Grant and Danny

Fastest 16 Mins In Football, Daniels Has Been The Most Impressive Rookie QB, Double Play

9.17.24 Hour 2

1:00- We get you our fastest 16 minutes in football as we spin you around the NFL from the week 2 action.

23:00- Through two weeks, Jayden Daniels has been the best performing rookie QB compared to Caleb Williams & Bo Nix. What do we make of this?

33:20- What's going on in our lives that has nothing to do with sports?

Broadcast on:: 17 Sep 2024
Audio Format:: other

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We begin in Baltimore, where the biggest underdog of the week, the Raiders stunned the Ravens 26-23. Las Vegas was down 23-13 entering the fourth quarter. Gardner Minshew to Devontae Adams, key to the comeback, a touchdown. Minshew 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 in a touchdown. Zay Flowers, seven grabs, 91 yards in a touchdown for Baltimore, who got two and a half sacks from Adafe El Oa. The Raiders host the Panthers on Sunday. Chants to get to two and one. The Ravens are headed to Dallas, trying to avoid 0-3. 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. 0-2. 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 and gets the team. They're probably better than in almost every capacity. And yet you look up at the end of the score and the day of 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. Hell. Oh boy, he's summer sets into the end zone. 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 crabs for 51 yards. Carolina's offense, anemic, quarterback's obviously been bench since 84 passing yards on 26 attempts will do that. Leading wide receiver was Adam Field 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 of lose 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 it 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 has 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. Wow. 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 will roll. Alvin Camara's 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's 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 293, but was picked off twice. Alvin, I'm a Camara guy, but you heard Kevin Burkhardt clear as they 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 threw a touchdown pass and ran for another first ten at the 11 yard line. Mayfield going to run again, Baker up the middle inside the five. Mayfield blunging touchdown. Kevin Googler on the call on Fox. Chris Godwin caught seven balls for a buck 17 in a tutty. The bucks picked off Jared golf twice. He also had two other interception throws dropped. Could have been a four pick game. Golf was not good. Jameer Gibbs ran for 84. Uh, amount of St. Brown, 11 catches for a buck 19. He got back on track. Dan Campbell ran a fake punt inside his own 20 that worked. That's the good news. There was an end of half the bottle 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 and oh, after this weekend, the lions go to the Cardinals. Arizona is not very fun to play. Yeah. Golf 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, come off the other they had last year, multiple straight division crowns and I'll be at 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, it looked like a high school football offense, no exaggeration. 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 it said credits 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 in a someone needs a win game. Yeah. Green Bay needed that one. You need to do a couple things to stay afloat until Jordan Love comes back. That was a big win for them for the Colts. 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, civil chance to get right, but you look up. Now you're already two games behind Houston. He browns out slugged the Jaguars 18 to three to get to one and one. The Sean Watson was better in this game, better than terrible as 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's the fans. 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. 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 was 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 block. That's six. Kevin Harlan on the call for CBS, but you already knew that Sam Darnold solid, 268 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 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 it's the amplitude 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 Sierra Francisco fits. I think it's two straight years, right? They beat in 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 and 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 brisket, 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. Romandre Stevenson totalled the ball 21 times. DK Metcalf have a day. 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 fellow chicken Brady, but they are 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 buck O 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 that 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 in Nashville. Braille and 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. Roger looking. Touchdown, Breeze Hall pulls it in. Both jets running back, scoring in this game, Breeze Hall on the touchdown from Aaron Rodgers 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 and Puke Nakua 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 they're still to a note. Defense picked Bo Nick's twice TJ Watt wrecked the game against the Falcons, a little more quiet, but did have another sack in this one. Pat Fryermuth, 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. We all know Russ got kind of did 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. A petty game ball that 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 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 Nick's 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. Patton Holmes picked off twice, 18 of 25 for just 151 in 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, two 58 and two through the air. Bengals couldn't run it though. 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 they had 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 on to they're not a no one to team. I know that that's what they are because Monday night if 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 two, 16 a touchdown. Nico Collins putting on a show. 10 targets, eight catches, 135 yards. Second and long. Outstanding Mike Turico on the call on NBC. Stefan Diggs, four catches, 37 yards for the Texans. Joe mix and nine for 25 on the ground. Houston only four for 14 on third down. Still one. Williams, as I said, through two contests now, yet 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. That's a mature win right there. Their offense isn't doing what they wanted to do. Joe mixing in 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 and 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 wreaking havoc in the backfield. Houston is legit. That's the fastest 16 minutes in radio or look back at the NFL game by game every single Tuesday. Next on Grant and Danny, speaking of Caleb Williams, you heard about bow nicks and that recap as well. Jaden Daniels stacking up very favorably after a couple of weeks to the other two rookies who have been on the grass. We'll talk about that next on the fan. 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? Now you can call them on your auto insurance too with the name of your price tool from Progressive. It works just the way it sounds. 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. Nothing is more important than getting a good night's sleep. And when you don't get the rest you need, your whole day is thrown off. That's why it's so important to choose the right mattress. 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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 off season is I needed this organization talking 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 even, I can tell it was out this past weekend, but even without him, I would take Chicago 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 is called place. 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 Kayla Williams or Sean Payton is doing for bonix 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 a wide receiver screen stuff that you kept seeing, but maybe the Bears and the Bronco should mix that in a little bit. Yeah. I mean, you know, bonix early on, especially in week number one, I think camera what the total was, but he 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. You know, 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. Yeah. 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. I mean, none of these guys has thrown one. JJ 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 zero, zero, zero, Brian Robbins, I got tackled at the 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 can play that game for every quarter. Totally. Add some touchdowns to their total. Daniel's 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. Nick's has four interceptions already. I think the fact that Jayden 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. Nick's is the only guy who's avoided sacks, you know, very effectively at 4.9%. Caleb Williams is getting sacked 12% of the time. Jayden 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. Jay Gruden 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 Jayden have to deal with yet or nicks 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. Daniels 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 Jayden 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 that. 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, we'll try to trouble total 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 area yards. 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. Jayden Daniels, four yards downfield completed area yards. Williams is dead last in the NFL at his completions on average, being 2.4 yards downfield. Jayden 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 or the pressure to sack stuff, get the ball out, get it in space. So, yeah, it's a it's a real low I.A.Y. It's a real low C.A.Y. in terms of completed and intended area yards 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. Oh, almost three quarters of their drives, like the highest percentage of not going three and out essentially, which is in 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. Nick says 60 yards in a touchdown. Williams has 59 yards in a touchdown, but he's accounted for two first downs with his feet. Nick's 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 Nick's, but I just think it's important every now and then take inventory on. There's three rookie quarterbacks playing and the one in Washington's 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 dude, be a gunslinger. Go do you be the Brett Favre of 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 that's born 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 Ryuye 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? Nothing to do with sports each and every day driven to you by your local Washington area, Honda dealer stopping for a great deal and the rugged and capable Honda pilot contact your local Washington area. Honda dealers today remember at five o'clock about an hour and 10 minutes out, our buddy Austin Echler joins the show for his weekly appointment at a touchdown call back that would have been a 98 yard return to the crib. We'll ask him about that and the rest of his pretty strong performance against the Giants. We are now 12 minutes away from giving away tickets to the HF festival right here on the fan at four o'clock. So make sure you're listening. Let's get to the double play. All right, I'll try to make this fast because I know you have one very special. It's happened. My buddies, my kids, buddy and parents, okay? So the kid tells his mom, he's one of these kids, great kid, but he's one of these kids. It's like, hey, I can't go to bed yet. I need another cracker. 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. 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, uh-oh, maybe an animal happens, right? Happens to the best of us, worst of us, whatever. So he starts looking around, can't find anything, gets to the point that it's disrupting him trying to work from home. So he calls like, you know, in that animal control, but like a pest service company, they come over here and they go, yeah, it's probably like a squirrel that's gotten in and can't get out or a raccoon or something like that. Well, they go everywhere that they can go at ducks, crawl spaces, et cetera. 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, what could this possibly be? What sort of animals making these noises? So the kids are 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. So they would 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 instant 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. I'd say the 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 bed is not very fun. A cat. A cat. Like 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, stink. 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. Yeah. It's a puffy cat. It's not even that like nice cat. Sounds like a Yogi feral cat to me. Mm hmm. Possibly. All right. 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 visit 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. 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 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. No, no, I have a great 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 do that. Everyone makes one of including people that were in it. Whenever you're done, I'll tell you my plan. All right. Are you done? No, 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 drill. There we go. In America. We are going to put them on a rocket ship. Okay. We're going to teach them over a couple of weeks to be astronauts. We are going to fly them with jet fuel 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 Stamp 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, this stadium size asteroid, by the way, is passing as close to us as I don't know, a running back getting tackled that the one inch line and close to the goal. If there was a one in 400 chance that he was going to get tackled. 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 is so small, but for the rest of us adults who aren't talking about a movie that everyone panned. One in 400 chance. That's how close it's coming to us. 22 years away. It's in our orbit and we can 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 days? Hile. Well, that's what the team's working on. The team is working on keeping life going. 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 moving. Two reasons. One. 22 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. 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 the stupid role isn't doing well. Someone else will play the role. Someone else will just take it over. 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 HF Festival. 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? Now you can call them on your auto insurance too with the name of your price tool from Progressive. It works just the way it sounds. 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. 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