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Calls On Game Balls & Gassers, Breaking: K Cade York Has Been Released, Double Play

9.9.24 Hour 2

1:00- We take your calls while you give out game balls & gassers.

20:00- After Cade York missed two field goals yesterday, the Commanders released him after week 1. Then, we get more breaking news that the Commanders will sign Austin Seibert.

34:10- What's going on with our lives that has nothing to do with sports?

Broadcast on:: 09 Sep 2024
Audio Format:: other

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I mean, the guy, we were all jumbled. Right there, right? And maybe it's three and he finished in last this past year, which means the loser punishment we came up with is an embarrassing photo shoot. And so we're all going to pick really embarrassing outfits. I think Ryan wants him in overalls and a cowboy hat or something. I'm going to have him in goggles and a swim cab with a towel on. And he's just got to go to this photo shoot this couple of weeks away now. And I bring this up to tell you. Darris was making like his requests for the things he doesn't want. An outstanding list. It's a good no list. Well, whether they get abided by or not, we'll see over time. We're going to try to chisel away at them little by little to just keep working at them. Darris, I'll give you a hint. Cisco sang about it, buddy. Let me see that. I can't remember that. I can't remember that. Yeah. But how you feeling over there? Pretty good as we get closer to photo day. That size says it all by the way. I don't feel great. I don't feel great. Hold on. Was it a let me see it? Was it this song that you're referring to? Might have been could be this one. I'm familiar with the intro. What is this? Sounds like it's like a Bridgerton version of said song. I got to tell you though, Darris, a you're a good sport and be anytime you want to get out of the cellar, you can pick some winners and you could probably pull that off. All right. Let's get to the phones. People want to chime in game balls to the best. Gasters to the worst. The commanders and embarrassing loss. Just even if your expectations were calibrated correctly for this is a rebuilding season. I'm sorry, recalibrating season. Could you recalibrate your answer, please? We've got to find North. Even if you didn't think they'd find North that quickly, this was still disappointing. Yeah. It's fine. North the new be where your feet are. Just the quick side. Yeah, I didn't expect them any good. I thought this defense would struggle. I didn't see a lot of upgrades there, even with improved coaching. Really especially in the secondary. But to me, the offense is the part that I'm going, oh no. That's what I'm really concerned about. And what was left to Jane Daniels, which is just go bail us out. There's not much there. There was nothing in the flow of the offense for three quarters of the game. Let's go to Shane and DC to get it started. What's up, Shane? Mannered Danny and Grant. Boy, oh boy, we in trouble. I'm in trouble, I tell you this right now. But my gaseous go to everybody on the damn commander's team. Offense and defense. How can you give a game ball to this thing? Like 15 year old kids and 13 year old kids. You don't get a second place trophy. And they don't get a game ball. How do you get a game ball without performance? And here's another thing. If Forbes, our secondary is by the worst I've seen in a long time with like, these are not even starters that on any other team in the league right now. And it just goes to show you that we are still got wrong or bear it left over if draft choices were absolutely just ridiculous. Just call it what it is. But my gaseous go to everybody. Oh, it looks like here's what it looked like. If you look like University of Tennessee going up and down that field in North Carolina state yesterday, you want to see a defense? What's the University of Tennessee did? They go to the ball. Like there's nobody on that defense that flew to the ball as they say and surround. Johnson Allen, what he do? I mean, he's, what, 28 years old now. This is a rebuilding year. We know that. So at this point, we need to start moving people because it's a rebuild. And let's call it what it is. This defense is absolutely horrible. Well, Shane, thank you. Thanks for the call. As they get closer to Halloween like they did last year, if they're just out of it, I do think it's a possibility that you see them do something similar to last year. This ownership group showed you how they view. This is an owner that has ties to the NBA where they make a lot of those types of trades and other sports. They don't as much in football, but they did the sell off thing that you almost never see in the NFL. They got rid of their top two defense events and they went and got draft pick compensation. We've seen with some of the things they did, including trading Jahan Datsen, who they didn't, they feel like was a fit or could help them a whole lot, which seems more curious after yesterday, I would say. But they went and got a third round pick. They value picks. So I don't think it's a non zero that if we're closing on Halloween and they're not a good team and they're not competitive in terms of the standings and in games that someone like Alan with no guaranteed money left or someone like Doron Payne could be on the trade block. But I think there's no reason to discuss that today or put the cart before the horse. It's one week and week one can be a liar sometimes. Yeah, again, so many fluke results and this over the last several years, remember the year the Jacksonville won two games all year. They rolled in week one and looked great and then won once again in that same calendar year, weird stuff happens. Cincinnati, who we expect to be really good, was the worst team in the NFL? Yesterday, probably, right? I mean, maybe actually that's not your Carolina plate. But everybody else, they were the second worst team probably. Like weird stuff happens in week one. So I'm not going to slam any gavels just yet, but you give a little extra weight when your priors are confirmed and a lot of mine were confirmed yesterday. I think that's how I feel, you know? Yeah, when it's what you were worried about comes to fruition immediately. You don't view it as flooky. And even if you're going to eventually be wrong and it was a fluke, as of right now, it doesn't feel like it anyway. I will give credit to one corner who I thought stood out. Noah Igany had a pass break up. I thought he was in coverage tight a couple of times. Didn't play a lot. But he was the one of all the guys, even Santa was still who I love. He got baptized a little bit in a tough match up inside with Chris Godwin, who's outstanding and is going to make more Pro Bowls in his career. But I thought Igany haven't seen what the grading looks like. Be a PFF or anything, but I would imagine he's one of their higher graded DBs. Let's go to Mark and Largo on G and D. Hey, Mark. Hey, what's up guys? Um, I think you have to give a game. Paula Jayden, but I'm kind of reluctant to do that. And I believe the gas routes go to Adam Peters. And I'm going to tell you why I say Adam Peters. I don't blame Dan Quinn for yesterday and I don't blame Cliff Kingsborough. I think Cliff Kingsbury is working with what he adds. Adam Peters, unless Danny, you probably can agree with me on this when I go through time. I won't talk about it. Starting with the coaching surfs, which was a total disaster. Dan Quinn was probably not their first choice. No, probably not their second choice. No, I wouldn't say he was their third choice. He was their fourth or fifth choice. And then they pump him up like he was the original choice. It's just like Noah Brown. Noah Brown, they got awful waivers. And they're building him up like he's the second coming to Jerry Wright. I popped it, sorry. We're all like, Noah Brown's going to help him. Noah Brown's going to help him. Yeah, yeah, I mean, you're building this guy up like he's the second coming to Jerry Wright. And the saddest part about all of this is he doesn't want to admit to getting rid of you had all this cap money. Okay. And Jayden is playing exactly like I told everybody who's going to play a month ago. Just like Robert, like he feels like he has to do everything. Like Robert had to do 12 years ago. I have to do everything because I have no talent out there. I am not trying to criticize and say, I hate Luke McCaffrey. I have nothing against him at all. That is not the point. What I am trying to say is this. They don't have another two receiver behind Terry. They don't even have another three receiver behind Terry. Danny, you and I both know this receiving core as bad as they were last. You is much better than this one they got now. Appreciate you buddy. Thanks, dude. Yeah, I mean, I think this was, I've been open about this and people are tired of me saying it, but I think this was a huge unforced error by the front office. I just disagree fundamentally with the plan. They seem to be very satisfied. They're like, we'll have some development internally, whether it's we trust down me Brown to do it or, you know, some readily available, you know, late third rounder. Also, Rand will be able to step in and give us the production we want and need. I fundamentally disagree with that approach. I think it reared its head yesterday. It's for one game. I'm not going to be able to say like, I'm right. You guys are wrong. You're idiots. I mean, they got a plan. They're smarter than me. They're good at building a team. But I think this was an easily upgradable opportunity that they decided not to. And, you know, week one of the results weren't good. Yeah, I'll never argue or disagree on the standpoint that they don't have enough weapons or talent. You're not going to get me to do that. But when you do have one really good player and he catches his first pass at the three-minute mark of the third quarter and he is targeted four times twice on throws that are either uncatchable on just down the field throwaway types or out of bounds. So really two catchable targeted balls within the field of play. All game long, why would we waste any time talking about who they don't have? The guys they have they didn't use. Austin Echler mostly stood on the bench. Zach Arets, I know you've heard, heard to him as a catch and fall guy. He's still can box guys out and make contested catches. He proved it on one of the only throws into a small window in the entire game by Jayden Daniel. It was a nice play by Arets. It was like a nine yard kind of in-breaking route with a line backer on his back. Hurts, hurt's up. Daniel throws it and Earth's kind of reaches back across his body a little bit. It makes a really good catch. So there's still value there, by the way. Exactly. Yeah, because he can catch the ball. You wouldn't know it because you didn't see him. That's kind of my point. Like, I'll have more time to have the conversation about what they lack in weaponry when the guys that they do have are doing something. And until they use those guys, to me, then it's more of an issue than talent, right? It's a scheme problem, too, if you can't get your decent players open. Let's go to Todd and Haymarket. What's up, Todd? Hey, boys. How you doing? Thanks for taking my call on the club show. Thanks, sir. Hey, my wife and I just got back. We were down at the game at Tampa yesterday. And I do have a game ball to hand out. And that's for the commander fans that showed up yesterday. We infested their stadium just like FedEx or whatever Northwest stadium gets infested by other teams. So that was kind of a good feeling. When you can hear 15, 20,000 fans hollering defense during our time, we're on defense. It kind of felt good like, hey, we could infest other stadiums, too. So that's cool. There's still commander fans out there. And I really appreciate how hot were you? My wife actually went to the game with her brother and I was texting with her. Yeah, it was a little rough. But I tell you what, we were sitting on the kind of the home side of the field because that's where the shade comes in. Oh, that's hard. When we sat down, the shade was on us. So we were good and we were like looking over there where the ship was and all those people sitting in the sun. It was just making it brutalized over there. Yeah, that was my wife. I mean, she was there. Yeah, she was right in front of, I guess, the pirate ship. And she just kept saying like, it's the hottest I've ever been. And she saw one person after another dropping and being carried out of there with EMTs going to get them. That's fun stuff. It was so hot, apparently. Yeah, they were doing stick on the broadcast. Where it's like, it's finally dropped a little 100 degrees on the field. Like, I feel great for Laura that she's in such comfortable settings. That is a thing, though. Think about it. The number of fans, and I can relate to this personally, but you fly, you get a flight. You get a hotel, like you go down there. And I'm not saying anybody's owned anything, right? You are owed an entertaining enough product to go out and enjoy the game. Yeah, you opted in. I think you got some of that, right? And everyone's an adult. You can go to a movie and not like it or go to a TV show filming or whatever. And you not be entertained by the guests that night, a standup comedian can have an off night. But I mean, people really did invest. I mean, there were thousands and thousands of fans that made that trip, which I think speaks well to the juice with at least the die heart. Really something. Yeah, that was fun. Still in this fan base. Let's go to Lou and Silver Spring on G&D. What's up, Lou? Hey, guys. Thanks for taking my call. Game balls. I think I would give one to Jayden. You know, he showed some poise. You can kind of see all the good stuff he can do with his legs. I think with time and maturity, you know, you can really kind of see what he can do for us. I will also give one to B-Rob. I just think ever since that guy got shot in the leg a little over a year ago, he just showed you exactly why he's your number one running back. Every gasser you guys could have goes to the defense and to the defensive coaches, including Dan Quinn for me, you know, to the previous caller. I need to see much more out of Allen and Payne. Those guys make the money up front. Just not hitting home with it. If we have to wait half a year for Forbes to figure it out, we're going to lose a lot of games. And I'm just, I was a little upset that, you know, we have Dan Quinn. We have Joe Witt and Dallas's defense didn't skip a beat. They looked amazing yesterday. Torque, Cleveland, a new one. And that was a little discouraging for me. But that's, that's it. Thanks guys. That's a good point by the way. Just, you know, again, week one, weird stuff happens, but Dallas defense looked just fine. Oh, Mike Zimmer had that playing ball. I will say Robinson as a ball carrier, as long as seven, it was 12 for 40. So it was 3.3 a pop. Yeah. Didn't do a whole lot for me there. I thought he was outstanding as a receiver. Mm-hmm. Three catches for almost 50 yards. He made more guys miss on his three catches per capita than anybody. He had the big 32 yard catch and run, remember? Yeah. Along the sideline where he got down to the goal line and set up a touchdown. So three for 49 there. And it would have been four for, you know, probably close to 55-60, if not for that first throw. I thought that was sticky tack, by the way, that block in the back. Oh, that one gets called back too. Yeah, that's right. Big rumble. Right. So yeah, I mean, that, I didn't even count that one. I mean, that could have been, you know, he, he actually did have closer to almost 70 yards. Mm-hmm. Um, if that's not negated. But I've said this since last year when I went and saw a training camp, a couple of practices and seeing him catch it, he could do that. Yep. Now you have Echler. So there's no reason not to use both. But you take that penalty away. They combine for like eight for well over a hundred, the two of them. I think that should be a part of the offense all year. 100%. And I personally am a huge fan of Brian Robinson. Like who's tougher than that guy? The, what he came back from that no one should have to deal with is outrageous. But that I put a period there, the next paragraph. Just not my style. It's not my thing. The way you're running the football forever, for every like tough run where he's angry and gets an extra yard and a half or something like that. And everyone loves and they're pounding their chest like it's Rigo in the eighties. There's a scat back on the sidelines that can be doing more and does more dynamic stuff. He got to like him in the open field in the past game though. That's, that's to me what's exciting. Yeah. And I've got a better version of that in Echler. So I would, I would just reverse the splits. Give me way more Echler. One other thing, he said game ball to Jaden Daniels. Again, I'll give a game ball to Jaden Daniels running the football for sure. They did very little passing the football and everyone's a part of that. It's not just his problem, but I'm looking at this. He was charged with three fumbles yesterday. What am I missing? Now they called the first play a fumble on the pass. Because it's a backwards pass. Funnel line. Then there was the sack fumble. That was recovered by Wiley. Yes. Yep. No, I think it was recovered by Yottish. And that was like, he just had his hand too low. One hand on the ball that shouldn't happen. He'll learn to not do that. What was the other fumble? I don't know. I got to think. That was the one down along the goal line or something. I have to pull up where the third fumble was. Let's go to Reggie and Charlotte. Hey, Reggie. Hey, guys, you got me? Yes, sir. Yeah, go ahead. You're on the radio. Okay. Yeah. So game ball goes to Jaden Daniels. I agree with you all. Passing the ball kind of left me a little, little one and more. But running the ball, once you got settled down after that first drive, he looked amazing out there. He's like the fastest guy on the field. But you knew that coming out of LSU. And then we could just find a way to safely continue to implement that in the game plan. Sign me up for more of that. But other people also, gasses, gasses go to the defensive line. You can't have Baker Mayfield in the backfield kind of corral for five or six potential sacks and not only give them one of them. And that turns the game around for me, at least on defense, because you get off the field and you give your offense a lot more opportunities. If you can close those drives and close those plays out. So gasses go to the defense and definitely agree with you all. Coming in, I wanted to see all of the expectations match up with the potential on the field, the expectations for being fast and physical and smart on the field. The defense didn't live up to that. Joe Witt, his defense didn't live up to that as a defensive coordinator. Also Dan Quinn. So I definitely want expectations to be heightened in the performance to match that. But that's my game ball and that's my gap. Love to show. Thanks for taking the call. Appreciate you buddy. Yeah, they said basically the catchphrase on defense has been arrived violently. I'll just go with arriving and then we'll worry about the violently part after that. By the way, I found it. The third fumble. You remember there was like a keeper, a read option play guy to the sideline and he hurtled a guy right at the sideline. Like literally jumped over him. Yeah. When he jumped over, I remember now the ball like popped up in the air and he fumbled out of bounds. Oh. So it was ruled a fumble out of bounds. There you go. So a nothing burger but three fumbles for the record. Breaking news on the kicking situation, which we have not gotten into. I won't bury the complete lead, but I'll let you know. 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So by releasing him after his one blunder of a game, they now no longer have to give up a seventh round pick. So it was the equivalent of just grabbing a guy that was on the waiver wire essentially. Here's the bigger problem though. Since they released Brandon McManus after the allegations that have since been dropped, came out about him on an airplane harassing flight attendants, possibly assaulting flight attendants. They have been on the kicker carousel. This is no place that you want to be, Danny. Nope. Mamas, don't let your kids grow up to be kickers. Ramiz Ahmed signed and cut. Riley Patterson signed and cut. Cade York acquired via trade and now cut. They will be on to their fifth kicker, fifth, since the spring and their fourth kicker, since just the start of training camp when they bring somebody in here in the next 24 hours. So yeah, I don't know, man, the whole time I was going during training camp, they seem to be very comfortable, meaning we'll just work it out. Whatever's going to happen is going to happen. We'll, we'll, someone will get cut or we'll trade for somebody. And they did and it clearly wasn't solved. The way I would do it is acknowledge that, hey, there's nothing that's close to being done here. It's the only position where you can really do this. But if you've put foot to ball within the last calendar year or so, come on down. Here's a plane ticket. Come see us in Ashburn. We got a little regional airport right there or you can fly to Dallas. We'll send you a car. We'll get you an Uber. Come right to the facility, kick the ball through the upright sometimes. Show us how you do kickoffs, et cetera. I would have had far more of a wider net cast. I mean, they're, they're narrowing it down via scouting and guys that they like or have experience with. But again, we're through one week. And as you said, kicker number five is calendar year. I'm asking a question. I'm not making a point. Mm hmm. So please nobody get angry at me. Don't cancel me. I've got a couple of kids at home. They just need daddy to keep his job. You can't bring Brandon McManus back in. Can you? I don't think so. The, the thing that I read a couple days ago, I want to make sure I got it right. So I just looked it up. There is an amended complaint now because the initial charges were dismissed. There's an amended lawsuit with certain details or a couple, you know, changes in some way. So it's whatever the legal trouble is around McManus seems to still be pending. That's a name that I would have been interested in if they decided that they could go that route because his legal status has changed since they cut him. Obviously it would not be a great PR move. Greg Joseph got cut by the Green Bay Packers in training camp. He was with the Vikings the last three years as a big leg. That's a name that's interesting to me. But let's actually get some breaking news on who it sounds like they could be bringing in right now. Breaking news on the fan brought to you by BetqL. Smarter bets start with BetqL. Get three free days of BetqL access by downloading the BetqL app or visiting BetqL.com. This is via national reporter for NFL Network Tom Pelisero. The commanders plan to sign veteran kicker Austin Cybert. He is on their short list. They are in the works on a deal with him already. So by saying goodbye to one former Browns kicker in Kate York, they could be bringing another one in in Austin Cybert. He kicked last year for the Jets went one of one on field goal attempts. It was between 30 and 39 and he made his only extra point. He handled three kickoffs. So very, very minimal action in the NFL last season in 2022. He was with Detroit. He went three for five, his longest attempt was short of 50 and he hit all 12 of his extra points. In his career, 56 of 62 on extra points and 45 of 53 about an 80% rate on his field goal attempts. But interestingly, if you look at made from 50 plus just two, four, seven in his career. So he hasn't really shown a whole lot of length from deep. But these are the guys that are available. He's 27. They're also probably not trying to find the best kicker necessarily for next week, but someone who could grow into being their long term kicker that they could have around here for the rest of the season and beyond. So Austin Cybert is the next man up. Yeah. So I remember from Cleveland a few seasons ago. It feels like you had a pretty good year then. But again, that's like five calendar years ago. He's been kicking around a lot of part time stuff filling in a handful of games with Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, you mentioned the one game with the Jets. So there are guys with more significant resumes. You mentioned Greg Joseph who's been kicking pretty steadily in the league for a while. They don't seem to be interested in that there. They're very much in this cave York tier of guys that were in the league kind of a now art as much that like this is where they're mining. Clearly they like the idea of like young and potential like hasn't been great yet, but maybe he could be. Ramiza Medd, no experience, Riley Patterson limited, not great experience. Kate York, same exact thing. And now Cybert. That's four straight guys with dudes like Greg Joseph and others who have kicked in the league for years out there. So I think again, they're not just trying to answer the question who would be the best kicker against the Giants. They're basically saying who might be a kicker here? It's like signing anyone in any position. Sure. You're not just going out and getting some 34 year old to get you to the end of the year. They're trying to build the room, so to speak. So let me ask this question. They're rhetorically because I think that's at least a silly philosopher or a thought. Wouldn't you then not be cutting guys after a game? If you want to think long term because we're building, if this is a recalibration or we're finding north as we rebuild or we're building north or whatever it is we're doing right now, wouldn't you be more patient? Like if you're trying to win the division and this guy's screwing you, you got to act now. I'm just asking. I don't have an answer. I would say yes if there wasn't a draft pick tide tool. In other words, I, I really believe that if a seventh round pick wasn't on the line by keeping him till next week, he'd still be here. But if there's no real difference between him and Austin cyber or the other guys on your list, save yourself a seventh. So you're basically saying, what's better? Austin cyber or Cade York and a seventh round pick? You know, they value picks. I mean, they've made it very clear. So I think that's why they did what they did today. Now your question could be, why would they have been willing to give a seventh round or up? And maybe if he came in here and he kicked the lights out, then it doesn't matter. In practice every day, he's crushing it and, you know, he's good from 57 yesterday and he's good from, you know, 47 and he went two for two or whatever, then maybe they feel like, I don't care that we're giving up a seventh rounder. We got our kicker of the future and we love the length on the leg. By the way, there was a record number of field goals made from 50 plus in the league yesterday. Did you guys see that stat? There was a record. Yes, there's never been more kicks of 50 or more or even 54 or more, both categories made in any one week in NFL history as there was yesterday. It's so maddening when you watch all these other games. Chris Boswell, good from 50 plus, saved the Steelers bacon. I think he made three six kicks in the game, saved their bacon on three field goals 50 plus. There were three different kickers who had multiple 50 yard field goals, essentially. Yesterday and Washington's guy goes out from 47 and can't figure it out. The type of miss matters to me. I know it maybe doesn't anyone else. They just want it in and that's kind of the end of it. But when a guy's not, you know, dramatically off where it's like, it looks like he never had a chance. Both of those, both of his kicks kind of faded towards the end, plenty of distance there. I don't know. I'm when someone's not close with like, I met a couple of times kicked the ball and it's like you've never kicked the ball before. That's what it looks like. It looks like you were out there. You won some kind of contest for Dr. Pepper at half time of a college ball game to win a couple grand or something. It looked ridiculous. I thought you're looked fine. I know the balls that go through the upright and it's because they sort of drifted to the right there a little bit, but it wasn't like, oh, these are laughable attempts like Chris Blueitz were, you know? No, I don't think he's a laughable option. I don't think he's a guy that's going to make terrible kicks attempts. But making them is the name of the game. Sure. I don't care. So that matters. I read that down. If they're sailing beautifully end over end and it's a nice loud thud when you make contact, that's all cool. But the most important part is when that thing sails into the end zone, it's got to go through those yellow things. Let's go to Chris and Hyatt's villain, GND. What's up, Chris? What's up? Hey, why don't they just hired that kicker guy on YouTube? He looks pretty good. I don't know him, but who's like a trick kicker, dude? He's like this young black guy who does like viral videos and he just hits bombs from like 60 yards. He was the one that was in the UFL kicking for San Antonio, but he got injured in like his second career game. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I forget what his real name is, but his YouTube name is like destroying. I also, again, like, I don't know anything. I'm just a portly fella sitting in a seat. Your boy would have gone to Jake Bates, speaking of the UFL, who kicked for the lions last night. And I just said, here, I know you've never kicked one second in the NFL. There's four years and 20 million. You're our new kicker. Enjoy yourself. You'll be here for four years. They didn't seem to be in a rush. They'll just figured out with Ramese Ahmed, how'd that work out? Anyway, continue, Chris. There's also one co-host that has still been get to prove he can kick a field goal. Good point. 19 out of 20 field goals from 40 yards. It'll never happen. It'll never happen, unfortunately. Are we still doing game balls and gasses or is there a different question now? You could do it. We'll allow it. All right. I've got to give a game ball to Jayden Daniels for just being a complete professional and not folding, even though he didn't have a great game, especially passing, he didn't look like he was overwhelmed or that he was morally crushed by just how good the NFL is compared to what he may have expected. So I, you know, and he running the ball, I mean, he's dynamic. I mean, Lamar, but with a little less shift, a little less shiftiness, but my gasses got to go to Cliff Gingsbury because I haven't seen a worse offensive game plan to start a season since like the end of the J Gruden error. And I can't believe that watching other guys play quarterback all weekend who are knowing where they're going to go with the ball almost before the snap. I know it's going to take a long time for Jayden to get there, but he needed a little bit more layups built into the game plan. And it just didn't seem like those were available. Thank you, buddy. I mean, to me, the only those predetermined, we're doing a bubble screen or we're doing some of the quick stuff. It's like, yeah, the other team knows that too. There's got to be some kind of counter punch like every, every post player in basketball, you need one move and a counter to that move. If somebody sits on it, right? Karima Abdul-Jabbar scored a billion points with a sky hook. But if you sat on it, he would go up and under. There's no counter, it seems like, right? Nobody's afraid of down the field. Nobody's afraid of that kind of that 20 plus yard strike on this deep out or flooding the zone with this kind of receiver. It's, yeah, we know it's going to be flipped out one way or the other to Zacchaeus or maybe flipped to McCorn one time or, you know, we'll give, I don't know, we'll give Luke McCaffrey a touch. Nobody's afraid and that's very easy to defend when everybody's in one place. Yeah, I'll disagree on not enough layups given to him. I think all they did was layups pretty much. I think they went too heavy in that way. As I said earlier, they had six completions behind the line of scrimmage. I mean, the first throw of his career was designed to be a piece of cake, just a wheel route to a running back, running downhill toward the line of scrimmage. They had a 1.5 yard average depth of completed target in this game. So I think there were plenty of layups. I thought Kingsbury had a decent enough plan in terms of the getting Daniels into the flow thing. It was the other stuff I had an issue with, you know, where were your in breaking routes to beat some zones? Where was the stuff in the middle of the field that the soft spot against, you know, defenses in this league? There was anything being pushed down the field and if they were taking that away, then there should have been more again in the intermediate area. They didn't have a single completion beyond 10 yards until the garbage time final drive on the 15 yard out route to Zacchaeus. Now, those were some of my issues kind of with their plan in the passing game. Dan Quinn is speaking with the media at some point today. We'll let you hear what he had to say, but a couple of nuggets from that that will pass along next and more details coming out on how the commanders are handling their kicking situation as they have released Kate York. And they are working on finding his replacement. You're listening to the fan. [ Silence ] Grant and Danny on the fan. Dan Quinn just a few minutes ago was talking with the media and the question came up about Jaden Daniels running the ball 16 times and he said that that is not the model. He said that's not the plan sustainably moving forward and he said that Jaden Daniels be the first to admit. You know, in a few of those, he wants to see him try to, you know, rip a ball in meaning throw it into a smaller window. I think he was kind of looking for wide open. He was used to wide open at LSU and when there wasn't anything wide open, the default was let's pull the ball down and let's go make a play. And Dan Quinn's point is, you know, as he gets more experience, he's going to really fit some balls into those windows and throw it a little bit more as the walls are caving in around him. But yesterday, clearly, he was very content to just take off. And even though there were 16 runs, by my count, pull him up here in front of me, I've got five that were designed. And all five, by the way, were in the second half. He ran a naked keeper on fourth and one to get a first down. They ran two powers at a shotgun, which by the way, I'd take those out of the playbook. I don't know where you're at on that. I would tear them out and I would use the largest flame generating device I had to burn them. You know what I wouldn't mind and people are going to hate this a lot. Luke McCaffrey having those who's six foot two and a wide receiver. Sure. Who played a quarterback in college. You've been set at the football. Have you? Brian Robinson. Do it. Just enough. He did get one to wrap. Snap. That was actually very successful. But yeah, that kind of high school football, like your quarterbacks, your best athlete, snap it to him. Let him go off tackle for a few yards. He thumped it in there for two yards and took a big wall up. Vida Vaya landed on him. I'm sure that's good. Yeah. I'm just not a big fan of the 206 pound quarterback or whatever he is today, getting tackled on a power between the tackles. But anyway, so they had two of those, they had the naked and then they had two read options, which I guess by design aren't definitively his hard to tell. It was like outside zone and just clearly going to be a keeper, but it looked like both plays where he was reading it out on the bear defender on the outside. So if you count those, that's five on the two read options. One was the touchdown from one yard out and the other was the hurdle on the sideline with the fumble out about right. But 11 scrambles, five designed runs. So if you're mad at say, Cliff Kingsbury and going, you crazy, you're putting him in harm's way. Well, that's a pretty big chunk there. I mean, in terms of percentage, you're talking about 73% of his runs were not designed that way. They were kind of his decision to do so. And some of those are great plays. Some of those, if team, well, teams are in man and they got their back turned, right? You break, you kind of squirt through that one spot where the, you know, the rush lanes, maybe deteriorate a little bit or you evade somebody, you got a chance for a big gain. I mean, some of their best offensive plays were those. There's room for that. That's what makes you special. The next layer of what makes you special is where there's only maybe a five yard gain and you're diving forward and somebody's ear hole in you or whatever, that play you sort of, you know, get out of the trouble, maybe run parallel line of scrimmage a little bit, draw some defenders in, hit somebody that's plastering or going deep, then those special back breaking plays happen too. That's the next level. It's time for our double play driven you by your local Washington area, Honda dealer stopping for a great deal on the rugged and capable Honda pilot contact. Your local Washington area, Honda dealers today. How do you enjoy your first NFL Sunday all day yesterday? We did pretty darn well. I would say running the kids around like just absolute maniacs. We had a soccer game. We had our first flag football experience for my youngest. Not fun. When is when as good as it could possibly go, I suppose towards the end, I think all the kids kind of had enough because this was like the introductory sort of game slash practice. So we're all trying to help them understand like here's how you hand the ball off. And I think they got kind of had enough or a little bit annoyed about it. But we had homemade nachos for the game, that's a play, which was great. God, it was so good. Like out of the oven, where you can, there's no like delay that then it gets to the table and then it's almost the two trees sprinkled on like a tortilla chip. I mean, my wife handled it like I just sort of like covered around once I smelled it, you know, knowing that it was coming to get. I was just in the way generally as husbands tend to be when wives who know what they're doing in the kitchen are, you know, trying to prepare stuff. But yeah, she did this whole ensemble that wasn't like the soaking wet nacho, which happens at the end sometimes for your grease or it's buried, good cheese integrity, sort of evenly placed throughout with all the good toppings or jalapenos involved. I was thrilled with my natural experience. Really nothing off the grid, nothing creative didn't get cute. My wife was at the game as I said in Tampa. So your boy did I did my normal, a staple would you have Kate cod, the crunchy kettle cooked potato chips with hell of a good dip sour cream and onion, hell of a good dip. That's the red and yellow tub. Yep. You're curious. Coke zeros at the wazoo. Yep. How many cooks years you have during the washington? There are a lot of cans. Well, this was all day. This was from about 1158 on that couch to about, I don't know, 1157 on the other one. Do you know the number? Do you know the number? No, I have no idea. Okay. But I would say, I mean, normally I'm not a big volume coke zero guy, like when I'm at a restaurant, I'll pummel two or three glasses or whatever. But like, otherwise I might have one for dinner. I had probably seven cans. So I was going to say we could do a great guessing game to figure out how many had that's a lot, bro. I could go through my trash. But for some reason, I don't know why this is when I'm when it poured into glass on ice, it just goes so much faster. Like, if I go to a restaurant, because it's that it's the wider mouth. So like the small mouth of a bottle, you're just not doing the volume, but I'm not even the bottle. I never do bottle, but like just being it, you know, at a restaurant out of the fountain or whatever, maybe you're just not keeping track of how many you're drinking. But to see the cans around you as you're, you're pummeling, I'm like, man, look at the, look at the carcasses. Look at all the bones, some pretzels at one point is a snacky. And then I did a little shopping early in the morning and the kids get solo dad, a little bit of help from the area, but they wanted like these chicken tenders that you just throw in the air fryer and I was like, me too. That's great. Those are perfect. So I got good decision, kids. And that was my dinner too. So I had a handful of those in the third quarter while Mike Evans was making his 19th catch. So break down for me, were they the little pretzels, the bite size that like the sniders of hand over in the, in the tub with it, like it's working on your teeth a little bit. This was a like a chip sized bag of pretzel. This was your traditional kind of like three triangles, like the loops looks like a kind of heart outline. Yeah. Kind of crunchy pretzel. Like hand size or palm size, like the palm, the palm, they're between or see, they're not big. They're good. Oh, they're very good. There's a snack. Hear me out. That those pretzels dip them in the tiniest bit of cream cheese. Well, I would never do that. I mean, just a little bit of cream cheese. If I'm dipping them in anything, it's going to be Raheem Mooser. Give it a shot. Okay. Just if you get like a tub of the cream cheese, get a little, get a little taste on the upper corner and then put the whole palm sized pretzel bite in your mouth. I watched an obnoxious amount of football yesterday. I had red zone with, you know, my own YouTube TV, like four games on one, red zone on another game on another. I mean, it was just, we were rocking and rolling. There's only a couple of things I didn't get to watch, mostly in the four o'clock window because of the locals ruining everything, but it was fun to see the locals again. I missed them. And I will see them in person this Sunday. Good for you. And the land over, man. You and Dara's going to the game. Dara's you're going to be there? Yeah. Let's go. The unattendance on Sunday. I didn't know that Papa. Yeah. I'm half regretting it now, okay, but we'll see. Catch the excitement. You're not regretting it. Oh, opener. You see Jaden go 15 for a buck 11 on the ground. Yeah. Let's do this thing. Let's do it together. Just hunted by those frontline defenders by the way, Jaden Daniels on pace for 272 carries that would tie Christian McCaffrey last year for number two in the NFL, eight rushing attempts behind Dara Henry. That's just fun. Grant and Danny on the fan. The Beltway Blitz is next. 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. And I need you to join the sharpest rides for their fall into savings event, where they're offering incredible prices on their massive inventory. That's right. Everything is on sale now, shot from sleek sedans to rugged SUVs and sporty convertibles. 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