Grant and Danny
What Did We Make Of Jayden Daniels Performance?
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What we saw was a base being built of the safe, quick, short, easy stuff that I would major in, by the way, that I love, especially early on in games. Because what you're doing, it's equivalent of a running game, which they had going as well. But it's those body punches, right? It's that it's the little jab that keeps the defender at bay. And so eventually they get sick of it and then stuff opens up. Then later on, after you soften the target a little bit and they get tired of those little five yarders, seven yarders, eight yarders, six yarders. And you know, it's second and manageable a lot. You're standing on the field, which they did. You get sick of those and then you could hit your deep stuff. Then you can hit your double moves. Then you can hit your kind of strike plays that kind of intermediate stuff that became available ultimately in the second half. I saw a guy that as the game progressed, seemed to become more comfortable. I don't like panics the right word. So I don't have a better one than that. So I'm going with it, but just know that I wish it was a better word. I think in his first game, when everything's going so fast, there's a fight or flight type moment where you go, I could stick this out and maybe I end up getting sacked. And that's the phrase, by the way, that Kingsbury use was flight or fight, right? And so he goes, you know what? I'm so athletic. I'm so good at this. I'm going to, and I'll be our best offensive weapon. I run for 80 some yards on scrambles. So there's a happy medium there where a scramble can be very good, a very effective way to keep your team on the field on the third night, whenever it's got their back turned, somebody comes for pressure, you make a miss, got everyone's got their head turned, you go get your first down. So you were, you were okay with the, how much they ran in this game? So yeah, to me, that's we argued a lot about that all season. That's closer to the happy medium. Like to me, I want, I want the occasional design run just to show it, to make, keep everybody honest, but I want them to major in those athletic play making plays where you turn a negative into an astounding positive, which I think is his specialty. He ran 10 times statistically. It was actually probably more, but a couple of them are ruled sacks, where he would like run out of bounds or whatever. So it was, you know, when you count last week, one of his great escapes, where he was in the grasp, ended up being a sack, because it ran out of bounds to you, as my line of scrimmage, instead of a 15 yard loss, it was two minus four on the side. Yeah. Um, no, it's true. It was also, well, you would say a great play, throw the ball out of bounds and it's zero. And you just go back to live the next play. So that's probably what they'll coach them up on. But, um, I thought, so a few things. Number one, the second half to me, when I envision like what I hope this turns into is that, and to get a half like that this quickly is really a good sign, I'd say. I think that game two was better than game one. I didn't have a big problem with game one in any way, but I think there was clear growth. And I think the second half was better than the first half. So this is all the way you want it to be. The first half, a lot of the procedural stuff, I don't know whose fault all that is, calling two timeouts on your game opening drive, which by the way, took almost nine game minutes and took like what felt like 20 minutes of real lifetime with the timeouts and everything. It took forever. And it was, that was great. I mean, the defense hadn't had to break a sweat yet in the heat, really getting back on the field. But I think some of that needs to be cleaned up. That's on Daniels. That's on the whole outfit. I'm not saying all the false starts and things are on him. But when you're burning two timeouts, when there's clear, like motions late and guys are jumping up, I don't know how much of that is the snap count or the way you're doing things. I just know that I don't see it very often, you know, and certainly not with veteran quarterbacks. But that's also supposed to happen. That's all part of the process. That's not it really an issue. They cleaned that up. The only part of the first half that I was discouraged by really was the four sacks when I thought maybe one of those should have happened. And the fact that they didn't really get the passing game going other than on those RPO screen type things, that all changed in the second half when he threw for a buck 40 and went 12 of 16. And instead of looking to run, he looked to throw and that like epiphany or change, whatever led to it. I hope we see a lot more of it. The Giants have a bad second area. We had their reporters on all last week saying, Hey, Washington should be able to take advantage of this. And you saw it with Noah Brown. I don't know why Terry McLaurin couldn't in that same area of the field. I don't know why nobody else was getting open in the middle of the field. But Earth certainly got free caught two balls of 20 plus and then Brown with the long on the 34 yarder catch and run. That was a really nice seat of a throw. Good signs all the way around. I thought overall a winning good performance by Jaden Daniels. Yeah, I mean, it's just it's a super hard balance, right? We're always going to judge after the fact on how effective something was, like if a of a scramble goes for 14 yards on a third and eight, you go, that's good. Nice, we should do that. But could it have been a 40 yard touchdown? We don't know, right? It's always so hard again to work back kind of from the result. Or if he stays behind the line of scrimmage for too long and nobody breaks open and ends up being a sack, could you've just gotten the first down on a third and five? I mean, there's there's always there's so much nuance to this position. And everything that you do, there's always something that could have been better or throw that you missed or something like because it's so imperfect. And it's so much harder maybe than it's ever been. But to me, I love what I saw, which was more about what looked like comfort. That's what I was trying to allude to. And initially, when I talked about the panic in game one, again, panic's the wrong word, but I don't have another one where it's like one in doubt. I got to go. This was I don't have any doubt. Like I'm not shook. I'm not upset. I'm not worried about all the different hits in the second half. Yes. Right. I got popped a few times in the first half. First half was a continuation of Tampa. Yes. Second half was not at all. Favorite throw for him? I have three that I wrote down. A lot of people are calling out the Noah Brown play, which was a beautiful throw. But I thought that was actually a lower difficulty throw because he was wide open. I have to maybe not noticeable throws that I thought were awesome. There was a slantome of corn where I went there's there's a millimeter in any direction. You can't put it anywhere else and that had to be there and that was perfect. That's one of them. It's a short throw, but it was terrific. Yeah. And he's so accurate. Jaden Daniels, his accuracy is awesome. And there was wonder Earth's where Earth is being held. They declined the penalty because it was a catch for a first down. We're again, not a ton of space, but he put it on the, I guess would have been on Earth's, you know, outs a good, good side shoulder where Earth had to make a hands catch away from his body to keep it away from the defender to expose the whole thing. A check down like a five yard throw to Bates at 1.2 to John Bates. The other one was on an out route to Terry McClellan in the first drive of the second half. Just perfectly timed. It was McClellan's longest sketch of the day. It was like 12 yards. You remember he kind of broke out and the ball was hitting him as he got to the sideline, got a couple feet in. And they even tried to challenge, I think, if he had caught the ball or not. The foot track. Yeah. But I thought that was a perfect throw as well. So there was a lot to like, I thought, after halftime, especially, but just generally from him throwing the football in this game. And the other thing is, you know, we got to decide, like, how are we grading this, right? I think if you're grading this from the perspective of he's a rookie, which we should, then it's really encouraging. Yeah, because the other rookies, Caleb Williams, Chicago, Bo-Nix, what we've seen from him in Denver, that's the list. There are three of them. They have done nothing like what Jayden Daniels has done to this point. So I think if you want to incorporate that context, I think it helps you to view it through an even better lens. It's been solid. You know, if you gave them a C last week, I think you got to give them at least a B this week. And I thought it was an A performance in the second half for me. Agreed. This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. Whether you love true crime or comedy, celebrity interviews or news, you call the shots on what's in your podcast queue. And guess what? Now you can call them on your auto insurance too, with the name of your price tool from Progressive. It works just the way it sounds. You tell Progressive how much you want to pay for car insurance, and they'll show you coverage options that fit your budget. Get your quote today at Progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. 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