Jayden Daniels' Game Status and Impact on Team Strategy

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00:00Caleb Williams will be out there, ready to go.

00:06Jaden Daniels though, Joe, questionable.

00:09I mean, there's got to be some concern about Jaden Daniels now holding up.

00:13I mean, that's what people are starting to wonder about your guy.

00:16I think he'll be fine, big picture.

00:18He's the face of the franchise, but I give him a lot of credit if he does in fact play

00:22today.

00:23Your kid's a gamer, you know?

00:25If he...

00:26What?

00:27Gutty.

00:28He is gutty.

00:29He'll probably find a way if he plays to pull out the victory over Caleb.

00:34I am very confident about that.

00:36But if it is Mariota, I still feel confident that Washington is the best side in this matchup.

00:41I really do.

00:42If we're being honest, like, Washington, I know you probably got us on in your locker

00:45room right now.

00:46Hear me out on this.

00:47Don't play the kid.

00:48I mean, don't play the kid.

00:49The kid is going to go out there.

00:50He's a rookie.

00:51He's having a sensational season.

00:52Probably needs one extra week to feel comfortable in that pocket.

00:54You're going to build him a flak jacket that's going to be Kevlar, and you're going to shoot

00:57him up for this game.

00:58What are we doing out here in these streets?

01:00Like, Mariota can fill in for one game, maybe get the win, maybe you don't.

01:03Save the kid, make sure he's healthy, because if you can't protect yourself, it's only going

01:07to get worse.

01:08What is...

01:09What if, Donnie, you know, maybe they're ready to play Mariota, but Daniels is worried about

01:16losing his job?

01:17Is that possible?

01:18That could be possible.

01:19Is that the narrative we're sprinkling on that?

01:21Come on.

01:22Salt and Pittsburgh, I mean, come on.

01:23I mean, we saw it in Pittsburgh, Joe, with one of your guys in Justin Fields.

01:28I tell you, I mean, it's one of those things where it really is a shame.

01:33We were going to get to watch these two quarterbacks go head to head.

01:37Instead, the Bears come in, awful bye, looking ready to grip it and rip it, Joe.

01:43We're not sure Jaden Daniels makes the starting gate, and that obviously has impacted the

01:48number throughout the week.

01:49The number is working back towards Washington's favor.

01:52I think it's becoming pretty clear to me that Jaden Daniels is going to play in this football

01:57game, so that kind of then begs the question, once they confirm he's in, where does this

02:03number go?

02:04Does it get up to Washington, minus three?

02:06How high does this go?

02:07I'd be all over the Bears.

02:08Washington's laying one and a half right now.

02:09I would love that.

02:10Like, if Jaden, if you can't understand how a timeline works in the NFL, like the minute

02:14you see T. Higgins injured himself on Friday, and you're like, you know what?

02:18I'm going to wait till Sunday to bet the Eagles to make sure, you should know he is out of

02:22this game.

02:23You have a rookie quarterback that couldn't finish the game last week, was injured early,

02:26barely practiced this week, and the amount of gymnastics to get him to play, it just

02:30sounds like Dan Quinn's an old school coach to me that's saying, I'm going to give you

02:33so much to think about before this game, it's still going to be Marcus Marriott at this

02:36point, but your defensive coaches had to waste hours this week preparing for a guy who's

02:41never going to get out there.

02:42Well, here's the thing.

02:43I mean, from the spread perspective, Washington is three and O at home, right?

02:47They get the victory over, you could say, a gutless Carolina team.

02:51They were catching 10 and a half.

02:52That line continued to go up, and they couldn't even make it close in the second half of that

02:56matchup.

02:57Marriott does throw for 205 yards in the game, 5.8 yards per carry on the ground attack.

03:03I think, again, if it is Daniels, I don't think he's going to run it.

03:07He'll be under center.

03:08It'll be limited RPOs.

03:10I'm serious.

03:11No, I know that you're serious.

03:13That's not who he is, though.

03:15Like I don't agree.

03:17I mean, Kev, if he carries it, let's say, three times in this game, you know, again,

03:24that doesn't mean when the pocket breaks down, he's not going to tuck it and run, but I don't

03:28think there's going to be design runs for Jaden Daniels in this ballgame.

03:33That's what I believe.

03:34I think that that can be true.

03:35I'm just telling you this right now.

03:38If they are worried, if they go, hey, listen, we're going to play a limited scrambling today.

03:44That is, that's the same as like, hey, listen, Kev, we're going to let you host the show.

03:48Just do me a favor.

03:50Don't bring up LeBron.

03:51Like, well, that's not going to happen.

03:52All right.

03:53Just brought him up.

03:54You see what I'm saying?

03:55He's going, that's who he is.

03:57It's why he got drafted second overall.

03:59It's why he's the favorite to win Offensive Rookie of the Year.

04:01Right.

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