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And they're running the ball exceptionally well with Jordan Mason, replacing Christian McCaffrey. San Francisco has just been terrible in the red zone. They're still moving it. Their offense is prolific, pretty dynamic, until they get into the red area where they have really scuffled. Meanwhile for Seattle, it's a top 10 offense. Gino Smith's leading the NFL in passing yards. Their defense is trending up under Mike McDonald. They seem like a pretty good football team and a good test at home. Tough environment to play in for San Francisco tonight. I think this is going to be a great game. Yeah, two straight losses for Seattle. Remember they started three and a little against a pretty soft schedule. I might add Denver before Denver kind of turned the corner. Patriots, who they barely beat and the dolphins as wounded in animals, you're going to find. They lost a good game to Detroit back and forth. They certainly moved the football to your point. Almost 520 total yards in that one. This past week is the bad loss though. At home to the Giants, losing that game the way they did, where they just kept shooting themselves in the foot. You sort of expected it to turn. It never did. They ran out of time and that's your ball game. So that's one of those, that's a bogey on a very makeable hole, right? That you missed. Now you've got a wounded San Francisco team that's literally and figuratively without a couple of their stars that we're used to seeing. And they've lost a couple of games inexplicably as well. They're both and San Francisco may be a bit more desperate than Seattle is to kind of get right and kind of get their season underway. But this is an important game for both teams. That should be a good one. Speaking of makeable but missed, they were lining up to kick the game time field goal at the horn last week and it was blocked and returned for a touchdown. They could have sent that game to overtime against the Giants and in fact probably should have because there was a penalty that didn't get called on the blocked field goal. That said, the damage was already done. It's a couple of minutes left in the game and the Giants have hung around and you're building. They just didn't play that well. But San Francisco is actually more interesting to me because they've lost three of their last four. They're just trying to kind of part of the course. Stay afloat here. Survive what's going on with them. Get some bodies back. But the two awful losses that they can't afford. They lost by up 10 points in the fourth quarter twice. It happened against the Rams and it happened against the Cardinals. Otherwise it's a different story. They're four and one right now. They led both of those games by double digits. I saw some stat where like the rest of the NFL has lost two times all year in like 26 games when leading by 10 points in the fourth quarter and San Francisco is 0 and 2 in their losses. They have them in those situations. So tonight should be entertaining NFC West matchup. Back to Jade and Daniels though. I was just thinking about this during the break. We've been taking some really good calls. You guys are providing some thought-provoking takes here. Even though I feel like the Jade and Daniels MVP talk feels aggressive to me right now. How will I feel if they beat the Ravens and he balls out? And I think that if they were to beat Baltimore in a Daniels gem or even just a normal good performance. Like to me the Bengals game is otherworldly. He's not going to have one of those again. I thought last week was just normal good. The Cardinals was just normal good. But if he plays like that again he will have ripped off four straight awesome performances that are good quarterbacking games. You will have won five in a row. You'd be five in one and you'd have the signature road win on your ledger. And at that point his resume is probably every bit as good as anybody's. As we look at the other options that we're saying well he doesn't feel like he should win the MVP because he's a rookie and then you go well who's more deserving. If they beat Baltimore because of Jade and Daniels this week and they're five and one do we still feel that way? No I think at that point I think I would be willing next week after a really good win against a good team to jump into these waters. I was thinking about it when you asked the questions. I hadn't actually thought about that believe it or not. And let's say we're just playing out scenarios right? We can play if they get blown out he doesn't play well we can do whatever you feel like. But if let's do that one you just mentioned. If they beat Baltimore probably means that guy played pretty great. You would think right? Just given how they're built and what it's going to take. Maybe not great but well enough. Fair enough he's going to do something pretty good at a minimum. If they go on the road and beat Baltimore. I don't know that any conversation is irresponsible anymore. I agree. And I think that's the point right? And I'm not saying it's irresponsible now because the betting market reflects it and we're trying to quantify what we're seeing and it's amazing. And you say well what's the big difference of one game? And I would say the big difference is the Browns are terrible right? The Cardinals even though they just beat San Francisco they pummeled the Rams. It had been up and down but I think they're fine. I don't think they're any better than that. Cincinnati is one game all year. They're good offense over there terrible defensively. A win in Baltimore against the Ravens when they need the game. This perennial contender two time MVP who's healthy and when he's right. Feels bigger. Yeah they've won 75% of their games with Lamar Jackson place. Like that's not nothing. And the record against the NFC we've gone through all these numbers. Ad nauseam if they go on the road and beat Baltimore as six or they're six and a half points I think at the moment underdogs it's now to me I'm going have at it. I won't put any governors on anymore. I'm not going to put the slow down gate or the lanes on the bowling alley right? Like let's go fast man. Let's go super sunny. Say the crazy thing you want to say. Say it you know like all I'm doing now is saying let's let's slow down and enjoy what's happening because it's great but prognosticating more of this or an increase in this. You know that may be ahead of the game and if you do this this weekend and they're five and one playing the way that they're playing playing how they're playing but the opposite of that J. Grinds style. Can you imagine? I cannot wait to talk about that if that happens. I got a tweet here. I'm at Grand H. Paulson on Twitter and on Instagram. At Grand H. Paulson Danny is at Funny Danny. Guy says it feels aggressive to you because he's a rookie. That is literally it. There is no other logical explanation as to why he should not be just in the conversation. All the numbers are there. Well first of all he's very much in the conversation. He's number five on betting market. So let's start there. But in terms of what I'm saying is it feels aggressive for people to come out and say he is my MVP right now. That feels like a bridge too far. He's saying the only reason I feel that way is because he's a rookie. And I think that's probably like 90% of it. Maybe 95% of it. I could quibble over, pick some nits on a couple of guys who have the similar or better record or whatever or even a worse record who have maybe outperformed him and kept their team afloat. Maybe. But he's right. 90% of why I feel that way is because of precedent and because rookies don't win this award. But I don't think that's nothing. I think that that should be part of the equation. No one's done it since 1952 whatever year it was Jim Brown's year to do it in a completely different league in a completely different era. But what is him being a rookie means? It means there's nothing to fall back on. We don't know that this will sustain. We don't know that this is going to be the case for 17 games for 18 weeks. We don't know that he's going to continue to chop wood at this same rate. I mean there's just no way to know that. So yeah it is because he's a rookie because you know what happens with the rookies? A lot of times they start fast and slow down. You know what happens with the rookies? There's ebbs and flows. There's ups. There's downs. There's mountains and valleys. So I will agree with him. It's because he's a rookie that I feel that way. But I don't think that makes it less a good point. Like I think it is the point. Yeah it's maybe semantics but I think it feels aggressive because it's aggressive. Right? Whereas it's not aggressive to assume Pat Mahomes is going to have a great season. Even though he hasn't yet. At Pat Mahomes I got some track record there. I got a lot of pelts on the wall where they might be middling but I'm going to look up. He'll have 4,800 yards 30 touchdowns. Maybe more picks than we're used to. I'll take the under on 4,800 this year with that off. Well you know what I mean. Like he's going to have a great season. You know the same with Burrough. Same with Allen. Same with a lot of these guys. So when we've never seen it there's no precedent in addition to the rookie part of it. But people again I keep going back to my same thing. I think people are trying to quantify the fact that Washington was picking second in the draft. Just like Houston was two years ago. And now they're thought of as one of the better teams in the NFL. The gap between where they started and where they are is so large and so profound that everybody's trying to heap how transformational this is. And we're all trying to quantify the unquantifiable. And so we can't go well you know what's probably great is they kept to be the pitcher and that helped some continuity. And it really helps a lot that the Cliff Kingsbury went into the lab and redesigned this and the other thing. The easiest thing to do is go the kid who's playing so well. I'm so grateful. I love him so much. I'm so glad he's here. But he's MVP just because of how big the turnaround is. If he was if he took over a program that was like permanently good. Like when Russell Wilson took over and see I don't know it was giving him MVP stuff. Even though they were with a ten and six rookie or nine and seven whatever it was. But they were already a pretty decent program and he's made some great plays. He was really really good. But no one's going that's the MVP. I think just because of how big the gap is between last year and right now as to the fact that the relevant teams are and you know and networks are fighting over the right to broadcast their games for goodness sakes and it's oh damn this weekend. Like that's what we're trying to do is use the you know bigger words than he's playing great. Does that make sense? Let's go to the phones. 800-636-1067. We got Brian Baldinger joining the show at 330 on G&D. We're at Capital One Arena. The Capital's 50 event is tonight they're kicking off their 50th season of hockey in the nation's Capital on Saturday evening here at Capital One Arena. A Damon's in Oxen Hill on Grant and Danny. What's up Damon? Excuse me, good afternoon gentlemen. I've had been a home for almost 40 minutes praying that a caller does not say anything that I want to do and as you and Grant sit there and continue to talk y'all say everything that I was looking to say. So I mean because y'all like disregard the fact that he's a rookie and look at him as a football player he's having a phenomenal year. Yeah he's having this not so or it is so so sub-par statistical season as far as touchdowns but he's making up for it with dynamic plays. But man we probably sat and watched Patrick Mahomes start or when he watched his first full season we was like wow why can't we have that guy? Well let's accept that our wishes may have been granted. We got that dude. Oh the total? That's it. Yeah it looks like they got the guy. But not I do think it's kind of to answer the question yes it is too early to be having the MVP conversation not about Jayden Daniels but about all of them. Let's give it at least half the season. No I get that. At least half the season. I understand that. I appreciate the call always buddy thanks for waiting thanks for checking us out. We do it just because again it's a 24/7 news cycle when you had to wait till Sunday and then you saw the recap showing that was it. Remember now we're filling time and air so through two games Derek cars the MVP or Josh Allen's MVP through five games are going this way you know we're not just us but everybody talking about the NFL is filling the airspace. So to a degree I you're right it's premature to say anybody's MVP. Maybe the guy that wins it we haven't even thought of yet or it's like 18th on the list but then has a great month or so. 806361067 is the number yeah I think people keep kind of defaulting to like a conversation we're not having. We're just like let's be happy that we found our homes. Very happy. Everybody's getting man. I'm so happy. I think everybody's really ecstatic about I was playing I'm just looking at the YouTube chat here and you know Jay is upset as we're clowns and somebody else you know anything you say that is not Jaden Daniels is the greatest quarterback who's ever lived. People get pouty and they take their ball and they go home and if that's what you want to do go go ahead I mean I think we're having a grown up mature conversation here which is to say that Jaden Daniels has been one of the best quarterbacks in the league and it feels a little aggressive to suggest after five weeks of football that he's the MVP of the league. I'll apologize that I said if they win this weekend and he plays well that he might be my MVP that I'm not already ready to crown him but this is where we are I mean it's pretty amazing that after week two the same people said that the team stunk and now if you don't say everyone on the team is headed to the Hall of Fame that you're a clown it's a good place to be in town I'll say that and people are very fired up let's go to Ben and DC on Grant and Danny how are you Ben? I'm good I'm glad you guys are doing good buddy. I'm the Swage was real yay for this one in the grand I'm sorry man you sound like I mean you're saying that he's good and all that but right now this guy is not good this guy is amazing. He's the top five corner back in the league so far and number one in a lot of spots number one in a lot of spots he has the number one offense yep number one he has this thing although we do he only has eight he has four running it's 300 rounds rushing that's four passes we not only playing guys like craving and all of guys we're beating tar out of them people we it's not even close and dominating yeah right so this is him we are playing with house money we are already at the number that people surmised that we will be at for the whole entire season and we're not playing with them and don't forget that our defense looks like it's trying to come together improving multiple straight weeks yeah right and then we're playing Baltimore who can't stop anyone from catching anything anywhere and this guy can throw the ball scary turry the army brown and I'll tree over in the box we will do why not why not him why not us why not right now at this moment that was the question at this moment who's the better quarterback right so I don't know if you were listening appreciate the call I think Lamar has probably had a better overall season I would say Stroud is right there Darnold is right there but Jaden's with him that's kind of the whole point I mean Jaden is in the conversation clearly I just he's a rookie that's there five weeks in you're saying they're dominating everyone they dominated two teams over the last week and I'm really happy they did are they going to continue to do that I've got some anxiety about that we'll see that they play a real good team on the road this weekend let's go to Sam and Fairfax on G&D how are you Sam good how are you guys good buddy doing good buddy I completely agree with you guys the people that are calling in and saying that you guys aren't for Jaden Daniels and aren't supporting Jaden Daniels because you aren't just giving a rookie the MVP through five weeks of his first NFL season I think is ridiculous these are the same people that are calling in last year after two weeks saying Sam Howell is the franchise quarterback and will be for many years and then at the end of the season we're saying how terrible he was right so yes he's in the top five quarterback conversation right now absolutely but every rookie quarterback is going to have a bad game throughout a year pretty much most quarterbacks in the NFL are going to have a bad game in the NFL absolutely he's probably going to run into a buzz saw defense at some point and play poorly right and so these are the same people that are going to say he's not an MVP after having a bad game right but they're going to say he's the MVP after having a few good games and I mean yeah he's had flashes of being the MVP this year and I can't say that at times I think he's probably the best quarterback playing this year right now but we play the quarter of the games right so he has so much time left and there's going to be games where he doesn't play great and maybe the defense is going to have to step up and they don't and then people are going to start saying well man they lost two in a row because he played poorly through a few interceptions been score a lot and they're going to be like he's not the MVP right so yeah he's had a great stretch of games but you have to wait to see you know like I agree with you maybe if he walks into Baltimore and she beats them and she plays outstanding and the defense doesn't really help them a whole lot but they still win because of him sure then you can maybe say yeah even if he has a bad game that doesn't really like stop the MVP talks because she walked into Baltimore and single handedly won the game appreciate you thank you I think these are like Heisman Trophy winning games when you're in college at LSU when Alabama plays against LSU and the top spot in the SEC's on the line that performance is weighted over LSU playing some number yep where he goes crazy this is one of those games just like Monday night football with the world watching he had the crazy that's the biggest deposit in the bank so far absolutely everyone's watching and he played that game he did against the Ravens is going to be more weighted probably than the four o'clock window game against the Cardinals right so if he goes out and plays a great football game in the number one ranked offense in the NFL and scoring Washington hangs 30 again for a fourth straight week first team never do it with a rookie quarterback then yeah I think this time next week we will absolutely be talking about him in the MVP discussion I mean he's already in the discussion we will absolutely be saying he has every bit as good a chance as anybody else to win the MVP right now there's four guys with odds that are a lot better than him and that's kind of my point when you see a national analyst going Jayden Daniels is my MVP he's 12 to one in betting markets there's guys that are two to one three to one six to one seven to one they're bypassing it's a little bit odd but you get the excitement I just think we're in a mode now and it's kind of evidenced as well by some of the feedback we're getting where everyone is so happy and you and I included that if there's anything other than just throwing a log on the fire of greatest team in the world greatest player in the world never gonna lose print your Super Bowl tickets the reaction is kind of like oh you hate okay yeah I guess I suppose saying this guy's doing something historical and the team is one of the best in football he's been great say it I think they're gonna win the division and and he's gonna be the rookie of the year I love him and I'm glad he's here but say it more say it louder okay we'll be the bad guys I guess we were the bad guys when you guys were all you know telling us we were wrong a lot of other times that didn't work out that way but I hope we are this time for sure 800 636 1067 is how you can hop aboard on Grant and Danny Brian Baldinger joins us next I believe we're 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first online real moneyweights are only ten dollar first deposit required bonus issued is now with drawable bonus bets that expire seven days after receipt restrictions apply see terms at sportsbook dot fandal dot com gambling problem call one eight hundred five two two forty seven hundred Grant and Danny on the fan Luke McCaffrey of the commanders is going to join us coming up in a little over ten minutes make sure you're listening right now though we're sneaking in our buddy brian baldinger because he's one of our favorite analysts and as we're getting ready for the biggest game of the season so far for washing and there was nobody we wanted to break it down with more baldy thanks for a few i've been seeing some of your analysis and film breakdowns on the commanders getting fired up i know like the rest of us you like what you're seeing yeah i do uh i mean that's a good defense that they carved up last week against Cleveland those are some good corners you know to see that touchdown throw from jade into a diamond brown against uh you know martin emerson i got a lot of respect for martin emerson he's a good corner Tommy ran right by him and the throw was unbelievable the throw to terry mcclarn for 66 yards on a broken player scramble drill um you know avoiding zadaria smith and do so doing it's just an amazing throw the third down throws the luke McCaffrey the protections against miles Garrett and how they get it like oh it's it's it's really good you know i mean i know who jeremy mccnickles is he's been you know he's wrapped in 2017 i know the kid like he he's he's on his 19 he scored one touchdown in his career he's got three in the last two weeks i mean everything you're doing right now is working outside of a couple drop passes last week both you mentioned protection that's the thing i've been amazed about uh to to this point is that ganels has had time and when he hasn't had time he just makes teams pay with double the yard scrambles but how are they protecting so well that i've been blown away by how good they are in that department well it started rookie and coldman but you know uh luke is playing out there and they're splitting reps they split reps last week you know whether it was injury or later i don't know but you know two different guys man the position i mean the big acquisition was be outish i mean you guys a good player really good player i mean doesn't go to pro bowls or anything but he's a solid player i know the kitty down at duke manny wethers all off season working on his core working on his strength loves the game you know i think he's made alla ready better cause he's coming on um while he's just so steady i mean it's a good group up front you know and then cook does a good job of chipping with his tight ends they're not great blockers but he's chipping with them he's they know what they're supposed to do over there so i mean the protection's been good but like you said i mean you go back to week one against hot bowls in that defense and you know taught i mean it was 37 16 top bowls are still blitzing them with a minute to go in a game you're still coming after him but he picked the blitz with his with runny and uh you know he's such a fast twitch guy i mean he's the dairiest myth to be right in front of him and he can make a miss you know i mean it's just uh it's remarkable because i always say this about him and i've written so many five weeks now but like he's really really fast but he's never in a hurry and that's a great columnist to have as a quarterback brian baldinger on grantin danny here on the fan baldi what else can you say about what we've seen from daniels to dive into some of the decision making you know one of the things i saw in college that i worried about was he didn't get out of the pocket and throw ever i think there were like eight times or something he threw while scrambling all of last year he's already showing some propensity to leave the pocket to throw which is man that would be a big development and a game changer well he's really coachable i mean you you just you know talk to brian kelly at lshu about him when he came uh from arizona state i mean he wasn't a runner at arizona state he added that component to it he watched the alabama game last year and to your point he went to run you know and you go he can survive you know this game against alabama much less do it in the NFL but you know his eyes are up the throat and tear the car and he could have easily just run right there but his eyes are up and he saw him a car and come from the other side of the field and they just launched the bomb you know and so uh he's not just running to run he's running to make a play and if it's not there then he takes off and he's pretty good i mean i've seen him hit probably a couple times where he probably doesn't need to take that shot probably use to get down a little sooner but you know he's running out of bounds he's sliding he's protecting himself pretty good uh but look he's he he's always he breaks the pocket he doesn't leave just to leave i mean he gives he he looks at what he's supposed to look at and then he's looking to buy time and to extend the play and make a play so whatever they teach them cliff whatever it is like he's a he's a good student because he's learning well do you mention cliff uh Kingsbury offensive coordinator i wasn't sure to be quite frankly i didn't know what to expect in terms of fit here etc etc so far you know the choir is singing man it's been unbelievable to watch it seems like they've got something to have an answer for everything it seems like defenses are befuddled as to what to try to take away and it's resulted in nothing being taken away to this point what have you made from that you fit there with Kingsbury and Daniels well the you know the little known fact about cliff is you know i get a lot of big 12 games it was out in law because when he was there a bunch coach at Texas Tech always had 10 new plays on his whiteboard every single week that he was trying out but the the really he always spread teams out even in the big 12 even at Texas A&M he spread teams out to run it like and they're a very good running football team right now you know echolor mr. week mcdickles picks up Brian is really super solid obviously the quarterback is special but you know they're they're a very good running football team they can melt the clock that's a good defensive front they ran the ball up and down the field on them and that's really the hit jewel and then if you just look at the design of the offense because you sort of call plays with the predictability of what defense you're going to get Cleveland's a big man covered steam the heads are man beaters up the receivers won routes they come back to tear in the car in the first quarters of 20 yards come back on timing now you don't do that by accident you do you do that by putting in hours and hours of work and the cars you like he's he's at the top of his route he's separate he's coming back the balls in the air it's right we're supposed to be like you see that over and over again and that's not easy to run 20 yard comebacks in his sleeve against good corners like Denzel Ward and Martin Emerson but they did so they're getting worked down in practice um Cliff is a great play call I noticed um I don't know if it was last week or it wasn't last week it was probably the week before when they blew out Arizona I saw some sideline shots of him he his honestly he had the smallest play chart for a long time when he was in Arizona Texas that he couldn't put it in an index card and now he noticed the play sheet is a lot bigger than it used to be ever and so I feel like that means the quarterback is digesting a lot and he can handle a lot more and so he's given him a lot more right now probably at the line of scrimmage two three plays called he chooses it like I think he's given him more than I thought and I'm doing the game in a couple weeks in Chicago I'm anxious to talk to Cliff before the game just to see if I want to look at his play chart and see if it's pretty advanced for a kid that's going to probably make an exact start yeah I can't wait to have Baldi on the call he's going to be on commander's bears with the number one overall pick Caleb Williams has been playing a lot better this past week especially and the number two overall pick Jayden Daniels who early on is running away with the rookie of the year award four rookie of the week honors in the first five weeks Baldi it'll be a quick visit I suppose because we got Luke McCaffrey calling in a few but I do want to get your thoughts here on commander's Ravens because this is the game it seems like that everybody wants to get their hands on so in our final few minutes here give us your detailed Baldi breakdown here on Washington and Baltimore we're fired up well I just did the Ravens since that again last week so I saw him up close Lamar is at another MVP level he's playing better than he ever did last year already in large part because of Derek Henry but the play the play of Justice Hill they kind of fixed what the offensive line is now it took a couple weeks to get it right but McCarry is that left guard and Rosa Garden is their right tackle they got that fixed they got Mark Andrews back and playing really good football right now for the first time they are a juggernaut in offense defensively they have a lot of problems right now they lost a lot in coaching they lost you to everything clowny they lost Patrick Queen they've got good players there don't get me wrong but they they don't look like the same defense anywhere that they were a year ago and so I think they're very vulnerable I mean Joe burrow looked like he could have scored anytime he wanted to last week practically did they've got a lot of holes defensively I'm anxious to see clip and how he attacks them because I think there's a lot of things they're good in the middle like they always are the big and stout up front but there's there's there's running lanes on the edges and there's certainly passing lanes down the field they got exposed by Jamar and T and that group in Cincinnati last week big time and I think those are still vulnerable areas Baldi you're the best man I always appreciate the time have a great weekend hey I look yeah thanks guys enjoyed this game it's going to be special this Sunday we've been waiting for this around here for a long time you know that Baldi we will see you at Landover Maryland's northwest stadium in just a couple of weeks Baldi will be on the call of the commanders and the bears Luke McCaffrey is going to join us so let's get ready for the wide receiver whose arrows trending up in this offense next on GND live from Capital One Arena ahead of today's caps 50 event Grant and Danny on the fan Luke McCaffrey has scheduled to join us in just a couple of moments we are giving away tickets to see the capitals and the stars on October 17th a week from tonight right here at Capital One Arena at the top of the hour so make sure you're listening at four if you want those tickets on GND it is time for our double play driven to you by your local Washington area Honda dealers stopping for a great deal on the rugged and capable Honda pilot contact your local Washington area Honda dealers today today was one of those days jeeps every once in a while you get this little splinter in your mind I don't know if you still get this as a grown-up but sometimes I just want a burger all I've been thinking about all day long is having a burger I don't know why the burger gets that special treatment sometimes in our brains I've had things recently remember that day I came in as obsessed with talking about cheesetakes and then I like made it my quest like a cheesesteak. That was like a multi-day voyage for you to get a cheesesteak. I just woke up in one morning going I remember a Philadelphia cheesesteak factory in Georgetown late night I put all of their kids through college just eating so many cheesetakes late night right so I won I won on a quest and I got it today I wanted a burger and that's what we had once we got here at the Capital One Arena we pwned burgers from all about burger which is pretty good I hadn't been there before I liked it would try again but I'm wondering from you if you'd like to chime in here what are some of the other food stuffs where you go I get that craving that's what I got a half like I need that you get in that like you know me like I need a burger like I just want a burger and that's what you go get I would say the one for me is at night with sweets and that's really the only cravings I get because the good thing about eating terribly all the time uh-huh is that you don't start missing anything because you always have it wouldn't say I've been missing it Bob right you just do it yeah the norm is oh what am I eating today do I want a burger do I want your polo you just kind of eat terribly and then you let people make fun of you or whatever but at least you enjoy the food sure yeah yeah so that's the good thing the bad thing is when you don't eat things that you like often enough that you prefer you start missing out on them and for me that's just sweets at night because I try not to eat after dinner try to cut that yeah that's kind of the tough thing let's go right now to the hotline and welcome on to the show Luke McCaffrey if you're Washington commanders who are coming off of a fourth consecutive win they are four and one and they've got the Baltimore Ravens on the road on Sunday a chance to get to five and one for the first time since 1996 Luke and we'll welcome back to the show man thank you for the time hey how you doing thank you so much for having me we're great dude uh we love wins so much this is a blast is it how is it more go to work or more having fun at this stage and like what's the balance you gotta obviously have to work hard to maintain the level you guys are playing at but it's also got to be fun what's what's like the bigger pile yeah I think it's been so cool you know you look all the way back to OTAs and just how much passion that everybody in this building and everybody on this team has for football it's been a lot of fun to where I don't know if we've been coming to work yet ever since OTAs even when we weren't on a winning streak and so I think it's so fun to just be a part of an environment like that and then you know when when that has 60 it reassures your faith in a way but I think there was already a level of faith that we built through OTAs of just trusting the process and and having fun every day are you surprised that you guys are four and one right now yeah I I don't know I would say surprise I think we all have just bought into the process and and we've really enjoyed coming out and competing every wrap and and I think what's so cool about it is we've seen a lot of growth from OTAs to camp we've seen a lot of growth or growth through you know day one of camp to the end of camp and now week one to to going into week five six and hopefully we can continue to to get better every week and and just stay intentful on every single wrap every single play and making the most out of every single day Luke McCaffrey with this year on GND Luke big one this weekend the Ravens are are good they've been good uh you know not having the the gangbusters season we're used to from them but everyone feels myself included like it's only a matter of time what kind of challenge did they bring and you know it's kind of what do you make of them from afar yeah they're a really good football team you know they know how to win I think when you get to the NFL every team's gonna have good players and every team's gonna have you know some level of success and so to have a team with a lot of just competitors a lot of people who who play the game at a high level is there's always a challenge each and every week I think they do a good job of playing as a team which is something you know I know we take pride of in our building and so I think it'll be a great competitive match up and it'll be a good good one for us to go out there and compete Luke you guys have had success on the road uh you dating back really since week one in Tampa the trip to Cincinnati Dan and I were in the crowd it was unbelievably loud the atmosphere was as good as it's going to be anywhere else Baltimore involved right and Danny actually looked at me right before the game and he's like this is going to go very poorly I won't tell you exactly what he said but he said yeah this is going to be the environment was so intimidating you you have a little face wow exactly so but I say that to tell you guys work the Bengals offensively then you go to Arizona you do big things are you at a point where you feel like you're comfortable in those environments it's been low penalty counts or is it too early to say that yeah I mean again I think it just comes down to every game's different every game's a different atmosphere I go back to Cenci and I think that was just such a an awesome environment that that I think we all fed off of oh you go to Arizona and I don't know if you can clarify that one as an away game I think we probably had more fans than them and so when you're just having that advantage having that having that atmosphere was cool to see that covered in burgundy and gold and then you know I think we just got to stay focused on play at a time and just you know communicating and detailing everything we do Luke I forgot the other day Grant reminded me of this I mean I guess I knew if pressed but I was reminded of the fact that you still haven't been playing receiver for all that long right this is still relatively new to you and I want to get into that process with you a little bit where you know the finer points the nuances that a lot of people can't do you know you're picking up obviously really really rapidly how much do you feel you've grown so far and and you know talk about that process of learning the position on the fly at the highest level there is yes it's been a lot of fun you know I've been playing receiver about a year and a half now and I think I was blessed to have a lot of great people around me when I first switched that were able to help me whether it was through my my team or whether it was through my family and you know guys are in the receiver room different coaches and then once I got here I think that just highlighted even more between Bobby Ingram Andre Coleman who's our assistant receiver coach you know Terry Ozzie down me then you know with Noah Brown got here at the end of camp I think just from top to bottom it's been really fun to to be around a lot of people with a lot of great experience because at the end of the day experience is going to be the number one way to learn and making mistakes and going full speed and and I think when I when I've been blessed to be around a lot of guys who have a lot of experience it's allowed me to kind of just learn from from the moments that they've had in their career and they've had endless amounts of moments of whether it's growth or whether it's success just a lot of reps at at playing the position at a high level playing inside and outside at times kind of all over the formation you I'd imagine you go up against not one or two but several DB's over the course of the game how do you prepare do you study the nuances of several different defenders on film or are you just more looking at things from the 10,000 foot view of scheme and you're not really looking at Marlon Humphrey or individual corners like what is that like yeah I think a lot goes into it we do a great job of uh you know preparing in general and getting you know the feel for how their personality is what what their attitude is and then also honing it on the details so there's definitely a little bit of both of that I think uh as a player you know the biggest thing is to just play fast you know we we have a state saint go run and hit and so I think that speaks volumes of you know you're you're gonna have the knowledge that you gained throughout the week and then once you get to the game you kind of just have to go run and hit and everything else will just be a reaction and so I think throughout the week we do a great job of studying individual players and then you know studying the overall scheme and then once you get to the field you're out there just reacting right just just playing fast and using your instincts how about for you kind of on your own time will you hit up either Christian or your pops to get inside on especially Christian who's played the Ravens so many times and get any intel that way or have your dad look at any tape or anything or do you not really tap into those resources because you got enough help in the building what's your logic on that yeah no we we help each other a lot uh I mean there's only so much you can do and there's only so much that that you can find out that you know we we haven't looked at or seen in our building every once in a while you'll get a good kid but or two but they they also have their own games to to prepare for and so it's it's a lot of fun having those resources to kind of bounce different ideas back and forth but you know it's it's awesome to have the resources we have in the building too and just enjoy the the different scouting reports the different opinions and the different you know hard work that everybody puts in look at what stage is this offense and I guess what I mean is it's you guys have been unbelievable you're scoring so many points and uh tresway went like a month without punning a numbers approximate it's been incredible but like in terms of where you guys are right now and what some of the stuff you might be doing in two months or you know december or or whatever like like what have we like what per se i guess i guess a longer longer way of asking a very simple thing like what percentage of the offense have we seen to this point like how much is waiting in the wings uh to surprise people i i think this offense is so fun because it has the potential and possibility to do a lot of different things you can bring a lot of different personnel groups in you can have a lot of different motions and shifts and then you know you add tempo to it and you add a running quarterback and and it really opens up you know anything that you could think of in the creative world of football right and so uh in terms of what what we put in or don't put in i think it's very very specific and detailed to you know what team we're playing and so i don't know if if that's a way that we necessarily think about it is by percentage of offense in but i think it's it's more a reaction and a constant flow maybe like a picture like you're you're you're painting something right we've all watched bob Ross and and you're going there and he's painting something and it looks like just a bunch of scribbles and then you kind of see it play out for for us that's every week right we're trying to build our painting and build you know our game plan and then decide how we want to attack a team and how we want to you know create change-ups encounters to you know our main way and then what's going to happen is that doesn't work or if they come out in a different different thing and you know it's always a constant life form of of you know processing creating something on the go and on the fly is bob Ross your painter of choice oh i i don't know i don't know if i have a painter of choice but i i do love to put that that show on in the background well it's so relaxing it's not that bad right it's pretty good yeah i told you in the locker room by the way that uh we were big on the chocolate lava cake conversation last week after you hung up so if you score a touchdown or you go for a hundo at any point it's chocolate lava cake monday on grant and danny no pressure oh that's incredible well shoot let's uh let's go for it then let's do this thing let's do it in vaults more why not and if you can mine a chocolate lava cake end zone celebration somehow i don't know how you do that but if you did that that would that would go a long way i don't know about that we we got to get a local middle school or something and get them chocolate lava cakes for uh commanders later something i like that i like when your head's that love it look be good man go get another win thanks for the time appreciate you dude that's luke McCafford joining us on grant and danny awesome to have him with us again this week nice to the commanders to have him call in here on the fan we got our beltway blitz top of the hour coming your way on g and d the seasons may be changing but the deals the sharpest rides are unbeatable as ever hey what's going on it's 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