Grant and Danny
What Did We Make Of Jayden Daniels?
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Head to Toyota.com for more info or visit your local Toyota dealership today. Toyota, let's go places. Offensively, they were just two of eight moving the football for a first down on third down. And those two were Jaden Daniels scrambling and picking up enough to move the chains. But when you can't throw the ball, you're not going to have a lot of success generally on third down. And they couldn't for the vast majority of yesterday. So why don't we, with that in mind, get to Jaden Daniels? You go first. There's some exciting things, right? They don't make guys that are that athletic very often who are that big and tall. The Kyler Murray can run around that way. And he's five, seven, you know, Lamar Jackson. And he's a couple inches shorter and slider, even not slider, but you know, not as big and tall as Daniels doesn't have that rocket on that Daniels has. So you still see some of the signs, some of the same things. But man, was that hard to come out with a great taste in your mouth after that week number one? Again, he's making something out of nothing a few times. I don't know how many nothings there were that he turned into something. In other words, I don't know if someone's running free and he just missed him. I think we'll find out as more and more data comes out. I've got some early thoughts on that, but I don't know. It's kind of too early to be definitive, but pretty discouraging. Honestly, week one performance in terms of this offense, his fit, what they're going to get out of him and him throwing the ball. So I think people are mostly a lot more positive than that. And I would say generally wouldn't have come away having watched that game being discouraged necessarily. I think the average fan, at least the people I've been talking to liked what they saw in that you've got the best athlete on the field in this Lamar Jackson. Escway. I know people don't like this comp at all. I'm not telling you this is what Jaden Daniels is going to become. So please save your defensiveness and your anger. But in the way that Justin Fields is an elite rusher as a quarterback and is a game changer when he pulls the ball down and takes off. And so you have to defend Chicago and now Pittsburgh 11 on 11. And he's the ultimate pain in the butt. That's what yesterday was. They were not a fun team to have to defend because Jaden Daniels can run. And in fact, if you take away a couple of the times where he just needed a yard or two, they went naked on a designed run on a fourth and one, which I loved by the way, that was a great great call. It was greatly executed by JD to get to the sideline. But you take that one away, the read option, one yard touchdown, the other one yard touchdown run, you know, the one where he didn't get in. So like four of those, basically it was 12 for 88 yards. I mean, he was explosive. He made some big time plays with his feet. He ran for two touchdowns. He became the second quarterback in the history of the league to rush for two touchdowns in his first game. But he was the entire offense. And frankly, his feet were the entire offense. I mentioned earlier, it just kind of felt like, Hey, Cliff, what are we doing here? Jaden, go make a play. Like if you looked at his little I hop menu, he's calling plays with instead of all the pages and the lines and the things you normally see for Andy Reed, it just said like Jaden's feet. And that was kind of their entire offense. Now, was that Cliff Kingsbury's problem? Was that Daniels isn't letting things, you know, develop, we'll find out over time. But the rushing ability gives him a high floor. And this was kind of my point all off season. It's not going to be a disaster for him. It's never going to look terrible because the worst case scenario is he is a game where you don't throw the ball at all effectively. You don't involve wide receivers and he runs all over the place, aka yesterday. And most people aren't coming out of that game watching it, even though you're 30th in the league and completed area yards and 29th in area yards to sticks and 29th in expected completion percentage. Nobody's really going. Well, that was bad because it doesn't look bad because you're making plays with your feet. So he's better than Caleb Williams yesterday. He's better than Bonix. He was the best of the rookie quarterbacks because the great buoy is those legs. They're going to allow him to make a ton of plays. So just looking at a couple numbers, you mentioned some and trying to take a deep dive into things because, you know, it's always, you're trying to quantify what we just saw because if you're, you know, you take your bias out of it, you know, it wasn't particularly good. They weren't effective on offense. Full stop. That was it. Again, the stuff that they were able to accumulate on a driver to here and there was nice. And then the garbage time touchdown, that didn't really matter. But no Washington receiver. That's anybody. That's running back tight end wide out was in the top 60 this weekend and expected yards after the catch. What does that mean? A guy's open. He's got the ball and he's got room to run. Think of the catch and runs of Jamison Williams and Dallas Scott or Jaden Reed and Jaylin Waddle, Tyree Kill, offenses that are getting guys open. They catch the ball and they got running room. That's they were no Washington receiver in the top 60 of all the guys that got past yesterday. They had nobody in the top 60 in separation scores, meaning guys aren't open. So either we got to have a referendum. The term of corn stinks and isn't really any good. Or you wonder if something else maybe is a mess. I mean, that was a big complaint last year with every enemy, right? Where you had really smart offensive minds going. I'm not sure what the concept is here. I'm not sure what we're going for here. I'm not sure what the reasoning is or why you call that route combination or this doesn't fit with that. There's some of that going on here as well. But again, Daniels needs to have some some culpability and it's a rookie and his first start. You already mentioned it's game one. Yeah, a lot of bad passing around the league yesterday. Not just rookies, either. A lot of good quarterbacks or pelts on the wall were awful yesterday or over the course of this weekend. So in that regard, I'm not putting, you know, make any referendum just yet, but it just data points. And this is part of why I read at the start of the show today. I said we're going to talk about this game. 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? 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If you want to make this into some big referendum or endorsement every time we talk about someone on a season long basis or for their career, you're doing it wrong, right? We're talking about a game. That's what they've played so far. But in this one game, it was him scrambling or nothing was really doing that they could not throw the ball at one point in the middle of the fourth quarter. He had run the ball more than they had completed passes. And I'm not talking about like downfield or two wide receivers. I mean, period with all the checkdowns and all the stuff they were doing to running backs. He had more rushing attempts in the fourth quarter at one point than he had completed passes. And in fact, the final drive against a basically a preventative defense, he went five of five for 55 yards when they were down almost 25 points. Before that, it's like in the competitive portion of the game. If you want to call it that it was 12 of 19 for a buck 34 as of two minutes left in the game. So those are realistically more of the numbers than the five for five for the 55 that got added on that final drive. But the wide receivers were utterly uninvolved as you just pointed out 55 of their 184 yards passing were two wide receivers. Think about that. Yeah. 55 of 184. And that's even misleading because only 19 yards had gone to wide receivers before the final garbage time drive. 19 all game long. The famous Terry MacLaurin quote to run back was I was doing cardio. And so was everybody else. You know, the Ami Brown had this big hour long YouTube thing that he put out on Friday night. He did not catch a single pass. So the transition from his big camp and preseason that we've heard so much about so far, a lot of football ahead of us, but over one on the stat sheet. Alameda is the key has caught his first pass in the fourth quarter on a 15 yard out the longest throw completed by Jaden Daniels in the game by far. And it was again against a, you know, just a defense that said you can have that if you want it. No problem. We don't care anymore. I just hope we get to a point though, where he does the thing that he does so well to set up throw in the football. Here's what I mean. He was pressured 12 times. It wasn't a bad day. I didn't think from a pass rush standpoint against Jaden Daniels, but he was pressured 12 times. He did a really good job avoiding the pressure. Didn't turn a lot of those into sacks. I thought that was really encouraging, but he only completed one pass on, on those 12 plays. He only threw it four times. He mostly immediately just pulled the ball down and ran and going back and watching every single throw from the all 22 already today on every single scramble on a third of those, at least there's opportunities to reset at the sticks. And now you've got a guy that's open. And to me, that is going to be the Kryptonite for defense. That's where he's going to be unbelievable is when he can get out of the pocket, use that speed, now reset and you're a quarterback throw in the football. Those are those back breaking place. Not, not, I'm not talking about the guys with that level of athleticism, but that's what Rogers did to teams, what my homes does to teams, what, you know, I think Kellible Williams is going to be able to do and Kyle Murray at times. By the way, he was awful yesterday. Certainly was again with, with all the weaponry in the world. So Daniel's look like a Hall of Famer compared. So if I'm in Chicago, I'm going, Oh my God, we didn't score an offensive touchdown. We won and that's awesome because we blocked the punt and had the worst pick six in the history of mankind from Will Hyrtting. But the rest of it was so nubs. I'd be panicking over there. Good Will Hyrtting. Good Will Hyrtting. A movie where based in Boston, I think just right into equations on the board and throwing bad picks. But when you say you're discouraged, I'm not necessarily it's kind of exactly what I anticipated early in the year, at least where him running the football is just way ahead of the other stuff. Yes, as a passer, maybe you could be discouraged. But I would just say in the passing game, right, not him, like I'm not going to sit here and say, Daniels is a dot of 1.5 on completions was lowest in the NFL. But as a passing game, one and a half yards depth of target for completions was worse than football. As a passing game, 86% of their yards came from Yak, highest in the league, meaning just checking the ball down and hoping Austin made a play. B Rob runs it. 25% adjusted completion on passes 10 plus area yards downfield. That's last among 30 quarterbacks. 30 QBs played so far in week one, 30. Only three didn't complete a single pass to the middle of the field beyond 10 yards. This was one of the big knocks on Daniels coming out. He's one of the three that didn't. So there's still a lot of things that need to be answered, obviously. But at least you can feel good about for the first time in the post Griffin era. And if you take him out of the equation, maybe ever, that you got maybe the best athlete on the field as your quarterback every single time you take the field. So here's why I was discouraged. Deep into the third quarter, you mentioned this more than half of their offense entirely was a Daniel scrambles, zero targets from a chlorine and or zero catches from a chlorine and two targets for Echler. So the two best past catching weapons you have were not utilized from nearly three years discouraged in Daniels for that. That's not a Daniels thing. So I'm going, I'm saying in Daniels and talking about the offense. And yes, and well, here's, but to me, they're very correlated. I'm going, here's how I could make it helpful for Daniels. Here's what will give him a chance to thrive and survive. And they went, Nope, we're not doing that. Oh my God. So that's why it's sort of, to me, it relates directly to Daniels, his development, what to expect, what to hope for is Echler takes a check down for 22 yards on a third and long and he right back off the field. Let's make sure we get Ryan Robinson back in the game to plot and power run in the center or maybe to have Daniel scramble again or something else. Like you need to involve the guys that are any good that can do something with the football in their hands. And they didn't for three quarters. And wouldn't you know it, they were down big. 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. 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