Grant and Danny

The G&D Show: Not Manly, Will The Offense Or Defense Perform Better vs NYG?

9.12.24 Hour 1

1:00- We open up the show and discuss how both G&D really aren't into fixing many things around the house. Also, what DC sports celebrity did Ryan see in Arlington?

19:35- As we have our eyes set on week 2, which side of the ball will have the better performance?

Broadcast on:: 12 Sep 2024
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We'll take you all the way up to 615. And that's pregame tonight. I'm excited to get back over to Nat's Park for the first time in a couple of weeks it feels like. So I will see you at the ballpark. If you're headed over there this evening, Danny, how are you? I'm very well. Had one weird thing happened to me that everyone is looking at me and telling me that I'm stupid. I'll tell you what it is super quick. My wife and I swapped cars. She has a lot of shuttling to do with the kids and sports equipment and stuff, whatever. So I'm driving her car. I get a little indicator that says your key fob is out of battery. That's never happened to me before. I've had so many cars. I've had leases for three years at a time. I've owned cars. I've never seen that. And I'm near panic. What does that mean? Is the car is not going to start now? Because now you can't just plug a key into the ignition and turn it. Is it detected? You push the start? Whatever. So in a, in like a panic that like the car is just going to not run anymore. I get to a CVS and they have these little stupid circle batteries that I've kind of never seen. I've never used it for anything. How is that possible that you've never seen those? I've never watched there. They're tiny. I've changed a tiny wristwatch battery, some kiosk in them all before and like it ended up being fairly routine. But I was like thrown by this and everyone's doing exactly what you're doing. You're going, yeah, it's the most routine thing ever. I've never heard of that. Well, as you know, I am incapable of any tax. Anything really. And I have no skills and I'm not really a man or a person. We both know that. Right. Would be the same. Having said that, what you're describing is something that is 100 level for me. And I'm not trying to, Joe. Your key fob has run out of battery many times. Fifteen times. Really? Oh, yeah. Constant. It has. I have never seen. I didn't know it was like, if you would ask me yesterday, all of the money, yes, all of it right now, you could double it or be indigent. Does a key can a key fiber on a batteries? Give me double my money immediately. I would have said no, if I may, and this we're treading on. I hope I'm not going to insult you territory. I'm quite prepared to be insulted on this because I'm the weird one. This is a white collar issue because you have cars for like eight months at a time and then trade them back in and get something else cool. If you have a car for an extended period of time, this is a Wednesday occurred. I promise you. I've done everything. I'm much older than you. Yeah. I've at least vehicles for the full three years. Never in those three years has a battery expired to the point that I have to replace it. That's interesting. I've owned cars for longer than that. Never. Now, granted, that was kind of the time before time when it was still plug and play, but still the remote part of it probably requires some kind of power at some point, right? That has never happened. I've never heard of it. Well, I'm glad you got it sorted out. I did it myself. Winter, winter chicken dinner. I fixed it. While I'm bragging about how I can do so many things. Yeah. You're a very accomplished guy. I'm Mr. Fixer, boy. You know that about me? My air conditioning stopped working. Oh, no. So I called someone my dad. Right. I'm 36. I called my dad. I'm like, Hey, what do I do? What am I supposed to do? So he's like trying to walk me through it on the phone, do this, check this, check that. So we didn't get anywhere. Right. He did his best. He's using words like coolant. He gave me instructions. Didn't really work. But what we came to an agreement on was I have to open this latch. I have to pull this like lever. Oh, come on. I'm not even joking. Pull like a lever out. Flip it. The word inverse was used, which I've only ever heard with like an airplane that flips upside down like a top gun. We were inverted flip the lever and then go into the off position, plug it in and then plug inverted again and go back into the on position. And then it was supposed to turn on. And it did. And I felt like a million bucks except that the fan didn't work. Oh, so I realized in that moment, so the one oh six seven didn't work. Right. So my air conditioning was broken. Okay. So this is the end of the road now where I've done all the stuff I can do. So I called a person and the person came out today. And they said, well, it's going to be one of two things will either be that your capacitor needs to be replaced, which is really cheap, or your capacitor. Yeah, your air fan engine motor needs to be replaced. And that's not as cheap. And I was, well, it's going to be that one, because that's just how things go for your boy sometimes. And it was that one, but they could have been better. They couldn't have been more awesome. Everything about the situation was fine. I tell you this just to tell you, I felt like such a dude. I get why people do it. He came around the back of my house and I'm leading him to the place where I've been working hard and getting my hands down. Yeah. I mean, you get your hands are in it. I mean, look at the little shot of the cows. Look at that. Look at these hands. Look at that. These aren't keyboard hands here. So I say to the guy, I'm like, so I've been looking at this and what I've kind of figured. She did that. Well, I did the bit, and I told him all about how I did it. But then I also called my brother-in-law, who's like a very manly guy. And he said, it's either your capacitor or your motor. And I told him, best I could tell it's either the capacitor or the motor. And like, we're walking around. And we got there and he's like, dude, thank you for the breakdown. He's like, you just saved me 30 minutes of tests. He's like, that's awesome. And I was like, are you serious? Wait, really? I helped. And he's like, yeah, like just you being able to do that is like, this will make this process so much easier. And at first, I thought he was joking because no way I was right. And he was dead serious. And I just felt silly. I'm like, yeah, all those other people whose houses you go to. You go to some rank amateur's house. So no way. Who doesn't know. I was literally repeating the thing that my brother-in-law had said to me on the phone like an hour ago. But I felt sick. You go to my co-host house. You don't know which ways I've done it was bought from his elbow. I just felt great. Also, power of smell, big deal. Wanted to bring this up. Power of smell. Okay. Brings back memories, brings you back to a certain time. So you know that two times this week, the first two times probably in our 10 years together, I've brown-bagged my lunch. I don't know if you've seen this, but I've packed a sandwich. I've noticed it. At home. Packed it like I put him and turkey on it. Yeah, like you did it. White bread with cheese and mustard and mayonnaise. And I've just put it in a brown bag. And long story short, today I was going in to get my laptop cord. Okay. And I was like digging in my book bag. And I had that smell of like brown bag sandwich in a book bag smell. And I was back in third grade like packing. Right on the bus. Yeah. I swear to God, I felt like I was going on a field job. I'm like, are we going to Jamestown today? What is this smell in my book bag? But the power of smell is unbelievable. It's the strongest inside the memory. There's a perfume every now and then I get. And there's a person I remember from like 27 years ago that were that. I mean, it is crazy to me how smell works. 100% of thing. Like the other day, this is totally true. I was at, I don't remember what it was, or some restaurant or some, some kind of place, some diner. And the way they were cooking the eggs, I was instantly back in my grandparents cabin in West Virginia where my southern grandmother made the best eggs I've ever had still to this day. She did some kind of thing where she whipped them up and there was a whole buttermilk situation. Very whole thing was very southern. But I smelled the eggs smell, not regular eggs, but like something they were doing with their eggs. And I went, I'm, I am 10 years old. It's Thanksgiving. She's got to make a whole meal, but she's going to stop because her grandson is hunky. I love that. You know, the best. That's so good. What did she do with the eggs? She whipped them. So when do you decide to put an H before a W? I don't. I just, I mess around. I mean, it's people that do that. Well, no, it's because it's a family guy bit. I know you're not familiar because you don't watch the show. But one of the most famous bits here is Stewie talking to Brian, right? The baby talking to the dog and he says, could whip. Why are you saying the H that way? Why am I saying what, what way? Say cool, cool, say whip, could whip, like he does this whole bit. But you know, that's a thing. I didn't need one of my best buddies, dads said, like the Chicago white socks, that terrible team, the white socks in the American center. Yeah, they are the white, you know, and it's what, like what's going on over there? No, I didn't know if you were just going for a H.W. on it. It's a little bit. Okay, a little bit of a bit a little bit H.W. over there. All right, we've got to fire up Ryan's theme music before we get into the show. We are busy this morning. I'm not this morning. I'm sure there's a time it is. There's a lot of things we've got to tend to before we can even talk about Thursday night football or the commanders, the Nationals tonight, all the other stuff on the docket. So Rhino texted the show chat and said he had a guessing game for us. And we said, what do you mean? And this has happened occasionally. I had one of these. Yep. You've had a couple of them. I've had a couple. Yeah. And Clary had one today where I believe you're claiming that you bumped into in the wild, a DC sports celebrity. Yes, I did. I was on a run this morning. And I saw this famous DC athlete out in the wild. Okay. And this is not just a story you brought made up to let us know that you run a run. Correct? No. Okay, this is not. Yeah. That's a elaborate scheme. Yeah. I did. I didn't want people to know that I was on a run. Obama style. Let me be clear. Let me be clear. So this did happen. Not you. You could have just said, guys, I went for a run. And then we could have just done the show. You're not making anything out, making a thing up. Well, we were proud of you for going on a run. Let's start with that. Do we get yes or no questions? Or do we have to do the thing Danny made us do? Or we just have to guess right away without an error? I say yes or no questions. Go for it. Okay. Was this person also doing exercise on said trail? No. Is this a current DC athlete or a former DC athlete? I guess current DC athlete. Yes. Current. Current. Current. Were they sitting somewhere? No. Does this person play hockey? Yes. Alex Ovechkin. No. Tom Wilson. Ding ding ding. Boom. I watched it. So Arlington guys are Larry Arlington, bro. Tom Wilson makes perfect sense. Yes. So I never stopped and like I would have anything. I did not want to, but I kind of put two and two together because he was walking out of a boxing gym, I believe. So it's a bash, the one he like cones. Maybe. Yeah. I saw it like it was a boxing jury. He polishes up his fighting skills so that he can go whip somebody's ass in October. Yeah. So I saw him this morning. I immediately texted like my Rangers friends and they all hated it. But man, it was really cool. He's a big guy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Small digit. I felt so small. And we little boy throwing his weight around out there knocking all those guys over like I did like the double take where it's like I was already passed them and like turned around and I was like, Oh my God. What was he wearing? White shirt. Great pants. Sweaty. Uh, no, it looks like he just showered. Okay. Had or no hat. No hat. So you're saying how big he was? Were you at all taken aback by how handsome he was? Or was that not? I did the double like I like so far away. Were you close enough to be like, even if it wasn't Tom Wilson, he'd be like, Oh my God, that's a good looking guy. Oh, 100%. Like you just look at him and be like, first off, he's huge. And second off, Oh my God, this guy's handsome Taylor Pischke. Lucky lady. Oh my God. No doubt about that. That's a father Tom Wilson. Seen Tom Wilson in the wild would be pretty. He's now got two kids because he's been the father of the New York Rangers for a long while. Hello there. And now he's got an actual baby child. So that's two kids just having a good time. I think so you could have it was just you and him. It won't know. So it was like basically in the middle of Roslyn. I mean, it was probably like at 9 a.m. this morning, maybe. I mean, people were out there walking to work and you were on your run. I was on a run. I was where I was not walking. I was running and I saw him walk out. Nobody was like stopping him or anything. Like I was like turning around kind of like backwards pedaling like, Oh my God, two things on that one hockey players more than any other famous players in any sport get to just live their lives. A lot of them have just like normal cars and just go to restaurant. I mean, they're just normal dudes. They're by far the most, not to say others aren't down to earth, but they're just they're a little bit more innocuous. I mean, part of it is the money, even though he's got a big contract. They're just very, very down to earth, normal, grounded guy. Like there's a lot of dudes, especially in the Clare, Clarendon, Roslyn, Ballston region that are between five 11 and six two and way right around 200 pounds. Like some of them play in the NHL. Probably. Right now he's a little bit bigger. Obviously more handsome. Tom Wilson ain't blending in at Whitlow's. But like it's hard for a basketball player to blend in. Where you just go, I don't know if I don't even ever know who that dude is. He's six eight. Like they're just not many of those dudes. Just just around, you know, football players too. Just you know that you can, if you're a kind of like a, you know, maybe some wide outs, but like a running back here in there in street clothes, you may or may not know, but again, some 330 pound lineman, we're just like, that person stands out. I bet you they do something. If you're a member of the Washington wide receiver room, you're just very normal size and regular size. So you're not going to stand out. But a lot of players to your point will. The other thing is in Arlington, I also think people are so used to seeing Tom Wilson and capitals because he's just out with his wife and his kid and he's walking and he J. Oh, she all these guys live there that it's almost like celebrities in LA. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, sure. I remember the first time I went to LA, I saw a couple of not even high end celebrities. We're talking about like low-end sea level, D level celebrities. And I was psyched. We were on this. My father and I were walking in this like outdoor mall and Kevin Nealon like walked by. And I'm like, that's Kevin Nealon. That's Kevin Nealon. My dad's like, okay. All right. I'm like, I want to go get a picture. And he's like, yeah, let's just keep walking. Let's let him do his thing. We'll do our thing. David just not impressed. Nobody cares about Kevin Nealon in LA. You know what I'm saying? It's just it's just their Wednesday. I think it's kind of like that with the caps in Arlington. But Attaboy Clary that I like that. That's a good little guessing game to get today started. Good sighting on Grant and Danny. I botched it with my OB guess. You did better than me. I think it was a botch. That's a pretty reasonable guess. He's in Arlington. Time Wilson, mayor of Arlington. I'm pretty sure think he's the two-time mayor. It's been voted a couple times like incumbent mayoral. You ready for a little Thursday night football? Dude, it's tonight. A rare, excellent matchup too. As good a match up on Thursday night as you're going to get bills, dolphins, both these teams, mostly healthy. Both these teams think they can win the division. I love what Mike McDaniel, the head coach of Miami said as they get ready for a second home game to start their season in as many opportunities here. He said the bills are the best team in the division until somebody knocks them off. They wear the crown. There's no reason to pretend like we're something we aren't. This is Buffalo's division until somebody else wins the thing. I like when coaches don't hide from it. And he has an all-off season and they're going on like 24 years without a playoff win. So he starts all their meetings at 24 after the hour and everything they do is based on the number 24. He is trying to dangle in front of them the you haven't earned anything yet. And they haven't. They've been good in a regular season and have done nothing in the playoffs. Yeah. So the next step is that, right? It went from nice story where they were tanking and couldn't get right. You know, the coach was suing the team and the owner was allegedly telling the coach to try to lose games and everything was awful. They've they've come a long way. They've been pretty decent here for the last few seasons. Well, that's nice. Now everybody's ready for the next step, ready for the ascension, right? It's kind of the same thing that Baltimore's gone through where he lets a great regular seasons. And now we're looking at their watch going, okay, when do you do it? When do you get to the Super Bowl? When do you do the the next big deal, right? So people are looking at Miami saying, I don't trust you yet, which I get because I don't trust him either. I'm part of that big giant team in September and October. I think I know who they are. I also got a good feeling in November, December, right? I feel like they're they'd be the level of play goes down a little bit. I think tonight is going to be telling just because styles make fights in a way. The bills aren't really equipped for shootout, in my opinion. So if Miami can make enough plays offensively and score a bunch of points, I don't see how Buffalo life after Stefan Diggs and Gabe Davis in week two is ready to do that yet. They've got to run the football, which is a new thing for them in 2024. They did that last week with James Cook. They need Josh Allen to be successful on the ground as well. He's big in physical and one of the giants position so he can take on more contact in the average bear, but it's going to be a different look for them. Their leading receiver last week was Keon Coleman in his first ever game, four grabs for 50 yards. So they need a game that's like 24 20 in the 27 23. Miami probably wants a game where if they can get into the 30s, it's going to be hard for Buffalo to get there. But kickoff is slated for about six hours out, eight 15 each time. We'll get you a bunch of details and a preview on the game as we get closer. Quickly, we should congratulate Jaden Daniels news out of Ashburn today. Daniels off of 88 rushing yards and two touchdowns on the ground was named the NFL's player of the week for week one in his first ever week in the national football league. So congrats to him. This was something that was a staple throughout Robert Griffin's rookie year. I don't remember if he won three of these or four of these, but there's no doubt that Jaden Daniels outperformed Caleb Williams who was bad. Bo Nix who was bad. The only guy that would have an argument here that might enter the chat and say, sorry, but I had a great week too is Xavier Worthy who scored the two touchdowns for the Chiefs, but Daniels number two overall pick. I think perfectly deserving and congrats to him. Pretty cool honor. Yeah, it's it is neat. You don't take anything away, but this also wasn't the most banner week for rookie performances, right? I mean, I'm sure maybe alignment somewhere was awesome in grade worthy, but we all kind of know how these awards work, right? People were wow by the what could have been multiple rushing touchdowns and then, you know, nearly 90 rushing yards and some of the plays that are highly worthy, right? Where he's getting out of the pocket, making people miss and flying around the field. So yeah, it's a neat thing, but it's also, you know, context important. We talked about this years ago with chase young winning defensive rookie of the year. Some years you wouldn't want it that year. You did. You don't take it away, but you just acknowledge the circumstances. Grant and Danny live on the fan. You can watch us. We are streaming on video on the one oh six, seven, the fan YouTube page as we do each and every day. Both the offense and the defense were disappointments and week one against Tampa. If you would have bet on one side of the ball to break out and bounce back in week two against an inferior Giants group compared to Tampa Bay, which side of the ball would you put your money on? We'll get into that next on G and D on the fan. This episode is brought to you by progressive insurance. Whether you love true crime or comedy, celebrity interviews or news, you call the shots on what's in your podcast Q and guess what? 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And again that's my words not his but we'll play all the clips and let you guys make up some of your own decisions on how Kingsbury felt about week one. And that's coming up at three o'clock here on Grant and Danny. So you want to be listening then the commanders are getting ready for the Giants for three days away. I was told by the way that they have now sold out. Yes. I've not seen an official announcement either that's coming or they won't be making one. Maybe I've already missed it. But I was told from somebody with the team that they are in fact sold out. Yeah. So we discussed that yesterday that last year at this point they've been sold out for several days. There was a big push, a big announcement, a big look what's going on. Not only this game, the home opener because last year was week one. But beyond that, you know, weeks out in advance, they were letting people know, Hey, this is working. This is happening. You're part of something we're building. We haven't had that same energy, same excitement. But to their credit, they've sold out week one. So that's a good thing. Last year was the Cardinals who didn't travel. So you know it was all commanders fans this year. It's the Giants. They've got fans in the area and we'll come down 95. So I will be curious to see the breakdown of the fans in the stands, but we can get into that in more detail after Sunday when we get to see some of the optics at the stadium. But if one of the two sides of the ball bounces back, who are you more confident in doing so after the clunker for the offense and the dud for the defense? We'll open up the MGM National Harbor listener lines on this at 800-636-1067 now. This is an easy one for me, the defense. Not because the defense is good and I don't expect it to be good, but because the Giants are that bad. The Giants offense is a worse version of Washington's offense. They don't have anything. They don't have the ability to do anything. They are low ceiling, even lower floor. They are turnover prone. They can't run it. They can't throw it. There's very little they're capable of doing. They're going to make a lot of teams look like the 85 Bears. Minnesota, I expect to give up a bleep ton of points this year. I don't think that defense will be particularly good. They looked the 2000 Ravens called and what their stat line back. So the defense this week has an opportunity just by being in uniform to have themselves a pretty decent day. I definitely agree that it's a great matchup for the defense and that they should be a lot better than they were. You're not dealing with Mike Evans and Chris Godwin. And I think when you're dealing with really good wide receivers with Washington secondary on the field, they're going to get exposed. But I do think potentially the best weapon on the outside in the game is Malik Nate. I grew up in neighbors is going to be sexy all year long to watch. And he is a blast first down in the touchdown type talent. And again, five for 60 and change in his debut. But I'm going to go with the other side of the ball actually in Washington's offense. And it's a similar reason for me. I thought the Giants defensively were putrid in their secondary and against the pass. They did an okay job actually getting pressure on Sam Darnold at times. But Sam Darnold always had outlets. He was able to get the ball out, whether it was checking it down or in the intermediate area. He was able to push the ball down the field at times. And by the way, Darnold, I thought was dynamite. If you guys didn't see his first game with the Vikings, you know, it's his last chance, maybe as a starter in this league. And it's not even going to be in Minnesota long term after they drafted JJ McCarthy. But it's a pretty good situation for him with Kevin O'Connell and Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison and Brian Flores led defense that at least against the Giants looked very good in week one. But I thought that the Giants secondary, which Chris Bizignano, the Giants insider who joined us yesterday on blitzing, he said, is just flat out bad, looked putrid when I went back and rewatched the game. I could not believe, and this is not to take away from Sam Darnold, who did a nice job. I mean, he was, I want to say 14 for 14 or something like that. Sure at the game, yeah. To start that game, he petered off a little bit as the game went. But he was just throwing to open receivers often in the first couple of quarters. They finished week one, 30th and yards per play defensively, dead last in a couple categories and 29th against the past. They gave up about 5.6 yards per play. They could not get off the field and they were 32nd in sacks per pass attempt. So you look at some of those things, you know, from last year, those numbers carried over into 2024, where they were 28th against the pass and 28th against the run and 28th in yards per play and 26th in sacks per pass attempt. It's not just week one. It's last year's numbers too. This is not a good defense. And specifically, it's not a good secondary. And I think it's just with the doctor ordered for some open receivers, throwing the ball into space into bigger windows for Jaden Daniels and maybe getting these receivers going a little bit. If it's going to happen, this is the week it's going to happen. You know what I mean? Like you're not going to have many better opportunities than this one. I don't think they have that card to play. I don't think they've got that waiting where they're good enough to take advantage of bad. Like we talked about that a lot. Remembering possible. Remembering Rivera's first year that that weird 2020 year, we all know what happened. But they got a chance to beat up on some bad quarterbacks teams that were reeling. And they were just good enough to take advantage of bad. That's a that's a threshold. I know that sounds trivial and we should frankly expect a lot more. But there is a baseline. In other words, if you're not any good, you're finding yourself down in the muck with another team. It's not very good. And it's a it's a rock fight. If you're decent, if you're part of that middle bucket and you play a terrible team, see the Saints and Panthers this weekend, the Saints aren't they're going anywhere. Not special about them seven, eight, nine wins ish, but they beat the brakes off of that hapless group of zilches down there. And that's what you that's what if you're good enough, you can do that. If this unit is good enough at all to do anything at any point in time, this is the week. Yeah, I don't know what Washington is yet. And I don't want to sit here and pretend to know I've got one game, which isn't enough, especially when you don't take the preseason seriously. And that's not a knock on how they did it, although it's not how I would do it. But it's not on how the league does it. Sure. And enough with the argument that we've had for years as an industry, not you and I specifically, but football fans and media have had about not needing the preseason. And look at the Rams. The product is worse in week one than it is in week 10 bar none, passing offenses statistically way down. People pay for not playing their starters every single year in the preseason. And we pretend like they don't, which is fine. If your point is just to keep guys healthy and you'll wear it for a week or two. Okay, but let's just acknowledge what it is. So I think it's important to say we don't really know what's going to be good, what's going to be bad from this operation yet. We've got one game and in a week to week league, it could be completely misleading. But a lot of our priors got confirmed. And I think that's where some of our confidence is coming from, which isn't always fair. But I will just say that if we're saying which side of the ball is going to improve, both of them have a great chance to. It's your best shot for a while as bad as the Giants are though, they're doing the exact same thing there about Washington, just so everybody knows. And I'm not just saying that. I mean, I actually listened to their radio, uh, WFAN couple of days back. And after their game, they were referencing the potential of Daniel Jones being on the hot seat and going to the backup quarterback and what other changes could they make? And the idea was, well, look, they've got Washington this weekend. Here's your get right game. They've got a chance to break out on offense, to play a lot better, look a lot better on defense against the rookie quarterback and receivers that they don't worry about, right? It's the same thing we're talking about. So it's, it's an even game in a lot of ways. Like Washington is a narrow favorite. I think the line opened at three. It's down to one and a half in a lot of places. You get two for being at home. So by definition, the odds makers actually think the Giants are probably a half point better or so than Washington to toss up type game. But both sides of the ball should be able to look way, way, way, way, way better than they did last week. And there's only a couple games like this on the schedule, like this one in the Panthers, where you go in and go, Hey, let's get right on both sides of the ball. And it's a plausible thing. It could absolutely happen. Indeed. And there might be other opportunities as the year progresses with with injuries or how a team is playing, et cetera. But remember, going into this season, there was only one game. This is from Mike Clay with the SPN where Washington was the prohibitive odds on favorite to win this week, two game against the Giants. And I think the Panthers was closer to 50 50. I think I would change those odds now, but that's just me talking. So yeah, there is an opportunity here, right? Week one, the thing that has frustrated me a little bit is everyone's now kind of said, well, Tampa's really good. They've made Tampa into some world bitter. They might win that garbage NFC South, but so what they're not going anywhere. And if they do, I'll eat my hat. But this is another team that's down bad for a different reason, right? This is the beginning of a build, even though they won't say it. I'm happy to say it, by the way, this is the beginning of a bill. They're trying to start something here. And I give them credits. There's going to be some pain and some growing pains dealing with it. New York is in a very different place. They had a choice and they paid their quarterback a lot of money. Not as not the top end of the market, but not the bottom either. That's a lot. They moved on from certain players going, we can't afford to keep both say Juan Barkley and this guy. We can't afford this. They were acting like they're supposed to be pretty decent. Like they thought they were going to be competitive. At least that's what it looked like to me with some of their moves and with that off-season hard docs. There weren't different spaces, right? But both teams come in probably needing some validation. And it's not a must win for any kind of football sense because it's a must win if you're trying to get to the playoffs or trying to do something special this year. I don't think that's in the cards. Maybe some fans did, but I don't. To me, this is a must show better for both organizations must be much better than you were in week number one, which was a massive letdown for a lot of people. So Danny thinks that the defense is going to look a lot better than it did against the box. I'm going to go with the offense and roll the dice on them taking advantage of a bad giant secondary, which side of the ball do have more confidence in having a week two renaissance here and a bounce back effort. 800, 6, 3, 6, 1, 0, 6, 7. Also, it looks like the commander's fans in attendance this week are going to be given a pretty funny and pretty cool gift for going to the game. Let's get into that next on GND right here on the fan. [BLANK_AUDIO] Way till you hear what the commanders are going to be giving away to fans making their way into Northwest Stadium in Landover, Maryland this weekend for the team's home opener. I'll tell you in just a couple of minutes and it should be pointed out that this has never been given away at a sporting event that I'm aware of before. It's pretty funny. You're listening to GND on the fan. Question is, offense or defense, where are you putting your money down? Who's going to play better this weekend? Who has a bounce back game? The Giants are bad, at least according to week one on both sides of the ball. And frankly, they weren't a whole lot better on either sides of the ball last year. So who do you like to get right? The offense or the defense? Go to Brandon and Richmond on GND. What's up, Brandon? Hey, fellas. Hey, man, Daniel, Joe, those has a best game against us. Our offense has to do it. I mean, our defense has always been a stiff. I mean, what's last time we had a good corner? Sean Springs? I mean, come on now. We've been terrible on the backside for a long time. I like the Sean Springs reference. It's a good pull. I saw him at a practice in Ashburn, like 12 years since he last played or whatever it was, a couple of weeks back. So it's funny to think of him being potentially the last good corner, although obviously that's a little bit stick, but a lot funny. Daniel Jones is 27. He has had his best games of his career against Washington, not anecdotal statistical, just a fact. He is in eight games against Washington, lit them up to the effect that the Giants are 6-1-1 in those games. And just as an example, against the Eagles over that same stretch with Daniel Jones at quarterback, they're 1-7. Jones has played way, way, way better against the commanders. And if you basically listed all of the best games of his career, like 1-10, I think 7 of them, 6 of them maybe, are games against Washington, right at the top of the list or near it. His playoff game against the Vikings might actually be his number one game, but where I worry a little bit about him, as bad as he looked 52% complete two interceptions, no touchdowns, 186 yards and a blowout loss, is the mobility. They did not rush with vision against Baker Mayfield. And Baker Mayfield was able to avoid sacks even when they got some pressure. He would get out of the pocket and slide around and move around and reset and throw the football like I love. Daniel Jones might just pull the ball down and do the Jay Young Daniels thing where he just takes off for that backbreaker on third down, the 13-15 yard run. That worries me, if they don't rush with better vision and stay more assignment sound in their lanes as ruchers, I could see him scramble in 7 or 8 times for 70 yards. Yeah, and you wonder if that dictates what kind of coverage they might want to play. You know, I'm thinking about, you know, in week number one, why am I biking? Todd Bowles, thank you. Good gracious. Todd Bowles has this, you know, he's blitzing from every different angle all the time. It's what he loves. If I'm the Giants, you don't have Wing Martindale anymore. I don't know that I would do that necessarily. I might think about playing coverage and sort of saying, let's just keep Jay Daniels in the pocket and see what happens. What if that might be the game plan, honestly, for Washington here is to say, let's, let's dare Daniel Jones to throw because he's gone for over 300 yards by far his career high against any team against Washington on the ground with a touchdown. I rushed it over six, seven yards per carry. That's over, you know, half a decade now of matchups in addition to some prolific throwing. But I would challenge him to, I would say, you're not getting out of the pocket to beat us. Even if it means Bobby Wagner sitting there, hovering around. If it means I'm playing a ton of zone, just to sort of mix and match. But I can't have those back breaking. Nothing's happening in the offense. So he scrambles out and gets out of a third nine, third and 10 type thing. I'm going to challenge him to pick me apart for an entire game on defense. His career high and passing 402 yards against the Saints, but he did have a 352 yard, five touchdown game against Washington that is still one of the best of his career. Let's go to Doug and Arlington on GND. How are you? I'm good. How you guys doing? Good morning. My call. Yeah. So really honestly, I think the offense is going to outperform last week. Seems like the Giants defense is full, full of holes that Sam Darnold was able to tackle. We have less, you know, wide receivers than Minnesota does, but I think the run game could be really important. I also think that our offense is going to be really important in controlling the clock, which I think is hopefully what will help dictate the game. It's like just running the ball, throwing the line of scrimmage, and yeah, controlling the clock. Good call. Thanks, buddy. I will say that there's better talent on the Giants defense, probably overall than on the offense. Dexter Lawrence, their nose, their detackle, is one of the best players in the NFL disposition. They brought in Ryan Burns, who's an edge rusher who could go for 12 or 14 sacks this year. Nobody would bat an eye. I still really like in the matchup against Washington, he's tormented them. He had a bad week one, and grilled by the media all week long, K-Von Thibodeau. They're defensive. He's very comfortable against Washington. He's done a really good job. He won that matchup with Charles Leno a bunch, seemed like a bad matchup for Leno, but we'll see what it looks like with a different tackle group this time. And then Bobby O'Kareke, the linebacker also has been a problem at times for Washington is a really good football player. So as far as I'm concerned, there's just more defensive talent in that front seven for the Giants than there is maybe on the other side of the ball, which is ominous in terms of pass rush and protecting Jaden Daniels. Yeah, I don't know how much running room is going to be, especially in the interior. You want to play bash with, you know, Ryan Robinson. Good luck going up against, you know, Pro Bowl caliber player Dexter Lawrence there in the middle and a couple of those other guys. I mean, to me, you know, you can, you can miss direction here and there a little bit. Maybe you'd be vulnerable in some quick game where a guy misses a tackle or two and, you know, getting the ball out of space to me is at a premium. I want to challenge this secondary. I don't think we can do that throwing the football in a traditional sense, but I want to challenge a secondary to tackle Austin Echler with a head full esteem. I want to challenge a secondary to deal with Brian Robinson. Again, same thing, head full esteem, et cetera. Challenge those guys that way. They get sick of it. Then maybe I can get something easier over the top, but to me, you're not, you're not winning a pushing contest up front against that group. The defenses, chances of bouncing back are going to have to happen without one of their starters because of some breaking injury news right now on Grant and Danny. So let's get to that. All of our breaking news on the fans brought to you by bet QL smarter bets start with bet QL, get three free days of bet QL access, download the bet QL app or visit bet QL.com. Seeing this first via Nikki Javala of the Washington Post commander's corner and manual Forbes will be undergoing surgery tomorrow to repair a torn UCL in his thumb, a source has confirmed. So this was reported elsewhere initially, but locally being confirmed by Nikki Javala. Again, a manual Forbes to have surgery on the UCL in his thumb. No timetable given on his return. So we can get into this in more detail coming up in just a few minutes, Danny, but your initial reaction. I just feel for the kid. I mean, listen, I don't think he's any good. I don't think that's really what's at issue here. He's trying to get himself on track, right, with a second go around with a second regime and week one was in auspicious and he's trying to climb out of this pit. And that's a pretty big setback. So that's a bummer, man. I feel for the guy. I know the average listener doesn't care about this kind of stuff, but I guess it looks like rap sheet had that first about six minutes ago, a manual Forbes undergoing surgery to marred or repair a torn UCL in the thumb, a blow to the secondary for the former first round pick, having the procedure now Forbes will fix an issue that would have been a problem all season. So goes without saying he's not going to play this weekend. Now, what the timeline looks like soon thereafter, I'm not sure you would think in the secondary, you could actually wrap that put club on it, whatever and play football just not going to be able to catch the football the same way, but he's never had an interception in his career anyway. So ideally, you could go out there, you could cover whatever, but sound like that has been a strength to your point. I do. I feel for him because he takes a beating. I mean, just absolutely gets crushed, not to say that it's undeserving, but when you're a first round pick, the expectations are very high. He is not performed, and he has become kind of enemy of the state number one with the fan base for the issues in the secondary and defensively. And now you're getting off to a slow start with your performance, then you get hurt. Now you're going to be out, it sounds like. So we'll have more details on this injury next. 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