Grant and Danny

Who Has The Most Pressure Entering 2024?, X factor For The Commanders, Winning Off The Field

8.30.24 Hour 2

1:00- We spin you around the NFL, and tell you which teams have the most pressure for them entering 2024.

19:10- Going into 2024, who's your Commanders x-factor?

34:00- It's time for Winning off the field, what's been going right for you off the field?

Broadcast on:: 30 Aug 2024
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Beltway Blitz coming your way in one hour at four o'clock. That is when we're giving away those tickets to see Kevin Hart at D. A. R. Constitution Hall. Danny thought we could go around the NFL here with some people, could be coaches, could be players, could be teams that have to show some folks that are on the hot seat in the national football league going into the 2024 season. I'll start in New York, Robert Salah. I like Robert Salah. I am a fan. I was a fan of his when he was in San Francisco, was a fan of him getting the gig. The wins haven't happened. There have been reasons for that. They've had a astoundingly bad quarterback play. He was saddled with that a little bit. They've had talented strong rosters that hasn't done a whole heck of a lot over his three years, four and 13, seven and 10, seven and 10. Now, if and when Aaron Rodgers is healthy for the entire season and then it'll make expectations, all of a sudden, fingers might start getting pointed. I'm going to go with the dolphins in that division. The dolphins have been the best team in football in the first half of the last two years and then they fall off as the year goes on. Then the playoffs come and they kind of become a shell of themselves. A 9 and 8 team that lost in the first round in 2022 and an 11 and 16 that again lost in the first round in 2023. That 9 and 8 record very deceiving again because of how they finished the season and there's always ways you can explain it away. Last year they played in a playoff game that was the coldest post-season game on record in history in Kansas City at Arrowhead Stadium. That's no fun for anybody. But their offenses, if you look at it from the first half to the second half cool off and then the team does as well as the weather does and it's just become kind of the expectation that everyone's gotten paid. They kept to around huge contract. They kept Mike McDaniel around today on an extension as they show he's very, very smart. But I do think it's time for the dolphins to break through here or else it just feels to me like they're the Phoenix Suns in the NBA years ago. When they had this great regular season team, 60 wins, Steve Nash and Amari Stautemeyer and all these guys up and down the floor. But when it came time to play like half court games against San Antonio, you had no chance. And I'm starting to feel like the dolphins are trending in that direction stylistically. The Cincinnati Bengals cheating here a little bit, putting a big group together. But if I told you, this hits any bangles at the end of the season are five and 12, they're uncertain whether Joe Burrow will ever be the same again. And this roster that was primed to be a Super Bowl contender for the last few seasons, having gotten to one just a couple years ago is sort of set a drift or their 12 and five won that division and are playing in the AFC title game against Pat Mahomes and company. I could absolutely 100% see both scenarios. This injury that Joe Burrow is coming back from, not a lot of precedent for it. No one's really sure what it's going to be, what it's going to look like. There are a lot of years and a lot of dollars rightfully so for the 26 year old signal caller headed his way over the next several years. But this could be something that we're not really prepared for here that Cincinnati, the bottom falls out. We also need to be prepared for them to be a juggernaut and awesome and maybe win the best division in sports. They're the team that I've got the biggest variants on heading into the season. And I don't know which wiggling to Sean Watson. If I'm going to just keep following you division by division, you won't do it. The Cleveland Browns quarterback got a five year, $230 million contract, which sounds like a lot. And then you find out that every single penny was fully guaranteed unprecedented. Crazy contract. At the time it made no sense. I think you and I, if memory serves, we're at a hooters when this story broke in Fairfax around the NCAA tournament a couple of years ago. Sounds right to me. That's where I remember being when I first saw the details on the Deshawn Watson contract. He's 28 now. He's been in Cleveland for two very bad seasons. He was outplayed two years ago by Jacobi Brissette and he was outplayed last year by 400 year old street free agent Joe Flasho. His two seasons there, he's basically completed 59% of his passes. It's really ugly bad gross numbers for Watson. And what's amazing is this team around him is really good. They went five and one in his six games he started last year, despite having seven touchdowns, four picks and struggling worse than those numbers would indicate. But it is time because here's why, even though it's fully guaranteed, the way they structured the contract, Danny, the cap hit last year for him was 19 million. This year, 28 million, not that big of a deal. Two years after this, 73 million dollar cap hits for Deshawn Watson. Now they'll tack on all the voidable years and they'll lower those numbers and they'll get creative and they're screwed no matter what. But my goodness, if he does not play better this year, we'll know definitively that's the worst contract ever given out in the sport. Trevor Lawrence, are we sure the pedigree is unbelievable, but are we sure he's great? He got paid like he's great. He's got one really good season to his credit. There are reasons why the other seasons were as good. I'm aware of that. The nonsensical urban Meyer situation that made no sense at any point in time. You sort of take that away. That's fine. We're still talking about a guy that was pretty disappointing last year for a team that was also disappointing. Now, I know they finished with an identical nine and eight record, but everybody thought that was the team on the rise. Remember, they had one of these signature wins in recent memory that come back win against the Los Angeles Chargers. They took Kansas City, gave them everything they could handle in the postseason. And then I think losing by a field goal. This is a couple of years ago. And last year, we're just kind of around. They were middling. They were okay. There are moments of brilliance from Lawrence, but at some point, great players play great, right? At some point, if you've been doing this for a while and we just sort of give you a pass because you're then I'm going to overall pick and everyone you were ready to play in the NFL probably as a freshman a dealing at Clemson. You've been expected. You've been anointed for a while at certain point, the production has to meet it, right? He's kind of in the cool kids club because he was drafted very high. And again, he's had one really, really good season. But surrounding that, it's been one bad one. And we're pretty mediocre one at a certain point. Are you going to be great? That's my question. All right. So we're going to the AFC South. You won't. I've got two and I can't choose between them. So I'm going to give you both. I'll be a little quicker with them. Both are GMs, by the way. The first is Chris Ballard of the Colts. I love Chris Ballard. I think he's really good. He's been the GM there since 2017. You're going on to year seven now. And they're further away at this point. It feels like then they were four years ago, certainly early on in his tenure when they had Frank Reich, who everybody liked and a situation where it looked like they were a playoff fountain. 10 wins. Won't lost in the division round in 2018, 2020. Remember, they got to the playoffs, 11 and five. They've routinely been nine or better in wins last year, nine and eight, with Shane Steichen in his first season. Ballard at a press conference I saw a couple days ago, where he said, basically, if the way I do things gets me fired or, you know, if I end up losing my job over, you know, how we've built this team, so be it. When you start saying things like that, it's a pretty clear indicator. You're being asked tough questions. The walls are caving in a little bit. I happen to think he's very good at what he does and I like him. So I hope he has success and keeps his gig. But I do think they've got to win this year. I think they've got to be a nine plus win team again. I like him 10 or more wins, or else, like if they're seven and 10, he could be in trouble. The other GM in that division is Rand Karthon. He is the general manager of the Tennessee Titans. Here's why he's on the hot seat for me or has some tough questions to answer. This is the guy that got into the spat with Mike Rebel, where they had to choose between the two. Ownership chose Karthon over Rebel, a former coach of the year that everybody really, really liked. Rebel, who has not had but, you know, two losing seasons each over the last couple of years, but early on, nine and seven, nine and seven, 11 and five, 12 and five, got to a conference championship at one point in time. They ran him out of town. By they, I mean, I think mostly his relationship with his GM. We butted heads with. Karthon decided to go the complete opposite direction, which I don't hate, but he went away from the defensive leader of men. He went with Brian Callahan, the offensive-minded coach to pair him with Will Levis, who he chose last year as his quarterback. It's a big year for him. Did you make the right choice at quarterback? Did you make the right choice with your head coach? Did firing Rebel end up looking stupid or looking smart? It's now all on him. And whenever you have a huge stare down with a coach and you win, all of a sudden it's time to put up or shut up. So I put him in that category as we're looking at the folks in the NFL with the most on the line and the most heat on their seats going into the season. So this one, I don't agree with for the record, but I think the reality is, I think this is the case. Nick Sirianni, what if I told you, I'll go old school 30 for 30 style? What if I told you that a coach that is one exactly, not approximately, exactly two thirds of his games? That is a six, six, seven rounding up, winning percentage is somehow on the hot seat. But he is. We all saw how it ended last year. It was the most violent market correction in human history when it comes to sports potentially Philadelphia coming off a Super Bowl appearance, where they were very much in contention, could have won the game. Well, I ended up finishing 11 and six last season, but they collapsed down the stretch. We all saw it. Assistant coaches were fired. Everything regressed. Everything was bad. Yadda, yadda, yadda, yadda. Again, an 11 and six season. Washington, by point of comparison, has not won 11 games in a season since before Ryan Clary was born. And it's like a decade before he was born. All right. Let's all settle down, but the expectations are high. The division is right for the taking. Dallas looks to be fine. I think even pretty good. They'll be neck and neck and the division never has repeat winners, but Philadelphia is in the best place to do it. Enter Kellen Moore, Jalen Hertz is an MVP candidate that offense has every weapon under the sun. It's well built. They are here and ready with one of the best GM's in the sport. So yeah, there's an extra pressure and heat on Nick Sirionic. If you want a hot seat in the NFC East, I'll go Mike McCarthy, head coach Dallas Cowboys. Of course, he's on the hot seat. It seems like every single year he's on the hot seat. This is the year, I think, where if they don't get to an NFC championship game, he's probably out of luck. And it's kind of silly, honestly, because he took over, you know, a six-win program, and they've gone 12 and five, three straight years. But it's pretty obvious they're not getting closer from a personnel standpoint. Now, maybe you can mix some potions. Dak has a great year with CD lamb. And you know, they move forward with a bad running back room and their defense without Dan Quinn. Now, they've got Mike Zimmer in there to run the defense. And somehow they they find a way to make a Super Bowl run. That would save his gig. But otherwise, there's going to be too much noise. People just don't like this guy for whatever reason. Every single year they lose in the playoffs. It's his fault. He's a big idiot. He's a big boob. He's a big dummy. How could you possibly keep him? Analysts who are normally calm or screaming on national television. I don't understand why he's such a lightning rod. And people think he's such a goof. When all the guy does is win 12 games everywhere he goes. It was only Aaron Rogers. I don't think Aaron Rogers is in Dallas. Now I'm sure it's only Dak, although he didn't win 12 games before he was there, but I digress. He'll be out if they don't make a Super Bowl run. This one's not a hot seed in the sense of losing your job. But I think this is a something to prove. You were just talking about the Eagles killing hurts, man. That's back. Last year was not good. It was bad. He went from, you called him an MVP candidate. He certainly was. After the 2022 season, it didn't play like it last year. I mean, that was kind of a phony pro bowl appearance season for him, but touchdowns down interceptions up like everything about their offense. Less efficient. He was a big reason why I'm still a big believer. He's only 26 years old, but really needs a bounce back season. Yeah, it was masked by those 15 rushing TDs. I say again, 15 rushing touchdowns. How many of those were from a half yard out on the tush push 14? I was going to say 12 11. Yeah. So my point is the numbers were, were, you know, people don't think of it as a disaster season because of those, but I think that she considers it. So this is a slightly different angle on the heat situation. So bear with me. How about Bobby Sloak, offensive coordinator in Houston? Okay. They were the league's darlings last year. They had a winner take all of that AFC South division game. The end of the season against the Colts. They want it good for them. What a playoff game there. They're now crowned. Everybody's picking them is the, you know, every talking head, hot takes screaming show. Are these the guys that can take down Kansas City? Like they're the new number one challenger, right? Cincinnati had their chance Buffalo had their chance. Now it's Houston. I'm, I'm a little, of course, we're not so fast, my friend. Those other teachers are still pretty good, but there's now a ton of pressure. They went out and had a banner off season. They added everything you could possibly add, including Stefan Diggs, to an already really good receiving room. Bobby Sloak, if there's any kind of regression, any kind of, you know, sort of stalling out of this offense that's got everything that you could want under the sun, this is a guy that was basically, you know, I thought of as one of the hot head coaching candidates in waiting over the last couple of seasons, especially with that performance last year. If it doesn't go right, all of a sudden, I'd say a lot on the line from this year. NFC North is where I'll go next. Head coach Matt Eberfluis of the Chicago Bears. I don't understand why they kept him. I know he did an incredible job defensively in the second half of last year. He took over play calling after they fired their DC. They became a top 10 defense. He's popular enough in the building from what it seems like with hard knocks with his new image. He's got a cool guy haircut and everybody seems to like him more than they did when he was about to be fired quite literally on the precipice of being fired. Reports were swirling. If they lost in Washington last year on Thursday night football, about four weeks into the season, he was going to be axed. They put up 41 big and their season was saved, but he did some weird things. In addition to him having his job still with the number one pick in Caleb Williams, looming. I thought it was a no brainer. You could hire any offensive mind in America. You want college pro probably go do it. They decided to keep the defensive minded coordinator. Whatever. That's weird. Then he hired Shane Waldron. I liked Shane Waldron. I'm wellmed by him. I don't love him necessarily. I would say Shane Waldron is under some pressure too. You got not only Caleb Williams to play with at quarterback, but DJ more Roma doing say Keenan Allen at wide receiver. There's just no reason for this offense. Not to be excellent. There's no reason for this team to not be a playoff caliber team. Matt Eberflus, as odd as it is after making a number one overall pick last year, I think has expectations of being a 10 or so win team. If it doesn't happen, I could see them trying to find like Ben Johnson or some other offensive coach this offseason to come in there with Caleb Williams. Lamar Jackson has a rep that I've always argued and I think we've even argued about a little bit that isn't fair. The expectations for him are a little bit strange to me. This is a multi-time MVP who hasn't done it yet. No one else has done it in the AFC either as long as Pat Mahomes has been there. Joe Burrow got close. They got by him one time. Tom Brady did as well when the overtime rules were stupid, but Lamar Jackson, multi-time MVP without that commiserate playoff success overwhelmingly. So hosting La Bardi trophy, even getting to a Super Bowl that kind of goes with that. So this is a big year for Baltimore. Again, the division is a buzzsaw. They probably got worse on paper. That program is so good. I don't expect them to take much of a step back. I know you're a little bit lower on them than I am. I just feel like they get out of bed. They're going to win 10 or 11 games because that's what Baltimore does. They'll replace guys that we knew as household names with guys that we don't who become household names because that's a machine up there. But a lot of pressure on the multi-time MVP to kind of finally break through here this season. Last one. I'll throw out there. Dennis Allen in New Orleans. This one's very simple. This is actually just a hot seat. This is what it looks like. If the Saints start slow, I could see him getting fired in the first month or so of the season. They've been stuck in neutral. It's a bunch of seven-ish type wind seasons. Now, what point do you say? Maybe there's a different path forward here. And are we just going to keep spinning our tires in mediocrity? They play the Panthers to open the year. You have to win that game. Then they play the Cowboys. Let's say you lose that, you're one in one. The Eagles, you lose that, you're one in two. You play the Falcons on the road, a winnable game. You've got to find a way to win that because you've got the Chiefs that's a loss. I mean, if they don't win both of the games, I said, are either toss-ups or should wins. They could be one in four or oh and five. And if that's the case, I would not want to be Dennis Allen and getting called into Mickey Loomis's office in New Orleans. Some of the coaches, players, teams with the most approved this coming season around the NFL. ESPN listed an X factor for every single team. Who did they list for the commanders? That's next on GND. This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. Whether you love true crime or comedy, celebrity interviews or news, you call the shots on what's in your podcast queue. And guess what? 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Head to Toyota.com for more info, or visit your local Toyota dealership today. Toyota, let's go places. Yeah. Grant and Danny on the fan in a half hour at four, our beltway blitz. That's when we've got those tickets for you. If you want them, you got to be listening. Kevin Hart, D. A. R. Constitution Hall. We got two more tickets this week to give away. We'll get you said for nat's baseball before we're done tonight, taking you up to 6 15 and pregame with Charlie and Dave College football this weekend. And then Thursday night, six days from now, the National Football League is back, and it'll be better than ever Thursday night football. You got the Chiefs and the Jets on Friday night. Think about this first time ever. Good. We got a game Thursday, and then we're not waiting until Sunday. We got the Friday night kick. It is taking place outside of the United States between the Green Bay Packers and Jordan Love and the Philadelphia Eagles, getting the NFC East schedule started and jail and hurt. So we'll have a game Thursday, game Friday, and Saturday just got to deal with a bunch of really good college game. Yeah, he's stuck with that. And then on Sunday, commanders, bucks, first chance to see Jaden Daniels in four quarters of football, regular season activity at Tampa, four o'clock window too. Yeah, it's the four pm situation. The entire one o'clock slate available to you. What are you in about it? Every game should be at one on close circuit television, just in my house. No, but the four o'clock game is not going to be viewed by anybody. It's head to head with the national game of the week. So it's still just, it's basically the equivalent of one o'clock. The only difference being we get to enjoy all the one o'clock games. And then the commander's game starts at four. There are fewer games at four, which means more potential for eyeballs. We need to let the least number of people watching this is possible. You know that it's the time honored ax him until they're right until the house is in order. We shouldn't be inviting company over. Well, I'll just correctly continue to say that the dream is being able to enjoy NFL red zone in week one. All one o'clock window long, rather than being at the X, rather than being Northwest X on my couch, watching the commanders and having to occasionally glance over at Scott Hanson and some of the other games, like you're just scrolling box scores to see who's getting off to a fast start, who scored the first touchdown of the season, who had a long catch in the first drive of their season opener. I'm watching it all. I see it all because the commanders are not playing until four o'clock. I will say as a broadcast mark, as you are as well, Grant, I am a little salty that the commanders are playing at four because we are going to miss Tom Brady's debut. He's been playing head to head against over their games going to be head to head against our games. We're not going to get to see Tom Brady's debut this week can have it all. I would prefer to watch all the games at one o'clock than to see Tom Brady's debut because you could always go back pretty easily and check that out. It's a lot harder to catch up on seven hours of commercial free football or whatever it is that we're going to be doing on NFL red zone. But yeah, if you're asking me what my preference would have been Friday night in Brazil, you know, Thursday night at Kansas City at Arrowhead, Monday night at Soldier Field or something. I absolutely wanted a primetime game, a standalone game. I always want that so that I can enjoy one o'clock NFL activity on my couch. I pay for Sunday ticket. It's not cheap, my friend. I want to take advantage of it. Have you been following all the back and forth with the lawsuit to, by the way, where it sounded like you guys are going to get something and now it sounds like you're not getting anything. Is there more to it than just initially the NFL lost and then it was overturned? Yeah, but they were like, no, we didn't really lose though. We're the NFL. We'll just kind of keep asking. It would have been pretty amazing if they lost. Yeah. They don't lose very often. No, they don't. Undefeated. I think Goodell would have just slid a note to someone that are you sure? They reconsidered somebody else that do you know who I am kind of thing? Yeah, I'm Roger Goodell. X factor for every team, according to ESPN, they went one by one, all 32 clubs for the commanders. There's give me a drum roll on this, please. The X factor who's going to be the biggest determinant in their season going one way or the other is. Wide receiver, the Ami Brown entering year four, 12 catches as a rookie, five catches in year two, the big career year last year, 12 grabs for a Buck 68. And now listed as the X factor, I think specifically because until the Noah Brown acquisition, which is probably when they were putting this piece together, he was listed as the number two guy. I think his import got a lot less significant with the Brown acquisition. I also think you would consider him less of an X factor because if it goes poorly for the Ami Brown or he doesn't do the opposite of what he's done the last several years, he always does the I'm really good at camp thing. And he often does the I'm really great in the preseason thing. He never does the I'm also good when the regular season starts. That's a key thing. So we're hoping that's the difference this year for the Ami Brown, but if it doesn't happen, you have Noah Brown, you have Luke McCaffrey, you got a lemonade Zacchaeus. So I get why you would call him an X factor and I think that's probably fair. I don't think he's the X factor on the team though, I got to say. He's on my list, right? He's on my list of nominees where you dealt the former first run pick with three years of control left. You didn't go out and do a ton in free agency. I know at the 11th hour here, they went and got Noah Brown, who I like a lot. I'm a fan of that. But it's not as if they got Randy Moss in his prime. They didn't just go trade for for Hill and Waddle and IU and or T Higgins or something crazy. There's an opportunity certainly for down me Brown to play a lot, whether he's a starter or otherwise, opportunity will be their form. So he made my list. To me, it's Brandon Coleman. That's the first day my thought of here, where everybody's kind of going, okay, I'm not really sure what the left tackle position. Then you release the guy that started over the last several seasons. Now it's not as if Leno's caught on somewhere else and he's going to start. Who knows? It comes with winning retirement, I think maybe at this point. But you've got a swing tackle and a dude we never got to see in the preseason, a third rounder that a lot of teams had as a guard. If he's good and you, I'm not saying you found your next Chris Samuel or or Trent Williams, those guys are rarefied air. Those are superstars or Hall of Fame caliber players. But if you got a really good solid left tackle for the least amount of reasonable cost possible, what a difference that would make. Brandon Coleman is a great answer and might be the answer 67th overall pick, a third round selection this past April. TCU product, if he is a starting left tackle who plays at a high level, this team is better than you and I are expecting right now. Because if he's really good at left tackle and you've got a really good right guard and Sam Cosby and you've got what we are assuming to be a pretty solid center in Tyler Biotis, then it really doesn't matter what the former chiefs do. Nick Allegretti at left guard and Andrew Wiley at right tackle. The form for your offensive line is that it's going to be fine. Fun. It's not going to be bad. It's not going to be a detriment. It's not going to be a liability. It's not going to ruin Jaden Daniels. If you've got a very solid left tackle, you've got a really good right guard and you've got a legitimate decent NFL center. You buoy the rest of the group pretty well because that's staggered along the front pretty decently and the interior where it might be most important for Jaden Daniels to hold up is going to be very solid at that point, at least like worst case scenario Allegretti who played well in the Super Bowl had some great moments in Kansas City. We don't know what he is necessarily otherwise, but worst case scenario, two out of the three guys are really good and it might even be all three. We don't know. But yeah, I think that's a very good one, Brandon Coleman. I'll give you another one though. I think if you're looking for X factors and you don't want to go Brandon Coleman, the next guy on that list should be Emmanuel Forbes. The position group we asked Adam Peters about yesterday specifically was cornerback. That is my biggest gripe with this roster build. I look at that room in today's NFL and I quiver a little bit. I know that I'm going to play teams that are using three and four receivers constantly. Wouldn't you against this group in general, but then against this group of specials and percent. Yeah, that means just some quick math here. You need three or four corners you trust. They have zero for some people. I'm going to be nice because I like Benjamin St. used a lot and say one. Peters yesterday told us Emmanuel Forbes has been working his butt off. He said, I think the quote was he's gotten a lot better based as much as anything else on coaching. The work that he's put in, but let's just say Emmanuel Forbes picks off five passes this year and starts in 16 or so games. And at the end of the year, we feel like, okay, maybe he's never going to be an all pro shutdown corner, but he's got some D'Angelo Haltem. Like he's a playmaker. He gets his hands on the ball. Somehow, some way, the Danquind Joe Whit thing happens. Remember where digs led the league in pigs or bland led the league in pigs in Dallas? And like he's just constantly making plays on the ball and they're able to coach him up in that way. How different is the outlook on this whole thing the next couple of years when you've got young, cheap, controllable cornerbacks and you need to add basically a guy for depth at the position rather than maybe re answering the whole sale. Yeah, like that's a huge, huge X factor. Yeah, so the point sort of by definition is your X factor is if it goes one way, you're in dire straits. If it goes the other way, you're on easy street. That's a good one, right? Because that changes that whole room. What is the other definition of X factor? Just saying like, hey, they can be pretty good this year or like someone we're not talking enough about like a sort of a hidden thing. Like an unsung hero. Yeah, like this, this to me is like, like, and I think it's a smart point more of a, I wasn't, I'm not prioritizing that side of the ball just in general. They give up a lot of points. If they don't, this to me is a Jayden Daniel story. So everything I think about is through his lens, right about weaponry, protection, and everything in between. But I think I do think it's a smart point. Like, there's no reason to go crazy and go wholesale shopping this off season for the cornerback spot. Meaning this past one, because you have a rookie under contract, you have in fact another guy under under contract in, in Quan Martin, who's kind of a part-time corner, you drafted one. So, you know, you're going to find out with proper coaching if these guys can actually do it or who can and who can't. The next step, if you'd like to be really good, now we can talk about going to find your, I don't know where you come from, where it's for agency, or maybe your first round pick next year has to be one if Forbes can't play or if, you know, Davis is washed up or San Cristo's slide only or St. Juice can't hold up against somebody really good or you need more zone corners to go with Joe Witsky, whatever it is, this, this is a good find out here in, in that regard. And if we're going to find stuff out, you know, we're kind of a crossroads for manual Forbes in that regard. So yeah, that's a great X factor. Well, it's a tear point on, on defining X factor. Just looking at some of the other names. I think a lot of different writers around the country for ESPN took a different ways. Like in some cases, the X factor is just the, the biggest question mark. And in sum, it's the guy that we don't know if he's good or not, like what we're talking about with the manual Forbes or a breakout candidate like the Ami Brown, the Seahawks as an example, Tariq Woolen, who remember went back and forth with sauce gardener with the defense of Rookie of Year award and had this unbelievable first season as a fifth round pick back in 2022. They had six interceptions. And then last year just fell off completely. And I was like, wait a second. We thought you were one of the better young corners in the league. Then last year, all of a sudden we're having to hide you because people are beating you like a drum. You're an X factor. Like, what are you? We don't really know. There's a little bit of all of those things listed here. Trent Williams is listed for the San Francisco 49ers. Does he play or not? He's even going to be there at the start of the year, those types of things. So I got two for Washington, much lower scale, I think than than a Forbes guys that I have certain opinions about, but I don't have convictions about. In other words, I think I'm a very bullish just here on Austin Echler. That's a great X factor. If he's not last year as Austin Echler, but two years ago, three years ago, or close to it, what a find, what a weapon, what an amazing upgrade for this backfield. I've I've clamored long for an Austin Echler type. And if you get Austin Echler to fill the Austin Echler type, what a coup that would be. Second one is Zach Hertz. I don't know what Zach Hertz is going to be. I'm not confident. I feel like I have an idea. It's I can't remember which analyst we had on it really smart but said he's a catch and fall player. Look, I don't want that. That's not really dynamic for my tight ends. But if somehow the guy that you've seen in spurts over the last couple of seasons, not the guy that caught 19,000 passes in a quarter against Washington, a few years ago was available, if he was, he wouldn't be here. But if he's good and he's able to play for a while, that could be a nice boon for this thing. It's Friday, which means we will be winning off the field as our double play. Call us up if you want to tell us what little mini moral victory has made your day better that nobody else would care about 800 6361067 is how you can win off the field with us next. In 20 minutes, we're giving away tickets to see Kevin Hart in DC this coming month. You got to be listening to the fan. It is time to figure out how you are winning off the field. You can call us at 800 6361067. Tell us about your little moral victory on this Friday. This is something small, something that nobody else would care about, but it brought a smile to your face. We do it today to honor goose because one day goose said this, we're winning off the field, but we got to start winning on the field. You could call us at 800 6361067 to win off the field. Danny, something a lot of people complain about wrongly. If I could be so bold as to make that kind of claim here, GP came to help me out today, worked to my advantage with a salty mood today that happened. It happens to the best of us happens to the mediocre of us to, but my guy, Ryan Clary was able to go out little team tiny compass coffee right down the street. And I enjoyed a pumpkin spice lot. But Danny, it's so August. It was time outside. Give it to me year round. Give me fall things. I want my nutmeg. I want my clove. I want my pumpkin. Put it in all of the things fall. Beers are the best kinds of beers. Fall beverages are the best kinds of beverages. Bring me the cider. Bring me things with pumpkin. Put pumpkin on all of it on my cereal, on my pizza, on my dessert, on my breakfast, and on my lunches too. The fall is the best. I just drank fall and I'm in a better mood. Therefore, I am winning off the field. Last night, I was going to a high school football game that got reigned out. I called my wife as I'm getting to the parking lot. I'm like, I don't know if they're going to play this thing. Doesn't look good right now. She said, Oh, well, maybe it'll get canceled. I said, yeah, I think it will. She said, well, maybe you could run on over to Randy's or Patsy's get yourself some dinner. Whoa. What do you mean? You're right over there anyway, you might as well. Now, I wasn't dressed for Randy's and I didn't feel like the back room at Patsy's, which is an amazing establishment, by the way, because you really were right there. I mean, that's like what's a that's a five iron couple of golf ball swings for your boy. However, while driving home, I did change my mind. I said, you know what? I will do a little something something stopped in and had delicious wings at Killroy's restaurant right off of the beltway. And because the wings were banging, as Adam Epstein would say, the wings slapped as a young person, like Brian Clary would say. He could say that. For me, they were just regular old delicious. Really good. They hit the spot as an old white would tell you they're tasty. Therefore, I am winning off the field. Let's go to Rich in Only Richard on GND. What's up, Rich. What's going on, boys? How you doing today? How about it? Oh, well. So I had been trying to organize a opening football, you know, a little poker game, threw it around some of the boys. They're all they're all down. They're all like, sweet. That sounds good. We got the wages. We got the people didn't really ask any permission from the wife yet. But she actually called me and said, hey, my little brother, you know, he's been kind of going through a rough time. Are you having any of your poker games anytime soon? Can you please invite him? I said, you know what? Let me get something together for next Thursday. I'll make sure I take care of him. Now you're here. I am winning off the field. I hope she's not listening, Rich. That's a double lemon. Number one, you get to play a little poker and you don't have to ask her last minute and risk her being upset and or telling you to kick rocks. But number two, you get to pretend like you're just doing a nice guy. You know what? I'll do that for you and for him, more importantly. Josh is an upper Marlboro. What's up, Josh? Hey, Josh. Hey, fellas. Hey, so my son, my eldest son, August is into basketball cards and football cards. And I try to pretend like I'm not into him too, but it's brought me all the way back to my childhood and I'm loving it. And I was in Walmart the other day and I decided on a whim, I would pick up a pack of Panini NBA contenders cards. Now that that means anything to anyone. But a $7 pack, I just grabbed it on a whim. And I pulled a LeBron James card that when I looked it up on eBay is worth around $300. And therefore I am winning off the field. That's a win. By the way, I cannot wait for that, Josh. Thank you for the call. I cannot wait till my son gets in the cards because I was such a mark back in the day. And they are way, way, way off my radar now. But I'm going to be the same way as him. I think I'm going to be right back in the mix. It just picked. Yeah, doing the cards for you, son. Get over here. One of those that those are the best fun activities. Yeah, let me take these couple and take special care of them for you. You can have this guy that barely made the show. It's like when I take them to get donuts. Come on, Vinnie and seat Pleasant. You're on Grant and Danny. My gosh, how you doing with a body? All right. Today was a pretty good day. Walking into work, trying to meet a local workload randomly was pulled into the office by my supervisor, told my review for my annual review, I didn't know I was getting it. Showing in went great 100% and okay. And I have received my annual face. That's why I am winning on the field. Bruce ruled that. Bruce gave the distinction there. I love you. Yeah, we're happy that you're happy. Nothing wrong with it. And we're glad that you got a good report and that you got to raise. It feels a little bit like an on field win. That's a that's a nine to five job thing. That feels like some money is being added to the paycheck. Yeah, it's a big deal. Now, if you'd found 75 cents in your pocket and can get a clark bar, okay, or when you went into that meeting with your boss, he told you he got two sodas at the vending machine. Here's one. That feels like an off field win. Yeah, I mean, good for you. We're happy. Matt and Stafford, Matt. Hey, I was talking to be Mitch on the be Mitch and Finley show earlier today. And he liked what I had to say. Therefore, I am winning off the field. That is a good feeling by the way. I think that works. I get by the way, I totally got that. I called into a show and they said I was on the right track. I will never forget this. The first time I called into Ken Beatrice's show doing nights, like my all my parents, everybody, everybody had already been asleep. It went really well. Now in retrospect, who knows how well it actually went, but he like he agreed with me and like was nice to me and like we went back and forth for the second and it was good. I like could not wait to tell my dad the next day was like, I called Ken Beatrice last night and we talked about whatever it was. I mean, remember it was like something, something baseball related and it was a great back and forth. And he said, great call. And we moved and I moved on with my life. I don't think that was the thrill of a lifetime. So I get that feeling. I got one here for Dolo on Twitter who says he ordered a three piece spicy tender from Popeyes and they gave him five. That is the ultimate version goose. Winning off the field. That was a plus two scenario right there. Plus two. That's unbelievable. It's never happened to me. I've heard about it in other states and other far off land. The plus ones have been done. I mean, the tongs, if it's close together, it just goes in the back front, the plus two. Someone was just getting sloppy back. Wow. But you are the beneficiary, sir. And that is why we do the segment here on Grant and Danny, each and every Friday. All right. We're blitzing next right at the top of the hour and ahead of the beltway blitz. We do have those tickets to go see Kevin Hart at the AR Constitution all for the final time this week. You listen to the fan. This episode is brought to you by progressive insurance. 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