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Scouting The Opponent: Cleveland Browns, Favorite Games Of Week 5

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1:00- It's time to scout the Cleveland Browns and to help us with that we have Jeff Phelps from 92.3 The Fan.

20:00- We get you our 5 favorite games of week 5 and take you around the NFL.

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Broadcast on:: 04 Oct 2024
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We're over by the AMC Hoffman, if you're familiar with the area. Stop by, check out Atlas' 15 taps, dozens of TVs, plus delicious pizza and awesome wings. We're here until 6.30, it's Atlas Brew Works, brand new in Alexandria. For more information, go to thefandc.com. We want to get the latest on the Browns. Let's get some scouting in, and let's talk to one of our favorite folks at our sister station in Cleveland. Let's get after it. Jeff Phelps, 92-3 the fan in Cleveland joins us. Jeff, I guess let's just start with the State of the Union. How bad are things for the 1-3 Browns right now? How bad do you want them to be, guys? Very bad, as bad as possible. It's someone else's term besides us. My God, you got it. Let's see, last game of the guys that you expected to be starting on the offensive line at the beginning of the year, one of them was. That was Joel Batonio, he was at left guard. Judrick Wills, coming back from a knee injury. He's been a Mass Ethan Posick at center. He went out during the game. Wyatt Teller's out, he's on IR for at least four games, and Jack Conclan's not back yet, and DeWann Jones has been back and playing right tackle, but he appears to be out of shape and maybe not as motivated as he was. So we're down to 20% on the offensive line, guys, but it might be better on Sunday. Other than that though, your line's been awesome. It's been on fire, right? Yeah, we've had way too much fun lately. I will tell you that. The team was expected to do well, but we had one of our guests this week. I said, what's a bigger surprise? That the Browns are 1-3 or the commanders are 3-1, and they said, oh, that's a really good question. And they took the Browns. More of a surprise at 1-3 than the commanders are 3-1. I mean, it sounds like then the DeShawn of Watson's struggles are much bigger than just-- he's not that good anymore. You know, the other day, guys, the last game against the Raiders, he was OK. But their pay in $230, guaranteed million gave up three number ones and other draft picks, and you didn't do all that for a guy to be OK. Now, he hasn't had a 300-yard passing game as a member of the Browns yet. He doesn't seem to instill a ton of confidence in his teammates. You know, the offense has been out of whack. They have a new offense coordinator this year, Ken Dorsey coming in, replacing Alex Van'telt. Doesn't seem to have done very much the Browns in four games, and I think this is the most telling stat. I mean, there are a lot of stats about this team. The most telling stat, they played four games. They have scored 15, 16, 17, and 18 points. And we all know that it won't do it in the NFL. Jeff helps with us here on Grant and Danny. I feel like this defense is good. It's a little, you know, it's based on a couple of things. One last year, the defense was excellent, Jeff. But more importantly, this year, they turned into pretty good homework. Although it's been against a couple of offenses that are pretty pedestrian. Where are they at now? How are they compared to last year in your mind? Everybody's good, almost as good. Give us a feel. You know, the funny thing, guys, is that we thought it was going to be pretty good. And then we thought our chance to get healthy, and they got shredded against Dallas. Then they played Jacksonville, gave up 13 points, didn't play terribly defensively against the Giants. But then went up against the Raider team. It was dead last in the NFL and rushing yards at 51 per game. And the Browns gave up 152 yards rushing against the Raiders. And I know the commanders have done a great job of running the football. I would expect Kingsbury and Quinn to just look at that and think, "Yep, here we go. We're going to run the ball like crazy against these guys until they can stop it." They've had some injury issues. Miles Garrett is banged up. Miles is as good of a defense player as there is in the NFL. He said he has a foot thing. Well, then a foot thing became a foot and a calf thing. And then a foot and a calf and a thigh thing. And then it became my entire leg. So he's out there playing, but he's not playing up to his capabilities because he's just dinged up. This team, there's a lot of injuries. And I think that's part of it, guys. But they've just not had the same, maybe kind of a fire that they had on the defensive side of the ball. Second year with Jim Schwartz, defensive coordinator, he came in last year, made them a really aggressive defense. And it was really good. They were number one in the NFL and few as yards allowed. Points allowed their kind of middle attack. But it was tough to gain yards against them. And this year, as the Raiders just showed, you can get yards on this team. But they'll still be attacking. And you can be sure, going up against Jaden Daniels or Ricky quarterback, they're going to be bringing it and trying to put some pressure on him and see how he handles it. And I would think based on what we've seen out of four games, he's going to handle it pretty well. But the defense that was dominant last year, and I think that people in Cleveland, guys, were counting on to be the reason this team would be really good. So far, it's been okay. And an okay defense with what they've had on offense is the reason you're winning right now. Jeff Phelps, 92-3, the fan in Cleveland, scouting the Browns for us on Grant and Danny. Let's say we're looking back on Monday, and Cleveland came in here and stunned Washington. How'd they do it? DeShawn Watson threw for about 260 yards. More than one wide receiver stepped up and had a decent game. And the Browns about 120 yards on the ground. How's that? I don't think that's out of the realm of possibility against this defense, honestly. And I agree. But the problem is the Browns haven't been able to put a game like that together. You know, Nick Chub is coming back from another really bad knee injury. It happened early last year against Pittsburgh. His window to practice is open, but he won't be playing. So they've got Jerome Ford, who had over 800 yards last year. DeAnte Foreman, who I've always liked, but they don't use very much as they're running back. And this is a team, guys, that has always run the ball well and runs it pretty effectively per carry. But they're, gosh, last I looked, I think they were 29th or 30th in the NFL in fewest carries. And a lot of those have been DeShawn Watson. The last two games from Ford and Foreman, they've had only 12 and 14 carries. And this is a passing game that is one of the worst ranked passing games. Yet I think they're top three, at the very least top, the last top looked for the game last night in pass attempts. So it hasn't made much sense to us. You run the ball better than most, but you're not running it. You don't pass it as well as most, but you're passing it like crazy. They're trying to figure some things out on offense and trying to make something really quick for DeShawn Watson, guys. And so far it hasn't. And that was with DeShawn looking okay against the Raiders. Again, nobody in Cleveland is satisfied with okay. Neither is he. Neither is the coaching staff, but it's kind of a nice step. He's had a couple of chances. And the last game against the Raiders was really tough. They were down by four fourth quarter. They got the ball once. Jerome Ford fumbled with about six, eight minutes to go. Then they got the ball with six something to go. And they had a three and out. Then they got it with three tend to go. They moved it downfield and on a fourth down Watson didn't throw the ball instead. He took a sack. And so they've had opportunities in the fourth quarter for a quarterback to do what he's getting paid to. And it hasn't happened. So they really need to get a game together. They need what happened. Not maybe to the extent of her cousins last night for the Falcons where that offense has been struggling and then boom, they clicked. And the Browns haven't had one of those. Jeff Phelps not a two three in Cleveland with us breaking down the Cleveland Browns. So Jeff to me the thing that scares you the most and everyone's going to be able to work on Washington. I think that's that's a thing. But you know James Connor ran wild last week. They only give up 14 points and three other four games talking about Washington here. They've allowed number one wide receivers to just go nuts. Mike Evans went nuts. I'm like neighbors went nuts to Mark Chase went nuts. So you know, a Mark Hooper's pretty damn good. I think Judy's a nice 1A for most teams. I think that's where there's vulnerability if to kind of your point. Austin has his act together. What's the feeling about you kind of mentioned it? They haven't thrown it great, but they're almost waiting looking their chops for an opportunity. Maybe like this to have that breakout came. And that might really be true. The interesting thing is a Mark Hooper's in the last year of his contract and he had a very, very mild. Hold out, hold in. You know, he was not happy with his contract. So he wasn't working out and Browns did not extend him. And they reached an agreement where he was given some bonus incentives. And that brought him back. But we thought it was kind of interesting guys. He's 30. That's that magic number for a wide receiver, right? If you get to be 30, you never know. They chose not to invest long term. Whether that has had an impact on his play or not, we're not sure. But he's had an inconsistent go of it so far. Certainly he can blame some of that on the offense one quarterback, but he's been inconsistent. He's had some drops that he typically doesn't have. He had a ball this week, hit him and a raider flashed kind of in front of him. So I honestly could see how he might be able to say and he never did. Might be able to say, man, that thing, it messed up my vision for just a second and I lost track. It bounced off his number on his chest, went straight up in the air. Raiders intercepted the ball and then took it down field, touched down on a short field and got to leave the game. And that was key. He did get behind the defense for an 82 yard touchdown and that was brought back because of an offensive line penalty. So he's had some moments. Jerry Judy has looked okay at times and looks like a guy who could hurt a defense, but it's really hard to tell. Guys, we're sitting here in Cleveland and the thought is, okay. Can you make any real judgments with the offense blind so beat up? But if you can, well then DeShawn's not playing well, but is that because of the offensive line? And are the receivers not getting open because they don't have time to get open because they're throwing the ball so short and not so quickly? DeShawn's hanging on to the ball too long and they're not throwing the ball down field at all. So it's a really strange combination and until the offensive line in Cleveland gets straight down a little bit. I think it's going to be really hard for anybody to make any real accurate judgments about what might be going wrong with that offense. Jeff Phelps, 92-3, the fan in Cleveland. We'll let you out on this. What's your prediction for Sunday? I think the Browns are so due for a win, guys. I think they get one. No way. Wow. How about that? Honestly. How about 2017? Okay. That was an okey-doke because he kind of told us the whole time that they stunked, but then you're picking them to win. Just rope it open over there, Jeff. I love it. They're not as bad as they play, guys. That's the thing. I agree with that. If they can just put it together a little bit, they could really easily be 3-in-1 right now. They got smoked by Dallas. Other than that, they should have beat the Giants and they should have beat the Raiders, I think. And I think they can give the commanders a really good game and I think it'll be a tight game. And if the Browns don't screw it up themselves, I think they can win it. But man, I've -- Jayden Daniels has been fun to watch and I've always loved Terry McQuarran. So I'm glad that the commanders are having a good time with their new quarterback. That's been a blast here so far. Jeff, we appreciate you, buddy. Thank you and enjoy the weekend. Enjoy the game. Thanks, Jeff. Guys, thank you for having me. I appreciate it. You got it. Great insight from Jeff Phelps, our sister station in Cleveland 923, the fan out there. How about the old shell game there? That's a swerve. Hey, they're stank. They're offensive line. Can't block anyone. They're injured. They've been terrible to Sean Watson's never thrown for 300. But they're going to win on Sunday. That felt very eric-bickle. Yeah, but they're due. You know what, that is the video of that old guy who turns around. He's like, "Somebody call the cops." And then he's pointing the gun at the guy, the little old man. Uh-huh. I'm telling you, there's a little quiet confidence that you can get when no one gives you a chance. And he's going, "My guys aren't this bad. Your guys probably aren't that good. But yet everybody thinks Washington's going to beat Cleveland. That's where in this league you've got to have a healthy amount of respect for the opponent. And just a little bit of pause to say. Without question. Nobody knows anything, especially barely in October for games in none of us know anything. Ten days ago we thought the commanders were awful. Now we all think they're going to potentially win the division. It changes like that. For sure. And I do think it's a good case, by the way, to go. You're probably not as good as when the game was compared to 42-7 against an okay opponent. And for Cleveland you're probably not as bad as one in three with an offense that can't even manage to get out of the huddle. You know what I mean? There's a happy meeting there. Things settled. Again, every good break doesn't always go your way. Sometimes the other team gets one too. The fumble that goes out of bounds we would ever think about. Well, it doesn't next time. And it's inbound to Cleveland's got it. Or the tip pass. Or a million things that could go wrong. So predicting a close game which would then, you know, you're making a coin toss. Then all of a sudden you're not really sure. So it's not an outrageous idea that Cleveland could play better than they have. And Washington might progress a little bit. That's awesome. You buy, it sounded like you did. He said the Browns are not as bad as their one in three record. Yeah, I don't think they're a four win team. I don't either. But they are dead last of 32 teams in DVOA. Yeah, like I don't think they're worse than one in three. That I guess I tend to agree with. But I don't think they're the worst team in the NFL. Right? Are they 32 out of 32 to you? They're not to me. No, but in the same sense that I don't know that I would look at any team and say they're 32 out of 32 if that makes sense. It does. Like New England isn't terrible. They might be the worst team in the league. Carolina has won and given the Bengals a run the last two weeks. They're probably the worst team in the league. Do you know what I'm saying? I do see it. Nobody is awful. Nobody can't get out of their own way. Cleveland to me, if you just, the whole league to me is about a quarter. The whole league to me is about offense moving the ball scoring points. They cannot do that. No, they can't do that. Or they haven't yet. Do they have, you know, have they faced Washington's defense? And now all of a sudden they can have good numbers? I don't think that's the case. But would you be shocked if they have their best offensive day this year against Washington's defense? No, of course not, right? Richmond John just tweeted us at Grand H. Paulson for me at 20 Danny for Danny. He says do theory. I feel really good about the commander's chances after that. That's what that was. He did the Eric Bickle do three things. He basically spent 15 minutes telling us that the Browns are not good. And then he's like, but they're one and three and they're due for a win. So we'll say they get it. It's the old do theory thing. That's what this is. Grant and Danny on the fan. You're looking at the video. I have now. Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead. Tell everyone what happens. So three times. Grant, and for some ways you still have the worst structure I've ever seen. I don't understand why you're not changing it. We are elevating our computational devices so that the cameras in our faces are not looking up and giving us 11,000 chance. And so what I've done is I've put two napkin holders horizontally along the table. It was my original design, if I may. Yeah. And it's great. And it's fine. And there's no problem. And Grant was trying to teeter balance them vertically on this weird structure. And he kept like over pushing on his screen and it fell. And the screen was still tilted back and then it fell again. And then he tried to pick it up and bounced it off a couple of times and it fell. The video of you watching it fall is hilarious. I'm going to tweet it out actually. So Danny sees it fall the first time. Then I get it back. And then it falls again and you pull your hands back. Oh god. For some reason you're freaking out. Yeah. But I've got it now. What happened is Clary who apparently in addition to being a radio producer is also capable of building major structures. He's a scout folding guy. It's a building engineer. And engineer Clary got me a third napkin holder. So now I've got a triangular base. So this computer, no matter what I do, can't fall now. A I'll bet you'll test that. We're in business. If you just would go horizontal with the napkin holder, you'd be in such a good place. Go to at Grand H. Paulson. You could see my computer falling and Danny freaking out if you want to check that out. Next five NFL games of the weekend rank the best on the slate for Sunday and Monday. You're listening to G&D on a football Friday. 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. 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I think you've got to start in the AFC with the Bills and the Texans. These are two teams that both appear to have a chance to come out of the AFC when the dust settles. Especially if the Chiefs are going to be more susceptible than in the past. Buffalo is three and one. Houston is four and one. Danny, the Bills beat Arizona, Miami, Jacksonville to start the season loss to the Ravens. So, not like it's been an arduous schedule for them yet. Meanwhile, the Texans, probably not the style point you're looking for either. They've beaten the Colts, the Bears and the Jaguars. The only good team they've played beat them 34-7. That was the Vikings. Nobody's coming in feeling as strong as they possibly could be, right? You mentioned Houston got wood-shedded by Minnesota, barely eked by Jacksonville this past week. So, Jacksonville remained defeated. Buffalo got shellacked at Baltimore. So, now all of a sudden you're going, all right? What are you? You had a nice start. That's adorable. If you're a contender, these are the kind of games you go step up and you beat a quality opponent. Both these teams are good. No referendum here or nothing is going to change that. Whoever wins or loses, they're both going to be competitive in the AFC. But that's a little bragging rights game. Buffalo point and a half dog on the road. So, basically pick them game right there. I don't have a great field for it, but I know I will be entertained. I think the Texans win at home. I think the Bills win on the road. Okay. There you have it. There's our disagreement. I think the Bills win the division. But speaking of their top contender in the AFC East, the New York Jets, they're playing the morning Sunday game in London, by the way. Can we clap it up for 9.30 AM football, ladies and gentlemen? Eggs. Bacon. Breakfast. Just the way Danny likes it. Let's separate our hands and put them right down in our laps. It's the worst thing in the world. Stop making it so that I get in fights. Stop ruining everything. That's kid time. That is not supposed to be the time. You always have weird dumb results in stadiums that shouldn't have football games. One, four, eight. You've got something perfect. Stop ruining it. Thank you. Four windows on Sunday starting at 9.30 AM. That game will end just as the one o'clock kicks are getting started. And also, Sarah, I'm not trying to do a bit. Is it on some dumb app? You can only stream, but if you're on Yahoo slash outlook or something? I do not believe so. I believe this is a CBS game. Jets and Vikings. Minnesota trying to get to 5 and 0. This is the Sam Darnold storyline. The redemption argument. They have beaten the Giants, Niners, Texans and Packers. By the way, that's a quality schedule. I don't want to say murderers row, but San Francisco Super Bowl contender. Houston Super Bowl contender. Green Bay playoff caliber team. Three quality wins to get to 4 and 0. The schedule will lighten up eventually. Darnold's been balling. He's an MVP candidate. Other side of the ledger for the Jets. They lost to the Broncos in embarrassing fashion in their last game in the rain. 10 to 9, you've got a little trouble in paradise between Robert Salah and Aaron Rodgers. Salah's calling out his snap count. Rodgers is saying he needs to hold people accountable. This feels like a really big game for the Jets. It is 100% a big game for the Jets. And some idiot, you know him really well. He's handsome and loves pickleball. Said the reason Minnesota's not going to have that great of a season and they would finish third in the division is because their schedule was tough. Well, they countered that by winning all those games by beating San Fran, destroying Houston, beating Green Bay. I thought the Jets would be a lot better. I thought, and then they put Detroit out of the bi-week. I thought they might be one in four, maybe two in three at best, kind of limping along. Wrong. They've been outstanding to this point. They, you know, have some room to flounder a little bit. The Jets don't. The Jets, as you said, trouble in paradise. They need this game. They need to start playing well at some point. Grant and Danny taking a deep dive into week five. NFL and the Sunday slate are third favorite game of this weekend. How about the Ravens and the Bengals in the AFC North? Baltimore is two and two at Cincinnati, one in three. Bengals have to have it. Here's the problem with letting that Washington game get away from you, losing to the Chiefs by a point, getting upset by the Patriots. You don't really have the Wiggle River to drop a game like this to Baltimore. They're only win this past week by 10 over the Andy Dalton led Panthers with actually a good game, 34 to 24. But after the Ravens, things get a little lighter for Cincinnati. You've got the Giants, the Browns, the Raiders on the schedule ahead. So if they can win this game, let's go have a season if you're a Bengals fan. But if they don't, it's probably over before it starts. Meanwhile, the Ravens are two and two. By way of DVOA, I think I saw this from Aaron Schatz. They're the second best two and two team in history in terms of like their overall value. But they lost to the Chiefs in week one in the tight game and then the Raiders stunned them coming back from down 10 in the fourth quarter. Back-to-back wins over the Cowboys and the Bills. It feels like Baltimore is getting it going. Yeah, I think the Ravens are good. Now, they were pretty darn good. If you look at that one game that they lost to the Raiders, right? They were dominating that game. They were the better team and then somehow led it get away from them, which made no sense to me. That's their bad hiccup loss. They always seem to be good for one or two of those. The Vante Adams is in the news, so I just want to crowbar this in really quick. The fourth quarter of that Raiders Ravens game, if you watched it, was as good a quarter from a receiver as I've seen all year. A couple people are throwing out there that the Vante Adams has washed and doesn't have it anymore. Rewatch the fourth quarter of that game. Now, I'm not going to tell you it's not a pain in the butter that I would want him, but he can still play. He dominated and took over the game and won that game for the Raiders in the fourth quarter. That's a good point. He's a baller. The game, they should not have dropped, they always do that and now you look up and you'll go, "Oh, man, is this different now?" They're missing somebody, guys. They keep on rolling. They showed you who they are this past week by beating the hell out of Buffalo. I like them, even though it's on the road, it's Cincinnati. I think defensively they're very good. You know, with Derrick Henry rolling, I think Cincinnati won't be able to stop. Cowboys Steelers is going to be number four on the list. This is a prime time game, Sunday night football, 8/20 East time kick in DC. This is in Pittsburgh. Cowboys on the road trying to avoid what would be a third loss in four games. Their only win since week one was that squeaker over the Giants. They easily could have lost this past week on Monday night football. So you think about it this way. I got the Steelers defense planned well enough to hang. This is basically a congested fields make enough plays game for Pittsburgh. Can the Cowboys do anything outside of throwing the ball to CD Lam? The Steelers won their first three games, squeakers over the Falcons and Broncos. Then they beat up on the Chargers in a game where Justin Herbert left the game with injury. They lost a game they should know to the Colts this past week. They're sitting at three and one. They're in decent shape regardless, but this would be a signature win for them. And if they win this game, I would say Fields is going to be their starter and Wilson's not getting a shot. I think that's pretty safe to say. I'd also say that Dallas's injury report reads like crime and punishment. It's a novel. They're a lot of guys. They're banged up. Some are going to go. Some are not. So they are vulnerable here. And Pittsburgh can thump. And Pittsburgh's defense is good enough to cause some havoc. It's your turnover too. I don't know if they're going to have to shut down CD Lam, but you would say they're good enough to have some impact there. And her ass stack Prescott. I'm not afraid of Dallas's running game at all. And Pittsburgh's going to try to play bully ball and win 13-12. I think they can. One more note on the Steelers quarterback situation. Mike Tomlin was asked again this week. Is there a path to Justin Fields becoming the starter? And Russell Wilson's health not really mattering. And Tomlin said yes. We're not there yet. But yes. That could happen. And they said well how do we get there? And he basically said Justin Fields wins. Justin Fields plays well. I don't know which one's more important. I guess both of them and if he plays badly in a win then maybe you stick with him anyway. But we're certainly trending toward Justin Fields just being the quarterback of the Steelers it feels like. Fifth and final of our five favorite games of the weekend on Grant and Danny. Why don't we go to the Saints and the Chiefs. This looks like a fun little matchup between Kansas City and New Orleans in prime time. This is slated for a home game for Kansas City. They're trying to get to five and oh. You already know they're trying to win a third straight Super Bowl. Nobody's ever done that. It's odd because there's nothing right now that they're doing that looks special. They're not scary. Kelsey has gotten old. He's not the weapon he once was. Rashi Rice is hurt. They don't really have receivers who are potent in any way. Patrick Mahomes is off to his slowest start in terms of turnovers in his career. And yet you look up and they have four wins and they've beaten good teams. The Chiefs, the Bengals, the Falcons, most recently in the division coming back from down 10 nothing to beat the Chargers. All they do is win. They're inevitable. I don't understand it. Yeah. They're so well coached. They know exactly who they are. They plug guys in to do just enough and you count on Patrick Mahomes to make a couple of miracle plays. His numbers have been pedestrian. It looks like a middling late round fantasy quarterback type stuff where he's third in the league of interceptions. That's not what we're used to. As you said, they're depleted now, right? No pacheco. No Rashi Rice. It's going to have to be other guys, you know, stepping up as they can. I don't know if they can though. They're going to win games with defense kind of ground and pound a little bit of creativity here and there. New Orleans after their 45 points per game start through a couple of weeks is certainly cooled off lately, dropping their last two. So this is a great test for them to catch up frankly a vulnerable Kansas City Chiefs team. They won't be vulnerable in December and January because they're the Chiefs and that's what they do. They're vulnerable now. And if your Orleans wants to get back on track and kind of keep pace with the Tampa's in Atlanta's, you better get going. Saints Chiefs Monday night football. So there's your top five games. Bills Texans in the AFC little cross conference London kick Vikings jets in the morning. Ravens bangles in the AFC North Cowboys Steelers another fun matchup. You don't see very often and then the Saints and the Chiefs. I like the flavor of NFC versus AFC this weekend. Also nobody cares about this but me and Danny definitely doesn't care about this. Oh nice here we go. This is a really good Jersey matchup weekend. Like I always love when the the juxtaposition of colors and jerseys is aesthetically pleasing on TV. I think we're going to have a lot of good uniform matchups this weekend. That's something I was actually not thinking about at all. Yeah. I knew you wouldn't be. Yeah like literally never occurred to me even for a second. So that's interesting that you I don't know. I didn't have a close there. There's no close. You started but yet not. Yeah because there was nothing really to say where it's like I didn't think about that and will continue to not. Back to you. It's a football Friday. The commanders are three and one on the field. How are you winning off the field? We're at Atlas Brew Works eating pizza. So that's an off field victory. But how about you? What little things going right in your day? Hopefully you're in a good mood like we are getting ready for the commanders in the Browns. Let's hear from you on what has made you smile today that nobody else would care about. Don't do it for us. Do it for the Goose, Bruce Allen, 800. 636. 1067. Next on Grant and Danny. If the commanders keep this up we might have to turn one of these Fridays into a winning on the field. Wow. But that's a few weeks down the road. It's been a while since we thought about doing that. It is time to figure out how you are winning off the field. Welcome you back on Grant and Danny for our Daily Double Play. Driven you by your local Washington area Honda dealers. Stop it for a great deal on the rugged and capable Honda Pilot. Contact your local Washington area Honda dealers today. The double play is winning off the field. This is something very tiny that only you would care about that nobody else would understand that made you smile. Something like the fact that in lieu of going to the office today, we came out to Atlas Brew Works where we're eating pizza and high-fiving commanders fans about a fast start on the football field. Therefore we are winning off the field. I would add I got the place to pickleball this morning at the homestead which was great which was fantastic but that's not even it. I was hungry as soon as I was done so I came inside. I thought these were all gone but they weren't. There was one left. Trader Joe's has their seasonal pumpkin bagels that are just terrific. It takes the cinnamon raisin bagel, does like kind of a suplex, a DDT, the people's elbow. I think of any other the Hulk Hogan's leg drop, everything in its prime and buries it. And I got to eat one. It was the last one but I got it. Therefore I am winning off the field. Thank you Goose. I'll throw in one more if you don't mind Danny before we get to the phone. I think I'll allow it. My favorite football team plays on Sunday. I will be at the game. I'm going to tailgate before the game with the wife and her tailgate group. She gets to go to about half the games now, season ticket older because of the kids. My mom is kind enough to come up and watch the kids so the wife is going to go. That having been said, I'm going to go to a tailgate where everyone is going to be in a good mood and where it's possible that said tailgate is not going to be the highlight of the day. Oh, therefore I am winning off the field. Let's go to the phones. Herb is in a Waldorf to get things started for us on Grant and Danny. How are you Herb? What's going on fellas for starters? Can you hear me? Yes. Yeah. So for starters today is my birthday. I feel like that's too big of a winning off the field moment. That's right. I went to the movies that took my son out of school early to go ahead and see the Transformers movie and started off a great movie. I think Brian Siree Hill playing Megatron is awesome. But when I went in there, I happened to get some free popcorn. And right afterwards, crumble cookie gives you the worst name, free cookie for your birthday. So therefore I doubled up and got free stuff for my birthday and I am winning off the field. There it is. Two takeaways there. Number one, they're still making Transformers movies. And that is a massive development. They're never going to stop. This one's animated. Someone needs to stop them. It's called, so you have all the original voice cast. Like, you know, Peter Cohen is the guy that plays Optimus Prime. Like with a beautiful, awesome, deep voice, right? They're like, no, it's got Chris Hemsworth doing. What? What? Chris Hemsworth. What are we doing? And they changed the voices and now they're friends from before. This is like old school Cybertron. I'm not sure what they're doing. They're never going to stop. I am old enough to remember the original Transformers movie when Megan Fox looked about as good in that movie. Anybody's looked at every movie. What a great actress in terms of acting ability and action. She was good. In fact, I remember you and me and Daris talking about that movie, that Transformers movie. She said, "Ryan, how good does Megan Fox look in that movie?" And you said, "Guys, I'm above that. I don't do that." I only make eye contact and she's a great actress. Why aren't you talking about Shia LaBeouf the same way? And that's what you said. That's what you said. That's what he said. Not interesting. We get to work with Ryan every day. He's that kind of guy. Therefore, we are. Winning off the field. Let's go to Greg, who's in Winchester online too. Coming to my cat's grave. Greg, what's up? Hey, boys. Love the show. Thank you. Last weekend, I had a whole bunch of yard work to trimming and cutting and planting and moving dirt. A whole bunch of stuff. Oh, yeah. But I was able to get all that work done and I did not puncture my skin. I did not pull my groin and I was not killed by any space rocks of death. Therefore, I am. Winning off the field. Greg understood the assignment. That's how you play, Greg. How does anyone do yard work and not afterwards take a shower where something burns? Do you know what I'm saying? Yes. Like when you're pulling leaves, you're picking up leaves, you're putting together something. You're pulling weeds. Something's getting cut. Something's getting scratched. It's the pitch. Blister's best case. Like raw, shaved skin elsewhere. Those weird itchy, like, barely touched you blades of grass. Now you feel the echoes even after you shower. You're always so miserable. And you got none of that? On unexplained scratches. You're just like looking at your leg. You're like, "I don't remember drawing blood there." Did the twig get me somehow in a ricochet? Let's go to Ernest in West Virginia. I loved when you went to camp. Hello, Ernest. Hey, hey. How you doing, guys? It seems like a trend. Waldorf, Winchester, West Virginia. My last name is William. Anyway, real quick, real quick. It was trying to get something to eat. I did want to spend a lot of money. Less than $10. Stop that Burger King. Get two cheeseburgers and an order of onion roosting. And then I go to my favorite spot to eat. Look at it. I thought it used to be about cheeseburgers. Instead of two cheeseburgers, two bacon cheeseburgers. Look at my receipt and say, "Wow." They still charge you just for the cheeseburgers. Therefore, I am... Winning off the field. My guy got two bacon cheeseburgers. Bacon cheeseburgers and onion rings. If I could take an example of what this segment is and what it's about, that's it. Free bacon. It's probably 59 cents worth of bacon. But bacon. But free bacon on his cheese. You ever eaten bacon before? Sure have. You ever smelled bacon before? I sure have. I actually met someone about a week ago. We were talking about bacon. Who said they'd prefer their bacon undercooked to overcooked? Like that rubbery kind of bacon to crispy. Oh, come on. And you know at that moment you never have to talk to this person. They told you right away. Don't trust me. It's like a disqualifying amount of information. Listen, don't listen to my opinion anymore. In fact, young people, if you're going on your first date tonight, Friday night or tomorrow, Saturday, your first date. Like to a place like Colony Grove, for example. Anywhere you want to go on your first date, you sit down at the table, you look across that table to this prospect and you ask, "How do you like your bacon?" If they don't say crispy, get up and leave. It just can't work out. There's no path forward for you. Let's go to Ben in Hyattsville on Grant and Danny. Hello, Ben. Hi, Ben. Hey, guys. I want to get to my day real quick, but I also was calling to ask for an example of some color match-ups that were not so great. But so today instead of going to the office, I played golf. And while I was playing golf, somebody else was cleaning up my front yard. So therefore I was winning off the field. Sorry about that. Somebody else taking care of the yard. So you want an example or you're giving me an example of a bad color match-up? I think you want an example. An example of a bad color game would be Bengals Browns, where it's like a lot of orange. It's too very similar. You're looking for a juxtaposition. A great one would be the beauty of the Chargers, let's say, that powder blue uniform, that kind of gear, with the throwback Falcons red helmets. I think last week, Chargers Chiefs was a really good jersey match-up. So you don't want Niners Cardinals. You're out on that. It's not very good. That's so much red. You're looking for a stark contrast, but also, in addition to the Tony Stark contrast, you would prefer beautiful colors. So Carolina Panthers have an aesthetically excellent uniform. Then again, say like a throwback, maybe 49ers jersey would be a sexy match-up. But you wouldn't want Panthers Cowboys. That's a lot of blue, a lot of white in that mixture. I think I'm seeing it. No, I've seen what you're saying now. I mean, I still don't care at all, but I see what you're saying. It's a good round. We could keep going. The phones are hot, but we've got things to get to, including a beltway blitz and somebody's about to win caps tickets. We've got tickets to the home opener a week from Saturday, only here on Great and Danny this week. One final pair to give out as soon as we return on the fan. Hey NFL fans, you can start the season with a big return on FanDuel, 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 fanduel.com/sportsfan. Never waste a hunch and make every moment more with FanDuel, an official sports book partner of the NFL. Must be 21 plus and present in Colorado. 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