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Victory Monday On G&D, Game Balls & Gassers For WSH vs NYG

9.16.24 Hour 1

1:00- The Commanders got their first win in the Dan Quinn-Jayden Daniels era as they edged out the Giants in a thriller!

24:00- We get our game balls and gassers for the Giants-Commanders game, game balls to the best and gassers to the worst of week 2.

Broadcast on:: 16 Sep 2024
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The sharpest rides, affordable, sexy, sharp. Good Monday afternoon and welcome into Grant and Danny, September 16th, 2024, a victory Monday. They are rare around these ports, so enjoy them when you've got them. It's a victory Monday on GND. We got a great show planned for you today. Jake Gruden stops by at five o'clock. We're excited about that. We've got a major commander's related show announcement at three o'clock coming up in one hour. Make sure you are listening at that time on Grant and Danny. Added the beltway blitz today at four. We're going to be giving away tickets to the HF Festival, which is this coming weekend at Nat's Park. And ahead of hearing Dan Quinn's press conference today, which is at six right here on GND, we've got tickets to the cap's 50 fest, starring third eye blind. So we will be very, very busy. Danny, something looks different about you. What's up? Looks like your football team may have gotten a rare win. Well, what were you doing 370 days ago? That's my question. That's the last time this team won a football game at home. 370 days. That's more than a calendar year for scoring at home. September 10th against the Arizona Cardinals. Shut up and rabie when they last won a home game. Are we doing that? The last time dot dot dot. Yeah, first win last time. It's November 5th. Here we go. So that's not just a home win. That's anyone. 316 days since your football team won a football game. The eight game losing streak that spanned in off season is over. They had not beaten the Giants since 2022. They'd lost three straight. There was a tie in there. Oh, three and one over four games. They finally knocked them off. They hadn't won a divisional game in over a football season. You got to go back to 2022 as well. But they begin this year. 1 and 0 in the NFC East. 1 and 0 against the Giants and to your point, Danny. Their first home win since week one against the Arizona Cardinals. A calendar year plus a go. Just four home wins in the last 1,022 days. Think about that. Yeah. If you spend a lot of money going out to Northwest Stadium, if you spend your time in Landover, Maryland, tailgate, and flipping burgers, walking and hoping to see winning football. Over a thousand days have passed. You've seen four wins. So while I am a process over results guy, Danny, who, hey, I got to tell you, man, enjoy this one. It feels nice. This is an eye of the beholder situation. This is a half full, half empty. Whatever you think you probably saw. Like if you're a glass half full person, you go, they went to the red zone five times. They had scoring drives. Every time they tried to drive the football, they got first downs and marched down the field and were in scoring position. You saw some good things. Jay Daniels through two games. I'd never turn over. He's looked the best of any rookie quarterback. And I have a little Twitter thread going at Funny Danny on what's contextualized with the rest of the league. You saw some good stuff here, some, some in-breaking routes. You saw some down the field action a little bit, which you haven't seen through one and a half games. That's positive. On the negative side, you probably don't win the game. If Graham Canola doesn't hurt himself in the opening kickoff, you probably don't win the game if Blake Neighbors, who you couldn't cover and you still didn't cover him on the ball that he dropped on fourth down to give you the football back for a chance to go win it. You probably don't win if he doesn't drop the football. So whatever you want to see, you probably saw in this one, but I will take this result. It just sort of means that the rest of this is worth pursuing to me. And what I mean is, had you lost to the Giants, had they marched down the field and scored on you, and you wouldn't have able to amount to come back, and they had won. You'd lost this deflating home opener against the team that I think is going to be terrible. It's really hard to have any kind of serious football conversation. I think we get to have it. They won. I know the process isn't perfect, but I'm seeing growth. I see some improvement. It's exciting. I'm happy they won the game. Yeah, and the process is not supposed to be perfect, or it shouldn't be expected to be. When you're in your second game with a new front office and a new head coach and a rookie quarterback, who is doing everything for the first time. So I think it's unrealistic if anybody thought that this was going to look really good. Now, not looking terrible is very, very different. And I think that's a reasonable expectation and coming off of week one, where mostly all three phases were legitimately bad. I think to ask for more against a pretty mediocre to weak opponent wasn't asking for a lot. And they cleared that bar clearly, and they got a win, and it is a feel-good victory Monday. But what I would say to your eye of the beholder take, welcome to the NFL. Every game is that way almost. There's the occasional clunker, like the Tampa Bay Week one performance for Washington, by bad teams, or the occasional blowout win by really good teams. The Saints have scored almost 50 points twice early this season, right? But 11 of 14 games played yesterday were decided by a possession. So you're going to be able to go back and go, if these couple plays go differently, my team wins. If these couple plays weren't made, maybe we wouldn't have lost. And that's just the league, generally speaking. But going through some of the really positive, I thought from yesterday, rapid fire. Jayden Daniels has played eight quarters of football. He's played four halves. I thought his best half was the second half against the Giants, and I didn't think it was particularly close. Agreed. The first game against the Bucks, which we talked about almost all week long, and then the first half against the Giants, I thought looked kind of similar, which is to say he very quickly left the pocket and kind of got on the move and didn't really let things develop, wasn't looking to throw the football or engage his receivers in the passing game as much. I thought in the second half, he was marvelous against the Giants. And that's what you're looking for. That's what you want to see from Jayden Daniels, the numbers 12 of 16 for a Buck 39 after halftime. Do you agree it was a very different looking Jayden Daniels after intermission? A hundred percent. So the thing we saw, and I want to, I'll tag you back in, is it looked like the Giants went, okay, this is all you guys are going to do, is Jayden Daniels takes a snap and throws it exactly horizontally to either Zacchaeus or McLaren or somebody in between, or is checking it down to a running back. We're going to force you to do something different. The middle of the field opened up. You saw a pretty good shot to Noah Brown. You saw Zacchaeus on an in-breaking route in traffic, tightly contested, good throw, good catch, good everything. So there are a couple other moments too, where, and I'm not saying you're hitting home runs, that's right now seems to be reserved for the Saints. And I guess Sam Darnold and Justin Deferson, over the top shots are harder to come by. It seems like in the league right now, which we'll get into, I'm sure. But to me, this was the most NFL looking passing that we've seen both from Kingsborough in this offense and from Daniels. Yeah, that's what I would say it was. It just looked like a legitimate NFL passing offense. He had the 20 yard completion to Ertz, where he was wide open. He had a 21 yarder that he kind of lobbed in as he got it, that almost got picked off. There was a 50/50 ball that Ertz caught. Those were the two completions well beyond 10 plus yards in the game. And the two times this season, really, they've been able to push the ball down the field. He had a great throw on the in-breaker, the little dig to Noah Brown. He was wide open, but he threw an arrow to him on the final drive of the game with a catch and run that I thought was, again, that's NFL conceptual stuff. That's just what you want to see more of. But I thought he looked like a passer who had the ability to run rather than a runner who will occasionally pass for the first time in four halves in the second half of the game. And I thought it was part of the reason why, frankly, they got their offense going. You know, his philosophical shift or whatever led to him deciding to stand in the pocket and let the passing game get going, I thought it worked really well. The running game was outstanding. And this is a credit to Jaden Daniels. This goes back to 2012 when we saw defenses have to defend Washington 11 and 11. This is a credit to Cliff Kingsbury because one of the benefits to everyone screaming about Jaden Daniels on design runs and how often he's run the football is that defenses are petrified that he's going to keep the rock. And what you get is a career day from Brian Robinson and Austin Eckler shining. Both of those guys, I thought, were exceptional, specifically Robinson on the ground. It looked like, it reminds me of Alfred Morris in this one respect. When he gets a head full esteem, it's now we're going forward for another three or four yards. Right? If you allow Derek Henry and I'm not putting Robinson necessarily in that class, no one's as physical as that guy, but it's on that spectrum where he's big and strong. And if he gets a head full esteem and is able to kind of get his shoulder square headed up field, you're now looking at seven yards. Whereas if you make him pitter patter and tap his feet and start and stop, you know, you could tackle him like anybody else. But when he gets a head full esteem, credit to the offensive line, I think credit to, as you said, to Kingsbury for some of the design to kind of get him moving. That was pretty damn oppressive. His long, of course, was on a play that was kind of like everybody's all bunched up and everyone thought he was down and he kind of bounced it around and took off for that 40 yards. Bit flooky, but he deserves credit for keeping his feet churning. But like that physicality that he ran with was pretty damn impressive. And when it works, it looks great. He's tough to tackle. Yeah. He had not had a single run of 30 yards in his career in his first 28 games before yesterday. He had two 30 plus yard carries yesterday, including the career long from 40 career high 133 yards on 17 attempts. It was his 13th career game with 17 or more rushes. I thought they had the emergence of a number two wide receiver yesterday. His first time on the field, Noah Brown showed more to me in terms of the ability to separate at the top of the route. Kind of the the suddenness that he's got at the top of the route. On both of the catches he made the one he made this diving catch radius grab where it was an 80 mile an hour fastball. That was kind of offline from Jaden. And he made this really athletic acrobatic play. The next one was the beautifully thrown perfect ball when he won inside. On the final drive to set up the game winning field goal. But you can't tell me that just based on three targets, three catches, this performance for Noah Brown, that you don't feel like they're in a better spot at that number two receiver than they would have been if they didn't bring him in. And you're still wondering, is it Zacchaeus? Is it Deami? Is it going to be, you know, Jamison Crowder? This guy's better than those guys. Yeah, without question. I mean, to me, the most impressive route he had over the course of the day was a play that Daniels was pressured. I think he was sacked on the play, but that little stutter go where the defender, his jockstraps in section 412, that was filthy. Hey, hit him with a double move on the sideline. It was the first half would have been the bottom of the TV screen. Kind of going left to right for people that don't remember the play. Yeah, it looked like you're standard. I'm running 12 yards, turn around, you know, timing. Let's hope for the ball. And that little, whatever, the hitch, he sold it and was gone. If, you know, there's blocking or if it's a different situation, that's an easy walk-in touchdown. But he's explosive. You said it right. The suddenness, the how big he is, the physicality of it, the burst that he has, that's their second best receiver. And, you know, he was dangerous yesterday. They're kicking game problems. For right now, we're gone. I'm not ready, like everybody else seems to be, to just put in Sharpie, that they have solved the kicking dilemma, and that Austin Sybert is the long-term answer. I am ready to crown him king of the day. I am ready to tell him congratulations on winning the NFC Special Team's Player of the Week award, and for setting the franchise record with seven field goals, and for being one of nine kickers in league history, who's ever made seven field goals in a game. But they were all chip shots. As long as I'm 45, all of the other kicks were from extra point distance. And then, yeah. So my point is not to say that that's not an accomplishment, because anything could go wrong around these parts. We've seen it. We know it can. A snap can be bad. A hold can be bad. There could be a procedural issue, and you had a re-kick, and now you're out of whack. Seven for seven, no matter what the distance is, is a win. It's a big deal. But I think two things can be true. One, he had a great game, and I'm very happy for Austin Seibert. It's a funny league. One week ago, the story is they don't have a kicker. They were over two. This week, the guy comes in and goes seven for seven. But I'm going to reserve some judgment before I break out my pen to put him down on the depth chart for the remainder of 2024. So we're going to talk about this a bunch where it comes to the rest of the league and passers, but it's again, context matters so much. The rest of the league, it's now just mundane, 56 yards, wind here, there and everywhere. You know, 58, 59 yards, just a normal thing. Not as funny as he wasn't asked to do that yesterday. All he did was make every kick he was presented. Let's see what we're talking about in a couple of weeks when he's got to make that 52 yarder, or, you know, the opposite hash mark that he likes on a clutch mode from 48 or 49, with the wind doing some weird stuff at some kind of road stadium. TBD on that. But all you can do is what's in front of you, and he crushed it yesterday. Deserve the game ball. That was really cool. I was texting with a buddy. Mark Mosley was the MVP of the league, which by the way, in and of itself. Again, it's just so hilarious. And I love Mark Mosley. He gave me five. He met at five guys, but he was the MVP of the league in the early 80s. His long that year was 48. He never attempted a 50 plus yard field goal. 10 years ago in 2014, the longest field goal of the season that was made was Neil Rackers. Do you remember Rackers Arizona? Yeah, for the Cardinals used to kick bombs. He had like the biggest leg. It was a 55 yard field goal. There was one of those all season. If you were making 52 and 53 yard field goals 10 years ago, you were the dude, right? Now the kicker for the Cowboys, Brandon Aubrey, lined up for a 71 yarder and everyone's going, he's got a chance to make a shot and warm up. He was hitting from 72. It might actually happen. Like there has been no bigger change in the game, in my opinion, over a decade. You and I are, it's weird to be old enough to kind of see something change this dramatically. But from when I was a kid and if beyond 45, you were taking your risks. Now, if it's 56 or in, you should be hitting that at like a 75, 80% clip. And last night again, Kaimi Fairbairn and Cairo Santos and the Sunday night game with the Texans and the Bears, everybody does nobody misses from 50 to 55. It is nuts to your point, but I digress Benjamin St. Juice. I thought it was really good. Strong outing, huge play from him on the punch fumble, but also three PBUs. He had a big time play in man coverage against Malik neighbors late in the game, who ate their lunch. How good is Malik neighbors? It's pretty good. They still have uncovered him. I'll let you know when they do. It may have been the next match up. It wasn't in this one. That guy, they moved him from the right side, left side. He got the pick on everybody. Oh, his spray chart was just sensual. Just just one soda when it grew. Both sides of the field running every route. He is going to be incredible star and I don't want to knock Terry McClellan or start the day being negative on Terry, but Terry doesn't have that. Like this guy is a rookie. He was a top 10 pick, but I don't think anybody's ranking him in the top 15 or so in the in the league right now. Now my opinion is they'll go for a thousand. And I said before the season, I think he will be one of the top 10 to 12 receivers, maybe in football when it's all set and done, but it's a second straight week where you're watching Mike Evans and Chris Godwin and now Malik neighbors. And I'm kind of going, where's Terry stack up against these guys? He's a good player. I like Terry McClellan. He's one of my favorite commanders in Redskins and Washington footballers and whatever other team I need to say in history, I mean, as a dude, but whatever Malik neighbors has, that is not the same skill set that Terry McClellan does. He doesn't have that burst that wiggle. He's not as hard to cover. He doesn't separate from people the same way. Like they got one of the studs. We don't have one of those guys. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm with you on the sense that I don't love like piling on or picking on him in the last couple of years, his early season has not been very good. Last year, we thought it was a foot thing this year. You know, who knows if it's all the new offense and adjustment defenses are king on him. I have no idea. I know this. You're going to have to start adding names to the list of guys that are going to be above him in terms of like the pecking order wide receiver rankings league wide. There was a sense this was like he's a top 15 ish guy. I haven't done the rankings in a while, but there's no way you would do that. Like today, if you're making a list, I'm just, I went through banged out six condensed games between last night and this morning watched every play of six games condensed. And guys like Jamison Williams or a Monra St. Brown with the lions like there's just some, there's another gear there that they have and they can do things that Washington doesn't have anybody that can do that. Or if you look at a Nico Collins, who moves pretty damn well, obviously, but he's so big, just so damn physical that like, you know, guys are uncovered simply because they bounce off him or a Devontae Adams, who's a similar size, who's, you know, looks like a point guard crossing you up in the open court when he's, when he's making his moves and making these incredible catches on the sidelines or in breaking routes or otherwise. So I don't know, man, it's one of those things where, again, I hate to keep bringing this up, but that receiver room, man, in retrospect, even in, in, in foresight, you're looking at it going, did they do enough? Is there enough? Is there enough? Is there enough? Now with potentially this development where you'd say, maybe according isn't as much of a star as we thought, just leads to questions and all I'm saying. Cliff Kingsbury, I thought, was terrific. The center screened Austin Echler in the first half was tremendous. He threw a throwback screen. It was almost like the old tight end leak that Shanahan play. Yeah. To Austin Echler. Everyone's headed right. He dumps it back to the left, got inside the five yard line that way, almost a touchdown. I thought Kingsbury had a really good plan. They also are P.O. heavy at the beginning of the game. Now I have issues with his scheme generally and like how he does things pre snap, but I thought from a game calling, play calling standpoint, he hit them at the perfect time with a couple really good calls. I think he did some things to make life easier and in the beginning of the game for Jaden Daniels as well. So overall, I thought it was really good there, but it was an immensely flawed performance. There's no doubt about it. If you were looking for like style points, you did not get those. I don't think you need to when your team hasn't won at home since week one last year and hasn't beaten this team in a couple of seasons and just generally does not find ways to win this game. But if your takeaway today is if they had Graham Gano and he didn't get hurt on the opening kickoff, they probably lose the game. I think that's probably true. Yeah. Now they had to go for a fourth down, maybe three or four yards. They needed on the neighbor's drop or else maybe they win the game, but you got to take advantage of the breaks and Daniels in the offense went out on the field and he was laughing according to what Alama Desaki has told me after the game in the locker room. He had the demeanor of being really calm, made the big throw to Brown. They got down the field, had a big scramble kind of a design, I guess should say designed run and set up a chippy for the game winner. But another thing I would point out is the defense again, specifically in the first half, but really just generally ultra disappointing. Their first 11 drives of the season, they gave up six touchdowns and points on nine of them. And in this game, they could not stop the run at all. Like how many times did the Giants run that same straight ahead dive by Devin Singletary where it seemed like Alan Payne, Mathis, whoever else was supposed to have been anchoring wasn't able to. It felt like whenever they, whenever they wanted to, they could go back to that play. I mean, this was such an interesting thing. I think his defense is so porous that they decide we're going to try to take away maybe one thing or make one thing slightly more challenging. And if you find some of the things we're not worried about or not covering, you can exploit it for, for the indefinite part of the game. AKA this one was Singletary just gashing them at various points deep into the secondary. Safety's linebackers chasing him from behind are the only people that could bring him down after eight, nine, 10, 15 yards at a time. And they seem content with that. Because again, I don't think they're good enough to take multiple things away at this point and barely good enough to take one thing away. But in the same way that I said, I thought Daniels was way better in the second half and was awesome in the second half. Because remember, the first half baked into the Daniels conversation has to be, they burned two timeouts on the opening drive. I've never seen that in my life. They also had five false starts in the red zone in this game and a bunch of like pre snap procedural stuff. And maybe not all of that is on him. Some of that's expected when you have a young quarterback, obviously. But I thought as the game went on, they got a lot better and cleaned up their act defensively. They did to an extent as well. Four drives for the Giants in the second half of the game. They fumbled and that was a play that the defense made was a play with St. Houston chin. Then they had to punt, then they scored a touchdown and turned it over on downs, albeit on a drop. But it looks a lot different when you get the big takeaway when you force a punt, but they'll go into this week still, Danny, right near the bottom in a bunch of categories, obviously, because it just, it hasn't been good so far. It's frankly been stunningly not good. Yeah. And you'll be buoyed by the fact you put the Giants who are going to struggle to score some points on a lot of people, I think, as you saw there in week number one, Tampa Bay's a good offense. We, you know, we, I think we knew that then, and we know that now, especially after what they did in week number two against Detroit. But yeah, I don't, I don't know where the fix is coming. I don't know that there is one, frankly, especially with some of these teams that are coming to town. But I'm thrilled for you guys, first of all, the fans and those of you that paid the money, and we're out at the stadium and wanted to leave happy with a win. You got one finally. And I'm also pumped up for Peters and Quinn and Daniels and all of the new faces here in Washington, DC. They got their first W. So it is a victory Monday on Grant and Danny. They are one in one and they are on to Cincinnati for Monday night football a week from tonight. 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But I'll tell you what I will take every single week. I will take 425 net yards on offense and 6.2 per play. I will take 215 rushing net. I will take 37 minutes in 32 seconds time of possession because as amazing it is that the defense struggled the way that it did is rested as they were. Yeah, that's how you win a football game with a bad defense. Don't let them take the field. Keep them on that bench. You see that bench over there? That's where I want you. You stay right over there. And that's what they did. Ball controlled, short, safe passes, the RPOs, the screen game, protecting the football for a second straight week. Daniels did not turn the football over for young quarterback. A big, big deal. That was the formula there. So you are 100% right in the sense that this this is the tightrope they have to walk, right? Where I listen, you go to the red zone five or six times. I can't remember which one it was. You're going to end up with one touchdown sometimes to God forbid, even if you're bad in the red zone, which Kingsbury's offenses have been historically, he's not been a good red zone coordinator. There's a million reasons for that. I don't know all of them. But I will say that that's a historical trend line. It's something to watch. Warren Sharp put that in his big behemoth football preview. And that's kind of something I had circled was, how does the red zone go here? You would think having a weapon like Jayden Daniels to help you run it sometimes or some of that read option action might help you saw that big play right before Austin cyber kick that game winning field goal was, you know, it was a good read option moment. So you think maybe they'll be better in that regard than they've been historically, but that's still still something that has to bear out. But long and short, I will take every metric you just said, because that's their best chance to win. Their defense is not getting a ton better. I don't think there's a, there's a savior there. So the best way to have them play decently or what everyone called us, then I haven't played, you know what it means to keep that football for as long as possible. Oh, for six in the red zone, oh, for three and goal to go. Almost as maddening as over six in the red zone offensively is on fourth down, excuse me, and I don't fourth down in the red zone defensively, I should say, they allowed three touchdowns to the giants on three trips, knowing they didn't have a field goal kicker. I don't know that that necessarily makes it easier to get a stop, but my point is you can play this differently. You can make sure let's let them do whatever they got to do, but they're not going to get into the end zone when they get into the red area and high and low red zones, because they don't have a kicker. And we saw their punter miss an extra point already. Over three and goal to go. Giants were one for one. They just couldn't force them to have to try to even decide if they wanted to kick a field goal without a kicker, which made it that much more frustrating, I thought. But let's go to the game balls that we'll give out to the best gases to the worst from yesterday's first win of the season against the Giants. Gene Daniels deserves a game ball here. Growth is a pastor zero turnovers. We're going to start talking about this here as the show progresses, but passing is down league wide. 14 guys yesterday have the 30 quarterbacks that played did not throw for 200 yards in a football game. Gone are the days seemingly at 400 yards for touchdowns and you know, Peyton Manning sits set in a record and Drew Brees breaking it the next day. We are in a down passing moment. So he ranks top 10 in a couple categories. He's had the best start of any of the rookies that are playing at this point. And I thought there was legit growth question. Well, yeah, one is more than zero. Still, it is a factor with the rest of the league is doing. I think it's critically important when we're talking about a player and Daniels is off to a good start. I thought his best half was the second half yesterday. Yeah, I thought the first half was a mess, not him necessarily, but the offense largely with the penalties and the timeouts and everything. And I thought it was a continuation of the bucks game, which was C minus, you know, C, whatever you want to call it. I thought he was very good in the in the second half of the game. So to me, he's played eight quarters, you know, four halves. He's had one excellent half and it won them the game yesterday largely. But I thought he was really, really good after half time because he was a passer first. He was an NFL quarterback standing in the pocket, making throws. He could run if he needed to and he ripped a couple of those off. But I thought that was kind of the first half of football that looked like to me, what is the dream when you draft him number two overall, but not turning the ball over to your point? And I don't care about passing yards through two weeks or where he ranks or anything like that. No, they throw a lot of screens. They get a lot of yards after the catch. I care about things like, are you making the right decision as to throw it away, take the sack? Are you going to protect yourself or not? And we'll get into that. He took a shot, but I thought yesterday, by and large, that was less of a storyline. Funny to say when he missed a snap, because we'll get into that. But I didn't think it was as big of a deal. It wasn't a 16 carry game. Speaking of carries, though, one guy that did have 16 carries, Brian Robinson, 17 rushing attempts for 133 yards. Brian Robinson, a career day, he had never had a 30 yard run. He did it twice yesterday, longest run of his career, most yards in his career. He made a comment after the game like, yeah, it's been a long time since I got 17 carries. He got 17 carries a third of the time last year. I don't really know what his point was there. But here's my point. With Jaden Daniels in that backfield, scaring the daylights out of a defensive coordinator, scaring everyone on the field, Brian Robinson's about to have the best year of his career. And he was awesome yesterday. Austin Echler, more more. We just need more. He leads the team in receiving yards, leads the team in or second on the team, rather, in receptions. He had pretty good rushing totals yesterday, up eight for 38 overshadowed, of course, by what Brian Robinson did with some of those explosive runs. But he was effective when he had the football in his hands per usual. This right now is their best offensive weapon. You can't overdo it because, you know, you run the risk of him wearing down and not being the same guy in a few weeks or months, et cetera. But it's hard for me to imagine them having better options on offense right now than Austin Echler. Zach Earth's four catches for 62 yards led the team. He's second on the team in receiving yards through two games. I think he's their number one receiver for the short term here in terms of he'll be their most targeted guy. He's the guy that can stretch the field. Daniels completed his first couple balls of 20 or more yards this season yesterday. And they were both to Earth's. One was on that kind of 50-50 ball near the sideline when he stood in, took a shot, made a throw. The other was a really nice job by him coming off of his, what looked to be his primary, seeing Earth's wide open at the second level and a lobbing up all over a linebacker for 20. He was, no one was around him, he rumbled for four and fell forward. Four and 62 though, I think that's not only sustainable. I'd like to see more of it. Work the middle of the field, involves Zach Earth's. Take advantage of having a big catch radius, a weapon, a guy who can box defenders out. There's no reason he shouldn't be able to give you six for 70 most weeks. I believe when we fast forward a month from right now, if he's healthy, he'll be their leader and catches and yards the way things are developing for this offense. Go seven for seven and get yourself game ball. Austin Cyber, congratulations, dude. That's pretty cool. A guy that didn't know if he's going to work again in the NFL, maybe ever or this season or whatever, just off his couch, probably at some local high school, kicking it by himself, really, really cool steps in an NFL game, a divisional game, a home opener for a team that ends up coming down to your foot and awful lot. You go seven for seven, wasn't 60 yarders, wasn't into some crazy wind or anything like that. But every kick that you had to make, you made it. Seven field goals is a big deal. I'll go one more. Benjamin St. Juice forced the first takeaway of the season on a punch fumble. The old peanut punch had three pass breakups as well. I thought he played very, very well. We'll get you some gasters, make some guys run some laps next. And then we want to hear from you, your calls at 800-636-1067 on Grant and Danny. The commanders beat the Giants 21 to 18. You're giving a game ball to the best and a gaster to the worst right here on the fan. [BLANK_AUDIO] Given out game balls to the best and gasters to the worst, we're Grant and Danny, you're listening into the fan. Thank you for making the show part of your day. We're taking you up to 630 tonight. We've got a show announcement you'll want to hear coming your way about 12 minutes from right now at the top of the hour at three o'clock. We've given out our game balls. How about a couple of gasters before we hit the phones? How about Michael Davis at cornerback? He got benched because Malik neighbors was shaking him out of his shoes over and over again. Neighbors is really good. By the way, 18 targets yesterday, the Giants know what they're doing. Get that guy, the football. If I'm going to go down, I'll go down like that. 10 for 127 and a touchdown for neighbors against Washington. Many of those catches and yards coming against Davis before they went to Noig Benogany did not go well for him. He also missed a tackle on the opening touchdown of the game, dove at the feet of Devin Singletary just to play like to have back. There were several of those, I thought. My front four, my starting defensive line. Where? Where are we? Where's my pressure? Where's my disruption? Where's my chaos? Where's my occasional play being made at some point? Any point, the occasional TFL, that's allowed. I understand sometimes you got to hold the point of attack and let the Louvus or the Wagner's or somebody else come knife through and make a play, but it wasn't like those were happening a ton either. Where is my chaos? Where is my pro bowl talents playing like pro bowl talents? A.K. Schungen won the highlight reel with a post sack dance or some sort of pass batted down. Not much effect on that game yesterday. Whoever wants to take the blame for 10 penalties for 70 yards. This is not the discipline that I was told that the the commander way was going to be. It's early, but I need to get rid of pre snap stuff. Five false starts all in the red zone were crippling and 10 penalties overall is probably like seven more than I'd like to have and five more than what is even reasonable twice as many as should happen. Let's go to Chris and Brandywine on Grant and Danny who gets your game ball who gets your gasser from a 21 18 win over the G men. Hey gentlemen, I'm going to call all of what I said to you producers. I'm gonna give a game ball to Noah Brown. Noah Brown had three receptions 56 yards and he's averaging 18.7 since he got here. Give that guy the ball more. Now for gasser, I'm gonna go with Joe wick because he, he jay, Jamie Davis was a healthy scratch and he was the one that got sack last game. Why did they take him out? There's no reason. We don't know why. Well, he had a TFL for minus four to be clear. Cleveland Farrell had the only sack last week. He had the only sack this week. He's got two sacks. Both of those are kind of mop up sacks though under on pain plays where pain is actually kind of responsible for blowing it up. But Farrell's the only guy on the team that's got a sack at this point. And by the way, that's dead last two sacks through two games Washington is tied for worst in the league in that area. Chris is in Hyattsville on Grant and Danny game ball and gasser. Definitely big game ball to be Rob and Jane Daniels. Gasser to Cliff Kingsbury for having the worst red zone offense I've ever seen. I also blame a lot of that. If you're getting a lot of pre snap penalties, change the play calling type, stop going shotgun. And because, you know, it was every offensive lineman, not just one. So it was obviously a systemic problem. That's a good point. Thank you, buddy. Cosme had two. Allegretti had one and Lucas had one. So three specific linemen, Senate had the other. But I mean, four different guys had the five penalties for Washington. As far as not going shotgun, the whole league's in shotgun. You know, these young quarterbacks that play their whole college careers in shotgun, like Daniels are going to be in it 80 plus 90% of the time. So I don't worry about that as much. I'd love to have a mix instead of only being in one thing. But in general, I think it's a good point about it wasn't just one guy. Couldn't get the cadence right or something. It was systemic. I should say to a couple of callers ago, I wrote down Jamie Davis's name. We'll come back to that. Because actually early next hour, when I talk about him being a healthy scratch, that was pretty shocking. After he made a couple of nice plays in the run game, a week ago to the caller's point. Let's go to J and DC on Grant and Danny. You're live on the fan. What's up, Jay? What's up, you guys? I told, I forget to, I forgot to talk about Nick Balor as a, what's he called it? Like a terrible player, basically? What do you call it? What's the term for that? You mean a gasser? Is that what you're looking for? Yeah, gasser. That's what I meant. The only thing he's supposed to do is special team. And he took that touchdown away from us. I love, I love my boy, Austin Eckler going all the way. And if you want to take, if you want to talk about taking good nose hamstring injury away, you're going to have to give us that touchdown. So like, I'm not like, yeah, you got to give us that touchdown. And my book, Austin Eckler, gets the game ball. That's a touchdown. And my book said that's all that matters. And I'm giving my other game ball to Lugu. That did, that do was all over the place today. And then also just, just really quick, Jim and Davis, he's like our 50 in, they needed another D tackle that other guy that they put in isn't a D and he's a D tackle. He played D tackle the whole time. So if he's our 50 D and it doesn't make sense to actually put him in a game. There's some truth to that, but I still listed as a defensive end. And they got Johnny Newton back who played a dozen snaps. So they really elevated two defensive tackles theoretically in that regard against the team that was primarily going to spread you out and try to get the ball to neighbors anyway. It's, it's not even as much about arguing whether or not he should have been active or not. It's, it's more revealing and just telling as to he played one game, it's hard not to view what happened as some type of referendum on the one game that they saw since they got here of Jim and Davis. We did not mention below in the first segment or in the gasses, but he obviously gets one. Yeah, two special teams penalties in your name called young man debut with the team former Pro Bowl linebacker with Larry Izzo having said all of that. No better days ahead, I'm sure, but that's too bad for our guy Austin Echler. It'll be on the show tomorrow at five. We got Jay Gruden today at five, but Echler rips off a kick return. Everyone's beaten up on these, you know, the new kickoff rules. We had a touchdown last week. We would have had a touchdown again in the NFL this time for the commanders this week and it came back. I saw Echler in the locker room. I'm like, you know, I would have preferred that your return not have been called back via penalty. He's like, Oh, really? He's like, me too. It was just funny. Yeah, you know, the, what? That's just how I feel about it. Hey, goes. I also would have preferred that we scored at least one touchdown in the game. It was a good line, but I look forward to talking to him tomorrow. Who gets your game ball? Who gets your gas? Are those are the questions for you on G and D? Next, Jim and Davis deactivated. We'll dive into that in our big show announcement right at the top of the hour. You don't want to miss on the fan. The seasons may be changing, but the deals 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. 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