Grant and Danny
The Commanders Blow Out The Browns!
The locals have won 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 mariotto 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 TFLs, 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 24 points in the first half. Oh my God, man. The third down and 13 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 walk in for a touchdown that ever looked 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 O six, seven on the Odyssey app throughout the day, wherever you go. And of course you can watch us on our one O six, seven, the fan YouTube stream to an O at home. You know how you improve the home environment? At Northwest stadium where they have yet to lose. They are four and one overall for the first time in 16 years, for the second time in 25 years, this team is four and one. They have not been five and 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 was 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 20 in those games. This team is over plus 50. 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 their 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 went to Sean 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? 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 did they do? They did the thing that my Washington team has done to me and all of you guys listening 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 are 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 Jay Daniels was talking to for minutes at a time was wearing a blue shirt. It seemed 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. Daniels was laughing and go on. 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 might even think I'm not even holding on to my pads. You're pulling your shoulder pads down. Breathe a little easier giving your front horse collar kind of around the collarbone. Just kicking their ass. The offense did not play a sharp first half. Jayden 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. To play before that, he missed a wide open Zach Earths for a touchdown. Speaking of open Earths, Earths 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 downfield for a 66 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 four of 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. That's the junky yardage. 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 live today at three 34. 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 38 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. Games yesterday of 66 50 41 34 33 and then two for 23. So it's different than than we've been seen in the last few weeks. Cleveland had a different plan, a 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 15 yards, right? Like every little play, they just matriculate down the field. And that's that this was get stuff for no gain. Jane Daniels run for zero or negative one or something. Then to your point, chunk, chunk, chunk, chunk, when you blitz it 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, the 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 Austin Eckler run, for example, everybody sucked up and you've 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 getting tight on receivers. They've got counters. So even when it wasn't clean, even when it wasn't 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 yesterday, 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 the half court trapping team is still down 30. How did you just do that? Because you hit threes, you get like, yeah, you turn it over a time or two and they got some nice runouts, but you look up and it's like, keep doing it, Jackass. We've got execution.