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The Nats got walked off in extra innings, but things are happening, my friend. You didn't mention that the Washington commanders woke up this morning in first place in the NFC East. Yeah, it's early. Two games in about 11% of the season down, but the locals are one in one, so are the Eagles and the Cowboys. And because of a division game, and a division win, Philly and Dallas have not yet played a division match up, the commanders at one in one with the tiebreaker, your first place team in the NFC. People are very into that, taking great pride in that, or I don't know how much was stick, how much is real. It's like one of those things where, you know, it was like Instagram people that some of you guys follow, where I don't know what the joke is, whether you're laughing at the person or you're laughing with them or neither, but everyone insists that it's fine. So then the snowball keeps rolling. That's what kind of this bit was, where the first place commit, no one thinks they're going to be the first place. They're not, they're not a first place team. They are right now though. Right now that's the minute they are. Why not enjoy it? If it's a marathon run in the Olympics, and you're probably the ninth best runner in a 10 runner field and you know that, but you get out of the gates and a couple hundred yards in the first lap or something. You're in first place. They still put your name up at the top of the graphic. Nobody's suggesting they're going to win the division. Some are. Let the people have their fun. I suppose people enjoy themselves for a September day. I just can't tell the difference is my point. That's why I brought up the dumb Instagram accounts that people and sister are either funny or not funny. I'm not even sure what we're insisting, but it's like that. I don't know what the bit is. If it's in this funny, they're not really that good, but they're in first place. Yes, they are in that neat, but if it's a C kind of a thing that we're validating certain beliefs or something, I don't know. Again, I don't get it. They played two games. They had one game that was a toss up type game that they could or should win. No, they could have beaten the bucks, I guess, but it would have been a pretty big surprise. Jayden Daniels debut, Todd Bowles led defense, playoff team from a year ago, returning a lot of starters. That was always unlikely. But I think realistically, you could have hoped that they'd be one and one through two, which they are. What I don't think everyone banked on was the Cowboys losing to the Browns, the way that they did this past week. Excuse me, they used to lose into the Saints round, the way that they did this past week. And in the division, the Eagles getting stunned by the Falcons last night. So I think people are just, they're happy. They're a little surprised that Washington by way of that tiebreaker is in first place. Nobody's declaring anything. Nobody's suggesting they're going to win the division. I think it's okay to be happy for a day. Now, if you want to go around and block everyone who says the commanders are one and one, I told you they'd win the division and they'll never relinquish their lead. I think that I'll be busy for the next couple hours. If that was my plan, let's talk Monday night football week two came to an end last night by way of a tremendous game. Both the Falcons and the Eagles were able to run the ball pretty effectively throughout the night. I thought Jalen hurts in a losing effort was terrific. Only threw for a buck 83, but he was ultra-efficient. Only seven in completions. Saquon Barkley is just a difference maker for the Eagles. He ran for 95 yards. He had 21 yards receiving, but he should have had more. On a third and three to put the game away, he dropped a pass in the flat, which gave the Falcons an opportunity down six to go March the length of the field and Kirk Cousins for the 29th time in his career orchestrated a game-winning drive. And for the 23rd time in his career, a fourth quarter comeback, five completions, 70 plus yards on the road and the Falcons got a stunning win. Cousins looks right, has a man touched down, Drake London. I don't know what this means in the big picture for Atlanta because they've still got some flaws and watching Cousins, he's still not quite right. He had good numbers last night. He ended up throwing for 240 and a couple of touchdowns on 20 of 29 passing had a big finish to the game with automatic in the second half and they ran the ball beautifully. Bijon Robinson and Tyler Algier ran for a combined 150 yards, but they played the Chiefs, the Bucks, the Saints in the next three weeks. They're one in one. There are two teams in their division. They're already two and O. I know they needed that game. I don't know that I'm buying stock in them right now. Cousins is still a long ways from being all the way back, but you could tell as the game went on last night, he started to trust his leg a little bit more and he started to just play a little more free and easy. Yeah, 100%. The growth within game, just in terms of comfort level was obvious, right? He wasn't driving the ball in anything that's kind of deep or towards the sideline. Just didn't look like himself. They'll look comfortable. I still don't think he's physically right, but what a bizarre game. I mean, we'll talk about the second half and kind of the way that the things ended. Of course, the Philadelphia is just botching of everything, but both offensive lines in the first half were just destroying their opponent. Both offensive lines, Philadelphia and Atlanta dominant, pushing people around, just mauling folks, Pijan Ramen, seniority alluded to, could do whatever he wanted, take one broccoli, going eight, nine yards a pop, Jaylen Hertz was scrambling or designed runs or whatever. They were killing people. And again, zero, zero deep into the second quarter, then only one field, a seven, six halftime score, when both offenses, as a stencil, we were really good. Just a weird situation, Philadelphia kicking themselves, I'm sure because they missed opportunities. I guess Atlanta missed a couple too as well, but allowing them to kind of linger around multiple different things could have gone multiple different ways for Philadelphia down the stretch to lose that game or to just, you know, win that game, you just behave normally. I don't know what they're doing in that last possession. I don't know what they're doing when they had the football. God, Lee, that, I mean, Atlanta needed that one desperately just because, as you said, what's coming up is tough. Yeah, don't forget about the Eagles losing five of six down the stretch last year and then getting blown out by the Bucks 32 to nine in the playoffs. Going into the off season, they fired both coordinators. Remember, we didn't know 72 hours after the season, if Nick Seriani was going to be kept or not, he was still meeting with the owner of the team, Jeffrey Lurie at that point. And there were still questions as to if he would keep his job. So he entered the year in a pretty warm seat. They were lucky to beat the Packers because Hertz, through two bad interceptions, was a really strange game internationally where neither team played well and the Eagles emerged with a win. They could easily be going to right now with a disaster of a loss, just a catastrophic terrible loss last night. And in utter collapse, this was Nick Seriani post game. He and several of his players having to answer some tough questions after a game got away. We wanted to, we, they were, they were running a certain defense and jumping it up in the middle. So we're trying to go on the round the outside and, you know, it didn't work. What was your fall pattern there on going kick and feel more fortunate or did you think about going? You know, again, in that scenario, I was thinking they might not have any time outs there, but obviously they did with, with the, with the incomplete pass. You know, that would have, that would have came down to maybe a minute. And so we wanted to go up six points, you know, and it didn't work. So, you know, the decision to pass it there. Again, like I said, you know, whether they were jumping it up inside with it being fourth and three to go for it. I thought, you know, with them not having any time outs, I wanted it to be down a touchdown and I don't know where you're at on the third and three pass that Barkley dropped. I have no problem with that call. And in fact, it was wide open. Like, let's say it wasn't wide open and they played it well and there was no one to throw to and her. It's had to throw it out of bounds or something. You could kill them more, but even then I would say the idea was pretty good when the idea is good and everything's executed beautifully and all say Quan Barkley has to do is catch a ball that he will catch the next 99 times it's thrown to him out of 100. I'm not going to blame the coach for that where I blame him is when they didn't get that. I would have gone on fourth and three because the Falcons in terrible field position inside their own 15 at that point would have had to go to the length of the field to go get a field goal. Sam's time outs, let's say potentially, had you have run that fourth down play and gone and gotten it, you would have won anyway. If you don't get it, they still got a lot of work to do. That's the gripe I have with him was the fourth down decision, not throwing it on third. So yeah, I mean, obviously it didn't work so because the because the drop you mentioned by Barkley, the the thing is though, if you don't do that, let's just say you do this. Two touch bushes, you use the full allotment of clock, you force Atlanta to use whatever time outs they had left. I think they had one at that point, right? And they got an extra because of the incomplete pass, then you've really got them at a disadvantage and you're probably going to get the first down and then you kneel and you kneel down the game. And if you don't, they have no time outs as they take over to go the length of the field. So that to me was the best course of action. Now you you down something up that worked. So everyone killing them for that, I think, is it's a little bit silly. It's it's aggressive, it's creative. And as you said, say going Barkley so good, him dropping that pass is not something you'd count on. You run that a hundred more times, he catches it a hundred times. That was the hundred first time. So obviously it didn't work there. But to me, the the easy thing would have actually just been the thing to do. They can't stop the push push. They still can't no one can do it. So do it twice, even though it was four and three or fourth and three or third and three rather, is you run more plays with the football instead of the sheer possibility of the clock stopping. To me, I would have rather just forced them into the most difficult possible position, which that didn't do. Huge upset for the Falcons over the Eagles in Philly, NFL underdogs of five and a half or more points. These are the biggest underdogs of the early season in that the 10 biggest spreads are nine and one at covering and they are five and five straight up in those games. It's just a sign that we really don't know anything yet. Predicting these games is borderline impossible in the early part of the season without a pre-season especially. We don't know enough. This week alone, the Raiders knocked off the Ravens as eight and a half point underdogs. They didn't cover. They beat them outright on the road in Baltimore cross country. By the way, second time in two football weeks now, Danny, where the biggest underdog has won the game outright because the Bengals lost to the Patriots in week one. The Bucks who thought they were going to be Detroit, the Saints dominated Dallas. They were six and a half point dogs. The Falcons we've been talking about, the Vikings knocked off San Francisco. The Cardinals were favorites even though it was kind of a smelly line and they destroyed the Rams just surprise after surprise in week two. What a unbelievable week in the NFL. Yeah. So this week to me was even more surprising than week one and here's why. They ambush you with that. We show a little bit of data like a little something happens. Like we go, Oh, I get it. Caroline is terrible. The Saints aren't really for real. They just, they're a couple points shy of tying the record for scoring through two games because they beat Dallas by a million points who just beat the crap out of Cleveland by a million points. How do you figure? How would you ever have figured that? Not that the Saints couldn't possibly win the game. You know, when my field goal or close, you know, an NFL type game, not a, you know, I don't know, Alabama versus someone double 18, the way it looked, a million results like that over the course of this weekend where you go, okay, I think I know more about this team based on week one. And maybe we know even less absolute chaos. Awesome. We break down every single NFL game at three o'clock on Tuesdays and our fastest 16 minutes. So make sure you're listening coming up in about 45 minutes for that on Grant and Danny. Did you have any issue with Dave Canales two games into his tenure in Carolina, benching Bryce Young? Yes. Really? Here's, here's why though, not necessarily the decision. It's not, I said this yesterday on the show. It's a disaster. He's not competitive. It's like, I in general default to you play the kid when you're not going to be any good. You play the kid. This is maybe that rare exception where again, it's like a major league pitcher who's Anne Keeling who can't throw strikes and you just can't have a game. You can't continue. You can't do anything. Here's why though, he didn't play in the preseason. Everything is brand new for Bryce Young, right? New coach, new coordinator, new quarterback coach, new system, new scheme, new design, new everything, dysfunction, dysfunction organization. I think he played one series in the preseason. To me, he was brought in ostensibly to like help fix the guy. And now it's over. That's always the perception. I remember this with J Grood when he benched Griffin. People thought you were hired to fix him. No, you're hired to win football games. We don't know what said from an owner to a coach. The perception with J was that Dan Snyder told him, you're coming here and your task is to fix Robert Griffin. But unless that's voiced or you were told that by David Tepper, you know, it's also important is not lose 50 other guys in the locker room. And if everyone knows, someone can't do it and it's bad. It's not bad. It's like, it's a disaster. Gross. Yeah, right. So that's where I don't have an issue at all. Because you are risking potentially losing the locker room in your first ever month as a head coach. If you continue to play a guy that everybody knows, can't do it right now. And there's a difference to me. And I think this is what we have to drill home. There is a difference to me between he's not playing well and whatever Bryce Young is doing, where it is a disqualifying performance where there are receivers open. Like, I'll give you an example. They're offensive line. They're past blocking ranked fifth via PFF this past week in the entire NFL. They only allowed four pressures on 29 dropbacks. Their receivers graded out very well. So the point is, their opponent isn't getting pressure, the chargers and guys are running open. And they still can't get any first downs and move the football. So at some point, if enough guys knock on your door and go coach coach, what are we doing here, bro? But you got to do something. We're talking about a 55% completion percentage, 122 yards per game, no touchdowns, three picks through two games. And if last year was a little bit different or more encouraging, he obviously wouldn't have been benched after two bad games with a light preseason workload to your point. But last year, 18 games, the team went two and 16 overall, 59% completed in his career with a 71 rating and more picks than touchdowns. Week one, 13 for 30 passing week to 84 yards on 26 passes. I think can now less in some way as to make sure that it's not over before it starts for him, especially with a wild card of an owner. Totally. And to me, that's, that's what the problem really lies is they're a disaster. They are the, you know, the meddling, temperamental little, you know, naked tyrant who no one can tell that anything is wrong to ruining everything. The culture stinks. The, the poor kids got no chance. So I'm not advocating for Bryce Young here. He's, he's not good. And it's, it's, it's bad. I think I could have told you that. But where we will always disagree is you don't hire the guy who saved Genosmith's career, who then gave Baker Mayfield his renaissance because he's not good at working with quarterbacks. You have a first round quarterback that you traded everything to go up and get. Ostensibly, it's implied whether it's not it's publicly written down and taped to the wall. Try to get something out of this guy. No, no, no. So don't miss hear me. I don't, wouldn't suggest and don't think for a second that one of his main jobs is not to get the most out of Bryce Young. I don't necessarily think continuing to play him right now while he's broken and inept is the best path forward. Totally fair. Bunching him, letting him watch and saying, dude, your footwork is terrible. You're incompetent at seeing the field. We've got to go back to the drawing board and start over with you. Doing that while he's not playing can actually be helpful. The one time Andy Dalton started last year, let's not forget, when this offense was dreadful, under a different regime, Andy Dalton went out and threw for 360 yards and two touchdowns. So it tells me this is not a universal everybody's awful problem. This was Canales with the media when announcing that he had benched Bryce Young yesterday. I owe it to all the guys, the coaches, the staff, the players, everybody involved to be really critical about what we put on film, about what I'm seeing, and to make sure that I'm constantly making the best decision for the team every week. And it happens to be the quarterback position. And so it's loaded that way, but it's every position. And it's all the guys and I was able to stand in front of the team and challenge all the guys that we all have to step up our passion for what we're doing to play with the play style that we're looking for. I don't think this is a pooling the goalie because you're waking up the roster because they're screwing him over. There might be a little bit of that where guys play better now this week and get a little bit of a dead cat bounce with Dalton coming in. But here's where I'll agree with you. If Bryce Young's still on the bench in 10 weeks, let's say on this bad team that's going nowhere, and Dalton is playing out the second half of the string of the season and Bryce Young's watching them and just losses, that would be ridiculous. My guess is this is a unplug your computer, let it sit for 15 seconds, plug it back in and see if that fixes the problem. I think you give him a month, maybe six, seven weeks tops, and then he gets the second half the year to see where he's made some progress. So I want to be clear. My only issue isn't right now this minute is yeah, he's not any good. We have dementia. My issue is what did we do the entire off season when he only played one snap in the preseason or one series in the preseason and it's like he needed work before now. Totally. And it's you guys mess this up 100%. You'll never get me to say any everybody shouldn't be playing more in the preseason. I've screamed about this for a long time. I think we're seeing results in terms of production injuries. The less seriously teams are taking August, the worst the September product is becoming in a lot of ways and young is a disaster. I mean, it just is. As I said, it's that one out of 100 cases where I go, you should always be playing the kids. The caveat is this. I mean, it literally has gotten to the point where I don't have another phrase for it. It's non competitive. Like it's not even oh, we don't have a chance to win. You're going to lose anyhow with Andy Dalton. You may be winning one or two more games. So what? It's now to the point where we can't we can't get out of the huddle. We look, we're barely getting snaps together at this point. It's it's so bad. It's Tuesday on Grant and Danny, which means Jeff probes style. It's a survivor Tuesday on G and D. You can go to Facebook.com slash Grant and Danny to participate. Facebook.com slash Grant and Danny, you're voting somebody immune. 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Purple has a wide variety of mattresses from the original purple mattress to the restore hybrid collection that combines gel flex grid with coils and the rejuvenate lux collection, the height of luxury with over 112,000 to 5 star reviews to prove it. Visit purple.com to find the perfect purple for you and enter code podcast 10 to get 10% off. I was joking last night. I'm on Twitter at Grand H. Paulson. Danny is at Funny Danny. After Jason Kelsey hung out in the broadcast booth on Monday night football with Joe Buck and Troy Aikman for a, but felt like the entire second half, which Bengal should be on the call with Buck and Aikman as the commanders take them on next week and can we not we have a man in cast for that, don't we? And by the way, the man in cast is tremendous. I watched a little bit of that last night getting Bella check is cool. I don't know if you guys have seen the video circulating of Peyton Eli and Matt Ryan. So just a couple of former MVPs and Eli Manny talking about quarterbacking and offense down the stretch last night as cousins was leading the final drive. It's a really cool broadcast, but I know I'm asking for a lot and I'm a little bit of a jerk. Can I just have my play-by-play game be my play-by-play game? And if you're going to do the Jason Kelsey thing, Josh Harris style where he's in there for possession and it's four minutes of TV and we get an awkward handshake and we go three men booth shot. Okay, it went for ever and he's sitting there cheering at one point. He's like, sorry guys, I might cheer and Joe Buck's like, you do whatever you want, Hall of Famer. Well, don't worry about Grant at home trying to enjoy the broadcast. What are we doing? Well, here's when I have an issue. It's when it gets in the way of the actual broadcast. And here's what I mean. There's a moment where I think it was Saquan Barkley, maybe with somebody else. You can't remember gets piled up short of the goal line and he goes, Jason Kelsey floats out. He's in. Not in. Not correct. Wrong erroneous. You have now ruined my broadcast. Shut up. I know your Hall of Famer. You got the new, the, the, the heights, the height, the high, the high, summer heights, high podcasts, whatever you do. I don't care. It's not relevant to me. But now there's a professional broadcast going on. You declared he's in like you're some fat mama Luke sitting at home incorrectly. Shut your mouth forever. Never say anything. Then when called upon, you could participate, but your, your stick is awesome. That's, that was so embarrassing. He's in. Not in. Not in at all. And, and as the replay starts because yeah, it's right there. Not right there either. Wrong. Shut up. Shut up. That was hilarious. Because not only in real time, did he get it wrong? He's like, as we're watching the replay, he's like, he gets in here on this initial lead. There it is. Obviously, he did not. And then he's like, Oh, maybe he didn't know. Perhaps he didn't. But you've already been yelling at me about this. Perhaps he didn't. It was just enough. And I actually, it doesn't sound like it. I actually do like Jason Kelsey. It was just over Jason Kelsey last night. I get it. He played for the Eagles and the games in Philly. I was over inundated with him and buck a couple of times in his way that he does made jokes about how much Jason Kelsey we were getting. But then I don't even think it was planned. Like they kept saying at the end, he's like, Oh, well, maybe I'll go down and hang out with my wife. And they're like, stay here with us. And he's like, cool. I see my wife enough. And they just kept doing that shtick. And we'll do another drive. Equal time. Where's Roddy White when I need him? I mean, does anyone care that there's two teams in this game? The E and ESPN stood for Eagles pretty clearly during that broadcast on the Jason Kelsey show last evening. But I digress. My question to you, Danny is, do you want Rudy Johnson or John Kitten in the booth for the commander's bangles game? Rudy Johnson's a great pole. Poor Rudy Johnson looked like he had a five head. Like that helmet was always on so tight, like an extended his forehead. He was, he was nasty for a couple of years sneaky great fantasy play for a few years. He's like, pick seven and like multiple straight fantasy years. There's always, I'd say a good chunk of people that don't understand humor. So I tweeted some names to be funny picking random bangles last night, obviously. I got some good suggestions as well. T.J. Hushman Zada on the broadcast or somebody said, uh, what about was my favorite one? Kijana Carter. I thought that was funny. But then a couple people were like, wouldn't it just be boomerasiacin since he's a broadcaster? No, it probably would. It wouldn't be guy. You're missing the point. John Kitna and Giovanni Bernard are randoms. We're playing random bangle game right now. Do you want to participate or don't you? Yeah, give you like to play. You say Icky Woods and then your high five. All right. If you don't, that's fine. We will get into Monday night football, Washington and Cincinnati later in the show. By the way, we won't have to worry about the broadcast because we'll be in the stadium. Danny Ruye Monday night when they start playing that theme as the players take the field for pregame warmups, where are you going to be sitting? Actually, I don't know where seats are, but I'll be in Cincinnati, assuming that's where the stadium is. In Cincinnati, the sports bar? No, in the stadium. Where whatever it's called, new sponsorship stadium in Cincinnati, core stadium, Paul Brown stadium. You're going to be at a football game. I am. I will be too. Garris, where are you going to be on Monday night for Monday night football? There'll be a seat with my name on it in paycore stadium in Cincinnati. So if John Kitna is on the call, doesn't mean anything to us. Get by the me some chili in our bellies watching football from Cincinnati, Ohio. Thanks to our friends, Condoria and Murrah. If you missed a big announcement yesterday, they are sending us on the road. We're going to Monday night football. We'll be kicking it with them all weekend. So if you're going to the game, please let us know. Speaking of being a games who was at the X on Sunday for commanders, Giants. I want to know if you noticed anything different about the stadium. 800-636-1067. Here's what I got for you, Danny. I'd already been to a preseason game. So I had seen a lot of the changes at the stadium. I'd taken a big tour. What's very noticeable for me walking from where I park to where I sit. New floors almost everywhere, new paint on most walls, new carpets on a lot of floors, and new cool designs and paint jobs and things to decorate and spruce the place up. Like a lot of that controllable. Let's throw some money and then some elbow grease on some things and see where it gets us. But I'm just curious, as a fan, did you get in more efficiently? Was the food warmer? Did it taste better? Like, what did you guys experience as they continue to spend a lot of money? On the TV copy, I would say, it looked better. Everything about it. Obviously, people were in seats at kickoff, which is a rarity around these parts. In terms of fans, people were engaged, seems excited. The general noise level seemed to be pretty solid. I felt like folks were having a good time. I also think that the audio in stadium was way better in terms of the PA. I'd be curious to hear from people on that because, Darris, you were at the game, so maybe you could answer this too. Any seat that you have is going to be a little different than everybody else's vantage point, but my experience now having been there for a concert at the end of the summer and having been there for two football games is that they have largely fixed whatever issues they were having with a lot of the old speakers, which they've replaced so many of, and a lot of the old stuff, like the PA. It's a four yard game bringing up second and six for Philadelphia. Like, that sounds way better. What was your experience like you were in the crowd, Darris? Yeah, I agree. The PA definitely was some of the cleanest of the audio situation that we had. There was the halftime performance there from Wal-A that I didn't think the audio was all that clear. Now, I was down behind the Giants bench in the second and third row behind the Giants bench, not that that's a flex or anything. A little bit of a flex. The music audio didn't come through very clear to me. The music itself, but not the lyrics. I wonder if that's a concert thing. How did the stuff that football related through the microphone sound? That's all that mattered to me and all that sounded good. That was a big complaint last year, so that's something I'm actually really curious about. Let's go to Will and Stafford on G&D. Hey, Will. Hey, guys, thanks to him. I call you back. We got my buddies. I got season tickets and 132 in the end zone, about 15 rows up from the goal post. The audio was great. I could finally hear the referees clearly. That was a big thing last year. You can never hear the refs call. The audio was excellent. Taking out the end zone bar and opening that area in the end zone, cuts down on traffic a little bit down there, getting in the stadium. The scanners are updated, so going through scanning and everything, it was a much smoother transition. Did they use the new technology where you entered in terms of scanning your ticket or was it the same as last year in terms of how you got in? Now I use new technology on my app. Just pulled it up, scans in. They got new coolers. You walk up there with your gold. If you're a gold member, you just put it on there. You get 50% off food and non-alcoholic drink. You just grab out of cool or you're good to go. So those are nice shops, so to speak. Thanks for the call. They're everywhere. This is not something they created, but they added a ton of them. That should have been there as far as I'm concerned, like five years ago. Yeah, I mean, you see, if you know the Capital One, it's almost like a, there's like a small fence or like a little railing with an entrance and you walk in, grab your bill or light and walk out. That's it. Grab and go. Yeah. I've done that at Frednats games for a few years. The idea that that wasn't ubiquitous everywhere in that stadium, just to get people there, you could do food. You could do quick foodfare there, like grab and go chicken tenders, fries, whatever, but it's also it's beer. It's soda. It's water. It's chips. That to me is a no brainer, I would say. Are you comfortable with how some people can now get into stadiums? I've done this over at Nat's Park where it's almost like signing up for cleared an airport or something, but you just walk up through your MLB ballpark app and almost like your phone opening with your face. You don't have to take your phone out of your pocket. You walk up, there's a little camera. It knows you're staying in front of it. It sees your face and it goes, Danny, you and your three guests can walk in. Welcome. Yeah. You cool with that or you're going to stay away from that for a little while? Well, I mean, yeah, I'm fine with whatever. What I what I need is for the thing that's supposed to be faster to actually be faster. And I find a lot of times where it's like, all you have to do is download the app with the updated app and then app as long as you're able to log in and what they'll even if the log is not working, log in here and show it this way with the QR code. And now it's not faster. Everybody's waiting for people fiddling with their phone. So sometimes it's faster. Sometimes you actually just have a ticket and you could scan it much quicker. I think that parking to that point was more arduous for me this week than it normally is. A lot of weeks in the past, they have not actually scanned the parking. Well, I'm sure some people will just get a screen grab and, you know, park a legal or whatever. They want to cut down on that. So they try to actually scan your QR code when you go into park. But it took me longer to creep down, getting to the boulevard to go into the stadium, get a Morgan boulevard, took no time at all to creep down like the half mile into the parking lot took like 30 minutes. Basically, as long as it took me to get from almost like Lorton to that turn in. And so overall, it's tough. But I mean, I was there, you know, right around 11, I was still up in the press box and got to my seat by 11.45 or so. So it like wasn't the end of the world. But if I'm closer to kickoff and it's 1225 and I'm not parking to like 104 and I miss kick because of that, I'd have been a salty character. I agree with it. Yeah, that's tough. How'd you guys feel about game number one at the X, some of the changes? What did you notice? What still needs some work? We'll take some calls on that at 800-636-1067. Plus next, we want to tell you who Dan Quinn singled out as being the most impressive player on the commander's offense. This past weekend, you're listening to G&D. This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. Whether you love true crime or comedy, celebrity interviews or news, you call the shots on what's in your podcast queue. And guess what? 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Follow the action with Game Tip where 3D replays add another dimension. Plus notifications can keep you connected to every pinch, every hip, every game. The MLB app. Baseball, your way. Download it now for free from the App Store or Google Play. Blackout and other research and supply major league baseball tray parts used with permission. G&D on the fan. One of the other things I noticed at the X on Sunday, talking about some of the changes to the stadium, anything that was tangible to you guys. I thought the new tunnel club that they have for fans, you can spend as an add-on to your ticket to go down, open bar, basically restaurant, and then you kind of have the ability with these garage doors that open to interact with players as they go to and from the field. It looked really cool. Well, the tours I saw that they gave to you guys. I was like, this is not a great space. This is not very well done. That's the best you could do with it. You know what I mean? I'm not, I'm not joking. I'm saying you're left with this, these parameters where there's not much upside, and that's the best you could possibly go to construct. I think they did a really good job making a lot out of a little there, but they're just trying to modify that stadium. They worked with the NFL to figure out like what's popular with fans? What do fans want in these stadiums that are being built? What can we do here in the several years, unfortunately, before we get to the new place? And one of the things they came up with is people like the Access. They want to be, you know, getting selfies with and dappin' up players. And so it's expensive. It's one of those things probably that your company's gonna buy more so than you are. You know, it's a once a year deal that you go in on a bachelor party or something. If you're doing pretty well, you don't have kids yet, but I will say it looked very, very cool. I thought they did a really, really good job with it. Dan Quinn, by the way, in asked who he singled out as the most impressive player on Washington's offense said Zach Hertz really liked how he played on defense. He said Frankie Louvoo and Bobby Wagner, the team's leading tacklers. I want to get into those three guys and how they've been playing as new additions and free agency, but also talk about who's growing on us as this season goes along in just a bit on Grant and Danny. But let's hit the phones. Art is in D.C. You were at the game, Art. What did you think of the stadium? From a customer-centric stance, it was excellent. I thought it was extra parking gold, you know, no issues at all. Facilities great, friendly staff, everything good. One critique was just sticker shock, man. I just got my bill from the bank. You know, 20 bucks for a beer, 25 hours for a mixed drink, food expensive, 130 bucks to park. You know, I can afford it. I don't think a lot of people can, though, you know. And one recommendation, guys, the baddest Indians were the Comanche. That would be a good day to go back to the old logo. But, you know, overall, very, very good. And from the fans of in the fans, great feeling, great vibe, you know. Yeah, it was packed. I mean, it was sold out, and there were a lot of fans of the local team there, which has not always been the case. It sounds to me like, and this is a good thing, not a bad thing. It sounds like he did everything, you know, higher end, too. Like, you can get parking for less than 130. You could probably get a drink, you know, for less than close to 30 bucks for a cocktail or whatever, sodas or what have you. Having said that, there's no doubt. That's going to be the case at every stadium, and this one is no different. And I thought the same thing, even when I went on that tour, a couple times when I looked up at a price, I would go. You kidding me. And I don't think I'm being, if you remember the movie Rookie of the Year, you probably don't have a file. Which one's working here? Is that the one with Henry Rowan Gardner? Oh, so, okay. So that's pictures got a big butt. The kid can throw it real fast. Kid picture for the coach. Which one is the one where the kid manages the twins? Little Big League. Thank you. That's a great film. They're both great. I can flate the titles, I will say, but I know the difference. So many great baseball movies. The best peak era of baseball movies was my childhood, which was for kids, I'm saying, to say a lot, Little Big League Rookie of the Year. We were on just a heater, Bing, Bing, boom. But anyway, there's a scene in that movie where the owner is going down for the first time to sit with the crowd, like down in the box seats because they've hated them for years and now they're good. So they like them. So he's going to go sit with the crowd. And the hot dog vendor's coming through. And this will date the movie a little bit. But the hot dog guy says hot dogs, hot dogs. And he's like, yeah, I'll take three hot dogs. And the guy's like 12 bucks. And the owner looks over at him and goes, $4 for a hot dog. And my dad used to think it was the greatest scene in the world, because like this owner who's shocked by it was shocked by the money. But I mean, it's super expensive. No doubt about that. Let's go to Danny and Woodbridge on G&D. What's up, Danny? Hey, what's going on? Can you hear me? Yes, sir. Okay. So I've been a season taken holder for about three years now. And I sit in the upper level and the speakers were up there. Well, terrible. And then this year, I could tell that they definitely upgraded those speakers because you can hear things clearly. I'm more clearer. But the only complaint I have about the speakers on the upper level are they're like not in sync. And so you hear a lot of like echo from the other speaker. And so it's hard to hear. And this is also like not taking into consideration about like what was going on with the refs on the field. Like I didn't understand. Like nobody around me kind of understood what was going around. Yeah. So even for us, like in the press area, thanks for the call. At no point could we ever hear the ref's microphone. I don't know that it was working not as a stadium. So I think it was not actually not working optimal. That's what I'm saying. Even at home watching it, it was like, this is quieter than I'm used to. Usually sounds once they hit that switch, it's all cylinders. They sound like they're in the room with you. It was not that it wasn't. No, Mike and Akkeke, you're on GND. How is your game experience? Hey, hey, what's up, Grant and Danny? It's my first time calling. Oh, we appreciate that. Thank you very much. We'll greet you, sir. Thank you. Yeah, I went with my son. We had a lot of fun. This is my first time buying season tickets and everything was cool. I would say the food on the club level, I want them to upgrade that a little bit. But in terms of the other changes, they had a DJ on the club level. It was electric. Everybody was excited. It was a lot of fun. Fun is a good man. I mean, I would say that's a more positive segment than we normally get. The wind probably didn't hurt. We'll take the temperature from the fans who are going to games not only throughout this show today, but as the season goes on as well on Grant and Danny. Next a Tuesday staple at three o'clock right at the top of the hour, each and every week, our fastest 16 minutes will go through every single NFL game. Give you all the details you need on every single match up in week two. You're listening to the fan. Now with the MLB app, you can get baseball your way. Pick your favorite team, your favorite players, and get customized highlights, stories and breaking news right on your home feed. Follow the action with Game Tip, where 3D replays add another dimension. 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You tell Progressive how much you want to pay for car insurance and they'll show you coverage options that fit your budget. Get your quote today at progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Progressive Casualty Insurance Company and affiliates price and coverage match limited by state law. We begin in Baltimore where the biggest underdog of the week. The Raiders stunned the Ravens 2623. Las Vegas was down 2313 entering the fourth quarter. Gardner Menchu to Devontae Adams key to the comeback a touchdown. Menchu had 276 yards in the air with that score in the win. Adams nine grabs for 110 yards breakout game. Baruchi Titan Brock Bowers nine grabs 98 yards. Max Crosby two sacks. Derek Henry in a loss 84 and a touchdown. Zay flowers seven grabs 91 yards and a touchdown for Baltimore who got two and a half sacks from what I fell away. The Raiders host the Panthers on Sunday chance to get to two and one. The Ravens are headed to Dallas trying to avoid 0 and three John Harbaugh on his message to his winless team. Disappointing loss, tough loss. Could have gone our way for sure. But we didn't get the job done. Oh, and two, we are going to play a 17 game season and we will be defined by the next 15 games. So that's going to be our objective to play the best 15 games we can be the best football team we can be. Bad loss from Baltimore. They had one last year too. Remember they lost a game to Pittsburgh where Pittsburgh could barely manage your first down. And this one, they're up 10 against the team. They're probably better than in almost every capacity. And yet you look up at the end of the score, end of the day at the scoreboard, they had lost that game by a field goal relinquishing a 10 point lead in the span of about 10 minutes. That is not very Baltimore like, but for the Raiders, good for that sort of validating the program a little bit. They're trying to play this hard ass, tough as nails. We're going to chew on cardboard and spit out the machine gun fire and they're doing that. They're doing their best in a division that's pretty complicated and tough. But Baltimore's own too with it. Not that easy schedule to come. Chargers bullied the Panthers. 26 to 3. JK Dobbins ran for 131 yards, 17 attempts back to back 100 yard games to start the season for JK Dobbins. Gus Edwards at 18 carries as far as former Ravens running backs go as well. Justin Herbert threw for a buck 30 and two scores both to Quentin Johnston who had six grabs for 51 yards. Carolina's offense, anemic quarterbacks obviously been benched since 84 passing yards on 26 attempts will do that. Leading wide receiver was Adam Thiele and it went two for 20 through the air. The Chargers matching up with the Steelers. Someone's going to get to 3 and 0 this coming week. Meanwhile, the Panthers are in Vegas for the Chargers. Very soft opening to the season. But again, it's validating the program. When Jim Harbaugh shows up, you're going to be better than you were that they would have found a way to have lost one of these two games over the last couple of seasons. This is what they do now. They're physical. They push you around. Dobbins deserves comeback player of the millennium. For some concern, even if he does nothing else for the rest of the year, just the fact that he's doing this after all the injuries that have happened, he's been the story through two weeks in the NFL. That's the 16 minutes on G and D. Let's get to the Saints lighting up the Cowboys. That's fun to say 44 19 final in Dallas, New Orleans scoring on every single possession in the game. In fact, they've scored every single time they've had the ball through two games this season. Derek Carr's been great 11 for 16 243 yards and two touchdowns. Didn't even really break a sweat. Another 70 yard touchdown for him through the air in this game. He also ran for a score. So did Alvin Camara three times. He ran for a buck 15 added 65 through the air a four touchdown performance for Camara. Here's Camara running right side. Surges in for the touchdown. Try to gain it here on second down. Pressure coming this out of screen. All there's a lot of room. Alvin Camara rules a role. Alvin Camara is going to score touchdown. Camara big hole left side. Alvin Camara sprinting towards the end zone. He is in touchdown New Orleans. Camara looking for his fourth touchdown of the game stays on his feet. Alvin Camara has got four. Kevin Burkhardt of Fox on the call. That's the 18 with Tom Brady Dallas losing effort. CD lamb caught a 65 yard touchdown. Dak Prescott slinging it all game because they were behind big through for two 93, but was picked off twice. Alvin, I'm a Camara guy, but you heard Kevin Burkhardt clear his day. Say Camara pronounce it. However, he wants it pronounced. That's 290 yards and five touchdowns for two weeks. New Orleans, the offensive renaissance. This is like prime Sean Payton, Drew Brees, all the weaponry that you'd ever want type offense. They, I think that's the third highest point total through two weeks in NFL history. They have been unbelievable on that side of the ball. Bucks are a surprise to an O as well. Two teams in the NFC South frisky off to fast starts. They impressed in a 20 to 16 squeaker at the lions in Detroit Baker Mayfield through a touchdown pass and ran for another first 10 at the 11 yard line. Mayfield going to run again. Baker up the middle inside the five may feel blunging touchdown. Kevin Kugler on the call on Fox. Chris Godwin caught seven balls for a buck 17 in a tutty. The bucks picked off Jared Goff twice. He also had two other interception throws dropped. Could have been a four pick game. Gough was not good. Jameer Gibbs ran for 84. Amadra St. Brown, 11 catches for a buck 19. He got back on track. Dan Campbell ran a fake pun inside his own 20 that worked. That's the good news. There was an end of half the buckle where the lions had too many men on the field before a field goal and a 10 second runoff cost them three points in a game that came down to the wire. The bucks host the Broncos really good chance to be three. I know after this weekend, the lions go to the Cardinals. Arizona is not very fun to play. Yeah. Gough 55 pass attempts in this game. This is not who Detroit is. This is not what they've done over the last couple of seasons where they've thumped it, run it right down your throat and then hit with some play action or, you know, some precision type stuff. Offense didn't quite look right in this game. The more the season goes on, if Tampa kind of keeps doing this, maybe the more credit you have to give to them as a team that felt under appreciated. Quite frankly, coming off the year they had last year, multiple straight division crowns and albeit a bad division. But that was a really impressive road run for Tampa. The Packers got a gutsy 16 to 10 triumph over the Colts without Jordan love. Malik Willis started for Green Bay and they won 12 completions for Willis who didn't turn the ball over. The Packers ran for 261 yards. If you guys didn't see this game, it was a Mona Lisa from Matt LaFlore. I was texting with him and I just said, take a bow, dude. He's like, hey, we just tried to ground and pound it. I mean, the design, the way that they operated in the back, they look like a high school football offense. No exaggeration, if you're 14 presidents, if you're a high school coach in this area, watch that game and steal some stuff because that's, they didn't throw it. They didn't push the ball down the field at all. They just bullied the Colts. Willis also said LaFlore deserves some credit. I mean, it feels awesome. I just got to give all the glory to God. Forgive me this opportunity and just put me in an environment where they could just help me, you know, not only get ready for the game, but just instill confidence in me. It helped me be the best that I can be. So that it said credit to the floor. He credited God. I'm not saying LaFlore is God, but that was a God like plan. So I will just say that. There we go. But 16 to 10 triumph over the Colts. Josh Jacobs, how about this 1991 stat line? 32 runs, 151 yards. That's 4.7 a pop. Willis had a 19 yard scramble at 41 on the ground. For the Packers, 53 of 67 plays were runs, just a muckfest. Anthony Richardson, three interceptions. Jonathan Taylor ran for 100 yards on 12 attempts. The Packers go back to Tennessee. LaFlore's old stomping grounds on Sunday. The Colts host the Bears and a someone needs a win game. Yeah. Green Bay needed that one. You need to do a couple of things to stay afloat until Jordan love comes back. That was a big win for them for the Colts. Yeah. Week one, they were right there with Houston going back and forth. Great ball game, you know, 29, 27 end up losing that one. This is one you might be kicking yourself over. You give up 16 points and you couldn't do more than that when you had your chances on offense. Richardson and accurate. I think it was 50% completion percentage, couple turnovers that you referenced. Now a schedule with the Bears, Steelers, Jaguars, Titans coming up, still a chance to get right, but you look up. Now, you're already two games behind Houston. The Browns out slug the Jaguars 18 to three to get to one and one. The Sean Watson was better in this game, better than terrible was okay, but that's still better. 24 of 34, Buck 86 ran for a touchdown. Jerry Judy led the Browns five catches 73 yards. Miles Garrett had one of the Browns for sacks of Trevor Lawrence. Speaking of Lawrence, 14 for 30 passing for Jacksonville going one for four in the red zone. Bad start to the year for Lawrence Jacksonville's 0 and two. The Giants are taking on the Browns this week. Meanwhile, Jacksonville hits the road for Monday night football game one in Buffalo against the two and O bills. The head coach of the Browns in the wind column, Kevin Stefanska. Yeah, we battled and we knew America coming down here that they were going to have to battle and in the run game battle and the past game battle. Because that's a very good front and there's some very, very good players up front. So again, I just go back to it wasn't pretty all the time. It doesn't have to be. It just has to be a team committed to getting better hashtag battle. This is who I thought Cleveland was going to be week one with such an aberration. They got destroyed by Dallas, but I thought they would be them and Pittsburgh are doing the Spiderman meme to each other. Bad quarterback play, great defense, some physical play on offense here and there and you're going to, yes, battle around. They gave Jacksonville fits on that side of the football. That's who I thought Cleveland was going to be. How, you know, what's the ceiling for that? I don't know in that division, but this is kind of the Cleveland I signed up for. The Vikings upset the 49ers 23 to 17 in Minneapolis in a home win. Justin Jefferson, 133 on four grabs. 97 on this one catch. The Viking defense second down nine Donald getting messy going deep. He's got Jefferson, he's got Jefferson. It's a foot race down field with Brown shifting gears getting a broad fix six. Kevin Harlan on the call for CBS, but you already knew that Sam Darnell solid two 68 and a couple of touchdowns. Ty Chandler ran 10 times for 82 yards. Brian Flores, what a plan defensively for Minnesota. Five sacks, turn Brock Purdy over two times before an injury to Debo Samuel. He caught 10 passes for 110 yards. Jordan Mason ran for a buck. Second straight week, he's hit 100 yards or more rushing. San Francisco's at the Rams. There's going to be a lot of stars not playing in that game. And my favorite game of week three early on, the Vikings host the Texans. If they can somehow beat Houston, they will prove that they are legit at three and oh, yeah, they are in business now. And Brian Flores, take a bow. You already touched on it. But did you know that Patrick Jones, the second, for example, has already tied his career high in sacks with four through a couple of weeks? The plans that Brian Flores is executing are ridiculous. There, there was a look I saw this, I can't remember who posted it, where there are nine guys within a yard of the line of scrimmage, one single high safety deep. And the, the person doing the analysis goes, this is a Tampa two look from Minnesota. Meaning, you know, the two safeties, bail out the middle linebacker, bails out to the middle and you're able to cover all this different kind of stuff and force everything in front of you. And that's not what a temperature looks like before the snap. But that's what they were able to do. They're disguising things and tricking people right now. They've given San Francisco fits. I think it's two straight years, right? They've beaten San Fran. Yeah. Last year in San Francisco on Monday night, and then this game on Sunday Seahawks squeaked out a physical win in New England, 2320. The Patriots are better than we thought they'd be. But they let the Seahawks off the hook. Question mark, Gino Smith, 33 of 44 for 327 and a touchdown. DK Metcalf, 14 targets, 10 catches for a buck 29 score. Jackson Smith in Jigba, JSN 16 targets, 12 grabs, 117 yards, 30 of 33 passes from Gino Smith, or I should say 44 passes, but 30 of his targets went to Metcalf and in Jigba. Pretty awesome. No Kenneth Walker. So Zach Charbonay carried the ball, ran 14 times for 38 yards, did score. New England got a decent outing from Jacobi Briskett, 15 of 27, 149 in the score. Antonio Gibson, our old friend, was the Patriots leading rusher with 96 yards at a 45 yard run. Ramon Drey Stevenson toed the ball 21 times. DK Metcalf have a day. Suck it down at five, slips, sets, fires down field wide open, Metcalf, touchdown, 56 yards. New England's really impressive. I thought they would be contending with Carolina for the topic and the draft. They're not, they're not good. I'm not telling you I've seen the start of the second Patriots dynasty post-Bellow chicken Brady, but they're competitive, man. They probably should have won this game too. They should probably be two and L, but they have been tough, competitive without much on offense. Hunter Henry is the leading receiver with eight catches for a Bucko nine. Jalen Polk, who was all the rage as a rookie, only had two receptions. They can't really throw it down the football field, but they're fun. They're way to compete in these games. So tip of the cap there for Seattle, a sneaky little two and I'll start the jets outlast the Titans 24 17 and Nashville. Braylon Allen scored the game winning touchdown on a 20 yard run with 4 31 to play. And normally Rogers in a complete command in those situations. Rogers looking heads down, touchdown, Breeze Hall holds it in. Both jets running back, scoring in this game. Breeze Hall on the touchdown for Marin Rogers there. Jets for plus two and takeaways. Rogers first went in New York through for 176 and a pair. Hall, by the way, had seven catches for over 50 yards, including that tuddy. Will McDonald three sacks for the jets. Will Levis, another terrible play. Remember last week it was the awful pick six. This week, he was falling down and threw backwards, basically rolled a ball on the ground. That was a loose football and a fumble, not corralled by his target. And so it was a red zone turnover. And there were cameras that picked up Brian Callahan, his head coach asking him what the bleep are you doing? Except he didn't say bleep. He didn't bleep. No, the jets host the Patriots with a shot to get to two and one in Thursday night football match up this week and the Titans host Green Bay without Jordan Love. Good opportunity for them to get a surprising win. Titans defense is pretty tough. But offensively, it just, you know, it's a matter of time before Levis makes some horrible mistake or they have some kind of drive killing kind of moment. They're not there. They're not ready to be any good just yet. They've been competitive in both of their games. Of course, now both losses. Cardinals ripped the Rams 41 10 Kyler Murray through four incompletions, three touchdowns in the game, 266 through the air and Marvin Harrison, Jr. Got going after a silent week one, 130 yards on four catches with two touchdowns, all in the first quarter. He had more yards in the first quarter than his dad ever had in any quarter in his hall of fame career. Fake to Connor. Hurry on the roll out looking deep for Harrison. Marvin Harrison, Jr. To the end zone. Touchdown again. That's a hell of a call from Adam Amine on Fox James Connor 21 for 122 on the grounded score. The Rams now without Cooper cup in Pukinacua in the passing game. They've got San Francisco without stars. Arizona Detroit, as we mentioned, a fun match of this weekend. Arizona validated what they did for most of the game. I would say week one on the road in Buffalo. They were really impressive. They beat up a frankly beat up Rams team. Everybody, if you had a DFS stack going, little James Connor, Kyler Murray, Marvin Harrison, you probably were in the money with what those guys did. That was unbelievable. What a dominant performance Steelers limped past the Broncos 13 six. They've won each of their games now. Pittsburgh has despite one touchdown on the season. It's so stealers. Six field goals in week one. Call the commanders. They're still in their script. And then this week with the one touchdown, that was enough. So eight field goals for their nine scores from Chris Boswell. But there's still two and no defense picked Bo Nix twice. TJ Watt wrecked the game against the Falcons. Little more quiet, but did have another sack in this one. Pat Freyrmuth, the leading receiver from Justin Fields, four catches, 39 yards. Speaking of fields after the game, he said Russell Wilson was going to be celebrated the former Bronco. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think we all know Russ got kind of dirty last year. So I know he was, you know, he could have played today in his game, but it's awesome. You know, getting that went from him. You got a petty game ball. So, yeah, it's great. And it's up for sure. A petty game ball. It was called now, which I love. I don't know if anyone got did dirty or done dirty or whatever. I will tell you, I love this. I love that sort of thing where you're looking out for your teammate, right? Like whether you believe that he was, there was an injustice done to Russell Wilson or otherwise, it doesn't matter. Whatever unites you, unites you, find a common enemy and go to battle. I thought that was pretty cool. Bo Nix in this game, the leading rusher for the Broncos, that's going to have to change. He ran for 25 yards. Josh Reynolds 93 as a receiver. Pittsburgh's got the Chargers, Denver is at Tampa Bay. Let's go to the game of the weekend. And that was the Chiefs and the Bengals in Kansas City, where the Chiefs won via a pass interference on Cincinnati late, set up a Harrison butker game winning field goal from 53 yards. Isaiah Pacheco was injured in this game before that, though. He's going to be out for several weeks. He ran 19 times for 90 yards. Pat Holmes picked off twice, 18 of 25 for just 151 and two scores. Rashi Rice caught a long touchdown. He went for 75 and that score. Joe Burrow finally gets it going for the Bengals in week two, 258 and two through the air. Bengals couldn't run it though. Is Zach Moss just 12 for 34 on the ground. Their leading receiver was Mike Kosicki, seven grabs for 91 yards. Jamar Chase, still library quiet, four grabs, 35 yards for him. Zach Taylor not enjoying a final sequence. It saw his team fall to 0 and 2. I mean, you know, it's one of those plays where we may benefit from something like that at some point this season. That's what I told her guys. So, you know, they're calling it like they see it. I thought they called a very fair game and they saw that as a penalty. So they called a penalty and our defense still did a great job. You know, not giving many yards after that. So I was praying the way that they kept battling because that's an emotional kick right there on fourth and long. And they came out and they got three really good stops and then they got a good kicker and he made it. So that's really just what the game comes down to. I know since I lost this game and they're frustrated and ticked off about that, that went a long way to kind of validating that it's okay to have expectations there. I know they're owing to they're not an 0 and 2 team. I know that that's what they are because that's a record is Monday night or they're cooked. Seriously, but week one, you're going, Oh my God, they're broken. What's wrong with the Bengals? They'll be just fine. They're going to win more games than they lose this year. And finally on Sunday night football, the Texans beat the Bears. 1913. Caleb Williams sacked seven times and intercepted twice. He is really struggled through two games. C.J. Stroud is not he threw for 260 in a touchdown. Nico Collins putting on a show. 10 targets, eight catches, 135 yards. The outstanding Mike Tareco on the call on NBC, Stefan Diggs, four catches, 37 yards for the Texans. Joe Mixon, nine for 25 on the ground. Houston, only four for 14 on third down, still one. Williams, as I said, through two contests now, you have to throw a touchdown. And those two interceptions loomed large. DJ Moore was clearly annoyed six for 53 for him as a receiver. Chicago's at Indy. Someone's going to be 0 and three Houston, Minnesota, one of the top games of the weekend. This is me saying this grant. You were right. Danny, you were wrong. You were right. I was wrong. Houston is good on both sides of the ball. They, that's a mature win right there. Their offense isn't doing what they wanted to do. Joe Mixon, a week one ran for a thousand yards. They couldn't really get the running game going. That matter. You got C.J. Stroud. He'll bail you out. Make a couple plays. Nico Collins is awesome. That defense is better than I thought it was going to be. They are a force on that side. They're tough to deal with. You always have to worry about somebody where you can have it in the backfield. Houston is legit. 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[BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] Mike Tareco on the call on NBC on Sunday night. Welcome back, Grant and Danny on the fan. That was Caleb Williams throwing one of his two interceptions in the game and his two picks on the season. Caleb Williams and Bo Nix don't stack up with Jaden Daniels through just two games. And maybe it's too early eight quarters to start really comparing and contrasting these rookies. But if you just put them side by side, Danny, and we'll go through some of the numbers here. One is not like the others, whatever you think of Daniels and what he's done through two games, he has been decidedly better than those other two guys to this point. >> Without question, and one of the things I've, and I still feel this way by the way, but one of the drums that I beat so consistently and so loudly through the offseason is, I needed this organization talk about Washington to be way more like Chicago. To look at my quarterback and go the entire future rests with him, let's do everything we possibly can to support him. That's offensive line, that's weaponry, that's everything geared towards his success. Not maybe he can run a little bit more here and there, but I mean long term. And even with the disparity, I would take even, I can tell it was out this past weekend, but even without him, I would take Chicago's skill guys 50 times out of 50 over what Washington has, especially on the outside. And even with that, what Jaden Daniels has done through a couple games to me makes it that much more impressive. >> Yeah, I totally agree. Daniels has completed 75% of his passes, Williams 56% and Nix 59%. Now, a lot of that has to do with how horizontal Kingsbury's called plays. In fact, this past weekend as an example, I think it was 16, maybe it was 13 of their 29 throws were behind the line of scrimmage. Having said that, it could be misleading to say he's completing 75% just because of how easy the assignment is. It still tells you they have a better plan for this guy. It still tells you that Kingsbury is doing a better job getting the ball out of his hand, giving him easy targets and throws. Then Shane Waldred is doing for Caleb Williams or Sean Payton is doing for bonics because the job is completions. The job is to get the football to your playmakers in space. Washington went RPO heavy early in game two. We didn't see that as much in game one. That was the wide receiver screen stuff that you kept seeing. But maybe the Bears and the Broncos should mix that in a little bit. >> Yeah, I mean, you know, bonics early on, especially in week number one, I think I remember what the total was. We threw, you know, what it was like 50 times for 80 yards or something ridiculous or not exaggerating. But they tried to open it up a little bit as they were trailing and it went really poorly in week number two, especially. But this is kind of what you should be doing at this stage, right? We're trying to build a house and you don't build the top floor first, right? Eventually, I'd loved the instant you recognize a certain set of coverage, hey, I've got something I can dial up where we'll throw 80 yards down the field. Eventually, I'd love to be able to do that here and there. But at this stage, this is how it should be built. They're doing a good job. >> Well, it's also just what works a lot of the time, what a lot of offenses do. Patrick Mahomes is notorious seems negative, but is famous for this. He's one of the low average depth of target guys a lot of the time, including this year in the NFL. Didn't used to be the case with Tyree Kill, but now with Kelsey, not really beating people vertically. You know, it's a lot of screens. It's a lot of stuff around the line of scrimmage and they do take a couple shots a game and hopefully Washington gets to a point where they do as well. Amazingly through two games, none of these three guys has thrown a touchdown pass. That's hard to fathom, to be completely honest. And I know you keep mentioning how few touchdowns there are around the league. They still get thrown all the time. Yeah, it's still wild. There'll be none of these guys has thrown one. J.J. McCarthy and Drake May are tied for the touchdown lead having not played like that's insane. >> No, it is. It is crazy. But you know, just by way of argument, Brian, not argument, but because it's zeros or zeros. Brian Robbins got tackled with a half yard line on a catch and run. There are moments. It's still wild that no one has a touchdown pass yet. >> I mean, I'm sure you could play that game for every quarter. >> Totally. >> Add some touchdowns to their total. >> Totally. >> Daniels does not have an interception. That is a big deal. I'm fired up about that. They also haven't really asked him to throw into any small windows. Like how many times have they threw contested passes? I remember the 50/50 ball to Earth's on the 21 yard completion. He lobbed as he got hit. That's the only ball I remember even being kind of turnover worthy. But he hasn't really, they haven't worked the middle of the field much. So there hasn't been a whole lot into windows that was even interceptable. But again, that's a good thing, not a bad thing, largely with a young quarterback. Williams has the two picks. Nix has four interceptions already. I think the fact that Jaden Daniels doesn't have a single turnover through two games is perhaps the biggest deal and maybe the best thing you can say. A sack percentage. Nix is the only guy who's avoided sacks very effectively at 4.9%. Caleb Williams is getting sacked 12% of the time. Jaden Daniels, about 12% of the time, is well 11.7, narrowly better. But I'll say this. Caleb Williams, in that game against the Texans on Sunday night, Jake Rudin was talking about this with us in his guest spot yesterday. He got absolutely annihilated by the pass rush in a way that we haven't really seen Jaden have to deal with yet or Nix for that matter. So I don't know that that's necessarily completely a Williams problem, but he holds the ball a lot. He runs around, he tries to do the hero thing where he makes plays like he had a sack for minus 19 already. Daniel's does not do that. He's not running backwards and trying to create and making plays worse. He generally makes a decision and tucks it and runs and gets closer to the line of scrimmage and loses three or four. Whereas Caleb Williams on these sacks, it's some big time losses too. Yes. So there was one very sort of very evidence of kind of what you're talking about. There's a play where Jaden Daniels probably should be sacked for like minus 10, 11, 12 yards. He scrambles away. It was one of the best three yard losses I've ever seen, right? It's a sack in the book. He got sacked. That's what happened, but it turned a drive killing overwhelming negative. Oh my God, what are we doing to? Hey, we, we have a second down here. We have third down. We still have a chance on this possession. And that to me is kind of the special stuff that gets hidden in some of the that is the special sauce for sure. I still on that play, such an easy play to throw out of bounds there and it just get a zero. Yeah, what's your out of trouble to the right? But he still to your point, instead of a minus 11, made it a minus four and just getting out of the sack was amazing. Intended ariards. So this is where you can see that Cliff Kingsbury's plan, which has been effective in working, is different than the other coaches. Caleb Williams is intending passes on average, seven yards downfield. Bo Nix, seven and a half yards downfield. Jaden Daniels, four yards downfield. Completed ariards. Williams is dead last in the NFL at his completions on average, being 2.4 yards downfield. Jaden Daniels is second to worst in the NFL at this at 2.8. Bo Nix at 4.1 has pushed the ball down the field more. But with that has come what? The interceptions and mistakes. I think the plan is good. It's working. Now, if it's still this way in 10 weeks and you're frustrated, cool, no problem. I understand that. But what did we talk about all off season? You don't want them holding the football. You don't want them taking shots in the pocket. You don't want them having to navigate the pocket a whole lot. The pressure to sack stuff, get the ball out, get it in space. So yeah, it's a real low I.A.Y. It's a real low C.A.Y. in terms of completed and intended ariards or whatever. So what? He's completing 75% and you're moving the football. Washington has the highest percentage of drives where they've gotten a first down in the league. Almost three quarters of their drives, like the highest percentage of not going three and out essentially. Which is huge. And turning first and 10s into another first and 10. They've been best in the league. Now, they have to finish and find a way. And by the way, we talked about all that stuff. That's all passing where Daniels has been better than those other guys collectively easily number one of the three. That's not even to get into the rushing where he's got 132 rushing yards and two touchdowns. Nix has 60 yards in a touchdown. Williams has 59 yards in a touchdown, but he's accounted for two first downs with his feet. Nix for five Daniels for 10. So he's been a better rusher and he's done a better job throwing the football. Again, not going to get you a whole lot because Williams has been bad and so is Nix. But I just think it's important every now and then to take inventory on. There's three rookie quarterbacks playing and the one in Washington has been the best. And it even seems like even though we're not in love with Kingsbury yet with how he does things pre snap, it seems like he is doing the best job helping his quarterback so far too. Well, it also brings the plan and a clearer focus where for Williams, it's due to be a gunslinger. Go do you be the Brett Favre, 2.0. We don't care. Throw it for for Daniels. It's if it's 50 50, we'd rather you not. That seems to be the coaching point. Now whether we don't know that yet 100%, but through a couple of weeks, that's what it seems to be right. We'd rather you not risk it. We'd rather take care of the football. We'd rather ground the pound a little bit more. And it's, that's borne out in the numbers. Our double play is next. What's going on in our lives? Nothing to do with sports. I've got something that Danny Ruier and his team absolutely have to hear. [BLANK_AUDIO] With Danny, I'm Grant. This is the fan, the double play. Come in your way on G and D. What's going on in our lives? 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I need another drink of water. I need something. I need something. So so my kids, yeah, so like every kid ever, right? So he tells, he comes into his parents' room and says, I hear something. And they're going, no, you don't go to bed. Comes back 10 minutes later. I'm telling you guys, I hear something. No, you don't go to bed. Third time, I hear something. Fine. We'll look, come in, turn the lights, run through the rigmarole, look in the closet, look up here, look, see, there's nothing, nothing to go to bed. Be quiet. Don't hear from the rest of the night. No problem. The next day, dad is at home working. He hears scratching. He's going, Oh, maybe animal happens, right? Happens to the best of us, worst of us, whatever. So he starts looking around. Can't find anything gets the point that it's disrupting him trying to work from home. So he calls like, you know, not animal control, but like a pest service company. They come over here that hand, they go, yeah, it's probably like a squirrel that's gotten in, can't get out or a raccoon or something like that. Well, they go over where they can go at ducks, crawl spaces, etc. They can't find any trace of any animal. No dropping, there's nothing left behind. This is mystifying what to do. No one thinks about it, right? So we move on a couple days later. The kids in bed, he comes into his parents room one more time and goes, I hear an animal in my room. They're going, now they take it serious, right? So now all the lights are on. They're looking around, they can't find anything. Like it's big enough that it's making sounds. He's like, they're like, what could this possibly be? What sort of animals making these noises? So the kids uncomfortable, obviously, no problems. Your sleep goes to sleep in a different room, and they try to figure it out. So now they're racking their brain, trying to figure out what this thing could possibly be. This is now days. They're posting. Has anyone seen anything like this in the neighborhood? Has anyone heard of anything like this? What is going on? What is happening? They get to the point where they look at like ring doorbell, like security camera footage from neighbors and their own little camera that's like pointed out at their deck or whatever. Slowly but surely over the, they're looking at hours and hours of video like over over days from like various folks, they think maybe they spot something, but they don't, they're not even sure. Next thing you know, the next day after the last time where the kid's up in a different room, he walks into his dad's office. His dad is working. His dad hangs up the phone. The kid walks in holding a cat, a cat snuck into the, into their home and was living under his bed for the better part of four days. They couldn't find it no matter where they looked or how they looked. And they're like, does anyone know who's cat this is? There's no tags on it. Does anyone know the cat? So the cat had found this place onto the kid's bed and was just living there for basically a week. And they finally found that like one incident on a security footage where somebody that was taking out the trash didn't seal the door shut behind them. And the stupid cat comes out of nowhere, sprints into the house and like took up residence for four days. That's a lengthy investigation. Yes. Also ends way better than it could have. I know. So I wouldn't have brought it up. It was like a horrible ending for like a kid. I thought like snake or that's what I thought too, honestly. What's the thing I hate that with the beady eyes and the long tail? Possum. Possum. Oh, they're just disgusting. Like that. Possum under your beds. Not very fun. A cat. A cat. A cat. Somebody's cat. A cute one. Nope. A gross, terrible one because they're all awful. Only some are less awful. Cat guy. Not a cat guy at all. Cat, snake. Everyone knows it. This is one of those. You know how like when cats are very puffy and they look worse, it's like that. I'm familiar. It's at puffy cat. It's not even that like nice cat. Sounds like a yogi feral cat to me possible. It's time for my double play. I should save this because frankly there's a lot of meat on this bone. There's just not a lot of time, but we'll get to it. NASA is monitoring an asteroid. This is my team over at NASA as you guys know. Danny supposedly has this team because he's worried about the fact that we'll never know if we're going to get hit. An asteroid can get us at any second. And my point is we got a team on this. It's called NASA. It's my team. They're over there working on it. They have located an asteroid that could collide with Earth, Danny. It happened. They finally found one. Oh, finally. Well, it could collide with Earth. It's on a trajectory where it could happen. On Valentine's Day in 2046. Now, that's 22 years away. They're not overly concerned because there's a one in 400 chance that this rock will hit Earth 24 or two years from now, 22 years out, one in 400 chance. But I tell you this to tell you not that you should be worried about this. We're going to figure this out together. But you know, it could happen at any moment. Nobody ever knows. Why aren't we spending any money? We're spending all the money. It's no problem. 22 years in advance. We know that there's a chance one out of 400 that a rock could hit us and we haven't even started to deploy my team to fix this because I actually have a plan. You don't have a plan. You're going to play the Armageddon soundtrack and you're going to pretend that Harry Stamper is a character and he's not real. I'm not going to be able to mix one of including people that were in it. Whenever you're done, I'll tell you my plan. I mean, I know what's going to happen. You're going to do it. Everyone knows you're going to do it. You don't know. I know. I have a real plan. You're trying to be dismissive. Go ahead and do it. My plan is we are going to find the best oil drillers in America. We are going to put them on a rocket ship. We're going to teach them over a couple of weeks to be astronauts. We're going to fly them with jet fuel out of the atmosphere. They will whip around. Colonel Willie Sharpe will probably be the pilot and land on the rock. They will then be riding toward us at thousands of miles per hour on the rock. They won't know it. They're in space. They will drill to a 700 foot depth led by, I think you guys know him, Harry Stamper, not a real person. Harry Stamper has never missed his damn mark and they will detonate into that 700 foot hole, a nuclear warhead that will blow this rock into two pieces. We will do this by a set date ahead of this 2046 collision that will propel both pieces of said rock past earth, missing us narrowly on either side. Catastrophe averted. Don't you worry about it again. This is what I said was going to happen. This one in cosmic terms, the stadium size asteroid, by the way, is passing as close to us as, I don't know, a running back getting tackled at the one inch line and close to the goal. If there was a one in 400 chance that he was going to get tackled. No, again, everything I'm saying is correct. I don't know what you're doing. That's how close this is. Think about how the vastness of space you can't comprehend it because your brain so small, but for the rest of us adults who aren't talking about a movie that everyone panned. One in 400. That's how close it's coming to. It's in our orbit and we could figure that out. It's a good small step. We couldn't stop the one that hit in the Philippines a couple of days ago, though. If you could figure everything out, why didn't you help your friends get the cat out of their house in the first four? Well, that's not what the team's working on. The team is working on keeping life going. They could have gone to the bottom of that whole cat under the bed. Keeping life going is what we're working on. You're not concerned and you don't have to be. You're pretty little head, consider over there, and watch your dumb movie. Two reasons. One. Twenty two years out, a one in 400 chance we're on it. My team, it's called NASA. We got this thing covered. Two. I got the best oil drillers in America. Again, you don't. I just want you to be honest that you don't. Harry Stanford. You don't have that. Colonel Willie Sharp. The guy that I mean, it's sad. Bruce Willis, like, it's like, he's not healthy. You know what I mean? The guy that played this stupid role isn't doing well. Someone else will play the role. Someone else will just take it over. Harry Stanford. This time it'll be Jason Statham. We will land on that damn rock and we will eject a nuclear warhead into the middle of that son bitch and it'll, it will, we're fine. Everything will be fine. Anyways, my team's on it. It's called NASA. Don't you worry about a thing? We got you. Space rocks of death. I don't want to miss you, baby. Beltway Blitz comes your way next on G&D Austin Echler in one hour and those tickets next if you want them to the H.F. Festival. [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] >> Grant and Danny is sponsored by the law firm Condorian Murah. They'll guide you and your family in the right direction. They'll help you to draft a will, set up a trust or create a healthcare power of attorney. Schedule a free consultation where there are state planning attorneys at kmloyers.com. Be sure to tell them that we sent you. They'll give you a discount. kmloyers.com. As promised, we've got tickets to the H.F. Festival this weekend at Nats Park. We're going to give away a pair of those tickets right now to caller number 10 at 800-636-1067. The show is Saturday, September 21, Nationals Park featuring the postal service, death cab for cutie, incubus, bush, garbage, jimmy, world, girl talk, violent femmes, tonic, filter, lit. It's got a great, great show. For tickets and more event information, go to the FANDC.com/events, courtesy of IMP. So congratulations to the winners. Beltway Blitz comes your way right now. We'll cover the NFL. The commanders, we will start on the diamond. Bobby Blanco of massandsports.com. Bobby, the Nationals last night got off to a lead. Jake Irvin pitched his butt off. And if you looked up at the end of the game, you missed the Mets coming back to steal a win with a run in the eighth and then a run in the tenth two to one. Break it down for us. Yeah, well, I first wanted to start off by saying that I heard you guys talking about the commanders being the first place on top of the show. And Danny, you weren't too impressed. And we have to remember that these Nationals were technically in a walk or a spot back in May. That's true. Anyone was crowning them, but we were kind of happy for them. I think it's okay to be happy that the commanders are in first place after two weeks, but I digress. Yeah, Jake Irvin showed last night. He did this against the Mets on July 4th. He did it again last night in New York. Four hits, one run, got into the eighth inning, couldn't quite get out. I think the signature moment for him was that that comebacker that he was able to fire to first base. He got all the big fifth pump to scream. That felt like a playoff kind of atmosphere for him and a playoff reaction by him. That's what the Nationals are looking to do over the next couple of weeks. They're playing all contenders that are fighting for playoff position. So these are meaningful games, although they're not quite meaningful for the Nationals in terms of just getting more wins on the scoreboard. But, you know, they're trying to get better and learn how to play these time day games in late September. So this time next year, they're fighting for an October slot last night. While Jake pitched really well, it kind of came down to the runners and scoring position, not being able to then one and one for 10 only scored one run. And I think they went over like six over the last couple of innings. So hopefully more clutch hits coming up over these next couple of days in New York. Yeah, Bobby, I'm saying the quiet part out loud here. And I know a lot of people get ticked off. I know the players don't think this way and they're they shouldn't. They're players. And I know David Martinez doesn't think this way, but I don't care if they lose these games. I care. I want to see the kids do work. And Jake Irvin did last night and you're seeing, you know, some of James Wood has had his two homeer game the other day. You should be dealing crews, go leaps and bounds at a position he hasn't played much in right field with a couple high that real catches here recently. I'm looking at those guys and hopefully, you know, C.J. Anderson company closes out the season strong. I mean, to me, I'm kind of getting what I want here, even if they're not winning some of these games. Yeah, I think I agree with you. I think that's what everyone's kind of looking for. Yes, winning games is important. You want to win games. You want to finish the season definitely with more wins than you did last year. It might not be too many, but even one is technically an improvement. I think there are only three games away from tying 71 wins from last year. So you figure they can surpass that, whether it be by one or a handful of games by the end of the season. But yeah, everyone you just mentioned some of the young starting pitchers like Mitchell Parker tonight, like DJ hers. Mackenzie Gore too also needs to finish strong after he struggled for much of the second half of the season. That's the long-term big picture focus for this team is making sure everyone one finishes healthy, of course, but also finishes on a positive note that they can carry over into spring training next year and start next year looking at like a team that hey, maybe they can kind of sneak into the playoff conversation next September. How did James would follow up on his two-humber game from Sunday? I think he didn't do too well. I know he got in the scoring position and they weren't able to drive him in and that's a couple of times now already where you look at the top of the lineup and especially with CJ not being in there while doing this back issue and also being bumped down earlier last week. It's Dylan Cruz and James would have been great setting the pace, but you know, if Luis Garcia Jr. isn't playing what she was then last night because they were facing a left and starter. Then some of these guys are having trouble driving in James Wood who is getting on base that are really good clip, but we've been used to seeing. So I know we got a second base, wasn't able to score. That would have provided a nice insurance run for them way in the game and of course they end up losing by one. But James Wood, I mean, he had the two-humber game the other day on Sunday at NASCAR. He's looking to finish the season strong. He's going to get paid to do so. Bobby, why are we still platooning Luis Garcia? I mean, if they were competing for first place or a playoff spot, I guess I would get it. But he's a kid. He's had a really nice year. Hadn't he earned some looks against lefties? I 100% agree. I still don't understand why we're protecting a guy who is by all accounts, the veteran on this team right now. I mean, he is the oldest guy has the most service time that anybody in the lineup outside of Joey Gallo. I just don't know what what's the point of protecting him from a lefty starter. He's going to have to face lefties eventually. If he's your second baseman of the future, you're not going to platoon him. You know, it's another course of a normal season. Get him to my bat. No, no, Davey Martinez has said they want to make sure that he finished the season on a positive note. They don't want him to face a handful of lefties. His foots against lefties are bad, which is a fair point. But, you know, they don't want him finishing the season, frustrated, getting into some kind of slump because he can't hit lefties. They want him finishing on a high note. So, from that mental standpoint, I guess, but we can't be doing this next year, you know, starting a guy like a little more of our gets over Luis Garcia, Jr. When this team is looking to be competitive again, Bobby, we appreciate you man. See you at the ballpark. Yeah. So, buddy, you got it. Thanks for smashing sports.com's Bobby Blanco. Let's talk football. Nate Davis USA today to help us do that. Nate last night was a pretty classic finish. The Falcons stunned the Eagles 22-21 at the end of the game. What'd you make of the night? You know, early season football, good to see kind of Kirk Cousins get his feet literally under him. You know, just kind of indicative too, that in some ways it feels like we're really in actual preseason football right now. But, yeah, this is a good game. Of course, the Eagles have AJ Brown to catch that third down fast, but that's how it goes. Minnesota's 2-0. Their schedule's still really hard, but what an enormous win for them, kind of validating everything going on there after week number one for them. Are they for real? Do we have to reevaluate? A little bit, I think. I bumped them way up to like number seven, you know, in my power rankings this week. It feels a little high, but it feels like, you know, Minnesota and the Saints are two teams that kind of earned, you know, respect. I mean, I think two weeks of quality wins tells you something. I think Mattra, the focus is kind of Kevin O'Connell. You know, what a great offensive coach he is and Sam Darnell flourishing there, but defensively, you know, they're really bringing it too. I think they're leading the league in sacks. You know, Brian Flores really loves to bring that heat. So, you know, I think they're going to go down fight this year. We'll see how it goes if they could sustain this, but it's, I think it's a nice testament to the coaching stuff. Patriot's Jets is the Thursday night matchup. New England's been a lot better than expected. I have not been impressed by the Jets, but I know you were talking about cousins coming back from the Achilles. Rogers, even though he's a few months ahead, is dealing with the same thing. How do you feel about that game and those two teams? Yeah, I think you pretty much hit on all that, uh, Grant, you know, I think the, the Jets are kind of finding their way and Aaron Rogers is off-skid. His feet under him, uh, I've been a little disappointed with the performance of the defense and now they've lost Jermaine Johnson, one of their top defense events to Achilles. So, kind of again, Billy puts the onus that I think they need to figure out this, this thing with, with Son Redick now that they're actually losing pieces on that side of the ball. As for the Patriots, I kind of agree. Uh, you know, I think they're really kind of playing, uh, bully ball, their averaging 55 yards more rushing per game than passing. Um, but I mean, they're, they're, uh, this feels a little away from, from being a two and O. So, uh, you know, it kind of feels like throwback Patriots and they're kind of doing what they need to do to win. Uh, maybe maybe a little happier in the locker room while, while doing it, but they've been really surprised as well. Nate, I've been pretty damn impressed with Arizona. Easy to say so obviously after they kicked a snot out of the Rams this weekend, but still, I thought they were the better team for much of that Buffalo game in week number one before Josh Allen kind of put on a Superman cape, but they're, they're maybe whatever is above Frisky. I mean, that, that team is, is not a pushover in that division. No, I mean, I've been impressed with them since John up again and got there and I kind of wondered, you know, how he'd make the transition to head coach. You guys probably remember that they gave the commanders all they could handle in the opener last year when it was Josh with Dobbs a quarterback and they were missing some other guys. Um, you know, they didn't, they didn't notch the wins last year, but I mean, they were always a tough out every week. Um, now they're starting to get some players there. Kyle and Murray is, is a, you know, kind of two seasons are moved now from the ACL tear. You know, we, we know what happens when, when they get Marvin Harrison, the ball and you know, Trey McBride is probably one of the bigger secrets, but one of the better Titans in the game. I'm a little concerned still about what they have or, you know, more accurate. We don't have on the defensive side, but they're going to hang with you. And I think we're going to see them in a lot of shootouts this year and certainly winning their fair share ever. It seems like particularly with all the other issues, you know, floating around the NFC West right now. Nate, we appreciate you as always, buddy. Thanks very much. We will be checking you out over at the USA Today's site. Thank you guys. You got it. That's Nate Davis on the NFL. Let's localize the combo. That's the first place Washington commanders to you. Big voice guy. Scott Abraham of channel seven joins us on G and D about the one and one commanders by way of a division win with the tiebreaker sitting atop the East going into week three, Scotty. First place, boys, let's go. Let's celebrate kind of the small victory here. I was kind of joking to myself. I put a tweet out last night of how former Washington quarterback Kirk Cousins leading Dan Quinn former team, the Atlanta Falcons to a comeback win over Washington's bitter division rival. I just love the love that kind of full circle moment there. That's a little bit of symmetry in terms of this offense in the red zone. Is that something that you're kind of monitoring here? Because I'm going back to Cliff Kingsbury's days in Arizona. They weren't particularly good in the red zone. You wonder maybe that was a collar Murray issue or a school guy issue. Now I'm kind of looking at this group. They got there a bunch, which I'll take every time they were able to move the football down the field, Scott, but they couldn't punch it in. Is that something you kind of got circled as maybe a thinking point here going forward? Yeah, I don't like it. The antennas are certainly up, but I think a lot of the issues on Sunday were self-inflicted wounds, guys. I mean, they had so many pre snap penalties and just head against the table type moments where you're like, are you kidding me? Again, another penalty. So I think when they watch the tape and get kind of the cadence down on the communication, I think those pre snap errors in the red zone will be much better. And I'd like to see them utilize. I know people don't like to hear this or get concerned the fact of Jayden Daniels using his legs, but I think that's a huge weapon in the red zone. I'd like to see maybe some design quarterback runs or something to that nature of getting Jayden doing what he does best, especially those goal to goal situations where you need a touchdown. I'm with you. I actually would turn up the faders on the design runs. My hope is, you know, we just turned down the faders as we go on the scrambles because scrambles to avoid pressure or one thing, but let's reset and throw the football. And I thought there was a lot of growth in that area in the second half against the Giants. I don't know if you agree, but I thought he stood in the pocket, he really played quarterback and he just wanted to find his guys and throw the football and the offense opened up. I thought it looked really, really good in the second half. Funny you mentioned that, Grant, because you were on my show last night, we're actually going to replay that conversation you and I had about kind of his growth tonight at six o'clock on seven news, but you brought up a good point during my show of how it almost like when he got the wind knocked out of him there in the first half, kind of the cobwebs woke him up a little bit. And then the second half, he looked so much more comfortable and poised in the pocket. He seemed like he was sticking on his reeds, didn't get happy feet. It just showed that kind of growth and maturity from week one where he was just kind of running using his legs, running all over the place, not really sticking on his reeds where that second half against the Giants, it felt like maybe the game slowed down for him. He's getting kind of used to seeing the schemes and the designs of an NFL defense. I like this. I love that poison growth and maturity you saw. And I talked to a bunch of the commanders players in the locker room after the game on Sunday and they mentioned Jayden's poise from week one to week two, how they saw the growth in that aspect. So all positive returns right now for Jayden in terms of the growth and development perspective. Defensively, it's still not what we call good, which is an industry term here, Scott. I'm wondering if there's if we expect improvement and if so, how much over the course of the season? You got to believe that again, you can't expect like a CJ Stroud type performance or output in a rookie season. It's so hard to do guys going from that college game to the NFL. Look what Caleb Williams is doing. Look what Bo Nix is doing. I would argue Jayden Daniels has been the best rookie quarterback so far out of the bunch. So I'm just expecting little by little he's going to be stacking practices, stacking games. That's what you want to see. Stay healthy, be smart, see the evolution of an NFL quarterback inside Jayden Daniels. And I think you're going to see those small little wins each and every week where by the end of the season, you know, going into year two, he's ready for kind of the range to be chopped off. Scott, it seemed to me like yesterday listening to Quinn's press conference. Like he was just more truthful, really answered a lot of questions and dove deeper. Was there any kind of difference or like a theme yesterday for him? It just seemed like he really wanted to like tell the truth more. I wonder why that is. I mean, yeah, the whole tell the truth Monday aspect of, you know, you still can learn some things and grow from some things even after a win. And I think he knows, I appreciate it, Dan, you know, reflecting and understanding like, this is by far not a perfect product. There's a lot of warts on this team right now and a lot of things that need to be fixed. And he knows it. The coaching staff knows that the players know it and they got another good opportunity on Monday night and probably their biggest challenge of the season against a desperate Bengals team that's going to national spotlight to kind of show the progression and the evolution of the team aspect itself and to show them getting better and better each and every game. I thought this defense was better from when they were in week one against Tampa. Let's see what maybe the offense can do better in terms of red zone against Cincinnati. So I think you got to look at the small wins and the small progressions week to week guys. So that's why then it was to tell the truth Monday. That's that's what he that's what he that's what he said. That's that's his MO. He calls it tell the truth Monday each and every Monday after the game where everybody gets together. They look at the tape. They look at each other in the eye and they're they're real with each other. They're realistic. What went well? What went wrong? What they have to work with? And he doesn't really hide anything in terms of you know what went well and what didn't go well to us as a media core. And that's certainly refreshing. And he's he's pretty open about it. Scotty. Thank you, buddy. We appreciate you. See you fella. Thanks, sir. Come out. Channel seven. Our guy Scott Abraham on Grant and Danny here on the fan. Next. Speaking of those commanders, we always tell the truth, not just on Mondays. How do they get more out of the defensive end and cornerback positions to weak spots early this season? We'll do that next. [BLANK_AUDIO] Well, I thought it was better in terms of communication first off then. At the Tampa game, we had a couple routes that we didn't match, you know, quite like we'd like. So that part was significantly better to see us, you know, stay on top of routes and do things. They did a nice job of trying to get some play action shots, but you can live with the ones that are comebacks. And even if it's a, you know, 10 or 15 yard comeback, but you're on top of the route, but the ones that go over the top of your head, those are the ones that you can't live with. And so I was pleased to see that come into life more. I felt the guy's speed in the game. And I thought Juan did a good job coming out of the middle field again. That is one of the real strengths of for him. >> That was Dan Quinn. And I believe, Daris, that audio was from Monday, so we know it was truthful. Yes, that was to tell the truth Monday. That wasn't for one of the other days of the week. >> Lying ass Tuesday, duplicitous Thursdays, Monday's truth day. >> Misleading Friday. >> What are we doing? >> I don't know. I just want to know that that is, in fact, from tell the truth Monday. The commanders have some things to clean up as you heard them talking about there defensively. Too early really to look at rankings and take a lot out of them. The Washington right now, 29th in yards per plate offensively, they are 29th against the past per play. They are 31st in sack percentage, 3.5% of their defensive snaps are ending with a sack. In fact, only the Tampa Bay Bucks, weirdly enough, getting fewer sacks right now than Washington, who they've already played. I want to get into how they can get more out of two positions where they have been weak early on. Defensive end coming off the edge and corner back in the secondary. But first, earlier we went a little along with calls on stadium experience. And so we did not get to the three guys that Dan Quinn cited as really having impressed him to this point. He gave two defensive players that he singled out from the game and one offensive player. This was specific just a week two against the Giants. He referenced Zach Hertz, Bobby Wagner, and Frankie Louvoo of those three guys. What do you make of those being the three players that he singled out of the whole team? >> I thought that was interesting. Now it corresponds with good games for all three of them. So it's not just patting myself on the back because those are my handpicked dudes, right? Where if Louvoo had gotten beat like a drum and coverage a bunch of times or had missed tackles and just shouting him out because he yelled on the sideline or something, whatever. So they all had good games. But it is interesting where it's like these were the dudes brought in to kind of help implement it, to help culture change, especially Wagner and Earth. It's almost like conduits for the coaching staff to a degree. So it is interesting that through a couple of games, those are the dudes that have kind of gotten the shot. >> And I think specifically this was just as I said, that one game, let's maybe saying through two games, here's what I like. But in the Giants game, I kind of get it with Wagner and Louvoo, because I thought those guys tackled really well. >> Yes, it did. >> They played very physically. That was an issue I had coming out of Tampa, really both of those things. But namely the tackling. And Wagner was a culprit a couple times with missed tackles. He's going to go to the Hall of Fame because he's one of the great tacklers in the open field in his era. And he's one of the physical players in his position of all time. But he is leading the team right now with 19 tackles. He's actually already got four TFLs. Nobody else on the team playing in the back seven can say that. He's got a PBU in coverage as well. Louvoo really hasn't made impactful plays other than getting people on the ground. It's 16 tackles with nothing else on the stat sheet. But I do think I think that's coming physicality. And you saw him on the big hit. In fact, Quinn singled it out. It was early in the game. It probably could have been a penalty, honestly. I think he got some helmet to helmet. But on the long catch and run early from neighbors where they got in the red zone for the first time. Louvoo came across the field, across the formation. It's what they love about him on film. It's what I think is going to make him an eventual fan favorite here. And he brought the wood like he was full speed ahead. Cross neighbors. They actually pulled him off the field. Remember right before the next snap because those independent doctors thought he needed to be like, Hey, that was a big shot. Come over. There's going to be a few of those when Frankie Louvoo's around. So I get why he singled them out offensively. I did think arts was great. I really did. There were two receptions of 20 plus yards in the game before the dart in the middle of the field to Noah Brown on the final drive. Earth's for 21. Earth's for 20. The 21 yarder was a 50 50 ball contested catch. And I think Jaden got hit as he threw it. So it was kind of there to be intercepted. It was one of the only throws all season. I would say that about an Earth's want to fight with a defensive player for the ball. He's tied for second on the team with seven catches now. He's second with 90 yards to Echler is going to join us coming up in 25 minutes. He's got two 20 plus yard receptions tied for first with Echler. He's got 18 yards after the catch. Very, very little considering seven receptions, 2.5 a pop. But we knew that like he is not. We've jokingly called him a catch and fall guy. He is not a play after the catch guy, Danny, but for first downs. I really believe this having now watched this offense for two weeks and sing McLaurin a not being involved a lot beyond the line of scrimmage and be not really being able to separate frequently. I think Earth's is going to be their primary guy if he stays healthy in the coming weeks. Big gift. But yeah, I think there's something to that. I mean, right now, Tara McLaurin is on pace for 340 yards this season. I think he goes over that. But that's what that's what we're looking at. I hope he gets three times that. It would be a story if he didn't at least three times. It'd be very nice. But in terms of Earth's you know, there's it's a like it's not what I want. I ultimately want the guy that can do what Earth's does catch the football and then also like fall forward for another couple of yards or make somebody miss or rumble a little better or be a threat in the open field. But they don't have that right now. Maybe Senate turns into that one day, but there's still value in Zach hurts. If he's available, if he doesn't get banged up too badly and and the maintains, whatever this is, this is helpful. This is a veteran target that gets by on know how setting people up, being physical, using his hands. He knows what to do with the position. He's like that old guy at the YMCA on a Sunday morning that runs every pickup game, but can't even touch the backboard. But he's down there on the post just putting your butt in the blender. He's got that game right now kind of that post up game. And he can help. He's a target. He's a quarterback's best friend. So I'm going to label this who's growing on you. And in the sense that Quinn said Earth's Wagner Louvoo, how they played are growing on him. We're going to ask this on the phones. MGM National Harbor listener lines at 800-636-1067. I want to hear from you guys on this 800-636-1067 to touch the people. Who is growing on you with this team right now? I've got three names I wrote down. And I want to get one from you as well, Danny. One Brian Robinson. Now, doesn't mean I didn't like him before, but the way he's playing and the way things are developing on offense, we're going somewhere with Brian Robinson. I think in DC this year, this guy's going to make plays for the commanders all year long. 173 yards through two games is number seven in the NFL. 55 rushing yards over expected is number three in the NFL. What does that mean? Next-gen stats looks at where defenders are, where the ball carrier is, and where the expectation of a tackle is made, and based on contact and where you should have been brought down, and what you get after that, there is a stat that I love for running backs called RYOE rushing yards over expected. He's third in the NFL at getting more than basically is blocked for him. Only two guys have been better. In RYOE per attempt, he's also third. He gets over two yards every single run that aren't blocked for him, basically. That's a hell of a number for a guy who wasn't rating like that previously. But I think what you're seeing from Robinson and the reason he's growing on me and the reason this running game has been so successful, this is a Jaden Daniels thing. This is 11 on 11. This is the old 2012 Kyle Shanahan Robert Griffin situation where Alfred Morris rumbles for 16 hunch because you got to account for Daniels on every single play and we're seeing it already. It's not a coincidence to me that after never having a 30 yard run pre Jaden Daniels in 27 career games, it took Robinson two games to do it this year and he ripped off a 40 yarder already. I think he's been awesome. Who's growing on you? No Brown. I mean, I was already, you know, tempered in terms of excitement of him coming in going, Hey, this is a receiver who plays in the NFL. So I'm excited that they're upgrading. Uh, one of my, you know, what I think is the weakest position group on the roster. But after what I've seen, there's some physicality there. There's some suddenness there at kind of, uh, again, the move I keep pointing to is that stutter go where, if it's a different play, you know, if Daniels isn't hit or there's not pressure or he sees him on time, it's a walk in touchdown. And I went, Oh man, that's, that's one of those higher level receiver type maneuvers, right? Where it doesn't feel like the other guys on the roster making that, that route and that adjustment, that sudden move, uh, the big catch there on, uh, in, in the fourth quarter and what ended up being the game winning drive as you still getting his feet wet in this offense that I think they got something here. Two key first downs, three targets, three catches, 56 yards and seemingly the propensity to separate at the top of the route. They don't have a lot of guys who seem to be able, certainly not with size to kind of be twitchy enough to separate when they break out or in. He did that small sample, but he did it in Houston frequently. He did it before that in Dallas. I mean, this is part of his game. I think you saw something from him that is sustainable in the sense that he's going to help them. If you told me right now, he's going to lead them in catches and yards. Next week against Cincinnati, I would not be surprised by that at all. So you go, Noah Brown, I went pre Rob Brown was on my list. I got one other guy. I'll wait and get to him next. But let's ask you guys this question. Who is growing on you? Dan Quinn asked on Monday to tell the truth Monday. Not some regular Monday. Do you remember the TV show to tell the truth? I was trying to tell Drabby and CK about it. They'd never heard of it. Is that what it was? There's multiple versions of that, right? I think it's to tell the truth, because it was what, you know, the capriose character did in catch me if you can. He's like, I, my name is Frank something or other. I did this. So basically the show worked that there were three people that would sit behind a desk. They would all be claiming to be the person. So you would say, I'm Danny Ruye. And I host a radio show and I'm a stand up comedian. There's really no good reason for it. But there's the real Danny Ruye and then two actors. Yeah. And then the game show is that people are asking questions of all three. And at the end, they have to determine which one is the. I think it's I think it's letter B. Exactly. Yeah. Number two, they're one, two or three. And the actor might be me and they'd go, how long have you been in radio? And I'm like nine years. What's the hardest thing about being in radio? And I have to prepare and I'll be like, sometimes, you know, honestly, not being stumped by a caller, you know, they got great questions. But like, sometimes you could tell like that guy's definitely not in that job. The hardest thing in radio is the food drops, like eating that's the worst, but then at the end, they'd be like, who is the real Danny Ruye? And then all three would stand up and sit down and stand up and sit down and then one would stand back up. And it's such a wacky. Yeah. But every time Dan Quinn talks about we do to tell the truth Monday, I just imagine all the commanders standing up and sitting down and him going, who is the real Frankie Louvoo? And like John Allen has to sit down and Frankie Louvoo stands up. Yeah. But it was, I thought it was a great bit. It played terribly in this building. Oh, no one I was talking to had ever seen the TV show or any file on it. Not even a little bit. I got your back. I've seen it. I was once a game show network, Mark watched a lot of games. Click on that at some point. And to tell the truth of one, I watch so much game show network, by the way, card sharks. I cannot tell you how many hours I spent watching the car trucks. That's the good stuff right now. Card trucks was 10. So they do trivia questions to get, you know, how many, like, how much control you'd have. And then they'd go, we asked 100 people, like family feud style. How many people go to bed before 11 o'clock? And like you'd have to do over-under. And like that was the bit. And then you then you played high-low with cards. Daris, do you remember the reprised 2020's version of To Tell the Truth with Anthony Anderson? So I never actually saw that version. I was just looking it up here because I remembered that it did come back. I've never watched his version of it. So sneaky and randomly. I'm a big Anthony Anderson guy because I met him when I was a kid and he was butt-nice, like one of the nicest guys ever. One of the times when I was doing something like sports-wise as a kid, I think at the Super Bowl maybe. He was like there on media day, like doing loud bits, swacky bits. And he'd just been in, I don't know, some movie I'd seen. So I thought, I think it was barbershop, actually. But I just thought I'm like meeting a celebrity. So I've always loved him. But for some reason, his mom was like the co-star of the show. And she would sit there like during To Tell the Truth and help him host the show. Very, very weird. Anyway, who's growing on you for the commanders? That is the pressing question on G&D on To Tell the Truth Tuesday. [silence] Two things. One is the first one, I would say, Zacherts. I thought he just made some impactful plays in this game. He's thoughtful. He knows how to get open. He can find the spots in the zones. He made some big plays for us. And then the other spot is on defense. And I thought Wagner and Louvoo looked like a pair of linebackers that were square. They tackled. They blitzed. They, you know, they just felt like they were in connection and concert together, Candy. And so those two, I really felt Frankie's physicality. There was a big hit early on one of the plays to neighbors on the very first drive that he had a long catch and run. And you just saw Frankie hauling ass and going to get into the tackle. But he brings a lot of energy, not just to this team, but to the entire building. At Stan Quinn, we're Grant and Danny. This is the fan. Austin Echler is on the show a little over 10 minutes from right now. You hear in that clip who Quinn was impressed by, who's growing on you through two games for the commanders. Let's go to shooting in Gainesville on GND. What's up, Judy? How you guys are doing? What's up, buddy? Yeah, so for me, I got three. I mean, so far, Echler and Robertson have been two players have been growing. I mean, I was excited when Echler came. I feel like a lot could be done, but B-Rob, he's looking like, you know, the most dominant running back that we've had in a while. Yes, last week, you know, proved it. So I'm very, they're growing on me. I love my running back room. And then Frankie Luzu is just, you know, the kind of linebacker I want who's physical gets in it. And you know, he showed what he could do last week. So, you know, those are my three. And I hope they continue to go on me. So yeah, thanks. Echler's coming up at the top of the hour on the show. So he's easy to talk about positively right now, but it's been really good. Yeah, this, this is what I was optimistic, hopeful, and thought we were getting. But the fact that it's happened is been awesome. 99 receiving yards leads the team. He's got 109 yards after the catch. Think about that. Yeah. His 99 total yards, because 109 yards after the catch. That tells you he's catching a bunch of balls behind the line of scrimmage. That's part of it. Yeah, too. He's averaging 4.8 yards per carry as well, almost five yards per run. Let's go to Chris and Hyatt'sville. What's up, Chris? That's okay. How you doing? Come on. I want to just make one comment on Frankie Luzu. I think he's got a lot of talent and he is all over the field. But some of the stats indicate that he's not the most efficient linebacker. So that's just my take on him. I'm not trying to finish half on this. Two games into his right new scheme and whatnot. But yeah, we'll see where he ends up. But so far, I would say more than separated physical. He's more sizzled than steak, in my opinion. The guy who's growing on me is Zachar, and I like Danny. I'm like, I'm really surprised that he is still an effective player. He's definitely in the catch and fall category. Like, if he catches the ball and if he's lucky, if he gets one or two more strides after that, but he does get separation and he's a big, huge target for Jayden Daniels. I don't know why they don't aren't starting to experiment with more two tight end sets with a more dynamic Senate. I'd really like to see him get involved a lot more here here. I'm hoping that that's coming. Sometimes guys will talk about this tight end can maybe take a little bit of an extra beat or two to learn some of the intricacies and nuances. You've seen some guys come along a little slowly at that spot and then really blossom later. I'm hoping this is kind of like an apprenticeship for Senate before they start unleashing more and more from him because we're talking about this. Earth's is effective at what he is. Senate, you saw on the preseason that that catch in space and he's rumbling, mumbling, stumbling knocking people over and getting extra yards. I think he can do that. Senate's a really good blocker. So to some extent, they're going to want him to do a lot of that early on too while they have Earth's. And then I also think there's just something to, as a veteran with a young quarterback, running precise routes, being in the right spot, knowing when to throttle it down to help beat zones. You know, some of the things Earth's is done. You heard, frankly, Quinn talking about it in that clip. I think Senate is better after the catch. And I think he's going to be better as this year goes on. But does he rip that ball away from the defender? I don't know. I know Earth's did. Right? I mean, does he get wide open on the 20 yard gain where he kind of had a guy running with him and he just kind of stopped and drifted to the middle of the field. It's felt like that was a little bit like schoolyard Travis Kelsey kind of. All right, let me just give Jaden a target. I think there's some of that in Earth's game. Let's go to Kevin and Arlington. What's up, Kev? Hey, guys, thanks for taking my call. Here are my three on offense. It's Brandon Coleman at left half. Oh, no, you know, he's not perfect yet. But I've seen a lot of good from him in the platoon. But I'd like to see him take over and push a little clover to either right tack or just having ready to go as a swing. Also, very happy with Noah Brown's performance of the second wide out past McQuarn. I think you may have even said this yesterday, Grant, on the show. I agree with you or must standing said it. And that is he actually looks like he could be a number two receiver. Where's the other guys? I'm just not seeing it. But Brown, based on what I saw last year in spots with the Texans and now here, he's definitely growing on me. And then on the other side of the ball, it's it's Louvoo. And here's why, because we were all like, where's Louvoo in the Tampa game? Or a lot of us were like, we just, we didn't, we didn't notice him. And he was really noticeable this past game. The other thing I have to live with, let me put this flag, is during the game, I was like, why are we getting gas? Why is this back looking like Barkley? Barkley placed for the Eagles. And yet I felt we were getting gas. But then when I looked at the league stats, we were giving up less than five yards for Terry. And the first few games were in the middle of the pack. We're like 18, that are 32. Wasn't bad relative to the rest of the league, as I thought. And I think what we're seeing, and you all talked about this, Danny, definitely talked about this yesterday, we're, we're defending to not give up the big play. Totally. And thanks for the call. We're up against it. We got to get to Echler. But I would say the Giants had whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted on the ground. They just kind of had to, they got to the point where they were just feeding Malik neighbors, because they could do that too. I don't think it was like Washington stopped them from running. If it didn't force the action anyway, on Brandon Coleman at left tackle he had 14 reps against the Bucks in week one up to 22 snaps against the Giants as he continues to get worked more and more into the flow. Let's talk to Austin Echler next our weekly appointment with the dynamic running back right here on Grant and Danny at the top of the hour on the fan. [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] It's Grant and Danny on the fan, the exclusive sponsor of our shows, the law firm, Condorion Murad, will guide you and your family in the right direction, help you to draft a will, set up a trust, create a healthcare power of attorneys, schedule a free consultation with our estate planning attorneys at kmloyers.com. Be sure to tell them GND sent you so that they can get you a discount, kmloyers.com. We are fired up to go to the hotline right now. Welcome onto the show. Austin Echler, commanders, tailback, and the team's leading receiver through two games. Austin, welcome back on GND. How you been, man? I've been doing well, doing well. Thanks for having me back on. You got it. As always, every single Tuesday, all season long, Austin will be with us right here at five o'clock on the fan. So there's so much to get into, but I guess we could start right at the beginning of the game with a 98 yard house call, house call, new kickoff rule. Echler's back there as a surprise on the week one, first return, and it took you all of two weeks to break one for a touchdown, and then it came back via penalty. So let's just start with what you saw as you approached that pile of bodies in the new kickoff. I know what an epic way to start out the season, huh? At the home opener, I just, I was like, there's no way that this is starting it out like this, but I guess here we go. So I mean, the boys blocked it up. I really didn't have to do anything too crazy. That's the beauty of having great blocking. But unfortunately, someone blocked a little too good and obviously got the holding call and brought it back, but still a good way to bring some energy to the home opener. So it couldn't have been any more epic. When did you realize and how did you find out eventually there was a flag down at someone yell at you? Because you guys were celebrating in the end zone for a minute first. Yeah. I mean, so it's still, we still celebrate because we don't know what the flag is, right? So we're going to go out there and do our thing as far as like, yeah, you know, get everyone pumped up because it's not often you see, you know, one to the house. And so especially with me back there, I haven't returned kickoff since my rookie year. So yeah, I was definitely disappointed to realize there was a holding call. But hey, we still got the most energy that we could. You're such a nice guy. I would wonder if like, if I'm you, I might do something post-game because obviously you guys got the wind and it's, and it's water under the bridge. But you could just go stand next to Nick Buller's locker, just kind of stare at him, just like just for like extended few seconds and just listen, I'm just kidding, man, good game. You know what I mean? Like, you ever do stuff like that? Those kind of hijinks to break the tension. He immediately came to me and apologized. And so I was appreciated. I didn't even know who got the holding call, but I was appreciative of that. He, he owned up to his mistakes and let me know what happened again. So we're, we're straight, we're straight over. So there's no like bottle of wine or anything. Like kangaroo court style after a play like that comes back. No, I think, you know what, we're teammates. We get it stuff happens, you know, we pat each other on the back and we'll get on to the next one. Well, more opportunities to do that. How, how do you like the new kickoff so far? It's kind of weird to ask after you break one. I'm sure you like it a lot more now, but I mean, seriously though, it looks funny, but what do you think? It's, it's different. That's for sure. I think it definitely takes out the big collisions of the initial kind of stopping of a body on kickoff return for those guys. So I think for as far as the concepts and why they put it in, I think that works. I mean, it's still a violent play. It's still football and people running full speed at each other. So you never take that out of it. So it just, yeah, it just looks funny, but I think it's just one of those things where everyone's got to kind of get used to it. Then they'll be like, Oh yeah, that's how we do it. So I think it's here to stay. And I, yeah, I think it's good. Austin, how comfortable are you at this point in, in this offense in terms of having it be, you know, kind of second nature, you just know it intuitively at this stage. How long does it take you? Well, what's really unique about the NFL is there's a base kind of that we have as an offense, but then you start to game plan for every single opponent, right? And you have like a new offense somewhat being installed on every single week. So you'll still have some of your base plays, but then it's like, Hey, here's some key plays based off of what we see with matchups, with different coverages, different philosophies from defensive coordinators that we'll try to counter. So it's always the evolving playbook. But for the most part, we know how to communicate with each other. We got to get ourselves straightened out with some of these false starts, which is which is easy to fix. Just communication air there with the cadence and everything and being loud. So I feel comfortable, but not necessarily like it's something that I know by nature, because it's always evolving. That makes sense. Austin, you've done a really nice job and had some big collisions in the backfield and pass pro. And I know that's been a big part of your game because you can't be a pass catching back on the field in those situations. If you're not trusted to pick up blitzers and pick up DBs coming off the edge, take me back to when really, that became a priority. I can't imagine you were doing a lot of that in college. Maybe you could correct me, but like, how did you get good at that? And for a lot of running backs, it's what separates you being in the league or not when you're down the depth chart. Like, what goes in? There's a lot that goes into it. It's not complicated. It's actually simple, but not easy. One of those things. It can get complicated, I should say, but it's more so okay. You have to understand who the decordinator is and what their philosophy is. What are they trying to do? How are they going to potentially be setting up? And then everything has to do with what is our philosophy on offense? Are we sorting? Are we on a man call? Like, what type of protection scheme do we have? Is it play action? Because all of these different plays drop back, three step, five step, all these different plays, I have different types of protection rules. And so knowing what the play is, knowing what the defense is, doing some studying, marrying those together, walking through it a bunch of times during the week, that gets you to step one. Okay, now you know who to block. Second is actually going and actually doing the blocking. So if you know who to block, you can react even quicker. And the quicker you can react, the less time they have to get to full steam and run you over. And so that's kind of my philosophy is know who's blitzing right at the snap based off my pre snap reads and based off a demeanor and stuff like that. And then get myself in a position where I don't have to take on a full charging guy that's 40 pounds heavier than me. Then it comes down to your technique. What's your technique? Me, I'm built with leverage, you know, I'm five, eight. So I'm already probably lower than you are. So now it comes down to using proper technique, hands inside, setting a good base and delivering a blow. So I mean, there you go. That's how you pass blocking the NFL. All right, I'm ready to go do it. I'll just go do that real quick. Also five eight with very different bodies. We have very different frames on our five eight. I would point out, as you know, from a finally meeting in person in the locker room here the other day. Austin Eckler's with us on Grant and Danny, how much film do you watch in a week before a game? Oh, it's very particular. As far as not like I'm watching games and games and games or more so watching kind of like different linebackers, watching different kind of cut-ups of what we're expecting to see. I don't want to get bogged down, watching too much film and over thinking, just seeing really the structure of their defense. And now at this point being in nine years, you show me the structure that I'm pretty much got with their defense is going to look like. And now it's just kind of studying some of their, what we call game records to kind of see how I can affect them, whether it's chipping guys on the way out. If it's a defensive lineman or edge rusher or making sure that I know if it's a linebacker, how they blitz, how they cover, like what is their strength that makes them a game record. So at this point, it's really just particularly kind of looking at guys that can really affect the game in a big way. Austin Eckler with us here on Grant and Danny. So Austin, I was thinking back to our conversation last week during the game. I think it was a reception. It could have been a run, but it was on the left sideline. And I think you want to hurdle somebody and he didn't go down maybe the way that you thought he would. And you bounced off him and we're on your feet. And kind of we're looking around like, well, what's wrong with you, dude? Why are you down? And I'm still up. Now, I couldn't help but think of that combo where you're saying, yeah, I kind of bounce off people. It's sort of what I do. But that seemed like pretty good evidence of that. Yeah, man, that's kind of, kind of been the story of Austin myself. It's like, Hey, I can run. I'm strong lower body, good body control as you could see there. Yeah. So I catch the ball down the sideline. I'm running full speed at a corner. And I'm like, okay, DB, probably going to go low. And so I start to gather to jump. Well, was I wrong? Yeah. He also jumps, but into me, luckily I was in a position where I could really brace myself. And then there was a linebacker there that ended up being in the picture too. They kind of got some aftermath of it. And they both fell down. And I mean, when you go airborne and it doesn't work, usually it's carnage. You're on the ground. Fortunately for your boy this time, I boom, I, I fit the landing. And I'm just like, in my head, like, what the heck? How did I just land that? Yeah. You know, I should have done some like, some like, you know, UFC, like celebration move, because, you know, everyone was on the ground around me that would have been cool, or some like, sumo stamp stomp or something kind of missed opportunity. But next time, you know, next time I get a running airborne, you know, collateral damage around me, I'll make sure to hit a celebration. So you mentioned that like, like a corner out there, I was going to ask you, when, when do you go? I mean, it's all split second. You guys are going so damn fast. But when is it hurdle time? When is it shoulder time? When is it, uh, show them a little wiggle? Like, like, how do you decide in that kind of split second? Uh, it's, it's just repetition. And kind of how your philosophy of your brain works, because some guys aren't like, Oh, I'm going to wiggle. Like I had a, I had an inside zone where it was meeting my back one on one. And in my head, it's like, Oh, you know, it's just right. And it's like, get around. And it's just like kind of like reaction, like, Oh, get around, like, and it's like, Oh, Jeff step, like I've already been through this scenario going through bags, hundreds, thousands of times, you know, hurdle or say, Oh, hey, they're going low. That one was kind of preempted. And so, yeah, usually don't do that doesn't end up too well. Usually it should be a reaction. If they go low, you go high. And so it's all reactionary based off of their leverage, how fast they're going, your fast, you're going, your positioning is anyone around you. And you kind of adapt to that kind of scenario with what tools you have in your toolbox. So you got to know what tools you have, you got to continue to play within the confitements of your capacity. Luckily for me, it's really kind of just being that kind of scat. Like, I'm, you know, I'm really agile and not necessarily a bruiser. So if I was a bruiser, I'd run them over. That's not necessarily my game plan. Speaking of bruisers, Austin, Brian Robinson, ripped off a 40 yard and two 30 plusers this week on his way to a career high one 33 you and him both haven't field days. You throw Jaden into the mix. You guys ran for two 15 right now. The running game is one of the best in football already. And it just seems like an identity is being established. What did you make of how successful you guys dominated the Giants on the ground? Yeah, Brian Robinson is definitely a punisher. Like he is a big bat who's going to look for content or contact and run you over. Like that's his philosophy. That's kind of his build. And then he's going to continue to rise. It's not going to be easy to take this man down. Like he is strong lower body 62 225, you know, just a big running back. And I think it's awesome. I think it's awesome that we have him kind of that punisher type. And then we have myself who's really a pass catcher, make you miss type as well. And so it's a good, it's a good kind of two headed monster that we have in the backfield. And you know, you got to give credit to the O line for, you know, the run game getting it started to because they've been doing a good job of making sure we have some gaps as well. So as we continue to put this thing together, we've had a good running plan and it marries up with the past game as always. And so it's just good complimentary football. We're able to put the ground game together. A little inside football here. How often on a RPO, like you guys are RPOed him to death early in the game with those screens. Do you know generally if it's going to be pulled and thrown or given to you? And I'm just curious, like for you, I saw four ineligible man penalties for the line for the Eagles on Monday night football last night on those RPOs that hurts pulled. I get how hard it is for them. But as a back, like what's that play like? Yeah, I mean, for you, your philosophy is we're running the ball like you have to like you can't be thinking, Oh, he's going to pull it because the fact that if you're thinking of that and then now what you're not thinking of, well, where you need to run the ball and how you need to get there. And so you as a running back, just kind of are blocked in on your keys and your read so that when you does hand the ball, because you're anticipating that, that you can get through where you need to get through. So you're not trying to read the same defender that he is basically to know. Heck no. Heck no. It's so for us, we're getting it blind. We don't know. We don't know. We don't know who he's reading and where they're at. But as far as, you know, if he's going to pull it or not, we don't know that. Got you. Austin Eckler with the Sierra on GND. So Austin's curious. I mean, obviously you guys are competitors. You want to win the football game? That's done. That's obvious. That that's a given. Just wondering how you're viewing this. So me as just a pudgy zilch of a fan, I will take 37 minutes of time and possession 400 plus yards. We already mentioned the the rushing stats. No punts. You guys in the red zone six different times versus you guys that weren't able to punch it in a couple of different things happen each time. How do you view that offensive performance for you guys? Obviously the wind's most important thing, but you know, is that a hey, it's encouraging? Look at all the good or is it damn? We left some men on the bone. How do you view that as a competitor? There's some good and some bad. There's good that we didn't have to punt. We were able to move the ball and get into scoring position. That's good. Bad because offensively, we've never scored. And so it's not necessarily like a medium like there's good and bad. You call it how it is and you take it how it is and you learn from it. And for us, yes, we showed signs of being able to consistently move the ball, which is great. We want to build off of that. But what definitely needs to happen is we got to get rid of these red zone penalties that are killing us in the red zone, backing us up. And we got to find a way to get our butts in the end zone because you're not going to win many games if you don't make field goals and can't get the end zone in the league. Every once in a while, you might sneak your win like we did on a on a field day of field goals, but you don't want to live in that world. Yeah, no doubt. I think there were five false starts in the red zone where some of those like out of the huddle late or trying to change a player or they all just flinches. Like, what was their theme there? It's all of the above, all of the above. It was loud. It's flinches, it's changing plays. So the great thing for us is the stuff that we can fix, right? It's not not a matter of, you know, someone's not talented enough or anything like that. Like these are easy penalties that we can easily fix, which by doing some, you know, just get on the same page, kind of take a, take an extra period to talk through this in a meeting and things like that and a walk through to say, this is how we're doing a red zone. Everyone walk into this cadence and things like that, you know, I wonder if there's someone that's, again, that's been around and seeing some things in this league. I wonder if this is just sort of this off the top of my head here, Austin, like I've seen it occasionally happen. I'm just sort of curious if this is something that you would feel comfortable doing or if it would make sense. Like if you see something before the quarterback does, right, where you go, Hey, what we've got called in your brain, like, what we've got called is not going to work because of this. Would you be able to go, Hey, Jaden, dude, like, do you see that? Like look over there. Don't do that. Let's run something else. Or is it just sort of, you got to hope he sees it. Like, how would that work? Yeah, not, I wouldn't do that during the play. You know, that's not that if he, if he did miss the call, you talk about on the sideline, but just we have to know as players, especially the right back, I'm right next to him, he is command and seeing all of this. And so he's putting us on the same page. And I'm not in every single one of his quarterback meetings. So it might be something that I think because I heard something else, but he might be seeing something else totally different. And so there's no chance I'm ever going to be like, Hey, Jaden, check it to this. You know, because that's just kind of stepping out of what is on my plate as far as far as responsibilities. And I was, there's things that I see, you know, was like, Hey, they're dropping me in the flat, you know, things like that, like, or Hey, hey, coach, they're bringing down the free safety. I would more so talk to one of our coaches and then get that relayed so that Jaden would know if we need to check out about stuff like that, you know, Austin, there are a few things prettier in football. Again, baseball, the most beautiful thing you can see is like a perfectly executed hit and run, right? In football, the perfectly timed and designed screen. Oh, I get steamed up. There were two awesome designs from Cliff. One was the center screen. It looked like designed to you, maybe, unlike that little Texas route where you come back. Oh, yeah. And you got two dudes on the hashes, just walled off and you kind of like a surfer through a wave, all asked between both of them. That was awesome. And then the throwback screen that was clearly designed for you as well. Either a thought on both of those is fine, but was one of those better executed, did you think? Did you have a favorite, like, design to that week? Yeah, funny thing is the throwback wasn't even a screen. I was just checked out. I just have to be wide open over there. I got away. Oh, wow. I was hoping to chip the end. So a checkdown can turn into big plays too. But the screen across the middle, yeah, that was the thing of beauty for sure. And it's so hard. Here's the thing. And all NFL teams go through. It's so hard to simulate those types of plays and practice because you don't know if you're going to get a true rush from the guys, from on defense, or if they're going to sniff it out right away. You're kind of just like, all right, let's just go in here and try to make this thing work. And even, you know, some of our online were talking about like, yeah, we had no idea how that was going to play out, but it played out perfectly for us. And like you said, it was a thing of beauty getting right down the hashes and picking up the first down on like third, like 15. Awesome. Obviously, no spoilers here. It's like a like a super secret embargo of like a movie trailer or something that's coming out. But the more you and Brian Robinson are on the field together, I think the harder it's going to be for defenses. Like, does it feel like there's more in store in that regard? Just kind of keeping them on their heels and guessing? Look, I think Brian and I have done a good job of when we have the ball in our hands, make it something happen. And there's only one ball. So whether we're both on the field or not, or if it's him or me, I think it just comes down to, hey, if we can get the ball in our hands, we got to continue to do what we've been doing and building off of what our team has been able to build off of with us in a dynamic way, right? Or continue to find different ways to get the ball out wide, whether it's in the screen game, whether it's running off tackle, tosses. I think things happen as we're on the same page and making plays. And you know, our team is doing the same around us. So no telling. I have no idea. It comes down to whether it's our matchup, who we playing, do we match up? Well, you know, what's going on with potentially injuries and things like that. So it's a whole, it's a whole ecosystem, you know, algorithm that these coaches are trying to, you know, find the best way to try to attack. Ducky sauce on Twitter, one of our listeners said, please ask Austin about his winning the Angry Run Awards. So NFL networks, good morning football. I didn't see that. Did you win the award for the flying knee today? Apparently I won an award for, yeah, for jumping in the air and, you know, trucking a guy in the air and then let's stick in the landing. There you go. So you'll get that. What do they give? They give like a little sword or something. Yeah, like a mallet or something. I don't know. They get all hyped up for, for some boy. Hey, it's a cool little segment. I didn't actually know about it until today. But I saw the video that they made and seems like they got good energy over there. So I'm thankful for any recognition. Yeah, it's another trophy for the case, dude. There it is. Obviously like touchdowns are the best. But what's something like kind of hidden small could be pass pro or something else were like in the film room, you and maybe the other running backs are going nuts. Like something that we wouldn't notice at home. Ooh, that we wouldn't notice at home because I'm going to say, well, touchdown is obviously a nice one. But I can notice those. But you can also notice like like making people miss like winning one on one. That's another one that like we're big on. As far as like big in the in the room because it depends on who you are too. Pass pro is another big one, right? Just great solid pass pro. Like that's something that like the chip where you get a guy off balance and just drill them. Not even that. It's just like when you just like, you know, stone a guy in the hole and it's just like, that sounded a little weird. But you just like sturdy in there and you're just, you know, boom, you got your job done. And quarterback was able to sit in the pocket. Like that's something that we get, we get excited about. And just, I mean, good fundamentals and runs too. It doesn't have to be like a gash like, hey, you found the soft spot and then you fell forward for another two, three yards drag at somebody. Like that's something that's like nice. Like that's good football right there because not every run is going to be a huge run. But hey, what can you make when it's a little cloudy? So those are a couple, just a couple of moments left with our guy Austin Echler once a week joins us here on Grant and Danny kind enough to do so all season long on the fan. We will continue to incorporate more and more questions from listeners as we go to. I know something that you want to do a lot of two things. One, what'd you do with the off day today? How'd you spend your Tuesday away from the park? Yeah. So my office pretty much consists of all the same, same things for me. And it's really building all of the ecosystems that I have outside of football. So right now my app experience is kind of my baby that I'm nurturing and building and putting out to the market. It's a fan engagement platform that helps colleges and professional athletes connect with fans. So that's what I've been doing today. I've had a ton of calls with teams getting things together. We're really learning from a lot of our processes now. And so that's pretty much it. I went in and got to work out as well. Got some treatment. I'm about to go down to George Town actually with my wife now and have dinner with with one of her friends. So a good active productive off day. Well done. Do you ever need food wrecks where you're guys? We can't help you with PassPro. We will help you. No work out tips here. But food, we got you. We got nothing but good advice on that front for you. And then the other thing I wanted to know was before we let you go Monday night football, man. Next time we see it, we'll be under the bright lights. Joe Buck Troy, I've been the whole country watching in Cincinnati coming from the AFC, a place you've been too many a time, I'm sure. But is there any added juice? National TV prime time Monday night? What's your thoughts? I mean, there's definitely some added juice because it's a prime time game. Absolutely. But the thing is we're already matched out on juice when we go play our game. So that's just another thing to add on top of it, I guess. But in the most part, we're ready to go with every game. So prime time, we'll take it normal, kick off, you know, 11 o'clock, one o'clock, it doesn't matter. We're ready to go. Awesome. As always, my friend, we'll talk to you next week, man. Hey, yeah. Looking forward to it, boys. Have a good one. Thank you. Got it. Austin Echler. Absolute stud. I wish that 98 yard major tuddy would have held up for him. The hold was away from the play. It was like, that's a touchdown, dude. I just did you stand next to the guy? Jayden Davis, two games in. How we feeling? What have we liked so far? What do you guys think so far? We'll get into the quarterback next on Grant and Danny. [BLANK_AUDIO] We're still learning, too. And, you know, Jayden's just going into a second game. We had some ones down the field that we would have liked to have seen him take. Some of the ones, even on the scrambles, to remain a passer as you're coming closer towards the line of scrimmage to throw it down the field. You're probably referring to some of the RPOs that would have worked in there. One of the things I did like about, you know, the way that we did able to control the possession of the ball, I think there was probably 35 runs and 23 completions. And if you're 55, 56, I think you may end up being like 58 somewhere in that neighborhood, saying what then happens is time of possession, you know, now can become a factor in more plays. And so although we missed the mark in the red zone, I was pleased to see us, you know, taking care of the ball. It is a Tuesday, which means commander's survivor. Go to facebook.com/grantandannynow to vote. One of the players off the island who still remains, only a manual 4% home in a week one. And to give somebody immunity. Brian Robinson was immune this week. He won't need to use it because he was maybe the best player on the team on Sunday running for 133 yards. But who gets immunity this week? You're going to vote right now, facebook.com/grantandanny. I guess it's a decent time Danny for you and I to cast our ballots since we have not yet. So first things first, who are you giving immunity to? Austin Seibert. I mean, it's not something I thought I would be doing, but he made all seven field goals. And that was instrumental. Those were the points he accounted for every single one they had. Not any one kick was more difficult, maybe than another 45 yards. I think was the long for the day, but you know, that operation, it all takes us one bad plant foot, one push, one overcompensating, whatever. He made all seven kicks. That's why they won. Yeah, he is an option. Just so people know that the name's still available. Jaden Daniels, Austin Echler, Terry McClellan, Deyami Brown, Zachar, it's Brandon Coleman, Sam Cosme on offense. And then on defense, the detacles, Alan and Payne, the linebackers Wagner and Lou Voo. And then in the secondary, Benjamin Saint used Quan Martin and Jeremy Chin because you already took Austin Seibert. And because I think he could need it more than other guys, potentially, I'll go Benjamin Saint used had the huge peanut punch takeaway that may have actually saved the game. The Giants were driving with a chance to go up 10. He knocks the ball loose. The Jeremy Chin recovers, gets the takeaway. He also had a couple of pass breaks up breakups in the game as well. So I will go based primarily on that one big play, but his performance in general, BSJ, I thought was much better and is deserving of immunity going into a tough match up. He may need it with Jamar Chase. How about your immunity? Oh, voting off. Excuse me, voting off the island. This one is harder. So there's nobody that's, I'm going, Oh, what a bum. We played terrible or they're bad or this wasn't good. I mean, a couple nominees caused me at a couple false starts, especially in the red zone. You know, some things weren't great. Tell me Brown hasn't been productive through a couple of games, term of corn too much, you know, uh, demanded deposits in the bank for him to get voted off, although he didn't do much this past week. Brown did have two catches and got a big first down in the first try. Yeah, I voted for Brandon Coleman to be off again, not because he was bad or not, you know, he did something crazy wrong, didn't play a ton when he did. I don't think this got counted because there was a penalty on the play of it. Thibodeau whooped him, beat him like a drum drill, Jaden Daniels ended up being a penalty away from the ball and they got five yards out of it. So it gets lost in the stats, but I voted for him to be off. But again, this wasn't one of those get off my island in manual Forbes type situations. Yeah, that's a good one. I'm going to go Jeremy Chen. I thought he missed a handful. That's probably a better one. Yeah. And maybe it was like, you know, three officially or something, but there were too many times where I saw him, you know, not making a tackle, not to beat up on him. But like you said, there's nothing overly obvious. There's three or four guys you could vote off and be fine with it. But it wasn't like last week where there's someone just screaming at you saying, Hey, vote me. Yeah. I'm probably like the coaches voted him off too. No longer worthy of being around in the next week on commander's survivors. So the votes are piling up. Darris is going to tabulate them at facebook.com/grantanddandy got about 20 more minutes to vote. I'm sure you saw this Danny, but I did want to call attention to this. First of all, on the caps front today for the Washington capitals, Alex Ovechkin turned 39 years old. I got in my feels a little bit and sent out a tweet on this today. Alex Ovechkin is entering his 20th season. On the day he was drafted in June of 2004, 20 years ago now, I was weeks away from getting my driver's license. I was 16 years old. I was going into what would have been my junior year of high school and I was about to get my driver's license. I'm now 36 with three kids living in my second home and I have white in my beard. He just keeps playing and he keeps scoring goals. No athlete in DC sports history, but I would even say in any sport in history has ever given me more joy than Alex Ovechkin. You know, it's weird for me because the caps have always been kind of like, even though I cover them on television for monumental sports a little bit as a you know, an analyst, so to speak, or what I consider to be like a panelist roles almost doing these alt casts. It's not to say I've never had a credential to them or anything, but they've always been the team I'm really a big fan of. I wear the jersey and I go to the games. There's just not a player who's given me more. And when you add up 20 years of memories, Alex Ovechkin, who has changed the landscape of sports in this town more than any other player. I just think we were missed if we didn't say happy birthday. Yeah. Number 39 to Alex Ovechkin. I didn't know that him and James Wood, by the way, share a birthday because James Woods turned 22 today. So happy birthday to James as well. But Ove getting ready to kick off season number 20. And they made an announcement today on his birthday that the caps are bringing back the black screaming eagle sweater that I love so damn much. They wore them a bunch that in the capital, but with the the black sweater a couple of seasons ago, then they went away from them last year. They're bringing them back for six games, which means more importantly, they'll be back in rotation, being sold, easy to get your hands on. I love that look. I don't know where you're at on the black sweaters. It's been the rock the red era for a long time, but they're Ove's favorite and they're my favorite. Do not move me. As you might expect. I mean, to me that's that reminds me of Yarmul Yager and like Adam Oates and Joe as you know, and kind of the that pre OV failure. That's what that reminds me of, whether that's the exact right error timeline. It just it doesn't feel right to me. Like to me, it's the red. It's that old school red, white and blue with the kind of the cheesy capital across it. You know, like that's the thing that I've always fallen in love with. But yeah, having the occasional alternate jerseys is pretty neat. I'm into that. I know you hate any kind of Jersey talk. Do you like is it just as simple as I don't care. It's Jersey or do you actively not like the look? It doesn't. Yeah, it doesn't get to the point of active dislike. Okay. Like, but it does remind me of Yarmul Yager, one of my least favorite athletes of all time. So like, I when I see that jersey, I picture him, which means I'm not happy. Like that, you see what I'm saying? Like I have associations like that where, for example, most a lot of people have about the gold pants. I think Bruce Allen immediately, like that's it's not voluntary. It's a spasm. I hear gold pants. I hear Bruce patting himself on the back getting sore from doing all this. Pat in his own back, just so excited that he brought the gold pants back. And so they annoy me. But that doesn't mean they shouldn't wear. I'm just saying that's my association. That's nobody's fault. Jaden Daniels was rocking gold pants. You like him. I'd like to think Jaden Daniels when you see gold pants, we get a few more dubbies. We can start talking about that talk. Jaden Daniels and how he's played through two games next on G and D top of the hour coming up in 20 minutes. Buy yourself on the two and O teams in the NFL. You're listening to the fan. [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] G and D on the fan. We're taking you to 630. Nat's baseball from City Field in New York tonight. We'll preview the Nat's in the Mets before we get out of here coming up in about 30 minutes. Two games in. Jaden Daniels outperforming his rookie peers. We talked earlier about how he has both out rushed and out past Caleb Williams and Bo Nix to this point ugly start to the season for both of those guys. By the way, are you worried about either of them in the big picture? I was looking at odds of who the next quarterback to be benched is neither of them are high on the list as you'd expect because it's two games in top half of the first round picks. Neither should be benched. I'm not suggesting that's the case, but in Bo Nix's case, at least Zach Wilson is an interesting player behind him on the depth chart, whereas Caleb Williams is going to have a leash longer than the line at the DMV. Williams not worried. Nix worried. I mean, it's been a college for seven years, whatever it is. Like on his van Wilder plan wasn't special, hasn't been special, probably overdrafted by Denver, but Sean Payton thought he saw kind of this Drew Brees 2.0 type deal. I just, I don't see it. I don't know that it's going to happen. I don't think the surroundings are great. I don't think Denver's particularly good. I think that's going to be kind of a mess. I'm worried about him, not yet on Williams. I just think there's too much talent there. So with that in mind, he's been better than those two overall through two games. How do you feel about Jaden Daniels? Really good. Really good. The, the gear that or the thing that he has that not everyone else does, when all hell breaks loose, when it's not good, where, you know, I'm just picking someone that's had a great start with Derek Carr who's got a 100 trillion quarterback rating, Derek Carr gets sacked or Derek Carr has to throw it away. Jaden Daniels picks up 14 because he made people mess and he escaped and stuff. And that, that elite thing taking negatives and turning them not only into lesser negatives, but into positives is incredible. It's, it's the thing I've dreamed about. It's that playmaker gene where you rip somebody's heart out, where you think they're in the grasp, that thing of that Carson Wentz moment. So many years ago, when he's in Philadelphia, where three different defenders have a chance to bring him down, he ducks under them somehow and throws up 70 yard touchdown, you go, Oh my God, that was the worst thing that could have happened. A 13 yard loss is now a touchdown and we're boned. That thing that he's got, what needs to grow and is growing is the calm, 72 and sunny, drop back, pet the football, find my receiver, maybe buy a little time, move around a little bit. And you saw that growth in the second half. But overall, his pastor numbers, you already mentioned rank favorably among rookies. He's kind of holding his own with the rest of the NFL, not among the best of the best by any stretch and that shouldn't be the expectation. But he's right there in a whole bunch of categories based on how they're basically team things up for him. Sure. On what is a, you know, a very easy way to kind of pick up yards in the passing game. And you know, there's a lot of guys that could put up the, a lot of the numbers that he has as a passer to this point. It hadn't been a lot of high difficulty throws, but no reason to knock that. Here's where I am. I feel really good as well about him as a runner. I knew I would. I feel really good about the offensive development around him. They are great at running the ball because of him. They're getting teams to go 11 on 11. Brian Robinson is better because of him. Austin Echler is better because of him. I think they're receivers. Eventually Zach Kurtz, Terry McCorn, the rest of them are going to be better because of him as a passer. I can't say I feel really good yet, but I am encouraged. I'll tell you when I felt really good, the second half against the Giants, which is his most recent half. And I hope he builds on that, but I'll save really good as a passer for when they are, you know, score a touchdown. They have scored one in non garbage time against Tampa Bay. They have moved the ball pretty much at well, to your point, mostly because he's been able to run and they've been able to run. But when they get their passing offense on track, when they've got receivers catching balls down the field a couple of times in a half, then I'll go really good. When he starts resetting after leaving the pocket and throwing and like makes that leap, then I'll feel really good. But overall, I think I'm excited. I think he's been as a passer, I'm going to say solid as a football player and a playmaker overall, he's been good. And he has not been in problem in any way. That's what I'm excited about. He hasn't turned the ball over. He hasn't put it in harm's way. Now, I know if there's somebody sitting there going, well, why would he put it in harm's way? They don't really throw down the field and he hasn't had to throw any covered receivers yet. I think there's probably been, I don't know, two or three passes. There are two games where there's been a defender anywhere near the guy that caught the ball. Like I get it, but the other guys are throwing picks. They've designed something for him that is safe that does keep the ball coming out quickly. And I think that's a good thing, not a bad thing. So I feel good, man. And I think people should be excited because it could not be going this way. Like it could be going worse where they didn't have their best half passing the football in their most recent half. But this was always my point was the floor because he can run is just not that low. Like so far to me, he's been great running the ball. They haven't really done much passing the ball. And it seems like you and a lot of people feel like it's awesome. And that's what you get when you get a great playmaker who runs the football all over the place. I just need to see a little more from the passing game till I'm maybe on that level with you. Sure. And I don't understand that the I don't hold the he's doing what's asked of him against him though. And I'm not saying you do necessarily, but it's it's something where, you know, it's the same argument we have with about rock party in the system and what matters most. Well, what if he's executing what he's asked to do, then that's pretty good. Right. We don't want him going or doing something. The degree of difficulty on the ask is significant if we're talking about the player. Like they had a third goal inside the 10 yard line where they decided to just run it and kick a field goal. I don't know why they did that. But a month from now, when they feel better about quarterback, they're not going to do that. You know what I'm saying? You would, you would, but they're going to ask him to fit a ball in a window and make a throw. Like, I agree with you. He's executing the offense. Well, but my point is I think the what they're giving him is very little, which is smart. That's what they should be doing. That's what Kingsbury should be doing. I'm just not throwing a party yet after, you know, almost half of their completions in this last game were behind the line of scrimmage, which I would also call those plays. But it's just a factor in breaking it down is all I'm saying. No, that totally is. These are these are all important data points. Just as when you add it all up, again, I think he's holding his own extremely well through two games as a rookie, you know what I mean? With, with, with, that's among anybody. There are guys that have absolutely been unbelievable through a couple of weeks that I'm not comparing them to. And you know, nor should we, but among kind of the where the league is and where it's trended through a couple of weeks in terms of passing totals and yards and nobody's really heaving it down field with great a plum. There's only a couple teams and players that are. No, but the problem I would just say is maybe it'll be different in a month. And if that's the case, then we can reassess they had a good half of football. There's only been four of those. The sample size is like going into the game. I don't know that you felt that same way about their passing attack. We had a very different conversation all last week. So there was one half that was different than that. And yeah, it's a small enough sample where now it does feel a little bit different, which is good. But that's just because we've seen the first six minutes of the movie. So it's right. I mean, if he's if he's intended area yards or exactly this and all of a sudden business picks up around the league where people start eating up chunks of yards and there's 300 yard pastors all over the place again. And we're still doing this. Then we go, okay, but right now this is what's happening in the league. Well, his completed area yards, though, are second worst in the NFL. Only Caleb Williams is lower. So it's not just the intended for me on on balls. They actually complete out of 30 some quarterbacks in the league. He's been second to last. Now again, that that's not me being discouraged in any way, but I'm it's not like he ranks in the top five in every category. I mean, they're asking a little bit less of him, which they should. We were talking about this earlier. Kingsbury's had a better plan for him. And it's gotten him off to a better start than the coordinators have for those other two quarterbacks. So again, I say when not lost there, but there's something wrong with that. But at the same time, it's just worth acknowledging like there have not been many. Whoa, look at that throw middle of the field between the linebacker and the safety like, I still got to wait on some of those. That's all. Are we buying or selling the teams off to two and O starts? And are we concerned about any of the teams off to O and two starts? 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