Grant and Danny
What Was More Discouraging; The Offense Or Defense?
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So when you get a hunch in the middle of the game, you can check out the latest stats, view live play-by-play, and so much more on the same page where you place your bets. You'll get started with $200 in bonus bets guaranteed when you place your first $5 bet. That's Fandal.com/sportsfan. Never waste a hunch, and make every moment more with Fandal, an official sports book partner of the NFL. It must be 21 plus and present in Colorado. First online real moneyweights are only $10 first deposit required. Bonus issued is now a throwable bonus bets that expire seven days after receipt. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fandal.com gambling problem, call 1-800-522-4700. Tampa Bay did whatever they wanted offensively, 9 of 13 on third down. When you add in the penalties, of which there were four on third down defensively, the numbers actually skew way worse than that. Washing in just two of eight on third downs with the football. Tampa Bay had a advantage well over 150 yards when Washington started its final garbage time drive. Their receivers at that point had 19 receiving yards. I mean, there's plenty of blame to go around. The kicker who they've already released missed two field goals, kicked a ball out of bounds on special teams. By the way, the dynamic kickoff, you can't call it something like that you're asking to be made fun of, but the new kickoff, we had a kick return for a touchdown. Yes. And we had several long kick returns across midfield yesterday. Indeed. So this is the design. I know everybody wants to beat up on it and can't wait every time there's a touch back to make their Twitter jokes. The results is the result. I mean, we had plays made on kickoff class. I'm again, as a longtime fan of these various sports, what be they baseball where we've seen substantive change over the last couple of years footballs. Well, I'm willing to deal with a lot as long in order to get the thing. And what I mean is, I'd like kick returns to be part of the game. Kick returns are part of the game. Make a good look as weird as it wants. Put seven guys on one hash mark. You can line them up single file. You can pretend to be a cloud sculpture or something. Whatever you want to do, as long as I get kick returns, I'll deal with it. What if they all have to sit pretzel style with their knees touching and then get up and start blocking, but they can't use their left hand. Everybody has to do Chris Cross applesauce until the guy catches it. Fine. Let's do it. Yeah. So far, I would say so good. But anyway, what was more discouraging to you guys? And we're going to open up the phones on this at 800-636-1067. Danny, you and I can start. Were you more disappointed in the offense or the defense? The offense. And to me, it's not close. Disappointment comes from expectations not being met. My expectations are met on the defensive side of the ball. I thought they'd be a little bit better, but not much. You know what? This is the worst defensive unit in the sport last year. And they're on their way to doing that again. Offensively with a new hot shot, handsome dude with the deep voice and a flat top in charge with the number two overall pick, Heisman Trophy quarterback with multiple new offensive linemen with new pieces, almost everywhere. And the only holdover really from years before guys that have produced here, guys like Brian Robinson and Terry McCorran for them to be that anemic. And they were all masked, how unproductive they were by incredible running and scrambling from Jayden Daniels. Again, deep into the third quarter, more than half of their yards were on Daniel's scrambles. Not designed runs and keepers and ingenious things. Nothing was coming from the actual offense itself. It was Daniels put the cape on and see what you can do and lose your helmet half the time. To me, it was glaring, disappointing, jarring, awful. Respectfully, while you're right, they were terrible defensively last year, six of their 11 starters weren't here last year. It's a new defense almost entirely of the five guys that are still starting. Two of them are Doron Payne and John Allen, who I don't think you or anybody else wants to get rid of because supposedly they're outstanding. Right? So now that's eight of your 11 guys. So that means that Benjamin St. Giust and Emmanuel Forbes and Quan Martin, those are the three guys on the secondary are the holdovers. But here's the good news to that. Gen Queen is a defensive back whisperer. You hired a defensive minded head coach to help fix your defense. And I didn't think he was going to be able to do it before the first game. So it's not like I am throwing in the towel. But I know this sounds crazy because we haven't dealt with this here in Washington in a long, long time where you would go out and get a defensive minded head coach and a big name, defensive coordinator that he brings with him. And then they don't fix the defense at all. And the defense becomes a huge problem and and just doesn't play up to its standards. But anyway, we're just having fun. That's all fun. We're just fun. Come on. Who's done it? Who's done it? Come on. We're fun. And the point of the news story is eight of 11 guys, man, are either John Allen, Deron Payne or a new starter that they brought in here. So in a lot of ways, it's in Dan Quinn's image primarily. It's in Adam Peters image to an extent secondary, not ideal. I understand where we're at there. And the secondary really struggled, but it's not like the linebacker court lit it up. I made Frankie Louvoo Mark. How many times you notice Frankie Louvoo? Not many, man. Bobby Wagner, future Hall of Famer, missed a few tackles was late getting to a couple of things. Now, I will say this, he's a wrecking ball. He's going to make a lot of tackles too. He had three TFLs in the backfield, but it's pretty clear to me from a foot speed standpoint. This ain't your older brother's Bobby Wagner. If you know what I mean, which stands to reason. So you had Cleveland Farrell, who's new. You had Doran Armstrong, who's new, Louvoo Wagner, Jeremy Chin, the new version of Quan Martin, Mikey Sandristillo. They drafted, told us was the best pound for pound player in the draft. And I like Mike Sandristillo. I think he's going to be awesome. I'm high on him. But as far as Forbes and St. Jews who were punching bags yesterday, Quinn will fix it. You know, they're going to be better with coaching. That was part of the expectation to be clear. We heard those guys are better. They're different. They're improved and you just didn't see it. So respectfully to the offense, which I'm not letting them off the hook. They were disappointing to the defense was so bad. And all we heard about was arriving violently in the secret. So much violent arriving. Like, you know, how we're going to play, how we play is not for everybody. You mean, like my ice, you know, how we like pro football teams, the one who can tell how we play is not for everyone, like fans who want to see stops or punts. You know, the other team punted once it's not for the opposing team's punter. I'll tell you that they'll get it right. Hopefully they'll figure it out. But through one game, I think realistically, I didn't think they'd come out offensively and look great. It's going to be a it's going to take a lot of time on defense. I at least thought they'd be able to get creative and mix some potions and and just look a lot improved. And we did not get that we did not say that. They averaged 3.7 yards a carry Tampa Bay did eight tackles for loss for Washington defenders. So I think in general, they did a good job against the run. Now Tampa Bay stinks at running. They're it's a long running theme for them. No pun intended. They're a bad running football team. But my god, did Baker Mayfield look like a Hall of Famer. How'd you like my guy, Buck Yerving? You look comfortable. He's got a little burst. Buck Buck Yerving to play a little bit. Buck Yerving is a better runner the football than Rashad, right? But Rashad White's a better player because you see me in the open field doing some things matriculating with the passing game. In addition to being a guy that I really wanted to draft is Bucky Irving the name of the guy from Captain America? Or is that something else? Is there a Bucky Barnes looking for Bucky Barnes? There is a Bucky. There is a Bucky. Yeah. All right. Back to you, Danny. But yeah, it was obviously the passing past defense. Again, last year, if you played quarterback against Washington, you put up Hall of Fame MVP type numbers and we're one for one with that happening again. It's all the same stuff. Different personality as you alluded to, but the same excuse is the same reasoning, the same, oh, it's communication or whatever the hell excuse they usually offer when they get burned a lot. This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. Whether you love true crime or comedy, celebrity interviews or news, you call the shots on what's in your podcast queue. And guess what? Now you can call them on your auto insurance too, with the name of your price tool from Progressive. It works just the way it sounds. You tell Progressive how much you want to pay for car insurance and they'll show you coverage options that fit your budget. Get your quote today at progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. 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