Yes, indeed. Jayden Daniels, the number two
overall draft pick is QB one for the commanders an
expected move. It was tipped off when Daniels was
out there as the starting quarterback in the preseason opener
. So why was now the right time, Dan
Quinn, I told you about a month ago,
um, that naming our starter at QB wasn't a
secret and it was a process when that process was
time. Uh I'd know he'd know and I'd let
you know and as much as we knew Jaden would
get there, uh, Adam and I were most
excited about watching how he would and how has been
absolutely outstanding. Uh He went through the whole thing
, he didn't miss a beat, um, hit
the targets, uh, that, you know,
we had put in front of him, you know
, we talked about the practices against the other teams
, the game, so he's ready and he's earned
the right to do that. Just a blessing.
Um, that DQ and A P trust me,
um, to go out there and lead the team
, um, lead the franchise to hopefully win some
games. So, um, big ups to them
, it's a blessing. Something I dreamed about as
a kid to be at this moment to experience this
moment. Uh It's not that I can say too
much, Ian, we thought this day was coming
from basically the day that the commanders locked in the
number two overall pick and took Jayden Daniels. But
this does seem to be another indication of what we've
heard from Dan Quinn Adam Peters and others, which
is everything Jayden Daniels has done so far is what
they expected. And more now they feel like he
is ready. It's go time. He's gonna be
out there week one, you know, during the
predraft process, we talked so much about the physical
tools and the arm strength and what Jaden Daniels put
on tape and how much better it was from the
previous years and the athleticism, how fast he is
, all of those things, all are very,
very important. I remember being there with Mike actually
during training camp and all the commanders talked about was
the presence, how he processed. This is how
well he has done learning the offense, picking it
up, recounting and teaching it to other people getting
in and out of the huddle the operation part of
being a quarterback, which if you're gonna name a
starter, if you're gonna name a rookie starter,
all of that is I would say as important,
maybe more important than the physical tools. The fact
that Jaden Daniels has showed them so much so early
reinforces what the Washington commanders think, which is they
got a guy in a league, Mike where either
you have a guy or you don't have a guy
. The commanders believe that they got a guy and
the fact that he checked off every box as easily
as he did, I think makes for a lot
more optimism in Washington right now than we have seen
in a pretty long time in that day. We
were there at training camp, which was relatively early
, uh in the camp right now. It had
the sprinting, obviously, but it was early in
training camp and you could see how comfortable he was
. You could see how comfortable they were with him
. I mean, some of the things that they
were bragging about, you wouldn't notice just watching on
the sideline, they were talking about how he checked
to a run the other day and, oh my
, what a great call it was and how he
saw that. That's exactly what he had to do
in that situation. And then for good measure later
in that practice, he, he throws an absolute
dime down the sideline uh to Terry mclaren on a
go ball right over Emmanuel Forbes in the perfect place
. So he's shown them everything with his mind,
with his arm and with his legs as well.
And you talked about his presence just in the couple
of minutes that he was talking to us. You
could see that presence on display the fact that it
didn't really feel like it was too big for him
. He's got a, a quiet confidence about him
. So, yeah, they wanted to just go
through the process, but he kept on checking all
these boxes. So let's go. Here we go
. The one thing that stood out to me watching
back, that game that he played this past weekend
was the play where he scrambles and doesn't get down
and takes a hit and you can see him immediately
pop up. Look at Dan Quinn Quinn's going,
you know, he's like, I know, I
know, I know that's one of the biggest things
we heard all the way through the process was he's
not the biggest guy. Protect yourself. It's obviously
there's been a lot of communication on that and he
is fun to watch when he's out there. You
know, who else has been fun to watch.
B Nick.