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And Danny, welcome you back on the fan. We'll take you up to six 30 on G and D today. We are sponsored by the law firm, Condorian Murad, that will guide you and your family in the right direction. They will help you to draft the will, set up a trust and create a health care power of attorney. Schedule a free consultation with their estate planning attorneys at kmlawyers.com. Be sure to tell them that we sent you so that you can get a discount. Go check them out at kmlawyers.com. We've been telling you about our friends, Condorian Murad for many months on the show. Huge DC sports fans. You and I went to some caps games with them this year. Yes, we did. And just good dudes could hang a lot of fun, but they love their DC sports. They travel the country to watch DC sports teams. You know how seriously they take travel in the country to watch? Like, is there an example that you could provide? I could. It's coming Monday, one week from today on Monday night football in Cincinnati. The grant and Danny radio program will be on the road sponsored by our friends at Condorian Murad. They are taking us with them to Cincinnati to broadcast live about that on Monday ahead of the game and on Tuesday in Ohio computer chime. Thank you. The computer is very excited about it. Yeah, the computer is in Danny. We're going to Ohio. So if there was if there was a phrase or a bit of terminology that would apply to what Grant and Danny are up to next. Is there anything that comes to mind? I think you can think of like what like what are we focused on? We are. What are we doing? We're on the Cincinnati. That's what we're doing. Mmm. Now, as a show, you see what I'm saying? Look, right now you're like, Hey, you guys are here in DC. You're a couple blocks north of Nat's Park. You're talking about a washington win at home for the first time in a while. But in my mind, I am. We're on the Cincinnati. I need people to think about what this really means. Think long and hard about this. Danny Ruye who refuses to go to the Fed. That's right. Old Northwest Stadium. Old Nubs Field. Because of that refuses to go to football games to watch as Washington commanders. The last time we got Danny Ruye to go to a game to watch the commanders was in New Orleans on our last show road trip. Many, many years ago, Danny Ruye will be back in an NFL stadium. Ladies and gentlemen, the Subaru of the sober. No fun. Ruye will be sitting in an NFL stadium watching football. Yeah. In Cincinnati in prime time on Monday night, Monday night, football, the boot. How about it? It's nothing about the past. Nothing about the future. Right now we're praying for Cincinnati. That's what we're doing. I'm packing my bags. I'm getting ready to go. Our pets heads are falling off. We got a itinerary that our guys put together. We're watching the Ravens whoop up on the Cowboys together at some bar. Then we're going to kick it all day on Monday. We're going to do the show live. Wait till here. We're doing the show from by the way. And then we're going to Monday night football, Condori Murad, their traveling party and the Grant and Danny radio program. We have to dress nice. I think two or three times. Did you get that? It was the bottom of the email that that was seems sent. I'm sure. No, it's down at the bottom. I'm not. I'm going to call it fine print because it's all pertinent information, but two different blazers. How's that work? Two different blazers we probably need because you can't be seen wearing the same thing. True or false? You're going to wear some type of weird salmon shirt and bring a jacket. It's false because it's not weird. Okay. Are you going to bring a jacket? Probably. Yeah. Oh, man, probably cannot wait. It's going to be a blast. Are you going to wear the jacket to the stadium? No, not for the game. I'm not going to put a blazer on for the game sitting next to Danny at a football game. Derus, you're going to be sitting with us, by the way. Derus is making the trip as well. You're going to be in Paul Brown Stadium on Monday night football, a court stadium, whatever stadium guy. Can you imagine Danny Rio yet an NFL game? That would first of all, I'd be honored that I'm going to be able to sit next to Danny, try the first football game in forever. Aside from that Ravens game, you went to randomly. But yeah, I'm honored. I'm honored and shocked all in one. It's going to be a trip. It is. Here's where we're broadcasting from. Now, this is a little bit of a deeper cut. Yeah. For some of our listeners of yesteryear. This is catnip. If you know, like if you're in, you're going to, you're going to lose your mind. Exactly. I am steamed up for this. They're going to be a bunch of you going, what? So what? What does that matter? What are you talking about? We're going to be watching games throughout the day on Sunday, broadcasting live on Monday and on Tuesday from THOMBS watch bar. Now, if that sounds funny to you, it's because it's not Tom's watch bar like in the Navy. No, no, no, our old buddy THOMBS. Oh, Tommy, who was a producer of the Grant and Danny radio program pre pandemic left packed up shop with his lady wife and went to Cincinnati, Ohio. He was the original gangster of onto Cincinnati. He was. He's obviously married. A dad just employed in a totally different space now. He's going to be hosting us. Or on the Cincinnati. That's right, Bill. Can you imagine all thommie? All thommie. His boys are coming to see him. He runs a sports book basically. He works at a casino running a sports book. He is going to serve as our hosts for a couple of days, hooking his guys. So we're going to broadcast live from THOMBS watch bar. Tommy will be back on the Grant and Danny radio program come next Monday live from THOMBS watch bar from THOMBS sports casinos, Hollywood casino, man. It's going to be a hell of a trip. I mean, world's colliding dogs and cats living together insane, but we got to thank our friends, Condorian Murad for making it happen. So here's the question. If you're going to Cincinnati and you already know it and you're out there. First of all, what's your game plan? Tweet us at grandage Paulson had funny Danny. Let us know. We plan to kick it with some listeners while we're out there. We are going to be staying in Kentucky. We're going to be broadcasting from Indiana, but we'll be at the game in Cincinnati as you try state right there. That is a real thing. By the way, ha ha ha. No, that's actually what's happening. ThOMBS watch bars in Indiana. Uh huh. The hotel is in Kentucky. I think that's where we're also flying into it's because that's the suburban Cincinnati airport is actually in Kentucky. The whole thing's around 30, 35 minutes apart. The Bengals game is in Ohio. We are back. We are back. We are getting dug back and we are on to Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase. We're on to Cincinnati. Ladies and gentlemen, the Grant and Danny radio program. Oh, by the way, they're going to Cincinnati. Look like they got right against Kansas City. I was hoping for another month or so of them not knowing what they're doing. They look just fine. They're going to be trying not to go 0 and 3. Yeah. What are you going to do with your hands at a football game guy? I've been to plenty of football games, man. Not many lately. No, not lately. Not a whole lot. No, I didn't sit with you in New Orleans. So I don't know what this is going to be like at all. Why didn't you sit with us in New Orleans? I was press box. Paulson. You did a press box bed? I did. Yeah. I did a press box. I don't remember that. Absolutely. Because we had seats that were great. We were like 15 roads rose back and we had the best view of Nick Sundberg warming up like Nick Sundberg was basically mooning us, you know, like he's doing his long snap bit like we're right at the 10 and I was like, this is this is the best picture of Nick Sundberg. You're ever going to find. You know what I mean? Like he looked handsome and just spelt. It's going to Mary Pat who's in Springfield wants to hop in on GND. Hello, Mary Pat. How are you? Hey, guys. I don't know. Please don't you guys do. I'm holding the marsh in for a long term. Good. Oh, you're breaking up on us. Oh, I will get back to you. I think she wanted to talk to us about Chile, though, clary. What was she going to ask us to? Skyline. She wanted you guys to try the Skyline 3 way, which is basically three different kinds of our lives would like that. You got to pay extra usually. That's true. That's fair. That's fair. But she would want you to try that over at Skyline Chile. And apparently it's a thing and apparently it's really good. So I I'm going to say thank you so much to Mary Pat on that. It is it is thoughtful. It is kind. I really appreciate it. You know, sir, guys, for food guys, it's out of it. We just love to eat things. I'm going to tell you this. It stinks. Skyline chili stinks. Cincinnati chili stinks. Wow. Okay. I have been to Cincinnati. I was on to Cincinnati before played Xavier a couple times as a collegiate what I played a Dayton all over the place been a Cincinnati few different times myself. It is so pedestrian. It's dumb. It's not that good. And they put it on spaghetti and act like they invented fire. They didn't. There's plenty of things to eat and do. We're not doing Skyline chili. Maybe your taste buds have changed considerably. It's been a long time. I haven't been to Cincinnati in in a few years. So unless they did some kind of reinventing of putting chili on spaghetti and being convinced that they're the greatest inventors since the Wright brothers. No. What year was the major league baseball all-star game in Cincinnati? I'm going to say it was like 2018 maybe. Wow. It's been that long. 2015. Okay. That was the last time I was in Cincinnati was nine years ago. It's time. It's time to return. It's to the queen sitting to go see Joe burrow in the boys. Take on the Washington commanders with our pals Condoria and Murad. So we'll have plenty to do. It's not Skyline chili. Let us know. Hit us up. If you're going, we will hang. We will kick it. We'll find some watering holes to meet up at along the way with listeners hopefully, but we'll be out there as of Sunday. I'm going to post up. Watch the one o'clock games. We'll find a place to brood on the Ravens against the Cowboys in the four o'clock window and then come Monday night football a week from today. Grant Danny, Condoria, Murad, Darris and the crew all at Bengals commanders Monday night football. So we're looking forward to that. Now, before we get back to the phones, we can hit us up at 800 636 1067. What did you make of the Davis being inactive news? So I think it was a numbers game where they needed someone in other position or blah, blah, blah, but they called up a defensive end from the practice squad. That's a planted this is where I'm going. So I, you know, Johnny Newton was going to get more snaps and math this is in there. And then you had a, you know, a Baptiste through the number of guys that again, that maybe there's another member of the secondary or someone else that I missed in terms of the numbers game. But the fact that he was the victim of a numbers game tells you everything. Yeah, right. This is not, this is not the 30th guy on the roster that they, that they made an act. Javante Jean Baptiste was a seventh round pick. Now he's been okay. I have nothing against him. But let's just say it is actually, Jamie Davis is just the last guy at defensive end and it's not overly meaningful. It has nothing to do with. They didn't like his game in week one. We didn't like his game more than like John Baptiste game. Right? It's right. You are a former first round pick a couple of years removed who is now being deactivated so that the seventh round pick can play tells you the story. So I think it's maybe less about what he did in limited snaps in week number one because he didn't play it on. He flashed. I think you saw him a couple of times one on that TFL. Another word I thought he was very active and maybe somebody else made the play. But who knows what's going on a practice? Who knows if he's not practicing well or, you know, if there's any, I'm not implying anything, I'm just asking. I'm just simply saying we have no idea if there was some sort of let's say there was a blow up in practice where he was arguing with a position coach and got deactivated because I'm not implying that. I'm saying we have no idea what's going on sort of between them. All we see is those brief glimpses on Sunday, but it just tells you his place at the table is is tenuous. Right? Like he really was close to not making it. I think it's by virtue of the fact that he's under contract either way. You don't gain anything by not having him on the roster. You can make him inactive on game days, which they did. I think there'll be times he'll be up. I think there'll be times maybe you see one special teams or, you know, as a rotational piece at that defensive end spot when it's more of a pass for our situation, maybe match up dependent. Who knows what coaches are thinking there, but it tells you an awful lot that he wasn't just automatically included, right? What do you feel best about through two games and what do you feel worst about? I think we can pivot to this is another lens to look at this game through at MGM National Harbor listener lines wide open at 800-636-1067. I feel best right now about the running game. It's been a long time since we say that, but I think we're seeing the beginning of an identity now for this football team. And I don't know if this is what they want to be. I don't know if this is what, you know, it is going to be the most fun to watch necessarily, but I think this is what they need to be. And I think this is the path forward here at this moment. You and I argued a lot of offseason about how much should Jaden Daniels run. How much of part of the offense is it going to be? And my point in saying Daniel should run a lot. And so far, he's run even more than a lot, in my opinion. But the reason I thought that was the case was twofold. Number one, don't draft him if you don't want him to run. So what he does great, it's what he's special at. It's the unique skill that he's got that is 99th percentile among all quarterbacks in the NFL already. But on top of that, him running makes Brian Robinson better, makes Austin Echler better. This is what I covered in 12. This is what we all fell in love with back in the Shanahan Griffin days when they were the number one rushing offense and the number one offense in the NFL. It's the Ravens and the problems people have stopping guys like Justice Hill and JK Dobbins and Gus Edwards over the years. It hadn't been Derek Henry. It hadn't been superstars. It's just dudes who have had a lot of success because you got to go 11 and 11. You got to defend as a bear defender on the front, the read option. You got to make sure that you play the quarterback and and the there's more running real estate for that the backs downhill. B Rob going for a Buck 33 yesterday was based largely on the film from Tampa and the amount of respect paid to Jaden Daniels. It was also about how much he ran early in the game probably frankly as well. Echler average almost five a pop nanny. If you add in Daniels and there's no reason not to, they ran for two 15 yesterday. That's right. This is going to be a really good running football team and they need to be because it's going to be helpful and keep in that bad defense off the field. So I'll piggyback on that and zone in a little bit more on Echler. Again, remember the reason he's here. Everyone thought he was washed up. It took, you know, not saying I had anything to do with it. The people that made the signing did, but you know, there are only a handful of people you and I included, I think, in this or going, are we sure? Are we sure that this guy has nothing left at 29 years old for a, you know, from a team where the running game was broken for everybody, not just him. When you look back at what the Chargers were doing, it's not like his backup was ripping off five yards a pop and he was down in the threes because something he, you know, something was wrong with him. Yeah, he may not have been as healthy as you normally was, but you saw the burst. You saw how good he is catching the football even last year when that offense wasn't particularly good. You've seen it through two games. He's their best offensive player. He is their most productive offensive player, both running the ball on a per carry basis, a little Robinson superseded him with some of those explosive runs this past week, but he's their best receiver to this point leads the team in a second and catches and first in yards. The yards after the catch is a huge thing and it's been missing quite frankly from this offense, regardless of who the OC has been over the last, you know, five, six, seven years. And that's what he does. He gets yards after the catch. He's finishing forward. He can, he can bulldoze a little bit if he has to, breaks tackles, guys bounce off him. Pretty good. Remember that time he tried to hurdle a defender towards the end of the game. I think it was the second half. The guy didn't go down like he thought he would, but he just bounced off the guy and sort of looked at him and he's writhing and paying on the ground. Austin Echler is a weapon. That's a bonus because the rest of the league had a chance to sign him too. And they didn't. Yeah. And they've done a really good job designing some looks for him. Real legitimate plays for him that are set up when they know they're going to get the right coverage and the right moment that maybe they're coming downhill and blitzing. They've been able to hit some of those center screens. They had ran another one. It's two times and two games now in the first half where they've hit one of those. It's been awesome. But yeah, they are getting yards after the catch. And I think that there's two reasons for that. Number one, they've got some guys who can do it. But more importantly, I think when you're throwing the ball at the line of scrimmage, you're going to get yards after the catch. They are number two in terms of the bottom of the ranking. So I said it very badly. There's second to last. There's over 30 quarterbacks, over 32 already that have played, let's say it's 35 or whatever, quarterbacks have played in the NFL so far. Jaden Daniels completed area yards, 2.5. Only Caleb Williams has been worse at 2.2. Now, again, that's not a knock on Jaden Daniels. It's part of the offense, right? To my homes and some of these guys are down low in those categories. It's a stylistic thing in the horizontal rate. But my point in bringing you up is not a knock on Daniels as much as it is to say, you're going to get yards after the catch when you're throwing behind the line of scrimmage as often as they are and at the line of scrimmage. Second most in the NFL at this point in doing that 806361067. You want to hop in with what you feel best about. We'll give you what we feel worst about so far. Two games into the season next, but there's a lot more after yesterday we can feel good about, I would say, as the commanders got a 21 to 18 win over the Giants and may have fixed a couple of their dilemmas along the way. You're listening to the fan. The seasons may be changing, but the deals of the sharpest rides are unbeatable as ever. Hey, what's going on? It's your girl, Tasha McKeea, and I need you to join the sharpest rides for their Fall Into Savings event, where they're offering incredible prices on their massive inventory. That's right, everything is on sale now. Shot from sleek sedans to rugged SUVs and sporty convertibles. The sharpest rides has the perfect ride to match your fall adventures. Plus, with their exclusive financing options, getting behind the wheel of your dream car has never been easier. 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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. After two games, we feel best about the running game. Yesterday, the commanders shredded the giants. That offensive line won the line of scrimmage pretty clearly. They did get some pretty decent front on paper at least. Absolutely 17 attempts for a 133 yards, a career game for Brian Robinson, Jaden Daniels. A week after running 16 times was down to 10 attempts for 44 yards. Although there were a few quote unquote rushes back to the line of scrimmage where he pulled the ball down that went for sacks, five sacks in the game, four of them in the first half did a way better job after halftime at not getting hit behind the line of scrimmage. And then Austin Echler, eight attempts for 38 yards. So overall, just the backs combined. Robinson and Echler as a tandem Danny, 25 carries for 171 yards for those two. Jim Harbaugh, Michigan type running performance, you know, on the way to an ad. You don't see that all that often in the NFL. I mean, listen, it's a different game. If in that big pile up, give, I'm not taking credit away from Robinson, but the big pile up on, I think it was either third and short. Maybe it was even a fourth town where you're looking for a half yard. The place designed to get a half yard. And it probably should have got a half yard. But you know, the, the rugby scrum happens and he bounces through it and you know, escapes for 40 yards. It's a different day. It's just a regular old good day instead of a banner day instead of a career day. But point is they were thumping. They were running downhill. Whatever they wanted to do in the run game was working. I don't know how sustainable that is. I don't know week to week. I mean, it certainly wasn't the case against Tampa where Robinson went 12 for 40. You didn't have those kinds of, you know, a glaring holes. But I will say, involving Echler earlier in the game, I think opens things up for everybody else. And I know it just, that's kind of my sticking point here. But I'm looking at the rest of the offense, wondering where some more meaningful productions coming from. They've gotten good Zach hurts through a couple of games. Again, there's something dynamic really after the catch for him. I don't know that he has that in the cards or in his pocket, but he's gotten open. He's gotten himself a couple catches in traffic. So I don't know where the big plays are coming from in the past game all that often. If it's not, you know, Echler in the short intermediate, make it some moves, maybe no a brown, maybe, or you got to play a pool of gadget play or something or just get a guy open. Aldrich Robinson style, you know, where you hit play action and you don't want to top. But yeah, I don't know that those chunks necessarily are going to be what they major in because as you've pointed out, it's just right now in the league, the trend, and it's two games. Everyone's making these massive declarations about two weeks of football that, you know, the whole league has changed. We'll see. I think the good quarterbacks are still going to be good and the bad ones are still going to be bad. But clearly defenses are trying to make teams go on long drives. We initially saw this against the chiefs a couple of years ago when nobody had an answer and so you started playing cover two with your safeties deep and you kept everything underneath because the idea is I'd rather them have to go on a 12 play drive when the refs are looking for holding penalties and hands to the face and the fall starts going to get you behind the sticks. The other thing that's happening around the league I think is I think pass rushers on the interiors, especially a detackle are getting better and better, more explosive, quicker with size, maybe even on the edges at defensive end as well. And that's been, you know, a factor in some of the numbers being down. But I'm with you. I don't think they're going to be a prolific passing team with this personnel. We knew that this offseason that hasn't changed. But I think Earth's is the vertical threat. In that 15 to 20 area, he hit on two completions to Earth's this past week. That should be there almost every single week. It's it's the old remember the 2012 offense. They should have that basically that read option play action, drift to Pierre Garçon whenever they want it. We have not seen any of those yet. The closest thing we've seen was the Noah Brown catch yesterday. But like where is Terry McClellan on a 17 yard square in when the linebackers suck up because you've slammed off the line of scrimmage, keeping the ball on read options a couple times. Or Brian Robinson's been a battering ram downhill. What's the thing you feel worst about through two games? It may be that passing game. Like I know the I know what the easy answer is and I'll save it for you. But to me, I just it's nice. That was fun. You beat up the Giants that way. You thumped it down their throat. That's great. There are too many decent defenses. There are too many times we're going to have to do something in the pass game where I just don't know that they have and I don't think they have it. I don't think they have that gear. It worked yesterday. I mean, you saw on the on the clutch drive. You already mentioned a couple of good throws to arts. The one the Noah Brown that's that stands out because that's their long for the season. But I just don't know sustainably it's going to be third and seven sometimes. Can you throw you know, north of the sticks and convert for a first down? I don't think they have the receiving talent to do it. I don't think they've got the offense that's designed to do it to what you really need to do in this league, both in terms of, you know, competing with some of the better football teams or in certain kinds of games that the script gets away from you and you know, in terms of Daniels's development, I think this is you were sort of cursed here to if you can win this way this week, I don't know if that's going to, you know, you're doing that seven, eight, nine more times. I don't see it. They might be able to, but he's going to have to stay in the pocket like he did in the second half. They won throw in the football in the second half of the game against the Giants. Now they're going to play better defenses with better personnel, but that was the first time he really gave the passing game a true chance to work downfield in any way. If the first half, if you go back first sign of discomfort, first sign of, you know, a lot of it was RPO and immediate throws at the line of scrimmage in the early going first driver to, but even as the rest of the half went on, if my first guy is not there, then here we go, moles down and I'm headed up, headed up field in a few times he got stopped behind the line for sacks on those. But I think in the second half, it was like the game slowed down. It seemed like I wonder if any part of it was the hit he took too, by the way. Do you think that when he got the wind knocked out of him and he missed the play, it seemed to me like, and I'm working back from the results. So my evidence is the outcome. I'm seeing what I want to, but I think there is something to after he took that hit, he ran less and he threw more. And for the first time in two games, he just stayed in the pocket and wanted to throw the football. Do you think there is a causation there or do you think it's coincidental? It's hard for me to say because I mean, there was that read option called late that he ran really well around, you know, the on the game punching drive, but everyone always wants to make it zero 100. I'm not saying you should never run. I'm just saying we all watch the game. I'm not saying that either. I guess either major in passing or major in running. And for six quarters, he majored in running. And then the last two quarters after that hit, but the first time he was a thrower first, I think I think it's impossible to ignore is what I would say. I don't know if it's direct causation. I would also wonder, did the Giants do something different coverage wise? I don't know. Then I don't have an answer to that. I know in the first half, when I think it was Coleman got just annihilated by Thibodeau for a clean, easy blast on on Daniels for what women a sack if it wasn't eliminated by some penalty away from the football that had nothing to do with that. You know, I'm wondering what I've wanted to take off more after that happened early in the game. You know what I mean? Like, I don't, I don't know. It's one of those things where you give him credit because this is what happened and these are positive things. But what what causes lead to that? I think it's so hard for us to say, but it's impossible to ignore. He leaves the game, gets the wind knocked out. I'm getting crunched on, you know, kind of a dead play. And the next thing you know, he's a lot more, you know, moving the throw instead of moving the move. I did not have a huge problem with that play where he got hurt, by the way. It was a third and 13. He was going for a first down and he got 14. Having said that, it's early in the game. That's a pick your spots moment. Punting there is not the end of the world. Just getting down and sliding and not getting that first down. That early in the game is not a deal breaker. If he gets hit the same way he did and instead of losing his breath, you know, let's just say he cracks a rib and he's out for three weeks or something, that's a devastating blow to your development. So, you know, I was listening to the junkies discourse on this today. And most of the room certainly cakes in a B were team. I'm not worried about him getting hurt. It's part of the game. I'm paraphrasing now, but like run. I don't care if he slides. Go get me first downs. Go get me touchdowns. I think that's I'm guessing they were doing a bit anyway and kind of being fun and entertaining, but I just think that's silly. That that's not in any way what should be the coaching point that you mean, Sally, a little bit sad, but also a little bit silly. And I think they're being funny. I think they're having a good time with it. But I don't know what you thought on that play to me that it that's if that's winning time in the fourth quarter in the games on the line, we're playing football. No problem early in the game. We don't need to take that shot and we're two games in. He's taking two really big hits. He's already missed the play. He was on the sideline and Driscoll was in the game. So people can do there. He's tough. He's a dog though. You're overreacting all they want to. I'm just pointing to the information. You can watch it or not. The first game helmet to helmet hit. If the first concussion checker wanted to send him to the blue tent, they could have. They chose not to luckily, but Driscoll would have been in for the rest of that drive. And then in this game, he literally couldn't take a snap for the first time in his career already. And that happened six drives in. Yeah. I mean, so it's sometimes it's a it's it's the it's the price you pay because you have the player. In other words, if you're if you're the Colts, you're going to have to live with Anthony Richardson, turning it over sometimes on some egregious throws or running into traffic or whatever. If you have you're the Bills, you got Josh Allen, who's going to try to knock over 17 different dudes. And sometimes he might try to extend the ball for a touchdown and any fumbles. You're going to have some some of those moments, but you make that trade, right? So that's one of those where I'm going, I would love for him to get down and just be available forever. I just want him healthy. And that's what I'm totally nervous and scared about. But I understand that you have to let him be himself at certain points. The ones that I can't stand as we talked about in week one, if we're kind of going down this road, are you're down by 30 or whatever is 25 points with a minute left. And we're we're having him dive to the end zone, trying to break through three different tackles. That's what I can't do. You're putting the first half scramble into the category of a he's got to play. He's got to go make a play. Does he I'm there? No, I want let me be clear about it. If it's up to me, he gets down, but I'm kind of going, I'm going to, you're kind of punting. I'm going to, I'm going to close my I'm going to cover my eyes and pray every time he moves around that he's going to be okay. Because it's like there's going to be a time where he's not, but I get the point and also I kind of am there as well where it's like we could talk about it till we're blue in the face. It ain't changing. I mean, just so we're all on the same page, but they don't seem that interested in making sure it changes coaching it up. And this is how he played in high school and in college and in the pros and he's stayed healthy. And you just knock on wood and hope that he can. But if you want to talk about it, go for it. Fine. I don't mean you specifically, but whoever's listening, this is what it is. He is going to take hits and you just hope he has mostly been able to be slippery enough to avoid anything that's been overly costly. Do you remember the run? I want to say it was in the first half when he cut back and got a few extra yards. Yeah, right at the sideline. Yeah. Well, so that's not to play. You got hurt on, but there was a play that was like that, where he's out running. Yeah. And I'm kind of going, everybody know, everybody in the stadium is clapping. Probably 96% of the people at home were clapping. There's a small percentage of us that are going, that's how it happens. Oh, yeah. That is exactly how it's going to happen. That's how it happened to, to, you know, who in 2012, it like, that's cool. I love, I love first downs too. I'm excited to watch the kid do it. But God, it's just running the risk. It is just the overly comfortable. Like the, the, I don't have time for you guy that's like, it's tackle football. This is how it's done as if Russell Wilson didn't slide his entire career. Lamar Jackson hasn't protected, perfected that barrel roll thing. Like he does not often get hit like Jaden got hit last week helmet to helmet. You watch Lamar as much as you want to. You are not going to see that direct shot to the ribs for Lamar Jackson very often because he's figured it out. Like he's, he's figured he uses the sideline as well as anybody at this point, but he gets down, he falls, he lunges. It's two times in two games. And again, I'm kind of over it at this point. Like it is what it is. It's just going to be baked into it part of it because I think it'd be hypocritical for me to say, like it's hard for me to want him to run, which I do. I don't think he should run as much as he has, but then to also feel like he can't take any contact. You always have to get down. I just, you got to try to avoid the big ones. It's just hard to know when those are common. And yesterday, second game, he's already missed a snap. Not a complete coincidence, but I really do believe it changed how we played the rest of the game in a really good way. Because in the second half, he was a basically the fact though pocket passer the first time we've seen that. And I thought he made the right throws and the right reads and he just looked good. Yeah. And if we could get that more often with the running just supplemented out every now and then, I think you've got a potential star and that's kind of what we're all looking for you. Double play comes your way next on GND out and I want to hit more calls as well. What have you liked most? What haven't you liked through two weeks for the commanders? They are one and one and they are on the Cincinnati side. [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] Well, squeeze in a double play on Grant and Danny here on the Sunday, they will win the season. They will win the season. They will win the season. They will win the season in two football seasons. They didn't win one in the east last year went 0 for the campaign. Before we get to our double play, let's squeeze in a couple of calls. Vic's an act of kick. What's up, Vic? What's up, guys? Hey, buddy. It's been a while since I've never been able to win a home game and I get to talk with you all, but it's great. Let's deal with the winners, get to a phase. I'm working with Jayden who is doing so far because he's developing. He's progressing. He's moving forward, game by game, drive by drive down by down. Obviously, with the experience and Grant, you talk about this in the summertime, him being committed and comfortable and committed to staying in the pocket, a little more having a little more maturity in the pocket so that he can see you down the field and make the right throws. When he does that, we can see that he makes the right throws and he adds on talent. I'm impressed with that that he is progressing. The issue I have right now, I'm not a fan of Chris Kingbury's accommodations if you were over accommodations of the offensive formations in the first half, in the first two games. In the second half, he's spread the formations out a lot more. What I also want to say now is every other team that has a receiver like Teri McClorin, they use them in the X, they use them in the Y, they use them in the J, they use them in the H, they use them everywhere. We don't use Teri like that. I'll go with this. I get it, their coach with gets angry and he holds people accountable. I need your Hall of Fame linebacker to either you get this right with or your Hall of Fame linebacker, Mr. Wagon, it's an understanding. When there's no width on the backside, four plays, nine in a row, before plays throughout the game, when neighbors is by himself, either tied to the formation or far from the formation, he's going to come across your face. We need to man zone that or zone man it, but when he crosses the middle linebacker's face, somebody's got to go with him. So he's not by himself. There won't even any picks on those plays. Well, on the one at the end there, Vic, thanks. St. Juice did get rubbed. He got picked and kind of knocked off of his sprint. And so he was several steps behind neighbors. And that was the last one. He was beat any now. Yeah. It's a bad plan to have a corner in man covering that guy on a drag on a crossing route at the line of script. You call by the Johnson will not ever work. There's not a corner in the league. I don't think that would defend that play. So to his point, and I think that's what Vic's getting to is is you need help. You need someone to crack him. You need someone to actually drop and make that a more difficult situation where he's got to navigate traffic. And they really didn't have a lot of that in terms of answers back to Daniels more importantly, because more than the defensive woes at this point, his development is key. This was a much better game than game one. There's no doubt. And by the way, it wasn't like game one was awful. I mean, I'm just saying like game one was kind of schoolyard running around making plays. There was no real structure to the passing offense. The second half of this game, it looked like an NFL passing offense. So that's a linear progression. It's not going to be a staircase every single game that's unrealistic to ask. But there's clear growth. That's all you can ask for. I'll disagree a little bit on on the Kingsbury in this game, because I thought he was really good with what he called. Some of the stuff he did to help Jaden the early part of the game, maybe he didn't like with all the screens. Those are RPOs. I mean, that is, I think those are largely Daniels decisions. And they guessed right because they were getting first downs. They were moving the ball. But if you go back and watch that, and I'm sure Vic has, you know, a lot of those are run past options where you can either give the ball, pull it and throw it out to the army on the screen, pull it, throw it, you know, the McLaurin screen initially for a loss, that negative play. That's a design wide receiver screen. But it's the first play of the game. You're throwing the McLaurin. It's what we were screaming for all the way. Yeah. And it's, it's what I would do, by the way, and I'm not qualified to be an OC. I don't know all the terminology. But if I'm designing an offense early, I'm doing that. It's basically like if you're in a boxing match, you punch the other guy in the stomach a bunch of times. You probably don't get knockouts that way. You don't end fights that way unless you get the, you know, the perfect shot on a kidney or something like that. But you're wearing them down. They get tired of giving up four, five, six, seven, having to weave through traffic. Lime and have to pursue, safety's have to come down and deal with tight ends that are out there blocking or, you know, cornerbacks have to make place. So then they start to sit on that. That's when I start my counters. That's when I start my play action. That's when I get my double moves, which they dialed up, by the way, but no a brown beat the, uh, it's not out of his guy, which would have been a touchdown, have an up in pressure. So that's what I like that to start things. You show that, know all you're going to do stuff off of it. Oscar and silver spring. You're on Grant and Danny. What's up, Oscar? Hey, I don't grant any. Yep. Yeah. Um, yeah, I just, I like, I like how they use Echler and B. Rob in the backfield at the same time. Um, I thought that was real key. They didn't do that last week. Um, it looked, it looked like last week. It looked like too much of a like Scott Turner type offense. But this week, I mean, this week, they really, they really grant, they really pounded the ball. Um, they have to establish that running game that they want to be successful in the activation of a no brown. I mean, that one clutch cat that, that one clutch, uh, catchy hat. I mean, there you go. Two changes. I think you, you dropped. Sorry. They made basically two big roster changes this week. No Brown activated. He made an immediate impact and Austin cyber to made the seven field goals and played hero. And was the biggest reason why they won with that right leg. Can't ask for much better results immediately than that. One change I would make this week and they did in game anyway, big, but not going to over Davis on the outside. This is going to be a tough match up with the Bengals regardless with Joe burrow as an upgrade from Daniel Jones. Not many guys could coverage or more chases. It is. I'll say this though, Jamart Chase has not played at the level that Malik neighbors did this past week. I'm not saying he can't get there this week, but because he didn't have an off season because he's at odds with that staff, because he's busy throwing temper tantrums on the sideline and slamming his helmet and taking penalties. He has not played like that yet. If you look at his numbers, he's just been okay. This is probably his get going 15 target, 11 catch game or something like a breakout week. Yeah, like that, but, uh, I'm not excited for the Igg binogany versus Jamart Chase matchup or, or saying choose for that matter to travel with him. I don't think that would be the best play either, but he certainly their best corner. So maybe that's what they do. Maybe they just do. Remember last year Rivera and his crew said BSJ, you're following Justin Jefferson around the field. I guess it was two seasons ago that they could do that. Just tell them to be physical, grab them and see where that gets them. Yeah, take a few illegal contact penalties, you know, where, uh, you got home this afternoon. What'd you do for Sunday night football? Anything good? Nothing special we had. Actually, I will say this. We were obviously at home for whatever reason. The wife said we're going to have a football meal. She's in her fall cooking time, which is the best time. Uh, we had wings. They were from Wegmans and they were fantastic. What was wings and the little black leaf? One set of old bag, one set of irregular buffalo situation with some nice spice on there. Uh, and she also made chili. I love Wegmans wings. So I got a call when I was leaving the stadium yesterday for my wife saying, just a reminder, like we did last year, you're in charge of dinner on Sunday nights. There we go. Big, big win for me. Uh huh. Traffic was terrible coming back across the bridge. No. Yeah, I know it's crazy for people because only stadiums in Virginia have traffic, but coming from the ex back to Virginia, uh, took twice as long as getting there did traffic from when I got on the beltway to when I got across the Woodrow Wilson bridge and weirdly in Virginia, everything opened up and it was awesome. I don't know why. Um, so that was interesting. But I tell you this, Danny, to tell you, I didn't pop eyes by the time I got home. I didn't really want to order takeout or anything. Oh, I just swung through, got some chicken, uh, tenders, chicken sandwiches. We did pop eyes. Felt great about that choice. Any sides going there? Or do you guys? Or do you know me? Do sides? I did match potatoes. She did fries. Yep. 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