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We'll get to ask Adam Peters, all of the things we've been wondering about. Many of you guys have been wondering about. We're also going to preview the college football season today with Danny Canell, who stops through at three o'clock in one hour and Ben standing of the athletic. Does a really cool annual piece where he puts out questions to agents for a survey all over the NFL and the first of a couple of pieces that he's going to write on the responses he got dropped in the athletic today. We'll talk to him about that and the commanders coming up at six o'clock right here on the fan. We'll also be giving away tickets to seed Kevin Hart. He has a show at D. A. R. Constitution Hall in town. Those tickets today available for you right at six o'clock when Ben Standing joins us on Grant and Danny here on the fan. Danny, how are you? Dude, this is a big one. I like it. He just listed a whole bunch of things that are pretty awesome. Right? It's happening. We are now in the season is starting. The rosters are formed on barring something unforeseen. We are go time. Dylan Cruz had a new glass night. We'll get to it in a second. Just did all of a sudden, all of a sudden we went to the darkest, my friend. We did it. Post pandemic. Everybody's losing some teams are rebuilding, some teams refuse to rebuild, whatever. A lot of losing a lot of bad. All of a sudden, the arrows are starting to trend up for the local squadrons and I like it. Yeah, I was actually talking to someone on like a business call about this today and they're like, how are things going with the show? How are things going at the station? I said, it's a really fun time to be talking about sports in D. C. And if you look at it from a 10,000 foot helicopter view, that has not necessarily been the case over the last couple of years. There was optimism and excitement that Dan Snyder might sell and then a big party that we threw literally and figuratively last summer when he did sell, but really prior to getting a high enough pick to draft a quarterback with the potential of a Jaden Daniels, getting a new owner and building a front office was awesome, but until you have the chance to be good at quarterback, you really don't have anything. The commanders now have that for the first time. The nationals have been in what has been a long, not fun rebuild. You can see the light at the end of the tunnel with James Wood playing like a star and now Dylan Cruz getting to the big leagues over the last couple of nights. Two excellent young future impact major league players. The capitals had an awesome off season. We're closing in on hockey a little over a month from now will be on the precipice of the NHL season and preseason hockey will be even played at Capitol and Arena at that time. But they made a ton of moves and really tried to, I think, push some chips back in to make sure that they're competing in to the playoffs and maybe for one more run with Alex Ovechkin, which we'll be talking about over the coming several weeks. The wizards are terrible. Yeah, listen, people are going to make their jokes and that's fine. They're not going to be good and they're going to be horrendous, but maybe they get Cooper flag. Well, but it looks right out of my mouth, at least it's for a purpose now. At least it's not Ernie Grunfeld selling the future to win one more game or just sort of middling pathetic, trying to build from the middle nonsense. They're actually playing the game. You can be bad as long as it's for a purpose and there's a purpose here. I love it. So everybody's doing kind of the things that I've always wanted done when it comes to trying to get good. It's happening. Football is going to carry us in this first segment in most segments and most of the day with Adam Peters coming on the show and so much going on around the NFL. But we'd be remiss if we didn't start with Dylan Cruz hitting his first missile at the major league level last night for for his first 11 in his first three games, then that's getting a series win against the Yankees. Danny, I needed a cigarette and I don't smoke after the first couple innings of baseball last night. James Wood with two hits and three stolen bases and an RBI knock and Cruz had already homered and Jacob Young was running wild on the base paths. All the rookies, all the kids were beaten up on the New Yorkers as the Nets took a series from the Yankees. Sorry about it. It was a lot of fun. And it all got started in the lead off spot kicking off the game with Dylan Cruz in just his third career game. And the pitch swung on it high in the year to left field for do go going back still back to the warning track to the wall. And it is gone. Good bye. Soon goes Dylan Cruz with a majestic soaring fly ball that just kept on going into the back of the Yankees bullpen and left center field a game lead off home run his first to the major leagues. I got a text from a buddy who's in baseball who's as plugged in and just studies it as close as anybody that I know. And he said it perfectly last night. I'm sitting in my house. It's like close to 11 o'clock. He said, dude, he's like, I love Dylan Cruz. He's been studying, you know, since LSU, but he said he's going to do something every single night that's going to help your team win. And that's the early that's the summary. It's only been three games, but I mean, you could go back to when LSU won a national title or what he did in minor league club houses. Maybe there's no elite trait. Maybe he's knocking at 40 homers or still 50 bases or win a gold glove in center field, where I think he's really good, by the way. But he does everything well. And it's not like what we would call 50s in the scouting industry of a 2080 scouting scale. 50 is average, 60 is plus 70 is elite, you know, 80 is world class Hall of Fame's type stuff. Everything is 60s. Like he's really good at everything. He's a really good hitter. He's got really solid power. He's a really good defensive player. He's really good with his arm strength that he's been clocked almost 95 already from right field, made a great running catch in right the other night. He's already showing it. Now there could be an 0 for 14 or a one for 20 coming. It's not like he was dominating a double layer triple A, but you and I make this case all the time. Just like progress isn't linear. Numbers are not just bound to go down at a certain rate at each level. The fact that pictures throw it over the plate more in the big leagues helps some guys, right? The fact that he's really good against velocity, he's seeing more of it. Maybe is going to be a benefit to him in some way. We'll see. But through three games, two wins, first hit on Tuesday night in a multi-hit game, first homer last night in a multi-hit game back to back four for his first 11 already as a steal. Already has a really nice play in right. You're seeing it, man. This is what we all were hoping for when he was drafted number two over. Yeah. That's why we're here. It's to me. It's the whole point. Last night it's on. It's on display. No, Suj Abrams in the lineup, but Mackenzie Gore was filthy. I thought he was really good again. I got it. They win the game. I always love beating the Yankees like when they lose. I like when the Nats win. That's fine. My big takeaways. I've got like six or seven things that I would like to see. I saw most of them last night and you also get a W out of it. But you mentioned with Dylan Cruz that that's the perfect summation. You go to the ballpark and he's going to do something that helps. It could be in an 0 for three with a couple of punch outs game, right? There's going to be something that he does that's productive. That's just a good baseball player. And I know it sound like Scott McCone talking about a ball bar or a ball bar. That's a baseball player. Sorry. Sorry about it. There's going to be something that he does whether there was a play the other night, not just the really nice running catch that you've mentioned up against the wall, but H what would be tricky for someone that doesn't play that outfield spot. He's in right field. It's an opposite spins or right hander hitting a ball that slices, you know, kind of cuts past you. If you haven't done that route a whole lot, it's weird. So you go back turning over your right shoulder. They're going to run back that way. And then it's going to spin behind you. Guys have been corkscrewed and turned around and dropped ballsman. He made it look like the most effortless, easy, simple, Cadillac, big league catch. And I went, he made a really hard thing, which is going to do a lot of look like it's the simplest task in the world. Like he's playing catch out out in back in the backyard with his dad. And you go, that's what this is, right? The really hard made to look easy or attainable or just normal. This isn't and he's not normal. The nats are off today. They'll be back in action right here on the fan tomorrow. The Cubs are coming to town and all of a sudden the cubbies are hot, trying to make a playoff. Got a chance to be a wild card team. So if you're going out to Nats Park, probably a good time to remind you that we got some gear that you might want down the stretch of the season here. James Wood, Dylan Cruz, both in the lineup, upgrade your gear. The latest from the fans merch store. We've got a Cruz Wood 2024 election style shirt. We've got your, we've got Wood hoodies. If you want those for the fall and fittingly after last night, Cruz missile t-shirts as well, go to 106 seven the fan shop.com. If you want to get your hands on that gear before we get back to football. And again, it's Grant and Danny home of Adam Peters exclusively today as he joins us at 415 right here on the fan. Make sure to spread the word to your buddies, please. I'm going to have to get over this. And I need your help, Danny. Oh, you dare us to help me. I mean, Clary, feel free to tell me you're doing too much. You're annoying me. I can't deal with the strike zone for James Wood anymore. I can't do it. I am so bothered by it. I'm now so obsessed over it that in this imperfect thing, where occasionally a ball is going to get called a strike, like my blood pressure raises. I can feel the anxiety picking back up and my anger and like if you're around me, I become insufferable. It's absurd. The pitches that get called strikes against this guy. And I tweeted about this a couple of weeks ago and a bunch of people sent me some research and some pieces that have been written about this as it pertains to Aaron Judge, who's the only other guy like basically James Wood in the sport, six, seven plus. And judge for years has dealt with this where balls below the strikes don't get called strikes because it's an actual problem that the umpires cannot adjust their eyes quick enough and figure out. Yeah, there aren't that many Richie Saxons or you know, but six foot seven foot monsters. Yeah. There was a six-pitch at bat. James Wood struck out. He did not lift the bat off his shoulder, which in and of itself is hilarious, but that's it. If you know James Wood, you know that's possible. He is here to get his pitch and he will not swing at stuff that's off the plate. He was ahead and they count five O and took a strike in the middle of the plate and he struck out, which is to say five balls, one strike. He should have been at first two times and not like close. Like, oh, that could have gone either way. Like five straight pitches that were not really close to the strike zone. And he's ahead five O and what was actually a three, two count. And then he took a third strike and I'm losing my mind and my just steam coming from my ears. I need to get over it because it's just happens. But what I really need is an electronic strike zone because it's absolutely absurd. He's going to be so much better even when he gets that because I don't know anyone who gets screwed out of more pitches over the last month or so in baseball than that guy. So your version of that or let me rephrase my version of that thing you can't get over. Yeah. They won last night. What's the headline? That base running thing? The base running nonsense at the major league level, trying to steal and getting thrown out. I can live with that even even, you know, get thrown out of third. It's a cardinal rule with this group that doesn't hit a lot of home runs and it's tough to get base hits. Being a third base with two outs, that's worth it to me. You've maybe forced some action from the pitcher or maybe take certain pitches off. Maybe you get a wild pitcher or passball or something. I don't want getting thrown out stealing. I'm fine with, right? If you're stealing and you get picked off, I can even live with that. It's the pick offs. It's whatever this Benny Hill music nonsense is where they they do stuff. Little leakers, little leakers would get yelled at for like, Oh my God, this is the major leagues. This, this is my thing. I'm, I'm screaming again. It's in a win. They ended up not needing the run, although you probably could have used an insurance run or two there, but nobody seems to have either any wherewithal to fix it or it's this like slippery slope or one guy does something that everyone has to feel like they do something because there's pressure. I don't know what the fix is. I just know I was benched for less millions of times before I learned my lesson to cut doing that crap to cut it out. It's so embarrassing. It was the worst base running play I've ever seen in my life. Not, not an exaggeration. In the big leagues, I guess I should say, although I'm not sure I've seen anything worse at a youth baseball park, just an utter shabingus and a complete debacle. All right, let's, uh, we'll wrap up the baseball conversation here, but let's play this clip from last night because this was just a disaster on the base paths in a win in a fun series, but it's entertaining almost to hear the call because the, the putout was like seven, eight, two, six, four, three, nine, two, one, six, seven. If you're scoring at home, it's a passcode and the pitch swinging a drive hit well to deep center field. Judge going back way back to the warning track. It's over his head and one hop off the wall. Gallo held up now rounding third. Now he's going to have to keep coming. He's going to be caught in a rundown. Now Gallo getting back to third. They have Yepas in a rundown between second and third. Now Gallo breaks for the play. He's in a rundown and Yepas is running back towards second. They're going to tag Gallo out and Yepas caught between second and third but has to go back to second and Taina caught between first and second is tagged out. Yepas ends up on second base. That's a disaster. That's the synced jags punch to the stomach there is perfect. By the way, what a call by Charlie. Let's play horse race or baseball. I mean, insider baseball, like there's plenty of things over the course of the game that I would feel okay about calling right now. That's one of those you need the reps for. There's just no way to call that without stepping all over yourself and sounding like a fool. Have you haven't been doing it since day one, like Charlie Slow says that was a very, very good call and a great ending to that call with Jags saying it was a disaster. But yeah, absolutely wild. On to the NFL, Jacobi Brissette named the starting quarterback for the New England Patriots. Drake May will sit. Do you think we see Drake May in September or would you say it October or later? If they play. Yeah. Week four is what I have in mind. Now what's that based on? Just a weird gut feel because I think they're going to struggle at the gate and that'll be like the exciting thing. So I think it's like week four, week five, somewhere in there. They open with the Bengals a week from Sunday. Then they are hosting Seattle. They are at the Jets. Week four would be in San Francisco. I'll say they do not date against the Niners and then it's weak. Then they host the dolphins and the Texans back to back. I think they play them late October. If it's skip ahead to like week seven when they go to Jacksonville, you can drop them in against Jacksonville, the Jets, the Titans, the Bears, the Rams in that stretch. Just a weird situation where because they're inexperienced head coach has been pretty forthcoming with answers, maybe more so than you'd even like to be, he has said Drake May outperformed. Jacobi Brissette and that they were competing for the job. So you've acknowledged there was a competition that the guy that was better didn't win the competition. You have said this. What was the point of the competition? Everyone says, Oh, I understand what he's saying. He's saying that Drake may outplayed him, but they're taking everything into account, including body of work and your career. Well, then it wasn't a real competition. If it was a real competition and you're acknowledging that the young guy was better, you'd start the young guy. I actually still think it's a fine thing for them to do because their line is terrible and they need to sort it out. And you might as well spend a month doing that before Drake may takes the field. So all is fine that ends well here if Jacobi Brissette can play decent football, but just a strange last month, they named Brissette basically the starter going into camp. Then they opened up the competition because may looked better. Then they said, may had a better preseason in what was an open competition. And now they're naming the other guy, the starter, anyway, around a miracle and gave you a thumbs up. Yeah, but they thought they had it sorted because their evaluation of Drake may was great prospect, poverty, it's a bit of work. I think you showed up on campus and energetically improve some of the things they were worried about or showed that he's actually probably more ready to go right now than maybe they thought. So it sort of changed their eye line a little bit, but I think they went with the original plan. College football started unofficially week zero, they call it this past weekend. But for all intents and purposes kicks off tonight with week one, Danny Canell is going to join us to break down the whole college slate this weekend and all the big storylines going into the season at three. If you haven't heard Danny on the show talking college ball in the past, make sure you're listening. He is tremendous, just fantastic talking about the game at that level. But some really good games tonight, including one that I'm particularly interested in, Dion Sanders and Colorado hosting North Dakota State, one of the top teams at the non D one level. That's an eight o'clock kick. It'll be televised on ESPN this evening. A number 11 Missouri is hosting a game tonight. Number 24 NC State as a tilt at their place as well, actually been to that stadium weirdly enough for a caps outdoor game against the hurricanes. Carter Finley, I think it's called in Raleigh, North Carolina, but it should be a fun night at college football, including with Colorado taking center stage for the first of many times this season with Dion and company being such a lightning rod for all things content. I can't help it. I don't want it to. And I don't want to reward that kind of behavior, but I'm fascinated by what Colorado is and is doing. And I guess maybe that's the point, right? Like how, how brash and abrasive and how, you know, Dion doing things that I don't necessarily prove of barring people from asking questions or whatever, if they've offered critical takes about him and his program, otherwise, don't know this story. There's a guy that they don't like how he writes about Dion Sanders in the program. He's got nicknames for Dion. He pokes fun at guys, and it seems like it's taking personal shots, maybe as a way to describe it, although it could be a bridge too far, but nothing that is like completely unheard of, right? It's not like he's doing something awful. He just clearly doesn't like the way they're running the program, and they have told him that he cannot be a part of the press conferences and cover the team. Yeah, I generally can't stand the college football coach bully. I hated when urban Meyer used to do it. He would berate people for not being cheerleaders for his dumb Florida program where people were right now. We now know we're committing crimes, like all the time under his employer as players in his in his charge. So stuff like that I never approve of, but I'm morbidly fascinated to see what Colorado is yesterday when we were on the air. Noah Brown signed with the commanders didn't really get a chance to touch the folks and get their thoughts on the move though. So we could do that moving ahead this hour next. How much do you think Noah Brown, the brand new wide receiver coming over from the Houston Texans is going to impact the commanders? Let's get into that next on Grant and Danny here on the fam. So, thank you. Thanks for watching. I'm Danny Brown. I'm Danny Brown. I'm Danny Brown. I'm your price tool from Progressive. It works just the way it sounds. You tell Progressive how much you want to pay for car insurance and they'll show you coverage options that fit your budget. Get your quote today at Progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. 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This coming Tuesday, we will have our Grant and Danny, fantasy football listener league draft. It's just a great opportunity to get together with some friends of the show and some listeners who check out the program day in and day out. Anybody can come though and hang out with us. We're going to be at a restaurant at a bar and you can come take part in the festivities with us. Even if you don't make the league, if you don't want to be in the league, we're just talking football. Just saying it out. Eat some wings. Exactly. It's going to be a blast. So if you want to be in the league, it is not too late. We should let everybody know that. We are closing down. Dares, I'm going to tag you in on this. I have made you officially the bad guy this year. We're closing out any opportunity to get into the league tonight, right? That'll be correct. By the end of tonight, we'll just go ahead and call it midnight. Midnight tonight, your last opportunity to be able to submit your form for the Grand Denny trivia contest that we're doing. That'll be located on our Facebook page, the Grand Denny Facebook page, as well as you guys' individual Twitter accounts. Pin tweet top of my account right now at Grand H. Paulson. I'm sure the same for Danny. Act funny, Danny. If you want to be in the listener league, I have a link for you right there. You can go to Facebook.com/GrandDenny and Dares, you put together a little quiz on interesting tidbits from the show over the last year that if you listen enough, you'll do very well on the top 10, make the league, I believe. That'll be correct. The top 10 will make the league. We will do the scoring tomorrow, and we will announce those winners tomorrow afternoon on the show. That's awesome. That's fun, man. So get in by midnight tonight, take the quiz, make your attempt at getting into the league. But regardless, if you're in or you're not, you can plan on Tuesday night being with us and the big draft to hang out. It's a good hang. Come kick it. It's going to be a good time. Good opportunity to heckle too, right? Because if you're not drafting, you're not making any wrong picks. So as we walk up there with the sticker and slap it on the big board, even if you think it's a great pick, you don't have to say so, you can say it's bad. You say you're stupid and you're fat, Danny, and you smell and your hair cuts weird. You know what I mean? Like whatever you want to do, you can do. Highline R&R is where we're drafting on Tuesday night. Well, that spot. It's on Crystal Drive in Arlington, Virginia, over in the Crystal City area. And we will be there throughout the evening on Tuesday for our fantasy draft. So those are the details. Can't say we didn't try to help you get into the league. But now on to Noah Brown, the wide receiver cut by the Texans, signed by the commanders, who at one point last season got an opportunity with a bunch of injuries and shined in a good offense with CJ Stroud feeding him the football. He had a two game stretch last year where he was the best wide receiver in the league statistically went six for 153 and then seven grabs for a buck 72 and a touchdown against the bucks and bangles respectively. The rest of the season, he was largely not much of a factor, but he is flashed. He has shown that he is big. And that's the key, I think, to him coming to DC Danny, the size, right? He's going to provide something that is lacking in the receiver room. He could take the lid off the defense and you and I both think he's going to play very quickly. I do too. Now how fast he fully gets up to speed and he's integrated into everything. I don't know the answer. I don't. I don't know how hard it is. I don't know if he's got a photographic memory and it's encyclopedic within 24 hours or if it takes him like a normal human being, a little while to learn the brand new language, where to line up and how learn the quarterback that he's going to be playing with, scheme, design, what's asked of the beach and every play. It's probably not fair to say, all right, on Sunday, you're going to get 10 targets. Let's see what happens. That's that's a tough ask for anybody. But I think this is their second best wide receiver. I don't know if that's inflammatory to people, but I don't think much of that room outside of Terry McCorn. And I think opposite him, this is the perfect, you know, there are obviously more marquee players, bigger stars as number two receivers, but this is the kind by design of player I would try to have opposite McCorn. I would have the big deep threat, the guy that scares you to take the top off the defense to let Terry work where I would want him to work, which is that 20 yards in an that's where I think he's really, really good as a technician. That's what I want. I want the deep threat. Look no further than a guy that average, what was it? 17 plus yards per catch last year. Please and thank you. I don't think it should be controversial at all to say he's their second best wide receiver. I mean, we're a long ways removed from him being a seventh round pick. I don't think that's how he's necessarily viewed anymore. He broke out in Dallas. Remember, this isn't a one trick pony. Yeah, two different stops. Really a one hit wonder, I guess, is what I was looking for, where he just suddenly emerged for a couple of games with the Texans. He actually was better the year before, again, climbing a depth chart where he wasn't supposed to be a big deal in Dallas and making over 40 catches for over 550 yards. Then on a new team in a new offense that to your point, he had to learn pretty quickly with Houston. He was able to emerge and have some huge games. If you look at PFF grading, not gospel, but just part of what I would say is an insight that I want added to every puzzle that we're going to put together here on the show. Terry McLaurin's grade last year as a player on offense was 75.1. Noah Browns was 74.3. Terry McLaurin's receiving grade last year was 74.5, which is really, really good. Noah Browns was 75, slightly higher graded. Now, they don't take sample size into account. I'm not suggesting he's a better player than Terry McLaurin. The army Brown, if he played 11 plays last year and played them all very well and ran good routes and made a couple nice blocks would grade out very high as well. My point is just to say, it doesn't really matter what metric you're looking at. He should grade out higher than a guy in Diami Brown who caught 12 balls last season, or Alama de Zacchaeus, who despite having an excellent camp and a terrific preseason, and I feel very good about what he's going to provide in the slot and around the line of scrimmage. Noah Browns been more successful, more of a factor in the league the last couple of years than Alama de Zacchaeus. So I don't think she could any heat for that take at all. That does not seem hot to me. That's not even warm. That's just a take. Well, people who are so reverential towards, you know, front offices and they decide that a guy before he's even played NFL down, like a Luke McCaffrey or, you know, because they've seen Byron Pringle or now Diami Brown's going to break out, of which I'm not going to hold my breath on. No, no, no, those are the guys. So if you're, if you're one of those in fill-in-the-blank executive we trust, automatically, whatever pill they hand you, you just swallow, maybe you might be offended by that. So I guess maybe that's who I'm referring to when I say that, that was my, my semi-hot take. But this is how I would design it. Right. If I'm able to sort of, you know, take the names off it, I'm doing Madden, create a player, I would go, I'd have one receiver that's quicker, work, you know, again, kind of works that 20 yards and in, great hands, tough as nails, does everything asked of him, like, MacLaurin, and then I'd have the deep threat. Right. Now, ideally, that guy's got some size as a deep threat as well. And that's what Noah Brown is. So the history's been filled with a number of players that have had lesser roles in stacked rooms, right? Think Pierre Garsohn in Indianapolis, for example. You're, you're the number three with Reggie Wayne and some other studs there. Or, you know, a guy that's a running back in some places that he goes to another venue and gets, it gets a better shot. Or a guy that's a part-time starter goes somewhere else and thrives. History is littered with guys where you come from pretty good places with pretty good rooms. You're, you're, you're capable, but you're just a victim of numbers. You go somewhere else with a larger role and you can thrive. I'm not saying he's a pro baller. I'm not saying he's going to, you know, catch 1200 yards worth of balls. What I am saying is I think he's going to help a lot. Totally. A couple other numbers that I just think are interesting. And I'm only using MacLaurin as the comparison because he's the guy here that we know is really, really good. MacLaurin last year after the catch struggled a little bit to the point where when we talked to Dan Quinn, we royally, we have not talked today on this show, but when the media talked to Dan Quinn in town, one of the things he said that MacLaurin was really working on all off-season going into camp was the ability to make plays after the catch, to extend plays, to break tackles, to do something after he caught the football. Last year, yards after catch per reception for Terry MacLaurin, 4.5 on average. Noah Brown, 6.7. Now, that's two plus yards. It does not sound like a big deal. From an average standpoint, that is massive. Massive deal. Now, that speaks to the scheme and the offense and probably how wide open he was and how much separation he got, maybe even ball placement from a quarterback, shroud being better than how, obviously, there's a lot of things that go into that, but that's not nothing. I mean, this is a guy that was a rumbling big presence after the catch despite his size. You mentioned 17.2 per reception, MacLaurin last year, 12.7 different offense, not as prolific, but he can take the lid off a little bit. Now, flip side of this, an area where he struggled, I thought, a tad. Last year, MacLaurin was graded with four drops via PFF in 128 targets in a 79-catch season. Four drops, 128 targets. On just 54 targets, Noah Brown dropped five passes last year. They played together at Ohio State. These two guys, they know each other well. They're both Buckeyes. One was drafted in the third round. It looks like should have been drafted probably in the first or second round, in Terry MacLaurin's case, probably the first round. Noah Brown was a seventh round pick. So I'm not pretending like he's coming in here to be AJ Green or something. Right. That's not what he is, but there's some things I really like. So next, let's do this, over or under on projections for him. Let's set him at 49.5 catches and 499.5 yards. Using his last couple seasons plus the projected role here will come up with basically a 50-catch, 500-yard, standard wide receiver two and a not great offense kind of numbers. Would you go over or under that? We'll do that next. And we want to hear from you guys, your thoughts on Noah Brown and the commanders, Grant and Danny on the fan. We did it. We got back to football season, people. I'm going to drive out, hit the beltway toward Tyson's corner to Marshall High School. Watch the little high school football tonight. Here we go. Love a high school game. Not too far from old rainy, do ya? Oh, really? Yeah, it's not bad. Welcome to bring the boys out to see the Annandale Adams. Exeter to off field beltway. Get a hot dog wrapped in foil. Big fan of popcorn, little butter. Is that Marshall? Is where you headed? Marshall. The Annandale Adams are on the road tonight. Against the statesman. Got to go watch that matchup. Got to see it. Or some are saying the biggest matchup in the state of Virginia this year. That's what some are saying just tonight, though, probably the biggest matchup in the state tonight. At Marshall. I said Marshall, right? That's in Fairfax, but I will be there. Not far from Pittman Hills regular. And then I'm going home to watch Colorado. And then for the next several months, I know what I'm doing. It's pretty much locked in parking in front of my TV. Football, man. Football. It's the thing. It's the thing you like and I like. The thing we did it. Fantasy drafts everywhere. So much DFS in my near future thinking, you know, I probably have the right lineup here to win all that money. Like I got it. No one else does. I figured it out. Not going to lose any leagues. It's my best. I'm only going to win leagues. Yep. David is in Sterling on Grant and Danny here on the fan. David, we're talking Noah Brown and the commanders. What's up, buddy? Hey, hey, guys. Thanks for taking my call. Just to start off, I watched your what you posted Grant yesterday of all his catches and I really liked what I saw. There was just catches over the middle seem like 15 to 20 yards every time him taking defenders and other five yards. I think it actually going to be a pretty good marriage for us. I'm looking forward to watching it. I mean, he just does some things that they don't really have guys doing here. Based on being 62 and 215 in breaking dig type stuff. Second level behind, you know, linebackers, they needed it. They got it. And I'm happy that they did. Well, last Adam Peters about the process that resulted in Noah Brown ended up in Washington and whether or not there were other teams vying for his services when Peters joins us among the other things we'll cover. Brandon, I you might come up here on Grant and Danny Adam Peters, 415 today live right here on the fan. So make sure you're listening. But what about those totals I threw at you? Let's go over under catches 49 and a half. So I think just under that, I see basically three catches a game when you average it down. I think there's going to be a couple of weeks. He doesn't see many targets. Just not what it's in the game plan. It's going to be grounded pound close to a lot of scrimmage. So you're playing the Giants or something like that and you're on a rock fight and they got to win 1612 or something. Let me go back then. If you're looking at it as like averages per game. How soon because it might not be week one, he's learning a lot of the offense. How soon until you think he's actually a starter who's playing a lot? A month. Okay. Does that seem crazy? And then you think he makes up for a little lost time to get to those average. Like to me, the way he gets it is big place. That's why he's here. He's got that explosive thing. Otherwise, if you wanted someone to run another seven yard hitch, Byron Pringle probably has 10 guys who could do that with him. The special thing is that he's big and fast enough to go down the field over the top. So it's not going to be every week. I mean, think of the Sean Jackson ownership experience where you go, there are weeks, it's three for 21 and there's not much happening. And then there's that five catch, 200 yard, two touchdown and he can't go into the end zone. Normally he has to like go sideways and then back in and he's already doing the celebration and he barely crossed the goal line. We'll still holding the football. That's the experience. I'm not saying you're going to get that because the Sean Jackson is one of a kind, but that sort of deal, he's going to end up, I think with over the yardage totals, but under the catch totals. So the four 99 and a half you would go over? I think it goes over 500. Wow. And so it's probably, you know, in that 550 range with about 46 catches. That's what I got under on both. I'm saying like 40 ish catches for like 425 yards. Danny, I'm going to be elated if he's in the 500s. So you've got him number two on the team among receivers only. Yes. Like tight ends running backs, whatever. I think his fourth on the team and catches second among receivers. And if he's over 500 yards, he's probably in the top three in terms of receiving yards total. I don't know if Earth's is going to be healthy enough to get there. If he is, he'll get over that. Echler very possibly is going to be over there. But McClurens, the only guy that if healthy would be a lock to surpass that receiving total. So as excited as I am about this, it sounds like you even think this is going to be a more impactful, immediate return. Yeah, because this has been my stance and everybody's going to make fun of me for saying the same thing. They receive rooms. Not very good outside of term. Hang on a second. I'm going to let me give her a pencil. Yeah, write this down. I've only been bringing up since the end of last season. You're the only one here is. Let me hear you say it. Here is the opportunity. The opportunity is right there. There's no Curtis Samuel. There's no Johan Dotson. Even if there was, he would have been the second best receiver in this room. Now there's especially no Johan Dotson because he was traded away for a future draft pick. The opportunity is golden. I don't think they're going to heavily feature it and do it like I would like it done to have it more wide open and do more to help Jaden Daniels. I think they're going to run and do things close to line of scrimmage and feature Echler hurts and maybe send it as the year goes on. But there's an opportunity here for him to catch some passes and be explosive. My only cold water that I would offer pouring. I'm not going to dump it on you. ALS ice bucket challenge style. But I'm just going to get a little bit of cold water in a cup. Okay. Sure. I'm just going to sit it next to you. Good. I do wonder a little bit. He was in a Shanahan offense with Bobby Slowick running the Texans offense who's a head coach and candidate was interviewing for jobs, including this one, I believe this offseason. And he played with an outstanding quarterback. CJ Stroud last year was a top 10 guy in the league. You could even have said a lot of weeks was at a top five level in football. Whether he does that again as a sophomore where you'd rank him doesn't really matter. I'm not concerned with that. But he played at that level last year. You're no longer in that kind of offense. We're hoping Cliff Kingsbury delivers the goods. But I don't have the same confidence in his scheme that I do in the Shanahan scheme that has taken the league by storm and everyone's trying to replicate. And I hope that Jaden Daniels is really good. But I don't know if he's CJ Stroud. So I do think in the same way, remember when we were talking about a possible you trade, you and I kept coming back to two big questions. How much of his production is like the guys around him and being in the Shanahan offense. And then the other one was like how much of his production is essentially the fact that he is schemed open so to speak. I think you could still ask some of those questions about Noah Brown too. And maybe the faders get turned down on those important elevating categories around him. Now I still think with his size and the way he runs routes, all you got to do is be better than Diami Brown who's never caught 15 balls and Zacchaeus who caught 10 last year and you'll you'll play and you'll help. This is kind of my point. And maybe that's the answer. But I do wonder about that a little bit like I can spread a wonder seven for 170 in a game probably had more to do with situation than just this guy's ready to go do that regularly. And that's why I'm not calling for it. That's why I'm not telling you they just unearthed the next gem that's going to catch 65 balls for a thousand yards. I don't think that's the case. I think they got a nice complimentary piece who by standing taller than really short folks will thrive quote unquote in his role. Mid 40s catches in like 550 yards is not setting the world on fire. That's less than you know, Jake Ferguson that tight ended last year. I like this too. Nikki Javala of the Washington Post tweeted this a minute ago. Jaden Daniels after practice getting an extra reps walking through details of routes with wide receiver Noah Brown. Oh yes. Give me that immediately. So your quarterback being a leader just let's get this dude up to speed. He can help me. I can help him. Let's help each other together. Adam Peters GM of the commanders who traded for picks yesterday in the John Ridgeway deal and acquired Noah Brown via free agency will join the show at 4 15. We'll ask him about those moves and many of the other big decisions he's made since taking over the team. That's coming up in about an hour and 20 minutes to spread the word Adam Peters right here on Grant and Danny at 4 15. We've also got Ben standing of the athletic on the commanders today at 6. But next let's get you ready for a big night and a massive season of college football with Danny canal right here on the fan. 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? Now you can call them on your auto insurance too with the name your price tool from progressive. It works just the way it sounds. You tell progressive how much you want to pay for car insurance and they'll show you coverage options that fit your budget. Get your quote today at progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust progressive. Progressive casualty insurance company and affiliates price and coverage match limited by state law. 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