Grant and Danny
Around The NFL After Week 1
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Head to toyota.com for more info or visit your local Toyota dealership today. Toyota, let's go places. Abroad we go. We'll get into the games around the league in a lot more detail, just the rhythm of our week generally as we do that a lot on Tuesday. We really dive as deep into the commander's game as we can on Mondays. But quickly here around the league, lions Rams was great last night. What great theater went to overtime, Stafford back in Detroit through for three, 17 in the touchdown. Jared Goff and the Detroit Lions, though, get the last laugh. 26 to 20 in OT, they bullied the Rams on an eight play, 70 yard, David Montgomery, power handoff, fast and overtime. He went for 91 in the game winning score. Detroit a winner. Detroit was better for probably what 50 of the 67 minutes played. But you know, that furious come back there by the Rams credit to them for doing it. And again, listen, it wasn't as if they scored a million points and were incredible. They scored 20 on the road to Detroit. But you have a priority, which is to get Cooper cup the football. He had 14 catches that wasn't for 250 yards, was just over 100. But still, they want Cooper cup to have the football. You find a way to get him the football. Ta da. The Dallas Cowboys have a way of opening the season. Well, and they did it yesterday. Double dominant Browns 33 to 17. They were actually up 33 to 10 before a garbage time touchdown for Cleveland. They got the best kicker in the league, maybe in this kid Brandon Aubrey, the former pro soccer player, or they signed in training camp last year. How does Washington do whatever that was? Aubrey made kicks from 57 40 and 50 and 46 was four for four in the game. That got the fact contract at a really good first half. And then basically took the second half off and put on a visor. They blew the Browns out of the yeah, throttle it down. Cleveland looked terrible. Deshawn Watson was awful in this game. And that's kind of where it starts and stops. He has been awful for a long time, about three years running. That's the worst contract in the history of the league. It's certainly up there. I mean, it's proven out to be at this stage. He might as a good game in Washington, if you recall, he looked awesome. He's fine. Well, relatively well, I will say this, by his standards, post the massage table, he was incredible in that game. I mean, like this version of Deshawn Watson, he was passable, which is incredible. Well, I say that in just a just as it relates. If you played Washington last year as a quarterback, you were the MVP of the league. I mean, that's not hyper that's not hyperbole either. You for tonight touchdowns, eight interceptions, 105.7 quarterback rating, 4600 yards. That's what opposing quarterbacks did to Washington. That includes like pedestrian games from guys like Desmond Ritter and a couple others. So I thought you were talking about when he was in DC for the Wentz game two years ago. When he played Washington, I thought that's what you were talking about. I just conflated right. That was two years ago. Anyway, so my zinger sucked. Point is Cleveland was terrible. He might have played him last year or two years ago. Okay, then. Well, why are we bad on defense? No, you're fine. Rookie quarterbacks. Let's do that. Bonix atrocious. No passes beyond four feet. Pretty much. He still threw two interceptions, too, by the way. That was a disaster. Caleb Williams was a disaster in week number one, whether they score an offensive touchdown. Caleb Williams was 14 of 29 for 93 yards. Yards per attempt. Some quick math here, 3.2 for Caleb gross. He also held the ball forever. He did the thing he did in college where he'd run all over the place and then flick up all 50 yards minus the flicking of the ball thing because he just got sacked or ran out of bounds or whatever. It was ugly and yet the bears somehow got up off the mat. They were down 17 to nothing and with a defensive touchdown and a blocked punt touchdown by Simone Biles, boyfriend, they ended up coming all the way back to beat the Titans and great will hurt thing. Good will hurt thing. The line's not as bad as the numbers, but the pick six was one of the worst plays I've ever seen. Yeah, early on, they were good. I'm sitting there. I've got, I've got my gloating text ready. August, Tennessee was frisky. They were the better team for most of that game. And then they fell apart, combined with the, the, the block punt for a touchdown. And then one of the 10 worst play. I mean, that's up there with the butt fumble in terms of worst plays I've ever seen. What are we going to call it? It could just be the heart thing, the heart to kick six. I mean, I don't know who you saw. I don't know once you go. This will work. This was like an M night Shyamalan movie. And maybe he could direct that play. It was so spooky that will I think starring Will. I think that was so bad. Please go watch it. It's the funniest thing. He's like falling down and he decides to like throw the ball like a, like a second Mason pitching it to a shortstop. I'm going to say like on a, on a six, four, three double play, the way Luis Garcia would just flip the ball over to CJ. He's on the way to the ground, but I don't know, it wasn't like throw it to a guy. It seemed like he was trying to get it to the sideline, but there was a bears defensive back there in the world where decisions can happen in an instant, you know, like we're going to trailer. I do my bit where today is my day, whereby tomorrow on the air, I will have watched every play of every game via all, you know, the condensed game and I do it every single week. It's just football, man. I've not done it yet. So Will Davis could have had like a decent game otherwise. That's the play that I saw most notably, and it's just that one's tough. I'm not going to remember some of the early, early game success. I'm going to remember the whole thing. Speaking of quarterbacks who had tough days, Kirk O'Chains, Kirk Cousins and the Atlanta Falcons. I'm a little worried about Kirk. Danny, coming back from at least this was as bad a performance as I've seen from Cousins in a long, long time, but he also just looked immobile. It's not the right word, but they had him in pistol or shotgun on every single play. He was never under center. So that tells me one of two things. Either they have a terrible plan because what he does best is under center play action, drop back shotgun stuff, excuse me, a play action pass, drop back game, or they're not comfortable with him dropping back on that Achilles or something, but he ended up throwing two interceptions, including one at the end of the game. The Falcons defense played well enough to win and he just, you know, the offense couldn't get anything going really that you couldn't run the ball. I'm a little worried about the post Achilles Cousins first game. Two things. One Pittsburgh's defense is still great and TJ Watt had one of those games. I mean, this is a good, this is when you are when it's like, you know, the comeback from commercial break before they introduce TJ Watt for the Hall of Fame, you could play the highlights from this one where he's, I mean, there was a time where they go, we've got to call a penalty on you because you were too fast. By the way, he had two sack fumbles taken off the board for penalties, too. Yeah. We're still at a monster game. You, you, you were just too fast. So we're going to, we think you were off sides, but we can't prove it. I mean, unbelievable. So that's part of it. The other part, here's what reminded me of it. Again, this is, this is one maybe, you know, his health years of the year goes talking about cousins. Remind me of later career, Matt Ryan, Matt Ryan, you know, he never really liked stuff at his feet, right? If he had his feet set, can pat the football, he'll deliver as good as anybody. But if you made a move around, have it when he had to reset his feet, he wouldn't get as much on the football and he was vulnerable. That's what it looked like. That first interception that cousins through was, there was nothing on it. It was noodle-y and it's like he thought there'd be some reserve of arm strength there as his feet weren't set and there wasn't. That's when you kind of go, oh, maybe he's not quite right yet. Maybe that'll change, but week one, not a good showing. 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. 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Or check other massive inventory in person at the sharpest rides, located 2250 South Sea Home Street in Inglewood. Either way, you will fall into savings. Don't miss out, head on over to the sharpest rides.com today and explore the deals that make every season better. And tell them that your girl Tasha McKia is sent you. The sharpest ride, affordable, sexy, sharp. Dear Autumn Leaves, you won't be covering roads alone this season. Toyota's lineup of cool, colorful vehicles is ready to ride by your side. Take on fall in a trail tackling Tacoma, or go for the powerful tundra. Head to Toyota.com for more info or visit your local Toyota dealership today. Toyota, let's go places.