Grant and Danny
Blitzing The NFC East
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We started to hear that it was like, all right, 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, you know, one of their like 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. It's 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. Yeah. That's like, that's a major part of it because, you know, he looked, he reminded me of a backup quarterback, a third string 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 I, I, that's the one hesitation that I have about this weekend's game and the performances. You know, were they playing the Browns with the Sean, like, you know, does that, 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 leg mug in the egg gap and Dan Quinn's never this aggressive and maybe, you know, the, 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 egg 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 defensive 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, maybe 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. 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? All right. 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, uh, looks pry for, uh, for, for a late, late 20s running back. Um, 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, um, you know, but then they get a special team touchdown from, from, from, from Turpin, uh, lamb missed almost all of training camp. Uh, you saw I you in their game, uh, was San Fran, um, you know, he didn't have the greatest game. Land did not have the greatest game. And I, and I think that, you know, a lot of that is the missing of camp, but they'll be fine. It's a good offense. Uh, they are breaking into rookies in the office of life, something to keep an eye on. And that was definitely a fear with Miles Garrett. Um, but he did not have, uh, like an electric type game, you know, Mike had a better game than he did. Um, 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. Yeah. It really is. And that's just kind of the similar situation, you know, how much of it was New Orleans versus Carolina is just that bad. Um, I, I don't know. I mean, I, I like Derek Carr, but Derek Carr, I, 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, uh, is it going to put up 47 points probably again the rest of the year? RJ, thank you as always buddy. Be well. You two guys have a, have a go up. We'll see man at that Eagle sounder, Darris. John McMellan covers the Eagles as the Eagles insider for SI. John was a while ago. He was, he was like a month ago they played on Friday night, but everybody's back safe and sound. What's the tick, big takeaway here from the Eagles week one win? Yeah. Well, I think the big takeaway is they, 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, uh, it's a packers could have been relevant and they could have stole that game, but that is technically a home game from Philadelphia might have been trouble, uh, 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 four and O 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 the 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 Jaden 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 PSF for football folk is 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 and 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, to John Mara and Joe Shane. Yeah, they do and, and, and Saquon, you know, I, 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. But while I say that, the, the natural thing to do is look, oh, 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 Barkley 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 Barkley Monday night footballs next up for Philly. They're at home first time this season, tech, the, 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 San Paolo, you know, 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 pistols. Not a good idea, but the Eagles got to show they can rush the passer without a son. Reddit. I'd give them kind of a mulligan again because of those field conditions, but they got a, 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. The seasons may be changing, but the deals at the sharpest rides are unbeatable as ever. Hey, what's going on? 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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.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. How bad was the Daniel Jones outing and how early is it to start talking about his job security? 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 Ginko that he sniffed out all the way on that play. So look, you didn't get the team in the end zone. It was not pretty. No question about it. And I tell you, man, if he comes out and he looks really bad in the first half of Washington maybe the second early, second half, whatever it might be, I think you could see Drew Lockett's week. I really do. I don't think Dave was 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 then just all looking like 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 12 match ups for the Giants have just dominated 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 the quarterback. And obviously that's, you know, while they went out and drafted, excuse me, traded for Brian Byrne. So look, they have to improve in that is for some reason and cycle. They have a guy like Thibodeau and other guys, 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, I've been against Washington, but no, it's a new system to, we got to keep that in mind. Shane Bowman is not nearly as aggressive as the link bond deal was. Some guys getting used to that a lot more zone. But look, they 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 a little bit in the fourth quarter. So I would grade out. I can build a pack like 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 they take advantage of all 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. Right. 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 Chris, like you said, what do you think is the weak wall right now? He, 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, and he's going to, look, he's going to have to learn a lot of things like Ryan for us, very cool, the Giants last week, 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 he's got to recognize, you know, this is a recognized defense. David wants 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 about physical life 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. All right, of course, we also need a guy back to get in the damn pool, too, so we'll see. We appreciate the insight on the Giants, as always. Thank you so much. All right, folks. Good luck on Sunday. We'll talk soon. See you, bud. 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've 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 G&D. 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