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You are listening to the fan all over DC on one oh six seven will be on enrichment for three hours today. We'll also be available to you both on the Odyssey app wherever you go. And we are streaming live. The video is in high definition on the one oh six seven the fan YouTube page at three o'clock today. Our buddy Warren Sharp Sharp analytics. We will dive into Jaden Daniels debut by the numbers and at five o'clock we'll blitz the east will go around the division to the other three teams in the district to see how they handled themselves in week one. Danny, how are you? We are doing strong to quite strong, my friend. Good morning. Beautiful weather. It's just the fall. Everyone else can pipe down and give me all the pumpkins. Having a great time. Yeah, the fall has kind of arrived. I'd say last night it was sixty five degrees just open the windows window open. Sorry. The way to do it. I think September 11th, 2024. You can't say that without thinking about twenty three years ago. Unbelievable. It's been that long, man. The world change in this country changing the worst day in American history, probably. And for so many of us know that are not old enough to have lived through the other horrific days in this country's history in terms of deaths and tragedy. It's the one we'll never forget. And I remember that. That was kind of the parlance that was the terminology right after was never forgetting. It's just natural that we all go about our lives and you can go days and weeks that if you weren't directly affected, probably without thinking about it. But there are people who wake up every single day. And it's the first thing they think about because thousands of people lost loved ones. Yeah, if you've never been to, you know, you drive by on 395, you see the pentagon that is quite the same color as the rest of the building. You can't help but think back and remember. If you've never been to New York to the site of ground zero, it's still, you know, very profound, especially if you were there and seeing the World Trade Center towers beforehand and just knowing the empty part of the skyline, et cetera. You're right. The chaos of that warning, the unbelievable sense of tragedy and then some of the stories that, you know, kind of come out since just heroism, amazing facing, you know, circumstances that we all can't imagine. So very well said by you. Yeah, just again, it's it. It's hard not to think back to that day. And I can't believe it's been more than two decades. That's unbelievable. I'm glad you bring up the pentagon because I was just a young kid. I was in Rosetta Lewis's eighth grade history class. And I remember her leaving and she was gone for what felt like an hour. It was probably 20 or so minutes. She wasn't in the classroom and she came back clearly having been sobbing and sat down at her desk. And she just couldn't address us. And one of our other teachers that was in that same hallway, Mr. Fike was former military person who was at a get outdoorsman and our English teacher came in and told us what was going on and said, you know, a lot of people are going to be getting picked up and there's a lot of moving parts here, but everybody safe. What have you? But I'll never forget that we got dismissed early. We went home and as a little kid, you don't really have a feel for what's going on. I went to Ben Gallier's house and we threw the football in his front yard with a couple of our buddies because we weren't in school in the middle of the afternoon. But I remember it wasn't really until that night when I saw emotions from my parents and just the way they watched the coverage that I've realized this is a big, big, big thing. I was finishing up school at one semester, one extra semester left because I took one last class in the spring when we pretty much leave February 1st and, you know, you're never around for any afternoon class. So I was also working part time and my boss called me at 7 20 in the morning. Like, that's very unusual. Like that's usually either a butt dial or something, you know, really wrong has happened. And I'll never forget this. He said, Hey, turn on the news. I just heard something. Sounds like there was a bomb threat at the State Department. Again, this is, you know, 20 some years ago, and that's where GW was is it or is right next to the State Department. And so I happened to be watching the news, trying to figure out what was going on. And remember, never forget seeing everything unfold and going, okay, I guess I'm not going to school today, just not knowing, no one knew what to do. No one knew what was next. No one knew if there were more things planned for later on that day or into the evening and nobody knew, no one knew anything. And that was the worst part about it. All in addition to the unbelievable loss of life and everything else is that fear. We're going, okay, that was that one. That was that one. Is there another one? Is there another punch? Is there another thing that nobody expects? I'll just feelings of that day, man. Hard to hard to forget. I remember the day itself and how traumatic and awful it was. And still, I think it's important today to think about again, all the people that lost their lives and the loved ones were affected. But I remember the patriotism thereafter that you felt and the country coming together in a way that it hasn't since. And frankly, and I hate to say this, right? Because now you brush up against politics and nobody wants to do that. I believe what you guys out there believe. I agree with everyone. I don't know if that would even happen anymore. In a situation as tragic as as what happened 23 years ago, I don't know if we got that club in the bag. I hope we do where everyone would just put down their proverbial sword, so to speak, and come together and sing kumbaya and be Americans first. I hope that that would be the case. I don't know. But that might have been a unique situation early in my life that I'll never see again, because you could not find people who weren't just willing to help their neighbor right after that. Do you remember those couple of weeks? Of course, it was really amazing. And you brought up DC. I'm glad you did because I think I think about it from the New York perspective so much, obviously with the twin towers, but the Pentagon right here. I drive by it every single day. Yep. In fact, the side that got hit, you and I are driving by going toward the 14th Street Bridge 395. There are people just sitting in traffic in the morning, getting into the city in the eight o'clock hour, probably listening to this show right now. There were some people who saw the collision of the plane. And it could have been a lot worse in this city. Flight 93 got taken down. I think everybody knows the story by now, but the hijackers plan to crash that plane as we now know into the Capitol building in downtown DC. That's where it was headed. That was the goal. They had already hit the Pentagon and they were going for the Capitol. And heroes on that plane said, no, you're not. And they crashed the plane in a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and in their own lives to ensure that it didn't happen. Because I guess by then they were able to find out via their phones, the news and everything else that the country was under attack, so to speak. Yeah. The the several people posted every year, but it's hard for me to read it and and think about my own situation. Otherwise, but the transcript of the voicemail that the one young man left for his wife, just man, it just goosebumps and the weather system in my eyes every time. But I just want to make sure never forgets, not just words, right? I mean, it's been 23 years and a lot of things are going on in everyone's lives. We're all busy and I'm not sitting here pretending like we're not, but just an awful day, clearly, in American history, one of the worst ever. And it's certainly in my lifetime. And I want to make sure at some point, we take a moment to think about that today. But we got a little sports radio show that we do. And we got to do that. That is the gig. No good transition. We will be here with you until 615 tonight, pregame Charlie and Dave right then. And then 645 first pitch. I'm going to make a bold Nationals prediction right now. Who wants to hear it? All right, Grant, I am going to go out on a limb right now. Who wants to hear what I've got to say about the Washington Nationals? I do. Tonight will be better than last night. I feel good about that. The Braves beat Washington 12 to nothing and I'll hit them 15 to three. That won't happen again. I think the Nats will be closer than minus 12 and hits. I think they'll be closer to the minus 12 and runs tonight. So if you got tickets to go to Nats Park to see the Nationals tonight, you picked the right night, I think. Here we go. That's my bold. That's a bold prediction. Thank you. I like that. That was a gross game. It certainly was. It's nice to have football now. Yeah. Just kind of like the Nats are like the. Oh, yeah, the Nats are still playing. Let's check in on them rather than being the main event. The thing that gets you through your night. Now you could do some watching back of some other NFL games on Game Pass and the league has taken over the center spot, luckily. Gore had been really good of late through a couple, you know, I think it went one, two, three top of the first and was pretty good in the second inning. I'm going, Hey, we got something here. Atlanta's been struggling. Everybody that's ever hit the ball for Atlanta. Numbers approximate is injured. This is great. The Braves are only a float because of their pitching. Let's go Mackenzie Gore. Oh, no. So many crooked numbers. So many bad ones. Only two earned runs though. That's true. That is true. Seven. There were a couple errors behind him. But enough of that. Hopefully they're better tonight. The commanders are on to the New York Giants. It is officially Giants week and I cannot stress enough how important it is that Washington shows well in this game. I'm not going to sit here and do sports talk radio. Yuckity yuck nonsense where I tell you it's a must win in week two for a rebuilding team. Not a thing. I'm not going to say if they don't win then dot dot dot dot dot dot. But they've got to look a lot better in this game. There is just no excuse not to in the second week of a regime. You get some of those jitters and nerves out. A lot of the players who were either rookies and or in a new home right in Washington, new scheme, first time playing with a bunch of teammates. I'm going to give you a mulligan against a playoff team a year ago in the box that whipped up on you in every phase. But the Giants this past week were horrific. They were so, so, so, so bad at home that they were booed so loudly that a Vikings player said on the radio today that they legitimately felt bad for Daniel Jones in that offense. I heard on New York radio a couple days ago. I think it was Evan Roberts who does the version of what we do in WFAN said that Giants fans showed up at the stadium ready to boo. Like they just wanted to boo. Now they got plenty of things to do. They got a great chance to. But right off the bat they went three and out and the boo birds were out and it got worse and worse and worse. Jones was awful. The offense was anemic. The team was terrible and the Vikings whooped them. Danny, it is a bit of a gift to have them on the schedule this week. Not promising they win. I'm not telling you they're going to beat them. But this is a chance to just look like a professional football outfit and to make it seem the optics coming out of this game need to be that the Bucks are just really good and week one was a fluke because look at how they looked in week two it was different. If you treat this football season like it's a normal football season then of course it's ridiculous to say it's a must-win game, right? You and I would agree with that, right? That's opposite. It's not because if this is a Super Bowl contender even still you'd have a lot of ground to make up and you'd be fine and if you're the Packers this week, a team that's really good but they're not going to have Jordan Love in all likelihood. You don't have to win it'd be nice if you did, right? Etc. Here's where I'm coming from on this. So I don't have the term must-win but I've got something and I want you to see if you can help me quantify it. Your promise to something. My job as I see it is to come in here and try to call balls and strikes when you, I'm not talking about you, Graham, but the royal you, the team, when you set the standard you tell me what I'm supposed to expect and when you don't meet it people get pissed, people get disappointed. That was a hallmark of Snyder. Now in addition to all the impropriety and nonsense and and bull crap we all have to deal with that was the football part, the over promising and then the rug pull time after time after time. The off-season champion rug pull, the saver, the white knight is here rug pull it's the same. They wouldn't say rebuilt if they had a different conversation but because it's we're going to arrive violently with our north and we're going to go find commanders and we're going to play this way and you guys wait and see with it we're going to be much better than we've been in the past. You can't go over two. You can't lay a turd in week number one and not be competitive against a decent Tampa Bay team that we're now trying to make a Super Bowl contender. Don't you agree? They can't go over two in looking as bad as they did. This is my point. We're showing up that way but that a win or a loss is largely irrelevant if they play a decent football game. To a degree but the Giants are horrendous. The Giants are picking top five again probably if I had to bet. Probably but in the same way that we can sit here and say we don't know a lot about Washington yet and week one is the ultimate misleading week in the football season. We really don't know what the Giants are. I tend to agree with you. They looked abysmal and they have been bad for years and years and years. But I guess my point is whatever we think we know right now a month from now is going to probably be wrong. It's totally fair and we'll adjust accordingly. Now the Giants if we save their season like we did when they won the Super Bowl years ago when Laddell Betts got stopped 19 times inside the three yard line and they were about to fire Tom Coughlin and then went on a Super Bowl run which I still betts from Iowa. Is that right? You were right. Like the first school jumped on guys. Yeah. What was that? Oh yeah. But then they go on have a nice year and Daniel Jones is vindicated and Brian Dable is vindicated and Joe Shane is actually a genius. Okay fine. I think people will adjust. But right now they suck. They were awful in week one. They were they were one of the three or four worst teams in the NFL in week number one and everyone hates their guts up there who's supposed to like them. You lose here. You don't play well here. Then it's there's a lot of sameness. There's a lot of you promise to be something different and it ain't different. You turned over all the personnel. You made all these decisions like you were the smartest guy in the room and this is what we get. I could have had Revera do that, you know? So I don't mind the axons and the platitudes in culture building. Arrive violently. The stuff you put on t-shirts. Anybody, any time, anywhere. You know how that's on like all the polos that all the coaches are wearing and stuff. I'm cool with all that because I think that you got to act as if to an extent. The mistake that I do think they've made is I don't think they did a good enough job frequently enough telling us how bad the roster was and this is in fact a rebuild. Like using the word rebuild should not be a pejorative when you're taking over a four and 13 bad football team. Yeah. That just picks second overall. So I'll agree with that. I think if you you heard probably whatever you want to like if you go back to all those pressers where they're not using rebuild and saying that they're recalibrating and when they're not using rebuild and saying they're finding north, there are also answers where they're talking about it's going to take time. We need some patience and so I think you heard some of that too. I personally after watching their first game think maybe they should have leaned a little more into the rebuild thing though because like you and so many others, especially when you drafted a quarterback at number two overall, I think there's this thought of let's 30 plus new players. It's a new quarterback. The owner has changed. The GM has changed. The coach is different. The quarterback is brand new at the most important position. You know, maybe this thing will look a lot different and I don't think anybody needed them to beat the bucks but for them to have lost as bad as they did and to have just looked as unprepared is probably unfair but ish, you know, just what did they have going for themselves in that game? What was the plan on offense other than go make a play jaded? What do you have to hang your hat on defensively coming out of that game? You've already fired one of your key specialists because of how much of a debacle that part of the game was. You could not have had a worse first week. It was only one week and maybe in the grand scheme of things it won't meet a lot but that's all we've had so far and it went about as bad as it could have. Yeah and I'm not thinking of this from a football perspective. When lose or draw you'd like I care about how Jane Daniels plays honestly like if they lose 30 to 10 did Daniels play okay and the answer probably not that not much if they lose 30 to 10 but I'm talking about from a fan engagement from a business perspective from a hey man we're trying to reach out to you guys and show you how different this is. It's not going to feel different if they lose the Giants for the ninth time in 13 games over the last handful of seasons especially as bad as the Giants looked in week number one. I guess that's kind of where I'm going. I'm not saying there's a huge runway for this plane but I think there is a path to a loss to the Giants and me feeling way better come Monday. A lot of it's going to have to do it their offense in Jaden Daniels. If Daniels comes out and throws for two 77 and they look like an NFL passing offense and wide receivers or I don't know I'm going to say something crazy targeted. Here we go. Then it's going to feel and look a lot different and I'll come out of it going yeah they're going to and yeah they lost to a bad Giants team and by the way I now know that they're officially probably going to be bad like really bad like five six wins bad this year and maybe the under I was taking the over on six and a half is not only in play but extremely likely but I can feel a lot better like the discouragement of that bucks game there's a stench that needs to be washed away talking to a lot of the people out at the golf course at 1757 yesterday that you and I went to to a person one after another they came up and the point wasn't like they're out on the coach or the quarterback I mean it's a week everybody gets that sure but I think the point was like dude that looked really bad yeah that was bad I was like yeah it did like I didn't expect that like yeah me either and we didn't have much like now what well what else do we want to talk about I mean it's early we're giving you time we're going to be patient but even by that standard it was a pretty horrific outing in all phases so I just need a lot more from everybody agreed from the staff to the sidelines to the players let's do this next though we can open up the MGM national harbor listener lines for the first time today at 800 636 1067 what one change would you guys make going into week two that could be from a personnel standpoint we know Adam Peters's answer right away was swapping out kickers they're doing other things I'm sure behind the scenes as a coaching staff but you and I have a few I know but on the phones you guys can pick one thing to change could be a philosophy you know play calling paradigm whatever you want to go with 800 636 1067 on Grant and Danny here 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 queue and guess what now you can call them on your auto insurance too with the name your price tool from progressive it works just the way it sounds you tell progressive how much you want to pay for car insurance and they'll show you coverage options that fit your budget get your quote today at progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust progressive progressive casualty insurance company and affiliates price and coverage match limited by state law. 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c terms at sportsbook.fandal.com gambling problem call 1-800-522-4700 you know going in i wanted to make sure we stayed true to the process and i've been consistent with that to make sure i knew the work that the guys had put in leading into the game and so because the performance didn't go as we want doesn't mean you change your processes to go and so we did do a good job taking care of the ball the things that i wasn't as pleased with our starting field position you know the third down emphasis where quite honestly that's where a lot of the time of possession goes so if i had to look back at it candy and say the things that i learns and then we we've got to perform better on third downs on both sides of the ball and that really affects you know the field position because i think our special teams the cover group and the guys have the ability to return can really affect the game and so that's why when you miss some of those opportunities it can really change field position and i stand quin after a week one loss to the box he's getting his boys ready in ashburn right now on the practice field with the Giants welcome back to grant and danny on the fan warren sharps going to join us at three he dug into the numbers he's got some thoughts and analysis on jadon daniel's debut one thing we would change we'll get to your thoughts on the phones at 800-636-1067 for washington as it gets ready for week two danny let's start on offense austin eckler immediately not waiting till third down not waiting a little third and long not one brian robins it gets tired not when we've had enough early and often to austin eckler that includes first downs it's allowed to not have your third down back on the field only for third downs he's too good with the ball in his hands to not utilize more i'm getting the quick passing game going ball out of jadon daniel's hands they tried to do that unsuccessfully but i'm also going to ramp up the rhetoric with him in meetings to make it very clear we love the legs you're here partially because of the legs that's why you want the high has been trophy because your adult threat it's why you're one of the great college players in history over the last couple of years it's why we took your number two but you're going to make your money in this league and you're going to thrive and i'm going to thrive as a coach because of you throwing the football with that right arm of yours that's outstanding and i'm going to make sure that that is the majority not the minority of his priority list this weekend on defense or defense on blitz and more here's my thing you're getting beat anyhow you may as well try to make a play i don't think they can cover people i don't think they have the a secondary that's worth the damn i don't think they can communicate all the things they say that they just need to work on and they've said that for the last 10 years regardless of the personnel i don't think they can cover people so let's just bet big let's go all in pre-flop blitzmore try to get home see if you can make a play i guess i would just say a manual Forbes is going to watch a little more often than he did with me and we're going to try to coach him up in a lesser role for now it's just a low hanging fruit easy target and it's probably not even fair so as am i right come on come on all kinds of different changes they could make but no egg binog and he's looked very good in the slot maybe give him a look see on the outside check on Michael Davis's health see where we're at but in that secondary i think they got to find another way forward here from a personnel standpoint the good news is Malik neighbors is the only wide receiver who scares you for the Giants and they had no ability to really throw the ball or protect Daniel Jones or do anything of any value this past week so it's a much softer landing spot and a way more fortuitous matchup for a second year they got burned mayfield look like Manning but the big story i thought was you're going up against Evans Hall of Famer Godwin who's going to be a several-time pro bowler before it's all set and done you know a rookie wide receiver and jailer mcmillan who's going to have a pretty nice year it looks like in that offense this is the opposite of whatever that was when you're dealing with the Giants personnel outside of neighbors i think could have a big big game in his second ever game let's go to the phones 800 636 1067 we'll start with b and haymarket on grant and danny hey guys what's up bud hey um just like i was i watched one of those podcasts with when the film broke down what i saw was they could easily scored 50 points on us so corner and the safety combination they they have no idea what they're doing so they really need to simplify that and if i could say one more thing we have a unique opportunity because you know those blow hard New York fans are going to come down to our stadium you know i know more than you about football and we have a unique opportunity to get new york booed out of our stadium by their fans and i just love just that that's hilarious they might join you be if you boo the giants and the Giants fan next to you boo's the Giants then everybody's gonna be booing yeah what happy to boo it is a good opportunity yeah that's really funny thank you for the phone call that is pretty unique uh 50 i agree it sounds like it's hyperbole or you're just being funny or sticking it up but the math is very easy it scored 37 you remember the McMillan miss on what would have been a walk-in touchdown well on the ball that was a little too far for mayfield that went off of his hands there were also two early misses to open receivers for chunk plays maybe one of them would have been a direct touchdown in the beginning of the game as well he missed three of the first seven or eight throws of the day for at minimum one if not two scores in a lot more yards they scored 37 and it was automatic deposit after that so yeah i don't think that's outrageous at all to say i mean it was a really dreadful coverage secondary outing den quen joeit nobody would argue with you i would hope Zeke's in DC what's up Zeke hey guys love you so appreciate you dude yeah i agree with i think what daddy said man i think we should definitely we cannot cover anybody but i would be blitzing like not ever before i think we need to just bring pressure we got some good athletes bring pressure we got to get a way to stop them on third down and long on on the offense the only thing i would say is why don't we do uh mass protect sometimes i hate seeing the empty backfield i'd rather you put an extra tight end back there forgive uh you know there's some time to find some receivers what do you think about that i'll say this Zeke if their passing game is gonna look anything like it did this past week i got no problem with that because it's not like you're throwing the ball downfield to anybody anyway they only targeted their tight ends a couple times with irks before the garbage time touchdown drive five or five fifty five yards anyway so yeah i would have no problem keeping more guys in and protecting but i really didn't think protection was a big issue there were a couple of jail breaks on the sacks that were bad were at a tackle once it was Lucas got beat and other time wily there were certainly plays that weren't perfect along the the journey here uh twelve total pressures but i don't think the past protection was one of the key concerns of the game to be completely honest with you um that's number one number two as far as well you weigh in on that real quick yeah to me you have to mix it you can't just do one thing and if every time you drop back to pass remember again i point to Gibbs 2.0 when he first came back his whole deal is you the quarterback cannot be hit so they would sometimes send one or two guys out in routes and max protect people caught on to that you have to mix and match you've got to pick your spots if you're gonna have something a little longer developing maybe a double move here or there or for example that played to start the second half from a chlorines going down the sideline you want to have a tight end stay in there and chip by all means to buy a lecture time because the the route is supposed to be down the football field but you can't just do one thing in this lake but if you if you're if your theorem is i'd like to see more max protect against uh a new york team that's wreaked havoc in your back field over the last couple of years i'm in favor of that i tend to actually think going empty spreading a defense out so you can kind of see where everybody's at is the best thing to do to alleviate your quarterback from sudden pressures and from not knowing where the pressure is coming like if you go empty out of the gun with five wides i'm not talking about having a protector next to you or a pistol or something i'm saying empty spread offense and now it's basically you know maybe five six in the box with two linebackers you can see everybody and if nickels are coming you're able to see them coming from space and that receivers hot you just haven't turned around and get the ball out of your hand now i would do some of that to combat pressure if it became a big issue but i didn't perceive it to be that way the other point he made was on blitzing which you talked about i think that's definitely a good plan for the giants because they don't do a good job keeping Daniel Jones upright anyway he does have enough mobility like mayfield and he's even more mobile than mayfield but if he gets out of the pocket when you blitz your screwed without blitzing maybe he gets six or seven with blitzing that might be fifteen to eighteen or something so those back breaking runs worry me a little bit if you're blitzing a lot against Daniel Jones if you don't get home you better finish which has not been a strength necessarily let's go to vt in Fairfax on grant and danny nice bounce back against marshal vt needed that dude hey what's up fellas come in hey look man y'all didn't hit all the points we need more accurate like you said we need less forms and i don't want my quarterback grinning in the fourth quarter when they're losing i'm I don't know if anybody else i don't know i want to be mad at losing i don't know i want somebody with some fire and that's just me but uh so i've heard a couple people say this thanks for the call i had no problem with jade and daniel smiling he's got a great smile he's having fun he's been dreaming about planning the national football league his entire life he's making his pro debut he's doing some good things by the way he's running around he's making plays i'm not a body language guy i'm not one of these guys that don't help the other team up you know don't get your jersey signed after the game and it's just not really my thing that i care a lot about i i care about him making good decisions throwing the football to receivers not pulling it down and running when there's open guys 15 yards downfield i'll harp on those things if he wants to smile i don't have a big problem with that yeah to me there's there's a fine line i don't think he got he got to it i would say i can't stand sideline laughter when you get in your ass kicked like when you when i'm more mad than you are as a professional i'm just a fan it's not i don't love that right that's what i don't love but you know somebody's talking you don't you don't know what was said to them you don't know what's going on when you're in the trenches you're competing you know you you smile after a hit or something like that to let him know it didn't bother you i don't know i i get a little bit less bothered by that to your point as a rookie making his debut like to me it becomes a factor where you're smoking a joke and so much that you can't get in to get a kneel down on the fourth quarter like happened between haskins years ago rest in peace like that's way a bigger deal to me than an instant or a brief moment mark rippin was on our show yesterday he is not a fan of the name and he said it won't be growing on him anytime soon we'll play that audio for you next plus we want to hear more of the changes that you would make going into the giants game this weekend warren sharps on the show in 20 minutes you're listening to grant and danny you 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 queue and guess what now you can call them on your auto insurance too with the name of your price tool from progressive it works just the way it sounds you tell progressive how much you want to pay for car insurance and they'll show you coverage options that fit your budget get your quote today at progressive dot com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust progressive progressive casualty insurance company and affiliates price and 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organizational history because he's out in Washington state he's just not as involved in doing as much stuff is a little bit harder of a get but he was roaming around and he was really cool and he sat down with us and did an interview and it was just great catching up with him but the name came up in the conversation this is what he had to say about commanders when asked if it was growing on him at all yeah it never will and never played for the commanders um i i absolutely support the commanders and what they're doing now but i never played for him and you know it's just the the day and age now that we we have to deal with and i just i just don't hope they don't lose the fact that we were red skins and that's all what i played for that's all i knew and that's all um you know we we remember so uh it's this new thing that we're going to support these guys because that's the error we're in it he was not being disrespectful he said i'm rooting for the team uh we had a great conversation he can hear the whole thing at the fan DC dot com gratton danny dot com slash audio we'll play some clips as the show goes on he wants them back at rfk and gave some reasons why he's a big fan of and supporter of jadon daniels but on the name commanders is it growing on you no and never will yeah um i'm of course in lockstep with him on that but there also is an awkward thing for an organization right i mean think about it to a much lesser degree with the nationals right we haven't trotted out nationals legend you know think of someone that was like spike Owens who was great in matriole or vadamir garera yeah you know what i mean like it's it's vidro yeah it's this weird bit where it's like it was that thing and now it's something else expose legend not really nationals legend you know you can't really do that a little bit different though because that's my point trial dc quite literally two different organizations that just have the same lineage whereas this is nothing's changed but the name right and so you know how awkward that could be if they were like these are nationals legends when they never played for the nationals well imagine you didn't change cities imagine it's the same building the same everything it's still ashburn it's still uh you know out there east of the city but it's northwest they do now which i'm sure makes sense but yeah how do you handle that there's no good way to do it let's go to kevin and our linkedin the question we were talking about on gnd what would you change going into week two if you were running the show for the commanders what do you got kev hey thanks for taking my call grant and banny well if i'm coach quinn and i can only change one thing this is my change i'm starting both of the know us starting know it wide out know around i'm starting to know at corner know it but not can you please pronounce that for me know it but not getting it but not getting it but not getting okay and here's why i mean it's but not gonna play very well he came from Dallas you know show with system look i'm not going to pile on forward she's young he's learning but you know you were mentioning joe gibbs earlier gibbs would sit a player who needed to quote-unquote catch his breath now unfortunately he could catch his breath okay i might even consider making him inactive because here's the thing it is a 70-man roster we're in a total rebuild situation there are gb's they're on the practice quad okay i think we have to all season long reward people with playing time or take playing time away if they don't deserve it i really think it's important to establish that culture especially with this team which is completely rebuilt for the most part so i'd start to to know us i think they uh will add some juice and uh i could i wasn't also very happy with how anyone other than the mccorn did it wide out uh so appreciate you thanks bud i didn't think about it as the to know is which sounds like a band name or a movie or something but he's very right we're gonna talk about noah brown a little bit later on in the show today and the idea of getting him back and what that can do to change some things offensively but ig binogany's been great when tapped into problem is they've mostly used them in the nickel it's different on the boundary but i still want to see what it looks like and then yeah noah brown didn't play and receiver position was a massive dud and diami brown didn't get you passed and zakias was draped over like a you know coverage was a blanket couldn't get it open couldn't get separation until the 15 yard out against prevent so it's time to try something else there too maybe small sample but you brought brown in for a reason that's right good as act in Gainesville what's up zach hey guys thanks to a mark all everybody hey man i think they're sleeping on Derek forest man like he's the hardest hitting safety on team and he's got excellent ball skills and this seems to be like that's exactly what joe went and uh dq wanted in their opening interview you know they're loaded at that position so thank you buddy it's all of a sudden deep right so again but to the point whether it means that you want to sub out Jeremy chin or that you don't think quan martin can play or otherwise i'll leave that up to somebody else but to me i'm not good enough where i can go i got a pretty good helpful football player that just i'm gonna sit at somebody else's expense i'll i'll concoct a three safety package or hell a four safety package if it means i got a better player on the field like we shouldn't be beholden to anybody on on and that secondary with this poorly as they played Derek forest was not even active on sunday him and dominee camped in where the odd men out in the secondary obviously had no a brown who wasn't up to speed they said johnny newton who might play this week where hearing wasn't physically available and then chris paul and sam hartman were the other deactivated players but yeah Derek forest didn't even get a jersey so he's got a long way to go to be used but they like Percy butler more who i thought did some okay things i actually liked how quan martin played for the most part it's just a really really deep position and i will say from having been out of practice some Derek forest was seemingly way behind all those guys even during camp there were points where i wasn't sure if he was gonna make the roster so it has not gone smoothly with this group for him so far warren shark joins us next one of the top analytics minds and football what did he make of daniels running the ball throwing the ball in the king's berry offense in week one we'll dive into the numbers with him on grant and danny to kick off next hour 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 queue and guess what now you can call them on your auto insurance too with the name your price 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you guys want to talk a little bit about jade and daniel but it's fun to see him out there under uh live fire getting some real game reps finally so looking forward to uh what happens in week two yeah i think we are two in town because like everybody else we're trying to figure out how much of this was a game in a a week to week league that we're over reacting to and how much is kind of gospel moving forward and how this season's gonna look but let's dive into daniels first and foremost you did a nice video breakdown today people can go check out on your twitter account uh where you looked at what he did well what didn't work give us kind of your thoughts on his first game yeah i mean this is a difficult part when we're talking about you know some of the coach speak afterwards and we're talking about what jade and daniel should look like moving forward and what what the coaches want him to do the the tricky part is this obviously he's making his first career start it's on the road and it's going to Todd bold defense those are all very difficult things for any quarterback to do but i always look at it like what was he being coached to do in the pre-season so keep this in your frame of reference as you're trying to think about him and what you might expect from him during the season and particularly week one as you use a barometer here in the pre-season jade and daniel's time to throw was 1.91 seconds there were 106 quarterbacks in the NFL pre-season with over five dropbacks that was the lowest that was 106 out of 106 he had the fastest time to throw he was being coached to get rid of the ball quickly make a decision first to go get rid of the ball his ariards for attempt was 5.9 yards that is very low that was number 88 out of 106 quarterbacks he was being asked to throw underneath on almost all of his passes so when you look at jade and daniel's and you say like oh well at lsu he was able to do this and then here i'm seeing him in tampa and he's doing this the fact of the matter is when you put a quarterback under live fire he's probably going to fall back on what he was being told to do in the pre-season and actually execute it in the pre-season it's much more difficult to say okay you should come in and hang in the pocket and go through your progressions and not run the football and just sit back there for two three four seconds and try to go through your progress i'm not going to knock him for not doing any of that yet because he wasn't being coached to do that in the pre-season so um obviously there are things that jade and daniel's needs to work on uh some of it relates to passing the ball down the field some of it relates to being able to slide better when he does take off to run the football uh but what i would like to share and i do have feelings on is you know if we're going to talk about jade and daniel's running and it being too much like daniel was saying the place to start is cutting down on the designed runs that are not near the end zone that is the place to start if we're talking about helping jade and daniel's not be scrambles when he is under pressure and he has no frame of reference in any of the pre-season games that the coaching staff is going to work with him on standing in the pocket and resetting and setting up different pockets i was reading the thomas bozewell article about you know re-establishing and you know i agree with thomas that's probably on the coaching staff because he wasn't being asked to do that in the pre-season but we can't knock jade and daniel's for not doing that here in week one on the road against pothole defense so we're in such a tough balance i think you did a great job of of talking about this in that video in that breakdown um where the the skill set's incredible like the ability to take a pressure and turning into a positive gain for your team in terms of running and there were moments maybe where hey you could have thrown this ball or or otherwise but the you're still ending up with these seven like a 17 yard gain down the left sideline for a first down one of their largest plays of the day for pretty anemic offense but you know the the big picture is at some point some of those could be throws to hit touchdowns if you're buying more time and or or big plays and other times you know maybe you you're running the risk of getting hit like it's just such a hard balance and it's always like whatever happens after the fact we want to go back and correct it with hindsight what's the lesson what's the balance there that the coaches in here are going to try to walk yeah that that's a great great point and it is difficult I'm sure most people who are listening did not see the article or hear my take on it so the bottom line is uh Jayden Daniels had 16 runs seven of those runs were scrambles when he it was a design pass plate and he took off and ran with the football those plays average gained of 11 yards obviously you and I both most that's way better than the average pass plate an 11 yard gain is way better than an average pass plate those plays averaged 86 percent success and 1.15 EPA per attempt if you look at what he did when he actually dropped back and tried to pass the football he averaged 7.7 yards per attempt 46 percent success and negative 0.13 EPA per attempt so much much worse when he was actually sitting in the pocket trying to throw the ball down the field yes looking back at some of those scrambles there was one play in particular with Terry McCorn where Daniels did have a pocket should have stayed in the pocket should not have run for the first time keep in mind he did get a first down on that run but that was seven waiting to happen if he hit that down the field but most of these other scrambles where he's scrambling I thought were the right decision for a young quarterback who was not asked to buy time in the pocket during the preseason and has no frame of reference for that in addition we're talking about when a quarterback is most likely to get injured and studies have shown although it's it's such a one-off scenario and obviously we know what's happened to some quarterbacks around the league like RG3 that you guys have perfect experience with that you are actually are more likely to be injured if you're sitting in the pocket trying to read out a pass read out the route and sitting in the pocket then you are scrambling down the field and the reason is simple when you're scrambling down the field you have a generally speaking a better frame of reference to see who's coming at you and to adjust your body before them whereas if you're in the pocket looking down the field you got guys falling at your legs and you're really focused down the field you're not focused on protecting yourself whereas if you're running that could be your number one focus but as it relates to should you scramble should you hang in the pocket and obviously like you said hindsight's 2020 but I want to share these steps which I didn't talk about in the video or the article since 2021 on drives to start out or inside a team's 30 yard line so we're not talking about drives that start near the end zone and scoring territory already drives where you're gonna have to go to the length of the field like an average drive if you do not take a sack 35 percent of the time you're going to score points if you take one sack just one sack on that drive only 19 percent of the time when you score points if you don't take a sack 22 percent of the time you're going to score a touchdown if you take just one sack that is cut in third to eight percent of the time you will score a touchdown so you wanted to hang in the pocket yes but if you're taking a sack a la a daniel jones who has no concept of pressure at all like think about this you guys are going to go up against this guy this weekend daniel jones is the blueprint for what I think some commanders fans might be arguing that you want a little bit more out of of jade and daniels which is absurd to me you are going to see on sunday when you watch daniel jones if he's anything like he's been in his career or in week one a quarterback who has no fuel for pressure who is hanging in the pocket far too long and takes unnecessary and unneeded stacks and hits and potentially fumbles the football as a result but more importantly he takes those sacks which are drive colors which forces the team to pump the football you do not want that from your quarterback and I also don't think that you want a guy who's just going to check the ball out of bounds with the sign of first pressure i know he's had a great career but that's like what their car does uh if if you're looking for a true game changing difference making quarterback you need him to be healthy out on the field i 100 percent agree but you need a guy who is going to be able to take the yards that are there on a particular given play and hopefully it's through the air but when it's not and when there's a question his skills get allows him to run the football just get down take take it's okay if you're not getting that 11th and 12th yard take the 10 if it means that you're not putting your body in harm's way i 100 percent agree with that that's what they need to be working on first and foremost with them when he does run the football great info from warren sharp here on grant and danny i think there's probably a happy medium though between like daniel jones and wide receivers having 19 yards in the game before the final drive and garbage time right or uh a 12 completion performance where he's literally run more than he's completed passes in the middle of the fourth quarter so i don't know i don't i don't need him to be daniel jones and have no field we don't want that but i'd like to major in him looking to make plays through the air and minor in the runs or at least get to a point where we're trending in that direction and coaching him up and that's the part i don't know warren are they coaching him up in that way or not yes well that's that's exactly the question you know with coach kim spry and that's what i that's why i think it's so important to take the context of what was he doing in the preseason you know what was he being asked to do because you're not just going to be able to flip the switch this is what i i i want my quarterbacks to get a little bit of reps in the preseason i think this is why we saw passing touchdowns at like a historic low since like 2006 and week one because none of these quarterbacks are getting any reps in the preseason but you're going to especially if you're a rookie you're going to trend a little bit more to what you were doing the preseason i think if you look at what jadon daniel's was doing the preseason then you've pushed that forward to week one um like you said you've got your two top leading receivers are both running backs and your number three is a tight end in zak earth which you and i both know from watching him in philadelphia like his floor years are far behind him he should not be he maybe should be your third best uh highest target of receiver but not behind two running backs and no wide receivers so it's it's dialing up what they were doing is they were manufacturing a lot of easy passes for jadon daniel's underneath two the guys that are closest to him at the line of scrimmage the guys that are closest to him are running backs and tight end so that it's a lot of underneath stuff that's being manufactured as your first read get the ball out quickly um but the stuff to the wide receivers that needs to be there they need to build that up a little bit more so um it's it's on everybody but more so for a rookie quarterback it's on the coaching stuff there's no doubt about it like that they need to work with him a little bit more on that but you can't be fearful about the scrambling uh you fear for the safety but in my opinion if you want less than 16 runs knock off all the design stuff which most of it came in the second half um when you're down somewhat bit large um and focus a little bit more if you want to run the ball with your backs focus on it then focus on some of those early downs get in the ball so the wide receivers don't wait to try to get to the wide receivers until third down because on third down you're going to bet the most likely time that you're going to be blitzed most obvious passing situation throw some of these passes where the first read is Terry McClure and on a first down make life easy for McClure and most importantly for Jayden Daniels uh and I do agree with you that is a happy medium is absolutely necessary here uh it's going to it's going to take time it's going to take time I just wish you know right out the gates after his first game that Dan Quinn doesn't come out and you know put him on blast for running with the ball um like this like knock off the designed runs then if you don't want him but scrambling is such a valuable tool just do it a little bit more intelligently follow our guest Warren Sharpe at Sharpe football on Elon's app so just I want to deep dive real quick Warren into into Kingsbury's offense I mean it looked and listen I haven't studied the all 22 in depth and charted everything that he was doing in Arizona but it felt very Arizona-e to me right where you know the his number one wide receivers lining up on the left side very little motion very little dynamic and it's a lot of horizontal quick stuff kind of the things that you alluded to is there an evolution coming or is or is we're sort of just this is it um I mean there there will be once he gets more familiar with the various personnel and there's going to be a learning curve I mean there's going to be things that Jamie Daniels is going to be able to get to later on the season in terms of progressions and routes and that that he's not able to at this very moment and that's okay to me that's it's a learning curve but the one thing I will say about Cliff Kingsbury you know what he worked with a rookie quarterback in Arizona Kylo Murray was a rookie when Cliff Kingsbury was there and Kylo Murray had a lot of success with this offense when he was there Kylo Murray that season had 93 rushing attempts though that was the third most for any quarterback he had 544 yards rushing that was the number two most for any quarterback and four rushing touchdowns which is the number four most he also took the number three most sacks at 48 um but this team had a lot of success of getting to the red zone they just weren't converting when they were down inside of the red zone I think that you're going to see Cliff Kingsbury use Jamie Daniels mobility just again reduce these obvious run plays on these designed quarterback runs unless you near the end zone I'm I don't say I'm excited because I do think you're lacking at the receiver position from a talent perspective uh you don't have like three stud receivers just be out there in 11 like the Seattle Seahawks might and just be able to attack all levels of the field and have the secondary just pulling their hair out because they've got so many great wide receivers to cover you don't have that going on in DC but there's a lot of balance that I think you need to find and I think Kingsbury will get there I do not think that he is one of the best offensive coordinators in the NFL however so I mean there is a ceiling here but I think it's going to get a lot better your schedule is going to be full of a lot of challenging defenses as it relates to the NFC East in particular and in addition you're playing the AFC North so you're going up against all those ridiculous defenses so there are going to be games when it actually looks a lot worse sometimes than what it did this past week um and just just be ready for those bumps and bruises along the way that's going to be what happens when you've got a young quarterback who just look at what he didn't call it he he when his his uh pressure rate on uh his scramble rate on pressures is one of the highest that we've seen like he tends to scramble when he is pressured so you I I just think it's a mistake if you're expecting him to suddenly with the flip of the switch be under pressure stay in the pocket read out the defenses I think he might actually get injured in the pocket if he's trying to do that because this is something that's going to take time it's not going to come overnight you can't just expect them to do that in week two against the Giants or on week three against the Cincinnati Bengals on Monday night football Warren Sharp on GND always love chatting ball with him all right let me ask you one more on Kingsbury I'm a dive into some specific numbers here um the fastest pace of play in week one Washington snapped the ball with the most time left on the play clock so they were the fastest moving team which I'm in on I'm all for that but they were sixth worst 27th of 32 in snap motion percentage like uh basically motion at the snap listen to these other teams that were worse than them and you you find me a team that is good on offense the Browns the Patriots the Panthers the Jaguars the Bengals now maybe those teams will get better but they were dreadful in week one I guess I bring this up to say this was one of the things that bothered me about Kingsbury's offense previously to double down on what Danny said and it it seems look it seems like this is his plan like I can count one time I saw when I watched back my chlorine was in motion before the snap he lined up on the same side of the formation like 43 or 49 times weird that you could take him out of the game and you know exactly where he's gonna be how much of a Kingsbury fan are you I guess would be my my long winded question that was a good question you raised some valid points as you were speaking I just dove into the statistics not to scare you guys but I'm going to go ahead and scare you and all the listeners great uh that that in 2020 which was I believe that was Kyle and Murray's rookie season in um Arizona if it's not tell me and I'll change the year but Cliff Kingsbury's motion rate for the Arizona Cardinals priest that motion 27% dead last in the NFL so Cliff Kings this is this is Cliff Kingsbury and it's not changing I was not necessarily a fan of him coming to DC that's why I was saying I think that there is a feeling on what he's going to bring but I do think that there are some things that he does well but this is this is very much as one of the my colleagues at Sharp football analysis likes to say it's a horizontal rate this is this is a it's not necessarily like a deeper this is more of a horizontal rate they are going fast trying to get the ball up quickly and a lot of stuff is underneath um they're gonna need to find some success from a balanced perspective with the ground game and the past game because we know that in today's football it is very difficult to matriculate the ball down the field anymore I did a detailed analysis this offseason once again about the teams that are the most explosive and those teams it doesn't matter like even like the Chiefs maybe not necessarily the most explosive team last year particularly but the teams that are the most explosive tend to grow the furthest in the playoffs they tend to have the most success explosiveness is what allows you to bypass a lot of mistakes it overcomes mistakes and defenses try to force them more than ever with the two deeps and trying to keep things underneath if you play right into that and you're throwing a lot of time behind a line of scrimmage you're throwing underneath you're not really trying to test the defense you're going to have a really difficult time matriculating the ball down the field on 10 12 13 play drives and trying to result in seven so they need to figure out a little bit more uh ways to get explosive but I agree there's a feeling here with Cliff Kingsbury and how he's lining up players and his lack of motion uh and his lack of um you know motion gives the quarterback answers before the snap it's one of the things you should be looking to do with a young quarterback is helping give him answers like uh like reading cliff notes before you go to a tester having the ability to have a really nice index card to take into one of your exams uh having some of these answers before you actually get the questions is pretty nice and that's what motion does and he doesn't like to use it very frequently warm great is always but it really appreciate the time and the insight thanks guys good avenue on check them out sharp football and sharp football analytics uh joining us here on g and d the numbers are back in on the ratings for the nfl and week one and they're not astronomical i want to go over some of those plus what did we get right what did we get wrong through one week of football we'll get to that next on grant and danny deer autumn leaves you won't be covering roads alone this season toyota's 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night football game chiefs ravens friday night international game eagles packers and then the games all day sunday into monday night football 123 million people the highest week one total audience since 2019 not imagine that's buoyed a little bit by having an extra standalone game on friday yep but still it's still they're doing fine you got to go back five years to find the last time they had that many people and that many eyeballs on them in the first week of the season you go to the next line here 21 million people tv and digital that's average viewers per nfl game 21 million at a time on average watching nfl games up 12% from last year the most watched week one on record 21 million per game this is what printing money sounds like uh-huh by the way network performances nbc's kickoff game and week one sunday night football game so that would have been the raven's chiefs with the sunday night game between the lions and the rams 25 million people up 3% from last year the highest two game kickoff weekend average since 2015 nine years ago sunday afternoon this is just your you know one o'clock first regular old ones cbs and fox windows highest week one sunday afternoon viewership since 2016 eight years ago up 21% from last year how about an average of 18.4 million people tuning in to sunday afternoon football contests they can do whatever they want and here's the last one i'll give you monday night football on abc espn plus espn two now this is with many people in america millions i imagine boxed out by the dispute between disney and direct tv do you know about this i do yeah i'm a direct tv consumer now i'm also luckily a youtube tv consumer i have both right now the double dip for september while i'm waiting for the nad season to end and then the second it does she go direct tv's out until next april at the earliest if if it's back i hope all off season that the nats find a way that i don't need it again wouldn't that be nice if they did that that would be great one time monday night football abc espn plus espn two second most watch monday night football week one game since 2000 what is that god is that an erin roger's effect i don't understand that you got to go back to 24 years ago there's only been a one game more people tuned in for on monday night football 20.4 million and astounding week one performance in a national football league so those numbers just kind of you know it starts it starts to become rainfall at certain points when they just sound astronomical and you don't even know if it's good bad and different just trust us that it's good but here's here's what's amazing to me at a time where fewer and fewer and fewer people are watching anything else on television those numbers going up is that much more remarkable in other words on an average night now there's no such thing for for us and our been football watching households but for the rest of america for the people that aren't necessarily tuning in aren't part of the rhythms of it and on your average wednesday fewer people than ever per capita are going i'm going to watch the programming offered by abc cbs nbc fox whatever i've got other options used to be cable was the other option then amc the um uh you know hbos of the world will sort of enter their hats into the ring with the prestige television shows on tbs tonight yeah so you they're all kind of you know trying to crawl or claw their piece of the pie away enter the streaming apps which changed everything oh have you watched the new yellow stone well have you watched the offshoot show by the guy taylor sharon who does this way are you watching the barrel and hulu are you watching the ninety seven trillion things that come out on netflix every hour at what about the new prime prestige show there's a billion and one options fewer people than ever are just going what's on channel four what's on channel seven like nobody does that anymore pretty much and for the nfl to go that's nice into the headwind that everyone else is getting blown back a thousand yards they're planting their flag further than it's ever been it's unreal they are a juggernaut who can't be stopped and we keep thinking you and i but also just the collective royal we everybody whether it's head trauma or it's some type of you know the controversies with players off the field occasionally or owners that there's just gonna be a moment where there's a bit of a reckoning and maybe that the role is slowed and it just doesn't seem like it it seems like it's a ball a ball rolling downhill and this ball just picks up more and more and more snow and eventually it's it's an avalanche now and it's not just a hill in your neighborhood either that's that's not Everest it's rolling down i don't know how i don't know how it would slow down there is still this belief i saw who was it that's it was Mark Cuban 10 years ago in 2014 said the nfl's too greedy they're trying to do too many things internationally or you know games on different days of the week more of a good thing is always going to water it down and his point was they're too greedy it's going to be the pig that gets too fat gets slaughtered totally and 10 years from now it's going to be in trouble that was 10 years ago and i saw that quote come back today now someone might be saying the same thing today and we'll have to fast forward to 2034 and look back but it's all worked i mean everything they're doing seems to be getting them going even more and more in the right direction financially at least i don't know if the the sport is better if the games are better if the quality of play is better but the business is certainly booming there's no doubt about that all right let's get to what we got right what we got wrong from around the nfl in week one as we start to look ahead today to week number two thing i got most wrong i think was this bangles and patriots match up here here from both perspectives right i got Cincinnati winning the AFC north i said joe burrow healthy going into the season would be able to put on a show early in the season that he would not be hindered by jamaar chase having held out i didn't think t hagan's was gonna miss but that's not a good enough excuse 10 points for them a 224 yards 4.7 a pop they were bad and the patriots were everybody as terrible as i thought they'd be with jacobie percent under center offensively but their defense was magnificent they were dominant they were so good and ended up winning the football game almost single handedly so i thought the patriots would not win for weeks i thought the bangles were gonna look like a division champion right out of the shoot and i couldn't have been more wrong yeah i go that one i rubber stamp it i think i got right the carolina panther should be relegated they are terrible they are awful they cannot do it they are picking first in the draft yet again they would have done it another europe except they had to give chicago their first round pick i think i was wrong about speaking in chicago i thought that offense would be a lot better out the gate they were anemic at times they really struggled no rhythm no timing nothing looked good in week one Tennessee deserves some credit for that defense but i think they're going to be frisky and a pain in the butt but after the tune of your number one draft pick only thrown for 93 yards or whatever the hell it was they were not good on that side of the football i was wrong about that thing i got right uh erin roger's perc cousins coming back from a kiddies injuries it's gonna take time and especially i will say i thought roger's played better than cousins did but that the jets are just not going to be that good very quickly uh they have a very easy schedule coming up have you seen their schedule i did it's why i picked them to win the division their schedule in the next handful of weeks is charm and soft they've got the titans this weekend then the patriots then the broncos then the vikings they could very easily be four and one going into a showdown with the bills on october 14th they should at least win their next three and be three and one going into that minnesota game but i just didn't think it would come easily when a quarterback misses as much time as roger says a year and a half without playing football at his age and some new pieces being thrown together there i think i was right about the aryzona cardinals are not good but they are frisky they're a pain in the butt they're part of that middle bucket last year they were uh pretty atrocious especially without calamari they were the better team in that buffalo game for you know probably almost two-thirds of it but josh alan put his cape on thing i was wrong about again in that same game i thought buffalo was going to struggle uh at times and maybe you could say that they did but the thing i underestimated is their quarterback when right is so bleeping bleeping good that it doesn't matter that's adorable defense let up a whole bunch that's adorable i don't have stuff on get uh digs in his prime anymore watch me figure it out josh alan was super human i think i was wrong about i thought the green bay packers would be a team he didn't want to play in september and they looked really bad in a quirky weird international game which i won't completely hold against them terrible field conditions but jordan love was pretty ugly in that game a 50% pass or 17 of 34 through a bad interception and now he's hurt so they are turning things over to malik willis very likely for at least a game i would think probably a couple although there is some speculation out there that maybe jordan love would come back and be able to play i just don't know how that would be the case that seems like wishful thinking how do you not have a better plan than malik willis every time i've ever seen him play he does not look like he belongs on an nfl field uh they got the colts this weekend and then the titans after that this is the underbelly of the schedule i thought beat billy and i picked them to do so by the way you're going to be three and oh playing the vikings at the end of the month they now might be oh and three going into that game hopefully with jordan love back i guess his health notwithstanding but i just don't give them much of a chance with malik willis am i am i overreacting no you are appropriately reacting i would say uh thing that i was wrong about will start there i thought cleaver would be a lot better i didn't know that they would win in week one against dowels dowels is still pretty decent uh but they looked anemic they looked out just totally overmatched on both sides of the football by the way at least i thought that cleaver and defense would travel and certainly be more capable they were terrible in week number one i don't know how much of a gavel slam i'm doing on that but they were certainly really really bad so i was wrong about that thing i was right about is pittsburgh's offense still stinks they didn't score touchdown didn't matter because the defense was great and tj watch showed up he made the trip but no matter what you do they're not a high scoring group and mike tomman did the mike tomman thing where they don't score an offensive touchdown and they still win it's amazing some of what we got right some of what we got wrong from the first week of the nfl season our double plays coming up here in just a couple of moments i just got a tweet from somebody uh they retweeted warren sharp sharp 13 minutes ago so after he got off the phone with us um looked up the percentages of motion from cliff kingsbury through the years obviously was the thing we were talking about with him on the show so 2020 30 second 2021 30 second 2022 28th and then 27th this weekend point being he does not really use motion before the snap but anyway someone retweeted that and said grant you got to talk about this now i know people have lives not everyone can listen all the time but it is kind of funny it's all we've been talking about in fact we just said warren sharp on and we brought it up to him and he looked up the numbers while he was on the line with us and that's why he sent the tweet it's just funny that someone retweeted it at me and goes you guys got to talk you guys have to address this are you planning on it we will address that next i only kid double play is next on gnd and then the beltway blitz in 20 minutes on the fan so you can see that we're going to be doing it. you you it's time for the gnd double play driven you by your local Washington area haunted dealers stopping for a great deal on the rugged and capable Honda pilot contact your local Washington area haunted dealers today been a couple days i would have done this the other day but we got super busy and it kind of broke late in the show but James Earl Jones passed away at 93 no other way to describe it than one of the all-time legends iconic roles that were gets thrown around a ton GP but the single greatest reveal to that point perhaps in movie history after fans had waited for three years from the original Star Wars to the Empire Strikes Back Dorothy of course Dorothy are voiced by James Earl Jones and there's no internet there's no spoilers there's no you know people coming out and tweeting the results there's no danny ruea is ruining game of thrones for people this is three years in the making and only its word of mouth the greatest twist that nobody saw coming again to that point perhaps in history expertly delivered by James Earl Jones in in that sound booth only a few people knew the truth the actor playing Darth Vader David Prowse in the suit didn't know most of the cast not in fact all the cast didn't know George Lucas Ervin Kershner and then Mark Hamill right before the scene George Lucas went and told him you're going to react this way because here's the truth expertly delivered and perfect and perfect is the word that comes to mind with James Earl Jones a bunch he was perfect as Darth Vader he was perfect as Terence Mann opposite Kevin Costner in Field of Dreams he was perfect in the Lion King he was perfect as any Murphy's father even in a comedic role where he was the straight man is is King King Joffee he was absolutely incredible and awesome and just iconic I don't have another word to describe it but 93 years plus what an unbelievable life what a huge impact he had on so many people so never really like the guy that starred is the lead in a bunch of movies but just sort of found this lane to provide gravity I'm I think of him in hunt for right October as the boss of the CIA Jack Ryan's boss just perfect he was so good in so many roles and when you start to add him all up and I'm probably forgetting that a half dozen just now you're forgetting one very important one in the sand lot where he was there you go seriously Mr. Myrtle and he's perfect in that oh I loved him in that so the line in that movie that still pops me so good is the whole film they're trying to get the ball back and they're petrified of the guy that lives there and the dog behind the wall although they don't know it's a dog it's a beast right but anyway they finally just decide we're gonna you know go tell this guy what's going on with your dog it chased us all over the place and they got to go talk to Mr. Myrtle and they hand him the baseball and he's blind essentially and he like smells it and he's you know rubbing it on his face and he goes George signed this ball talking about Babe Ruth and it's just I don't know why that line always gets me but George signed this ball and they're like George you know Babe Ruth and he's like sure did and then he gives them the 1927 and he tells them you know I tell you what you keep this baseball you just come back and talk with me once a week what a great end to that movie that was just so perfect I mean man uh I think I'm sure I'm missing it probably again dozens of roles because he was he was he was acting since like the 1950s 1960s even as a kid but that if you needed the voice and you know exactly what I'm talking about if you needed someone to do a voice that had gravitas or to narrate or to have depth in that booming base he was so awesome short list all-time hall of fame voice right I mean if you're talking about like Mount Rushmore of voices narration his is in there yes it's him it's Orson Wells Morgan Freeman I would say Morgan Freeman is definitely up there honestly Lee have Shriver made us currently um Michael Douglas did a lot of narrating his is different but is is kind of probably in terms of like money made doing stuff is up there but yeah I don't know how many people had a better voice ever than James Earl Jones very few very few very few so d totally I mean again and and now it's you know every time they are able to do or every every time those are going to new Star Wars project or anything that comes with it you're sitting there you just hope do we get the real one you know like that brief moment in uh Rogue One Star Wars story the first time you see Darth Vader on screen and he and it's him and he delivers the voice it just makes the movie work and now now this is legitimate you know what I mean like he adding his presence to it makes it real it makes it matter just an incredible incredible incredible impact on so many people so rest in peace James Earl Jones it is time for my double play Darris if you don't mind can you fire up a little uh Clarissa explains it all for us here on Grant and Danny I'd like to tag in Ryan Clary oh I don't think this one's all that difficult to be honest because it's been in the news quite a bit but I do have something I'd like Ryan to explain to me if he's able to I want to know what the Solheim Cup is so okay I saw I believe ABC7 was there today and I saw people tweeting about it and obviously it's a golf tournament of some sort but golf season is over PJ is done with so it's not a PJ tour event hey sure I'm 100% sure PJ tour is over at this point in time and it ends right when football season starts so I'm going to assume that this is some like wacky kind of deal where I mean it's in the DC area I know that every year sure we'll say so annually in DC annually in DC and maybe it's a golf tournament between Capitol Hill employees like Republicans versus Democrats I don't know what it is at this point honestly every now and then you come up with something and you hit them home run thank you it's an annual golf tournament between the Republicans and the Democrats because they have their congressional victory game and then they have the Solheim Cup so you've watched the ABC7 story on it today I did not I saw I'm blank on her name right now but I saw her tweet live from it so I was thinking like oh that's cool and I just kind of I mean the segment is obviously better if you don't get it right of course but we've always said we don't pre-plan this no we don't know Ryan to get things wrong sometimes he just knows something would you say this was something you knew or something you lucked into just lucked into I'd say okay and the Republicans and the Democrats play the congressional baseball game uh-huh why wouldn't they just call it the congressional golf tournament what is the importance of the Solheim Cup I don't know it's what's the importance of the Stanley Cup you know exactly one guy named Stanley decided hey this is going to be a Stanley Cup maybe one guy named Solheim was like well the Solheim Cup or whatever the heck it is then after Solheim Solheim I'll accept that and then my last question then because you didn't quite hit that even though you've gotten everything else right that was not correct fair on the Solheim Cup you said it's an annual event in DC is it always held this week I'll say yes this year a little different than normal I'll say yes Solheim Cup is held in DC every time this time of year and where is it being held now I'm gonna guess congressional country club out in Bethesda all right sounds about right all right ladies and gentlemen Ryan Clary the Solheim Cup because I didn't know what it was now I do now you do would you spell it for us please S-O-L-H-E-I-M that is correct dang dang the Solheim Cup Clary explains it all on Grant and Danny next to your Beltway Blitz right here on The Fan you you you you you [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] Grant and Danny all over the DMV on 106/7. 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Yeah, there was not much going well for them. I mean, the only positive you want to take anything is Gore gave up seven runs, but only two of them were earned. But he gave up a lot of hard contact. And sometimes you're going to have errors behind. You got to pitch out of those things. So not a good one for the nats last night. But the crazy part about this thing, Grant, is this is the year of all years that the nats have won the season series against the Braves. Not when it's a good team, not when the Braves have been bad. But this team, the bad nats team and a scuffling Braves team that's just trying to dig into the playoffs, this is the one where they won the season series, even though they lost last night, 12, nothing. Tobias Chunkay, give me kind of your checklist here down the stretch. Because, you know, it'd be nice if they won a couple of these games to be good for the kids to experience some of that. Maybe play some spoiler. But big picture, you know, I don't really care where they want to lose. I have a few things that I'm looking for. Just want to know what those things are for you. Is it, you know, CJ Abrams, Luis Garcia, Mackenzie Gore wasn't great last night. But a couple others, what are some of the things that you're kind of circling here? If I see this, I'll be happy. Yeah, I think the number one is the first name you mentioned there at CJ Abrams. Like you look at his season, he had an all-star first half. And really, though, I talked about this on the podcast that Grant mentioned, busting loose baseball, is that last year he really only had one good month. It was the month of July and the rest was, you know, mediocre to bad this year. Now it's kind of the same thing, except for instead of just one good month, it's been two, and now those two months were fantastic in April and June, and they were MVP caliber player of the month, caliber month. But outside of that, it's been pretty pedestrian. So can he find some sort of rhythm going down the stretch here that he feels like he can work on stuff and get better in the off season? So I would love to see CJ Abrams come out of the funk that has basically been since that month of June that he can shake out out of that. And then it's the young guys, you know, it's kind of the same thing we talked about these last couple of years. It's, you know, how does James Wood continue to go about his at bats? I saw someone who compiled a list of all of the, some of the top names in Nationals history through their first 60 games, whether it was Bryce Harper, Juan Soto, and some of those guys. And James Wood's numbers were comparable in different areas to all of those guys. So it's just about seeing how he continues to grow as a rookie. And then Bill and Cruz, you know, he's had some good spots, but he's also hitting just barely above 200 at this point. So can he find some sort of form going on in the stretch here? And then with the pitching, you know, Kim, one of these guys, you know, we talked about this with Jojo last year. He was good in the first half, second half really struggled, but it seemed like he found something in his last two or three starts that he could build off. Obviously he got injured this year, so we weren't able to see it. But is there something where Gore can find a good start? Ervin can find a good starter too down the stretch here, just winding down the season. I think you just want to see a little bit of glimpses as they head into the off season. I think that will be the thing. Just seeing these young guys start to show a little bit of the form that some of the guys showed in the first half. Toby, let's go back to Dylan Cruz for a moment. Three home runs for him in 13 games, basically a 37 homer pace. That's the good news. But he is now 10 for 50 at the plate, even though the strikeout rate has been held in check. He has not been hitting a whole lot lately, hitting 200. What have you made of him so far? Yeah, and it's tough because I talked to him yesterday before the game. And the big thing he said was finding a way to swing at strikes. And he has done better with the strikeouts at this level than he had been. But I think the big thing for him is he just needs the experience. It's not that I don't care about the results, but I just think he needs to go through it. And last year when he got bumped up to double A toward the end of the season, he's going to get about the same amount of games here at the big leagues as he did a double A last year. And if you look at the numbers at double A in comparison to what you're seeing in the big leagues this year, they're kind of similar. It's like a 200 average, like a 700 OPS. It's nothing spectacular. Then he came back next, you know, this year after he struggled at double A, and he did really well. I think you can maybe have some sort of form like that. And so it's just about the process with him going through it for the first time. That's more so what I'm worried about. If it's something where he starts chasing a little bit more. And but I think he's contributed in a lot of different ways, not just at the plate, but defensively, I think he's been pretty good. You know, on the base path, he's been good. So I'm not really worried about the results at this point with him. I think you can see that he looks like a big leaguer, even though the results haven't been great to bias. Thank you, buddy. Absolutely. We'll see you pal. Hit that NFL center. There's our guy, Mike Jones of the athletic joins us to talk about the NFL. Mike, why were passing numbers so down in week one compared to years past? I think because a lot of these quarterbacks haven't been out there in game speed, throwing to their wide receivers. You know, this is kind of the trade off that we're getting from everybody trying to be careful, not wanting to check their quarterbacks to risk, you know, and not playing preseason action. In the old days, you know, they play a quarter, maybe a series in the first game, a couple series in a second. They play a whole half in the third and then watch everybody in the fourth. And then they're a little less rusty when the week one of the season comes. Now, basically, you're going out there. A lot of the starters have not played. And so that's why it's going to take a little bit of time for them to get their timing down, the rhythm down the flow of these offenses. So we'll come back here week four. Everybody will probably be clicking on high cylinders by then. Mike, pick one surprise positively and negatively of the team performances in week one that you think actually could be more than an anomaly and actually could be sustainable. A surprise as far as how badly they looked was the defense of the New York Jets. I figured Aaron Rodgers is going to be a little rusty. He hasn't played, you know, in the fourth snap, you know, that doesn't really count. But, you know, their defense, especially Robert Solly, going against Kyle Shanahan, who went against every day in San Francisco and every day when they were in Houston together, you thought their defense would be a little bit better. They were bad. And I think that that might not be just, you know, a week one thing. That could be a problem that would hurt them. As far as a team that played well, that surprised me, Sam Darnold and the Vikings. I really did not expect that he was going to look as good as you get. He did. Yes, he was going against the Giants. But everything that I had been hearing was that, oh, the year with Kyle Shanahan really has helped him, watching, learning from him and then Kevin O'Connell. And I didn't really believe it. But the way we saw him, he was decisive, he took care of the football. He made good throws. He was in a good rhythm. Maybe it just took almost kind of going back to school and learning things the right way for him. Again, it's early, but I'm intrigued to see how this plays out for him. So this is a similar question of what's been asked here, but just deep dive into it. Give me a team that lost in week one, where you came away saying, you know what, they're going to be just fine. The Cincinnati Bengals are going to be just fine even though they lost and the Baltimore Ravens, another team that lost and they're going to be just fine. Do you worry at all about that Bengals offense? I mean, this seems to be a thing that they do at the beginning of every year. Joe Burrow, just not healthy last year. Injury no one's come back from at the position. T Higgins and Jamar Chase have taken turns being salty. I don't know if you've seen those Higgins, excuse me, the Chase press conferences, but he seems like a deep amount content right now. The vibes are not good. Yeah, they're not good leading up to it. I mean, both those guys wanted to get paid handsomely and T Higgins had to settle for the franchise tag. Chase has not gotten his payday, but I think once they get into this, they're going to be locked in. It's going to take a couple of weeks again, you know, because they haven't been playing against together. They haven't been practicing together, but they always start slow, you know, and then all of a sudden they kick in. It's like it takes them a little while to get engaged. I'm not worried about them. I think they're going to be fine. As you go around the league here in week number one, what sort of data points are you looking at here, Mike, to go because here in some of your conclusions makes a lot of sense to me. Like if we gave a team some credibility coming into the season and they played poorly, okay, that's just week one, but there are surprises that happen in teams that kind of creep up on us every year. How do you determine whether, hey, this one is serious. These guys are in trouble and how do you determine, you know what, these guys will be fine. I try to not pass a whole lot of judgment until week four. Mike Shanahan always would say, you know, it takes a quarter of the season for a team to really find themselves. So I try not to make knee jerk reactions, but if you do see things that are like really bad, then, you know, I mean, dangerous trash, it's not going to get any better. Bryce Young and the Panthers, that's concerning for me, you know, but I also feel like, okay, I'm not going to get overly excited about the Saints because of who they were playing. So there's all these variables, who they're playing, who they're playing against and how they played that really make you kind of, you know, either pump your brakes or kind of give them pause and figure, okay, this is going to take a little time. Maybe they're not going to be world beaters, but you saw some good things like Will Levis with Tennessee, that first, you know, the way they started the game looked really good. One half, once the defense made adjustments, he looks pretty lost. Is he more of the second half or is he more of the first half? I don't know yet, but I think because of what he has around him, there's a chance for him to get better. So that's kind of how I try to look at it. Mike, one more quick one, Daniel Jones was really bad for the Giants in week one. How close to benchable do you view him as in a year? I know it's only one week as you're saying, but it's kind of a, he's got to work out for that front office. What's that leash look like for him from Dable? Well, I mean, I think it's a few weeks because Dable actually needs to win as well. So they went out, they got you locked. They didn't draft somebody, but if you have another week like this, maybe two more weeks like that, then you really have to start looking at this and saying, okay, we got to make a change because we want to be here next year and we know this guy is not going to be here next year. Mike, thank you as always, buddy. All right. See you guys. Hey man, hit that local 53 sounder, please. Liam Griffin joins us covers the team for the Worshing 10 times. Liam, it's almost in the rear view mirror. It's almost Giant's time, but one final look back at this past Sunday. What are your big takeaways from week one loss? Yeah. The big takeaway is quite simply a defense looked bad. They looked out of sorts. They didn't tackle well. There were miscommunication on the coverages and those are all things that the team said they addressed this week and they're looking to put that behind them. And then on the offense, you saw Jayden Daniels flash that incredible scrambling ability, but really an explosive offense where they were not able to push the ball downfield almost at all and almost all those first down conversions, any chunk play came from Jayden's legs. And so that's something they're going to look to going forward is, is the defense able to clean up those issues they saw in week one and is the offense able to find some chunk play and not just put everything on Jayden Daniels' shoulders. How will the defense clean up all their problems? It's something that I, we just got out of the locker room not long ago and that's something that I talked to a few of the guys about Jeremy Chin, he's the safety and in a Dan Quinn defense of the really pivotal role kind of floating through the middle of the field. He says that they all sat down and watched film together to talk about, all right, you should have had that leverage on the outside on that play. You should have flipped over here. So he says that they've been taking a really cooperative approach to cleaning up that communication in particular. Dan Quinn said the same thing. Tuesday is normally a player off day at the aspirin training facility, but he said when he came in there were already players just on their own in film rooms together, breaking stuff down, trying to get better and then tackling, that's something that you just got to practice. A lot of these guys, for example Bobby Wagner, I don't think we need to be concerned about Bobby Wagner's tackling ability, he missed a couple tackle on Sunday, but that guy's a future Hall of Famer, didn't play a ton in the preseason, that's like that, I believe we'll at least get cleaned up in the weeks coming forward. Liam, when did you start covering the team? February 1st, I started on the beat, the same day Dan Quinn got hired. Got you. Okay. So I love having you on. I hope you're willing to come on with this for years to come. You're going to get sick of this, okay? Over the last several years, I've sat here as this offense has sucked and I look at the fact that Tara McCorran doesn't get the ball and then someone else doesn't get the ball and I never stop asking you about until it's fixed. It's not your fault, Liam. I want you to know this. It's not your fault. But here we go. This is our first one together. So buckle up, many more to come. How can you go nearly three quarters and there are two touches between Austin Echler and Tara McCorran in a game that you're allegedly trying to win? What is going on? Who do I need to yell at? Now you're floor. Well, I think a lot of that can be traced back to the way that Cliff King's very calls an offense and the way that Jayden Daniels sees that offense and sees his receivers during a play. He's coming from a program at LSU where he was playing with first round receivers and a well protected offensive line and where guys were open, they were wide open. And so I think during Sunday's game, he could have had a few opportunities to push the ball downfield and he's still protective of the ball. He does not want to turn the ball over. He doesn't throw a lot of interceptions and you saw him instead, you scramble instead of trying to force that ball into a tight window, but Tara McCorran was a few inches away from that, you know, a deep bomb, 60 yards down the sideline. But that's the thing they're going to look to address is you can't just rely on your quarterback scrambling on undesired runs and a few screens here or there as your offense. I think it's got to be a Cliff King's very thing and where the NFL is the not for long league, you're going to have to see how he adjusts in the weeks going forward. Liam Griffin of the Washington Times with us covers the commanders. So Liam, what's your gut feel on week two and how much different it will look against the Giants? Well, you couldn't ask for a much better opponent for week two, given that the Giants have played an absolute egg against the Vikings. This is a get right game for both of those teams and it's also going to be the home opener. So you under perform on the road with a new regime, a whole new flock of players, they the biggest roster turnover in the league the commanders did. I think that the product on the field should at least look better on Sunday. Will it turn into a win? Maybe honestly, these two teams are kind of in similar positions with the amount of talent on their rosters, but the commanders have that home field advantage. I believe the commanders have a better quarterback and I think that the defense can't look that much worse than they looked on Sunday against the Bucks. I mean, name or two, in your opinion, for Washington, who has a big game? Who has a nice one that we're talking about on Monday? On the defense side of the ball, I think we're coming out of it and looking at Bobby Wagner and we're seeing that he is back to form where like, all right, this guy is not completely washed. He may be an elder statesman, but he still has something to contribute to the football team. I don't think we're going to see him miss tackles again. And on the opposite side of the ball, I think this could be a really big Brian Robinson game. The team loves him and they see him as one of the top two running backs in the league. He really didn't get a chance to show it as much on Sunday against the Buccaneers. And so I think we could come out of the Giants game saying, all right, Brian Robinson is the real deal. Liam, great as always, man. We appreciate you. Thank you. No problem. Thank you guys. That is your beltway blitz on Grant and Danny. We do it every day right at four o'clock. Remember last year at this time, we already knew that they had sold out this game. In fact, they sold out all of their home games and we found out well over a week before most of those games. And it was eight days out from the opener that they had sold out last year. That has not happened yet to my knowledge. We've not seen that announcement. What does that mean? I want to get into that next on Grant and Danny. [BLANK_AUDIO] In about a half hour, right at five o'clock, we'll blitz the NFC East and spin you around the division catch up with the Giants they were bad, the Cowboys, they were good. And the Eagles, they weren't very good and still one coming out of week one, going into week two. We'll take a look at the schedules within the East. But right now on Grant and Danny, I don't know if the commanders are going to sell out week one or not. My guess is they probably will. In fact, I texted someone today and they said that they thought they were closing in on a sellout, but they didn't really have any more details. And I didn't bother digging a whole lot more than that. So I'll wear it if we find out that they've already sold out. But here's what I know, last year Danny, eight days before the season opener, they put out a graphic on Twitter and Instagram and they put out a press release to let everybody know they'd sold their home game out. And I'm not knocking that. I thought that was an awesome good thing. >> Yeah. >> Especially because the Arizona Cardinals were the opponent in week one and Arizona's fan base doesn't travel. So what we got in the first ever game of the Josh Harris era after he'd bought the team right before training camp was a very rare and a thoroughly enjoyable win over Arizona number one. But number two, a game where the stadium was full of mostly commanders fans, which almost never happens fast forward to this year. I understand that it's now been a year of the new ownership group and it's not the reactionary first month or two after Dan Snyder sold, but you now have a main event and a main attraction in the number two overall pick quarterback, Jaden Daniels. Last year you had a second year fifth round pick who had played a couple of quarters worth of football and nobody knew if he was any good and they sold out. And what you and I've been saying a lot, what I was kind of clamoring for with more interest and more excitement and more juice for the season was it does not seem like there's a whole lot of momentum going into the year here. I feel like this is somewhat evidence of that. No, like is this discouraging or alarming in some way? Like, what do we think of that that a year ago, eight days before the opener, we already knew they sold out and here we are a couple of days out and the assumption is that they haven't yet because they haven't announced it. Well, it wasn't just this week, remember, this is, you know, weeks in advance. I mean, I remember I was just going back and looking during the break, you know, the week 13 game against the dolphins is sold out and, you know, this number of weeks in advance, we sold out. Thank you, fans. It's a great puff, your chest out thing. It's a great validation for all the folks working so hard in the business office. It's great for fans to feel good about it because when you're buying into something, you want to know that you're not going to be the only guy sitting in the intersection like the famous photo with our buddy tailgate Ted, you know, like when you're down 50 points and it's just him and some tumbleweed. You want to know that other people are into you want to feel good about it. So it's, it's a nice validating thing. But the flip side is to your point, we've kind of experienced this in, you know, it's hard and hard to quantify type ways, right? Whether it's the energy or the juice or whatever word you want to use for it. We've sort of felt this on our side. There's just not the same level of excitement and trying to quantify why I think is a fascinating discussion. There's a little bit of everything to it. The same way on a negative side for so many years, why don't you fill in the blank person go to FedEx field anymore? And everyone has their story of the thing that was just too much for them. And they said, you know what? Screw it. I'm not going. And the attendance all of a sudden went from top, whatever in the league to down at the bottom. And it happened. There was a moment, right? Everyone had their own experience, but it added up to enough indignities and enough. You know what? I'm not doing this anymore is that the numbers finally dropped flip side here. We're talking about reasons for excitement, typically in an NFL city. You draft the number two overall player, a Heisman trophy winning quarterback that's electric and exciting, and is also a great dude by all accounts, right, who just does everything right all the time and has a billion dollar smile. By the way, it's the first chance the fan base will get to see him. Yeah. He did not play in the only preseason game in Landover, Maryland, because that was preseason game three when God forbid they would have played some players because as you could see this past weekend, they didn't need any more work. So they decided not to play him in the home game so that the other two games were on the road when he did play. So it's the first chance people get to go see him. I just, you know, you add in the fact that you know a lot of Giants fans are coming to the game as bad as they played. You normally grab these tickets in advance or if you're in this area and there are lots of people from New York, lots of Giants fans who are, it's your annual chance. Last year, you sold out with very little help from the visiting fan base. This year, you're getting a lot more help, presumably from the visiting fan base. That's a reasonable thought, I would say, and you still haven't sold out. So how many different or fewer single game tickets are being sold for game number one? Now I was in Josh Harris's press conference a few weeks ago over at the stadium before the only pre-season game at home. And I know that he mentioned that season ticket sales were up 30% year over year. So from last year to this year, season tickets are up, which is a great thing. And that's a good sign and I'm happy and I'm glad about that. But I think this is a different conversation than that. This is a, hey, it's a beautiful weather. The commanders are home this weekend. It's the first time we get to see them. And last year, with a new ownership group, tens of thousands of people said, I'm going to go. And it seems like that number this year is way smaller. It has dwindled. Yeah. I don't know. Give the, the godsend that should be the savior, so to speak, I'm using air quotes. But like, I oversight this story that Liz Parker years ago, but, you know, if you're a reeling sports organization, NFL team, what can you do? You hire a, like a hero coach, like a Jim Harbaugh type that everyone says, we'll change everything and you put him on a pedestal, or you go get a new quarterback high in the draft. That was basically the, the research had showed those were the two things for business to boom. And they basically did one and a half of those. I mean, I, I wouldn't put Dan Quinn in that category, but they have a new coach. They have a new GM. They have a new quarterback, openers in a few days, hopefully we get the email any minute now. And I, I think it will be sold out. In fact, I'm, I can't say I'm positive, but I would be shocked if it isn't, but my point is we're, we're behind last year's schedule, pretty considerate and that part's indisputable. Right. So, and again, this, we're not criticizing anybody. I don't want to speak for you. I'm certainly not. I'm not upset with anyone. Who is there to criticize? Right. I'm not, not going to anybody's people will take this as being a negative. I'm asking, is this a thing or like more than anything else, I guess Danny to just, I'll shut up on this. I'm saying, isn't this evidence that our speculation was correct? And that's where I'm going is that we have felt this and we've communicated that to you guys and, and, you know, just, hey, this is the feeling and it's hard to put a number on and there's still no number directly, but here's what we've got. Well in advance last year, the home games were sold out and they told you so you haven't seen that communication yet. Have you? And if you have let us know because it probably slipped by a radar, but I haven't seen it. And that's, that right there is a more firm data point than you and I being like, man, people aren't really seeing you that excited or calling in about Jane Daniels to the same degree that you would have thought. Now, I know it's not going to be 12 years ago. That's impossible where you were up until six o'clock in the morning with Pete Metters taking calls on just the trade to go get Griffin, not even Griffin himself, you know, doing an overnight situation. We're never going to get there again. I don't think that's realistic to expect. But this is a, just to sort of be stated, a firmer data point that kind of goes, people aren't quite as excited or ginned up. Maybe as they were in the past. I think there are reasons for that. I think the finality and the exhale and the, oh my God, it's not Dan Snyder. Where do I put my money? Let me, let me do something to commiserate and be so joyful. We've had a year of that where it's still not Dan. I'm still in a honeymoon phase where a big picture, I'm thrilled, eventually we'll get out of that. But I don't think people have that run around with their hair on fire. I've got to do something to show it. Well, I want to cut one idea off maybe before it gets started too, which is if someone's going to say, well, last year it was week one, so we hadn't seen them play. And this year it's week two and they just played and it was terrible. So I'm less excited to buy a ticket because last year, I'm just read the story on pro football talk. The announcement was made over a week before the game. Exactly. So my point is last year the game was sold out before they even kicked off against the Bucks as it pertains to this season. Now I think it is reasonable to ask the question though, if you watched that game and you were thinking about going to week two, does any part of you feel less inclined to do so? I would say personally, I would still go to this game because the Giants are a lot worse because it's the first time I'll see the team all season because I've never seen Jaden Daniels in person. If I'm a fan of this team who didn't travel for the preseason, didn't get to go to training camp practices or whatever. So I think I would probably still go, but it's a lot of money. You're talking about committing an entire day. When my wife goes as a season ticket holder and I'm at the game for work, like that's babysitters. A lot of people have to hire babysitter. That's more money. You're leaving your house at nine in the morning for your tailgate. You're not getting home until four thirty. There's a huge commitment and there are probably people, Danny, who were on the fence thinking, yeah, I'll probably buy a ticket and then you watch them play against the Bucks and you're just not as excited. I'm not doing that. Yeah. I think that's reasonable. I do too. But again, the difference is quantifiable and you already said it. Last year they didn't need a sample. Last year without Jayden Daniels and with with fifth round Freddy Sam Howl, who Ron Rivera just sort of discovered might be able to do it. That's still the thing I cannot get my head around is that there were more vocal, loud people excited about Sam Howl last year than there are for Jayden Daniels, which is just laughable to me in our little sphere of the world that we see for commanders nation. I don't know what the numbers would be on a social media study on Twitter or anything. But the people that engage with us, it was, everyone can tell me I'm crazy. I mean, the proof's kind of been in the pudding every step of the way here. And I think the ticket thing going into game one is a tell. It is. And I just, I, this is partly, again, we're trying to figure this in a macro level, but all we can do is look through our own sort of micro experiences. If that makes sense to try to apply it to something larger and here's what I mean. I for one as a, as a fan, say lifelong fan, I don't know when I reached my ultimate breaking point where I just stopped having the ability to believe probably was during the Shanahan time where an adult couldn't fix it still and there was not that meant to me that nothing that ever could. But just beyond that, even with this new group and they don't have all the baggage that I have and I understand that they're just doing their best. But some of the promising and some of the, this is different, this is different, this is different. And then having it not be is deflating. So now when you promise me, I don't believe you anymore. That's, that's, that's the risk of promising too much and not delivering. You meant well, and I don't even mean just with regards to week one. It's just the kind of this sort of continuation of we're selling you guys on this. Wait till you see this. I've been sold the this by a bunch of different people, a bunch of different times and lost and been embarrassed. So I don't believe you yet. People wasted their good this on Rivera and I wasted your good surprise on the last time. Let's go to George in Fredericksburg. What's up, George? What's up, boys? First and foremost, great conversation. I'm loving that we're having it because it definitely is a macro discussion. Yeah. I think it's a culmination of a lot of things and I think you guys have touched on a lot of them. First off, comparison to Robert Griffin, you're talking about branding, Redskins versus commanders. I think that's a big factor it is. I think the novelty last year was it wasn't really Sam Howe, it was we don't have Dan anymore and that's why people came back and now, you know, that people are kind of over that and it's like, okay, now I want to see change more than that. I want to see different on the field. I want to get out of this dump that's a stadium. And then as a common man, like who doesn't have season tickets, like if I want to have an experience that's better than TV, my family of five, I'm looking at probably 12 hundred bucks. Yeah. 12 hundreds a ton. I mean, is that about right, you think? When you add it all up? That's not crazy. It seems like a lot because you get tickets for what a little over a hundred bucks. Where's the other side? I mean, really, it's not worth picking nits on the number. It's a lot of money. There's no doubt. I mean, if it's a family of five, we're talking about, I would have said like 800 or so. Yeah, I don't know how exactly it had crazy amount of money, but I don't know how exactly it happened. But I'll just tell you this. When I took my six year old to a Nat's game, I somehow spent a hundred and fifty dollars. Yeah. And I got a credential. I'll tell you how. Oh, did you go home with your credential? I did. But just to, I was like, I'll save a little money. And but I got him a ticket. I still somehow spent a hundred fifty dollars. First of all, that's hilarious. Yeah. But you did that. That's really funny. Because I knew I knew it was going to be spending a ton. That was a two, a kid's eat free day, somehow I spent an hour, like you can't stop. Well, every day is a kid's eat free day there. Yeah. Because all you got to do is go to section 114. There's a bunch of them. But we didn't like the look of that hot dog or something, brown bag. We didn't want that juice box, whatever the hell the reason was. And I went to dip and dots 11 times and I hate dip and dots. I hope it closes. I didn't mean that. I didn't mean that. That was too far. I'm sorry, dip and done. This point is true. It probably had way less to do with how and just everyone wanted to celebrate last year, which is fine. I guess my point is like the proof is here, right? We have not heard you think they would have sold out and not told us they don't want to get the word out. Yeah. 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I think it's a really good way to look at it. Darius, would you mind looking up the forecast for us and see what you got? Because we heard when this group took over. I mean, you were allowed some transparency. Obviously, you're spending six plus billion dollars. You're allowed to look at a few things. But once they actually arrived, it was like one of those, um, I forget what the name of the show is, but it's where people have storage units that are vacated and like you get like five seconds to look inside and then you go, okay, I'm either going to bid on or not. Whatever storage wars and the show is. And I think once they got inside the storage unit, they went, oh, sweet Christ. Yeah. Oh my God. This is so terrible. We didn't know. We knew it was bad, but we didn't know it was this bad. I mean, that's the owners with the books. Yeah. There's the way. There's one evidence of that. Then now we're outside looking in going, hey, what is it in there? And they're going, no, I don't look now. We're cleaning. We now know it's probably worse than we thought. Let's go to Tony who's in Woodbridge on GND. What's up, Tony? How's it going guys? We're telling. So I actually bought tickets before the season started for my birthday for the Giants game. And I was talking to my fiance, I said, you know, maybe we should just sell these tickets so we can have a couple extra books in our pocket so we can spend something else on our birthday. And we asked about like five people and nobody wants them. So I guess we have to go to the home opener and enjoy the game, buddy. That's a layer. First of all, did you think you were going to make a profit or something? Well, I mean, at least get my money back, you know, I threw in a parking pass for free, you know, two tickets. So did you buy, did you buy them on the like team website or was it secondary market? We bought them on the secondary market. I think they were like 160 a ticket. Oh, that's that is a little steep. All right. And that's lower level. I'm guessing. Yes. So that's the thing. I almost always buy higher, especially now there's no high seats in that stadium. So the higher up, the cheaper and the views not bad. All right. So 320 bucks for you guys and then the parking pass was how much? 70. All right. So were you listening? Were you trying to sell them for like 390? Actually, I was going to give them a deal to get 300 flat, but nobody wants them. Poor guy. Sorry, dude. But enjoy the game though. Have fun. Oh, what's your what's your what's your Twitter account in case someone's listening? And wants to make a deal at T J R D Q. There's a lot of letters there T J R D Q. All right. Well, good luck, man. Happy birthday. He can't get rid of him. This guy. I feel bad for him. Tim's in Gainesville. What's up, Tim? What's up, guys? I just want to say like I don't think it's not worth the time to sit two hours round trip. Like for me, for example, to get there, it would take two hours round trip. And then on top of the traffic, just getting in and out three hours sitting and watching an abysmal product, it's not worth the time. I don't blame anybody for not wanting to go. It's just not worth it anymore. Yeah. So we're to be clear and maybe it sounds like we are my goal is not to blame anybody as much as to point out and juxtapose one year ago to now with Nubby Sam how versus the Heisman Trophy winner in his first ever game at that stadium. And everyone was pretty jacked up. And now this year so far, five days closer to kickoff, still no sellout. We can get back to this. Got to blitz the East next with some of the reporters who cover the other teams in the division. Some good football content coming your way in moments on Grant and Danny. [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] Grant and Danny live all over DC on 106-7 and enrichment on 105-1 and AM-9-10. 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Did you guys think they were near in the finish line? >> We got conflicting reports all week, right? We kept hearing, "Well, it's going to happen before." And then we heard others saying, "No, it's not going to happen." As it got closer, we started to hear that it was like, "We kind of don't think it's getting really, really close. They're not going to do it." And then I got a text on Sunday morning from one of the Cowboys, one of their big sweet holders and everything. And they said that they had seen some higher ups that weekend. And they got the impression that it was going to happen. So yeah, it definitely caught us by surprise that it happened that morning. >> Want to get to Dak here in a second, RJ, but one of the talking points I remember coming out of Dallas after Dan Quinn and Joe Whit left was, "What's going to happen to the defense through one week? Not much. That group looked awesome on Sunday. What are your thoughts?" >> You know, we're trying to figure out if it was the defense, or just Sean Watson just doesn't know how to play football anymore because that's like, that's a major part of it because, you know, he looked, he reminded me of a backup quarterback, a third strength quarterback. Like, you ever know when a backup comes in, the first thing they do is not throw the football, it's lead the pocket. And that was the first thing he did. It's like he just forgot the progressions, he forgot what he was doing. And that's the one hesitation that I have about this weekend's game and the performances. Were they playing the Browns with Sean? Do they make the Sean look bad and then look bad, or was it the Sean Watson that made the Browns look bad and the defense look great? That's the only hang up I had after this first week. >> But to kind of drill down on Danny's point, you can imagine why we're curious with Dan Quinn and Joe Whit here, that they're supposedly these big defensive whispers. And I'm watching now, and it's all the shouty shows one day after, but they're going, man, Mike Zimmer did some things we haven't seen. Look at this double A mug in the A gap and Dan Quinn's never this aggressive and maybe, you know, the players made Dan Quinn better, but Mike Zimmer's going to be the man and I'm going, oh boy, well, I mean, you know, Dan Quinn mowed the A gap a lot too when he was, I mean, Mike, I did that his first year, second year, he did that quite a bit. So they definitely had that, but you know, the defense said, look, you know, they did some unique things. It's a different style. You know, Dan's defense was, you know, was more aggressive in the, in the secondary. And Zimmer's defense made me a little bit more aggressive with the front and how they do things. So it's different. I mean, Dan's a good defensive coordinator, really, really good. As a head coach, I don't know, you know, the people in Atlanta called him Sergeant Slogan when he was the head coach there, I don't know how he is as a head coach because, you know, I didn't cover him as one, but I mean, he's a hell of a defensive mind. Sergeant Slogan is a 10. I haven't heard that. The one, my buddy, I have a buddy in Atlanta that does radio there. And he always texts me and he goes, how's coach bro doing? Because, you know, he's just got the backwards hat and he's one of the guys, but Sergeant Slogan's pretty funny. Look at the coach, bro, is it, is it coach bro, Kingsbury? That's the staff right now, yeah, a couple of those actually. Yeah. Like he's, he's dude, bro. No, he knows a cool way to open six peers at once with his elbow or something. The offense, you guys didn't have to do very much Dallas did in week number one. So you didn't really get to see the full gauntlet, but what did you make of it through a one week? Honestly, I thought the running game was a little better than I expected it was going to be Zeke looked, look, Spry for a late late 20s running back, you know, they didn't offer up much of the second half. I don't know if they were trying to do things or Cleveland started to do some stuff. The Cowboys second half offense was not great, you know, but then they get a special team touched down from, from Turpin, Lam missed almost all of training camp. He saw I you in their game was San Fran, you know, he didn't have the greatest game, land did not have the greatest game. And I think that, you know, a lot of that is the missing of camp. They'll be fine. It's a good offense. They are breaking in two rookies on the offensive line, something to keep an eye on, and that was definitely a fear with Miles Garrett. But he did not have like an electric type game, you know, Mike had a better game than he did. Saints on Sunday at one. I wouldn't have said this before week one, but I'm excited for that to see what New Orleans really is. That was two of the more impressive teams in the first weekend. It really is. And that's kind of the similar situation, you know, how much of it was New Orleans versus Carolina? It's just that bad. I don't know. I mean, I like Derek Carr, but Derek Carr, I know what he is. He's a bottom, he's a, you know, 16 to 22 ranked quarterback in the NFL, right? So you're going to be, you'll get a consistent halfway decent quarterback who is going to put up 47 points, probably again, the rest of the year. RJ, thank you as always, buddy. Be well. You too, guys. Have a look at what we'll see, man. Hit that Eagle sound, or dearest. John McMellan covers the Eagles as the Eagles insider for SI. John, it was a while ago, it seems he was like a month ago. He played on Friday night, but everybody's back safe and sound. What's the big takeaway here from the Eagles week one win? Yeah. Well, I think the big takeaway is they got the win against another potential NFC contender. So if you look down the road, you know, we'll see how long Jordan Love is out, but it's a pack. There's could have been relevant. They could have stole that game, but that is technically a home game from Philadelphia. It could have been trouble, very sloppy game, poor field conditions as everyone saw. So I'm not sure how much you can take out of it from the evaluation standpoint, but they got the win and 4-0 under Nick Siriani and season openers. So they seem to find a way to win those week one games. A lot of sloppy play though, especially from jail and hurts. Yeah. And that's where I want to go, John. Am I off base? I tweeted something after the game to the effect of, if I was an Eagles fan, you survive the advance. You get a win. That's all that matters. Right. But that would not feel good. I mean, to me, coming into the season, my entire outlook on Philly is does Jalen Hurts bounce back to two years ago, because I thought he was incredible top five two years ago. And I thought he stunked for a lot of last year. And the two interceptions that he threw in this game were awful. I mean, if Jayden Daniels threw them this past weekend as a debuting rookie, they would have been gross. Like they were as bad as you can throw. Yeah, they were. And really there were four turnover worthy throws. The play before the interception in the end zone should have been a pick six. And Jason Nixon couldn't come up with it. There was another play where Jair Alexander would have had an interception unless AJ Brown turned into a defensive back, and he was able to do that and keep that from going the other way. You know, I tweeted out PFS, Pro Football Focus, graded Jalen Hurts as the 32, number 32 out of 32 quarterback. And there was some bad quarterback play this weekend, and they rated him dead last because of all those turnover worthy throws. And it was his worst, according to them, his worst game as a starting quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles. So a lot of Eagles fans got very upset when I tweeted that out. It's not my film grade, it's their film grade. And I don't necessarily agree with it, because at least Jalen Hurts was able to make some positive plays in some of these other quarterbacks were not, but you shouldn't jump on the sword. He played poorly, very poorly. And if that continues, the success will not continue. So John, I know that's not a region of the world known for its overwhelming positivity. But if I were an Eagles fan, I would go as sloppy as that was as weird as all that was scored 34 points against a playoff team. You know what I mean? Like there's a, there's still a lot to build on there. And most specifically, I imagine a couple of folks would like to send flower bouquets or baskets to John Mara and Joe Shane. Yeah, they do. And Saquon, you know, I think it's one of those situations where, you know, it's not a vacuum. And to me, Saquon's a very good fit for the Eagles to say, have all these other playmakers, they can take advantage of it. And that doesn't mean he would have been a good fit for the New York Giants. Well, I say that the natural thing to do is look out of the, you know, Saquon has three touchdowns. They score six points. I don't think Brian Dable and Joe Shane are going to survive that. But he's a great fit for Philadelphia does not mean he would have been a great fit for the New York Giants. They've already been trying that for six years. The Eagles have the ready-made playmakers, his wheel route touchdown, perfect example to that, they ran two in breaking routes from AJ Brown to Monte Smith, sort of mirror that took half of the back seven away from the wheel route and it was one on one. Saquon Barker with a linebacker, that's something the Eagles can do can accomplish with Kellen Moore. New York Giants can do that building their foundation on Saquon Barker Monday night footballs next up for Philly. They're at home first time this season, technically, I guess, home game to hosting the Atlanta Falcons. Atlanta, as you know, got off to a really ugly start. Her cousins look like he wasn't using that back foot. They weren't having him drop back from under center coming off the Achilles. What's the outlook for the Eagles in this matchup? Do you think? Yeah, I'm very interested to see if the Eagles can get the pass rush going. That's one of those things. Green Bay as well and they also field conditions and Sam Paolo. Nobody could get off their footing, nobody could rush the passer with any consistency on both teams. So I want to see the Eagles if they can get that going. As you mentioned, Kirk doesn't clearly not healthy. I think, you know, he tore that ACL late October last year. So they didn't even put them in a lot of play action situations. That's what Kirk doesn't does. So I'm not sure what Atlanta's plan is, but obviously him in the pistol is not a good idea. But the Eagles got to show they can rush the passer without Hassan Redick. I'd give him kind of a mulligan again because of those field conditions, but they got to they got to start proving it against what's going to be a stationary target and Kirk doesn't. John. Thank you as always, buddy. Have a great week. Thank you. See you, my friend. Our guy, Chris Pizzignano, the giant insider, @giantinsider on the old Twitterverse. Chris, I feel like it's that Spiderman meme where the Giants and Washington are pointing at each other for who's going to finish bottom of the division after week one. What are your thoughts? Well, I'm not going to argue that after week one, right? That's what it seems like. I put it, you know, see, but yeah, look, both teams, not a good start really ugly here in New York with the Giants, you know, the other university, the legends in the building and all that. And then the Giants come out and lay and ache. So really ugly around here. I know Washington things didn't go to their way over there in Tampa. So an interesting match up Sunday. How bad was the Daniel Jones outing and how early is it to start talking about his job security? Well, I don't think it's early at all. How bad was it? Well, it was pretty bad Sunday. He misthrows two bad interceptions, one pick six by Andrew Van Ginkle that he sniffed out all the way on that play. So look, he didn't get the team in the end zone. It was not pretty. No question about it. And I tell you, Matt, you know, if he comes out and he looks really bad in the first half of Washington or maybe the second or early second half, whatever it might be, I think you could see you lock this week. I really do. I don't think Gable is going to wait around much longer because it was not pretty last week. And you know, you don't want to stay too long because they just all look alike. You're incompetent as a head coach, keeping a guy in the game that just is totally and completely mentally shot right now. So no, I don't think it's too early to start talking about that. Chris, how was the defense in week one? This is my biggest area of concern over the last, you know, 12 matchups for the Giants have just dominated, you know, this rivalry here defensively. I'm especially worried about pass rush, but how did that defense grid out in week one to you? I'm just okay. Not bad. Not great. They didn't get to the quarterback. And obviously that's, you know, why they went out and drafted, excuse me, traded for Brian Burns. So look, they have to improve in that. For some reason in the cycle, I have a guy like Thibodeau and all the guy I see those red skin. Listen to me. See those commander uniforms, you know, and seem to elevate the game like Thibodeau's best games in his career of being against Washington, but no, it's a new system too. We've got to keep that in mind. Shame Bowman is not nearly as aggressive as Link Bond now was. Some guys getting used to that a lot more zone, but look it did not, they were not good against the one the last two years. They were pretty good in the first half that Aaron Jones started getting them a little bit in the fourth quarter. So I would grade out. I can build a pack like a sea type grade. I would give them and they're hoping to improve in that this week. Where are they weakest and most susceptible just generally like if Washington ends up looking great and winning going away? How'd they take advantage of it? On the back end, fellas. The giant secretary is that's their weak spot. No question about it. I gave up two touchdowns last week. Look, it was a huge question mark going into training camp and it's still a huge question mark. That's their weak spot. No question about it. What about when the Giants have the ball? What's their weak spot when they have the ball? Yeah. Daniel Jones. Look, it's a revamped offensive line that had submissions up front a little bit, but they didn't play that fan last week. Not great. Not very good, I should say, but not bad either. There was times Daniel had time in the park and he just didn't execute. But you look at this offensive line and I think it will get better as we move along because they really didn't play together at all or some of these injuries. The receiver room is a strength of the offense and they couldn't really do anything last week. But right now you're asking me, like you said, what do you think's the weak wall right now? That's not very Daniel Jones. What's been your pressure in Malik neighbors so far? One of our favorite guys in the draft. Well, he's been dynamic on day one. You know, he's got to learn some things. No question about it, but the kid is dynamic, man. He's special. He is guys. He really is. But you know, you're going to have to get him the ball. You know, you're going to have to get him. He's going to, look, he's going to have to learn a lot of things like Ryan Fore has really cool behind class, but he came out and played a lot of soft shell on them. And they were expecting those heavy blitzes that Brian is known for. So Malik at times has got to recognize, you know, this is a recognized defense. People want to see him to see what the D's doing and then run, you know, and react to what they're doing. Malik at times has some problems with that. He's going to learn both physical wise and he goes up. He gets it. Contested catches. He's dynamic on the nine routes, the verticals and all that stuff. He's going to be, he should be a special one. And of course, we also need a guy that could get in the damn pool to ourselves. We appreciate the insight on the Giants as always. Thank you so much. All right, folks. Good luck. Sunday. We'll talk soon. See, but thank you. Same to you. That's Chris Bignano, the Giants insider with us on Grant and Danny. I've got a thought on a big NFL storyline from the weekend that I think is unpopular. And I actually want to just bounce it off you, Danny and see where you're at. Normally, I got a pretty good beat on how you're going to go. It's 50/50 for me. Ooh, I like it. If you'd agree with me or disagree with me and I know mystery, I'm in the minority, I think, among the masses. Let's get to that next on GND. [BLANK_AUDIO] With Danny, I'm Grant. This is the fan. Thanks much for listening to the show. Welcome back. We'll take you up to 6.15 and that's pre-game tonight. We were just talking as we spanned the division there, tackled the East about the Giants and the struggles of Daniel Jones who was awful. I don't care if it's Daniel Jones, Jaden Daniels or anybody else. It has nothing to do with the person in question here, but I think I have an unpopular opinion I want to see where Danny's at on this. So did you see the video of Daniel Jones leaving the locker room and walking out to his car via what is like a roped off area for players to exit MetLife Stadium? I've not seen that. No. Okay. So he's leaving MetLife Stadium and he gets hassled by a bunch of Giants fans. They are screaming and booing and yelling that they want their millions. And the video that I've got here is not necessarily the worst of it from some of the other clips that have come out where people are yelling at him and screaming and booing and telling him to go home and all this stuff. But this will be a little sample of it. So he's walking out is like fresh out of the shower. He's got his little duffel bag, whatever, and he's got to walk in this kind of area where you can lean over railings to sign autographs or some kids with some footballs or whatever, go into his car and I tweeted out that video and I did my version of this ain't it. Okay, which is to say, I think this is ridiculous. Now, I am all four people doing whatever they want with the money that they spend in the stadium. I've never been a boo guy. I'll never boo my own guys. It's just, I think it's childish and ridiculous. I think if you're a grown up booing, it's weird, but that's my own thing. I'm not telling you how to do your thing. You do your thing. So if you want to boo Daniel Jones and say you suck when he comes to the sideline scream at him that he's a loser and he'll never be good in the middle of the game at the stadium. Fine. When you're now the game's ended, you're outside the stadium and you see him walking to his car. To me, it's no longer time to do the screaming, you know, you're the worst, go home, all this other stuff. It's the equivalent to me. We're now in public. Couple of people said, well, you're still on the property. I think our buddy Guyla was like team property. It's not like it's a grocery store. I view it a lot more like a grocery store, actually, if I'm drawing the line there where the game is the game, the stadiums, the stadium, he's in uniform. He's got his helmet on, boom, say whatever you want. He's football robot guy. You get to yell. You get to hassle. Again, not my style, but we see it everywhere and visiting players, home players, yelling things. Some players take it better than others, obviously. But no harm, no foul. I don't think in the kind of in the battle, so to speak, outside of that is a whole different ball game. I'm reminded of a Dave Chappelle anecdote from one of his great comedy sketches and sets on Netflix. And I don't remember if it was sticks and stones or which one it was, but Chappelle who I love told this long story about how he was at a mall and it's, he keeps turning around and there's a woman behind him and he's like waiting for her to come up and he can tell. She's like 10, 12 feet following him. He's in this store. She's there. He's in the next store. She's there. He's now into the parking lot and he said, I'm finally getting into my car and she's still about 15 feet away and she's following me looking at me and he says, I put my bags in my car and I finally look up at her and I go, yes, can I help you? And she starts complaining how much she hates one of his jokes and how dare you. I know who you are, David Chappelle, you know, and you said this and it's terrible, whatever. And he said to her and I won't use the curse word that he uses, but keep it in the comments. This is real life. And I think that's so correct and it is totally relatable here to me. If you see Daniel Jones at a grocery store or at church or, you know, walk in his dog or whatever, to go up and tell him, Hey man, you suck. That's a grow up moment for me. I mean, that's a little bit of a get a job moment there as far as I'm concerned. I don't know where you at on this because I seem to be in the minority. A lot of people essentially were like, absolutely, that's there's nothing wrong with this. Fans should yell whatever they want at Daniel Jones. He was a terrible player and played a terrible game. Yeah, in public. So to me at the stadium is not in public. I guess that's where we'll disagree. Like if he's eating dinner, if he's, you know, hanging out with his, with his kid at the playground or, you know, go to the grocery store and you come up to him and scream at him. You're, you're an idiot. You're a jackass. You know what I mean? Like, please agree with me, but disagree that walking in the parking lot after the game is public. Yeah. That's still, that's still the place where I paid for my ticket. I'm not just at the parking lot because I'm at the parking lot. Like I've paid. I'm here. This is the sports venue still to me. So again, I think it's a little bit weird to do that, but I don't prefer somebody at all. Like if Daniel Jones would not like any of the treatment or any of the people paying attention to him, don't take the contract, go live in the Adirondacks. You know, like to me, it's, it's, it's not necessarily the best thing, but it's part and parcel with you want to be an NFL quarterback and make 40 million bucks a year. There's going to be some negative. You don't perform. Totally. And I think he knows that probably as well as most and deals with it. These quarterbacks get called all kinds of names and said terrible things are said about them. And he's not complaining about it. You know, if anything, I think he handles it well. Oh sure. He does. Yeah. Um, I'm bringing it up just because it's something, you know, while I don't think he took any issue with it, it seems weird to me, but it sounds like you then agree with me that people, if they see him out and about should not act this way, you're saying walking out of the stadium to his car is not a bridge too far for you. Right. 100%. So again, it's the, like you saw this for a while where it was like, it was okay for people like living their lives, mining their business because they have a policy that I don't like or something, I get to scream at you in public and ruin your time. Wrong. That's ridiculous to me. Okay. So like there's, so that that's a decorum thing. Right. Like away from the venue, from the place where you don't like what this person's doing, please stop running up to people and throwing paint on the room in their time. So but at the sports venue to me, that's, that's like the venue is in the stadium to me. The venue is where the game is played, where he's wearing his uniform. He's at work. He's now Mr. New York giant quarterback, do whatever the hell you want. If he's walking out of the stadium in the third quarter, still in his helmet and pads and you want to follow him to his car, maybe I'll, I'll write you a waiver for that too. But the game is now over. Like to me, the equivalent is, um, if we're sitting at a remote and someone comes up to us, and this happens all the time by the way, and we're just, we're sitting there and someone comes up and goes, you guys talk too much about whatever. Um, very weird in our, like, what do I do now, you know, and I'm like, Oh, well, I'm okay. I appreciate the feedback or whatever. And you know, normal people with normal social graces will like say that this is awkward. I'm going to say bye now, but sometimes people keep going and like, yeah, why do you guys do that? And you know what you should talk about or like, you know, whatever, it's like a whole part of it. I understand. Yeah. But if we're sitting there on the air and we're at the event or whatever, but when someone and this has happened to, I'm going to my car and like comes up to me and starts badgering me about, dude, why did you say that about that? Like, what, what was the point of that? And I'm going to be friendly and just the choice that I've made is we need listeners to want to listen to us and I'm a people pleaser anyway. So I'm going to sit there and kind of wear it and try to be amicable. But like that happens too. And I always think that's really, really weird or like occasionally, most of the time you could tell if somebody doesn't like you because they're like, Hey, are you Grant Paulson? Are you Danny or whatever? And I'm like, yeah. And then they don't say anything. Or they just go, I thought so. Like, Oh, okay. And it's like, okay. That guy probably isn't a big fan. That's fine. But every now and then I'm in a movie theater or whatever and someone's like, Hey, man, you guys drive me crazy. And I'm like, okay, thanks for listening, I guess. Like my point is like to me, he's not when he's out of the stadium, it's over. You're yelling, you're screaming your that's you're sitting in the stadium. Yes. Out of the stadium. We're adults now. What if I guess you feel the same way and he shouldn't do this and he doesn't because he's not an idiot. But like what if he's got his kids with him? He's holding two kids. He's got Truman and Reagan in his hands and he's like walking to his car. You feel the same exact way? Everyone berating him if it's at the stadium, it's, it's much closer to being okay to me. I mean, again, I don't, I wouldn't approve of it. I would tell someone doing that like, dude, he's got his kids. Like relax with that. But like, if I'm leaving that spark and I'm just past the center field gate, the instant I pass through this threshold, it's not some sort of magical cone of silence. You know what I mean? Like we're at, we're in stadium. It's worse. We're doing stadium. Simple. Most of the nats live in the Navy are. So you're booing Jesse Winker after his big strike out in the eighth. Then you go over to Walters and now you're walking back to your car and you see him right out by a center field gate, walk into his, his place in Kota and you're 10 feet from center field gate. Where are we at on the gray area? It's closer. Yeah. But it's gray. It's not like there's no hard line to me. Everything is still I'm at the stadium. Or stadium extended grounds. Like I've been parking lot C for some reason and the players there again, I'm not doing this, but I understand that like I've left my home. I'm at the destination. I'm at a different part of the destination. Like if I'm hanging up by the players parking lot, you know, on the, on the south side and that's park. Again, don't do this. This is creepy and weird. But if you're doing that and somebody buckner to ball that, that cost you your day or the pennant or something and you want to boo the guy, I understand that even though it's not in the stadium anymore, it's not the game isn't still going on. My guess is if you're doing that, you're drunk probably. Yeah. And if you're not, you're, you know, just, you're, you're not for me very much. Which I, I guess, well, that's you and I are in agreement there. It's like, no one that I knows doing that. I'm not doing that. Right? But like I, but I, but it's. But fanatics do things and a lot of them are die hard fans and are, you know, people that listen to us. I'd actually be curious to get thoughts on this 806361067 like you said it's a gray area. For me, there's zero gray area when the game ends and you walk out of that stadium, if you see a guy like now a human being football player, the lights, it's a switch, right? It's not in his uniform. The game ended. Now he's a human being. Now again, do whatever you want. If you want to treat a human being poorly and yell at him and curse at him and telling me sucks, you're allowed to do that. I just stopped being okay with it when he's not in his uniform on the field or, or, you know, in the area where he's performing for you. You bought a ticket because he's performing for you. I'm on stage. You want to heckle. You want to boo whatever. You see me outside on the street? That part, I'd say the heckling part ended 806361067. I'm actually really curious to touch the people on this. See what you guys think. Grant and Danny on the fan. [BLANK_AUDIO] Grant and Danny on the fan 806361067 to hop in. You can tweet us @granthpaulson@funnydanny we're on Instagram with those same handles. The question for you is, so Daniel Jones is leaving the game on Sunday. He's walking out. He's showered up. He's got his duffel bag. He is on his way from the stadium to his car in the parking lot outside of the stadium. And there's a video. We can play a little snippet here again of fans harassing him and yelling at him and screaming at him and booing him and telling me he's terrible and they want his money and, you know, you're the, you're the worst. And all of those things, an hour before that were perfectly on board as far as I'm concerned as he was playing terrible and they had paid a lot of money to beat a game. Not my style. I'd never do it, but a very common place and, you know, time and places I always say, right? Add a game in your seat. He's on the field. No problem. To me, when he's walking to his car in the parking lot, that time is over. We are now in public. I got drunk in a bar. You threw me into public. We're in public. And he said, no, this is fine. A lot of people feel like this is fine. I'm not on team. This is fine. Where are you guys at? I need a million, I need a million. I need a million. I need a million. I need a million. I need a million. I need a million. I need a million. I need a million. I need a million. I need a million. I need a million. I need a million. I need a million. I need a million. I need a million. I need a million. I need a million. I need a million. You stop. And I can't stress enough. I mean, these people are like three feet from him. They're like, it's not like they're 100 yards away. I mean, it's just like they could reach out and grab him while they're yelling this at him. I quote ancient philosopher Dave Chappelle, keep it in the comments. This real life, you want to tweet me and call me all the names, do it. In life, it's real life, man. It just, it seems strange. Let's go to Shane and Oxen Hill. What's up? Shane, how are you? Shane, you're there. I heard us on the radio. We sounded good. All right. Well, I'm going to put him on hold. He's good opening there. Go to Juan in Woodbridge. What's up, Juan? Hey, Juan. What's up, Danny? How you doing? How you guys doing? Good, buddy. I just wanted to say, first of all, whomever talks to you guys in a stupid way, they're a bunch of idiots because you guys make my day. I love listening to you guys. Oh, no. I appreciate it. And we were fishing for compliments there, I thought. But I do want to say, like, I have no problem. People should tell us what they think of the show that's all part of it. I'm just saying occasionally you'll get people that make it weird. You guys are in public. You guys should, you know, no one should ever, you know, no one should walk up to you and tell you that you guys are this, that and the other. The only thing they should be able to say is thank you. That's it. Anyhow, as far as like doing what, you know, hackling this, these guys, nah, they shouldn't be doing that, man. It's these guys are humans. They don't deserve anything like that. I get that, you know, he's, you know, he's taking money. But I think that if you were in that position, you guys would have taken the money too. Even if you guys weren't, weren't a great quarterback, you guys would have taken the money. Yeah. Let me be a terrible quarterback. I'll sign up right now. Let's also forget they paid him for a reason. Yeah. Two years ago, he played really well with no weapons around him and lit it up in a playoff win. I mean, it's not like the guys never played well. Now that's not really the, the point, but I will say all of those fans at points during that season, we're clapping like seals for the guy. And while maybe a lot of them didn't want to pay him, which is perfectly reasonable, I guarantee they were pretty thrilled when he dominated the Vikings defense on the road in a playoff game. Let's go to set in Manassas. What's upset? Hey, what's going on guys? Love your show. Appreciate you, dude. I'm not going to pucker up like, but anyway, if I had to lean away, I'm going to lean with Danny, but I am kind of gray area with it because I feel like it's situational. You know what I mean? It's just like anything else. It's a perfect place in time for anything, but in this particular situation, I'm going to lean towards Danny, because he is sort of still around fans that may have traveled two or three hours and they're still pit, you know, or still Matt. Excuse me. So I'm going to leave Danny, but gray area, because I do, I do agree with you, Graham. A little bit. It's a common place for everything. Yeah, I mean, it's a good call and the whole like, well, it's the parking lot. Okay. The end of the parking lot's fine, but then across the street, isn't like for me, I make it really simple. There's no, there's no grayness here and I work in the gray and nuance. I get it. You're Josiah, but it's, it's so simple. Are you at the game still? Is the game being played? Is the performer performing? Is the performer in the uniform, right? Otherwise I'm off duty now. Leave me alone. I just, I'm pretty upset too. It'd be funny if he came out and said, sorry guys, we'll do better next time. I'm sorry. Maybe you should have done that. It'd be a better way to handle it and defuse it, but it's so simple for me. Scream when he's wearing that goofy helmet and that goofy jersey. And by this guy twice, I don't know what's going on there. I wasn't known what's going on here. Unbelievable. That was something. Let's go to Duncan and Gainesville. How are you? Duncan. How are you? Thanks for taking my call. The first thing I was thinking of was like a famous quote from a sports history. It's baseball and it was kind of a tragedy going on. And you got a kid, apparently if it's history's right, talking about disappointment in their hero, but like say it ain't show Joe, to shoes, Joe Jackson, like where did that happen? But that's different from just like heckling. 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