Grant and Danny

Cousins & The Falcons Win On MNF, How Was The Stadium Sunday?

9.17.24 Hour 1

1:00- We open up the show discussing your 1st place Washington Commanders. Then, we discuss Kirk Cousins and the Falcons beating the Eagles on primetime.

21:15- For the fans who went to the game, did you notice anything new about the Commanders stadium?

Broadcast on:: 17 Sep 2024
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We've also got tickets we're giving the way at HFS the full right at four o'clock ahead of the beltway blitz. Danny, how are you? I am very well, my friend. We're head on a swim here on a Tuesday. The things are happening. Clock mismanagement or endgame shenanigans last night, a fourth quarter comeback. The football weekend put to rest. 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 East. People were 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, those 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 allowed 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. You're leading 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. Let the 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 bid is. If it's in this funny, they're not really that good but they're in first place. Yes, they are in that need. 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. Yeah. They had one game that was a toss up type game that they could or should win. No, they could have beaten the box, I guess, but it would have been a pretty big surprise. Jaden Daniels debut, Todd Bowles led defense. Play off 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 just, they're happy, they're a little surprised that Washington, by way of that tie breakers in first place, nobody's declaring anything. They 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 that 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. Kurtz in a losing effort was terrific. Only through 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 the 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 touchdown, 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 in a couple of touchdowns on 20 of 29 passing had a big finish to the game was automatic in the second half and they ran the ball beautifully. Be John Robinson and Tyler Algier ran for a combined 150 yards, but they play 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 oh, I know they needed that game. Yeah, 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 us 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. And 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. Pijon Ramen, seniority alluded to, could do whatever he wanted, take one broccoli, going eight, nine yards a pop, Jalen hurts, 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, 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 or 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. Godly that. I mean, Atlanta needed that one desperately just because, as you said, what's coming up is tough. Right 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 Sirianni 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 threw too bad interceptions was a really strange game internationally where neither team played well and the Eagles emerged with a win. They could easily be owned too right now with a disaster of a loss, just a catastrophic terrible loss last night. And in utter collapse, this was Nick Sirianni 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 it, uh, junking it up in the middle. Um, so we're trying to go on the round the outside and, uh, you know, it didn't work. Was your fall pattern there on going, uh, kicking field before you did, or did you think about going? Um, you know, again, in that scenario, uh, I was thinking they might not have any time outs there, but obviously they did with, with the, uh, with the incomplete pass. Um, you know, that would have, that would have came down to maybe a minute. And so we wanted to go up six points, um, you know, and it didn't work. So, um, you know, my decision to pass it there, um, again, like I said, you know, where they were junking it up inside with it being fourth and three to go for it. I thought, um, you know, with them not having any time outs, I wanted 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 an hurt side 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 sake, one Barkley has to do is catch a ball that he will catch the next 99 times it's thrown to a amount of a hundred. 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 sends 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 to touch bushes, you use the full allotment of clock, you force Atlanta to use whatever timeouts they 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 timeouts 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, sick one, Barkley so good, him dropping that pass is not something you'd count on. And 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 tush bush. They still can't. No one can do it. So do it twice. Even though it was four and three or a fourth and three or a 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 and I fell underdogs of five and a half or more points. These are the biggest underdogs of the early season and 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 preseason 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 is one, the game outright because the Bengals lost to the Patriots in week one. The Bucks who thought they were going to beat 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 of 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 wouldn't possibly win the game, you know, they win my field goal or close, you know, an NFL type game, not a, you know, I don't know, Alabama versus some one double A team. The way it looked, a million results like that are 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, I in general default to you play the kid when you're not going to make any good. You play the kid. This is maybe that rare exception where, again, it's like a major league pitcher who's and killing who can't throw strikes and you, 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, new system, new scheme, new design, new everything. It's a dysfunctional 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. Groot and 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's 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. Their offensive line, their 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? 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 two 84 yards on 26 passes. I think canal is 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. 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 pork has got no chance. So I'm not advocating for Bryce Young here. He's, he's not good. And 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. 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. Benching 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 of 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 pulling 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 him 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 of 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 stuff like he needed work before now and it's you guys mess this up a hundred percent. 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. Young is a disaster. I mean, it just is. As I said, it's that one out of one hundred 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 win 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. Like we're barely getting snaps together at this point. It's so bad. It's Tuesday on Grant and Danny, which means Jeff Prob's style. It's a survivor Tuesday on GND. You can go to Facebook.com/grantanddanny. You're voting somebody immune, Brian Robinson won immunity last week. So even though he could win it again, he's not allowed to. And Emmanuel Forbes went home last week. You're going to boot somebody off the island. Go vote right now. We'll update the voting as the day goes on. Austin Eckler is on the show today in about two and a half hours at five on GND. Next, we want to hear from people who went to the Fed to see the game on Sunday as the commanders beat the Giants. Did you notice any differences in fan experience? Did you enjoy yourself at the stadium and what did you observe as having been changed? We'll open up the phones at 800-636-1067 for you on that next right here 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. Plus of Casualty Insurance Company and affiliates, price and coverage match limited by state law. It's time for Pitch Hit and Run, the official youth skills competition of Major League Baseball. 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We have a Manning cast for that, don't we? And by the way, the Manning cast is tremendous. I watched a little bit of that last night, getting Bella Czech 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 Manning 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 man booth shot, okay. It went for ever and he sit in 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 Saquon Barkley, maybe it was somebody else, you can't remember. Gets piled up short of the goal line and he goes, "Jason Kelsey blorts out, he's in!" Not in. Not correct. Wrong. You've now ruined my broadcast. Shut up. I know you're Hall of Famer. You got the new, the, the, the heights, the height, the high, the 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, that mama looks 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. He has the replay starts because he adds 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 leap. There it is. Obviously he did not. And then he's like, "Oh, maybe he didn't." Maybe he didn't. No. 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 in 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 Rottie 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 Rottie Johnson or John Kitten in the booth for the Commander's Bengals game? Rottie Johnson's a great pole. Poor Rottie Johnson looked like he had a five head. Like that helmet was always on so tight, like it extended his forehead. He was nasty for a couple of years. Sneaky great fantasy player. Yeah. For a few years. And then 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 Bengals last night, obviously. I got some good suggestions as well. TJ 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 Boomer Asaiason 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 Bengal game right now. Do you want to participate or don't you? Yeah. Give you like to play. You say Icky Woods and then you high five. All right. 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? I actually 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 a stadium, whatever it's called, a new sponsorship stadium in Cincinnati, a core stadium, Paul Brown stadium. You're going to be at a football game. I am. I will be too. I will be on Monday night for Monday night football. There will be a seat with my name on it in paycore stadium in Cincinnati. So if John Kitten is on the call, it doesn't mean anything to us. Oh, by the name, some chili in our bellies watching football from Cincinnati, Ohio. Thanks to our friends, Condoria and Muron. 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. We're going to be in a game who was at the X on Sunday for commanders, Giants. I want to know if you noticed anything different about the stadium, 806361067. 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, it looked better. Everything about it. Like obviously people were in seats at kickoff, which is a rarity around these parts. You know, in terms of fans, people were engaged, it seems excited that the general noise level seemed to be pretty solid. Felt like folks are 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 gain 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 there was the halftime performance there from Walley that I didn't think the audio was all that clear. Now I was down behind the Giants bench in the like second third row behind the Giants bitch and not not that that's a flex or anything and a little bit of a flex a little bit of and yeah, I don't know the the music audio didn't come through very clear to me. The music itself, but not the lyrics. I wonder if that's like a concert thing. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, how did the like the stuff that football related through the microphones 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 GND. Hey, Will. Hey, guys. Thanks. Thank you, Michael. You bet. Yeah, we got my buddies. I got season tickets and one 32 and yeah, zone about 15 rose up from the goal post, you know, and the audio was great. I could finally hear the referees clearly that was a big thing last year. You can never hear the rest call. There were 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 and 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. I use new technology on my app, just, you know, pulled it up, scanned in. They got new coolers. You walk up there with your gold, you know, 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 a cooler. You're good to go. So those. Nice. Uh, 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, 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, I've done that at Fred Nats 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 food fair there, like grab and go chicken, tenors, fries, whatever, but it's also, it's beer. It's soda. It's water. It's chips. That, 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 Nats 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. You stay in 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? Are you going to, you're going to stay away from that for a little while. I mean, yeah, I'm, 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 in's not working, log in here and, and, and show it this way with the QR code and now it's not faster and 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 illegally 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, Gary 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 took a little longer, 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 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 do 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 806361067 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 and D. [BLANK_AUDIO] G and 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. Yeah. I was like, this is not a great space. This is not very well done. That's the best you could do with it. Exactly. You know what I mean? I'm saying you're left with 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 getting selfies with and dappin up players and so it's expensive. It's one of those things probably that your company is going to buy more so than you are. No, 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 in 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 DC. 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 excellent parking gold, 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, 20 bucks for a beer, 25 hours for a mixed drink, food expensive, 130 bucks to park. I can afford it. I don't think a lot of people can though. One recommendation, guys, the baddest Indians were the Comanches. That would be a good day to go back to the old logo. But overall, very, very good. And from the fans, great feeling, great vibe. 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 can 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 of 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 where Henry Rowan Gardner? Oh, so, okay. So that's pictures got a big butt. The kid can throw it real fast. Which one is the one where the kid manages the twins? Little Bigly. Thank you. That's a great film. They're both great. I can fight 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. The San Lot, Little Bigly, 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 three 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, "Four dollars for a hot dog?" And my dad used to think it was the greatest scene in the world. Because like this owner, who's chocked 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 ticket holder for about three years now, and I sit in the upper level, and the speakers are up there, well, terrible. And then this year, I could tell that they definitely upgraded those speakers because you can hear things clearly, 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 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 refs microphone. I don't know that it was working not as a stadium. So I think it was not actually not working optimally, even at home watching it. It was like, this is quieter than I'm used to it 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. Mike and AKK. You're on G and D. How is your game experience? Hey, hey, what's up, Grant and Danny? This is my first time calling. Oh, we appreciate that. Thank you very much. All right, get that, all right, get that, all right, John Zorn will 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. 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