Hey, coming up at 845, you'll hear our sit down with Alex Ovechkin. He's a pretty good hockey player. Pretty good. He's pretty good at what it does. He's a good at training camp, so you'll hear that coming up at 845. Scott Abraham from ABC 7 at 9 o'clock as we talk commanders' raiders, but our palsy have their field trip and Grant Paulson's on with us right now to talk about where he's going to be. Give us a little taste of his show. What's up, Grant? I appreciate it, gentlemen. How's everybody doing this morning? Where are you guys out today for your Friday field trip? We are out and about in Reston. Show is on the road. We're at Craft House. Reston will be there from 2 to 6.30 hanging out.

These have been really fun. I know you guys have stopped through some of these. JP will be out with us a few times this year.

But it's really cool, man, with the engagement with the fan base and the commanders again. People have enjoyed getting together on these Fridays ahead of games.

So a little pep rally of sorts today out and resting at Kraft House.

Very cool. So what is your lean on who's going to be the starting quarterback on Sunday if you have a guess?

I've thought Marcus Mariotto all week. What I had originally heard, you know, going back even to right after the game when they took the MRI on, I guess it was last Friday morning, was that there was some concern about the knee and the swelling and that it didn't look like at that time he was going to be in line to play this week, barring a really crazy recovery. And I don't think they put that past him, right? With the rib, he was able to have a high threshold for pain and play through it last year. This is obviously a

different thing. But one of two things are happening, just based on what I was told, which was to

expect, you know, maybe like a two-week recovery back then. Either he healed a lot faster than

was anticipated at the point where they're giving it an opening for him to even play on Sunday, or they're just playing very, very coy, and they know it's almost a certainty he's not going to play, and they're not telling anyone. And because last year, we never actually found out he had a broken rib until he set it in the offseason, I'm going to go with that option. I just think that while there's no reason to rule him out now, they're giving him every chance to hit all his markers and to get closer and closer.

They feel like probably they benefit from the Raiders not knowing.

I don't think they're going to give us any information ever about anything injury-wise.

Am I saying it's 100% he's not going to play?

No, I just don't know.

But I would assume that there's probably more

knowledge behind the scenes than they're giving us one way or the other. And my guess is that's a Mario

Alitolea. So with Mario Donner's Center last year, had a really strong game against the

Carolina Panthers when he filled in for Jaden. He was 18 for 23, had a couple of touchdowns,

played the second half against the

Cowboys had the game-winning touchdown pass. What is the Grant Paulson level of confidence that

Washington can get a win with Marioada under center? So it's pretty high, actually. But it's not

necessarily about Mario Or last year, because you're right, two games, two banner performances,

he was great, but the offense was humming last year. I mean, when he wasn't in there, obviously, they were elite. They were one of the better offenses over the last couple of seasons in efficiency, and that has not been the case through two weeks. I don't think he's going to, you know, wave a wand over an offense. Jaden Daniels couldn't quite get right in the first two weeks and just have it take

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