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Beltway Blitz, Goodell & Harris At Capitol Hill Today, Breaking: Emmanuel Forbes Claimed By LAR

12.2.24 Hour 3 1:00- NFL-Nate Davis, Caps, Commanders- Kevin Sheehan 25:30- Commissioner Roger Goodell and owner Josh Harris are making the rounds at Capitol Hill today. 32:05- Former Commanders 1st round pick Emmanuel Forbes has been claimed by the LA Rams.

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Broadcast on:: 02 Dec 2024
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The Eagles beat the Ravens 24-19. Baltimore's got a Justin Tucker issue as they fell to 8-5, missing more kicks. How long's his leash at this point? I still think it's probably got some money to grant. You know, I think Sean Harbaugh's pretty loyal to him, you know, his post-game comments were, you know, I guess a little wiggle room in there. I keep wondering if there's going to be some kind of injury disclosed, but haven't gotten to that point. But, you know, the Ravens, I think all their losses are once-core losses. So at some point, you kind of wonder if Justin Tucker is going to be the Achilles. The Achilles within their teams. That's just crazy to think about. Maybe the best kicker of all time, all of a sudden, now a liability, but that's how that position goes. Nate, let's talk about the Bills. That was great theater last night. I know San Francisco has just fallen apart here in front of our eyes, but that Josh Allen, whatever you call that, you know, passed to somebody, then get it back, scored touchdown, play in the snow was just unbelievably good. Buffalo's got a pretty good case here to be right towards the top of most people's power rankings. Where do you have them right now? And how do you feel about the Bills? Yeah, Danny, I think I've got them to three, you know, certainly given they've won seven in a row now. They sequenced their division before they even played Patriots, which I think is some kind of a happen forever, where you clench your division a week before you even played every team in your division. And it just seems like, you know, it's kind of the whole is more than some of the parts kind of thing here. I mean, they lost so many guys in the off season, but they've made it work. They're putting up 30 points every week, and they're getting guys back. You know, Matt Malano, I think was his first game last night, so that's really going to help. And I think, you know, maybe a Mark Cooper, give it a little more time. And if he gets a little healthier, it's going to be maybe a more impactful guy when they need him in January. So it feels like not only are they trending up and have been for some time, but that there's still kind of room for them to really maximize what the 2024 version of the tell is going to be. And I think their closing stretch is a little bit more friendly than Kansas City. So certainly, you know, realistic that the road or the AC playoffs might wind up going through Buffalo. Nate, the Steelers got a 44 point offensive output in a 44 38 shootout win over the Bengals. Russell Wilson threw for 400 yards and three touchdowns. I got to take my hat off to him. This is the best he's looked in probably three, maybe four years, I would think. What do you make of what he's brought to that offense and the nine and three Steelers who looked like a potential contender yesterday, the way they were moving the ball. Yeah, I mean, I probably Oh, Russell Wilson at the tip of the cap to grand. I was definitely on the, you know, since August that, you know, Justin Fields should be should be the guy here. And, you know, he still did a great job and as I were yesterday, I'm still giving him the save yesterday for getting that game winning first down, but pain is a Russell Wilson. I think maybe any offensive performance against the Cincinnati comes with a bit of a grain of salt, but I mean, second best passing day of his career, I mean, 13 years in the league now, you know, certainly has leveraged George Pickens in a way that Justin Fields just just could not. I still kind of wonder sometimes guys, you know, you see this, you know, that the next chance that's and he's the highest in the league, a completion percentage over expected. If you watch me, the Steelers games, you've seen a lot of circus catches for George Pickens and other guys. I do wonder at some point, if Fields is going to reenter the equation, you wouldn't think so. And again, the Steelers are a team that really tough slowly stretched. So I'm really kind of curious what we see here down down the line against much better teams. That's really defense is a Cincinnati's, but, you know, grand, you said he deserves tip of the cap. Mike Thomas deserves the tip of the cap. And I mean, they're viable still for that number one scene too. No, it's not bad exactly, but they don't look like we thought they were going to look. It's going on with Houston. Great question, Danny. I think a lot of the starts with their offensive line. I mean, as good as Joe Nixon's been, you see protection issues with C.J. Stroud. I mean, it seems like one week they can't throw the ball. One week they can't run the ball. You know, Joe Mixon has had some games the last month, like twice where he's had like, you know, 14 or 15 carries for like 30 yards. So it seems like every week there's something certainly, you know, yesterday obviously the bad look with with Al Shire and Trevor Lawrence and that that defense has had issues here and there. But it does seem like it's never really come fully together for this team. C.J. Stroud, you know, has not had the year as a sophomore that he did last year, you know, maybe that's expectations. Maybe that's playing the first place schedule. I mean, it seems like they'll win that division kind of by default, but I really don't. I don't expect this team to do a whole lot, you know, kind of what's January starts. Nate, thank you, buddy. You're catching up with you as always. All right. Have you thank you guys? You too. There's Nate Davis with us on the Beltway Blitz. All right, let's talk caps. Four wins in a row all without Alex Ovechkin in that four game span. They've averaged five goals per four one win against the Panthers, five to four against the lightning, five to four in overtime at home against the aisles and then six to five over the devil's on Saturday night. By the way, that's four pretty good hockey teams, three playoff teams for sure. The power play is rolling right now. They've gotten right without Ove with everyone feeding him in the puck in his office. More movement. Jacob Chickren's been marvelous. The defense when they brought in or they need to resign, who's got an outstanding wrist shot on the power play at even strength, but it doesn't really matter what metric you look at Danny. They're graded out in terms of goals for and against at the top five on five. Their special teams scoring system numbers are awesome because of how good they are on the penalty kill. This is just an outstanding hockey team right now. At the moment of their game ending on Saturday, and there's been 24 hours of hockey since, they were the number one team in terms of points in the entire Eastern conference. To not expect that to be totally honest with you, I thought, you know, there's that low. They couldn't score for a couple of games without Ove. I put that in quotes because I actually thought the offense was really good and I think it was that lost to New Jersey, they only ended up with two goals, but chance after chance, everything was good there except for the fact that the other team gets paid to play too. The only thing that I'm questioning, the only thing I'm worried about, not worried is not the right word, wondering is, are they good enough defensively when it comes time to ratchet up and tighten up and wins one of these, you know, two one games, three one games or something like that. We haven't seen that. They've come from behind, which is a credit to them. They have their offense as you touched on has been unbelievably good, create scoring chances. It seems like it will. It's not quite, you know, Bruce Boudreau era where we're president's trophy going to score a hundred more goals than everyone else, but it's just something that I'm kind of monitoring here of late. But it's been impressive. Sharks in town for a seven o'clock puck drop at Capital One Arena tomorrow. That home game, a chance to run the winning streak to five in a row for Washington. You'll hear the game right here on the fan. All right. Let's continue the belt label. It's on the grid iron. Our guy Kevin, she joins us on Grant and Danny Kevin. We're going to talk about this coming up next segment and take calls. Whose bounce back impressed the most this weekend? I'll give you the options of Daniels, Kingsbury, McClellan, B-Rob or the O line. You'll notice the team. Oh, if we're talking bounce back just from last week, the O line. If we're talking bounce back from three losses in a row, all of the above, that's a tough call. But I thought that they got kind of handled last week at the line of scrimmage. And I thought they dominated a good defensive team offensively, especially at the line of scrimmage. Was this war that Tennessee was bad or that Washington got right near mine, Kevin? Well, I thought last week was going to be the get right game and didn't necessarily feel that way coming into this one. They were top high levels in a lot of defensive categories, both traditional and advanced. They had played good defense this year. I mean, this was a team that was number one third down defense heading in to the game. They're now 10th because Washington went 9 for 14 and converted 64.3% of their third downs. I think it was more Washington. I do. So that's a bad football team, that's a self-destructive football team. That's what they've been all season long. But to me, Danny, the biggest takeaway was get the win, yes, but the vibe changed a little bit because they looked like they did prior to the three game losing skid on offense. Then they dominated on offense to a degree that it was a reminder of what they're capable of and to me, that just gives me a much better feeling going into these next two weeks. Brian Robinson seems to change the game for them offensively, doesn't he? He does, Grant, but it's just the quarterback being presented as a run threat as much as Kingsbury does with Jaden. It just seems like when you're playing a team that has to account for Jaden in the run game, there are at times gaping holes, but I agree with you, he is their best overall back. They've missed him when he hasn't been there, but it's really what, you know, the rushing game as a whole is about and it really, it starts with the quarterback being a run threat on every play. We haven't really talked to Kingsbury in this. McClellan three times as often lined up on the right side, including the first play of the game as the, I hear you nod, then on a touchdown in the first half as well. And they got back to have an open receivers short and intermediate. There were a couple of small window throws, including the slant touchdown in McClellan. We've looked like PFF, no big time throws for Daniels. I thought he was ultra efficient, just five in completions, but there was nothing that's like plus necessarily because I think the design was so good. Would you make it Kingsbury? Yeah, I mean, I think more than, you know, where Kerry's lined up because look, he was the third leading, you know, reception yardage guy in the league lining up on one side heading in. I didn't make as much of that, you know, as a lot of others did. I think quick game really was effective. I thought it was something that they should have used more of last week in the week before. I think I counted 11 of like the first 15 pass play calls were quick game throws or screens. And that just makes sense. I mean, the quarterback gets into a rhythm. You know, the first one of the game was to Terry and, you know, they're able to stay on schedule. They had 12 plays in the game of third and three or shorter. And that's one of the reasons they were so successful on third down. And I think, you know, run game obviously had a lot to do with it. But I thought the emphasis on that quick passing attack was really beneficial for them yesterday, beneficial for the quarterback, the old line, everybody involved. And it really kept them in very advantageous, you know, down and distant situations. So you mentioned this already, Kevin, but loved to delve into it. Obviously now they get, they got a breath here with the biowake. They've been sprinting since it really feels like July late break and now, you know, a good timing, maybe get, get healthy again, et cetera. How did yesterday change your eye line for the last four? I mean, we knew going into this three game losing skid, we had seen them be at times at top two to three offensive football team in the league, you know, by so many different, you know, measurements. And you know, I think we started this, you know, this kind of debunked cliff, cliff thing took over and, you know, the rookie wall for the quarterback and all these things. And yesterday was just a reminder of what they can be offensively. And when you've got a quarterback like Jaden, a receiver like Terry and a running back like Brian Robinson Jr., that is a pretty good one, two, three that scares people. I mean, they may not have a great number two receiver. Their offensive line is good, not great, but you've got a big three that I think, you know, can compete if you, you know, over the final four to get you into the postseason and be a team that, you know, not, not a lot of people would love to face, especially their offense in a one and done situation. So I think they'll easily win two of their final four to get to 10 and to get in. And, you know, maybe more than that. I'm with you. I'm seeing 10 and seven and feels like two and two down the stretch. You just mentioned something that I've been wondering about though. So I will use this opportunity to ask you. You said this debunked cliff, cliff thing. And I've heard everyone saying that. I don't understand that though because it's not like anybody that was suggesting that they hadn't been as good in the second half had suggested that they're never going to have a good game again. It's just that the sample size of his career is that his offense is statistically aren't as good in the second half and that they had struggled over their last three games immensely. And then he made some changes that were pretty obviously necessary and they got going. What was debunked about that? Well, because the, the, it was true that the records had fallen off when he was the head coach at Texas Tech in Arizona, but the offenses weren't the reason for the records falling. I don't care. So to your point, I don't know anything about the Texas Tech number coordinator here. So that's all I care about. So the, the, the narrative was Kliss teams start fast, Kliss offenses, start fast fade late. His team started fast and faded late. His offenses didn't necessarily start fast and fade late. Well, statistically they have in the NFL. No. Grant. They, the points per game, those dropped in a lot of years, but there were significant reasons. Their defenses fell apart. Okay, well, his yards per game in September was 377, 379 when they were playing Steve enough Austin and talking about the Cardinals state in his career, but then they lost, but then he lost Kyler Murray to an ACL injury and he lost the Andre Hopkins. There were lots of, there was lots of, you know, information there that just made it a lot more nuanced than just saying this guy's offenses get figured out. Well, I don't think anyone should make it just that, but Kyler Murray did play in some of those games and so did Hopkins and five month in his career, he's been best in September and then second best in October and then third best in November and then fourth best in December, January over the entire sample of his career again, but significant reasons. I agree. Dolphins were on the field much longer, gave up more points, offenses had fewer opportunities, there were injuries, there were tougher opponents, there were just, there was a lot of, so you don't think there's anything to, he got it. No, I don't. None. I don't. I disagree. Because I remember that 21 season, the playoff game was horrible against the Rams, but they were involved in an offensive shootout for playoff seeding against Seattle in the season finale in which they scored like 30 and had 400 plus yards. So I remember Kyler Murray in Dallas late that year when he lit up the Cowboys. So yeah, I think it has to do with a lot of other things that impacted the offensive numbers in the record. So I don't think anyone's getting figured out if they're wrong, if they're saying that his offenses never play well in the second half of the season, I would say that that's silly. But all, all I think people are saying kind of what it was, wasn't it? I think they're saying as the year goes on, teams figure out the way that he does things and his offenses are less successful. And he also, we have Jay Groot on and Jay talked about the way that he uses his, his guys in terms of alignment and the lack of motion makes it easier to figure out the way that he, he wants to do things. So when you have like the, the speculation that matches the numbers, I think there could be something to that. Yeah, I don't, I think the speculation didn't necessarily match the numbers or the reason for the numbers, I guess I should say. And look, there probably is some of everything involved there, but there was this blanket narrative that Cliff's cliff, you know, he, his offenses get figured out consistently over time and that just wasn't the case necessarily at Texas Tech at all. I mean, Texas Tech, they were losing, they lost the game 70 to 59. They were, they gave up 82 when it came in the second half of the season. They couldn't stop anybody when they got to the big 12, but their offense was continuing to put up massive numbers, maybe not the same numbers that he had in September against Sam Houston state and you tap, but, um, those offenses were always good. They just couldn't stop any. So the numbers I've got here, Cliff, Cliff is at real 2013, first half of the season 41 point second half 29. This is Texas Tech 2014 30 and 30 same 2015 49 to 40 minus nine 2016 49 to 38 minus 11 2017 40 to 27 minus 13 2018 43 to 31 minus 12 points again. You're looking at points. No. And I'm not even, I don't even care about Texas Tech. Again, it's just, I mean, how many times do I have to say that defense was on the field longer because they got shredded. And in the pros, he was without Tyler Murray for the second half of one of those seasons was without the Andre Hopkins for another half of one of those seasons. And then one of those seasons offensively, correct me if I'm wrong, but Barnwell basically wrote all of the detail on this in a story last week. The offense was actually better in the second half of the season. How many years did he coach in Arizona for? So one of the seasons was better. One he didn't have Murray. One he didn't have Hopkins. I just think there, it's more than just assuming that Cliff's gotten figured out down the stretch of each one of these seasons that he's been ahead coaching. There have been a lot of factors as to why they lost more games in the second half of season than in the first half. I agree. We will disagree that some of it isn't that he does get solved as the year goes on because it's not just quite. I'll agree with you. It's every offensive. I'll agree with you that maybe it has to do with some of that, but it certainly wasn't exclusive. No, no. But anyone who said that, I don't like, I don't know what ghost were arguing against. I'm speaking for myself. That was essentially the argument. It was Cliff's offenses get figured out, blanket statement, they start quickly, they get, look, I remember when they hired him, people were talking about that it was written about. And I went and looked it up and said, again, some of those Texas tech defenses were terrible down the stretch of seasons. I wonder if it was that as much as anything. And then Barnwell did a lot of the homework last week. If you haven't read it, it's actually worth reading. It's good piece. Yeah. He's very, very good. That's stuff to me. I don't even know if it's relevant, honestly. It's like that conference and college football, it's a whole different world, but I care a lot more about the years. Yeah. But then four years of an NFL head coach is a small sample size too, you know, if you're going to make a blanket statement. Sure. It's not that's. Yeah. It's four, four years, ain't nothing. That's how long the president gets. Yeah. But again, you only have one, one of those four, right? Was it five? It may have been five. It was four where, you know, there was absolutely no reason for the fall off other than maybe who got the group out. Why were, why are we doing this? Ask me something about the game. You want to know what the playoffs scenarios are? No, the reason is because you did the bunk and I've heard people saying that all week when it's like, it was debunked. Off fences falling off in the second half of the season as the reason his teams went from winning records to losing records. And if the only reason is not true, I disagree with you. But the only reason. Well, you already said that you kind of agree. I miss her. The only reason I thought you were stopping at that, that there's no fall off, which I just disagree with. But hey, yesterday against the Titans, they looked good. Thank you, Kevin. This is always funny. All right. Bye guys. There's Kevin. She and the Kevin she and show on Grant and Danny. You were just kind of over there watching the radio show. There was a lot, a lot of things happened going back and forth. Again, it's, it's my favorite thing is when I started to get into a debate with someone is Danny just sits is just going. I don't know where you go. It was like I was talking to your uncle. I'm listening to everybody else was. I mean, it's a Kevin, Kevin's doing the bit that I think a lot of people do, which is there's reasons for it. All we're saying is that there's an it. Grant's point is there's an it. Yeah, but there are reasons. There's an it. There are reasons for the it though. There was a conference in the big 12 and DeAndre Hopkins. It happens. All people should be saying is his offenses have gotten worse in the second half of seasons. You could attribute that to whatever you'd like. That's the only point I think a lot of folks are making. Yeah, I just the idea of like, well, there's an injury. You mean like the thing that's going to happen every year in the NFL. I mean, you're starting quarterback goes down and understand that, but it's not like that happened every single season. You don't like that. The points fall off. Okay. They fall off every single month as well, but what I keep hearing with him and other people is this argument against. I don't know who these ghosts are that we're arguing with that say the only reason their offense was struggling is because Cliff Kingsbury had fallen off a cliff. I don't know anyone that was thinking that they were dropping passes. They weren't past protecting as well. They weren't as good on first and second down. Jaden Daniels was in a funk. Part of the stew part of the ingredients were clearly also those other things, but if anybody was just like, Oh, Cliff Kingsbury, that's, that's the whole thing. He's just been solved. 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As we welcome you back to GND, he got an update from over on Capitol Hill, which is not far from where we're sitting right now in the Navy Yard. >> Indeed, it's a couple of drivers away, but not too far. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and owner Josh Harris are, and I don't really know what this means, but I can imagine, making the rounds in the Senate today. So I'm guessing that they're just walking around shaking hands, knocking on doors to people's offices, chatting with people to say. >> Anyway, we could just grab that RFK land real quick. >> We love that land. They're trying to get the land to RFK so that they can build their stadium. They need to seek language and end of your bill to get the RFK site. Before the end of this calendar year, and this happens to have to be right before the holiday, if not, then this all starts all over again. And maybe you've got to pivot to Maryland at that point, because there's no guarantee next year, Danny, that you can navigate these waters and get to a point where you get the land next year. >> No question. I mean, think of all the hurdles that this went through, right? It took a Republican Center from Kentucky, or Congressman, rather, to be like, you know what? Me and the DC mayor, we see eye on this. Let's have this pass like 99 to one. Then it took, all of a sudden, we're good, right? Everyone's good. Everyone's good. Steve Jains is like not so fast, my friend. You've got Maryland senators who are opposed to it, who might get in the way. You never know how these sorts of things are going to go. >> Yeah, they're close. They're trying to finish the drive here. You've got the ball inside the 10 yard line. If you don't score now and you give it up on fourth down, you're going to have to drive from your own five-yard line. >> You get pinned back again. Yeah. >> And you never know if you're going to score on that one either. But if they get the land, you would think it's all over. The stadium will eventually be in DC at RFK 2.0. Jay Gruden's on the show coming up in about 20 minutes looking forward to hearing from the former head coach today on a 42.6 touchdown explosion, Grant and Danny on the fan. Let's go to Chris and Hidesville. What's up, Chris? How are you? >> What's going on? First, I want to give a message to Mr. She and don't bring AM takes to the FM airways, brother. >> That's my gosh. >> And you're talking about, dude, you just stated fact after fact after fact, and he was like, but, but, but, but. >> Well, to his credit, his point is the facts are the facts, very refutable, but the nuance or the context is being ignored. That's his point. >> The context of Kingsbury's office is year after year to climb a month after month. >> It's all the excuses of every single year, now the receiver was hurt. This time the quarterback was hurt, but look at the schedule that year. And my point is, if you look at his career, calling plays in the league, September's the best, then October, then November, then December. And I'm not suggesting, by the way, that I wouldn't want this guy to be here calling plays for the next eight years. I'm not saying they're going to stink every December. What I'm saying is he's got to continue to evolve and adjust, and he did that Sunday. >> Yeah, and that's the most essential point of all this, Chris, Conny's thumb will let you finish. But what was the criticism where, hey, this is easily discoverable. >> He the Philadelphia game, Terra McCorn lines up on the left, there are no attempts to Terra McCorn on the left side of the field, duh, when it's not working. So a change is made. It's different. That's been a pattern in the past. >> Exactly. >> Yeah, exactly. >> That's a good thing. >> What's not good is guys like Ron Rivera is saying, I looked up the analytics, the football, and just grandstanding for no good reason. I think Kate Sheehan bleeds burgundy in gold, and he is defending the latest head coach of his favorite, or offensive coordinator of his favorite football team. And that's that. But I think it's a very good sign that Kingsbury, if he had, whether he has rabbit ears or not, he did heed the criticism and tried something different. And I hope he learned something from, because a lot of guys are too proud to do just that. >> Well, how about the first play of the game? Wide run. >> Very intentional. >> He might as well have grabbed a megaphone and said, now, leave me alone. Three catches. Wide right this week. He had two of the entire season coming into today. Was that about 5% of the time, wide right, 15% of the time in this game, 3x. It's good to Ben and Rockville. What's up, buddy? >> Hey, buddy. Well, I'll talk to you guys in a while. I was just going to say, as far as the stadium and everything being done, next year is way more favorable, especially with Danes in the position that he's in and the new administration, way more favorable. This year, it is still possible. I will not discount it. But as far as feel a fair abilities for politics, government, et cetera, next year just way more favorable. But it's still possible. It can happen this year as well. >> Appreciate you doing that. Here's the thing. I have learned that no one knows anything. What looks on paper to be the biggest obstacle possible turns out it wasn't. What looked on paper to be Easy Street turned out to be the most complicating part of all this, where Danes took the air out of the football, bad pun there, four, four, five, six months to make this an 11th hour thing. So I will not do a, it should work XYZ. Remember, Ted Leoncest and the governor had a press conference in Northern Virginia about that new Capitol One arena just across the river. I have seen too many things where the rug has been pulled from me to count on anything until it's signed, until it shovels in the ground. And even then I'll have questions. Jay Gruden joins us at the top of the hour at five o'clock next of the bounce back performers yesterday. Daniels, Kingsbury, McLaurin Robinson, who had the sweetest day you listen to GND. That's right, breaking news on the fan and that is that there is a new home for Emmanuel Forbes. L.A. Rams are bringing Forbes in, cleaning him off of waivers. They will take Forbes into their building. The first round pick just last year was released this weekend by the commanders on Saturday. So there you go. Emmanuel Forbes does have a new home. He said it to Los Angeles, Sean McVay, Les Needon company, welcoming him with open arms. I was actually trying to find this and I could not before the show. So this will be my homework for tonight. And if anybody has access to a way to find this quicker, because I will tell you, it's been a little bit of a pain in the butt so far. I'm trying to find the last first round pick who has not survived a second season with their team. And I've gone back a little ways now. Best I can figure it out. I mean, there have been guys that didn't last, you know, very long at all. I think of Jeff Acuda, another cornerback from that infamous chase young craft class, but I think he even got through a second season, right? Well, so on top of that, my caveat would be Acuda played three years in Detroit, but typically guys will be traded on the back ends like his fourth year in Atlanta. Now he's in Houston and has found a home maybe with the Texans, but the very rare example that I can find of a guy who does not last two or three years on the team that took him in the first round is normally a character problem. Somebody gets arrested a couple times, someone is like on the outs with the coaching staff and they can't stand being around the player so they cut bait or what have you. This is not that at all. By every single account, Emmanuel Forbes is an awesome guy. My lasting image of Forbes as silly as this sounds is going to be him picking up players on the Chicago Bears after the Hail Mary that were heartbroken laying on the field, which I actually thought was an immensely classy, cool thing. Most people that do their tough guy routine thought it was ridiculous and how dare him and, you know, what an idiot he is, you know, why are you picking up the opponent, whatever nonsense they were spewing. I thought it was kind of what you want your organization to be. What do you want your culture to be? We're decent human beings. We're good guys. We'll fight you scratch and claw to the whistle. Soon as that whistle blows, we're going to go help you up and let you know everything's going to be okay. I'll always remember Forbes doing that, but people love this kid in the building. I remember how he interacted with in his rookie training camp that like 102 year old lady or whatever that was at camp and one of the, if I could say this, like cutest videos ever was like their conversation. I've always liked the kid and the person, but this isn't your cutting him for that reason. You're cutting him after playing five, I think it's eight snaps in the last five games. I think I have that right. Eight snaps in the last five games you're going, he can't help us. I need a roster spot. I'd rather not cut my seventh linebacker, you know, I'd rather not deal with having to find the next Derek for us. Yeah, like we need Tyler Owens for, for special teams. We can't cut that guy. Colson Yankoff's got to be here. You know what? Whatever it is. Like that's where we're at here that you couldn't cut Sheldon's day or whatever. First round pick year two, this does not happen. So it's not something we should harp a lot on today because they won. It was an amazing win. They're in a really good place. They're eight and five and the past is the past, but it also shouldn't go not talked about, not to do this. Anything to do with Peter's Quinn and company, but it has to be acknowledged. It has to be. But to me, and I tweeted this out at funny day over the weekend, this is one of those reminders that it's remarkable. They're competitive at all. I'm not even talking about being in the seven seat. I'm not even talking about being in the driver's seat with a, with nearly 80% chance to make the postseason. I'm not even talking about the fact that they've won more games and out, outpaced there over under before the season, et cetera. They don't have a single first round pick over the last six years on their roster. Usually when that happens, you're picking top five. Yeah. And you got your quarterback this year. So you would hold that pick ransom. You would say, who wants, who wants a quarterback? Come try it out. Give me all your best offers or you stay put and draft, you know, your next left tackle or your wide receiver or your premium position, Peter. The fact that they're decent at all is remarkable, remarkable given how bear is, is me as a bachelor, like looking at my, my cupboards. This is, this is abandoned home post hurricane. It's unbelievable how bad it was and how little was left over and how competitive they are despite that. A couple of people have tweeted me. Um, I'm at Grand H. Paulson, Danny's at funny Danny Twitter and Instagram. And they've said Josh Rosen, remember the old Cardinals quarterback, yes, he didn't make it through year two, but that was a trade. I'm talking about by the end of your second season, you cut the player that you drafted. After year one, Alex Leatherwood was released going into his year, year two with the Raiders. When he was at first, he was a good one. Alabama offensive tackle with the Raiders. Now here's, now we got to look this up. Is that a character thing in any way? No, I was. He stunk. I remember he was bad, but you can be bad and like be on the roster for a while. I, I have to look that up, but maybe that's the last answer. Like that. It really is incredible by the way. So hard to do, man. Where, you know, you, you get to, guys get demoted. It happens. You lose your starting gig. You know, that's a normal thing. Okay. Well, you can help us some other way, maybe work your way back up. This is a week. We don't have room for you. Yeah. We don't have time to wait or room for you to do anything on this roster anymore. So yesterday before the game, I tweeted out like the entire draft history of Rivera, one by one, who was on the team, who isn't and kind of did this detailed breakdown and made it pretty obvious. I mean, you've been harping on this for years, how just abhorrently they selected players and how incompetent he was as a talent evaluator during the game after Chris Rodriguez ran for a touchdown. I tweeted the video of Rodriguez scoring who was a sixth round pick. And I said, Rivera and the Marty's don't get enough credit for how good they were at drafting. They found Rodriguez in the sixth round. And I thought that was kind of a funny little thing. It's a good bet. You wouldn't believe me over 200 comments. Most of them are people who don't understand that I'm joking. Actually, things like, Oh, come on, Grant, look at his first round history. I can't believe you really think that a broken clock is right twice a day. You're kidding. Right. How many of their picks are even still here? Like people that thought I was being serious, you almost need a color as a sarcasm font on Twitter at this point, and people just can't again, you can't figure that one out. What can you figure out? People can't handle that. Grant and Danny on the fan Jay Gruden joins us next the commanders six touchdowns, 42 points, Cliff Kingsbury, Jayden Daniels and the boys breaking out. They needed it. They got it. That's next on the fan. Look around. What do you see? Cars. Lots of them. And guess what? They're probably on auto trader, whether you're into timeless classics or the latest trends. And somebody say solar powered eco-friendly vegan leather wrapped aroma therapy scented disco ball equipped self driving car. If you see it on the road, you can likely find it on auto trader, big cars, small cars, blue cars, new cars and used cars, electric cars. And one day, maybe even flying cars with millions of options to choose from buying a car becomes a whole lot easier. See it. Find it. 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