Grant and Danny

Danny Kanell On The Start Of CFB, Lance Newmark On The Offseason, Double Play

8.29.24 Hour 2

1:00- Danny Kanell, talks college football with SiriusXM, joins G&D to discuss the 2024 college football season with all the new conference realignments.

22:50- Commanders assistant GM Lane Newmark discussed how the offseason went, and went into how they improved the roster.

34:00- What's going on in our lives that has nothing to do with sports?

Broadcast on:: 29 Aug 2024
Audio Format:: other

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Even if you're not into the league, you can come hang out with us for the draft. Be part of the night. It's going to be fun. We're at Highline R and R over in Crystal City on Crystal Drive in Arlington, Virginia. But let's get to the bet. QL guest hotline. Bet smarter to beat the books. Download the bet. QL app visit betql.com. We are joined now by former ACC player of the year, national champion Danny Canell via bet online to get the college football season started. Danny, we are fired up. You have your back on the show. Grant Danny, what's going on fellas? I'm fired up to talk to you. You know what that means, baby? It is time for some action. It's been a long off season. There's been a lot of speculation about a lot of teams. Like who's going to look like what? What's the conference realignment going to look like? We get to find out this weekend. I'm fired up. How different are things going to feel with this 12 team playoff system getting introduced this year? It's going to feel new and fresh and shiny and clean for a while, I imagine Danny. Oh, absolutely. I think this is one of the best developments we've seen in college football. Maybe in the last 50 years, like I was kind of excited when they went from the BCS to the 14, but I was like, man, that's still a really small number of four teams out of 130 that can make it. And going to 12, I think the most interesting aspect to it. And some people don't like this. And I'll give you an example. Florida State last week loses to Georgia Tech, right? My alma mater. In years past, that might have been a devastating blow like, man, you have almost no chance to work your way back into the top four, but you not only can win when you're way back in the top 12, you also can still win the ACC potentially, which is an automatic birth to the 12 team playoff. In fact, in a power four conference, it give you an automatic top seed in a buy for the 12 team playoff. So I actually like that. I think there's a lot of teams throughout history who have lost games early and missed out on a championship, maybe due to injury, maybe due to somebody starting that didn't wasn't supposed to, and they were able to play their way back in. Most importantly, though, I think the month of November is going to be that much more entertaining for way more fan bases. Historically, it's only been about eight to nine teams that felt like they could make it in that top four. Now we'll probably go 25 deep, and it'll be a lot of fun. It'll make more meaningful games in November that I cannot wait to look forward to. So I think it's going to be a really fun season. So we've had so many evolutions, right? I mean, you and I are old enough to remember when like Washington and Georgia Tech just shared it, no chance they would play. The voters just voted and that was the end. There was no ceremony, no nothing. Then we go to the BCS, then we got to go to this tournament. And the reason I wanted one more evolution was, I want that UCF magical season. I want them involved. I want that Boise State team to be involved in a playoff. Well, they were going to win it or not. I just kind of wanted to see that. That's more fun than the sort of same collection of blue bloods. And I'm going, okay, now we got 12. It's going to happen. But is it? Does it still, is it feel like it's going to be more wide open or is it now? Well, we got two major conferences, and it'll be, you know, five teams from each one and Notre Dame, probably. How's it going to shake out? Oh, it'll be largely dominated by the power conferences. So in the power four, there's probably a super two, right? Let's be honest, the big 10 and SEC just go follow the money. That's always what you have to do in college athletics and probably anywhere else in life. Follow the money. They have the richest TV contract from ESPN and Fox respectively, the big 10 and the SEC. So I would, I would expect of the 12 for from each of those two. And I already saw Nick Saban making his predictions, trying to get five SEC teams in the 12 team field. Here's the one good thing, but I do think you better enjoy it before it goes away. There will be at least one group of five team in the playoff and it'll probably be that 12 seed, but they are guaranteed a spot. The highest ranked group of five conference champion will get a chance to play that role of Cinderella. And I agree with you. Like I was a, I was a big backer of UCF when they got left out that they should have had a chance. I was a fan when Cincinnati got a chance and actually I thought they held their own. They didn't beat Alabama, but they played Bama just as good as a lot of teams. And one of the things we love about the NCAA tournament and basketball, Cinderella stories, right? Like those upsets, that first round, we'd love seeing those. Here's the thing though, I think we could possibly get an upset. I don't think we see a Cinderella run to the championship game. There just is such a big gap in the talent level. And while I say that, I do think so they're going to revisit the structure in two years. And I think we're probably closer to having the group of five teams have their own playoff system and their own champions as opposed to still getting access to this one with the big boys. Again, follow the money. Those teams are not going to like like, I can just hear it now. Greg, thank you to commissioner of the SEC when a Boise State gets in saying, well, our fifth best team would be favored by three touchdowns versus Boise State. You know, he's going to make that argument and their voices carry a lot of weight. I don't think it should matter. I hate using that, you know, philosophy, using point spreads to justify teams in the playoff. We've seen that before. I'm with you. I wish we could see that Cinderella type run, you know, still exist. But I have my stronger feeling that is after two years, that probably their chance goes away. Danny Canell, bet online, bet online. You can check out Ben online for updated college football, playoff, win totals, conference, Heisman and college football, week one lines. Danny, specific to the realignment in the super two conferences you referenced, what are the big storylines and for the casuals? What do they need to know about all the change going into the season? Well, first of all, it's going to take some a while to get used to, right? Like just speaking the lingo of college football, like I was doing a discussion on my radio show in the morning a couple of months ago, and we were looking for big, you know, non-conference matchups and who the big 10 was playing. And I glossed right over USC playing LSU on Sunday night in Las Vegas, because I had forgot that USC is now a big 10 team, right? You see it USC UCLA, like that to me just logistically compartmentally in my brain, it's going to take me a while to say USC, UCLA are big 10 teams along with Oregon and Washington. The one thing also that I think fans need to know about, and this is why when both commissioners, when it was Tony Petini of the big 10 and Greg Sankey of the SEC, one of the things that they both have said is it's about matchups and it's supposed to be about the fans. And that is going to be really exciting. When you see some of these matchups on the table like a Texas hosting Georgia as an SEC conference game, that'll be a ton of fun. Like the Florida Gators hosting the Oklahoma Sooners or just, you know, these new players at the party, you're going to see some really good matchups throughout the season. Every college football season in the past few years, there have been some weekends that have been kind of sleepy and you're like, where's the good matchup? Every single weekend, there's going to be some sensational matchups like there's going to be at least two or three because of the conference realignment. I still think you get better. I still think we should get to a place where everyone's playing the same amount of power for teams and we need to kind of iron that out. But I'll take some of these phenomenal matchups that we're going to see early this season. It's going to be a ton of fun. So we know the top of the board, a lot of the usual suspects here in Georgia, Ohio State, Oregon, Texas, Alabama, right there in your top five. Danny, give me a couple of teams that are maybe outside of that group, maybe 10 or lower that you like, you know, maybe working their way up, making some noise that has the potential to disrupt here. Oh, I got, I got a few. Now, here's the thing, because I do think some people thought, Oh, we'll open up to 12 teams. That'll bring parity because for a long time, it's either been Bama. It's been Georgia. It's been Clemson. It's like the same three or four teams, Ohio State, and it was great to see Michigan last year kind of shake things up and have a new player to the party. I think it'll be harder for some of these long shots to go through three or four games to win a national championship. But hey, the teams that could do it. I like it. I like Texas A&M, the Aggies. Now they have a monster game this weekend against Notre Dame, come into town, Kyle Field. The place is going to be electric. They've got a quarterback and a guy named Connor Wegman, who has played a little bit. And he's been really good when he's played. But the last two seasons have been cut short by injury. If he stays healthy, I think they could be the team that surprises of all these new schedules we've talked about. Their schedule is still pretty favorable. And I really like Mike Elko, the job that he's done there as the new head coach coming over from Duke. You know, they had Jim Beaufisher. There was always sort of some sort of drama coming out. There was issues with recruits. He had to kick guys off the team, got the scrunchled about playing time. Feels like they're more about business now. And I still think the one thing that Jim Beaufisher left behind was a pretty loaded cover. There's still a lot of four and five stars on that team. So if come together, I could see the Aggies being a fun bet from a long shot perspective, 45 to one. Another one that I'll give to you. Another team on display this weekend. Now, I don't love their chances to win this weekend. But that's the greatest beauty of this system. Like it doesn't matter. You could lose this game. The Miami hurricane. This is the most talented roster that they've had since joining the ACC. We're talking about 20 years. They've got the most stacked roster with four and five star talent and most importantly, a quarterback who I think is a different maker in Cam Ward, who transferred in. He started his career at Incarnate Word. He threw 47 touchdown passes at the FCS, won the award for player of the year at that level, goes to Washington State, puts up two pretty good years on a team that's not that great. Statistically had pretty strong numbers that he put up. Now he goes to a situation where he's got a back and Damian Martinez was another transfer portal edition the Hurricanes made. Pair that with a defense, which is out of some portal guys. And they've already been recruiting pretty well. All that being said, and I do kind of like them. If it all comes together for them, I think they could be that team. Mario Chris of all the head coach down there better get it going or else he's going to be facing some serious answers because I think most people, the win total for them is nine and a half. I think they should go over. I think even Miami fans feel like, yeah, that should be an over. If he struggles and they go, you know, eight wins or less boy Mario Christoball is going to find himself probably on that hot seat conversation the following season. But I like their chances to get it done this year. You can see why we love talking college football with Danny Canell, the former national champion at Florida State and fourth round pick in the NFL, joining us via bed online here on Grant and Danny. Danny, I actually want to hop up to the top of the rankings and the top of the board. Danny kind of glossed over Georgia, Ohio State, Dan Leningen, Oregon, Texas, Alabama with a new head coach. Oh, miss everybody's kind of crowning coming into the season with Lane Kiffin. If you would just go rapid fire if you don't mind a few thoughts on each of those teams and what you like and what you don't like or who's as good as we expect and maybe who isn't. So the favorites, I am pretty chalky like on my post season, like final four picks who's going to win it. My pick to win it all was Oregon over Georgia. So a couple of the favorites in there. If you want a little bit better value, Oregon's at plus 750 as opposed to Georgia. It was a pretty heavy favorite. So the team that I did not talk about did not take as Ohio State. And I actually I'll steal this from Kirk Herp Street, because I saw him say it the other day on Pat McAfee show. Ohio State has this loaded roster, right? That has never been the problem at Ohio State. They've always had talented players on the roster. The one thing they've lacked is both a mental toughness and a physical toughness, which is kind of crazy considering the talent they have on the team. How do they respond? Like, how do they respond to that? Because they've been owned in the past three seasons by Michigan. And they've got the opportunity. They have to go to Oregon in the regular season where they can have to travel, take this thing on the road. They have Michigan come into their place and then they have a Penn State game on the road. They'll be favored probably in every single game except for that game in Oregon. I think there's a chance they could be an underdog in that situation. But I'm very curious to see with this superstar team, how do they come together? Like, how do they galvanize around each other? Most of the time when you see these national championship runs, you see teams that really have a lot of guys that come back, which Ohio State did. They had guys in the defensive side of the ball that could have gone pro, decided to come back. So I like some of the messaging coming out, but I need to see it. And the biggest question mark I have for them is their quarterback, Will Howard, who really is the only question mark. He played as a nice career at Kansas State, won a big 12 title there. But this whole different ball game, going to Ohio State with the type of pressure you're going to get from your own fan base. And then I'll go with you to round it out. The team that has the fourth best odds plus 750 like Oregon is the Texas Longhorn. They are a team that I do think they'll make the playoffs. I do think they'll be in that 10 and two conversation. I've got them playing Georgia in the SEC championship game. Quinn, yours. I think it's probably one of the more underrated starting quarterbacks in the country. Steve Sarkeesian always puts up pretty good offensive game plans. And oh, by the way, if anything happens to him, Arch Manning is sitting there waiting in the wings. My biggest question mark, what I worry about them is the defensive line. They lost a couple guys in the interior to the NFL. And I'm kind of curious to see where they stack up. And then lastly, so I don't ramble too long. Two teams last year that were in the final four that I think we're forget about, Alabama and Michigan. Like Alabama, Kaylin DeBore, they still have a lot of talent on that roster. By the way, he's got his quarterback who was a finalist for the Heisman returning as well. They're not going anywhere. I think they'll have a say in this kind of finale and see if they can be in there in November. I think they'll be in the mix. And then Michigan, I don't feel quite as confident, but they have beaten Ohio State three years in a row and won the big 10. Like this is a team that knows how to win. And I think they're like sort of that perfect mix of talent. Plus, you talk about chip on the shoulder, everyone, you know, picking Ohio State yet again. And they're like, wait a second. We just won the national championship. And no one's given us a chance. If they figure out quarterback, they could be a team that can be reckoned with. Danny mentioned the Heisman. I'm throwing a couple of shackles on Jalen Milro, I think, but there's some guys with some better odds. Who do you like and give me a prediction? I went super chalky and I hate it because the favorite never wins. I did pick Dylan Gabriel. Yeah, I had them to win the national championship as well. He's very, very similar to Bonix, like similar style of player. And he's going to be like, he's going to go down as probably the most prolific passer in college football history, which I kind of don't like because he gets an extra year. Like that's the college football record books are going to be skewered because of all these guys that have an extra COVID year and, you know, they're fifth and six year seniors. But he's still going to get that advantage of getting this sort of lifetime achievement award. I think he's going to put up monster numbers. And then I talked a little bit about him earlier. If you wanted a little bit longer shot, I do like Campbell or the quarterback from Miami. Think about the narrative as well as the quarterback who brought Miami back, right? That's going to be such a big storyline if the Miami Hurricanes are relevant in November. He's electric too. He doesn't always play within the system. And I think Heisman voters love getting that Heisman moment. I think he's got some opportunities for that. So I like Cam Ward, a little bit of a longer shot in that Heisman race. Danny Canell, Grant and Danny, air on the fan bed online, bed online.net. I don't know if you have question asking privileges of Colorado or not. I'm not sure if you're in the cool. Are you in the circle? I'm definitely barred. I'm definitely barred. You got a little tough the last year me and beyond. I'm definitely barred. Yeah, you and me both. I mean, he doesn't know who I am, but he'd bar me if he did. I guess my question about Colorado, they played a night at eight. There's a slate tonight, by the way, top 25 games to watch, including 11 Missouri in action at home. A number 22 Kansas is playing, but Colorado on ESPN eight o'clock kick this evening. I think it's going to draw the most attention. Where are you at on them this season? It was a very turbulent off season for Sanders in the program, but he's got a couple of the best players in America. Oh, it was a turbulent year last year for them, right? They started off on fire and then collapsed at the end. They fired their offensive coordinator, which was like the one bright spot of the team with the offensive numbers they were putting up. Like, I think you're going to see more of the same. The thing is, like, do we get the same type of fireworks that we saw to them? Can they beat on Nebraska again the way they did last year, which was one of their more impressive wins? They're in the big 12, which is kind of wild, like it's wide open. I think there's going to be some teams that are very evenly matched in the big 12. I know Shador is going to play really well. Travis Hunter is one of the best players in the country playing wide receiver and DB, which I love. But like, Dion is a circus. Like the criticisms that he's taken are valid. Not like people are just making stuff up out of thin air. He brings a lot of attention. And for somebody who's a Hall of Famer and one of the best college players to ever play, one of the best NFL players, man, does he have some thick skin? But I think what Dion struggles with is as a player, he could be brash and confident. And then he could go out there on the field himself and back it up and shut up his critics. I think he's struggling with being that brash, confident coach who feels hopeless when his team can't get it done. I think that's a struggle for him. And I think he's still trying to navigate that to answer your question. Like if I was going to lean one way or another, I think they're right around their wind total, which is five and a half. I think probably five or six wins is probably where I expect them to be. I'd probably lean under just because of the uncertainty. But at the same time, I wouldn't be shocked if they were eight or nine wins because they are a team that does thrive on the attention that drives on success. But I think a strong start is critical for them. Like tonight's game is not a cake walk. North Dakota State has beaten six out of the seven FBS opponents they face. They are an FCS team lower level. They have played the role of giant slayer pretty well. Then next week, they have to go to Nebraska where they'll probably be dogs. Like if this the start of the season to me is crucial for Colorado, because the one thing that we've seen from this circus atmosphere, when they face adversity, they don't always respond and they don't always handle it well. So very critical to the start of Colorado season. Check out bed online updated college football playoff, win totals conference, Heisman and college football week one lines, Danny Canell via bed online. We're keeping you too long. So we'll end it here. Just a little local flavor. We got a bunch of Virginia tech, JMU, University of Maryland, UVA fans, any thoughts on any of our local DMV, DC, Virginia area schools, anything that you like this season? Heck, yes. I like the Hokies a lot. I do. I like front pry. I like the job he's done. They have 20 out of 22 starters coming back. Their quarterback, Kyron Jones is really special. I do like them to go on the road at Vanderbilt this weekend. I would lay the 13 and a half and back the Hokies. But overall, in general, a lot of predictions and when guys look at it's very unique to college football because you can get a schedule that is completely different than some of the other teams within your own conference. Just look at the draw sometimes. They've got a very favorable schedule. They do have to go to Miami, but that's probably the one game that you look at or like there's two games. Miami and Clemson that they host they're at Lane Stadium, one of the best home field advantages that I feel like, okay, those are games. Maybe they could struggle, but every other game on the schedule, I think they could win. So nine and three, I think is well within reason for Virginia Tech. And if they kind of capture some magic, I think you can see a 10 win season. And then what happens? Are they in the playoff conversation? That could be really interesting. I'm mildly worried about the September 21st matchup with Rutgers. But overall, I still like the Hokies this season as a whole. Danny, awesome as always, man. Enjoy the games tonight. And we'll catch up during the season, buddy. Thank you. Love catching up with you guys, man. Enjoy the game. Danny Canell on Grant and Danny here on the fan, assistant general manager Lance Newmark talked out in Ashburn today. And he said that the commanders got way more done from a personnel standpoint. 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Bonus issued is now a throwable bonus bet set expire seven days after receipt. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fandul.com gambling problem. Call 1-800-522-4700. Dear Autumn Leaves, you won't be covering roads alone this season. Toyota's lineup of cool, colorful vehicles is ready to ride by your side. Take on fall in a trail tackling Tacoma or go for the powerful Tundra. Head to toyota.com for more info or visit your local Toyota dealership today. Toyota, let's go places. Welcome back to Grant and Danny on the fan taking you up to 6 30 tonight, three hours from right now. We will be with you throughout the afternoon and evening live and local into the night at one oh six, seven, the fan. The reason being known as tonight day off, which is rare on a homestand. They played at home yesterday. They played home tomorrow and they are off during the baseball season. How many of those do you think they get with their families at their houses? Seven, eight, maybe less you think? I was thinking like two or three, something like that tops normally that they build something in like a charity event or some type of endeavor. That's a good point. Yeah. Like an early season, that's gala or whatever kind of deal, you know? So I just want to get this out of the way. There was nothing particularly funny. A lot of people are tweeting me at Grand H. Paulson asking what was going on during the read. I wish I had a better story. You caught the giggles. What happened? Yes. I mean, there was something funny set. So right before I did the read, we were kind of kicking around you and I, like a couple of questions for Adam Peters is going to be on the show at four 15. And one of the questions that came up was what's it like to look in the mirror and to see your jawline and just know that that gets to be your jawline every single day, which is funny. It's not that funny, but it's funny. Little thing like wrote down jawline on the list of questions in front of me. I kind of moved on. But then for whatever reason, right before I started the read, I just pictured him like looking in the mirror at his jawline. And it just at that point, I was like, okay, don't make it obvious that you're about to laugh. And now you start, tell yourself not to do something. Good luck. Good luck. So I wish I had a better story. There were times where Danny has ruined a read for me. I've done that with his flatulence. Yeah. So to be very clear, the instant grant touched on on the microphone, it sounded like a tuba through a megaphone went off and it came from me. And it was my fault. You're talking about the last time. Yeah. The time where I had a butt burp and it was loud, and you couldn't concentrate and I ruined your read and I felt bad for you and the wonderful product you're endorsing. Everyone assumed in the glass menagerie in here. Ryan and Dareson company and others sort of passing by. They're like, what'd you do? That I had done something this time. You did not. I was I was befuddled. My great starts starts chuckling looks at me and then everyone else looking at me, I'm going, I swear to God and do anything. I feel like Charlie Sheen at the end of Major League. Like, I didn't know she was. I swear to God. I'm just sitting there just totally guilty without doing anything. Yes. I would like to take Danny off the hot seat. It was not his fault. And I wish there was something hilarious that really isn't. I mean, it's kind of funny. Just picture. It was just literally like in the mirror. The idea of what's it like to have your jawline as a question for him, which is not something we're going to actually ask him. Or now maybe we have to, I guess. And just the idea of him like looking in the mirror going like, you've got a good show. Yeah. Hey, Adam. What's up, buddy? That's your line. Thanks, pal. Have a great day. That's it. That's all I got. There's not a whole lot more to it than that. His assistant general manager is Lance Newmark. He actually spoke today and he doesn't speak very often. So this was kind of cool to see him meeting with the media after the roster cut down and the off season. It's now coming gone as week one really kicks off officially after the holiday day off for the players on Monday. And they're actually going to be at the facility on Monday working, I guess I should say, but that'll be the next time that they're there because they're getting the day off tomorrow. But Newmark talked about the fact that they got more done, that they were able to make more moves and that from whatever the expectations were for this front office going into the off season to what they were actually able to accomplish, they did more than he anticipated an aspirin today with the media. Well, it's been, it's been a very active five or six months, whatever it's been. Every day we've come in here with the attitude of trying to get this better, to make this team as competitive as it can be right away while also trying to build a team is going to be competitive for the long, be competitive for the long haul. So every day, we just try to find ways to get better, try to try to find ways to improve our roster, improve our process, whether it's for agency, whether it's draft, whether it's, you know, workouts, whether it's, you know, going back on guys that have been hurt. We try to, you know, look under every rock and find every opportunity to improve and we're trying to do that as fast as we can. What do you make of it? Because I think you and I at different points have kind of been both excited and occasionally whelmed. I'm not under overwhelmed. We'll wellm with what they've been able to pull off. It was a busy off season. The quantity was there. Yeah. The quality maybe was underwhelming some in the sense that we both wanted like a really good wide receiver. We both wanted a really good tackle. And clearly, if he's coming out saying we did more than we thought we'd do, but what they thought was going to happen going in and what we were kind of expecting were two different things. Yeah. So they kind of showed you what the thought was. Taking over a dreadful roster that went four and 13 needed a lot of turnover. And the way I interpreted it was we didn't think the Bobby Wagner's of the world would choose us. Right? You know, like a guy that's going to be in demand where you'd go, we're going to sign you to a one year deal for not that much money. Bobby Wagner would go choose. You wouldn't think it's Washington because it hasn't been in decades. You would choose, I don't know, something that's going to be good or a team that's on the ascent. Like if Houston offered Bobby Wagner the same amount of money, you'd probably choose there. That's a team that's on the rise. But maybe you won more of those little battles or those face offs or you got guys that you weren't sure you were going to get. You know, it's like it's like a college coach. You got, you're waiting for signing day, six different five stars, you're hoping for three of them, and you got four. That doesn't necessarily mean you're going to win everything, but it's just, it's maybe more than you thought. That was my guess as to what he meant. I just took it to mean we made a lot of moves. You don't normally make this many moves. I mean, by the time the season starts, there's going to be probably 35 players out of 53 that were not here the last season. Think about that. There's not another team in the league that can say that that is a massive overhaul. So I just think he means how many teams went out and signed 25 free agents in the first couple of weeks of free agency like the commanders did. I think it's a quantity conversation that he's having. He came from Detroit where he was instrumental in helping to build what was a really, really good team with Brad Holmes, the general manager there, Dan Campbell, Ben Johnson, Aaron Glenn, leading that coaching staff as the head coach and the coordinators. But I always wonder when you go get a guy, the way that I would do it. And that's what Adam Peterson, who are the ascending awesome teams in my conference? Let's bring as many of those people in that built that so that they can replicate it here. How do you take those previous experiences like putting together a lion's team where you've got Jameer Gibbs, David Montgomery, Craig Reynolds in the backfield and Ammanra St. Brown with Jamison Williams, Khalifa Raymond, Isaiah Williams, a receiver in the tight end room with Laporta and Brock Wright and Parker Hesse, like they're loaded everywhere. Really good line, golf and Henning Hooker at quarterback, they're stellar on defense. There just aren't holes on that team. He was a part of that operation. So how do you try to then implement that here? Going back to, you know, you brought Dan Campbell and I think there's a lot of similarities between Coach Campbell and Coach Quinn in terms of, they really believe in team. They really believe in brotherhood. They really believe in, you know, character and love of football. I think that the kind of people we're trying to get here believe in football. They believe in work. They believe in, you know, team first and just that mentality that you see, you know, anybody, anywhere, anytime, there's really people that love to be around the game day in and day out. And I think that's what we're trying to do here. And that's similar to what I've done in the past. As far as slogans go, and that's like Hall of Fame tough guy slogan, anybody anywhere, anytime. I kind of like it. Like it looks good on a t-shirt. You need stuff like that. I mean, it is such a football cowboy bit. Like anybody, anywhere, anytime, I'll fight you in a barn, I'll fight you in my living room. I'll just fight because I'm a fighter. We'll do it on the moon. I mean, it's a little bit cringe, but I love it in a way too. Yeah. You just kind of, it's football, man. This stuff is cheesy. It's cheesy. If you and me in the office space, you know, we're getting together at the Monday morning staff meeting. We won our attitude here at G&D. Our attitude is we'll fight you anywhere. That's that's our ideas. We're going to work every single person around. We will fight you anywhere here. Moon, Mars doesn't matter. We're fighting. All right. Okay. We're fighting for ratings. We still don't have a contract. So we'll slap him one in eight. You know what? No, we're not. But it's football. But in football, you do it. You fight. You organize fighting. Not the actual fighting around a very one to get out of the league. You claw with your fingernails. But at age figuratively trying hard. That's the fighting. This was more on Newmark on the changes that they made and it exceeding the original expectation. I'm excited about where we are. You know, I think we're always like, like we said, we're always trying to get better, but I'm excited with what we've done. I feel like we've worked really hard. We've done a lot of things in every avenue possible, whether it's free agency, whether it's the draft. I feel like it's a good balance of new and old. You know, I think there's 22 players from last year's team on this one. So it's some guys that have been here that have shown that they want to be here and that they've earned a spot on this team. But there's also a lot of new energy and a lot of new excitement from the outside. So it's a cool blend of existing players and new talent. Overall, like I said, I feel really excited about where we are in the process. Probably we probably were able to do a little bit more in this six months than I thought we were going to be able to in terms of player acquisition and getting to where I think you know, we're going to be a fun team to watch. So yeah, it's been a great six months. I'm really happy to where we are. See that even speaks to maybe them getting to a point where they feel like they're a better team than they thought they'd be able to be coming off the four wins last season. Double play. What's going on in our lives? Nothing to do with sports is next on Grant and Danny. We are blitzing like always right at the top of the hour and 20 minutes at four. Remember, spread the word. Please let everybody on the commander's text group that you've got know, Adam Peters is joining us live at four 15 right here on the fan. Right here on the fan. Commanders, general manager Adam Peters on the show at four 15 today and at six we're giving away tickets to see Kevin Hart at D. A. R. Constitution Hall. Plenty of reasons to stick with us here on the fan. Our double play comes your way driven by your local Washington area Honda dealer. Stop in for a great deal on the rugged and capable Honda pilot contact your local Washington area Honda dealers today. GPS, you know, I'm a gamer and per your recommendation, I checked out blacksmith Wukong from you were beating the drum on this. Yes. From game developer, which which company made it? Do you remember the developer? Do you remember which one of this? I'm not telling you, but you could just tell me if you remember. I do. You don't have to say the name of it. That's the games that first of all don't taught me or tease me like it's a Bethesda game. It's absolutely not a Bethesda game. That's funny. That's a good joke. I remember when Grant joked I wrote a John in my journal. It's from developer game science. Not a huge history about history. I didn't play art of war red ties. Did you? Love it, actually. You liked it a lot? Red ties. Art of war. Yeah. That's what I said. Art of war. You liked it? Loved it. How many hours do you think took completion? 34. Really? That fast? God. I forget. I'm such a mole. I take forever. There are shades of ghosts of sashima in this game. I didn't feel any ghosts of sashima. I mean, again, I don't know why you say hurtful things. In terms of gameplay, finding style and combat, it's a lot of ghosts of sashima. You got a little bit of the blood souls kind of style, you know, from from software in terms of it's unforgiving. Doesn't allow just like a tank style to play. Long and short is this. It's done incredibly well. It's getting rave reviews. I get a lot of sweets, JP Finlay style for people like have you played it, have you played it? I got it. I'm a couple hours in. I'm hooked. It's so well done. We are in such a golden age of gaming and entertainment for people that love to stay home. And I'm one of those people. Yeah. It's so delightful. But again, early on, I'm not really sure what the plot is. I'm not even sure I care. I'm having a great time going around leveling my character up, beating bosses that are really hard, figuring out how to overcome them. Really satisfying. Early returns, GP. I'm going to go eight and a half out of 10 carbohydrates very early in the black myth, Wukong. Okay. This looks like a pretty substantial undertaking here from being honest. But overall, really, really enjoying it. Have a great time. And thank you again for the recommendation. Yeah. My pleasure. I'm just glad you finally listened. I gave it nine Buffalo wings out of 10. I early on. So you've been playing it? Probably two and a half hours, three hours. Okay. So at that point, well, I was clearly further along than you are. Yeah. You know, I take forever. You know, I slow on video games. I know that about you. What I had thought at that point was I wasn't quite sure what we were doing with the plot yet. But I was just being satisfied by the fight against the bad guys are hard to beat. Yeah. And that was satisfaction. Boss fights mean. Yeah. You're the boss fights of the bosses. Yeah. I call them the bad guys, as you know. Yeah. But industry term. Yeah. At this point, I didn't know the plot, but wait till you find out you're going to love it. Well, maybe I will, maybe I won't. It's like they're so excited to do plot stuff. And it's like, that's adorable. Could I just get back to destroying bosses with my staff? Like, that's what I wanted. Sure. Yeah. Shades of ghosts of Tsushima in that way. Yeah. The combat style is the same. That's what I said. The different stances, the different, you know, sort of build that you have to do to make use of those different things. I love the one where you balance on top of your weapon, while someone's trying to hack underneath you. Yes. How much fun is that? It's time for my double play. Yeah. I had to go to the bathroom yesterday while walking to my car in the navy yard after watching some nat's baseball. And I ran into one of the little sports bar, little restaurants in this area. And they were doing trivia. I'm here to tell you guys, I dropped the ball. Cleary, you should be doing trivia all the time. Daris, you should be doing trivia. I am so bummed out that I was never a trivia guy. I did it a couple times and both times I loved it. It was so fun. You go out with a bunch of people, you're single, you're young, you're at a bar, there's other people there, they're single, they're young, there's no kids at home, and you just have some beverages and some snack foods and you be merry and you answer some questions or you don't. Trivia, man. Trivia bar. Why wasn't I a trivia guy? I feel like I should have been more of a trivia guy. And I am here to tell Ryan, who's the perfect age for it, especially living in Arlington. What are you should be doing? But Daris, who's a single guy, go play trivia. It's just a fun thing. It looks fun. I wanted to be like, man, I wonder if I just sit here, if I could join a team and tell my wife I was at trivia night. Like it was just wacky questions. I knew one of them. I was pretty fired up about it. It's so exciting when you know it's just why am I not a trivia guy? And I know now I'm just an old person with children and I can't do that anymore. But I should have been. I was, I was, I'm not even good at it, but like, that's my activity. Yeah, it's a fun camaraderie at the table. Right. Of course you can't cheat, but it's fun where you're like, I don't know. And somebody's like, I do because I took chemistry and you're like, what? How do you know that? That's the thing. I think if I would have done it, I would have gotten serious about it. I'd have had like sports guy on my team. You're our geography guy. Right. Daris, you'd have been my weather guy or stadium guy. Yeah. Oh, clary could have been my explained at all guy with like a little bit of everything. Claire, do you do any trivia? You should absolutely add that to the portfolio. We we do trivia. We're we really used to a lot more than over the last few months here, but we used to trivia like every Tuesdays and or Wednesdays. It's great. It's awesome. It was one of my favorite times going out. I mean, we went to Solvins and Clarendon. We've been to like boardroom. We've been to, uh, uh, see, you didn't have a home court. You bounced around. We bounced around everywhere. Uh, there's a sports bar out in, uh, Clarendon is what are in Boston. I forgot it, but, uh, first down, first down, first down would do one as well. Awesome. So I got Christian, uh, that works on our sales staff now with also a comic. He does a, he does a, uh, trivia and comedy night at Highline, which I've done several times where we're going to be doing our draft front. So he's, he runs that pretty much every month. It is the most fun. I'm telling you, he's awesome at doing, at running the trivia. It's always like the right level. He does it on the mic guy. He does everything. Oh, wow. Yeah. Very cool. It's but fun. If you're listening to me and you're between the ages of 21 and 27, there's no reason you don't have a weekly appointment at trivia. Go stick it up. Eat some wings. Why not? What are you doing? Darris, do you feel like you're too old? You want to be at your house? Uh, no, it's actually a hole in my game. I've always thought it'd be fun to do that to go to trivia nights. Um, but yeah, I just don't know anybody that's ever been like, Hey, let's go to trivia. I don't know. It's kind of a hole in my game for sure. I was driving last night out, uh, going home after seeing the trivia. And I'm, I'm just like, bummed out. I'm like, I missed that era. I missed the time for me to be the trivia guy. 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