Ryan Leaf Loves What He Sees In Jayden Daniels I BMitch & Finlay

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JP and BMitch discuss the incredible rookie season displayed by Jayden Daniels in 2024 with former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf.

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00:00You know, everything today is blown up with social media and

00:03all but Jaden doesn't care about none of that. How

00:06important is that for football team? Yeah, I mean, he played a

00:09lot of college football. You know, he went to Arizona State

00:12where there was early success to be Justin Herbert as a

00:15freshman, transfers to LSU, you know, has a pretty good year as

00:19junior year but wasn't necessarily anything that

00:21people would think what would happen a senior year. They beat

00:23Alabama and then a senior year, he just, you know, he goes

00:27wild. The the statistics, the Heisman Trophy victory,

00:30everything that that comes with that and then being the second

00:34pick in the NFL draft, you know, not a lot of pressure,

00:36you know, as the number one overall pick. Yeah. It really

00:39is. There's something to it. When you're not pick one A and

00:41one B where there wasn't really a discussion. It was Caleb all

00:45along. He was better they said and Jaden was was firmly the

00:48better quarterback. Just more and then the mindset that he

00:52has. I I spoke to the Arizona State football program I think

00:54when he was a sophomore and I use this line with guys all the

00:56time. I talk about how once you get to the NFL, you're the CEO

00:59of a Fortune 500 company and so everything you do is about

01:03building the foundation strong enough to get you that second

01:06contract. Those are things that I didn't understand that I

01:08didn't do and he did exactly that. Like things like you

01:12heard, he lived with his mom, you know, he didn't go out. It

01:15was football, football, football, and guess what? He

01:18was handed the responsibility of handling the ball, the

01:22entire football game. He was responsible for it offensively

01:24and that is a lot to ask of a rookie. He has a lot of

01:27football under his belt. So, I mean, there's nothing but

01:30optimism ahead for them when it leads to the quarterback

01:33position. People are going to come after Cliff Kingsbury. I

01:35do not know why more people didn't. He was exceptional this

01:39year. He's been a head coach before. He knows what he did

01:41wrong, what he did right but they got everybody back. They

01:44gotta get better on defense. Clearly, injuries played a part

01:47of that but they got some rookies that were thrown into

01:49the fire at the corner position and they'll be better next

01:51year. For sure. Talking with Ryan Leaf here. Uh live from

01:55Radio Row, New Orleans, Louisiana. Um specifically with

01:58Cliff, you've mentioned it a few times. What do you think he

02:02did so well to really, you you kinda mentioned simplifying the

02:06offense and for me, I think they added more as the year

02:11went on and it became clear that Jaden could handle more.

02:14Well, what I think happened is is that that he just defenses

02:17dictated what he did with the football. Like, so, what it

02:21essentially is, it's it's the triple option. It's just the

02:24new generation of the triple option, right? Instead of you

02:27know, you have a a dive man and a pitch man. You now have a

02:31zone read man and then either the receiver out on the edge or

02:35your RPO game and so what happens is just what he got

02:38better at throughout the year is that he read it. Defenses

02:41did different things each every week trying to figure out a way

02:44to stop it and he just went to the next option with it but

02:47when there's three options and it dignifies what the defense

02:51does specifically, they have to be on point. There has to be a

02:54man to man for everybody accounted for and when they

02:57mess up and when they don't, Jaden made him pay. It's just

03:00it's plain and simple and you you say these things, you talk

03:05about these things, how you can simplify it all but to have the

03:08ability to have a player that can do it, that's that's a

03:11different story and those are those are few and far between.

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