Was Commanders MNF Win "Fun" or "For Real"?

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Grant and Danny drill down to figure out what aspects of Washington's Week 3 win over the Bengals are repeatable.

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00:00How much would you say was for real versus fun?

00:02So obviously it was fun.

00:03It's the most fun you could have.

00:05But I'd say a lot of it's for real.

00:06Now, the things you mentioned specifically are not, right?

00:09But if you told me big picture,

00:11an offense that can take advantage of a bad defense,

00:13a quarterback that's dynamic,

00:15a group that can move the football

00:16with a pretty good plan from the offensive coordinator,

00:18I do think that's for real.

00:19I also think it's for real.

00:20They're gonna give up a million yards and points.

00:22I also think it's for real

00:23that that defense can't stop anybody.

00:25So they're gonna have some games like that.

00:27Now, I don't think you're having that against Baltimore.

00:29You're probably not doing that against Pittsburgh

00:32or maybe some of the other teams, right?

00:33They'll have something to say about it

00:34on that side of the ball.

00:35So you might get stuff there.

00:37But if you play a team that's bad on defense,

00:41you're gonna see some special stuff here and there

00:43with the quarterback that's dynamic.

00:44So to me, there's a lot of it big picture that's for real.

00:46Again, the specifics you mentioned,

00:48you couldn't have been more fortunate

00:49on a million different fronts.

00:51And that's football, that happens.

00:52I'm not taking anything away from that performance.

00:54It was amazing.

00:55But there'll be a fourth penalty in a couple of weeks.

00:58That's gonna happen.

00:59It will not be another game I don't think that they play

01:01where they are so constantly for almost three quarters

01:05ahead of the chains in really opportune situations

01:09for play calling and play making.

01:11I mean, it's just not going to happen.

01:12So it was the ultimate kind of 72 and sunny environment

01:15in that way.

01:16Shouldn't have been because it was so loud

01:18and the crowd was so into the game

01:21for probably two and a half quarters, I would say.

01:23And then things really dissipated in house

01:26where fans were leaving and getting disenfranchised.

01:30And based on three games, not just one,

01:32we're starting to get angry and turn on the bangles

01:34and started doing right around halftime.

01:37But I think what was for real to me was,

01:40I think that is as good as it gets for Cliff Kingsbury,

01:44but the offensive design and getting guys open

01:48and when he wasn't right, Jayden Daniels made him right.

01:52Occasionally he made life easy on Daniels.

01:55I think that's the apex of what they can be.

01:58I don't think they'll have another game like that.

02:00To me, that's going to be Kingsbury's best game as a OC.

02:03That will probably be Daniels' best game

02:05of the season as a quarterback.

02:07So just because it's the ceiling performance

02:10doesn't mean it's not authentic, it's for real.

02:13It's just not going to be the norm, if that makes sense.

02:15It's like a sharpshooter in basketball

02:18who has that in his bag where he can go out

02:22and shoot the lights out and hang 40,

02:24but more often than not,

02:25he's going to miss some of those open looks

02:26and he's going to have 27 or 28,

02:29which is still really good too.

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