Grant and Danny
Our 1st Victory Monday Of The Jayden Daniels Era!
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You saw some good stuff here, some, some in breaking routes. You saw some down the field action a little bit, which you haven't seen through one and a half games. That's positive on the negative side. You probably don't win the game if Graham Canelo doesn't hurt himself in the opening kickoff. You probably don't win the game if Blake neighbors, who you couldn't cover, and you still didn't cover him on the ball that he dropped for on fourth down to give you the football back for a chance. You probably don't win if he doesn't drop the football. So whatever you want to see, you probably saw on this one, but I will take this result. It just sort of means that the rest of this is worth pursuing to me. And what I mean is, had you lost to the Giants, had they marched down the field and scored on you and you, you know, when they were able to come back and they had won, you'd lost this deflating home opener against the team that I think is going to be terrible. It's really hard to have any kind of serious football conversation. I think we get to have it. They won. I know the process isn't perfect, but I'm seeing growth. I see some improvement. It's exciting. I'm happy they won the game. Yeah, and the process is not supposed to be perfect or it shouldn't be expected to be when you're in your second game with a new front office and a new head coach and a rookie quarterback who is doing everything for the first time. So I think it's unrealistic if anybody thought that this was going to look really good. Now, not looking terrible is very, very different. And I think that's a reasonable expectation and coming off of week one where mostly all three phases were legitimately bad. I think to ask for more against a pretty mediocre two week opponent wasn't asking for a lot and they cleared that bar clearly and they got to win and it is a feel good victory Monday. But what I would say to your eye of the beholder take. Welcome to the NFL. Every game is that way almost. There's the occasional clunker like the Tampa Bay Week one performance for Washington by bad teams or the occasional blowout win by really good teams. The Saints have scored almost 50 points twice early this season, right? But 11 of 14 games played yesterday were decided by a possession. So you're going to be able to go back and go if these couple plays go differently. My team wins. If these couple plays weren't made, maybe we wouldn't have lost. And that's just the league generally speaking. But going through some of the really positive I thought from yesterday, rapid fire. Jayden Daniels has played eight quarters of football. He's played four halves. I thought his best half was the second half against the Giants. And I didn't think it was particularly close. The first game against the Bucks, which we talked about almost all week long. And then the first half against the Giants, I thought looked kind of similar, which is to say he very quickly left the pocket and kind of got on the move and didn't really let things develop. Wasn't looking to throw the football or engage his receivers in the passing game as much. I thought in the second half, he was marvelous against the Giants. And that's what you're looking for. That's what you want to see from Jayden Daniels, the numbers 12 of 16 for a buck 39 after halftime. Do you agree it was a very different looking Jayden Daniels after intermission? 100%. So the thing we saw and I want to I'll tag you back in is it looked like the Giants. Went, OK, this is all you guys are going to do is Jayden Daniels takes a snap and throws it exactly horizontally to either Zacchaeus or McLaren or somebody in between or is checking it down to a running back. We're going to force you to do something different. The middle of the field opened up. You saw a pretty good shot to Noel Brown. You saw Zach Hertz on an in-breaking route in traffic, tightly contested, good throw, good catch, good everything. So there are a couple other moments to where I'm not saying you're hitting home runs. That's right now seems to be reserved for the Saints. And I guess Sam Darnold adjusted Jefferson over the top shots are harder to come by. It seems like an league right now, which we'll get into. I'm sure. But to me, this was the most NFL looking passing that we've seen both from Kingsborough in this offense and from Daniels. Yeah, it was. That's what I would say it was. It just looked like a legitimate NFL passing offense. He had the 20 yard completion to Earth's where he was wide open. He had a 21 yarder that he kind of lobbed in as he got it that almost got picked off. There was a 50/50 ball that Earth's caught. Those were the two completions well beyond 10 plus yards in the game and the two times this season, really, they've been able to push the ball down the field. He had a great throw on the in-breaker, the little dig to Noel Brown. He was wide open, but he threw an arrow to him on the final drive of the game with a catch and run that I thought was, again, that's NFL conceptual stuff. That's just what you want to see more of. But I thought he looked like a passer who had the ability to run rather than a runner who will occasionally pass for the first time in four halves in the second half the game. And I thought it was part of the reason why, frankly, they got their offense going. You know, his philosophical shift or whatever led to him deciding to stand in the pocket and let the passing game get going, I thought it worked really well. The running game was outstanding. And this is a credit to Jaden Daniels. This goes back to 2012 when we saw defenses have to defend Washington 11 on 11. This is a credit to Cliff Kingsbury, because one of the benefits to everyone screaming about Jaden Daniels on design runs and how often he's run the football is that defenses are petrified that he's going to keep the rock. And what you get is a career day from Brian Robinson and Austin Echler shining. Both of those guys, I thought, were exceptional, specifically Robinson on the ground. It looked like it reminds me of Alfred Morris to the end in this one respect. When he gets a head full esteem, it's, it's now we're going forward for another three or four yards. Right. If you allow Derek Henry and am I putting Robinson in that class? No one's as physical as that guy. But it's on that spectrum where he's big and strong. And if he gets a head full esteem and is able to kind of get his shoulder square headed up field, you're now looking at seven yards. Whereas if you make him pitter patter and tap his feet and start and stop, you know, you could tackle him like anybody else. But when he gets a head full esteem, credit to the offensive line. I think credit to, as you said, to Kingsbury for some of the design to kind of get him moving. That was pretty damn impressive. His long, of course, was on a play that was kind of like everybody's all bunched up and everyone thought he was down and he kind of bounced around and took off for that 40 yards. Bit flooky, but he deserves credit for keeping his feet churning. But like that physicality that he ran with was was pretty damn impressive. And when it works, it looks great. He's tough to tackle. Yeah. I had a single run of 30 yards in his career in his first 28 games before yesterday. He had two 30 plus yard carries yesterday, including the career long from 40 career high 133 yards on 17 attempts. It was his 13th career game with 17 or more rushes. I thought they had the emergence of a number two wide receiver yesterday. His first time on the field, Noah Brown showed more to me in terms of the ability to separate at the top of the route. Kind of the suddenness that he's got at the top of the route on both of the catches he made. The one he made this diving catch radius grab where it was an 80 mile an hour fastball. It was kind of offline from Jaden and he made this really athletic acrobatic play. The next one was the beautifully thrown perfect ball when he won inside on the final drive to set up the game winning field goal. You can't tell me that just based on three targets, three catches, this performance for Noah Brown, that you don't feel like they're in a better spot at that number two receiver than they would have been if they didn't bring him in and you're still wondering, is it Zacchaeus? Is it Deami? Is it going to be, you know, Jamison Crowder? This guy's better than those. Yeah, without question, I mean, to me, the most impressive route he had over the course of the day was a play that Daniels was pressured. I think he was sacked on the play, but that little stutter go where the defender, his jockstraps in section 412, that was filthy. It hit him with a double move on the sideline. It was the first half would have been the bottom of the TV screen kind of going left to right for people that don't remember the play. Yeah, it looked like you're standard. I'm running 12 yards, turn around, you know, timing will talk for the ball, and that little, whatever the hitch, he sold it and was gone if there's blocking or if it's a different situation. That's an easy walk-in touchdown, but he's explosive. You said it right. The suddenness, how big he is, the physicality of it, the burst that he has, that's their second best receiver. And, you know, he was dangerous yesterday. 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It's your girl Tasha McKia, and I need you to join the sharpest rides for their fall into savings events, where they're offering incredible prices on their massive inventory. That's right, everything is on sale now. Shop from sleek sedans to rugged SUVs and sporty convertibles. The sharpest rides has the perfect ride to match your fall adventures. Plus, with their exclusive financing options, getting behind the wheel of your dream car has never been easier. Log on and shop online at thesharpestrides.com, right from the palm of your hands. Or check other massive inventory in person at the sharpest rides, located 2250 South Sea home street in Inglewood. Either way, you will fall into savings. Don't miss out. Head on over to thesharpestrides.com today and explore the deals that make every season better. And tell them that your girl Tasha McKia sent you the sharpest rides, affordable, sexy, sharp. Dear Autumn Leaves, you won't be covering roads alone this season. 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