Jayden Daniels will be the 2024 NFL Rookie of the Year

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BMitch & Finlay have officially seen enough to determine Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels will be your 2024 Rookie of the Year after his 5 touchdown performance against the Eagles

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00:00I try not to be hyperbolic, Brian, when people get into like these exaggeration contests,

00:08right? Like who can say the most outlandish thing? It's sadly what a lot of media has become.

00:13But Tischler last night on our stream said something that I think is pretty damn accurate.

00:18I'm curious where you land on this. Jaden Daniels now on the season. It's not even worth looking at

00:23the Vegas odds because they're so overwhelming that he's going to win rookie of the year.

00:28That's over. It's been over, but the content machine demanded that people started talking

00:35about Bo Nix for a period of time. What would the difference? I think Bo Nix can be a good

00:39quarterback, but there's a massive, massive difference. And I'm not the first person to

00:43espouse this, but I hopefully people are listening more. The difference between a

00:48quarterback that can win you a game and a quarterback that can help a team win.

00:54Like there are, there are quarterbacks that could take their team and go win a game. And

00:58then there are guys that are part of a team that wins games. Like there's, there's just

01:02different categories, different tiers of this. And if you don't see where Jaden is in this,

01:08then you and I are breathing the same oxygen on the season as a rookie, he's completing 70% of

01:14his past 69.7 over 3,303 passing yards, 22 touchdowns against eight picks. He's averaging

01:23about two 20, a game through, through the air. And then that doesn't even include the rushing

01:28stuff where he's gone for, I mean, maybe that's silly to think. I think it's possible considering

01:37how ineffective yeah, he is now he's what he's their leading rusher now because the whole season,

01:44the whole season, because Eckler went down, the rush, the run games just been incredibly

01:49ineffective. I'm not saying it's good that Jaden's you're leading rusher, but remember

01:54Robinson missed, I think he's missed three or four games by now. Yesterday, Jaden took the lead.

02:00Jaden has 737 yards on the ground with another six touchdowns. B Rob is at 729 yards on the

02:07ground with eight touchdowns. What this kid is doing is just so special. And I think the accuracy

02:16and I think the hardest thing for young quarterbacks, you've said this forever,

02:20Brian is to be able to throw to a spot, right? I mean, hell you see veteran quarterbacks.

02:26They can't throw to a spot and they need to see a guy open first. And we've seen it here for a

02:31long time. The recognition or loves, he posted this video on Twitter yesterday that I, I, I

02:38retweeted. Maybe we'll just play the audio, frankly, because the recognition on the touchdown

02:46throw to Terry McLaurin, where McLaurin is now tied the franchise, the franchise single season

02:52receiving record. Oh, by the way, they have two games left to throw that ball where he's about to

03:00get crushed and to put it to a spot where Terry can make a play and the play Terry made on it.

03:06So spectacular. He's looking to his right, looking to his right, has a son in his eyes.

03:09Last second flips to his left track ball. Terry's an outfielder. He knows how to track a football.

03:16Just everything they're doing is at such a high level, Ryan, that I mean this seriously,

03:24because in no way do you want to say he's the best quarterback in the league. That'd be silly.

03:29Right? I think my homes, Lamar, Josh Allen, there are dudes that have done this at a much higher

03:36level for a much longer time. And you just, but they're supposed to be doing, I mean, he's a

03:40rookie. I mean, that's the ultimate thing. So I think we don't have to explain anything to anybody.

03:44You don't have to sit up here and worry about his career. He is a rookie. This is his first year

03:48and he's doing that. And as Tana said yesterday, think about the next year, the second, third year

03:55of players that grow. You know, we can't worry about this. And there is a culture of hate in

04:04this country these days. To hell with those people. I like what I'm seeing in this young man.

04:09And I think he has the personality and attitude that he's going to keep improving.

04:14So here's, I totally agree with you. I don't think we need to get caught up in a numbers game,

04:18a rankings game. All that stuff is artificial, right? They go play the games. That's how you

04:23solve things. I do find this one kind of fascinating though, in the NFC opposing defenses,

04:35who's the guy they want to see the least two minutes with the ball in his hand.

04:39Listen, man, I've had people hit me today.

04:42Golf and Darnold have been really good. I'm not trying to discount anything,

04:45but this dude is in a different conversation. People that are Cowboy fans,

04:52the real Raven fans, the true Eagle fans, they all are saying,

04:58Jayden Daniels is a problem. That's their exact words. He's a problem. And when people,

05:05if you don't know lingo and hip hop language and stuff, when they say something is a problem,

05:11that means that you don't want to see that person in a bad situation. And this dude right here

05:17smiles while he's whipping your ass. That's the person you need to be concerned about.

05:23He's always chilling. When you watch him on, I will listen to him in a little thing. He did

05:29an interview. I think it was with Kevin Durant and somebody, he said, man, you know, I just,

05:36when I'm on the field, people just, I'm just, they say I'm smooth. I'm just always

05:40chill. You watch him yesterday. He never seems like he's exerting too much.

05:46Even when he runs the 40, 30 glide, he's a glider. And I was saying that going all the way

05:53back to when they drafted him, it's just the level of poise and calm and just staying in the moment.

06:07Even last night in the post game, he's like, yeah, we're going to celebrate this for 24

06:10hours and it's back to work. And we out of it. You believe it. I've heard lots of quarterbacks

06:16say all the right things. Yeah. I've heard and seen that it's different with this dude, man,

06:22when you, when you watch him after game before game at the event, you went with him over at

06:29a Raising Cane. Sure. He's always the same dude. And as he stated in a little comment earlier this

06:35year, when you always the same, it's kind of hard to have a drop off. Yeah. You know, he doesn't get

06:41overly hype. He doesn't get overly concerned. He's just who he is. Like, if you make a mistake,

06:47you understand, I have to correct this. So you go correct it and you move forward. You don't make a

06:51mistake and go, oh yeah, we got to go back to the drawing board, man. No, no, no. You know,

06:55what mistake you made this focus a little better next time. It's a, it really is pretty remarkable

07:04with Jaden dude. One, I, I, I didn't want to address this when he did the thing at Raising

07:11Canes last week. And did you notice he was walking like, that's how he walks, dude. The fact that

07:18I heard somebody yesterday, a week later say that he was limping, like, please.

07:23All right. So did he limp in the game yesterday? It's his gate, dude. He's a different cat. And I

07:30think people need to stop reaching dude. Everybody, Washington came into that game

07:35yesterday, nine and five and people are like, oh, they're not good. They're average. Cause

07:40you know what? You beat the people on your schedule, the teams on your schedule. I mean,

07:45let's be real. You are very, very right about the conversation of goalposts moving with them.

07:53Wash it's Philly's offense yesterday. I understand it was Kenny picket, but let's be real. The best

07:58weapon Philly has had all season is a fellow named Saquon Barkley. And he, he, he, he hit

08:04him early. Undoubtedly. He threw some haymakers. He, I mean, he had, what'd you say a buck 10 in

08:10the first quarter, but offensively and defensively, they made really good adjustments in this game.

08:16I applaud cliff. Cause they eventually were like, yo, we cannot run the ball. We're going to have

08:21to go old school air raid. And they just started going for wideouts almost called in yesterday

08:25today for, uh, I was going to be on an IR injury report because Dan Quinn almost broke my hand when

08:30he gave me a high five. Damn coach. He gave me some knuckles on his way out of the press

08:37conference room. That, that was not a soft one. Um, that's it's gotta mean a lot for DQ. I thought

08:44the coaches did a really good job yesterday. You got to credit coaching when your team turns it

08:49over five times and is able to overcome that and get.

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