Grant and Danny
Beltway Blitz, Commanders Player Props vs CLE, Former Nats Closer Drew Storen Joins G&D
10.4.24 Hour 3
1:00- Virginia Tech- Bill Roth, NFL- Zach Krueger, Commanders- Kevin Sheehan
21:00- We get to our Commanders player props for week 5 against the Browns, who will go under and who will go over?
34:00- Former Nats closer Drew Storen joins G&D to discuss a new bourbon he has introduced to the DC area.
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Hey NFL fans, you can start the season with a big return on FanDul, America's number one sports book. So when you get a hunch in the middle of the game, you can check out the latest stats, view live play-by-play, and so much more on the same page where you place your bets. You'll get started with $200 in bonus bets guaranteed when you place your first $5 bet. That's fandul.com/sportsfan. Never waste a hunch and make every moment more with FanDul, an official sports book partner of the NFL. Must be 21+ and present in Colorado, first online real money weights are only $10 first deposit required. Bonus issue does now withdrawable bonus bets that expire seven days after receipt. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fandul.com. Gambling problem, call 1-800-522-4700. Greetings Danny, live from the Atlas Brew Works in Alexandria. We are here until 630 tonight. Stop by and say hello, we're on Mandeville Lane. They've got 15 taps, dozens of TVs. Plus delicious pizza, although you better get here soon because Danny's going to eat it all. Am I right here? Who's your guy? Come on. How about a good thing? Come on, what would you just do there? What was that? What's that? I thought you just ate pizza. Oh, I did. What'd you do? I ate another piece of pizza. I don't know, what's the flavor that you just consumed? Oh, I didn't understand what you're asking. This was just straight pepperoni. I saw it come out of the oven and I said that. I want that. I've done pepperoni, this is each. I've done kind of that rugot kind of variety, but what pizza-- I'm a little bit surprised you didn't do something weirder. Normally, you get like a pizza with a lot of weird stuff on it. No, I did like a margarita situation, just kind of a palate cleanse to go from one of the other. It's just an adult sophisticated taste. I don't really want the one with mushrooms and onions. I see people do it. I need one more piece of pizza. That's coming later. Time to plan your future, though, the exclusive sponsor of our show, the law firm, Candorian Murad, the update, your last will and testament set up a trust for you and your family. Schedule a free consultation with their estate planning attorneys today. Visit kmloyers.com, tell them we sent you so you can get a discount, kmloyers.com. We're going to be covering the NFL and the commanders on this Beltway Blitz, but let's get things started on the grid iron. Remember we're giving away tickets in just a couple of minutes as well to caps opening nights, so be sure to be listening as this segment goes along. We got to start, though, with the Virginia Tech Hokies because the last time we saw the Hokies, what a heartbreaker that was. A 38-34 loss to Miami. I still don't know if the call was correct or not. Bill Roth, speaking of the call, was on the mic as number eight Miami survived Virginia Tech. Bill, take us back to National TV Thursday a little over a week ago. What do you think? Well, they called it a touchdown on the field and they've always told us that you need indisputable video evidence to overturn a call, and I don't know that that was effective as the rule this past week. They called it a touchdown. They looked at it for six minutes and then they overturned it. I think there are a lot of Hokie fans that would dispute the call, and I know that when they explained that to Coach Pry during, he mentioned during his press conference, he asked the supervisor of officials, what about indisputable video evidence, and there was not a satisfactory answer in the coach's mind to that question. Preview this one for us. Long time ACC folks Stanford on the Virginia Tech schedule. I haven't gotten used to it, Bill. I apologize. Maybe, you know, 50 years from now, I haven't figured out, but what do we need to know? Well, I'm actually at the stadium now. We came over. The team flew out yesterday. We've been an extra day out here in the Bay Area, so they got here last night. The stadium is beautiful, looking out loud at the mountains here in the Bay Area. The one thing that is a bit surprising, it's really hot. It's going to be in the '90s tomorrow, and depending upon how it goes, this could be the hardest game on record in Virginia Tech football history tomorrow, which is a surprise, especially after playing a game in Miami last week. They're expecting highs in the mid-'90s, totally unseasonable for this time in October. We don't know if Stanford started quarterback is going to play tomorrow. Western Daniels, really explosive running QB from Georgia, had a really nice game at Syracuse, which they won two weeks ago. Played pretty well. The score was deceptive last week down at Clemson. Stanford's one-in-one. This will be their first-ever ACC home game, and they expect a good crowd here for it. There's a bit of a festive atmosphere on this campus for the game. Stanford's been really good against the run, and number one in the ACC and eighth nationally. They're only giving up 80 yards a game on the ground. So I think the Tech can run the ball tomorrow, with Baschel Tutin, will be one of their real keys. Povey's have not been a good passing team the last four weeks. Chiron Jones has not thrown the ball particularly well. I guess you credit defenses for that, so I think it's going to come down to contact run the ball against Stanford's team. How should we feel about the start to the season? It goes without saying the two-in-three records of a massive disappointment, but at least in the Miami game, it seems like things are trending in the right direction. So where you have a big picture with the program and the campaign here? Well, I think that's why tomorrow is huge. There's a huge difference between being three and three going into an open day, two and four. You know, Tech's lost three games by three, by three, and by four. So they've been darned close. They're not that far away from being undefeated, and had they won that game, we'd be talking about the same guys being ranked like what, eighth in the nation coming into this game tomorrow? But they're not. They're under 500. So I think they showed against Miami last Friday night down at Hard Rock that they've got the athletes, they ran the ball great against the canes over 200 yards. They led for 90% of the game on Miami's home field. So you can see the talent is there, the experience is there. They've got really good players. They just got to put it together, and we'll see how they, if they could somehow forget about the end of that game at Hard Rock last Friday, yet take the momentum of how they played into this game tomorrow here on the West Coast. If they can do that, they come back at three and three, they've got four of the next six at home. They've got a shot. And what coach prior told the team is if they finish strong, if they win these games, they're going to be favored just about every game the rest of the way. They can get a rematch with Miami in the ACC Championship game, but it starts against Stanford tomorrow. They won another shot of the canes for sure after the way that game ended last week. Bill, thank you as always, man. Have a great call. Thank God. We'll see my friend. There he goes. Hit that NFL sounder, please, Dares. Our pals at Kruger joins us to break down the league. It's a pretty good weekend. Nice little moving weekend. Some proof at games. I want to start Texans bills. Neither team comes in, particularly hot, Buffalo got shellac last week. The Texans got drub two weeks ago. In this past week, barely eked out Jacksonville, a couple injuries are watching. What's the cue to that game for a sec? Yeah. So the first year of this game, I would say it's going to be the Texans running game. Joe Nixon expected to be back in week four. He gave it a test that didn't work out for him. A lot of people thought he was going to come back in week five from that ankle injury that he suffered. And now, Nixon, another week of not practicing, he has since been rolled out. Damian Pierce, he only got one practice in this week, so we could be looking another week of Kim Acres and Dario Gumbolale for the Texans. That probably doesn't bode too well for their rushing attack as a team. The Texans have averaged three and a half yards per carry with Nixon out. And they get back. Tinked down this one, who missed last week with a chest injury. So Tinked down is going to hopefully help build that Tekken passing game a little bit, which we obviously know also features the fond eggs and lead leading receiver Dico colleagues and receiving yards. They all should have a big impact from this one. I think average five and five and a half yards a game before his injury. And on the other side, the ball for the build, Clear Shakira rolled out with an ankle injury. He leads the build in all receiving categories. rookie Keanu Coleman is going to have to set up a step, step up. And when I think it's going to really be a game, truffle of points and hopefully a lot of passing plays for those interested in that sort of thing. Zach, how about the Giants and the Seahawks? I just saw that Malik neighbors with the concussion is not going to play. That is a bummer, man. Yeah, yeah, it's a bummer, especially if you have him in fantasy and the league neighbors have been huge as far as that goes and obviously huge, so the Giants as a whole. This actually creates a very interesting scenario for one Dale Robinson. Let me know if you guys knew this beforehand. One Dale Robinson, third year player at Kentucky, is currently fifth in the NFL and targets while playing with Malik neighbors, which is just insane to think about. Also fourth in receptions, we saw the Seahawks were unable to force even an incompletion against Jared Goss last week. I think Daniel Jones will probably give them a few incompletions just on his own, because the Daniel Jones thing, but one Dale Robinson is setting up for a big week in the Giants passing game. And then another name to look out for is Devin Singletary, doubtful with the groin injury, doubtful, tends to mean you won't be playing. Rookie running back, Tyrone Tracy out of Purdue, he's a wide receiver who converted the running back this season. He's out snapped, Eric Gray, 63 to 15, I expect a big week for Tracy, who was actually one of my favorite prospects entering the draft this year. He forced this tackle on 39% of his college touches for Pro Football Focus, that actually ties for number one in my database, dating back to 2020 with a guy named B on Robinson, if you've heard of him. He's obviously got good hands as a former wide receiver, so Tyrone Tracy, the guy I'm watching in that game. Giants are going to have to make do with what they have, but I'm very interested in seeing how one Dale Robinson, Tyrone Tracy can impact this game with two key players to the Giants out. Steelers, Cowboys, I have no feel for this game and how it's going to go. What are some of your thoughts? I think it's going to be a lot of magic here, so Tyrone Warren and quarter L Patterson both out for this game. Patterson was an ankle injury, he suffered last week, he was born with a knee injury, that sat him down last weekend, well again this week. We know the Cowboys are bad against the run, they're allowing 145 yards per game on the ground, that seventh most in the league. Steelers have a 54% rush rate in neutral game script, that is good for fourth highest. We know the Steelers can win grains on the ground, that's sort of been their bread and butter, even though Justin Fields has been good when asked to drop back and pass. But if this is going to be a game won by the Steelers, I think it's certainly going to be a lot of running technology here at the mixing in Justin Fields. It's going to be won by the Cowboys, that doubt is going to include much for running game but just hasn't gotten anything going with Rico Dattle and Ezekiel Elliott. I really like the Cowboys to try to air this one out, we'll see how their aggressive offense through the air pairs against a very slow offense against the Steelers with two of their top backs out. Back we appreciate you buddy, enjoy the weekend ahead. All right guys, have a good one, you got it brother. All right let's keep the Beltway Blitz moving and welcome onto the show our guy Kevin Chien. Kevin just like has been the case more often than not as you've been broadcasting in Washington DC over the years, the commanders have a chance to be four and one as you're doing radio shows next week. How about that, yeah it's just it's a normal occurrence around here, I mean doesn't feel that new. It's nice to have that, I'm worried about Sunday, I don't know what you guys have been talking about but I don't think Cleveland's as bad as they've played and I just think this is the NFL, we talk about this all the time, it's like once you think you've got to figure it out you know it's a cruel twist and it seems like many people expect Washington to win this game which is an unusual position to be in but I'm excited, look yeah I think Grant you and I were talking about this recently but it's like I haven't been this sort of lying in weight anticipating their next game in a long time and it's primarily because of one guy and that's the quarterback but man the offense evolved and awesome so I can't wait to see what we get to watch on Sunday. Yeah Daniels has been better than advertised and Kingsbury's been incredible, it's funny though you know we were talking about the idea that they'd be four and one, I mean you've been doing radio in this market for close to 25 years at this point I guess you know for us as a show we're on year 10 together, there's a scene in Batman and one of the recent Christian bail movies where the Joker's like it's like chasing a car, I don't even know what I do if I caught one, I don't even know how to do shows for a good football team, I've never structured, I've never laid out, I might have to call someone in Kansas City and go what do you do when the team is good? Well I mean you gave me a little more time in tenure than I have but and by the way Danny I don't know if you're pumped but I'm going to see the Joker to this weekend for sure I'm going to find time to do that, but I remember like we haven't had a fast start to a season unless you want to count those orange season that that was the last time they were four and one 2008 it was kind of exciting they were six and two you know the Alex Smith season they were five and two I think the best I have felt was probably the cousins 2016 season when they crushed Green Bay on Sunday night they were six three and one heading to Dallas on Thanksgiving day their defense wasn't good at all but man they were unstoppable offensively and I think that's the best record they've had that late in the season since 91 I think are probably since 96 but yeah no I mean just remember every playoff run has been a late season run you know 2020 2015 2012 you know even going back to 2007 in 2005 it was like they weren't good at the halfway mark they just kind of surprised us at the end so yeah we haven't dealt with any of us no matter how long we've been here with October and thinking that we've got a really good football team Kevin in terms of this defense three of the four games they've been pretty wretched in almost every metric so you look at the passing totals allowed through three games not Arizona I'll get to that in a second they were allowing opponents almost 128 quarterback rating which would be the walkaway MVP if that guy did that for a whole season they played pretty well I thought against Arizona is that again they played pretty well in or maybe a sign of improvement and is this one of those get fat against Cleveland and offensive struggled or they can't even stop Cleveland how are you feeling going into it I mean I the one thing that's been consistent since the Tampa game is they do try hard okay for whatever that's worth you know the Quinn you know a mantra in the off season you know we're gonna build an identity and it's gonna be playing fast it's gonna be playing physical they do try hard but while it was improved Danny against Arizona they still got gash you know we were on the ground and I still can't believe that Kyler Murray ran the ball one time in that game it was malpractice to drop him back into the pocket you know and have him broken there he can't see over the line of scrimmage he was bad yeah he lost and I thought that Arizona kind of helped out now yes they were much better than they were against Cincinnati and New York but I think Arizona had something to do with it but the Cleveland's not good offensively either but I would bet they come out and try to run the football because that's what everybody has been able to do against them and remember you know they they sort of throw in the ball too because the game got out of control on Sunday but if you can't stop the run in the NFL you are very limited in terms of what you can do late in the season and then after the season so that's got to change I didn't get to watch last night I fell asleep Thursday night football wasn't any good last night yeah it's been so long since we talked there weren't any midnight phone calls last night you guys are like secret lovers I'm telling you the way you behave it's unbelievable they're chilling on your spouses that is that is true I did have somebody reach out to me to say is he putting together a Hall of Fame career which by the way just made everything here off the road you know numbers wise numbers wise yes but here's the thing you can't be in the Hall of Fame when you've won one wild card playoff game right correct he's going to have to light it up in the postseason for two straight years for him to have a chance but the numbers are actually ridiculous and people don't want to hear us talk about you know who because it's so triggering but he was brilliant last night one of the great passing performances we've seen in the NFL in years yeah they'll just have to put their big boy pants on and grow up a little bit hey Kevin thank you we appreciate you see you see a bro there's Kevin she in there might have been a midnight phone call last night I'm sure there was you guys are panting back and forth what are you wearing what are you wearing my cousin's underpants what are you wearing granting Danny on the fan let's give away some tickets shall we you guys have earned those by listening to the program caller 10 at 800 636 1067 congrats you're winning a pair to see the capitals against the devil's home opener next Saturday night October 12th at capital one arena for tickets in the complete cap schedule go to one oh six seven the fan dot com next little over under props for the commanders this weekend via the fandold projections which side are we gonna live on all of a sudden we're betting more overs on this commander's team aren't we we'll go through all of the key players on the offense predict their games next on G&D Hey NFL 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in our tracks our boss was actually meeting with us and he looked at him and he said that was so weird that was so weird prompted me to think even here in the football season we should be going to the radio airwaves to determine with our listening audience if in fact it was weird that's coming up at five forty five on grant and danny but right now it is time to dive a little deeper into sunday's commander's browns game and to try to figure out how we think this game plays out danny we're looking for some over under totals and some projections on commander's players so we'll go to facebook we'll look at the individual props that they've got as their projections and you and i got to pick a side this was a lot easier a couple of weeks ago that's right we hammered a bunch of wonders because we didn't think the offense was going to be nearly as good this is now gotten complicated so without further ado let's welcome in the producer of the grant danny radio program back in our half street studios is wearing alexandria today you know him as dad oh yeah he's there is stammerin hey dad uh hey boys i miss you um let's start with the passing props jade and daniels that was passing props set at two hundred and three yards and here what do you got over on just under for me i i don't see this is a huge prolific passing day i do see it as a productive jade and danny's day i think it'll be around 195 to 200 yards with a touchdown so i don't see him going over this or no let me rephrase i could see him going over this but i think it'll be a hair under two or three and a half seems low doesn't it depends on your game script if you think this will go back and forth season yeah i'm gonna say under for the record so maybe that's hypocritical because i think they're gonna run the ball all over cleveland and maybe that is what fandell's thinking as well with the prop i just think 203 for a guy who's on a heater that can't be stopped where they're not punting feels too low but i don't think washington is gonna have to throw it a lot i think brian robinson's gonna play and maybe the browns stop him but they won't stop echler they're not gonna stop mcnickel's if he gets his chances as well the secondary options are gonna hit in the running game so i'll say under he throws for a buck 95 and they run for 200 plus as a team uh let's go with the opposing quarterback that'll be one de shawn watson they have his passing prop set at 212 and a half a little trickier for me i i am thinking still that that arizona game is not the real thing just yet so i'm still airing on the side of opponent pastors have a nice day despite how much de shawn watson is struggling grant's gonna say under here in a second but i do think little the game script will happen if they washington has a lead i think cleveland is going to be in some hurry up i think they're gonna sling it a little bit i've got over 212 and a half or watson i'm gonna go over really yeah i'm gonna go over okay i think cleveland loses i think they are chasing the game a little bit mm-hmm i think that washington's defense and specifically the secondary is not very good uh and for all of those reasons he's not gonna throw for 350 but i will go over i'll say he throws in the load amid twos i'll say he goes for like 238 250 something like that uh with the injury status of brian robinson up in the other there is no rushing prop for either of the running backs for the commanders but they do have one for one jadon daniels is a set at 48 and a half i always take the over i'll be wrong plenty of the time i'm sure while i do this but i just believe in him running the football being explosive ripping off chunks he by the way is still not really had the big one yet he has had i think a 25 yarder down the sideline playing the tightrope against the bucks for the most part it's been five here seven here ten there step by paper cut there is a robert griffin against the vikings 75 yard touchdown coming like that is going to happen there's a 4247 yard scramble at some point when finally a team starts playing man coverage so i will go over and by the way i will go over every single week for jadon daniels i think and i'll bet y'all hit it more weeks than i don't so i've got the under because i think everybody thinks what you think i think everybody that's going to play this team is terrified of that thing and that's what they're worried about taking away so you're going to see the fives the sevens you're going to get those six seven eight carries for 38 40 yards like you had this past week i've got just under the total doesn't mean it won't be effective it'll be important to keep the team on the field but i don't think he has a prodigious running freshman total for a while it's official that nick chub is not yet returning this week he may return next week until then germford remains the starting running back to the browns they have it set at 49 and a half give me the over there uh this is an opposing player against washington uh so if they have a total number i will take over that number washington can't really stop the run i don't care about that i know that i'm in the minority i'm weird james counter went nuts and week one or this past week awesome scored 14 points to me it's about their past defense and if they play well in that regard they will win this football game i think they're willing to give up germford uh you know a few burst carries i think he goes over that total i'll go wonder i wish what you just said was true i think they're going to stop the run as a priority and it will open things up in the passing game uh they just have to stop something that's what i keep saying with his something like pick one t-shirt on it just stop something that's not bad we've got the no punts t-shirt right now at one oh six seven event shop.com maybe that can be the defense of t-shirt stop something just stop something anytime anywhere anyplace maybe just once anything uh they did play a lot better obviously this past week that goes without saying against arizona but i thought the cardinals build them out we were just talking to sheen about this but arizona abandoned the run kind of murray didn't leave the pocket wanted to prove it seemed like that he could throw from the tackle box didn't really understand any of what their plan was as the game went on and i'll give washing some credit there but ford has run for 44 64 37 58 you'd think that would be an over but i'll go under i think they've got to throw the football and will throw the football throughout the second half moving on to receiving props he's wears number 17 on the field but he's number one in our hearts terry mcclorn said a 53 and a half receiving yards this is kind of right around where they have terry most weeks which tells you they just don't see a whole lot of explosiveness or big playability either by way of hammer daniels with the passing game right now as a tandem uh he has only been over this once when he caught the two long balls against the browns including the 55 yarder his longs in the other three games 11 yards against the bucks 12 yards against the giants 15 yards on a little dig route against the cardinals i will say over last week i think it was right around 51 thought he would be in that 55 range he got 52 i think it's going to be a very similar type of day for terry mcclorn especially because no no a brown means he's going to get more of that underneath stuff in the middle of the field so this is a 10 target six seven catch 60 yard kind of day for terry mcclorn under you said it under in three of the four games and it took a couple of miraculous things to get them over the total in that one game against sennady the other defenses get paid to play too they know he's good they're going to pay attention to him it's going to be the other guys so i've got another terry mccorn under coming luke macafrey joined us earlier this week on the grant in nanny radio program go back and listen to that on the podcast if you can his over under set at 20 and a half receiving yards here's where i'm going here is an over and you're gonna start naming other washington receivers you get overs on them too i think this is a good macafrey game no no a brown all attention being paid to terry mcclorn i think we get a gadget play i think we get a little bubble screen i think we get some uh seam work i think we get some crossing routes i think he gets himself six targets i think he's four or five catches in excess of 40 yards over for luke macafrey this is a four for 47 kind of game for old luke you're going to be wondering when you're watching the game from home why are they doing when he catches passes they're not and then it's going to dawn on you they're actually looking they're looking they're not doing they're looking this is the luke macafrey season that's about to start it's luke macafrey tober or something like that luke tober luke tober i like that let's do that one luke tober that's a luke tober fest chilis lava cakes for everybody uh let's go with uh lama deeza kia's we had a breakout game last week they have his over under set at the same total of 20 and a half again over i think this is an extension of the running game i think everybody knows that you know or cleven's going to want to bow up and try to stop brand robinson you're going to get some of those whether it's a uh i don't know you call it an rpo whether it's a little bubble screen a little smoke i think i don't think he goes for 85 yards again gp but i think it's the case is in that 30 to 40 range as well yeah this is an over for sure i don't feel as good about him as i do macafrey because i think you try to adjust and take away some of the things you saw in film from this past week but he's still going to get three or four catches again no a brown's got to be made up for a couple of different ways so this is a five six target for him high volume uh targets turn into catches because it's a lot of stuff at the line of scrimmage and in the backfield and screens and whatnot so i'll say four or five catch game for you know like 35 yards something like that zakerts his over under is set at 27 and a half receiving yards over yeah he's missed this a couple times actually uh closely but i'm with you go ahead i mean he's another one i just almost every week i think until this number changes i'll go over and to your point i'm batting about 500 i believe he's actually hit the over in just two of their four games he went 28 yards and i think that actually might have been an over it was like a 26 and a half a customer was 28 but yeah it's right around there yeah but regardless uh he had the 62 yard game against the giants then he had the five catch game should have been probably six for about 50 against the bangles and then last week they needed them least less than they have at any point but they go to him when they've got to have it it feels like they didn't have to have anything last week so the tighter games are the more they need drives the more likely it is that zakerts is heavily involved i'm going to say over for zakerts other than daniels rushing this is one of the every week kind of hammer jobs that i do zakerts will catch and have zero yards after the catch again four passes for 32 yards he's going over that is right his sweet spot right in the catch and falls that hurts the last couple i got for you are some of the opposing receivers wide receiver number one for the browns of mari couper over 52 and a half sorry i jumped the gun there you said an opposing player playing against washington i'm going over the number one wide receiver finally went under this past week in marvin harrison i don't expect that to happen all that often until something changes if they are consistent now all of a sudden they can stop somebody but despite the fact this is not a good passing game i got couper going over yeah i'll go couper over 52 and a half and also judy over 45 and a half i might be actually decent little parlay to just throw those two together with like a hurts over have a three-legged there but i think both couper and judy go over those numbers against this washroom secondary well done dad thank you very much a little bit of how we think the game is going to play out this should be fun next before at the top of the hour we get back into our football friday and dive in on the commanders and the browns i want to chat with true story he hit us up just yesterday true is back in town with tyler clipper couple of former nacks greats they have but their own bourbon that they make out of the corn fields from the actual field from the field of dreams and it's coming to washington dc pretty cool uh true storren joins us next on grantin danny live at the atlas brew works grantin danny come in your way from alexandria today on the fan a little field trip friday it feels good to get out of the office let our hair down a little bit at a brewery eat some pizza talk to some commanders fans who are feeling their oats a little bit this is the good stuff puffing their chest out a little to you know shucking and jive and finger guns talking about how many tuddies they're going to win by on sunday it's different man this isn't an exact science but there have been a lot more people wearing red skins gear than commanders here today that is very easy to tell but i have seen commander stuff i didn't think i would necessarily i am seeing commanders gear in the wild way more than we used to it's got to mean something it's extremely anecdotal it's not a really good measure i admit to that but it is happening slowly in front of our eyes it's just becoming part of the fabric in town yeah it's you know the the more and you can't find jadon daniel's jerseys anywhere by the way you're trying for them i mean i had a couple people have tweeted me or asked me if i had any leads on them like dicksboarding goods some local spot was sold out there's a backorder to try to get them online it's happening those are the c-word jadon daniel's jerseys you know what i mean like they're not the old ones not throwbacks unless you want to go to some weird roaksite offshore and do like type of no name in or some kind of nonsense but yeah dude this is a phenomenon and it is happening we're getting ready for the fifth week of the nfl season coming up washing cleveland the headliner for us obviously in town but it's a great slate of games we talked earlier about some of our favorites which include the london early morning game vikings jets got a great game in the afc for the bills and the texans ravens bangles is going to have huge implications in the afc north the saints are playing the chiefs remember through two weeks new orleans was the team in the nfl they were washing them before washington they did not punt they scored on all of their drives in their first two games they quite literally were the commanders before the commanders and they've lost a couple in a row now as they get ready for kansas city going to be a juicy week at this point though for the uh i would just say the story lines going into that chief's game because they're without weapons and then also maybe that bill's texans game is we try to figure out who one of the most likely teams to mess with kansas city's chances the three peter yeah these are some of those like tipping point kind of weeks you know where where you look at some teams that have put some hand the barn that whether the three and one or you know maybe had to climb back in at two and two dealt with some adversity now you all of a sudden go from your five hundred to a winning record or losing record or three and one teams go to four and one or three and two they're sort of back to the pack you know there's a number of things that are kind of at stake this weekend as you kind of get to the teeth of the schedule this is one of those moving weekends like they like uh the golf fans over talk about with golf or they're like it's a moving day or they're just playing around a golf but the standings are going to start to change it'll start to take shape teams that got off the hot starts that become just the memories teams that you know got off the sluggish starts that are just you know kind of start to get going this is now kind of the teeth of it that middle third of the schedule the way I think about it a lot of times where you really get some we find out a lot more about the teams after that crazy first month college football picking up as well we talked about the Virginia Tech Hokies earlier in the show the Maryland Terrapins got off to their normal fast start of kind of crashed back down to earth Terps next game on the slate is north western on October 11th coming up and then they've got USC on October 19th but if you are in your car in the Alexandria area please stop by and say hello today as we're kicking it at this beautiful facility the brand new atlas brew works until 6 30 let's go to the hotline right now welcome on to the show our buddy Drew store it dude national's great yes and it's been a long time since we talked to Drew he and Tyler clippard a couple of the great relievers in that's history are in business together and Drew hit me up he said they got a little venture that we wanted to chat to him about as they're coming back to DC this weekend but dude long time no talk how are you I'm fantastic thank you guys so much for having me on always a blast and uh fun to fun to be able to come on here and talk a little bourbon yeah it's uh it's kind of been a whirlwind grand I know I saw you recently kind of caught you up a little bit on it but we are uh we're launching our small batch bourbon at Nat's Park um tomorrow at the barbecue and barrels event so that's three to six and then also doing a signing at Shredder's there in Capitol Hill on Sunday so it's it's our first time you can buy these bottles we've licensed uh 20 retired guys uh that that we hide under the caps so it's uh like a pack of tops that'll get you drunk so you these are all same stories are all same players so we've got you know Doc Alice we've got Johnny Bench you name it uh we've wow we're gonna hit all over the map and something that you know we they were helping out former players and getting their names out you know keeping it you know keeping their story alive and so it's been uh a whirlwind of an experience starting this whole thing Danny this thing is so cool so I bumped into Drew this has been now a handful of weeks ago and I knew about some of what they were doing but we kind of got into the nitty gritty on how it all began but for people that don't get exactly what's happening so you guys have the actual corn that you make the bourbon from from the cornfields and Iowa from the field of dreams yeah yes yeah so that's actually kind of been the the funny part is you know we we got the name and so people are like hey I really like the name we're like well you know why we have like oh because of baseball no it's actually because we get it from the movie site so we get it from the Ray brothers who have farmed that for years at the legacy family our back label our names are not on it but their name is so that's kind of our USDA organic you know like telling people that this is not you know fake like this is good juice and a good story I I took a lot I take a lot of pride in my bourbon collection so I'm trying to hit it from all angles so several things number one drew we miss you two I can't go buy a Taylor gourmet without thinking about you that's branding for those who don't know drew invented a move I don't know if it's appropriate to call it the store and drew but here's the move you get a large you sit need it there you also get a small and you get it to go and then you eat the small like you pretend that it was going to be to go but you just actually house them both and then waddle home and I thought of you the other day driving past a Taylor gourmet the question though I know it's a long way of of not asking a question here's my question how do you guys find this like how do you go from not doing this to doing this yeah so it started with an idea in 2017 2018 and you know I realized I was overpaying for a lot of cool bourbon stories and I didn't really care because I think it's so cool and so we just had the idea of like if you're going to be a storyteller an authentic storyteller with a bourbon what would it be and you know it was a pie in the sky idea and then it just kind of never went away we would just test driving across people and nobody ever said why it wouldn't work so when I called clip to tell him I was done playing he's like all right let's let's take you know he's he was still going but he's like let's take a run at this let's see if we can figure it out and I kept calling them every couple weeks saying yeah they're just taking that corn into town and selling them like any other corn and oh hey I found this person to distill it and you just step my steps and then you know filling in with all those crazy ideas that you come up with now the bullpen and you know it's like I said this is wild it's beyond surreal. Six outstanding seasons and then that's Penn for Drew Storren once a 43 save campaign here in DC joining us on Grant and Danny so let people know again then if they are like me and they enjoy their bourbon exactly as you guys come to DC what what they need to know about their guys clippered and Storren getting into the bourbon game yeah so when we actually he can't make it this weekend but Jerry Blevins is also in with us on the two so you know I think all that Jerry Blevins is one of my favorite interviews man he's a great guy oh oh man he is a rock star at events man and so it's been great because it's a it's a good reason for us to you know hang out and stay in touch and you know try to try to create some fun bourbon but no we uh we've got tomorrow clip and I will be on that park for barbeque and barrels three to six it's a $25 ticket we have 300 bottles that we are going to sign there we're hoping to sell it all that would be awesome and then there's another hundred bottles the next day if you miss out at Schneider's there in Capitol Hill and hopefully you know we kind of go through it and we can you can ask your local retailers to start carrying us and go from there help us build a brand yeah and that's what I was going to ask you dude because like I know so little about this whole universe but like it's hard to get into stores right so that's something that you that you'd love for people to do is to say can you stock filled with dreams bourbon right is that is that kind of the call to action yeah I mean that's the you know it depends on the state right but in the end what our goal is is to simplify it give you get the reaction from the consumer of like this is so cool right like I'm trying to make this as simple as possible and that's where you know hey if you carry it you know we guarantee it's good juice and a great story and you know then we can we can find somebody to deliver it but it's you know we're I'm all about finding most brand loyal fans and the people that understand the concept you know and and respects the depth that we're kind of putting with it you know we came out with our first bottle last year and did one bottle for every guy that's ever made to big leagues so we do that as an annual release and I kind of wanted to get a little you know less green about the business before we went to DC because this is where the whole thing started right like Cliff and I living together being boys and like you know making a name for ourselves and big leagues right so we didn't want to come in and say hey check out our new bourbon and kind of fall flat on our face because we think we're that good so this is something that we've we have really planned for and I couldn't be more excited for the next couple days. Well Drew you guys were always awesome to us and obviously so good the Nats fans will be rooting for you and pulling for you in the new venture here very very cool to have you back on the show congrats on everything buddy. No I appreciate it and like I said I'll be back in DC so I'll swing by with some gift in hand for you guys. Yeah when you do let us know you know where to find it brother right by the ballpark. Thank you Drew. You guys are the best. Thank you so much. Good catching up. We talked to Drew Storm, former Nats closer on Grant and Danny here on The Fan. It's a football Friday next can winning and having fun get you to like the commander's name more. I want to tackle that with Danny live from Atlas Brew Works on G&D next. Hey NFL fans you can start the season with a big return on FanDul, America's number one sports book. 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