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Trent Williams Gets Re-Worked Deal, What Excites You Most About Week 1 vs Tampa?

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1:00- We open the show discussing the 49ers reworking Trent Williams contract. Then we discuss the sad news of 49ers WR Ricky Pearsall being shot in the Bay Area this past weekend.

22:30- Week 1 of the NFL is here! What gets you pumped about the week 1 matchup between the Commanders & Bucs?

Broadcast on:: 03 Sep 2024
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There is a lot to get into. Why don't we start with the news of the day. Trent Williams and the 49ers agreed to a contract restructure. So San Francisco is now sealed and delivered deals with Brandon I youku was holding in and Trent Williams who was holding out there, both back, they're throwing it all together last second here, but the 49ers with their stars carrying over from last year will be at close to full strength as they get ready to open their season this weekend. Yeah, too much at stake too much at stake for a team. It's that good. A team that's got that kind of firepower, a wide open NFC where they're the prohibitive favorite. They're the best team in that conference, been to the super pretty much every time they've been healthy. They've been in the conference title game or on the way to the super bowl. They are right there. Their window is open right now. So maybe if you're in a rebuilding position, maybe if you're coming off a three or four or five win season, you could play some more hard ball with Trent Williams and a lot of time for that. Right? I mean, if you're Trent, you're trying to win your first Super Bowl. You've been searching for one. You've been on the precipice knocking on the door with San Francisco for a few years. You just got to give yourself the best chance this year and worry about everything else after that. They opened the season on Monday night football six days from today against the Jets actually. So that should theoretically be Aaron Rodgers first full game for the New Yorkers. It was Monday night football one year ago in week one where he ruptured his Achilles tendon and he was done for the season. So he'll look for a different result in that game and the Jets hope to keep the train on the tracks for at least tonight with Aaron Rodgers, but that's Monday night football. Now the 49ers did have a massive scare and this was a near tragedy before we move on. We should just acknowledge that Ricky Pearsall, their rookie receiver from the University of Florida. I love this guy. He actually played with Jaden Daniels at Arizona State and then transferred to Florida at the end of his college career. They drafted him in the first round, which now seems almost like an unnecessary pick, by the way, because Deebo's not going anywhere and they paid Brandon Ayuk. He was kind of going to be the Ayuk replacement perhaps, but he's a really, really talented route runner. He went to a event where he was signing autographs was walking out of the event in downtown San Francisco, a teenager saw him 17 year old, I believe, tried to steal his watch. They get into an altercation and a bit of a fight. He pulls out a gun and shoots him in the chest. Subsequently, as he's taking off and trying to jump into a car, shoots himself. He's hospitalized. Pearsall, more importantly, had the bullet go through his chest out his back, a nearly devastating loss of life situation. He ends up being a okay is out of the hospital already is apparently in the team's facility today. But how can you hear that and not think about Brian Robinson two years ago, the exact same scenario. And Robinson, instead of being at a card signing event, was in downtown D.C. just picking up seafood. He heard about a restaurant that did lunch. He heard this is a great place to get a, you know, a po boy sandwich or whatever. He went, he scooped his food, he's taken his, his take out back to his car and two kids that were younger than 17. I think one was like 13 and one was 16 or something, you know, attack him, try to rob him. He gets into it with them and gets shot in the leg. So it's very, very similar to what we went through here in D.C. Absolutely. I mean, just it defies, believe it's, it's so the details sound fictitious. They sound made up. It sounds too incredible to be true. I don't mean that in a good way. Like obviously it's just, it's, it's absurd and people are going to hear this the right way. Obviously I don't want anyone to be shot. I think that's pretty, that pretty strong stance there. That's pretty clear and pretty obvious. I've got like a little, like it's, it's even more heartbreaking to me when this isn't some sort of like weird nefarious activity going on Aaron Hernandez style of three o'clock in the morning, somewhere you shouldn't be. You know what I mean? This isn't one of those like extracurricular. Yeah. You're committing a crime. Yeah. You're doing something. You're hanging out with some sort of CD element or whatever the hell. It was like going to sign autographs. You know, it's like sort of team and career and football related like trying to make some people happy. Right? Like to, to, to build some vendor, to build the family and it's, and that happens. Just unbelievable. Yeah. It's nuts. And it, it again is just scary. You think about it. These athletes, people know where they're at, you know, when they're publicizing themselves and doing some marketing at events, I saw Deebo Samuel actually on Instagram live yesterday, a video was making the rounds where he said, Hey, you guys need to slow down with the posting pictures of us out and about. Yeah. And obviously it's after one of his teammates got shot. So he's a little spooked, but his point is, I think a good one, you know, he was referencing the fact that if he's eating at a restaurant or whatever, sometimes, you know, he'll see that people will take a picture and say, Deebo is at so and so right now eating this meal. It's like, not man, let me live in some privacy. You just don't know what people are thinking. And bad guys have the social media too, you know, that they can, oh, Deebo Samuel, he's definitely got some jewelry on. He might have money or whatever, but just very, very happy that Piersol is okay. And by a couple of inches, probably not only survived, but hopefully we'll get to play football again as he's in the building today. No idea what the timeline is on his recovery. We'll see what the 49ers have to say as they talk about that today. So that means we only have one holdout left, by the way, with San Francisco and Trent Williams agreeing to terms this morning, Hassan Rettick, still having not reported to the New York Jets, the former Philadelphia Eagle. And this is the all time start out of the off season. The Jets traded for him, knowing he wanted a new contract and told the Eagles he wasn't going to report. Rettick broke out with the Panthers, then played really well in Philly. This will be his third organization in short order, where he's a hired gun pass rusher. And now he's telling the Jets, I'm not showing up without more money. It's not happening. And the Jets put out a really strong statement saying, don't listen to him. He knows the score. So this is the one, this, this is the, we've got Jamar Chase holding in still, where he may not play in week one, he's still wearing jeans during practices, sitting on the sideline watching his buddies. This is the one players yet to report to work. Yeah. And you know, it's very little opportunity. There's not much leverage. There's only so much you can do, right? If you're a player with the CBA, being on a contract, you know, not coming up to work days is prohibitive, right? You don't accrue the service time that you need. You don't end up playing well to earn that big ticket and free agency. The best you can do is basically say, almost in effect, I'm not going to be as good for you guys and you're desperate to win. If you don't pay me and I can't show up and practice and make sure that I'm ready to rock and roll, you're going to get a worse version of me. That's not that much leverage, honestly, you know, you could, it's basically a glorified temper tantrum where the hope that the kid is like a parent, the end of a long day and the toddler just is holding their breath and is turning purple and just yells and you go fine. I'll make you the dumb chicken nuggets. That's what it feels like. I mean, there's, there's only so much that you can do at this stage. The alternative, I guess you can call your bluff and say, well, turn the car right around. But what is that? I mean, the jets are in a decent position. They need him. And that's why obviously they took the risk of trading for him even kind of without the certainty of that deal. How much college football did you get to watch this weekend? Not as much I would have liked. A lot more time in the greater Leesburg area at the various soccer plexus out there. There's one where like, I don't know if it's a semi-pro team or something, the revolutionaries. I don't know. Maybe the, I think that's George Washington. But maybe somebody like that, I don't know, nice little stadium. There's like the professional style, the dugouts for the, for the kids for, for soccer games and stuff like that. So I was, I was there a lot, but I caught some locally, Maryland looked really good. Now they played UConn. They should look really good. And they do this every year to start the season, but I was actually more impressed by them this time around than I have been in a little while. Billy Edwards in his first start as the starter was excellent, 311 yards, two touchdowns. And Ty Felton, who to me looks like a, a day two draft pick, their number one wide receiver, went seven for 178 in a couple of touchdowns. Maryland's done a pretty good job, not quite wide out you, but they churn out some athletes at that position. You think about DJ Moore, what he's done in the NFL, Stefan Diggs is another one. There have been other guys coming through there, but I really like Felton's game. They got speed. They got athletes. I just don't know if they're big enough in the trenches and good enough up front on both sides of the ball under Mike Locksley in that conference. Yeah, it's always how it feels. Right? Like where they're tough. You guys can go against anybody's top view, but then you get to guys seven through 15 and it's five star Friday on the other side. And it's, you know, I don't know, you're, you're kind of outgunned there. The opposite of the Maryland performance was what Virginia Virginia Tech did. They went to Vanderbilt in Nashville and they got stunned by the Commodore's 3427 and overtime. The Vanderbilt quarterback was a transfer, but I think was like the conference USA player of the year last year, Diego Pavia, and he ran for 104 yards and a touchdown just ran all over Virginia Tech. I thought they were terrible defensively. They got off to a really slow start on offense. And then they got back into the game and tied it, but eventually lost in overtime. That's a bad loss for a team that a lot of people thought out of a fairly weak, kind of sneaky. Yeah, might actually be able to make the playoffs. And I guess with one loss, you're not dead in the water, but certainly doesn't look good after one week. No, really could have used that W. Just also kind of spinning around Florida state, what on earth is going on? I mean, this, this is a group we were sort of told, Hey, now, you know, the, the sort of slow bill last year, I thought they got job not making the playoff, but, you know, it was, it just depends on how you view those playoffs, right? You would put them in the playoffs. Yeah, because I go either either games matter or they don't and they decided they don't because they're not good right now. I remember kind of going back and forth on that. Yeah. I was happy they were out. I thought it would make for a terrible playoff. Cause they, yeah, they would have been as good because they weren't as good as the teams that were there would have been destroyed without Jordan Travis, but a lot of people are now trying to make their first two games, a referendum on last year, like see, they should have been. And that's still silly. It's a different team. It's a different year. That said, they're the third FBS team in the last 45 years to lose two games in a row to open the season when they were double digit favorites. It's happened three times counting them this year in almost 50 years. They're oh and two. They were double digit point favorites in both games. And I actually think Boston college is going to be really good watching them last night. They've got a good quarterback. It's year one with Mr. Bill O'Brien as their head coach to me. That team looks like they're going to be a tough out in the conference there. That was pretty impressive or depressive if you're a Florida state fan and LSU does not win season openers. That's guy. I guess that's kind of a new thing. Mad was Brian Kelly. He was pretty pissed. He is mad as you want, Mr. Kelly, do something different. Big win for Notre Dame. They had an awesome performance. Just like USC's win that you're referencing over LSU was massive. I thought Notre Dame, Texas. On the road too. Yeah. That's a game where you go there. You win that one. And then with their schedule, which is mostly cake for much of the rest of the way. They have an opening if they can win one or two more of their biggest games to pretty easily being in the middle of the top 12 when the playoffs start. And you know they will be. They'll be in the mix. TV loves that. It's sort of that built in ratings, Bonanza there, you know, no matter how overrated they are, they're always kind of more around and we'll end up getting some more high profile games maybe than some of the mid majors football, Danny football football tonight. We got a fantasy football draft matter of fact. Let's bring producer, Daris Damran on to the program. He was hired as the bad guy this year to form the fantasy football league, come up with all of the specifics for the league, the settings. So we are drafting tonight and all of our listeners can come hang out with us even if you're not in the league. We're going to do an onsite draft with the board and the stickers and it's going to be a good time. So if you want to just come hang with the guys. It's a map is it high line, man. Yeah, let's have some drinks and some wings, the Grant and Danny program and some of the P one callers and folks are going to be around mingling should be really good time. So give us the deets on what we need to know, Daris. Yeah, we'll be at a high line in Crystal City. I want to thank everyone who participated in the trivia contest last week. It was fun going through all the responses and seeing some of the bits that people had to do. But we did get our winners. We got our winner from last year's back. So it's going to be a good time. Should be a lot of fun this evening at a high line in Crystal City and still the defending champion. Are we trying to start the draft right at seven? Do we think? Yeah, I told everyone to be there by seven. So maybe we're looking at like a seven 15. My only concern about the stickers and the board is going to take longer than the online one minute at a time. Not that that's a big deal, but we should start it sooner than later or else where we're going to close that bar down tonight. We also do need to figure out how we'll determine the team selection order or excuse me, the draft order. Well, that's a good point. Yeah. We should do some kind of bit. Maybe a wing eating contest before we get going. Most wings gets the highest pick, something like oh man, all get a plate of wings and in the order of how fast we finish our wings. I like my chances in that one. I was going to say you're our rep. Yeah, that's true. We're sharing a team this year. You and I, and I believe you and Ryan are sharing a team. That's correct. Yeah. We're co managing a team. Very, very good. So tonight come out. Hang with us. We are at Highline R and R Crystal City. We'll be there right before seven o'clock. We're drafting throughout the evening. So when you walk in, just ask them where the show is and they will point you in the right direction, but good opportunity for everybody to get together to kick off the football season. That plays rules and it's really, really fun. Great appies. Good food stuff. This is one of the most fun nights of the year when we get together. We do bets. You, even if it's a good pick, you don't tell the person it's a good pick and you hack a little and make them insecure. That's the best. That's the best. I think that's healthy. That's supposed to be sign of power ship, right? And camaraderie. And that's the fellowship we're all looking for. Yeah. Like first pick, the consensus number one is Christian McCaffrey. Like somebody puts McCaffrey the word like, Oh my God, that's so stupid. That's like one of those internet memes like, Oh, he's out with the guys. They're probably thinking about ways to cheat and then it's like, Christian McCaffrey's going to be hurt by week four. You know, Christian McCaffrey is going to be out by week. They've already talked about his usage. We should get to the commanders because they are five days away from starting their season. Week one in Tampa before a clock window, which is just a gigantic victory for all involved. Just a big fat elf. You all get to watch the one o'clock red zone three hour window on the first Sunday of the season. I'm, I've got chills just thinking about it. I am feeling electricity through my body, just thinking the countdown clock says like 10, nine, eight and then the music's going to play and Scott Hanson's going to walk out and we're going to see the live look ins at like seven stadiums. And then right at one o'clock, I got my Sunday ticket going. I got ball in the air kicking off the season, I and Eagle and Kevin Coogler and all these dudes on the call of a brand new year with the new kickoff. One of the things is just going to change the game forever. But really, it's just going to be a kickoff that gets returned to about the 24. Everything's going to be fine. Just calm down and don't be angry. We're ready. It does look weird. One o'clock, man. We get to watch football and then the commanders come on to four. It's perfect to ruin it, to ruin the whole day, but just enjoy your one o'clock window. Yeah, I'd like to enjoy the, I can do both. I can, I can juggle both things. They should be on a one o'clock always until they're good. Then we get started putting them in more prime time windows. Speaking of things that shouldn't shouldn't happen. You were just talking about how or you've said this a lot on the show. Sundays is a busy day for you with games. Yeah. Is that going to be the case in the fall during football? Absolutely. So I need that and this is just my own thing unrelated to, or not you saying that, I need that to stop and how do we get that to happen? What do we do? See, the... Like, why is that a thing? I will answer that. Here are the days that work for games. Okay. Monday through Friday. At night. Saturday. Big game day. Let's do all the games on Saturday. Monday. No games. So it's several things. Number one, I don't know how all these parents are able just to get their kid to a practice at like four 45 or five o'clock. That's hell. I don't know how anyone does it. We're scrambling. We fight with each other all the time. Everyone's always yelling at each other. It's 97% of our strife at home is the scheduling and how the hell do we do this. But most people work in the office anymore. It's easier to do that than ever before. I would say a lot of people still have jobs. A lot of people still employ. Sure. But a lot of them are not in the office. You still have to stop working at like three 30. Get the kid. How many people are really working? You know what I mean? But enough where it's still like everyone should be agreeing with me that it's way too complicated and somehow everyone does it and it drives me crazy. So times where there are no conflicts are delightful. We're signing up my youngest, for example, for this flag football league because in the spring he had 10 different Saturdays where there were three different games, soccer game, baseball game, lacrosse game, and it's like he's dragging. We're tired. Everyone's miserable. So you find one sport, this one, flag football, the whole thing takes place on Sunday. The practice is right before the game. It's so lovely and so calm and so delightful. I don't think any youth sports should be played on Sunday. No, I know you're aware of that. And it is 2024. So we got to update that like sacred Sunday thing. Yeah. We got to change that. So you know, travel tournaments, travel games for my oldest strong Sundays all the time. So yeah, it is a, it is, but it's welcome because I can, I can, I can contribute. I can go. It's, it's great. Number one, we should all work back from how do we make sure there's no games on when the NFL is being played? That's the first step concerned with everything else is after that. But second, you join about the sacred Sunday thing and that's fine. Whether you go to church or you don't or whatever your, your equivities are fine, no problem. There used to be this, just the thing where you had a day to be with your family and kind of just not have to be everywhere at the same time. And that was cool. I think society was better when, when you just had a day to just kind of do your thing and recharge the batteries and slow down and you didn't have to look at your phone and you could just hang out with your kids at home. And now that's gone. That doesn't exist. And I'm just saying, I think it was better when that exists. Yeah, it is long gone. And the, because everybody works, everybody's so busy having a day or having moments where there's no, no conflict or whatever, because it's not like the, if you've got kids, you know this, you're not just sitting at home all day Sunday. If you have kids, you're doing stuff like you are, you are a doer. There's no, there's no day. No, we're not. No one's doing anything. You, you want your kids cooped up for 12, 13, 14, 15 hours? It's called Sunday. I think great either. Yeah. Yeah. So that'll be over here. You guys go do your, and I bet your mom is just, or a bet mom is just sitting there doing nothing too. No, she's got the kids. It's tough. Yeah. She doesn't like me very much. I'm telling you, worse husband and father in America. Yeah. Every Sunday that notarized letter. He's like, Hey, my bad on that September through December. Uh huh. I'll be back. See you guys in January. And there's a little bit of January two because the playoffs, the wild card around division around. We don't have to worry about those around these part. No, but I'm still going to watch it. It's for work. You can't get mad. Of course. What are you most excited about when it comes to the commanders opening their season week one in Tampa Bay? 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Now the question is, when you think about week one, when you think about Washington making their debut against the Bucks, what excites you most? I think the easy first answer is all things, Jayden Daniels, of course. So we could just tee that up, get it out of the way and then move on. But it's got to be getting our first true look at the kid. No kid gloves on, so to speak. I mean, it's all, you know, it's all going to be spoon fed at the stage of a rookie's development. But yeah, I mean, this is the real football. This is the real stuff. This is the offense. This isn't. What are they showing? What are they not showing? This is it. This is the real thing. The bullets are flying, so to speak. And a guy with all the talent in the world who does everything the right way all the time, it's not just for Instagram or for show. This is the, this is the person, but here it is, man. It's in your hands. Like, sorry, there's a lot of pressure, but the fate of hundreds of thousands of people's joy and happiness when it comes to this recreational activity, we've all opted into. It's on you, man. Please help us, which isn't fair. And probably it ain't right, but it ain't oversimplified at a extremely dependent position as our buddy, Joe Thiesman talks about on this show. So frequently, Jaden Daniels is the answer though, because you get to see how they're going to use him, how they're going to implement him. Cliff Kingsbury made it clear when he spoke to the media in the preseason that he was not going to show much of what he wanted to do in the regular year, and that they didn't really open up the playbook much. So theoretically, even after seeing Daniels play multiple times, one of those games he only threw the ball three times, by the way, and then he didn't play in the third game. We may still have no idea really what their offense is going to look like. What their true plan is. In fact, if you go back to 2012 and Robert Griffin's debut 12 years ago, a week from now in New Orleans, when he came out and they ran that read option for the first time, that whole offense that the Shanahan's design, what they called their 50 series, nobody knew it was coming and they scored 40 points. That's this week. And who's to say that we don't see something that we're not expecting. Maybe they don't huddle a whole lot. Maybe everything is out of the spread and it's up tempo and they're holding up boards on the sideline like it's college football. Nobody knows what they're going to do, and I'm exaggerating and being funny, but I can't wait to see what it looks like. I'm also really interested to see how much is Jaden Daniels running the football? Because we all know that how good he is as a pastor is what's going to determine the fate of the pick and whether or not he's going to be a championship level QB in this league. But I do think he's got a chance to be Lamar Jackson-ish if he runs a lot to him and Anthony Richardson and Jackson. There's a short list of guys who have his game breaking ability when he's running the football. So I will be really curious to see that part of his game too. 100%. So some other things kind of related to Daniels, I'm excited to see Austin Echler like I did. We've now kind of gotten to the point where we can't wait to sort of cast guys off, right? Because Echler was everybody's darling of probably, you know, a top five fantasy pick for a couple straight years. And then last year that production from him and everybody in Los Angeles in terms of the running backs fell off the cliff and they were a disaster run on the football. But he still caught the ball very well, still his quality out of the backfield. And that to me is the recipe. This is how you help a young quarterback. This is how you help an offense. It's a little cheat code early down, throwing the football to running backs. Even if it's not sexy, even if it's just four and a half yards, et cetera. It's a glorified running play, but it's something else defense have to worry about. It's an effective, cheap, simple, easy way to keep the offense moving, to keep the chains moving. And he's as good as anybody has been over the last decade at doing that. I mean, he's in that Thurman Thomas mold when nobody was doing that. Him and Roger Craig back in the 90s were no running backs or catching the ball out of the backfield. And they revolutionized the position. He's as good as there is at catching the football out of the backfield. That is awesome. And I want that. I'll say the rest of the rookie class, not named Jaden Daniels, or at least a chunk of it. Brandon Coleman was listed as the starter at left tackle on the depth chart the team put out going into their game with the bucks. Now that depth chart is far from gospel and you could even say it doesn't matter a whole lot. But that did catch my attention. And I think a lot of people's attention. Do we see him, Dan Quinn said now over a week ago, he does not have to see Brandon Coleman play in the preseason to feel good enough to start him week one of the regular season site unseen because they saw him in practice extensively. Well, the last time he was practicing before this week when he came back, he was their best left tackle. It's a planted Cornelius Lucas in those reps. So does he just pick up where he left off? There's a very good chance when they trot out there as a first team offense and you know, you get that shot from on the field where somebody holding the steady cam is like in the huddle and they break the huddle and we're seeing Jaden Daniels now from the all 11 view and they've got his stats and his LSU graphic there. Brandon Coleman might be at left tackle as the guy on the left side of the offensive line for Washington, their third round pick, that would be a huge deal. We have not seen him in a game. We've not seen Johnny Newton in a game. What's his status? What's going on with Johnny Newton? Could he play? And we'd see him for the first time. I doubt it, but it's possible. And then the guys that we know will be on the field in that rookie class, Mikey Sandristel is going to be their starter on the interior in the nickel. You know, he's going to play a lot at corner as well, perhaps. I think he's Sharpie legit good, nothing to worry about there, but I want to watch him. I want to see Luke McCaffery, who's going to play summit wide receiver. Maybe you slide him down the depth chart a little bit because they brought in Noah Brown with some size and then Luke Senate. Excuse me. So Ben's in it. Luke McCaffery at wide receiver and Ben's in it at tight end. You combine those players. That'd be pretty good. That'd be a really nice player. But Ben's in it to me. Probably a second fiddle tight end until Earth's is unavailable with health, which seems like an annual staple. So early in the year, maybe it's a little quieter, but he had an awesome preseason. There was not a single time where he caught the ball and just quickly went to the ground. He's the opposite of Earth's in that way where he's fighting through tackles. He's taken on contact. He's got that coolie after the catchability. I can't wait to see Ben Senate, whether it's against the bucks or in the weeks to come after that. That's a fun pick. So we roll our eyes at this because this is this is one of those places talking about Washington, where the Hall of Famer past his prime, you know, gets one last payday, right? You know the names before I even say them, whether it's Bruce Smith or Dion Sanders or you know, Jason Taylor, you know, incredible pantheon players who don't really produce here and are, you know, just getting paid past the prime over the hill. I don't think that's the case with Bobby Wagner. It's a Hall of Famer. Right now this minute, he stops playing. He's across the threshold for what should be a Hall of Fame candidacy, right? They've got some numbers, pro football reference has him past the average of what a inside linebacker or cruise for his career. He's already surpassed that with more to play. It's rare to get the privilege of seeing a Hall of Fame player who's still got something left in the tank and we're going to see Bobby Wagner play middle linebacker for Washington. That's pretty cool. What about coaching staff wise? I don't think there's really any questions with demeanor or how they're going to go about their business. Coming out of the preseason, we saw a lot of that and Dan Quinn is on a first time head coach. So it's not like you've got a former coordinator who's doing it for the first time. Go back and watch a Falcons game. You can get a feel for how involved he'll be. In fact, we saw on the preseason when some guys were struggling that he would go right up to them and coach them up and get in their ear during the game and be a bit of a motivator, which I really, really liked. But what about coordinating, whether it's Joe White Jr. on defense or on the offensive side of the ball with Cliff Kingsbury, any questions, anything you're excited to see there? You already mentioned Clings, Clingsbury, I'm sure that's a little word combo, Cliff Kingsbury. But to me, this is one of the fascinating questions. It's almost like the one A to Daniels and everything that's concerning Jaden Daniels. But it's obviously very related. What offense is it? Is it this sort of the same deal as Arizona where you kind of know some of the tendencies and every year they start off great and then kind of get figured out by the end of October, November and kind of swoon, or are there new wrinkles or has he kind of reinvented himself? Did he behave a certain way because of who his quarterback was? Does that change with Jaden Daniels? Those looks and what they can do to outthink and out and try to make things easier for Daniels and really this offense by transitivity would be a welcome departure for what we've seen in the last couple of years, predictable thumping via Scott Turner at the behest of Ron Rivera or drop back and throw it 77 times via Eric Mianami. I don't know the answer to that. I think that that's one of the big variables. So I'm obviously excited there in terms of Kingsbury, but in terms of Joe Witt and really Dan Quinn kind of by extension, the secondary, they take unknown players and have them lead the league in interceptions that they've done that multiple straight years there in Dallas and Dan Quinn cut his teeth with Legion of Boom there in Seattle. So if you're a member of the secondary, you cannot get a better situation than you got right now. Now, you may be prove that you can't do it and they'll supersede you and they'll go grab somebody else over the next couple of seasons. But right now, with an out in a hurry, a lot of holdovers from last year. If you are a member of the secondary, this is your best shot to be good and be competitive and stick in the league. Some other guys for me. We haven't mentioned Frankie Louvault, whose style of play, I think, is infectious. Can't wait to see his physicality in the way he played in Carolina and Burgundy in gold. On the offensive side of the ball is this finally the year Deami Brown carries over a big preseason and Brian Robinson has a chance you would think to have a pretty strong season. They're going to run it a lot more than they did with Eric, the enemy. There's been a lot of chirping from him about usage last year and the style of play offensively and why he'll be a lot better with this group. Well, now you got to go prove it. You could talk all off season, but now you got to go out there and not average four yards of carry and kind of prove that you were being held back, which hopefully we'll get our first glimpse of seeing him do that in week one against the bucks. Films are open. We'll get to your thoughts next at eight hundred six three six one oh six seven. As always, you could tweet us at grandage Paulson at funny Danny. The question being who or what are you most excited about as it pertains to commander's bucks five days out on Sunday and week one being here for Washington, a former red skin Todd Bowles has no time for the commander's name. We'll explain next. The first thing you want to do is make sure that you had some things in place before the player arrived and so do some things offensive line wise on the interior to make sure that obviously like adding a tight end like Zach having a run game that you would add to it all of those things were part of the design prior to even Jaden being here, but the added element that he's brought the confidence the swagger that he plays with the details that he has all of those things or what you'd hope to see and that's why I thought it was best to go through the process and get through all of the steps and then, you know, do that. But without having to do that, our whole program is going to be based on competition. And so I felt best to go through the whole competition before, you know, making any big big statements. Dan Quinn getting ready to coach his first game with the commanders six seasons as the head man in Atlanta twice double digit wins final three years seven and nine seven and nine oh and five. He's got something to prove as a forty three and forty two all time head coach who made the playoffs twice in his first three seasons and then none of the final three years got off to an oh and five start before getting fired in twenty twenty and he's been waiting chomping at the bit for this opportunity. So welcome you back on GND we are five days away from the commanders and the bucks you're home for more NFL talk than anywhere else all week long is one oh six seven the fan. The head coach of the box is Todd Bowles who also has ties to the nation's capital and to this organization he played with the Redskins. I bring that up because I think it's important context for this quote and this part of his press conference this week pretty clearly Todd Bowles either doesn't care or just has no time for the named commanders I think if you find yourself just facing the rookie quarterback you and I still every now and then especially for talking about the past it's kind of weird what do you do but almost always right after that you catch yourself because you know well it's not Redskins it's commanders there was no hesitation there was no let me take a step back and call him the commanders or say actually the new name or nothing he just it's not on his radar he's got other things to worry about he doesn't really care I just found that clip hilarious yeah I mean when you spend three quarters of a decade collecting a paycheck from the Washington team and you've got a long time association with that team like part of your career which Todd Bowles had to me you're to be forgiven I know that it's a it's a you know a cardinal sin to some and I'm not here to legislate that we've done that plenty but to me it's like you think about Washington think about the name of the team he played for that team so again when he showed up to work that's what he was doing every single day he's like what do you play for and that was the answer for again seven you know seven and a half years yeah like I get it like I understand like whether it's slipping up or just a cognitive association he's but doesn't have time for the new thing for whatever you know I don't even think it's anything to need to be forgiven for like to him it's the Redskins then he's just kind of rolling with it but clearly he knows they're the commanders now there's just no acknowledgement of that yeah anyway in that press conference clip there from this week let's go to Chris who's in brandy wine on Grant and Danny what are you most excited about as it pertains to week one hey guys I'm I'm definitely most excited about the idea that I think we're being slept on I think that we're better than model than national for prognosticators are think and we might catch a few teams slipping including Tampa Bay now one thing I just wanted to ask guys in regards to I'm one thing I'm worried about is just whether or not what happened in Dallas was a system issue or if it was just they came out flat what do you mean yeah the playoff game against the Packers yeah they gave up almost 50 and Dan Quinn's defense got annihilated I mean Matt Leflor the head coach of the Packers of calls plays for Green Bay played for and worked under Dan Quinn in Atlanta my guess is he had a pretty good feel for how they operate he worked with him and Joe with junior so Green Bay when they play Washington you may want to take the over I don't know but I think he had their number that day and it was a really bad day for the Cowboys yeah that's certainly it's a it's everything about it was bad I mean we've seen these things happen before like Tampa Bay beat Philadelphia last year and in the postseason Philadelphia is a better team than the Tampa Buccaneers are right but we kind of know that Dallas has turned into a pretty good homework on that side of the ball over the last few seasons so I'll take the bigger sample before I start slamming the gavel people love to do that where it's a high stakes huge moment and they're bad and they were terrible that day by the way they got wood shed it in that bug and they were not competitive you could say that I think it's still say Dan Quinn did a pretty good job when that's out of the football over the last several seasons collectively top five over two seasons I would think statistically defensively and also 30 plus takeaways speaks to his word got through to the Cowboys last year along the lines of Washington being slept on another power ranking shop today PFTs they had him 27 out of 32 teams only the Raiders Giants Cardinals Patriots Panthers some of the directs of football ranked behind Washington that's kind of where most people have them outside of the top 25 in the NFL bottom five to seven teams in the sport so yeah they're going to catch some team sleeping potentially and I do think this bucks game is a winnable contest let's go to the very handsome Dominic in Ohio what's up dawgus thank you boys appreciate it always taking the call about it I am the most excited for the pageantry of sunday to come back I cannot wait to go over to my brother's house eat all of the fattening dips have my fantasy teams on my phone have my parlays bill checking on those like a addict scratching at an itch that they just can't can't scratch anymore it's the thing that I treasure the most is the pedigree of that that whole thing it's it's the thing I cannot live without settling in right to to the self-induced stress of whether it's a you know your your daily fantasy team or your regular fantasy team or like a six way parlay that you put for a dollar hoping to win like six thousand just because you need you need the Cardinals to cover something weird that's the best dude it is so perfect yeah there's just something about the whole football season aura like this time of the year I was driving and just thought about a windows are going to be down you're going to wake up it's going to be a little chilly outside and a walk the kids over to the you know farmers market near us that there's just so much about this time of year going to get them to a pumpkin patch couple times and eat some apple cider donuts it's all wins it's just where the 72 dolphins every looks a double just a win you just you can't swing a stick with a grandzunk over there hitting a victory and I'll call me Grant Shoula it is the best Sean Merriman at three thirty Charles Davis at five we're getting ready for the NFL let's take our first look at the week's one schedule several days out here and look at some of the big storylines going into a brand-new season of football on a football week on the fan 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