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Fastest 16 Mins In Football, Mark Rypien Joins G&D To Discuss The Commanders Name & RFK Stadium

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1:00- It's time for the fastest 16 minutes in football spinning you around the NFL from week 1's action.

31:00- Super Bowl MVP Mark Rypien joins G&D to discuss the Commanders name not growing on him, and also discusses why he wants to see the new stadium back at RFK.

Broadcast on:: 10 Sep 2024
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Let's hit rewind and spin you around the NFL for week one. With our fastest segment in football where to begin. We start with the Steelers and the Falcons in Atlanta 18 to 10 Pittsburgh when Chris Boswell made six field goals. That's how you get the player of the week award on special indeed in the NFL. Pittsburgh's defense generated three to eight takeaways that does not even count. The two sack fumbles taken off the board for penalties that TJ Watt had. He completely wrecked the game. Atlanta's debut with offensive coordinators Zach Robinson and quarterback Kirk Cousins went dreadfully two for nine on third down. Cousins was intercepted two times coming back from the Achilles injury. Be John Robinson was held at 3.8 yards per carry. Justin Fields got the start for Pittsburgh and ran 14 times for 57 yards. The Falcons had just 25 minutes time of possession in the game. Danny. It was ugly in Atlanta and it felt like less than that. This is how Pittsburgh does it. It's so annoying. This is an offensively challenged group. No Russell Wilson entered Justin Fields who, you know, did Justin Fieldsy thing. There's a couple of plays here and there, not consistent as a thrower, but there. They went six different field goals, a dominant defense. TJ Watt might be the best player in the NFL. He might be the number one, most impactful just when they have him. They're great at the on that side of the ball when they don't. They're mediocre. He is amazing with Aaron Donald retired. Now he is the best defensive player in the league. That's for sure. Let's go to Buffalo where the bills beat the Cardinals 34 to 28. We got our first touchdown return with the new kickoff rules in this game. A 96 yard touchdown return by DJ Dallas of the Cardinals, but it was not enough. Buffalo trailed 17 to three at one point in the game. Josh Allen, 232 yards, two passing touchdowns, also ran for 40 yards and two touchdowns. A four score game for him, rookie, debuting Keon Coleman, four catches for 51 yards as the new number one target in Buffalo. The bills offense looked different, didn't it? Yeah, a little more balanced, 19 carries, 71 yards for James Cook. Kyler Murray through for 162 yards ran for 57 in a pretty good outing in a loss for the Cardinals who are like the best bad team in the league. Yeah, they're frisky. I don't have another way to say that. They're not good. They're not ready for prime time yet, but they're also not pushovers. I mean, last year, they weren't also ran. They were just an easy W for whoever was on their schedule for the most part. They are not going to be an easy out this year. They are, they are improved. Certainly. I thought they were the better team for probably, I don't know, three-fifths of this game overall, but Josh Allen put his cape on. That's really what this was. When they were down 17, three, you touched on it. Buffalo went on a two minute drive and it was just Josh Allen doing crazy stuff, taking out whether it was escaping, whether it was design runs, where there's bulldozing people. He's flying over guys into the end zone. Just an absolute weapon. They're going to struggle for a little bit on offense because you mentioned it's very balanced. There's no easy button Mr. Fondigs anymore, so they had to spread it around a little bit. But Buffalo impressive comeback in this one bears 24/17 survivors against the Titans. They move to one and O to start their season and they did it without a single offensive touchdown. Caleb Williams struggled in his first game, 14 of 29 passing for 93 yards. The Bears managed 148 yards of offense in one. Figure that out, 2.8 yards per play in a victory. They scored on special teams, but return touchdown for Jonathan Owens, the husband of Simone Biles. And then on defense, they got a touchdown as well. A pick six by corner Tyreak Stevenson on a Badwill Levis decision. So despite Williams really scuffling the offense, doing next to nothing. An injury to Roma Dunezay who caught a pass for 11 yards in his first game. The Bears win 24 to 17. This is one of those strange games where nobody should feel good, right? Chicago shouldn't feel very good at all because their offense, as you said, was anemic. It was beyond disappointing. For example, Keenan Allen had 11 targets and only four catches for 29 yards. They couldn't connect. Roma Dunezay now is week to week with a knee. Caleb Williams really struggled in this one. Chicago's defense did more than enough. And now we add in a pick six and a block punt there for a touchdown. But for Tennessee's perspective, they were in control. Seventeen nothing. They were dominating this game and couldn't get out of their own way. Couldn't manage little things on offense. Couldn't just be normal. Couldn't punt the ball a couple of different times. That led to a loss. That's a bad loss, but Tennessee's, I don't think they're any good, but they're not terrible anymore. This is one of those that really got away from them. We want should have been a win. Yeah, Shane Aldrin's got to find some answers for the Bears passing game and do so quickly. Let's go to Cincinnati where the Bengals did the Bengals thing. Yeah, they started a season with a really terrible loss and they looked gross in the process. Give the Patriots credit, though. Nobody thought this team would win this game. They knocked probably half of America out and survivor pools already. I know I was one of those people 16 to 10 final new England. They win despite 121 passing yards from a fairly ineffective Jacobi Brissette. He did run for 32 yards, including a big 16 yard scramble. In this game, old friend Antonio Gibson had seven carries with a long of eight. The main back for the Patriots is still Ramondre. Stevenson who went for a buck 20 and a touchdown in the win. The leading receiver. This will tell you a lot about the Patriots offense leading receiver for New England in this game. Two catches for 31 yards for tight end Austin Hooper. He caught a ball for 16, caught a ball for 15, and that was his day. And he was the leading receiver for the team. But they had a four sack performance defensively. They harassed Joe Burrow was held to 164 passing. They kept Jamar Chase to 62 yards receiving 28 of that on one play. And the Patriots, not the Bengals, are the team that got to 1 and 0. So to think star of this game is Christian Gonzalez. He was incredible. Just absolutely shut down Jamar Chase. I don't expect that to continue throughout the season. I think Chase gets the seed legs underneath them and ends up bowling out. Looking for a long term contract in his own right, but you mentioned it. This is now known as the Cincinnati. This is what they do. They start off very poorly. They looked dead in the water through three, four, maybe even five weeks. And then it was healthy. They kind of come rip roaring back and beat up everybody. So I'm not counting them out just yet, but that was a dreadful performance, especially on offense. Patriots good for them. Happy for dry mail. That's nice to, you know, to be thought of as an afterthought as a pushover. You get a week one win on the road, no less good for him and good for them. They're not going anywhere. They're not particularly good. But since now that's disappointing. Yeah. And to the point on Mayo, he got the Gatorade bath from his exciting players at the end of the game. You can tell they really, really like playing for him. Let's go to Indianapolis where the Colts had an early lead, but couldn't hang on. 2927 thrilling win for the Texans at the Colts in a good AFC South matchup. The highlight from this game you'll see is the Anthony Richardson touchdown pass that traveled almost 70 yards in the air off his back foot right off right after he had slipped in the pocket. Incredible. Moving to his left. It was one of the craziest throws I've ever seen. If you take that out of the equation, he was basically eight of 18 for like 150 yards or something. I mean, it wasn't a particularly good day, but he's got that in his back pocket. He's got some physical traits that nobody else has. The really good player at quarterback in this game was C. J. Stroud who went for 234 and two touchdowns without any turnovers. And the revelation here was my goodness, the Texans running the football. Joe Nixon 159 on the ground for Joe Nixon and it was a well earned. Like you think about a guy going for a buck 50. It's probably like a 52 yard run in there or whatever. His long was 13. It was just seven, eight, nine, five, six. I mean, they earned it 30 for 159 for the bell cow Joe Nixon. Nico Collins building off of a breakout last year, six grabs, 117 yards and welcome to Houston. Stefan Diggs. He caught six passes and scored two touchdowns. Indeed, this was a great game. This was so much fun. I want these guys to do this talking about Stroud and Richardson for the next decade. I want that to be the theme. I want that to be the new Rogers Brady or whatever. Two totally different styles you touched on it. Richardson, you got to live with some bad. You got to live with some overthrows. You got to live with some misses. You got to live with a couple of things that aren't particularly desirable to get some of these incredible highlight plays. Him barreling through defenses, him trucking people close to the goal line, had a rushing touchdown, that highlight throw that you mentioned where he slipped and fell and is almost all the way to the ground and throws at 70 yards on a line to Alec Pierce. Incredible, incredible stuff. And then CJ Stratus, just the technician, just cruel and malicious at times. Where does the defenses? You think he got him in the grasp? He's rolling out, throwing back across his body, breaking every rule, but he's cool as a cucumber, man. He's incredible. The Miami Dolphins were down 14 to nothing and 17 to seven at home to the Jacksonville Jaguars, but it was the Dolphins getting a 20 to 17 win with a field goal at the horn from 52 yards off the leg of Jason Sanders to win the football game. The day started with Tyree Kill getting arrested outside of the stadium by police officers and it ended with Tyree Kill catching an 80 yard touchdown from two at Tonga Violoa to help get them back into the football game. But here was really when this game swung. Jacksonville was up by 10 late third quarter at the goal line, trying to go up 17 and they fumbled into the end zone. Beautiful played defensively by Miami to punch the ball out from Travis ETN. They recovered it in the end zone and then on the ensuing couple of snaps from the 20 yard line that 80 touchdown to Hill and that 14 point swing was the difference. Trevor Lawrence, just 162 and a touchdown through the air. Tank Bigsby split carries with Travis ETN. Very interesting, I'd say for fantasy owners, Bigsby was better 73 yards. ETN had 44 did score a touchdown, but also lost that fumble. But to a 338 and a touchdown after his big contract, Hill, seven for 130 and a touchdown after getting out of handcuffs and Jalen Watto, five for 109. He left the game with an injury. Yeah, it was able to return though, right? He went out and came back in or was there something later on in that game? But I might have missed. But yeah, Miami got off to that sluggish start. Beyond sluggish, just looked rusty. It looked like they weren't on the same page. Huge struggle for them down 14. Nothing, as you mentioned, late second quarter. Devin H and runs in from a yard out. Got them on the board, but you said it, that 14 point swing where ETN is going. It looks like he's walking in. Looks like he's made done all the hard part. All he has to do is kind of hold on and fall into the end zone. Paul gets punched out moments later. Tyree kill 80 yards away. That changed everything, disappointing loss there for the Jaguars. Kind of nice little gut check though for the dolphins, right? Yeah, I think that was the kind of game honestly there after it happens. You're probably better. It went that way and glad if you're Mike McDaniel, you're happier, I should say, because you get to prove a point and you win a game. Totally one team that didn't have to prove any points. They just dominated every facet of a game from start to finish was the Saints. No metal tested in this one. They beat the Panthers 47 to 10. They led 30 to nothing and 37 to three before garbage time. I don't know where to begin the breakdown. I'll just say with Carolina, they looked horrific and Bryce Young looks broken. It's way too early probably to just say he's a bust, but he was terrible. 13 of 30 for 161 and two interceptions and he was worse than that stat line. Like you're like, oh, he must have played terribly. That would be a compliment. I mean, he was worse than the numbers on the other side. Derek Carr, who had people calling for him to be benched before the season started in complete control for incompletions, three touchdowns, 200 yards passing. Hit a 70 yard touchdown right off the beginning of the game. In that performance, he had who caught the Rashid Shahid who caught the touchdown from 60 yards, I should say, went for 73. Foster Moreau also caught a touchdown. The Saints Alvin Kamara, 15 carries for 83 in a score. Jamal Williams at a rushing touchdown. It was kind of a you get a score, you get a score game. Oprah Winfrey style. Just a personal anecdote, if I may, my freshman year at the George Washington University, we had a really fun game against the George Mason Patriots. We won that game 26 to 13. A lot of runs were scored. Everybody in our line, I've had multiple hits, except for me, I was 0 for five. That was the crystal obvious that line that ruined so many fantasy weeks. Two catches for 11 yards, one a team of scores, 47 points. But that's my only relative complaint about this game. The Saints got a 1 double A team in their first week. Carolina should be relegated. They're not professional, they're terrible, they're an embarrassment. I feel bad for a lot of these players. They cannot compete at this level at this time. The Vikings looked really good in their win over the Giants, 28 to 6 behind Sam Darnold, who was dynamite, 19 of 24 for Darnold, 208 yards, two touchdowns and a pick. He cooled off in the second half the game, but the damage was done. They were already up big time. They led 21 to 3 in the third quarter. Aaron Jones, who came over from Green Bay, gives Minnesota a running game. They have 94 Russian yards and a touchdown to thank him for in week one. And they got after Daniel Jones, who was god awful. I listened to some New York radio from yesterday after the Giants game. And the questions were, is it time to bench Daniel Jones already? I mean, do they have to go to Tommy DeVito? Should they go to the bullpen, basically? Brian Dable was getting those questions after the game after Jones was intercepted twice, including a pick six, couldn't get the run game going. Devin Singletary, 3.7, a pop Malik neighbors in his first ever game. Just five grabs for 66 yards. He was their best player on offense. Next stop for the Giants, Northwest Stadium in Landover, Maryland. Yes, Northwest of the city. No, it's east of the city either way. Daniel Jones had almost a negative .5 EPA per play. That means every time he did something, it was almost worth minus half a point for the New York Giants in this game. He was terrible, they're terrible. And they've got Washington here this coming week from Minnesota. Great beginning for Sam, the San Darnell there. I forget exactly what he started. It was like 15 for 15 or something in that effect. I think I saw he maxed out at maybe 14 for 14. Close enough. Ended up only with five incompletions on the day. The offense looked like it had more in the tank if you wanted to. Aaron Jones, I thought, was workman-like and impressive even at times. And Justin Jefferson, 4 for 59 in the touch. Speaking of debuts, Jim Harbaugh is 1-0 with the Chargers. He shows up, you win football games and you run the football. JK Dobbins, just 10 carries. He went for 135. That guy's had more serious injuries that have ended seasons and keeps coming back than anybody I know. The other former Raven at the Chargers have run in the football. Gus Edwards also had 11 carries in the game. Justin Herbert, caretaking, 144 and a score through the air. Lad McConkie, the rookie they drafted at wide receiver, caught his first touchdown. Joey Bosa had a sack on defense for the Chargers and a 22 to 10 win over the Vegas Raiders. This is a big 10 game. That's what it felt like, right? Just workman-like, nothing special happening on offense, very low ceiling. Having Justin Herbert play in this offense is like having a Corvette that you just ride reverse around the cul-de-sac. This is how they're going to do it though. If they're going to hand it off to former Ravens running backs, check it down. Do a couple of bigger receivers on the outside of Lad McConkie work from the slot. There's not a high ceiling on this offense. But this is how they're going to play. They're going to beat you up, push you around and make it a pushing contest. And they won weak one of that against a worse version of that in the Raiders. Seahawks outlasted the Broncos 26 to 20. They come from behind victory in the second half for Seattle behind Geno Smith. Geno in this game had a 34 yard rushing touchdown. Also threw for 171 in a score through a touchdown pass to Zach Charbonet from 30 yards out. Denver debuted Bo Nix E through two interceptions and really struggled yards per attempt minuscule, one of just a few quarterbacks in league history to ever throw the ball 42 times and not a mass 140 passing yards. So they got work to do. Nix was also their leading rusher with 35 yards at the quarterback position on five attempts. Oh, by the way, not a good first game for Denver in the Nix era with Sean Payton in year two, but for Seattle, a win for Mike McDonald, who interviewed commanders head coaching job. They looked really good. I was impressed with them. I mean, it ends up being a 26 20 game, so it looks closer than it was. Seattle was by far the better team in this game. Nix was running for his life, had a couple of scrambles here and there. They got to have something downfield. It's not in the cards right now, though, 33 17 final in Cleveland where the Cowboys whooped up on the Browns talk about games that were not as close as the score would indicate. Dallas led 27 to three in the third and basically stopped. Playing and literally that Prescott didn't throw it again. Really CD lamb five for 61 Prescott got paid in the morning then went out and threw for 179 in a score. Dallas got a 21 yard touchdown from Brandon Cooks to get started. Then Ezekiel Elliott and his return scored from three yards out. Brandon Aubrey, their kicker made field goals of 57 50 46 and 40 in the game. They got a 60 yard punt return for a touchdown on special teams from Cavante in Europe and it was just a bloodbath. The Browns were bad and Deshawn Watson stunk bad enough that there were callers on Cleveland radio asking about going and getting Baker Mayfield back and how much better he is than Deshawn Watson. That's where we're at with the Browns quarterback situation. The Browns were a disaster in this one. Dallas deserves credit. They were the better team by far. They were dominant. They were really, really good. They had been a lot of teams on Sunday, but Cleveland was just a mess. Their offense was totally disrupted. No answer for Michael Parsons had no answer for anything. Dallas was doing on both sides of the ball. I thought Cleveland would be more competitive in this, to be honest with you. I know they were there week at QB with Watson and his current status, but I thought defensively they'd be a lot tougher than than they played. That was not a good performance. Last game on Sunday in our fastest 16 minutes here on Grant and Danny. The Rams played well, but it wasn't enough against one of the classes of the NFC. The Detroit Lions win in overtime 26 20 with bully ball and eight play 70 drive in OT where David Montgomery ran it right down LA's throats for a win. He rushed for 91 in a touchdown. Jevir Gibbs added a score on the ground. Jameson Williams broke out at wide receiver, five for one 21 and a 52 yard catch and run touchdown from Jared Goff, golf through for two 17 and that score. Matt Stafford was really good. Three 15, a touchdown loan pick was in the red zone in the end zone. Cooper cup 14 catches for a hundred 10 yards and a touchdown. In a losing effort for the Rams, Kyron Williams scored for LA. Rams are already beat up, man. I mean, they're going through lineman. Pukanaku is going to be out for a little bit. It seems like they were just running guys and that was a fire drill there. Give him credit though for forcing that game in overtime. Detroit took advantage of a tired beat up group and walked right down the field. The win, that was as good a game as you're going to find. It happens to the Rams a lot, doesn't it? Always seems to, right? Early in the season to them in the Chargers, something in LA. All right, there you go. Fastest 16 minutes on Grant and Danny around the NFL, everything. You needed to know about this weekend's games. Next is the kicker issue fixed in Washington, DC once and for all. And what about using Austin Echler and Brian Robinson on the field at the same time? Dan Quinn had a thought about that. You'll want to hear next on G&D. Doors take us to summers away. Or winter adventures and afternoon getaways. Your dedicated Fidelity Advisor can help you open those doors by working with you on a comprehensive plan to help you reach your wealth's full potential because doors were meant to be opened. Visit Fidelity.com/wealth. Investment minimums apply Fidelity brokerage services LLC member NYSE SIPC. Our double play set for 15 minutes out on Grant and Danny. We're blitzing in a half hour. Remember, Austin Echler makes his first ever appearance in season with us our Tuesday guests every five o'clock segment on Tuesdays on Grant and Danny. This football season and it is a Tuesday, which means commanders, survivor. And go vote at Facebook.com/grant and Danny, kick a player off the island. Give a player immunity. We will announce the winner and the loser on commander survivor for week one in our final segment today. Speaking of winners and losers at the kicking position, pretty clear loser this week in DC, Kate York, he has already been released after missing two field goals, kicking a ball out of bounds on a kickoff and having an onside kick go a rock. The winner in that exchange, Austin cyber. He is the new kicker for the commanders. So I guess what we could dive into now is have they solved this thing? Or do we think this is going to be an all season long carousel? Danny, they had Brandon McManus, who they paid handsomely. Allegations came out, harassment, assault. They said we're done with him. Charges have since been dropped, but that ship has sailed. It would appear even though he's still out of work since then they have now run four different kickers, including Austin cyber, who showed up yesterday. So one note on McManus, the suit has been refiled with the names of the plaintiffs. They were missing the first time, so that process is being a new. So I don't think anything has really changed from Washington's perspective on that, but it's still important to note. Yeah, I don't think it's solved at all. I think they traded Kate York in for another Kate York, a guy that doesn't have a lot of kicking experience that's caught on part time for a couple of teams. So that's been that, and I think we're going to be doing this for a while. They seem to want to find and I get this, the next guy they can hang on to and develop and have, you know, turn into their dude for a long time, and that's all well and good. But you got to, you know, break a few eggs to make that almond here. And that's what it feels like they're doing. I don't think you can just cut kickers every couple of weeks who are missing kicks, though, and I don't think that's their plan. And someone could say, well, they just cut one after one week who missed two field goals. What are you talking about? And I believe that the reason they cut Kate York was because if he was on the roster, they'd lose a draft pick and they didn't want to lose the seventh round pick. Because, remember, they traded a seventh round pick for him. Well, we didn't know until recently, and this is sharp by their front office. And by Adam Peters was that it was a contingent and a conditional seventh round pick. And ultimately, they had the ability to pull the rip cord if it wasn't going well after a game, and that's exactly what happened. They used their get at a jump ring. So I don't think their plan is, hey, we're just going to cut kickers every time they miss a couple of kicks. That's not a position. I don't think where you could really do that to be frank. It's a confidence position. It's a, you know, not looking over your shoulder or worried that your coach is going to call you into the special team's office to tell you you're going home. Every time you do something wrong, I don't think it's easy to kick when you feel like your job's on the line every time you take the field. My guess is they're going to tell cyber. Hey, this thing's yours or we're sinking or swimming with you, let's rock and roll. And you give them at least tell halfway through the season and reassess. Now, maybe if it's a complete shabingus, like if this is a debacle of epic proportions, we'll call it a bluit situation where it's obvious that this person doesn't really belong. You never want to go full bluit. You can't do that. But if it's just a normal NFL kicker, hit some misses, some has plenty of leg, then I think they're actually going to let this ride. If I had to bet right now, today, I'd say cyber finishes the season as their kicker. Oh, interesting. Yes, I would bet against that because I think it's on the plane that you just described. They're not going to cut them next week, but not doing a kicker a week. And I think they're too smart for that. But I don't think it's solved either, right? This will be a six, seven, maybe even eight or nine game kind of thing. And then they'll just go, OK, we can't. I mean, he's got to be really bad, in my opinion, to get cut because like guys like Kate York, which is what he is, essentially, they miss six, seven kicks a year and teams just kind of gut it out, hoping they have a young kicker with a nice leg. That's kind of where we're at. I think that's probably the big picture playing with this guy. Let's let him kick, even if he misses a few, that's fine. I'd like to think that that's the case because if you're again, they refuse to say the word rebuild, that's what they're doing. They're rebuilding. And when you're doing that, you should have a young kicker on your roster without a lot of experience who can grow into the position and grow with you. And ultimately, turn out to be pretty good, like David Acres in Philadelphia years ago, where you can sort of pick your guy. So that's my hope is that they're patient, but I get the sense, you know, when when coaches are you turning in the report card and you lose maybe a game or two because of it, somebody misses an extra point or forces you into a decision and you're trying so hard to get the real football players to buy into your program and there's not enough positive reinforcement, it becomes a symbolic move that that was the classic revere to me when the defense has a terrible game. Well, we can't cut all these guys, but we sure as Bleak can cut the kicker and it will show you that it's not acceptable. That's an easy sacrificial lamb. It's the kind of end season. One other commander's note, I want to play some audio on Dan Quinn discussing using two running backs together from the press conference yesterday. This relates directly to Echler, our five o'clock guest. But you and I talked about how he was probably deserving of more work and more matches just based on how he performed and it was one of the few answers we got in week one, I'd say that now you can put something to bed. Like, I think you and I all off season kind of said we both thought Echler had plenty left in the tank, but it's possible after last season, maybe that he's washed or he doesn't have the same ability he did four or five years ago. To me, he looked like Austin Echler this weekend, four catches for 52 yards, average five yards a carry on his two carries for four and six. And the question came up. There were a couple of plays where he and Robinson were both out there. It was a play I remember where he came in like jet action from like the slot and was eye candy going one way and they used Robinson as a battering ram going off tackle the other way. Do they want to do more of that? It certainly sounds like it, according to head coach Dan Quinn. Yeah, I think going into it, it's always something you want to do. Each game will have a little different flavor. What you're looking for sometimes to Ben is how do teams match up against that specific look, but in order to find those match ups, you got to do them. And so yes, I would say that is certainly one of the packages that we really like. Now, you're on record. You want more Austin Echler. How would you feel about if that means maybe Robinson's not off the field and just Echler next to Daniels in the gun and they got both of those guys out there? It's not how I would do it, but I will trade a lot of things. You know what I mean? I'll give up a lot as long as it means Austin Echler gets more. Whatever they got to do, we can do that. That's fine by me. It's not how I would design it. I would just have Austin Echler on the field and you can hand it off to him one first down and throw it to him one first down or because Brian Robinson has proved he can catch passes adequately out of the backfield as well. So you're not governed by this is this person's role. This is that person's role. I think too many coaches get stuck in those kinds of ruts. I just want more Echler not overkill. You can't give him 2530 touches a game. This is not a bell count on his prime. This is not a 2,000 yard agent in Peterson. It's not that, but this is somebody that absolutely needs to touch the football before the end of the third quarter like it was this past year. And I'm very much cool with both of them being on the field because for me, my endorsement of Echler is not at the expense of an indictment of Robinson, which I'd say is more of kind of how you feel. I thought Robinson was excellent as a receiver as well in the game. He had a catch call back that would have gotten him over 60 receiving yards on four pitches, he had a 32 yard reception where he made a couple guys miss. I think that is something he can do. It's a strength of his game. It's part of what he's going to be able to accomplish all season long offensively. Is catching balls on those swings out of the backfield. And then that's not a guy that's fun to tackle in the open field. No, I don't mean to imply that I don't want Robinson to play either. I just need more Echler. So whatever I have to do to get that, I'll do that. Grant and Danny on the fan. We are at 1757 golf course today where there's a great event benefiting the wounded warriors out here in Ashford near the team facility and Mark Rippen is among some of the great former Redskins in attendance. I believe we're going to catch up with him next, which will be a thrill and very, very cool. You're listening to the fan. Welcome back to the 1757 golf course out here in Ashford near the commander's facility, Grant and Danny with you on 106 seven, the fan. And we are honored right now to be joined on site by a Super Bowl MVP, Super Bowl 26, a multi-time pro bowler and one of the great Redskins pastors in history. The legendary Mark Rippen is with us on G and D and we are honored to have him on set with us here from this golf event. So Mark, thank you for the time. We appreciate you. Thanks, guys. It's great to be on the show and off to the day out here of these veterans. What a moving experience. I think the cool part about this is that all these guys that have have served our country and the ultimate sacrifice that they give each and every day and to play with Matt Williams today was our Medal of Honor recipient and Nick Sevenree and what they mean to all of us. And I think it really sets a stage here where we as athletes and we play in our sport and we get to become part of the team and you see these guys and how they are the armed forces for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Air Force. Each one of these armed forces are like a team too and they have great stories, fun guys, good golfers, a lot of them. And it's just a tremendous to be a part of this and help out what they're trying to do and that's helped their families and of servicemen and women that are doing what they do for our country. Heroes and Legends event out here benefiting the wounded warriors. It's just an amazing cause. You mentioned stories I always have been growing up, listening to my mom and dad tell me so many stories about this proud franchise. I love when you and some of your teammates and some of the greats and organizational history get together because I'd imagine you guys can spend a pretty good yarn too. Ah, our fishing stories get bigger and bigger. That's right. It's great because I live on the West Coast. I'm in Spokane, Washington. So I only get out here probably four or five times a year in my daughter and her husband was Lieutenant Colonel and Marine Corps and my granddaughter live up in Baltimore, mother daughter lives in Orlando. So I get on the East Coast quite a bit, but I enjoy coming out here and seeing guys like, you know, a guy came in to the league with Raven Caldwell play, seeing him play golf and support this great movement that we're trying to do here and to get out here and watch them and then see our commanders play everything. We're all eager and excited to see them get back on track. And, you know, it's a process. I think, as we all know, Jaden Daniels is pretty special if we can keep him healthy. And, you know, I think that's going to be the main thing. This is it. You can't give up four touchdowns a Baker Mayfield expect to get into the play off. So we've got to tie some loose ends together there and get back here on our own turf and play well in front of our fans and get our fans and this community who I think is excited coming in here a little bit more excited about our football team. Mark Reppen with us here on Grant and Danny. So what I want to touch on that, Mark, going back to that post-87 magical run, that incredible season Super Bowl, there's a bill that has to happen. And you I think you came aboard an 88 if memory serves, right? 86 86. Oh, there you go. Yeah. So, but you saw kind of that transition to go from that where you guys wanted me to exactly where he wanted to be the best team in the NFL. He came in together. I just I just told him that. I just got done mentioning that, Raven. Yeah, but they're they're kind of in the beginning stages that now coming off it sees that nobody was happy about. You got new staff, new everything. Go into that that words. You know the light at the end of the tunnel exists. You know where that is, but getting there is really, really hard. Oh, absolutely. The bar was high. It was already high. You know, you had JT that Thiesman and Rigo that had won a Super Bowl. That that 82 team was probably the best team in the NFL that didn't win a Super Bowl. And then to see the the maturation of of those guys in 86 go through a strike here and a lot of us not even knowing if we're going to come back, but Joe Gibbs word of word of a man of his word said, you know, you guys go out together, you come back together, you know, and so we went out that strike here, came back together, our replacement team was really, really good, you know, got us in a good position and then of course, Doug got hot in the in the playoffs and just rolled through the playoffs and we got Darryl Green's touched down against the Bears and stopping Darren Nelson at the one yard line against the Vikings and those things I remember like yesterday and I was in a sweater right in place down, you know, and scripting plays and all that and and then do to roll Denver and the Super Bowl after being down 10 nothing first quarter and getting that 42 or 35 points a golden quarter of the NFL and so Doug was kind of my mentor, you know, for the next couple of years and we played off and on together, but he's very wonderful and one of the reasons, you know, I had a lot of success was because Jerry Rome, Doug Williams, Joe Gibbs, a very offensive minded head coach, you know, and we had the hogs and we were able to do the things that you want to do and football anyway, that's run the football and make plays off play action and that year in 91-92, we certainly did that. I think we obviously led the league and I don't think anyone's come close in the last 20 years to to making the big plays that we made that year and we had special players, you know, we had Gary Mikey and Art, the posse that were, you know, instrumental and along with Ernest Binder, the hogs and and it was just a great group of guys. Super Bowl 26 MVP Mark Rippin on Grant and Danny. I always wanted to ask you about that season. It was nine sacks given up, right? All year. I mean, that's unheard of in any standard, but today, I mean, that's just a number that it seems comical. How much of sacks do you say are? That was a great line. Everyone knows that. But quarterback driven to getting the ball out, dropping the proper depth. I mean, it seems to me like when there's a sack, it's immediately where the pass protection was bad. There's a lot more to it than that. A lot more. There's receivers running hot routes and running backs, running hot routes, getting the ball out when you have to, knowing you don't have enough guys to block the guys that they're coming with. And then there's other times where they're running, they're going to rush more, but you got maximum protection and you got one on one with your receivers with no one in the middle of the field. So all you have to do is get your drop, make sure you get your set yourself and make the throw. So there's a lot of components to that. Most importantly, our guys up front, you're only as good as the guys up front. Our hogs are great. Donnie Warren was a special part of that is our, you know, he's not a big pass catching tight end, but he was the guy in the running game and the passing game was able to block Lawrence Taylor and Reggie White and Jerome Brant. I mean, there's great football players back then, too, and we had to have special, special protections against those guys, game plan, those guys understand when they're coming, what they're doing. There's a lot of guys on the same page. We had smart players, we had great athletes and the receivers were as big apart as was Ernest Biner, as far as blitz breakoffs and all the things you have to have in order to not take a sack. And I didn't care. It was like, if my numbers were 57%, I could have held on the ball and maybe thrown 70%, you know, completions. That wasn't what we wanted. We didn't want to get ourselves in a bad situation at any point in time. We want to put ourselves in a good third down situation. Get rid of the ball, if you have to, make a play when you need it to. And we are all pretty good at that. And so I and plus the fact our defense was so good. They've got us in great field position a lot of the time. And our team as a whole with Wayne Severe and special teams. You know, Richie Pettibald run the defensive side and of course, Joe Gibbs. And what we did in the offense, it was just a special year, that year, 91, 92. So you mentioned this. I'd forgotten you were drafted in '86, but then you played in '88. It's just a different time now, right? Where the instant a rookie sets foot on campus, he's the starter, has to be. And the clock has already taken because of the CBA and the way contracts are. But that adjustment, guys don't have that luxury to wait anymore. Jayden Daniels, what's he going through right now and just kind of, you know, related to your own experience and what you see from him? Well, you you want you want Jayden Daniels to be good last year when he wasn't even here, you know, it's like, you know, what can you do for me right now? You know, that's that's the the the narrative for the league right now. I was fortunate I've had some questionable injuries my first two years, you know, they still nagging you. Oh, my goodness, or you roll out. Effect one was above a tire mark. You're supposed to be down. Oh, and we'll jump back, jump back up. Ready to get in the huddle of this mark. You're supposed to be a little hurt. Aren't you a sore? So there's like IR stuff, you know, yeah. So yeah, there's some, you know, some things that we were able to manipulate a little bit to keep guys on IR and because they didn't have practice then so I'm very blessed because of that, you know, and and was willing to do whatever role that I had to to keep on the football team. And then when my time came was was able to watch and that's that's a hard thing now for Jayden, Dan, he doesn't get an opportunity to sit there and watch, you know, what's happening, how the plays are, you know, how how fast the game is, you know, what it's going to be like if he was in that situation. I had two years to do that. So when my time came, I was I was more prepared than Jayden Daniels was. And this kid's this kid's as gifted as they come. I mean, he's got more talent on one pinky than I did in my whole body. And again, I think if we have to be good on defense, you got to get him the football, you know, we can't be giving up 30 points, you know, to a tap of Bay Buccaneers, nothing against the Buccaneers, but we got to be better on defense. We got to have get him the football, get him more touches, get our players more touches, get our skill players more touches and be good on special teams. The special teams has changed now. You see where kickoffs are going now. And everyone is into these optics now where they saw what was happening during the preseason, they kicked it in the red zone. They got it past the 32 to the 35. They said, well, I'm going to kick it out the back of the end zone. You're going to get it at 30. So that's what kickers are doing now. It's almost a waste of special team talent. You know, if you got great special team coverage, guys, they're being wasted by this new rule. And and I still don't I don't understand it. I don't know nor will I ever understand what are they going to do if it's an onside kick. I mean, you're pretty much if you have to tell before you have to tell you got to tip your hand. Yeah. So to me, it's a it's kind of a crazy thing. I don't know. I think the NFL will look at it and see how this year goes. But I do know we want to protect you want to protect the players. We want to protect players from those massive, you know, 30 yard running down fields and Clyde and helmet to helmets. Obviously, we want to do that, but got to be a different way of doing that. What's your take as someone who all your great memories are at RFK Stadium? We're talking a lot about trying to get the team back to DC and the RFK is opposed to maybe something immaculate out by where their current stadium is. Do you have a horse in the race or care much where the next stadium is? I care a lot. I mean, I just I'm just so far removed from it that I hope they get it in RFK. I hope they go back to that that site, wipe the whole place up and build a brand new stadium there and let's get back to, you know, be in what we were at one point in time, you know, one of the most dominant franchises in the history of the NFL. And I think so if if we can do that and I think that'll also bring back some memories and some, you know, a father and her son. The son was being maybe 10 years old when we play then. Now he's 40 years old and his son's coming in. The grandson of the the dad who brought his son to the game. Get them back to that area, that place and that special place where, you know, we can reminisce and build something again because we're starting over from scratch with his newer management team. I've been a proven winner in their other franchises. These 76ers and the devils and soccer. So they know they know what the formula is. Get us a stadium now and get it back there at RFK where RFK site is and and get this fan base excited. I mean, I almost, it almost, you know, it almost hurt like 10 years ago to come back to a Cowboys Redskins game and see more Cowboys fans in the stadium. And it's that's embarrassing. That's not what we're about and I guess we have to put a product out there. We have to put a product that wins weekend and week out and is consistent. And I think I think we got to the people to do it. Now let's just get out and do it. We're still trying to get used to the name. Is it growing on you at all? No, 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 hope they don't lose the fact that we were Redskins. And that's all 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. I was inside a few minutes ago, Danny, and someone said the commanders, the legends are out there. And well, are they I was like, which ones? Yeah, I'm not a commander legend. I'm not a Redskins legend. Oh, I'm a Redskins lover. I'll say you can say we got you to the little MVP. I love I love my guys. I love this guy, Ricky Irvin. I mean, he's one of the best people and all those guys. They come back and they play in our Mickey Steel event we have out in Queenstown, and we get about 50 of these guys. And they're so they mean so much to us. And Ricky was a big part of that Super Bowl team and we love him. And all the guys, you know, they're just they just mean a lot. Have you had much interaction with Josh Harrison company and what they've been like? Yeah, yeah, during, you know, in kind of when they got the team and there's some stuff that they're doing in Vegas, I went out there and got to meet Josh and his brother and you know, they've invited me up to New Jersey. They've never got there for Devil's game or veteran Philly, you know, but I just want to support these guys in this team and get these this commander's football team back to playing the type of football the Redskins played back in our air. So we appreciate the time and the any. Thank you. Awesome catching up with you and just great to get the chat with the legends that made this team still what it is now so many years ago. Fantastic. These guys, but it's more it's better to be here with what we're doing today, and that's really, really honoring these these veterans, honoring our servicemen and women and making sure our families, the families, these servicemen and women are remembered and also taken care of and that's what this money is