Grant and Danny

The NYG Are Putrid, What Change Should We Make vs NYG?, Mark Rypien Isn't A Fan Of Commanders Name

9.11.24 Hour 1

1:00- We open up the show discussing the Giants looking awful, as we turn the page to week 2.

20:20- What changes should we make heading into week 2 against the brutal New York Giants?

32:15- We asked Mark Rypien about the new Commanders name, and he is NOT a fan of it.

Broadcast on:: 11 Sep 2024
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And tell them that your girl, Tasha McKia sent you the sharpest ride, affordable, sexy, sharp, good Wednesday afternoon. Welcome into Grant and Danny. 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. We'll 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 65 degrees. Just open the windows open. Sorry. The way to do it. I think September 11th, 2020 for you can't say that without thinking about 23 years ago. Unbelievable. It's been that long, man. The world changing 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 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 seen the World Trade Center towers beforehand and just knowing the empty part of the skyline, etc. 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 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 going to get outdoors men 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's 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 Gallagher'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 happen 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 know and 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? Just feelings of that day, man, 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, agree with everyone here. I don't know if that would even happen anymore. In a situation as tragic as as would happen 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 several people posted every year, but it's hard for me to read it 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, you know, 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 and 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 out 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 than 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. 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 afloat because of their pitching. Let's go Mackenzie Gore. Oh, no. So many crooked numbers. So many bad ones. Only two run 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 a 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 go. 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 that 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 you know, 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? Et cetera. 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 does something. My job as I see it is to come in here and try to call balls and strikes when you, 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 bull crap we have to deal with, that was the football part, the over promising and then the rug pull time after time after time. The offseason champion rug pull, the savior, 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 to. 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. But don't you agree? They can't go over to in looking as bad as they did. And 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. You're 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. Totally fair. And we'll adjust accordingly. Now, if 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 that's from Iowa. Was that right? You were right. At the first school jump. Yeah. Or was I? Oh, yeah. But and they go on have a nice year and Daniel Jones is vindicated and Brian Dables 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 promised 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 revered 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, anytime, 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 that 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 pick 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. It's 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 will probably be 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 box 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. But I think the point was like, dude, that looked really bad. 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 is a coaching staff. But you and I have a few, I know. But on the phones, you guys can pick one thing to change. It 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. The seasons may be changing, but the deals the sharpest rides are unbeatable as ever. Hey, what's going on? It's your girl, Tasha McKia, and I need you to join the sharpest rides for their fall into savings events, where they're offering incredible prices on their massive inventory. 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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, it 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 a possession goes. So, if I had to look back at it, Candy, and say the things that I learned, and 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. Stan Quinn, after a week one lost to the box, he's getting his boys ready in Ashburn right now on the practice field for the Giants. Welcome back to Grant and Danny on the fan. Warren Sharp's going to join us at three. He dug into the numbers. He's got some thoughts and analysis on Jayden Daniels' 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. Daniel, let's start on offense. Austin Eckler, immediately, not waiting till third down, not waiting till third and long, not when Brian Robinson 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 Jayden Daniels' 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 won the Heisman Trophy, because you're a dual threat. It's why you were one of the great college players in history, over the last couple of years. It's why we took you number two, but you're going to make your money in this league, and you're going to thrive. I'm going to thrive as a coach because of you throwing the football with that right arm of yours that's outstanding. I'm going to make sure that that is the majority, not the minority of his priority list this weekend on defense. On defense on Blitzenmore, 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 a secondary that's worth the damn. I don't think they can communicate or 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. Blitzenmore, try to get home and see if you can make a play. I guess I would just say Emmanuel 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 say I'm all right. Come on. Come on. All kinds of different changes they could make, but no big binog and he's looked very good in the slot. Maybe you 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 were 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 Joe 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, just like I was, I watched one of those podcasts with a film breakdown. What I saw was they could easily scored 50 points on us. The corner and the safety combination, 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 would just love to do that. That's hilarious. They might join you, B. If you boo the Giants and the Giants fan next to you, boo's the Giants, then everybody's going to be booing. Yeah, what happened to boo? It is a good opportunity. Yeah. That's really funny. Thank you for the phone call. That is pretty unique. 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, it was a little too far from 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 and 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. Dan Quinn, Joe Whit, nobody would argue with you. I would hope Zeke's in DC. What's up, Zeke? Hey, guys. Love you, Joe. Appreciate you. Yeah, I agree with what I think with that. And I think we should definitely we cannot cover anybody. 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. Oh, no, no offense. The only thing I will say is why don't we do mass for tax sometimes? I hate seeing the empty backfield. I'd rather you put an extra tight end back there to give, you know, Jason time to find some receivers. Well, I'll say this, Zeke, if their passing game is going to 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 earths before the garbage time touchdown drive five or five 55 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 where a tackle once it was Lucas got beat and other time wily. There were certainly plays that weren't perfect along the journey here, 12 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. That's number one, number two, as far as 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 put the Gibbs 2.0 when he first came back, his whole deal is 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 going to have something a little longer developing, maybe a double move here or there, or for example, that play to start the second half from McClellan's going down the sideline, you want to have a tight end, stay in there and chip by all means by the lecture time, because the route is supposed to be down the football field. But you can't just do one thing in this lake. But if you're, if your theorem is, I'd like to see more Max protect against a New York team that's wreaked havoc in your backfield 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's 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 common, you're able to see them coming from space and that receiver is 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, you're screwed without blitzing. Maybe he gets six or seven with blitzing. That might be 15 to 18 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 Marshall. Needed that, dude. Hey, what's up, fellows? Hey, man. Hey, look, man, y'all don't hit all the points that we need more accurate. Like you said, we need less orbs. And I don't want my quarterback grinning in the fourth quarter when they're losing. I don't know if anybody else, I don't know. I want them to be mad at these losing. I don't know. I want somebody with some fire in them. That's just me. But, uh, so I've heard a couple people say this. Thanks for the call. I had no problem with Jaden Daniel smiling. He's got a great smile. He's having fun. He's been dreaming about playing in 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 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. 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. 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 you smile after a hit or something like that to let them know it didn't bother you. I don't know. I get a little bit less bothered by that. To your point is 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 Rippon 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. Yesterday we were out at 1757 golf course, which is a couple hundred yards away from the bubble and where the commanders train. We had an awesome opportunity as a show. We have had pretty much every legendary red skin on our show over the years. And my guess is we've probably talked to Mark Rippon on the phone. We have. Yeah, we've got him on. But he I would say more so than any of the other like icons in 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. I absolutely support the commanders and what they're doing now but I never played for them. And you know, it's just the day and age now that we have to deal with. And I just I just don't hope they don't lose the fact that we were Redskins. And that's all why I played for. That's all I knew. And that's all, you know, we we remember. So it's this new thing that we're going to support these guys because that's the error we're in. He was not being disrespectful. He said I'm rooting for the team. We had a great conversation. You can hear the whole thing at the fantasy.com. Grant and 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 Jaden Daniels. But on the name commanders, is it growing on you? No and never will. Yeah. 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 Montreal or Vladimir Guerrero. Yeah, you know what I mean? Like it's it's a vidro. Yeah, it's this weird bit where it's like it was that thing. And now it's something else. Exposed legend. Not really nationals legend. You know, you can't really do that a little bit different though, because that's why Montreal DC to 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, you know, out there in East of the city, but it's Northwest stadium 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 Arlington. 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 Danny. Well, if I'm Coach Quinn and I can only change one thing, this is my change. I'm starting both of the noas. I'm starting Noah White out, Noah Brown. I'm starting Noah at corner. Noah, can you please pronounce that for me? Noah, Ig, but not Gennie. Ig, but not Gennie. Okay, and here's why. I mean, Ig, but not Gennie played very well. He came from Dallas, you know, show with system. Look, I'm not going to pile on board. She's young, he's learning, but, you know, you mentioned 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 DBS, 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 do Noah's. I think they will add some juice. And because I wasn't also very happy with how anyone other than McCorn did it wide out. I appreciate you. I didn't think about it as the two noas, which sounds like a band name or movie or something, but he's very right. We're going to 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 Igany's been great when tapped into problem is they've mostly used him 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 past. And Zacchaeus 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. As good as Zac and Gainesville. What's up, Zac? Hey guys, thanks to Mark Hall. Hey, buddy. 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 it seems to me like that's exactly what Joe it and DQ wanted in their opening interview, you know, they're loaded at that position. 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 Juan 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 going to sit at somebody else's expense. I'll concoct a three safety package or hell of four safety package. If it means I got a better player on the field, like we shouldn't be beholden to anybody in that secondary with as poorly as they played. Derek Forest was not even active on Sunday. Him and Dominique Hampton were the odd men out in the secondary. Obviously had Noah 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 Moore, who I thought did some okay things. I actually liked how Juan 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 going to make the roster. So it has not gone smoothly with this group for him so far. Warren Sharp joins us next, one of the top analytics minds in football. What did he make of Daniels running the ball, throwing the ball in the Kingsbury offense in week one? We'll dive into the numbers with him on Grant and Danny to kick off next hour. The seasons may be changing, but the deals at the sharpest rides are unbeatable as ever. Hey, what's going on? It's your girl, Tasha McKia. 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