Grant and Danny

Beltway Blitz, Olamide Zaccheaus Joins Grant Postgame, Thoughts On Defensive Turnarounds?

10.7.24 Hour 3

1:00- Commanders- Chick Hernandez, Commanders Fan Experience- Tobi Altizer, Commanders- Michael Phillips

17:10- Commanders WR Olamide Zaccheaus joined Grant after the blowout win against the Browns.

31:00- What do you make of the Commanders defensive turnaround?

Broadcast on:: 07 Oct 2024
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Grant and Danny on the fan 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 and one record since 1996. Congratulations to caller number 10. You're winning a pair of tickets to see the capitals take on the Dallas stars October 17th and say 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 for me yesterday as he put his eyes on 34 points worth of offense and another Washington win. Of course, you can watch him on WSA TV nine in town. Chick, what is happening? I want to talk Panthers. Can I talk Panther? No, no, thank you. 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 a we're at a fever pitch now. All the different numbers, all the history making this one of this franchise is quite exciting to see. And I just 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 a there's an audible. Oh, ah, ooh, in that press box and that's just different and it's fun. So I'll say it. 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 and 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 I saw them go five and 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 kaboom. Kapow. Nothing. Absolute. Nothing. And what made it worse was just that just weren't that bad on the field. They were also bad in the front office and in the building. 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 this is 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 to different vibe. Absolutely. Completely different. One 80 turn. There adults are running the building. Check the thing that 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. And Tara McClellan pretty consists and had 112 yards yesterday. But other than that, it's been a different dude. It seems like without Austin Eckhart Ho Ham. It's a German medical show. Last week it was it was a lot of music. He is, you know, this week, it's down me bound with it with a couple of big plays. That to me is is remarkable, right? Usually most weeks you tune in. It's the stars doing the star things for, you know, these teams that are really good and occasionally you get like a smaller contribution. But it seems like it's a different guy, almost series to series. I find that amazing. And it comes straight from the head coach. When I talk to the guy out in the locker room, the first one of the first things that Tara McClellan said was shout out to Diambi Brown. I've know the journey he's been on. Really cool to see him get his do here with a big catch in a big, you know, in a big moment. So he's thinking about his teammate. I asked Diambi Brown, Terry's like, it's so cool that my one of my mentors is talking about me. And then you 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 about it's a culture thing. So they're they're playing literally playing for each other and figuratively as well. And there's so many different guys as you mentioned, Danny, they just are doing different things. You know, it's it's a llama that is the key is getting a fumble on a great run, you know, by Echler. It's it's Luke McCaffrey who made some vital catches for a young, I almost called 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 obviously they're going to have to go do some losses, but I just I'm gonna 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. Yeah, I'm not going to like say anything wild today or be overly reactionary. Yeah, I mean, you've always been that that that kind of guy. So that's well done by you. 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 DVOA check, they're the eighth worst offenses 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. No, the Sean Watson has given up on a squad. I'll give you 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 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 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, Daniel Forbes is just going to quietly do this thing. Yeah, it's it's hard to get noticed when the offense course, 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 toe per 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, um, a cannibal contest at spring training for Grant and Dan. I think I think he was the place horse in that one. Did you win the silver? If memory serves Tobe's? Was that about right? I think I won the gold. I think that's what I remember. Um, me and Daris were in the final round and I believe I outdid him. I thought Daris once. So we've got his member, 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. Try that again. And the defending champion of the original written Danny spring training cannibal contest to bias. 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, uh, he had a little bit to drink before the game. You could clearly tell that. So yeah, he was enjoying himself just a little bit. So no, no issue with that, right? But, uh, he was kind of a little obnoxious pregame and then uh, 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 like 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, it was like visible how many, just how much burgundy and gold was there. And I don't know the vibe. I want the last game I went to that had a similar sort of vibe was a Sunday night football game back in 2016 when Kirk O through the ball all over the yard against the Packers and they won 42 to 24. But even that just, 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, 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 for us. He's all in on it. Mm hmm. The, so I guess I want to know every time I haven't been in forever and I'll never go again, but when Darris referenced 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, I, Tara McLaurin, Hail Mary, uh, they're not Hail Mary. You know what I mean? That incredible play after a scramble. Then the interception there's sometimes is always that like puckered, like, Oh, no, here's the other shoe. Did you feel that at all? Or 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 through the interception, when you get down there into the, 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, 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 let down 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, keep the commanders 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's just a ton of fun and the way they're doing it sure feels sustainable. He's not taking a lot of hit. You know, 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 could absolutely lose that game, right? Baltimore is going to be a lot of teams this year, but they could also win it. They could also win it. Does 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 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? I think it's all about number five, right? It's incredible what he's brought to this franchise to this city. And yeah, watching him learn grow in game against a really good Cleveland defense. I believe I'm on board. I signed me up. I'm in 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. He's taking 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 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? Well, I think they're going to be able to score score, score, score, score, score, no punching 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 shoot out. And you know, you're going to watch a lot of fun off into football. I think that's this 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 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 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 they score that many against, you know, 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 women here and you go back and look, you can recreate that Tampa game now to where you say the offense did a lot of good things move the ball. You could see the beginnings of what this became. But yeah, this watching Kyler do the two minute drill, slice and dice, the 49ers only gave me increased confidence that this is for real. Could you you mention it, right? Like, you know, biggest starts at the gym's or best quarterback since RG three, right? Both of those things were total school goals. I kept the people who don't want to jump in. But also I'm ready to jump. It 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. a lot of people are going to be able to do that. So, I'm going to be able to do that. Hey, a couple of things, Ben. First thing you said, I just make sure I didn't do that. A couple of things, Ben. First thing you said, I just make sure it's an identity. All right. And like leave no **** down about that. All right. We still left some **** meat on the bone about it, but that is our **** identity. I got a question now. Frankie Louvoo, 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. Dan 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 G&D game ball. Which one do you want? G&D game ball? Me too. We 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 decent enough group. I want to play my conversation from the locker room yesterday with Alama Deza Kias, a 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 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, check in the ball, stand on the field, throw down and stuff like that. 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 chunk yardage opportunity. I think at the end of the day, it really just comes down to us being able to execute, stay on the field. Obviously, we left things out there first, have a little bit of second half too. I think we prepare very, very well and very intentional during the week. You just got to keep going, keep carrying it over because that really matches. This offense feels like it's like someone else's turn, each half almost. You had the zakias game last week, this week. 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? 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 of weeks really and then it's 40 yards touchdown, big plays. I think it's just, everybody's just being ready. Everybody in this room can make plays and maybe somebody else just turn one week and then, but at the end of the day, it just comes down to just playing as hard as you can to get the win. And then just being ready when your number is called. And I'm happy for two, man. I'm happy so happy for him that he just stayed patient and just stuck with it. But we don't have a selfish room. We just want to play hard and just get the win. Are you at a point as the story of like, "Wow, Jane was impressive today." Are we past that now where it's just like, "This is who he is to you?" Because he's a rookie and it's only a month, does it still make 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 him being a quarterback in the NFL. It's something that we just got to continue to build on. He's been handling it pretty well and we all have things that we have to get better at and we're just continuing to help him as he continues to grow. Last thing, 1-1, 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 such a practice. Like I said, being very intentional and then going out there and executing the game for him, you know, he's been doing a really good job of just doing a great place and then we've been going out there and executing it. So, like I said, it just starts at practice and then we'll continue to build that momentum and practice. You heard Zacchaeus there 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, "All week, hey, you do this, you're going to get a result and you're getting those results. You got to believe 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, you weren't pros then and these guys are, but that trust factor isn't there. 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. It'd 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 Cleland Farrell 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. 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 Chicken Andas on the Blitz. We asked him this question. I want to pose it to you guys at 800-636-1067. 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 Chick had to say. The Sun 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 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, in this way, there are great defenses. They've existed. You know, you, 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. They were they were WFT. They were good enough to beat up on bad teams. If they were bad, they wouldn't have been, right? 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 Andy Dalton coming off the bench, he would kill them and you go, what the hell is 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. Luvu's playing at a very high level. Chin's been better the last couple 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 hemmed 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 Emmanuel 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 Sandriss 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 we're 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 bangles of 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. And 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. Ten 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 that 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 Jayden 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, Kandorian 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. I never texted 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 Goldon from Kansas City who I do weekend shows with on the bet QL 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. Anyway, so 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 on Sirius. It's never going to happen. See you guys tomorrow. What they could do is welcome to the Alex Gold. Who's he who is the show with? Alex, just let's call it the golden hour. It's Cody somebody. Cody Rhodes and Alex Cole. 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? Yeah. Okay. There's a lady. Okay. Looks like a lovely lady, maybe somebody's grandma. Named 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 parentheses, 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 Luhu 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. Who was it? The who mister 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 Carrey did, the Grinch. He had the best. Yeah. Well, he had to undergo like, psychological, uh, uh, like assistance. That's not even the right word. But like the, like CIA torture experts has got to 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 do 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 too 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, uh, co-starring and, and Joaquin Phoenix. Remember walk 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. That was a stun to hear that. It just breaks up every 15 minutes of movies, 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. 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 two, 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. Um, hey guys, I just wanted to say, uh, I think the defense, the line 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. Um, I mean, John Allen made a play in the flat on a screen pass. Yeah, that mind is 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. Um, I think the D lines got leopard. I want to say two things real quick though. I sent you a picture of you and Danny. Ovi and his brother cut us off on the on ramp on the 495. It was great seeing Alex Ovechian. Oh, did you send that? I did see that. Yeah, I didn't see that. Ovi drives. I guess it's like a Bentley and the license plate says like grade eight. And it was just Ovi with his top down just driving as he, like he's not a celebrity. Just like it's licensed. He might as well be his last name. Like I couldn't believe that. 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. Oh, you cut off a little bit. 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.