Grant and Danny
Has The Jayden Daniels Hype Become Over The Top?
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I mean, I see it, but other than that, man, none of that matters. That was last week's stuff. You know, he was as good as the last game he played and everybody going to look at what can you do the week prior, the week prior and the weeks after that. That's your rookie quarterback who doesn't play like a rookie, Jaden Daniels. Welcome back to Grant and Danny on the fan. Yesterday, I found myself just clicking from one story after another from the national people with little anecdotes on Washington. I found myself looking online, Twitter and otherwise on the apps. One breakdown of another. This guy studied the film of Jaden Daniels. This former quarterback said this. This former player said that his approval rating right now, Danny, I think is the highest of any player I've ever seen. It might be. I mean, he is so popular and so beloved. It was a competition yesterday of analysts just to say, who can be the most high on the commander's offense? Let's have an effusive contest. Who's going to say the nicest thing about Jaden Daniels today? And everyone was fighting, you know, scratching, clawing, fighting on themselves to get to the flag, basically, to be the one that said the biggest hottest take about Jaden Daniels. Like, he should be in the Hall of Fame right now. And then how do you top that? The number one greatest rookie in any sport anywhere, ever, at any time. So my first thing I would say is I'm thoroughly enjoying all of the coverage. We don't get this around here. It's nice. And maybe we could just end it there. Maybe we just put a period on that sentence and we move on to something else. But there's also this part of me that goes, is it a little fast? And I don't mean specific to Daniels because we're talking about his first four games that have been historic and amazing. We have context, we can contextualize against all the other rookies and he's just a part of an offense that's been better. His performance in a lot of ways has been more efficient, whatever. No problem with that. It's the heaping of the praise that's it's as if like they've arrived or this is what it's always going to be or this is who he is or they are. That makes me a little bit nervous. Call me crazy as someone who's seen the rug get pulled out from under you and just knows that there. This isn't linear. It's a week by week kind of league. It's a matchup by matchup league. How should I feel about this? How should we feel about this? And we can open up the phones at 800-636-1067, MGM National Harbor listener lines, 800-636-1067. I mean, the love for Washington for Kingsbury for Daniels is a good thing, but it's gotten to a point where it's like so ubiquitous now that it almost feels like it's a little too much too soon. So one of the hallmarks I think of doing this job that you and I have found, I don't want to speak for you, but I know we've shared this sentiment in the past is oftentimes it's validating to feel like you're doing a good job if you find yourself arguing against that extreme and then that extreme on opposite ends of the spectrum, right? So there's in this case, for example, there aren't that many right now, but bear with me. On one side, he's so overrated. He's not that good. He's just checking it down. He's just throwing screen passes. You guys don't know what you're talking about. He stinks. They're going to suck. Okay. Then the other side is he's the greatest of all time. This is perfect. They're going, you know, 14 and three and they're one of the super bowl this year being a little bit more in the middle, the bar from Jim Zor, a little more staying medium, a little bit more in the middle. You end up arguing that's both extremes. There's a lot of issues there that happen when especially when it comes up in terms of sports. Another sample guys, we like, you know, a whole bunch of data before we start declaring anything solved or done or a mistake or good or bad or anything in between. So I think that's normal and natural that there's a balance here between going for me. This is already so much better than I thought it would be. I did not think I'd have a game where they scored 42 points this year. I sure as bleak didn't think it'd be after a game where they didn't put in score 38 points. I didn't think I'd see that in the in the year of our law 2024. I just saw it over the span of eight days, wherever the hell it is, right? So you're allowed to be having fun. You're allowed to be excited. You're allowed to then say, well, if we did that, I wonder what the next thing is. I wonder what else we could do. That's normal. That's sports. That's why we get up in the morning. That's why we do this crap. You know what I mean? That's why we opt in to this crazy, weird, bizarre dance of a bunch of people wearing the same laundry, trying to matriculate a ball down the field is because that hope and that excitement and that lightning strike that maybe it's your time to see something truly special because we've seen a little bit of it already through a couple of weeks. At the same time, you could spin that other plate and go, yeah, it's, we really are talking about a calendar week of two good games that change the entire perception of everything. Maybe we should pump the brakes a little bit. Maybe we should just wait a second before we start crowning and coordinating and fitting gold jackets and a lot of other things. I think it's okay to think both things and sort of blend those into one approach where we're going, all I know right now is that I'm having fun. I can't wait to see what's next. I don't think that's crazy. Yeah. I guess where I'm at is I am super optimistic and hopeful and he has blown me away and my expectations have completely been exceeded, like all of those things are true. But when I hear, I'm trying to think of who the analyst was on ESPN. I think it was, who's the, who's the guy they call swag who? Marcus Spears. Marcus Spears. I think it was him yesterday said he's the best quarterback in the NFC. Rich Eizen, yeah, I think it was yesterday, may have been two days ago, said something to the effect of the quarterbacks he would take right now moving forward over Jaden Daniels where Patrick Mahomes, CJ Stroud, and he may have had Josh Allen on the list. I don't even think hopefully he did, but he's like, and then Jaden Daniels and I'm like, this is awesome to hear about my guy. But it's been 144 hours of really good football that like this was not a month where they just couldn't do anything wrong offensively. This has really been too awesome games that we're talking about. People forget the Tampa Bay game was a scramble fest. That was a passing game that at best was ineffective and at worst was just bad. But again, it was the first game. I don't mean for him. I mean, for the whole offense, like I'm not holding it against them. It's the only time they've looked like that. The Giants game in week two was a tale of two halves. The first half. Four times they had some issues getting the ball out. Everything was at the line of scrimmage or behind. And then in the second half, it's like the switch flipped. He was incredible. They pushed the ball down the field, hit the throws and Noah Brown did some really, really good things. So that half of the Giants game and then two games, but like think about the difference in just the overall narrative about the team, about Kingsbury, about the offense, about Daniels from three hours before the Bengals game to two an hour after the Cardinals game. And this is what happens. This is how the coverage works in the 24/7 platform world now, the medium that we're in, where everyone's just rushing to the take. They're rushing to the judgment. And I'm really happy and he's been really, really good and the offense is awesome and Cliff Gangsbury is killing it just like you did in Arizona in the first half of almost every single season, by the way. But I guess that's the point I come back to. It's not meant to be cold water. I'm asking a question more than I'm making a point. I really am. I'm just saying, is it too much too soon at all? Or should we not worry about that and just have fun because we deserve it and it's been a long time coming. Hey NFL fans, you can start the season with a big return on FanDuel America's number one sports book. So when you get a hunch in the middle of the game, you can check out the latest stats, view live play by play and so much more on the same page where you place your bets. 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