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BIG Show Announcement For G&D
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One is bigger than the other because one is kind of a known commodity. But we are very, very happy to inform you guys that on Mondays at 5 p.m. Jay Gruden will be back on the Grant and Danny radio program. So fun. It's always entertaining, informative, great opinions. He watches every game. I just, he's a really, really good guest. Storyteller. Yup. Comedic genius. Words like this get thrown around occasionally. Bull knower. Guy who called some plays in his day. Stick aside, what I really like about Jay is he calls it like he sees it. There are so many people in this business who coached or played who are petrified of giving opinions. And Jay Gruden is not that guy. Jay Gruden is whatever the opposite of that is. He is going to tell you what he sees. He's going to tell you what he thinks. He is both entertaining and insightful to me, the perfect radio guest. And there's nobody we'd rather break games down with go around the league with the day after Sunday football than Jay right here on G and D. That is such a good point, by the way, about being willing to say the thing good, better and different, right? I mean, that's what you want. His brother to me famously when he was doing one night football was this is probably the best player this league has ever seen, man. And it's like, no, it's not. It's okay. It's the backup running back. You know what I mean? Like, it's okay to say like this. Like he's hurting this team or this is good. This is bad. But to your point, like, he had this getting in the league is really hard. It's really hard up here type of level of analysis. And it's like, I can appreciate that. But also within that, we can have maybe some variants, but but Jay throws the fastball. He does not pull punches. He calls guys out. He's like, Oh, he's a bad blocker. He doesn't catch enough passes, whatever it is. And most of the time, the guys he's talking about aren't here soon thereafter and knows what he's talking about. Oh, man. But this is something we're very, very excited about. This is going to be new to the Grant and Danny Radio program in the 2024 football season. That's a good drum roll. We've thought about doing this in the past, but it wasn't going to work out because he wasn't actually a member of the team. We have a good new it. Tuesdays at five p.m. running back. Austin. Here we go. Will be a staple. Yeah. On GND. We've had him on a couple times since he was acquired. Just a star blew us away the first time. We had him on just this past week. One of his people hit us up and said, Hey, Austin's launching an app for dozens of football players to try to connect them with fans. Would you guys mind talking to them? And we said, absolutely. And he's one of the most unique sharpest, just thoughtful players in any sport that I've ever been around. I really, really enjoy talking to him. And he's perfect for our show. We are a nuts and bolts analytical info driven show more than we are wacky guys. And I just think Austin Echlers are really intuitive and cerebral like ball thinker. So I'm fired up. He also loves fantasy football and talking about fantasy football. So we're going to have a lot of fun with him, I think. Yeah, he is sharp, funny, entertaining. You said thoughtful already, but I want to double down on that. Like in his spare time, when you're feeder up, my feet is up, watching television, he's starting a company. You know what I mean? Like when you're relaxing, he's like, you know, I should probably get a small business loan and talk to some venture capitalists and found this thing that helps people. Like this is a different cat. And I mean that in the best possible way from from the depths of obscurity to star in this league with something left off here on a new team. And he's wildly engaging and awesome. Like that's as good a guest as you can pull. I recently heard him telling someone that a coach told him that he's the most unique man in football, like the most unique person by that in the NFL. And not only does that make sense, but he said he thinks the reason for that is he never grew up thinking about or planning on playing in the NFL. Sure, it was always as a football player, something that he thought would be cool. But this was a tiny guy undersized that every single level he ever played at who played non division one football to school nobody's ever heard of and wasn't expected to get any look in the national football league. So for him, he had other ventures, other ideas. He was learning to do other things and it just so happens more so than probably than a lot of us. Like his job is not who he is. It's just kind of what he does. He takes that to the nth degree. But man, do I really, really like Echler? I'm rooting for him this year. Like everybody else is. And I do believe I could say this confidently. He is going to lead the Grant and Danny radio program and our regulars in receptions in the NFL this season. I think if you tally up like my catches, Danny's catches, Darris's catches. Yeah, that's mildly bold. Even Ryan's catches. I think Echler will catch more passes than us this year. But we're the crazy people who think he's got a lot of tread on the tire. He's going to help this team a lot. And if he's a baller, if he goes out and JD McKissics, this thing, we're going to have a lot of fun on Tuesdays at five p.m. Like to me, that's the minimum expectations. Oh, if they're done back helps them in the passing game. I think there is a lot left here. And I think everybody's sleeping on it. And I think because you've got Brian Robinson to tilt the rock and take a lot of the thumps, a lot of the hits and be downhill, I think he's fine with that talking about Echler, right? Why I don't have to do 250 carries and, you know, then another 75, 80 receptions, you could tone that down a little bit, still get your thousand total yards, be a goal line option, be excellent in the past game, early down work, not all the time, but sometimes. I think he's going to help him a lot. I think I think this is their best offensive acquisition, non J and Daniels division, but we're happy about this. And we think it's going to be great for the show and really good for you guys as consumers of our content listeners. So thank you to Chris, our program director. Yeah. And behind the scenes that made it work out, Jay Gruden Mondays at five Austin Echler, Tuesdays at five. And then Derek, did you have an update on the went? I know Wednesday, they were talking about Tom Brady at five Thursday, we were saying, maybe maybe Peyton Manning at five. And then Friday, I think it was Goodell, Roger Goodell at five. So we're going to contract details. Okay. Well, we should have more on that by tomorrow. But that's the idea would be that Brady would be at five on Wednesday. I was saying Peyton Manning, you were hoping for somebody else. Well, like we were looking for Rogers live during the season, like he said, I'm going to be too busy giving hugs to Pat McAfee. That was kind of the thought there. Like we wanted to see if we could get that going. There've been a couple of contract hiccups there for some of those guys. Well, he was like, you guys have to pay me out of your pocket. We were like, fine. How much? He gave the number. Like we wrote down a number down in napkin. We exchanged that. And I don't want to get the nuts and bolts about it. But it was like, we were a little bit south of his number. I thought it was weird too that we had to ask him about his recliner for some reason. He like wanted and how he gives people hugs. It's one time per interview, the recliner has to come up. It's like, okay, Jay Gruden Mondays at five Austin Echler, Tuesdays at five with your pals. G and D football season has arrived.