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for the half 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 six 30 today. Have a great show plan for you, including ahead of the blitz at four caps tickets to be one. You got to be listening and ready to dial it for 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. Jay 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 eight hundred six three six one oh six seven. One of the guys that played very well and I think is quietly played better than he gets credit for his Benjamin St. juiced, 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. Yeah, 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 there first 10 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. You know, I feel like we see improvement every week and that comes from the work that we put in during the 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 after the job was not finished. Everyone's mind everybody's mind was on. Let's take them out of their misery. I'm saying, let's keep pushing. Let's keep getting more turnover. Let's keep saying him. Let's keep getting off on third down because sometimes, you know, you can see like, you know, the second half guys come out and the mindset kind of shift. Like, oh, we play well. We're good. Now we're put on the gas all the way until the playoffs, you know? I felt like a blood in the water game. Like, 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 and on the field to 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 a it's the kind of culture that we're trying to cultivate, you know, 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? 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, what we always say is the ball is life, you know? So even, like you said, we kind of feel the blood in the water. And once the ball is running running back quarterback, receiving, we're hunting for it for the four-spum move, for the interception, for the tackle. It's the first person to get to the ball, you know, get some points, you know, so that's 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 this act and 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 no chance to get some big gains or explosive plays. And once that 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 a nickel and diamond here and there and then next thing you know, they all throw down and boom, we sack him 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 got enough backups went in there, but 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 turnover, 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 of this 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, four and one, Raven's 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 goal. That's Benjamin St. Jews 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 earlier and it's 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've 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 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 bowls 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. That 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 badass big time. Frankie Louvoo guy here. How about his running mate, Bobby Wagner? How about a second and a 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 down 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. They 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 a lot of days achias about this. He's on the show today at four 30, but he had the big game last week. McClurens, the one mainstay. There have been no a Brown games. There's been a Luke McCaffrey 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 Eckler. 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 place. These are easy button plays that Austin Eckler provides. He is so wonderful. He is so good with the ball in his hands. This remains their best off season signing. I thought Mikey Sandristil 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. But 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 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 Ryan Robinson relax for the entire second half because it's fine. Dude McNichols has it. Why doesn't McNichols run for a whole bunch of bursts and explosion with a long of 28 yesterday? That is fantastical. Jayden Daniels just 14 completions. He only played the three quarters obviously because he got to watch just relax with the rest of the starters relaxing on the sideline like a good team that we see a watching red zone typically does. But 238 yards passing on those 14 completions for him. I mentioned 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 McClaurin. 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 army Brown in the end zone. Those big plays are the entire ball game. The rest of it is just noise. 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 a stat line. Okay. This is just from yesterday. Are you ready? Why'd 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 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 through 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 Brandon 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 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 used to it. Yeah. And the Marty party. By the way, Martin Mayhew, game ball. Give Martin Mayhew a game ball. He still works here. Yeah. Right. Play the game ball button. Martin Mayhew. 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 Mayhew. Let's go to Jack in LA on Grant and Danny. What's up, Jack? Oh, no, God's first on caller. Thank you for making the. Thank you, Jack. 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. Face and 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 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 balls 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. I 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 Jaden 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 him. 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 beat. 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, he had six runs for 65 yards and he had three passes that were three for three for 88 yards. That is a nearly flawless performance. He flushed him from the pocket. He goes three for three for 88 yards and he runs six times for 65 yards and breaks your back. It's 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, man? 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. It comes to mind. Yeah. Yeah. I've got two game balls. You mentioned him 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. Jayden Daniels, number five, he's just changing the game. There was a video of sitting past 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, the, 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 hurts 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. McClorn made a really nice catch across his body. Although speaking of drops, he dropped, but should have been a touchdown, would have been the fifth of the year for Jayden 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 him 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 the 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 Will's and Stafford on G and D on a victory Monday. What's up, Will? 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 Biotis. Because Biotis, we haven't had any trouble. Biotis has been quietly doing his job. He's like a secret assassin. Dude, it's a great. He doesn't get a lot. He doesn't get a lot of attention, but he's always focused doing his job. I'm gonna let you give you a second one in a second, but I want to give some quick numbers because Biotis has been completely unsung. Yesterday, we had him on the show fade him down because he's got the radio up in the background. We had him on the show last week and Biotis had 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, aka the quarterback, then you know you're doing a good job. Will, who's your other game ball for? Sorry, buddy. The other 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, his best game of the season, I believe coach Zorn had something though that he wanted to say to Will. 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 in hip hip hooray. 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. I heard that. 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 Quynn hitting the podium for his Monday presser live. As soon as we return, we'll have Dan Quynn'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 sidewalk, Brown. That was the Fox call of Deami 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 Quynn'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, 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, 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. It's like, is that a no fun rea 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 sports happening, let's let's like cheer appropriately instead of being like, this guy's going to 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, then they boo the guy that doesn't stand up. The whole thing's dumb. 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 going to take a take it right away. You're laughing to all these things. If you'd like to be mocked by me, it's your right. 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. What are some of the, we can see the sachs now that, 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. Heidi, 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. Um, 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. Um, I also really felt the energy and the speed of the players. Um, 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, um, over the last couple of weeks, they can still not getting quite the, the takeaways, um, that I'd hope we would. But, uh, I do feel like those, those shots are now becoming more apparent in terms of the force fumbles and how we could go get those. But, um, that's the next step for us. I know before the draft, um, there were so many comparisons between and the March action, and I'm sure the comparisons will come back up this week. Um, what did you make of those, then, you know, as he's heard those in your experience with him, you know, what, how have you seen you listening to Dan, Queen, you know, we haven't talked a lot about an Ashburn Monday after. Um, I think everybody knows, you know, how, you know, exceptional and remarkable Lamar is. And so I get why people would say that. Here's somebody who's got athletic ability and can absolutely rip it as well. But I've always wanted Jayden 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, um, you know, as far as like comparison, I didn't allow myself to kind of go down all that road. I just really, um, wanted to kind of stay in all the things that he could do and how we would feature him in, in our offense with our guys. Hey Dan, I'm just curious having, uh, Brian Robinson come out of the game. I noticed he didn't have a carry in the second half. Yeah, he came out, um, well, Ben, where you're, um, 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. Uh, Juan Martin was one, um, that, you know, is going to be okay, but had some, you know, got banged up a bit. But, um, Brian was really strong down in the red zone, like he always is. But, uh, 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. Okay. And, uh, on the defensive side, you've talked about marrying the pass rush with the coverage, um, all along. Obviously, it doesn't look a bit of a slow start, but as a pass rush, as improved, you've gone, well, tech, 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 all 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, uh, arrow is going up into that spot. But as far as like more men 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. Are you seeing any, I guess, macro defensive adjustments as teams get more film lunging 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 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'd say they're probably still digging it 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 an 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. Tongue 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. Fightarian Mathis had 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 percent and nobody notices. He hauled, you know what, at 100 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 McCaffrey, 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 it's 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 and 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, I like ready to recover that fumble, really athletic play, great job. That was the Sensi game on the earth's fumble. 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'd you watch from? How'd you enjoy yourself as part of our double play? [BLANK_AUDIO] Grant and Danny on the fan are double play each day right now at 345, driven you by your local Washington area, Honda dealers, stopping for a great deal in the rugged and capable Honda pilot. Contact your local Washington area, Honda 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, two and oh at home now, by giving a look at how our game days were spent. We can go round the horn here in the room. So, your boy was there, enjoyed myself. I was in the press box to be in press box Paulson yesterday. Indeed, yes, of course. When in the locker room, get some interviews, you'll hear from a llamas at a quies 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 enough to watch the kids all day babysit. That's a grind, man. That's three kids from like 9 a.m. So, tip of the cap to them, wife's season ticket holder and gets to go to a few games a year now and we give her ticket to friends, family, whatever the rest of the time. But they had a massive tailgate back to like 2012 lore. They had over 40 people. I think at one point in time playing one 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, 70-ish 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 where we're going to keep it 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 putting it on. They're part of the group that like volunteers and get 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 Jim? Yeah. No. Yeah. No. Yeah. Oh, man. How's he doing? He's doing just fine. All right. Tell him I said hello. I certainly will not. But we had a great day. I walked around a million for a million miles and saw a couple folks that recognized me said they enjoyed the show, which is really cool. The so I had to watch the game on on DVR. And right before I right before we left somebody who hadn't talked to you 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'd avoided 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 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 in that time. That makes 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, 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 DeShawn Watson just through a touchdown pass to somebody or something like that. And 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 not talking about it. No, 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 to tide. The tide has swept me up in all this. Like what I'd like to be is at home with the lights off and our air conditioning 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 water for fair. Enjoy the fair. Because I got Jaden Daniels doing work. Daris, 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 of players. He got a couple of 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. And 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 it angst or possibly like a preparation for the inevitable, right? Yeah, you kind of decided you're 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 the crowd around me about that. Yeah, 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 walk to the bench. And Kevin Stefanski looked at him like he was going to grab him by the neck. He wanted to John Papabon Bryce Harper, Emmett look 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. The 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. 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 Stefanski, 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 next year. I was going to say I would try to get fired. I would do like a George Costanza and 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 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. Daris, real quick, because we're late. Commander's merch 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. 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 size for the pajama look at a game. Did he come from 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. 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