Grant and Danny
Full Show- Monday, October 7th, 2024
Good Monday afternoon. October 7th, 2024. It's Grant and Danny coming your way for another hauling oats victory Monday on the fan. Just like we drew it up. Jake Rudin's on the show at five to break down. Jaden Daniels, fifth career start. We will also have interviews for you today with Benjamin St. Juiced at three o'clock. Alama Deza Kias at four thirty and five Darian Mathis at six. The local seven one four in a row. They're not just winning. They are blowing teams out a month of consecutive victories for the commanders. They took the fourth quarter off at home yesterday to frolic and enjoy fellowship on the sideline like a preseason game. Marcus Mariodo was throwing to Bryson Tremaine in the waning moments. My feet is the said the starters. Rest and relax. Enjoy it. That's the fruit of your labors. Whooping that ass for a broken Cleveland team. Now Cleveland's offense stinks, but Cleveland's defense. I still think it's pretty good. Five of the first six plays were negative plays for Washington. Cleveland turned them over. They pressured. They had penetrating plays where they, whether it's TFL's that thought they did a good job against every design Jane Daniels run. They had somebody there. They knew what was coming or how it happened. I thought that defense is pretty good. And they gave up twenty four points in the first half. Oh my God, man. The third down and thirteen should have been another drive ending sack. Sorry. We've got a cheat code. He wears number five. He's better than your guy. Which guy? All 53 of them. Every trainer, every administrative assistant. He's better than everybody that you got. Sorry about it. That changed the game. I know the turnover happened just after that. But field position is flipped. You get after a three and out for this defense and all of a sudden starts to step up. You get the punt short territory. You're walking for a touchdown. They never look back. This is so much fun. Yeah, it's a blast. We'll be discussing the win from all angles all day long on Grant and Danny. You can listen to us all over the DMV on one oh six seven on the Odyssey app throughout the day wherever you go. And of course you can watch us on our one oh six seven on the fan YouTube stream to an oh at home. You know how you improve the home environment you like that at Northwest Stadium where they have yet to lose their four and one overall for the first time in 16 years for the second time in twenty five years. This team is four and one. They have not been five in one with a showdown with the Ravens looming in Baltimore Danny since 1996. What was Danny Ruier doing in 1996 junior high school? My hair was probably a little too long to play for Grant Paulson, but I'm sitting nukes in summer ball getting ready to go on all the college showcase tours and get myself recruited. I was eight years old. They were five and one. That was the last time that they pulled it off. It's one thing to be winning. Like they got to four and one under Jim Zorn. In fact, the hip-hip array bit that we play for first time callers on this show was actually from the locker room after they improved to four and one after their win against the Eagles in 2008. But that team in those four wins I think was plus twenty in those games. This team is over plus fifty. They are blowing teams out. They are snatching souls. They are dominating teams. And the crowd responded. I thought what an atmosphere yesterday at the stadium predominantly commanders fans. There was an electricity and kind of this jauntiness among the attendees where it was a refreshing, excited, happy to be there vibe that we're not used to. Danny, there was a damn wave in the stadium. The wave, there's not enough people to do the wave and certainly not enough home fans to do the wave. There was a wave in the lower bowl. This is not baseball. You're allowed to do the wave in football for several minutes during the laffer when DeShawn Watson, who was completely broken, was just being beat up and thrown around like a rag doll. I mean, my goodness gracious. So I'm talking about Washington here. But let me detour. I don't want to tell you about Seattle. Okay. Seattle, a three and one team playing against a bad team with some turmoil. That sounds familiar. The three and one team who's maybe a little bit better than people think had a game against the New York Giants. Should the quarterback be benched? Should the head coach be fired? Is the GM the right guy? What are they doing? This is such a disappointing year. Blah, blah, blah. And what do they do? They did the thing that my Washington team has done to me and all of you guys listen to this program forever for decades. The little tiny bit of prosperity, a three and one record. Let's all settle down. Nobody's throwing any parades for that. There's no, there's no party for it. There's no trophy for a three and one start. You got off to a nice beginning and you go out and lay an egg and it becomes a year and quicksand and you never were able to recover and you lose a game and everyone's gone. Same old, same old. And then the belief train is derailed and that's kind of the end of it. And then you go through a swoon. That's what normally happens when the three and one team that I care about plays a bad beat up team. Their season gets safe talking about the bad team. Not this time. No, the whatever the opposite of that is, that's what we got. We got sideline laughter. I don't know who that guy, J. N. was talking to for minutes at a time was wearing a blue shirt. It's like a nice enough guy, but they were just having a fun conversation. He was telling jokes. Probably they were funny sarcastic jokes or they're kind of rye out of the side of his mouth. Daniel's was laughing and gefon. Everyone's got sideline laughter going on. They're all doing that thing where they hold their pads with their two hands like right under their chin. That's the I'm so relaxed. I'm not even thinking about anything holding on to my pads. You're pulling your shoulder pads down. Breathe a little easier. Yeah, giving your front horse collar kind of around the collarbone. Just kicking their ass. The offense did not play a sharp first half. Jaden Daniels, who for the game did some of the most incredible quarterbacking playmaking that we've seen at the position in years and years for this organization was the least accurate he has been at any point this season. He threw a bad interception on the goal line. The play before that he missed a wide open Zach Earth for a touchdown. Speaking of open hurts. Earth's would have scored on a 98 yard touchdown when he was at midfield running free when Washington had the ball at its own goal line on a third and 10 and Daniels sailed the ball over his head. All of these things in the first half. And yet it did not matter. None of it mattered because at the end of that first half with all of the things they left on the field with all that meat on the bone. They had 24 points and they should have had 31 and Daniels was on pace to throw for 350 because he is the easy button. This is something we've talked about for a long, long time in the NFL with other teams and other players. You called him the cheat code, right? That's something we referred to him as the last several weeks on third and one on fourth and one. I call him a cheat code. He makes you right. It does not matter if you have a bunch of bad plays if he can make the one huge play. You talked about the negative place to start the game. They came out three drop three play first drive three and out. I think like minus nine yards and then it was third and 13 with minus three on the next two plays. So basically it was a five play disaster start against the Browns defense. And then he should have been sacked for minus eight except that he gets out of the pocket. Very few guys in the league can do that extends the play and heaves the ball 65 yards down field for a 60, 60 yard completion. I think it was almost 60 in the air as he was approaching the sideline. Unbelievable play top five play. I've seen made by a quarterback in that stadium in my life. I've been going to games there since 1999 and for them were opponents. I'd have to do some work on the list. Pretty amazing, man. Yeah. They ended up with seven plays of 23 or more yards. That's the whole league. It's the advantage. It's explosives. Third straight week with at least 34 points. First time since 2005. And after struggling early on offense, I love the word the Dan Quinn used and we'll play his press conference lab today at three thirty for you, by the way, right here on Grant and Danny. But he called it a grimy start. They ended up scoring on six of their first 10 drives. They are averaging thirty eight points over the last three weeks. Danny, we have reached a don't even have to be sharp to score a lot of points because they make that many big plays down the field gains yesterday of 66 50 41 34 33 and then two for 23. So it's different than we've been seeing the last few weeks. Cleveland had a different planet, different design. They play a different style of defense. It's in your face. It's trying to mall people. It's pressure. It's blitzing. They're not going to let you breathe, right? So down in and down out, Washington really wasn't able to do what we're used to seeing them do over the last couple of weeks, which is everything seems to go between four and, you know, 15 yards, right? Like every little play they just matriculate down the field. And that's that this was get stuff for no gain. Jaden Daniels run for zero or negative one or something. Then to your point, chunk, chunk, chunk, chunk, chunk. When you blitz over aggressive, that's why teams aren't doing this as much now, by and large. You can get some negative stuff, which they did. Turnovers happened. There was one interception you mentioned. Tara McCorn got had a ball ripped away from him. Should have been another turnover. It was close with with Zach Hertz potentially in the middle of the field, where if he caught it securely, might have lost the ball, who knows? But you get gouged when you do it that way. The Austinacular run, for example, everybody sucked up and you got a great call and boom, he's off to the races. With the pressure that ended up with a down me Brown touchdown, because everyone's mugged up and trying to go press man and get tight on receivers. They've got counters. So even when it wasn't clean, even when it wasn't, you know, nice and efficient, 72 and Sunday playing that seven on seven, we've seen a little last few weeks. It still doesn't matter. They could have scored 50 points. Yes. Even with that, it's a reminder me of a college basketball game. If you've got like a really good team and you're playing one of these teams that wants to disrupt you and you get half court trapped and you get out of your rhythm and you get stymied and you look up and half court trapping team is still down 30. You know, you're like, how did you do that? Cause you hit threes, you get like, yeah, you turn it over a time or two and then they got some nice runouts, but you look up and it's like, keep doing it, Jackass. We've got execution. So in my mind, I'm going. This is the worst this offense has looked. This is not the standard that has been set. This is the regression. I'm talking about late second quarter. I'm thinking that Daniels, you know, with the pick on the goal line, he left the ball inside at one point, the McCaffrey Luke made a hell of a contested cash. That was, that was awesome. Uh, he had the deep shot where he sailed the ball to Terry that should have been picked off by 21 down the field like in the five yard line. If you remember, there were a few of those where you're going. It's just not something's not quite right. The timing's not there. And then as soon as he hit the 41 yard or on a dime throw to the army Brown who wins and man gets behind Emerson, he's all alone. Three steps behind everyone drops a ball into the bucket. Kind of easy pitch, easy catch perfectly done by everybody. They've got 24. And by the way, kudos to Dan Quinn because right before that, the Browns were running the football. They had this snooze fest of an offense and Dan Quinn said, these guys suck. I'm going to call a timeout. We're going to get the ball back and we're going to step on their throat. You want to talk about all these, anybody, anytime, anywhere, you know, we, we snatch hearts. We step on shins, all this nonsense and do it. We kneecaps. Okay. So let's burn a timeout with two minutes left in the half. Let's give the ball back to our offense and let's go not settle for Austin cyber. And they went right down the field and took their shot. Supposedly Daniels after running out of bounds while trotting back out onto the field stops and and tells Kingsbury, I got the army deep here if we want it. Hell yeah, we want it. Yes, we do. Why wouldn't we? And they've got 24 and a half where they were just okay? Yeah. That's where we are now. Now every week you're not going to make those explosives. I think I saw a stat somewhere that the best teams in the NFL this season have like 18 plays coming into the week of 20 plus yards, but Washington had seven of them yesterday. It's a hard offensive half to kind of grade and you're, you're picking nits and you're looking at the plays. Just crumble up the paper, throw the notes away. 24 points, man. That's the whole point of the game is the big plays. Doesn't matter if you miss this. You miss that. That assignment was wrong. This guy dropped this. Who cares. Those huge plays are the whole league and they make them now. How about defensively yesterday? Yeah, man. Now, caveat Sean Watson is broken. Yes. And is a gross watch. He is getting sacked on 24% of blitzes. The league average is nine percent of blitzes. His yards per attempt right now, Danny is four point eight. Price young last year was five point five. This Browns offense is worse than the NFL via DVOA. And in fact, it's the eighth worst offense since 1979 via that metric. So they're going to make you look a little better, but that's the end of the making excuses for why the defense look like it did. Yeah, you feast on a bad opponent. I've seen, I've seen them not do that plenty thousand percent, right? Take a bow, Joe Witt and Quinn, everybody involved. Seven sacks, worst team defensively on third down in the NFL, coming into the game, Washington, 12 for their first 12 on third down, getting off the field. You knew to Sean Watson wasn't going to beat you. What's the plan? Stop the run. Fourteen yards on eight carries, I think before the half. They finished the half with the Browns having under 70 yards. They led by 25 and had 30 some points at one point in the Brown still didn't have 90 yards. Everybody feasted. And by the way, Frankie Louvoo, what a badass. That's a bad man. I love watching him play one of my favorite commanders, Washington footballers, Redskins organization, whatever the hell we're going to call the totality of this outfit. I like him as much as I've liked anybody. I think over the last 20 years, the way he plays, he is exactly what I dream about for my defensive heart and soul guy. He was awesome. He was terrific. This is the thing that we thought we were getting. Not me. You can't do that at the game. Obviously he was all over the statute. He was incredible, but that where's he lining up this play? This play, it's a blitz. This play he's beaten a guard. The next play he's, you know, in the flat. The next play he's doing something so the different. That kind of Swiss army knife ability. I mean, he had so many crooked numbers, right? Recover the fumble. Three different QB hits, the two and a half sacks, the seven tackles, two tackles for loss. One man, wrecking crew. How about the fourth in one opening drive stop where he slices into the backfield gets just enough of the ball carrier to chop him down. Totally. And if he doesn't, I mean, even if the guy is able to keep his feet, it gave the other players on the on the team a chance to be able to stop him just short. If possibly, maybe not. But the point is he disrupts the play. That's the thing. That's what defense is to me. It's the you, you bend, but don't break enough times. And then somebody's got to pop one. Somebody's got to do some kind of disruptive thing, whether you're drawing holding penalty. It's a TFL. Then you put someone in a bad down in distance. And he did that himself. Basically yesterday, a handful of times. It was such a blood in the water game to defensively where Watson was so broken and so inept in the pocket. Yeah. And just so everybody's so comfortable lethargic. Who gets the sack? I mean, we literally saw two defensive players play rock, paper, scissors to see who got to stay on the field to try to get him on the next pain in Allen in the middle of the field playing rock, paper, scissors, see who had to leave. That's the kind of game we were watching yesterday. That's who it was today. Dan Orlovski has said on ESPN that Washington is going to go to Super Bowls because of Jayden Daniels. Plural, by the way. That's something that was said on national television. Mike Florio wrote a piece today on pro football talk laying out the path to Jayden Daniels winning the MVP award as a rookie, something that only Jim Brown has ever done previously. Those are the conversations being had nationally today, Danny. No, I don't see the big deal through five games. This is what you normally do. It's not, but I'm normally it was October 7. Usually I'm looking at that first milk hypermock, then whoever else wants to put one out, I'm trying to figure out, you know, if we're going to finish, we're bad enough to get a quarterback. Who's Washington going to get with the 29th pick? Yeah, about that, which is where they are right now. Who's available late 20s. That's where the teams that play in the championship game draft. That's where they are slated to get based on the standings today. They are really, really good. And I can't wait for the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday. I saw a tweet that was getting passed around. I don't remember who it was, but a commander's fan said, I want to binge watch this team. I'm ready for the next episode. Like give me the next game right now. That's how they felt last night. But we are at a point where the conversations you can responsibly have today and no one can make fun of you. You could say it's too early or you guys are overreacting, but you can't tell me that these things aren't on the table. Is this the best offense in the NFL? That's a real conversation. It's a question. How many teams are actually better than Washington right now in football? It's less than five. By the way, where would you rank them based on just blind ballot? Five weeks of football so far this season. How high? Because if there's three podiums, they might be on one of them at this juncture. Danny, they're at a point where they could go six and six and still finish 10 and seven and make the playoffs. And it would feel right now this moment as we talk today, like a massive letdown. If they go six and six, it started hot and kind of cooled off down the stretch and they went and they want 10 games. Can you imagine 10 and seven right now? That's a letdown based on the way they're playing. There is a regression. We'll go back and dissect. What went wrong after week five? Uncharted waters. I don't know what to do with my hand. I said this last week and I still think it applies today. I have no idea where this goes, but there's still a couple of splinters in my mind where I'm going. Yeah, maybe somebody figures out Kingsbury's offenses. They've done each of the last couple of times he's been an OC or in charge or whatever. Maybe somebody makes it more difficult for him or, you know, an injury God forbid, but it's just the sport where injuries are king. It happens all the time. A couple of things that, you know, become make it become unsustainable. Who knows? I know this binge watch is perfect. That's what's happening right now. I look, I used to literally I'm not kidding. You not look forward to games. That's the, obviously fan. I care so much. It's part of the gig. I'm not, I'm not going to watch him. I go, okay, this is a chore. This is the thing I have to do this. Grab your notebook. You plop down on the couch and go. All right, see what happens here. Let's get some food from my feelings. Here we go. And now I've just, you know, dirt commercially. And then you know what happened? They handed that act line. It didn't matter. The Robinson's knee was manged up and that quarter is right right down the field and almost got attached to it. Oh, that was fourth and three. It was full. Mom, honey, come in and listen. It was fourth and three. And then I almost sat down on the back field, but then he just had fixed them and he ran for 34 yards. And it was so much fun. And then later, terrible going to go and touch them, but he didn't catch it. Didn't even matter because they were already up by 30. Oh, you know what else happens? Right. Good. Look, what is that? You guys come watch. It's never happened before. Since I've had this family, it hasn't happened. Here we go. It's all I could think. Let's go have a football season. I mean, this is, it's just incredible to me that we're here this fast five weeks. And I've been texting with some people organizationally, the very, very top and throughout the front office. And one of the things you hear is, you know, they're all doing a really good job kind of downplaying that nothing's given out after five weeks. There's no hardware. There's no trophies. It's just a nice start. But they're all, I think, not only very happy that goes without saying pretty stunt with how this thing's coming together this quickly. You got to be hopeful. But I don't think any of them really had this in the office pool. Danny NBC news, NBC news over the weekend. Tweeted out. Hurricane Milton rapidly intensifies into category five. Couple of other things that are going on in the country and then tweeted this. Washington commanders punter Tresway is one of the best in the NFL at his position. But thanks to a historically good offense, he's barely had to run onto the field this season. I don't know why I didn't watch it or read it. NBC news did a story on the fact that the commander's offense is really, really good. Not NBC four. Not Kerwin and JP. NBC news. It is happening. Ladies and gentlemen, your dreams are coming true. Ho hum years and years and years of going. What if I had a different owner? Well, if I had a manager, what would he be like? Oh, he looked like maybe had some thinking. Maybe you could have a quarterback thinking. Maybe your team could be the envied team in the sport in front of our eyes. It's not a mirage. The commanders are four and one. How you feeling? We'll open up the MGM national harbor listener lines at eight hundred six three six one oh six seven. That's eight hundred six three six one oh six seven. What are you feeling right now? What are your emotions today as you walk around with your chest out? Proud to be a fan of this football team for the first time in so, so long. We got Benjamin St. juiced at three. Alameda is a key us at four thirty J. Gruden at five by Darian Mathis at six. Little bit of a victory Monday party on G and D on the fan. [BLANK_AUDIO] Look at that direction. Here comes Prezure again. Two brows right into each other. Daniels uncorks a deep shot inside the five. Silly Jason Benetti on the call. Welcome back. Grant and Danny on the fan. That was the Fox Telecast yesterday. The commanders have won four in a row. They're four and one. They're one of the best teams in football today. We'll talk to Benjamin St. Jews coming up at three alumni is a key us at four thirty. But Arian Mathis at six and J. Gruden's weekly Monday appointment to break down Jaden Daniels will go in detail with the former head coach at five o'clock. This Ravens week is shaping up to be a juicy one. They don't just mean on the field where the top two rushing offenses in the national football league will go head to head. But on this show as well tomorrow we've got Lewis Riddick of ESPN at three o'clock and Austin Echler of your commanders who had a thirty three yard screen catch, a fifty yard run, a ten yard run where he should have lost yards on a fourth down that set up the first score of the game. He was a monster yesterday. He's so good. He's so good with the football in his hands. Everybody who said he lost a step should have to smack themselves in the forehead and post it on on socials. The question for you guys at eight hundred six three six one oh six seven on the MGM National Harbor Listen Alliance. What are you feeling today? What emotions are you feeling? Pride. It's that simple where it's just it's it's not that embarrassment not that hanging my head going. I'm a Washington fan. No no. Everybody who everybody likes me now. Everyone's got me's the center of attention. Everyone cares about me and my team. We're all a buzz. It's not the negative national conversation. It's the positive one. It's a simple thing where I go. I'm watching a team that's good and knows what the hell they're doing. Pride. For me it's disbelief. I would say kind of shock maybe. I keep waiting. This will be a dated reference that a lot of young people won't get. But real ones know I keep waiting for like Ashton Kutcher to walk out. You thought that was your team doing that for real. Damn Jackie. And it's just been a big several week play. It's like the Truman Show that everybody's in on. And they're like no dude. No. Your team's one and four. Here's the games that they've actually played. Uh huh. But that's not going to happen. Uh huh. Is there a four and one. That's right. And it's the real deal Holyfield. Let's go to Mo and Largo on Grant and Danny. What's up Mo? Hey Mo. Good afternoon gentlemen. Thank you for taking my call. Hey bud. So I just want you guys to brace yourself right. You asked how I feel. So I'm going to tell you how I feel. I feel like as presently constructed based upon the way they are playing now in comparison to the other teams out there in NFL. This team is good enough to go to the show. I believe it. The show like to come watch me and Danny would want to know when I'm talking about GP you know what I'm talking to say it. The play. Say it. Talking about the play. Say it Mo. I told a man in the in the gas station yesterday. I was literally in line and I turned around Kylie. I spot on him and I say you know what brother. We going to the show. I feel like the team is good enough to go to the Super Bowl. Oh there it is. Super Bowl. There it is. I really do. Now I get it is early and honestly I've never felt like this before and I might not feel like this in three weeks. So I would say it while I feel it. Say it. So say it with your chance. That's what it is. And let me tell you something. I work in an office out of our Buddhist Maryland where my entire office is nothing but Raven fans and I wore my jersey in there with pride today gentlemen. Dear pride and you know trust me they all talking to us right now and I'm you know I'm sitting there and I'm like y'all real confident for a team that you struggle with a team that we handle. You know what I'm saying. Y'all did lose to the Raiders earlier this season. You know what I'm saying. And then I asked them flat out. I said how would you feel if you lost. You know and they were like oh man they were hurt. That was suck. And you know what if we lost it we'll be that back. I want you to walk into that office tomorrow and I want you to do that whistle. That Omar whistle walking through the neighborhood. Omar coming. We're coming. Hey Baltimore knock knock. The boys are coming. Stringer Bell might have said it better. I want you to get the word out. We're back up. We back up. Let him know Mo say it with your chest. Now listen. This is a Saturday Night Live sketch to an extent. Okay. We're talking about Super Bowl. Yeah. In the nation's capital after five weeks. But if not now when. What's the point of any of this? Here is my point. Who's better than them. Right now definitively. Are the Vikings decidedly. I know they're five and oh. They look like crap for most of that game against the Jets in London yesterday. Or the Chiefs who can barely move the ball at this point four and oh they'll find a way to win again because it's all they do. They're inevitable. Their tight ends a hundred. They don't have receivers. They're running backs hurt. They signed. A running back Kareem Hunt seven days ago is going to start tonight. Think about that. Mm hmm. They're they're decidedly better. Now I'm not telling you Washington wouldn't lose to any of these teams or that they can't beat any of these teams. What I am saying is the way they're playing right now. The way this offense is humming. The way Kingsbury's designed this thing and is calling plays. Because you've got Jaden Daniels doing the things that he's doing. You have a shot every single week. And nobody's going to want to play this team right now. This could all change over the next week to three weeks. And we should act accordingly. But in this moment right now it's not crazy to sit here and say it will be disappointing if they go six and six and finish ten and seven. It will be disappointing if they don't win the division. That they are every bit as good as almost every other team in football. Those are all fair comments right now this moment. Yeah this man and I think the point is two things can be true. One right now they're pretty damn good. And in two months they may not be. I mean who knows who knows what the the one player that they can't afford to lose. And we don't know who that is yet. I thought it was Echler by the way going in Arizona wrong. They want 42 to 14 without him. Right. I thought okay this there might be a struggle here. Who knows. Maybe maybe they can't afford to lose. Sam Cosby or Andrew Wiley or somebody who you know who gets banged up or something happens. That's a point of no return. We have no idea yet. And everything could change. The league can figure them out. Point is right now this minute they're as good as anybody in this league. Let's take on all comers. Thanks and persevelle on Grant and Danny. What's up Dan. Hey guys I got three feelings. One is euphoria obviously. Two is trepidation. Danny just hit on that. You know a good injury. I mean not a good injury but a key injury can change everything. And we know what the key is injury could be. And we have experienced that with a quarterback who had us all excited. But the third one is I have excitement in a way related to what the Patriots did back when they had a defensive minded coach. They had a young quarterback who turned out to be everything. And then some and then they had this general manager in sync with the owner and the head coach where the personnel decisions were immaculate. I'll hang up and listen. Thanks. Yeah Adam Peters has to be feeling pretty good today. I bumped into him in the locker room yesterday and I said not a bad start. They had a big old smile on his face. He's got to be feeling himself because you go through not only the draft picks and how they're playing. But the free agent early return wins. Louvoo Echler Wagner. Beaudish has been fantastic. Allegretti's been good. Noah Brown didn't play yesterday's been awesome. Zacchaeus, Ernst Armstrong. It's just base it after base it after double after triple after homer. The guy's batting pretty close to a thousand. Euphoria was the feeling at the stadium yesterday. It's also a TV show. I love Sydney Sweeney's work in euphoria. I just wanted to say it as an actress. Oh, she's incredible. Right. How did she not win awards for her work in euphoria? There are awards that were given out, but they're not the mainstream ones that you're thinking of. 800-636-1067 is the number. The question for you guys is what are you feeling today? And what are we supposed to do with our hands? Grant and Danny, four and one commanders celebrating on the fan. We'll give out game balls at the top of the hour. Grant and Danny on a home show. All the notes victory Monday on the fan. One excellent moment for everyone, maybe other than Mr. Who. Hey, yesterday people who enjoyed fun and good moments of revelry. Danny, did you see after Brian Robinson's touchdown? I don't know if it was the first one or the second one. It's hard to keep track. I think it was the second one, but he's got five already and that does tie his career high as we sit here after five weeks. He didn't even play in the second half and he had two rushing touchdowns. Would have had more. He scores, gets into the end zone and proceeds to walk to the back of the end zone where major tutty just walks into the end zone, just so casually onto the field of play and extends his hand for a handshake and B Rob's like brothers don't shake. Brothers hug. Brothers got a hug. What a terrible moment. And he brings in major tutty. Some would say in the symbolic moment of the commanders really being embraced with a hug. That's what happened. The name, the organization. I got people texting me telling me they got people on both sides of them at the stadium yesterday, cutting off tags of Jaden Daniels, jerseys after halftime yesterday after the big plate of MacLaurin, the hug of your guy, my guy, our guy, major tutty and big old pudgy pig for no reason. Yeah. The, um, it's over by the way for everybody who's just keep it scored home. It's over. Like, this is the name, man. Sorry. Like the line was around the block yesterday to buy stupid new gear for this stupid name. Those of us that are fighting this, it's over. I'm going to keep enjoying the football part of it, but just know that the little ember that was being stoked every now and again when Josh Harris was like, it's not our current priority in the moment, but we're, we're aware of it and we're looking at details and we know the name blows. And, um, everyone who likes it. Josh Harris hates the name too. Yeah, but he knows rails doesn't like the name, but I think they all knew if we could kick this can down the road just a little bit and maybe we hit the jackpot on the quarterback with the draft coming up in the second pick. Maybe it's one less thing we got to worry about. Well, that can't go down the road. Hell of a lot of money. That can was put into a rocket launcher and, and shot miles away. Danny, back to the bigger picture point here. The thing that is so significant. It's not the name. It's not the future of the name. It's the embracing of major tuddy by Brian Robinson. My kids were fired. Oh, I know they were the mascot hug. I always love mascot stick under the goalposts. Like there's a misfield goal and the guy just like drops his head into his hand. Who, how is a mascot not hilarious? This big fat pig. It looks like me, but with a pig head. There's a big squishy pig. He just walks out there like Mr. Robinson. Can I have a hug? And he's like, of course you can. Tuddy come over here. And he kind of him. He like kissed him a little bit like they didn't, but his face mask was touching like a little bit. Tuddy's nose for some reason. The embrace is the funniest thing I've ever seen. It was so good. The touchdown was great. What do I have to do? To get you to give major tuddy a hug. If I can arrange with the commanders to get major tuddy in here on Monday, or yeah, Monday, if they beat the Ravens, can we get a video of you hugging major tuddy words like scholarship for my kids comes to mind. Okay. So if you if you are able to guarantee me in writing that their higher education is paid for, I'll embrace that diabetic pig. I don't care drab licked a toilet seat or something today. I think you might have kissed a toilet seat because he said there's no way they score 30 in a win against Jim Schwartz in the Browns. So you had to do it. This coming week, I'm not suggesting like a lot of people keep sending us notes at Grand H. Paulson at Funny Nanny that you put your left hand up. And you see I've caught I saw I've caught a lot of those. Who are we? Yeah. Like what do we have to do to get? People stop doing that now, haven't they? Have they stopped doing the best thing? No, they're still in. I just don't see as much of it anymore. So I'm hoping that it died out and everyone has the appropriate amount of cringe and shame. They actually performed yesterday on the on the concourse. And they're at the stadium. We were walking around Cincinnati. People were gone. So are we and people would throw their left hand up. It's a thing, man. But more importantly, back to the task at hand. All right. Yeah. Sorry. I'll get major tuddy here. I'll do the hard part. Please don't do that. I'm going to coordinate. What a waste of time and resources. I want you to give major tuddy a hug if the good guys get to five and one and I want a metabolism. See what happens first. Don't do that. That's a waste of time and energy and effort. I will not embrace it. I'm not embrace him. I'm not embrace it. Whatever the it is. I'm out, I'm having a great time watching a hug. If we get him in here, are you kidding me? Absolutely. That's my guy wrap those paws around that big fella. That's my guy. What about you, clary? We got he doesn't have any ozempik or we go. But you still diabetic right now. We're going to we're going to give him a big hug. We're going to give him a big old hug for major tuddy. I love major tuddy major tuddy. A little bit silly. Izzy. I think he's a great mascot. A little helmet. He's like half cute, half funny. I don't know if he's supposed to be funny or or angry or I don't know what he is. I don't either. I don't know what he's either. Again, what what's the what's the animal? So I'm saying like there's no a hog. Yeah, why? They're not the hogs. The hogs. Well, I know I know who they are. That's not the team name. They're paying homage to the old thing. Is it? But they are but it's the name of it's a commander. It's a hog wearing a commander helmet. Oh, I know it clears it up. That makes a lot of sense for people that want it to be cleared up. It does. No, I people who are just being obstinate for the sake of doing it. Everyone needs to admit it is at best confusing at worst and insulting pandering bit of nonsense. And then admit that Brian Robinson hugging him after his second touchdown was outstanding. What also sealed the deal? I get it's over now. What it did is that was the moment. Yeah, it's the symbolic and Brian Robinson hug of major tuddy. And now the name will never change. Yeah, pretty much. It's that and then the line around the block at the at the dumb team store with the with the with gear with the dumb team name on it. The only thing that would have been better than that and also more anger inducing for Danny is if Brian Robinson would have ripped his helmet off in the end zone been penalized. Wouldn't have mattered because the Browns couldn't have done anything. We're going to do with it. Would have put one of those big fluffy hats on that he wore in the locker room all the time. Those big fat hats going away, right? Thankfully those are gone. That's right. But if you put that around, spun it backwards like coach bro, Sergeant slogan. And then he gave a hug to major tuddy with the big hat that this stuffed animal hat on. Yeah, that had been a 10 out of 10. That would have been even better. Can we hide one of those under the goal post like a Sharpie in the Salvation Army bucket or something in the end? Who was the Saints receiver Joe Joe Horn to do the selling so you're going to you want to hide at one of those giant stupid hats. But good luck hiding that thing anywhere. Put it in the back of the end zone or just have major tuddy toss it to him. Yeah, those stupid things are visible from space. He scores every week. So let's bring major Tony to Baltimore. Let's have them under the goal post. He tosses them the big hat, be Rob puts it on and they do a big embrace or let's get a bonfire together. Put all those oversized hats in it and the original recording of one of my hands going in the air. Game balls to the best. I don't even know if we need to give out any gasters. We can try to find one or two. But this is a game ball kind of day. The commanders are foreign one Ravens week getting started. But we're still looking back at yesterday's domination of the Cleveland Browns, a fourth quarter that Washington didn't need fans left with 10 minutes to go. Not because they were so angry, but because there was nothing left to see because they came. They saw they conquered and their bourbon was waiting for them in the parking lot so that they could clink glasses and talk about how great their football team is. Game balls, gasters next on G&D on the fan. [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] Pressure right in his face. Watson is sworn under. His line got thrown back at him. >> That was the Fox telecast, Jason Benetti on the call of one of seven sacks of Deshawn Watson by the Washington defense yesterday. Welcome back. Grant and Danny on the fan. We will take you up to 630 today. Have a great show plan for you, including head of blitz at four caps tickets to be one. You got to be listening and ready to dial at four if you want to see them take on the stars on October 17th. That's one hour from right now that we're giving those tickets away. Jake Gruden on Jaden Daniels. Gruden joins us for his normal 20 minute appointment. That is one hour after the blitz coming up at five o'clock right here on Grant and Danny. Before we get to game balls to the best and you could tell us who gets your game ball from yesterday's domination at the hands of the Browns, 800-636-1067. One of the guys that played very well and I think has quietly played better than he gets credit for is Benjamin St. Jude, who's a corner who travels at times who plays generally the number one receiver on the opposing team. I think you see guys occasionally get beat or give up a touchdown, you just expect or assume that they're not playing that well. But he has clearly been their best corner on the outside this season seems to be getting more and more comfortable in games where they don't play elite wide receivers or special quarterbacks. He stacks up really favorably like yesterday, caught up with him in the locker room after the best defensive performance for Washington this season. Benjamin, you guys got after him today, seven sacks of the Sean Watson. They were over their first ten on third down. Is this one of those games that you come out of feeling like a million bucks defensively? A million bucks? I don't know because we still got a lot of work to do, but we definitely feel great. I feel like we see improvement every week and that comes from the work that we put in during the week. And then once we press on the pedal and we start seeing a few turnovers and we playing well and when we came back out of the halftime, the job was not finished. Everybody's mind was on. Let's take them out of their misery. Let's keep pushing. Let's keep getting more turnovers. Let's keep sagging him. Let's keep getting off on third down because sometimes you can see the second half guys come out and the mindset kind of shift. All we play well, we're good. Now we're put on the gas all the way until the playoffs. I felt like a blood in the water game. Who's going to get to him? Who's going to make the hit? There was one point where we saw Allen and Payne were like paper rock scissors thing on the field. You see who was going to come off the field? Was it like that kind of vibe out there of someone's about to make a play? It's the kind of culture that we're trying to cultivate throughout the whole week, throughout the whole training camp actually since this new stuff got his like who's going to make the most plays when we got a competition on who's going to make the most plays and we got points for it. And like I said, like our mantra, we always say the ball is life, you know? So like you said, we kind of feel the blood in the water and once the ball is running running back quarter back receiver, we're hunting for it. For the four-spum ball, for the interception, for the tackle, it's the first person to get to the ball and get the points. So that's the kind of mentality we have right now as a defense. Outside, you guys really weren't tested a ton. You had the big pass break up on the throw down the field near the end zone. How'd you feel about just the secondary in general kind of locking their big play opportunities down? I mean, if we give the D-line at least three seconds just to cover up some routes, then after that they can do their thing and after that, once they start getting the sacks, then they're going to try to change up a little bit of their route. You just got to stay on top, make sure you don't give them an old chance to get some big gains or explosive plays. And once the offense see that they can't get any explosive plays, then it's demoralizing, you know, because now they got to run the ball, they got to nickel and diamond here and there and then like next thing you know, they all throw down and then boom, we sack them off the field. If an offense can't get any explosive plays, they can't put points on the board. How does it change things for you guys with the offense doing what it's doing? This would have been, you guys kind of, at one point, just said okay, we've done enough. Backups went in there. It would have been the third straight game with 35 or more, which would have been the first time since 1983. What does that do for you guys? That makes it, well first of all, we're fresher because we're not on the field every time. And also, it makes it easier because the more points we score, the less momentum the other team has. Like every time we take them out on third down and get a second turn over, whatever, and then we score, then all the other team is like, oh wow, we got to climb out of this. We got to climb out and at some point, they tap out, you know, and it's over. So that's what we, that's what's new this year. You know, we actually have, you know, the offense that can go out there and put teams out the way and then the defense just finish it off. Lastly, 4-1 Ravens up next. I mean, you guys got to be feeling really good. A third of the way through this thing just about, about where you're sitting right now. I mean, honestly, like every week, a new opponent and we're just going to keep doing the same formula that we've been doing. It's been working and we're going to keep increasing intensity and the attention to detail. It's kind of like, it's crazy. As much as it's crazy, like once this game is over, it's over. You know what I'm saying? Like we forgot about it. We're already moving on to the next one. We're trying to, like, recreate the same recipe. So we can't be like too content of like what we did until, you know, we had the final go. That's Benjamin St. Juice in the post game. Happy. Loud music, laden locker room yesterday over at Northwest Stadium. I appreciate his time. One of my favorite guys to talk to. Thought he played well. Look, you get to go up against the Sean Watson. That's going to help. There were a couple of times where Watson made life a little easier by not putting the ball in a good place. But I just think he is consistently like this defense getting better and better without a doubt. And his last answer summarizes kind of the theme throughout the interview, which is going crazy and having a lot of fun is for us. Right? Fans get to dream us. Meaning the G and D radio program and then fans of the team and everybody watching them can have calls like our buddy, Mo and Largo, card owner is like, yeah, I feel like they're going to the Super Bowl. I'm just sort of tongue in cheek, right? We get to do that. They're supposed to do exactly what he just said. We won the game. That's awesome, right? And we have a huge challenge ahead of us and then a whole bunch of others. They got 12 more games. They're probably going to have to line up and play them all. You know what I mean? Nobody's awarding anybody anything just yet. And their attitude in the approach isn't we've arrived. It's this is great. That's fun. We've got a lot of work to do. And you can see that sort of thematically. That's a leadership down thing, which I love. Let's give out some game balls on Grant and Danny after a fourth straight win. Frankie Louvoo, seven tackles, the big fourth and one stop on the third play of the game opening drive, two and a half sacks a season high career high, three quarter back hits, two tackles for loss, a fumble recovery. What didn't Frankie Louvoo do? Also leads the speeches pregame, got the game ball and broke the team down after the game. That's a heart and soul dude. That's a bad ass big time. Frankie Louvoo guy here. How about his running mate, Bobby Wagner? How about a second half of your own? How about a forced fumble about six solo tackles? How about a TFL as well? The linebacker in core have a day against the big on Cleveland Browns offense. Diami Brown got his number called and made a play. He got a chance to win down the field vertically. He did. He made a catch dropped right into the bucket at another nice play that we kind of forget there was a 16 yard comeback route where he made a guy miss and got some extra yards to get down to the 11 yard line and set up more points later in the game. Only had two targets. He turned that into two catches for 57 yards and a 41 yard touchdown. This is what this receiver room is becoming. We'll talk about a lot of days of Kias about this. He's on the show today at 4 30. But he had the big game last week. McLorin's the one mainstay. There have been Noah Brown games. There's been a Luke McCaffery sighting. He had an elevated role yesterday. Diami Brown goes a couple of weeks, doesn't get his number called. Now all of a sudden it's your turn, your chance and guys are making the most of those opportunities. Who does the Diami yesterday? Austin Eclorum. He's just so wonderful. That's a, if you're scoring at home, that's eight touches for 97 yards. I say again, eight touches for 97 yards ripped off the big run for 50 ripped off a nice catch and run for 33 game changing plays. These are easy button plays that Austin Eclorum provides. He is so wonderful. He is so good with the ball on his hands. This remains their best off season signing. I thought Mikey Sander still was very physical. I had the big pop onto Sean Watson along the sideline had a couple really violent collisions, right? They talk about arriving violently. He certainly did that. He's clearly getting more comfortable as this year goes along. He's now playing a second position. He played a lot of nickel is played on the boundary. I like what I'm seeing from the development of a national champion with Michigan as one of the captains of the Wolverines last year. But I thought even though it was semi quiet, just a four tackle performance, not a whole lot of counting stats. When I rewatch the game, he jumped out several times. What local 53 running back has three touchdowns in the last two games? Trick question. There's still them. There's still them. That's what's so fun. That's what's fun. It's fun. I'm having fun. In addition to Brian Robinson, it wasn't much of a factory yesterday because of his bum knee. How about Jeremy McNichol's seven rushes, 44 yards and a touchdown, please. And thank you. This is the thing that everyone always talks about. And it's the most overused hacking cliche. Next man up. Easiest thing in the world to do is yell next man up like that. I've stopped. I've solved it. The easiest thing will fix it all because next man up eventually the next man isn't as good as like the first guy that you started with. But so far they have not missed a beat. They were able to have Brian Robinson relax for the entire second half because it's fine. Dude, McNichol's has it. Why doesn't McNichol's run for a whole bunch of burst and explosion with a long of 28 yesterday? That is fantastical. Jaden Daniels, just 14 completions. He only played the three quarters, obviously, because he got to watch the rest of the starters relaxing on the sideline. Like a good team that we see watching red zone typically does. But 238 yards passing on those 14 completions for him. I mentioned in the first segment. And I think you guys all saw it. Like accuracy was down from normal. A couple more mistakes should have had at least two interceptions probably. Maybe a third if Luke McCaffrey doesn't bail him out on a ball left inside. But the good plays are just so spectacular. The sack turned into 60 60 yards to McLaren. The 34 yard run on fourth and three. The 41 yard dime that I guess he told Cliff Kingsbury he wanted to run and then dropped right in to the waiting arms of the Ami Brown in the end zone. Those big plays are the entire ball game. The rest of it is just noise. It's it's just furniture in the room. It doesn't really matter. You don't notice it because he makes a couple plays a half that just snatched the soul of the defense in the opponent. And he did it again with Washington having six different plays of 23 or more yards yesterday. Cornelius Lucas and Brandon Coleman. I'm going to read off. Okay. We all know defensive player of the year every year candidate in Miles Garrett. I'm going to read off his stat line. Okay. This is just from yesterday. Are you ready? What that tumbleweed just go by? Nothing. He didn't record a thing. Oh, you mean no pressures? No hits. No quarterback sacks. No TFLs. None of those and no tackles. Did Miles Garrett play yesterday? Prove it. He was on the field. 52 snaps. Almost 80% of Cleveland's defensive plays. And you know what he was doing a bunch was jogging back, right? Because he had like the ball was advanced. We had to like run back, get back there, huddle up. All right. I'll try to get him next play. Oh no, we have to go to the field because this court another touchdown in my ass. Zero zero impact yesterday. Hello there. I would normally say that that time share rotation platoon at left tackle makes no sense. Who cares exactly 50 50 split in the last two weeks for Cornelius Lucas and Brendan Coleman and Coleman, by the way, looks like the left tackle of the future. It looks like Peters was more right and everybody else was more wrong about him here. So far, like a lot of the other teams that saw him as a guard. Wrong. We've got the smarter evaluator than you do, just like Washington did all these years, you know, with Rivera and the Marty party. By the way, Martin may you game ball, give Martin may you a game ball? He still works here. Yeah. Right. Play the game ball button. Martin may you? Yeah. Thank you. He's still here. What does he do? He is a part of this renaissance. Anyone know what he does? Imagine what the record would be if he wasn't here. Here we go. Yeah. Four and one. That's Martin may you? Let's go to Jack in L.A. on Grant and Danny. What's up, Jack? Going on guys first on caller. Thank you for making the. Thank you, Jack, listening on the ice. We've got three. Thanks, coach. Hey, coach. This is right. You got two game balls, man. One for Jane Daniels. We watched him do something a quarterback in Washington hasn't done for a long time. And that was in the first couple of jobs. He was rattled, base in pressure. You know, they were coming at us like Tampa Bay was, but he regained composure, made game, right? How many times have we seen a quarterback get hit a couple of times and that offense just implode, right? So to watch him come back, regain composure and find the weakness in that defense to put up 30 plus points is something we haven't seen in Washington in a long time. And then the other game boss to the coaching staff, man, this team is getting better, you know, in game, you know, from drive to drive, they're getting better at finding those weak points and exploiting them. That front seven in the defense is finally starting to put it together and get pressure on the quarterback. And that's all due to coaching, man. So that's what I got to say. And as a fan out here in LA, man, it's great to have a good Washington team. Appreciate you. Thanks for joining us on the Odyssey app. And hopefully you call back and you keep checking us out. But yeah, I will say that Jane Daniels keeps coming. He is not deterred. He is not phased. He is unflappable. He has that resilience you're looking for. There's the best moments are when when the defense is right and they're still broken. In other words, the defensive coordinator over there and in every week is going, I got the perfect call. I'm going to scheme up an unchecked, unblocked blitzer who's more athletic than 99.9% Bard of the world's human population. I've got him. I have it. I have beaten them. Nope. He's faked out of his jockstrap left pouting on the field as Daniels jogs 34 yards down the sideline. What, what are you supposed to do? He is beaten. He's figured out a way. He's begun to beat this kind of similarly every time, which is he just sprints out of the pocket to his right. What I love is against Tampa, he's running out of the pocket to run. Now he's resetting and he's throwing a McLaren or he's finding McLaren for the 12 yard play he had when he was sprinting to the sideline a little bit later on in the first half. But when he got out of the pocket, it's six runs for 65 yards. And he had three passes that were three for three for 88 yards. That is a nearly flawless performance. You flush him from the pocket. He goes three for three for 88 yards and he runs six times for 65 yards and breaks your backs. Pretty good. Those are mostly plays where you won with pass rush and you throw your hands up and you go, what are we supposed to do? You see it when you watch Lamar Jackson, you've seen it with Washington taking on dual threat quarterbacks like Kyla Murray and others over the years. Let's go to Sean and false church. What's up, Sean? Hey, guys, I appreciate you taking my call. The words of what is it? Bachman Turner overdrive taking care of business every day, taking care of business every way, every way comes to mind. Yeah. Yeah. I've got two game balls. You mentioned them. Austin Echler, when there's a guy that can change the game in the running field. Amazing. When there's a guy that can change the game of the passing field. Also awesome. When he's one person. Yes. Sign me up every day of the week as many times as I can. And then a guy that I think is now running like Lamar and throwing into the basket like Joe Burrow, a guy that forgets his mistakes like the last color was saying and just goes out there and is like, no, I can do it. Jaden Daniels number five. He's just changing the game. There was a video of saying talk to me talking to Tyler Beoddish on the sideline during the Arizona game when he was miked up and he said, it's fun having five. Isn't it? And Beoddish is like, yeah, dude. Yeah. I mean, the players, it's one of those guys recognize it where that play the call wasn't good. He made it. Okay. That play. We didn't do what we were supposed to do. We made it. Okay. And it's not to say they're just bystanders. Like the line is making his life a lot easier. They're helping him. That's all we're receivers other than Earth's on the near fumble yesterday. Nobody drops passes. I mean, they have been a really good job helping, making athletic catches. McCaffrey yesterday bailed him out. McClure and made a really nice catch across his body. Although speaking of drops, he dropped what should have been a touchdown, would have been the fifth of the year for Jaden Daniels. It was kind of one of his best balls of the day, frankly, right into the bucket. But just it takes an entire group. I think it goes without saying and people don't need me to tell them that he makes everybody better the way he's playing, not unlike Griffin in 2012 made all of their position groups better. But they are the first team since the 70 merger to score 150 or more points in their first five games of the season with a rookie quarterback starting. And there are so many superlatives like that. Daniels became the first quarterback ever yesterday to throw for a thousand yards and to rush for 250 in his first five games in the NFL. That had never happened before. So you give him bulk of the credit, but you tip your cap to Kingsbury and the entire operation. They got a really good thing going right now. Let's squeeze in one more on Grant and Danny Wills and Stafford on G and D on a victory Monday. What's up, Will? Hey, hey, I just wanted to say thanks for letting me get a call with the first time caller. And I have two game balls. My first game ball is for Beatrice. Because we are this we haven't had any trouble yet. We are this has been quietly doing his job. It's like a secret assassin. Dude, it's a great. He doesn't get a lot. He doesn't get a lot of attention. Yeah, but he's always focused doing this job. I'm going to let you give you a second one in a second, but I want to give some quick numbers because Beatrice has been completely unsung yesterday. We had him on the show of fate him down because he's got the radio up in the background. We had him on the show last week and Beottish hadn't. I think we had said he had given up zero sacks and like one pressure all year or something crazy like that. Yesterday against the Brown 66 snaps, zeros across the board, sacks, pressures, hits, penalties still is not committed to penalty all year at an 85 PFF blocking grade yesterday. He has been fantastic. And when you don't notice the center because there's no snaps going over people's heads or ground balls to the shortstop back there, AK the quarterback, then you know you're doing a good job. Well, who's your other game ball for? Sorry, buddy. The game ball was for Jonathan Allen because Jonathan Allen started showing up yesterday. He showed up. I heard his name mentioned more yesterday than I had pretty much in the first other four games. You're right. I mean, it's actually two games in a row where he's been a lot better. But yesterday by far is best game of the season. I believe coach Zorn had something though that he wanted to say to well, you guys sleep that audio literally from the last time they were four and one 16 years ago in 2008 in the locker room, basically yesterday 16 years ago, Jim Zorn leading the boys and hip hip array 16 years, man. What were you doing 16 years ago? I was at George Mason University where I was a sophomore, I believe, Southmore, Southmore. Why do people say that? I don't know. They do it. T. H. Yeah. Southmore. I think they don't know any better. I was a sophomore at George Mason University eating at Ike's or, I don't know, enjoy myself over at President's Park with a buddy or two. The good times carefree old Jim Zorn had the boys rolling. Grant and Danny on the fan, speaking ahead, coaches have their team rolling. Dan Quinn hitting the podium for his Monday presser live. As soon as we return, we'll have Dan Quinn's first remarks after he watched the film live for you his press conference right here on the fan. [silence] Jackson where he's a design running back. He's doing it on his own. He'll launch this time. Down the side of Brown. That was the fox call of De yami Brown getting loose up top. Jaden Daniels finding him and getting Washington to 24 points in the first half. We're awaiting the start of Dan Quinn's press conference on this Monday after a fourth straight win for his commanders. Welcome back. Grant and Danny on the fan. Yesterday, Danny, I just tweeted out the video I posted from during the game. There was a wave at Northwest Stadium. I think that's being talked about as much as it is because of the symbolism of just kind of the energy in the stadium and the excitement of the fans, but it felt and looked different in house. What it was it like for you on TV? It seemed like there was plenty of juice. So in other words when the so much burgundy too. Yeah. It's not a big Brown's crowd at all. And so what normally I mean and I still not even normally all the time I think the wave is the worst, but it all shows that everyone's they're having fun. Like that's what's happening for football. I don't like the way of ever. No one should be doing the wave. Oh see that's I think that's a bad take. The wave in baseball there is this thing that to me is like it's an old school sport and they don't really do it. I think it's always been kind of cool for football. I've never heard of it being a like shun thing in that sport. Yeah, it should be. We should just not do it. Is that a no fun rue take or is that something that you think is like an unwritten rule? I don't think it's an unwritten rule. Well, whether I never heard it specifically with football. So it's more you don't like it. Yeah, I just think like the the sports happening let's let's like cheer appropriately and send me like this guy's gonna stand up that I'll stand up. I think it's so silly. Are you okay with cheering? Yeah, you're okay with smiling. You should be doing you should be having fun. Smiling is good. No, what's goofy is like now we got to stand up but like if we do it in the right sequence and they boo the guy that doesn't stand up and the whole thing's done. But don't buy any gear. Definitely. Don't buy any with the C word on it. Okay. And don't definitely don't do the wave. Right. And if you see Major Tuddy, can you wave at him? I wouldn't. Okay. But I'm not gonna take a take it right away. You're lather to all these things. If you'd like to be mocked by me, you're you're right. Major sing the sing the stupid embarrassing song too. Major Tuddy. Yesterday got a hug from Brian Robinson. Everybody wants to give Dan Quinn a hug. He's got the boys four and one. Let's get out the aspirin. Yeah, I think the for me, the one that that really set it off, John, was the explosive play that went outside the pocket from Jaden to Terry. And you know, I've even had that discussion of remaining a passer and you know, being able to stay and throw the ball down the field where maybe early in the season on that play, we might have seen Jaden use his legs. And he certainly did on other plays in this game. But on that one in particular, that's the marker to me was the one that really set it off to go down the field. But what I do like about both sides to know that defensively to go get some stops to give the ball back to the offense to give some shots, that was a big piece of this, John, of going back and forth. And that's kind of the complimentary ball of what I've been talking about to feed off one another. And it was really cool to see that. Where are some of the, we can see the sacks now, but where are some of the subtle ways that maybe you've seen the defensive growth, even in the last two weeks, tackling, I would say would be the biggest one for me. I think on the day, we might have been at four, John, and we had been in double digits in previous games. And so that part, when you have a game where you can tackle, it means our tracking is getting better. The technique to go through that, I love the energy that our special teams groups are bringing in terms of the coverage aspect. And, you know, on those ones, those are tackling opportunities, too. So I think the more that we're doing this, you know, the better the tackling is becoming. You're welcome. Idiot, kind of along those same lines, was there a point where you really started to see the defense kind of get it together, turn things around, really, in the last four weeks? I certainly felt like Arizona was a step in the right direction for us, Nikki. They started, you know, the rush, how does it go? And we played better on third downs to create some longer third downs. So I think some of those ones of, you know, the first downs that go to a second along, you make a good stop. Those are the ones, Nikki, and maybe there's some hidden ones on the first downs to make sure, you know, you're under five yards as that's going to create some longer third downs. I also really felt the energy and the speed of the players. I felt that from, I can remember clearly one going to the defensive left with John Allen early in the game, you know, chasing Deshawn down who can absolutely fly. So to see, you know, one of the big guys really hauling to go, I thought that was a really big deal. But the tackling, I thought, has increased over the last couple of weeks. Thank you for still not getting quite the takeaways that I'd hoped we would. But I do feel like those shots are now becoming more apparent in terms of the force fumbles and how we could go get those. But that's the next step for us. I know before the draft, there were so many comparisons between Taden and Lamar Jackson, and I'm sure the comparison will come back up this week. What did you make of those then, you know, as he's heard those in your experience with him, you know, you're listening to Dan Queen, you know, we haven't talked a lot about that. I think everybody knows, you know, how, you know, exceptional and remarkable Lamar is. And so I get why people would say that here, somebody's got athletic ability and can absolutely rip it as well. But I've always wanted Jaden to be the best version of him, you know, and absolutely go for it in that way. They'll feature different ways in the offense than we do. But, you know, as far as like comparison, I didn't allow myself to kind of go down all that road. I just really wanted to kind of stay in all the things that he could do and how we would feature him in our offense with our guys. Hey, Dan, I'm just curious, how did Ryan Robinson come out of the game? I noticed he didn't have a carry in the second half. Yeah, he came out well, Ben, where you're, you know, with more just monitoring, really, to make sure we didn't, you know, get too many. There's a couple guys in that same space. Juan Martin was one that, you know, is going to be okay, but had some, you know, got banged up a bit. But Brian was really strong down in the red zone like he always is. But yeah, it was just more of a coaching decision on that one to make sure we could absolutely, you know, get him set and ready for the next one. And on the defensive side, you've talked about marrying the pass rush with the coverage all along. And obviously it's a look a bit of a slow start, but as the pass rush has improved, you've gone, protect you've gone to more man coverage in times. And especially in this game, is that an example of what you're talking about with, you know, one thing happening, you kind of lean into a different plan that you might have wanted along. I think it'll be a little bit by the game, Ben, you know, in terms of where the matchups are, what the distance is for some of the third downs to go. So you know us, we've been, you know, trying to mix and match to, you know, get the right grouping in and the right people. But what I have seen is just the overall nature and aggressiveness of the group arrow is going up into that spot. But as far as like more man or more zone or more pressure or not, really, that kind of just depends on each opponent each week. And we're still, you know, kind of digging into to compete for that. Sam, like his macro defensive adjustments as teams get more film on, or is it more upon specific week to week sort of deal? Yeah, right now, to me, Sam, it feels week to week as we're just kind of getting warmed up still on a lot of it. So each team, I think will play to their own style. And like everybody plays some forms of zone and some man's and but who blitzes more, who doesn't, who uses a spy on him, who doesn't, because those are all things that if you use a spy or not blitzing as much, because you're not taking, you know, the extra player to go. Or if you're, you know, trying to blitz, you know, you're vulnerable on, you know, some of the deep balls and things that go with that. So going into it, I would say they're probably still digging in because there's another side of our offense in the run game. That is a really important part of that. I think we've talked about that, Sam, the importance of having run and play pass that goes with it, because now you're not just, you know, relying on a dropback game. So having the ying to the yang and the run and the play pass that goes with it, that's kind of the secret sauce, you know, to make a offense really hard to defend where you have both that you have to be able to do. Dan Quinn meeting with the media after yesterday's win over the Browns. And it was a decisive 34-13 win for Washington. Tons still coming up on the show, including a conversation with wide receiver alumni Zacchaeus at 4.30. You're going to hear from former head coach Jay Gruden on his evaluation of the tape of Jayden Daniels performance at five. Fidarian Mathis at one of his best games as a pro. He'll be on the show today at six. As we continue here on G&D, Danny, I do want to bring up something Quinn just said though briefly. He talked about the way that some of the guys were playing, for lack of a better phrase, what I call away from the ball, like some of the hustle stuff Zacchaeus had a play where he runs a jet action away from the snap. Echler goes on a basically motion toward the right, gets a carry off tackle. And so he's on the complete other side of the field of Zacchaeus. Echler rips off a 50 yard run. Zacchaeus very easily, and most of the time in the league would have just kind of lolligagged his way up here. You can go 65, 70% and nobody notices. He hauled, you know what, at a hundred miles an hour to get toward the play in case he might be able to throw a block or help or do something. Echler ends up fumbling. Zacchaeus pounces on the ball. One of those hidden plays that describes, you know, the thing that we rolled our eyes about a little bit in the off season. He's a commander. He plays the way the commander way. We gave him the commander tag, the commander label. I see it with Luke McCaffery, the way he digs guys out in the running game and blocks and puts his body on the line. I love the way these guys, not just the receiver room, but generally play away from the ball. There is something to a buy in. That's the phrase is buying. I kind of have to cringe when I say it, but like this brotherhood bit that they do. It is a real thing right now, the way that they're playing for one another. Because you can say it, but it's different when nobody's watching. Now, we happen to see the Zacchaeus play, right? But what about the other 75 times there's a nice play and we don't see it. Like if Zacchaeus had just sprinted down there for no reason, an Echler never fumbles. We're the nice play by the defender, by the way, to get back in and force that after a 50 yard game. But if Zacchaeus doesn't have to run down there, do we notice it? Right? It's the kind of thing where it's, you know, we all like, what was it? Was it last week or the week before where I think it was a great to recover that fumble? Really athletic play a great job. And that was the sensey game. Since you're doing the doing the team thing where it's not just what everybody's watching. It's every time and it's a wave crashing on the shore. A lot of times you don't notice it doesn't even matter. But the time that it does, thank God you're there. Blitz top of the hour is going to be a commander's blitz for you today on Grant and Danny. And I want to get into the defensive improvement. They dominated the game on Sunday. Next hour, we'll get into whether that has more to do with the Browns offense being dreadful or Washington really having turned a corner. Next, what was your game day experience like? Where did you watch from? How did you enjoy yourself as part of our double play? [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] Grant and Danny on the fan are double play each day right now at 345 driven by your local Washington Honda dealers stopping for a great deal on the rugged and capable Honda pilot contact your local Washington area haunted dealers today. Thought what's going on in our lives could be actually football and commanders themed today with them getting to four and one in a huge win fourth straight win to an oh at home now by giving a look at how our game days were spent. We can go around the horn here in the room. So your boy was there and joined myself. I was in the press box to be in press box. Paul said yes, of course, went into the locker room, get some interviews. You'll hear from the llamas at a kiosk at 430 and put area in Mathis at six o'clock both very excited after big wins for Washington yesterday. But the wife went. My mom came up. My parents were nice stuff to watch the kids all day babysit. That's a grind, man. That's three kids from like 9 a.m. Five p.m. So tip of the cap to them wife's season ticket holder and gets to go to a few games a year now. We give her ticket to, you know, friends, family, whatever the rest of the time. But they had a massive tailgate back to like 2012 lore that over 40 people. I got my point in time playing what's up and doing all the bits and skits that they like to do in the parking lot. It was a perfect day for football. It was gorgeous. 70ish degrees. It was just so nice out and I know just from making the rounds and walking around a little bit and getting to bump into some listeners. It was kind of the ideal day before the kickoff for Washington to go play football against the Browns. And then obviously the game was the icing on the cake and ended up really making the whole thing work. But just a feel good day for your boy to be at the stadium, to see people doing the way of being excited, being happy for once, go home to my kid who's wearing a Jaden Daniels jersey who thinks the commanders have just always been great. He's three years old. It's all I'm used to dad. I said, did you see the games like we won? I said, yeah, he's like, we always win. Sure. Totally. If that's what you think, then that's what we're going to keep it at. That is true. But I enjoyed myself. What was your game day like? Oh, it's so many activities. A couple little bit of kids sports. Then we went to the Waterford Fair. My wife's aunt and uncle put that on or they're not put on. They're part of the group that like volunteers and gets something together. So it's like a beautiful old town outside of Leesburg, a lot of walking around, gorgeous day, local artisans, vendors, that kind of stuff. Is this uncle's game? Yep. No. Yeah. No. Yeah. Oh, man. How's he doing? He's doing doing just fine. All right. Tell him I said hello. I certainly will not. But we had a great day, walked around a million for a million miles and saw a couple of folks that recognized me, said they enjoyed the show, which is really cool. So I had to watch the game on on DVR. And right before I, right before we left, somebody who I hadn't talked to yet, I guess, must have recognized me or knew that there was football interest somewhere somehow. But it came up to me and shook his head and he goes, you believe the skins? And I'm going, oh, no, I devoted the score all day. I'd avoided everything that had to do with the game the entire day. And I'm going, they played that they did that game. They did the thing where there's expectations and people going, I'm going to my first game in 25 years. And I'm excited, I tell you, it's going to be grand. They're going to win the home side. Well, you'll see it'll turn for us. Our number will come in. I'm going, they did it. They laid the turd. They stunk. They lost it home to the stupid Browns. Well, who can't complete a Ford pass? And then I got home and watched on DVR and it was the opposite. So you successfully got home, not knowing the result. That's right. How is that possible? I never understand how people are able to do this. I just don't get it. So it's one thing to make the effort to do it, which is admirable. Congratulations to you. You don't bump into one person. You don't get a text message. Do you just mute all of your texts? The texts are coming in, but I'm not very responding in that time. That makes sense. You still see thing. I mean, even on our, I didn't even think about it. Like, you don't tell us not to text you. So like on our show thread or whatever, we're like, Oh, my God, or like the army. Yeah. So if I see, Oh, my God, it could mean again that Cleveland just scored or whatever. The army did it or whatever the comment is, let's say. So I didn't happen to see those. Okay. So the ones I like stuff I see, like where I can't avoid it. Like it's on my, I don't even take my phone out because the people need to contact her right there. Do you actively avoid it? Yeah. I mean, do the best I can, but like, you know, my, my watch will buzz and I see one. Oh, my God, which could be in Deshaun Watson, just through, which actually I'm fast to somebody or something like that. There's probably going to be a time in my life where there are activities that go on, opposite the NFL. I don't want that to happen. And I will do everything in my power to make sure it doesn't. Yeah, this is one of those. This is this thing. This is their special thing. Happens once I'm saying I'm saying I'm going, your kids are playing flag football normally on Sunday at one. Yeah, from 12 to one. And I'm going, the tide, the tide has swept me up in all this, like what I'd like to be is at home with the lights off in our air condition room, eating snacks, watching the game and usually getting sad. But this is different. So this is one of those, okay, I got to suck it up and do it. Respectfully, Uncle Jim, I hope your event goes great. Oh, no, I get 18 of these. So we'll see you next year. Let's not plan it on a Sunday fall. His response is there's only one of these is only one water for fair. And to that, I would say have a great bar to enjoy the fair. Because I got Jaden Daniels doing work. Darius, you were at the game. What was your experience like in the stadium? So yeah, it was, it was awesome. First of all, I have to thank you for getting us access to field passes. Yeah, me and my boy and his kid were able to go and get down on the field, got to see a couple players, he got a couple pictures, he got some autographs, which is awesome. So that was awesome experience. My first time getting field passes. But aside from that, I mean, honestly, in all the times that I've been in the FedEx, excuse me, Vx Northwest, whatever we want to call it. The place where all they do is wind by a lot of fields where they where they where they commit wins. In all my times going there over the last, let's just say decade, I always feel like there's kind of like a nervous energy when you're when you're there. Of course, throughout the game, but even sometimes before the game, there's this nervous energy of what are we going to do? What are we going to do the botch today? We call that angst or possibly like a preparation for the inevitable, right? You kind of decided you're a doomsday prepper. I'm okay with whatever's going to happen yesterday. I didn't feel that not one time yesterday. Even after the interception, there was this confidence within everybody around me and this in the crowd around me bounce back. You know, it's fine. How much of that is that we just knew everyone watching that game, you could give the Browns the ball at the one to start every drive and they won't score touchdowns. Because remember, they got the ball first and goal from the two. And then they had penalty, sack penalty. And then that play that I still don't know what happened where to Sean Watson just quit and walked to the bench. And Kevin Stafanski looked at him like he was going to grab him by the neck. He wanted to John Papabon Bryce Harper, Emmett looked like. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah, of course. I thought there were 12 men in the huddle and they and that's what happened two other times later in the game. On that particular play, they just, they couldn't get a play in or something. They were down to like 15 seconds. They'd already burned one time out to start the second half. So you either have to burn another one or take the delay. You're down three touchdowns. A field goal doesn't help you. That was the moment where I said, this is the worst team I think I've seen live in my life. Like this looks like a high school team that would lose by 27 to a middle school team. They were so bad. That's like they're pretty gross. If I was Kevin Stafanski, I would have quit in that moment. I would have said, I'm better than this. I'm a two time coach of the year. You've saddled me with this loser, this loser contract. You're all losers. Peace out. I would have flipped them the bird and I would have walked up the tunnel, fire my ass. And I would have just sat out for the rest of the year and gotten a job the beginning and extra. I was going to say, I would try to get fired. I would do like a George Costanza, take the trophy and drive it around. Seriously, this is how everyone's like, you can't bench him. The owner will fire you. Please do. I got two more years left at 70 million guaranteed against the cap for this loser. I tell you this, I would absolutely bench him fire me. I would bench him now. I would have a press conference. I bring everyone in and I'm going to go. We're going with a James Winston. We're going to have him, you know, giving weird pregame speeches and eating W's and then whatever, whatever comes with that. We're going to ride that roller coaster. I'm not doing this anymore. Darrus, real quick, because we're late. Commanders of arch being purchased in your vicinity. Uh, you mean by other fans around me? Because I didn't, I didn't have them. Well, no, no, no, I don't know that. I mean, did you see anybody buying gear? I didn't see anybody in particular, like come back to their seat with new, newly purchased gear. Um, everybody around me seemed to have already had their commander's gear. So yeah. Oh, that's good news. Right, Danny? Yeah. There's one, there's one dude wearing Redskins pajamas. I thought that was weird. I get sites for the pajama. Look at a game, any cup for me. Oh yeah. Like our big zuba pants guy looks like pajamas. No doubt. Be comfortable. Enjoy yourself 70 degrees. The commanders are four and one. We will give away caps tickets at the top of the hour. As soon as we return next on Grant and Danny. Thank you. a a a [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] Grant and Danny on the thin on a victory Monday. It is a Hall and Oates triumphant afternoon. The commanders are four and one Baltimore Ravens in Baltimore this Sunday, standing between Washington and its first five in one record since 1996. Congratulations to caller number 10, you're winning a pair of tickets. You see the capitals take on the Dallas Stars October 17th. It's a Thursday night game capital one arena for tickets in the complete cap schedule. Go to the fan DC dot com slash events will be giving away tickets to. A big week one caps game all week long right here on the fan. But it is time for our blitz today. We're going to be covering the commanders, the commanders and the commanders. We start things off discussing the commanders with Chick Hernandez, who was sitting not far from me yesterday as he put his eyes on 34 points worth of offense and another Washington win where she can watch him on WSA TV nine in town. Chick, what is happening? >> I want to talk Panthers, can I talk Panther? >> You can do that, sure, no thank you, no thank you, no thank you. I want to keep my lunch down, what is happening? Well, as you well know, it's just we're at a fever pitch now. All the different numbers, all the history making, it's going on with this franchise. It's quite exciting to see and I told somebody earlier today that after decades of darkness and covering this squad, you know, I don't get giddy, but I noticed that in the press box, noises are made when number five makes a play from the media. We didn't normally have reticent kind of group, but when he makes a throw or makes a move, there's an audible, ooh, ah, ooh, in that press box and that's just different and it's fun. >> That's all said, yeah, there's a soundtrack to watching him almost at this point. So my first time ever going to games and sitting in the box and being down on the field was 1999, and I met you that year, you were already in town, you were at Fox five, I believe. What year did you actually start in DC? The reason I ask is because you got to go back to 1996 chick to find the last time they were five in one if they can be Baltimore. >> Yeah, so I've made two stops. One, I started in radio in 1987 for a little while, and then I came back to TV in 1994 to Fox five. That's my first time on TV, truly. So from 1994, I saw them go five in one and thought this will be what they do all the time. >> This is normal. >> This is going to be great. This is going to be great. And then curb put, caboom, capow, nothing, absolute nothing. And what made it worse was just it just weren't that bad on the field. They were also bad in the front office and in the building. And you just wanted this every day you went to work. You just looked at each other and went, okay, here we go, here we go. And as you well know now, it's a far different atmosphere and vibe in this building. I'm here today. I'm getting ready to sit down for my Monday chat with the DQ. And it's just a different vibe, absolutely, completely different, 180 turn. Their adults are running the building. >> Chick, I think what I've been most amazed by, that's not true, most amazed. But on the podium of amazing things, it's been JD, Jane Daniels every week, right? Tera McCorn pretty consistent, had 112 yards yesterday. But other than that, it's been a different dude it seems like. Without Austin Eckler, Ho Homme, it's the Jeremy Menecos show. Last week, it was a lot of me Zacchaeus, this week, it's down me bound with a couple of big plays. That to me is remarkable, right? Usually most weeks you tune in, it's the stars doing the star things for these teams that are really good. And occasionally you get a smaller contribution. But it seems like it's a different guy, almost series to series. I find that amazing. >> Well, and it comes straight from the head coach, when I talk to the guys in the locker room. The first, one of the first things that Tera McCorn said was shout out to Diambi Brown. I know the journey he's been on, really cool to see him get his do here with a big catch in a big moment. So he's thinking about his team man. I asked Diambi Brateri, he's like, it's so cool that one of my mentors is talking about me. And then you asked him, why is that happening? And Sam Cosby's like, I've never been a part of a team with that had a really good culture. I'm still getting used to it. It's a culture thing. So they're playing, literally playing for each other and figuratively as well. And there's so many different guys, as you mentioned, Daniel just are doing different things. You know, it's Alameda Zacchaeus getting a fumble on a great run by Echler. It's Luke McCaffrey who made some vital catches for a young, I almost call him a freshman, a young rookie. It's all of it. It's all of it. And you know, we can be, and we're, you know what? I'm allowing myself to be giddy about it right now. Whether it changes or not, I don't think it's going to change. I mean, I think, you know, obviously they're going to have to go to some losses. But I just, I'm going to allow myself to enjoy what they're doing and appreciate what they're doing. And say, you know what, they're doing this and it's the head coach and GM as well, obviously. And it's from the top down. It's really that simple. I'm not going to get unrealistic. I do have them going 16 and one though, but I'm not going to be crazy. Oh, that's nice. Yeah, I'm not going to like say anything wild today or be overly. Yeah, reactionary, I mean, you've always been that kind of guy. So that's well done by you. No, I appreciate that defensively. This is something we're going to take calls on next in the next 30 minutes or so. And I want to see what listeners think. How much of yesterday was it an announcing of their presence like, hey, we've got this thing solved. We figured it out. We've made major progress. And how much of it was just the Sean Watson's horrendous. And that is the statistically, not only the worst offense in the league, but by way of DB08 check, they're the eighth worst offense is in 1979 after five games. Well, they, this franchise, I'll go back to the franchise, historically has played to their opponent's makeup. And so that's not taking place with this franchise, this team, this iteration, 2024 version. But no, the Sean Watson has given up on a squad. I'll give you, I'll give you all of that. But on defensively, you have to get after somebody like that. And they did. Okay, they did. Frankie Louvoo, Wagner, who's always going to be there. I just watched Wagner making the defensive calls. And he was just like barking out stuff because he knew what was coming. That's not because of the bad brown defense. That's because Bobby Wagner knows what he's doing. And he's used that quarterback of that defense. So I wouldn't say it's an announcement. They had played two really strong football games the last two weeks. So they're beginning to kind of feel themselves. Joe Witt, Jr. can do a few different things. The secondary hasn't been nearly as holy as it was before. And by the way, nobody said anything about number 13. Like he just had a solid game. Just played, didn't do anything. You know, man, your Forbes is just going to quietly do this thing. Yeah, it's hard to get noticed when the offense scores 34 points. And everybody's just humming along, having sideline laughter. Check always fun, buddy. Thank you. Yes, sir. Appreciate it, dude. Hit that sounder for the local 53 again. Our guide to bias. Funke all ties. You know him from top or time. You know him from updates. You know him from, I think placing. I think he would, I think he placed GP in the first annual Cannonball contest at spring training for Grant and Dan. I think I think he was the place horse in that one. Well, did you win the silver? If memory serves Tobes. Was that about right? I think I won the gold. Oh, is that true? I think that's what I remember. Me and Daris were in the final round, and I believe I outdid him. I thought Daris won, so we've got. Because remember Daris had the high of all the rounds, but then didn't perform as well in the finals. Can you redo the intro, please? He deserves a little more respect. We tried it again. And the defending champion of the original written Danny Spring Training Cannonball contest to bias. Oh, thank you very much, guys. Thank you very much. Thank you. I feel honored. I wanted to ask Toby and get him on the air, because he was in the stands yesterday. What the vibes were like in the crowd. You know, we got the windows closed, and I can only hear so much. What was it like at the stadium? Yeah, I'll say this, Grant. So I was behind the brown sideline, and I was standing next to some browns fans. And the guy was, he had a little bit to drink before the game. You could clearly tell that. Wait, alcohol? Yeah, he was enjoying himself just a little bit. So no, no issue with that, right? But he was kind of a little obnoxious pregame. And then suddenly through about the first quarter and the second quarter, he didn't have much to say about his team anymore. And it was kind of cool, because you just had so many commanders fans there that were just so excited. You talked about the wave. I saw you tweet about that. And everybody was involved. And whether you like it or not, it just showed that there's a passionate fan base, and there were so many people there. And it was like visible how many-- just how much burgundy and gold was there. And I don't know the vibe. The last game I went to that had a similar sort of vibe was a Sunday Night Football game back in 2016 when Kirkow threw the ball all over the yard against the Packers. And they won 42 to 24. But even that, it just feels different. It really does. And I think it all stems from number five. But everybody was there. And coming out of halftime, there's a guy walking down the aisle. And Jaden Daniels Jersey reaches back to rip the tags off because he just went and bought one. Because he just fell in on it. I guess I want to know every time I haven't been in forever. And I'll never go again. But when Daris referenced this earlier, Toby, like there was this degree of nervousness. Like when they went three and out, when their first two plays, the second drive were negative plays before that Tara McClure in Hail Mary. They're not Hail Mary. You know what I mean? That incredible play after a scramble. Then the interception. There sometimes is always that like puckered, like, oh no, here's the other shoe. Did you feel that at all? Or did the folks around you that kind of feel like, oh, they may not be playing great today? Yeah, I felt it a little bit when Jaden threw the interception. When you get down there into the red zone and you turn it over, you're like, oh no. You know, it feels like maybe you finally got something and then he turns the ball over, like he hasn't done that all year. They've been really good at this stuff. And then they just were able to overcome all this stuff. And the crazy part is like, it's not like they played their best game of football and they dominated. It's not like the defense played really well. So there was a little bit of a nervous energy. But I think it was a, there's a confidence that continues to grow. Like how often have we as fans of this team, the last couple of years felt a confidence in the team to win, especially in a game where it's a prime letdown spot, they came in with a little bit of confidence. I think a lot of fans did, myself included. And then as the game wore on, you're like, okay, this is going to be a beat down and you felt real confident. And then you feel a little bit of confidence even going into next week against a really good Baltimore Ravens team. So I think there was a little bit of that nervous energy, but you know, once they were able to punch it in once, you felt that kind of go away. Toby's on after us tonight. Go get ready, get stretched out for your broadcast this evening. Thank you for the time, buddy. Absolutely guys. Let's keep the commander's blitz moving with a conversation on the commanders. Michael Phillips, the Richmonder joins us now. Miguel, it's getting real early, isn't it? How about that? It just a ton of fun. And the way they're doing it sure feels sustainable. He's not taking a lot of hits. You know, we've, we've corrected a lot of those early mistakes. Feels good. Does it feel like everybody can believe? Do you know what I mean? Like they play Baltimore. They can absolutely lose that game, right? Baltimore's going to be a lot of teams this year. But they could also win it. They could also win it. Does it feel now like it used to when I was a kid where you go, if they drop one, it didn't matter. We'll be back next week. Or if they lose losing the playoffs, doesn't matter. We'll be back next year. Are we at it? It doesn't matter phase right now because they're that good? Yeah, I think it's all about number five, right? It's incredible what he's brought to this franchise to this city. And yeah, he's watching him learn grow in game against a really good Cleveland defense. I believe I'm on board. Sign me up on them. Michael Phillips of the Richmonder on Grant and Danny. It is Raven's week. This is the ultimate test. They were installed initially as seven point dogs. I haven't seen the update today, but I'm assuming the betting public will be on Washington with that big line. It's taken four straight wins, right? They've got their best start. They're off to in 16 years. And they are now the biggest they've been underdogs all season long. I guess because they're really playing the best team they've played in the first really good team that they've played on paper all season long. But what do you make of this matchup as we look ahead? Well, I'm excited. Three best offenses in the league right now by the advanced metric. Washington Baltimore and Cincinnati. And we saw how fun that Cincinnati game was. Right score score score score. No punting back and forth. I'm expecting something similar, right? Baltimore is red hot right now offensively. I think they'll be able to score on these guys. I think Jane Daniels is red hot offensively. So is this running game. Be Rob Eckler, McNichols, all running at a really high level. I think they're going to be able to score on these guys. I think that's the kind of football game we get fired up for. You think about those games a few years ago, right? With the Chiefs and the Niners and the Rams and kind of all those games where, you know, it's going to be a shootout. And you know, you're going to watch a lot of fun offensive football. I think that's the game might be the most fun game across the whole NFL this weekend. Michael, we do this a lot of time in college football. But I think it kind of applies here is a lot of times you look at data or look at a result a few weeks later with like a different perspective of having more data. I guess what I mean is the fact that Washington's defense was awesome. I thought against Arizona shoved it on them and Arizona moved the ball at will against San Francisco. I'm now kind of going, did Washington's defense just turn a corner? Have they gone from one of the worst in football? Historically bad, especially against the past two, three weeks to kind of decent? Good enough to beat up on a bad opponent? Question mark. I like kind of decent. I can buy in on kind of decent. That that feels like the right phrase to use right now. Yeah, and that's that's all you need them to be the way this offense is going. I thought you know, no way to score that many against, you know, a really good Cleveland defense. And it is a really good Cleveland defense. You talk about the retrospect game. Cleveland, by the way, is on an express train to one and seven. This is a football team with pig issues that they don't get it fixed quickly. But I think because there have been so many wins here and you go back and look, you can recreate that Tampa game now too, where you say the offense did a lot of good things, moved the ball. You could see the beginnings of what this became. But yeah, watching Kyler do the two minute drill, slice and dice, the 49ers, only gave me increased confidence that this is for real. Because you mentioned it, right? Like, you know, biggest starts at the gyms or best quarterback since RG three, right? Both of those things were total tools, gold. So I can get the people who don't want to jump in, but also I'm ready to jump. Does feel different. Michael Phillips, phones breaking up a bit. We'll let you roll. Thank you, buddy. We appreciate you. Check him out in the Richmonder. Grant and Danny, that is your commander's blitz today on the fan. Next you're going to hear from Alameda Zacchaeus caught up with him in the locker room. He's an awesome dude. You'll want to hear that conversation also has the defense solved its issues, or did they just benefit from playing to Sean Watson yesterday in that masterpiece they turned in with seven sacks, shoving it on the Browns. We'll dive into that on the fan. [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] Hey, a couple of things, man. First thing you said, let's make sure you're in identity, all right? And like leave no f*cking doubt about that, all right? We still left some f*cking meat on the bone about it. Daddy's our f*cking identity. All right, let's get a question about it. All right, let's do it, man. >> [APPLAUSE] [MUSIC] >> [APPLAUSE] >> [APPLAUSE] >> [APPLAUSE] >> [APPLAUSE] >> Frankie Louvou have a day, two and a half sacks for the commanders, and then led the team in the breakdown. Grant and Danny on the fan, then Quinn might have given him a game ball and that's fine, but he got the first game ball on the Grant and Danny game ball segment today as well. >> Somebody let him know because he'll be very pleased to hear that. >> Quinn game ball or a G&D game ball? Which one do you want? >> G&D game ball. >> Me too. >> I've never got one of those. You ever got one of those? >> I have not. We got that in common, you and I. Before we get to whether or not the defense has officially turned a corner, if we're ready to write in pen, that they're a decent enough group. I want to play my conversation from the locker room yesterday with Alama Deza Kias, I found him right after the game. He had just one catch for 10 yards. It was a huge catch, by the way. He made a catch, made a move, left a defender in his wake, dove forward to set up a fourth in a couple that allowed Washington to go for a fourth down that they would get, they'd go on to get points, they would go on to pull away in the game. But he also had a play, a hustle play, where he came flying from across the field. Didn't have to, just doing the right thing, being a pro, and he was able to recover a fumble on a 50 yard run from behind the play, chasing it down. When Austin Echler coughed up the football, this was Zacchaeus after the game. Another week, another 34 points. The offense kind of keeps on chugging along. This was kind of supposed to be the biggest test yet, because of their defense. How do you feel like you guys did? I feel like we handled it pretty well. Obviously, we have things that we got to clean up, checking the ball, staying on the field. We don't want dirt down and stuff like that, but I feel like overall we did pretty good. It's crazy because it felt like in the first half, even though things in the end were really good, there was a lot you guys left out there with the interception at the goal line, or just plays that didn't work out. And then you look up and it's 24 points on pace for over 500 yards. Just curious, what that says about this offense and the chunky-arded opportunity. I think at the end of the day, it really just comes down to us being able to execute, staying on the field. Obviously, we left things out there in the first half, a little bit in the second half too, but I think we prepare very, very well, and very intentional during the week, and we just got to keep going and keep carrying it over, because that really matters. This offense feels like it's like someone else's turn each half almost. Like, it was the easiest game last week this week, and Terry had the big numbers in the first half. Is that kind of the way it's designed, or just the way it's played out, and how much of being a part of the receiving room right now is like a state-ready thing, or Diami we haven't heard from for a couple weeks, really, and then it's 40 yards touchdown, big plays. I think it's just everybody's being ready. Everybody in this room can make plays, and maybe somebody else's turn, quote, unquote, one week, and then, but at the end of the day, it just comes out, it's just playing as hard as we can to get the win, and then just being ready when your number is called, and I'm happy for two, so happy for him, so that he just stay patient, and I just stuck with it, but we don't have a selfish room, but we just want to win, we want to play hard and just get the win. Are you going to point as the story of, like, wow, Jaden was impressive today, it's like, are we past that now, where it's just like, this is who he is to you, or because he's a rookie, and it's only a month, is it still makes sense every week to kind of take inventory and say, wow, that was pretty good. Yeah, I think you can't take that for granted, especially, you know, him being a quarterback in the NFL, so it's something that we just got to continue to build on, you know, he's been handling it pretty well, and you know, we all have things that we have to get better at, and you know, I'm just, you know, we're just continuing to help him as he, as he continues to grow. Last thing, one one, four straight wins, Ravens are next, you guys got to be feeling pretty good right now, how do you just kind of focus on the next thing with the city starting to really come to life? I think it's just, it starts in practice, like I said, you know, just being very intentional, and then, you know, going out there and executing the game plan, you know, Cliffs have been doing a really good job with just young, you know, great plays, and then we've been going out there in execute, so, you know, like I said, it just starts at practice, and then we'll continue to build that momentum in practice. You heard Zacchaeus, they're talking about Kingsbury dialing up plays. I think on both sides of the ball, there's got to be a ton of confidence when the play comes in, and what your coordinator is asking you to do, the spot that they're putting you in, because it's working, when it works. Totally. They say, oh, hey, you do this, you're going to get a result, and you're getting those results, you got to believe that the process is correct. That's when it becomes a machine, right, when somebody's asking you, and everybody that's got any kind of athletic experience at any point, whether it's high school, middle school, elementary school, travel teams, whatever. When a coach is driving you hard, right, where it's like, you got to do this sprint, you got to do all this kind of stuff, you follow me, man, and we'll get results, and then you don't get results, it's harder to come to work every day, so to speak. I mean, these, you know, you weren't pros then, and these guys are, but that trust factor isn't there. It's, I'll do just enough that I don't get yelled at, right? I get away with it in film room. You've been in jobs like that, right, where you do, to quote my guy from the office space, I do just enough not to get fired, to go all Peter Gibbons, right? That's what a lot of us do, is we kind of skate through our days, our weeks, our months, and our lives at work, if you don't really have the buy-in, because you don't trust what's coming in. But when you get that, if you do this, it's going to work, and you're going to win, that was always to me, the Belichick specials. If you do these three things this week, you win the game, and then you do them, and then you win 15 games a year, you go, yeah, there's something going on here, and you buy in. So to do your job point, a lot of the guys they signed are not stars, there was no expectation that they would be, there's no reason to believe that they're going to be really, really good. But they're all doing exactly kind of the upside of what you were hoping they would do, with like Zacchaeus or Cleveland Farrow before he got hurt, or Noah Brown coming in here, right? I mean, nobody's expecting pro bowls, or massive numbers, or huge production. But Jeremy McNichol steps up, like everyone's just kind of doing, each time they're called upon, exactly what Adam Peters was hoping that they were going to. And the result is, indirectly, a four-in-one record. To the defense we go, we had Chikernanda's on the blitz, we asked him this question, I want to pose it to you guys at 800-6-36-1067. Their defense was incredible yesterday. They shoved on Cleveland's offense. This was the worst defense in the league of getting sacks, they had seven of them. This was the worst defense in the league of getting stops on third down, they were 12 for their first 12. How much of yesterday's dominance on that side of the ball was about the Browns, as opposed to the fact that Washington is fixing some of its problems. This is what Chikernanda said. The Sun Watson has given up on a squad. I'll give you all of that. But, defensively, you have to get after somebody like that. And they did. They did. Frankie Lou Vu, Wagner, who's always going to be there. I just watched Wagner making the defensive calls, and he was just barking out stuff because he knew what was coming. That's not because of the bad Browns defense, because Bobby Wagner knows what he's doing. And he's used that quarterback at that defense. So, I wouldn't say it's an announcement. They had played two really strong football games the last two weeks. So, they're beginning to kind of feel themselves. Joe Witt, Jr. can do a few different things. What do you think, Danny? So, I think of defense in this way. There are great defenses. They've existed. You know, you can run them off the top of your head. The Seattle defense lead you in a boom that won a Super Bowl that shoved it on Peyton Manning, the Ravens, 2085 Bears, a couple others kind of come to mind. Nobody should be saying that this is what that is. So, short of that, if you're above us, you have to be in my mind, you have to be above a certain threshold, whatever you want to call that threshold. I don't have a good name for it. To do that to anybody. Yes, Cleveland's offense stinks. They stink. The Raiders didn't do that to them. The Giants didn't do that to them. The Jacksonville Jaguars didn't do that to them, right? I mean, as you look at it, you go, you've got to be good enough to be able to take advantage of a bad team. The way the 2020, where they then the WFT, I can't remember what they were in 2020. Anyway, the point is, that group played bad quarterbacks and dominated. That was the Washington football game. They were they were WFT, though. They were good enough to beat up on bad teams. If they were bad, they wouldn't have been, right? You'd, you'd see some of those games where some backup scrub quarterback is carving them up and you're going, what the hell's going on when they got to play any Dalton, uh, coming off the bench, he would kill him and you go, what the hell's happening? I thought this defense was good. You've got to be above a certain threshold. They went from not being above that threshold, in my opinion, through three games to now being above it. These last two weeks really showed me something. Most specifically, looking at Arizona in real time and then now one week later after Arizona's offense looked pretty good against San Francisco. I think yesterday had more to do with the Browns than the commander. I do too for that dominant performance, but they are way better than they were in week one. This is a different unit than that first game against the Bucks. It's a scheme that was going to take a few weeks with new coaches, new players. I think Whitten Quinn is we kind of bet on in the off season and this coaching staff really position group by position group is good enough that you knew they were going to keep ironing out wrinkles. They were going to keep finding solutions. Louvoo's playing at a very high level. Chin's been better the last couple of weeks than the first couple of weeks. Wagner is playing his best football of the season. Allen's coming off his two best games. That is not all coincidental, right? That a lot of these guys are playing better and this defense has gotten better. But the difference is you just played the guy that's the easiest to sack in the NFL this season into Sean Watson who's seen ghosts who's just a broken version of himself. This coming week you play the Ravens and the guy that gets sacked 2% of the time, the lowest rate in the NFL in Lamar Jackson. Even when you have him dimmed in, you can't get him down just like Jaden Daniel. So they're not going to have seven sacks this week. If they have more than two or three, I think it'd be a massive victory. It would be a really, really good sign for this defense. But I think it was more about the Browns and the commanders, which isn't a slight or meant as one. I do think there's growth. I do think they're playing well. And a lot of the problems from the beginning of the year, they're cleaning up by only having a manual Forbes on the field for four snaps yesterday, Danny. That's a big, big deal. Yeah. The fact that they don't have to play him because Noah Igbonogany is helping them more than was expected in training camp. They had him in the slot. The fact that you've been able to kick Mikey Sandra still out to the boundary. And he is playing a lot better right now than he was playing against the Bengals when he was getting torched by Jamar Chase. Now those were growing pains that are expected that Dan Quinn and company knew were going to happen. But you let him wear it and you kind of see what kind of strides he makes. There are very few players on that defense that are not better right now with what they're giving them than against the Bucks and the Bengals or the Giants. Yeah, a lot of it is figuring out to your point the staff going, okay, maybe we don't put this guy filling the blank who that is in this spot. Maybe we try to avoid that. Maybe we cover it in a different way. Maybe we give something else up or accentuate the strengths because week one Frankie Louvoo is not the same as week five Frankie Louvoo. He's not this dude gets to line up everywhere and blitz a whole bunch more and was aggressive and awesome. And they found a way to turn him loose while not losing anything in other spots. 10 pass rushes, five pressures and three sacks contributed just absurd credit for two and a half. And oh, by the way, on one of those rushes, he was at the quarterback and grabbed the football that was in the air on like a fumble that was an interception slash the ball came out of his hand whatever you want to call it. I mean, officially a fumble. It was a Micah Parsons. He like game. Now I'm not saying they're the same player, but I think that's the kind of thing. The guy lines up everywhere. And is it possible to stop? Totally was, right? Where are you guys on the defense? What kind of confidence do you have in that group? Want to take inventory on that before we talk to Jay Gruden about Jaden Daniels in 20 minutes at the top of the hour. Phone lines open 800 636 1067. The Browns had sub 70 yards at the half sub 90 yards when Washington had already scored over 30 points yesterday. How much of that was Deshawn Watson just being an unserious option? Grant and Danny on the fan. The DMV's football team's got a bright future. It is time for you to plan yours as well. The exclusive sponsor of our shows, the law firm, Condorian Murad. They will help you update your last will and testament. They will set up a trust for you and your family. Schedule a free consultation where they're a state planning attorneys today. Visit kmlawyers.com. Tell them G and D sent you that's kmlawyers.com. They were texting us during the show yesterday all fired up. Huge commanders fans. They too do not know what to do with themselves. No one knows what to do. I think we should actually get my buddy Alex Gold on from Kansas City who I do weekend shows with on the BitQL network. We should just ask him like, what do we talk about when the team's good? What do you guys do with your hands and your segments? It's like, I wonder what they're doing now where they're like, they might just only be an AFC Championship team this year. You guys, they don't look quite as good. Well, that's what they did last year. And they won the Super Bowl anyways. I think this year, you just go, who cares that they can't move the ball or score. They're just going to keep winning and win the Super Bowl. So like we, what we could have done for the entirety of our show and then every show before us could have done is, yep, it's Snyder and Bruce Allen. It's unserious. It's never going to happen. See you guys tomorrow. What they could do is welcome to the Alex Gold. Who's he, who's the show with Alex? Just let's call it the golden hour. It's Cody somebody. Cody Rhodes and Alex Gold. Welcome to the golden hour. And then they start the show and Alex Gold's like, we got Pat Mahomes. I'll see you guys tomorrow at two o'clock. I just got a tweet. You're a funny guy. Oh, well, your Twitter handle is at funny Danny. You put the funny in funny Danny, right? Uh, yeah. Okay. There's a lady. Okay. Looks like a lovely lady, maybe somebody's grandma. Name Stephanie who just tweeted me. So first of all, she's on Twitter. Okay. She's sending tweets. I think you're on this tweet as well. Okay. At Grand H. Paulson had funny Danny. She said, is Frankie Louvoo related to Cindy Luhu? And then in parenthesis, she said, Grinch from the Grinch. It's a great, it's just a funny tweet to send. I want to repeat, is Frankie Louvoo related to Cindy Luhu? And then in parentheses, Grinch joke. I'm going to say yes. That's all it says. I'm going to say yes to that. I give Cindy Louhu my game ball. There you go. She did such a good job convincing the Grinch to come down from the mountain. The take part in the, what was it? The who mice through celebration? Oh, it's been so long. Such a great film. It's almost Christmas time. And the commanders are going to be great. You know, for the, for the actual, the one that Jim Kerry did the Grinch, he had the best. Yeah. Well, he had to undergo like, psychological like assistance. That's not even the right word. But like the, like CIA torture experts, basically, like help them get through the fact that they had to be in makeup for 20 hours. Is that right? Just to put the Grinch outfit on it. Some of these actors, dude, the methods that they go through, obviously, the ultimate story is the late Heath Ledger, whose life changed forever and maybe ended based on him going all in on the Joker, right? By the way, I'm glad I mentioned the Joker. I just saw the Joker two in theaters. Let me save you some time. Don't do that. Oh, such a bummer. It was not good. You know, it's a musical. What? Are you familiar with this concept? What? They made it a musical. You mean they ruined it? Well, yes. Yeah. But here's where we'll disagree. You could do a musical Joker and it would work, especially because Lady Gaga is co-starring and, and Joaquin Phoenix, remember, walked the line, like has some ability and some pipes and some chops. The musical element doesn't work at all as if that was a good thing. Anyway, a stun to hear that. It just breaks up every 15 minutes of movie is just like a song and dance number. And it's it was a bad, bad effort. It's a musical. I am just so bummed that they need to do rule. If I'm in charge, Bill Marstah, here's what you do. If you have, if it's a musical, you have to say that it's a musical. You can never ambush musical somebody. I think they did, but maybe they didn't, because I went in not knowing it, I will say. Like it needs to be right there. Like Joker 2, this is a musical. Like right there, like in parentheses, like parental warning. We were two songs in and I thought, is it, are they going to keep doing this? I'm about to see a musical and they kept doing it. I will tell you, let's go to Will and Stafford on GND. Will defensive effort was awesome yesterday, dominant performance, more about the Browns or the commanders? Hey, guys, I just wanted to say, I think the defense align is, you know, being at the game yesterday, man, you can see everything on the field playing the gaps a lot better in the middle. I mean, John Allen made a play in the flat on a screen pass. Yeah, that minus six where he made the tackle on the second drive. Yeah, yeah, Phil Darian Mathis was a beast yesterday. The ends are containing real well. I think the D lines got leopard. I want to say two things real quick though. I sent you a picture you and Danny, OV and his brother cut us off on the on ramp on the 495. It was great seeing Alex Ovechkin. Oh, did you send that? I did see that. Yeah, there's this movie drives. I guess it's like a Bentley and the license plate says like grade eight and it was just OV with his top down, just driving as he's like, he's not a celebrity. Just like, it's licensed. You might as well be his last name. Like I couldn't believe it. He was in the, he was in the passenger seat, drinking a road soda. His brother was driving. My buddies and I are yelling out the window, throws his hand up in the air. It was great. But also the only mistake made yesterday was the hype squad put the W flag on upside down. So when they went the end zone after the first touchdown, it looked like the Minnesota golden gophers. Uh, you cut off a little bit. I'll, I'll give you one of those. That's fine. It'll just flip that flag. You'll have a chance to do other flags, right? Enough chances to get right is the good news. Jay Gruden's going to join us right here at the top of the hour on Grant and Danny will go in detail on his breakdown of Jaden Daniels' fifth performance as an NFL starter. There was maybe more bad in the early going and inaccuracy from him. And then the good was so, so loud and so good. We'll see what Jay thinks next on Grant and Danny. [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] Grant and Danny welcoming you back on the fan. We will take you up to 630 here on your flagship home for the gnats. They are in their off season. The caps getting ready to launch once again. They open their ear on Saturday night. By the way, can we get a quick round of applause for Yakuob, Jake Farana, who made the caps roster with everything he's been through? That's our guy. Could be a really, really cool story. Very excited about that. We'll have more on that on tomorrow's show. And we're joined at 5 p.m. by Austin Echler. We've got ESPN's Lewis Riddick on the show tomorrow at 3 o'clock as well. But right now on the BetqL guest hotline, we want to get our weekly analysis on Jaden Daniels, the Washington offense and the commander's game, a fourth straight win yesterday against the Browns. Jay Gruden, the former head coach here in DC is with us. On Aaron on the road, Jake Gruden is driven by the Ted Bird automotive group, Ted Bird Ford and Chantillion Fairfax, your F-150 headquarters. Ted Bird Chantillion, Lincoln and Ted Bird Chevrolet and Sterling, home of Ted Bird for life lifetime vehicle coverage. See and shop them all at Ted Bird dot com. Jay, how about the Washington commanders, they are four and one for the first time since 2008. They got a chance to be five and one for the first time since 1996. It just doesn't feel real. They're putting on teams to the last two weeks. They've looked unstoppable. The defense was playing a lot better. They're hustling, they're flying around to the ball and they are kicking people's ass, which is fun to watch. So I want to start on that defense, Jay, as an offensive guy, what do you think differently than what's happening? Maybe the first three games, they look like a different group on defense. Yeah, I think Coach Quinn's been a good job at mixing up coverages and fronts. They put some five-man fronts out there. They're moving people around. Lulu, is that his name? How do you say it? Lulu? Yeah, he's bouncing around all over the place. They're rushing wagner in the A-caps. They're giving you different looks and then they're playing a run a lot better. Bobby Wagner's always been a good run player. The interior guys are, they're rotating in and out a little bit better. I think they're staying a lot more fresh offensively as they're doing their part, playing good field position. So, yeah, all around they're playing good team defense, they're hustling, they're tackling and they're playing well. Jay, give me one legitimate reason why Kevin Stafansky should not have benched to Sean Watson about halfway through yesterday's game. I don't have one. I don't have one. I don't understand it really. He hasn't looked good all year. Offensively, they have no pizzazz whatsoever. They can't drop back and throw it. They can't really protect when they do it with protections. He's scrambled around and runs into pressure. It's bad football right now over there at Cleveland. So, they should make a change. James Winston, I don't know if he'll be the cure all, but he'll be a hell of a lot more fun to watch. I mean, you look what happened when Blacko came in last year, took one of the playoffs, played extremely well and maybe a change of pace is what they need. Yeah, they they lost Watson injury, I guess the last two years, but they got a lot better with Bursett, who played better than him two years ago. They got a lot better with Flacco, who played better than him last year. And now we're on to year three and it's just trending in the wrong direction. That's why we're trying to figure out, yes, Washington did a lot of things well, but how much of that was just a broken quarterback that was incompetent, kind of aiding them in their defensive renaissance, so to speak. Oh, there's a little bit of that, but you have to force them into those issues. Seven fact is not a fluke. Now they went after, they got after a fast and they kept the pressure on them. They did a good job stopping to run for the most part for Ford. Ford had a 16 yard hit and Foreman had a 40 cut, you know, a 25 yard hit, but for the most part, they kept them in third down long, got off the field on third down and they stayed fresh the entire game and just stayed relentless, stayed after a move. It was a great performance. I know it was anemic quite a brown, but Washington had to make them look anemic and they did. J grid with the CEO, Grant nanny. So Jay, this is not a good question. I just kind of want your thoughts on this early on, especially I thought Cleveland's defense was was pretty good. Five of the first six players either went for no gain or were negative. The one was a Daniel scramble that he, you know, threw up to, uh, to tear him a corn for a big gain right before turning it over. Like Cleveland, I thought had a good plan. They were aggressive. They were pressuring. They were, they were tackling close and then behind the line of the scrimmage and they still Washington still scored 24 points in the first half. I just, I kind of, again, it's not a great question. I just sort of can't believe what I'm seeing at this point, even when the other defense is good and playing well, they still end up scoring 24 points and a half your thoughts. Yeah, a lot has to do with Washington's defense, getting a lot of three and outs and getting the ball right back and giving the opportunity for the offense. When you give Jay and Daniel multiple opportunities in the quarter, three, four, five opportunities in the quarter, you're going to get a couple in there. I mean, he's unbelievable. So, uh, the key for beating Washington is keeping that guy on the slide line. You got to get your running game going and try to get these eight nine played drives going and, uh, keeps clock running and be physical at Washington's defense, but, uh, they kind of even couldn't do it and just kept giving the ball back to Washington and opportunities are golden for Washington right now on offense. What did you make of their first half Jay? Because I'm sitting there late second quarter and I'm going, man, they're leaving a lot of meat on the bone. They had a pick on the goal line. They miss an easy touchdown throw that they had a ball at their own two yard line. Should have been a, you know, 80 yard, 100 yard touchdown, maybe the Zach hurts down the middle of the field if he doesn't get caught overthrown. And in addition to some of the inaccuracy stuff that we hadn't seen at any point with Jayden, just overall, it wasn't quite as clean. And yet the 66 yard play made to McCorn was a top five play I've ever seen by a quarterback in that stadium. You know, the 41 yard throw to Diami Brown was nuts. The 34 yard run, like his good was so good that you look up and they have 24 points at the half, even though it didn't feel like they played well offensively. Yeah, he missed a couple of, well, not really. I mean, he did a good, they scored on the third drive of the game. Now the first two drives, they, you know, they had, they punt and they drive down there and they get the intercept. He just didn't see the player right there is not a terrible throw. He just didn't see him. You know, I had a corner out over the top of him. Probably should have worked the other side turning it wide open, but that happens sometimes. And he bounced back and scrambled and they got the touchdown and they, you know, you know, I believe we've got a good defense. Now they got an all pro corner and all, you know, one of the best passors in the league. So they're not going to be easy to get points on when you play that defense. But the more opportunity to give Jayden, the better opportunities you have. And that's what they did. They stayed with the course. They didn't panic. They did a good job with a protection plan and hit a couple big plays, right? And stuck with a plan and ran the ball. Echler had a couple big hits. So I like what the way they played called the game. They didn't have to take too many chances because as the game was going on, they could see the Cleveland couldn't move the ball. So they were a little bit more conservative probably and then went after them later in the game and made the big plays. I guess, I mean, this almost complimentary as if to say, I thought that they didn't, they weren't that sharp and they scored 24 because of the chunks. They had seven plays of 23 or more yesterday. They had gains of 66, 50, 41, 34, 33. It's almost like it erases a lot of the less efficient plays. Oh, exactly. Right. Against the good defense, you have to have some chunk plays because like I've mentioned before with Cleveland, it's hard to move the ball. You know, 12 plays, 80 yards against somebody's good defense and you're going to have to have some chunk play. In a way, Jay is playing and Terry's running down a field. Now you got down the ground doing it. You know, Zach hurts almost another big play. So I actually got another big play. So you can get it from multiple people and big plays are going to be a necessity move before when they play themed with better defenses. Jay Good with this year. Jay Good with this on Grant nanny. Sorry, just you've been around this game a long time, coaching and observing it and, you know, live in this life. For us, this is new territory. We usually don't see teams that beat up on bad teams and get to rest their starters in the fourth quarter and everyone's laughing and joking on the sidelines having a great old time. Wherever they used to this, how good is this team? Like not just for right now, the second another playing well, but the future five weeks from now, 10 weeks from now, like where does this group go? I'm watching around the league, Danny and I, these guys are as good as everybody I've watched on TV. I mean, Baltimore had a hell of a game against Nevada. I mean, they want it over time because, you know, the over dropped the ball for Cincinnati, you know, Buffalo struggled some of the elite teams. Kansas City struggled a little bit on offense. You know, Dallas has their issues, right? Philadelphia has their issues. So I don't know why you can't say these guys are as good as anybody in the league right now, other than many, maybe Minnesota who I think is playing the best football on both sides of the ball. So, uh, San Francisco, Los Arizona, who just got pummeled by Washington last week. So, this is a hard league to figure out this year. I'm telling you that I promise you with the quarterback play of Jayden Daniels, the way they can run the football and the defense is starting to come together hustle and play hard. Um, I don't see why they can't win 10, 11, 12, 13 games. So you think they are one of the best teams in football? They're playing like it right now. I'm telling you, this is Jayden Daniels, top three quarterback right now playing right now after the first five games. You have to say that, right? I mean, he's playing unbelievable. I mean, the other day, it's Cleveland got a free rusher and he doesn't even come close to getting Jake. He just runs around him and tiptoes out of bounds for a game of six instead of a loss of nine. So this guy is a play on an ultra high level, both within the pocket and outside the pocket, which is going to give them opportunities to compete with anybody on their schedule and then defensively, they continue to play hard and play good. They'll be in every game. As a coach, how do you keep the guys from believing that this thing is, it's a wrap? You know what I mean? Like, I know these guys are pros that come to work every day, but there's a feeling that's happened here a lot of times after a bit of success where everyone, whether it's they read their press clippings or that's just a figure of speech. But guys just sort of, you know, feel like, hey, we've done it. I've arrived. It's all over. Like, we're here at the top of the mountain. When in reality, you've had five good weeks and that's awesome. But that's not a season, right? As a coach, what would you do to kind of keep these guys on brand on message to say, hey, there's a lot of work to be done and kind of keep at it. I think winning helps a lot. I mean, you could put the stuff on tape the way they're hustling and playing hard. Matt carries over about type of people that looks like they have in a locker room. I think help a lot through leaders like Terry McLaurin and John Paine and Jonathan Allen. Those guys are good for you in adding Bobby Wagner, who's probably a future Hall of Famer. These are great quality players that can keep people low on Zach Earth, another veteran guy. They did a great job of trusting certain positions and getting the type of character you need to keep your football team focused. Can't always be the coach yelling at you. You got to have players within the building to keep your team on track and doing the right thing. And I think they got great leadership, have great athleticism, and they play hard. Jake Gruden, weekly with us here on Grant and Danny every Monday to break the game down to break down the Daniel's performance after watching the film five o'clock on Mondays with us on the fan. So Jay, you mentioned maybe top three, you would say it just kind of top of your head as to how well he's playing. Who's in that combo? What are we talking about with Daniels right now? All right. You talking about this year? Yeah, yeah. Obviously, obviously. Obviously, as playing crazy, Joe Baro turn the corner a little bit, just the normal good players. I think you talk about Baro and obviously my homes, but he's not lighting up the world statistically, but they're undefeated. Sam Darnell is he had a couple of really good games kind of played OK, but they're five and oh, so he's doing some good things. But Jay, the way he's running the football, he's got 250 yards rushing already and throwing for over a thousand yards, completion percentage is high. There's not any quarterback in the league can say that other maybe Lamar right now. So yeah, shoot the beat. I think he's playing as good as anybody in the league right now. So Jay, how would you coach Daniels at this stage? And I guess what I mean is, you know, these moments that you're talking about, right? Look, that fourth and three, where usu Kormo has him dead to rights until he doesn't and he's left in the dust for 34 yard gain, the sack into a first down that you referenced earlier, or the deep pass to McClorne or all in those kind of improvisational, you can't coach that type plays, right? But then maybe if you go back and look at the film, the hey, this guy might have been open quick and easy for the first down, et cetera. How do you balance that as an offensive mind? Because you don't want to stifle the gifts, but you also want maybe some of the easy stuff that may be available within scheme, like what's the balance there's a coach? Yeah, yeah, for sure. You got to keep coaching the scheme, right? That's number one, you're going to keep coaching the scheme and how you're going to affect the closing defense. Baltimore is going to have a different way of playing defense, whether it's court court orders or cover two or match, whatever they're going to play. You got to have plays that attack that continue to coach them up. And then when plays break down, you just take your think, protect the football, protect yourself for God's sakes. But I don't think you can overcoach him when it comes to his ability to extend play. That's just a God given talent that he has. And you just got to ride with it and have some fun and watch him and pat him on the head when he comes off the sideline because he'll usually make it into a good play. One more about the offense for me, Jay, is what I think is really cool. I mean, I think back to your offenses, right? Where it's like, when you had Pierre Garcon, Deshawn Jackson, Jordan Reed, it had to be pretty exceptional for one of those guys not to get the ball in a certain play. You know what I mean? Like, it made a lot of sense. You go to the stars, those guys are so productive, so good. This seems like it's a different guy, almost series per series, right? I mean, I know McCorns has put up a little bit of numbers here with with over 100 this past week, but going back to last week, they didn't have echo. It didn't matter because it was McNichols and Alumni as a kiss. This week, you know, down me Brown has a big catch. How was that like something that becomes sustainable, even though it's not one person or not one star, how did that kind of keep mixing and matching? And it's like playing whack-a-mole for a defense where a new guy comes up every week with a big play. It's great on offense because it keeps everybody engaged and Jay does a great job of spreading the ball out. He does a play favorite. He does a four-speed one guy. And you could tell that the team is really unselfish. And that's important too. You got to have a team of unselfish players that don't care about fantasy numbers. They're going to go out, block when they're asked to block, run a decoy route when they're asked to run a decoy route when their numbers called, and they're open. They know Jay is going to get them a shot to catch it and they're going to produce. So it just works all the way around. But you got to have the right type of players in your building. I think Dan Quinn and the organization on a great job getting those players in here with McCaffrey and the draft picks that they got and the new offense alignment that they added from Dallas. I mean, they got some good players that really helped out the football team and they're all unselfish good players. Is it too early for me to be a little bit worried that Cliff Kingsbury is going to get head coaching consideration? Yeah, I don't think, yeah, he'll probably get another job for sure. I think that's why you have to groom your coaches on staff to continue what he's been doing there. And I think that sometimes the quarterback makes the coach look a lot better. And I'm not putting any shade on Cliff Kingsbury whatsoever. Don't get me wrong there, but I think when you have an outstanding quarterback like Jaden Daniels, I think the next coordinator will be just fine. You know, look at all the coordinators Tom Brady had. You had about seven of them. They were all just fine. I mean, if Daniels is that special, right, then no doubt. But we've also seen so many times where a guy leaves and it's not the same after that. But I guess like anything, you know, which, whether it's a head coach of a wide receiver, if you got the right quarterback, then a lot of things don't matter a whole lot, really. Yeah, I mean, look at Shannon and he left here. They were three and 13 when he left and he went to Atlanta and he had Matt Ryan and he goes to Sam Fran. You know, he's got all these talented players. He's done a pretty good job. So in the situation, sometimes for coaches, you got to have some players that can execute, especially at the quarterback position and makes everything a hell of a lot easier for play caller. Jay, I want to go on the league a little bit with you. You mentioned the Ravens earlier that that offense last couple of weeks, 35 points, 41 and overtime against Cincinnati, all of a sudden, they're home and over 500 yards of offense against the touchdown. Did you see it, Danny? It's that was that was a video game play where you would just throw in the controller. That was crazy. The craziest plays I've ever seen in an NFL game. You see the Lamar touchdown, Jay? Yeah, I watch that whole game. You're there both on at the same time. I was at a sports bar, watched them. And it was hard not to watch Lamar and that game or Jay knows it was fun. Three hours of watching football, those guys, Lamar faced the play that not even that one, other play that we're just unbelievable. So yeah, he's, he's a fun to watch guy too. Well, they match up this week now. What do you make a Baltimore just in general? Defensively, maybe not quite as good as I thought, but that offense is tough to stop. Yeah, that's the issue, man. This might be a shootout. I mean, really defensively, they they've given up some chunk plays now their corners aren't locking down receivers right now. They're having trouble stopping any kind of short routes deep, rather getting by them. There are people running the ball against them. So, you know, they're the, you're not the Baltimore Ravens that you're accustomed to. You're not back in the day. If you scored 17 points, it gets a rate with your high five. Nowadays, you're probably going to have scored 35 to, you know, to beat them. So it's a totally different ball game, but offensively, they're playing a high level offense and lines playing very well together. And both teams are healthy. That's the other part that you don't, you have to understand too, as the season goes on. You got to stay healthier through key players. You see so many teams right now that are battling injuries to their key players, and they got no chance. But both teams right now are coming this game very healthy. So you'll get a very good test to see where you are as a football team. You play the Ravens next week. Jay, I got to do to just slid into my Instagram DMS at Grand H. Paulson. And he slid into the DMS. He wants to me to ask you this. He said, ask Jay if he thinks they should be buyers before the deadline to try to make a run this year. I would, you know, provide the caveat just as a former coach. At what point do you start advocating and go into Peters and saying, Hey, look around the league at the landscape here. We can win this division. We could mess around and host a playoff game. Yeah, our plan was one thing, but that's all well and good until now we're seven and two or whatever. I mean, is that get to a point where you might try to expedite the process a little bit to add a piece for the next couple of years, if you can. I think so. I think if it's the right guy and the right type of player that you're, you got to make sure you get the right type of character guy, you know, in a position fit for you. Like I would say, which is off the top of my head, if there's a pass rusher out there, they could really get to go alongside Armstrong. I think that would be very beneficial, especially the way the offense is playing. If you're going to play with the lead and things are going to have to come back and throw the ball, I would like to see them out of one more very good pass rusher off the left side or right side, whatever it might be. And, you know, if there's a receiver that they really like, but I really like the way this team has built the chemistry that they have. Sometimes if you add a guy, a knee guy that could disrupt a chemistry or could be more of a problem than than good. I was going to ask about that because on offense, I before the season, I'm going, they're probably need one more playmaker, especially receiver. Now I'm not so sure they, you know, this court 35 a week without anybody, uh, elite opposite, Tara McClure. And what would that have to be in order for somebody to qualify there? And if there's a, we know some of the names are out there with the Devont Adams or otherwise, but how would you find someone that could truly fit in with what this group is doing on offense? Or is it even worth trying? Yeah, I'm kind of with you. I don't know if it's even worth trying. You know, I don't know how, you know, if Noah Brown's injury, how bad that is, how long he's going to be out. But yeah, I just think the army Brown and, uh, OZ and Luke, they do different things for you, but I still think maybe one more bigger type receiver would be beneficial, not only to help you now, but maybe have some depth down the line because if something happens to Terry McClure and knock on wood, you're going to have to have somebody that can make some big plays for you. And I don't know if any of those guys can do that without Terry being on the field. Jay Gruden on GND. I'll let you out on this one. Last one from me. I'm curious what you think about this take. I just want your first blush reaction. I said earlier in the show, and I'm normally fairly measured, but here we are five games in, and I said it would now feel like a disappointment if they go six and six the rest of the way and finish 10 and seven. It was said differently, maybe it would almost feel like a disappointment if they don't win a pretty mediocre NFC East. Your reaction to that is. I agree with you 100%. I really do. I just think what these guys have put on tape for the first five weeks, and it's not like they played easy sketch. Well, giants just went to Seattle and beat them. Cardinals just beat the hell out of San Francisco. The Bengals obviously are the Bengals. They beat them on Monday night football, Joe Burroughs. So they've had some tough teams they've had to beat. So yeah, I'm not too I'm not too sold on NFC East right now. The other teams Dallas has their issues on defense and Dak Bixablone had throws every now and then Philadelphia. They're always in the media for something they get going on over there. And you know, he can beat the Giants. He already did. So I don't see why that that's a stretch. So you can't win the NFC East and they go at least eight and four. Your last help. Jay, super quick question before we let you go. I know you obviously you're in demand and you go on multiple shows, you know, for our company across the different platforms. Which shows your favorite one to go on? Years, of course. That's what we were hoping you would say Jay, because I told Chris, I told Chris it was his too. So it's funny to say that because earlier today on another station in a far off land, this is what Jay Gruden had to say. So I was just over hanging out with the boys, Grant and Danny, who I know you're going to be on at five o'clock with them. And I said, Hey, Grant, I said, do you have any good questions for me to ask Jay Gruden that I can steal from you. And he laughed and Danny chimed in. He goes ask him who he enjoys being on more with you, meaning me or us meaning Grant, Danny. So I'm going to ask you, who do you enjoy being on more with? Oh, you Chris, for sure. You're not really heard of Grant Paulson. There's a little more energy. It sounds like I believe that one. What you said. Can't you tell? Can't you tell sarcasm? Would you hear it? Oh, you Chris, for sure. You know what? That does sound like. Now you replay my detectors going on. He's got that Rob Kelly like growl going. I love me some Rob Kelly. It's you, Chris. Oh, you Chris, for sure. Yep. You know what? The jury, the jury is spoken. They just slammed the gavel. It sounds like Jay Gruden enjoys this show the most. Is it this show? Ladies and gentlemen, yeah. Yeah. Jay Gruden, especially, especially go to barbecue joints. Exactly. That's when you're really like this show. We'll put some ribs down, some of my wings down with you. Jay, thank you, as always for hopping on, buddy. We'll do it again next Monday. All right. Thanks for all of it. There's Jay Gruden on Grant and Danny here on the fan on Aaron on the road. Jay Gruden is driven by the Ted Britt Automotive group, Ted Britt Ford and Chantelian Fairfax, your F-150 headquarters, Ted Britt Chantelian Lincoln and Ted Britt Chevrolet and Sterling home of Ted Britt for life lifetime vehicle coverage. See and shop them all at Ted Britt.com. It sure feels like this team is on its way toward the top of the division. Is it too early for you to agree with my statement that it will be a letdown if they don't win double digit games and that at this point it would be a letdown if they don't win the NFC East. Is that a crazy thing to say as we talk on October 7th? I'm normally very measured. I am not being measured with this comment. That's next on the fan. [BLANK_AUDIO] 1 and 2 and 1 and 2. They'll flag me for this in the NFL. I'm taking my hand. I'm making the shape of a long L also known as a gun. And I'm walking down the street and I'm pointing at people. And we're happy. Smiling. Looking. Pointing. Hopping. Dancing. It's not a Pew Pew. Hey, Ryan, how's it going over there? I just want to be clear here. You must be Danny. Hey, ma'am, from the work. Paul and oats. We are not pew pewing. It's this guy. And you use finger guns for that. It's not miming injury. It's a what's up, man? You can do the shoot of a gap with the sound. You don't have to throw a flag at me. No flag us. Now there was a very egregious one in college football this weekend. Oh, that was bad. It wasn't finger guns. No, it was not. But yeah, that should be flag. But this is what annoys me. Now you're about to wreck me, not you personally, but now you're really going to have why'd you do that terrace? I didn't mean do it. I'm on a victory Monday. No less terrace. So give me one second and then we'll get back to the editorialist for some program. Let me grab your soapbox. Thank you. I'm about to get a little irritable. So some guy tweeted me. I have been really annoyed by the NFL cracking down on celebrations, but anything that looks like a finger gun or whatever. But yesterday they flagged two different players for essentially pointing in the direction the team is marching with a first down celebration. If the points also look like in any way, anything other than just the straight pointer finger, you really got to tuck your thumb in good. You got to tuck that thumb. You got to get your thumb underneath of the other three fingers and then wrap it so that it's closed tight so that it doesn't look like it might be a gun. That's protocol. You got to tuck that thumb right down. So on a college game this weekend, this defensive player, okay, I don't know who he was, but he blows a dude up. He just knocks him out knocks him down. And then he stands over him and like takes what is a this is going to get a little touchy for a moment. So forgive me. But he does he basically mimes like low like cocking like an assault weapon. And then stands over the top of the guy he's just tackled. And like does the full body reverberation of like shot like and then reloads and and he does it like three times like literally standing over the guy. Now inappropriate, unacceptable. That feels like a flag bad for the children. Don't they be like let's throw a flag on that. Yeah, bad, right. Alan Lazard pointing in the direction the team is going. Not as bad. Did he talk his thumb? Darius Slaton literally caught a pass and went like this. We're going that way. The end zone is over there. That's what he was doing flag dude on the college campus goes right at the player. So this guy tweets me goes, um, this okay with you too, great. Cool with this. No stupid. There's a difference between the two guys shooting someone as if I get after taking a shot at the guy laying on the ground bad football player pointing in the direction of the end zone. Okay. Not the same dummy. Use your ability as a grown up to think. You understand that? Yeah, I do. One of them unacceptable. No one in any walk of life should do that. In fact, if you do that in public or at a movie theater or at work, you should note should be sent home to a parent if you're a child. This is scary. This person needs to be talked to. That's not okay. They should sit that guy down and say, you know why that's not okay, right? You know that's unacceptable what you did. You know, you should if you want to suspend that guy for a game, you're not going to get an argument for me. That was a lot. It looked violent. It looked like it was a scene out of a movie. And frankly, I'm a bit scarred myself. Okay. But the pointing toward the end zone different. We get that we get the difference. I'm trying. I want to make sure I understand the difference. Have you seen the video I'm talking about? No, I haven't. Let me find of the college kid. Yeah. Vining the the shotgun blaster. Yeah. Here's my question on both counts. It was Darius Slay and Alan Lazard of the two players in question. No, Alan Lazard was last week. Darius Slay was this week. There was another one that Josh Downs from the cold. Josh Downs, and by the way, is having a sneaky little breakout here, a little Josh Downs. I might throw that in there. Downs and Lazard. Okay. Here it is. By the way, just watch this. Don't don't do play my play. But like this is a lot. Okay, that's wrong. That's pretty simple. Don't do that. This one? No, we could show this in the competition committee. Hey, this is what this what you don't do. Don't do that. Not great. Easy. Now, this guy's like, a bit like this one too. Don't you pause. Do you think that was okay? Here's my question. I remember when that guy saw someone speed three miles over the limit. And then he's like, bet you're cool with this. And he showed a video of a bank robbery at gunpoint. No stupid. They're different. Okay. Did Alan Lazard have his thumb tucked down when he pointed? No. Rest my case. You wanted to get that thumb. That's all I wanted. I apologize. Don't you apologize. I apologize to the kids. You don't you don't tuck your thumb. You get 15 yards. I think it's standard. Tuck your pants in. Tuck it. You shirt in. Not your pants. You can talk your pants. I've seen guys tuck it into their socks. I think that's wrong. Okay. Tuck your shirts and your thumbs. Yeah. Or else we're coming for you. We're the national football league. We're the football league. People should be able to express themselves however they want, right? Like have long hair. Stuff like that. That's fine, right? I just that what aboutism. No end. It's like, oh, I found a hole in your theory. Go away. Grown ups are talking, dude. You think Alan Lazard sitting on his tuckus going that way. We got a present as the this, you know, the number three wanted guy on the planet, but he was here. He was mining multiple times. You know, it was it wasn't just like a one one deal. It was like, I saw that scene. It was in the the Melendez documentary on the Netflix. Okay. I mean, that is inappropriate. What he did. It's not okay. It jacked him. Yeah, suspend him. Whatever you want to do him, do that. Mm hmm. Stop pretending like that's what Josh Downs did. It's that part that ricks me. That's the part. That's all. Yeah. I'm with you. I don't know if people are going to hear it correctly. I don't think they will. What do you think the takeaway is going to be that Grant Paulson condones? Yeah, it's going to be tough. Just remember that I agree with whatever you agree. We're on your side and I disagree with whatever you disagree with. If it's wrong, that's what we think too. Most importantly, I have three children. They need daddy to have a job and to put food on the table. So everyone just allow me to keep chopping that wood if you don't mind. The Washington commanders are four and one. Yeah, we're happy about that. Just don't put towards the first down with that, that thumb tucked. What they we need to come up with something else other than that. Like my favorite one is the Justin Jefferson, like pushing your hands that way. Now he can't do that. What about Santana Moss? He used to do the 21 tuck in the ring finger, the two fingers on one side, the one finger on the other. And then he would kind of point in the direction. It's like, one, two, one, two, one, two, that way. My idea is to act like you've been there and hand the ball to the ref. Do you ever just think about that? Or just go back and do another play? You could do that. That is your idea. No one has to do anything. Right. Would that be so easy just to not do anything? Are you guys at the old folks home? Is anybody visiting this week to perform or are you guys just going to watch a movie? What movie are they playing for you? It's called the Hall of Good Ideas. It's called if it ain't broke, don't fix it. It's called it's just a first down. Save the celebrations for big stuff. If I come see you, will you give me a word that was original? If they're still in stock, they're delicious. Mock up. Mock away. If you want. Sure, they're delicious. You think they're delicious? I don't think I've had one, but they look terrible. They smell awful. They smell it's sugar. The whole that's all it is. Isn't it? It's cooked caramel? Yeah, it's which is cooked sugar. I don't do caramel. Yeah, you just uked sugar. You cook it all. Here's what you do. You cook the sugar. That's the end. That's what you. Oh, just give me a candy that tastes good. Life savers. You got any of those? You got a bowl of life savers. No, here's the thing. I'm not letting you get away with this caramel nonsense. It gets cooked sugar. When I visit you, yeah, just give me a bowl of life savers. You pipe down and you get what you get and you're grateful for it. I'll turn this car right around. Whose birthday is coming up next? Mine's in May, Darris is in May. Clary wins your birth. You're coming up hot here, right? Mine is on November 30 November 30 is next. Is clary going to get four crisp one dollar bills on his birthday from you? No, coins. Oh, cool coins and worth our silly or mint. Oh, I can get you some mints. Oh, fun. Hey, coming in hot. Grant and Danny on the fan. We're taking up to six 30. I want to talk about the fact that Washington's going to win the division next. [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] >> Look at that direction. Here comes pressure again. Two browns ran into each other. [BLANK_AUDIO] >> That was the Fox broadcast yesterday. Greg Olson, Jason Benetti on the call. Welcome back, Grant and Danny on the fan. Tomorrow going to be a lot of fun. We've got Austin Echler for our normal 5 p.m. Tuesday appointment. We're also going to have Lewis Riddick on the show at three o'clock. He has been singing the praises of Jaden Daniels and ESPN all season. So when an air top NFL analyst will stop by. Also, Cap's defenseman, John Carlson joins the show tomorrow. And speaking of the Capitol's Daniel, we'll be giving away another pair of tickets to see the Capitol's in 10 days on the 17th for a clock ahead of the blitz tomorrow. >> It's almost here, man. >> And they open Saturday night. I'm fired up. I got my first alt cast for the Capitol's a week from Saturday night, in fact. >> Nice dude. How many of those are you doing? >> TBD, probably. I think the first half the year through the holidays, we're at about a half dozen to seven or eight something like that. Over the course of the year, probably going to be closer to a dozen maybe. But yeah, they got all kinds of cool plans, alt cast wise that people will be able to enjoy. But yeah, we're going to be rocking and rolling a week from Saturday with our first installment of the season. >> That is cool to pumped about that. It is time right now though, to open up the phones at 800-636-1067 on the MGM National Harbor listener lines. The question is, when I say what I'm about to, do you bristle? Do you take issue? Do you think this is too soon? It will be a disappointment if the commanders don't win the division. They are four in one playing Baltimore this week. They have to go six and six over their final 12 with a very mediocre schedule in terms of how difficult it is moving forward. They just got to play 500 and then get to 10 and 7. It's going to be a disappointment if this is not a double-digit win playoff team. I know that sounds insane to say October 7th, but Danny, I have already arrived there. This is a good team. This team is very much good enough to make the playoffs. It would be a shame if they didn't. They should win the NFC East, in my opinion. I think it's a little early for that, but it's not crazy. Like, it's not, it's not pie in the sky. They play well in a quarter of preseason action and people predict Super Bowl or the crazy things like that, right? It's not. I think too much can change. And so, I'll give you an example. If you play Denver two weeks ago, you're going, "Pfft, I got Denver on the schedule." Now you're going, "Dude, all of a sudden their offense looks pretty good and they have one of the best defenses in the sport." They give it up like the second fewest points in the NFL. Denver's not bad. When you play them, right now, Philadelphia doesn't look like much. Well, I wonder what happens when Lane Johnson, Davante Smith, A.J. Brown are back. Maybe not think. Maybe they're still the same kind of struggling, can't get out of their own way, not quite right group. Maybe Dallas is, you know, one more CD lamb, Dak Prescott feud away from imploding. Maybe they're a moment away from getting right with, you know, Michael Parsons, back healthy. We can have it on defense. We don't know yet. Maybe Minnesota finishes, you know, six and 11. And it goes on a huge losing streak because everyone figures Sam Darnelline starts turning it over again. Through the, not even one third poll, Washington has turned in a work to me. And that's absolutely true unequivocally, right? To say it's a disappointment when they're only a game up with only one game played in the division. I don't know that I'm there yet. The division part is a bigger leap, obviously. But to say, make the playoffs is too much to expect. I'm not saying you are. Look around at the landscape. There aren't that many good teams. They're four and one at a 70 plus percent clip. Generally, you make the playoffs with this kind of start. And that's not with Jaden Daniels or all of the positive vibes that they've got. Grant and Danny here on the fan, the question for you guys, 800 636 1067. Is it crazy for me to sit here and tell you today they should make the playoffs. It will be a disappointment if they don't. And that they should probably even win the division outright. Josh and upper moral burrow. You're on G and D. What's up, buddy? Hey, fellas. No, I don't think it's crazy. You were going where I was going to go to a brand. I would rather say make the playoffs. But look at the division, man. I mean, you know, the giants are the giants. Daniel Jones is continues to be himself for better or worse. And it can be both that press got specializes in making bad decisions. And the Eagles are playing like they all hate each other on that team right now. I don't know. There's like some angst that's going on on that roster that is sort of clear in the way that they just can't figure things out. And so we are clicking way better than any other team in the division. Now, anything could happen and lots of other teams could start playing better. But right now, my expectations are make the playoffs and division would sort of be the the cherry on the top. I just also had to very, very quickly agree with Grant on where there's originals. They're literally the worst things I've ever put in my mouth. They're called where there's originals because we're still eating the same batch from 1924, the original. Very good thing, Josh. Where's my zing bell? Let me hold on, Josh. Wait, say it again. Say the thing again. I'm ready now. They are called where there's original fun fact because we're still eating the original batch from 1924. That's my zing bell. All you are is correct, sir. Danny sugar and butter. That's a reward. There's original. Look me in the eyes. Yeah. Look at me. You're the captain. Now look at me in the eyes. I am done though. They're going to make the playoffs, bro. I mean, it's happening. They are going to. Here's the thing if I would bet on it, I bet on that because as you said, the data backs it up. Look at me in the eyes. I'm looking at you. You're not. You keep looking at you. They're going to host the playoff host at Northwest Stadium, which is east of the city. I think they're going to win the NFC East. Dude, I'm starting. I think they're going to be the number one seed. The one seed. That was a little bit of a joke. Okay. I was just taking the temperature. Okay. By the way, Darius's jaw dropped. He's like, what did you just say? That was I was a heat check. I came across the timeline, dame time, jeep's time. I just kind of pulled up and that was that was jeep's time right there. Okay. I didn't hit the ramp. Step back from 31 feet. Feeling my oats a little bit. They're making the playoffs. Where's my? Let me get my playoff spell. And right now, this moment, I got to put money down to they win the division or they don't. They win the division. The Eagles do not worry me. I've been on this train all year. You know this. You watch the Tampa game or maybe it didn't. They stunk the Cowboys. Anybody watched that bore last night? I hope you brought your paper towels for cleaning up after all the vomit from watching that game. That was not funny. I'm sorry. That's bringing the bell for a weird, weird analogy. Again, I'm over. I'm feeling myself. I know you are. I need to recharge the batteries in the break. And I need to come back and finish strong. Because you guys deserve better. That's all. Just a lot of teams, a lot of three and two teams, a lot of teams that haven't got as good as Washington teams haven't gotten going yet. How sure that San Francisco doesn't get right San Francisco will get right. They're going to be very good. I'm counting them into the equation. Are they in the NFC East? They're not not interested. Next. Well, I'm just adding up all the teams that have a great chance to make the playoffs. That's one. Yeah. Green Bay, Detroit, Minnesota, whoever wins the dumb NFC South. Sure. They can all make it. So right there, I got I got five teams without bat and an eye. Just mathematically. You're naming the good ones. Yeah. Well, I'm saying this works. There's a there's a there's a couple more. And you're sure Washington's going to be in there? How sure are you? 96%. It's a pretty big number. That's pretty big. Yeah. But a pretty day. Okay. 81%. There it is. They're going to make the playoffs though. Yeah. Again, I would bet on that. I've been on that because I sound like you would. Well, that's what the odds say. There's a really funny video of the chiefs walking into Monday Night Football to play the Saints. And they're kickers in a Royals jersey. That's why they posted the video. I see. Their kicker looks like he's four foot 11. I don't know if the guys around him are huge or he's like five foot three. I'm about to Google his height. Okay. He just isn't Harrison butker. No, this is the Saints kicker. Oh, it's a kicker. Okay. But yeah, Blake group. He looks very, very small. This little wee little kicker, just a little fella. Grant and Danny on the fan. Are you prepared? To lock arms with me and say today that the commanders are making the playoffs. I feel it. G&D on the fan.