Lynnell brings up a tough question to DC sports fans; Who will be the bigger star in the Washington sports scene in five years - Jayden Daniels or James Wood?
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00:00Who is viewed more favorably in their sport over the next five years?
00:03Who's the bigger star in either the National Football League
00:06or Major League Baseball over the next five years,
00:09Jaden Daniels or James Wood?
00:11Now, before this past week,
00:13the one area where I think Jaden completely clears James Wood
00:17out of the park is the stardom, the it factor, the marketability.
00:24I just talked about James.
00:2622, but he's quiet, calm, cool, collected.
00:29And that's no slight to who he is, right, as a person.
00:33By all accounts, tremendous young man by the performance that he gives you at the plate.
00:38Super hardworking, team first guy.
00:41Love everything about him.
00:43But we talk about this, and we talk about this all the time.
00:46Jaden's got aura.
00:48Not saying that James Wood doesn't have aura.
00:50It's a different type of aura, right?
00:52I told you from now on, I'm calling him Papa James.
00:54If you remember last week, the commercial that comes out via Papa John's,
01:01and I was stunned to see it because when you think about James Wood's personality
01:06and what he's shown you to this point,
01:08it didn't seem like a guy that's going to be pressed to be in a bunch of commercials.
01:11Not saying that he is.
01:12But seeing him in that Papa John's commercial made me go,
01:14hmm, man, think about what it could be with this dude.
01:17Think about what it is and what it ain't with James Wood.
01:22Bonafide star.
01:23And now that the marketing stuff is coming his way,
01:25the advertisements, the attention dollars, so to speak,
01:29I think his stardom only grows.
01:31But when we're talking about
01:33who's the bigger star in their sport over the next five years,
01:37I think the other layer of this conversation we got to get into
01:40is, and it's hard to, once again, I'm admitting this,
01:44it's hard to quantify.
01:45I get it.
01:47Is James Wood a better hitter
01:49than Jaden Daniels is a quarterback?
01:53And I know that's something that's, I get it,
01:56super difficult to quantify.
01:59But I guess it just speaks to,
02:00it's really out of respect for James Wood, man.
02:03He's been that good.