Grant and Danny
Beltway Blitz, Expectations For Commanders Offense vs Browns Defense?
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division so far but the Falcons have had two games now the Kirk cousins has led them the game winning drive this is why they went out and got him I still think they're kind of working out some more kinks so they're not quite as far along as what the Bucks are but they're at home so I'm expecting to see a pretty close game Mike you know this guy that some idiot who goes to the Grant Paulson in the afternoons on one of six having the fan thought that Miami would be pretty good this year with or without two they have not looked that way I mean is there season about to slip away here how important is this weekend for them oh it's extremely important but I don't think that the hopes the prospect they're not too good for them you know you get your right to it and look great but also he didn't have a real preseason so I give guys a little bit of wiggle room in those first two three you know even four weeks but you don't know when he's coming back now and you know as the old thing goes get late early and so yeah I thought that they were going to contend for this divisional title but it looks like you know and Mike McDaniel's good but Skylar Thompson and Tyler Huntley ain't it no they're clearly not it's amazing me they didn't have a better plan was yet exactly exactly that's on Chris Greer totally how about that division though the bills were rolling until they ran into Baltimore the Jets have not looked really great yet but they they're fine I guess how do you see the AFC East I think it's going to come down to the bills when in that thing because look the Patriots are rebuilding they aren't close the the Dolphins you know I mean short of a miracle they're not going to turn this thing around and if two gets back you know they still might be in too big a hole to climb their way out of that I don't believe in the Jets they got too much going on there's already frictions you know you got solace saying that you know maybe Rogers need to scale back on his hard counts and Rogers is saying they need to hold people accountable look this is only like week three and week four that you've got frictions between your head coach and this quarterback this thing isn't going to end well Detroit found it looked like Detroit to me this past week against Seattle they you know they want a strange game against Arizona where they were the better team but but didn't really thump the Cardinals the way some other teams that I can't remember who just beat them this past weekend really soundly but anyway it'll come to me but they were the better team against Tampa Bay found a way to lose now it looked like they got some momentum going but of course they got their bye week is this still the you know prime contender in the NFC here or they may be closer to the pack than we thought I don't know this that was a weird game they won on Monday but they got out gained like 500 something 300 something you know they got dominated in the time of possession they got you know I don't say lucky but two turnovers definitely helped them and you know I don't know I'm not convinced that they are the team in the NFC I think they are a team that can make things interesting but look we don't know if they're even going to win their division because Brian Flores is cooking on defense and Sam Darnold looks amazing Kevin O'Connell has been in the lab so it could you know and don't forget Green Bay so this isn't going to be a run away from the division for Detroit so who are better teams that you would say right now are as good or better than the Lions in the NFC well I think the Packers can be you know again Minnesota could be we'll see if San Francisco can get healthy than then they would be it's still really early so they say like right now who's better than them not a whole lot but by the end of the season you could have some company there in the NFC totally are you buying the Vikings I am because of their defense and also they run the football they understand how to take care of their quarterback and position and for success so look when you championship teams need a defense that can get after you and force turnovers and that's what Brian Flores is doing I didn't think this is going to be the case you know coming into the season but I think the Vikings do have a chance to Cincinnati get going or they kind of on a sinking ship now because every year we feel like that it's going to be too late I think they will get going they've got to figure out their run game because you know that's their mix and Joe mix and but they still have Joe Burrell they've got you know T Higgins gonna be rounding into foreign to March 8th and so I think that they're going to be you know by the end of the season they're gonna be okay they're gonna be contending for you know a playoff spot in that division there I wouldn't be surprised if Pittsburgh comes back down to earth and it's Baltimore and Cincinnati do get it out for that last last one before we hop to the locals and the commanders is Doug Peterson's seat hot or just warming at this point they're oh and for the only team that hasn't won he had a terrible press conference where he called players out this week yeah it's not good he can thank his lucky stars that they're going to London for two weeks so you're not going to fire your head coaches you're about to go to London for two weeks be out of the country but if they don't you know they're home this week and then London the next two weeks if they if they don't come out of this thing with you know two wins out of these next three games then yeah I wouldn't be surprised you know it's remarkable to me he continues to defend press tailor who is not proven that he knows anything about being an offensive coordinator there are people criticized him and Philly he's here he's still loyal to him and you know this this could be the undoing of Doug Peterson Mike thank you as always but have a great weekend thanks I'll see you guys we'll see you pal hit that local 53 sounder okay Mitch tisher is going to talk about that local a foosball team Mitch when is it okay for fans who are a little bit scarred little bit scared little bit I don't know afraid to commit because every time they believe for a microsecond they've been beaten to a bloody pulp when is it okay for them to pop their chest out and say we're for real I mean I think you've got to say right now you know sometimes you've got to jump up jump back up on that horse that bucked you off and and ride that thing and right now that horse is sprinting like we've never seen before here in Washington this offense is humming their wooden football games they're blowing teams out I mean I think you've got to be excited right now and if not now when Jaden Daniels was taken second he won a Heisman Trophy the fact that he's planted a high level isn't shocking I don't know that many people though they thought Cliff Kingsbury's offense or Kingsbury himself calling plays would be operating at this level in this extent what have you made of him yeah I mean I think he's done an incredible job I think he's seen in offense as attacking teams on multiple different levels and he's being creative about it I mean think back to week one you had the double pass with Luke McCaffrey you had the touchdown pass the offensive lineman Trent Scott one player that I loved of this week of last week's game against the Cardinals third down at the end of the game Alumni Zacchaeus was lined up outside he motioned his backfield on the snap he then turned on a diamond one right back to where he was threw a little flare out to the right he got eight yards and a first down I think he's shown a lot of creativity I think you know it helps that Jaden Daniels is just blossoming at an incredible rate and improving week to week more than I think any of us ever really thought that he would and he's given them a lot of options and Brian Robinson is running the heck out of the football I mean this thing is running like a like a well oiled machine is Ben Sinitz role gonna start to increase you over time do you think I think he's gonna be on the field a fair amount I mean listen one of the things that's been most impressive to me about this offense particularly in the in the running game has been the buy-in from non offensive linemen you know on the Jeremy Nichols touchdown Terry McCorn was one of the lead blockers Ben Sinitz was driving a DB back into the end zone for the second time in four weeks on a long run you're seeing the the wide receivers the tight ends the running backs stepping up and doing every part of this I was doing everything that's being asked to them and Ben Sinitz been one of those guys that hasn't caught a lot of football he hasn't been prominent in the passing game but he has been a big deal in the run game he has stepped up and he's been you know everything that John Bates was kind of last year for this team having the two of those guys be you know almost honorary offensive lineman and doing the little things that they're doing the coaching staff loves it and it's only gonna help them stay on the field more yeah no catches I don't even think he's been targeted at this point but he's been running free a couple times occasionally you're gonna see him get the ball eventually obviously hey what's the latest with Brian Robinson you mentioned all the success he's having he has not practiced this week are we sure he's gonna play on Sunday you know no I don't think we're sure about it you saw him you know a little hobbled at the end of that Cardinals game didn't really make a whole lot of it because it because they still were moving the ball but not practicing twice this week doesn't bode particularly well however this is the team that has you know the there is a toll on the body between the flight from Cincinnati to Arizona spending the week out there you know different time zones all the all the things that they're that they're dealing with the guys are going to be a little nicked up as you know Grant Friday's practice is going to be the one that's going to tell us if he if he doesn't practice on Friday it's helpful that he plays on Sunday and this is a this is a brown defense that has the propensity to get gash in the run game last week the Raiders were averaging 50 yards a game heading into the game they ran for a buck 50 in it so that all thoughts are that if Brian Robinson is healthy and able to go this should be a big week for him yeah I wanted to get into that the Mitch this you know the week one results I don't want to say you throw them out but there's kind of a grain of salt with that because weird stuff happens in week one just because the way that the preseason's are handled etc they got destroyed by Dallas wasn't even as close as the score indicated since then that defense has been pretty damn good the caveat to that is they've played three offenses that I think you the three of us could stop so how true a test is this given past performance you feel like Cleveland's defense is pretty good and this will kind of go a long way to validating but what do you think what's a fair expectation this weekend against what we think is a good Cleveland day yeah I mean this will be the best defense that the commanders have played against maybe the bucks are close to it but now that we're four weeks in you have a little bit more data on them and the the browns do a pretty good job I mean their secondary is full of big names across the board and guys that you know you wouldn't love to see a lined up across from your your number one receiver whether you're talking about Denzel Ward or or or Grant Del Pit you know there's a bunch of big names back there but I think it all starts up front Miles Garrett is one of the best past pressures in the NFL maybe TJ Watt is the best and he's number two and it's going to come down to whether they can protect Jaden Daniels and you know this left tackle group the left side of the offensive line did a really good job two weeks ago against Trey Hendrickson who finished second in the NFL in fact last year they didn't need a ton of help over there and they're able to do it however Miles Garrett's a different beast and you know he's played Washington twice in his career he has three and a half sacks and a and a fourth fumble in those two games that guy is a monster and it's going to be incumbent on you know that Cornelius Lucas Brandon Coleman duo to do well out there and also for Jaden to have his ears up and be ready to run at any moment because as much as you know Miles Garrett is in practicing this week he didn't practice last week either stepped out there had two sacks of uh Carter Mitchu so I mean this guy is an elite player and and someone that they have to account for yeah four sacks through four weeks had a sack in each of the first two games and then the two in week four as Mitch said Mitch thanks buddy we appreciate you absolutely had one thing real quick for uh for Danny because it just strikes close to my heart uh huh please bless uh block you guys we're talking about the pancakes have you ever heard of the idea of a buffer pancake so you and the boys each get the pancakes you want they're just going to short stack of chocolate chip pancakes and everyone gets a little bit of it and everyone's happy we we that is that is a move now Mitch what usually that requires is a consensus so super rare that we had anybody that's on the same page you know it's usually like i don't even want to be here or some other kind of temper tantrum or whatever but yes if everybody's on board and we're all going on on pancake that was certainly an option we went with the uh the biscuits in gravy as something that everybody wanted this to sample as well as kind of our uh appetizer or extra side if you will but i love that idea and it's a good one listen you're the dad you got a third dominance from time to time i got to be honest in the pancake ordering that's the time that's it call your shot yeah thank you're right thank you Mitch and good insight that's very very sharp from our guy Mitch Tischler throwing back to your pancake conversation asserting dominance is the way to phrase but to be clear though he's talking about i don't think you have to be in agreement on anything all three of you get your own stack of pancakes all you're sharing is the chocolate chip pancake exactly right so pre-sharing of course is fine um the plan sharing is fine the audible reach over to my plate and steal from me is of course wrong no one should share food not allowed to do that right that's that's a no for me dog but the the individual stack in the middle we all got we were all had more than enough pancake you see what i'm saying it wasn't it wasn't an issue of pancake quantity it's just i happen to be able to sample all three we all got what we want it but he's just saying if if that's too much for you it's too rich and just have a taste you all get a little taste and then you get your blueberry as it were as what you're majoring in your minoring totally in the chocolate chip pancake uh pickleball did not come up in today's beltway blitz i don't know why normally it does but do you know this danny that there's going to be a pickleball movie coming out oh i know i've got by the way branding is so great i've been sent that no fewer than 50 times that's great by various people former american tennis champion andy rodick is teaming up with ben stiller for a new pickleball comedy it's called the dink is dink like a shot yes okay what is a dink uh dink is up close to the net um where it doesn't bounce very high so in other words remember when like when we were playing in um in since an adi if somebody bounce at the ball bounces up high you can hit it really hard at someone correct it makes sense so what you want in a dink is a shot that goes over the other side that stays low and you got to return it as such to make them move to get them exactly got you so so the moves that i would do if you remember you get someone moving to get them reaching then you get a pop up and my guy grand is smacking it off people the comedy will focus on a washed up tennis pro attempting to save the club by reluctantly playing pickleball to earn his father's respect according to imdb this feels very dodgeball-y i was gonna say the formula works the machine works so let's go actor jake johnson who by the way i love he's from new girl he's hilarious yes he's one of my favorite guys very dry sense of humor he's gonna play the role of the tennis pro mary steenbergen do you know her yeah she's famous she's been in stuff who's she she i think she's the mom and stepbrothers no yeah i thought i would have known her name if you said it you're definitely right that's exactly who that is mm-hmm the mom from stepbrothers and ed Harris are part of the cast ed Harris is a stud too this is gonna be good and and Harris this is a little bit beneath that Harris i agree but he then still is involved he's like why not yeah let's do this thing we were just you and i talking about how there has not been a good comedy in a long long time i hope they get it right and i'm not suggesting this will be the next great comedy because comedies don't get made because everyone's afraid to make jokes and everyone's afraid to do a lot of the stuff that was considered hilarious when you and i were watching comedies with everybody else 15 years ago in the theater nobody's even trying anymore well ferrell i saw talking about this recently he's like yeah i don't get scripts to look at anymore nobody wants to do any of the stuff that's funny so we'll see what happens with this movie but i love the idea of the premise of pickleball former tennis star basically redoing dodgeball it sounds like sign me up i'm in the premise is so correct because that's i that's pretty on point two right it's like i need something to do let me try that i failed at other sports are too old or too bad to play the the real competitive thing so let me go to pickle and where's ben stiller ben anyway i haven't seen him in years he has taken some time away from the game i feel like i feel like it's probably like seven animated things that i didn't see i'm sure yes i'm sure but he hasn't really done a true movie in a long long time sort of feels like maybe he's just been busy crushing this script maybe we're going to have a masterpiece here on our hand i'll take it a comedic gem we've been waiting for we required viewing for all the picklers what is the nfl doing with these wacky celebration flags we'll get into that as the show continues but next jaden daniels and the commanders face a top half the league defense statistically for the first time all season when they play the browns on sunday what should we expect from this elite offense that's next you you you keep improving um finding little ways to keep growing i wouldn't say um it's a finished product but you know it's just a start in i mean i don't really look at everything that people talk about i mean i see it but other than that man none of that matters that was last week stuff um you know he as good as the last game you played and everybody gonna look at what can you do the week uh week the prior the week prior um in the weeks after that that's jaden daniels commanders getting ready to try to get to four and one over at northwest stadium welcome back chance to hang out with us tomorrow shows on the road we are going to be out and about we're broadcasting left from atlas brew works in alexandria 24 29 mandeville lane stopped by and check out atlas's 15 taps dozens of tv's plus delicious pizza and winks 2 pm to 6 30 that's when the show is the new atlas brew works in alexandria for more info the fan dc.com there's this idea that the browns are good defensively there's this idea that this is the best defense washington has played and statistically that's certainly the case and maybe this will be the first true test for this offense before we get into the what he expecting from the offense against the browns i actually don't want to have the conversation how good is cleveland's defense because in week one danny they played the cowboys and deck press scott and they did not play well but week one is sorting some things out i think you can kind of dismiss results largely all over the league since then though over three weeks they've actually been statistically sufficient and outstanding the problem is they played really really bad quarterbacks they have played recently this past week gardener menshew who went 14 of 24 for 130 yards they held him to a rating of 73 did a really really good job as good a game as that is though danny i'm not overly impressed by that which i get i mean the context always matters so this is based on a couple things to me no no let me go through the opus that yeah yeah sorry the giant's 21 to 15 uh a final where they lost to daniel jones in new york jones was good two touchdowns no picks through for 235 and then the other quarterback in the three-game stretch was trevor lorance which sounds like it's a challenge except that lorance has actually been one of the worst quarterbacks in the league this year and in that game he fed more incompletion 16 than completions 14 so i say all that to say they've played three bad quarterbacks in four weeks yes they're ranked ninth defensively yes they're ranked eight against the pass but i am not convinced that the brown's defense is who we all kind of thought it was going to be right so the thought it was going to be is the key that's where i was going i mean to cut you off earlier uh last year led the league in yards per play last year were second best to a historically great ravens defense uh in terms of uh net yards attempt uh net yards per pass attempt right they were excellent against the pass excellent in yards per play ended up being pretty good scoring defense because they had some short fields against them because their offense was pretty terrible their quarterback stunk but that defense hunted they're really really good on that side of the ball and when good results happen when you got expectations you go okay that fits the narrative right i know and your point is dead right each year so different we always kind of seem stunned and surprised that year over year with all the turnover and all the different changes that happened in the league that results may vary but on paper we think of it this is one of the great defensive groups in the league because last year they were and now you've got three out of four weeks with the first week probably the sample size you throw out like the russian judge where you'd go yeah this is a really good defense the argument against is what you just said they haven't played anybody whose offense is clicking or worth a damn they finished tied for number one in yards per play last year with the jets at four point five seven they were number two defensively in yards per play in the passing game they were really good they were also top three last year these are last year's numbers again and picking off passes about three and a half percent of the time and they were sixth in sacks per pass attempt they're always going to be okay in that stat because of Miles Garrett yeah he's pretty good they got a d p o i candidate there were the number one defense in the league at not allowing you to stay on the field and basically move the chains they were the lowest first down team allowed in the league 14.9 again now this is all last year it's been very different but they were the number one third down defense in the nfl right now washington's the number one third down offense in the nfl over 50 percent so if you look at the more relevant 2024 stats albeit in a smaller sample for cleveland what you see for them defensively is number eight overall number eight against the pass they are not picking off any passes they don't have one interception through four games that's kind of weird well weird considering the quarterbacks they played extremely for a team that picked passes off every team that you know is going to pressure I mean that that hurried throw that high throw because someone's about to hit you that hasn't happened they haven't been that good at pressuring yeah Miles Garrett has four sacks they don't have much else to speak of outside of that they're outside of the top 10 tied for 11th and sacks per pass attempt on third down where as I said last year they were you know right up at the top of the nfl number one this year the cleveland browns on third down seventh doing a pretty good job so I think it is a better test for sure this is going to be more revealing than playing the bangles who had been struggling the giants who haven't been very good but I'm not willing to say yet that this is the end all be all like the example I give you is if washington this week was playing against the broncos defense which has been phenomenal or even the jets or uh maybe the Steelers like those defenses I know are really really good I'm not sure yet if the browns have just benefited from schedule so I think the browns defense is good but I don't know is that is that a good way to put it like yeah that's my hypothesis now if we go if let's say washington does whatever the hell they want this weekend just like they did Arizona and frankly like they did to sense an adi and cleveland then goes on to have a good defensive season after that I'll go mad how validating is that like if we look back a month from now at what cleveland does post washington or if they go on and you know play well against washington defensively and then kind of continue on this track I'll go okay yeah this defense is frail just like they were last year with a lot of the same personnel a lot of the same schemes designs etc now they're hitting the ground running so my hypothesis is that this is still a really good defensive group that hasn't put it all together just yet in terms of the sacks and the pressures and the turnovers but those things are coming because that's like waves crashing on a shore you know it's a little bit hard for me to unsee too from just a couple weekends ago malleaked neighbors destroyed them towards them he only you know the the catches and yards weren't that great but he had two amazing touchdown catches and again daniel jones was just super effective i'll tell you where they've been really good though is the running game they have basically taken your best running back out of the game whoever that is for a given team travis etn had right around 50 yards on just under 15 carries for the jaguars devin single terry had a 16 carry 65 yard game i'm not telling you it's nothing but you don't rip off the 30 yard uh this past week against the raiders alex mattison who's the second back and this has been a theme actually had a big home run and they've given some things up to like secondary change of pace backs but if you actually look at the raiders thumpers a mere white he averaged 2.9 a pop 17 for 50 so it's almost like they key in on brian robinson who by the way isn't practicing again today and is very much in question i would say right now and then maybe it's it's where echler can hit him on a third and passing or you might get if echler is the starting running back in this game and he and make nickle split time maybe they really focus it on echler and mick nickels is the guy but it's been down the depth chart backs that have actually made some of the bigger plays against them and they've done a really good job keying in on starting running back yeah so they're down in down out yards per attempt allowed isn't particularly impressive but i think you've hit it really well it's diving into those numbers and how we got there there've been some runs ripped off against them but it's usually i don't know if it's like the third and give up like that old chris thompson draw play where they go we're not getting this let's let's give this guy you know eight nine yards and then give truss waist room to punt they've given up some yards but down in down out on the we think you're running you want to run let's have at it they've been excellent in that regard also the injury report for both teams looks like a scinderella to do list i mean there are ridiculous number of injuries for both clubs now most of the browns i will say that are listed are limited in practice and probably end up playing there's very few guys that just flat out are not practicing but there's they have a starting linebacker uh right now with ribs elbow triceps not practicing they have a starting defensive end right now with an illness who has not been practicing they have david and joker with the ankle did not practice so they're super banged up coming into this game i don't know that we could say a whole lot better about washing and nick alla gruddy was limited yesterday uh no a brown didn't practice yesterday brian robinson still wasn't practicing today so that's also part of this we're getting to the point of the season for the first time where the commanders aren't going to quite be at 100% from a personal standpoint yeah nobody is right but neither is the opponent where for the first few weeks it seemed like especially in washington's case they had their full allotment available and maybe alla gruddy goes no a brown goes robinson goes and it's no harm no foul but the missed practice time does add up that does matter oh it's all that is especially when this is new right you're still trying to uh you know uh make this stuff second nature you're trying to stay ahead of the defense yeah it's like wrinkles man like browns so now i have a month to watch and study and and okay here's where we're going to stop them and you know what cliff gingsbury's doing this week is staying one step ahead by implementing new things so that when they stop the thing from last week washington's new thing works yeah we already have a counter to it right yeah so i i'm still thinking of this is the best defense they've played so far i'm thinking of this as the best defense they'll play until they have some of those other teams that you mentioned on their schedule baltimore's defense uh pitzburg and and maybe a couple others so this will be a really interesting test again this is the first time they've dealt with a pass rusher like this in miles garret assuming that he plays assuming that he goes so i i'm really curious to see what the plan is i'm curious to see how they handle it right is this one of those not more confident we'll let lucas and calman just play football against him maybe a mistake but let's see is it we might have to sacrifice some things and early on in the game just say for the sake of argument think about the old joe gibbsway um we're going to run at this defensive end all the time even if it means we he stops us for a law stops us for one stops us for two we make that guy pursue and tackle pursue and tackle for huge chunks of the game then maybe you tire them out a little bit when you want to drop back and pass you didn't have the same juice we chip and we bother them every play maybe that's the way i'm fascinated to see what they do on the other side of the the ball this should be a week where the defense is able to string a second straight quality performance together because the browns offensively and particularly at the quarterback position with the john watson have just not played very well they have good weapons but that doesn't matter no it has it hasn't mattered at all i mean they have not been able to move the football consistently or score i think this is the best defense they're playing to although with all the time to prepare and the great design and calling of tot bowls maybe i'd give tampa bay of slight nod just because of the extra time going into week one maybe but when i open up the phones on this for you guys at eight hundred six three six one zero six seven do you consider this to be a big time test for this offense that all the sudden is the talk of the nfl and do you feel like this is a potential regression spot or do you think they can keep the train on the tracks here and continue to move the ball the way that they have mgm national harbor listener lines available at eight hundred six three six one zero six seven we're granting danny on the fan you you you you danny the aureles lost their tenth consecutive playoff game yesterday it came in yards they lose to the royals they got swept out of the wildcard round in two straight games i saw at nats fans were taking great pride in trolling on social media i guess i get the geographical rivalry i really do but i will never understand i don't know like oz fans i grew up a diehard aureles fan myself the nats weren't around like so many people my age and older but they're they're all around us like they're your buddies they're on your text chain they're i don't i've never really understood the nats fans who take great pride in the aureles losing our vice versa they're two different leagues that they're completely harmless in so many ways it's like for me personally with the nats out i wanted to see the o's go on a run they haven't won a world series since 83 i've so many amazing memories from my childhood at Camden Yards i got family members that are still diehard aureles fans but it was funny to see last night all of the glee being taken within the nats fan base that they lost yeah so i which again i'm with you i i understand it too i think i understand more than you that the the dynamic and how unusual it is and how you know there's a resentment that i think has always come from Baltimore towards Washington um then you add in this carve out because you already mentioned it neighbors our royals fans you know like the guy across the street from you was in Baltimore's territory now there's a team of our own in Washington and everyone must choose one i don't know um i mean to me if Washington's competing and the royals are competing i get a lot more anxiety about it but it's like i'm not really worried about the fact that i got a 91 lost team right down the street for me you know if the royals win lose or draw it's fine i didn't take as much glee or pride as i think maybe a lot of nats fans there's been a lot of talk about realignment in major league baseball though and this idea that they'll add a team and they'll get to essentially be a point where they're going to realign the divisions and it's almost a certainty if and when that happens and it might be five years away it might be longer most people are predicting that in the next handful year something like this will take place the nats and the o's would be in the same division almost certainly yeah and when that happens mm-hmm now we got ourselves a situation now that's a development what would be the new if you had to guess i mean obviously this is impossible what would be the new division let's say there's there'd be what five teams yeah i think it would be potentially something like Yankees Mets Orioles nationals fillies right there probably fillies oh man i mean you could do like a northeast honestly where the Yankees Mets fillies red socks uh toronto or something are all together and then maybe the Orioles luck out excuse me the nats and the Orioles both luck out and it's like o's nats and you get the Marlins maybe the Braves are in there well let's go so what about like a mid-Atlantic division so it's nats Orioles pirates fillies pirates love it and then maybe i don't know the fifth thing would be then you have like a southeast one which is like Marlins Braves teams down in that general direction i don't know i just know that when it was done i could pull up the divisions Jim Bowden actually at one point for the athletic did the realignment but he had the o's and the nats together and i was like yeah that's such a no-brainer because the idea is with a lot of these geographies where they were in different leagues think about like the the A's and the Giants although now that they're going from Oakland to Vegas it'd be different but the Angels and the Dodgers like such a huge deal when they played each other yeah it's the the all of those cross-town rivalries if they're in the same division and i mean that's just good for sports do you do you think do you not think that the Orioles rivalries with say the Yankees and the Red Sox is something that they wouldn't want to touch well if you're realigning then you're touching it you know what i mean yeah then then you shouldn't realign like that's what it's basically the conference thing with college football in my opinion so in other words with with college football if you wanted Maryland to keep playing Duke in North Carolina they got to stay in the ACC now that wasn't necessarily conference realignment as much as it was Maryland jumping but Maryland can't have it both ways right where they're like we want the money of the big 10 but also we need our rivalries i think if baseball wants the rivalries to remain the same in the division then you just you don't realign if you're realigning it's like the the NFL we don't think about it anymore but when the Colts used to be in the the different AFC division with different you know the AFC South wasn't a thing yet and the Cardinals were in the NFC East i just think uh it's it's new rivalries probably that are created or you keep a carve out for the special ones like with all the respect to these franchise they've been good uh at various points but like the Tampa and Blue Jays part of the AL East not as sacred as that Yankees Red Sox Orioles thing yeah like here's what i'll say for Darris's point the Yankees and the Red Sox are never not going to be in the same division baseball would not do that to itself right are the Orioles and the Yankees such great rivals now this could be sacrilege to some Orioles fan out there but is that rivalry so good that they would have to be in the same division they probably should be it's what we know but come on who's the Yankees biggest rival it's Boston right yeah of course could the Orioles be okay if now you're in a division with Washington instead and you don't have the Red Sox and the Yankees and like you're saying you got the gnats and the pirates and maybe it's the Phillies right up 95 i mean there's going to be quirky ones there's it's just not going to work out that everyone's right next door there's going to be some like Diamondbacks in the Central or whatever yeah i'm just making this up it's like you have your sacred cutouts right like in the Central Cubs and Cardinals have to be in the same division in in the East Mets and Phillies have to be the same division in the West Padres you know maybe or Dodgers Giants have to be in the same one that sort of thing where you keep a few sacred and then you can kind of rearrange everybody else i would i but i i don't know if teams get but hurt or owners you get but hurt by that or famous i would do that i didn't plan on doing this for the full segment but it's fun all right so this was Jim Bowden wrote this for the athletic in February of this past year so coming up on a year all right so he basically did the realignment for baseball he said for the Eastern Conference a la basketball hockey the East Division Boston Red Sox New York Mets and Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies there's your East Division the North Division in the Eastern Conference would be the Cincinnati Reds Cleveland Guardians Detroit Tigers and Toronto Blue Jays so you've got three from the Central kind and then the Blue Jays the Mid-Atlantic Division this is a little bit silly for the Washington Nationals by the way this is all based on an expansion team and and that's why they're realigning hypothetically so like his his was the Baltimore Orioles the Washington Nationals the Pittsburgh Pirates and then the Charlotte expansion team the Charlotte expansions is the similar exactly southeast Division Braves Marlins Rays and the Nashville expansion team okay so that's the two new teams because they're going 30 to 32 that's the whole that was what this was based on was that report Western Conference in the Midwest you go Cubs White Sox Brewers Twins so the twins essentially joined the the NL Central yep couple of teams with the White Sox then in the southwest you'd have the Astros Royals Cardinals and Texas Rangers which I think works in the Pacific he says you've got the Rockies the Las Vegas A's the Seattle Mariners and the San Francisco Giants and then in the west you've got the Diamondbacks Angels Dodgers Dodgers and Padres so it actually kind of works out geographically really well assuming that's where those two teams yeah that are being thought about that are still a gleam in their parents eye so to speak yeah miss like there's I know it's not the same out here but Dodgers Giants mean different divisions that's tough for me that's that one's hard yeah okay I mean they're and they're gonna be a couple I'm gonna try to catch them all is that you're I think that one stands out more than others yeah I mean just because that you know that the B.D.A. sort of vibe is as always been a thing but that's dude that's fun I like that what do we expect from Daniels and Washington's offense against the Browns we'll get into that next on G&D.