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So it's much better inside. You ever experienced that where 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. I'm like, yeah. And the sun's not beating down on me. That feels good. That's a Danny 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? 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. What? 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. So 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 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 win loser 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. Picture 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 picture 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. 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 kinds 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 twenty five, twenty six 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 fist, the fifth most populous state in America. It's not Idaho checking this out first. Yeah. 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 twenty, twenty four. What's it look like in twenty thirty four? 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. Cause you know, the, 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, et cetera. Who went to high school? There was men's and women's soccer. Yeah. There's baseball and softball. There's men's and women's basketball football, either you get the very rare story where there is a girl on the football team, which happens, but there's not a team for you to compete against other girls. So here we go, flag football is going to be happening in Pennsylvania, potentially next year. And this is a natural progression because, and again, in my, talking about again, my son, there are a couple of 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, it's going to happen. I mean, I think there's going to be a new, of course, a 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 it is. 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. I think it's coming at the high school level, but at the youth level, we're already seeing it. 100%. It is ubiquitous. It's everywhere. And it's, 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 has 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, I'll say 600,000 across the country. Yeah. 43,000 is the number. Yeah. Any, any bases for 600,000 is the one 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 the from four to six years old. So I was trying to go. And I told you I was off. It was a great guess. So I ruined the bit there. I'm like 10,000,000 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 twitching, 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. 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. You go 11 on 11 with blockers at some point in flag football, it could 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 that 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 it. 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 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 or not doing it at 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. But I just see the trend line like people make their jokes all the time. We got God's 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. Hold on. I have to go check on to 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 my 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, 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 traveling thing. You 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 true breeze league. Yes. We're like, I didn't even know what's called a true breeze league, but I've seen it. The best kids from Dallas are taking on the best kids from Loudoun County or whatever. It is crazy to me how, a, 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 and 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 a helmet and pads on too, but I just think it's a, it's a really good preparatory ground. No question. Life on Twitter just hit me up, by the way, at Grand H. Paulson, Danny said, 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 schools 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. It's an interesting sort of philosophical point because I think if it may siphon off a small percentage, like from tackle football players to flag football players, I see it though kind of as you're thinking is 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 head butts and a bunch of crazy, you know, Oklahoma drills and workouts and things 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 mentioned 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 Dan or Lovesky like 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 annuals? 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. But 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've 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. 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. 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 and September 3rd call 562-314-4603 for details. 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. It's impressed you most about the first year Washington commander. That's the question at 800-636-1067. Guy Lorian on Twitter says maybe a backwards compliment, but I've loved how many yards he fights back for with sacks, 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 because 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 in the week to play Washington. You have to stay in your rush lanes. You can't lose gap focus. You have to do 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 and stride or Brian Thomas and 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've certainly been moments in the first play of the season that minus 15 fumble on a check down or the screen pass in his first preseason attempt that he threw a hundred miles an hour, straighter style, uh, over his running back's head. There have been certainly been moments, uh, 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 controllers, do you walk them or strike them out? Is it a ball or a 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. Jaden 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 him 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 sacked 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. Once 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 is to 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 to start or whatever as there should have been, you know, but I haven't 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 plan in front of 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 inside or outside to the receiver, that's actually because the windows are so small and the NFL. That's a very big thing. But guys, we still have to remember he's got no touchdown pass. He's zero and he's not good. He's missing people that are wide open. Yeah, but I'm saying this though, Tom, yes, it's two games and I don't mean to cut you 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. And also would compound them 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 get more angles of every throw. You could figure it out. So we're, we're very Jay Daniels focused here in town and 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. It's the percentage of, are you making more and more plays maybe than the next guy? Yeah. 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 the conversation, you know, I want to tell you a little bit about it. 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, or 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 era where it was the easiest it's ever been to throw the ball. Maybe we're leaving that era. 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 missed 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 that's going to come. 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 like 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 was into that. Like, I think the plan that they've had, Kingsbury and company has been smarter and better than what some of these other guys are being asked to do. Like they dropped Caleb Williams and said, be Caleb Williams, go, run all the stuff. And they've struggled. Not like the 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. Now, I happen to think Jayden Daniels is a lot better than Nix is and will be over the course of his career, but you can kind of see it. They're 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. And if we're, if we're spoon feeding, uh, applesauce to a grown man, you've got an 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 and 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 the past week. We'll get into that on Grant and Danny. Ten with a three-time bounce, Daniels, that's his pot and loose, it's Noah Brown, the former cowboy inside the 45. Full of former LSU Tiger Heisman Trophy winning quarterbacks going to be playing in Cincinnati under the lights of prime time on Monday night, Joe Burrow and Jaden Daniels. We've been talking about Daniels, what's impressed you most on Grant and Danny. You can call us at 800-636-1067, it's got a Drew and Graysonville, Drew, what have you liked about the young QB so far? I think there's two things that go together. 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. I mean, he's putting the ball in safe places and I'm 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 the interception of the touchdown ratio, obviously I'm going to get the touchdowns up, but keeping the interceptions down, it was a killer. So it's been a lot of fun and the size of limit for this kid. Appreciate you. Thank you, dude. Yeah, we were beating 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 Waldron or 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. 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 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. I think Roethlisberger 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? Man, it goes to a terrible team, that's 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 banding me to Sam Howl style and try to rifle it in there and see what happens. I'm adding to 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 that would find out a lot on his plate and it didn't work backfired. So it'll 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 are joining Austin cybert. I will tell you that there are a total of six of them, Danny. Okay. Was that award around for Mark Mosley's time? It was not. Okay. So I'm not going to win it. If it was, you didn't win it. Well, you didn't win the MVP. I was going to say one. The MVP had to one. It's an award. I'll start with my guy, Chippolo Miller. That's one. Sorry, I'm going to go with a 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 won one? Definitely not. But you always talk about Nick Rose. I do. I do. I love Nick. I love Nick Rose. He kicked like two games for watching. I love Nick Rose. I loved him. You were a mom. I loved him. Did Ali Haji chic win it? I'm just doing bets about old school kickers. You love talking about Ali Haji chic, if I could say that three times 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. John Hall. He did not. But that's a good guess. We're still looking for four more commander's kickers. Okay. All right. I'm going to go back to the glory days. Sean Swisham. Swisham. Three more kickers to go. I will tell you that they are more recent than Sean Swisham. Kai, AKA guy for Beth guy, one, a special teams player. There we go. There we go. Was Graham Ganno post Sean Swisham Graham Ganno and that leaves us with just one ever kicker in this organization to win special teams player that we did this supremely jacked Joey slide when one ladies and gentlemen, Chip Lomeller, Sean Swisham, 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 lacrosse player that went to Syracuse, a dude in 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 side lock. You would have gone NASCAR driver. 100%. He drives like the number 26 car. He's for some reason, Hendricks, some reason, Hendricks 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 commander's stars through a couple of weeks? John Allen, they're on pain. Terry McClure. I'm paging you. We will get to that end the numbers down for passing on GND as we continue on the fan. 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. 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