Grant and Danny
What Has Been The Biggest Pleasant Surprise For The Commanders?
question for you is what is impressed you most what's been the biggest surprise it didn't see coming about this commander start through four games 800 6 3 6 1 0 6 7 I'm going with the O line specifically they are ranked fourth by PFF as far as past blocking they are ranked eight via ESPN and past block win rate they are ranked top five based on their performance this past week against the Cardinals for the second time in three weeks in terms of keeping pressure away from Jaden Daniels and they are currently ESPN's number one offensive line in terms of win rate when running the football up front they are mauling people there were a lot of questions about this group left tackle was unsettled the right tackle was unpopular the left guard was someone who hadn't been paid or really asked to be a full-time starter and it seems like Adam Peters and his staff and the offensive line coach as well Bobby Johnson have done a banner job they have far exceeded expectations I think they're a big key to what's going on smart boy bringing up Johnson too because that was the only hire that I would say was mildly maligned or met with a temporary action yeah I think it's a good poll by you well done tip of the cap I mean to me it's a piggybacking off of that the fact that the offense is this good and it's not this you know throw it 50 times big 12 2017 Baker Mayfield situation you know what I mean like the fact that it is a ground and pound 36 37 minutes time in possession run the ball so wildly effectively and still score 40 a game that's incredible and that's hard to sustain that that's been surprising let's go to the phones will welcome Tyler on who's in Fredericksburg on Grant and Danny what has stood out to you about these first four games hey buddy gosh I have to say just the off-season acquisitions have been really a big eye opener to me and that's Adam Peters in full effect now and it's very first season with us and the only thing I would definitely like to see more it would be being Ben Senate McCaffrey and Brandon Coleman more in the mix but I would say the biggest biggest pleasant surprise is Cliff Kingsbury him coming in I mean I was racking my brain trying to figure out what could he offer because he's been he's been a notion the league over the couple years I mean after that stint he had with the with the Cardinals but I mean but but my gosh I mean he's I mean he's floored I mean everyone in this league and a lot of those fans I mean we're we're floored having him that been our friends coordinator but all right guys thank you thanks buddy it's a great answer on clicking right I was kind of thinking between the lines and hadn't even thought about him but he might be a better answer than the O line for Kingsbury to get off to this start with a young quarterback and a group of players that's being thrown together over the last several weeks in an era where there's not a lot of time on the grass for camp for the preseason they barely played in the preseason it's pretty staggering and we've seen him we talked about it yesterday start fast with offenses in the past they've had these unbelievable September's really good October's they've been one of the juggernauts in the league through the midway point and then they fall off and so we'll have to see if this time is different we can wait and see but just right now this moment there's no way that anybody could tell me when they hired Kingsbury and paired him with Daniels which in hindsight looks brilliant the way they sold it was he just worked with the college quarterback ran a college offense slash pro offense that worked both with Arizona some that he ran at Texas Tech that he was a part of the USC operation last year he's gonna mold it all together with a running quarterback like he did with Kyler Murray why wouldn't this make sense and I'm going I mean that's one way to sell it well it's all working it's coming together exactly how they envisioned it also envisioned that there was an answer to the question in other words if Dan Quinn and company are going pro football reference calm game log Arizona Cardinals hey Cliff you see these big numbers for the first nine 10 weeks why do those numbers get a lot smaller those last parts of the season you'd think with the sabbatical with this time and the Washington Post did a good article about how we took a trip to Thailand and kind of you know we found himself with some self scouting some self study taking that year working in college you might have some answers to those questions you or at least have some some theories this is why we fell off or this is what I did wrong or this is what I could have done better here's how we'll attack it right meaning you hopefully have something in store for that to counter that what has been an inevitable drop off specific to the additions for Peter is that have worked out that he mentioned at the beginning of the call Echler's been really good Earth's has been very solid on the offensive line we've talked a lot about Biotis Allegretti already those guys have been legit and I think that I would add we're talking rookies as far as off season acquisitions as well Brandon Coleman into that conversation at receiver Luke McCaffrey is ahead of schedule I would say as a 100th overall pick who was down the depth chart at the start of camp bringing in Noah Brown when they did they've gotten a ton out of him it's funny to say this but where would they be without having claimed him I mean he's been huge and I would even throw a lot of days of Kia so just had a monster game into the equation as well so all of those guys now on offense have been returns that I would say are positive defensively it hasn't gone nearly as well but this past week changes the trend a little bit Lou Voo coming off his best game Armstrong Jeremy Chin played well I thought Jeremy Chin was really good cool and Ferrell's got a couple of sacks this season didn't play this past week