The Kevin Sheehan Show - Daniels Dominant In Upset Over Bengals!

Episode Date: September 24, 2024

Kevin with a quick recap of Washington's 38-33 Monday Night Football win in Cincinnati. Kevin's first-blush on an incredible night for Jayden Daniels and the Commanders' offense. Washington starting center Tyler Biadasz was Kevin's guest from the locker room in Cincinnati.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

You don't want it. You don't need it. But you're going to get it anyway. The Kevin Cheehan Show. Here's Kevin. They're down in seven. This one is launched from a quarrying. Well, that was fun, wasn't it?

And yes, I'm fully aware that it's just the third career game for him. Him, of course, being Jaden Daniels. But I'm not going to waste the special moment he gave us to. tonight. I'm in to do a late night special podcast. I'll have a full show tomorrow afternoon. What I liked, what I didn't like, a full game take. But this is going to be a recap. A quick one of one of the most impressive offensive nights for this franchise in years and a rookie quarterback performance for the ages. Not an exaggeration. I'll get to his historic night. The historic start to his career, but first, Window Nation is the presenting sponsor of this podcast, 86690 Nation

or WindowNation.com, if you need new windows. Tyler Beaudish, Washington's starting center in the huddle offensively all night long, is going to join us here shortly from Cincinnati, where the headlines could read Washington upset Cincinnati, 38 to 33. That's That would sum it up from a team result standpoint. Something like Washington's offense, unstoppable in early statement win over Sincere. But any editor worth his salt is going to include Jaden Daniels in the title. A younger editor might write the headline as Jaden Daniels is him. Yeah, he was him tonight.

He gave us that first moment. You know, RG3's first game in New Orleans, shock and awe. Jaden's performance tonight, it's really not that shocking if you watched him in college, but it did, you know, without question, inspire some awe. You know, he started trending big time on social media with that first big downfield throw to Terry McClureen in the first half for 55 yards. And then he nearly melted X. melted Twitter with that last touchdown pass to clinch the game from 27 yards out to Terry

McClorn. I've seen some of the, you know, the probabilities of that pass connecting. It's like less than 10%. Great throw, great catch. And man, did he take a big shot after he unloaded that thing? He was 21 of 23 for 254 yards, two touchdowns, zero interceptions again. He rushed for another 39 yards and a touchdown. He accounted for three scores and 293 total yards. Remember when someone asked him right after he got drafted what we should know about his game and he said, go check out the Florida game? That was the game in which, by the way, he accounted for 606 yards and five touchdowns and pretty much clinched and cinched the Heisman trophy with that game. Well, it wasn't quite that kind of game statistically. It's almost impossible

to do that in the NFL. But if people want to know what his pro game looks like, he can tell them to check out the Cincinnati game. A 91.3% completion percentage at 21.1.1.1.1% completion percentage at 21. of 23 is an all-time rookie quarterback record for a single game. He also became the first quarterback in NFL history to throw for at least two touchdowns, run for at least three touchdowns without throwing an interception in his first three games of his career. Jaden Daniels was pretty good in his first two starts. Tonight was something extraordinary. It really was. Somebody said to me last week when I gave him an A that I was grading on some sort of curve. And oh, by the way, you can't give him an A for the win over the Giants.

You got to save it for something much better. Okay, tonight was much better. A plus plus plus. Yeah, he may have missed some things early in the game in particular. But this guy led an offense tonight that rolled up 38 points on just six total drive. in the game. That's it. Six drives, they scored on all six. Five touchdowns, one field goal, much different than last week when it was seven drives, seven scores, seven field goals. All right, 38 points, 356 yards. He accounted for 293 of them. The team for the second straight game

never punted once. For the second straight game, they didn't turn the ball over. once, actually for the third straight game, they didn't turn the ball over once. They were five for nine on third down, three for three on fourth down. And with the game on the line in the final five minutes, clinging to a five point lead, facing third and seven at the Cincinnati 27, he took the biggest hit he's taken all year against an all-out blitz and threw an absolute dime to Terry McClure for a touchdown to ice the game. He let the ball go, by the way, if you've watched this thing, that ball was out when Terry was still at the 19-yard line,

just eight yards down the field, and it landed in Terry's hands softly and beautifully seven yards deep into the end zone. perfection, under pressure with the game on the line taking the biggest hit he's taken all year long. Hello, anybody listening out there? You just don't do what he did tonight in your third game. Great catch by Terry McClureen. Great night for Terry. This one will go down as one of the better quarterbacked games in franchise.

history, not just for a rookie for anybody. I'm not saying that it was, you know, Doug Williams in Super Bowl 22 or ripped six touchdowns against Atlanta back in 91. It may not have even been the RG3 game against New Orleans or the RG3 game against Dallas on Thanksgiving Day when he threw for four touchdowns. I'm sure Sonny had a lot of games that were better. You go back to some of the You- Know Who games in 24. 2015 and 2016, maybe not better than some of those. Brad Johnson owns the franchise mark for passing yards in a game. He didn't sniff that necessarily, 471 yards back in 1999 for Brad Johnson in a game that clinched a playoff birth in San Francisco.

I'm sure Thysman had some massive games during his MVP season in 1983. But tonight, being the first big sports. spot for this rookie to watch him come through. His passer rating was 141.7. His overall QBR just in 93, the highest that I could find for a quarterback here since Kirk had a few higher ones in 2015 and 2016. And what made tonight special was just that it was the first time watching him do his thing. You know, for those of us that have been watching him for a while, we've seen these spectacular performances,

not just highlight reel, you know, plays, but just dominant takeover game performances. And he did it tonight for the first time as a pro on Monday night football in front of a large audience. An audience, it was probably much larger than it would have been because the other game was such a blowout. He was sensational tonight. He threw when he needed to.

He ran when he needed to. He ran and threw tonight when he needed to. Yeah, on the move outside the pocket, eyes down the field tonight making throws. The runs were designed runs. They were option runs. He was under center. He was in shotgun.

He was in pistol. He threw screens. He threw over the middle. He threw deep. He extended plays. and threw the ball instead of just running. He did it all. And yes, he missed a few things.

And Troy Aitman was pointing them out over and over again early. You know, most of them were early. He had Noah Brown wide open on a third and one on the opening drive. You know, he took a small lost yardage sack instead. He had sin it open on the second drive and ran for a few yards instead. And then he had Terry deep when Terry's defender fell down. a definite touchdown, and he overthrew him by a lot. Just a bounce back from that.

Like it never, ever affected him, missing Terry on that deep ball in the first half. He never worried, he never fretted. This guy just doesn't get rattled. He just keeps coming back and slinging it, not to mention his total control for much of the game at the line of scrimmage. his competitiveness when they were facing that fourth and four. Sure, it's his third game.

There are going to be some confusing moments as there were on that final drive, but it didn't matter. He overcame it. 55 yards deep in the first half to Terry for a 2110 lead, a 27-yard touchdown pass, the one we came in with, with just over two minutes to go to finish the Bengals off. just incredible. Two huge fourth down throws, one to McCaffrey, one to Ertz,

another fourth down run on a read option keeper. The game plan tonight give Kingsbury so much credit. He is getting it done so far through three games. We see more and more each week. I thought Dan Quinn had his team ready, even on defense where it was a long night. I never felt like they weren't flying around and playing with a sense of urgency. Same on special teams, big tackles.

Reeves had one on a kickoff. And then we had a 62-yard kickoff return by Austin Echler to start the second half, which set up the offense at the Bengals 37-yard line. That touchdown following that kickoff return led to Washington's first double-digit lead of the season. I thought Kingsbury was great. I thought Echler before he got banged up and was checked out for a concussion. Let's hope he's okay. I thought he was spectacular.

119 all-purpose yards from Austin Echler. He was so big early, big runs, big catches and runs. And then the 24-yard touchdown run to give them a 14-7 lead in the second quarter. Luke McCaffrey created high-level separation last week. We talked about it, but Jaden didn't see him. This week, the same, but Jaden saw him. How about on that first, fourth down conversion? He caught three balls for 44 yards.

He's going to keep getting better. Ertz was outstanding. Noah Brown continued to prove that he was a worthwhile acquisition, becoming a bit of a go-to for Jaden in some big spots. And then there was Terry. A pro's pro. Tonight, his four catches for 100 yards raises his point. per reception yardage to over 11 yards close to 12 from what, 4.9 before the game tonight.

The O line, solid again, especially in the run game. The offense overall, about as good as you could have hoped, one of the better performances we've seen in years. The most points since 20, I'm sorry, since 2020, when they scored 41 on Thanksgiving Day, in Dallas. I mean, they have not been stopped on their last 13 meaningful drives. Seven for seven against the Giants, all field goals, six for six tonight, five touchdowns, and a field goal. I know they had a drive at the end of the Tampa game, so actually it's 14 of their last 14, but that drive, you don't count that in a game in which they're getting their ass kicked by 23

and they're playing reserves and a soft defense. The meaningful drives of the last two games, they are 13 for 13. They haven't punted and they haven't turned the ball over. By the way, tonight, the game was the first since 1940 in the NFL to feature no punts and no turnovers. That hasn't happened in 84 years of football.

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Washington gets to 2 and 1. Yes, the season is in play. I'm not, as I mentioned on the show, you know, earlier today or yesterday at this point by the time you get it. I'm not into discussing building block seasons. If we get to the end of a building block season, I'm all right as long as the quarterback was right, the GM was right, the coaching staff was right,

and things appear to be headed in the right direction. But in the moment, no way, not in the NFL. Anything can effing happen. We see it every year. Washington is dynamic and potentially explosive on offense. And so this season now is on. Tonight was a conversation changer.

Tommy and I talked about this last week. You get to two-and-one by beating a desperate, playoff hopeful, I mean more than a playoff hopeful, an AFC contender the thought was before the season started. You go into their building and a game. a desperate spot because they're o' and two with a loss last week to Kansas City at Arrowhead on the final play of the game and you win that game, it's a conversation changer. For the moment, they're two and one. They're tied for first in the NFC East.

They've got a game this Sunday at Arizona. And then, you know, there is a stretch here after they play the Browns and the Ravens, Panthers, Bears, Bears, Giants. I mean, we don't know what it'll look like by the time we get there, obviously. The NFL is just constantly in motion, and it's hard to keep track of where everything is going. It's truly dynamic. But there's no reason that this team, with the quarterback they have, with the way he can potentially play, along with some of the other pieces they have offensively, and I think we're starting to learn the coordinator. And I know he's trailed off at times in college primarily.

later in seasons. We'll see. This is our first experience with him. But this season, for now, here, three games into it, is on and alive. I don't think we need to talk about building blocks and long-term plants. You know, until it becomes clear that in the short term, in 2024, they're actually not playing for anything because right now they are. Tonight, however, continued a troubling theme to the first part of this season,

and that is defensively they are struggling. Now, I give them credit. They thought were flying around. They were hitting. They played with urgency. They actually had a very crucial stretch at the end of the first quarter. in a 7 to 7 game, I thought it was a really big play and ultimately a game in which nobody punted and nobody turned it over. And everybody scored on every drive with the exception of this one.

And that was the Bengals' second and 11 play at the end of the first quarter. A huge read of a quick bubble screen by Mikey Sanristil, the rookie. who absolutely blew up the play intended for Chase Brown on a second and 11. Now, that is the kind of instinctual play that he made at Michigan, and that was big because that set up a third and 11, not that there was any guarantee. They were going to get off the field on third and 11. They threw Burrow did to Gaseki.

In coverage was Butler, but Chin came over, and broke up the pass. It was a good throw. Butler was kind of trailing there in coverage, but Chin came over with the big knockout of the football to force the field goal attempt from Evan McPherson, which he missed. It was his first miss in his last 29 attempts from inside 50 yards,

and Washington took over with the football and a chance to take the lead in the game, which they did in the second quarter. But aside from that stretch and maybe a couple of other plays here and there, and there weren't many, they sacked them a couple of times. The pressure was there more than it was, certainly against Daniel Jones. But overall, they gave up 436 yards, 33 points, 6 of 10 on 30. down, 30 first downs altogether and 7.3 yards per play.

Now the red zone defense, getting that stop on that field goal attempt actually wasn't a red zone stop because it was outside the red zone, but forcing a field goal at the Washington 9 yard line to make it 14 to 10 was big. and then forcing the field goal at the end of the first half after Burrow was incomplete to Jemar Chase was big as well, because ultimately they were two for four in the red zone, and Washington, after going 0 for six last week, was three for three. But defensively, it's run-stopping first and foremost. Chase Brown, seven carries 62 yards, 8.9 yards per carry. Zach Moss, 12 carries 58 yards, 4.8 yards per carry.

I tweeted out at one point, I don't know why they're not running the football more. I mean, it's not like they didn't have success throwing it. Burrow was 29 of 38 for 324 yards and three touchdowns. And my God, what are we doing? single covering Jamar Chase. I don't care how many people were sending after the quarterback unless we've got foreign coverage against four receivers. I don't want number one singled up.

Sandra still got burned the first time. I'm forgetting who it was the second time. I think it may have been St. Juice. But even with T. Higgins back, Chase is the guy. You cannot single cover because Burrow sees it immediately and went to it twice for two touchdowns. Chase is an absolute stud, one of the three best in the league. So, yes, the season is on, but there's a concern after three games about this team defensively.

Now, this is the best quarterback. This is the best receiver duo, although Tampa's is close, that they have faced. And this is a team that had not run the ball at all in their first two games. and they averaged 6.2 yards per carry, if you include Burroughs one run. Without Burroughs one run, they averaged close to 7 yards per carry. Brutal run stopping again. We've now had Rashad White and Bucky Irving and Devin Singletary and Chase Brown and Zach Moss have their way with Washington's defense.

the opposing offensive lines having their way with Washington's front four, especially the interior. I will tell you this about the interior tonight. Man, there was a lot of Johnny Newton. There was a lot of Phil Mathis in this game. You saw Duran Payne coming in and out, John Allen coming in and out. I'll be very interested to see the snap counts because it felt like they were constantly switching. There was a series or two without Duran or John in the game. We saw Jamin Davis as a linebacker, as a pass rushing linebacker. We saw multiple people in coverage, none of whom were really that effective. I mean, I will go back, I will watch the game again. I think, you know, per usual, there will be a couple of occasions with Benjamin St.

juiced where he was kind of close. I thought Noah Igbin O'Genni was kind of close. I actually kind of like him a little bit more than almost anybody else in terms of the corners. And there was that play by Sanra still, you know, at the end of the first quarter and the follow-up play by Chin. That was big. I'll tell you, 90, Gene Baptiste, they like him. I kind of like them too. But there's not a lot to like defensively. Austin Seibert made his one kick, so he's now eight for eight, didn't miss a PAT, which was big in this game, and Washington wins 3833 for their second straight win, and we go to Arizona. All right, again, tomorrow I'm much more complete, what I liked, what I didn't like.

I'll take a look at the game a little bit more in detail, but this was. kind of the quick blush after a very exciting night. I think a very memorable night, especially if this career takes off Jadens, of course, in the direction, which I think it might. Very exciting, really on the quarterback front through the first three games, really exciting just overall offensively. I hope Echler's okay. They really need him. He has really been an incredible factor. By the way, not a big night for Brian Robinson, Jr. They were clearly loading the box early and saying, we're going to stop.

Number eight, we'll make Jaden pull it on the read options, which I thought he had more opportunities to pull it on those read options and didn't. But the one thing Cincinnati's defense did pretty well was slow down Brian Robinson, Jr. But they could not really handle number five. Last year's number five holds for extra points in PATs. It's the only time he sees his way onto the field. Tress's way.

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go to N-A-V-A-G-E dot com slash Sheean. That's promo code Sheean at navage.com slash Sheean. Jumping on with me right now from the locker room is Tyler Beaudish, the starting center for our Washington commanders after an incredible 3833 win in Cincinnati. First of all, Tyler, congrats. I really appreciate you making time for me. Look, no matter how early we are in the season, that's an impressive win,

especially the way you guys dominated on offense. Give us a sense as to the locker room reaction and excitement after this one. Yeah, huge, huge. I mean, you never take a game for granted for sure. and doing it on the road, you know, road warriors, you know, we say. And in the locker room, it's always great having that momentum and confidence, especially going up to the next week, especially on the road again. But just getting that road win down, that first one, just doing it with our group on all phases.

That's a huge, huge win. So it was another game, Tyler, no turnovers, no punts. You guys had six drives and scored on all of them. Last week, it was seven drives scoring on all of them, but it was field goals. Tonight, everything came together, five touchdowns in a field goal. Tell me why everything you guys did tonight seemed to work so well. Yeah, I mean, we just focused on coming off the last game about execution, making sure we're executing in the red zone and putting points on the board.

Obviously, three is great, but, you know, obviously six and seven's better. But, you know, that means that's all it takes, And it's just, it's simple. Obviously not easy at times, but, you know, we collectively just kept straining and kept executing on big downs, like third down and even fourth down. And that's what it takes. That's what takes the win ball games in the NFL. You know, there's a lot of excitement here tonight in D.C.

You can just almost feel it, you know, palpably from wherever you are. And a lot of it has to do with what you guys did as a team, but specifically your quarterback, Jaden Daniels in the way he played tonight. Give me something on your quarterback and what it was like to be in the huddle with him tonight. Yeah, I mean, just super poised, just as he always is, and just leaving us. Doing a great job of being him,

and then just comes down to execution, and, you know, he knows the playbook of the back of his hand, so he's always been bawling and, you know, just keeping us together and everything like that. So, I mean, he's been doing a great job, I can't say enough great things about him. So, Tyler, I want to go back to the beginning of the game. They take the opening kickoff.

They go down, they get a touchdown pretty easily. And you guys come out onto the field. First quarter down 7-0. You're in the midst of a long drive, and there's a fourth and two on that drive. You're in field goal range, no field goal. You guys keep the offense out there, and Jaden hits McCaffrey for a pass underneath. He takes it down to the two-yard line. Was that a play, or maybe was there another play on that?

that drive or the drive that followed, where you guys had a sense this was going to be a really good night offensively. You had the confidence. You had the players. You had the matchups or whatever it was, but you felt good about how it was going to play out the rest of the night. Yeah, I don't think it was any specific play. I think every play, I mean, it comes down to execution and obviously fourth down, like, is a more critical play. But at the same time, we still have that same confidence as first down, first down, second down, third down. I mean, the fact that we have another extra down to get two yards. We're always better on us. So I mean, you know, obviously a big, huge critical play right to start our first drive. But at the same time, we had another

one come up later in the game too. And we executed that one as well. Yeah, we'll talk about the one on the last drive too and then the touchdown pass to Terry. I do have to ask you, I mean, you're a center, so you're never going to be tackle eligible for a touchdown pass. but Jaden's first career touchdown pass goes to tackle eligible Trent Scott. Did that work all week in practice? Sure did. Sure did.

It did. No, we knew it was coming and everything. That unique that it's his first touchdown pass and always happy for a big guy to get touchdown like that. But yeah, no, I mean, scheme great. I mean, we sold it up front. Checkout open, getting through a dot. Yeah, he did.

He threw a couple of big ones to Terry McClorn. How excited were you guys to see Terry get some big ones tonight? Oh, he was huge. We knew it was coming too. I mean, you know, he's been working his ass off every single day, and we knew he was coming, and he lit him up today, man. He was doing great things on offensive, putting pressure on the defense, and it showed, obviously, the deep ball showed tonight, for sure.

and we're so excited for Terry. Absolutely. Look, you were in the huddle with, you know, Dak Prescott, who's been in the league for a while and is a poised guy and a veteran. How does Jaden handle it? He looks so calm, Tyler, from afar, so poised. Is that the way he comes off to you guys? No, he's always been very poised and always been in the moment. And that's Jay.

And he's doing a great job, like I said before. and he's just been born. And he's always that same guy, every single play. It doesn't matter what down it is. He has that slagger, that confidence he brings every single play. How important is that relationship that you have with him specifically? You know, when they went out and signed you and you committed to coming here, I think a lot of Washington fans realized they need a veteran center to be paired with a rookie quarterback.

You know, that's going to be an important part of Jaden's development. development. Do you feel that responsibility and how is that relationship between the two of you? Yeah, I mean, obviously, you know, coming here, like, I had a good idea that, you know, there was going to be a rookie quarterback coming in. And with Jay, like, our relationship's great. And my job is to make sure he feels as great and comfortable with every type of scenario that we're going through or whatever, whatever the play at hand is, whatever checks we're making. and being on the same page, that chemistry, that bond. That's a huge thing. And, yeah, absolutely is my responsibility. So take very good pride in that.

And just keep building that every single week. All right, I want to take you to the final drive, the one that ends with a touchdown pass, an incredible throw and an incredible catch, versus it looked like zero coverage blitz. And Jaden takes a big hit. But on that drive, when you guys had that lead whittled to 5, 312, there's a third and 12 that you guys,

get to within four yards at the Cincinnati 39. And Jaden's looking over to the sideline saying, let's go, let's go, let's go. Did he, do you think he convinced Cliff and Dan to go for the fourth down? Was there any sense that you guys thought they might be thinking punt or field goal? How did that whole scenario play out? No, I mean, I always think like we're betting on us. I mean, honestly, like fourth down and manageable, I think we're always going to bet on us. and obviously that showed obviously, you know, what he wanted to do, obviously.

But at the same time, you know, I'm not really sure about whether it was like on the ball getting to get set or not. Or if it was like, you know, to go for it. But at the same time, that confidence, I was talking before about Jaden and how he carries himself and how he wants that, those pressure downs and how he puts pressure on the defense and how versatile he is on the ground and obviously through the air. It showed, obviously, on that next play. Throws nine yards over the middle to Zach Ertz. You guys did a phenomenal job all night long, even against some of their pressures, you know, and then you guys had that before the touchdown pass to Terry.

Yeah, it looked like there was some confusion there. You guys called a timeout. Then you came back out, and before the third and seven, the incredible throw to Terry for a touchdown, it looked a little bit confused before the snap. Am I right or wrong? Do you remember specifically what I'm talking about? Yeah, I mean, we got the play call. We got set, but I think we had an extra guy

had to come back, had to come in the game from the sidelines. But no, I mean, we're still comfortable, even though the play clock's low, like, we're still comfortable of what we need to do and what the play call is. Like, we're all set and confident. We trust our QB back there and make great play. Jaden made the great play. Have you seen that play yet? Have you watched the replay of that touchdown throw?

No, I ran down to celebrate with Terry and Jayden. Well, wait until you see it. First of all, he drops it in a bucket. Terry makes an incredible job to get a foot and a knee down, but Jaden takes an absolute shot. Like you wouldn't believe right after you released it. And that was pretty much ballgame. I mean, you guys had to recover an on side kick. But, I mean, you've got to understand something, Tyler. You've been in Dallas. You guys have been winning a lot of games, not necessarily playoff games, but a lot of games.

And this is a hell of a start. And this is a memorable night in terms of, you know, the way you guys played and the win that you got. So congrats, you know, it's early, two and one. You're headed to Arizona. How quickly can you guys get turned around and get focused? on the Cardinals. Yeah, I mean, obviously we're turning the page tomorrow. I mean, you know, we're celebrating the night, and we're turning the page tomorrow, head at Arizona. How are you going to celebrate? I think we were celebrating on Lacrim,

but we'll celebrate around the plane and trap up with the guys and just hang out a little bit tomorrow morning and we'll get back on the film. Congratulations. That was thrilling to watch. You guys did a hell of a job. You really doing a great job up front. appreciate the time. Go get on the plane, enjoy the flight to Arizona, and go get the Cardinals on Sunday.

All right. Really appreciate it, man. Thank you. Have you. Have you a great night. Starting center, Tyler Beaudish, everybody, from the locker room in Cincinnati following the 3833 win over the Bengals, one of, if not the most impressive offensive performance in years. They are off to Arizona. Not coming back here. This is not something that the Snyder regime would have paid for. They just wouldn't have, certainly not in the last five, six, seven years, but the Harris group doing what it takes to give the football team the best chance to perform well Sunday in Arizona on a short week. They are going straight from Cincinnati out west to practice prior to the game Sunday against the Cardinals. The point spread, by the way, was five and a half pretty much all day long.

As the game went along tonight, that line dropped in right after the game. The Cardinals were just four and a half point favorites. The odds makers were impressed with what they saw tonight. I think all of us were. It's just one game. It's just three weeks, but it was a memorable performance by the offense and by the quarterback in particular. All right, that is it for this quick recap.

I'll be back later on tomorrow. I'll have a show out with a full recap. Tommy will be part of the show. as well. Two and one. Let's go have ourselves a season, as my good friend Steve Zabin would say. Good night. They're down in seven. This one is launched from a corn.