Grant and Danny are still in the honeymoon phase with the new ownership group and are happy to be talking about football and not off-field headlines.
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00:00Josh Harris was at practice,
00:02the entire ownership group it sounds like,
00:03made it out today.
00:04I liked that they still got a very nice welcome.
00:09I heard B. Mitch and Finley earlier today
00:10who have done a great job covering training camp on site
00:13for us here at 106.7 The Fan.
00:15And those guys were asking, JP brought it up,
00:18he said, when do you think the heroes welcome will subside
00:21and it's not going to be like a novelty
00:23of everyone cheering and chanting thank you
00:26as Josh Harris walks out?
00:27And I got to thinking about that driving in, Danny,
00:30I think it's going to be a while.
00:32As long as they're not bad or there's no off the field
00:37drama, turmoil, controversy
00:40that comes from the ownership group,
00:43even if you're just normal and competitive
00:46and not that good, that is such an upgrade for people.
00:50Many of them at training camp today
00:52haven't been at camping years
00:53because they refused to do anything
00:55that supported Dan Snyder.
00:57So just the idea that I'm allowed to watch games
01:00without feeling bad about it,
01:02that I'm allowed to go to the stadium
01:03if I haven't done that in years,
01:04that I can go to a practice and buy my kid a hat
01:07or a t-shirt when I swore that off,
01:09I got my thing back because of these people
01:12buying the team from Dan Snyder.
01:13So I think that's not going to go away anytime soon.
01:17They obviously have to win to be beloved.
01:20I'm sure Josh Harris at one point with the 76ers,
01:23when he took over, everyone was very excited
01:25and they don't have a title yet.
01:27I think they've done a good job.
01:28I think the process worked.
01:29We could debate that.
01:29I happen to think going from a terrible team
01:32to a team that has a chance winning 50 games every year
01:35is a pretty nice job well done in the front office.
01:38Having said that, if years from now
01:41they're not getting deep into the playoffs,
01:44I'm quite sure people will have a different feeling
01:46or just a different reverence or lust, love for this group.
01:50But right now it's more about Dan being gone still
01:53than them being here.
01:54So not surprised at all
01:56that they're still getting the big ovation.
01:57Yeah, and I don't know when the honeymoon ends.
02:00We asked this rhetorically a couple of different times
02:02and even opened up to calls at various points
02:04over the last year plus.
02:05I know that I'm not there yet, by the way.
02:07Going through a football season
02:09where there's no Dan Snyder was delightful.
02:10I can't wait for the next one.
02:12And I don't think they're going to be
02:12particularly good this year.
02:14They have a quarterback that I'm excited about
02:15and long-term that's the most interesting thing.
02:18But I don't know when that's going to rub off.
02:20I don't know when the novelty is,
02:21okay, now let's actually start trying to build something
02:24because they've done everything that I have ever asked for
02:26for the most part, right?
02:27There's still some things
02:28that I think they're missing the boat on
02:30and I disagree with them
02:30and would tell them so if they asked,
02:33they shouldn't ask by the way,
02:34but hiring a general manager
02:36and empowering that general manager to go build his staff
02:39but have the buck stop with him.
02:42Understand that you need to reach out to fans
02:46and engage them in so many different ways.
02:47They've been outstanding in the community.
02:49They have the football structure that I want.
02:51Even if I would have gone,
02:52hey, I might not have hired that head coach.
02:53I might not have gone about changing the name this way
02:56or dropping these little hints about the stadium, whatever.
02:58Those are regular football conversations
03:01and I will not take for granted
03:02that that's what we get instead of,
03:04okay, so the Eastern District of Virginia
03:06has an investigation but so does the state of Virginia
03:08and the federal court in DC does too
03:10but that doesn't count the harassment charge
03:11in the lawsuit based on-
03:12Are you talking about the harassment case
03:14or are you talking about the-
03:15No, the first harassment case.
03:16Investigation into the money
03:17that they scammed from the season ticket holders.
03:18The third harassment case because there are so many.
03:21We're not doing that anymore.
03:22We're just doing a football thing
03:23and it's so refreshing and so nice.