Grant and Danny
Commanders Stock Report
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Give me a stock report up, Darris. Brian Robinson, we knew we'd be able to run the football, right? Especially with someone like Jayden Daniels and the threat of him out of the backfield, but a career high pace for Brian Robinson, yards per carry, success percentage. Everything about the running game starts with him thumping most in between the tackles. Occasionally getting him outside with the head of steam on some pitch plays and misdirection, going off tackle here and there, but Brian Robinson don't look now, having himself a Pro Bowl caliber season. Arrow is going in the right direction. On my guy, Frankie Louvoo, who had his first quarterback hit, who had his first forced takeaway on a strip, and who had his first half sack all on Sunday in Arizona while the defense allowed just 14 points. He is flashed with big physical moments. He blew up Malik neighbors at the end of a play in the alone home game a couple of weeks back. But this was the best we've seen him. He's starting to put it together. I think he's starting to get more comfortable in the defense. I also believe they're using him a little more of the way that we were told they were going to. It was all over the place asked to do a ton of different things stock up on Frankie Louvoo. Brandon Coleman. Can you win the job? Certainly seems so. He's been sprinkling and played. I think it was like 20% in week one, a little bit more in week two. That numbers gone up and up and up each week. You don't notice it because he doesn't let people past him. He's been really, really impressive as he's working himself into shape. And ultimately it looks like he's going to take that job, but it seems to be one of those mid round home runs very, very early, obviously nobody's slamming the gavel just yet. But the idea that you wouldn't have to go out and spend a hundred million bucks in free agency or draft somebody the first round or trade back in and you could find your left tackle with the present and maybe the future in a glorified supplemental pick. It's pretty impressive Jeremy McNichols. You know what the good teams do when somebody misses a game, they don't miss a beat because the backup steps in and even though over many games, they wouldn't be able to give you the same amount as the guy they're replacing. They find a way for four quarters in a small sample to play really well. Like McNichols did eight carries for 68 yards, including a 27 yard touchdown. He actually scored two touchdowns in the game. He caught a pass for six yards. I thought he was very steady in pass protection. What else do you want from a 28 year old journeyman who'd been on and off of 12 roster in his career? Jeremy McNichols makes you feel okay if Austin Eckler isn't going to play this weekend against Cleveland. Although he told us on this show in our weekly interview with him yesterday that he expects to play against the Browns. So remember before the season, GP, we're trying to figure out who's going to have the second most catches the receivers behind Tara McClaurin. And my answer was a lot of it is a kiss and through three, four weeks now, that's been the case. But we'd buy a six catch game here this past week, but this is what I thought we were getting. Everything that's intermediate, everything that's, you know, maybe even a little bit down the field. You think McClaurin, now you think Noah Brown around the line of scrimmage, what Jameson Crowder was doing a few years ago when he was in his prime. That's what Zacchaeus is going to do, catching screens, catching, you know, sort of shallow crossers. Maybe if you find a man look or something like that, wiggling in between, he was going to catch some short footballs to maybe basically be an extension of the running game. That's what happened this past week. I don't know if it's going to be like that every week. Just depends on the look and the vibe and, you know, what the offense needs, but a big game for Zacchaeus this past Sunday. Deami Brown, follow me for a second. He is going to catch more passes than he's ever caught before and he's going to put up more yards probably than he ever has at this pace because he's catching a ball or two every week. He had two for 17 against the Giants, two for 16, and they were big on a drive to go get points to get a two possession lead against the Bengals in the second half. He had the one catch for four yards on a little curl route against the Arizona Cardinals. So so far, five grabs, 37 yards for him on seven targets through four games, but you just mentioned it. We have had a Noah Brown sighting. We have had a Terry McClaurin game. We have seen Luke McCaffrey make some huge plays for this team, including a 40 yard catch and run on a fourth in a couple. We've now had an Alameda is the keyest game. We've not really had the noticeable big moment from Deami Brown. The addition of another Brown and Noah Brown, I think has hurt him some as well. So overall, I just think his standing within the receiver room, his status on the offense is trending probably in the wrong direction. I think he served a nice purpose. He has responded when called upon. That's all good. He's just not going to be called upon as much as he probably would like until something changes right now. It's McClorin Brown and McCaffrey squarely ahead of him and Zacchaeus, not Brown was the guy they mixed in in the screen game. Jim and Davis and I feel like I'm kind of picking on the guy here a little bit, but let me pick on the guy a little bit. Remember when it was a thing when we were all a flutter and all the buzz at this conversion to defensive end and there was a tackle for loss early on and he showed well, well, inactive in week number two and not really part of the plan. It sounds like, or it seemed like here over the past couple of weeks didn't play a very high percentage of snaps. Not much noticeable impact basically reduced to being a special teamer here of late instead of that rotational defensive end piece for a group to frankly wasn't, didn't have a dominant player in front of him. It's not as if, you know, he's sitting behind two former first round picks who told us they were going to break the sack record. Am I right? That happened. He hadn't had that many opportunities because he seems to have not overtaken those folks. So damn it, Davis, unfortunately, stock down Dante Fowler has been pretty quiet so far. Now he has not played a ton to his credit. I think it's 118 combined snaps through four games or so with a couple starts, but that's roughly 50% of the defensive plays and on plenty of passing downs. He has one half of a sack. He split it on what was a bit of a coverage sack of Joe Burrow with Dorrence Armstrong. I was kind of hoping it was going to be a breakout big year for him where they used him in a way where he got back to his old ways. Remember, this was a guy in Jacksonville way back when who was drafted in the top five in the NFL draft. In fact, he had seasons at different points when it looked like he was about to become a standout pass rusher, 11 and a half sacks for the Rams. It's been a little bit more quiet than I would have thought. Isn't doing anything wrong per se, but I'm looking for more pass rush. They've got a sack from Jevontae Jean Baptiste. They've now got a sack and a half this past week from Dorrence Armstrong, both Allen and Payne contributed sacks, Farrell on some cleanup work from nice plays by Payne had sacks in weeks one and two of the season didn't play here recently in week four. Fowler's kind of been the missing link in terms of getting home. I'm looking for more out of him. Andrew Wiley, remember, this is one of the most maligned players in recent Washington memory. I think what happens is when when we're getting to know you and your first impression that you leave us is bad, then that's kind of what people think of you, especially something that's pretty visible, right? When I write tackle is a statue and someone rolls right around him for a sack and drill Sam Hall or whatever, people didn't think very much of Andrew Wiley. It was hard. It was hard to convince folks reading some of the numbers and having smart people analyze this thing. Hey, this guy's playing better as the season progresses. Nobody really cared. It wasn't much fun. And that was an area where myself included saying, hey, they need to do better here. If they have the opportunity, you don't really because of his salary cap hit and the way the contract was, it wouldn't incentivize you to get out of it. But I think they need to upgrade that spot. They need to find maybe a player on winning their version of what they did with Brandon Coleman over on the right side. That's what I would have done there. But Andrew Wiley's played pretty darn well as this offensive line has so good for him. Nick Allegretti, the left guard who started all four games, he recovered a fumble at one point. One of the reasons why they have not turned the ball over with the fumble this season. The recovered fumble against the Bengals save their bacon, probably saved the game. That's not why I'm going stock up stock up because he's a part of an offensive line that's been excellent. Stock up because I think he's played at a high level stock up because he was mostly a backup in Kansas city that they bet big on and have been absolutely right about stock up because he's a part of the number one run blocking unit in the league. And if you want to add together and divide ESPN and PFF thoughts on the past blocking, the number six past blocking unit in the league is 28. They said he'll be a starter. And so far they've been right. Allegretti's played very well. Cliff Kingsbury, take that nerds. Take that people that study this sort of stuff for a living and had a lot to say about Cliff Kingsbury in the preseason. You end up being right. I have no idea. I know this through four weeks. That offense where there's not that much motion, that offense with Terrim McClellan only lines up on the left, that offense that looked like it was going to be running in quicksand is kicking everybody's butt. They look really, really, really good through the first month of the season with a rookie quarterback getting up to speed. Hey NFL fans, you can start the season with a big return on Fandal, 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, review 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 Fandal.com/sportsfan. Never waste a hunch and make every moment more with Fandal, an official sports book partner of the NFL. 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. Sportsbook.fandool.com, gambling problem, call 1-800-522-4700.