We’re in pretty much the lone lull in the NFL calendar these days, knowing we have nothing for about five more weeks until training camps open. The Commanders’ sale will hopefully be ratified before then, so we’ll have something to discuss hopefully – but leave it to Grant & Danny to think of something to keep the League in the cycle.
On Tuesday’s show, the guys wanted to know: What is the HOTTEST NFL take that you have, one you will always defend and always take the bait to argue whether you’re right or wrong and know you’re going to catch some guff for?
Danny “Rebrand the Commanders” Rouhier's goes ALLLLLLL the way back to…RGIII?
“I’ve stopped arguing this, but deep down, in my ticker…it’s Mike Shanahan’s fault,” Danny said. “Go back in time: a precocious 22-year-old is arrogant after winning the Heisman? I’m sure that’s never happened before! You were hired to handle everything, and he couldn’t; he ran the option and got him knocked around, played him right after he got a concussion, didn’t understand when it was time to remove him…complete and utter mishandling.”
Danny believes Shanahan’s shoddy tenure in DC, and his handling of Griffin, is why he hasn’t gotten another NFL job in the decade since leaving.
“I know that Dan Snyder stinks, and we’ve done that show a million times – but the idea and act Mike Shanahan has pulled that he was this lost, powerless babe in the woods, when he had his choice of jobs and all the power in the universe, somehow had no idea what to do? I don’t believe it. It was Mike Shanahan’s fault.”
Producer Darris Dameron checked in with his take that Tom Brady was right about the number change rule, urging players to wear the numbers as used to be required by the old rule, while co-producer Ryan Clary, who finally recovered from eating Jeff Walker’s Jerk chicken, believes that the Lions won the Jared Goff-Matthew Stafford trade…AND Goff would’ve won the Super Bowl with the Rams the year Stafford and L.A. won it (and maybe more).
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Interesting, and that left Grant feeling like “I’m just gonna be saying something wrong,” but he went with another Shanahan topic.
“Kyle Shanahan is the smartest offensive mind in the NFL, and I don’t even think it’s particularly close, so I don’t need to make the argument,” Grant said. “But, look at the branches off of his tree already, and how desperate teams are to bring in anyone who has worked for him. Look at what he’s done in San Francisco – he went to multiple NFC Championship Games and a Super Bowl with Jimmy Garoppolo, and if not for not having a quarterback last year, they might’ve made another.”
Grant believes “no one has had worse quarterback luck” than Shanahan, who has had to suffer through “a ton of 9-to-5 ham-and-eggers” like C.J. Beathard and Nick Mullens, and people love to bring up the play calling in the Super Bowl the Falcons blew to New England.
Hey, it happens, but most of what Shanahan has done well in his career just doesn’t.
“He had the league MVP in Matt Ryan that year, he went 10-6 and won a division championship (in DC) which is as good as it gets here, and he was in Houston with Matt Schaub and had the No. 1 offense in the NFL,” Grant said. “Everywhere the guy goes, they’re No. 1 in offense. He is a genius and is slept on, and anyone who doesn’t get it, you’re like the Washington Post – you just don’t get it, and your Kyle Shanahan take dies in darkness.”
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