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Rick Spielman On The Commanders, Someone Explain To Me... NFL Edition, Double Play

9.4.24 Hour 2

1:00- Rick Spielman joins G&D to help preview the 2024 season, and discusses expectations for the team.

22:20- We get back to our 'Someone Explain To Me' NFL edition, you can hear our takes here.

34:00- What's going on in our lives that has nothing to do with sports?

Broadcast on:: 04 Sep 2024
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Be sure to tell you a album that we sent you. G&D sent you. That means a discount. So let them know we sent you kmloyers.com. I had a lunchable for the first time in probably 23 years during the break. Darris walked back into the studio. Somehow he got two on accident when he meant to get one. Yeah, so he double scanned a lunchable. So in effect, he purchased two, right? So they went and picked up the second lunchable. Was it going to have a second lunchable? Who wants it? Therefore, I was winning off the field as opposed to walk back in with an extra lunchable and that meant I had a cracker and a piece of ham and a piece of cheese, put them all together for a lunchable situation. Pretty good. Yeah. These, uh, these young elementary school whippers, whippers snappers have it pretty good. I'll say it's next. Not bad. Let's get to the bet QL guest hotline. Bet smarter to beat the book, download the bet QL out. Is it bet QL.com Rick Spielman, the former NFL GM did a great job in the national football league is an executive for so many years. Now works at CBS and Sirius XM NFL, among other places joins us on Grant and Danny to discuss the 2024 NFL season ahead. And first of all, Rick, so far so good. You were involved in helping to hire Adam Peters and Dan Quinn, part of the search firm with Josh Harris. And I got to say, all systems go here as we get ready for week one. The early returns are excellent. So congratulations and job well done. And thank you. Yeah, I'm more worried about the lunchable fill you up or did you need to? Well, I would need it in treating. I just didn't know if one lunchable can fill you up. The answer is no to that. I would need about 11 of them. So the one container of lunchable comes with what I believe was like maybe 10 crackers. Uh huh. But I made little cracker sandwiches. So I did one piece of cheese, one piece of ham and then the two crackers. So now it's cracker to ham and cheese ratios all off for the last part of it, direct. It was a skill. So I have three little mini cracker sandwiches. And no, I'm not close to filled up. Okay. Yeah. No, I was concerned about it going forward. And if you had enough energy to get through the rest of the show today, I don't. And about 445 or so right before we talk to bugger McFarland, I'll need a nap. Well, yeah, no, thanks for having me on. And now I'm excited with DQ and Adam have done so far just starting back in the off season. What they were able to accomplish in the draft and just, you know, changing that culture up there and DQ is a culture changer. You know, impressed with the vets that they brought in as far as those guys being leaders and establishing, you know, that locker room on what DQ wants down there. And I thought Adam and his crew did a great job in the draft. Looks like they got their franchise quarterback. So still got some work to do. You know, it doesn't happen overnight, but they, for their first year working together, I thought right now it looks like great returns. But we could be saying something different. Who knows a week from now, because it's like everybody, if you lose, then okay, the whole thing is just horrible. Yeah, everything is a disaster, right? But how patient these guys are going to do a great job. Rick, in your long experience, atop the NFL, if there was one way to do this, there was an exact formula. Everyone that didn't follow it would be ridiculed, you know, rightfully so. But nobody's got the silver bolt or the perfect way to develop a young quarterback. What is your view? Go ahead. Sorry. Yeah, no, I think that they're doing a great job. I had an opportunity to go down and watch Jaden and the combined practices in Miami when they were down there. Then they actually moved the two-minute drill because it was so hot outside into the indoor. But I was thoroughly impressed with Cliff Kingsbury has done and just understanding how to bring a young quarterback along. And everybody has different ways of doing it. You know, when I got an opportunity to talk to Bobby Sloah at this offseason and how they handled CJ Stroud was totally different than how Carolina handled Bryce Young. CJ Stroud, they kind of spoon fed him and then the more he got comfortable, the more they kept layering on the offense, which paid dividends for the Houston Texans and they had a great year. He ended up becoming offensive rookie of the year where it looked like when you watch Bryce Young, understanding they didn't have the same talent level, but it looked like he was drinking out of a fire hose the whole season just by looking like they just put too much on his plate. But just what I had, the observation to watch during the preseason and what I saw watching the practices down there, I think that everybody should be very excited about Jaden Davis. Well, and that's kind of what I wanted to ask you about, Rick, in your time and you're full, you know, over the years of being an executive, what was your best practice in terms of saying, okay, we got a young quarterback here where he's here because we weren't great in previous years, right? This is a four and 13 team that he's taken over has been a lot of personnel changes. What's the best way to ensure his success? What's kind of what was your governing philosophy over the years as an exec? I would just throw the ball to the coach. We have him now. It's up to you to figure out because I'm not sitting in the meetings with him every day, you know, so you know where that kid is, how he's handling, you know, the protections, how he's handling the meetings and it's gained the very mature young quarterback and has a lot of playing experience. And that showed up in the preseason. In fact, just to be honest with you, when I watched all these rookie quarterbacks, the first six, you know, and I understand J.J. McCarthy only played in the first one before he got hurt. Michael Pennics had a really nice opener against Tampa and then they sat in the rest. But I was thoroughly impressed with these guys coming in and how they were. And I know it's, you know, cover one, man coverage or some kind of cover two, cover three on the back end. A couple of blitzes here and there, but it's going to be different when you actually game plan and the varsity is out there. But I thought you can see their experiences that they've had through college. And when you look at Jane Daniels and his adversities that he's overcome, just like Jalen Hurst overcame adversity from getting sat at Alabama, to going to Oklahoma, to going on and being the quarterback, he is, you know, Jane came from Arizona State and no one, you know, everybody thought it was a third day pick going into last season. And then he ends up being the number overall to number two overall pick, well deserved because of what he was able to accomplish. So I'm sure they got a game plan in place, but coaches get paid a lot of money to to figure out what they have to do to make sure this quarterback successful. Rick Spielman, former GM in the NFL on Grant and Danny, I want to go back to you mentioning the free agency that Washington had and how busy they were going as veteran heavy as they did and as one year deal heavy as they were able to, you would think works against a rebuild in some way. I think they have the fourth most, excuse me, the most players in the league with four or more years experience or something like that that they added this year. What do you make of that? What do you think they're trying to accomplish getting as older as they did this off season? One, that most of the guys that they brought in had some familiarity with Adam or with the DQ or with some of the coaches. Two, every one of those guys are not only still good football players, but high character, high quality people. And I think when you're starting from scratch, like both Adam and DQ are that you want to bring in guys that you know are going to do everything the right way to set the tone for the younger guys. And I think, you know, I think they're going one more games than people think they're going to be. You know, it depends. The offensive line holds up. You know, they traded Dawson to Philly, which was kind of an interesting move, but they were able to pick up Noah Brown. So, but a lot of the guys that they brought in, they had some kind of relationship with or some kind that knew when they brought them in that it was going to establish the culture that they weren't going forward. And they did a great job not overpaying. I mean, they gave a lot of short term deals to these guys and who knows where it goes that they play well. Maybe they get extensions, but for the first year, it's just getting everything going in the right direction in the way that both of those Adam and DQ see how they want this franchise to go forward. But they did it with not like a total rebuild. Like you said, they brought in some quality bets. I think they're going to help them win some games. And I believe they're going to surprise some people this year. Long time NFL exec, Rick Spilman with this here on G and D. You mentioned that dots and trade, Rick, from outside looking in, what did you make of that? Well, sometimes when you have make a move like that, it sometimes is just not the right fit. Doesn't mean he was not a good player or it's just something that, hey, this isn't going to work out. And I don't know behind the scenes what was going on or why it was. But if they felt that it wasn't the right thing for them to go forward with and great yet what you can for him. And I think Adam did a great job with that. But I know Luke McCaffrey. I know he's going to surprise some people. It's a rookie, you know, and then bringing in the Noah Browns of the world and guys like that. And Zekekis also had a really good preseason. So they felt that they had the ability to move on from dots and especially if he wasn't buying in. And I don't know that for a fact or not. But they felt that that was the best move for them to go forward. Rick Spielman on Grant and Danny here on the fan. Let's extrapolate the conversation out to the rest of the NFL. We'll start. Okay. If I if I'm going to do these, we're going to stay to two, maybe three word syllables, but you're you're you're you're you got me right after the Lunchable. So you're getting the best of me right now. An hour from now, you would have missed out. The NFC East Cowboys Eagles seem like the two teams. Everyone's kind of trying to figure out who's going to wear the pants. Who do you like better of those two? I thought, you know, the Eagles and how he is always aggressive going out and trying to improve that roster. They have two new offensive defensive coordinator and Kellamorm and and bringing in Vic Fangio on the defensive side of the ball. You know, they were aggressive and how he's always aggressive trying to address all the needs on his team, whether it's free agency, but they're in that Super Bowl window right now. And then Dallas, you know, that's kind of been a mystery to everybody when the owner says all in, but they didn't really make any significant moves, you know, they had a pretty solid draft. I like the guidance the the tackle. I think he's going to have bright future ahead of him, but he's going to have some growing pain. So they were able to get CD lay. I'm done, which I thought was critical, but how they're handling the quarterback, you know, I don't know. But I would I lean towards Philly right now, just based off everything through the preseason. It is a GM. I want to get a perspective on some of the hold outs and hold ins. I think the only guy we still have now is a son Rhettick who is not reported yet to the Jets. There's still some weirdness with Jamar Chase kind of holding in with the Bengals, but it does seem like this is becoming more prevalent, even though with the new CBA, because of the fines, it seems like players shouldn't be able to to the extent that they used to. What did you make of the various situations this off season and and just where we're at kind of big picture with some of the hold outs in the league? Yeah, well, the son Rhettick situation, do you think he even got a Jets t-shirt to work out in? Thank you. It was only there for the press conference. Not yet. It doesn't have any team issue gear yet. Yeah, not yet. So that's an interesting scenario because every major deal that I was in, I'd go back to when we traded for Jared Allen and worked with Carl Peterson on that trade when we got him from Kansas City. But it's always to get the draft compensation in place, but it's always can we go ahead and talk with the agent so we know if we're going to be able to get an extension done or not. And after we had the draft compensation kind of worked out, then we talked to Jared Allen's agent and knew that we were going to be able to get an extension done. And it's the same thing when we moved Cefan Diggs to Buffalo. I said Brandon, you're more welcome. Once we had the draft deal in place, go ahead and call his agency, which you have to do contract-wise or whatever. And then usually the two GMs will talk back, hey, we're good to go on this and let him come in past the physical. This one is, I don't know what was said when he came in when they made the trade, but it seems like both sides are digging in their heels where the Jets aren't going to move unless he's in there and he's not coming in unless he gets what he thinks he's worth. So I don't know once that draft compensation was figured out why or you wouldn't have an idea as you're going to be able to get a deal done or not. Rick, how do you see your old stomping rounds NFC North shaking out? You know, Detroit's the king right now and I got to be a little biased because my brother's up there, but you know, I think Green Bay's going to get him a pretty significant run for the money with all the young talent they have up there, with the receivers, with the draft that Brian Gutikiss has put together. Jordan Love looked like a totally different quarterback, second half of the season. It seemed like him and Matt LeFlore figured out what he does best. And that showed up and showed up in a playoff game when they went down and trounced Dallas and they gave San Francisco run for the money as well. So I think that they're a young football team that's only going to get better. And now bringing in Jeff Hackley as their defensive coordinator, used to be the head coach up at Boston College will be they're more athletic on defense. I think they're going to do a lot more things. They were an odd front team now they're going to an even front. So I'm anxious to see what that defense looks like, but they do have a lot of athletes on the defensive side of the ball. So I think it's going to come down between Detroit and Green Bay. I think that'll be the one who stays the healthiest will probably end up winning that division. How much of a chance do you give the Chiefs to three Pete's never happened before? Felt like last year in the regular season, they were taking on some water and then they kind of flipped a switch in the playoffs, but they've got plenty of challengers in the AFC with Burrow back healthy and Cincinnati, the AFC North loaded up. What do you think of Kansas City? Yeah, well, you know, Patrick Mahomes, you know, with even though their defense ended up, in my opinion, winning the Super Bowl form and Mahomes, there's no one better right now and maybe one of the best to ever play the game by the time it's said and done. And the combination of him and Andy Reed are tough to beat, but that is a a tall task to say that you're going to, you know, set history coming up. Do they address their needs? Yeah, they address all the receiver needs. I was surprised or she rice didn't get suspended yet. I don't know if that'll come later or they'll just keep going through the process until they figure out if he's going to get suspended or not. So in Xavier Worthy, the intriguing trade with Buffalo, you know, Buffalo moving back and giving Kansas City worthy. So they're going to be fast. I definitely, and I think they're going to be much improved on the offensive side of the ball and coach fags is probably the best defensive coordinator in the league right now the way he develops and plays all that talent. But I didn't have them. Some people had to do some predictions. I didn't have him making it to the Super Bowl this year. I got I've had him getting beat by Cincinnati in the AFC Championship game. Well, let's go there. That AFC North to me is just a buzz saw at the top to bottom. I don't think there's a bad team. There's some questions certainly about maybe a couple of them. But so it seems like you got Cincinnati doing really well on that division. How do you think it checks out? I think it's Cincinnati's division to lose if they stay healthy because of Joe Burrow. And hopefully they figure out this little situation with Jamar Chase. I know I got opportunity to sit down and interview Jamar a couple years ago. And he knew that I drafted Justin Jefferson. So I said, who's really better as a Justin or you? And he had no question in his mind that it was him. And so I imagine in this contract, you're going to see something just a hair above what you said. It's more than Jefferson. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. It's just for a pride factor. If anything else, I know these two are very close with their very competitive with each other as well. But I think like it says, as long as Joe Burrow stays healthy, they'll be better on the defense. Everybody knows that Cleveland Brown situation. They got a championship caliber defense. They got playmakers on the offense. But the Sean Watson actually finally performed the what they traded for in the compensation they gave him in the contract. And he doesn't maybe have to play to that. But could he play well enough for them to compete? So I think it all comes down to how the shot if he stays healthy and if he plays, Pittsburgh will be interesting to see with Arthur Smith coming in. I think they're going to be a more physical offense. They're always going to be great on a defensive side of the ball. And the only concern I've had with Baltimore was I believe they're going to have three new starters up front on the offensive line. And if you look at their coaching staff, okay, they'll ask Michael Donald as a head coach to Seattle. Anthony Weaver is down as a defensive coordinator now in Miami. And Wilson, Bernard Wilson is now the defensive coordinator in Tennessee. So they lost three pretty critical coaches on the defensive side of the ball and Orr's going to be the new defensive coordinator, former player. Harbaugh does a great job not only developing players, but developing coaches as well. So I think there'll be some question. Everybody's going to agency or is that a drop off, especially with all the coaches that they lost on the defensive side of the ball. And is that offensive line can come together with the losses they had up front. Rick, it's always excellent to have you on the show. Can't wait to watch all your content throughout the season. Thanks for the time and enjoy week one. Yeah, no, I'm going to get lunchable right now. I'm going to make sure Derek gets your address. I'm going to ship you a lunchable, right? Can I get at least we're going to show a lunchable anything? That's what we give our guests, actually. You're in luck. Now, we can't promise that it's still good that the use by date, you know, it's still going to be fresh when it gets to the house, but it'll be there. It'll be there. Okay. Well, can you put the instructions in and the go cracker cheese ham cracker or the cracker ham cheese cracker? This is build your own. You get to get cute, get creative. Yeah, as the chief executive of that lunchable, it's your call. The final say is yours, man. You don't want to pick up the phone. You got to go. You're going to pick your ham for need or you're going best available. Yeah, I'm going first thing that pops into my mouth. Whatever. The first thing I see is going in. Thanks, Rick. We appreciate you as always. Be good. All right. Thanks, guys. This is Rick Spielman, former GM with us on Grant and Danny. Someone explained to me coming back, we'll do that next. We've not done this segment in a while, something that doesn't quite make sense to us NFL version right here on G and D that's next on the fan. [silence] At three forty five, our double play. What's going on in our lives? Nothing to do with sports. Next hour looks like the Harris ownership group and this newly built business staff is going to have a fire to put out. We'll see how they handle their first big controversy as an organization. Welcome back. Grant and Danny on the fan. Thank you for making the show part of your day. We appreciate you. Daris Dameron Ryan Clary on the production. Danny, someone explained to me is a segment we've been doing off and on over the last few years. Sometimes it's non sports, just things that don't make sense. Sometimes we very specifically drill down on a team in town. I figured we could go NFL style. Someone explained to me as we close in on week one. So let's do this thing. Somebody, if you're out there and you have a second, somebody explained to me why we are so 100% sure that the Buffalo Bills are just going to kick walk in the AFC East and win that division again. The Jets are the odds on favorites. Now part of that is because there's New York and there's a bias and everybody wants to believe that it's somebody else, but Buffalo has gotten a little bit worse each year. They're still good. I still think they're going to make the postseason. But how sure are we with two legitimate contenders in that division? Miami, they do play games before it gets cold. So they might have a shot in some of those things. And the Jets who on paper of one of the best rosters, if not the best roster in the NFL, now with at least some steady quarterback play on paper, Buffalo has got a tough road to how sure we that the Buffalo Bills are going to win that division. Someone explained to me why the Cleveland Browns aren't being talked about as a Super Bowl contender. Excellent defensively. Good weapons on offense. They've got everything but the quarterback situation ironed out and the reports out of Cleveland are that they're very confident that Deshawn Watson will return to form this season. I'm not and maybe that's the explanation. But someone explained to me if Deshawn Watson plays pretty good football, why the Browns can't be one of the last teams standing in the AFC elite defensively led by DPOY Miles Garrett. Awesome secondary. Greg Newsom, Martin Emerson, Grant Delpit, Denzel Ward. And as far as offensive weaponry goes, Amari Cooper, Elijah Moore, Jerry Judy, Jamari Thrash, Jerome Ford, Shub coming back in week five or so as a reinforcement. What are they missing if Watson is going to play well? And you guys all screamed at me that Washington should go get him and he's the man and he's the top five quarterback, right? We're three years removed from him being out of the league. So at some point, you want to be a star? You better give me a star effort. You can't tell me Deshawn Watson's a good quarterback and that they're not a Super Bowl contender with everything they got around him. Someone explained to me that is a good one and I was dead wrong about that thing that you just mentioned. Someone explained to me how the Chargers won't be a lot better under Jim Harbaugh. Now that guy's annoying. He's a lot to deal with, but you know what he does? He rolls up and the team gets a lot better. That's what's happened. It happened at San Diego, happened at Stanford, it happened in Michigan, happened in San Francisco and it's going to happen this year. He's going to make everyone pull their hair out and be super annoyed with them and probably drive every good employee out of that building because it's the Jim Harbaugh show. But I'm telling you that dude can run himself a program. He's really, really good at this. I anticipate the Chargers to be massively improved from the bottom future they were last year. Someone explained to me why that's not the case. Someone explained to me why anybody would spend one cent betting on a rookie to win Rookie of the Year other than Caleb Williams. Caleb Williams is about to have an awesome first season in the NFL. It is my contention that he is better supported and insulated than any quarterback has ever been in league history. I don't think there's a better one, two, three punch of trio of wide receivers anywhere, let alone with a rookie quarterback, but anywhere than more Allen Adunze in Chicago. They've got an awesome starting tight end in Cole commit and his backup can get open and Gerald Everett. They're going to be able to run the ball with DeAndre Swift and Khalil Herbert and a pass catching back out of the backfield in Rashaun Johnson. They've got a pretty good offensive line. They had a top 10 defense in the second half of last year. I don't know if they're a playoff team, even though they look like one on paper, but Caleb Williams will be the first Bears quarterback to ever throw for 4,000 yards and he's going to do it this year as a rookie as he wins the Rookie of the Year award. Someone explained to me why anybody would assume any other player would win the award. He's just got too much around him. It's too well built for him. Someone explained to me what the path is for the Carolina Panthers to be good again. I don't know the answer long ago were the days of Ron Rivera, Cam Newton and Luke Kekely and company thumping people's skulls and like nine different running backs all running down your throat and Steve Smith at five nine going up into traffic in the secondary and catching huge third down passes to move the chains. They have one of the worst rolesters in the National Football League. They scored the fewest points and gave up. I think the third or fourth most in the NFL last year. Huzzah. I like their first round draft pick this year in terms of and wide receiver talent, but it ain't enough. I don't know where they go. I think their owner is a is a tire fire. I'm very familiar with how that goes. I have empathy for the Carolina Panthers faithful, but good heavens. I don't see a way out for them. Someone explained to me while the why the commanders can't be frisky in the NFC East. I think the Eagles come back a little bit. They were 11 and six last year. They're actually a lot better than that and collapsed at the end of the season. Dallas will not be 12 and five again. They're probably more of a 10 win team. The Giants aren't good. Why can't Washington be four or five wins better than they were a year ago? There's nothing about last year's team that is relevant to this year's team. New ownership, new front office, every piece of the decision making has changed. New coaching staff from top to bottom. New starting quarterback. The most important position on the field dramatically upgraded. New roster. No team having turned over more players over 70% from a year ago than Washington. So I don't care that they went for in 13. I don't really care about recent history. They got a lot of veterans on short deals coming in here with something to prove. Why can't they be frisky if Jaden Daniels is electric and makes plays with his feet and is explosive in a difference maker. They're going to be in the conversation in December for a wild guard spot. Why can't Washington in a pedestrian to slightly above average division in the NFC East make some noise and hang around into the winter? Someone explained to me on that very subject. Why Washington can't beat the New York Giants? Why can't they beat the Giants? Nobody's got more losing seasons over the last decade plus than the Giants with the exception. Honestly, the Jets actually just looked that up. It's a worn sharp stat for you. But the Giants have been horrific. The Giants outside of Washington are like a 333 winning percentage team against Washington. They are eight, three and one over their last 12, including a two, five and one stretch for Washington here. They swept them talking to Washington versus New York and I believe 2021. Other than that, it's a lot of own twos. There was a tie in there. Let us not forget. That's as good as it's been. Why can't they beat the Giants? If you just do that, look at the Nationals. If I know we're talking a full point, but give me one second. The Washington Nationals aren't particularly good this year, but you know what they are? Eight no against the Marlins. You have a terrible team. You know what you do? Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. You're James Winston style. You eat it all. You smack them around. You bully the team that sucks objectively. The Giants suck and have sucked. And dare I say, well, continue to suck. Please defeat them. Please just beat them. Let's start there and we can talk about everything else. Losing seasons in the last 10 years of football, to your point, the Jets have nine the most in the league. The Giants, Browns and Panthers have eight in the last 10 years tied for second worst. Then the Jaguars Raiders, Washington, the Bears, the Falcons and the Broncos have seven tied for third worst. And then the Bucks have six. By the way, the Chiefs and Steelers don't have a single losing season. In the last 10 years, Seattle has only one and Buffalo. Surprisingly enough, Dallas and Baltimore have only two about it. So those are the winning teams that year in and year out. Find ways to be on the right side of 500. Someone explained to me on Grant and Danny here on the fan, someone explained to me why there is not more skepticism about Aaron Rodgers having a great year for the Jets. He is old. He's 40. He will be 41 years old during this football season. He's coming off of a Achilles injury, very serious injury. He was not playing at the same level, the last year he played in Green Bay as he had been earlier in his career either. So we saw in 2022, pretty good year, 26 touchdowns, 12 picks, nothing wrong with it, through for 3600 yards and 17 games run heavy team. But I would say a regression, maybe a slowing down, like a start of a walk down the staircase for Rodgers. Then last year he played four snaps and got hurt. Now he comes back. We just had Rick Spillman on. There are other analysts in the country saying, you know, this is going to be a Super Bowl caliber team potentially that the Jets could win it all. Where is the skepticism on a quarterback coming off of a serious injury in his 40s? Someone explained to me how you can pick the Jets to win the title and think that Aaron Rodgers is going to go play 20 plus games. Somebody explained to me why CD lamb can't go for 2000 yards this year. They don't have any other options. Who is their number two receiver? It's a quiz for you in your car right now. You're driving around. Who do you think Dallas is second best receiver right now? This minute is you may be going, it's going to be Brandon Cooks or Jalen Tolbert. I'm sure pick them both out of a lineup. It's CD lamb or bust. And the answer probably a lot of times is bust. He is going to eat. That dude is going to have so many catches and so many yards. Therefore progress will be dependent on Dak Prescott throwing the wall to CD lamb. He's got a shot at 2K. Do we get Daniel Lunchable? He's mentioned eating a couple times. I did say that is someone explained to me. That is true. I think James Winston was eating a double. You would. Yeah, because I was trying to say like that's what you do. You take advantage and eat it up. Like I drink your milkshake. Get you a Lunchable here. I would love a Lunchable. Double play is next. What's going on in our lives? Nothing to do with sports. Four o'clock hour. We've got the Beltway Blitz. We'll go over under six and a half wins for the commanders. Also a fire to put out for this new ownership group in terms of controversy brewing today that came out of Ashburn. You're listening to the fan. [BLANK_AUDIO] With Danny, I'm Grant. This is the fan booger McFarland of ESPN. We'll join us coming up at five and hour and 15 minutes from right now as we get ready for the kickoff of the NFL season tomorrow. Raven's at the Chiefs and then Friday from Brazil, the Green Bay Packers, Philadelphia Eagles. And then we got to wait until Sunday for everyone else to inaugurate their campaigns. It is time though for our double play. What's going on in our lives? Nothing to do with sports. The double play driven you by your local Washington area, Honda dealers. Stopping for a great deal on the rugged and capable Honda pilot. Contact your local Washington area, Honda dealers today. James, I had a doctor's appointment this morning and directly, I don't know, maybe the 75 yards from the front door of the doctor's office, there is a place called the Kalata shop, which is something you would never do. But it's a sort of Cuban coffee shop that's got short order sandwiches and pastries. But the Cafe Cubana was kind of like the calling card there. I realized how much I love a little Cuban coffee situation. I love coffee so much as it is. It's kind of the whole reason. If you want to get me something, get me coffee. Like that's what I want for my birthday. It's what I want for Christmas. I want to try the coffee. I want to experience it. I want to have a nice time with it. I want to sit calmly and drink my coffee. It's my number one thing that I want to do. I want it to be quiet. I want no one to bother me. I want to maybe scroll on my phone, maybe read a book. I don't know. But I want to sit there and enjoy the coffee. At coffee, Danny. I rarely get to, but it's why I get out of bed. Right. There's like, oh, your responsibility is your kids. Nope. It's a cup of coffee. It's the whole point. I love it. I love it so much. I had to become such a coffee mark. It's 24. So I used to make fun of my father, both my parents by my extension, but really was my dad who was his or was it has been an early rise based on his time in the Air Force. He just always got up early. That's what he did. So what you'd see him in the morning, he would do that shuffle, that pre coffee shuffle where his feet didn't leave the ground, but he was moving forward to go to get to that place where the coffee was. Right. And I used to make so much fun of him. I'm out of bed. I'm like, look at me. I'm ready to go. Get all my energy. Even as a teenager, I could hop right out of bed and start living my life without any kind of stimulant. Even to college, I was able to do it. Pulling all nighters, going out drinking the night before, getting up for a six AM practice or some kind of nonsense. I did it all, like everyone else did. And it started in my mid twenties when I was going to work. And one of the things with everyone did at work was they would do this 10 30 AM coffee break. It was just part of the culture of where the office was. And it was, we were encouraged actually to do that. It's like team building and camaraderie and all the buzz words that people like to use. So I didn't know that I see people getting their coffee. I'll have some of that. How do you take it? Oh, with a lot of sugar in it and some milk. Sure. I'll do that too. And before you knew it, I couldn't live without it. I loved it. Hey, and I was like, I just did this all the time. This is great. And then I became beyond dependent on it. Like it's the source of my happiness. The point of the dude story is, I ordered the colada shop today. I had an iced Cuban coffee to go, but I had that little cubano roasted espresso that sweetened a little bit with a little bit of their like a sweet milk and a little bit of the sugar in there. Got great for you. But my God, is it delicious, delicious. That's what I had for you. Not even that great of a story. I had it and reminded myself how much I love it. Daris just informed me as I was getting ready to walk into the studio that he is going to be tested again for allergies coming up in September on September 19th. He's booked an appointment. This is a big moment for a lot of reasons, but specifically because we've got a stretch that's gone on for almost our entire existence as a program that there has always been one producer of our shows allergic to peanuts for some reason. Daris currently is that guy. So I think the way it's going to work is if we find out he's not allergic, then Cleary is automatically allergic to peanuts. That's how we know that. There's at least one, yeah. But in addition to being allergic to all things, peanuts, more importantly, I'd say, Daris is allergic to shellfish and seafood and has allergies to these things. Maybe we ask him about it and he's like, oh, one time this happened many, many years ago. And it's like, yeah, but you could grow out of that. So we're about to find out. We're going to know. Is he the father? But also we're about to find out is Daris still allergic? I wasn't ready to shellfish. So here's my idea. Sorry, I know you're doing something else, but I that totally caught me. I don't know why I totally caught you. Daris Dameron, you are the father. You are the father. Thanks, dad. Love you, dad. Love you, dad. Okay, so where was I? I think we were at the point where here's what I want to do. I do read the story. If Daris is no longer allergic to shellfish, shellfish, I think we have to do some type of like Hanks oyster bar blowout. Yeah, we got to do a like crab cakes and football kind of day. What do you think? I 100% agree with that. Welcome him back to the sea, as it were. It's funny because Ryan actually just talked me into scheduling this appointment because when we went to our last commercial break, I heard the junkies promo where they're promoting that they're doing their fourth annual crab feast. I'm like, Oh, great. The whole studio is going to smell like seafood tomorrow. That's awesome. Ryan's like, what are you going to get tested to see, like, are you still there? I see you got tested based on your guy, Claire. Yeah, Claire, just put it back in my head. I was like, all right. Yeah, you know what? I'm going to schedule my appointment right now and open Daris live his best life. I know. And kind of like all I do, because of course, as I walked past Daris a little bit earlier on, I had trail mix and Daris like, Oh, you're trying to kill me because there's peanuts in there. And I unfortunately, peanuts nearly every day. There's a lot of allergies over there. A lot of allergies. We're just going on living online. I've got a peanut covered crab. You want some? Yeah. So I was like, Daris, like, you should just get tested again. And he's like, you know what? I'm making a appointment right now. And he got on the phone and made an appointment. First of all, that's so silly. That's a great way to do it. The, I will tell you this in no exaggeration. I did it at Capitol Breathe Free, where I got my mom, my sinus procedures and different stuff to 30 lines on you with markers and all that. They didn't make they didn't do a nose job. I was like, well, you're in there. You want to rearrange some of this? Make a little nicer? I mean, that's how they like the allergy test. They like drawn. Oh, yeah. But so I had it all done there and I take drops every morning to build up like a small immunity to all that stuff. It has changed my life. So I'm hoping for something similar, my friend. You'll find out like I'm allergic to something called like Cyprus ragweed. Oh good. We didn't grow around here, but if I ever encounter it, I'll break out. Look, weird stuff you'll never know, but it is a game changer because then you could do something about it. That's what's so awesome. I just hope for you that we don't find out like, nope, you're still very allergic to peanuts and to see food, but also you're also allergic to ham and you have celiac disease. You know, now you just can't eat anything. Like it could really backfire. That would be that would be absolutely tragic. Yeah, that would have been tough outcome, because I'm thinking of the quiz comes back. Awesome. If they're like, you have to be a vegan and you're only allowed to eat peas. You know what you can't have is gluten, man. And just for the rest of his life, he has to eat nothing but peas. That'll be miserable. Wow. Then we could all tell Ryan, you're not a life coach. Yeah, that's true. That part is true. But either way, I feel like we could do like some big production where it's like we plug it on like this day, the double play, we reveal if there is allergic or not. And we just we have like, I mean, because here's the thing, I think we just do seafood either way that day. I roll in with a giant salt line carryout order. Yeah, we have butter and jellies and Reese's cups as well. And like, there's can either eat it or you can't. I love this idea. So we get four giant crab cakes from Hank's Oyster bar or whatever. Yeah. And then the question is, do we split up the fourth one three ways or does Daris get to eat it? Does Daris get to eat it? And then Daris says, hand it on over. It's mine. We all just go crazy. I love this. Or or keep it away. I'll die. And then we go crazy also, because we get to eat more crab. True. We still actually were happier for that result. Exactly. We're like, sorry, Daris. This is so tasty. Respectfully, Daris. Well, I'm excited. I'm excited. I hope I hope it turns out positively for me. Yes. Or negative. Well, yeah. We have goes well with a negative allergy test. That's it. Correct. Yes. Yes. I hope it works out. Let's eat some seafood. The Beltway Blitz is next on Grant and Danny. 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