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Will The Browns Game Determine Whether You Buy In?, Double Play
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I don't mean scoring every time they touch the ball, but can they continue to be a juggernaut? Or are they a top five type offense from now until the end of the year, 800-6-36-10-6-7. We're pivoting a bit to this Browns game now, Sunday. They're favored. They're coming home. They're excited to be back. According to Luke McCaffrey joining us yesterday, they think they're going to be a, like, a raucous atmosphere. They're really getting to see what the fan turnout is after all of the fans over in Arizona, Danny. And as they come home to take on the Browns, they got a chance to get to 4-in-1. For me, this is the Pendulum Swinger. If you let down a little bit, you look like you did in Week 1 against Tampa, then there's going to be some ebbs and flows, and I just kind of got to bake in the highs and the lows of the season, probably a nine-ish type win team. But if they woke up on Cleveland and they play like they did the last two weeks, I'm going to be sipping the Kool-Aid. They'll be 4-in-1 and I'll be looking toward double-digit wins and I'll be talking about the playoffs on this show next week. Interesting. So I was thinking about what my perspective is and is going to be. I think here's what's on the line for me is the ceiling, but not the floor. In other words, I've seen one game that was pretty rotten. I've seen one that was solid now that we have the viewport of the next two games. It looks better in retrospect, talking about the Giants game. If they struggle and win or lose against Cleveland, it's kind of a rock fight and Cleveland has their way with them offensively and Washington can't really do as much on there when they have the football. Winter lose, I'll go, okay, just a reminder that we're in for a roller coaster. Like we kind of thought, right? Rookie quarterback, first year, everything, you probably can't count on this group to be that much of a juggernaut. But if they do what you're talking about and they are 4-in-1, I'll go, all right, let's all dream together. Let's all high-five and buy our T-shirts and get excited. I think that's what's on the line for me. So if they lose, I'm not going to be bummed or down and out and slam old scans. I'm not going to do that at all, knowing that, hey, here's what we're doing. Our highs are higher than they've been in some time. And we're going to have some lows too as we kind of go through this process to the rookie QB. That's right. I'm just waiting for cold water, that would be the cold water. And if it doesn't come again, then it really doesn't matter when it does come. The damage, so to speak, has been done. They're already really good. In years past cold water looks like losing 10 of your, what was it, 13 of your last 15 games? When they started 2-0 with Sam Hallen Company, the cold water was, yeah, they're actually never good at all. And the bottom fell out. I don't think that's the case at this point. So the cold water to me is, yeah, they're just fine. Nice to talk about the football team's bright future. Time for you to plan your future as well. The exclusive sponsor of Grant and Danny's the law firm, Condorion Murad. They're going to help you update your last will and testament. Set up a trust for you and your family schedule, a consultation with our buddies, Condorion Murad. Right now, visit kmloyers.com. If you tell them that we sent you, you'll get a discount, kmloyers.com. By the way, people should come hang out with us this week. We're going to be out and about on Friday for a live broadcast celebrating another weekend of commanders football and the NFL. We will be at Atlas Brew Works in Alexandria over on Mandeville Lane. Stop by. Atlas's 15 taps are there, dozens of TVs, great pizza, awesome wings. Friday will be there from 2 to 6.30. The new Atlas Brew Works in Alexandria for more information. Visit the fan DC.com. We'll see you out there. Let's go to the phones. We start with Jeff in Gaithersburg. What's up, Jeff? Hey, Jeff. Hey, I'm going fellas. Good, buddy. I'm coming in sounded like Bernie Mac on this fan up on death jam. What he said, I'm not scared of y'all. I'm not going to finish the rest because it's not appropriate for radio. All time set. So funny. That's how I'm feeling right now. I no longer call Jayden Daniels, Jayden Daniels. His name is now him, Emmett D Daniels III. Listen, from game one to now, like this, this is constant improvement. And I'm willing to bet if we replay that Tampa Bay game today, we're winning that game. We had Seabird in that game. We might be singing a different tune and we still got pieces in development that's making their strides right now. Sarah still Senate McCaffrey Coleman. This is not a finished product of the team. So, this is a great point. And I think I want to hammer something on these rookies. I appreciate the call. You got me thinking about this. The best is yet to come this season for Mike Sandra still in the secondary. We're just now seeing Brandon Coleman get to a point where he's playing half of the snaps at left tackle. He played almost 50%. 37 snaps for Lucas at left tackle on Sunday 35 for the rookie Brandon Coleman, who by the way, didn't allow a single pressure on I believe it was 19 dropbacks where he was blocking in the passing game. He was awesome. So Coleman getting implemented and really locked in at left tackle, Sandra still continuing to come into his own in the secondary. They've had to move him around, by the way, from the slot to the outside, right? Both of those things I think are arrow up areas for the rookie class. McCaffrey's been good is only going to get better. Daniels has probably been so good that you can't expect more than he's given you. But if a lot of what we're seeing is legitimate, he'll continue to play at a high level. Jordan McGee got hurt or else he'd be playing a bunch on defense in that line backing core. We haven't seen Ben Senate catch a pass yet. Yeah. He's been open a bunch. Troy Ake been showed a few clips from the Bengals game and previous games. He was just running free down the field and he hasn't been targeted yet. That's coming. Exactly. So to your point, remember, we get the date up after the fact from PFF. Hey, Luke McCaffrey is open and awful. Look at the separation scores. Look at how open he is. He hadn't had a ton of targets. She said it's not as if he's, you know, got 10 or 15 since then, but that was something you follow away because they've got access to stuff too. They're going to know, Hey, you guys been saying it's working open or Hey, this is something we can come back to because what you're doing now is you're showing a type. You're showing tendencies, the good offensive coordinators, I'm not talking about the guys that, you know, Hey, I designed a good play this week or whatever. The really good ones anticipate what the other team at the defense is thinking about you. So now we now is the time we break tendency. Now is the time we break type. We do something. A look that we've shown. Now we do that throwback pass to Ben Senate or now we let him down the seam or now we, we worked that Chris Cooley style, short screen to him and let him work in the middle of the field. You have those assets and abilities and that's only going to get better from here. There are three. It's happening gifts that I always have to choose from, but it is happening all around us right now. What I mean by that is I'm getting tweets as we talk today, this segment from people. I'll be at the game Sunday for the first time since 2010, coming out of the woodwork, 20 time going back to home games. We saw a lot of this at the beginning of last year, if you remember, after Dan Snyder was gone just to celebrate his exit and frankly, the exodus of a lot of the bad guys at the top of the organization as we can refer to them. They were gone and people came out to celebrate, but that was fleeting. It was a game. It was two games and then the season continued. The team was terrible and nobody had said I'm going to be at every game. It was just a, I'm going to come celebrate. I just want to go be with fellow fans exactly, but what you're getting now is an opt in based on the product, which is a very, very different thing. My three, it's happening gifts that I always choose from. You probably know all of them. So one is Ron Paul for some reason. I don't know why him or what this is from, huh, but he lifts his hands over his head and it like there's these flashing lights behind him and it says it's happening. And at this point in 2024, I think there's, we're past like him being a political figure enough and it's just some old guy with his hands over his head. It's kind of funny. It says it's happening. I love that one. I guarantee you one is Jonah Hill doing the, the scream where he's like waving his hands right in front of his face. So is that one of the three? Never used that. What? The other one is Michael Scott in the office. Oh, I know that one. He says, Oh my God, it's happening. And he doesn't know what to do. And he's like packing into a wall. So when Pam goes into labor, absolutely. And then the other one is Michael Sarah, who just kind of smirking at someone who's giving him news and he's like, it's happening, isn't it? But I've just been rotated, dictating those one by one on social media the last couple days with all of these announcements people are making telling me they're going to their first game in a long time. Let's go to Drew in Grace and Bill, what's up, Drew? Hey guys, so I am, I've been on the bandwagon, you know, I drank the Kool-Aid when it was owned by, when the team was owned by Dan, Jim Jones, Snyder. So you know, this feels like much safer, Kool-Aid to drink. And I thought at the beginning of the season they were going to either win six games or 10 games, but I think they can easily win 12 now. And so I'm feeling good. I will be at the game, have a great tailgate starting early in the red zone live. You want some Polish boys, you know, it's Cleveland. So we do the Kabosian fries and pierogies and it's all good in the world right now. Sounds like fun. Appreciate you. Hopefully it's a sunny day. What's the weather going to be this weekend? I think, I think the nonsense is over today. Like the gross, cold, rainy crap. Just been awful. 10 day forecast, Landover, Maryland. Let me pull this up. Sunny in between 55 and 76 on the day. Come on. Are you kidding me? That's what I got for you. Perfect. Football weather. Little chili. Sunny. Let's do this thing. Let's get to four and one. Let's do it together. Bracken and Arlington. What's up? Hey guys. So I must want to be excited and still a cynic and it'll probably still be one after the sweep. I grew up in Arizona and so the Cardinals are my first team and Cliff King is very loved the guy. I think he's super dedicated. Smart guy. But every year, we're off to a new or a problem with him as well as about week 10 to 12. Everything would just collapse. You'd have how the money look like it's doing MVP season. We all thought we'd have all the reason to hope in the world. I mean, every season, something with collapse. And so I think it ties to a full season of 10 here. I'm going to be always struggling to maintain that enthusiasm and tight yet. That is so true. I totally get that by the way. I brought this up a couple of times that that was the pathology multiple times on multiple seasons in Arizona. They get off to these gangbusters starts. They were like 11 and one at one point, you know, undefeated late into the season and then finished by losing five out of six or whatever it was because all of a sudden the offense couldn't go anymore as adjustments got made. Maybe guys wore down. I don't know. Hope is and you heard a little bit of that in, I think of the telecast and some of the stories of the years off that Kingsbury's had since he was in the NFL. And you're hoping that kind of like Allah, Mike Shanahan did it during his sabbatical. You studied the league. You figure out what's going on. You do some self scouting too, where you figure out, okay, why? Why did that happen to me? And can I prevent it? That's why it's a huge year for him, right? Because right now he's the hottest thing since sliced bread. And if this kind of continues or something close to it, that's a head coach. He wants that. He needs to get to the finish line. So hopefully he's aware that when you get to that point that has been a bugaboo for him and his team's over the last couple of seasons, last time he's been in charge of an offense that that doesn't happen now. And you finished strong and now you got yourself your head coaching gig again. The first year he was in Arizona in 2019, they were really bad. He was taking over an awful team. So kind of dismissed that pandemic year of 2020, they started five and two, if you remember, they're actually six and three as well. And then they finished eight and eight completely collapsed. The year you're talking about is 2021 when they were 10 and a one and finished 11 and six, one and five down the stretch. And then 2022 they went four and 13, but even that year they were two and two and they'd won three times as of early October. And the rest of the football season, they won one football game to go four and 13. And then there was the year where, you know, that was the year he got fired. So that is the book very obviously. And by the way, that's him as a head coach and the team record, but a big part of the problem where the offenses, the offenses would come out like people up, not to the extent they are now, but it is not lost on me for the record. And this is pro cliff, not anti cliff. When you see the stat that's being shown everywhere, this graphic, we're all seeing completion percentage at the quarterback position and Jaden Daniels with the record right now through four games. Tom Brady second on that chart. You've seen it? Yes. So Murray under Cliff Kingsbury is I think fourth in that top five. Two of the five guys are Cliff Kingsbury quarterbacks in the horizontal raid. That's not nothing. Like this is his signing very easy safe things. Now Jaden on top of that has been unbelievable and sensational as a passer. That's not taking away, but part of what's going to happen, Danny is teams are going to start playing you to expecting the quick game, getting up and jamming and playing the line of scrimmage and muddy and things up, short and intermediate and maybe giving you the over the top stuff. And then we've got to see those are lower percentage plays, obviously, right. Can you hit on enough of those? Can you hit the home run to MacLaurin? Can you hit on something down the field to Deami Brown? But that's coming. Listen to these, just running through it. Listen to these point totals in 2021 to start the season to kind of to your point. 38 13 win 34 33 win 31 19 win 37 20 win 17 10 win over San Francisco. 37 14 win 31 five. You're going, Oh my God, this is a juggernaut. This year, this is a bleeping juggernaut. Then you know, it started to get inconsistent, then it started to fall off. And then it got bad. Yeah. So true. I also would point out and I'm not going to pretend like I called what's happening because the opposite problem is the case where I didn't expect any of this this early. But the one thing I did say is, and I think you agreed with me on this, you'll have to remind me. But we both had them like six, seven-ish wins, right? My point was always there's a better chance they win 10 games. And Daniels has that Griffin year than they went for because I think the running quarterback, the quarterback that runs is a ceiling lifter. It is a ceiling elevator. You see it with Caleb Williams, who doesn't really run that much or bow nicks whose athletic and does scramble, but it's hard as a rookie quarterback. The cheat code and the answer key is the ability to run. And for guys like Robert Griffin and Lamar Jackson or whoever else, they've all hit the ground sprinting literally and figuratively because they can run. And then the adjustments get made and what happens after that. Sometimes you continue to play at a high level. Sometimes you don't. But I always kind of felt like there was a possibility that at least in your one or early on, they did something crazy where no one could stop them because their quarterback just presents that many problems. That is different than assuming that would always be the case, which I didn't expect and still kind of don't honestly. But the fast start thing was always a possibility because we've seen it with a dual threat quarterback. In fact, it happens. I don't want to say more often than not, but when Heisman Trophy winning dual threats are picked second around here, we're two for two with with the offense taking the league by your familiar with the higher floor right away with them. Different situation in terms of the team that Redskins team was three and six. They weren't that good. Then they won seven in a row. This is a three in one team that is way, way, way better. Let's go to Kendall and Crofton. How are you? Hey, what's up, brothers? Hey, man. You guys made some great points. You can't refute any of that. The only thing I would say is different. I think you mentioned this grant is number one, he's operating as an OC versus AHC. I think that's a big difference. Then I think Jake, man, Jaden is different, bro. He is so accurate. He processes so fast. I've been watching the game over and over and I've seen all 22s and different people breaking down so forth. It's amazing what he's doing to these defenses right now. I am all in, but I do want to see what he does because Cleveland has a real defense. He had Arizona. They didn't know what they were doing. They did not know what to do. They were confused. We're going to see a real defense this weekend. If he can dime up and make plays and keep the sticks moving, man, Scott is the limit, man. Scott is the limit because this kid, he has everything. It's fun to dream on. There has not really been a flaw exposed yet. Right now this moment, come up with something that you would say, Jaden Daniels, can't do or that you're scared about long-term in his development. I would still bring up his size, which is one of my big concerns in terms of, yep, his, it's not as height. He's 6'3" in change. It's his slenderness and taking hits. First two games. Everyone forgets. He missed a play in a second game of his career because he took a big shot. First game, he got hit helmet to helmet, luckily the red hat didn't pull him off the field. But he could have easily missed time in both of his first two games based on hits he took. So that would be my answer. But if you separate that and it's just football related, where are your concerns? That's always been my list is the hits because of the frame and because of his propensity to take them. Right? You're going to be hit. I mean, think of the Cincinnati play, the one we're all heralding because it was awesome. The throw to term of corn with a 10% completion percentage. He got smacked right up under his chin, upper chest. That's inevitable. Just playing quarterback. You play quarterback in this league. You're going to have to have moments where you step into an oncoming freight train that's going to not go in your ass. That's always coming. Extra ones where you go being hit is bad. So we should try to avoid the hits as much as possible. I'm worried about it because he had a propensity to take him. That that's always been my concern. What happens if they look different and worse against the Browns? How will you be viewing everything? Let's say they win or they don't. Doesn't really matter the outcome. Even if they're four and one, but it looks very, very different in the offense. Looks like for a week it was solved by a smart defensive coordinator. When it comes to making plans, you are the best. What about those round trips, which are perfect on your way there and perfect on your way back? 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He said he'd been texting him throughout the week helping him to get ready. McNichols could have been better, man. He looked like Austin Eckler. So much burst. Quick as hell. A couple of big blocks and pass pro that are huge. It's kind of like, this is what it is, this is the past catching back. We'll also get to the bottom of Eckler's chances to play at home on Sunday against the Browns. So before we get back to the phones, the question we're posing to people is, let's say they have a game where they take a step back against Cleveland. We'll call it the cold water performance here, Danny. How do you think everyone will respond? We're starting to hear the P word playoffs and thinking about 10 wins. Will that still be happening? It'll be just viewed as a step backwards or will it be a opportunity where we all kind of just snap out of it a little bit and we go, that was an incredible week. Let's lock back in on recalibration, finding North rebuild and watch Jaden Daniels and care less about the result. Three pieces of pie here in your pie graph. I think one will be same old, where it's like, yeah, it's too good to be true. Of course, they aren't good and here comes the other shoe dropping and this will never work out and blah, blah, blah. I think there's going to be a portion that thinks that way. That's not where I am, to be honest with you, but I think a lot of people will feel that way. Portion number two is just kind of like you're saying, hey, that was a great run for a couple of weeks where they were awesome. This is probably more normal. Let's see what happens. And then three is kind of like somewhere in between where it's like, this is just one setback. They're still winning 10, 11, 12 games because they had that high ceiling. I think if they play well against Cleveland, regardless of result, I'm going to come in here feeling like they're going to win the vast majority of the rest of their games because the way I view football is, do you have a good offense? Do you have a good quarterback? If the answer to those questions is yes, then you're going to win half the time or more pretty much. That's how it works. You're going to go up against better offenses. You might lose those. You're going to go up against better quarterbacks. You might lose those. And occasionally you'll even lose a game you're not supposed to to a bad offense to a bad quarterback. But for the most part, you're going to be a 500-ish team. That's the floor I'm looking for. That's what I care about. So if they play okay and the offense hums again against the Browns, even in a loss, I'm still going to feel better on the other side. But I guess the one thing that would lead to me feeling like it was a wake-up call is if they come out flat, they look unprepared. It seems like they were buying into how good they were all week and the offense scuffles in the sense that like we see a lot of not alarming, but maybe regressions from Daniels in the passing game. Like guys aren't open. It's covered. They're making bad decisions, forcing the ball where it shouldn't be, not taking what's given to him. All the stuff he hasn't done at all. Then I'd rethink a little bit because it just stands to reason. Like we've seen no real struggles. It just seems like it's coming very easily to him. If something else happens on Sunday, it enters into the equation. But I don't really foresee that. Let's go to the phones though. B's and Haymarket B, how much is on the line for you in this Browns game as far as how you'll feel moving forward? Gentlemen, for me and my fandom, there are four steps. The first step of my team, which is the Redskins commanders, number one, don't embarrass yourself. We got that. Number two, be competitive. Seems like we got that. Number three, expect the win and number four, be shocked if you don't win. I don't think we're there yet, but I think we're getting close. For me, the better gift that you were talking about earlier, the better one would be Philip Seymour Hoffman in the first Twister movie when he said, it's coming, it's headed right for us. I think we got to wait just a second before we get the other half of that. It's already here. I love it. Well, so are you in expect to win mode in the third group or not yet? I want to be competitive as long as we're not making stupid, pre snap errors and we're competitive. I can wait for the progressives to go. Okay. But I guess what I'm wondering then for the way you're describing it, which I love these years. Yeah, I love these tears. So when do you get into expect to win mode? I expected to win against the Cardinals. I expect to win against the Browns. I don't know that I'm in that tear yet though, because I won't expect to win against the Ravens if that makes sense. Well, see, my frame of reference is because I'm old. My frame of reference is when we were really good in the 80s and the 90s. And when we lost against the Cowboys, I was shocked that we lost that game. But when we played everybody else, you know, we were ultra competitive. I expected to win almost every game. Got you. When you go against the reigning Super Bowl champion. So even when they're playing the Ravens or the Chiefs, you expect to win. I like that. Then I won't be there at any point this season, probably in fairness to those tears, which I really like never in my life. Have I been in? You've never seen it. I've never been in that last group. The I'm shocked. We lost. That doesn't exist. I don't even know what that is. For those of us that old enough to remember, I would be was talking about quantifies it perfectly. You all remember it. Like the if they'd lost a game, you went, Oh, well, that went next week. Because they would. And they did enough times where your faith was always rewarded when they would when they lost the NFC Championship game to the Giants, it was the 86 season. So beginning of 87, they lost this defensive struggle tug of war with the Giants for great. You go, we'll be back next year. Well, the Super Bowl next year, like they they validated every. Irrational fans believe that it'll be fine down the road because it would be when I get it because I've had it with the caps and the nats at varying points, you know, the capitals for the better part of a decade and change, I have had the expect to win. I would even say shocked when they lost, you know, against bad teams, most of the time, you just go in, you go to a home caps game during the peak rock, the red era, Presidents Cup time and they didn't win. You were stunned. So I've had that for sure. My officer, a different story in hockey, it's puck luck and it's bounces and I don't know that you expect anything really, but you always felt good about their chances to win. The national similarly in the regular season, when they went in every year as a 95 to 100 win team, when they would lose a series to a bad Mets team or the Marlins or something or, you know, the Diamondbacks when they were down or whatever, that was shocking. So I've definitely had it with my teams, but for the Wizards and the Redskins, commanders, football team, whatever they've been along the way, I've never experienced that. But I think that's a good way to view it. Right now, this moment, competitive is a good baseline. That's easy. You know, they're going to be competing, but this is two straight weeks where I've been confident they were going to win the football game going in. I haven't felt like that in a long time either. And that speaks to how dominant they were against the Bengals. That's right. Because the Bengals game, I didn't think they would win. Let's go to Gibben, Connecticut on G and D. What up guys, just start listening. And I'm 18 years old. And when the best season, we've had it seven and nine in the COVID year, it's impossible to think that we can be that bad when we are right now. Like we have a chance to be four in one for the first time and I think my whole life before you were born. Well, yeah, 2011 was the last time they were. So who's the first quarterback that you remember rooting for for Washington? I faintly remember the Griffin years. Oh my God. Which side of the first? Oh my God. I really remember. Yeah. Oh my God. Wow. So what year were you born? 2006. Oh my God. I was a senior in high school. Like good for you and stuff. But oh my God. So you live in Connecticut? Yeah. I went to the Tampa and Giant game. How many times have you called us before? That's my first time. Oh, first time. Bruce. Yeah. Oh my God. Bruce, who's the other guy that stunk? Jim Zorn. Did anything you'd like to say? Jim Zorn! Jim Zorn! Jim Zorn! Do you know who Jim Zorn is? Do you remember that? Coach, right? Yep. Yeah. But you don't remember it. You don't remember it. You don't remember it. No. I remember Shanahan and then, uh, G-Goo-Goo did it. That is amazing. Oh my God. I hate doing the bit where it's just like, wow, you're so young, but I just can't wrap my head around this. So don't forget about the Cleveland game. Yeah. He's like, can I get on top or please you idiots? You goons. One more question now. One more question. Did you just say, okay, boomer to me, Gibb? Yeah. I'm kidding. One more question. So you're in, you live in Connecticut? Yeah. And you always have? Yeah. Why do you like this team? Uh, so my grandpa was a Mexican fan, he made my dad be a fan and then my dad named Joe, uh, named Gibb. That's my following question. That is silly. Named after Joe Jackson. Okay. So, but it's got to have been brutal because you're like in, are you in Patriots country? Uh, giants really and I mean, they haven't been great, but it's still better than we have. Well, that's just cause they woke up in the morning and got out of bed to put their underpants and socks on now, but you're just going to school wearing your gear and people are wearing you out. Yep. It's been a rough, rough ride. All right. Well, anyway, so the Browns, we apologize. So my thing is we've been so bad. So I don't care if we went to breathe nothing. Uh, of course you want to win 35 to three, but if we went three nothing and we're four in one, we got to be a winning start turning to a winning organization. The Chiefs, they haven't had a blowout once this year, but they're still the best team in football because they find out how to win games and we have to turn it to that team. So we're four and one. I'm ecstatic. I think so. What's your cooking? I do actually. There, there's a good point. I mean, big picture for me, I'm less concerned about an individual winner loss for this year. Actually, if their goal is, hey, we think we're a Super Bowl caliber team, then you can live and die with a given play or points, but there is something to be said to his point about they're actually trying to learn how to do something that none of these guys have really done consistently since a lot of these vets have been here. The Chiefs, though, are in a completely different situation where they just got to get to the playoffs and then when they get to the playoffs, they'll do the or they're going to try to do the thing they've done the last couple of years with a bad offense, comparative to the years before that, where they flip the switch and old Travis Kelsey balls out for like the one month that he can give you a hundred percent and be in shape and do it. All the stuff he's got to do and Patrick Mahomes puts the team on his back and they try to go win a title, but it is a surviving advancing for them. Like they've already arrived. They're the veteran team that's trying to keep the window open at a, at a point where no one ever has ever been able to before for a third straight year. So it's just like every one point when they get your one step closer to back to the playoffs to continue the journey, whereas with Washington, to your point, the wins and the losses right now and the making the playoffs and year one with Quinn and this crew, less significant to me than just the foundational building. The Chiefs are several years past that, but I certainly get the point. He's saying, I don't need style points, dude. I've been waiting 18 years to win football games and now I got a chance to. So go kick a field goal and beat the Browns because now you've got a chance to actually be decent. Joe, what's up? You're on Grant and Danny. Joe from triangle? This is you. Yeah. I didn't. I don't know what triangle is. So I avoided it. Tim from squares. Steven circle. I did your job. So go for it. We're just south of Dumfries and just north of Quantico Marine Corps base. Got it. Anyway, I wanted to make a point, but I've been on hold for a while. So I actually had a minute to do some research that would actually help my point. So if you'll indulge me for one second, I want to go back to the Giants game. You guys had mentioned that we won because they didn't have a kicker. I was looking at the drives chart, okay? So they would have scored the two touchdowns and kick the point after to make it 14 12 instead of 12 12, right? Yes. Okay. Then we kick a field going to make it 15 14 and then they would have had their first fourth down in field goal territory, which would have been the fourth and three at the 31 down 15 14 with six minutes in the fourth quarter. So I assume they kick a field goal there to make it 17 50. Instead they got the first down and the touchdown. So then we kicked a field goal, which would have made it 18 17 and then they have the point is that you don't think they would have won with a kicker. Well, yeah, they would have 20 points. No, but you're playing the game out exactly as it played out, which is not my point. My point is the entire game would have been different. How you coach, how you call plays, everything Brian Dable would have done for four quarters would have been different. I understand that, but I'm just saying I'm just saying we would have automatically lost a bit. It's not automatic. Get to your other point. That's frankly going through the drive chart against the Giants ain't putting Trisket crackers in my stomach. No, no. Okay. But what it gets me to is with the Cleveland game is that I've kind of always have been of the impression that if you're a good team, you beat all the teams no matter how it happens, you find a way to win against all the teams are better than you. You wait at least 50% against the teams you're equal to, and you steal one or two from the teams that are better than you. And I think that if we beat the Browns, it definitely shows that we have at least reached the stage where we can pretty reliably beat the teams were better than. And that's way better than we've been for years and years and years. Totally. And then I wanted to ask you a piece of advice real quick, Grant, if you don't mind. Go for it. I am like, like you, I'm a gentleman as Chad Dukes used to say is a little long waist, long belt, former college football player myself. And I'm thinking maybe this Christmas, I might break down even though I don't want to. But if we do really well, I'm thinking the name is going to stick around. Something about breaking down and getting my first commander. I like you. I like you, Grant, and the Jersey hipster, you know, you get it. So being long of waste, I can't have a single digit or teams number or probably even an number with a one in it. But I might be able to go there for like 61 or 71 or something like that. So what's my best Jersey choice of the players we have right now in your thought process? My boys want me to go because they're dirty teenagers. They want me to go 69. Ah, the long snapper, the number, but well, they want it because of the number in their teenage boys. You know what I'm saying? Yes. So I'm looking for you guys advice on the good hipster, Jersey pick, you know, I love it. So my one question is that do you need it to be a lineman? Could it be a double digit number of a skill guy or would you prefer to represent the trenches? I mean, I don't really care. I was a linebacker personally, so, you know, you know, so I'd be fine with a linebacker number for a while. I wore 78. And I think Lucas has 78 now. I was a long snapper. So I like the long snappers, but again, in the mix, I appreciate the call. Danny, do you have a suggestion for him? I, so for me, I'm so cheap that I hate buying jerseys on a, on a, for a million reasons, but one, a lot of the contracts are short. I'm not going to buy a one year deal guy, right? He's probably not going to be here after a while. So if I'm buying one, thinking linebacker or something else, maybe Louisville is a good Jersey for him. Number four. Yeah. No, that's the problem. He's a, he said he's a portly fellow. Yep. You can't go single digit number. I think, I think, I think any numbers fine. No, that's the first role of being a fat guy. You cannot wear a single digit number. The answer, 76 Cosme, that is the answer. Sam Cosme just signed an extension. He will be here. He's the best lineman on the team. He is one of the leaders of the team and he's going to be a pro bowler either this year or next year, probably this year, the way things are trending offensively. So I think you go 76 Cosme. If you really want to deeper cut as a hipster, like if I was buying a jersey right now, I'll get a Ben Senate 82. I like the tight end purchase S I N N O T T that's Senate number 82 would probably be my purchase the rookie will take over for Hertz as they go to guy at the position in the passing game next year. Great question. No, good call. Grant and Danny on the fan. Double play is next. What's going on in our lives? Nothing to do with sports. No, it's not. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We're granting Danny on the fan. Remember Friday we will be broadcasting live from Atlas Brew Works in Alexandria. It's the new Atlas spot over on Mandeville Lane. Check us out. They have taps, 15 of them available to you. Dozens of TVs, great pizza and wings were there all day Friday broadcasting from two to six thirty going into a nice weekend in college football and a great weekend in the NFL. Time for our double play. What's going on in our lives? Nothing to do with sports driven you by your local Washington area. Honda dealer stopping for a great deal on the rugged and capable Honda pilot contact your local Washington area. Honda dealers today. Two things I want to do. One is super quick. The other little bit more serious. 41 seconds left in the Cleveland Browns, Las Vegas Raiders game to show lots and drops back to pass. Scrambles left, sacked by Charles Snowden, St. Albans school alumnus, you sleep, you sleep and you sleep. That is a St. Albans Bulldog making plays in the pros filling in for Max Crosby and winning a football game. No way. On Sunday. St. Albans Bulldog. The other thing I wanted to tell you is hit by a car on Sunday. My two sons and I, we were driving to my oldest soccer game, 8 30 in the morning and a kind of going around a gentle curve and a car was completely 100% out of control, outrageously fast on a 35 mile an hour speed limit road. Just slid all the way into our lane. Side swipes are back left. So the driver side rear part of the car. We fishtail for, you know, a second or two and, you know, I don't know if you guys have ever been an accident, but it happens. My first reaction is, okay, let's make sure nobody else is about to hit me, right? Because I didn't want to slam on the brakes and have a car that was following me and it's just no single file cars going between 30 and 37, you know, I didn't want to have a pile up caused by it. And then it's to make sure that both my kids are okay, right? So as I'm starting to slow down, realizing, Hey, you boys, okay, everyone's fine. The answer is yes, we start to pull over to the side of the road and I'm then going to, you know, I don't know, exchange information or figure out what the hell's going on with this guy that just left his lane and hit us at 8.40 in the morning, whatever, on a Sunday. And I glanced in the rear view mirror as I'm slowing down, he had spun off the road and was already reversing K turn style and then sped off in the opposite direction. No way. Oh, yeah. Long gone. So all right. I guess we'll just keep going to my oldest soccer game. Did you follow him? No, because we wouldn't have been possible. Just traffic wise. The cars are coming. People are kind of like, did you get a look at him? No, just it's a white sedan that'll have some damage on the left front. Be on the lookout. Wait, I have a white sedan. We don't. I don't think it was your car. I don't think. Okay. Unless you were in the greater South Lakes area at 8.30 in the morning on Sunday. Not as far as you know, where are you? Uh, anyway, this guy's a horse's ass and I hope he gets scratch rot and at the foot. Some guy listening right now that goes, Oh, no, that was Danny. Yeah. Well, maybe he says, Oh, yes, that was Danny. Maybe hates my guts. And that's why I did it. Um, but so they end up. How much damage to the car? Not a ton, but some to the point that it's still drivable. I'm, I realize I'm not going to be able to catch this guy or catch up with him, whatever. I'm not going to go on some high speed chase with my kids in the car, whatever, et cetera. So I get to the field, make sure my oldest is taken care of. He's, you know, warming up for his game now, I've got my youngest with me. I call the non emergency line and tell, uh, really nice officer of Fairfax County. Here's what happened. They dispatched somebody poor guy has to deal with my thing. It's like, he tells you this will never go anywhere. Yeah. You loser, um, you know, it was a white car. All right. Thanks. We'll get our investigation. How many wheels did it have for? Um, so the reason I did that, not to like whatever, a, like, Hey, if somebody, you know, this guy's driving recklessly, hopefully it doesn't happen to somebody else. If there's a crash up the road, you can add that to the, yeah, that's number one, but number two. So for the insurance report, I need to have like a police case number, file number or whatever. So in the middle of doing that and it sucks. And he has nice to saw all these people are that happen to be everyone's, everyone's doing what they're supposed to do. It's still, I just, I hate this part. Like, Oh, it's the pig. Getting hit. Stunk. Obviously it was scary. You know, my kids are fine. That, you know, everybody's everybody's okay. But it's like one of these like, you got to call this thing for this thing that once you get the estimate approved, you got to take pictures in this really weird app that doesn't work right. It converts the picture sideways and everything about it. It's just so dumb. And I got to go to rental car and drop it off at the service station tomorrow and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. If I say this too, if I could piggyback on your story, you'll remember that several months ago now, you could tell me it was five months ago or a year ago, I don't remember, but I was driving home from here and right out on 395 and traffic. So we weren't going that fast, but a car rammed into the back of me. Now I am the kind of guy I always say this. You want to get into a fender bender with me. You just do because I don't care about objects, you know, I'm not a, my, I don't care about having nice things. I don't wear watches. I don't collect things. If you're at my house and you break my light, you want to be at my house when you do the stupid thing because I'll be like, Oh, don't worry. You spilled wine on my carpet. It's fine. I just don't care about it. It's fine. You know that about. I do know that. So I was ready to be the nice guy anyway, assuming nothing crazy had happened. And as I get out, like after this guy rams into the back of me, probably 15, 20 miles an hour, whatever, I like to say there's like seven dudes in the car, like a little car, like lots of guys, they just haul ass away, they just back up and drive away. We don't get to have a conversation. I don't get to talk to them and see what's what that is a terrible feeling. I don't know how to describe it, but you now can that feeling of you've wronged me and oh, by the way, you have not allowed us to discuss it is just the hit and runs too strong. That's is obviously by definition. That's what it is. Yeah. But like it's not like a my car is total over. I probably would have just said, no worries, get back in your car. Who knows what you would have done. If there's any damage or whatever, maybe exchange insurance. But my point is, Danny, I think you understand, if you've been in the situation, there is just a violation, I was violated feeling of them taking off and you having no recourse now. Well, the it's it's goes to something that I felt in general. And I think you and I experienced this and a lot of people do where I go, okay, I'm here. I'd love to follow the rules. We've got a whole society, a whole fabric where you follow the rules and that's good. And when someone doesn't follow the rules, hey, isn't there something's going to happen to them? Oh, nothing. All right. Take care. Well, see you later. I guess I just found the report then, you know, like, that's the part that I just getting to it. Yeah, it's less violated. It's like, well, I'm the sucker now, you know, like I'm doing all this, all the stuff. I get nothing. What do I get? Inconvenience. You know what I mean? That's the part that sucks. We got tickets to the caps home opener. We will give those away as soon as we come back on Grant and Danny on the fan. When it comes to making plans, you are the best. What about those round trips which are perfect on your way there and perfect on your way back? Or those meetings with friends, surprise parties, camps, birthdays, the same way you plan for the important moments, start planning to protect you and your loved ones from a natural disaster. Sign up for local weather and emergency alerts, prepare an emergency kit and make a family communications plan. Get started at ready.gov/plan. 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