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Clearly, he came back from that injury missed two extra points in a field goal and the kickoffs weren't exactly what they would have liked. And so Seibert now to the IR means, I guess, Zane Gonzalez assuming he's still available gets back on the roster. They have to have him on speed dial, but they'll be in the kicking market this week. So you're in flux now as you get into this season with the playoffs on the line at the kicking position, which is never good. Is Zane is on their practice squad as of now, I think. Okay. So he's in the building. That makes sense. That's good GMing by Adam Peters. And then Chris Rodriguez, Jr. signed as well. Remember they released him this past week. He was not on the roster over the weekend as they played, but then Robinson hurts his ankle. Eckler suffers a concussion. You're going to have Jeremy McNichols and Chris Rodriguez carry in the football this week. It looks like with possibly another back, maybe Michael Wiley being elevated from the practice squad. So those are some roster updates for you from Ashburn. We're going to cover the commanders coming up on the belt label. It's in just a few minutes, but speaking of the blitz, let's talk caps and whiz and start off on the ice. Bailey Johnson of the Washington Post covers the caps. Bailey, that felt like a big win last night for the locals. They had not won in two games without Ovechkin. They were up by a goal into the third period at a good Florida Panthers team. And then they get a couple of empty netters late to make it four to one. But that was hard earned, huh? It was hard earned and definitely their most complete effort in a while. I think honestly, really dating back to probably before the Columbus game at the beginning of the month. Spencer Carberry hasn't been totally in love with how his team is playing even when they've won games. Over the last several weeks, he really wants them to control play and not have to do the kind of hang on and survive, but they've done a lot lately, even those wins in Vegas and in Utah at the end of the last road trip. They were good wins and they were dominant on the score sheet, but as far as the actual flow of play in the chat, I mean, Logan Thompson had to make 25 saves in the third period of that game against Vegas on the 17th. He only had to make six saves in the third period last night, which really sums up the difference and how they were controlling play. Yeah, Bailey, not a ton of goals since, you know, a, a, a, a, a veteran goes out, which to understand, and we'll leave him at league and goals. But last night, I know they got the two of the nettors that kind of changed the eye line. Even though they only scored two before the empty netter, I thought that was the best their offense had looked, uh, kind of throughout start to finish. Conrad Michael probably could add five goals last night by himself was Rob several times over. I actually liked the way that they pushed offensively last night. That was the best since Ovi got hurt. Agree. Agree. They tweaked a couple of things with the forward lines. They had Tom Wilson playing with Alexi Protis and Dylan Strowm and then moved Taylor Radish to play with Conrad Michael and Pierre-Luc Dubois, which was the third different set of combinations in the top six. They've tried and what was their third game with sense of edge can got hurt. Definitely was the ones that have worked the best so far. I thought Wilson cared well with Strowm and Protis. He played with Strowm a lot last year, so that was some familiarity there. Taylor Radish is new to the team, but his skill set seems to click to be well with Dubois and Michael. He made a couple plays like you said, and Michael could have had a couple goals. Those were usually coming off of place. The Taylor Radish made to kind of get things started for that line, so I agree. I thought that was the best. Their offense has looked, found a little chemistry. The third line with Lars Ehler, Hendrix Lappier and Andrew Manjapane was the best. It's been in a while. Ehler got the first goal and then one of the empty nutters. So definitely the offense started to look like it has a little bit of life and a little bit of spark for the first time since Ovi found. Bailey, I am a sucker for the dad's trip. I think it's one of the best things about the NHL and hockey. I don't see it in other sports. Tell people about the tradition and how the caps are celebrating it this time around. Yes, I believe it actually was started by Barry Trotz a while back. Not when he was in Washington, but before that, invited his players to bring their dads or someone who's important to them. That's why the cops call it the mentor's trip, because not everyone's brought their dads. Some guys have their grandfather or their brother or their father-in-law, but really they just get to bring someone who's important to them, someone who most of them were important in their hockey careers as far as either paying for things, driving them to practice, being there at all the games and everything when they were growing up. It's a way that they can give back and show the people in their lives what their lives are like and bring them along for the ride. The dads and the mentors have a blast. It's just a four-day party for them in a lot of ways. They have a lot of fun. It usually gives the team a little bit of a lift to have their folks with them. They want to show off well, obviously, when they've got an extra big group of people in the building. It's a really fun tradition. When the caps have fun with, I remember last year on this trip, they got a huge win over the Bruins in Boston in February, so similar vibes last night with the way they played in Florida. We'll see if they keep it going here in Tampa tomorrow night, but a really fun trip. One night, all the guys look forward to every year and they have a lot of fun with. A really quick one. I know it's probably not fair just to pick on one particular power play, but I think there was one power play last night where I don't know if the caps got it into the offensive zone. It was like, everyone's looking around trying to do nuclear fusion with chopsticks at one point. I know, again, it's not going to be the same without a vechkin, but I know, even they got a power play goal last night from Jacob Chikrin, but it just didn't look right. The operation wasn't terrific last night and it's probably going to be a struggle for a while. How do they tweak that? How do they fix that? Any room for improvement there? Yeah, I wouldn't be overly concerned. I know the power player talking about it and it definitely doesn't look great. I think one of the notes I wrote down when I was taking a train the game was power play still an issue. So it's something they're still trying to find their footing with without OB, but they've also had moments. They've had power plays in the other games that have looked okay and just haven't found the back of the net. So I wouldn't want to overly pick on that one. Do again, know which one you're talking about and they looked a little bit out of sync, but it came early in the game when they were still kind of finding their footing overall. Once they found their footing at five on five, they got that power play goal from Jacob Chikrin in the third period and looked more cohesive. So I think the way the offense played in the second and third period will help the power play in games going forward. Bailey, fantastic info on the capitals. Thanks much. We appreciate it. Thanks guys. Last night sure was big for them to get two points without OB. Next up for the capitals tomorrow night in Tampa against the lightning, a seven 30 puck drop. You can hear that game right here on the fan. Let's keep it moving. Our guy Glenn consore, wizards radio network. Of course, you've seen them all over town talking about the whiz for many years and Glenn. There's more youth and there is more of a plan this time around doesn't make it any easier though. Two and 13 as they get ready to host the Bulls tonight, seven and 11 Chicago is coming to the district. What have you made of these first 15 games? Well, you know, I've been very impressed with the young players and also some of the veteran guys like Malcolm Brocken has come back and he looks good. Valentinus has probably been the most productive per minute guy on this team and he just comes in and gets stuff done. The young guys look really good and, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's really incredible what we're seeing here because you got four young players, Belal Kishan, you know, Bob and, and Alex Sar, all four of those guys are under 20 years old getting over 30 minutes again. So, you know, that is rare to see in the NBA and there and these minutes are very valuable and they really perform very well. Let's go to Kyle Kuzma here for a second. I, I think on understandably, Glenn, when you put the ball on Jordan Poole's hands most nights, it's going to be a little bit more, a little bit tougher for Kuzma to be able to kind of get off and get going offensively. Just feels like he hasn't quite fit in just yet. I know he's working back from injury at times as well. What have you seen from his game and, you know, that there's for someone that's that big and strong and athletic, hard for me to stomach him getting one rebound of the other night. You know, and I know his teammates got more, but just feels like he's not in it yet. You know, I think he's going to be fine. You know, he's a, he's a prolific scorer. He could really score. And I think what you're seeing with Kuz is, you know, they're asking him to play a lot more off the ball this year than he had in the past. So that's an adjustment that he has to make and, and he'll figure it out. I mean, he's a, he could really shoot it. I think he's defended fairly well this year. And I think he's been really helping the young guys get better. So he's been selfless in that matter. And I think, you know, he'll get his rhythm back. I think it's a rhythm thing with them. And, and, you know what, playing with young guys like the Wizards are playing major minutes. You know, the young guys are making adjustments and the vets are making adjustments with themselves. So just speaking of the young guys, you referenced Alex Sarr. I thought he had a really good game the other night, just he's still so young. And I know, you know, some of the shooting percentages aren't where people would like them. I don't care about that, frankly, someone that's that big and that athletic that moves around the way that he does on the basketball court. Let's, well, let's figure it out, ultimately. What have you seen from him? And where does this thing go in terms of where Sarr is going to end up? First of all, he has really started to play very well. He had 17 points and 14 rebounds against Indiana and he's 19 years old. Yeah. Now, if I know you, Danny, well enough, as like I do, the shirt you're wearing is about 20 years old. It's pretty much true. It's about 10 years old. Okay, I think it's 20, but you don't want to say anything. But you know, that's ridiculous. He's 19. He's fourth in the NBA in blocks, not amongst rookies. He's fourth in the NBA in blocks overall. He's learning. He's getting minutes. You know, he needs to put on weight. He needs to get stronger, which, you know, 19 year old bodies, this is what it looks like. So, you know, I think the minutes he's getting now and getting some tutelage from Balanchunas, who's been tremendous, it's only going to help him. His upside is really good. And, you know, he hasn't shot the ball well, but his shot's not broken. He's not afraid to get it up. He's going to be fine. Glenn Konsor on the whiz as they get ready for the Bulls tonight at Capital One Arena. How about Chicago? What do we need to know about them, a bit of a slow start in there? I got to be honest. There'd rather be the Wizards where you're at least committing to a rebuild. You're in a bad spot in the standings, but as a means to an end, I mean, the Bulls are kind of in a more middling territory. What have you seen from them? Yeah. I mean, this is a dangerous team. They shoot a lot of threes. They lead the NBA with their second in the NBA to the Celtics in three-point field goals made. They got multiple players like Zach Levine. Zach Levine's played very well, you know, who knows how long, you know, he is going to, you know, keep shooting as well, but he's shooting 44% from three. They got Josh Giddy on the trade with Caruso Vusovich, who always is, he's like one of the most underrated big guys in the NBA. He's shooting 46% and Kobe White is, they got four or five guys shooting over 40% from three. So they'll get it and go. They'll want to push the pace there amongst the, their second in the NBA in pace. Actually, they lead the NBA in pace per 18 games and pace referring to the total number of possessions a team uses in a game. So, you know, they get out and run, that's not fast break buckets, it's just, you know, possessions. So they, and they lead the NBA in pace and wizards, I think, are fourth. So it's going to be an uptempo game. And I think from the wizard standpoint playing against this team, they limit their turnovers, the unforced turnovers and don't settle for threes. You got a chance to beat them. Well, and thank you as always, buddy. Talk soon. All right, guys. See my friend hit that local 53 sounder. We bring on Eric Bickle to talk about the local 53 EB two things. One, I spit out my coffee this morning in my vehicle when you said, and I quote, is blue shorts still alive. I don't think I've laughed that hard in a long time. Second, I think he's okay, but I can't confirm it, but that made me laugh harder than I've laughed in months. And with him today, blue shorts is doing great. Okay. Good. I mean, almost, almost tears in my eyes laughing so hard. Secondly, secondly, yeah, why are people disrespecting your boys? A lot of people picking the Titans all of a sudden. Yeah, listen, I get it, but people have lost, they've lost confidence, right? And I guess I have a little bit too, but I still just have tremendous amount of faith in this kid. I think he's a superstar. I think we need to put a little bit more on his shoulders, not left. And I think he's dealing with some guys that aren't quite as talented as he is. And we need to let this kid do his thing. And I just have total faith in him. I think that the legend of the Titans defense is crazy, group hairs, they're the Titans. I'm taking my boy and I'm just tired of the disrespect. I still think we're an okay football team that should beat teams like the Tennessee Titans. Where do you add on Cliff Kingsbury right now? I'm hot and cold on him. Now, listen, I'm the first one to admit that these guys are all a hundred times smarter about football than me. They, they know way more than me, right? That they give it. I stipulate that. But like, I don't know, I thought he babyed him a little bit too much at the beginning. Then I thought he had it going, right? Obviously. And now I think when he was hurt, I don't know if things just started to dissipate a little bit. And I've just lost a little confidence. I don't know if it's because Terry always lines up on the left side or, you know, certain concepts that he runs, I don't know that stuff, I'm not sophisticated enough. But I sure would like to see a little more protection for Jacob so that he can complete some intermediate throws. I don't like this idea of run, screen, run, and then a, no, a shot to Terry or something. Like I just think that's weird, like this kid can do it all. He can make all the throws. Let's protect them. Maybe let's do a little bit more in that area. I know a lot of times they chip with a tight end that are running back. Let's try to do that. Maybe as often as we can and let's just let this kid execute and if it's not there, let him take off and go. See, that's where he really likes this place on fire. I don't know. It's impossible to ignore the cliff second half decline. I don't want that to be true. It's kind of embarrassing for him. But when he got like a decade plus of data all pointing to the same thing, there might be something there. I'm not smart enough to know, but I sure wouldn't make fun of it when they ask you a question about it in the press conference. How much will Marshall and Latimore help if and when he comes back? I think he'll help a lot, you know, you know, it's amazing. I don't actually think Benjamin, they used this the worst corner I've ever seen. I actually don't think that he's often times in good position. This guy in what 40 some career NFL games and 30 some career college games, he got one career interception. He's the worst all awareness corner I've ever seen at this level. I've never seen anything like it. So I think I would you agree? I think Latimore will help a lot, but I think there's a role for St. Jude somewhere for a big corner. Just not garden number one. Yeah, totally agree with you. No, completely. I think he's in the, I mean, you look at the PI penalties, the physical penalties he has. He's often the coverage is decent. Now he has this year at really bad times been beaten deep now a few times here over the last month. So it's harder to defend him on those, but yeah, I think by and large, the narrative and the actual play up until the last few weeks probably wasn't quite even. Hey, before we let you go, are you on the golf course? It's a little windy. Yeah, I'm sorry. Oh, it's fine. I'm sorry. No, I'm on a golf course. I thought it'd be done, but it's starting to get bogged down on my 18. I'll play it terribly. I'm not drinking. It's not a good day. When did you get? I mean, you used to be steamed up for golf. I feel like, but then you weren't. Now you're like obsessed again. Is this the most in the golf you've ever been? Most ever, most ever, because that's my kids. You'll see this as your kids get older and they start to kind of graduate from you. You got to find your life again, right? So I need to find something that I can major in again. I can't major in chasing to my kids anymore. So you go out by yourself and golfer, do you have buddies you'll meet? Oh, no, no, no, I got, I got buddies and I joined a very modest local club. It's awesome. And so, yeah, I know guys, I got a little group that I highly recommended, the best thing I ever did is relaxing, you know, I don't know what you do for relaxation. I think you go to like wizard games or something. Capital's mainly. Pretty much. He's just running my glass, Eric. You'd like it. I love the caps games. Now, you know what I am? I'm a huge movie guy. I love going to the movie theater, eating popcorn and just drinking a Pepsi zero or Coke zero and watching a film. You don't go to like JP and like get like a steak at the movies, do you? Oh, I I've never ordered food at the movie. Like people do these even nachos or chicken tenders. No chance. I eat before I go and then I pummel popcorn. Dude, when they pump the smell of that popcorn in for and as soon as they hit you, you gotta get the popcorn. Oh, it's the best. I mean, yeah. Got you. Yeah, it's amazing. I feel like that. Tell me a kick that about halfway through the pocket. That'll get you. That'll happen. Yeah, you want in one of those humble Bethesda golf clubs, one of those like low cost options. I didn't want to let that line pass. No, no, I mean, it's just a modest club. It is. I'll tell you, I mean, people know it's a modest club. It's nice. Great food. It's modest. It's not fun. It's probably not something. It's nice. It's fine. It's fine. Eric Goa. He's finished strong, buddy. We appreciate you having on on the golf day. All right. I'm sorry, guys. No, no, no. No, no, no. Be sorry. It was good. That's the favorite. You sounded good. I just could tell you we're out and about somewhere. There's Eric Pickle of the junks. Listen to him about six. Hey, good boy. 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Battery life areas with usage and settings. We're going to try a segment out here. We're going to call it, "You guys don't want to hear this, but this is the commander's addition of, "You don't want to hear this, but," so we'll give you some examples and then we'll open up the phones for you guys at 800-636-1067. So this is probably, if I had to sum it up, I would say, maybe a take that isn't going to be loved by the fan base. Something that isn't going to go over well, but it's true. Little truth serum kind of take here. So Danny, why don't you go first? You guys don't want to hear this, but... You guys do not want to hear this, and I'm going to catch some Eric Blank for this. Okay. But they really botched the second round of this draft this year. They got a guy that can't get on the field for an offensive struggle who plays offense. They got a defensive tackle for a defense that can't stop the run. That second round corner back, Mikey Sander still will help them. That should have been the only guy on that side of the ball they drafted. They missed their chance to really improve an offense that now is in desperate need of playmakers. Ooh, okay. You guys don't want to hear this, but the offensive regression that we're seeing right now is the best thing that could have happened to this team because Cliff Kingsbury is not going to be a head coach anywhere next year if this continues. He will get more than it's yeah. He will be back as their offensive coordinator and Jaden Daniels will have consecutive years working with Kingsbury in the same offense without any major changes. You don't want to hear this, but they weren't winning the Super Bowl this year anyway. So you might as well come back to the pack, a little dose of reality, be what you actually are, not play above your head and not lose your offensive coordinator to a head coaching job. You guys probably don't want to hear this, but they botched this Austin cyber thing. He was rushing back from injury and you let him do it. There should have been more patients and more calm, right? Because he's got someone breathing down his neck now and old Zane Gonzalez kicking from the practice squad or whatever. They did a Brian Dable kind of bit where they go. This injured guy, I'll take him at his word for it. Now he can't kick it out of the end zone. I don't want to say it lost you a game, what lost you the game was you weren't as good as the Cowboys and a million things went wrong. But some of those mechanical things might not be able to kick the body of the end zone. Some of the botches now the guys on IR 48 hours after the final game, they didn't handle this kicker situation correctly. You guys don't want to hear this, but if you're just looking at the last few weeks of football, Kate and Daniels might be the fourth best rookie quarterback plan over these last couple of weeks. Now, he should be the rookie of the year as of the whole season, but if we're just looking at the last couple of weeks, Bonix and Denver, Drake, May and New England, Caleb Williams with a new coordinator in Chicago. If you're ranking the quarterbacks based on their last couple of maybe three games or so, I think Jaden Daniels is third or fourth. Now that's a very, very small sample and may not matter, but it's been a little while. You guys don't want to hear this, but September was a while ago, man, October, middle of October was a month ago. It's time to get Jaden Daniels back on track here because we're headed toward kind of a half and half year where he's been electric, unbelievable, historic, amazing for about half of the year and the other half has been very fine. I'd like to get back to the electricity in the fun and the let's talk about him as an MVP stuff. I can't prove this one. I just read this before I've done this dance before I've seen it. You guys aren't going to want to hear this, but this Marshawn Latimer hamstring thing ain't going away. We're going to be doing this dance for a while, limited on Wednesday, Thursday walk through tried individual drills is on the Curtis Samuel treadmill on the other memorial bike on the side. This thing is not going anywhere. We're not just going all of a sudden have him and then he plays great. You guys don't want to hear this, but Brian Robinson gets hurt too much and they need a new RB one this off season. They need to go get someone with some speed who can stay on the field and prove a little bit more durable. I like B. Rob as much as you guys do. In fact, I love the kid. 25 years old when he's overcome, he's done some really good things, but you're going into a week against Dallas Cowboys, easiest team to run on in the national football league, and he gets banged up on the first play and it's five for 13 after he got rolled up on. It was a gruesome, awful looking thing. I can't believe he wasn't more seriously. But here we are. He's got two 100 yard games this season. They're too good a rushing team when it's right for that to be the case. All right. The segment is called, you don't want to hear this, but it's commander's edition. Larry. What do you got? You guys may not want to hear this, but Terry McClellan ain't going to be a wide receiver one on this team, making a playoff push. He's good. He's a wide receiver one B. You need a Justin Jefferson. You need someone who has Sam Darnell thrown him the ball and he's still going to get 130 yards and two touchdowns. And sometimes Harry just ain't that. Wow. Hold on, let me double click on this because you're right. I don't like that very much. Yeah. I'm not saying you said anything wrong. So you're saying to make the playoffs or to like make a playoff push like in the playoffs. So yeah. So to go on a run, they need a basically a better receiver than McLaren and then let him be the one B. Yes. And then you are set. I think you're right about two things. One, people are going to hate that. And two, they'd be a hell of a lot more explosive offensively. That was the case. More than the league in receiving yards, however, he's the only guy that's played 12 games on that list. If you go to yards per game, it's a very different story. He's having a great year. He said five, 100 yard games for the first time in his career. That's never happened before. But I mean, we see it. He's the number one receiver in like contested catch category stuff. He has to make a lot of catches with dudes draped all over him. He occasionally does get open deep vertically down the field. This past week, he had a guy beat and Jayden Daniels basically threw the ball at a bounce. You guys aren't going to want to hear this, but Jeremy Chen has made a lot of fans this season so far, but he might have played himself out of a contract here. His price tag might have increased way too high for the liking of Adam Peters and company. I don't think Jeremy Chen's re signing here next year. Oh, how about that? I do know he was flat footed on that touchdown that went right over his head and it's some sort of covered in like a middle third of the field and like that we weren't going to talk about that. The DBs are going to have bad place. He's been mostly awesome. I think so. Even in this game, by the way, he had a couple of huge plays and big moments that hit. He levied on, but should have been maybe a fumble. I think it was 83. I think it was that guy to look up Jalen Brooks. My God, that was Sean Taylor. That was a lot of hits going to see me more. I know. You don't. Awesome. I love Jeremy Chen. I need him. I want him to get a long term deal. Darris is talking some S here saying maybe he's played his way out of Washington with a big old payday and they don't want to pay another safety. They got Quan Martin. You guys don't want to hear this, but 806361067. It's a commander's edition on GND here on the fan. The segment we're doing on Grant and Danny is you guys don't want to hear this, but something that you think is true that commander's fans may not necessarily be happy to hear little truth serum on GND after three straight losses. You're locked into the fan. By the way, top of the hour, Christopher Pozzo of CBS Sports wrote about the regression over the last several weeks of Jaden Daniels. He was planted a level that was unsustainable. One of the great rookie stretches begins of the year that we'd ever seen. He's just been okay here recently. Overall, it's been a really, really good rookie year. Looks like he's the answer, looks like Washington has found their man, but we'll talk to Tripasso about what's going on here during this decline and you'll want to be listening at 530 for sure. Matteo Dunn Fairfax County School Board, one of the few people all along that's been trying to do an investigation into what was going on over at Afield with a recruiting scandal for football is going to join us. Afield pulled their team out of the playoffs. The principal did, who was originally allegedly involved in the planning of bringing over the coach and all the players and this big plan that got hatched. Well, the AD is the one that's fallen, fallen on the sword here. He's out. Contract terminated reportedly today already took a leave of absence. And the principal is, is pulled the team out of the playoffs. So we'll talk to Matteo Dunn about what's going on here and what this means for high school football, not only in Fairfax, but in all of the DMV, but let's get to the calls. You don't want to hear this, but Kevin in Arlington, what's up? Hey, fellas, you don't want to hear this, but I'm looking at you, Grant, and you, Danny. Oh, no. The last three games have proven to me and when we get the off season, the shopping list doesn't start with, let's get one or two more passing game weapons for Daniels. We need line of scrimmage play. We got jazz on the O line and we got under performers on the D line and we're going to have to invest again in the D line, maybe two positions, maybe richly and I love Brandon Coleman. I was high on him. He's at best a right tackle. Okay. Those are more important, sadly, than the weapon that we lack opposite the core. These three games, we got bullied, Ron, George, he came on with Mitchell and Finley and talked about it. We're, we have to fix our lines of scrimmage. So the only thing I would disagree with, Kevin, it's a good phone call body. We're locked and loaded. So we're going to keep it moving here quickly is I think Brandon Coleman has been mostly really, really good. There was a regression there, certainly the Philly game, the Pittsburgh game weren't great. He had the best blocking grade among all left tackles in the NFL this past week against Dallas. And as a third round pick who's still kind of getting his feet wet, I've seen enough there to feel like he's more than a project like that could work. But otherwise, I think you're right. They probably need more on the O line and they definitely need to get more out of the D line. I wonder if deep pain could be a trade chip. It's a huge contract, but I wonder if there's some thought there because I don't think Alan's coming back. Maybe someone would look out and go, Oh, he needs a change of scheme, change of scenery, change of something to maybe get back to that production. Let's go to James and Silver Spring. What's up, James? Hey, you all know when the heat is, but often the office of talent is not that good. Now you have one A player and we could do nothing with it. And that's number 11. Awesome. Yeah. I don't think many people would agree. Yeah. I mean, that's kind of been the point since the off season, right now on a good day, you look around and you go, Daniel's baller, McLaurin stud, Echler legit, Robinson solid legit and Sam Cosme dude, that's not a bad foundation. But if we're looking for stars, where are your stars? Let's go to Dylan and Sterling. What's up, Dylan? Hey, so y'all already with us, but this offensive meltdown could not have happened at a better time. If we had come out and take Dallas 34 to 10 and we'd be saying, oh, they just played two kinds of teams and he was cheery and it was the rip, but no, Dallas figured it out. The worst defense of the league. They have no choice but to go back and to go to the drawing board, but we're already seven and five. We're ahead of schedule. I'd rather them figure it out now than going into a playoff game. You know, get it figured out. You've got Tennessee a five week. It was. That's a good call. They appreciate it. Do me to cut you off that. Let's start with a look at it, honestly, right where you'd rather find out sooner than later on whatever it is, and even if information I wanted ASAP, I hate that loss and I wish it didn't happen. I love the point though. It is a good point. Which is if they aren't who we thought they were, let's just get to the bottom of it now. Let's do it now. Not January 2nd. Let's not heal with a late win against the Cowboys and and walk around with our chest out. Like at eight wins, you're on your way. Let's go to Shane and DC. What's up, Shane? What's going on, fella? How y'all doing today? Good buddy. Happy Thanksgiving to y'all, y'all family. You too, buddy. Hey, look, you may not want to hear this, but Jonathan Allen and D Payne is not going to be on this roster next year. That's a fact and good reason for paying because you know, if you look at that contract year, that's all he's had and he got his money and now he's not even performing. Just make a play. He makes one play a week and that's it. I think them through off the scene next year. And you know what? See an art. Good. And by the way, let me throw something that real quick. How about my boy? Don't connect right down the league. You got to give him a bucket. Don't connect. You get buckets. He is such a good fit, by the way, with a couple of different guys that are handling the ball and dominate with it. Ron. The wizards to take him at one or two, which I still would say I'm not going to do that. But now he wouldn't be doing that here if he's number one on the scouting report, but I'm telling you, look it up. He is a bucket. Let's go to J and DC. What's up, Jay? I got some true sound for you. I want to thanks give him food drives. Can I remind you that two years straight people have had to call in and tell their if they keep the real potatoes, they'll rotten green bean casserole, struck strawberry pie. Come on, man. No one should be. The one catching too much crap. No, you think? No. Ryan is the best. Ryan is the best part of the show. Wow. No one should be googling. Give him food and think you should be thinking back to the past and ranking your favorite dinner. No one should be pulling a crime rate out of their tickets. Well, I did that. That was the point is Danny every single year goes outside the box, plays by his own rules and ruins everything. Then the answer is yes. That's totally true. Yes. That and and there is it's taken just choose the stuff that's on the table and Ryan is the best part of it. It's so much fun that he draft stuff like that and places that he probably shouldn't. Yeah, he makes their most points. I'm trying to change it. You know what? That's some good truth serum. I think we needed to hear that before tomorrow's this is this is my running theme. We're like clock food draft. We're like Ryan's never seen any movies and there's just sits there not catching any shrapnel. It's true. You know what I mean? I mean, Darius's drafts have been abhorrent. Remember John Carlson? Like just eviscerated you to the point where last year we had him on for some reason around the holidays. And he's like, is Daris the one that answered? Can you apologize to him for me again for last year? Remember that? Daris. I remember him being incorrect about it though. Yeah. It was a terrible take from what I remember. Interesting. Yeah. And Jay always keeps me in check. So shout out to Jay and DC just a bad plate for my guy. Daris. There's no doubt three o'clock tomorrow for the annual Grant and Danny food draft today before Thanksgiving. Matt and DC. What's up? Gentlemen, I want to, guys, I'm going to hear this, but I got to push back on the notion that Jayden Daniels isn't the best. Hasn't been the best rookie quarterback the last few weeks. I don't think any of those guys had a stretch like Jayden did at the end of that Dallas game. That's not what we're talking about. Oh, you mean at the end of this game? Sorry. I didn't mean to jump on you. No. Yeah. Gotcha. Gotcha. I mean, that stretch was last. None of those guys. You mean the last five minutes of the game? Yes. When he gets the pre-vent defense, when he just brought us down the field twice, the twice is doing some heavy lifting. One of those was Terry McLaurin catching a ball in front of safeties and then running through a good ball like he was going through a corn maze. Okay. That is absolutely true. If that's taking him through the. That's not true. You said that's true. That is true. That is true. I mean, so if we're giving Jayden Daniels credit for that, cool, I guess. That was a very good pass. To the wide open receiver. Yes, it was. It was very good. I don't know. I mean, he was there. He was three here. People all around him, right? 10 feet in every direction. He did. He was sort of like an apparition like the Cowboys apparently couldn't see him. But the other thing I want to say is about Brian Robinson. I'm not comparing him to Saguar and Barclay, but that kind of thinking, you know, players get dinged up for a couple of you know, here and there. I'm kind of thinking as part of the reason the Giants let's take one go. And I'm not like the only reason of comparison is that this guy is a good like first and second down grinder. He doesn't fumble. He's had a couple of monster games this year, you know, along with having this offense bring out the best in him. Well, here's the definite truth, Matt, and it's a good privilege, Matt. Thanks for making it. Appreciate you hopping on. Have a good Thanksgiving. I would just say when he's healthy and rolling, the offense is good. When he's not. It's a different story. Keep looking at your watch. When does that happen? We're missing, missing, you know, parts of games and tire games. When it's there, it's great. But it's not always there. That segment was a winner. Let's jot that down. And we got to do it again. You may not want to hear this, but that segment was good. That was fire. I'll do it again. We got Chris Trappasso of CBS Sports coming up on why Jayden Daniels has not been planted the same level here recently. And then Mateo done of the Fairfax County School Board on the big high school football drama that we've been talking about on the show all coming up this hour on the fan. 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? Now you can call them on your auto insurance too, with the name of your price tool from progressive. It works just the way it sounds. You tell progressive how much you want to pay for car insurance and they'll show you coverage options that fit your budget. Get your quote today at progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust progressive. 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