Grant and Danny
Daniels' Wins Rookie Of The Month, If The Commanders Are Good... Will The Name Stick?
Good Thursday afternoon. Welcome into Grant and Danny. It's October 3rd, 2024. You are listening to the fan. Excellent show lined up for you today. Commander starting center Tyler B. Oddish joins us in 90 minutes at 3 30. We're giving out tickets to the cap's home opener in two hours at four and we've got tickets to see death tones. We'll give those out in four hours at six o'clock right here on the fan. Danny, how are you? I don't want to sound very well. I don't want to send anything inflammatory. Remember, I agree with all of you and I disagree with the people I'm supposed to disagree with. I like what you like. I'm on your team. However, I need the kids to be in school. We have a no school thing today and a no school thing tomorrow. That's a no for me, dog. Here's my platform. Vote, rue in no election. I'll never run ever. But here's my platform. When the grownups are at work, the kids are in school. But Danny, what about when the grownups are at work? The kids are in school on work days. They're all so school days. Grownups are off. Yeah. Send them home. Let's go to the, to get the haircut. Let's go to the grocery store. Let's go to the playground. By all means, let's have a nice weekend. Let's get Airbnb somewhere. But when those grownups go to work, you know where the kids go? You got a court, you got it every time. There's one to one. There's no deviation. When the grownups go to work, the kids go to school, grownups go to work and the kids go to school. It's a little rhyme you can remember. I've got to thank all the people that reached out to me and who have wished me well for the prayers, the thoughts, everything means a lot. I fell going up my steps yesterday. Yeah. And I scratched my finger. I didn't know how you wanted to address it. If you want to just get out of the way, top of the show, it's the, you know, it's the big elephant in the room here. A little bit of blood. Show the, show the cameras on YouTube. Some skin was peeled. I can look at it. I am wearing this band aid right here. If you want to watch the show, you can do that on the one oh six, seven, the fan YouTube stream. Initially, upon my medical tests on the sideline right after it happened, you go to the blue test, they said there's no way you're coming back out. None. No way we see you again. Pretty sure I overheard Pam Oliver saying she's never seen anything quite like it in 34 years on the sideline. I'm here today and in show business. And as a hockey guy, that next shift is yours. Show must go on. So not all heroes star in the Avengers. I am here. I will be here all show long for you guys. I'm doing it for Danny. I'm mostly doing it for Daris and Ryan because they're counting on me. Yeah. But I'm also mainly doing it for you guys. So I don't, it's the immediate factor. So you don't know. It's always, we struggle to quantify things historically, but I'm so I'm trying to have some perspective on it, right? Talking about your injury and what you're dealing with, what I'm overcoming. Yeah. The braveness I'm showing. I respectfully, I would still go Ronnie Lott amputating the top of his finger. One debatable, but fine. You too. Jordan flu game. Three. Okay. I'll accept the term. So Ronnie Lott still to this day. Ron, did you have a top of your pinky? No. Why I cut it off to keep playing. That's one. You're number two. As an aside though, like stick aside, the worst thing that can happen in terms of minor nothing burger. No one feels bad for you injuries is whatever this is. It's one thing to scrape your finger. The thing we're like a little bit of a chunk, but you can't do anything about it. Just like, he's got leaves you just sit there and it's just open air and if the Band-Aid's not on it and it feels like somebody's stabbing at the entire time. Oh yeah. Again, I'm making a little bit of a joke, but I am super annoying. I am definitely feeling it at all time. So there's there's and this is not the same, but last night this is totally true. I bit my tongue harder than I've probably ever bit my tongue. That one stopped. It's on the left side where I think it was my canine. This guy right here. I think got it somehow and I screamed and everyone's looking at me at dinner. Like, what does the matter with you? I'm like, just leave me alone. Shut up. It's still bothering me. So, but like, you can't see it. That was last night. And you're here. Yeah. The courage. Right. And it's a talking mechanism that you're displaying and nobody like you because no one can see it. You're just going like, ah, I'm so sensitive. This really is bothering me. I just want to let everyone know that I'm that I'm in pain. I was like, shh, shh, shh, shh, quiet. People are having fun. Today's about perseverance. Yeah. On the gradient radio program. A congratulations is in order to Jaden Daniels. This is not a surprise in any way, but he was named the NFL offensive Rookie of the Month. Another one. That is what happens when you are named the Rookie of the Week three times. Another one in four possible weeks of football. And this is what happens when you have 24 scoring drives and only 19 in completions to this point on the year. This is what happens when you punt once in three games. Daniel's completing about 82% of his passes breaking NFL records in that regard. The player of the month among rookies, the offensive rookie of the month is Jaden Daniels, who sets the pace for this rookie class, 100% well deserved the start to his career. The start to his pro regular season game journey has been beyond anybody's expectations. And it would be one thing. If everyone else at the ground running two of Caleb Williams had started the same way, just slinging it around the yard, 300 yard passing game is multiple touchdowns or, you know, someone had done what Justin Herbert was doing or CJ Stroud was doing last year at this point. And nobody is. So even given the way the league is changing, the way the league is forcing, I would say more mature passing, meaning it's not just pat the rock, sling it down the field and see what happens. Yolo, it's cerebral, smart, check it down, close to line of scrimmage, read and react, get it out quickly. He's one of the fastest to get the ball out of his hands. Good decision making is there. The coaching staff is accentuating that and working in a really smart way. It's his award, obviously, he deserves it. But you share it with, with the context, you share it with everybody else. That's A, around the league not doing anywhere near as well as you are. And B, a coaching staff with a, with a good smart plan to accentuate those the first month has gone as well as it could have absolutely all expectations have been met or exceeded. And almost everything that could have happened offensively as either gone as planned or better. So it's just hard to not be really, really excited as they get ready for the Cleveland Browns as favorites at home on Sunday. We'll talk to center Tyler Beaudish, who's yet to be flagged for anything who is part of a offensive line that ranks number one in run blocking and number eight in past blocking. According to ESPN's metrics, four games into the season. He's going to join us coming up in about an hour and 20 minutes. Dear point, everyone's had a share in this thing. The receiving room has played well. The tight ends have been good. The blocking at the tight end position's been fantastic. The old line, the coaching staff, Daniels himself, the running back room. And it's just in everybody's eating kind of situation right now. And it's been a really a lot of fun to watch. I saw something online last night that brought a smile to my face. My lips were filled filled with smile. Today marks the first of 55 days. Do you know what is going to happen for 55 straight days? I believe we don't have a day or evening as it were without a football game starting today. And for the next 55 days in a row, there will be a football game on either by way of college or the NFL that you can watch. You probably have to have a bunch of apps, but most of us do anyway. If you got a smart TV, you can probably watch those. There'll be a couple little tester boundaries. There'll be like a to lane, you know, New Mexico state game, you know, at midnight somewhere. This is always my favorite part though of the fall when this happens. It's go time. Grab that seatbelt. Make sure it clicks and let's get ready to rock and roll. Grab that catch that beautiful butterfly pal Thursday night football tonight. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Atlanta Falcons plan the NFC South Rock. I don't know what's better for Washington here. I would imagine you pick a team that you think wins that division and you want them to win so that there are fewer South teams theoretically with a good record that you're competing with for the wildcard. And if that's the case, then you probably want the bucks to get to four and one. They'd be the favorites pretty heavily in the South rather than two, three and two teams and the potential for three if the Saints were to win this weekend, all tied for first place. But should be an entertaining game. Falcons favored narrowly at home against a bucks team. It's actually been better than them this season. So the line's a little bit interesting. Yeah, I want to get back to that in a second, but just in terms of rooting for to me, it's Tampa and it's not close because that's easily better for Washington. It's not quite the college football adage where anybody who beats you, you want them to run the table so that your loss looks better in the eyes of voters. There's no voters. Obviously in pro football, but if someone's going to win that division, you'd like the leader in the division to win that division, especially because they already beat you. You're quite literally trying to take away another potential spot from somebody else. The NFC South winner will go to the post season. What I mean is if you think Tampa is going to be good, then you want that. If you don't think the bucks are the best team in the division as an example, like the Falcons, a few weeks ago coming into the year, I didn't really get it. But a lot of people had them as the NFC South favor. Yeah, I did. If that is the case and you still think Atlanta's the best team and they got off to, you know, the bad week one start with cousins coming off the Achilles offensively, you know, they could have won the Kansas City game. They didn't. If you think when it's all set and done, they're the best team in the South, then you shouldn't want Tampa Bay to get off to a four and one start because for the same reason we're talking about with the commanders beating the Browns, it starts to get really hard to not imagine a team winning nine or 10 games. It's the same thing for Tampa Bay. So I think it's, it's mainly going to come down to just what do you envision the bucks being the rest of the way? Right. And so I guess that's, that's a fair counter. My vision is the bucks of the best team in that division. It looks like it. Their loan loss is a really bad loss. Yes. I mean, they were gross. They played terribly. They played a Denver team that's not good and they lost 26 to seven in a putrid performance, but their wins are very solid. They dominated Washington. They beat Detroit. I thought they got outplayed in that game. It doesn't really matter. You don't need style points when you beat a team like the lions considered the best in the conference. And then they doubled up the Eagles this past weekend. Yeah, they beat a vulnerable team. I don't know if the Eagles, the Eagles weren't good last week. I still think the Eagles will be good, but they're not yet. And they did what you should do. They beat the brakes off a team. They're better than big game for the Falcons though. They're at home for the second time in two weeks. They snuck out a win. They probably shouldn't have against the New Orleans Saints this past week on a final minute field goalie got down the field via PI and then kicked a young way, cool game winner from like 55 yards. So they got that win. If they can win this game, they would be three and two with a near win against Kansas City as the only loss in their last four games at that point and then Carolina and Seattle coming up on the schedule. So a nice opportunity for them to possibly get to four and two if they could beat Tampa Bay. Interestingly, their only two losses would be against AFC teams at that point too, which would really help them. That is about as tiebreaker friendly as it gets. I know it's truly to start thinking about that, but look, if commanders are going to be good and they're three and one trying to get to four and one, we might as well start looking at some of these conference wild card friendly type games. It's relevant through the lens of what Washington might want. So they played Tampa twice in four weeks here, which is kind of crazy, right? So they open up Tampa tonight. Do you like that or not? So I like it when it used to happen ever until like five years ago, I like it at the end of the season when you get all your conference games in, going to go to your division games in that way, you you sprinkle one earlier, but for whatever reason, their chunk is in the middle of the season. So it's Tampa, Carolina, two divisional games, then Seattle, then Tampa again, another divisional game, Dallas divisional game at the Saints. They in their last, I think it's six games or seven games. They only have one divisional game. So you used to seeing that like we stack the divisional stuff at the back end. They're stacking theirs in October and early November. I still don't feel though in the NFL about the games really close together. We've seen in the last couple of years, I think Washington did this once actually, where they had a game against the Giants a bi-week and a game against the Giants. That was that twice. When I was a kid, that never happened. You would have a game against the team in the first four to five weeks in your division. And then you'd have one in December, basically. You wouldn't see them for long periods of time, but there's normally one or two times every NFL season now where teams are separate play twice in three weeks. I don't know that I love that. I don't love that. So at the end of the season, I could sort of get down with that maybe, but the the Giants by Giants, that was stupid. Don't do that. Separate it by at least two games. You know, you play a team once in, you know, five weeks or twice in five weeks. I can sort of deal with that. If it, if it's kind of, you know, down at the end of the season, but right in the middle, I found it utterly bizarre. But anyway, but to Atlanta specifically, they're it's, it could be glass half full glass. I've had two with them, right? They've been in every game, right? They've lost every game or won every game by a score. It hasn't seemed great, but they found away a couple times. So maybe you kind of go, okay, if we get our footing, we could be the best team in this division. Or this is what we are. It's a coin toss every week. It's going to come down to one possession. He's Danny. I'm Grant. You're listening to the fan teller. Be oddish today at three 30 and those tickets to the cap's home opener right here at four o'clock. Jaden Daniels is Jersey is the number one selling Jersey in the national football league. I saw somewhere and I don't know if this is true that he also has the second highest selling Jersey over a short period of time based on the other color. Like you could go white, you could go burgundy, whatever point being the guy is right now the biggest star in the national football league and you cannot turn on a national shouty show where they're not doing some topic about where he ranks and how good he is and how lucky we are in Washington, which is a fact. We might have found the thing we've been searching for for decades. We were out on the beach, Danny, like that old guy who woke up really early with his little, you know, his beeping machine, his little metal finder. Little metal detector. Beep. Beep. And we might have finally found the thing with the buried treasure. So we're lucky. We're happy about that. But because of his Jersey sales kind of got me to thinking about him being the guy, the commander is right now being the 18th. Then I saw this quote from Roger Goodell on Good Morning Football. Have you heard what he said about the commanders this week? Oh, I saw it. I'm going to read this quote to people. Goodell on NFL Network did a morning interview. This was two days ago. It would have been on Tuesday. I know what that franchise means to that community. You can see they're on the right path. I just think that team is on the rise. I think it'll be fun for the league to have them back. Now there's a lot you can pull out of that quote. First of all, I think it's an amazing quote to say have them back because it really does feel like we've been on our own island out here. Not really a part of the NFL. Just completely irrelevant for a long time. Yeah, everyone kind of had to play pretend, right? I mean, because you it's really hard to remove an owner. It took what we just went through, which is lawsuits, you know, minority owners, suing court cases involving Bruce Allen, John Gruden, potentially behind the scenes testimony debt that couldn't be repaid. And all the strong arming in the world is what it took to pry that tyrant away from his team. It's not the owners are set up to be owners. That's what the whole league is. It's a 32 give or take with green may being exception, but basically 32 billionaires in a club. And that's what this is. That's all for their amusement, really, and to make a lot of money. It's not set up to remove them. I think it'll be fun for the league to have them back. It reminds me of the member of the family that was cast off. You got into the relationship that everyone else didn't support or, you know, you went down the wrong path and they tried to help you and they couldn't. And eventually they just kind of wrote you off and said they'll come back maybe. We'll see. And you're back. And you're at Thanksgiving again and you're hanging out again and everyone's just kind of, you know, punching the arm going, Hey, it's good to have you back Danny. That's the vibe, right? Feeling, yeah. But between that comment and the Daniels Jersey sales, it has brought back this idea that we're only probably an excellent football season away. We're a couple of really good football seasons away from it being a lot harder to get rid of this name. And I want to know if you're ready to make peace with that, Mr. Ruya. If the commanders are good, the name is going to stick. Now, I tweeted something to this effect a couple days ago at Grand H. Paulson. And most of the responses are angry people telling me how much they hate the name and how I'm done. And that's fine. But I'm not telling you, you will like the name more because they're winning. That's what people are yelling me at me as if I said, that's not what I said. You got to listen to me. I'm not suggesting if you don't like the name that the name will grow on you. Although that may eventually happen. That's certainly not my point. My point is, and I think this is actually just common sense. If the commanders are really good and they win 11 games for the first time since 1991, if the commanders get to the playoffs and win a game for the first time in 19 years and then come in the next year, expected to be good and do another double digit win thing where they get to the playoffs and maybe go on a run. It just gets more difficult to change the name. And I just want everyone to understand that. I'm not saying you shouldn't be rooting for that. I'm not saying we should be hoping they lose. That would be ridiculous. I'm just saying it's time to make peace with this fact that if they're good and they have a quarterback that everybody likes check and jerseys are flying off the shelves and commanders merchandise is being purchased at a rate that it wasn't previously and they become the cool team nationally, which we're already seeing, and they become the team in town, which we're starting to see the name is not going anywhere. The great Thomas soul has a quote that I often reference. There are no solutions, only trade offs. This is the trade off. I hate the name. It reminds him of Dan Snyder. I can't say it because it reminds me of Snyder. The whole thing is just Snyder to me. He ruined everything. And this was his last echo of his time here. I can't stand it. I hate the name. I hate it so much. I tried to never say it. It's sticking. This is the plan. I'm telling you all along. This is the plan. They're going to kick the can down the road because they'd rather not spend the millions of dollars on the rebrand and the read this and the reread this and then this PR campaign and this sun veiling and then it's due to 22. Yeah, you could change the name again. You could change it down a lot if it doesn't. If you don't have to do it, they're not going to do it. And the every Jaden Daniels current team name Jersey that sold is another reason not to change it again. It's going to stick. And this is how it's going to stick. Is there good and it's going, well, we got enough? I think the premise is irrefutable. Frankly, I think this is common sense, right? The better the football team is, the more likely the name sticks. Can you make peace with that? That is the question for you guys as we open up the MGM National Harbor listener lines. 800 6361067 is the number 800 6361067 on Grant and Danny on the fan. Thank you. for watching. I'm Danny on the fan. I'm Danny on the fan. I'm Danny on the fan. I'm Danny on the fan, taking you up to 630. And I'm Danny on the fan. I'm Danny on the fan. Taking you up to 630 and the preview of Thursday night football tonight, Tyler Biotich of the commanders suddenly revered offensive line stops by at 330. Right now we have opened the show by discussing the fact that the upstart club has the name getting more positive connotations nationally. Nobody's really second and third guessing themselves before they say commanders on the shouty shows as they're yelling about how good they are and how good Jaden Daniels looks. And the question for you guys here locally, where the name is not popular is, I guess aid you agree with what seems to be a pretty obvious premise that the better the team does, the harder it's going to be to change the name. 800 6361067. And then I guess more importantly, can you make peace with that? So I would, I would offer one potential rephrased also real and some even more people. It becomes less necessary to change the name. It becomes less of a priority to change the name. In other words, Josh Harrison company repeatedly said like we're not thinking about that right now. And it implies that you would think about it later. It because there's no need to think about it later. There's, you know what I mean? It's, it's a one point point point to when he had his one press conference before the season. Are you doing any research? Are you guys aware based on that research that the name isn't resonating or do you have research that says otherwise? And I'll paraphrase his answer, but he basically said that they were doing research and then it does matter that the name is not popular. And so the, the, the better brand association that you get with something, the less need there is to change the brand. Exactly. It's fundamental. It's marketing. It's economics 101. It's your, your first business class. Welcome to business school. If somebody likes your brand, if your Coca Cola, don't change it to something totally different. You got a pretty good brand going. I was texting with a buddy who's a lifelong fan of the team today and we were discussing this very thing. And he had made the point that it doesn't really matter if the people who are angry that it's not Redskins ever come back or not. If it becomes cool enough that the casuals join because you grow a new fan base. Correct. In other words, you fill up RFK stadium with every single person who is at every single game who knows Jurgensen and, and who knows John Riggins and all those guys stat lines and say every single one of them doesn't care as this team's playing in a playoff game in January. But think about seventh and F streets when the capitals went to the Stanley Cup. Think about the Navy Yard when the nats went to the World Series. There were so many people dancing in the streets and partying and buying your red T-shirts to rock who couldn't tell you who Chandler Stevenson was on the cap's third line and didn't necessarily know who Tanner Rainey was in the nats bullpen. But it was the thing to do. It was kind of fun and they became fans that still go to caps games a couple times a year that still go to nats games a couple time of year. So while my point is I think it does matter to still appease and appeal to that fan base that's been disenfranchised. This point is the numbers. It's just math. Like the numbers will grow exponentially. Young people don't care that it's not Redskins anymore. A random 10 or 12 year old my son who's a toddler who when we were in the store pointed to the Jaden Daniels jersey because he hears dad talk about him and said he wanted the jersey. They don't care that it's not Redskins. And so if they're the cool team, if they're the team with the quarterback, it's just going to happen naturally. Let's go to the phones. George is in Fredericksburg on the fan. Hey, George. Hey boys, what's going on, man? Thank you as always for taking my call. I appreciate it. You got it. And just to answer your general question, first off, yeah, I guess you would have to be a piece with it. But I would argue that it is refutable because right now we're saying that Jaden Daniels jersey is the one that's flying off the shelf. So are we breeding commander's fans or are we breeding Jaden Daniels fans? So what I'm saying is that if he decides to leave after his contract and all the extensions are put on there and he decides to leave and those jerseys are no longer selling, are we still the commander's name is still going to fuck. So it's just going to be predicated on how long is Jaden there or the next Jaden. So it's a good point, but it doesn't matter for the greater conversation because the point is the purchase is being made. The merch is moving. The merch is being worn. The gear is out there. We're going from a time where nobody wants to buy gear to a time where they will. So the reason why they're buying it, if I'm Josh Harris, doesn't really matter. It just becomes part of the fabric. Instead of walking down the street and never seeing anything that said commanders and seeing a bunch of stuff that said Redskins, you'll start to see more stuff that says commanders. Right. And so from their perspective, what impetus do they have to change it? It's working. You know what I mean? Like we have to do nothing. You could do nothing to make a bunch of money or you could spend a bunch of money in the hopes the new thing works. The point is it's now the path of least resistance. 800-636-1067. Shane DC, you're on Grant and Daniel. Commander, how are y'all doing today, Grant? Good. First of all, we'll give a shout out to my hometown, man. Tennessee just got, you know, just got destroyed by the hurricane. So shout to my people down there. But look, man, I think the name's going to change. Regardless of what it is, I think like Commander headed on the head, it's still left over and then just not her. I mean, it's still part of him that is in this city. And I don't care if they go out when it's Super Bowl. I don't think I think they changed as it's going to be now. But no, but the name needs to change. They need a new brand to get away from that snider, that horrible owner that we had here, that's Stumbag. But no, I think that right now it's a priority. Like you said, no, they got more things to worry about. Stadium, things is not nature. But I think the name is what it is for the next couple of years. But I do believe that this name will be changed regardless if they win or not. I mean, like the last color said, are we fans of the players? Are we fans of this team? Players come and go in this league as you know, and it felt not for long. So my my theory is it's going to be a couple of years. No, hurry. But I do believe that this name's going to be changed. It's never going to go back to the Redskins as we know. It's not going to happen. But I think we can get a better name than the damn commander. Well, I'm with you on that and I hope everybody, you and yours are all happy and healthy and safe, scary stuff. But just to the trivial matter of the name itself, I hope you're right, honestly. But I guess the point here is I don't know how to say it better than this. If I'm if I'm ownership, I go, this is a lever we can pull. If things don't go well in the football field, which happens, by the way, draft picks don't pan out guys get hurt or, you know, the bottom falls out or turns out we made the wrong choice somewhere. It's a regular football operation and those things happen. The wrong GM, the wrong coach, the wrong, whatever, right? If we're not playing well, if we can't pull the shiny new stadium card, if we can't do the thing that's going to try to reengineer or re-excite this fan base, that is a lever we can pull. If we don't have to pull it and spend the man hours, the consulting fees, the reprinting and all the, you know, the policies that you have to do to file the trademarks, we're off to do that. We're not doing it. He said if they win a super bowl, it won't matter. They'll change the name that I completely disagree with. Now, I don't know what the line of demarcation is. If they get to this point, then you can't change it. But and maybe he was being hyperbolic. If they were to win a super bowl in the next three years, they're the commanders forever. I mean, again, look at the capitals and the nats runs, which are a microcosm of what a super bowl run would be in this town. It would be unlike anything we've, we've seen in my lifetime, literally ever in sports in this city. The dance nighter would be such an afterthought. Nobody would be talking about him anymore. They will have already turned the page or at least that's what they will have sold at that point. So what about if they get to an NFC championship game? Is that enough? Is a playoff win or back-to-back ears with playoff wins enough? I'm not sure. But I just think it's common sense that there's going to be more positive connotations to the name. There will be more buy in for the operation and there will be gear everywhere if they are winning football games. And if you're the owners, you go, wait a second. This is a gigantic expense. It is a gamble anyway that they like the next thing. It is something the league would rather us not do as it is. It's a huge pain in the tuckus. Why are we doing this when things are trending well at this point? Let's go to Leo and Gaithersburg. What's up, Leo? What's going on? Brand, Danny, thanks for taking my call. The name's sticking. No matter what anybody says, even if we don't want a super bowl, even if we have the next five, six losing season, I think it's sticking. Just because I'm gonna let you keep going. I don't want to cut you off, but from making the rest of your point. But I just want to say, I do I disagreed with that before this season. And I still would disagree. Like if they don't have positive memories that go along with the name and the purchases and all those things that come to change the perception, there's just too much research right now that's been done that shows that the fan base hates the name. Right. Just like you, my five year old daughter, she has no idea who the rest is wearing. We were in VIX last weekend. She wanted a little cute commander's cheerleading dress. It's a good way when we watch the games together. Like, you know what I mean? That I bet she got it. Did she get it, Leo? I bet she did. She did because I don't have to DVR the game that she's cheerleading for me. I can watch him live, right? Yeah. But here's the thing. What about Danny? And I'm with you. Like I really didn't like the name. I didn't even like the way they could even close the blinds. Remember? Are they on? Oh, of course. Yeah. Come on. They couldn't even like that. They couldn't even the foresight, right? It wasn't there. But what is the rebrained of the commanders? My favorite commander's jersey that I like apparel that I have is this bootleg t-shirt I got the Dan Quim one with the W and the F of it, right? My favorite piece of gear because it's no boss to the past and for future. What is the rebrained of the commander's brand? And we had that circle. We had the W. Well, they're not going to go back with anything with the feather. Thank you, buddy. I mean, a I'll just cut you off at the pass there. Nothing with Native American imagery is going to be used. It's just not going to happen moving forward. But if they redid the brand a little bit, I think that is on the table with help. They get rid of these dumb jerseys immediately and bring back the old jerseys. That'll be the first thing they should do. They should be doing that next year as far as I'm concerned. Bring back the Super Bowl era jerseys and get rid of these stupid colors and these stupid jerseys. That's one step. If they do a few things like that and it's commanders and they're winning. I'm sorry, guys. Get get used to the name. Yeah, I mean, the best comp we can offer here is different contexts for where the name was changed, but with wizards and bullets. I still hate wizards, by the way. There's there's no point in fighting it. Right. The fight is over. I lost decades ago. Such a good point because everyone wants to argue about, I'm not going to like the name. I'm not telling you you're going to like it or that everyone will. If you pull wizards fans right now, how many people like the name? It's probably below 30%. But all, but all, you know, anybody Ryan's age, even your age and below, probably don't even remember bullets. You don't remember that that name meant something. I barely have a file, but my earliest memories are their first year as the wizard. Yeah. And so the, the point is you, you just, you take their out of the ball, you wait and wait and wait and wait and this is just what it is. I still hate wizards. I can't stand it. It's a terrible name that should never have been changed. And yet here I am. I've accepted it. And I'm not at peace with it, whatever that the distinction is. I don't like it at all. But there's nothing I could do about it. And I think that's the best case for a lot of us using that phrase making peace. Can you make peace with this team name? If times get good around here because if they continue to win, you might have to grant and Danny on the fan. [silence] GND on the fan. Tyler Biotish on the show at 330 today. That's coming up at about 45 minutes. We want to give the O line some love. They've been outstanding. Commanders coming back home to take on the Cleveland Browns at Northwest Stadium on Sunday afternoon rolls off the tongue nicely just like dad did it. He's going to see his commanders at Northwest Stadium. Yeah. Have time chains at all. I'm looking and trying to look anything up. If they keep winning though, times might not change that much more. Yeah, you're going to downtown DC to watch a play right now. You're not east of the city to go to Northwest. I think I've always assumed when they're in their new stadium in 2030, the 11 new name. That's kind of the timeline. It'll be before then at some point, but not immediately. But if they hit on the quarterback and Daniels is Josh Allen or he's Lamar Jackson, and they're selling games out and people care again, and everyone's got his jersey, they're not changing the name. I just don't see a path to that because even though Danny's still going to want the name changed and I'm still going to want the name to something different. A lot of people will, but they won't be the need. Every person, I don't want to say everyone, probably at a 90 plus percent clip, right? The people that hate the name are going to continue to hate the name. You're going to be replaced by some guy who hadn't been a fan of the team that now is. By some girl who wasn't a fan of the team, who was just playing fantasy football, who now loves Jaden Daniels and the really good team in her backyard enough that she goes to the games and they don't care who it is. They just want the butt in the seat. Yeah, there's a there's an old phrase that's usually related to politics. So everybody, you know, adult pants on here will be fine. I promise you guys will be fine. But people vote with their pocketbooks. Don't say the word vote, dude. It's October 3rd. The elections is almost a month away. We don't want to scare anyone away. Please do show meeting. Do not say the word. I would never say it. Okay. I would never say it. People wrote with their pocketbooks. Okay. Right. The point is, if money's being made, I'm sorry. I'm sorry about your principal stance. I'm sorry how about how I'm angry. I'm over here furious. I can't stand that. I hate it. I just see Snyder's smirking dumb face. I can't change anything. If people are but like every jersey that's sold with the current name on it is another step walking away from me going, but we come back, change it. The wife and I never had a conversation about this, but it became very obvious after several weeks. We were not buying anything that said commanders. This is not some hard and fast rule. And for me, I don't wear team gear really anyway, but we just weren't going to make any of those purchases, right? The stuff she would buy for the kids would just say Washington, Washington football, the football team, whatever. My son walks in the door with a commander's Jaden Daniel's jersey. And I kind of looked at her and I was like, I guess we're doing this now. She's like, he wanted a Jaden Daniel's jersey. That tells you something. As does the coverage all over the country right now. Let's go to disco and Laurel on GND. What's up, disco? Hey, gentlemen. How you doing? What's up, buddy? Hey, man. So look, here's, here's what I think is going to happen. I think the same thing could happen like it happens with the caps and maybe the nationals. DC is such a transient town. And you have, you do have some diehards who have been here. But when you've got people, when they start winning and people casually, it becomes a social event to go to the games. Totally. You know, you're not going to buy your 10 year old kid, Amani Coleman jersey. You're not going to buy, you know, you're not going to have some congressional age. It's, oh, you know, let me go get a, let me go get a, you know, a art month jersey. People are going to buy Jaden Daniel's jerseys. You might buy Brian Robinson or whomever. And just, and just on that note, I literally guys literally an hour ago just got back from the team store at the stadium and bought a Jaden Daniel's jersey after I emphatically said that I would not. I put it on Twitter. I said, I wasn't going to do it. And damn, if I didn't do it, dude, here we go. I mean, this is kind of what we're talking about. I got a tweet here. I'm at Grand H. Paulson Danny. Is it funny Danny? This is from Anthony. He says this and all caps is the reason why I was begging them to put a higher priority on changing the name exactly because of the possibility of becoming a winning franchise with it. And to that, I would say this is exactly why they didn't put a higher priority on changing the name. Agree with all of it because they took the air out of the ball and said, maybe if we hit on the quarterback, we don't have to. And so far, it looks like they hit on the 100% my friend. Let's go to Chad and Alexandria on the fan. Hey, Chad. What's up? I was thinking my call got to do. So I'm 20 a year old and I've been a lifelong wrestling fan, which means I've never seen a point before or any winning tradition. So I couldn't care less with the name as long for winning. I think a lot of people are going to feel that way. Yeah. And that's kind of the point. And I get that by the way, I don't pregrudge that because if you never had the unbelievable amount of joy that people my age and older had, where's your association? You're only memories of the then Redskins were expectations, disappointment, scandal and nonsense. So yeah, what brand attachment do you have? I can work arounds to be clear. I got a guy Jimbo here saying, do what me and my buddies are doing. And he's got a picture of some site where you can still make your own Redskins jersey. And so I don't know what's going to shut down, brother. I don't know what country it comes from. I don't know what viruses he get, but they're getting Jay Newton Daniels jerseys there. I got another guy who sent me a picture of his new jersey, which is a white LSU jersey with like the gold trim. So it doesn't look that different from an aerial shot, necessarily. You're wearing white. It's a Daniels like he's going, I'm not buying a commander's jersey. And while I respect the hustle, that's just not what most people are going to be doing. They're going to, where's the closest? I almost dated myself and said, uh, Modell's, but where's the closest dicks? Where is it? Is sports authority even a thing? I think so. Where's the closest sports authority? They're going to go get their jersey because it's right around the corner. Sports authority did shut down, by the way, everywhere or just some everywhere, bummer. I mean, this whole segment is just a, I remember when I was young, dude, you have a go to sports authority. They had all sorts of things. We'd go to sports authority. And then we'd go right over to KB toys and then we'd end our day at Kmart. Yeah, I swung by Kmart. That's still around. It's not okay. Friendlies. Don't tell me friendlies is gone too. I, a lot of times I peruse the CDs of tower records and the hopes of purchasing a new one. 800 636 1067. You want to hop in on G and D. Are you with us that wins are going to make it harder to replace the name. This is Grant and Danny. Also at the top of the hour, there could be another change coming to the new kickoff that makes it even easier for you to get the ball closer to midfield.