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Radio reactions to Commanders bidder, Brian Davis’ interview

There were lots of reactions to Brian Davis’ bid on the Commanders after his Wednesday appearance on The Sports Junkies.

Former Duke basketball two-time national champion Brian Davis was certainly the most talked about person Wednesday, regarding him being a potential owner of the Washington Commanders.

Davis dialogued with The Sports Junkies (106.7 The Fan) for two segments Wednesday morning. Here are some of the responses from the Junkies and then also other sports personalities in the DMV.

“Whose intellectual property is worth $50 billion? Nobody I have ever heard of…The bottom line is does the guy have legitimate money? I know he is not a billionaire and the guy said he was a billionaire.” — Eric Bickel, 106.7 The Fan

“I am calling shenanigans on that. .. Wait until the headline at Pro Football Talk is ‘Brian Davis can’t wait to sink white people’s money’.”  — John Cakes Auville, 106.7 The Fan

“Nobody believes he has the money. Nobody in this room believes he has the money.” — John-Paul Flaim, 106.7 The Fan

“He reminded me of a relative at either Christmas or Thanksgiving dinner; they are just talking in circles. At some point, you wish they would stop talking, but they just won’t. They keep going and going.“ — John Cakes Auville, 106.7 The Fan

“I don’t know if we learned a lot, but he said a lot…You know what you can’t run from or hide from if you are going to try to make a major business play? Your past… There is a reason we have never discussed this on our show. That is because we never did really think it was real.” — JP Finlay, 106.7 The Fan

“I don’t feel comfortable supporting what I just heard. Just because you change the name doesn’t mean your history is gone.” — Brian Mitchell, 106.7 The Fan

“Supposedly he is able to get billionaires to agree to give him billions of dollars for his intellectual property. Again, forgive my skepticism. Who gave you the money? That was the one question that never really came up…When it did come up in passing he said it came from white people, which was an odd phrase, I thought.” — Grant Paulsen, 106.7 The Fan

“This sounds like the most fraudulent bit of nonsense I can remember hearing about. I don’t have a nicer way of saying it than that. This does not sound realistic.” — Danny Roullier, 106.7 The Fan

“Are you really going to buy something from somebody or allow that somebody to buy something from you, where you don’t understand who it is and where it is coming from, in terms of the money in the deal? …I don’t know man, it didn’t sound real to me. None of this has sounded real at any point.“ — Kevin Sheehan, 980 The Team

“To be quite honest, and to be quite blunt, there wasn’t much that I could handle. I am not trying to be a jerk here. I’m not trying to be mean. If this morning was a true representation of what Brian Davis is trying to sell to the National Football League, Dan and Tanya Snyder and Bank of America Securities, there is no way anybody with half a peanut in their brain that could walk away saying, ‘Oh yes, that sounds good. That sounds real. That sounds legit.’ ” — Chris Russell, 980 The Team.

“More sleight of hand from Davis, it seems, and the proof of that kills his credibility even more…The idea that Brian Davis is doing all these things, and this could be a means to justify an end, falls through immediately. He’s mentioned this elaborate plan, but no one in PG County has seen it. You can’t just submit a bid to the NFL and say you’re going to do things if you don’t have the approval to do any of it.” — Craig Hoffman, 980 The Team

Grant Paulsen illustrated the elation of Commanders fans Thursday

Thursday was fun for many on the Washington D.C. sports radio airwaves.

Thursday night, I determined to go back and listen to Grant and Danny on 106.7 The Fan. I felt their opening monologue/dialog might be entertaining, seeing the two have been so outspoken for some time regarding their desire for Snyder to no longer own the Washington NFL football franchise.
I expected some happiness, enjoyment, perhaps even delight. What I just heard moments ago in listening to the first segment of Thursday’s show was, to my surprise, even more than I had anticipated.
Grant Paulsen was literally elated, exhilarated, almost giddy. No, he was giddy. It was a different Grant in some way. He was so full of joy and enthusiasm I suddenly found myself realizing I was happy for him.
I’ve followed the Washington NFL team since the 1969 season. I recall many good seasons, great seasons,  six NFC championship games, and five Super Bowls and three Super Bowl victories!
Paulsen was born in 1989. Therefore, he doesn’t remember nor did he experience any of the Super Bowl seasons of Joe Gibbs and Bobby Beathard. He never experienced the George  Allen teams ALWAYS achieving winning seasons in 1971-77.
Paulsen hasn’t had any of that to fall back upon and reflect on from time to time. He has simply grown tired of all he knows about Washington football… dysfunction, black clouds, and losing seasons.
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Paulsen began Thursday’s show:
“Nobody threw for 300 yards; nobody won a football game today.
It’s better than that, though, isn’t it?
(Raising his voice) “Hey, everybody! It’s your pals, Grant and Danny!
Ready to talk about sportin’ stuff.
Anybody have anything they want to hear us talk about today?
Who wants to listen to the radio today?
Who wants to listen to the radio today?”
“Daniel, a big smile on your face today.”

“We have been doing shows together since 2009 in some capacity, and Grant & Danny has existed since 2010, and I’m not sure any of those shows we’ve done were as big as today’s or have been bigger or meant more to our audience, than today’s.”

“This is special and different because maybe, just maybe, there is a gleam! Twenty-four years of turmoil and ineptitude, 24 years of people being treated badly, of irrelevance and losses and being the butt of jokes…it could all be coming to an end because Daniel Snyder’s reign of terror is over.”

When Paulsen referenced “the gleam,” I burst out in laughter, knowing he was referencing the late Marty Schottenheimer, who was caught on film telling his huddled-up team of a “gleam” for certain players who love to be there in big moments.

This, for Paulsen, was a big moment, and he so loved conveying to his audience Thursday that Daniel Snyder had reached an agreement in principle to sell the franchise. I couldn’t help but wonder if Paulsen’s “gleam” was illustrious of thousands more who have longed for the Burgundy and Gold to return to greatness.

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Commanders’ Chase Young was the talk of DMV radio

Chase Young’s fifth-year option and future in Washington continue to be a hot topic.

Similarly to when he was drafted, Commanders defensive end Chase Young has been at the center of Washington NFL fan’s radio discussions this week.

Monday and Tuesday, Young was discussed by Chris Russell, Kevin Sheehan, Ben Standig and Grant and Danny.

The heart of the matter in all conversations is that Young has far from lived up to expectations when he was drafted second overall in the 2020 NFL draft. Consequently, with the deadline approaching, the Commanders must decide if they are going to go ahead and take on Chase Young’s fifth-year option.

Sheehan asked Standig if the Commanders had to choose to either extend Montez Sweat or offer Chase Young the fifth-year option, which would they choose. Standig went with Montez Sweat. “Montez Sweat has simply been the better player to this point,” expressed Standig. Standig also pointed to the struggle Ron Rivera has also experienced with Young’s maturity as a major issue.

“Defensive end/pass rusher is a significant priority for this team because Chase Young is not a part of the long-term future of this team in my eyes,” declared Russell on his 980 The Team show. “And I don’t think he is in their eyes either.”

Russell told his listeners, “There’s stuff you all don’t know about, that they (the Commanders) know about. I keep telling you that. There’s stuff you don’t know about that they know about. And I am just going to leave it at that.”

Grant Paulsen expressed regarding Young that after a fine rookie season, “Going into year two, we all expected he was about to make the Bosa leap. He was about to go get 14/15 sacks. Obviously, for nine games, he was really disappointing before he got hurt.”

“That whole season started with Young, the only one of the 90 players of the entire team who wasn’t at OTAs. Then when he was asked about it he was ‘getting that money, boss’. So, some of the questions started to come right away.

“Rivera was challenging him, talking about his maturity. So it has been very negative and downhill since then, I would say.”

All were in agreement, they want Young to bust out and play well for Washington, but they were all realistic as well. Young has been a major disappointment, and it is not about his injury only. Young was entirely unaware of how immature he was during the 2021 season.

We are all hoping he has grown up, is now aware and mature, and ready to bust out as a second-overall pick in an NFL draft should be.

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Daniel Snyder was the talk of Grant and Danny Wednesday

Seth Wickersham, John Ourand and Mike Florio were among those who discussed the Daniel Snyder news Wednesday.

“Grant and Danny” of 106.7 The Fan hit the jackpot Wednesday. Their show revolved around the Daniel Snyder announcement of potentially selling some or all of the Commanders.

Guests for Grant and Danny included ESPN’s Seth Wickersham, John Ourand of Sports Business Journal, Lisa Banks of Katz, Marshall and Banks, Virginia State Senator Jeremy McPike, the Washington Post’s Barry Svurluga, Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio, Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton, Richmond Times Dispatch’s Michael Phillips. They also had former Washington QB Kirk Cousins as well.

Of course, Cousins was there to talk football, and all of the rest were ready to talk Daniel Snyder.

Wickersham believes today was a monumental day because not only did Snyder make the move with Bank of America, but the team also clarified even more that they are exploring all options. Translated, they sent out an invitation to billionaires to place their opening bid, and let’s see where this goes.

Florio, who has certainly been no fan or supporter of Snyder, shared he had an exchange with an NFL insider. “When I sent that statement to somebody who knows how the NFL sausage gets made, who’s intimately involved in league matters, the reaction was ‘this statement says if we get the number we like, we’re the selling the team’.”

Paulsen was willing to say what any NFL ownership would most likely never wish to have known. Paulsen stated confidently, “To me this all but confirms the team needs money. They need an injection of cash. But who in their right mind with that kind of money would ever be a minority partner for the Snyders? His only hope would be to try to get a well-liked celebrity to buy in and be front facing.”

Space does not permit here, but might it suffice to say, for now, money does not buy happiness? The Snyders are billionaire owners of an NFL franchise. Yet, consider all of the losing of games, the losing of the fan base, the past few years of investigations, bad press and being despised and wished gone by virtually every single fan of the franchise.

With all of that, perhaps might the Snyders now simply want to sell out and live a quiet, peaceful life in luxurious wealth?

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