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Davante Adams & Amari Cooper Traded, Should The Commanders Be The Favorite In The NFC East?
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A lot can happen between falling in love with a house and owning it, having an advocate who can help you navigate negotiations, timelines, inspections, and more can make all the difference. One of the expertise of a real tour can do for you because that's who we are. Real tours are members of the National Association of Real Tours. Good Tuesday afternoon and welcome in to Grant and Danny on the fan. We are taking you up to 630 in and around DC today. We've got caps tickets for you to win right at four o'clock ahead of the Beltway Blitz. If you want to see them take on Montreal on Halloween, you better be listening to this show and we got a great program planned for you. Trae Wingo of ESPN fame at three Austin Echler running back with the commander's weekly appointment brought to you by IT cadre. He joins us at five o'clock. Hello Daniel. What's up, jeeps? My, uh, the action not all heroes wait, where capes is a thing that gets thrown around a lot of times. I got to give a quick shout out to Lisa and Brian. So their son had a birthday party. It was an originally scheduled for Saturday, right? Everyone's like, well, that's fine. We'll, and we'll do that. We'll go to the birthday party. It's great. The kids have a birthday party. Then they went, wait a minute Mondays and off day for some people, not everybody, a lot of parents are working. A lot of parents are sort of not working. Kids are out of school. What do we do? They had the birthday party on Monday. So old Randy Duier, shuttles little guy off to the birthday party, drops them. The wife comes home from her work and is able to pick them up. They ran these kids ragged. There's a picture I'll show it to you where there, the, the, this trio of dudes, these little boys who had, who played soccer and some basketball, like street hockey, uh, shout out to the Nerf guns. They took a limo to a, um, uh, to a place where a laser tag spot that got home and played more sports. There's a picture of the four of them just passed out on the ground, basically random ragged exhausted. A public service was done right there. Heroes. Heroes is the word. A limousie, a limo to play laser tag. Yeah. That is the greatest elementary school age birthday party idea I've ever heard. Is that the coolest thing you've ever heard? And that's pretty unbelievable. So my little guy was kind of going, I ran, I run a special car. We're like, okay, it was a bus putty like, no, uh, had a name. Like guess it did? Like, what was the name? It was a party bus? No, I think it was a car, but it was really long. I was like a limousie and he goes, yeah, it was weird. It was brown inside. Like that was his, that was his extent of his appreciation and really get the limo part of it. But dude, that's going to be a story. I think the first time I ever got into a limousie might have been seeing your prom. Was like prom style? Yeah. That's a pretty strong birthday. Well done by them. If we're starting the show with shout outs, if that's what we're doing, give a shout out. I'm going to shout out the fall. Here we go. It is officially fall. Here we go. Fall. We have claimed fall for a couple of weeks. Yep. We have welcomed and said, thank you to fall for showing up for a little while. There we go. But today I walked outside and it was like 60 degrees. Yeah it was. I thought about running back in the house and throwing on a hoodie. The fall has arrived. And for that, I think the greatest season that we have, it is a survivor Tuesday on Grant and Danny. So we should direct you to Facebook, facebook.com/grantanddany where you can vote a player off the island and vote a player immune today. Danny update us on who is still available to be selected for immunity this week and who is still left on the island. 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He's had an ongoing issue with that offense and some of the players in the receiver room it seems like and just distrust of them. And now they're bringing in Devontae Adams, but Aaron Rodgers most certainly does not run the Jets. He was unhappy in Green Bay and left the Packers because he didn't have enough personnel control supposedly. And now he is with the Jets where it seems like he has a lot more control. Enter guys like over the last couple of years, like Randall Cobb and Alan Lazard and you name it. They show up. Right? Yeah. So the point where it was like Hackett's his play caller in OC until yesterday when the duties got ripped away. Yeah, they got to the point where it's like Aaron Randall Cobb now runs a five flat 40. We can't keep him on the roster. It's like fine. Lazard Adams, please. Like it's, it's no absurd. I still don't get how they never signed David Bakhtiari. I just have to imagine he's not physically available and capable. But the point of the dude's story is Devontae Adams and Aaron Rodgers are linking back up in New York. Maybe a day too late. The Jets needed him last night. They played the bills tough. I give them credit. That was a good football game in prime time, but the bills are a first place for into a team. The Jets are two and four. And for the moment, Buffalo has got a tiebreaker that is a damaging loss. Yeah. What a swing game, right? The first game of new head coach Jeff Ulbrick, the interim tag. And I thought taught downing the new OC call on the plays that a really good job actually getting the run game going. Rodgers was more comfortable. It seemed like in the pocket than he'd been. He threw for 294. Some of those yards on a Hail Mary at the end of the half, but it was a pretty solid Rogers performance. Number one, the greatest Hail Mary thrower in the history of the planet, Aaron Rodgers. It's unbelievable. What do you think he does differently or better? I don't know. I had some guy on Twitter come at me, they're like, a Hail Mary is luck. Why are you giving him credit for being so good at it? Well, guy, because he does it more often than everyone else and hits it at a higher rate than everyone else. So it's probably not just a coincidence. I think he has the ability Russell Wilson does this too. I don't know if we could check and see what his Hail Mary resume looks like to do the moon ball bit where it's like 60 yards in distance, but also it's really high. His launch angle is super high and the ball still gets over the fence. Yeah. I mean, Wilson famously has the last day, last week of the replacement refs that controversial touchdown in the back of the end zone, right where he did that one, I just top my head, but I don't know. But that's unbelievable. So the Jets win this game if they could make a couple field goals, the wind's not swirling the way that it was, right, or, you know, they have a good chance to certain right? Because I know, Tyler Bass missed a field goal too. But that was a great football game that was also bad at the same time. Like that was wildly entertaining, but there was, there were mistakes and there were penalties and, but there were a bunch of big plays as well. That was a huge win for Buffalo, you know, adverse environment with a little bit of a dead cat bounce from placing a coach right there, damaging loss, certainly for the Jets. You understand where the Jets are though, they've got Aaron Rodgers now. It's not, it's not 25 year old Aaron Rodgers. It's not 31 year old Aaron Rodgers. It's like he's almost my age basically, right? So you're pot committed to having a season right now. You can't let it slip away any further losing that game last night, maybe a little fire. I think it certainly did. It's now time to win or your seasons over to your point. Devonta Adams can still play. There's a big difference between him having now been labeled a malcontent where with the Raiders, he helped get Josh McDaniel's fired. He helped to advocate to bench Jimmy Garoppolo when this is the, the ex, you know, the expected kind of outside looking in or suspected basically input that he gave. And some of it, I think we can base some knowledge on cause that Netflix wide receiver showed didn't paint him in a very good light, but he was pretty candid about not being big on McDaniel's or Garoppolo. But here he is now annoyed by and with Antonio Pierce. And so there it odds. And he hasn't been playing. And he's got this bum hamstring, but he's supposed to play already on Sunday. So apparently that hamstring is feeling a lot better flights. Help it. If you fly across the country, it helps. And I think the jets clearly have some doctors on staff that the Raiders don't have because they were magically able to get that hamstring feeling a lot better. They science to, you know, if they really think that he's going to be able to play this weekend. So that's pretty amazing. But the jets have the Steelers on Sunday night football, which will be a tough game. Then they've got the Patriots, a game you can win. The Texans, they'll be heavy underdogs, Cardinals and Colts games you can win. They just don't have any more margin for error. They've got to rip off probably four wins in their next five to have a shot going into the stretch run of the season. And Devontay Adams will help them do that. I thought Garrett Wilson was fantastic last night. Guys awesome. So to have him on one side, he's coming off eight for a bucko seven and a score on ten targets. And Devontay Adams on the other side with Aaron Rogers playing better. I mean, the two of his last, I'd say four games have been really good and they finally ran the ball. I don't know if that's now that they figured something out or if that was just a one off against the bills. But Downing gave Breeze all 18 carries. He went for a buck 13 had a long of 42 in the game. That was by far the best they've looked running the football. But the bigger news is not that they hung with the bills. Buffalo gets a win. Two touchdowns, no picks for Josh Allen, who's had a pretty clean season so far and has been great in their four wins. The bigger news is Devontay Adams has been acquired and it sounds like he is not the only wide receiver in the NFL on the move. We've got some breaking news coming into us right now. This is according to Jordan Schultz. The Browns are trading wide receiver Amari Cooper to the Buffalo Bills. Another big time wide receiver on the move. We do not yet have compensation on this deal, but the Browns are trading Amari Cooper away. The Bills who are four and two and a contender in the AFC are bringing in a legit weapon for Josh Allen. All breaking news on the fan brought to you by BetQL, Smarter Bet. Start with BetQL, get three free days of BetQL access, download the BetQL app. Visit BetQL.com. I've always been an Amari Cooper guy. He doesn't have the greatest, he's not one of those dudes that after every first down has like a big choreographed dance or does it doesn't seem like he's that excited. This is very technical, solid route runner, good hands just seemed like he was miserable though and Cleveland from the outside looking and have no idea. And from Cleveland perspective, this makes sense. It's lost. I mean, this ship is sinking. Get what you can get while you can get it. And again, it makes sense for Buffalo too. They've kind of said, hey, we'll be able to replace Define Diggs's production with committee, Curtis Samuel and Shakir and the Hollins and Keon Coleman. And the answer is maybe we can't. We probably need an easier button. And it's going to draw us some attention, make some big catches for us. Makes sense for them too. I have said for years, I don't understand why the NFL trade deadline is not more like the other sports, why there wasn't more activity, why there aren't more players of note being shipped away. I mean, here we are still almost two weeks away from the deadline and you've got a couple of blockbuster wide receivers moves. I think that's awesome for the sport. We've seen it trending this way the last couple of years. That's my first takeaway. Next would be, I love this trade for the Buffalo Bills. Love it. They need a wide receiver one. Keon Coleman might eventually be really good. Their second round pick this past year. He is not there yet. He's just not ready. He doesn't get open enough. Doesn't get enough targets or catches. But that tells you that he's not coming free. Mac Collins is big. He's physical. He can help in the red zone. We saw that last night, but he's a down the depth chart guy. Lille Shakir is more of a gadget guy. I'd say the same about Curtis Samuel. Get them in space. They can work the middle of the field underneath stuff on screens, but you don't have a third down the ward, daddy. You don't have a, I need seven, get me eight physical box amount, run routes, middle of the field, digs in routes, the crosser, turn it up field, run into some bodies and pick up the yards needed. And I think you get that now in a Mari Cooper. If you're the Buffalo Bills, Josh Allen's having a very good season without a legit wide receiver one at this point, 10 touchdowns, no picks, but he's having to do a lot of extra work with his feet that it isn't sustainable and I think they want to get better throwing the football. This will help them do that. The difference between this and the Adams deal, in my opinion, Danny, the Jets are two and four and probably not going anywhere quickly. The Bills are four and two, a threat to Kansas City and one of the best teams in the conference. And they just got a legitimate weapon and a really good football. Yeah. This is what you do, right? If you're the team that's going to be in the postseason, think about for baseball, you're the first place team. Yeah, we could use a bullpen arm or yeah, we could use, you know, a fifth starter or a corner outfield bat and you, you, you pilfer from the losing team. It's not going anywhere much less common in the NFL, but it's a good trade for all parties. Honestly, again, Cleveland is done. They're stuck. It's Watson. The ship is on fire. It's sinking. It's been split in half by a Kraken. They have no chance. So you start moving some of these parts, get some caps savings. Next year, Cooper, I think has a $23 million cap hit give or take. Bills don't care about next year. Don't care about two years from now. They got a window with the window may not be as wide open as it was a couple of seasons ago, but they're still pretty damn good in a very winnable division. Shouldn't the Browns, if they're selling off and admitting defeat and calling this season what it is? Uh huh. Shouldn't they rip the bandit off? Yes. There is such a thing as a sunk cost fallacy, right? People are familiar with this concept. The idea is in a sunk cost fallacy, well, we already spent the money. So we got to use it. In fact, you've said on this show that you're this guy, not, not that you're Mr SCF or something, but basically if I buy my kids something, you're going to use it. If I spend the money, we are going to get that thing. We're going to ride that bike until the wheels fall off basically. The Browns made a terrible decision. Yes, they did blame whoever you want ownership GM staff. I don't care. It doesn't really matter how or why we got here with the Sean Watson. He is incapable. He is incompetent. That offense is broken and the longer you play him, it will not get better. This is now three years of banging your head against the wall and it's getting worse and worse and worse. And the only argument to continue to play him is he's under contract for two more years with gigantic guaranteed cap numbers, 70 plus million each of the next couple seasons in terms of his actual cap numbers. So we don't have a choice. Sure you do. Your choice is don't allow the terrible awful decision to continue to fester. Rip the Band-Aid off, keep paying the money you have to in debt money, whatever it takes, or if you want to keep them on your roster and just tell them not to show up to work or be the third quarterback if he's willing to do that, then be my guest. But they have to end this charade immediately. And if they're admitting today that it's over, that the competitive portion of their season is done with, which is what you're doing when you trade a Mario Cooper. Now is the time to do this. 100% agree. They've got some really good pieces. I mean, that's kind of my my intrigue for the Browns this year was they weren't 11 win team last year, right? With Joe Flacco. I think I've got that number, right? But they've been competitive. Their roster is good. It's legit good. It was really good with with with Cooper now without him. But there are pieces that a lot of teams would be interested to see Denzel Ward, Miles Garrett, Jack Conklin, David and Joku, you know, Dalvita Hamilton, they got they got pieces on that roster that other teams have been intrigued by. Now, you know, there's there's something to be said for who are your guys that you're going to build around. But there's also something to be said for we could really restock here as we get out from under this Watson thing. And by the way, a $200 million dead cat pet were there to cut him. First of all, can you imagine? No. Second of all, if this is the start of something, then there are some teams I could think of maybe a couple, one pretty local that might be calling and or should be calling and just inquiring. What's the? What's the asking price? Too much. Thank you. Or that sounds good to me. Something intriguing. Here's your trade details on the big swap between the Browns and the Bills. Amari Cooper from Cleveland to Buffalo. The Browns are getting back a third and a seventh round pick for Amari Cooper. The Bills get a sixth round pick. So basically a late round pick swap with a third biscuit third. Yeah. By the way, if you're keeping score at home, Devonta Adams got a three could end up being a two. Amari Cooper nets a three with a late round pick swap. Didn't Jahan Datsen get washed into three? And oh, by the way, that three is going to end up being a higher three than either of those other teams probably because it's Miami's three, which right now is slotted in the middle of the top 10. I'm not saying I'm just saying Adam Peters, talk that s Adam Peters, take a bow comb your hair. Just so. We'll get in the mirror at that jawline. What do you see? I see a handsome man. I'm in a right decision. I think I do. Don't you see that? Not a bad decision by Adam Peters speaking to the commanders, a lot of breaking news coming in. We just got some news on one of their upcoming games getting flexed. I think this will excite fans. We'll give you the details on this as soon as we return right here on Grant and Danny. Amazon fall favorites are here to make you say with low prices on home, beauty and fashion brands like Amazon essentials. So hold on to your pumpkin spice, whatever and save on fall favorites at Amazon. This episode is brought to you by progressive insurance. Whether you love true crime or comedy, celebrity interviews or news, you call the shots on what's in your podcast queue. And guess what? 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Both of these two teams feel like their playoff bound led by the top two picks in the draft. Caleb Williams 1-1 to Chicago and of course, Jaden Daniels 1-2 here to Washington. The 1 o'clock kick in Landover, Maryland has been flexed to 4-25 and it'll be the nationally televised CBS game now. They are switching the A crew of Jim Nance and Tony Romo onto that broadcast, so the commanders for the second time already this season are seeing a game fought over and moved around to accommodate a larger national audience. Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and jagglemen, I believe that's the, is that from one of the movies my kids watches, maybe a sing. The Caitlin Clark effect, no, the Jaden Daniels effect. This is the Jaden Daniels effect. We thought this might be a possibility when we looked at the schedule upon its release, right? As you look at, you know, quarterbacks one and two, there's intrigue there. Both teams were decent. There was a possibility that could go to Sunday night or some other kind of big spectacle and showcase and sure enough, it's materialized that way. Only bad news is that it's a Romo game now, whereas before it would have been less notable. But here we are. It's a big deal, man. And what happens when you're in desire or when you're in demand is things like this keep happening. When you're the darling, the attention is going to come hot and heavy. So I expect more of these things as the season progresses. I want to go back to the point we were making right before the break about the wide receiver trades. There have been two pretty massive trades in the NFL today. Davante Adams goes from the Raiders to the Jets and Amari Cooper is headed from the Cleveland Browns to the Buffalo Bills. He will almost certainly play in the playoffs and Adams will do everything he can with Aaron Rogers to ensure that the Jets also make it out of the AFC East last night did a little damage to their hopes, but it's still very early. But both of those players net what is the equivalent of a third round pick if Adams has a monster remainder of the season. It's possible that ends up being a two and there's a pick swap element to get the three of the Amari Cooper deal just like there was for Jahan Dodson. But I don't think we can underscore enough how big the Adam Peters trade of Dodson was. And I don't care that he hasn't really done anything in Philadelphia. New offense, new scheme, you know, hit a couple of games where everyone was hurt. We had a great opportunity, but none of that is relevant to me. I'm not covering that team. I don't know what the specific situation is. What I do care about Danny is they got basically equal value for Dodson as future Hall of Famer Davante Adams. And I don't know, maybe future Hall of Famer Amari Cooper and every trades a little different in terms of term and how much a guy makes and what money you're taking on and what's left on the contract. So it is not quite apples to apples. Right. I think that's fair. So everyone can save their lectures on why it's different. The point is what do you get back? Everyone's saying third rounder and one of these guys is not like the other. I think that's a massive win and a really good look for Adam Peters today. He'll get a text from, you know, Mitch rails and Josh Harrison company at some point saying nice job. Right. I mean, so nobody's suggesting that that Johan Dodson and Devont Adams with the same value. That's not the point. Right? In this context, a huge salary demand for a player lowers the amount that he would be worth. If it's just an open bidding and there's no contract involved, what was Devont Adams worth? Probably a first rounder, maybe multiple. But that's not what's happening. Of course, you have to tick on the salary and everything else. But just the way of the point, I think it's a very good one is at the time. My view, I don't think a lot of people were going, we're not really sure about this receiving room. It wasn't worth the worth, you know, finding out a little bit. Maybe Dodson could pick it up over the next few seasons when you've got them under control and there's no issue. And are we sure? Are we sure? That's a pretty bold move. And you fast forward. What? What is it now? Seven weeks since then and you go, yeah, that was the right call. That was and it's not one of those well in a certain light. Nope. Correct call. Door is shut. Let's move on to the next place. Like 100% right. Absolutely. They were right. Anybody that doubted them. I think it's reasonable to ask questions, but they knew what they were doing and they had it figured out in this regard. So the Dodson and a fifth with a third coming back, they had a plan and it was a good one. Everything's looking up for the locals. Yeah. Games getting flexed to accommodate bigger audiences. Everyone wants a piece of Jaden Daniels right now and the move that they made before the start of the season, which by the way is not really hurt them. Not at all. And again, Dodson not even mattering what he's done in Philly, but we were talking yesterday it'd be nice to have a weapon and be nice to have another player. I don't really think there's been a point this year at all where the wide receiver position has been an issue. Again, want versus need. You can even say in the big picture, if you want to be a great passing offense, they need more help at wide receiver. That's not what they are. They're not a great passing offense. They do a pretty good job being efficient. They're a run first, run second. Let our quarterback make a play with his feet kind of offense and they get in where they fit in vertically and horizontally in the passing game, for the most part. But Terry McLaurin is on his way to a career high in touchdowns. Noah Brown has done a pretty good job on the outside when they've needed Luke McCaffrey targeted 11 times 11 catches. When they've needed the army Brown, they've been there. If you had a horse, a star, if you had Justin Jefferson, you could redesign the whole offense and get them involved and maybe it looked different. You don't really have that, but I don't think it's been an issue. The number one scoring offense in the league going into this past week and they didn't lose this game because they couldn't move the ball or score. Yep, 100%. And I thought it would be a weakness. I thought it would be a huge issue. I was wrong. They are leading the league in points scored fifth in the league in yards per play, even after a good defensive performance by Baltimore this past week against them. So it's absolutely not an issue. The only thing I care about, a lot of people care about types of plays like the Neanderthals that want to yell about establishing the run or run the dang ball like it's some secret formula. I don't care what you do. I only care about effectiveness. So there are a lot of different ways to skin a cat. Look at what the Ravens do versus what say, I don't know, the Patriots with Brady and Randy Moss did where they didn't even bother to hand them all off. It just took 60 times a game. There's different ways to skin the cat. When you're effective, just be effective. How you do it is great. So they confidently said we don't need the skill set that this guy brings or lack thereof in this case. They have not missed his production in any way. And each week what would be happening is if the offense was scuffling as it was last year or at times the year before, you're going, well, why aren't you getting this guy involved? This guy involved. There are no questions about who's involved and who's not. Do you know why? They're first in the league and points, fifth in yards per play and the offense is good. So tada, right? You don't need John Dodson, what you could use is the third round pick that's coming in the future. So it's exciting. Yeah. Happy about that. Through the fact then that the commanders for the first time all season today, at least in one place. I haven't looked at all the books, but I got an email from bed online and Washington has been installed, Danny, as the favorites to win the NFC East at that sports book today for the first time this season. If you look at the numbers, it's not by a lot. They're plus one 25, a little better than even money, but you are getting what you put down and then some. I believe the Eagles were second. I'd have to pull it up at right around plus one 50. So right behind Washington. And then there's a little gap between the Cowboys and then a big gap between the Giants. But first time, Danny, all season that the odds makers are saying Washington is going to win the NFC East. And it comes after a loss to Baltimore tells you a lot about what they thought about what they saw in Charm City from the commander. Yeah, each week, each for each thing you turn in is becomes more validating the larger sample that you get. In other words, do we know now there are plenty good enough to beat up on bad teams? Yeah, we've got some pretty good data that says that. Can they compete with some of the really good ones? Yeah, after Tampa Bay, it's hard to, you know, it was hard to say that, right? Because they got throttled by by Tampa. Now that's week one, weird stuff happened to week one for a lot of teams, not just them. So I don't want to say you throw it out, but I think you count if you're weighing the sample, that one weighs a lot less than say the last three weeks to me. But just, and I think maybe it seems they view it the same. Right now, they're top 10 in almost every power rankings you're going to find. Right now, they look better than their competitors in the division. You got Jerry Jones on radio and Dallas threatened to get hosts fired because they asked him, Hey, what happened this off season in Philadelphia? Nick Sariani shaved his head like he's Britney Spears, mid meltdown and he screaming at fans and he brings his kids to the presser. So no one asks them questions. Who they're competing against. Things are spelling a little rosy here in Washington right now. We're not used to that. I would take this situation over the other situations and you don't even have to think twice about it. I don't think anybody would disagree with that. I do think this is a nice chance though to open up the phones for the first time today to take the temperature of our listening audience at 1-800-636-1067. That's 800-636-1067 with this question. Do you agree that right now the commander should be considered the favorites to win the NFC East? I am going to say, yes, I have felt this way for a couple of weeks. That's not to pretend like I expected any of this. I didn't. But after the way they played the Bengals and then beating the Cardinals, how they did, it became fairly apparent. This is a really good offense that this quarterback is different and unique and special. And I just thought the division wasn't very good, so you could really start talking about not that they might or could win the division, but that they probably have a really good chance to and maybe even use the wood should. Now, a couple of weeks more intel later with the Cowboys getting embarrassed by the Lions and the Eagles who just can't seem to get out of their own way. You beat the Browns by four off of a buy with Watson laying another egg in a game where Cleveland only scored a touchdown via special teams on a block kick. And you couldn't run away from them and hide. You couldn't put the game away. There's just something not quite right there. It smelled bad. It's like you get in the car and you're like, what are we leaving the car? Something's not right in this car right now. That's what the Eagles entire building has been smelling like since week 10 last year, basically. I can't put any faith in them. Yeah. I do believe Washington should be considered the favorites in the NFC East because they have the quarterback playing best. Right now, this moment, they are the best of those teams. They have the best resume, I guess is what I should say, through six weeks of football. And on top of all of that, Danny, their schedule is pretty good moving forward. It's not a terrible schedule. They've got the Panthers this weekend, the Bears after that, then the Giants, then the Steelers who don't even know who their starting quarterback is right now. Maybe the most beatable four and two team in recent history. They play the Eagles. We're supposed to be worried about that. That's their next kind of quote unquote difficult game against a really good team. The Cowboys, they play them twice, Philly twice. Again, we're saying that they're not scary. The Titans are bad. The Saints might blow out their coach. I don't know who's good that's left on their schedule. The best teams left on their schedule, in my opinion, are a Bears team that's beaten no one, a Falcons team that is just okay. They don't play the Chiefs. They don't, they just played the Ravens. You don't see those teams on their schedule. So before this week, okay, before Sunday at one o'clock, I said the Eagles are still the most likely team to win the division. One because I said, okay, once this, once Brown comes back, when Smith comes back, when Johnston comes back, you know, it'll take him a second to kind of get, you know, uncomfortable with Kellen Moore and they'll have enough time. They'll do some self-scaddening around the bi-week. They'll hit the ground running. They're going to win the following set of games and we're going to look up. They'll have a great record Cleveland Giants, Bengals, Jaguars, that's what they had coming out of the break. Okay, coming out of their bi-week, right? So I'm going, they'll be six and two and even if they're not that good, that's tough to overcome. So they're going to have a great chance to have a really, really good record. Now that I saw them against Cleveland, I'm going, I don't care who they play. They're middling. Maybe they'll get better. Maybe they maybe, you know, something all kind of coalesce, they'll get nuts against the world mentality and, you know, they'll start beating people again. I'm telling you, they are unimpressive and I've kind of, you know, I don't say I give enough hope because I love them losing and I hope all their fans are miserable forever. But I just sort of thought there's enough track record here. I know they swooned last year, but there's still a 10 in one team from a year ago. There's still a team that had a great chance to win the Super Bowl with that same core, the same coach. We're just, we're just abandoning them way too early. I'm off. I'm off the ship. It just didn't look right. It still doesn't look right for them for whatever reason. They can't, their best win was that flooky week one win against Green Bay since then it's been and what about it scares you? We can ask straight. We can go about this at the top of the hour is joining us in 20 minutes, right at three o'clock. But let's hit the calls on this next 800-636-1067. The commanders are showing up in books today for the first time as favorites to win the NFC East. Should they be considered the favorite to win the division? Are you ready to say that as we approach week seven? This is the fan. Thank you. in the game. in the game. in the game. I'm going to go about this at four o'clock. In the game. We're going to go about this at four o'clock. We're going to go about this at three o'clock. We're going to go about this at four o'clock. We're going to go about this at four o'clock. We're going to go about this at four o'clock. We're going to go about this at four o'clock. We're going to go about this at four o'clock. We're going to go about this at four o'clock. We're going to go about this at four o'clock. We're going to go about this at four o'clock. We're going to go about this at four o'clock. We're going to go about this at four o'clock. We're going to go about this at four o'clock. I think we're probably also talking a little bit about what we want our identity to be. We faced a team yesterday that's at an identity that's been entrenched for a while. We probably recognize the biggest truth we're not where we want to be at from that. Before you can do a lot more, you got to get that part under. You need fights like yesterday, man. I'd love to tell you they came in good when you're being able to pull some guys in the fourth quarter, but you need to be in these hard matches that suck and you're pissed at the end because you didn't make the play that you needed to make. I was going to ask Darris, was that from Sunday or Monday? Was that Dan Quinn audio? But then I realized how truthful he was being. So it couldn't be Wednesday. That sounded like to tell the truth Monday to May. That's Monday. That had to be his press conference yesterday because he was just being so truthful. He was keeping it real. He was giving you the real, Danny. My face hurts. Is your face hurt? Well, you got hit with all that truth. You're right, my face smacked me in the face with that truth. I'm like, ow, bro. Things the nostrils lie a little bit at least turn it down some. So Darris, I don't even need to know anymore. I already know that was from Monday because that was a lot of truth being told right there. I am humbled by that truth. I don't know about you guys on it to tell the truth Monday. The good guys are four and two. They've got the Panthers coming to town. Great chance to get to five and two. Their game next week against the Bears is being flexed to four twenty five to accommodate a national audience. We're asking you should the commanders be the favorites in the NFC East? They are showing up now in some books as the favorites to win the division for the first time that online put out their odds via email to, you know, people all over the country that are in sports broadcasting today. And they show Washington now narrowly ahead of Philly as the most likely team to win the East. And I think that's how it should be. That's not just reactionary to this weekend. It's a six week sample and the commanders have been the best team and at the most important positions on the field, on the sideline, in the front office. They've been better. Let's go to John who's in centerville on Grant and Danny. How are you, John? Hey, gentlemen. How you doing? Good, buddy. Good, good. Yeah. I think we got a lot going for us. I think we smell blood in the water. Dallas, Philly, I think the expectations are there for them to win the division. There's going to be a lot of pressure going into those games. You said last week Lamar has a crazy record against the NFC because they don't see them a lot. I think one of the minutes for us, you know, Quinn seen Dallas, he's seen Philly, but no one's seen Jaden. So I think we can at least snap one from each of them. And that might be enough to get it done. I like the math there. I mean, that's what we talked about through the first five weeks of the season. You dropped one this week, obviously, but by going four and one, you give yourself some opportunity to hit a bogey or to par a hole or to lose a game or two, right, as you kind of go through it. When you are three and six, as they were in, say, 2012, you got no margin for error. You can't lose a single one of those games and those magical runs were just that. But we talked about this a million times when was the last time they were good from the beginning, middle, end of the season, just a regular, good football team. And that's what this looks like, right? They haven't had that since I get probably 1999 where they started off well, played well in the middle and then weirdly played well in the end and we're just pretty good and we're a playoff team. 10 and six, by the way, that year. And that's what we're talking about. 13 and three. And that's what we're talking about. To me, this is, yes, it's Washington. They jumped up a weight class and show you that they're better. But to me, it's more about the rest of the division, honestly, is why I go now they're the favorite because if there's too many bodies to crawl over, it might be more difficult, but Philly ain't great. Neither is Dallas. Let's go to Sean and false church on GND. What's up, Sean? Hey, guys, I appreciate taking my call. Everybody. Thank you. I would say that Philly has the personnel, but they just can't figure it out. I would say Dallas thinks that they have the purse or Jerry or so thinks that he has the personnel, but he just is never going to figure it out. I think if Cleveland has that fire sale that they should be having, I think if they take Nick Schub and throw it into Dallas, I think that that's a different situation. I don't think that's going to happen. But if that does happen, whatever, I still think that the commanders have what it takes and the personnel and the drive to take care of business. Again, the Giants, yes, of course, they're there and they always play tough and they actually are probably playing above their weight class, but they're just, they're not going to figure it out. That's a low ceiling team. Yeah. I would say this too. Thank you for that call, buddy. We appreciate you. I think his caveats important. I could see the Eagles making a trade, how he's always very aggressive. They're supposed to win this season that this is their window, so to speak with hurts having been paid. I could see them going out and adding talent that might change the picture in the NFC East. I could even see the Cowboys with Jerry feeling the heat literally today on the radio getting crushed for their off season. Now their cap situation makes it really difficult and frankly, I don't know how they'd be able to pull it off, but there's a want for them possibly to go get a running back to go help themselves. I'm not sure that Adam Peters in Washington are going to try to make moves or want to go add talent and fix problems because they're ahead of schedule and they might be waiting for this coming off season where they have the second most money in the NFL to surround the quarterback with talent in a more thorough free agency period. And that we don't know. So we're just basing it on right now this moment, but clearly if the GM's get aggressive, it could change some things. Kendall Crofton, you're on the fan. How are you? What's up, fellas? Hey, dude. Yeah. I mean, I think it's our division to lose obviously for the points that you guys and everyone has made. Dallas. I don't care if you can go get a, they're terrible at this point. The Eagle suit and then the giants of the Giants. So that's one aspect of the equation. But the other aspect is that our offense with Jayden at the helm has proven to me that even if he takes one of the main drivers away, which they, which the Ravens did, Jayden can still just, just torture it from the pocket. And so our offense is a real offense. And so when you talk about we haven't been a, just a good team, you know, first half of the middle of the season and that in the end, I think with this offense, even though the defense is suspect is all get out, I think that we can beat anybody with this offense. And so with that being said, I think we're going to just continue to just chop our own wood and not even look over there at Dallas, the Eagles and New York and be going to win this division. I'm here for that. I'm going to steal a phrase that you just said, it is Washington's division to lose. Forget all of the expectations and being ahead of schedule and they're just in their first year of this coach. None of that matters right now. They're going to be five and two if they don't lose to a terrible team at home this weekend. And at that point with their remaining schedule and everybody else's plus the resume, it would be a letdown not to win the division. It is now in your hands. There's no reason why you shouldn't be able to and to use his terminology, it's their division to lose. I think that's the right way to put it. Let's talk to Trey Wingo about this and other NFL items. The former host of NFL live on ESPN for many years joins us on Grant and Danny top of the hour at four o'clock, Beltway Blitz time today, we're giving away caps tickets. That's an hour and five minutes from right now. Amazon fall favorites are here to make you say with low prices on home, beauty and fashion brands like Amazon essentials. So hold on to your pumpkin spice whatever and save on fall favorites at Amazon. This episode is brought to you by progressive insurance. 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