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We'll be giving these tickets away all week long right here on Grant and Danny at four o'clock. It is time for your blitz. We'll cover the NFL and the commanders coming up, but let's start on the diamond. How about James Wood yesterday? While you were watching football, he was going deep, not once. But twice his first ever to Homer game. Our next Peter Porter is Craig Heist, who is at the park. Heisty. How about that James Wood performance? Well, it was incredible and you know, he had slumped off a little bit, Grant, but you know, he went back to doing what he does so well and that's hit the ball the opposite way. And those two home runs into that red porch area out there in left center field, he gets a lot of elevation on his fly balls and he hits the ball hard and Skip Schumacher, the manager of the Marlins afterwards just talked about those two home runs and said, just what a superstar. This kid's going to be. And ever since he's got up here, he's done really nothing to disappoint anybody. I think his defense is getting a little bit better in left field too. Hi, Steve. Important start from Mackenzie Gore. Look to have turned a corner. I really, you know, end of August, start of September, kind of a clunky start against Atlanta and a bad loss for the team. So I listen, this isn't the 27 Yankees that he's going through talking about the Marlins, but still shoved it on them. I thought that was a big deal. Well, and a big deal specifically Danny after having a 31 pitch first inning yesterday and then he winds up giving up the owner and run on the air in the third, but he settled in and went six strong and Dave, Davey Martin is exactly what he needs to. And he's going to be a big part of this going forward as all of those young pitchers are. Craig Heist, our Nat speed reporter, one oh six, seven, the fan. What questions do you want answered? What are you locking in on down the stretch for the Nationals just a few weeks to play here? Well, there are three games or three wins away from having a better record than they did last year. So that's one thing. The second thing is, you know, once they got out of the camp, the Marlins series yesterday, the rest of the way, the last two weeks of the season, they're going to be playing teams that are really playing for something. And it'll be interesting to see how they do against these teams because they won the season series against the Braves. They absolutely clobbered the Marlins this year, but now they go up against the Mets the next three nights at City Field and we'll let the Mets pretty much add their number. So we'll see what happens there. And then also the Phillies come here the final weekend of the series of the season. So again, some good baseball to be played between now in the end and against good teams. And we'll see how they handle it. Hi, Steve. Thank you, buddy. Have a great week. You got it. We will see you. My friend hit that NFL sounder that QL stick issue. Also our dream boat, our local handsome man who smells terrific, great hair and he makes eye contact and he melts a little bit inside when he does biggest surprise for you through week number two is the New England Patriots. They look like a capable football team. I'm not going to say they're going to call out there and win seven eight games this year. I don't think that's going to happen, but we spent a lot of time myself included. It's got to make him fun of them looking at that roster. Now granted, they can't really throw the football at all. It's going to be a lot of running and it's going to be a lot of defense from them. But I mean, the fact that they beat the Bengals week one, the Bengals looked like a much better team at least against the Chiefs yesterday. And then on top of that, you're sitting there and looking at them going overtime against Seattle. I mean, they're, they look like an actual football team that's going to play hard for their coach and I don't know, be relatively respectable. I know that's maybe not the highest bar, but man, the narrative around the Patriots before this year was, hey, they might win two games and I guess they still could, but they're going to play damn hard in the process. Yeah, I've been impressed by that defense, especially and their first year head coach. I think I was wrong about and it's just seemed like, you know, he was doing it in the preseason, but so far so good. I'll be curious to see too, if they hang the way they have, when they turn things over to Drake May, was their best quarterback in the building. He admitted that may outplayed Brissette, you know, it's one thing if you're just worried about his development, but at some point, if you feel like a couple more plays per game can get you these wins, you know, if they could stick to their guns there, I'm really interested in this one o'clock kickoff on Sunday between the Chargers and the Steelers. It's like Jim Harbaugh just finds ways, man. He's already two and oh, if they can knock off Pittsburgh on the road, they'd be off to a three and oh, start in the West. The Steelers with Justin Fields accidentally starting have won both of their games as well. One of those teams is going to be undefeated going into week four. Yeah, and it just shows you first off the Steelers playing the division. I think we knew that was going to be chaotic and a little bit unpredictable to start. And here they are. It's once again, Mike Tom would get the most out of his team with a question marks their quarterback through the first two games of the year. But yeah, that's the thing, man, like Jim Harbaugh everywhere he goes, he wins and he gets the most out of teams pretty much right away and it's just, it's really remarkable how quickly he can change the culture within a building, whether it's the college or the NFL level and for all the narratives about, you know, college coaches not being able to coach in the NFL, Harbaugh goes to both levels back and forth and has success in both of those spots. I mean, I know Justin Herbert, they had to check out an injury and looks like he's going to be okay so they're not really worried about anything and more with that. But you know, I'd expect both of these teams to run the hell out of the football. I mean, let's be real here. J.K. Davins is in the perfect spot with the Chargers. Now, Jim Harbaugh is going to run him like he ran Blake Korman in Michigan, he's going to get a ton of carries and he's somebody that's going to put up probably those numbers every single week. Had he not gotten hurt in Baltimore, probably would have seen something similar even though the Ravens obviously like to rotate through running back a little bit more, but it just feels like he's a perfect fit with the Chargers and Jim Harbaugh's turned that thing around real quick. The bar is pretty low considering what we saw from the end of the brand Staley era with the Chargers to where everybody just gave up and everybody was hurt and they kind of gave up on the season completely. So, you know, I'd say that wasn't too hard to at least make them respectable too. Nicholas, you mentioned the Ravens. I was pretty bullish on them and nothing changed for me after week one where they're, you know, a shoe size away from tying the game later, maybe taking the lead and winning in Kansas City still felt very good about them. That's an ugly loss in week number two that I don't use the associate with the Ravens. Am I, should I reevaluate my view on Baltimore being that division champion? I think you and I both have to because I still like the Ravens coming in this year too and a lot of it to me was respect for that organization and their ability to find the next guy up, right? I know it's kind of a cliche, but, you know, they had a lot of turnover on both sides of the football, but three new starters on the offensive line. It's been a problem. We've seen, I mean, obviously, not as much running for the more Jackson week two as we got week one, but, you know, defensively, there's still question marks there too with some new faces there and I was doing my show Sunday from National Harbor and, you know, I was doing it with BJ Glasser, who's a diehard Ravens fan and he told me, said, do not take the Ravens in this. And I said, this is a bounce back spot for the Ravens. I was wrong. I think we all may have to reevaluate what's going on in Baltimore right now because we expect year after year for that team to be in contention. Even when they have injuries, we're still looking at them as a playoff team. It does not feel that way right now. Nicholas, speaking of surprise teams, the only team in the NFC North that has won both of its games is the Minnesota Vikings with Sam Darnold at quarterback. He was excellent in week one, week two highlighted by a 97 yard touchdown pass through Justin Jefferson, but Brian Flores has been dynamic on the back end. They really turned it around last year defensively under Flores and Darnolds played awesome. They're two and O Kevin O'Connell, front runner for Coach of the Year. And I think that's the key right there is Kevin O'Connell and him being able to get the most out of quarterbacks. I mean, we saw when Kirk Cousins went down last year and how, I mean, he just used, he maximized the talent of every single quarterback that's filled in for Cousins and Sam Darnold is in the perfect spot to succeed, whether that's just this season or it's maybe longer than expected, Kevin O'Connell has proven that he can get the most out of quarterbacks. We're getting that, but you're right. Brian Flores on the other side, God loves the blitz. He makes life hell for the posing quarterbacks. This Viking team is a good, good team, but you're right. It does also help to have, you know, Justin Jefferson now, parent wide receiver too. Thanks, Nick. You're handsome. I love you guys. See you buddy. I love you in that way. Also hit that local 53 sounder. Our guy Nick Agrich, PFF joins us to break down Washington. Would you make a big picture, Nick, of that win at home? No touchdowns, but they got W. Yeah, it's a bit of a mix bag. Both offensive and defensive. I mean, I think obviously they move the ball well. I love the run game. I thought that was really, really effective and it's kind of a complete flip on what we saw last year. You know, screens aren't my favorite thing in the world, but there's a lot of screens there, but you know, Cliff had a plan. It kind of opened up some stuff, you know, later on in the game. And I think in the second half, we saw the, you know, the sort of more intermediate passing game kind of showed up. And, you know, and then on the defensive side, you got a, again, a bit of a mix bag. I mean, I think coverage-wise, they were much better. You know, defensively it was, it was a bit better. You know, there were still some kind of, you know, run fit errors and some missed tackles, but overall, except in the right direction. As far as your guys grading in, or just your eyes, who did you think shined yesterday? Give us some names of some players you really liked. Bobby Wagner was the big one, kind of seemed like he was, you know, back to old, old-school Bobby Wagner there with, you know, make a bunch of tackles, kind of right at or around the line of scrimmage, beating a ton of blocks, you know, just never being in the wrong position. It was a big one there, Noah Brown, obviously, in kind of a limited role, stepped up, only 20 snaps, but, you know, still came away with a 73.3 overall grade, which actually led the offense. So, those are kind of the two big ones, and obviously Brian Robinson kind of came in, you know, a lot of rushing yards, you know, maybe not as many missed tackles, which is kind of why the grade is a little bit lower than usual, but, you know, still great, great game all around for them. Nick, I'm a, I'm a parent. And when you get that first letter home from the teacher about like your kid misbehaving in class, or maybe they're falling behind him with long division or something like that, that's when you're concerned. That letter was set home like seven months ago about the secondary, like we're past concern. I'm now resigned that they're not going to be able to stop anybody at any point in time. Is my assessment correct there or is there a fix coming? Yeah, I'm kind of in the same, I'm kind of in the same boat with you there. You know, there's only so much you can do and sometimes you just don't have the dude. You just don't have the people there that can, you know, really step up and make the plays. And there's just kind of, there's too many communication errors still that's kind of been a problem with Washington secondary for the past, I don't know, four or five years now. And that kind of still seems to happen anytime there's sort of a bunch formation, there's some sort of motion going on. They just kind of lose track of who's responsible for who and saw that on that touch down there closer to the end. But yeah, sometimes you just don't really have the guys. I mean, I think St. Jude's probably played his best game in a very long time, but there are still some issues there and yeah, I think it's going to be rough. I think it's going to be rough all year. But I think if you can kind of, you know, tone down with some of just the mental errors that has nothing to do with your ability, then I think you can see just a bit of an uptick. Where would PFF have a guy like Terry McClellan coming into this season? There was a time where the consensus on him was, you know, he's a top 20 wide receiver in football. It's a slow start again for him this year, but I can't help but think when I'm watching other games. Like, I know Jefferson and Hill and Chase and Lamb and Brown, those guys are in a league of their own, right? But then even that next tear down with guys like Garrett Wilson, Nico Collins or a Murray Cooper or something, that was kind of the tear he's been in around 15th. But now with Marvin Harrison, like he can't do what Malik neighbors did yesterday or a waddle or maybe even like a, I don't know, a Chris alive. These are all guys that have over him. Where are we at on Terry? Yeah, I mean, it's tough, you know, especially for our great, a lot of it is dependent on quarterback play and a lot of, you know, wide receiver production is obviously dependent on quarterback play. And we all know he hasn't had great quarterback play in the past and, you know, multiple offenses for him. And again, these are a lot of excuses and I kind of, you know, am in the same boat with, you know, recently it has started to take down a little bit, but, you know, if you're watching the film, like he is, he's getting open, like there were, there were a couple shots, not only in the week one, but in this past week that they just didn't hit for whatever reason. But he's open. I mean, I think there is in chance for an uptick in production. I just, you know, it's tough with a rookie quarterback kind of coming in brand new offense again. And even with Chris kind of style of offense, it's going to be low, you know, kind of area yards. And yeah, I think it's just kind of going to be a tough offense for him to sort of fit in. But I think if you can maximize those deep shots, again, he's open and you just got to get it to him. So Nick, I'm just a football fan. I like watching the game on television like everybody else. I try to read as much as I can from smart people like you and sort of figure out what it is that I'm seeing to quantify it. But help us and our listeners understand what was the difference there in that second half in terms of the passing game, right? Well, all of a sudden stuff was kind of open, that in-breaker to, to, to know a brown for, for a big chunk on that final drive, but some couple of things kind of in between the hash marks that didn't look like it was either there or being looked for or otherwise and through the first six quarters of the season, what was different in that second half for the passing game? Yeah. It was a bit of, you know, Jane being more decisive and being kind of quicker with where he wanted to go with the ball. And it was also a bit of, you know, Cliff's game plan in the first half, opening up stuff in the second half. You know, a lot of those RPO game stuff is, you know, essentially there to kind of set up stuff later on. And that's how you got, you know, that seam right up the middle, I got called back because of a downfield, a ineligible downfield and you, you get other things that kind of open up because of that and because of the, the run game they had. So the first half stuff, although, you know, it was not great, it did set up the second half stuff. And even in the first half there were, there were some plays that Jane just kind of missed and either took off from Ron or got sacked, but they were definitely paid plays there. And I, again, I think it just kind of came down to just a quicker decision from, from the quarterback. Much appreciate the time as always, Nick. Thank you, buddy. Yes. Have a good one. You got it. PFF.com is where you can find his work. Let's get into the defense next. We've talked a lot about the offense. What is going on with his defense and why is it playing as poorly as it has through two games? Do you think there's a fix coming? What is going to be different in the near future? Because this was the Daniel Jones led giants next week, it's burrow in the bangles. You got the one out of 30 yard, two touchdowns in one quarter, tandem of Marvin Harrison, Jr. and Kyler Murray after that. They got to get right. 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Ultimately, thanks to only 22 minutes time of possession in only 51 plays, that's about as low a play count as you're going to see. Because Washington ran 70 plays, possessed the football, drove the ball all day long, into the Red Zone six times, got their seven field goals. They kept the defense off the field, but yet still defensively, here were the results of drives, seven plays 53 yards touchdown, five plays 31 yards punt, 10 plays 70 yards touchdown. So two out of three to start the game. Then the Giants came out from the half and were moving immediately, four plays 40 yards on Washington side of the field. They pick up another first down and that's when Saint juice had the big peanut punch. Danny, that was the game changer. Then they forced the fumble. So on two drives, seven plays in the third quarter, even though the Giants averaged almost six yards of play, they went three and out and turned the ball over. That quarter saved Washington's bacon. Yeah, they're right back at the bottom of the league in terms of yards per play. You look at the passing yards allowed, passing yards per play, passing yards per drop back, any metric that you want Washington is where it has been and what was especially concerning to me this past week or really yesterday was how good New York was it running the ball against them? Because last year it was like it wasn't if Washington was good in that department. I think it was four and a half yards per carry. They were ranked kind of in the teens in terms of rush attempts, but every rush attempt against them was a favor. They were so bad against the past. Anytime a team didn't call a pass, I'm quietly pumping my fist, knowing that it's not going to go for double digit yards. It seems again, when you drop back against Washington, you were the MVP of the league. That's how bad it was last year and they're well on their way to that same pace. Again, they're only saved, frankly, by the fact that York was so good at running the ball against him. But you know, it's just inexcusable. If I get beat by Mike Evans and Chris Godwin, I can get in line with a lot of other teams that are going to have that problem. Chris Godwin ate the lions lunch yesterday. The bucks actually beat the lions by the way, 20 to 16. The lions was much more quiet. Mayfield was just okay, but they won that game. The Giants lining up and bullying me with Devin Singletary after he did almost nothing against the Vikings one week earlier just does not sit right. You know how limited they are. It's neighbors and pray for rain, right? I mean, those, that's the weaponry. That guy went for 10 and about 27 and a touchdown and you know, it's Singletary and nothing else. They've one other carry to anyone else on the team. No jet action, no endarounds, no gadget stuff, nothing wide. They gave Tracy one carry. It was just Singletary downhill and it wasn't that unique. There was nothing overly interesting about how they were doing it. It was just a dive straight ahead, 16 for 95 and a touchdown. Yeah, what a mystery to it. And I don't know, man, it's one of those things where it's so complicated, there's so many moving parts. I don't know what every, what everyone was asked to do on a given play. I don't know what the scheme is or what the design is or, you know, what the goal was or what they were calling based on what they thought New York would call or tendencies that wouldn't company observed with day ball and if they were going against type and doing something really smart. I mean, there's a million to one things that I'll never have access to or understand. I know this and this is my point always when we talk about the league or talk about what my team is doing versus the rest of the league. What's happening everywhere else and everywhere else is going a lot better than it is here. It's them and the Rams basically at the bottom after the Rams got shell lacked yesterday by Arizona, such a dreadful performance. I don't think their Rams defense are particularly good, but they won't end up being that bad over the course. We've got a sample now where Washington's defense might be that bad over now, you know, season plus. Yeah. So that's what's frustrating at the risk of like pushing back too hard. I think it's way too early to like dive into what the, what everyone in the league is doing. Like Washington is a top 10 offense right now based on two games. You know what I'm saying? Are they it? You've watched it. Are they a top 10 offense? No, I don't think so. But to me, it's worthwhile when we start when we talk about context where it's like if when we talk about Jane Daniels, if he's been good, bad and different, whatever you want to call it. Well, let's see. What everyone else is doing at this point? What are offenses doing at this point? We're passing totals are lower than they've been in a handful of seasons half through two weeks. Is that going to say the same? We don't know. But all we have is the sample that we have. The information helps. I mean, it's contextual. I just think it's too early to even for like big thoughts on that. But certainly in three weeks, four weeks, I'll certainly be more interested in seeing like what is the trend in the league. But yeah, right now through eight quarters, here's what we got. We can use all the intel we can get. But Washington defensively to your point is 29th in yards per play. San Francisco, theoretically, a really good defense is below them. You mentioned the Rams. I don't know. I mean, is the Niners defense bad? I bet it's just that they had a couple of bad matchups or something that didn't go their play. I just know that it's too easy right now for quarterbacks, for playmakers. Where is the pass rush against Daniel Jones? That should be a feeding frenzy. He comes into that game without confidence. Worried about being benched. If you can force him into an early bad decision, the boo birds of the Giants fans that are there with your own booze are coming out. He's in his own head. Gables now calling things differently. They couldn't do it. Same as like not taking advantage when Graham Gano got hurt. You're a kicker. And by the way, that was malpractice. We've not talked about this, but I'll bet you Gables getting destroyed in New York today. Do you know the Gano situation at all? And how that played out? No, I mean, just that he got hurt on the opening kickoff. Right. But did you hear the backstory there? No. Oh, it's crazy. Graham Gano got hurt on Saturday at practice, pulled his groin. Okay. He added to the injury report was listed questionable, had to test it out before the game, game time decision. Then before the game, supposedly, he felt something and they had to go back into the locker room and basically re-wrap his groin because he was in pain. They have another kicker that they could have elevated to play in the game and realize that not to. They actually played a man short. So not only was that crazy, but then you made the decision not to on Saturday night or whatever. Fine. On Sunday, he works out and they could have had the punter handle the kickoff. It's like he's done it in his capable of it and they said, no, we'll have Gano handle the kickoff. So while he's chasing down Echler on the opening kickoff, he pulls his groin. And that's the kind of stuff that when you're an embattled coach ends up being thrown into the pile. Is it so controllable? Like you can't do this. This could get you fired stuff. So they were skewering day ball after the game about that. But anyway, getting back to the point at hand. I guess for me, defensively, in the same way that you couldn't take advantage of them not having a kicker by just forcing third down stops and making them make decisions that aren't ideal on fourth down. They never got them to that point. I just need you to play the run and make Daniel Jones beat you. And they, they just opted not to. I don't know what the plan was or why they didn't. It's not like they were putting extra bodies on neighbors. But that is a stacked the box. Single Terry's not beating me. Daniel Jones has to. It's exactly what Minnesota did. And the Giants couldn't move the ball and look like crap. And Washington that didn't seem like their plan or if it was, they executed it very, very poorly. Yeah. There's, to me, there's two glaring weaknesses here. And there's only so much you can scheme up with that at this day and age or this day and age rather. I think the defensive ends or whoever's going to be bringing pressure away from the interior is not really capable of winning one on one. And every defense that's good with the occasional exception, like I don't know how many stars Tennessee has through two games, their defense has been outstanding. But for the most part, you're going to have a guy where if he's alone, if he's one on one, that dude's going to win and disrupt the play, right? Like that, that is almost like the industry standard. They don't have that at this stage. So it's pretty easy to deal with them, right? If you cause have enough traffic upfront so that pain or John Allen can't win or you, you know, you roll people out or an up play action or enough things that kind of divert attention away from them, you're not afraid of Fowler or Farrell or David Davis if he's ever active again or Baptist or any of these other guys. And then you combine that with cornerbacks that quite simply are not good enough to cover some of the great receivers that they're going to be playing against on a semi weekly basis. There's your recipe right there. If you can't cover, at least you can't get home. That's kind of where it seems to me. I just don't excuse the early defensive performance the same way I will offense where I've got a new coordinator with a rookie quarterback trying to figure this thing out together. And it's really, really hard to play quarterback in this league. And it's even harder when you're a kid. See Caleb Williams last night. See what Bo Nix has done through two games, right? Jaden Daniels eight quarters in has been the best of those three pretty decidedly, I would say decisively better than those other two. I'm not saying defense isn't easy or that Joe Whit has just some walk in the park yawning to figure out all the answers, but they handpicked most of the guys playing on this defense. I talked about this last week, but even to a greater extent, because Forbes was out Michael Davis was in this week. They give us these flip cards, right? And basically as you're watching the game, it gives you your roster with all the information and height, weight, college you went to, all that stuff. And on the flip card, the starting 11 that was listed with Davis in for Forbes, eight of the 11 were new, chosen by Dan Quinn and Joe Whit theoretically. I'm not saying it's that the guys they would choose with unlimited funds, all they pretty much had unlimited funds. But the guys they chose this off season, eight of the 11 starters on the on the flip card yesterday knew their choice. The guys they said are, these are fits for our system. These are commanders, tag players, whatever they want to call it. These are guys that do it our way. They're going to arrive violently eight of 11 of the other three Alan and Payne pro bowlers were two. So you can't tell me like, oh, you guys left us with these terrible players. The only starter on that flip card of the 11 players yesterday that was a holdover from the previous regime was Benjamin St. Juice, who by the way, I would make the case had the most impactful game of anybody on the defense yesterday with the one takeaway and three pass breakups. I thought he was actually really, really good. But my point is it's not that good of an excuse to say, Oh, Rivera is the personnel's terrible. What eight of 11 men 10 of 11 are pro bowlers or your guys? I'm not asking them to be top five. I'm not asking them to take games over and dominate. You can't be one of the worst in the league, which through two games, they have been. That's always my stance. It's not a big ask. No, it's not. Some some improvement should be expected. Also, maybe I put too much on how good Quinn is as a defensive coach. And same with Joe Whit, who I think really highly of, but like when Ron Rivera came in, he's defensive minded, but I didn't think scheming X is no, and I've never been like a huge fan of his. He's a leader of mentite. Jack Del Rio, though, I thought could get it right, but like when you have a head coach and a coordinator, those types of guys, Danny. Maybe it's not fair. I just expect that you can figure something out. You're a defensive minded head coach and your coordinator in Joe Whit is a rock star in your building. It's not like you've got like some due to was in college at UTEP last year is in his first year as a coordinator or Joe Barry or something who only coordinated the lions when they went over the world. I just expected a lot more on that side of the ball. Reasonably. Yeah, to me, I, you know, the idea that this would be an actual good defense. I didn't see that, but improved from the bottom, right? How much? I think was a great variable. Do they get to 21st? Do they get to 18th? That was kind of a reasonable expectation. I think that folks had without some elite players here and there there. They upgraded, at least in their mind, they wouldn't got the Louvoo's, the Bobby Wagner's on short term deals to sort of buoy that talent level. But you know, I didn't see like, okay, when Pittsburgh's got TJ watt, that's the best defense in the sport. But they're not this bad, right? I mean, they're playing at this level. This is not what they are, right? I don't know. I certainly hope to not. I don't have a ton of confidence that that the 20th ranked defense is in that room right now and they're just going to figure it out with the next few weeks. I could see fixing a lot of things with coaching. I don't know how you fix your corner problem. Remember, Peter's was on with us right before the season and the one position we kind of picked at with him was corner brought it up point blank, like, how, what am I wrong about? How is this good enough? Corner Noah Igbonogany, who's a nickel corner playing on the outside is going to start who was listed as the fourth outside corner at the start of training camp. It's week three and you're going up against Jamart Chase. So if Zach Taylor wants to, he can move him around and get him on Igbonogany throughout the game. I don't know how much better it is to have Saint juice on him. I would say better because I like Saint juice more, but my point is that's not a scheme problem. That's not a Dan Quinn problem. What bill is in Joe's? Yeah. What are you supposed to do there? Let's open up the phones. 800 636 1067. What's the fix for this defense and do you think they are better than they're playing? MGM National Harbor listener lines open on Grant and Danny. We got Jay Gruden on the show at five. Speaking of Dan Quinn, you'll hear what he had to say to reporters today. The best of his press conference at six here on the fan. 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