Grant and Danny
Are You Buying Into The Defensive Turnaround?
To the defense we go. We had chicken and is on the blitz. We asked him this question. I want to pose it to you guys at eight hundred six three six one oh six seven 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 at getting stops on third down there 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 was isn't has given up on a squad I'll give you I give you all of that but on defensively You have to get after somebody like that and they did okay, they did Frankie Lou vu Wagner who's always gonna 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 brown defense stuff because Bobby wacker knows what he's doing And he's he's that quarterback of that defense. So I I wouldn't say it's an announcement They have played two really strong football games the last two weeks Um, so they're beginning to kind of feel themselves Joe which junior can do a few different things What do you think danny? So I 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 legion 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 washing info. 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 Andy Dalton uh coming off the bench. He would kill them 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 wit and quin 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 weeks than the first couple of weeks Wagner is playing his best football of the season. Allen's coming off his two best games Like that is not all coincidental Right that 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 seeing ghosts who's just a broken version of himself This coming week you play the ravens and a guy that gets sacked 2% of the time The lowest rate in the NFL in lamar jackson even when you have him dim you can't get him down just like jade and 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 or ment is 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 forbs on this 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 no igbanaganese 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 sanris still out to the boundary and he is playing a lot better Right now than he was playing against the bangles when he was getting torched by jamaar 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 Then against the bucks and the bangles or the giants Yeah, a lot of it is 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 the week one frankiluvu is not the same as week five frankiluvu He's not this 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 in other spots 10 pass rushes five pressures and three sacks it 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 mica parsons. He liked 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?