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Charles Davis Previews The 2024 NFL Season
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Ryan Eagle, the outstanding CBS crew, this coming weekend, Charles, happy new year and happy football season from your pals at Grant and Danny. Happy new year, happy football season guys and everyone who can hear our voices. First of all, do I get pyrotechnics when I come out? 100%. Yes. Hey, if you want them, you got them. I got, we got flames. We, I don't know what your intro music, I mean, we got the CBS jingle, but if there's like a song you really like that starts blaring, you can spit water into the air. Yeah, we'll work that part out later. I think what was always thought Goldberg's entrance. Oh, so good with the repetitive, concussive beat and just, you know, him walking with armed guards and the whole deal and then when the pyrotechnics hit and it's like he didn't hail the pyrotechnics as well, right? And kind of blow those out and it's right, you know, it's bring Jack Cameron, somebody and doing his thing. And by the way, he was quite a football player at the University of Georgia. So let's, let's not forget that and with the Atlanta Falcons, just spearing dudes. You knew Charles Davis was going to bring him back to America. I bet you got a scouting report there. You've broken down film on Goldberg somewhere along the line. Goldberg was heck of a player, you know, he's actually an undersized nose and just, you know, the effort that you see in the ring and whatever people want to think about pro wrestling, they still have to go through it. A lot of the hits are real. Some of them are unexpected when you have to give your body up to the mat like that. So often you got to know what you're doing and it takes a little bit to get out of bed every day. So I give those guys a bunch of credit, but don't forget we don't, there's one song that won't make the entry into your, your mashup because we don't know it yet and that's Netflix for Christmas. That's true. Good point. That is true. Now CBS is producing both games. I know that our production teams are doing the games. No one knows who the announcers are going to be, et cetera. So I don't know. CBS is able to cut the deal that it's CBS music on a Netflix deal. I have no idea. I leave that to the people who know what they're doing. They're above my head. Well, Charles, we don't know what Netflix is going to give us. We got it. That's a new one. We got to get you on that. Chappelle Sandler kick on that Netflix contract, right? They're doing games for Netflix. You need one of those 10 movie deals, bro? Hey, I'll take one. Sorry. Yeah. I'll take one. No sense in me being greedy when I haven't done anything. Yeah, you got to prove yourself and those guys certainly have, but anyway, I've taken up enough of the time, but yeah, I love what you guys are doing with that. That's going to be fun to see how the rankings come out. And next year you'll have Netflix into the frame. It's a different world, man. Let's start with the game you're calling the teams that are involved here. Cincinnati. You're removed from a conference final appearance and then another you removed from losing in the Super Bowl. They were 9/8 last year kind of viewed as a disappointment. How are you viewing them this season that Buzz Salva division? I think we're viewing them where they get the respect they deserve because of where they finished the previous two years, but there's still a little air of mystery to them because a couple of key guys weren't there. Member von Bell left, but came back and they think that that is just huge for their secondary in terms of communication, less busting to that nature, but who's going to slow down the running game? Because when DJ Reader wasn't on the field and he was hurt, a decent part of last year now in Detroit, people gashed him running the football. So do they have a Sheldon Rankin's the guy to replace him and kind of stymie that, DJ Hill, the rookie Chris Jenkins, things of that nature. So a little bit of mystery, but you kind of bank on the fact that this team has been there a couple of times. I mean, let's face it, if Joseph Osai doesn't hit my homes going on as over the sideline, they might go back to back Super Bowls. Charles, before you get to work with iron on Sunday in the booth, we'll already have had a couple of the AFC powers playing in fact, three of them. If you're going to count, you know, the jets on Monday night, we get to see in prime time here after you're done, but Chiefs Ravens Thursday night football, do you see Baltimore coming back to the pack at all? They lost a lot on that defensive staff, some key starters as well, and the Chiefs are trying to do something that's never been done before with a three-peat. Yeah, I mean, look, it's going to be a bigger slog for both of them. When you're the number one seed, people circle you, although, let's be honest, don't people circle Baltimore anyway? I mean, this is not new. And the same thing with Kansas City, they may be going for a three-peat, but their circle every time they hit the field, and what's interesting to me is how Andy Reid and his staff and that team goes about, I'm not going to say reinventing themselves, but creating an atmosphere that you are chasing something as opposed to defending something. And I always think the teams that try to defend something are the ones to have a tougher time doing it. Plus, Andy Reid made no bones about it. What does he want to do offensively? He wants to get back to being the Chiefs. This year, defense led them. The homes played to that defense and showed his superior IQ as a quarterback, but he'd like to be back, pulling it down, feeling bomb in it so that it can save your world. He'd be that guy. You know, that gives him that deal with Hollywood Brown comes back and he helped open things up again, because you saw Travis Kelsey's yards per catch drop last year. It wasn't because he didn't still have it. I think it's because everything was so condensed because no one could stretch the field. And what Marcus Valdez-Gantling did stretch the field. He held your breath on whether that is actually catching, so that was a big issue for them. Charles Davis with us here on Grant and Danny, let's go to the AFC East where New England is. It's a different phase than we're used to for 20 years, basically, they competed for Super Bulls. Now they're kind of, you know, starting to new, see what they have there, but that AFC East is intriguing. Miami has been good over the last couple of years, kind of until it gets cold. Buffalo's the, you know, maybe the windows on its way closed, but we'll see how open still is. And the Jets have been great, except the quarterback. How do you see that division going? I see that division. You know, it's funny. The AFC North is going to get the kind of the, what they didn't see in hard knocks, right? Which I think is very intriguing, right? We're going to see the whole AFC North at that, since we started with a wrestling theme, that steel cage match every time those four go at it, right? When you do that, it almost feels like every game ends on a field goal with a buzzer and both teams walk off like man, did we survive that one? And now we'll do it again next week. I feel like the AFC East, not quite to that level, but boy, as you said, intriguing attack. Big questions each team has to kind of answer, but at the same time, very talented there. People play to their level. And if the Jets play to the level we expected last year, and I think that roster is better this year than it was last year, but the hype is way reduced because we didn't get it last year, the Jets have a very good chance of doing it. 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They got the four guys who are going to play extensively this year, presumably of Drake Macy's the field, and then two that aren't expected to and JJ McCarthy out for the year, Michael Pennix behind Kirk Cousins in Atlanta, but of the four guys that are either already starting or could soon, Caleb Williams, Jaden Daniels here in DC, Bo Nix in Denver, and Drake man, New England. What's your outlook for this crop? Because it seems like it's just been extremely positive in every market on all of these guys. Yeah, I'm pretty bullish on them and normally what I say about these quarterbacks, no matter what number we take in the first round, you start at 5050 in terms of those really being good in the NFL and then air on the side of not going to be good. It's just kind of the way this thing works out. It's kind of like if you took them one and two, one would be one of the two would be good and one of the two would not be quite as good or worse than that, manning and leaf, right? Mario did in Winston, looked like they both had chances to both ascend and then neither one of them got to the heights we fully expected, although I think you'd have to say Winston had the bigger highs. So out of this group though, as someone called me today and said, "Hey, been watching Hard Knocks, been watching the Bears," Caleb Williams feels about as close to can't miss as we're going to get and then he also countered with, but I can't wait to see this Daniel's kid pulled go. He said he seems to have a presence to him, there's something about it and this is a football guy calling me. This isn't just a friend, you know, wanting to know who I would take in fantasy. This is someone who's pretty well involved with the league and gets it, you know, and then he just kept going and he said, "Nicks was central casting for Denver." He said, "This is one time I actually believed when a team says we got the guy we wanted because Sean paid that, that number, fell in love with the guy that he knew he had a shot to get and let's face it." When he wakes up in the morning, he sees Drew Brees 2.0, now if any played it out level, we don't know, but the similarities are pretty strong and let's face it, this kid had 61 college starts, 61 that tells you about how our world changed and gave kids extra opportunities plus which schools. He was such a legacy at Auburn, I'm not sure anyone could truly understand just how big a deal that was. I'm an SEC guy, so I totally got it because I knew his dad, but when he went there, oh, you talk about the rejoicing, if he had gone to Alabama instead of Auburn, they might have burned down the next family home, okay, that's that's how big a deal it is back there, but this kid seems to kind of have it, plus he won the academic Heisman coming out of college at the Campbell Trophy as given by the National Football Foundation. He seems to have exactly what Sean Payton's looking for, I can't wait to see the other pieces go in around him, and Drake May for a hot minute we thought would start the opener, but they decided to go with the veteran which I think was probably a smart move considering how they posited it from the beginning. But you remember in the beginning of training camp, all the Drake May is a disaster conversation, remember that one, this foot works terrible, he's not seeing, by God Joe Milton might be the number two quarterback, which was never in play, but you know instant reactions, no one's saying and now with Drake May are they, they're seeing a kid that can flat out do it, now he'll have his ups and downs when he does play the rookie, but everything else is there. And if you spend any time with Drake May, you'd love having him quarterback your team. So all that just went crazy and I'll just stop here speaking of draft. The one quarterback out of the six that went in the first round that took the most beating in the process was oddly enough, Drake May. Charles Davis with us here on G and D. Charles. Okay. So a couple of years ago recently an AFC South team team on the rise had been really bad previously, had a nice season, won the division and won a playoff game. And then the next year, they kind of disappointed, right? That's Jacksonville. Now Houston is kind of taking on that role. Were there everybody's darlings? There were disaster before I get it on paper did an awful lot this off season. They're coming off for their most successful seasons in some time. And you think we're crowning them a little bit too early and be if it's not them, who is it? And then AFC South. Yeah, it's a great question. Now they were crowning them too early in terms of the division, but they got to run the goal and see if they can get into the playoffs and make some noise. I mean, that's a big deal, but I think that you guys have probably done a really nice job, chromicaling their off season was not one of, wow, wasn't that fun? Let's stand pat. Mm hmm. It was, wow, wasn't that fun? Can we get better? And they went out and got players. You know, they didn't just say, okay, we're good. They went, got digs on offense. They got D'Nico Audrey was so underrated on defense. They got Danielle Hunter, the big time pass, uh, going after the quarterback guy, Aziz al-Shire to run your defense in the middle. They made a lot of moves that said, okay, young quarterback, first contract, we better capitalize now before we have to pay him and then it's harder to get players and they're trying to get it done. They should be the favorite in the division, but you, I'm going to tell you that division is in a place right now where there are a lot of people thinking we should be in the league. They got involved in this thing. Jacksonville, you mentioned they were eight and three and hosting Monday night football in Cincinnati last year with the number one overall seed in the AFC in play for them. They lose the game and go south not to be seen in the playoffs. The year before the Tennessee Titans had a stranglehold on the division, went south not to be seen again. And less than a year later, Mike Raibel loses his job when it looked like he was going to be there for as long as he wanted to be. So it's a volatile division. The Colts feel very good about their football team. They said they had four plays last year with Anthony Richardson and Jonathan Taylor on the field at the same time, four plays, kind of like Aaron Rodgers, four plays with the Jets. They feel very good about their team. They think they're going to be right in it. And Tennessee is just ticked off, they're like, no one talks about us at all. No one's doing this. And I think that their GM ran car thought it's made some really strong moves in this offseason and in the draft that a key is they will play differently. Not Derrick Henry, 25 times, right? So Will Levis, this is your moment. And they gave you some guys to go get it in Hopkins, Tyler Boyd coming over from Cincinnati, trailing Berks has to step up and make some plays. I mean, they've got some receivers now that I'm missing one of the big ones. Who's Calvin Ridley? Yeah, Calvin Ridley coming up from Jacksonville, if you can get back to that Atlanta form of Calvin Ridley. So they're going to play it differently with a brand new head coach, but they think they're being drastically overlooked. Now they need to go play that way. Well, let's you out on this. When we were missing, we didn't ask about Washington's division here in the East seems like most pundits have Cowboys, Eagles, a cut above that the Giants and the commanders. Do you see it the same way and then of those two supposed powerhouses, which do you like better? And to prove it differently, absolutely. And what I think that Dallas gained is not an advantage. They were able to not lose ground this offseason because let's put it on the table. Are we really sure that what happened to Philadelphia at the end of last year has been adequately taken care of, addressed, and put behind them? We don't know. At least I don't. I'm still waiting to see and feel this team that it's all said and done and we can let it all go. Every team says it. Every team does it. But we have to see when the adversity kicks in, when the stakes get high, when things get tight, do they do they revert? Because that was an epic collapse, guys. I mean, epic. Before they 10 and one. And by the end of the year, you're like, what the heck happened here? But are they roster wise the best Philadelphia to me is the best roster wise and definitely a cut above Washington and the Giants doing some chasing? We'll see how we go. But remember the Giants got into play a couple of years ago. How did they do it, guys? They won every close game they played, those are like eight one score games that they won. That's usually not sustainable. Charles, by the way, you're headed to, you got Cincinnati and you got New England this weekend. Well, I believe that's in Foxborough, right? No, that's not that's even better. We're going to Cincinnati very likely in a few weeks. Washington's going to be there. The show's trying to hit the road. So I might hit you up after the fact for some scouting reports. Your boy is looking for a good cut of meat somewhere. That sounds good to me. You hit me up anytime. I love it. And the Bengals have a brand new locker room. Remember that report that they do at the league every year about the guys rating their own team? Yeah, the NFL report. Yeah. They get crushed in. Remember, they got clobbered about the locker room and it's that and everything. Well, guess what? They've got a brand new locker room there at the stadium. And I think the guys are pretty well pleased with that. And supposedly they're breaking out some brand new threads. I hear we're going to get orange pants and orange tops for the Beckles on Sunday. And they have this thing. They call ruler of the jungle to kind of lead the team in the Houdet chant. Guess who they brought? Guess who they're bringing in for Sunday? The National Championship, Yukon coach Dan Hurley, who barely grew up a Bengals fan and mentioned Houdet in a press conference when they beat Xavier in Cincinnati. He's ever since that time, the Bengals are all over it. So he's going to be the ruler of the jungle breaking out all stops for the opener fellows. I love it. It's going to be fun. Do all that stuff then. Not more wear in town for washington. Just treat that one more normal. I bet you for a Monday night game, they're going to have some things planned too, unfortunately. And that Monday night game, you'll probably, you know what you'll get? What? You'll get their rank. They'll get whoever is going in their ring of honor. I'll bet you that. I bet you'll get that that night. Oh, good. That sounds. Yeah. Get a ginned up crowd for that. Just make sure everyone's all fired up for the commanders. Hey, Charles. Can I wait to watch you in the Birdman again? The best, buddy. Thank you so much. We appreciate you. Thanks for having me, guys. You guys take care of yourselves and I can't wait to hear the final results of the theme song. Yeah. We'll get there as well. We'll get it over to you. Last year, CBS one. But like I said, the song stayed the same. It's like a field thing on that day, whatever the vibe is. You have to go. I don't know how to describe it. It really is. I hope I hope we're vibing well that day. There you go. All right, Charles. We appreciate you. Appreciate you guys. Be good. That's right. Well, anthems, Fox, CBS, NBC, we do NFL network and Monday Night Football. So we added Amazon to it, right? We're up to six. So Amazon, we could just put six though. Whoa, whoa, whoa. You can't go in with it. I was literally getting ready to say we clear our minds. We actually have a meditation session before the show. Can we clear our minds except for Amazon? No, we clear our biases away. We listen to it clean like it's the first time, right? We have to do that to keep the integrity of the process. Otherwise, the whole thing is a damn sham. A sham. I'll agree to your terms. But just know that it's going to be tough for me in any mindset to have Amazon prime now. Well, now you've got me in contrarian mode. Now, do I have to put Amazon in my top six? Hey, NFL fans, you can start the season with a big return on Fandal, America's number one sports book. So when you get a hunch in the middle of the game, you can check out the latest stats, view live play-by-play, and so much more on the same page where you place your bets. You'll get started with $200 in bonus bets guaranteed when you place your first $5 bet. That's Fandal.com/sportsfan. Never waste a hunch and make every moment more with Fandal, an official sports book partner of the NFL. Must be 21 plus and present in Colorado. First online real moneyweights are only $10 first deposit required. Bonus issued is now a throwable bonus bets that expire seven days after receipt. 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