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Nats Out Of Juan Soto Sweepstakes, Biggest Reason For 3 Straight Commanders Losses?
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A powerful AI computer is not for everyone, but if you're trying to change the world, even if just your own, we built one for you. Microsoft Co-Pilot plus PC is powered by Snapdragon. Fastest, most intelligent Windows PCs ever, battery life areas with usage and settings. Good Tuesday afternoon and welcome into Grant and Danny. You are listening live to 106.7, the fan. We will take you all the way up to 6.30 today. We will be with you tomorrow as well, and then we're off Thursday and Friday for Thanksgiving. So we will wish you guys the early, happy Thanksgiving from us. And this time we actually, like Thanksgiving is about to happen. We mean it. I'm like Dan Snyder. We just set it around. Did you set it in January? Second of February or whatever it was. Yeah. That was weird. It certainly was. Chris Trapposos on the show at five CBS Sports wrote a piece on the regression of Jayden Daniels. Dovin on the numbers to figure out what's wrong with the quarterback taking a step back. And Mateo Dunn joins us at 5.30. He is a school board member in Fairfax County. The decision was made yesterday by the principal at Hayfield to pull the team from the playoff office. Why now? How did this get so bungled and handled so badly? We'll talk to a member of the school board in Fairfax about the situation that swept the DMV coming up at 5.30 on the fan. Daniel, you look good and refreshed. Yeah. Bring your brooms because it's a math. That's where we're at with this Hayfield situation. Oh, buddy, I can't wait again. My barometer for have had things crossed over for matters of sport to everyday life. I passed by three different pockets of conversation this morning at school drop off about the Hayfield situation. Parents that don't care about sports, parents that do. Everyone in between had an opinion, a thought, a question, something to raise. I'm telling you, it's everywhere. It's Tuesday, which means it's time for Grant and Danny's commander survivor. Every single week on this show on Tuesdays throughout the football season, you vote at facebook.com slash grant and Danny, you can go vote right now. You kick one player off the island. You give one player immunity beyond the next game. We are whittling the roster down to just a half dozen players left for the commanders when the dust settles today. Danny, who is left and who can people vote on to send home or to give immunity to today? Three on offense, three on defense quarterback, Jayden Daniels, you might have heard of him, probably not his best overall game statistically ended up with pretty good numbers, a couple of touchdowns, a Hail Mary pick there at the end, but you know, watching the game, I think maybe tells a different story. Austin Echler, who left the game towards the end again with injury, really, really scary. He won't be joining us today, obviously wishing him well, won his recovery to be to be speedy, but you know, wasn't, I don't think had his best statistical out of him. Terry McClure, new other than the 86 yarder was four catches for 16 yards, but he had the 86 yarder, Bobby Wagner, Frankie Luevo, who is immune this week and Jeremy Chin. They're on defense. So Frankie Luevo is on to the next. He will be one of the five finalists in Commander Survivor in 2024. Otherwise, you can kick anybody off the island and you can give anybody immunity. I think Jayden Daniels, while it wasn't a great game, should probably be safe, right? But Luevo, Chin, McClure, and you know, there's some names on that list of guys who balled out and played really, really well. So it's getting tight now at this point. You did bring up Austin Echler, and I do want to just say he will not be with us today. We will probably not catch up with him this week. Of course, he suffered what appeared to be a very serious concussion at the end of the game against Dallas on the final kick return. He gets slammed into the ground, lands on his head, and he was motionless on the field. Very, very scary scene. This is the part of football and the part of sports that is toughest. Now, we talk about enjoying covering sport, and you and I have in this game called a radio show and a job, right? This gig where we come in here and we just, we talk about grownups playing kids games. And it's pretty cool because we don't have to talk about serious stuff that really matters a whole lot in the grand scheme of the world. This is one of those avenues where it gets scary and we are thinking about Austin. Hopefully, he will be on the show early next week when he's feeling better and hopefully he and his wife and family have a great Thanksgiving. So thoughts are with him as he continues to recover. It's the human element, right? Because it's very easy that you sort of are able to distance yourself from things as these guys are all wearing uniforms and pads and helmets and it's, you're just somebody that's up there. But when something like that happens, you're like, oh yeah, there's a human being in there, right? There's a person with a family and loved ones and all that other kind of stuff. And it's very easy to watch the spectacle because that's what it is. They're modern day gladiators, without the lions and things that you're seeing in the movie gladiator or gladiator too. But that's what it is. It's for our incredible joy and amusement that the athletic feats that these guys put on, the amount of physicality just incomprehensible to regular folks. And then when something like that happens, you're like, oh yeah, they're vulnerable living, breathing human beings with full 360 degree lives that like that, things can change. You're watching the Demar Hamlin incident, Echler, motionless on the field. It just, it takes your breath away because you're reminded, oh yeah, there's a mortality to this. There's a, there's, there's, there's fragile as anybody else. Without belittling other injuries, whether that be, you know, an ACL or an Achilles or any of these other things that you see players suffer that are career altering awful setbacks where they've got to now go rehab and anonymity with nobody watching them for a year. There is just something different about the brain, I would say. In terms of like if a guy hurts their leg and they get carted off when they're thumbs in the air and they're telling everyone, I'll be back or even at the end of their career if they're not going to return and play again after that, that's sad and that's terrible. But that's one of those things that heals, whether you get back to a hundred percent, you're as quick and twitchy and explosive as you once were or not, eventually that's not going to be a problem. That's not going to be something that lingers into the future. There is a real fear and an anxiety correctly about brain trauma in the sport. So when you see a guy who suffered a concussion against the Bengals, suffer the concussion he did against the Cowboys and I'm not a doctor. I can't tell you this one was worse. I just know that the optics were worse. This was not, you went down and you were a little jarred and you kind of walked to the sideline and he told us after, started feeling things a couple of minutes after. This was, he's not moving and immediately all the players are calling to the training staff because he is playing lifeless moment. It said, oh no. Right. That's petrifying. We've seen it with two, we've seen it with other guys. That will never be an okay element of football. It is the worst part of the game that we all love and so many of us, I'll speak for myself, are addicted to. It is an addiction. It is, you know, outside of my family, probably the thing I like most in life is getting to watch football and it's the worst part of it. Yeah. I think that's well said. It's the, you know, when you have to tear down that barrier or that wall, right, where these invincible Superman do so much and then it's, oh yeah, that's right. There's that, there's that really scary element that they're able to compartmentalize and put out of their minds because soon as soon as he's off the field, it's like, okay, here we go. Line them up again. Let's play the next play time. Just really, really hard to get in that headspace. What time do we want to do the annual Thanksgiving day food draft tomorrow? I think it's important that we pick a time right now and we let our listening audience know when they need to be listening to hear us moving and shaking, navigating the board, clarion, dearest, trying to get their hands on the sides they want tomorrow. Four of us, four rounds, Thanksgiving day food draft. I'm thinking three o'clock right on the nose, square number, three works for me. But does anybody have any issues? Is there something I don't know about conflict, docket tomorrow that will prohibit us from doing that? There is, when should people tune in for the Thanksgiving day draft? I think three o'clock is, is prime time for us. I think that works out. Let's do it. So that means by 303, clary will have taken gravy number one overall for like the third straight year. I was thinking green bean casserole, he was going to switch it up this year. That's at least what the rumors are out there on the Twitter verse. Do you guys have a game plan yet or is that something you plan on preparing tonight? Like, do you know right now if you had to do a draft, would you feel good about it? I could do it. You have to sit down with your scouts and see what the 40 times we're on some of the options. We'll do our final prep because you want to be prepared with an A scenario, a B scenario and then kind of, you know, free for all. Like if somebody goes rogue and goes unpredicted, like I've got a few for the other teams around me. Yeah. Depends on what, because I also don't know where I'm picking yet. We can't. We can't actually, and I've got my own reports I've written up on various food items, but we have not put our board together. So our, our tradition on my team is that the night before the draft, we sit down and we kind of argue, we know, no, everybody knows, we get a hotel that night, we're not going home tonight. Okay. Eventually you're going and you're crashing on a hotel bed near the facility, but the board will be assembled after a bunch of arguing at the end of tonight and then we'll be ready for tomorrow for the most important day in show calendar, the Grant and Danny Thanksgiving day food draft. Now, now do you color code it to identify who's a commander and who's not? Oh, I do. Yeah. So what you're thinking of is the commander tag. We call that the Paulson tag. Got it. And there are only a couple of foods that get the Paulson tag every single year and they're the same foods. So if you guys have been paying attention, you'll, you'll know those foods. There's not a whole lot of secrets on my draft board. You know what I'm coming for. You know what I want. Nothing's changed here every year. That's the one problem is we're drafting the same players. You know what I mean? Yeah, I do. And I'm starting to learn your proclivity. Sure. Like for, it's the equivalent of, are you, are you a big 10 lineman? I'm probably interested. Right. You know what I mean? Like, are you an SEC wide out? I'm probably interested. This GM's got a thing. He really likes undersized linebackers, you know, who are twitchy, who he likes to move off the ball, you know, uh, Clary, you have been the guy that has upset the apple card I'd say most in these drafts the last few years, very controversial decision. Yeah. Do you plan on possibly playing it a little more straight tomorrow or is all hell going to break loose? I mean, in my opinion, I don't think all hell broke loose in the recent drafts. I do think we built like a really kind of solid foundation up front. And I think this year could be the year we're really kind of moving around the board a little bit and make some splash moves. So we're going to be interested in some trades. And that is a report coming directly from the guy who makes the picks. I am open. Wow. Wow. Over business. He's looking for a deal. I know a guy, depending on the pick you go, who might come calling see I might come calling you. Yeah. So open for business clarity for business. Adam Schefter, when the source is right here, yeah, it just goes on the radio and tells he's Jerry Jones over there. I don't need to be texting right now. He just gave away the business Jerry Jones went on 105 three or whatever that station is in Dallas and said we're willing to trade our pick. So we're going to be giving them away. If you want to come steal from us, that's fine because I'm not competent. So give us a call. Cannot wait for tomorrow. What I thought Cleary was getting at there. He's going full. That's on us. Like, yeah, we've established a nice foundation. We've made some deals. We've got some kids, but we're not winning yet. This is the year where we start to invest some funds. But wait, I'm being told hold on, then that's aren't even players in the Juan Soto sweepstakes. You see this today? Of course. Soto has met with several ball clubs. He has received offers by way of multiple reports now from five different teams. Those teams are stopping when you hear nationals. Okay, here we go. I'll stop here. You're listening for nationals. These are the teams that have made Juan Soto an offer. Soto, by the way, who is said, he loved to play in DC, loves it here. Best performance of his career right here in the nation's capital. He'd stand a reason you want to get in on those sweepstakes. You have zero payroll. You know, the highest paid national is on their payroll for this year, Luis Garcia, making five million dollars. You know, the second highest paid national in their payroll is this year? I'll tell you, just listen, K bear, Ruiz, here we go, making five million dollars. They're not paying anyone. If they want to, they can go get one Soto. Now they don't want to. And we knew all along. They weren't going to get one. So don't we've tried to let everybody know that was not going to happen. But five teams are at least pretending to be in on one Soto by putting up their paddles. He's pretending. What are the teams? The Mets. Yeah, you knew that, right? The Yankees. The Red Sox, he's going to say nationals in a second. I know he is the blue jays. Okay. One more. It is a national league team. Oh, so here you go. The they did play in that Nat Stodger's division series in 2019. One played in that series. Yeah. Yeah. The Dodgers. Dammit. Blue Jays Dodgers now, here's the thing. There's 25 teams that aren't raising the paddles because they know it's unrealistic. They know it's probably doesn't make a lot of sense in terms of team building to pay somebody that much money they get. You could start doing that with every person that plays major league baseball. If they cost more than 17 cents, are they in on anybody? And the answer is no, that'll be the big question. No, they're not. But look, it's football season. We're coming up on Thanksgiving, Washington's got a seven and five team that could be playoff found. So the nats are getting a little pass on that. But I will just say as an aside that it is absolutely time for them to spend some money as an ownership group. And if they don't fans, and that means you guys should be irate because to my knowledge, they're not lower in season ticket prices, it's not a cheap ticket to get. It's not easy to go navigate Nat's park, right? The baseball operation staff led by Mike Rizzo and and this is Mark Shalaba and Mike the Bartolo and all that whole crew of guys that run that outfit. They have saved ownership's bacon with trade driven efficiency in the rebuild. They're in a really good spot, actually, if they were to actually supplement with some star major league decent talent now, they're going to be interesting and middling as of right now, just based on the young core that they put together. But if they want to be good and competitive, they're three or four additions away probably. And that's where ownership has to come in. And the payroll with Luis Garcia and Cabaret Louise is your highest paid players at this point is the tell. There's nobody on the payroll that they look like the Marlins are the A's Danny when you look up who they're paying. I mean, seriously, it's like Miami Oakland, Washington. That's what it looks like. Yep. So the last few years of the rebuild, I'm on board. There's no reason to spend big. You're not blocking kids. You got to see who's good and who isn't. You got to give opportunities to your youngsters as they graduate. It's now time to do that. And if they don't, Nat fans, sports fans, people in this city should absolutely be livid. And frankly, the media needs to start. I'd say beating the drums and sounding the bugles a little bit because if there's no pressure, if it's just this big, well, whatever, you know, it's okay that, you know, they have a payroll of 40 million and they'll go out and they'll win 73 games. It's not okay. No, in the nation's capital. No. And I understand how we got here. It's a lot of bad luck. A lot of things that's nobody's fault, right? Global pandemic happens the year after you win the World Series. That's that changed things. There should have been a huge cash influx. The TV deal isn't necessarily anybody's fault. I understand how we got here. But my point is we are here. Nobody's saying you've got to do with the Red Sox and the Yankees and the Dodgers do, which is printing your own money and go crazy. What everyone I think is saying, I don't put words in your mouth, but what I'm saying is when you move on from Cal Finnegan after not trading him, you just give him his walking papers, you could have got something back that's a human being that's at someone with a pulse. Maybe it may be a shot at someone. If you're moving on from him because he's too expensive, you're going to get and you're not going to fill that void, like all you're doing is being cheap. There's no longer a this is there's a strategy behind it or whatever. Same type of move that's made simply to not pay somebody that has nothing to do with big good, bad or indifferent. If the move is we can't afford Tanner Rainey. We were patient with that guy for a rebuilding team for years for potentially the season where he finally comes back, removed from Tommy John, et cetera, to be good. And he's gone because he might cost $1.7 million on arbitration. What are we doing? On Finnegan, by the way, I think this is an important thing to hit. Kyle Finnegan is now a free agent. He'll be leaving Washington very likely unless they get him back. I guess on a cheaper deal than they would have paid him. He was not set to be a free agent. This is very different arbitration. If a guy is contracts ending and he's leaving in free agency that happens, they opted to let him become a free agent by non-tendering him instead of paying him for another year on his contract because he was set to make upwards of, say, eight and a half, nine million dollars and they probably view him more as a seven or seven and a half million dollar player. And from a baseball perspective, they are right. The counting stats, 38 saves last year, don't really match the underlying number. They went entitled. That went entitled into a pay raise and if their point is, that's an overpay. I have a new degree, by the way, but I don't think it's crazy. But they're doing the Nat's math of, well, we got to spend $12 million this year. So let's hurry up nine million from Finnegan and now you're only really paying $3 million. That's Nat's math. The math should be, is Finnegan a helpful good reliever? And who cares if you're overpaying him by 1.5 or 2 million? And if the Braves are some winning team that has a real payroll and has actual money being spent on players, did what the Nat's are doing with Kyle Finnegan, I would say that's really smart. That team gets it. I like that data-driven approach because they know he's not quite worth it. But when the Nat's do it and you're paying no one and then you say, oh, this guy at nine million, probably two million more than we think he's actually worth, no, we'll save that two million and we just won't pay him at all and we'll let him hit free agency and reallocate the money. Forgive my skepticism. I'm not really sure if you reallocate the money. Again, baseball wise, that's Rizzo in his group looking at this saying, this guy is not worth nine million. They're not wrong. But if it matters that much to maybe be right on $2 million when you're paying it. When you're zero outside of him. Nothing. We got problems here. Right. And you might disagree with this, I think that's fine. But I need an organization to know, hey, we don't think he's worth what he's going to get next year in arbitration or we don't want to have the pay increase. There's a trade deadline. I know compending teams aren't going to go, he's worth our top, our third best prospect in the org. And here's a trade package that you would get for Juan Soto or for Trade Turner or somebody that's legit. I understand that. They don't take about it. They botched it. They absolutely should have traded them in July. They screwed that up. And that's kind of my point here. So if the, if the baseball folks had any kind of communication with, with the ownership staff going, hey, this might cost us a little bit more, but he's good guy to have. All he's ever done is the right thing here. He's, he's consistent. He answered the bell every day. The metrics aren't probably worth what he's going to command, but that's, there's worth having somebody that's done the right thing is the organization, uh, reward someone. And if ownership goes, you know what, we, it's probably too rich for our blood. We could better allocate elsewhere. Now I know that. And I can do a baseball move where I can trade this person for something else. I have no problem. Instead, they have nothing and they're going to fill it with nothing. Correct. That's everything about that's wrong. I'm so upset about it. All I wanted to do for days is scream about it. Yeah. And I'm glad that we are. Uh, also it makes me worry that the communication from ownership to the front office either wasn't there at the deadline or has shifted, but maybe they didn't know in July that they were going to have so little to spend. And now they need the nine million that you free up with Finnegan so that you can spend elsewhere because you're not getting what you thought you would get. When these are all my own theories, I don't know that I can, uh, back any of them up. But what I know is it's been a long time since they've spent any real money. That's what I know. And that they're in a pretty good spot because they've got a savvy front office that's made a bunch of really good trades. If not for that, they'd be one of the directs of Major League Baseball. And it is time to open up that checkbook and to spend some money this off season. Next up, let's get to the commanders, what is the biggest reason for their three game skid? They've gone from seven and two to seven and five. What is the biggest reason for those three straight losses that's next on GND? Life can be hectic and managing your mental health is more important today than ever before. That's why mindful therapy group's mission is to take the pain out of finding a therapist. Whether you need talk therapy, psychological testing, even medication management, mindful has you covered. Our mental health providers are here for you, with both in person and telehealth options to get you seen in as little as 48 hours. Mindful Therapy Group also accepts insurance. 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You know it's crazy that's fine because we didn't really need nobody to believe in us from the beginning like nobody ever did, so you know it's always been about you know proving the head of wrong you know it's okay you know we know we've been playing like we know we've been playing bad you know bad ball and you know we know how to play good ball you know so it's all about you know doing that you know simply like that. Running back Brian Robinson has heard on the junkies earlier today right here on 1067 the fan welcome back to Grant and Danny commanders back to being able to put their backs against the wall and kind of play the card of them against the world. Nobody's believing in them. You can't do that when you're seven and two and your quarterbacks and MVP candidate but after three straight losses at seven and five and now with folks jumping off of the bandwagon as far as them headed to the playoffs. Here Robinson suggesting they were back where we started we're comfortable here Danny what's the biggest reason for them having lost three straight that is the question we will open up the MGM national Harbor listener lines for you guys to answer that question at 800-636-1067 right now. Lack of talent I actually got struck on both sides of the ball but to me scheme will get you so far in other words the design of a schema or the plan of a schema is to basically go I'm going to get Grant Paulson one-on-one with somebody that's the best you can hope for reasonably sometimes you get somebody unblocked sometimes you get someone running free when that happens that's great that's that's great design great everything but eventually you have to win and as teams get tape on you as other coaches and other programs figure out what your tendencies are what you do which don't there's got to be a time when your guy can beat their guy and that has run out their second best receiver was cut by a competitive team that's where we are in terms of the secondary they got a guy that was drafted to be a slot corner that's been their best corner all season long playing on the outside nothing wrong with Michael Sandristo by the way I love the kit but he's gonna be a great player for a long time really good but the design was to have him be your number three right your slot corner and he's been basically their ace now hopefully a lot of more comes and helps everything and everybody kind of slots down more you know in a more appropriate place but they lack elite pass rush they lack dominance on the defensive line they're probably not unbelievable at safety like to me they're under talented and scheme has covered for a lot of it and now that you get in some adverse situations which is gonna happen in football you lose some of the turnover luck that you've had you know adversity strikes on your third nines your guys can't win people play man against you you can't separate you punt that to me is what's happened the lack of talent a lot of spots and I understand it's you're one of this rebuild they're trying to turn over the roster usually what happens is what happened around Rivera you're pretty much garbage in the first year after the old regime when you're cleaning stuff out here this clean out has got them into a playoff race I'm not complaining just simply observing when you leave a hundred million dollar cap space on the table when you're not signing guys long term when you're not trying to transform everything overnight things don't transform overnight usually to this degree so it's more of an observation as to where they are but I think it's finally caught up and they didn't really have 12 win talent and they were on their way to 12 wins in a regressions happening but that doesn't explain away why they couldn't finish when they were up 10 against Pittsburgh or why when they had a chance to take the lead in the fourth quarter against the Eagles the game went the way that it did or why you have a letdown game because they got plenty of talent as it pertains to beaten Dallas right I mean individually like that makes sense when you're in the hot air balloon looking down at their season from several thousand feet up but that doesn't work for me game by game and game by game how we actually got here with the three straight losses to me this is there's a bevy of issues you could make a list of probably 10 to 15 the biggest one for me when I look at all the numbers is third down on offense I think on offense they have a third down problem right now if you compare their three game losing streak to the Cincinnati game when Jayden Daniels was the best he's been all season long it's a pretty substantial juxtaposition right in the Cincinnati game they averaged third and four point three over the duration of the game in the last three games they've averaged on third down needing seven point three six point three and six yards at least a two to three yard difference that is massive against the Bengals in that game where Daniels was amazing they had two plays of third and seven or more in the Steelers game they had eight plays of third or seven and more they had seven plays of third or nine and more they didn't have a single one of those against the Bengals zero plays third and nine plus they have had seven two and three of those so a total of twelve in this three game losing streak so the issue I think largely is a lack of efficiency on early downs they're not ahead of the chains they are in second and long too often in fact I saw a piece in the Washington post suggested that they average second and eight point one this past week against the Cowboys which was second worst on second down for what they needed to get all season that same piece cited a stat on third and long that same for T.A. wrote converted third and long opportunities their rate up until the three game losing streak was 36% which would have been the best in the NFL in the last two plus years the last three games they're at 11% so they've fallen off by almost a quarter of what they were doing earlier and this would be worst in football so they've gone from the best on third and long in the NFL over two plus years to the worst and the truth eventually will be in the middle but this is the correction that we all knew was coming you can't convert 36% of third and longs that's not going to happen and when you start not doing that you start punting which they weren't doing the no pun offense 17 punts in their first eight games 17 punts in their last three games so I think Danny the biggest problem is on first down they're not winning enough second down has not gotten them to third and short and that bangles game mm-hmm you know that their first four third downs were third and one I remember they felt short I didn't know those all third one third and one like do you know how easy it is to operate offensively if you're constantly in third and one that was the team first half of the year is they're doing that incessantly and they're not anymore hundred so that's that's documented that's correct that's in arguable and they guess where you and I differ is why that's happening I think everyone's on to the scheme I think everyone's on to why do we differ well I think it's I think it's a talent problem like now I don't have I said I disagree with that well when everybody that's how that's how you that's how you started you're so liquid but either way to me the word is out it's been solved there's no wrinkle there's no counter punch there's no different you know set a bag of tricks here consistently to get teams off of what they're doing Dallas concocts a great pass rush and Washington has no idea what to do about it because their scheme says ex we chip the edges and this is how we chip the edges where they go fine we're not gonna have any edges we're not gonna bother with that we don't care and there was no answer to it I think that's that's a theme of what's going on here and to me it comes down to the guys the line where we're going these guys are amazing they're way up performing they're now getting mauled and pushed around now you go up against good players Janet Carter had a week at a month last week against Washington Pittsburgh's had a bunch of guys that are outstanding up front to so okay maybe it's that one out Dallas is a bunch of bombs that are looking to quit that threw you around to and you go okay maybe one on one we're not good enough anymore and everybody's kind of on to it and they're getting almost getting a head start with what you want to run and how you want to run it so they're behind the sticks constantly it feels like yeah I agree with you on the talented certain positions for sure the areas where it was pretty obvious in the off season you know where we're not breaking any news to say when you're starting a wide receiver that was the number five in Houston probably need some help there right I don't think the O line is nearly as bad as everybody thought coming into the year and I would point to kind of how this year is gone as evidence of that but they are on my list right now just because they're so banged up like we can say oh they didn't play well enough against the Cowboys and you're out there just like Jaden Daniels right we can make the excuse of the river not but there's an expectation when you play that you can help yeah teller be honest just come on and off the field and I've watched him on two or three straight home games go back to the locker room for treatment while the defense is on the field like I don't know what's going on with him but he's not 100% healthy like he was early in the year yeah Andrew Wiley missed games missed another couple of quarters this past week replaced with Trent Scott they haven't had Cornelius Lucas it was a big starting left tackle beginning of the year big part of the rotation so you're talking about multiple tackles and your center being on and off the field alli Gretti has been kind of in and out a couple of different times this year so I do think they are banged up on the O line for sure and the other thing is while we're talking about maybe a lack of talent or execution or whatever with past catchers they're dropping more passes yep they did not really drop passes early in the year through their eighth game they had three drops over the last month they've got ten drops that's according to PFF but if you watch the game you feel like it's probably even more than that it feels like more than ten that's just the statistical like receiver friendly version of how they grade drops but that's a big deal and they were not dropping anything early on that was coming here again there's just going to be a correction there's going to be a regression to the mean but they've gone even beyond that it's like you know three or four drops here or there you're banking on when it's six right when it's three times that yeah maybe settle down it's anything would turn over lock they had incredible fortune and now some of that's run out where they're turning over at three times when they were record setting for God six through nine weeks with a rookie quarterback it doesn't happen with veteran quarterbacks let alone a rookie a lot of what was happening was unsustainable and we knew that and the correction has come loudly and it's all kind of at once but it's even swung back further than I anticipated you know if it's swung back and you lose to the two really good teams and you beat the Cowboys that makes sense but to go out and play the game against Dallas that they did is pretty shocking but let's hit the calls on this next at eight hundred six three six one oh six seven you hear what Danny thinks you heard my point where are you guys out on this why have they lost three straight what's the biggest reason for it you're locked into the fan with the any I'm Grant you're listening to the fan coming up at the top of the hour and 12 minutes our fastest 16 minutes in football will recap every single game in the NFL from this weekend five o'clock Chris Trapezso of CBS Sports wrote about Jaden Daniels decline in his performance since the first five or so weeks of the season and he was trying to drill down on what has led to that stepping backwards we'll have him on the show at five to dive into some of the numbers he found but the question for you guys right now is what's the biggest reason for Washington losing three straight games Danny says lack of talent I'm drilling down even deeper in game I think they are not operating well enough on early downs and it's third and long too often and that sets you up for failure and they were kind of playing with fire early in the season and getting by like they're just inevitable you can't eat fast food every day and not gain weight if you keep doing that eventually you'll be an age where you're going to gain weight and they got there let's go to Elijah and DC what's up Elijah hey buddy what's going on fellas you kind of hit the nail on the head this first down I think it's a big deal and I think they have to get this first down worked out I think the system requires Jaden Daniels to be dynamic on every play which I think it itself isn't necessarily sustainable not that he isn't dynamic but it just puts to the situation where he's going to have to do a lot you saw that drive when they did a excellent job and it was basically because he was moving his leg which is cool but it seems like defenders especially at the line back for position have changed their angle pursuit on him versus trying to get to the sideline versus darting straight at him you see he does a little spin and he gets down they've noticed that if you give him room he's different than a Lamar Jackson you don't want to look right at Lamar the same way when you went to Lamar he he responds differently you know so I just think it's a few things that first down has to be worked out and you have to get more creative with moving 17 around I love that phone call appreciate it he said something that jumped it to me and reminded me of something it's been hard to quantify this but it does feel like I know it's not the same scheme same everything but just bear with me it feels like early season bears where you're basically going all right Caleb do something incredible buddy we got some players for you but it's up to you really it it's felt like that a little bit lately and when you play good defense you can't really get away with that for four quarters now the Dallas one I can't quite explain but that's kind of been my feeling of late where I think the color said it best when that first down run that's not J. N. N. N. N. was his fault that it goes for one yard but now you're kind of going all right dude be Superman and that's not a fair ask anybody so I'm looking at the first five third downs of the game this past week against Dallas third and 12 third and seven third and two third and seven third and nine four of them seven or more yeah two of them nine or more what is how to make sure you don't sustain drives for 500 Alex right I mean that you just you can't live that way Chris Oxen Hill what's up you're on Grant and Danny Hey I was a little fellas but I think I'm a whore today um I feel like I gotta agree with you Grant where it's like you know I think that the offense isn't gentle right now I feel like really honestly that they're not a hundred percent especially I don't think that Jayden has recovered fully from that Panthers game with the rear injury so Chris how do you say that and watch him run for 75 his third highest total this past week he was every bit as explosive to me he looked like the same guy from the Bucks game on Sunday against Dallas well the reason why I kind of feel that way is because I feel like he hasn't been as explosive as he was prior to when we were on that uh that nice uh seven game you know uh when total even this weekend you didn't think so I thought he was back to that this weekend you didn't well this weekend I would say I don't if I had the grade on the scale of one to ten I would say he was at least about a seven point five because I felt like there were some things that the offense didn't do that they have done in the past that look good for example Noah Brown like you mentioned Noah Brown has been passing a lot of uh balls and the thing is that he's gonna be pretty good with his hands so that's one aspect that I kind of go towards where I don't put all the blame on Jayden so if it sounded like I'm trying to blame Jayden no that's not what I'm trying to do you know I didn't take it that way appreciate yeah so there's a difference between how he played versus how he looked physically that's what Grant and I were talking about I think I don't want to put words in your mouth but to me the the the I kept saying the same thing over and over the last couple weeks or I'm like he just doesn't look explosive twitchy quick you know gliding around the way he did early in the season and I thought he did this past Sunday I think I think that's now more conventional that's I think a lot of folks feel that way yeah 100% agree he looked more twitchy than he had but I don't think the rib was as big an issue from a passing standpoint over the last few weeks it's part of why he was in the pocket more I think and we saw that like he looked different more explosive he ran 7 for 74 this past week but I don't think it really affected him as a passer and my bigger issue frankly has been that part of it over the last few weeks not that he has been bad but the passing game has been bad he's obviously a part of that let's go to Nate in DC what's up Nate hey how's it going guys good good um I think this little scare um for one I think we were lucky to only have lost five games that's far we had the the luck of fall from very uh no no more simplistic defenses but recently I mean the team has had the the unfortunate opportunity to play some of the top NFL defenses this was Jayden Daniels first look at them it was the entire team's first uh time playing against these type of defenses and coaches like a Tomlin um and then Jayden and company got the opportunity to be able to witness one of the most intense rival reasons sports even though as commanders um and slash risk is we've been on the losing end of that rivalry for much of the last 25 years he was thrust into some very unfortunate situations and don't look there but the Tennessee Titans have a very tough defense yeah they're top five yeah they can play I don't think there's anything about Washington and Dallas at this point that feels different when the game starts as a player I don't think those guys it's they're not seeing that navy blue and the Cowboys and going man we got to win this game they're not playing differently or harder there's not any more animists you know they've had chippier games this year a couple of times over so I don't think it was like man he wasn't ready for the rivalry or something I don't think that is tangible or necessarily a real thing uh people want to weigh in so we can take your calls on this what's the biggest reason for the three game losing streak 800 636 1067 also Jayden Daniels has a tendency when it comes to where he throws the ball on the field and I think that that is particularly important based on where Cliff Kingsbury lines up Terry McClaren so I looked some of this up last night I think this date is really interesting I think you guys want to hear this we'll get to that next right here on the fan this episode is brought to you by progressive insurance whether you love true crime or comedy celebrity interviews or 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1:00- Juan Soto is the big name in this MLB free agency class, and the Nats are reportedly NOT in on Juan Soto.
22:00- As the Commander have now lost 3 straight games, what do you think is the biggest reason for their downfall?