Grant and Danny
How Would You Define Success For The Commanders?
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And so again, you're probably going to get a radio show full of cliches here, but we're really, I mean, every single day we're trying to get better, and I think that's how we look at it. And if we got better today, we had a really good day of practice today. Guys looked really good. Guys were into it before we have a three day break before we get back and start working for Tampa. So we went out and got a lot better today, I thought, and that's the outlook you have each day each week. You're getting better and you're stacking, you're stacking up days. And then if you do that and you get better each day, you're going to like what it looks like at the end of the year. So that sounds and even acknowledge this, just like the most football cliche, yuck kind of cringy, every day is its own day and all we can do is win today. Want to know who I actually think in their case, that may very well be how they're viewing this whole thing. And the bigger picture point, which is actually having to take away from that answer is there is no real expectation. There is nothing they've got to do or accomplish this year to consider this a win. They don't have an owner and Josh Harris breathing down their neck that they've got to go stockpile victories. Now Harris did say in his press conference that he did, and Daris, maybe we could grab this if you could find it from Sunday night, that he wants the team to be better than they were last year. He didn't say meaning the four wins, but he did reference. They won four games. So my guess is if they win two or three games, he's going to be pretty upset and he should be honestly, but assuming you win more than four games, I don't think there's anything else they've got to do to show Josh Harris that they're headed in the right direction. And if that's really the case, if this is about development, if this, like it is for me, is solely really about Jaden Daniels and making sure you found the guy or did your draft class excel is Brandon Coleman, a left tackle by the end of the year is Luke McCaffrey looked like a weapon at wide receiver. Did you find a solution for life after John Allen, who doesn't have any guaranteed money beyond this season with Johnny Newton? Like if those things are yeses and you went five and 12. So what who cares? There is no pressure, which is a really nice thing when you're a GM and a head coach. But the way that materializes, in my opinion, Danny, is that each day you can kind of live the way he's talking about that cliche that most teams actually don't get the Packers can't view it that way. The Steelers can't view it that way. But here where you picked second last year and you've been bad for 30 years and you got a new owner and a baby quarterback who just came out of the womb ready to play some football here in his first days on the job and in the NFL, yeah, you can kind of say, was today a good practice. All right. Then we're doing fine because there's really not that expectation. Yeah. If you want to eventually win the 100 meter dash, we're in the crawling phase. So yeah, if today we took our first steps, that's that's totally fine. I think that that's a good way to do it. You can look up at the end of a certain amount of time. How long is that honeymoon? We don't know. We talked about this all the time as the end of the Snyder era happened in the beginning of the hog ownership group, we're going, at some point, the honeymoon is going to end and hadn't yet for me. I don't, I pinched by myself. We have audio from Josh Harris, not on some phone call with a with a gaming commission bragging about Carson Wentz, but just addressing the media like a human being. I'm not taking it for granted yet. John Peters called our show, called us each by our names, not that I matter at all, but just like the, the, the wherewithal and the emotional intelligence just to be a good human being, right? And, and, and speak to people on a human level. Didn't call you Dave. They got the shortcut. You want to draw a contrast? There it is for me. One person called me Dave pretended we're buddies. You are Dave though. I mean, I am to agree. The other person, the other person, don't be, I was the first time picking his book. No, but I mean, come on, dude, like I'm not taking it for granted yet. Eventually we're going to say, okay, I'm looking at my watch. Now, what, what are we doing it? I'm not there yet. To me, it's very simple. It's a pass fail. Do we believe Jaden Daniels? Do we think we have it? Is he good? Even if he's not good yet, is he about to be good? It's not super clear though. So that's the only gray area that would be a hole in that because I agree with you. If Jaden Daniels is the answer and we know that at the end of the year, record be damned victory. Now let's go get what we need around him and let's win some football games and I'll see you at the NFC champion. Yes, so my cop out is incomplete where if we need more time, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll do it again. But to me, incomplete feels like an L two in a sense. Could be like, for example, if, let's say God forbid, he sprains his ankle, it's a high ankle sprain in, in week two. I don't mean injuries. That's obvious. Well, but you're, I mean, it plays football season long and we're not sure he's the guy. That's going to be disappointing. Fair. But I guess what I'm saying is I'm going to be talking about one where he's got to miss the season or he misses two months, let's say he's hampered at, at a certain point at, or Tara McCorran has turf toe that, that keeps him from being effective. Like happened in the beginning of last year, wherever that was with his foot. A couple of different things happen. You go, what's really hard to evaluate Jaden Daniels turns out that Brandon Coleman ain't to do it. And they got a journeyman left tackle and they're receiving course in any good. Most of the time, though, there are very, very rare cases when you hear fan bases doing that kind of explaining away their quarterback when the quarterback ultimately becomes good. That's what you heard from Justin Fields backers. That's what we heard with Haskins here, you know, guys that didn't end up amounting. Really, frankly, you overcome more, more often than not when you're good. Like even Josh Allen is a good example. Josh Allen's first year was not great statistically it wasn't, but if you go back to the end of his first year, there were a lot of people like me who were going, did you see that throws this guy made? I didn't think he'd be a top three quarterback in the NFL necessarily. But after one season, he had done enough. And that's my point with Jaden Daniels is I think if you're on the field for the whole year, you're going to show the thing. You're going to show that you've got the breakaway ability, the propensity to run for 800,000 yards, whatever it is, the you're going to have touch and accuracy and make good decisions or you're not as a pastor. Could there be an incomplete? Yes, absolutely that there often is. My point is just to me, it's not like three categories where it's like, he's the guy I feel great or he's not the guy I feel bad. To me, incomplete gets filed into that one and you could still pull him into the other bucket next year. But for the meantime, it's almost like a binary. You proved it or you didn't. Interesting. To me, I'm willing to offer more patience. Maybe I don't know what the right word is to be different. I don't know because I mean, I got to look at just you referenced Josh Allen. You liked Josh Allen coming out. I didn't. Right. I was wrong about that. You were right. So you deserve credit for it. But at the end of his first year, he had 10 touchdowns, 12 picks and you're going this. What is this going to happen? And in the middle of the second year, the conversion happened. And so I guess my point is if Jaden Daniels turns in, 10 touchdowns, 12 picks, 52% completion percentage. That's not what people would be excited about it. Oh, yeah. Looks awful on the back of a football card. But watch the games. Sure. Josh Allen. It's so funny to say it was an impressive 10 touchdown. No, but I'm and I'm with you. He did things that most guys can't do and you thought, all right, we got work to do with this guy, but this is an NFL pro. You can build things around. And I guess that's my point. So I would still offer that as an incomplete, but if you're going, I saw the thing that's good enough. I get that approach too. Well, and that goes back to like how you evaluate or view it. When I talk about this all the time, I just need to see the thing. The rest of it doesn't matter to me. I overuse my analogy of the scout watching the baseball pitcher. That is how I view quarterbacks pretty much. Story being a scout told me that he went to a game one time, he watched the first inning of this like high school pitcher. He touched 97 through a really good breaking ball. He packed up everything he had and he just called his GM on a check mark and he's like, I like the guy. We should take him. That's all he needed to see. He's got that. He's got a breaking ball. He's got a feel for spin. Like we can figure the rest out with a quarterback. I need the good stuff. I need the flash plays not once every month or so, but enough of them. And I just think generally Herbert did it, you know, burrow did it. You can tell pretty quickly doesn't mean it's gospel and Griffin had some huge unbelievable moments. It went the other way. Maybe because of injury. So sometimes you'll get fooled. I'm not saying it's a hundred percent. But I do think over the course of the year, if he's healthy, we'll have a real good idea of what he is by the end of the season and maybe more importantly what Kingsbury is with him, what the fit is like, what that's going to look like. The seasons may be changing, but the deals and the sharpest rides are unbeatable as ever. Hey, what's going on? It's your girl, Tasha McKeea. And I need you to join the sharpest rides for their fall into savings events where they're offering incredible prices on their massive inventory. That's right. Everything is on sale now. 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