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Jayden Daniels Leads NFL Rookie of the Year Race After 3 Weeks
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9/28/2024
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All right, meanwhile, the rookie of the year in the National Football League is an open
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and shut case.
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If anybody was voting on Monday night, because Jaden Daniels would win that thing, we still
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have a long way to go as people who watch the show for the entire season.
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You know that I've been on Washington, I've been on Daniels, and I'm happy to see that
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this is the case, but I'm also not foolish.
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A lot can happen between now and the end of the season.
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What I would say, George, is if I had an opinion of what I've seen through three games,
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is that I think Daniels is way better than all the other quarterbacks.
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I think he is way, way better than these guys.
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And the reason why I say that is because of the same thing that we talked about last week.
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Variance is funny in sports, baseball, basketball, you got to look at advanced analytics data.
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But you know, the thing that pointed out to me, and it's the reason kind of why I like
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Jacksonville, George, too.
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I think not scoring in the red zone involves luck, and some bad luck.
01:00
I mean, generally speaking, you're going to score as often as you don't, and you probably
01:04
should score a lot more.
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I mean, Washington against the Giants went into the red zone six times and scored no
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touchdowns.
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And, you know, guys drop the ball, fumbles, it's what's been going on with the Jaguars
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all season long.
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Well, it was going on with Washington, and now it is not.
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So I just don't think it's an overreaction.
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If I had to guess right now, I think Daniels provides a lot of value.
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I also, as we're looking at the board here, George, I do want to mention, you would be
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crazy not to sprinkle something on Malik Neighbors.
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I mean, this guy is just, I mean, you and me should be throwing with this guy.
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He's going to get 10 catches at 100 yards every week.
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So for me, I like Daniels, I like Neighbors.
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Those are my two thus far, and, you know, Caleb Williams is still going to be very much
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up there in the end, I think, but I haven't seen enough of him to really put him in my
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list.
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Well, we know it's probably going to be a quarterback.
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That's just the way these awards generally work here.
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All right.
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So, and Daniels looked great.
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Right now, I think he's your leader by far, although Caleb Williams had a good game last
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week.
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Is this the start of things for Caleb?
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Right?
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Is he now going to go on that kind of run here?
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Okay.
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He's more confident.
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He's going to start throwing the ball up and down all over the field here.
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Keenan Allen, by the way, also should be back to Chicago this week.
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That will help.
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Or could be back.
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I shouldn't say should.
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Could be back this week.
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That will help them.
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All right.
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He found Cole Komett.
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Right?
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It's always nice to have that tight end, big target, close to the line of scrimmage over
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the middle that you could find there.
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So good for him there.
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A running game would be nice.
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I think Daniels is your favorite right now.
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Looking at the Washington schedule here, I mean, he's going to have another big game
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this week.
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I think Daniels.
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So that's going to be nice here.
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Cleveland, Baltimore, a little tough.
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But then the schedule is fine.
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When you look at it, it's fine.
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It's not like, oh, that guy is playing every tough defense in the league.
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I think Daniels is the guy right now.
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I mean, there was some argument at draft time.
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Remember, there were teams, not just Washington, but there were teams that thought that Daniels
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was the number one pick over Williams.
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All right.
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So it wasn't like he was the clear-cut number two.
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No, some teams had him as the number one here.
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So I think he is your guy there.
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Would I sprinkle on neighbors?
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Sure.
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Let's not forget Marvin Harrison as well, who's come along big time here.
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And he could have a monster game this week with Noah McBride there.
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All right.
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So that's somebody also you might want to think about.
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But to me, this always comes down to the quarterback.
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Quarterback's going to touch the ball every play.
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Every play.
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As long as Daniels doesn't get hurt, you know, and do something, you know, something like
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that.
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I'll say it can be said for Williams, by the way, as long as they don't get hurt, they
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stay healthy.
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I expect one of those two to win it.
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And right now, I think it's Daniels.
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Yeah.
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I think right now, Daniels is the guy.
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Some really interesting movement in the Rookie of the Year odds, too.
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I mean, if you look back to where the odds opened, where they are now, I think that's
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just, you know, sort of incredible to think that Caleb Williams could be so far ahead
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of everybody else.
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And then, you know, after week two, that certainly changed.
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And then, you know, you see, you know, Harrison up there.
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But look, the bottom line is Daniels, you know, he's the guy right now and neighbors
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to me is the next one.
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So appropriately priced, to say the least.
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