Grant and Danny
The Commanders Are Cool Again
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The graphic we talked about at the top of the show today that caught my attention was one of those prediction pages on one of your favorite football sites where each person that writes for that site picks the game, and there were 10 of them at NFL Network picking commanders, Browns, and Danny, nine of them picked Washington. I'm not used to this. I'm not used to it. Now, in general, I mean, it's been so bad here that whenever somebody does finally, like, give you respect, you're almost like, no, shut up, dude. Quiet down, not yet, because every time we get expectations up, the rug gets pulled and it's worse than before. Like, that's what's really devastating. Bain taught us that in the Dark Knight Rises is what you can't have true despair without hope. That's why it keeps that open air part of the prison. So you think you can, if you just muster enough, you can reach that ledge like the child at that time. That's what's truly devastating is making you think it's going to be different and then it's not. So a lot of times we're like, dude, please just pipe down with that, pick us to lose like always and let us have the chip on our shoulder. Leave us be at the end of this segment. And at the end of the show, we're going to give away tickets to Deaf Tones. Their North American tour is coming to DC. You can win those tickets right here on the fan. Grant and Danny today and every day sponsored by our friends, the law firm. Condori and Murad, they're going to help you update your last will and testament for them to help you set up a trust. They'll do that as well. Get you and your family squared away with important paperwork. Schedule a consultation. Tell them we sent you. They're going to get a nice discount, kmloyers.com. That's kmloyers.com with Condori and Murad. In fact, those guys are just awesome. I sent somebody had sent me over their way and they just sent me back a version that they had drawn up for me. Just really, really good dudes. Mm hmm. Can't say anything about our relationship with generous kind dudes, man. And without them taking us to Cincinnati, the commanders would not have gotten on this role. Jaden Daniels would not have taken flight like an airplane. This offense would not be the wagon that it has become. It was all because we got Danny Ruier back in an NFL stadium to watch the locals take on the bangles on the road. No way I would have eaten two waffles with a piece of grilled bologna in between. If I wasn't on that trip. What was the name of that food? I don't know. It was it, dude, it was the most German thing in the world. Was it actually two true waffles with cheese? There was a little tiny bit of cheese. So it, you know, it's a sandwich with waffles with the bread. The McGriddle, how like it's the bread itself is that it's sweet. It's kind of like a hot cake, but you're not really sure what it is. Yeah. It's like that. So the waffles themselves were sweet. There was like a sweetness inside them. I don't think they baked the syrup in or how they did it or whatever. And then you get that salty bologna. That was, I mean, it was like bologna. It was like a steak of bologna with a little bit of cheese on there. I've got a food take that Danny Ria is not going to love. Okay. Normally we see eye to eye on all things food, you and I. All things? Most things, some things. A lot of things. A couple things. I'm not a McGriddle guy. I'm not either. I find them really. I'm not either. I find the McGriddle to be both overrated and uninteresting. I don't know why there's something about the taste, because I love that maple taste generally. I like syrup. I'm a bacon mark. All things breakfast food. There's something about the McGriddle. It's just not for me. I'm going to go biscuit every time. I'm going to go. I'll go McMuffin. Yeah. That's fine. Even the egg McMuffin is perfect. But yeah, the McGriddle. I don't love the taste. I try to pride myself on having as few inflammatory food takes as possible. So it's not too. So it's really to stand out from my co-host and friend, Gran Harrison Paul. Well, I'm the same way. I do not like inflammatory food takes. That's why I keep my food takes very, very correct. I'm a separator. And what that means is if you've got to play to breakfast, you've got your hotcakes. You've got your sausage. You've got your eggs. You've got your different things. My syrup cannot touch my eggs. My syrup cannot touch my sausage. Terrible take. Now, I know this is inflammatory. I know that I'm weird. I need them to be separate bites so that the palate isn't poisoned. The McGriddle is confused. Are you sweet? Are you savory? I need you to make up your mind. When I get that sausage biscuit with egg and cheese, I know exactly what it is. When I get hotcakes, I know exactly what it is. What are you? What are you even? I can't do it, and I won't do it. I will always go to the McMuffin. I will always go to the sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit. I like you, but you're crazy. You're crazy. I like you, but you're crazy. Darn your neck. You got a dart in your neck, you dumb. Danny, that's a bad take. Look at me. Look at me in the eyes. I can't. Look at me in the eyes. Listen, there are a couple things I'm ashamed of. You don't put syrup all over your breakfast plate? No, only on the sweet parts. Disgusting. Correct. Terrible. So here's what you do. You get yourself some scrambled eggs. You just Vince Vaughn it. Good. Put a little top me off a little syrup on this whole thing. 1000%. Scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage. I would do white toast, probably. Because what I do is I'll always make a sandwich. Make a little sandwich. I'm going to put the egg, the bacon. Maybe a home fry, maybe not. We'll see. But definitely. Get your little chalule on top of there. But other than the toast, which goes on a side plate, hash brown, everything else, the syrup goes across the entire plate. Oh, no. MC Hammer said it very best. Some type of squiggly pattern. Can't touch this. So I pushed down the little lever. Like think, let's think I hop maybe. Let's think about the little picture. Little mini picture. And then you just kind of go back and forth, squiggling the whole plate. The idea that you're you don't have syrup on your eggs. Never hot sauce. Cheese, salty things, hash browns, sausages, bacon bits, all mixes. That goes unreal. The sweet doesn't go. This is this is my most. I've hidden this from people, by the way, for how many years? You're going to get killed. I know. I understand it. Terrible. But here's the difference between you and I. You, when you've got one of these, like John Snow, standing in front of the entire army, you're like, I'm right. And then you'll find one person on Twitter that agrees and you're like, yeah, see, I acknowledge that mine's weird. I think I've acknowledged when I've had some weird takes. You never acknowledge it. Give me one. Give me one of my takes. Pie. I think I'm correct about pie. See, the point I'm trying to make here. Pie is not good. Right. You didn't go to the cheesecake factory for years because? I thought they made cheesecake. Again, it's pretty easy. I'm correct about cheesecake. It's pretty easy to go. Your Honor, I rest my case. I'll have a seat in this chair. Anyway, I acknowledge on. I acknowledge that I was wrong about cornbread. We've talked about that. We have, yep. I acknowledge that I was correct. That was a bad take. That's a big, but that's big for you. I will say. Thank you. I acknowledge that my dry cereal proclivity is flawed. It's not the right way to do it. It's a me problem. Oh, I'll give you that. That's that's huge. That's a big moment in history of the show. That's the rap more. I think milk on cereal is disgusting. I think eating any kind of cereal in milk is gag-worthy and everyone who does it should be jailed. Gag-worthy and jailed. Grant, however, I acknowledge I'm the weird one here and that I just hate milk as a standalone item. Not going to do it. I've never dipped a cookie in a milk. I would never want a glass of milk. Milk is for Santa on December 24th. That's what milk's for. Not for me. Santa's got a pretty good palate. Milk is for Cal Ripken Jr. As he's keeps it alive. That's about it. Real quick, just to put a bow on our McDonald's conversation, I haven't had an egg with muffin in years. Now, that's not to say I haven't had a McDonald's. It's in years. Look at me. I always get the bacon, egg, and cheese or a sausage, egg, and cheese. It picks it. I love a McDonald's fix it. Right now. Hopefully not in this situation. But gun to your head. Sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit. Or bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit. You have to give up one and save the other. I'm saving sausage. You're saving sausage and you're going to shoot bacon? Yeah, bacon dies. Now, I like bacon better than sausage as just as an entity, like in life. So for my life, I'm giving up one or the other. Then sausage dies, pull the trigger, bacon lifts. Look for the McDonald's biscuit breakfast. McDonald's biscuit on an egg and cheese biscuit. There's not the bacon. It's just not substantial. It's a small little strip of bacon. Real ones know, by the way. There are some portly fellas and cars nodding heads right now. Real ones know the amount of bacon is not enough. So it's two slices across, but it's thin. It's small. It's not thick in any way. No, I'm not going to tell you that substantial is as the sausage. It's more substantial. I mean, it's just, it's not there. It might as well not be there. You feel like you're tasting, you're eating an egg sandwich in a lot of ways with like, is there a little bacon on this? The sausage is a game changer. And now this is this presence with authority. The sausage is the star. The egg is also there. See what I'm saying? I do. So yeah, I'm going to bacon goes. I'm sorry. Just like that. Mary sausage, kill bacon, quarter pounder, the other one, I think. I think that's where we're at. Yeah. If we can do that. I think that's fair. Let's go to the phones. 800-636-1067. Let's go to Dave, who's in La Playa. Hello, Dave. How are you? Hey guys, thanks for taking my call. Hey buddy. Long time listener. Long time season ticket holder. First time caller. Hit that door. Hit that door. Hit that door. Today's the day, Dave. What brought you out of the woodwork today? You know what? Just listening to the question and obviously the hype around my God, Jayden Daniels, too much hype. Not at all. And why definitively? As long as Jayden Daniels is not one of you guys, millions of listeners, and as long as Jayden Daniels is not listening to the media hype of the national media, we are fine boys. We are just fine. And by all accounts, Jayden Daniels, first in, last out, hardest worker, keeping his nose down grinding. You listen to the press conferences. He's talking, hey, I just want to get better. Last game against the Cardinals. The only thing he's thinking about is that one pick. So, you know, you talk about your previous caller and regression. Even if he regresses, you know what? Quoting Danny, it's still going to be pretty damn good. So I'm riding the hype train. I'm pushing the train. I'm on the train. I'm ready to go. I can't wait to get out there Sunday. Let's go, baby. Let's go. Love it. Dave and LaPlata. I like where you're at, my guy. Thank you. Hey, NFL fans, you can start the season with a big return on FanDool. America's number one sports book. So when you get a hunch in the middle of the game, you can check out the latest stats, view live play-by-play, and so much more on the same page where you place your bets. You'll get started with $200 in bonus bets guaranteed when you place your first $5 bet. That's fandool.com/sportsfan. Never waste a hunch and make every moment more with FanDool, an official sports book partner of the NFL. It must be 21 plus and present in Colorado. First online real money weights are only $10 first deposit required. Bonus issued is now a throwable bonus bets that expire seven days after receipt. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanDool.com. Gambling problem, call 1-800-522-4700. And I think you're going to be happy to find out everything I know about. Jayden Daniels, all the people I've talked to that know him a lot better than I do, he is not a guy who's out there reading social media, reading his press clipings, who cares what Shannon Sharp's saying or anybody else, which is awesome. And I agree, my point is not a concern that this is going to go to Jayden Daniels. Hey, that's not what I'm saying. It's more of just a referendum on media at this point, that we can't just have anything for one hour without declaring that it is going to be something forever. Right, we have to quantify everything we see, not just say, "Hey, this is good." But imagine we're talking about art. The newest painting we had to decide if it was the best painting of all time. Like, this artist has never painted this many paintings, but this painting right here is better than Van Gogh's flowers, it's better than the Mona Lisa, it's better than anything you can possibly come up with. Okay, well, let's look at it for five minutes before we decide. Darrus goes out on a date tomorrow, okay? We say, "Darrus, how did they go?" He's like, "It went really good." You liked her? He's like, "Grats on your marriage." Great, yeah, great night. We had a good conversation. She's attracted to her? Dude, she is very pretty, like, wheelhouse for me. She's from New York. She likes everything I like, right? She's from New York, big time fan of four. Exports fan. Exactly. Covers, football, like whatever it is. Yeah. I'm all in. Okay. Way to go, dad, we love you, dad. Pull it up. You're dead. But the point of the dude's story is... Oh, when's the wedding? No, no, can we just live in the moment for a second? Or maybe go on another date? Can we learn her last name? Maybe we could figure out what she does for work. It's the second date. The second date is not when someone's supposed to record you and ruin your life and put it on a... Oh, wait, I'm sorry. That happens. Excuse me. That happened to someone. Tell me, sorry about that. But it's the second date for God's sake. Can't we just go to dinner, eat some buffalo wings, talk about life, Reggie's in DC. Hello, Reggie. Hello, fellas. What's going on, man? Love the show. See, this is what bothers me, man. We're like a beaten and abused fan. See, we had superstars in DC before. See, we got Obie. Nobody cares about hockey. We have one, so... Hey, watch yourself, Reggie. We love hockey, honest. I love hockey. No, no, no, no. I'm saying it's a nice... No, we got you, buddy. Yeah, it's nice to meet you. See, we're not used to having a sexy pin. In DC. I've been listening to Sports Talk Radio, you know, like, when it really became kind of popular, for like, probably like 25 years, a little bit longer. When is the last time outside of fulllessness that those skins, Washington football team commanders have been like a national story in a positive way? We have it, right? The early 90s. That's it. I would say Griffin when he's on the Tonight Show, and they're on the run. No, no, no, no, no, because Griffin never looked like this. See, what happens to think about the getting you guys there. Especially you, Greg. Like, you've been around this thing. When is the last time we had four games of, like, a league quarterback play? Well, so I would take issue with... I don't think there's been a league quarterback play for four games. I wouldn't put Tampa Bay in that category, and I'd give you half the Giants. But your larger point is correct. I want you to keep cooking because you're right. Okay, so throw a mug at three and one. I felt like this in my life. So now we've been chosen one. Now the prom queen wants to date up, and everybody's saying, "Okay, wait a minute, hold on. Let me reconsider. 'Cause I don't know if I got a good outfit to wear." Now, hold on, wait a minute. I don't know if Daddy's gonna-- Some say a little bit about it. Hold on, hold on. I don't know if I got a good haircut in Cologne. No, man. You ride this thing until the wheels fall off. And guess what? Who is this fan who's gonna fall off? No, no, no. I did it. He's gonna have a game. But who is the... Okay, hold on. Let me tell you this real quick. If he had a game like Bo Nick vid against the Jets, where he had seven completions and minus seven yards, if he'd look like Caleb Williams, who was like, who looks really confused, we would be killing him. And y'all know it. Oh, sure. I'm saying how at the one game. So you're telling me now, we got three... Okay, I'll give you the tab of that. You're right. But I'll give you two and a half. So we got two. When is the last time we went back to back on a road and beat a Cincinnati team that was desperate, that we met an elite quarterback, point for point. And then we went on the road and blew out a team that everybody said, you know what? The Cardinals are pretty good. They got some weapons on the outside. No, guys, we gotta enjoy this, because the prom queen, she chose us. So now you know what? Let's get our good shape up. Let's get our clothes on. And let's go enjoy our day. Yeah. Take the battle, maybe. Three... Like, I'm thinking middle school. Three, maybe four sprays of Drakarn War, and jump through it, right? Like, let's go. Me and Reggie were sitting on the bench. And the hot prom queen came up to us. And she said, are you grand? And I looked at Reggie. And I was like, you made her come over here, didn't you? And I'm like, yeah? Miss Davis, you want to go prom with me? Let's go prom me. I... His cold was perfect. The only issue I would take with it, Mr. Ruhe. Okay. Is... I'm not telling fans not to be excited. Like, he's responding to as if my point was, hey, guys. Commanders fans. Buy in their jerseys, buy in their tickets. Don't be excited. No, no, no, no. Write it out, as he said. Enjoy this thing. It's the beginning of what could hopefully be a 15-year hall of fame career. Lock in and go have fun. I bought my son a number five jersey two weeks ago. I get it. Again, my referendum is really on the coverage. That's all where I'm saying it's too much too soon. The media who should be a little better and know a little better than after two and a half quarters of great football, suggesting that the guy's the best in the conference, he's the best in the conference. That's the take on ESPN. You could pay millions of dollars to say that. These shows stink. I mean, they're just terrible. Some of these shouty shows. They're just trying to throw a chum in the water. Michelle's in Calvertan on the fan. Hello, Michelle. Hello, thank you for taking my call. I'm also a season ticket holder for a number of years. And what I see though, I'm seeing this person, this quarterback is special in all aspects. The intelligence, the processing time, the mental acuity, the physical talents. The running is just one thing. And I think some of these people, including Ryan Clark, I think they do see that that kind of combination with leadership and the ability. You just love where he comes from, his parents and us, stands there and just almost the perfect recipe for somebody who's going to succeed. Yeah, built in my lab, I'm a lab director, so I could see all these things cooking up. But I'm a big believer. Yeah, why wouldn't you be right now? The reason I would buy all the stock at this moment, more so than I was buying two weeks ago or a month ago or four months ago, is all of the stuff we have learned about him since he got here. We don't have the ability to meet with him, to sit down with him, to look across the table at him. Like all of the stuff, she's referencing, right? Which matters, every bit as much as the physical stuff which you saw at LSU seems to be off the charts. And that's why I would buy the hype and I would say, there's a really good chance he ends up being a superstar. Yeah, there's no 10 out of 10, 100% guarantee or anything, right? But if you go here are the attributes that give you a best chance, a lot of boxes are checked by Jayden Daniels. Personality wise, poise wise, you mentioned all the physical attributes, which are obvious and ooze off the page. But man, that's the reason why you go, this is as likely as it is, I will cast my lot here. Whereas if I've got like 100 chips of my emotional investment, I haven't told that many chips over the last several seasons. I didn't give any to Ryan Fitzpatrick or Carson Wentz. I gave maybe one or two to Sam Howell because I like the premise. But I'm putting a lot of chips on Jayden Daniels because that's your best shot. I'd also remind people and I hate even saying this because it's such night and day and it sounds like it's a comparison. And I hope people don't think that because Sam Howell is like a backup probably in the NFL and I think Jayden Daniels is going to be a star based on what we've seen. But remember the conversation about Sam Howell a month in the last year? Yeah. He had a couple 300 yard games. He was balling out. Or whenever it was right before that bills game where they it was that week three. It was Denver that comeback. No, no, I know that was week two. But the bills game was the four interception home game. I want to say that was week three. After two weeks, people thought they had found their franchise quarterback. Yeah, so they come back against Denver. They played the bills at home and lost 37 to three. And I was just sitting here after two weeks last year going. Isn't this a little soon guys? Like is this making any sense? Oh, I really found our quarterback. I'm kind of the same deal. Now, Daniels good. Somehow not good or not as good. I'm not comparing the two, but like we've tried to do this before. And all I'm saying is there's not a race to do this. Jay Knox in Hill. What's good? What's going on, man? I just wanted to kind of hit on that same thing. You was going to say as far as enough of this though, a lot of fans forget the feeling that we had after seeing Sam Howell throw for 300 yards of the eagle a couple of times. And having big games where though even John Allen came out after a post game and talked about how. Oh, I think we got a quarterback. And you know what I'm saying? So I believe that it's not premature because what we're saying is great. It's great. But some of the things that gave me pause when they came out. There's some of the things that we have to wait to see if it'll happen. Like his safety and him his eyes out there. So I would just say that like you said, I would think that the national media would come to terms and say, OK, let's see this guy make it through a 416. Let's see this guy. You know what I'm saying? Because we just went through it last year. And I don't think EB helped Sam Howell at all. Whereas though, you know, the coaching has been great with Jay then with from Clint. So I just want to say that in my last year, we had the same scenario after a few games. That's what we do a lot of guys. I was one of the guys who, you know, just from his arm, talent alone thought that he was, you know what I'm saying with special. But, um, yeah, nobody's called anything other than he's been awesome. And all signs point to him being a star. It's just we don't. It's October 2nd. We don't have to slam the gavel to take your phrase from earlier in the show just yet. Let's give away Deftone's tickets. Call number 10 at 800-636-1067. You're winning two tickets, North American tour, Sunday, April 6th, Capital One arena, tickets are on sale now for tickets and more event information. Go to the FandyC.com/events. Tomorrow I want to talk about the fact that if the commanders rip off a big time season and win a division here, it is going to get harder to change the name. That is something that we should at least keep on the back burner as something to be thinking about. Not that anyone shouldn't be rooting for that because please win football game. It'd be a good problem if we'd have. I'll complain about it later. Please achieve. So that's something I want to talk about. I also want to get into the NFL calling a couple terrible penalties on double gun celebration and an arrow being shot. A fake arrow. Not a real arrow. Well, just think about the children. Give me a break with that. We'll do that tomorrow and we'll get you ready for Thursday night football. Lynell's got Lyn over time coming up next. Thank you for coming. Hey NFL fans, you can start the season with a big return on FanDul, America's number one sports book. So when you get a hunch in the middle of the game, you can check out the latest stats, view live play-by-play, and so much more on the same page where you place your bets. You'll get started with $200 in bonus bets guaranteed when you place your first $5 bet. That's fandul.com/sportsfan. 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