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Jayden Daniels has taken plenty of hits early in his career. Tonight, Grant & Danny sit down with Commanders' general manager Adam Peters. Danny wants to ask what the best plan for avoiding hits for Jayden is.
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00:00An evening with Adam Peters on Grant and Danny.
00:023 o'clock, I want to talk about this commander's defense
00:04with Sam Brookhouse of Sumer Sports.
00:07So he did a bunch of analysis on preseason play calls, usage,
00:12acknowledging it probably might not help that much
00:16because no one's showing their best stuff.
00:18But I did find it really interesting that he did this cross comp
00:23of Washington and Minnesota.
00:26The commanders have a lot more to hide, you would think,
00:29because teams have never seen the defense that Durante Jones
00:34is going to implement, whereas the Vikings have been running
00:36the Flores defense now over a few seasons, and there's plenty of tape,
00:39so there's nothing to hide.
00:41But I really liked his analysis.
00:43I'm going to have him on to talk about it at 3 o'clock in about one hour
00:47here on The Fan.
00:49But I figured we could start with a little surveying of our listening audience,
00:53putting together a list of questions that people think we should ask
00:58the general manager, Adam Peters.
01:00That's a great way to start the show right now on the phones.
01:03At 800-636-1067.
01:08800-636-1067.
01:11What do you think we should?
01:13What must we?
01:14What need?
01:15We ask Adam Peters.
01:19So there's going to be, because it's kind of let your hair down time,
01:23it's not just the 15-minute press conference where everybody's got to ask
01:27about the injury report this week.
01:29You'll have those, right?
01:30That's common.
01:31That could be a conduit for Dan Quinn, et cetera.
01:33Part of this needs to be, for me, why do you think the way that you do?
01:37And so the reason I say it that way is he was with, I mentioned this to
01:42Beamish and Finley just now, he was with three different organizations that were
01:46wildly successful during his time there.
01:48Now, he wasn't always the lead decision-maker there.
01:50He was a scout in New England, but he had a higher role in Denver,
01:53an even larger role in San Francisco.
01:55And those are three distinct different organizations that were really successful
01:58at the time he was there.
01:59What did he learn to do?
02:00What did he learn to not do?
02:01What are non-negotiable principles that you'll never compromise on that came
02:06from all the winning environments that you were in?
02:08I want to know kind of what makes him tick a little bit.
02:09I like that.
02:10My goal would be, while the entire idea is we're getting ready for the 2026 season
02:17and we're going to have him set the table for the road ahead, break down the
02:21roster, discuss some of the decisions they made on cut down day.
02:25He did a press conference and he has talked a lot about some of the players on
02:29the team.
02:30We're trying to give the paying audience an opportunity to get a little more meat
02:34on the bone, so to speak.
02:36So we will ask about Sonny Stiles and why they drafted him and what that process
02:39was like.
02:40We'll get the backstories and some of the anecdotes that he's got on the scouting
02:44process that led to taking Katron Allen or signing Adafi Owe.
02:49All of that will be covered.
02:51My goal, it sounds like similar to yours, is philosophical type stuff.
02:57I also think big picture NFL stuff is fascinating to me.
03:00What does he think about players going back to college after they're in an NFL
03:05training camp?
03:06How has the NIL world changed the game a little bit?
03:10Everybody says that the offensive line readiness today, comparative to a decade
03:15or so ago, is worse.
03:17Does he buy that?
03:18Why is that?
03:20Where is he on the tush push?
03:21Some of those league burning questions.
03:24The cool thing about having over an hour with him tonight is we're going to be able to
03:27get to all of it, I would hope.
03:29It's not like we're just, oh, we got four questions in on the secondary, the center
03:33position, and we will talk about the center position and a couple of other things.
03:38And then we got to say goodbye because the segment's over.
03:40That's what's awesome about tonight.
03:42100%.
03:42Yeah.
03:42As I said, it's the ultimate let your hair down type thing.
03:45So I wrote down, I think, two dozen different questions and scrapped some, reworked some
03:53others, and we'll also be able to kind of free flow tonight.
03:56If he gives an answer that I go, well, that's interesting, we'll be able to jump on it.
03:59It sounds negative, but be able to go, oh, I want to explore that a little bit more.
04:03Let's do a deep dive there.
04:04Because as you said, it's far different than a, hey, he's got 12 minutes in the middle
04:08of his day when he's got to make one guy active, deactivate another, put some dude
04:13on injured reserve, et cetera.
04:14This, again, is a let your hair down type event.
04:17So we haven't gone over questions yet.
04:19We're going to, I don't know that we even need to list everything or get together and
04:23write things down, but maybe we can go through a category so that the timing is good and
04:28we're not kind of going, hopping back and forth from the roster to maybe philosophical
04:33stuff.
04:33But give me a question you're proud of.
04:35Like, I'll give you one that I really, really like, but give me a question that if you don't
04:40ask it, you're going to be salty.
04:41And I don't mean the obvious burning stuff with the roster.
04:44I mean, you came up with something and you're excited to get to it tonight so that when
04:48I hear it, I can go, ooh, there's the one Danny was fired up about.
04:54Here's one.
04:55According to the best data I could find, okay?
04:57And I'm sure they have better data than this, but just rudimentary Danny searching people
05:02that categorize this stuff.
05:03In his young career, Jaden Daniels has been sacked 65 times.
05:06He's hit another 39 times in the pocket.
05:08He scrambled 112 times and ran on a design 94 runs.
05:12He's been part of approximately 200 plus contact events with defenders and been injured on multiple
05:18occasions.
05:18How lengthy question, how focused are you on limiting those contact events with defenders
05:22and how do you go about it?
05:23Okay.
05:24So basically, how do you avoid Jaden Daniels taking on contact?
05:27Yes.
05:28Just as if to say, hey, it's football.
05:30Well, it is, but he's been hit a lot more than a lot of people.
05:33Yeah.
05:34The last time I saw the numbers, he'd been hit more than anybody else in football since
05:38he came into the league.
05:39I don't know if that is still the case.
05:41Yeah.
05:41With games missed, that's why last year was harder to find because he only played seven
05:44games.
05:45But the per play basis, again, it's really tough to find all the data, but it's up there because
05:50the guys in the pocket have been hit more, guys that when you add in the 100 and whatever
05:54it was, 50 some runs is rookie year and then, you know, 40 some last year, it's different.
05:58I want to ask him about Belichick and I want to ask him about the goalpost thing we were
06:02talking about yesterday that's viral right now online.
06:05Very hyper current, but I want to ask him about, he wasn't there then, he had already
06:12left, but when he hears that, what does he think?
06:16It's now illegal.
06:17They can't do it.
06:18Right.
06:18You're not allowed to do it anymore, but does he think that's something you shouldn't
06:22be doing?
06:23Or is he in my camp?
06:25I think every literal thing you can do, I don't care how it makes you look or how upset
06:30other people get, if it is legal or there's no rule against it, you should be doing it.
06:37If other people's headsets never work at your stadium because on that side of the field,
06:41for some reason, there's not great reception, good.
06:43Good.
06:44Get fined.
06:45That's like level 11 of level seven, which is just making them stand on the sunnier side
06:49and be hot and sweaty.
06:50You know what I mean?
06:51Yes, I do.
06:51So I want to dive into some of that with him, but he came from the Patriots, man.
06:55He's got to have a good story or two about overturning every single stone.
07:01He worked with Bill Belichick.
07:03No detail was too small.
07:06And how much does that shape him now as a guy running a building in terms of information
07:10getting out?
07:11They've been very tight lipped in terms of interactions with the media.
07:14I want to talk to him about that.
07:16Another thing that I'm excited about diving into with AP is this is my own little nerdy
07:22stuff.
07:23An example of something analytics has changed his mind about during his career.
07:28What did you just realize somewhere along the way based on the data or some nerd in
07:32your front office?
07:33I was wrong about that.
07:35Or we're going to do this that way.
07:36You're right.
07:37And then flip side, what's something that the analytics guys constantly tell you to do
07:40that you go, I play ball at UCLA.
07:44I'm a scout.
07:45I was an assistant to the scout.
07:47Then I was the scout.
07:48Then I was the scouting coordinator.
07:49Then I was the scouting director.
07:50I've done it all.
07:52Take that and shove it.
07:53What's the thing you're not willing to play ball on yet from an analytics standpoint?
07:58I like that one a lot.
07:59I've got sort of my standard cadre of, listen, in the decision-making role for NFL teams,
08:06guys that are great at this don't have 1,000 batting average.
08:09You know what I mean?
08:10What are you, 57% in a great year?
08:13It's really, really hard.
08:15Go back.
08:16Give me an honest eval here.
08:17Give me one that you're proud that you knocked out of the park and give me one that I wish
08:20I had back.
08:20I love to hear what he says.
08:21I didn't have this, but I'm going to write it down.
08:23What food do you have to have in your suite on game day?
08:27Does he have like a rider?
08:28Like, you don't remember Dan Snyder.
08:30You remember that guy?
08:31Snyder.
08:31Snyder.
08:32Belieger twerp.
08:33Yes, I do.
08:34Yeah, yeah.
08:34I remember him, yeah.
08:34The pits, that guy?
08:35Yeah, the guy's the worst, yeah.
08:37The sad thing about him was that I think his food and my food were the same food.
08:42He was a big meatballs in a crock pot guy.
08:45And I always hated knowing that.
08:47Yeah.
08:47Because I'm like, damn.
08:49Dan's on to something here.
08:50He's not Ofer because he loves his meatballs hot in a crock pot in his suite at the game.
08:56Does AP have something like that?
08:57Like, hey, it's the third quarter.
08:59Make sure Timmy, the intern.
09:00Time for sloppy joes.
09:01Brings up my apple pie.
09:02Like, what is that move for him?
09:05Is he a nervous eater?
09:07How does he feel about the game day spread generally?
09:11And maybe he's one of those dudes that has no requests.
09:13Maybe he just, like, shows up and he doesn't care about that.
09:17He got in a great shape over the offseason, by the way.
09:19Yeah, like, no dairy in the second half.
09:21Like, are there things like that?
09:22I want to know.
09:22We're going to find out.
09:23Let's hit the phones.
09:24800-636-1067.
09:26Discos and Laurel Disco.
09:27We're putting a little list together here.
09:29We're workshopping in the breaks our run of show tonight.
09:33What should we ask Adam Peters on stage?
09:36Hey, guys.
09:37Ask Adam Peters this.
09:39One, you mentioned that you learned there were some lessons learned with the Terry McLaurin negotiations.
09:45Did that play any part in negotiations with Laramie Tunsil?
09:49And what are some of those lessons that you would take into the potential negotiations with Jaden Daniels?
09:55That's a great one.
09:56And that is on my list.
09:58Did you peek at my list, Disco?
10:00Is that possible?
10:01Lesson learned from the McLaurin negotiations.
10:04Because that's one of my, literally, that's one of my questions.
10:06There are two distinct data points of a highly paid, top-of-the-market player here.
10:11They went very differently, those negotiations.
10:14Walk me through that.
10:15So that's very similar.
10:16Here's what's complicated about that question.
10:18And it's a great call by Disco, as always.
10:20Very sharp.
10:21Love when he calls in.
10:24Peters kind of won that negotiation.
10:27Like, that went really well for him.
10:28For the team, yeah.
10:29Now, for the team, I wouldn't say it did in the sake of the season thereafter.
10:34And for maybe the overall, like, well-being of, I mean, maybe you take a public hit because some people
10:42are upset at you.
10:43Or some slings and arrows come your way for the first time in the honeymoon period or whatever.
10:47So that's a good question.
10:48Like, would you do it the same way?
10:50But the bottom line is, sometimes you're the bad guy.
10:52Your job is, to some extent, to get the best deal.
10:55But perhaps that's part of the question.
10:57Is that the priority always?
10:59Or maybe you learn that in that negotiation.
11:02That maybe you cave a little more or quicker for a guy as important as McLaurin so it doesn't go
11:07completely sideways.
11:08As it turned out, it is irrefutable at this point.
11:13McLaurin's lack of camp and an offseason hurt his year, hurt the offense's year, hurt the team's year.
11:18Now, if he was there all camp because he got a deal done, they probably still would have been in
11:22shambles last year because of all the other injuries.
11:25But I don't know.
11:25How do you view that?
11:26If I'm Peters, I can look in the mirror and go, I did exactly what I should have done.
11:30I stuck to my guns.
11:31He got a fair contract in the end.
11:33We won out on the negotiation, so to speak.
11:37But you also know that some damage was done in some capacity.
11:40So, yeah, it's an interesting question.
11:42We'll see what he says.
11:43Shane in Tennessee, what's up?
11:46What's going on, Commander?
11:47What's going on, Lieutenant?
11:48How are you boys doing today?
11:49Good, buddy.
11:50Go, volunteers.
11:51Hey, I've got two questions for the man.
11:53It's going to dictate what this man is.
11:55First of all, is he less filling or does it taste great?
11:58That's the number one question you should ask.
12:00Number one.
12:00Is it less filling or it tastes great?
12:02Okay.
12:02And that's going to dictate, of course, it's less filling, right?
12:05We've got to have the less filling taste, right?
12:07Number two, does he put his maple syrup in the refrigerator or does he leave it out?
12:12Oh, wait, don't answer this yet.
12:14Don't answer this yet.
12:15This is such an important question and my wife and I adamantly disagree on this.
12:20Danny, syrup, refrigerator or out?
12:23I don't have a policy on this and I'm not ducking the question.
12:26Yes, you are.
12:27You're a politician.
12:28I'm not.
12:28I'm not ducking the question.
12:29You just lost my vote.
12:29I'm not ducking the question.
12:30I don't know the answer.
12:32I always have to look and I ask my wife and whatever her preference is.
12:36It's obvious to answer.
12:37I never put my syrup in the refrigerator.
12:40What about you, Shane?
12:42It stays on the counter, boys.
12:44Let's go.
12:44My family's maple syrup.
12:46It stays on the counter for years.
12:48Maple syrup.
12:49Years.
12:49I am from the maple syrup country.
12:52Years.
12:53And then that last one is this.
12:55It is the combine.
12:57What are we doing with the combine?
12:59Do they get better results on a combine or their pro day?
13:04Appreciate you.
13:04That's a good one.
13:05Combine versus pro day.
13:06We'll see if we can slide that in.
13:08Here's the really annoying thing.
13:11And I'll do the prerequisite that she's great.
13:14I love her.
13:15I'm very lucky and all that stuff.
13:16My wife.
13:17Okay.
13:18Not only puts the syrup in the refrigerator, but she goes directly from the fridge onto the item.
13:23Well, that's.
13:25Drives me insane.
13:27So, like, the kids, when I make their breakfast or when I do their, you know, their waffle or whatever
13:33out of the toaster, I put the syrup into the microwave.
13:37Yeah.
13:37Right.
13:38You know, spin it around a little bit.
13:39Of course you do.
13:40Swoosh it with a fork.
13:42Ten more seconds.
13:43And it's nice and hot or warm and pour it on there.
13:45My wife will just take the bottle, squirt it like a ketchup bottle, basically, right onto the waffle.
13:49So, you've got the hot, crispy exterior of the waffle and then this cold, wet syrup.
13:57Syrup ice cubes?
13:58What are we doing?
13:58Well, mister, I don't care over there.
14:00What you're doing is you're putting your syrup in the refrigerator.
14:02Well, my point is maybe it's supposed to be refrigerated.
14:04I actually don't know the answer what it's supposed to be, what it's supposed to happen.
14:07I do the heat up move, though.
14:09So, if I'm there, if I'm deputized, which I rarely am, because my wife gets anxiety any time I come
14:15near the kitchen.
14:15She doesn't like it.
14:16They don't want me in there.
14:17It's not good for anybody.
14:18But if it is my turn to do something that has the syrup on it, I do heat it up.
14:22Like, every time.
14:24So, the idea that you would go from the fridge, if that's where storage is supposed to be, fine.
14:28You can't go right onto the hot item with the cold syrup.
14:31No.
14:31You're a syrup guy.
14:32I'm a syrup guy.
14:34Is that one of the things I say weird?
14:35I don't know that it's weird.
14:37I've been made fun of for saying syrup.
14:39Dad, what do you say?
14:40Syrup or syrup?
14:41We have a disagreement here.
14:43I'm a syrup guy.
14:45Syrup.
14:45That's two.
14:46Strober, what do you put on your pancakes and your waffles and your French toast?
14:50Syrup.
14:51Ooh.
14:52Two to two.
14:53Will Adam Peters break the tie?
14:55Show up tonight at 7 p.m.
14:56Why else are we going to Arlington Draft House?
14:58That's the whole thing, right?
14:59After all.
15:00800-636-106.