Grant and Danny
How Refreshing Is It To Have A Real GM In Washington?
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Number one, there was no general manager to talk to for the majority of the time. I'll just start with that. Think about that. Who do you want to talk to who runs the football team unimpeded? That person hasn't really existed since Charlie Casterley in the 90s. There were some dalliances where Mike Shanahan for a year or two had a bunch of power, but still had to really run everything by Dan Snyder, who's breathing down the back of his neck. Scott McClellan for a couple of hours as a listed general manager. Well, they tried it him out. Like he was he was the hero. Remember that came after the were embarrassed, were shamed press conferences. So here's Scott McClellan, everybody. All I've ever wanted and what this team has never had is exactly what Adam Peters is. So correct. I think he's going to be really good. We'll see. Like he is really good. But he is a talent evaluator who was beloved around the league, who was respected. A lot of the people that I still keep up with and have relationships with coaches on this staff that have moved on. Some in San Francisco, some other places rave about this person. Okay. I take that as gospel for me. Good enough. But here's what I have always wanted, whether it was Peters or somebody else. I'm happy that it's the very handsome man of Peters. Please give me a guy that will build a front office that has a professional NFL caliber outfit and with Lance Newmark and I could run through all the names, but they are working toward. They're very close to. Peters has talked about this. Basically having what they have in every organization that's good now. They've never done it here. It's the one thing the old owner never tried ever. He took over in 99 in May, the executive of the year that year that built a 10 win roster, Charlie Castorley was dismissed soon thereafter and they have not done that thing again. Go to a kitchen, find a sous chef who's excellent at a great restaurant somewhere and bring them to run your place. And they finally did it. Josh Harris, it took him three minutes to do what Dan Snyder didn't do in 24 years. I was 10 years old the last time they had this situation. So to just have this is great to have a guy that you could even, who do we talk to? Who do we call? It's been very, very rare. That was even a possibility. And then the availability, the willingness to come on and frankly talk to fans, he doesn't care about talking to us. It's not like he wants to have a conversation with me or you, but the point is he understands this is an important platform with all the respect to the local TV shows and stations that are talking about sports for a minute and a half at a time, you know, that my mom's watching. This is where the fans are. And so to get him on these airwaves for those 25 minutes, explaining some things, giving perspective on things, he's not going to answer everything. I understand that. He, he, no, sold us on Brandon Ayuki, swatted me away like he was to give him a tumble at the rim. Cool. He's got a gig. I got a gig. Question asked to be asked. He can answer it however he wants to. Wasn't willing to go there on our yuke. But I thought there were moments along the way where he's welcoming us in. Here's what we think about corner. We like our roster more than you guys do. I thought there were some great moments there and just the fact that it happened, how cool and calm he is and just being a dude, throwing the ball around. Sign me up. So the last point you just made is where I want to go. So the way people a lot of times think of the general manager is this almost robotic figure who goes, I prefer Brandon Coleman to, I don't know, Cooper BB, who went seven picks later and then we judge them therein. And that's part of it. Picking the players you want to pick right more often than the next guy or whatever, because it's a competition business. But it's the second part that I care about way more, right? You're going to get players right and wrong. Good batting average in this thing is what 50% is 500. Maybe at best when we talk about draft picks, making the team, being what they thought. And there's always a story every year of the guy that everybody passed on who did really well. That's part of it, right? A trade, a signing, things work or they don't. The person, the person that's relationship building here, getting everybody in a group of alphas and everybody was the big dog and every, or the big fish and every pond that they've ever been in forever to all pull the rope in the same direction. That's what the GM does. That's almost more important than what players you're picking or who gets a contract and who doesn't, who gets traded or who doesn't. It's no coincidence that when they actually had a general manager, even if it was Scott McClellan and things were flawed, they had their best two year run that they have had released since Gibbs came back. And then other than that, it's been decades. I'm not telling you right home and you said that you saw the greatest team ever when they went nine and seven and eight, seven and one or whatever the hell it was. But this is the point is you have this universally liked good dude who is able to build those kinds of bridges. When it said of I did this, I did that. It's we. And by the way, we got Noah Brown. He got Noah Brown, but he championed Lance Newmark who said it was his brainchild. The scouts did all this work. All these guys that are grinding, they get the shine because if we shine, you know, if I shine, we shine, you shine, the whole thing is great. That's the whole point of this whole thing to me is the relationship building and having somebody that has that emotional intelligence not to just be a I'm a player picker. This guy has better stats. So I pick him. That's only a fraction of the job. I also think that the ability to answer questions and be somewhat personable and not really give a lot is a skill in his job. Not one that the Venn diagram circle for him and for us doesn't really match up there, right? Like it'd be nice if he'd come on and just get to the bottom of things and break things down. Yes, I called John Lynch. We talked about Brandon Ayuk. I think 30 million in a couple draft picks is too much. We're not in a place where we're going to do that. That's a great quote. That's a good answer if he gave it to us. But I guess my point is even though it's not great for you and I necessarily, I do think having a professional who can talk for 25 minutes and isn't putting his foot in his mouth and just first time being a GM, I think that is a skill that will probably be a benefit as well that he is able to essentially answer things the way that he does. Even if I wish there was a little more meat on the bone occasionally, but I thought overall it was awesome to have him on the show and to just be in a place where A, there's a general manager that actually runs the team that doesn't dictate it to and B, that general manager is willing to come on the radio and talk with us. That is a whole new world. Yep, that's different and it is not lost on me. So that's the kind of, I guess, stuff you could roll your eyes at, but been sitting in this chair since 2014 in a couple of time slots and I've been out on that sideline at training camp since 1999. I gotta call it how I see it and that isn't nothing. 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