiveness percentage or anything. He only threw four picks last year in almost 250, excuse me, 330 attempts with 250 completions. Remember, it was a 40 touchdown four pick year. Yeah. So this is part of the mo theoretically is he's going to see it open and drive it in there. Like it's not overly anticipatory, but it's a low pick count. That's a big, big deal for a young quarterback without a doubt. And it's part of the appeal because we talked about this when it comes to all the different quarterbacks leading up to the draft. This is a higher floor situation. Everybody that's been successful with with a couple exceptions here and there, but it happens it usually goes where a quarterback's draft in the first round, they go to a good situation. Think Rothlessberger and Pittsburgh Russell Wilson in Seattle, you can go up and down guys that have started off small, so to speak, at the home of good teams where you're not asked to do too much, you throw it 20 times a game, mostly you're checking it down, mostly quick stuff, just, you know, get used to running this thing. And then more and more and more gets put on your plate. That's been the best path. That's not guaranteed, but that's been the most likely path you ending up being pretty damn good in this league. There are exceptions, right? Peyton Manning goes to a terrible team as a terrible first year and then turns into one of the great pastors of all time. There are different ways to do it, but the most hits are go to a good situation, not be asked to do too much, and then more and more gets put on your plate over time. That's the best course. And if there's a better one that comes along, we'll adjust and say so. That's what it looks like. It looks like this. It looks like we don't want you to drop back 40 times, Eric being me to Sam Howell style and try to rifle it in there and see what happens. I'm not into that. I don't think that necessarily is the best best best path for growth, especially given the lack of talent on the outside. Well, last year, I think we learned that. I didn't know if that would be the best path or not. I liked the idea of actually giving your quarterback a lot of work to find out a lot on this plate, and it didn't work backfire. It's a little change how I feel moving forward for sure. Congratulations to Austin cybert. He has been named the NFC special teams player of the week after making all seven of his field goal attempts a franchise record seven field goals. That's the second most ever made in an NFL game. There are multiple kickers who have made eight, but he and I think eight other guys made seven and so a historical performance for him. So actually, I wanted to play a little game here, clary. If you don't mind, we get a little game show music. I would like to see if you guys in studio can name the commander's kickers who have won the special teams player of the week award in the past who were joining Austin cybert. I will tell you that there are a total of six of them, Danny. Okay. Uh, was that a ward around for Mark Mosley's time? It was not. Okay, so I'm not going to win it, but he didn't win the MVP. I was going to say one. The MVP had to one. It's on the ward. I'll start with my guy Chippewa Miller. That's one, clary. I'm going to go with the Dustin Hopkins. That's two. Oh, good one. Did Nick Novak win it? He did not. Clary back to you. This is going to be a deep cut, but didn't Nick Rose win one? Definitely not, but you always talk about Nick Rose. Just I do. I do. Clary loves Nick. I love Nick Rose. He kicked like two games for a lot of my four years ago. I loved him. You were a mom. I loved him. Did Ali Haji chic win it? Now I'm just doing bets about old school kickers. Uh, you love talking about Ali Haji chic. I could say that I brought up three times in our, in our 10 years plus together. Nobody else in DC radio has brought him up that many times. Damn right. I got it. I got a brand up hold. Um, John Hall. He did not, but that's a good guess. We're still looking for four more commander's kickers. Okay. Uh, all right. I'm going to go back to the glory days. Sean Suisham. Suisham. Three more kickers to go. I will tell you that they are more recent than Sean Suism. Kai, AKA guy for Beth guy, one, a special teams player. There we go. There we go. Uh, was Graham going to post Sean Suisham? Oh, Graham, you know, and that leaves us with just one ever kicker in this organization to win special teams player. Did this supremely jacked Joey Sly win one? Ladies and gentlemen, Chip Lomeller, Sean Suisham, Graham Ganno, Kai for Beth, Dustin Hopkins, Joey Sly and Austin cyber. You're very select illustrious group of kickers in this organization's history who have ever won that award. Welcome to the club one week ago. Uh huh. Not working. Who is Austin cyber? Let's look up what teams he's kicked for. This is going to be a problem all year. This week, seven for seven sports, dude, pretty much all chip shots on his brand new team, game winner at the horn special teams player of the week, hero in the locker room. Yeah, two weeks ago, you could have asked me, is Austin cyber a professional across player that went to Syracuse, uh, a dude at a fraternity somewhere in America or a professional kicker? And I would have known the game that would have been perfect last week would have been NASCAR driver or guy trying out for the commanders at kicker Austin cyber, Austin, you would have gone NASCAR driver hundred percent. He drives like the number 26 car. He's for some reason, Hendrix, some reason, Hendrix or Penske, but he was, he's really good in the XFINITY series on Saturdays, I think, up a common driver, runs a little bit hot sometimes. I'm happy for Austin cyber. Cool man. Where are the commanders stars through a couple of weeks? John Allen, Deron Payne, Terry McLaurin, I'm paging you. 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So I probably have to add them to the list and do some recalibrating. Cincinnati was one of the four stadiums I never went to. So this is big action. Oh, this is big leafy. I will be checking one off of the list. I did not go to Foxboro the way it worked out weirdly. That's so weird you didn't go there. Didn't ever go to Houston where the Texans play at Reliant Stadium. And they've had a bunch of Super Bowls and events and stuff. But I've never been there. The Bengals was one and I have not been to the new Atlanta stadium. The new Minnesota stadium. So it's at least five now, maybe one or two others. But I'm super excited. I'm actually closer to finishing the the ring so to speak on the NFL stadiums than I am ballparks. I have like seven more ballparks to get to. That's going to be that's quarter of the way done right with some of the old school ones. I guess if they keep making your stadiums, it'll be harder for you. But yeah, that's pretty neat. So we'll be there Monday night. If you're going to the game, let us know. We want to try to do a little tweet up. We'll meet up with people before we go into the stadium out and about in Cincinnati. But should let you guys know, we were just talking about the passing numbers being down around the NFL. So before we get into some of Washington's stars struggling, here are some of the hard and fast numbers, Danny, through a couple of games that I think are most prevalent. Passing touchdowns through two weeks by year starting in 2019, 105, passing touchdowns through two weeks in 2020, 110, 2021, 110, 2022, 105, pretty much exactly the same for four years. Last year, 86, you go, huh, that's weird. What happened? This year, 66. That was prior to Monday night football, Kirk had a couple. I don't think Jalen hurts through for one. No, Barkley got tackled at the one inch line and then he plunged it in the next play. So yeah, he had one that of Auntie Smith. He had one that of Auntie Smith. Okay. So 69. Yeah, there you go. Nice. So still, though, the average for a four year span was a little over 105. The last two years, it's been 86 and 69. If you're looking at passing yards per game, per team, through two weeks of football, in 2020, 2015, it was 240. The next year, 258, 2017, 221, then more recently here from 28, 18 on, 250, 249, 249, 249. By the way, the consistency there's crazy right around 250 yards, 2022 down to 228, 2023 down to 217. This year, passing yards per game per team for two weeks, 193.2. So we have gone from 250 consistently for years through about 2022 to now 193 this year. I mean, these numbers are just hard to ignore. So you've got your touchdown category, your yardage category. If you look at sack percentage, I think is interesting. 7.8% sack rate through two weeks, Danny, the highest for the start of the NFL season in the 2000s. Quarterbacks are getting sack at a higher rate than they have in 25 years, but it's not leading to more production. You would think that usually correlates with, okay, there's more downfield shots. There's more big plays and there aren't. And also, you would think that maybe after a sack, you're going to pass on the next down because now you need 18 or 20 yards. So at least you get some, some underneath stuff. It's not adding up 2020, 5.8% sacks 2021, 6% of plays 2022, 6.3%. Last year, 7%. This year, 8% of plays have been sacks. The highest, again, in a quarter century. What's going on here? There's a number of things. You go back a handful of years, not even I'm not talking about 10 years, but like a few years and a third of the league, basically half the guys that started every game for their team and they're still a normal playing 16 games, by the way, through for at least 30 touchdowns. That was the normal. You look at league leaders, guys like Aaron Rodgers for 48, Pat Mahomes in the upper 40s, et cetera. Last year, four guys did it with an extra game through for 30 touchdowns. I'm not talking about something crazy, like a 50 touchdown season or something, but just for 30 passing is now, because it was so essential to be great at it. That's now what defenses are designed to stop. So I see tweets from really smart guys. I've been fascinated with this topic. So guys like Benjamin Solak who have broken down a bunch of different film have offered a few ideas to this. Have you seen anything yet on the percentage of passes as opposed to runs and whether that's changing? Because I get the sense watching the games that teams are running more than they're passing. It's not even not meaning over 50% of the time, but like even compared to three years ago, that teams are calling more run play. So obviously yards and touchdowns will be down throwing the ball if you're running it more. But I don't have numbers to back down. Right. So just sort of abstract. It felt like it was 65 35 before. Now, it's much closer to 50 50. It's not 50 50. It's closer. So I think you're hurt. So the question then could be why? And I think it all comes back to how defenses are playing. This is the essential ingredient to me. So I think because 11 personnel three receiver looks became the norm, nickel quarterbacks became the norm. The base defense of three linebackers is gone. Now it's smaller players. So where's the weakness? Making that Mike's Mikey Sandra still making that 180 pound cornerback that's lined up not too far from line of scrimmage. Make him play in the run game. That's where your advantage is for years. The advantage was my tight end on your whatever my third receivers better than your third corner. I can line my number one receiver up in a stack formation and have him beat your second or third best corner. Now because of the prevalence of zone, keeping everybody back, have everything be in front of you, passing yards or down for multiple reasons. One, there aren't as many deep shots or as many intermediate to deep shots. The reasons for that one defense are taken away. Two, nobody wants to get the quarterback hit. Three, I don't know that offensive line play without all the preseason and cohesion and all the turnover is as good. You just said preseason. I want to, I want to mention that in a little more detail to me. The two major areas are how defenses are playing, which you were just referencing and we continue to talk about and also the lack of preseason. I don't think a lack of preseason makes it harder to get your running game going. I think a lack of preseason, though, makes it harder for the timing in the passing game. This is not my own opinion. This is something coaches have told me. This is something players have told me. But what do you always hear about? You hear about timing, right? Especially in past pro. We were talking with Austin Echler yesterday, getting on the same page with the guy next to you or everybody's assignment being known in the guard and the tackle in the center being on the same page. That comes with time and reps and game reps, frankly. So I think past protection is hindered by a lack of preseason. I think the passing game in general with the timing with your receiver, knowing how guys are going to break in, break out when they like to stem and cut things off and throttle it down and sit in a zone. All those types of things, I think Danny, are affected by the preseason player movement makes it necessary that you have these guys making plays in the preseason and teams have kind of opted against it. I think that's a big part of it, to be honest with you. And that part can be fixed in a month in two months. Yeah, maybe not. If defenses are still playing you the same way, maybe it's not going to come all the way back. But that part of it is a right now problem, not a sustainable all year problem. So then, yeah, so you would see some growth as the season progresses, but it's not getting back to 2021 levels. For example, I think another contributing factor, central pass rush. It used to be where your pass rushes on the outside interior guys, defensive tackles are smart cars. They're Gilbert Brown. You occupy as many blockers as possible. It's Lawrence Taylor. It's, you know, JJ Watt off the edge. Now, that's not now the second, but Aaron Donald for so many years. And then, you know, the Dexter Lawrence is the Leonard Williams is the interior defensive lineman sometimes in a 34, sometimes in a 43, the shortest distance to get to the quarterback to interrupt these passing games is straight ahead. That's true. Like 10 years ago, I'm not saying there were no great defensive tackles, but heck, five years ago, I would say that when you thought defensive tackle run stuffing, beefy, block attracting, you know, smart car, basically, right? Now guys are pass rushes. And if you're not, you're not getting drafted early. So like when Doron Payne was taken in the top 15, the big question was, is this guy going to be able to rush the quarterback or is he more of a run stuffing type? I think a lot of guys at that position now are the best pass rushes on their team. Yeah, to your point. And you, because that was the weak link of the offensive line. The, the right, the left tackle was making 20 million bucks. Well, the left guard is fourth round Freddie, who's, you know, fits the scheme and is probably Corey Liechtenstiger, or wherever Mike Shanahan goes. That's the weak link in terms of pass pro. So it's, it's a live chess match where defenses for years got tired of being on highlight reels and said, okay, fine. Here's what we're taking away. And I think it really would usher in this new era. Quite frankly, it's Pat Mahomes and that Kansas City offense. What teams realized was, if you try to play them straight up, you can blitz them, you can do anything under the sun, they're going to kill you. They're going to be, you punch you in the gut until they get that big play and then that's the game. Then you lose. So they said never ever over the top. They are permanently to borrow a baseball parlance in no doubles defense, which means nothing over your head. Everything is going to be in front and front and front and front. You combine that with lighter boxes, easier run looks and you're seeing prolific run totals through a couple of weeks from multiple teams. Think of Green Bay. They threw 14 passes and one a football game, handing them off to Josh Jacobs 32 times. That's unheard of in our recent era, but that's the best way to do it because of the way defenses are. So speaking of Green Bay, what about this? All right. Malik Willis started that game for the Packers. Malik Willis completed 12 passes in that win. I haven't looked at his spray chart, but I'd be willing to bet a lot of them were out of around the line of scrimmage, right? Yep. Is there something to what is an obvious philosophical shift in the NFL to the more athletic quarterback? I wouldn't call it the running quarterback because there's only a few guys that run a lot. But as an example, right now, they're two games. They're four quarterbacks in the NFL that have over 20 rushing attempts. Like come on their way to 170 attempts. I don't think it's going to happen that way. Frankly, all four won't stay healthy, but Jaden Daniels, Jalen Hurts, Justin Fields, Lamar Jackson have all run the ball more than some starting running backs through two games this season. But in the league 10 years ago, 15 years ago, you just didn't see quarterbacks running as much. And what I think teams have figured out as you don't want to statue in the pocket. You don't want some flat footed dude who's just a thrower of the football. You want a dual threat. You want an athlete. Everybody's trying to find two time, you know, MVP Lamar Jackson or or maybe even if it's more Josh Allen, let's say, but someone who you who can do both. Like I even after those guys that run all the time, Allen, Daniel Jones, Kyler Murray, Anthony Richardson, it seems to me like we're at a point as we've gone toward the athletic quarterback, a guy like bow nicks or or Zach Wilson coming out. One of the reason they get over they get overdrafted a little bit or people like them more is because they can run. They can scramble. They can elude the pocket that it used to be like, who is that guy? Ryan Mallet. He's no longer with us, right? Am I right about that? Tragically? I hope I am. I don't know. I don't know. I'll look that up. But like that guy as an example, you know, those big like six foot seven inch, two hundred and and seventy five inches with a cannon. Yeah, exactly. That's gone. I mean, you can't be drafted now. If you just have like, remember, Zach Mettenberger, I was a big fan out of at LSU. Yeah, immobile. That is a endangered species. But I think there's something to like if we can you have your cake and eat it too. If we're going with the quarterbacks that are going to run more, doesn't that naturally mean passing numbers are going to come down to and a quarter of the league, if you think about it, if you're talking about Daniels, Hertz, Fields, Alan, maybe is on that list or Daniel Jones, little less design carry stuff for him. Kyler Murray, Anthony Richardson is like that type of quarterback that is more of a playmaker with their feet too. Is there something to that? Do you think 100% again, this, this is not a one size fits all solution as to why it's happening. We know it's happened, right? The numbers, the numbers, as you said, although I will say, I'm just thinking about this now with young quarterbacks. We're saying you can't be a straight pocket passer. There ain't a pocket passer really more so like by definition, and CJ shroud right now. You know what I mean? He's an athlete. He can move around, but he basically, you know, where he's going to be all the time. I think he's got four rushing attempts through two games. That's about where he's going to be. Yeah, he scrambles to throw and he is right now outside of Patrick Mahomes like the number two guy that you would start an organization with at the position. So maybe if you're special enough, it'll work. But I think largely everybody's looking for it's the easy button. The guy who can run, right? Yeah, you look like a genius when you're still able to move the ball despite your offense not working. See week one for Washington, right? The offense did not work. And yet they were in the football game through three quarters because Jay Daniels had 80 some yard scrambling, right? So I think that's a contributing factor. I mean, to me, there's a whole bunch of trends that have kind of culminated in this where passing is down. And it doesn't mean that you've stopped passing all together. It just means that we need to adjust to the idea that the league is different than it was just a couple of years ago. This trend is like a violent regression or pendulum swing in the opposite direction. Whereas if handful of seasons ago, if you looked at, I can't remember, I'm just making up years, 2019 numbers versus 2010 numbers, you'd go, Oh my God. And then you go back to the 80s where I'm going, do jump on 10 is the best I ever saw. And you're like, it's 3,600 yards and 24 touchdowns. What's exceptional about that? It's just a different time. So it reminds me like people look at batting averages in baseball with this disdain. And they don't think about the fact that in this era, nobody hits for average. So CJ Abrams, let's just say, if he were to hit two 44 at the end of the year, someone would look at that and go, Oh my God, Abrams, he can't hit yet two 44. That's three points above league batting average. You see what I'm saying? That's an above average batting average because the league hits two 41. Well, 30 years ago, the league probably had two 73. So yeah, that was 30 points below that. That's the equivalent now of 210. And so my point is you do have to calibrate for that. The problem I have a little bit is it's a chicken or the egg thing to some extent. Like some of the teams where passing is down, are they're down by design. In other words, the commanders, just as an example through two games, while they've thrown it. Okay, I'm not suggesting they haven't done enough through the air in terms of yardage that they're doing it for top half the league production, believe it or not. But if you go into a game going, we're going to run the ball. We're going to design seven runs for Daniels. He's going to scramble another four times or whatever. You're setting yourself up, not to go out and throw for 250 or 300. Like the dolphins last year didn't have much of a problem. They threw for 4,700 yards. The lions with Jared Goff, and they don't have Tyree kill or Jalen wattle walking through that door. 4,600 passing yards last year, that threw for 4,500. The teams that major in it still have that club in the bag. Two is not leaving the pocket and running. Jared Goff, anytime soon, I didn't beat anybody with his feet. That Prescott, it's kind of, you know where he's going to be. He's standing there delivering the football. And I think that that's still, if you want to do it, there's still a way to do it. I just think more teams are going. It doesn't have to be that way. There's another way to do it. And I would add one more data point for me. And this again, it's harder to prove. But I think we've now, where the latest innovations have happened, and it's harder for us to see, because it's, you know, not, you're not getting some of the passing yardage with it, is the sophistication of some of these running games. For years, it was the Shanahan train. It was this great mystery as to how to do it. Well, then that kind of spread. You see a lot of these same stretch plays and zone looks and some of the blocking techniques and things that have translated to really, really good running backs used to be this urban legend. Like it was Ryan terrain or a Landis Gary or whoever Mike Shane is going to have a run for a thousand yards. Well, look what you mentioned, Miami. Look what they do for God six. I mean, Devin Hian runs for nine yards a carry last year. And Rahim Mostard, who nobody wanted, was running for over a thousand yards. Whoever they plug and play runs into clear amounts of space. How sophisticated they are, because of the threat of motion, the threat of, you know, some of those plaques and looks to Tyree Killer, Jalen Waddle, Mike McDonald's, an offensive genius, not because he gets his playmakers who are really fast, the ball in space, but because these running games are gouging people, we're better now at running the football, especially against these light boxes and looks that are designed to prevent passing. And you're seeing more of it. Well, look at the chiefs. The chiefs are the whole point. It's all started with the chiefs, right? Right. As we as we referenced, but it was a few years ago when everyone decided, okay, Patrick Mahomes has thrown for 50 touchdowns and 41 touchdowns to lead the NFL over the last few years. He just threw for 50, 200 yards. It was a second 5000 yard season. What are we going to do with this team? And basically they said, it's going to get a lot harder. You're not going to get 30, 40 and 50 at a time. You're going to have to go on these 10 to 12 play drives we talked about. So last year, Patrick Mahomes threw for 1067 fewer yards than one year earlier. Now he played in one fewer game. So if you take his game average of 220 yards, it was like an 800 yard difference for him from 2022 to 2023. His touchdowns went from 41 to 27. So basically, again, with the average, you could say 11 fewer touchdowns for Patrick Mahomes last year to go along with 800 fewer yards. It was a lot more Isaiah Pacheco. It's a physical run the ball kind of different looking chiefs team. Now they also went from 14 wins to 10 wins, which is not lost on me, right? But they played a style that for them, they felt like they had to to move the ball. And it worked pretty well for defenses for the record. Instead of giving up the home runs and the doubles and the triples, the singles with some penalties, with the fumble with a pick, they did a better job to the tune of winning more games against Kansas City and them being a little less prolific. So it's all part of it. There's no doubt in my mind, but at the risk of making too big about two weeks, I think it is last year and this year. Last year, not to this extent, but it's basically a year now in a couple of weeks of seeing traction in this regard. 11 of Mahomes is 18 completion 61%. We're behind the line of scrimmage. This past week in their game in week two, 11 of 18. You know, that's, that's kind of what we're talking about with Daniel. 129 of 151 passing yards, 85% were from yards after the catch. When they're doing kind of the same thing, Cliff Kingsbury's doing with Andy Reed in Kansas City right now. The question for you guys is, why do you think this is happening? And do you think this will sustain all year? 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I don't know what song this is. Cleary, what do you got here? This wasn't my best song choice. No, we're fine. What is it? I just want to know what it is. Heavons? Is this the one you requested in the past? Never wants no. That's not on my request list. You don't think so? Whatever this is, it's not for me. I do know Dares did add some music to the page here. So I'm going to throw Dares on the bus. This is a Dares. Why does it sound like a bus is backing up on the guy that isn't here today? I know. Sorry, Dares. Great and Danny, welcome you back on the fan. Coming up in a half hour at four o'clock, we are giving away those tickets we told you about the HFS level. There's going to be an awesome show at Nat's Park this weekend and you can go. We got those tickets for you. Also, at six o'clock tonight, we're going to be giving away tickets to the caps 50 fast to celebrate 50 years of capitals. Hockey. A lot of players are there and a pretty cool performance as well from Third Eye Blind. So make sure you are listening at six if you want those tickets here on Grant and Danny. We've been diving into the trend in the NFL through two weeks that passing yards and touchdowns are way, way down. Passing production is declining and it seems like rushing production is excelling here over these first couple of weeks. Here's a Warren Sharp stat. It's pretty amazing. This was from the summer that I was just sent by somebody on Twitter at Grand H. Paulson for me had funny Danny for DR average length of Patrick Mahomes touchdown passes. 2019 17.3 area yards 2020 13.0 area yards 2021 8.5 area yards since to be going down 2022 4.5 area yards. And then he didn't give the number in 2023. But he said last year Mahomes through 41 touchdowns, only one traveled more than 19 yards. So it's kind of showing you that the league decided not anymore, man. Not the way you like to do it. You're still going to do it, but it's going to be the unfund way. Do it our your own way, maybe, uh, occasionally and you're going to turn the ball over a bunch or you can do it our way and still do it. It's just going to take a lot more work. And that seems to be minutes. Listen, you're still going to get beat at times when they won the damn Super Bowl. So it's not as if it was foolproof, but it is more effective. The point is you're going, you're going to get beaten. How would you like to do it? I'm not making it easy on you to be less fun of a watch around the league to a degree. Yes. For me, it's way less fun. I don't think it's a mystery to people. Your boy likes throwing the football. That's kind of always been what I prefer, what I like. And for a long time, that's how you won. We'll see if that's the case this year, not as the numbers kind of bear out, but it's not like I don't like watching a run in the football. It's fine. It can just lead to messy or regular games when everyone's got to go on these 13 to 15 play drives. Scoring's going to be down though, because as we found out this weekend for the one millionth time, points do not come from the running game. You can run for 200 plus yards if you want to Washington, Green Bay points come from the passing game and explosives in the big plays. That's why defenses are doing this. Let's go to Lance who's an Annapolis on GND. Hey, Lance, how are you? Well, guys, how are you? Good buddy. Good. So yeah, I think that the trend is going to continue, just like everything else where, you know, you have your, you know, was running game back in the day. And then of course, you know, turn it to a passing game. But I think that a lot of this too is the offensive coordinators trying to take advantage of the defenses that probably been drafted more or less like the speedy type of lighter type of linebackers. So I love like what the commanders are doing when they run that pistol. And you got a bulldog like Brian Roberts, and then you got the other threat with Jane Daniels, but you have the field spread out. And it just seems like it gives those guys a lot of room to run. So I think the trend of continue. Plus it's the second week of the season. I think a lot of the offenses are trying to get their feet underneath of them. Appreciate you buddy. You sleep on former Danny Rudy, a teammate, opponent and Oreo, Brian Roberts, also in Washington's backfield. I need to hear more about teammate. I've never heard about that. I just know you played him at South Carolina. Yeah, very, very briefly. He was there for a game in Waynesboro. Seriously? Yeah, during the summer like, yeah, would he remember that? No, not at all. But you remember being on the Waynesboro team? No, well, maybe what I mean, played for like some real teams. I would think that it's like, hey, didn't you play on that team when you're in college? Oh, yeah. He might remember like Chad Tracy or some of the other big leaguers. They're on that team. I was at his pro debut as big league debut. I should say with the Orioles, a multi hit game, one of my favorite second baseman. But yeah, I mean, look, it's the commanders are well built for this. There's no doubt if this is the trend when you you've got a running based on having a quarterback that can run, they're going to be a really good running offense because you add his numbers to the equation. You see what the Ravens and the commanders with Griffin years ago and all these teams have done that all accounts for rushing. Now, even if you take that away with just their running backs, it's going to be really effective because you're going 11 and 11 hat on a hat stuff. They're well positioned. Now you got to hit on some of those Aldrich Robinson home runs if you can, if they're going to take that away, Zach Earth should feast and he should live in the middle of the field. Those throws should be there. Let's go to John who's on the beltway on G&D. What's up, buddy? Hey guys, I was just wondering whether anybody given any thought to the fact that we're down to three preseason games and most of the time the number one players weren't playing. And so now we come into the first two weeks of the season. It's almost like the first game was the extra exhibition game that normally we might have some first line players playing. But then it just it seems to me that that's got to have some significant effect on how these uh uh offenses are working out. Oh, I'm sure of it. Yeah. And you may have jumped in kind of midway through our combo, but yeah, it was brought up last segment. I think the number one reason for what we're seeing to succinctly kind of recap what we had said is the way defenses are playing offenses and you're taking what's given to you and what is easier to you. That's number one. Number two to me is the lack of preseason, which I think is a a mismanagement by these teams. And it's a mistake that they are making. But the bangles think about how much better they looked in week two than week one. They essentially took the preseason off as a team. You know, guys like Jamar Chase, T Higgins, they didn't show up. They didn't practice. And I'm talking about it in camp period, but the preseason was a non starter. The Falcons basically said preseason, who needs that? They got beaten, looked terrible in week one week two. They looked way, way, way, way better and won the football game. They cost themselves a win, probably against Pittsburgh. You think they might need that as a semi middling team in a division where there's two teams that are two and oh, I think that was a terrible decision by them to not play their quarterback or a lot of their best players in the preseason at all. Washington didn't play John Allen in the Ron Payne in the preseason for one snap or Wagner for that matter among others. I haven't noticed John Allen without having to go back to watch the all 22 once in real time in two games. Pain has had two nice rushes that have led to sacks, but John Allen's been library quiet. The Ron Payne's been pretty much whisper quiet. Would they have been better off with preseason action? I don't know, but I don't think it would be worse necessarily. I think they're probably still getting in the game shape in some way, kind of getting their bearings down, their traction down. So yeah, I definitely think the preseason is a huge part of my theory. So it's less mine, but I do think it's a factor. I think again, I think there's a million dish ingredients in this spot in any way. I mean, you're pro not playing in the preseason anyway. So in the same way, when I look at things like I'm looking through the lens of my prior, is that any part of it yours? So I'm obviously trying to be honest about that. I'm trying to figure that out. I mean, to me, this is more about paradigm and we're throwing it, we're running it more than we're throwing it, which is less about preseason activity or otherwise or being precise. I don't think imprecision or bad timing is contributing to water down passing. I think you don't think that passing offenses aren't as if like are just not as sharp. I think it's, again, that's, I think it's a factor, but I don't think it's in anywhere near as big as maybe 10 others. Because I think defenses are going, you're not doing this and no amount of practice is going to let you do it. Like three years ago, there were seven running backs that ran for a thousand yards. Last year, there were 14, the year before that there was 16. Like, that's the trend. We're running it now. Like we, like you and I are kind of, I don't want to speak for you, but I'm just sort of now waking up to this. I'm going, Hey, wait a minute, this is this is a trend. This isn't just some mirage. This is real. Everybody took the, this is how we'll stop Pat Mahomes defense and we're doing it for everybody. Right. So now passing numbers are down across the board, not just in week one and two, because nobody plays in the preseason, but the chiefs play in the preseason and Mahomes plays in the preseason. And they get off to the fast starts offensively throwing the football. And, you know, they are the team that seems to be still putting up really good numbers. The lion similarly with Jared Goff, like he doesn't have to play in the preseason. It's been with the same coordinator in the same offense year after year. It's interesting to me that some of those teams do the best jobs early. Let's go to Kevin, who's in Arlington on GND. What's up, Kevin? Hey guys, so wonderful discussion. I'm enjoying it quite a bit. I do think the preseason inactivity, I'll just call it, is certainly contributing factor. But if you were to ask me, well, and the thing is, I think there's a multiplicity of factors, like not even just two or three. It's probably more like 10 or 12. And combined, you're seeing a key change in how the game is being played. But let me, let me decide a couple that I spotted in some research I've been doing on this. Here's one I think that's really important. College isn't a good training ground for offensive lineman anymore. College offenses are spread happy. They're fast. They don't need the in-ground grit. You see what's running the ball. There's just all these offensive line deficiencies where pass blocking is so much harder than run blocking. It's not a sexy position. We're in the age of NIL and portal and athletic guys, because increasingly the linemen aren't as big as they were. They're much more mobile. It's almost like O-line is one of the last positions of resort. Some people say playing O-line is almost as difficult, but not as difficult, of course, as quarterback. I really think it's with what's happening in the O-line. The lack of practice, the lack of tackling, the inability to hold a line together, injury, I mean, go on and on. The O-line play just is not up to snow. I think the college observation you made, Kev, is really smart. O-line play in the NFL is not particularly good, but in college, you could say that to an even greater extent. I would go back to the idea of how many traditional dropback passing games do you really see in college anymore. It's so rare to me. I guess you'd call Michigan that under Harbaugh. It's like there's a handful where they go, "This is truly a pro style." Everybody else is spread air rate sideways. It's mostly spread in '11, and the Sunday games looking more like the Saturday game, but it's a lot of running the football at the quarterback position and all that. I don't think it can be possible that we could be majoring in all of that without losing anything in the passing. Does that make sense? You can't do both on one play. Totally. I think that's part of the factor as well. This was just sent to me again at Grand H. Paulson at Funny Danny. Brian Robinson had 17 runs against the Giants, 14 of them, 82 percent came against six or fewer defenders in the box. The Giants, because Cliff Kingsbury's spreading you out with 11 personnel, at least three receivers at times, they've got receivers all over the formation. Brian Robinson's getting these looks against six-man fronts, where if Jayden Daniels is as smart as we know he is, and he did this a few times, RPOs, you could pull it and throw it out wide, but he's going to go, let me check to this run real quick, because I got this light box. Against men in the box, six or fewer, 14 for 88 for Brian Robinson. There you go. Now, interestingly, he had 45 yards on three carries with seven or more, but that was a 40-yard carry. Remember that everyone's piled up and he bounced. It was like two and a half a pop before the one he would have been tackled for a two-yard game for a first ounce. It would have been like, you know, three carries for six yards or whatever, but I think that's pretty and telling an instructive specific to what we watched for Washington this week. It's a good conversation and something we'll keep revisiting as we go on this year. Double play is next. What's going on in our lives? Nothing to do with sports. And then we're blitzing at the top of the hour in about 15 minutes when we are giving away those tickets to the HFS level on Grant and Danny. Welcome back to Grant and Danny. We're live on the fan all over DC 1067 and in Richmond, AM 910, FM 1051. You can watch the show on our 1067, the fan YouTube channel. We're streaming live each and every day. So what's up, chat? Thank you for being a part of this program. However, you're checking us out on a sea app, wherever you go, take it with you, make sure it is downloaded. Lot of ways to listen to the program. It's time for our double play. What's going on in our lives? Nothing to do with sports. Driveny by your local Washington area, Honda dealers, Danny, stopping for a great deal on the rugged and capable Honda pilot contact your local Washington area, Honda dealers today. Before we left yesterday, GP, he said, what are you up to tonight, right? And I told just plain to pick up basketball and he said, predict the stat line. So I did it was joking around and I kind of, you know, gave a mock one, but actually thought to myself, why don't I try to remember this? Why don't I chronicle it? So I did in between, we put four games last night from eight to 10, which is a lot of running for court, half court, full court. So it's an all elementary school. So it's not your big full distance and it was four on four. You played to 11? Yeah. So it's not one of them things where it's like a full real high school court with like space between the three point line and out a bounds line. There's some grace allowed there. But four and four. And so it's not the full, you know, as I said, it's not the full, I'm still exhausted though, sore, tired, etc. So I kept track if you want some of the numbers from last night, I would love them. So I would I do in between the games as I'm getting watered down, drying my face off with my microfiber towel. I put in my phone, just to say, I'm pretty sure I got these right. So I'm gonna do my best. First game was a scuffle. Yeah, two out of nine from the from the field. Yeah, zero three balls. All right, these are bricks. I was off. It was terrible. You know, I after after one, I miss badly one of my teammates like, it's okay, keep shooting. I'm like, I don't know if I should do that at this point. It's not feeling good. I made two breakaway layups, like one off a steal and one where a teammate found me. I missed another bunny, like not shooting well. Like, all right, let's get everyone else involved. Let's figure it out. So very bad shooting start really worried it was going to be the entire night. Game two, for whatever reason, saved the evening. Okay, I'm not kidding you. I'm not just saying this to hype myself up. All right. Yeah. So it's me and some other guys in our 40s and early 50s, playing some pickup basketball, whatever. Seven out of eight. Okay, four threes. Okay. In this second game, I scored all 11 points for the team. So we win. We go to 11. I had 11. The other team had less than 11. All 11. I had all 11. How good was this team? We've, we won the game. I mean, we won. We're pretty good. I was, I got hot. I got a scorching. So now you won terrible game. One really, really good game. Obviously, go seven for eight. That's pretty good. Game three got started to get a little tired. Four to nine hit a couple twos, aka threes, three balls, right? And the third game ended up with the game winner, but was five for 11 missed a couple chances to win it, but ended up sinking one to knock it down overall in the night, 18 out of 37, rough approximate decent shooting, night 48%. We'll take it. But that first game was tough, but the second game made up for it. So that's, that's what I did last night. It's so funny. I just, you've got your own stats from your pickup basket. Yeah. Now I don't know, like a sis. There's some, there's so many turnovers in there, like passes. We're like, ah, shoot, man. I almost, but like, you know, is there a website where we could track your numbers? No, I don't think we're posted it up. You're not doing that. No, week one, I was one, 22, all the all 10 come out. So I can watch it. I should do some video. I should like just put my phone up and like get a possession or two and, and then share it with the group. Um, I'll do that next time. I actually have to ask all these guys if they consent to have a good chair, but I don't want it. There's a lot of elbow pads and a lot of, isn't it just sweaty old guys? Yeah. I mean, it's mostly, so this group and I'm, I'm joking. I'm one of the two or three oldest guys that are there, mostly upper 30s, uh, and right around 40 for this group. But all, all former wall players, all pretty decent. I think shooting close to 50% knocking down some threes, having a game where you scored every point. Yeah. I feel really good about that night. I felt, I honestly feel pretty good because that second game happened. I mean, that, that was, if I'm being honest, really impressive. Oh no. I'm fired up kidding, but it was really impressive. Are you? No, I mean, it was really impressive. It was. I mean, I got hot and was, I mean, if I wanted to touch the room, I couldn't, you know what I mean? I was just bottoms. Sorry. Throwing them up there. 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Something he's definitely got to improve upon five errors last night doesn't get an error. But a ground ball to the right side. He doesn't break to first. Gallo bobble the ball and Gallo was the field of the ball cleanly was not going to be able to get to first in time. The pitcher had to be there and this is happening. You know Parker as a left handed pitcher falls up a little bit to the third base side. When the ball was hit he never moved off the rubber and the ball was already to Gallo. He hadn't broken yet for first. There's no way he's going to beat the runner and you just can't have that happen. You're giving away outs and you know it ended up being a bigger inning than it needed to be. You just can't afford those kind of mistakes. Charlie, big picture for Mitchell Parker just kind of drilling down a little bit. I'd still say this season is a pretty smashing success. Even if it feels like he may be running out of gas here at the end going further. Maybe they ever has over the course of a season. I don't know how many more starts they're going to give him before it's all said and done. But I know it's probably not ending on the note that he wants or maybe the team wants. But big picture again, that's a major league starter that they kind of uncovered here. And I'm pretty pleased with it. Just sort of a bummer that it's not maybe ending the way that we want. Right. I agree completely. Everybody's going to have things to work on. I mean he's 24 years old and he started the year in AAA pitch four innings there. So I mean this guy didn't have a lot of experience at that level. Let alone come right to the major leagues with the early injury to Joe Sagray and then you know 28 starts of the big leagues. He probably gets one more with the nationals having 11 games to go including tonight. So yeah, I think it's a success for him. Success for DJ errors. Big success moving forward for Jake Urban. I mean the pitching is long what we talked about the first half of the year that that was a major step forward. And so the team ERA's 4.30. It was a shade over five last year. So that's a big drop off even though you could look at it and say, yeah, they were in the 3 7 3 7 5 range in June. And and that's jumped up a half a run or so in the second half of the season. But still, you know guys who have not pictured this level before I think that's a big success and tell me much much better for it going forward next year. Charlie CJ Abrams back in the lineup one for three in the lead off spot. Great to see him playing again here as they get ready to play out the string. How will you sum up his season when you look back when he was good. He was exceptional when he was bad. Those stretches lasted a while. Yeah, great first half not so great second half. So you're looking for more consistency over the course of a whole season. And again, another very young players doing this, you know, for the really second year as a full time major league player coming up a couple of years ago after the trade in the final couple of months of the season. So last year, 151 games, 245, 18 homers, 64 runs batted in. He has more home runs. The RBIs are about the same. He does not have the 47 stolen bases in 51 tries he had last year, 29 out of 41 this year, 22 errors last year. Is it 17 this year? So I mean, you could say, okay, let's look at next year. He's going to turn 24 on October the 30 hope that next year, he really takes a major step forward over the course of a whole season. An all star in the first half of the year, if you had flipped the two halves of the year and the second half of the year is the way he started the year, he wouldn't have been an all star. So a lot of times you see an all stars based on the first half of the year, they don't pick all stars over the course of the whole season. Charlie, does Jacob Young play center field for this team next year? Or are they going to go in a kind of different direction where it's Cruz and maybe, you know, somebody else maybe for age to be or somewhere and not thinking of and right field or how do you think it's going to go? You know, at the beginning of the year, you would have thought Jacob Young comes up when Victor Robles gets hurt right away and he's playing. Is he an everyday center fielder? Does he hit enough? I think he's hitting the, you know, high 250s. He's got over 30 steals gold club caliber center field. If you improve your offense in other places, be it at first base designated here where the nationals really struggle to be, you know, competitive what other teams produce offensively from those positions. And then you have Cruz and Wright and Wooded left. I think you can live with that. It just depends how you want to make up your team next year. Where are you going to get more offense from? Because they need more offense. Charlie, thank you, buddy. We appreciate you. You got it, guys. Be good. We'll be listening to Charlie and Dave pregame coming up at about 640 right here on the fan. Let's talk football. Mitch Tischler, monumental sports joins us now. Mitch, I thought the X was a good place to be on Sunday. Not only did the locals get a win, but there were a lot of fans there wearing a burgundy and gold. The vibes were pretty good. And there've been a lot of changes to the stadium. Yeah. I mean, I think the stadium showed out well, Brandon. I think it helps a little bit that the giants are down and fans are a little angry about it. But you know what? There wasn't nearly as much blue in the stands as we've seen in years fast and the crowd was into it and they were loud and they got to watch a win. How do you, I mean, listen, it's obviously so important to win football games. You look at the home opener and the image and the vibes and everything else. But big picture, you glass out full or glass half empty when it comes to the offense where they move it down the field. Well, recorded yards. The Russian game looked really good. You get to the red zone six times on normally take my chances. But then when they got there, we all kind of know what ended up happening. Class F full or half empty, Mitch? Oh, I mean, more than half full. I am very excited about what I've seen from this offense in two weeks and particularly this week. I mean, they racked up 425 yards of total offense, which is just a really good number. They didn't punch a single time. You mentioned the red zone appearances. Part of what I kind of come across when I look at what happened in the red zone is I think they got a little conservative there. And I think part of it was they knew the Giants weren't going to be able to kick field goals. So they were just trying to put points on the board. And certainly the ball start penalties didn't help at all. And that's certainly something they need to clean up a little bit. But I think when you look at the play calling, especially when you got to those, you know, thirding goals from the 10, they were a little more conservative because they knew if they just sat back and kicked the field goal, that was ultimately probably going to be enough to win the football game. And it was. Austin cyber named special teams player of the week today, a guy who had a really good game kicking a bunch of chip shots or the answer to the kicking problem in 2024. Yeah, I'm not ready to say the answer to the kicking problem because the aggregate yards on those seven field goals had to have been the the fewest aggregate yards of any guy who was battling field goals. They're all so short, but it's good to see them go seven for seven. And hopefully you can continue doing it and keep doing well in the kickoff and ultimately, you know, you want to kick her who can be consistent inside of 50, but in this day and age in the NFL, if you want to, you know, put a stamp on answering that kicker question, you got to prove you can kick some of the longer field goals. So I'm not ready to say it yet, but certainly great to see a commander's kicker go seven or seven defense. It's only been a couple weeks, but right down at the bottom of those rankings, you got to really work that, you know, wrist and kind of scroll roll down motion on the computer mouse there to find where they are. And most of the searches there, Mitch, how much improvement do you expect over the course of this year? That's a good question. I would say marginal. I mean, you hope that they get better in their, you know, communication on the back end, which quite frankly, commander's teams, Washington football teams, Redskins teams, as long as I've covered the team, I've always talked about improve communication, improve communication. So it's a little bit of a coach speak from the players. To me, I think as much as we harp on the secondary and the issues back there, I think it starts up front. And the fact that teams are able to run the ball on them as consistently as they do, as well combined with the fact that they're not getting to the quarterback. And, you know, you want to run pain and John Allen, you're two, second and third highest players, highest paid players on the team to go out and make plays and get after them. But you can't excuse the edge rushers who aren't getting any pressure either. And so I think as this thing moves forward, I think Mike starts seeing Joe Witt and Dan Quinn get a little more aggressive and start bringing some extra bodies. And hopefully they can put pressure on that quarterback early. And so their secondary doesn't have to cover so long. But I mean, I don't know what players we're looking at on the defensive side of the ball that we think are going to take big steps between now and the end of the season. I mean, a couple of young guys, Mikey Sainer still, you know, Jordan McGee, when he comes back, hopefully a little bit. But most of these guys are kind of known entities and you kind of know what you're going to get from them. Give me something you love from Jaden Daniels's game so far and something you want them to work on. Well, the number one thing I wanted to work on is throwing the ball away. I think we've seen a couple of times down in the two weeks, he has a good awareness in the pocket and he gets outside. There are times that, you know, it's better to be a little safe and throw the ball away and, you know, live for another down and not take, you know, some of those extra big hits. But at the same time, I like his aggressiveness and I don't want to necessarily take away from that. I just think you need to kind of curve it down a little bit and that aggressiveness is both in the run game and in the past game. And, you know, I really like the throw that he made to Zach Earth on the right sideline for the first down that Earth kind of to wrestle the ball away from the defender to get there. Throw that ball on a line, get that ball out there to him and let him catch that ball and not have to fight a defender for it. So I like the aggressiveness. I just wanted to play with it himself and play within the offense a little bit more. Mitch, thank you as always, buddy. Talk soon. Absolutely. Thanks so much, guys. Yeah, dude. Be good, bro. That's Mitch Tischler from monumental sports on Grant and Danny. We do have breaking news coming into 106 seven the fan right now. And it's caps and hockey news. All of our breaking news on the fan brought to you by BetqL smarter bets. Start with BetqL get three free days of BetqL access by downloading the BetqL app or visiting BetqL dot com. And this is in regards to a star in this town who helped win a championship TJ OSHA, the Washington Capitals alternate captain TJ OSHA completed his medical exam according to the team today. And his status is listed moving forward as injured. OSHA is expected to be placed on long term injured reserve. It's going to be placed on the injured reserve list during the season and throughout the season. OSHA and capital senior VP GM Chris Patrick have released the following statement about OSHA's health situation. Quote from OSHA, the last season was challenging for me, my family and my teammates as I dealt with a chronic back injury that kept me out of the lineup. I have used the off season to explore and pursue long term solutions for my injury. I remain committed to the process and I'm working and doing my best to regain total health. In the meantime, I will continue to help and support my teammates and the organization in any way I can. I greatly appreciate all of our fans during this time. And that's from TJ OSHA. So TJ OSHA will not be ready to start the year is being placed on injured reserve. That's the breaking news. Now, if we could editorialize a little bit and this is no longer, you know, the news as much as our opinions, if we can opine, this feels to me like the announcement that TJ OSHA is not going to be playing anymore. TJ OSHA will try to get back, I'm sure. The way LTIR works in hockey is when he's listed on injured reserve, his money doesn't count against your cap. We saw the capitals very active, turned over almost a third of their roster this off season with some premium players. They brought in a lot of talent. It's a very new look team Danny. And I think they were banking on the fact that Nicholas Baxter and TJ OSHA were not going to be working against the salary cap. And so this is not a surprise to anybody, even though it is sad and disappointing, but oh, she's back was locking up. They become a big problem. And so pretty clearly to me, they're not going to use the R word here. He's not retiring because if he retires, he leaves a lot of money on the table. But this is a way forward like they did with back from last year and now this year, where you can place him on LTIR. He's still a part of the organization. And while he's getting paid, the money does not count against your salary cap. Yeah. So this is one of those everybody benefits from it doing it this way, right? The rule machinations are different in every sport. So I think it's important to stick that you just offered there for how hockey works, which I think is really, really good. It's not dollar for dollar to be clear, but you get a pretty big discount on the salary against the cap. So if he retired, then maybe that money counts. I mean, this whole thing, remember with the nationals in Strasbourg and how to handle that. Nobody was really sure what the protocol was going to be. The caps and oh, she seemed to have worked this out. But so first and foremost, oh, she will talk about him here in a second, but we dealing with kind of put that aside for a brief moment. This benefits the team greatly, to be honest with you, right? Like basically waiting for somebody that wasn't ever going to be able to do it is that's not good for anyone. Right? In other words, like thinking about, Hey, when backshroom comes back and backshrooms himself, see what this team can do. That wasn't going to happen. And I feel bad about that. It's awful. It stinks. It's the worst part about pro sports, college, any sport, frankly, is that the games still count. They keep churning and we need to put a team on the ice with or without a guy that's done everything right at all times for the organization that applies both to backshroom and froshy. So this is better for the team that we're not going to be waiting around going, well, once oh, she comes back, then what does that mean for Conor McMichael? Then what does that mean for, you know, this second line winger, is he going to slot with this? You don't have to worry about that stuff anymore, right? You're, you're sort of making this decision. Now get out in front. Nine seasons in DC for TJ OSHA, who started his career with the St. Louis blues, TJ OSHA, because of likability, how he plays with grit and tenacity and aggressiveness and physicality. I mean, he plays a 237 pound game at 185 pounds, right? That's the way to put it. People love OSHA for good reason. He's also just a munch of a human being. You're not going to find a better dude, a better person, a better family man. This is a guy who has been one of the better players on the cap since his first day here. But after nine years, I mean, his body has just kind of broken down on him. If you look at it, dating back to the 2020 pandemic, pandemic season, really, it's just been different. Twenty one, he played in only 44 games two years ago, just 58 games last year, 52 games, and it was constant. He'd be a way to come back. He's hurt. He'd be a way he'd come back. He's hurt. He's dealt with many concussion problems, which is scary. He's one of the players in the league that started wearing this like neck brace that helps with collisions and head trauma and the way you get whiplash. And this is now the back issue where he'll go to the ice and it quite literally locks up on him and he can't stand up. He can't walk. He has to crawl. We've seen this off the ice and it's, it's scary, man. He's got four kids. You know, he's got a brand new baby. The fourth child he's got with his wife. They live here in the area. And we talked about this with two a few days ago, but at some point, you've got to decide, am I sure I'm going to be able to live the life I want to live if I keep doing this? And oh, she pretty clearly after 16 years and a thousand games in the NHL with a Stanley Cup championship, who could ever forget the parade back to back, back to back. When he was drinking the with no voice. Yes, sweater, because he was parched. He just couldn't talk. You know, like you're screaming his head off for two weeks. Yeah. But now at 37 years old, this is certainly not an official. I'm hanging him up. But I also don't know if you get to do that without foregoing a lot of the money that you're still owed. Yeah. So you stay in shape. You if you wake up one day and you're all better, you call the team, Adam Bank style and hold the stick out. Maybe you get to play in the game. That's a deep cut nobody will get. But yeah, I think for TJ Hoshi, all I can say is I love you. You're an American hero. You're one of my favorite players ever. And you're the man. Thank you for the Stanley Cup. I would like to echo that. The one of the great bits of sports theater I've ever seen is that shoot out bit for Team USA. I love you so much forever. That was so fantastic. So the the parallels that you mentioned are obvious between the conversation we had about Toa and then we're having about Oishi. The difference to me is one guy's done it. That's 38 year old 1000 1000 10 games, Stanley Cup champion, been to the pinnacle. Everything that you've got, you have given, right? Like you you have you gave it the office, dude. You know what I mean? Like there was nobody who would go, man, I really was TJ Hoshi gotten more out of his ability. That's never the comment about that guy, right? I remember once we were doing a show from a caps training camp and I couldn't get over it. Like he and I are the same size. But if you watch him on the ice, you're going, that's a six, three, you know, Lexi protis type monster, who's everywhere all at once, hitting guys, blocking shots, winning puck battles in the corner. You don't think of him as like a just a regular size human being that you could just bump into and clear a little guy, man. Yeah, but he plays enormous. Yeah, it's like a grown ass man who did everything right. He just got everything out of his skill set and he's immensely talented and has great hands and all those things. But he also outworked everybody around him probably at every single level for a long, long time. So quickly, then here's a little caps fun caps game because they have so many new players. I want you to play my guy or somebody else's guy. Oh, okay. Here we go. So these are new players are old players. Ready? Hopefully all these guys are your guys by the end of the year. I was gonna say, Dylan strong. So what am I? It's our guy or new guy? Yeah. It's, I think it's over complicated. I know doing strong. How about returning or new? Do you have a deep fire? Let's say that. Okay, Dylan strong. Well, I got a file. Okay. Yeah. Pierre Luc Dubois. I'm not yet. No. Andrew Manjiapani. That's gonna be new. Okay. Connor McMichael. I know Connor. Okay, very good. Hendrix LaPierre. I know, Hendrix. Okay. What about Taylor Radish? That's newer for work on that. What about Brandon Duhame? No, that's gonna be newer. Okay. Very good. How about John Carlson? I know, Carly, shoot you out. Carly. What about Jacob Chikrin? That's good. That's newer. That's spelled by the way. C-H-Y. C-H-R-U-N. Chikrin. Jacob Chikrin. What about Rasmus Sandi? I know Rasmus Sandi. All friend Rasmus Sandi. How about Matt Roy? That's new. Okay. That's gonna be new. Martin Ferivore. I know Marty. Very good. I think that'll pretty much do it, I would say, for the most part. Charlie Lindgren? I know, Charlie Chucko. Logan Thompson. This is the hockey player? Dude, it's new, man. Yeah, this is new. They got Luc Dubois and Manjiapani maybe on the second line. Radish on the third line. Duhame on the fourth line. Top line defense with Chikrin. Second line defense with Roy. New net minor to compete with Lindgren. It's gonna be a very different capital's team helping OV gun for Wayne Gretzky's record this year. 41 shy, dude. We're right around the corner. We talked yesterday about OV and his 39th birthday, so hopefully he celebrated in fashion, in OV fashion and fine style last night. Right now, as promised though, call our 10 at 800-636-1067. Congratulations. You were winning tickets to the HF Festival this Saturday, September 21st at Nationals Park featuring the postal service depth cap for cutie, incubus, bush, garbage, Jimmy, world and so much more. Great show. Gonna be a fun day all day long at the park for tickets and more event information. Go to the FandyC.com/events courtesy of IMP. We're Grant and Danny next. How do you feel about the commander's offensive line so far? This is the fan. Alongside Danny Rubio, I'm Grant Paulson. You are locked into the fan. Thank you for making the show part of your day. Top of the hour and 30 minutes. We will give you a tour of the NFC East. We'll check in with a reporter from the Eagles, Cowboys and Giants beats to get the latest on the division. A division I might add. I know Danny does not want me to tell you this, but I'm going to tell you anyway, Danny cover your ears. You can say whatever you want. The Washington commanders are in first place in the NFC East. Everything's okay. It's fine. Everything's fine. It's fine. It's fine. Not your favorite bit, but it's a bit we're going to do for another Wednesday night. I was going to say you got six days. Give me 72 more hours to play that one up a little bit. That's all you're talking about your first place commanders. Who's in first? Not the Eagles. No. No, I think Cowboys because they beat the Giants. It's a bit. I was going to say if anybody got a chance for the Giants in week two, they'd be in first place also. But whatever, do you need any more cold water to add to your bucket? No, pour on over. I just don't want parades calm down. It's not a parade to just acknowledge that they're in first place in the standings. That's all I'm doing. Stop finger guns and everybody are yucking it up. Did you hear hollow notes playing? You in your mind? Your eyes are playing hollow notes. There is no hollow notes. I'm not celebrating anything. I'm observing your lips are filled with smile and reporting. Is that Kevin James movie? Was that what was that? Was that Rogan? But was Kevin James in it? Yeah, because remember there's Paul Blart. I don't think it is a James movie. I think he is a mall cop. That's what I'm confused. Yeah, there's Paul Bart mall cop and then there's observing reports. You remember like when Armageddon and Deep Impact came out like five minutes from each other? Right. For some reason, they're like the next wave is going to be we'll do mall security and Paul Blart and observing report came out within like an hour and a half. I have a fact for you about observing report that you will not know. All right. The 2009 comedy. There's a actress in that movie named Collette Wolf who went to King George High School. No. Yeah. She's our only actress or actor who hit it big in Hollywood. I think she got in with and became friends. I could be wrong on the on the how this worked out. But Danny McBride is from the Fredericksburg era and she ended up in kind of that group. But she was in like hot tub time machine. I remember was a big movie. She was in she was in observing report. She worked behind the counter and I think was like one of like Seth Rogan's love interest. Oh, yeah, I've definitely seen her before. I would never pull the name. But yeah, that's that. So I don't know what else other than those couple movies, maybe young adult, but Collette Wolf, I was in a lot of classes with her younger sister, Bethany Wolf, who was a year older than me. Collette was older than me by Collette's my age. Yeah, she's exactly she's older than my like my older brother. Listen to this filmography hot tub time machine, observe and report hot tub time machine too. Let's go. Here we go. Anything. What else we got? A movie called young adult, which I've never heard of. That was actually a sneaky good movie. Do you not remember that? I have no file on it. That's Patton Oswalt and Charlize Theron. I love that movie. I don't remember her being in it, but I'll have to watch it again. What are they doing there? I'm pretty sure she goes back home and it's like a romcom kind of deal with her and Patton Oswalt of memory serves. Well, how about this, by the way, not a huge role. She was an interstellar. We're not have had that. That is pretty silly. Her character is named Ms. Hamley an interstellar. I don't remember that. So I'm gonna do an impression. All right. I don't. I don't want to do. I don't for me. I'm Danny. King George County. I'm sleeping on King George County. Stop. We got him everywhere, man. German Bushrod Super Bowl champion. Yep. Collette Wolf actress. See? Yeah, it's everywhere. Al Bumbry from our oil. Al Bumbry. Al Bumbry King George County. You don't remember him? I do, of course, I remember him. Yeah, okay. We got him everywhere. You know King George enough credit. I don't think I give the right amount of credit. Do you? Yeah. Did you give us Collette Wolf? I didn't have. You know what? If that's your case, you win in court. Thank I did not have Collette Wolf. What is Saint Albin's half? Jeffrey Wright is a pretty good actor. He's been in a lot of stuff. Okay. Clancy Brown. Also, they really back there's been a lot of stuff. Never heard of it. Lester Hayes, the Jets ring of honor. Jonathan Ogden, pro football Hall of Hammer. That's just like fracking and football. We have other stuff too. That's real interesting. Danny, how do you feel about the O line for the commander so far? Run blocking. Pretty good. Run blocking is a thing. I don't know how much of it is aided by Daniels. I don't know how much of is aided by, you know, the way defenses are playing them. But I do know this. They've been opened up some holes. It looks like Brian Robertson gets his momentum going has plenty of room before he gets touched. In years past, it was Brian Robinson fights through 9,000 people like extras in a Kung Fu movie to get two and a half yards. Anything he gets is like he earned it. Now it feels like he's got some space to maneuver. Same with Echler and otherwise, it's not just on third down long give up plays on, you know, third and long draws or something like that to the scat back. This is whoever gets the football has a little real estate here. And so run blocking wise, it feel pretty good. Past blocking. I think part of why they're calling what they're calling, which is everything quick, everything short, everything get out in a hurry. One part, make it easy for Daniels. The other part to me is we don't really trust this group to hold up for longer developing past plays. We don't have the weapon on the outside to really do it. And we don't really trust our guys up and down this line to be able to hold up in kind of straight dropback pass pro. So I think what they've been asked to do, they've done a pretty decent job. Yeah, I totally agree. I wouldn't even just, you know, differentiate between the run and the past blocking to say, I've been really impressed by their offensive line so far, considering what a story it was all off season, considering how much you and I harped on the problems that could come. And it's very early, and I will even say to they have not necessarily played a group I was worried about. Although I did think the Giants had a much more about them. I was, I just thought they would have a more difficult group to block. But if you look at it through two games at this point, Cornelius Lucas has been very good. He's the highest graded pass blocker on the team via PFF at 80.1. Tyler Bionish has been terrific in that regard, 78.6 second highest. I think keeping John Bates and honestly helps. He's really, really good on the edge of the offensive line and helping out tackles. Ben Senate's done a pretty good job blocking and protecting as well. Sam Cosby's been awesome. I think Nick Allegretti has been very, very solid. Wiley's been okay. His grade of 51.8 is the only of the lineman who's actually got a bad pass blocking grade. The other one is Brandon Coleman, the rookie, and that's because he got beat a couple times by Thibodeau who had two quarterback hits this past game. Like think about it. Dexter Lawrence is maybe the best pass rushing defensive tackle in the NFL right now. In the game against Washington on Sunday, he had zero counting stats other than tackles, zero, not one tackle for loss, not one hit on the quarterback, not one pressure, not one pass defendant. Like he did zippy in that game. That's a big, big deal for their interior. So I love that. If I wanted to pick knits, the penalties, and that was more this week than the Tampa game, but Cosby had two false starts. Allegretti had a false start collectively as a group that had five false starts, which can never happen. But I'm hard pressed to remember just plays where Jaden Daniels didn't really have a chance. There was one blitz that came from his left over the left guard that if you remember, like the C's opened up, it was a straight blitz that got to him on a sack. And that was such a quick pressure immediately from a guy coming downhill at the snap that that's something you almost think either be honest or Daniels should have figured out before. Yeah, someone should have noticed. I don't know who, right? Because the way it played out, it was not like a, oh, someone did their job wrong. It was like, we didn't account for that correctly. They fooled us. So whether you want to blame Daniel's or be honest or whoever was responsible, go for it. But for the most part, again, there was five sacks this past week, which sounds bad. You could maybe put one on the line if you wanted to. I think two of them were on RPOs, which definitely aren't their fault. And it might not be anybody's fault. It was just Daniels pulled it and then the pass wasn't there. And when that happens, you're kind of a sitting duck. So those two are, you can just call them a boarded plays or whatever. There's three other ones. And at least two of those are probably on the quarterback kind of running into one where Echler picked up an oncoming defender, anchored and kind of blew him up. And then Daniels kind of got quick happy feet left the pocket. He didn't really have to. He had nothing but protection in time. And he ran into a sack. But that's going to happen. He's young, no harm, no foul there really, as long as it doesn't become a trend. I don't know, man, I just, I think it's early. I want to see more out of Coleman. I want to see more snaps. He went from playing a little over a dozen snaps to 22 snaps in week two. And I just, I'm happy so far. I think they've been good in that area. So there are data points that I would, I want to see because I'm curious, but also hope that the game situation doesn't lead to it. And here's what I mean. In a game like you're playing against Tampa, you're down big and conventional NFL offense for a team that's trying to compete for the playoffs and go somewhere this year is, hey, we got to hurry up and drop back and throw a whole bunch, right? And now the defense knows it's coming. You know, it's coming. There's no hiding. There's no pretending. We got to throw it 35 40 times in this game to try to come back and win it, right? I'd love to see what happens in that kind of circumstance. Now I don't want them to be in that situation because it means they're losing. It also means that it exposes Daniels to more and, you know, maybe at some point you're going to have to go through it. I just don't know that I want it just yet. But I'd love to see what it would look like if they had to hold up and pass pro without the threat of running, without the threat of some of the play action, without the threat of some of the read option, RPO game, etc. So that's a data point that's TBD. And you know, as, as defenses kind of figured out, I don't think the Giants can really stop anything. But they said, all right, fine. You want to throw it short, we'll take that away. You had a counter punch credit to everybody involved. Is that going to be the case every week? I don't know the answer to that. So it's going to, it's, but through two games, all you can do is play the two games that you have. And I've been pretty impressed. Yeah. What do you guys think so far about the line? What have you liked what haven't you 806361067? We can get to your thoughts on that. Also next, I want to figure out which NFC team is the most likely to win the Super Bowl as of right now this minute with the 49ers banged up the Rams off to a terrible start. The lions at a bad loss to the Bucks. The best teams in the conference through two weeks are the Saints in Tampa Bay. I don't know that anybody's buying tickets on those teams to win the title today. It supports books. Who's the most likely NFC team to come out of the conference next on G and D. Here's Camara running right side. Wow, serves is in for the touchdown. Try to gain it here on second down pressure coming this out of a screen. Oh, there's a lot of room. Alvin Camara rules the role. Alvin Camara's going to score touchdown. Two of four scores on the day for Alvin Camara of the Saints. They have scored on every single one of their possessions through two games this season. Unbelievable for the Saints. You could just take September off, I guess. They have also been under center 70% of the time. No team has lived under center to that extent in the last 10 years. Clint Kubiak's got something going on down there. A Kyle Shanahan disciple, a former Gary Kubiak son, obviously Mike Shanahan disciple as well. But that offense is humming in New Orleans. Are they the team to beat in the NFC? We'll get into that in just a couple of moments. First though, Sam went into way in on the offensive line so far out in Gainesville. What do you think of the commanders? I think PFF's got them number 20 and blocking against, you know, pass rush. We've seen some other metrics leave analytically where there is low as 22. But eyeball test says they've been okay, Sam. Hey, gentlemen, totally agree. I think the bottom line is we can say this. They have exceeded expectations, right? So, if we put them on a grading scale, I'd grade them out as a B. If you want to talk situational football, like we always do, the penalties are horrendous, continually over and over in the red zone. That can't happen. But overall, yeah, it's pleasantly surprised. Again, as you guys mentioned, short sample size through two games. Let's see what happens when they play some of the bigger boys. But yeah, got to be happy so far. Let's clean up the penalties and let's see some more anger and passion over head coach when that happens and we'll be good to go. Thanks, buddy. What I worry about with this line today is what I worried about before the season, which is to say when you go up against TJ Watt or Miles Garrett or some game wrecking, world-eating defensive end, what's going to happen. I don't trust the tackle position. They addressed the interior. 10 million for Beottish. They bet on Allegretti has been pretty good. And we know Cosby is going to come at you. But it's Andrew Wiley at right tackle. For whatever reason, I know Tiveto had given them fits in the past. He's mostly been disappointing, actually. And a big story in New York coming out of week one was that he didn't do anything in the first game. Like he's off to a slow start. Now, if you want to say Brian Burns, are they traded for his ABCs? He's really, really good. He was quiet in the game. So credit where it's due there to Wiley or whoever else needs it. But I still have those same concerns. Like we saw TJ Watt twice in two games, basically take the game over. He single handedly beat the Falcons in week one, essentially. I don't know if they can handle a guy like that, but maybe that's where either Senate or Bates is going to come into play. Yeah, Michael Parsons is on the schedule a couple of times. TJ Watts on the schedule. The Ravens defense that always seems to generate pass rushes on the schedule. More daunting opponents are coming. And it's not their fault they haven't played those guys yet. These are tests that we haven't been able to grade and and turn in. But I'm with him. If C is average, to me, that's the worst you could give this line so far. I also would give them a B. I think they've played above average football. I do too. And again, I think a lot of it as we talk about Jayden Daniels is the construction. I think it's to hide the weakness, right? Again, I you're not going to see a ton of long developing down the football field of past plays. You're going to pick and choose. There'll be moments when they took a shot at the start of the second half against Tampa to Tara McCorran. But I don't think they're going to major in stuff that takes a long time for Daniels for them. I think that's I think that's part of the the program and it's smart by the way. That's what I would do. Also Daniels helps them. And I don't just mean being able to get away or run out of pressures or something. Just having a guy who can run in the same way that the running game gets better because it's 11 and 11. You're not going to blitz a guy like Jayden Daniels as much as you might a guy where you always know where he's going to be. Because if it doesn't get home, you're screwed. You know what I mean? Yes I do. So I think that helps an offensive line a little bit too. And the fact that they can move him around and bootleg him and keep him out of the pocket sometimes. When you don't know where the quarterbacks at, it just makes it harder to pass rush. I think that that's common sense. You heard the Kamara highlight coming in though because I wanted to pin you down right now on the team you would put money on to come out of the NFC. So at this moment currently, the Saints Vikings and Seahawks are all surprised to a no teams. New Orleans having dominated the Cowboys and shredded the Panthers. The Vikings who beat the Giants fairly unimpressive but crushed them in week one and then very impressively beat the 49ers in week two. Seattle hasn't really played anybody yet but Denver in week one New England in week two. And then the other unbeaten team is Tampa Bay that was actually a playoff team last year. But the teams that we think are really good. Detroit bad loss this weekend. San Francisco. A lot of injuries bad loss this weekend. Dallas looked terrible this weekend. The Packers are one in one but they don't have Jordan love right now. The Rams are 0 and 2 and everybody's hurt. I don't want to say you can write them off but it's about as close two weeks in. I've got the pen out to write them as a guess. So today you've got to walk up to a window at Thoms Watch bar at his sports book and we're in Cincinnati and you've got to put money down on someone to come out of the conference. Who is it? I'm still going to go San Francisco. I look at their loss this week to Minnesota as that for whatever reason they don't match up well against Minnesota. Two straight years they've lost that game and haven't looked like themselves. McCaffrey's out and hurt. Yep. Deebo's out and hurt. I think they'll tread water and then if and when those guys come back now again I don't think McCaffrey's is season ending. I don't think I think the same for for Deebo. They always seem to have that little flag a lot of cues next to their name. But even without McCaffrey you're still pretty prolific. If you've got Samuel, if you've got Samuel Kittle named that generic running back in Kyle Shanahan system you can get some rushing cards. Not as good as McCaffrey. I'm not saying he is but I think they'll be okay in that regard. This to me is about the offensive line getting right. I think their defense is still one of the best in the NFC. I trust them even with a setback here early on. So I'll go differently to be different as much as anything else. But I'm going to say Green Bay because winning without Jordan love blew me away. But and I know it was just the Colts and we don't know if they're any good. But it was how they did it. Matt LaFlore deserves a freaking medal for the plan he put together. The high school offense basically he ran to get to 16 points rushing for 260 with Malik Willis's his quarterback and it was a decent game. Willis went 12 or 14 for 120 yards and it touched down in that game by the way. Love says he's going to try to play this weekend. I don't believe that. I think that he won't play. Let's say they lose to the Titans, which they might win that game. But regardless, he'll be back in time. They got the Rams coming up. I like what I've seen from Green Bay. They got to iron some things out defensively. But if they're able to win games without love, they almost probably could have should have won the game they lost in week one in a weird environment on the road with terrible field. So I like what I've seen from them is strange as it sounds at one in one. But it's mostly because they were able to win without Jordan. Yeah defensively right there against the Colts was really, really impressive to me. Patrick and Fredericksburg. I'm going to squeeze you in. We only got about 30 seconds here. But who's your team in the NFC to watch? I'll say Buck because it depends on how hot Baker Bayfield can get down the stretch. But Baker may feel hot in February or January and February. I mean, they're all the makings of a playoff team elite wide receivers, a great defense. And I think Todd Bowles is actually a decent head coach. So that's my thought. But I think the bucks are a team to watch out for. It's a great call man. I'll say this Baker is not falling victim to the lack of the passing stuff. He's got five tuddies through two weeks with an interception now for those game against Washington without a pick by the way. So one in one this past week, but four hundred seventy four yards through the air completing seventy four percent. He's also got a rushing touchdown. He's off to a great start. They got a good defense, excellent receiving core. They made the playoffs. They want a playoff game by 23 points against Philly last year. I think Tampa is completely slept on. Yeah, they are. They're they're in the class of good, but maybe not exceptional. But that's plenty good enough right now if that makes sense. Like they're a playoff team again. Coming up next, we will blitz the East check in on all three teams in the commander's division. Got an audio vault for you in the five o'clock hour today right here on the fan with the local football team having a bright future. Having a new quarterback. It's time for you to plan your future as well. The exclusive sponsor of our show, the law firm, Kandorian Murad can help you update your last will and testament, set up a trust for you or your family. They can do the important hard stuff that isn't fun to think about. Schedule a free consultation with our state planning attorneys today. Visit kmloyers.com Be sure to tell them. Grant and Danny sent you so you can get a discount km lawyers dot com. It is time to blitz the East. We start you off in Dallas with the Cowboys and babeloffenberg of Cowboys radio network who joins us on G and D babe. After week one, the Cowboys were flying pretty high. What they did to the Cleveland Browns was impressive and then week two comes along in the New Orleans Saints smack them in the mouth. What happened this past weekend? I wish I could tell you but everything happened. The beauty of the game like that they they had against the Saints is there's no finger pointing right. Sometimes the offense is looking at the defense sideways. Sometimes it's vice versa but the defense got mauled and the offense wasn't very good either. When you look at after week one, Cleveland had one first down in the first half. I mean the Cowboys just totally dominated Cleveland in that game. Mike Zimmer, the new defensive coordinator, former Vikings head coach, of course. He was the assistant coach of the year after week one. Now, the Saints come in and just they ran it when they wanted. They threw it when they wanted and I always I'm very fond of former Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett would always say the history of the NFL is written week to week. And that's very true for two weeks for the Cowboys. What do you expect this weekend against Baltimore? Tough matchup for no one to team? Yeah, I don't honestly, I don't look at Baltimore as an own two team. You saw the Kansas City game when he was out of bounds back of the end zone by a half an inch. That game may have been different. The Raiders game they had some 24 yard strength punt at the end of the game on the final drive that gave the Raiders a ball. So now when I see Baltimore, I see what everybody else is. Great defense. I mean it seems like since John Harbaugh has been there. They play great defense and obviously the Mar Jackson, reigning MVP. There's Henry back there. I mean, they tanned or not receiver. They finally got a weapon out there. I don't look at them. And I'm sure the Cowboys don't look at them as an own two football team. Babe, what's the running back situation going to look like in Dallas in a month? Is Dowdle or Elliot the guy? Well, it's a good question. And they also have Dalvin Cook here who was not activated last week. We'll see what first two weeks. He came late. They signed him basically the right before the season started. We'll see what he has. But it's running back. I like committee as they say. And I think that is similar to when you say, well, we have two good quarterbacks. That means you have none, right? So they've got a committee of backs and some are unproven. And the Kelly is obviously at the backside of his career. So it'd be interesting to see how well they can run the ball, not only against Baltimore, but throughout the season. And then yeah, to that, they've got two rookie offensive linemen playing the center is a rookie and the left tackles are working on both good players. But as we all know, it takes a little time to develop there. Similar question outside of CD lamb, babe. Who's the number two? Tolbert six catches this past week. It was Brandon Cooks, the guy in week one. He was non-existent in week two. Is Tolbert going to be maybe the second option to lamb, do you think, at wide receiver? Well, I'm a friend of Brandon Cooks. I really am. He can still run. You know, he came into the league as a four, three guy first round draft pick for New Orleans. He is still a really good route runner. Still has, I think, most of his speed. We also down just shade Navy. But I think he can, I think he can be a solid number two. Tolbert is a guy third round picked from a couple of years ago. He's just now starting to get in there and played. But he did. He was one of the few great spots last week against the Saints. He had them. So definitely work his best game as a cowboy. What do you think the expectations are a big picture for this Dallas team, babe? But I bring it up because, you know, externally, I think people expected them to take a bit of a step back still be pretty good, better than the bottom two teams that division here in New York. But, you know, maybe behind Philadelphia in the pecking order through a couple of weeks, nobody's really distinguished themselves just yet. What do you think big picture this year the expectations are for Dallas? Well, the expectation here is always the Super Bowl. But then the reality is they don't make it to the actually championship game and have it for the last 28 years. But I think every city, as you guys know, for the most part, maybe not in New York. But the expectation is you're going to be a playoff team. We've made these changes in the off season and we're going to be better. We got this quarterback, whatever the case may be. Everybody has high hopes at the start of the season. Then the season starts and you find out if those high hopes were justified or not. But there's no question the Cowboys lost a lot of good players from last year's team did not replace them with equivalent ties. Now, that doesn't mean we talked about Jalen Talbert. You know, he didn't see a whole lot of playing time last year. Michael Gallup goes to the Raiders and ultimately be tires after this season or before the season started. And now Jalen Talbert's got his opportunity. The two young offensive linemen that I talked about, two rookies that are playing. You know, they're going to look different a week 12 than they looked in week one. So I think there's still an expectation here. Here's the thing I always look at. Okay, they've got a great quarterback in my mind in Dak Prescott. They've got a great pass rusher in my comparison. You've got a great receiver in CD Land. So when you've got those three elements in this league, to me, that's a really good foundation. And so and they have those and they also have, you know, really good corner in Trayvon Diggs and they're going to get to Ron Bland who led the NFL in interceptions last year. We're going to get him back about week four or five. Gives you a pretty high floor. No doubt about it. Babelaufenberg Cowboys Radio Network at Babelaufenberg on Twitter. Thank you. We appreciate you. Oh, hey, thanks for having me on. Thank you guys. Have a great day. You too. Our pleasure. Thank you. Let's keep the blitz of the East moving. The Eagles, Danny, coming off of a Monday night football loss that you just can't have against the Atlanta Falcons. They led this game by three. We're on the move ready to make it a two possession game in the waning two minutes instead settled for a field goal made it a six point game and then gave up what was an elementary drive down the field. Kirk Cousins with real estate downfield shots to wide receivers. Just an epic collapse for Philadelphia to lose to the Falcons a week to a gut punching, you know, galling loss if you're an Eagles fan or part of that organization. How much do you blame Nick Siriani? A lot. Called a pass on third and three. I didn't mind that because it was a drop on an open play that was well designed to Barkley. They didn't go for the ensuing fourth and three. They kicked the field goal. Then whatever defense they were in, you could blame Vic Fangio for, but he's the head coach. They also didn't take field goals early in the game, went for four thounds they didn't get. Just felt like a Siriani failure in this game. Yeah, it's like we're going to be one of the things you talk about all the time when you play blackjack, right? If you play a certain way, like you play by the book, you don't just on whims stop doing that. In other words, then you you've lowered your odds. If you play by the book 10 times, you're more likely to win more, you know, more often than than you lose. And you get these like gut feelings where we're going for this fourth down, but we're not going for the next one. You either got to do it every time as the case presents itself, or you don't and you're on the risk of what happened here. Like they made the worst decision every time it seemed. They were just normal and kicked the field goal early on and just ran it twice. When they're when they're inside of two minutes with Atlanta only having one time out left. Almost every scenario, there's a reason why those wind predicting stats and algorithms had them well into the upper 90s for the best chance to win the game. There was one scenario and that's what happened. There was a point seven percent chance. Yeah. According to the analytic model on ESPN, I think it was that the Falcons were going to win before the third and three point seven and they won the game. It's just hard to fathom. Another thing I saw that was weird to me about Siriani, he did not address the team after the game. Jalen Hertz did. He does not call plays on offense. He does not call plays on defense and apparently isn't talking to the team after the loss in the locker around Rivera's school of address. Have we heard of this before? What is it? You would say you do hear some positive thoughts on the Eagles? I thought Jalen Hertz was excellent in this game. He finished 23 of 30 for a buck 80 a touchdown in a pick. The interception was on the final drive after they gave the leadaway, getting hit is he through trying to make something happen? But prior to that, he was actually moving and shaking and he had a great game run in the football. Looked like his old cell from a couple of years ago. Saquan Barkley makes them a lot more dynamic. He had the big drop. I get that. But he has been a game changer for them through two weeks offensively. He's added a lot ran for 95 yards this past week and Johan Dotson got to play a bunch because AJ Brown is out. He'll be out again this week. And despite playing most of the game and being their second wide receiver in terms of routes run, he had just one catch for six yards for Philly. They gave up a third round pick for him. Yeah. So not involved yet, but maybe, you know, he will be later. I don't know. I mean, to me, if I'm, I know the Eagles get positivity is not really what Philadelphia is known for, but I would still feel pretty decent. I had the bones of a win. I should have had one. I'll be annoyed that my head coach probably screwed me out of that one. But that's without AJ Brown, who's among the three or four best receivers, probably right now playing in football. That is a huge gain when he comes back and is able to go. And he was, you know, in all, in all sincerity and all likely it's going to be good to go for the rest of the year. I did not realize they play the Saints on Sunday. Yeah. Four days from now, Cleary, grab me the betting line if you could on that game. Saints Buccaneers by they have an early by week as well. So I believe it's that two and a half right now. Who's favored? It'll be the Eagles. The Eagles are favored at New Orleans. A two and no Saints team by two and a half points. Never. It's the Saints are favored by two and a half. Makes a lot more sense. So Eagles catching two and a half. As I say, that line makes no sense. I think the Eagles win this game. Is that weird? I have not been that impressed by the Eagles. It just feels like another shoe is ultimately going to drop for New Orleans. Yeah, they're not going to be beating teams by 35 points per week. So at some point, someone will figure something out, maybe here or there. Who knows? I don't necessarily see Philadelphia going in there to New Orleans and winning. I see them being more competitive, certainly. Then the New Orleans is first to appointments have been appointed. I'm sure that's a word. Opponents have been. So I would probably lean New Orleans. I think Philadelphia though, if you see them again in five, six weeks, will be a better team than they are right now. Yeah, pass rush for them defensively has been ugly at this point though. They've gotten next to nothing out of their defensive line. I think they had one sack of Kirk cousins whose two games back from an Achilles can't move that well. They didn't really move him around a whole lot. A week after the Falcons got destroyed by Pittsburgh's pass rush. I mean, they looked like they were, you know, yawning and just enjoying themselves against Philadelphia. So the Eagles saints this weekend, we are blitzing the east on Grant and Danny, let's get to our third and final team. And for the New York Giants this weekend, they're just trying to get off the shine. It's all in two people's jobs are going to get cold into question if you can't get a win. And this is a winnable game at the Cleveland Browns for the Giants. One o'clock kickoff on Sunday, but Cleveland did look a lot better to Sean Watson bounce back this past week. 31st in points scored 35th and points allowed well on their way to being one of the worst teams in the NFL. It's a struggle on both sides of the ball for them right now. Those defensive numbers would be worse, by the way, if Washington could punch it into one of their six red zone trips, they'd be down there close to 31 or 32. There's not much they do well, not much to hang your hat on at this point. If you are a part of that Giants organization, but yeah, this to me is about survival. As you said, they need something positive at some point to valid it all their decision making and, you know, sort of these approaches. This is the third year of their build, right? If you're down here, if Washington is like their planet competitive game with the Giants, if we're in that place in three years, people should have their key cards revoked and go find employment elsewhere. But that's where they are in this build and they're a disaster. This is how you get fired. I'm not saying able will, but this is how it would happen. Your first year, you go nine, seven and one, your second year, last season, you went six and 11. And then this year now at Owen two, you have a really disappointing, bad season. Five and 12, kind of a deal. That would be a one way ticket, I don't think, to figure now how to get fired. Yeah, to fire town. That's where we are. I mean, there's, there's no unit for them. I mean, Malik name versus a star. He's fun. He's exciting. I'm intrigued like everybody else is, especially from family fantasies perspective or even daily fantasy. But there's not much happening here on either side of the ball that's consistent. Charlotte Carroll of the athletic who covers the Giants joins us to help us break them down as we blitz the east on Grant and Danny. How surprised are you by this. Oh, and to start and how things have looked for them on both sides of the ball. Thanks so much for having me on. I don't think anyone's too surprised based on what we saw this summer. We all kind of thought they'd at least be one one, heading into this matchup against the Brown, but it's not too surprising knowing some of the deficiencies over there and watching them throughout the summer. I do feel like Malik neighbors having a monster game's got to make people feel better. Daniel Jones went from, Oh my God, you got to bench him to a pretty decent game this weekend. And those seem like encouraging signs. No. Yeah, no, it's definitely going to be excited about in the future. Malik neighbors played monster game 18 targets. The next giant receiver had four. So he's clearly a huge part of this offense. You saw that throughout the whole training camp and just to kind of see it come together and see how competitive he is and how hard he took that miss catch. Excuse me to drop is encouraging, especially the giants and if you're watching that show that over the last few years, I know the rankings aren't particularly kind to the giants, but I've felt it in moments. They've had a fairly decent defense, right? Starting starting with that group up front. They've been able to kind of bother teams. I know Washington's offense has been pretty terrible, and they've taken advantage of that certainly. There have been some gaudy point totals against the but in general, I feel like a defense is has been decent if not even pretty good at times. It doesn't feel that way through two games though. It feels like there's no, it's like the kid in front of a leaky dam just trying to plug holes and there's always a new one springing up. It doesn't feel like they can really take anything away at this point. Yeah, no. I mean, it's up in your coordinator, Shane Belling in Washington, Tennessee. So they're learning or they've kind of implemented his scheme to see what happens. It's very different than we weren't build, let's heavy. So that was always, you know, frustrating for about through his two seasons here. And so now we've got Shane where there's more emphasis up front kind of harking back to the old past rush of the order of the giant yesterday year. It came on Cibido, Brian Burns, huge free agent trade acquisition of spring. They were pretty quiet in the first game, a little bit more active this go around against Washington. But still, you know, they had their moments in the sun in the red zone and coursing Washington to kick the seven field goals rather than score a touchdown. Yeah, I just, I couldn't believe to that point like Dexter Lawrence didn't do anything on the statute other than make four tackles. They really didn't generate a lot of pressure. Should we feel good about Washington handling them that way and feel like that's a sign that the commanders might be pretty good up front or are they just not really playing that well as a defensive line yet? I think you can kind of view it as both. I think I lean more towards that they're not as cozy because the official kind of figuring it out and they need to do it very quickly if they want to turn the season around and move on from 0 and 2. But I lean more of that than Washington. But you never know. Tough to figure out which Cleveland Browns team is going to show up here week to week. But what are your thoughts on this game this weekend? Yeah, it's a must win. I know that sounds like a ridiculous thing to say in week three. And we were saying it week two that it was a must win. But it's just kind of, it's hard to see them really having success with the teams that are on their upcoming schedule, the giant schedule. I don't know. It's going to be tough and you're going into the ground looking at the injury report that came out. We'll see who all plays. But yeah, it's going to be a tough challenge for sure with my own Garrett and that kind of pressure that is a lot more or a lot harder to deal with than what Washington generated I'd say last weekend. Charlotte Carroll covers the giants for the athletic. Thank you for the time. We appreciate it. Thanks so much for having me on. Absolutely. You got it. Thank you. That is how we blitz the east on Grant and Danny. In 40 minutes at six o'clock, we'll give away tickets to the caps 50 fest. Make sure you're listening if you want those. Next, there was a commander's player who had a way better game on Sunday than you realize. This is the fan. Danny, the commander who had a better game than anybody realized on Sunday. Luke McCaffrey. Why you ask? Yeah. Why? Completely uninvolved. Not catching passes, not targeted because he was running free. You go back and you watch the all 22. There's a few plays where you're going. Oh, good route, kid. Oh, okay. Show me something there. PFF dropped this. Our buddy Nick Akrich actually alluded to this today and I saw what they wrote up on it. He was number four in the NFL and separation percentage this weekend. And through two weeks, he's number three, through two games, number three in the NFL and separation percentage. So just week two, minimum of six routes where he would have had a chance to catch a ball. Chris Olave of the Saints, who's outstanding. Michael Wilson of the Cardinals and Demarcus Robinson of the Rams were the only guys who had snaps with separation at a higher rate, 87% of his routes that he ran, he separated on seven of eight. Now you can't throw yourself the ball. You cannot do anything to get the football other than go out there, do what you're assigned to do, get free. He did that seven out of eight times on his routes. How about that? That's a good nugget. And you know, a lot of those couple of those guys have not really broken out yet. And as the Saints have scored two trillion points, Chris Olave has had pretty pedestrian totals, but it just lets you know that when they need it, they'll be able to go to that guy and hopefully Washington makes that adjustment. This is one of the areas where Daniels is going to have to work a little bit to improve. We've talked a lot on the show, including in our first hour, if you missed it, some of the things we love, some of the things we've seen that we like about him so far. The idea of just, it's going to come with being more of a natural passer involving your receivers more, giving them a chance, like the McCaffery thing. If he's open at that clip, we got to start looking for him. We got to start trying to get the ball in his hands, right? If you look at the commander's wide receivers so far this season, this is from Hayden Winx of underdog. Commander's wide receivers aren't getting the rock. Look no further than a league low 29% target rate when Jaden Daniels faces pressure. The league average is 60%. So when a quarterback is pressured on average, wide receivers get targeted 60% of the time, meaning there's some throwaways, there's some sack as your hot routes. You might check the ball or running back. So 40% of the time you throw it to somebody else and or the play does not end up with a target, but 60% of the time the average quarterback when pressured throws the ball to a wide receiver. The commanders again, only two games, but it's only two games for all the positive stuff we're talking about too. Totally. At a 30% rate, their wide receivers are getting targeted on those plays half of what the average quarterback is doing. So I think that's a really interesting and when we're talking about like where are the numbers for McCaffrey or Terry or whoever, the flip side is 77% of the time when Jared Goff is pressured, he throws to a wide receiver, 29% for Washington. Well, clearly they're going to get more targets, more catches, more yards. Yeah, in Detroit. No, sure. Yeah, there's a there's a trust factor there too, right, where you see some of these things, you see enough times on film where there's there's not enough time to process and go, okay, this is where the defender is coming from. Now I'm looking over here, Luke McCaffrey, if I give him a moment, we'll break open and free. Those are wonderful plays, that that can be fun if you have time to do that. Sometimes there's a trust, you know, sometimes there's that Taylor Heineke bleep it, the courts down there somewhere type play, right, where I bet you Jared Goff knows like just like the back of his hand on this play at this time, if I'm in doubt, I don't have to whip around and assess the whole thing on the defense. I can throw it to an area and I bet you Amman Ross St. Brown will make me right. I bet you Laporta will make me right. And so on, that comes with experience, right? This is all very new, both being a pro and being in this offense. You go now, if we're still doing this for McCaffrey's open 90% of the time, whatever the hell the numbers say in two months and it's like, dude, somebody throwing the ball, it'll be more of a conversation point to me as a knock. This is still, we're learning that, right, where there's a trust factor that has to happen, where a cousin's used that when he would come up with this, we'll talk about a receiver would make me right. You know what I mean? And we were talking about the with Josh docked son, ironically, at the time, but you would go, he's not open yet, but I got to throw it before he is knowing that he will be just for instruction. So these are the numbers compared to league average under pressure so far for Daniel. So 60% league average, you know, target or receiver, 29% we talked about scramble percentage league average when your pressured is 8%. So every 100, you know, pressured plays eight times the average quarterback takes off. I bet you Washington's a little higher, 36%, there you go. So almost five times the average of turning a pressure into a scramble. As far as sacks go, the average quarterback so far this year, this is the old pressure to sack percentage. Everybody got annoyed by 18% of pressures turned into sacks through two weeks in the NFL for Daniels. It's 32%, which, you know, again, is a high number, but I'm not going to harp on it so far because mostly the sacks have been losses of just a few. You know, there's a couple zeros and ones in there on runs basically. It hasn't been a ton of, you know, minus seven minus eight behind the drive killing devastating. No chance for anything. We can have a different combo of that changes throwaways. We heard Mitch Tischler of Monumental say when he joined us, I want to see Daniels throw it away a little bit more. The average quarterback when pressured throws it away nine percent of the time so far, Daniels is at four percent. So about half of average. And then the other one that would be interesting would be targets. And we kind of alluded to that and talked about where the receiver part of it is at least. So I think that just instructive. I do think the key to me is he is avoided backbreaking plays. Everyone is harped on the interceptions. Interceptions you can explain away with a lack of touchdowns. Generally, if you have a really low interception count, I'm going to bet you're not making a whole lot of plays pushing the ball down the field and zero to zero is pretty telling. It's the lack of bad plays though. I watch Caleb Williams. He's trying to do too much and take it a stupid sack or losing the football or whatever it is. That's right. Jayden Daniels hasn't really done that. I think his speed is kind of bailed him out where if you run like Caleb Williams or Bonix, just a normal level of athleticism, maybe someone catches you and drags you down, but he's been able to play Superman a little bit. And so far, it's been good. Yeah. I mean, again, that's the, that's the assets you've got over nearly everybody else, not named Lamar Jackson and maybe Justin Fields. So yeah, I mean, it's, it's the kind of thing I also that I'm hoping that the coaching staff is recognizing. I'm hoping that the offensive folks are getting together and going, okay, this is actually something we can call. This isn't just a gimmick. This isn't just Luke McCaffrey's out there to catch one screen pass. And then he's basically a glorified blocker as a, as a slot guy or kind of rotating XZ, whatever, we can actually utilize this and make defenses cover more than just a quick bubble or smokescreen. We can actually do some things here that Daniels is comfortable with that our receivers are capable of doing because at some point, you cannot have Terry McClellan on pace for 340 yards, whatever the hell it is through, through two games because that's what he's on pace for. When do you start looking at the on pace stats and really caring a lot? Not, not yet. I'm just sort of offering context. I'm not, I'm not arguing with you. I'm just asking because for me, I think it's normal. It used to be for me, like the quarterpole, only four out of 16. I don't know if it's because of the 17 games or whatever. I'm now like five or six, five is my number. Yeah, where I kind of go, this is now a trend. It can be blocked. It can be changed, which we've seen with McClellan slow starts for a couple of times. But if five games happen and it's similar results, that's enough to say. I mean, you're talking about a third of the season almost. This is more than just a things haven't worked out or we've gotten lucky one way or the other, right? It's like, this is what it is. Yeah, instead of like, oh, that was a weird game and certain, a couple of weird games in a row, or that's unusual. This is now what we're dealing with. So the point of me bringing it up is not to, it's a larger discussion than I think we'll have, but the reason I bring it up is to say, they've got to get receiver production at and not like, oh, at some point, really soon, even if it's just, even if it's just for show, because what you want to do is major in Roberts and Echler and Arts, you want to get back to that, that's fine. People are going to start keying on those sorts of things. Like you've got to find a way to have some of those chunk plays to get some yards after the catch, just to make it easier on you in the offense. The commanders are the number 10 rushing offense in the NFL right now. In terms of yards per play and game, I would have actually thought it was a little bit higher than that. They've been great running the ball, 5.79 yards per attempt, which tells you a lot about how well teams have run it and how easily the running game seems become the Saints as an example. What is this? The big 12, they're averaging 6.9 yards per carry through two games. The Vikings are averaging 6.8. The Colts are averaging 6.7. The Packers, 6.4. The Cardinals, 6.2. And it goes to what we were talking about earlier with with passing offense down because teams are in these looks where there's six in the box and they're going light. So it's like fine. I'll write it right down your throat. A lot of it too is I like he can't say this for everyone because Derek Carr is certainly not a threat to run. But the Colts with Richardson, the Packers with Malik Willis for half of the time, the Cardinals with Kyler Murray, the Ravens with Lamar Jackson and the commanders with Jaden Daniels and the bills with Josh Allen. All what I say, six or seven teams. All of them in the top 10 and rushing have quarterbacks you've got to account for running the football. It's just an absolute game changer in terms of defending the run if I need to stay honest or Jaden Daniels can rip off 30. Yeah, you can have a great run game like like the Chargers do under Jim Harbaugh or you know, Detroit does with with Jerigoff and company. It's harder to do that. That's a lot of moving parts. Get the line right. Yeah, get this get my scheme right. Get my targets right. Get my rhythm right. Or as you said, here's the cheat code. That's all nice. You guys got all those decisions right. I didn't listen to that. My quarterbacks faster than your guy. So we'll just go ahead and have a top 10 rush off as good as they've been. I think it'll just keep getting better. I believe in Robinson having a huge year. I love what I've seen from Echler. I think he is even though all off season you and I felt like there was a lot left in the tank and I thought people saying he was done. We're over rating it a little bit because he was hurt last year. And then when he came back, he was still banged up, but also there was no Herbert. It was like Easton stick. So it was just stack in the box running against eight. He's been better than I expected. I had high hopes, but I think he even looks better than what I was thinking. So those things coupled with Daniels, I think it's going to be there for them a lot this season. Now what's going to happen inevitably is that teams are going to say not today and you're not going to be able to run it. And now it's time for Daniels. If they can keep him in the pocket, good luck. I don't know if they will be able to, but to force him to throw the football and then we'll see what happens. But in the short term, I don't know. And it's way harder to do that because of his run game abilities as we saw in 2012. My worry is that the giants are that bad. And so what we're taking as man, Washington can really do this. I worry that it might be more like week one against Tampa, where Robinson went 12 for 40, you know, and the rushing yards were Daniels's scrambles. Not so much what was, what was designed and given to them. I'm hoping this was a growth week, right? And it's not just that the giants stink. Again, it proved will be in the pudding, right? I'm not saying you rush for 200 some yards a week. This isn't, you know, 1992 Nebraska, but I'm hoping that they've, they're taking some steps here and you add enough versatility in this offense and that run game will be there for them. I'm hopeful the Patriots are 16th against the run so far. Isaiah Pacheco last week averaged about five of pop. My home scrambled for seven yards per carry. So there could be some real estate there for the quarterback. They didn't run it as well after the Pacheco injury with Carson Steele, about three yards per carry for the fullback. In week one, if you're curious about the Bengals, they played New England, which is a little more, I'd say, like Washington in terms of their receiving threats and not having Patrick, right? And in that game, the Patriots grounded and pounded them. Ramondre Stevenson, 25 for 120 Antonio Gibson had seven carries for 20 yards. They ran it 32 times and Jacobi Percette scrambled seven times. It was like a 40 carry. Right. 40 carries as opposed to 24 passes and they beat them 16 10 in an ugly game. So that there's your formula. I was gonna say, what's, what's the recipe look like? Grant and Danny on the fan. Let's give you an audio vault. Next put together a couple of clips for you, including speaking of rookie quarterbacks, couple members of the this rookie QB class, or give you an audio vault next on G and D. I swear I've got candy in the audio vault. You creep. What a creepy intro. It's like a John Waters type bit. Whoever put that together really thought like this was supposed to be a scary Halloween segment. Well, it'll make great sense in a couple of weeks when it is Halloween. That's true. Other than that, it's going to be like two audio vaults in the middle and end of October, but we're going to be like, this is so on brand. It feels like hocus pocus is on, on in the background, in the price and the thriller videos about to start. I've got a puppy. Do you want to see it come this way? All right, audio vault time. Al Michaels, here we go on the call Thursday night football Amazon prime. And I always provide this caveat. Like the rest of you grew up a big Al Michaels guy, one of the great legends and play-by-play history. I actually had the great fortune of working with Al Michaels, believe it or not, at one point in time as a young buck doing some things for ABC sports. It's just not the time where Michaels is one of the best anymore. You occasionally have to shake him and wake him up to let him know there's a football game going on. Little more energy on this beautifully designed touchdown of James Cook, please. Pass to the outside wide open inside the 10 and James Cook takes it in. Sorry about it. Football, man. We're all excited. We're here. It's zero zero. It's the first quarter. It's five minutes in. It's Thursday night football. It's Bill's dolphins to it is still on the field, by the way. This is the division. These are the two heavyweights like, yeah, man, Thursday night, national TV. And he might, by the way, he scored three minutes ago. He's dancing. He's already back on the sideline. James Cook touchdown. I don't know what to say. It's just, it's, it's a tough watch sometimes with my guy. So that one I can take because it was correct. Yeah, if not lacking energy. Yeah. I mean, the other ones where he's like, it's like, it's a touchdown and the dude is down 10 yards in front of the one or whatever. And everyone's like marking it and they're going to get to snap the next play. Those are the ones I'm just kind of like, what are we supposed to do here? I love a family. One of the greats loved this clip. I thought it was a 10 out of 10. Bo Nix at the podium after the game answering a question about one of his two interceptions that proved costly for the Denver Broncos, though, can you take us through the interception in the end zone? Yeah. Chopped back through it to the other team. That'll do it. A lot of times I don't like when players are smartasses, like, Hey, man, let's be a pro, whatever. I didn't take this, though, as in being a jerk. I mean, he clearly is being short and annoyed by the question, but it was succinct enough. He answered that. I mean, it also works as an answer, essentially. Like he could give you more. They were running quarters. I didn't see it. He's basically like, I made a dumb play. And he did it in very few words. I laughed when I watched that. Yeah, I took it more as the smart assery where it's like, I'm not answering your question. Guy, I threw it to the other team. When I bring up other old stuff, when my dog got hit by a car, when I was a kid, like it sucked, I'm upset about it. But yeah, I don't know. It's, if you're going to do it, go ahead and go down with it. So this audio is a little bit tougher to hear. This is from a video like miked up on the field. I don't know how many people have seen this, but this has been making the rounds today. So this is CJ Stroud and Caleb Williams, embracing after the game, you've seen a million of these coming together at the 50 yard line for the handshake. And what happens is CJ Stroud tries to talk to Caleb Williams. He's kind of in his ear and Williams pulls away and like starts walking away and Caleb, CJ Stroud rather kind of grabs Caleb and pulls him back in. He's like, no, no, no, listen, man. And all I could say is the video, like Caleb Williams is kind of looking off into the distance. And I know he just lost and he's not in a good mood and I get all that. I'm not trying to make him out and out of a molehill. But watch it. I posted this clip at Grand H. Paulson on Twitter if you want to. There's just something about Stroud who was in your shoes last year and did an amazing job. Like is now for one year been one of the top five quarterbacks in the league trying to be instructive. Like we're in the fraternity together. We just stopped playing the game. So now you and I are on the same team as quarterbacks in this league. And it just seems like Caleb Williams is kind of like acting as if I'm giving him advice. It was just a weird vibe. Listen to this job. I don't know. You don't get it from that. You don't. What's happening is Caleb Williams is like the way my son looks at me when I'm like, do you have any homework buddy? Do you want to stop playing video games and do it right now? Like this I roll. What is this boomer doing talking to me about this? That's the look he's giving. I'm going, I'm going, I get that you're pissed, but damn, dude. Grant and Danny, Audio Vault one oh six, seven, the fan as we break down some of the top audio we found on the web. Yeah, I just the vibe it gives off is I don't want to have this conversation right now. And CJ shots like, come here, come here, man. And he like pulls him back in. And as he's doing it, Caleb Williams is kind of like looking off in the distance. And I don't know if he feels like he's being sunned or like in the back of his mind. It's like, dude, we're both 22. But get away from me. But CJ Strauss got to figure it out. You do not. He's just trying to help. I don't know. And I asked the question when I posted, is this not interaction or no? And people have had different responses. So everyone can have their own opinion there. But it just came off weird to me. That's all I can say. Yeah, it's it's a typical. I will also say that I understand immediately after a game where you're beyond frustrated, so furious. The last thing I want to do is like, Hey man, here's some constructive criticism. Oh, leave me alone. So I understand that except that Caleb Williams is about to go exchange jerseys with some guy from USC. And then they're going to get down on their knees and sign them and take big pictures and smile and get in the prayer circle. You know, it's not like right after these games on the field, these guys are all fighting back tears, especially in week two. You know, you see coaches, you see quarterback, you see players, there's laughs and there's everyone's having a good time. And we're bro hugging and we're we're praying together and we're we're taking pictures with each other, you know, Daniels and neighbors. Like that that the post game is not a combative, angry time. Now I'm not saying he wasn't having annoyed emotions after a national TV done. I'm sure he was. I just feel like that's part of the day. You know, you're going to meet with this guy. You're going to have this quick combo. I would think you'd want to be all ears. Like, dude, how'd you do this? How are you pulling this off? So wanted to play that. Lastly, this was a late edition. Malik Willis. I thought this was excellent. Willis who got his first win as a starting quarterback with the Green Bay Packers this past weekend is likely to start for them as they go back to where he was drafted in Tennessee. The Titans never really gave him a chance. Now they buried him on the depth chart. They moved on from him. So he was asked if if this game means more, if he gets to start for Green Bay at the Titans and try to beat the team that never gave him a shot. And I thought his answer was beyond classy. Well, I could care less for him. I think I got paid the whole time I was there for more than blessed for opportunity. They've given me and they brought me into this league. You know, one of those guys are there at night in a lot of organization. They took a shot on me and they did a great job. I mean, all of a sudden. Pretty nice. Yeah, good for him. Hey, they paid me. They drafted me. I don't know him at all. Never met him. Never talked to him. I remember like there was that picture at the combine when he like stopped and like gave gear. I don't remember what it was. It was like gear or food to like a homeless person. Remember that? I don't like a big viral story when it was at the combine. And between that and this, like that's enough for me. I like this kid. Yeah, I would have said, yes, this matters so much to me. Like, you know what I mean? Like all the games do it. This is pro football. It's really important. I'm fighting for my career, but that one means extra. So good for him for taking the incredibly high road. And I don't even know. I mean, it might not like I would imagine it means more to him, but he might actually feel that way. No, totally. They drafted me in the third round. They paid me millions of dollars. And I'm in the NFL. And I went to Liberty. I didn't think I was going to be in the NFL before the last year I was there or whatever. Maybe that really is how he feels. That's a quarterback heavy audio vault there, guys, on Grant and Danny here on the fan. Now Danny's been chomping at the bit to talk about something all day. That frankly, I don't understand at all. But I'm going to sit this one out. I'm going to put my feet up. And I'm going to let you get excited and worked up about something that to me is not worth your energy. But tag you're it. Arthur Blank, the owner, not former owner, the current owner of the Atlanta Falcons is being inducted into their ring of honor while he's still the owner. This is incredible to me. Eight playoff appearances in 22 years, one Super Bowl loss, ring of honor. He's going in the same time as Matt Ryan, you know, the guy that put up all the yards and touchdowns. What kiss ass in the organization suggested it? I think we should induct Mr. Blank. He's really done such a great job here. That's a great plan, sir. Everybody love Arthur Black, on favor say, I who's saying no, who's going to stand up and actually this should probably be reserved for maybe after he's done here after he sells the team or I don't know some players that have done a lot of things here. Maybe we should get Jamal Anderson in the ring of honor before we do. He's already there, I'm sure. I'm just aiming a couple of Falcons. I have no majority who's in the ring of honor or not. I do know that the bar has been lowered precipitously. The owner is basically forcing people to honor him while he's still the owner. He's not forcing. I don't think he went in and said I'd like to be in the ring of honor. I do. I guarantee you he dropped the hint to some secretary or somebody somewhere along the line got the idea. We should nominate the current owner of the football team. You know, North Korea style, let's hold a let's hold a parade for the president because you're doing such a great job. What on earth is this? This is so comical. This is so embarrassing. Everyone should be lampooning this to the Instagram. He's been the owner for 23 years. It's not like it's Josh Harris who's been here for a month. Although because he ripped the team away from Dan Snyder, I was gladly inducted him. I'll put him in right now into the ring of honor. I can't grasp or understand your anger on this. It's not anger. It's disbelief. I am a gape. He's the owner of the team for a quarter of a century. How many years have they been a team? Is he the owner for a third of the time? Of course he's going to be in the ring of honor. Eventually, not while he's still owning the team and they're just middling there. So this is the offseason we do it under his leadership. They signed Kirk Cousins and drafted Michael Pennix, Hall of Fame. Let's no one ever have the last name blank again for this proud organization. What are we doing? Imagine this in any other walk of life. Imagine our boss asking to be inducted into the one oh six seven the fan hall of fame while he's still the boss. He's been here for decades. He's been in charge of everybody and everything. Imagine any scenario where the guy that's currently in charge asking to be honored and celebrated or not. You're saying he asked. Is that known? We know that he asked? I'm assuming what he should do is go. That's probably not appropriate. Let's let's let's save it for some players. And if you want to do that after I'm gone or I've sold the team or posthumously, then we can do that. The idea that he's going to be inducted into the ring of honor like it's some kind of major achievement that he made his fortune with Home Depot. Home Depot is an excellent company. What are we doing? Like imagine Dan Snyder declaring himself a ring of famer. Like I'm not saying they're the same, but imagine any owner right now despite not like Robert Kraft wants to go into the ring of fame while he's still the owner. All right. You got yourself nine Super Bowls where the hell the damn number is. I get it. You know, like Amara wants to go in or one of the dudes from the Steelers after all the championships. I'd like to go into the ring of honor while I'm still alive. I want my family to be here. Okay. I get it. A lot of titles, a lot of winning seasons. Just a middling mediocre NFC South franchise that doesn't charge that much for concessions. He owns the whole thing. Yeah. And everyone has to bow at his feet and pretend that he's excellent. The only part that I think is so funny is that you're so confident that he decided he'll go in. He has the power to do whatever he wants. Of course. So all you have to do is go, that's probably not a great idea because it looks ridiculous. He could have said no. There's no reason for him to say no. They come to you and say, Hey, we think you should be in the ring of fame. Why wait? Kim Jong blank thinks it's awesome. I don't know, man. Here's what I care about with Arthur blank or find interesting. This is the headline. I saw this week that I found interesting. Arthur blank is giving away a free hot dog chips and unlimited soda and a souvenir cup to all of the fans in attendance at their next game. And by the way, they normally are like two bucks each. They have the cheapest concessions in American sports, which is great. I go to Nat's park every single home game. I get a souvenir Coke zero and then I drink two or three of them while I'm there. It costs me $13. I have spent probably, I don't know, I've been over 30 games this. I don't even want to do this math. This is going to be awful. I spent $400 on soda at nationals park. Oh, man. Just getting souvenir drinks every time I go to the game. Think about that. Arthur blank is going. Here's your souvenir cup. Drink all the cola you want. Fat so he's giving me my hot dog and my bag of chips for free. That's what I care about. And you know what? You want to give me free food and give me $2 concessions. You know where that gets you? The Hall of Fame. That gets you to the Falcons ring of honor. The ring of honor. Absolutely reserved for the greats in history. Change the game on concession pricing. They go to the concessions Hall of Fame. He will be in the concessions Hall of Fame. If there was such thing, he could be he could be a first ballot. You caring about the owner of the team being in the ring of honor. Do you understand the same to me? Everyone should have the exact reaction I have. It is so absurd that the current owner of the team is just walking down the offices and wants a round of applause just for showing up to work that day. He wants to be in the ring of honor based on what Hall of Fame for what running the team running the team that's been to play years. He's he's run the hell out of it. Eight playoff appearances in 22 years. They got to a Super Bowl. They they got to one. They've had a good culture. It's fantastic. Utterly fantastic. It's so middling. It's so embarrassing. It's a parade just to throw one. He he wants the honor of being in the ring of fame. Like, here's what should happen. That's inappropriate. We should include Matt Ryan first. Let have him do it. Let's inappropriate. Let's get, you know, I'm trying to think of other Falcons. Let's throw many in his tutor and his leadership. Is your issue that like the lack of winning or that he's still active? I think you or do you not want to pick one or the other? It's this dish that's being served to me, everyone should hang their heads in shame and embarrassment. Imagine tomorrow, Ted Leonce's declares, I'm going to have a Hall of Fame ring of honor induction ceremony for myself. I'm going to go into the ring of honor here in DC. I'm going to put my name up in the rafters with the great stepper play here in town. You go, that's patently ridiculous. I actually want to push this on. They'll see if anybody wants to weigh in on this because I'm curious. I don't really care either way necessarily. I'm amazed by your intrigue, but I want to know what people think. Do you see what Danny's seeing where they go? It's ridiculous that he would be in their ring of honor or you're more in line with me where you go. Of course, he's going to be in the Hall of Fame for the Falcons. He's owned the team for 25 years. Of course, why not? Who cares? He's the owner. Everyone should care. And by the way, you come from a place where we hate the owner. They don't probably hate their owner. I don't know if they probably like him because the concessions are cheap. I'll bet you they like him just fine. Like there are organizations where the owners never going to be that popular, but where you see a picture of the guy and you have positive thoughts, not negative thoughts. You know what I'm saying? Sure. I just, he's also one of the most beloved guys in terms of charity in the league. I know that. I don't know anything about him. So if he's not like does bad things too, I can't help you. But I do know that people always talk about all the money he spends off the field. I think there's a very positive feeling toward Arthur Blank in Atlanta. I think that's a, it's a different conversation than what you're used to. That sounds wonderful. Don't go into the Hall of Fame. Stop going into the ring of honor when you haven't done anything. Like your chart, you own the team because you're, you're a billionaire. Like that's awesome. You've, you've won a life. When did he get to go in? When he doesn't own the team anymore? Okay. Or no longer alive. Or later? So, so you have to be dead. No. So he never gets to have the ceremony. He doesn't get to have his roses. He's not going to sell the team. It just goes to his kids when he dies. Yeah. So they're, they're choices that you make. One of them is probably you, you're going to forego the ring of honor that honors football contributors from your own organization. No, no, no, no. That's not true. You get to collect. Organizational contribute. Billions of dollars. Not football. There's executives. Yeah. There's, there's referees. There's all kinds of people. Sure. He's got GMs in his history. He's got a football players in his history. I need work done in there before Arthur Blank goes. He's in there. More. I'm naming Falcons players. I know, but he's in it. Then do more Falcons players. No owners. This is state media. Everyone be upset. Stop this nonsense. Stay out of the ring of honor. Watch the game and go down to the sidelines and hold your dumb arms. You must dash zilch. You've never done anything. He owns the team. Oh, he does. Does he own the team? I haven't heard that yet. Yes. He owns the team. Put all the owners in rings of fame. Put them all in there. Jared Jones is going to be next ring of fame for me. He should be in the Cowboys ring of fame. He should watch the games and have an actual GM. He will do that too. He should shut his dumb mouth. Every owner should sit there and collect their billions laughing at us peasants for lining their pockets. Stop putting yourself, stop honoring yourself simply for the privilege of owning the football team. The win is the money that comes your way and the endless value and huge tax breaks of the ring of honor. Eight playoff trips in 22 years, $2 french fries ring of honor. Yes. Two french fries is worthy of the accomplice. You're now just trolling and it's adorable. I'm not. I'm not. The owner should be in the hall in the ring of honor before their tenure is done. I just disagree. Agree immediately. This is so ridiculous. Congratulations to the greatest owner in Falcon's history based on what? Twenty five years of service. A big a billion there service. Yes. What service is happening running the organization donating in the community cash register sounds that give him a charity award. This is there's plenty of that. Give the Roberto Cumini award for freaking stupid football. The idea that he's going into the ring of fame and who's going to tell him no it gets suggested. It's like I don't think Mr. Blank deserves it. It should be reserved for I don't know great football players to go in or GM's that picked winners. I don't think he nominated himself. He didn't say no. He's he's thrilled. He's going to shock and drive out there and give a speech and it's going to go. This is great. He's great guy who's going to get to have his family around him for a day where he's honored for owning the team. Embarrassing. He was born in the early 40s, bro. Oh, okay. Put him in the ring then. Anyone in the 40s gets to go in the ring of honor for whatever they do. He owns the team. How long does he have to wait? He owns the team. He's 80. He owns the team. There's not the opportunity. Great. He owns the team. I know. You just keep saying eight play of appearances in 22 years. I could just do that over and over again. Well, I've given you many reasons. One, it's state media. It's embarrassing. It should it should not be happening. We don't honor ourselves when we're in charge like this. You want to honor a general manager? He's not honoring himself though. He's 100% of the whole group of people that run this that is honoring him. He's nothing happens without his direct approval and say so. I he could he could absolutely say, guys, I don't want to be honored. Thank you. This is probably not appropriate guys as we're in the midst of another mediocre season. Yes, it's not appropriate at all. What's either it's inappropriate to like it can imagine we had a normal owner here who's like, I'm in the ring of fame before like John Riggins is like, that's what's happening. They have players that should be in there. They have coaches like there is to go in. I don't know every damn Falcon during his tenure because it's been mediocre. Is Dan Reeves in there? Yes, whatever pick pick 11,000 Falcons that actually did something instead of doing the stands on Robinson in there. I don't care. He's one of the football players in the ring of fame for football, not rich jackasses that hover on the sidelines over their coach and fold their arms. Coaches are in it. Good. I'll bet previous owners are in it. Shouldn't be. No. So no owners can't be in it at all. If they achieve if they achieve over a long time, not just our middling at best in his ownership over 22 years. Let's go to Josh and upper Murrow burrow and Grant and Danny. What's up, Josh? Hey, Grant, does he own the team? Yes. He owns the team, Josh. He owns the team. Listen, I'm with Grant H. Paulson on this one. And the reason is, one, if you can back it up with a decent amount of accomplishments, obviously, we're not doing anything. We wouldn't have done anything for Dan Snyder. But two, if you're an old guy and there's a decent chance in the next 10 years, you're going to die. I hate to say be that morbid or 20 years, whatever you want to say. So he is at the light expectancy, bro. He's able to have your grandkids there. It's like to have your grandkids and, you know, and all the organizations you've supported and have a little thing. Like Danny, is this one more thing that you hate? Are we adding this to the list now? This is right at the top of the list. Do you hear him yelling? Yeah. Say hate. Hey, I got a losing record. When's my ring of honor time? When is that? I know you hate me saying this. He owns the team. No, no, I was going to say that. Does he own the team? Yeah. He owns the team. But guy, he's giving away hot dogs chips and soda this way. In honor of himself, getting into the ring of honor. Correct. You want to do that? You could do that. He's already he's already a hero for the cheap concessions. No. Put him in the concession hall of fame. Concessions as cheap as him. I love it. I wish we did that. That's the kind of behavior that gets you in. To the ring of honor. To the ring of honor. Let's go to Jack and Springfield on Grant and Danny. What's up, Jack? Yeah, Grant. Grant, listen, I know what you want and I know what you're not. And you're not? You're not an absent cop. Right. All right. We've got that out the way. We've got that out the way. Both of you guys got a great point. Danny, you're still a little too long and you saw it there. I was worried about your blood pressure, but you got a very good point. Now, Grant, you made you drop the mic on your point. Thank you. Because concessions at any event, you're going to take out a loan or forfeit your kids to pay for a dog, soda, and chips up for the fam. So that right there, not only the hall of fame, that fella's going right to Fat Person Heaven. Yes, and I will be there by the way. I will be at the, is there a Peter at the gates? I'll be Peter at Fat Person Heaven. Okay. And I will welcome him in with open arms. Now, Danny, you will not be there at this point, okay? Because you're playing a lot of pickleball. But if you do, and you interact with Arthur Blank, I will remind him about the time that you pop the blood vessel yelling about this. Let's go to Kendall and Temple Hills. What's up, Kendall? Yeah, this is radio gold right here. I am crying laughing. Danny, here's the suggestion. Sure. Me, you, and Grant, we're going to pull all our resources, all of our finances together. And hopefully we'll be able to buy a team. And when we do, guess what we can do? Just honor ourselves. Let's do it. We can just honor ourselves. We can put our names up there. Grant, Danny, and Kendall. And guess what? We can invite our families and have a great time. Because he owns the team. He owns the team, Ken. We've got a losing record for two decades. And we can own, he can own the team. But Kendall, 23 years of service later, we're not going to do it in week one. We got to be in our 80s. Stretch on down the stretch they come. Kristen has a great question. She, of course, of Grant and Danny. Fantasy football league. Oh, indeed. Yes, you're running back here. Kristen said, as Arthur Blank, giving out waffles to the fans at any games. It's a good question. Yeah. Until you do, you can't be in the ring of mine. I'm going to check Ben's standings timeline. See, he has any more on that development. Jeremy's on the GW Parkway. Jeremy, he owns the team. He owns the team, Jeremy. That is a fact. He does own the team. Thank you for taking my call. Well, put out there, though, is ask yourself this. What are qualities of a good leader? An answer that I'm going to give you. A good leader does not give themselves the credit for their accomplishments. They give the line share of the credit to the people who helped build the organization. And I think it's patently absurd for him to be self-congratulating publicly like this. It's comical. This is the best radio conversation I've heard in a while. Good job, guys. Well, thank you. We appreciate that. He's team Danny. So you do have at least one person locking arms with you. Sure, to fight the masses. I guess the part I take issue with, that's too strong because that would mean I emotionally care. But the part I disagree with the most is that this idea that he's honoring himself, someone came to him and said, "Arthur, we want you to be in the ring of fame." And the 81-year-old guy said, "Oh, man, my grandparents will love to walk out on my grandkids. We'll love to walk out on the field with me that day. That'll be cool." Yeah, some suck-up went up to him and said, "Mr. Blank, we're going to honor you, sir. You're in a ring of fame before Julio Jones is." I'm sure. I'm sure that's what happened. Yeah, I mean, what sniffling little kiss has did that? Who's been in the building for 20-plus years? The guy that owns the building? Who's pled more, sweat more, and spent more time keeping their fingers crossed on the final drive for algae crumpler than Arthur Blank? Actual football people. Not the Home Depot guy. None of them have been in the Home Depot for 20-plus years. Put his ass in it. You're just anti-billionaire. Not even a little bit. Not even a little bit. He's been very successful. That doesn't entitle you to honors because he was the richest dude in the room. He won the bidding. So, you know what your prize is? The football team. Let's go to PJ and Reston. What's up, PJ? Guys, thank you for taking my call. I'm super passionate about this. I respect both Brandon and his opinion. I'm Team Grant on this one. I wrote actually on my Facebook about this eight years ago when he dropped these things. Years ago? Well, you were first on the scene. Eight years early. You knew he was going to be honored? No, no, no, no. What I'm saying is when he dropped, I should add an article of myself better. So, to me, there's a deep meaning to this. And I'm very, very happy that he's being honored this way. And I'll tell you what. Out of the 32 owners in the NFL, he's probably the nicest human being for so many reasons. He's a rare billionaire that is using his wealth to not hoard everything but to actually help people. And especially since corona, right? I went to Giant today, grocery store. Guys, I got Old Spice deodorant. I had to pay $14 for Old Spice deodorant. The top 1% have completely ripped off society. Some corona happened. I don't want us to be a socialist, purely socialist country. I want us to be capitalist. Get back. We're delving into... You're doing politics. Get back to the bars, my friend. I'm sorry about the Old Spice cost as well. Yeah. I'm sorry you have paid a lot for deodorant. I'm going to tie it all together. All right, we'll get there quickly. Or we got to kick you off to stay in counselor. So, there's a deep meaning to this. Because for what he does, helping to work in class, he's one of the few rich people that is looking at for like the common person. And for people that are not that wealthy, things like that. For what he did the year, and there's a lesson to be learned, the year that he dropped the concessions price to the lowest price ever, they had the most profit. So, it's not binary. You can lower price make price. Right, appreciate the call, PJ. And he's show... I will... This is not stick. I was doing a little stick with the concessions. But he did show at a time where everyone's going more and more and more. This is actually a way forward. Just like Jesse tweeted this. Complete left field conversation, but Blank also built one of the most modern stadiums that set the mold for sports around the world. Blank also has success with Atlanta United, who's won MLS Cups and set attendance records. That probably not as important as the Falcons thing. But seriously, the way they built the stadium, the fact that everyone's copying it, it's the stadium you got to go tour before you build your own thing. In the same way that owners get into the Hall of Fame for being transcendent and being these trendsetters, he checks a lot of those boxes. So that's how you get into the ring of honor. You have been an impactful person, making the Falcons look better for many, many years. It's certainly not by winning games or having a winning record over a couple of decades. They got to a Super Bowl. They've been an NFC Championship games. Eight out of 22, they've had nice seasons. They've been middling at best, and that's to be kind for the most part. You, what should be happening is not this. Like we need to not honor ourselves when we haven't accomplished anything. We need to say that's probably not appropriate. I agree with you. And when you are in so in charge, and you can fire somebody because they look at you funny, now he may be the nicest guy ever in public. I have no idea. I don't know how altruistic he really is or not. I know this. The owner of the football team, while they're just okay, it's probably not the right idea to say, it's a great time to congratulate Arthur Blank on all the achievement when they haven't really achieved. If he walked into a boardroom and said, I want to be honored and be in the ring of fame, this year I'll feel differently. I doubt that happened, but I agree with you that we shouldn't be honoring ourselves. I would also say though, if you're in your 80s and you've been at something for your entire life and somebody wants to give you an afternoon where they clap for you and bring your family around and you all share in a moment, you should get to do that and smell those roses. Let's do a special certificate that says you gave a lot to charity. Let's do a community award that you looked out for the working man, according to what PJ was saying. There's a lot of things we can do. Let's get let's get Julio Jones into that ring of honor. What do you say? Let's say what do you say we get a couple football players in there before the owner of the team? Let's get let's get you ready for Nat's baseball on Grant and Danny right now with your starting lineups for the Nationals presented by the window man. Since 1989, the window man has been the educational window company. Get your free no pressure. No mess. The minute the window man.com or their Fairfax showroom behind DJ. Her's. Hey, everyone's betting second to right field Dylan Cruz betting third and left field. The James Wood batting fourth your DH Andre Straparo batting fifth at first base one. You PES batting sixth at second base. Huh? I'm gonna be on my batting seventh at third. A little more of Vargas batting eighth. You're catcher Drew Millis and betting ninth. Your guy my guy our guy. That's Jacob Young in center field. Come on J.Y. Finish the season strong in the outfield. Let's win a gold go. You know what? Forget a gold go. Let's go platinum go off in the out. Let's get wild for Jacob Young. Nat's game day weather presented by Pepco. Today's game day weather is presented by Pepco because they know storm seasons here and they know a little prep makes a big difference. Get storm informed at Pepco dot com slash storm prep. So Daris is out. I believe Chris had looked at the weather but his model wasn't working. He wasn't able to do it. So back for one night only. Here we go. Our former show meteorologist. You can do it buddy. Ryan Clary. Bat in a thousand on the season. We're going to keep it tonight. 72 degrees over at City Field. Light winds coming in from the Southwest region. I think it'll be a beautiful night for baseball down at City Field. At a boy had a field. He's back on the saddle. You know it felt good. It felt like home. I know you don't like doing the weather anymore. You retired from your duties. I did not retire from my duties. I'm still here. Okay still the weather guy. Daris has done a great job the last few weeks I think. What do you think? He's been fine. Okay he's been fine. He's been fine. Trouble in paradise. Whoa. He's been fine. I don't know. He wally pipped Clary last time he was out. Depends on us who's listening and how much they like that. Indeed. Daris could be in some trouble for. Weather off. Ryan and our guy Chris behind the scenes. Grant and Danny saying so long. 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