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beltway blitz and andrew golden covers the nationals for the washington post joins us now andrew i don't know we've talked to you about this i actually want to go back a couple weeks off the beaten path here what did you make of the timing of all of the coaches being announced that they were coming back and david just kind of you know in the middle of the still the stretch run saying that that was the case yeah i i was a little bit surprised um i i think especially when it came to the the the hitting staff right i mean i obviously when you look at the nationals as a whole i i think you could definitely argue um that they have they don't have the talent to really have the big numbers but i definitely think they struggle offensively you're there on pace one of their worst years of franchise history um all offensively so i was a little bit surprised they made the decision that early um but picky stab i i i i i i i don't have a problem with that right the picky stab is improved um i i've been fine with the the progress and the work that jim ake and shan dole will have done but definitely surprised what the hitting coaches i definitely think there could have been some more decisions there um on potentially weighing some little guys though i think i was a little bit shocked for sure well terms in terms of hitting uh andrew cj abrams the streakiness is a thing for him he's had two unbelievable months where he's pretty much built up most of his counting stats and then now working on i'd say three months where he's i don't say a negative player but has not been near as good uh as those two kind of banner months if he's able to find some consistency dot dot dot where are we at in terms of that for him and and you know how aware of it is everybody or we just sort of saying hey he's a streaky player and that's that yeah i i think they're definitely aware of it that's why he moved he moved down the order because he's really chasing off the pitches and really not um chasing his pitch whenever you ask cj he does not want to say a ton to ultimately ask him like when is he at his best he's like i'm just staying on my pitch and so he's not staying on his pitch i think we need to be pressing a little bit at the plate trying to be due too much i think that's why you're seeing him struggle and so um definitely streaky i just think i just think he has to stay up for a full season but i think honestly that's kind of the story of the whole team as a whole right like they showed flashes for you know a couple months three months at the time and after a full years i think it's kind of the story of the whole team as a whole cj abrams by the way cj abrams hitting 184 with a 242 on base over his last 30 games a dylan crux yes has now played seven games he's got two homers and two steals already what have you made of crux so far i think he just looks like he fits in right like he's he's playing a really good right field and arm the police wrong there and then the plate he doesn't really look over fast i think one of the things i was like he's especially compared to spring training um and spring training is really late on a ton of fast balls against against majorly competition if i was really interested to see how he's adjusted we did a really good job of staying on the fast ball staying on um you know i think his personal hope was like i was a cutter or a fast ball but i think he did a really good job of preparing for that and adjusting for all speed and breaking ball so i'm really impressed and so i'm interested in kind of how he can see that in the next couple of weeks louise carcia has been kind of an unheralded story here andrew he's been really really good and you know for a while it was you know he's gonna sit against lefties but i guess now hopefully that's over with i mean is this sort of now is he bonafide at this stage putting together a pretty good majorly campaign here just outside of 20 homers north of 20 steals put a pretty decent second base not necessarily an all-world player who's going to walk a ton but there's a lot of good with this louise carcia year and it started with people wanting trade lipscomb at second base every day instead so pretty big accomplishment yeah i think i'm i want to go on the record to save it like i really think louise carcia is going to be playing get lefties like every day like he has been one of the better hitters like i don't want to steal tomorrow wargus i mean i'll respect it with tomorrow wargus getting in playing time but like you want to see what your young guys can do and get lefties and you might want to be in those opportunities but i get like chris sale like i get that right but i think generally against lefties louise you'll be still playing i think it's one of the better hitters this year i think it's a great story um and i think in terms of whether this is something you can continue i think like you want to see can he can he's based you know left you to be everyday player and so i think he can be i think he has a potential to be that for sure um i just wish he played they play him honestly every day i think they kind of have more recently um i think he's really impressive and obviously i think one of the things we forget about is that i know louise been the big weeks for like almost four years now but he's also like 23 24 so he's still really young i think we kind of forgot that the process just because he's kind of the first the first prospect to really get there um but i think he's a kind of talent i just think maybe we're seeing him produce the high level just because he's more experienced now andrew we appreciate you as always buddy thanks so much i think i have a good one she got it gnats marlin six forty first pitch right here on the fan tonight mckenzie gore eight and eleven with the four four five e r a on the mound for washington all of our baseball coverage on the fan is presented by t mobile switch to t mobile and you can get tons of benefits and still save on every plan against at and t and verizon use their savings calculator to find out how at t mobile dot com slash switch let's talk football everybody nate davis usa today joins us to do just that nate i want to get your thoughts on the jets and erin rogers i mentioned something earlier and it's led to a conversation on on my twitter account i don't know where the confidence in rogers having a great season comes from he's in his 40s coming off a serious injury i get why people would be hopeful but i am curious like are you confident that the jets are going to be really good and rogers is just going to look like rogers i mean i picked them to win the super bowl so you are so i you would say confident all right so where does the confidence come from i mean i don't know it's just a serious injury and he's an old guy it is a serious injury uh you know he he was you know obviously very well down the road to recovery to the point where he nearly played last season maybe but i mean he was out of practice which is in typical um but you know it's not like we're asking him to be more jackson um you know he looked he looked very good mobile at camp this year but you know to me the main thing about this is you know the jets have won 14 games over the past few years have the second ranked defense in the league over the past few years um basically playing ten guys in office i don't i don't think you're asking erin rogers to go out there and win a fifth MVP award but i mean i think you're asking to go out there and be a pro bowl of a quarterback would be great but i mean even if he's not quite that i mean this team is completely loaded on both sides of the ball just about everywhere else you look you know i i don't know how breez hall was second in the league in yards from screamers last year and everybody knew he was the only guy in the offense because gara wilson was you know handcuffed by by by the quarterback issues as well i i think you put a decent quarterback back there i i don't know where else this this team has has an issue for snow wise nate which division did you have the toughest time predicting a winner for i mean the afc north is tough because obviously all the teams are good they also all have like an issue in my mind so that that's not necessarily easy um i i think maybe to me in some ways the most interesting is the afc south because i think they've got three really pretty good teams in there um and i think people forget you know with all the focus that the youth in texans have i've understandably garnered this off season i think people forget the texans the jags and the cults all went into week 18 last year with the scenario of to win win the division um and to me the the jags and the cults were both very hamstrung by personnel issues and injuries uh and things kind of played out pretty well for the texans not that's taking anything away from them um but i mean a year ago at this time we thought the jags were going to run this division for the next four or five years um you know enter cj about enter Anthony Richardson um but but i think that that's going to be you know nobody gets usually too stirred up about the afc south you know past years i think that's going to be a very one to see how how it plays out. Nate Davis USA did they weigh this on grant and danny here on our beltway blitz uh how about the seahawks in the nfc west that's a team that i just don't hear a lot about i know san francisco the la rams are pretty good but as you know smith can have finished the season do they turn things over to sam howl at some point like where are they at at this point in their build? Yeah they're they're to me one of the hardest teams in the league to read um you know i i feel like they have like a lot of square pegs and round holes going on there like i'm not sure my talent's really gonna be able to run the defense you know the way he wants the players he has um as as he did baltimore um i mean he has said that he really wants to to run the ball which is a good way to help your defense and what he's used to coming from baltimore um then they go out and hire ryan grub who's never been an nfl uh coach and like to run you know five wide receivers at the university of washington um in the seahawks kind of built through the ball and not run it uh particularly with some other offensive line issues so they could be very interesting um i i just i just don't know what direction they're going to go uh what they're going to look like if it's this office is actually going to work um i i mean to your point yeah maybe sam how gets in there you know maybe gino smith kind of reversed the 2022 form yeah i don't i don't know i mean ryan grub the oc has said he's trying to tailor the offense to to gino strength and what he does well um again he likes to throw the ball and they they have three really what should be three really good uh receivers on that side of the ball but um i just kind of wonder if it's not really gonna it seems like a lot a lot of misaligned parts to me and i i i'm guessing they're like a six-win team um that that maybe the scores are closer than that but uh it's hard for me to get too excited about them i don't know barring injury because you know we go back a couple years talking about dallas serenate where dak Prescott was injured they were doing six and ten or something like that with any adult in the quarterback but barring assuming if you have an injury to one of their few key guys give me kind of the best case for dallas and the worst case for dallas i mean i think i think best case is it's another 12-win season and then uh uh to me that's the best case like i i don't see them coming out of the nfc you know they're heartbreaking you know that's three decades super world's route uh i i think i think the best case is kind of what we've seen the last couple of years with mike mccarcy um you know the worst case obviously is the bottom falls out i think it's probably i mean i've got some winning eight games i i i think that you know it's it's great they've got cd limp back it's great that dak Prescott hasn't got any or yet um for all that out that means to me they're a diminished version of what they were last year giving all the losses they had on free agency uh you know how's the defensive switch going to go uh from from dank quince philosophy to mike dimmers um you know darron bland is going to miss the first part of the season they're all corner like i just can't find a whole lot of reasons get too excited about this team i mean the running back situation is complete mystery um i don't know i mean you you guys know the nfc's turn out turns over like every year for the last 20 years so i think it's the equals and then i personally i think the commanders have a great shot over take the cabos this year but we'll see how it goes wow i love that nate thank you buddy good catching up all right fellas thanks see you bro uh let's localize the combo our pal kevin she and of the kevin she and show over on the team 980 kevin why don't we start with what you're most excited to see when you turn that tv on at 425 on sunday afternoon um cliff kingsbury and jaden daniels and what the offense looks like i think that's the biggest mystery going in i mean you've got a an established defensive like coach and established defensive coordinator you know probably nine new pieces on defense so there's a mystery there but you know most of the players they brought in are veteran players i'm just really curious to see what that offense looks like is it you know a quarterback and pistol with dual threat you know is he you know running zone read 30 percent of the time how does that benefit you know brian robinson jr the play action game you know do they go under center and run you know some bootleg and play action i'm just really interested to see what that looks like because i think kingsbury's good i think he's focused on one job versus being the head coach the last time he was in the league so i'm excited to see that sunday kevin i'm with you that to me is the question right coming into the season obviously big picture jaden daniels what he is and what he's gonna be but secondarily and related to that is what this offense looks like gun to your head what's your best guess is it just what we saw in arizona as you said like a lot of shotgun a lot of you know everything kind of out of that look with terra mccornum left side or do you think there's hey you know kingsbury's bounced around now a little bit he's got some new tricks up this like the 2.0 version of that or do you think it's more of what we saw in arizona i mean my hunch danny is that it's like a responsible approach rookie quarterbacks need a running game they need quick game they need a big tight end that they can throw to and that they leverage all that in addition to a lot of the stuff you see with dulce right quarterback you know going back to twenty twelve what we saw with robert and what you see with lamar and justen fields and a lot of in jail and hurt so i think we'll have a lot of that mixed in as well but i think brian robinson jr's in for a big year like plenty of caries james connor level caries that uh kingsbury gave him in twenty twenty one in arizona and he'll benefit from a lot of the you know the shanahan eleven on eleven in the run game where the quarterbacks involved and there's an advantage there um i i think that's what we're going to see but i think there will be a lot of responsible play calling where they do emphasize you know not balanced for balance sake but because they've got a quarterback it can be involved in the run game as well and then a lot of the quick game stuff that even we saw in pre-season it won't be identical but getting the ball out of his hands quickly into you know playmaker's hands i think we'll see backs catch the ball a lot i think we'll see zach hurts be a big part of what they do kevin would you think of these same cosme extension four years seventy four mill well i i mean i'm sure you guys have been talking about it as well i think that the first of all it's the first one um and it's an indication of kind of how this ownership in front office will handle some of these situations so to get a player like cosme signed before the season to an extension to completely nullify you know the potential for him making it to unrestricted free agency with smart he's definitely a good player if not an excellent player and he's really good in terms of i think the intangibles that will fit with the culture they're trying to build so i thought it was coming all along i thought it made sense for them to get it done before the season started so i'm glad to see it kevin i haven't heard you specifically weigh in on this uh i just want to sort of two part of here if you're more big picture maybe this year and kind of beyond where wins are almost secondary to you obviously rather win than lose but so i'd love your answer to that but then two in terms of win totals or the like about this year what would disappoint you like what level would they have to get to where you go man that's kind of a bummer or you maybe lose lose little confidence well i think if you go back and look at just the last five years like any team that wins five or less games had pretty bad quarterbacking you know some of those examples are you know good quarterbacks got hurt so they were playing backups but you know if you win five or less it's a pretty good bet that your quarterbacking was bad so that would be disappointing because i think at the end of the day what we all want to feel after 17 games is there's a strong indication that they got it right with jade and daniels with that said like i think they're in that group of 25 teams where you know you stay healthy the ball bounces your way catch a couple of good teams on days in which they have some key players out you know ten and seven and ten to set to ten and seven is the range and i kind of view them that way this year it's a completely different team to kind of look at it in the context of last last year different coaching staff and 30 new players 17 of whom will be on the field a lot we think you know from sunday on so and a lot of those players are veteran players so i think they're in that group of teams we see every year take four or five from the top out of the equation two or three out of the bottom out of the equation where you know seven and 10 to 10 and seven is possible kevin always great thank you buddy and enjoy week one right boys see if kevin she and check him out his work daily kevin she and show we're granting danny you are listening to the fan the harris ownership group as their first off field fire to put out we'll get into that plus six and a half wins as washington's total on the betting market we going over or under that next on the fan you you great and danny on the fan it is football week in the nation's capitol the commanders open with the bucks on sunday the nfl season kicks off tomorrow so lots to get into still on our docket including want to go over or under with the six and a half win total for the commanders and take some of your calls on that this story dropped before we went on the air today you and i saw this and have not addressed it haven't really talked about it i don't know exactly what we should do with it but i do think we should at least bring it up so that people know that it happened and that was that the commanders have suspended vice president of content rail and teen who is on his fourth year now with the club was hired presumably when they made a lot of the changes in the jason right era uh coinciding with that but the fourth year running content so all things things honestly they do really well like the commander's log show on youtube and their social media accounts and some of the fun stuff that they do is under his purview i would imagine i don't know this person at all i never met him and honestly i've never heard his name before today uh but he was on camera saying a bunch of things that the commanders have come out and put out a statement to say does not in any way reflect their values um some of the comments as you can imagine i've made national headlines he said things like some players in the league or dumb as hell was quoted as saying i don't think the commissioner of the nfl hates gay people hates black people jerry jones or really runs the nfl i think he hates um those two groups it's really gross and it's awful and the commanders have made a statement they've suspended him already and that's kind of that for me i think it should also be noted danny that this content was gathered by the okeef media group who i'm not familiar with but it looks like a date with a hidden camera at a at a bar or at a table in a bar where this uh rail and team met a woman on social media on the app hinge they went on two dates at a local restaurant and in one of those dates presumably is when this video was recorded without him knowing and she's basically sounds like a reporter like asking him questions i'm assuming it was over in a date like setting and he thought he wasn't being recorded if i had to guess but regardless said a lot of things that are inappropriate at best and downright egregious at worst um i know fans are upset for a lot of different reasons including some of the comments that i just read but he also called fans mouth breathers said that most of the fans of the nfl are high school educated alcoholics and it's some really really like vile stuff here um so i don't know what your thoughts are on it but i did want to at least address it and say yes we've seen the story it's a guy i know a lot about the team and i'm super plugged in i'd never heard of this person which is probably good by the way it's not like a member of the coaching staff or a player so i'm not really sure what we should do other than tell you that it's not a good look the team has already suspended this person and that's that so i'm concerned yes several points if i may uh a lot of fans are are upset most i think because of the part where there's a disdain and looking down on the fans in these comments again high school educated alcoholics or mouth breathers or you know looking down on people there's kind of that uh an attitude in in this video so i'll put a pin in that kind of come back to it there is absolutely a place in our society for investigative journalism right whether it's hidden camera footage or otherwise trying to catch bad actors behaving badly fraudsters people to take advantage of folks um uh people you know with faulty business practices illegal activity local news i mean has done stuff like that before national news has there is a place for that exposing wrongdoing i don't know what we're exposing here what criminal act has taken place what nefarious thing has gone on here why are we doing this why are we tricking a team employee into revealing his attitude about his customer base or his views on the nfl on a hidden camera i don't understand that that's the part to me i can't get past i know everybody wants to talk about the comments but i got to hit that first okay you got him you ruined this dude's life probably now again he's responsible for the his viewpoints i think he says but that leaves me my second point great you can hate my guts and there are some days i bet you do some days you're probably super noted me there are some days probably where if dearest came in with a hidden camera on me i've said some things about uh you know our our parent company or somebody else and i've you know put my foot in my mouth in in such a way where if people saw that they would think differently of me and i would challenge everybody else out there to you know to be able to say you're scott free of those sorts of things having kind of private conversations but beyond that i don't care what people think of me in that way how do you treat me if he's awful to to people that are his customers and he works with that's a different story what you do to me is far more important than your attitude or what you think like the guy that got me my iced coffee today could think i'm just the worst person of all time uh uh uh overweight gas bag that needs a lot of attention just to get through his day he could think anything he wants he said thank you he said uh you're welcome and he asked me if there's anything else i needed you know what i mean like he treated me well so we move about our day and move about our life how did he treat folks i have no idea we're going to judge somebody based on a very short hidden camera thing that again i don't know why we were doing that in the first place so now the third part tough to see those comments man tough tough to see him uh delivering those sorts of things and i you know it's the kind of thing where you go i don't have a ton of sympathy on that front for this for this part of it because again looking down on your customer base looking down on your fans and the one to me that really got me or is front would be frustrating is he referenced specifically the leaky pipe situation where he said no no it wasn't sewage we had to tell him it was rainwater that state media he basically admitted that they lied about that okay that to me would be frustrating is as a fan right as as somebody that's a paying customer or somebody that had uh kind of opted into this part of it where you're going if i can't believe that then what else am i supposed to believe from you guys so it kind of hurts the mission or hurts the overall experience but i'm with you and it's in the sense that this is not really they play football this sunday we're a sports show we care about that far more i know fans are irritated about this and i get that and we look but that's kind of where i'm at i'll say this we cover a lot of things that aren't sports that are tangentially related this would be under that purview and if this was dan quinn or or adam peters or josh harris on this video and not a guy again i don't want to make belittle the point here but i've never heard of this person i'm at that facility a lot i don't keep up with who runs their content i'm sorry i did it has anyone heard of this guy before this i mean ninety nine percent of our listeners i would say have not they have suspended him as well by the way my guess is he will never work for them again they probably have fired him and we don't know it at this point it next i mean he did a thing that was bad they've acted i am curious to see just because it's the first i keep saying a fire for them to put out it's the first big controversy it's a it's a bad PR thing what i'm not going to do though is i think the easy reaction the lay-up line lay-up drill here is my team's always in the news for things that aren't football i'm so tired of it same old team this is not that you know this is not the dea rating you're building because you're training staff led by ryan vermillion was doing something wrong or your own or having a toxic workplace or sexual harassment allegations this is a guy a single dude who was on a dating app who met a girl that he went on a date with on a second day yeah who on a second date recorded him without him knowing it and asked a bunch of questions for his thoughts about things and you know his take on jerry jones and the commissioner and all this stuff that is not the same as some of the other things of the snider era in my opinion uh the team put out this statement the language used in the video runs counter to our values at the commander's organization the team spokesperson said in a statement we have suspended the employee pending an investigation and will reserve further comment at this time so we'll see what happens i mean if he gets fired or if he doesn't we can react again at that time uh the comments are bad yeah so if you're looking for me to condemn them i do uh making fun of speaking down at players at fans obviously pretty abhorrent i also and this is not going to be the takeaway probably in a lot of places uh you've alluded to this but i can't get past this is supposedly journalism like that that also matters to me a little bit too right was that there was this line in the espn story um where they referenced the reporter as an undercover reporter no that's not this is a date where someone's recording you i i'm not i don't know that that's uh that's the same thing like if i think i'm on a date with someone and they're asking me questions about my job and you're really just working for a group where you're recording me and i don't know it which by the way how's that even legal i guess you're in a public place so maybe you're allowed to record whatever you want but i know in some states there are laws where you can't record a conversation with danny and play it without consent consent so i don't know the specifics of that i just think that sounds scummy and awful i don't know anything about this media group but it sounds like a horrendous way to make a living um having said that the comments were bad the team's already suspended them so that's kind of what i got yeah i mean again if if this was an investigation uncover some of the terrible things that happened during the snider era by all means let's let's get the camera in there let's let's find out is the juice work to squeeze are you taking down to the bad actors who have done bad things right there there's no crime here so far as i can tell so what is the takeaway or the big story is that this guy who no one knew before today said that some nfl players are dumb and that you know he was the that comments bad i agree or that fans or mouth breathers that comment is bad i agree but this guy's opinion is the takeaway that this employee said this okay um so fire him and what's next i mean and good job you caught him you caught this guy right with your hidden camera and that's and the kind of my point is i i keep going back to is there is absolutely a place at the table for when nothing is happening and everyone no what not everyone knows but we suspect wrongdoing like actual wrongdoing crime uh occurring or uh you know defrauding people or taking advantage of of of a vulnerable folks or something people not getting their season ticket money back yeah sexual harassment you're you got a hidden camera on that bad boy let's go let let's let's catch the the people right hand let's do it to catch a predator i'm not even being flipping about it you're finding someone that's doing something wrong a guy's opinion it it sucks i mean it's not cool to hear that i'm that i'm a mouth breathing high school education alcoholic or whatever uh that i'm insulting that i'm supposed to be insulted because i'm you know beneath him but it's just it sounds like a cynical guy trying to impress a girl you know talking tough trying to say a bunch of things to to impress her again i don't endorse the comments i i don't agree with them i think that's wrong but i don't know man it's like i guess you got your fish like way to go like you you you you reeled it in i don't know we we should reserve that for some for some more serious matters in my humble opinion but that's where i'm at my main interest will be how does the Harris group handle it because this is their first opportunity to do so but i don't get the sense with most of the fan base that this is a huge ordeal today i think most people that are adults hearing someone say fans are mouth breathing alcoholics whatever the term is here's what i do when i hear that i'm a fan by the way he's talking about me oh he said that yeah oh i mean there are going to be people that are aggrieved and can't go on with their day and how dare you insult me i i have three kids in a mortgage i have two car payments i have a life i'm a grown-up i don't care if some if that was his comment in private to a woman he's trying to impress and get a laugh out of about football fans i'm sorry i just don't now there are things he said that are bad and if you take offense to them you're allowed to uh i'm sorry that that anybody got offended and he's in trouble by the way you know that that's the other thing is sometimes we're like screaming as if something needs to be done he's already lost his job probably what else do you want them to do for his opinions that you don't like on a hidden camera i mean how how and why him by the way i've never heard of this person i know more people in that building by face the 99 percent of the public i know this guy's on the website so if you're big into their content game you probably know him if you would have said to me an hour before that came out who has i have to look up his name again to say is it rail and team sounds right who is that i would say i never heard of that i have no idea i don't know so they work for the commanders what does he do i would have gone i don't know i was in the r and d department i have no idea so i just you'll have to forgive me on the wednesday of week one and if you're saying i'm i'm focusing on the wrong thing then i'll wear that criticism i'm on the tampa bay yeah you know i i'm sorry and i wonder if fans you know sort of want to extrapolate something larger as if that's the attitude of you know all those that are holdovers from from this era you know if you want to sort of also somehow make it about Jason right or something like that i've seen some of that sentiment i just again i don't know i don't i'm not willing to do anything other than say this group went out of their way to try to catch this guy doing this which i think is a fool's errand and and a big waste the time i feel bad should people by the way not go on dates like we need to not normalize whatever this area of journal i'm not even going to call journalism because it's not right or reporting it's also not that like whatever this is should not be okay and i would hate for this conversation to be had around the country today where we're just talking about what the guy said which is important without saying the other part which is he was literally on a date and a hidden camera caught him talking that is unacceptable in every way in my opinion unacceptable and everyone should think that even if you're bothered by the comments that's okay too we we're big boys and girls we can have two conversations but to sit at a table on a second date with someone you're trying to get to know who's asking you for your opinion about your job and candidly you're answering and and they're poking and prodding and trying to get more info and then they record that and they give it to someone the post on social media to get you fired i don't know what reason the whole thing is weird and creepy and shouldn't even be an industry as far as i'm concerned but let's get back to football next six and a half wins is the projected total for the commanders are we over under that booger mcfarlin joins us at the top of the hour he will know it is on the air when he joins us right at five on grant and danny booger mcfarlin at the top of the hour on grant and danny i want to kick our six and a half win topic to next hour because we don't have enough time really to get into it in great detail so we will do that at five twenty five try to see if people are over under that win total with their predictions for the commanders this season did you see jamaar chase return to bangles practice today now did he like return to practice to watch or did he return to practice in like football gear bangles received the most positive sign they could get on wednesday wide receiver jamaar chase participated in the first official practice of game week ahead of the teams season opener against the patriots on sunday that is according to espn.com so i would think that means jamaar chase is going to play this weekend this is day one of what is truly the install and the practices that matter uh-huh so the nfl week for those of you that aren't overly plugged in on how it goes you play sunday monday is normally a rest and recovery day treatment day there's a lot of film watched in the building some guys are in and out of the building getting any kind of work they need done on their bodies tuesday is the league mandated off day very rarely but occasionally teams can flip that up like some coaches will have i think a couple years ago revera did it where the monday was the off day and then tuesday guys were in the building for different treatment and film and stuff but normally tuesday is a mandated off day you're supposed to go do some charity work be around the family whatever wednesday is the key day of the practice week that is when you put in your longest most grueling practice theoretically of the week thursday is kind of right there with it friday is more of a jog through a lot of time for teams a lot less work gets done on friday a little quicker off the field and then saturday's a walk through and if you're on the road you jump on a flight if you were at home you head to the team hotel for some meetings and things the night before the game and you just have the quick walk through in the morning so i say all that to say that this week right now if you're jamaar chase today's the day you got to show up you're gonna play on sunday starting now and he did so that tells me he plans on playing football and in a game of chicken the bangles won yeah there's something about deadlines and action and spurring up i'll think of it but yeah i mean that's what it seems like right it's there's there's so much posturing that can be done and really you're skipping out on all the pain in the butt stuff all the hard stuff now it's the fun part right you got enough pelts on the wall if you're uh jamaar chase where you know Trent William style maybe you don't need all the grueling two a days i know nobody does that anymore but maybe you don't need the august practice in the in the humidity maybe though once it's time you want to earn all your money you want to have a really good season i'll show up i'm in shape i've been running sprints but now let's do game plan type stuff and let's have a good football season because i i sort of lost it to your point so i don't think he's gonna be paid before sunday i think a lot of people i don't either suggested he would recently that that that was maybe gonna happen it doesn't sound like it and if he showed up i don't know now why the team would cave because you got what you wanted anyway but eventually he's gonna get his money they're not gonna let that guy walk they're not gonna play the tag game he'll get more than jefferson got probably because he'll be the next guy to get paid and they'll move on but in the meantime him t higgins joe burrow that's that's the trio everyone else is kind of playing second fiddle that is a super bowl caliber team with that quarterback they have a chance to dethrone the chiefs this year and make sure they don't get to a third straight but you're not doing it without your march ace with all apologies to burrow and higgins in their running game there's just no way you need that explosiveness you need that playmaker he is a strike up the band weapon he is a chunky artage guy in a big play league and having him back completely changes my outlook on the bangles they'd have beat the patriots with her without him frankly because i think new england's gonna stink i do too but the eye line with chase in their first seven eight games is probably in a half season like two wins instead of being five and three maybe you would have been three and five something like that i mean it's that different for me with just the easy button he provides so i can't point to every example and i apologize for that but i will say there is a perception out there that the bangles are like they're known very much for being cheap for not paying players now they obviously paid joe burrow um but maybe that's kind of the exception they kind of have this rep as as a team that doesn't do uh the the highest bid that doesn't do the guaranteed money to the same degree well that's deserved or otherwise that's the rep that's out there or certainly very much online as people type in all caps and and yell about this kind of situation so i haven't ruled out them doing the tag game it's a long way for me to say that that they maybe just out of defiance or some sort of temper tantrum will avoid giving him the market value long-term contract that maybe that he seeks just just so they say that they they didn't necessarily do that i'm i can i have no idea i'm steamed up to talk to our guy booger mcfarland next remember the booger mobile on the sideline on monday football i do when he used to sit like way up high and they'd wheel him back and forth people were mad because it was this big it was based on a crane but it was like this big setup with a desk he'd be in front of the fans i love booger mcfarland yep he joins us next right here on grant and danny protect your vehicles engine with a full synthetic oil change and save with mobile one at o'Reilly auto parts purchase five quarts of mobile one full synthetic motor oil and receive a ten-dollar o'Reilly gift card after rebate c store for details with your mobile one purchase you'll also receive two times points during old rewards bonus points month at o'Reilly auto parts oh oh in the fast-paced world of attacking speed is everything and that's where the fear on seven plus shines engineered for accuracy and precision at a rapid pace it's you're a secret weapon on 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