Grant and Danny
Are We Expecting A Win Against The Browns?, Outrageous Penalties In The NFL
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Big bold prediction talking tough on Thursday. I'm going to eat some pizza tomorrow pizza. My prediction is that the commander's offense comes back to the pack a little bit and that's just more a natural regression and that it's impossible to sustain what they've done than it is really about the Browns. I think Miles Garrett probably gets a sack. I could see a sack and a half for him, but I don't think Cleveland is good enough defensively to really scare me. I think they're fine and they're not a good team. When you look at what the Browns have done this season, they've scored 17, 18, 15 and 16 points. Danny, the commanders are going to beat the Browns. They haven't taken advantage of bad defenses to the degree that you'd go. Okay. Washington might be slowed a little bit, which is normal, right against just natural regression and against the defense that we find in some common ground is at least pretty good, if not good, right? So you're going to sit on a little bit. You go, okay, even though their offense hasn't been great. They're playing Washington's defense, which to this point, Arizona, that was standing has been pretty poor. So you could say Cleveland might be dangerous here. I'm with you. This offense is wretched. Despite the fact that I like Jerry Judy, Nick Jubb probably is coming back. Amari Cooper is a great route runner and a pretty good player, but they've not been good on that side of the ball despite playing a couple of teams that are pretty terrible on their own, right? This feels, dare I say, like a win to me. It's NFL, crazy stuff happens, huge, you know, overdogs, lose and underdogs look great and, you know, the whole nine, but every time I do a thing where I go, okay, this plus this is this win. Well, what if they do it this way, win? This feels like a win to me, which is terrifying. I'm probably supposed to apologize after saying that, but that's how I feel. We're at a point though, where, and it has happened very quickly. We are now expecting them to handle prosperity. We are now while they're favored with everybody picking them saying, yeah, they are going to win and not expecting that they're going to come up small, that they're going to play down to the level of their competition. That in and of itself is new territory. Yep. And if you're listening right now, it should bring a smile to your face. This is all kind of uncharted water. Certainly over our time doing a show together in the early part of a season, not only have they never been three and one, think about that, since Danny and I started a show together back in 2014, a decade, it's never happened not once. But to be three and one and to feel like it's not just that you took advantage of schedule, that a couple of stars align and you beat some bad teams. Now, this would be a really legitimate authentic four and one start to their season. I think they're going to be Cleveland. Did not have them beating the bangles. I thought they'd lose, but I did feel like they'd compete in that game because I wasn't sold on the bangles. You remember had them beating Arizona. And to just expect something and have them not let you down was so refreshing. We'll see if it happens twice in as many weeks. I'll be honest though, if they lose to the Browns, it's not like it's going to go from 60 to zero for me. I'm not going to say, Oh, same old team. Here we go again. Yeah, I'm past that. I think they give the Ravens a hard time next week. Now Baltimore is a terrible matchup for them. Terrible. The Ravens have a chance with, I think it's 150 some rushing yards this week. They'll be the fifth team in of the decade to rush for that number of yards through five games. Yeah, I think they're going to out Washington, Washington in that game. In other words, their version of Brian Robinson's a whole family name, Derek Henry. They got Henry bowling ball and they can run the football better than any team in the NFL and Washington can't stop the run. So it's just a bad matchup. But I do think they're still going to give Baltimore fits. I do think that's going to be a good football game. Like we're at a point now where if we feel that way going on the road to the Ravens, you're going to feel that way most weeks. Is there a game they could play this week in the NFL where you would feel like that Washington commanders don't have a really good chance to win? No, the best team in the league supposedly right now is the Vikings at four and oh, sorry. Don't scare me. You want to say it's the Chiefs looking for a third straight Superbowl at four and oh, they've lost their starting running back. Isaiah Pacheco, their starting wide receiver, rushy rice, Travis Kelsey looks 100 at his first decent game of the season this past week. Patrick Mahomes is turning the ball over. They're not really scoring, leaving people in their wake. Who scares you? They can be in every single game. I think that's a good way to put it. So I'm looking at Cleveland specifically. We're now and again, this is also funny because this is based on a week where I picked them to lose against incident. I thought they get smacked wrong. I thought they would lose Arizona in a competitive game because I thought they would miss Austin Echler wrong. So now I've in my own sort of personal view gone from yeah, they're not for real to yeah, I think this is a nice thing, a nice story, a nice team that we competitive. We're growing. They might drop this one because they missed Echler to a pretty confident they'll beat a team that's in at the bottom of the same bucket that they're in. That's pretty precipitous. That's a pretty large gap between where I was last Monday and Cincinnati to whatever this is 10, 11 days from that moment. So I if they don't play well, let's say they dropped this game to Cleveland, which is not outrageous, by the way, it happens. I mean, look, look all around the lid. There's 250 teams you just touched on. Weird, crazy, bleep happens all the time. Teams don't show up. The other team is a better plan. Whatever the case, Renaissance came from the Sean Watson. Who knows? He loses game and don't look competitive. It's still not going to have me go same old, same old. I'm not there. Now we turn in three straight weeks of getting boat raced and everybody's figured you out and you can't get right and Daniels is sacked and it looks like the first half against Tampa when it's nothing but scrambles and they don't know what they're doing and the defense still stinks. We can go back to having a same old, but to me, I'm now miles down the road and I can look back and go, I can't even see same old anymore. I could see. Oh, that was a bummer. Let's let's see what happens next week. I'll turn the page. It won't be a referendum to me. I got a tweet from Mr. Chan here at Grand H. Paulson at Funny Danny when he hit us up via social. He said, didn't we go seven and one under Alex Smith before injury? No, I know they did not, sir. You are misremembering a bit. It started the year one. Excuse me, two and two, I should say, they beat the Cardinals, lost to the Colts, beat the Packers at a bi-week and then lost to the Saints. So they were two and two and then they ripped off three in a row to get to five and two. Then there were six and three going into that Texans game when he broke his leg was a competitive team. But even that any of these fleeting seasons where they were decent to start a year. It's never been like this where you felt like maybe you had the answer on a rookie contract and the offense just hasn't hummed this way in a long, long time. Edwin, Silver Spring, you're on GND. What's good? Hey, y'all. I feel like, like you said, it's not going to be same old skins for me. I feel that, but I don't see us struggling. I really do. I see a challenge. I don't see us not getting 25 points, but I really do. And on the Orioles, there's every reason for that transfer software. Every reason. One, they act like they're more fun than like to go harder than we do. They do not. When you look at the numbers, when they're struggling, they don't go to that stadium. One, two, they act like they accomplished for the one fairness. Not a lot of people go to Nats Park either, if we're being honest. Yeah, but not more people go to camping yards when they're struggling. They act like it's a smaller market, but okay, that's fine. They do not. And then they don't accomplish anything. We ask them one of my favorite things you will all your side have asked, when last you went to World Series? And they don't like they're embarrassed to see the number or they've always been so long ago that they forget. It makes me laugh every single time. But they don't look cute in their orange Hawaiian print shirts and their pocket hats when it goes through games. They have a nice little stop. That is a good look. Yeah. Thank you, buddy. I appreciate you. No, I think for me, as someone who I'm just a little bit caught in the middle, whatever that song is, who can see both sides of it having been on the behind enemy line, so to speak. I just like that both sides pretend like the other side is the aggressor. Really, it's like, no, you both do that a lot. It's like Nationals fans act like Orioles fans are insufferable to them, but don't actually in any like, oh, we don't talk about them. Like, what about this? Like, oh, that was in response to them. I just think they don't like each other very much. It's a geographical thing. By the way, Nat's fans should despise the Angelos family, the late Peter Angelos and the family for making it hard for the Nats to exist. Like, I'm on your team. I'm from the DMV. I'm a DC area guy. I wanted baseball in DC to that. I understand, but I don't get like holding that against Gunnar Henderson. Right. Being upset at Adley Rochman for it is all. But yeah, I think the banter between the fan bases is fun, but we don't need to necessarily, religiously. Yeah, it's the whole point of having meaningful sports is that you end up with some rivalries. You know, like, it's been a while here, but remember how annoying it was that Philly fans came in to the ballpark and they were getting bused down and everyone was all up in arms about that. We were supposed to be taking back the park or the stupid Mets fans, the Soviet train or me for like Matt Harvey, Chanton and booing the Nats when they took the field. Like, that's where stuff's annoying, but that's also kind of the fun of having a competitive team that matters for sure. What if Brian Robinson doesn't play on Sunday? I really had not considered that possibility. And if I could peel back the curtain a little bit, I assumed, because they put him on the radio today, that he was just trending in the right direction. He's not going to go on the radio and talk if he's not going to play on Sunday. But maybe I'm overthinking it. He didn't practice today. I guess there's no way really to know that he's going to be fully healthy or able to play. We said last week that because Austin Echler didn't play, their offense was going to miss him and was going to take a step back. Not only did they not miss Echler, who's been super effective this season, but their offense without him basically didn't miss a beat. They were just playing out awesome. Nick Nichols was every bit as good as Echler's been at any point this season. I don't think you could sustain that over a full year if you're Jeremy McNichols. But for one week he elevated his game. He played like Austin Echler. They don't really have another version of Brian Robinson, though, in terms of, hey, wear them down, be heavy, be physical, lean on people. I've long thought he's underrated for his vision and some of this stuff he does between the tackles anyway. But that does feel, just like we said about Echler, we're wrong about. I would do it again. That would feel like a pretty sizable loss. He's got 100 yards in two of the last three weeks. Yeah. And he's their guy that does that. In other words, there's like when they had Chris Rodriguez behind him, you would have not someone that is good as Robinson, but there's your one A thumper or your or your level two thumper. They've got two scat backs in Echler and another version of that. McNichols who's a blitz pickup guy who's a little bit more wiggle, little bit more burst, but not what Brian Robinson does where he's punishing people where he's between the tackles, earning some of those hard yards that you have to do to set up everything else. So that is a, you know, it's that dynamic that you don't have. Robinson on the season. 40 yards against the box. They were behind in that game. They didn't really get to run it in the second half. So I dismissed that one a little bit. They've basically had three games out of the four where I would say offensively they were able to be what they wanted to be. Is that fair? Giants, Bengals, Cardinals, just based on game script, they got to stay balanced and do what they wanted. 17 for 133, 16 for 33, and 21 for 101. We don't talk a lot about that Bengals game, but a I can't believe how much they committed to him considering he averaged 2.1 a pop. I don't remember a time around here when a guy got 16 carries at two yards per it tells you there was a purpose to it. Totally. I mean, not just do it to, to, to yell about physicality and establishing the line of scrimmage and establishing the run and pretending we're in the eighties. There was a, we are setting things up off of this. We are going to make sure that you have to cover this so we can get to something else. But in that game, when the Bengals said we're taking Brian Robinson away, Austin Echler averaged 11 yards per care. Yep. Remember, Jaden Daniels ran the ball 12 times for 40 yards and had some real backbreaking scrambles. Never ripped anything off. The Bengals spied him a little bit, did some things where his long, I think was seven yards, but he was around the line of scrimmage, constantly picking up those first downs, spinning, getting out of bounds, occasionally getting down, avoiding contact. If the plan for Cleveland is to shut Brian Robinson down if he plays, Austin Echler, who is questionable, but did practice today becomes that much more important. I guess there's a possibility that both Robinson and Echler couldn't go. And then it's McNichols and you're elevating somebody from the practice. Michael Wiley, maybe? I don't know. Yeah, that is, but Echler told us for what it's worth on this show on Tuesday when he joined us, he fully expected the play. So I take him at his word that barring something out of his control, he's going to be on the field. Yeah, he would certainly think so. But again, it's that that protocol is the protocol. That's not one, the ones you can cheat. You can't really get to say my arm feels fine. Yeah, you know, like, Hey, skip, I'm feeling good today. You know, whether or not that's it's your call. So you're hopeful that you've got both. And this is just what you do about nothing. I'm like, tomorrow will really tell the story. But if there is no Robinson for a week, that'll be interesting. Because now I was wrong last week, just in my assessment, make sure I say that. But I thought, okay, not having Echler in that little easy button. We think of easy as the DeShawn Jackson or Tyree kill where you go for an 80 yard touchdown. But to me, the easy is, you flip the ball out to Austin Echler behind the line of scrimmage and he goes for 14. Like that's an easy first down. He made that play. Yeah, a couple guys blocked it up nice, but he's wiggling, he's zigging and zagging and spinning off people, delivering a blow at the end finishing, falling forward. He's the easy button that turns a little thing into a medium thing where it gets your first downs, keep the chains moving. Not having that, I thought would really set them back. And in a spoiler alert, it did not escort 42 points. And we're awesome. I wonder what it would look like the other way though, not having Roberts and that ability to thump. Because that's not where the points come from. But the things that get you the points maybe come from doing that enough to set it up and show B Rob right now is number nine in the NFL and rushing attempts and number 10 in the league in rushing yards. If you account for everybody because Lamar Jackson has more than him. If you just look at running backs, he's ninth in rushing attempts. He's ninth in yards. He's averaging almost 4.8 a pop. So that he basically would be right outside of the top five in yards per attempt. He's having a great year. But I know it's easy to say because he's had two monster games out of four. He's had basically bad game statistically. I don't mean performance wise, but he didn't do much against Tampa at 40 yards, didn't do much against the Bengals at 33. So it's been like little game, huge game, little game, big game. Still 300 yards through four games. I mean, he's on pace for over 1200 yards this season. In a year where the league is trending back to running the football, he's a top 10 guy at the position. So it would feel like a pretty sizable loss if the commanders did not have him. We'll let you know what the word is out of Ashburn. If anything comes out as the day goes on, but he did not practice today. Next, I want to talk about two flags that were thrown on what I think are nothing burger fun celebrations that should not have been penalized. And I want to see who is bothered by this? Like what is the NFL trying to protect exactly next on GND? Okay. So. So. Grant and Danny on the fan, two penalties this week. And they got called that I thought were absolutely outrageous, Danny in the NFL. I want you to help calm me down. What am I missing here? The first was on Alan Lazard of the Jets. He catches a pass in that rainy game against the Denver Broncos. They're moving down the field. He's sitting on his butt legs out in front of him, toes up like he's doing the V sit and reach. And he proceeds to. I'm going to call it double guns. But I would say that's a little bit misleading. Okay. Not even quite the hollowed old stubble guns that you and me and nerds do. Hey, what's up to this guy? How are you doing over there? He's not doing that. He's doing the like, if you, if you make the shape of a gun with your fingers, kind of, and then you put the, you know, the other fingers together and just kind of go back and forth, like, Hey, let's do this. We're going that way. Like that kind of celebration, pointing in the direction they're going, not shooting at anybody, not to none of that. It's just. I'm a cool guy. You're a cool guy. Come on guys. Don't shake it back. Big play, big first down. Nobody can catch passes. No one can throw the ball. No one can get yards. It's raining. There's a quarterback with negative yards at halftime in this game. They flag him for a 15 yard penalty for unsplared sportsman like Honda because they deemed it to be I guess anything involving a gun essentially gets you penalized, right? Now I will, I will admit. So there was a game. Let me think of what it was. It was the Drake London catch coming over to the sideline after the, the game winning touchdown against the Eagles. When he came over to the sideline and he proceeded to like, what appeared to be shoot like a machine gun or something celebration into the air. Like he was just spraying a magazine into the air with his fake machine gun right in front of the referee and they flagged him and were like, Hey dude, it's in the rule book, man. You come on, man. You can't mock a firearm and you can't fake shoot things out here. We're not doing that. I got that. I totally get that. If you pretend you've got a gun and you're shooting or whatever. Yes. Sure. No problem. This was not that. This was little finger guns thing where he's going back and forth and I can't stress this enough, Danny. It's not like he like loaded his finger and cocked it and shot it. Like Jordan Reed used to do. If you remember that celebration was not that. The other one that drove me nuts was, first of all, did you see that that play with Lazard? I did. Yeah. Thoughts. I don't know how to describe it besides using the term finger guns. So immediately someone's going to hear that and go, yeah, but you already said. I don't know how to, I don't know how to explain the gesture unless you've seen it. It's clearly not what you think of when you think of finger guns. Correct. It's the same thing I would do like double points. Yeah. Like, and I want to shoot a rubber band and I stretch it between my thumb and forefinger. And I did that a couple of times and it's like, yeah, I would do it with this guy. How you doing? It's not a finger guns thing. It's not. It's a Hey, what's up with this guy kind of thing. It's not finger guns. Like finger guns to me is different. It sounds like a key and peel sketch where it's like a third pump's going to get you. Yeah. It's like, like, you said finger guns. Yeah, you said it's like if you only and now we're getting the neutral finger guns. I'll go all day on this. Like, if my thumb comes down to indicate a shot. Okay. I don't think you even shoot with your thumb. But that, well, I'm just saying, but I'm showing, I'm letting you know, like, actions happen. If I, if I come down on my thumb, like this, what just happened? A shot. I don't think so. But I'm just, I'm miming some sort of shooting, right? Like all I'm doing here is sort of like, like, can I not have, I think the pointer, can I not pretend I'm holding anything? Now we're going to get really deep. If he pulls the pointer finger back, that's another one. That's mimicking shooting. There's, there's no indication of any shots fired here. He, all he's doing is, is, he's doing the way I would describe it. Like, what was he doing? What happens in life when you do that? It's like, gotcha, clary. I gotcha. One of the, if you're on YouTube right now, I'm going to do it to the cameras. 106, 7, the fan YouTube chat. You guys get the luxury of seeing this, but it's one of those like, hey, Danny. Yeah. I hope you moved your car. Uh huh. They're, they're going to be toeing all the cars at six o'clock, because of the, the maintenance they're doing. Oh, God, crap. I got to go. Gotcha. Who's your guy? Who's your guy? Like, it's not even shooter McGavin level. Alan Lazar, but it's kind of shooting. Alan Lazar got penalized for that in the National Football League as a grown ass man, a grown adult taking on other grown men, other grown adults. I can't have it. I'm sorry. I can't do it. I, it doesn't need to be a big political debate. I'm not picking aside because I agree with whatever you think. You guys, but I'm just telling you, he doesn't need to be penalized for that. Okay. The other one was Jeremy McNichols. Jeremy McNichols, who has been on 12 NFL teams in his career, 12, who got to play because Austin Echler was unavailable, who got a very rare chance to get on the football field. They say act like you've been there before. What if you never get to be there, right? What if in your entire journeyman career that dates back seven years, eight years, you've been there once with your loan touchdown in the pandemic year of 2020, because there was a COVID outbreak on your team or whatever. What if that's the time you got there? So he gets in the game and he's having a field day, 27 yard tuddy, rips off another one, exclamation point to win the game. He does the old Josh Norman, not even to the extent that Norman did it. Okay. Norman would, would basically grab the arrow out of the pouch on the back. He did it in the cool way. He would like shoot the arrow, pull the bow back and, and let it rip and he'd watch it fly. McNichols did a really quick, less weapon version of that, I would say, penalty, unsportsmanlike. Who are you protecting? Who are you worried about? I cannot believe these are the types of things the league cares about. I can't Fernando Rodney in Major League Baseball who pitched forever for the raise and some other teams. He was on the next during the World Series team. Thank you. That's World Series champion Fernando Rodney. He was horrific in the playoffs and for much of the regular season, but he has a World Series ring. Yep. He used to have this awesome sellie. Do you remember his sellie? Of course. Yeah. Because hats not on straight. You have to start there. Like you just could never put it on straight. Like he probably could have, but he never did. You're so old. Straight it up. You're so old. And maybe facing straight. I love how he wears hat. Yeah, that you did. He cocked it to the side. Mm hmm. What's wrong with that? What's wrong with having hair that you can say? What do you mean? Well, people have hair sometimes. So what? So like you can't have long hair on Grant's team. Tell me I'm old. Put your hat on straight also. It's uniform. Put your hat on straight. Yeah. Or tilt it to the side. Yeah. Just tuck your hair in it. That's all that. Yeah, that's all you gotta do, right? Anyway, Fernando Rodney. Uh huh. Would after every save, he'd walk down the mound and he would have like one or two teammates come over to watch and he would pretend to pull that bow out, rosin it up my bow and he would shoot it into the sky and he would like track it with his hand and he'd point up and everyone would like follow this fake. It was just a thing every game in baseball. The no fun like baseball where nothing is allowed where if you look at me, I'm going to hit you. If you don't look at the right dugout, you are villain number one. Brian McCann is still always still upset. The houses of people who wronged him in 2006 because they didn't run fast enough out of the batter. You disrespect the a that sport goes. Hey, look Fernando Rodney. Cool celebration. That's fun. And then he and the NFL penalizes you 15% of a football field after a touchdown for your one half second arrow shooting celebration. Get out of here with that. So remember when Ronda Vera who's on the competition committee was talking about like the idea that players in this highly competitive, you know, alpha situation, getting in car wrecks time after time might say something to one another. And that became the point of emphasis like what if after I run you over or I just stiff armed you into oblivion? I mentioned that you just got stiff armed into oblivion. If I say something to we got to penalize that we can't have anything that might lead to anything that might lead to anything that might also lead to something that might be construed as men having a verbal disagreement that might lead to a punch being thrown or a shove or something like that. Whereas it's like in hockey, it's like, well, listen, this one check was a little hard on the good player. So we're going to have a guy walk around and drop his gloves in the hopes to both get five minute majors and everyone claps hard. Like, it's just such a weird thing to me that in this incredibly violent game, there's not even you're not even allowed to express any of it verbally that that's the point of emphasis wrong. This is nonsense. If you want to get rid of something, let's get rid of choreographed river dances. Let's get rid of everyone's going, Ro, Ro, Ro, your boat. We scored a TD. I'm wasting play clock time. The special teams are trying to take the field. What are we doing? Let's get rid of that. You don't have to get rid of that either. If we're going, I'd love to. If we're picking something to rid ourselves of, this guy, that should be fine. The this guy should be fine. The, okay, everyone, like to rehearse a one and a two and a jazz hands. No, let's get rid of that. Act like you've been there once be a professional for seven seconds. You could be happy to have fun. I can't believe it's the point of emphasis. I can't believe it real quick. Which old folks home are you going to be at tonight for people to stop by and see haircut requirements in order to get in? So, you know what I'm saying? You got to do that. If you guys want to go see Danny, I believe he's going, I'll find the one he's at. There's an old folks. I'm right off three. If you don't like people celebrating, stop them from scoring. If you don't like that, stop from scoring. Alan Lazard had stood up already and was halfway back to the huddle before he was even informed by his teammates. Hey, they threw a penalty on you. It took note. This is how quickly his celebration was. Yeah. Ready? Started? Stopped. That's what it was. That was the time where they got and then you see the referees come together and the head ref is like, what'd you got over there? What's the flow? Was it, man? And he literally does the motion. He's like, oh, he did guns. He did guns. He took out a mimic mock firearm, shot off several rounds into the air and then returned like nothing was wrong. Let's get him. And the head referee actually is like, you could see it. This. I mean, this is all this video is out there. I posted and he's like, you're sure you're sure you saw this? You're sure you want to penalize them 15 yards? He's like, yeah, he did it. He did the guns. And Alan Lazard standing there like, come on, bro. Really? And he's like, okay, fine. And then he makes the announcement. How about we don't do that? The Jeremy McNichols thing was over before anyone noticed it. So my question to you, Danny Ruye, or to anyone else who would like to try to answer it at 800-636-1067. Who is benefiting from this? Who are they protecting exactly? Generally, you're doing something for a reason. What is the argument? Now, again, if the, if we're, Jordan Reed used to do this thing where he would like seemingly cock-a-glock, like pull it back and and shoot in the direction where they're going. If you want to say, probably not a lot of value in that. I don't know if that's good for the brand. I get that, right? That there are some things you could do that drink London one. I'm just spraying into the air. I don't know why we need to endorse or support that. We won't. But we're going that way. The arrow, people getting shot with arrows outside the stadium, I doubt it. Like, who are we protecting? My kid? My son? We're going to have a tough conversation. Me and him where he goes, "Dad, why did he point like that?" "Dad, why did he, what was that? Motion that he just did?" Oh, he shot an arrow into the sky, son. What am I missing? As, as by the way, I'm sitting next to him adding another $100 into my gambling account, right? You know what I'm saying? Legally now, as, as players are, I mean, all these things have softened, whether it's marijuana being okay for players and all this stuff. But don't point in the direction and the, the shape of a, a finger gun. What? The premise will be, or the idea will be it's something, something kids, right? That's the idea. And I'm normally on that side for the record. I just think this is a bridge to forward. Well, here's, here's where I'm going with it. And that's what, that's what they'll say. It's, you know, it's about the kids and we want to make sure that we're, we're, we're protecting them from saying it. So like, imagine if it was my house, for example, like, Hey, don't watch this. Go to something else. Like what dad? I don't know. Go play Fortnite, which is what you play on a nightly basis. Now maybe you could say that's my failure as a parent, but they'll find that they'll find it pretty quick is my point. Like you're not protecting anybody from anything. If you really want to do this, I'm not talking to you personally, but if you're the NFL, then I need you to not have the horror movie trailer that every time there's a touch back and before the offensive possession starts from a mind that brought you this terrifying, gory thing. Here's a masked person who's doing something for no reason. It could happen to you. You can't do that. He's under your bed right now. Who are we protecting? If you'd like to protect people from stuff and not let them be exposed to those deals, then let's curb a whole bunch of the messaging that you're selling us on an hourly basis. And I, my point is you won't. So let's stop the charade. I agree with whatever anyone in their car thinks right now. Of course I do. I want it known on the right side. I had to mute my TV during a commercial. Yeah. During it was a political ad. But like my kids were looking at me like, what's what is this? And I'm like, oh, it's the football game. The football. It's a football. I'm like moody, like grabbing from my remote, like just commercial. Mm hmm. Settle down with, uh, we're going that way. Be in the penalty. You can settle down with that. Mm hmm. Read the room a little bit. Mm hmm. 800, six, three, six, one oh six, seven, you guys want to hop in? I'm pro. Like I hate when people are cursing during live interviews. Please be a professional. Remember the old JJ Redick thing? Everyone got mad at me because I want a little decorum. I'm all for the decorum. But if you're sitting on your butt, you just got tackled in the game of gladiators and you point in the direction shooter, McGavin style with your, your two, uh, pointer fingers. And in the, the, the half second that you did that, the referee saw it and penalized you more than the first down catch you just got. I think we could probably do it a different way. I think, I think you can hop in on the MGM National Harbor listener lines. What do men need to do two times a week to stay healthy? No, no, it's not that. But what do they need to do two times a week to stay healthy? That's next on GND. Oh, oh. [BLANK_AUDIO] Danny, the thing men need to do two times a week. To do two times a week to be healthy. According to a study, have guys' nights. Oh, two times a week. Twice a week? That's a lot. I'm imagining that's more mental health than physical health because most guys' nights and I mean, your, your guys' nights are like playing pickleball in your backyard. But for most people, a guy's night, you're at a bar, you're eating something fried, you're probably drinking. So I don't know that physically two guys' nights a week is going to help you be healthier. Who could do that? I don't know. I mean, when's the last time you had two guys' nights in one week? When I went on a dude's trip and we like had to meet in a different city. And even then, we barely got through it. I have guys' nights, just via work a lot, I would say, where I'm at a game and a few people, whether Clary or Dameron or somebody for, Dameron, weird. That was weird. Dad. One of the guys from the station, you know, we get together, whatever. Like that's the equivalent, but like just meeting up with my buddies to go have a steak or something. Very rare. We have a steak in the union that we do once every now and then at Randy's over and Tyson's meeting a few buddies. But certainly not twice a week. That's more of a quarterly appointment. Like I did with a bunch of neighborhood dads, my buddy Harrison invited everybody, like he's great at galvanizing, getting the folks going. That was like the biggest to do for me in months. That was that I couldn't imagine another either that group or a different group the same week. Like that's incredible to me. Like we went to a location. What an ask that would be. And we were all there. Hey, babe. So. Hey, you'll never guess what? And like using your finger to like draw circles on the table. So remember, Tuesday night, me and the guys got together and we were playing the cards and stuff. And those two things. So I was wondering, what do you think about tomorrow night and the guys getting together to do something kind of like that again? Jesus, it's Frank's birthday. And it's a big birthday for him. And you know, he's going through. I want to be there for him because he's going through that sad thing. Show me the study. Have a little sit down with the wife twice a week. You want me to be mentally at my best or not. It's up to you. If you want it, yes, then this is what I'm doing. Feels like a lot. I would have said, if I had a guess, how many guys nights do you need to be mentally healthy to be in a good place? I would say, I probably need one a month. Yeah, once a month to just get out, kick it with the dudes and just eat something that I crave and not have anyone asking like my kids or whatever, like yelling at me, sitting on me, jumping on me, whatever. Cut to rich and only being like, just two, probably five nights a week, six nights a week. Well, rich and only leaves the league in this category, I think. So I feel like this study doesn't apply to our age group. It feels like a like a young 20s kind of thing to put me in there. No, I'm serious. Well, the age group of folks who are married with kids, like, I can't imagine that that study applies to that. That doesn't make sense. I think that's not realistic. Right. I'm Clary every night's a guy's night single. No, no, I have a girlfriend now, but I don't mean that. I mean, you're not our kids. Yes. You're not married. By the way, show announcement, ladies and gentlemen. Oh, how about that? Where he is taken off the market. Glenn Powell. Wow. I know. I know. That's radio official. It's past Instagram official. Radio official. Radio official. Radio official. But, uh, I mean, I have like two to three guys nights a week. It's, uh, it's pretty nice. We got a colony grill every now and then, uh, we got a local bars as well. Surprise. You still go to Connie. I was gonna say you're dating any of these guys? No, no, we're not. We're not. How many people sit in the colony grill go? Oh, he's here. No, never once. Never once. Okay. That's good. Colony grilled. It's a nice little hangout spot. I would have thought, you know, left colony griller in the rear view. You got, you got to weave through a few of the ghosts of dates past to get to your chair. There's a whole graveyard in that restaurant. Some bones piled up. What did I just step on? That's a broken heart. A lot of hearts playing around in colony grill. Some pizza bones and some bones. Yeah. What kind of topics do you have for this pizza? Any devastated ladies? I can think of a couple, uh, but no, but you're young enough, clearly, where every night is guys night. Every night is guys night. That's right. And I, I could got to do whatever I want. Like tonight, there's a night football. I'll probably have some friends over and watch a game. Amazing. That's why I'm saying, dad, I think this is in reference to the married man, the father. Because like, the point is we need that because we don't get that. That's the idea, right? But, but it is just unrealistic and ridiculous. It's also, it, I almost said inappropriate, which isn't right. I would say irresponsible. I will say like, doing a lot of schtick. I do think haven't, I talked to a buddy of mine who's got a couple kids is a little older, really smart guy all the time. And he, what he has kind of figured out is that a lot of the stuff that in my mind makes me feel bad or guilty is necessary. So like I'll give you the example for him. He knows if I don't leave and go to the gym, then I can't be the best me for my kids. Anyway, I'm not in the mood, whatever it is. So like if I'll leave my house and just go for a walk, not me, but him. And he's like, if I don't get that exercise or wherever comes from that, I, I'm not the best version of myself for them anyway. Whereas in my mind, I'm going, I work all the time. If I'm not around when they're around, then it's selfish in a sense. Like, just to go sit somewhere and watch a game or whatever. That's a bad look. Like that's not, you know, my dad was present in a round. So you kind of have that perspective, so to speak. Whereas I think now the new school thought is, whatever you got to do to be your best self when you're present to do it, maybe the best version. I don't know where you at on this, Mr. Huhe. I'm a believer in the idea that you've got to do like being around for the makeup numbers, around and present for 90%, but you're at 100%. It's better than being around at 100% if you can only give 60%. I know there's a lot of percentages right there, but like, so tonight, for example, we've been trying to, I've been trying to play basketball all week, but it's been rang down outside the early on Tuesday for the indoor game. We didn't have enough. I couldn't play pickleball. So like, my wife totally gets that. Like I'm always at like, she went to the Oceans Calling Festival this past weekend with a couple of friends like, don't feel guilty at all. Like she was like, oh my God, I can't believe I'm out there because you're in this fender bender. And then I'm like, it's, I want you to have some fun replenish the battery. Get away from these ridiculous hyenas that occupy your homestead, you know, like that's totally fine. I got it. But it's like, we get that you need those kind of things to replenish the battery. So I'm all in favor of that. There's a balance though. You can't be my one friend who plays golf six days a week. I don't know how he does that. That I don't understand. I don't know how he does it. Golf takes so many hours. It's all the hours. My buddy was like, come play golf. Okay. What? I'll be there for an hour. What about the next 14 holes? I don't know how anyone has that schedule where unless you're retired, we just golf a bunch of days a week. I don't get it. Brad is in silver spring on G&D. What's up, Brad? Yeah. I wanted to talk about the celebration thing because the NFL came out after the Drake London one and said like, look, we've always had a ban on violent celebrations. And I guess that that's what Jeremy McNichol fell into. But like, that's not even true by their own standards because you've got the box shooting off cannons. You've got the pass with their like revolutionary firing squad, even the chiefs with the Tomahawk thing. And those all operate way more under like the imprintor of the league than an individual player. So I don't see them like trying to curtail that at all. True. And it's just a matter of to me. I like the idea of saying we don't want our players glorifying weapons, firearms, whatever. Okay, cool. Is that what's happening when Alan Lazard for point three seconds on his butt after a big catch is pointing toward the goal line and going back and forth with his pointers. Like, can we have a little common sense on this? It's not black. Everything's not black and white. The rest of the game, you're deciding should I throw the flag? Should I not throw the flag? Maybe use a little bit of that common sense right here and right now too. That's okay. And that's that's kind of where I'm at. Like, I even though I think it's a little bit ridiculous at some of the stuff that's loud and not a lot, but whatever. It's fine. If you're if you're going to throw the flag for it, let's make sure it's the thing that you're talking about, right? Where somebody's like, you know, tightening their scope and getting down American sniper style and miming that kind of a deal. Okay, let's throw the flag on that guy. Let's not do the and what's up, man? Let's not get let's not flip to the flag there. Our first look at week five's NFL match-ups with Thursday night football looming next on Grant and Danny.