Grant and Danny
What Do You Want To See Differently Against The Giants?
Let's begin with the commanders and the giants. Now just a couple of days out from the first home game of the season over in Landover. What do you need to see from the commanders to feel a lot better in week two? We're going to open up the phones on this right now at eight hundred six three six one oh six seven. We want to hear from you on the MGM National Harbor Listerlines. It's been a bit of a pessimistic week. Understandably they got walloped by 17 and the game wasn't that close. But what would lead to you feeling like maybe week one was flooky misleading or the box were just a bad matchup and for you to feel a lot better come week two offense coming from the offense. I need the offense. A.K. Cliff Kingsbury's designs his schemes the concepts everything to generate the yardage. When the game is in doubt it can't just be Jayden Daniels here to scramble around and make everybody right. I can't have that. I can't have with just a couple minutes left in the third quarter. More than half of the team's total yards be via Jayden Daniel scramble. I like him scrambling. I'm all in favor of it. Get out of trouble. Get out of danger. Give me some positives. The only thing they did in that game this past week that had a positive EPA expected points added was Jayden Daniel scrambling. I'm not anti-him scrambling. What I am anti is an offense that's anemic that doesn't do anything. I can't have that through three quarters of the game before Tampa goes into a shell because they're up by more than three touchdowns. I need the offense to generate yardage. I need Eclor involved. I need the timing. I need you know holes poked in a vulnerable Giants defense. I need things exploited. I need yards after the catch. I need the design to yield some results. That to me is what I'm looking for this weekend. I'll start on the other side of the ball. I need a defense that makes life more difficult for the opponents. It was way too easy for Tampa Bay. They got whatever they wanted. They did whatever they wanted. They ran the football as that game went on in the second half in Washington's defense and the heat wore down. They were able to be two dimensional. But throughout the game, for the most part, it was just wide open real estate in the passing game. They didn't really, even though they rushed the quarterback, OK, get the quarterback to the ground because they weren't able to rush with enough vision vision to keep Mayfield in the pocket on the 14 targets to Godwin and Evans 13 work completions. It was just easy money in the secondary. It was a 298 yard for touchdown quarterback performance. Just kind of throwing against there. I need everything to come more difficult against this defense. The old adage used to be defend every blade of grass, right? You want them to earn and work for everything. Even if you're under talented, you can be a lot better at that than they were. And they are under talented. No doubt about that. But that's where the coaching we've heard so much about is going to have to come in here. I just want it to be more arduous and it will be because the Giants offense isn't as good as Tampa's because instead of Evans and Godwin and McMillan, you've got Malik neighbors and pray for rain basically because instead of Baker, Mayfield plan is butt off. The best version of him is a top 12 to 15 passer in the league. He's probably closer to 20th overall. You got Daniel Jones is coming off of a dud who is on the verge, maybe of being supplanted as a starter if he can't pick it up. So it's going to be a little bit better defensively just by default. But I want them to tackle better. I want them to have better vision coming downhill in the rush game defensively. And I want them to be more assignment sound on the back end. I don't need coverage bust. It could have been even worse than it was with receivers running free. Just make life more difficult on the Giants. What you're talking about on defense is kind of my Greg Williams corollary. It's sort of how I feel about defense in general to have a great defense. You need great players who are unblockable and are excellent. If you don't have that, if everyone's assignment sound, you just make it tough on the opponent. You know what I mean? That's what Greg Williams's whole deal was. Like, I don't care what you do, Grant Paulson linebacker, you put your right shoulder on the left shoulder of the pulling guard. And that's your job. Then the next guy's got a job. We all do that. Our defense is okay. That's kind of always how I viewed it. That's not what it looked like in week one, especially with a couple of defensive minds. Well, the entire league, there's a trend that doesn't quite mesh with what we see in Washington. And what I mean by that is, it's gotten harder to throw the football since last season in the NFL. It's been the easiest it ever was before over the last several years. The getting's been good at the quarterback position. But that's kind of drying up a little bit. We had 34 passing touchdowns between all 32 teams in week one of the NFL season 34. There were 61 of them three years ago. We have not seen numbers this low. Only eight of 24 quarterbacks in football went over one and a half passing touchdowns in week one. Think about that. Obviously, Baker Mayfield was not only one of them, but he's one of the league leaders in every category. 17 quarterbacks through the ball 20 or more times and had under 200 yards passing. That has not happened since the merger. 24 quarterbacks had one or fewer passing touchdowns despite 20 plus attempts. That has not happened since the 1970 merger. So the trend in the league is everybody's running with cover two deep safe. These basically forcing you underneath intermediate and you're having to go on these 10 12 14 play drives. You're either going to run the football and get your three to five at a time and just go on a long drive. You're going to have to throw the ball short and and safe. Not against Washington last week. Nope. They didn't get with the program. Not against Washington at any point last year where this was the trend in the league. So I don't know why they can't do that. Just be like everybody else. Not every defense is great. You have your safeties deep. You force things underneath. You make a team go on a 10 play drive like the Giants. That's not that good by the way. I think that's really smart. There's a penalty that sets you behind the chains. There's a turnover eventually. They're not going to score 30 if they got to get 11 plays to get their 75 yards. You're a bit of a crossroads here. If you're if you're Dan Quinn and Joe Whit, your ideal defense isn't that what you're just describing because these guys are wired to think our defense can be so good. We'll generate turnovers. We'll wreak havoc. We'll abdictate to people and all the machismo words that use a press conference about violent arrivals and people aren't going to like playing us and we're thumping whatever you want to call it. He may not have the players for that yet. And that's kind of my point is this may be a swallow your ego time and go, you know what, we're going to have to give some stuff up. We're not good enough to take everything away. Just shed. We can we can take a couple things away. Like nothing over the top. No over the top touchdowns. No busted coverages where guys point each other and then after the play, they pointed to let you know that it wasn't my fault or whatever. None of that crap played in the show. Make Daniel Jones throw it to one Dale Robinson four or five times on a drive and see if that gets you a punter hopping on the field. Maybe you have to check your Eagle to door.