Jayden Daniels Season-Ending Injury Stirs Controversy

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00:00Jaden Daniels, starting quarterback, who's had hamstring problems throughout the year,

00:03comes back, plays.

00:05They were terrible in the first half.

00:07He was healthy, though.

00:08Only scored seven points in the first half, down 31 to seven at halftime.

00:12And then late in the second half, he gets hit.

00:15You're trying to make a play.

00:17And as he goes down and kind of braces his fall with his non-throwing hand, his left hand, this happens.

00:22That is not supposed to go that way.

00:24Yeah.

00:25That is not how your arm's supposed to go.

00:26Can't stop staring at it.

00:28Ugh.

00:28Which is what I do.

00:30Yeah, you love it.

00:31So he dislocates his elbow.

00:33Again, non-throwing hand, but he's out for the rest of the season.

00:36Yeah.

00:36It'd be a minor miracle to come back.

00:38And their season's going to be over anyway.

00:39So there's no point in him coming back, you know, after dislocating his elbow.

00:43And it sucks watching it, right?

00:44I know people making the RG3 comparison, you know, same amount of time in the league, kind of the same situation.

00:49Totally different from an injury standpoint.

00:51Yeah, this is not nearly as severe.

00:53And at the time, the Redskins abused RG3 by making him play without a knee.

00:57That being said, here's the narrative now that just bothers me to my core.

01:03The narrative now from a lot of the mainstream national media and folks is, why was Jaden Daniels in the game?

01:10That it was malpractice for Jaden Daniels to be in that game in the fourth quarter with the possibility of getting injured.

01:18And I hear that and it's like nails on a chalkboard to me because that would essentially be the NFL's version of load management in the NBA.

01:28And that's something that I detest.

01:29I think most of us do.

01:30We want to see our superstars play.

01:33So I was thinking about all the, you know, the outcries now for, you know, how they mismanaged this and he never should have been in the game.

01:40First and foremost, nobody said that before he got hurt.

01:43So now you're just reacting to the fact that your starting quarterback got hurt and I get that you're emotional.

01:49It's tough, but I would ask you a question.

01:51Were you yelling and screaming that Sam Donald should have been taken out of that game?

01:56Right?

01:56Meaningless minutes.

01:57Right.

01:58Right.

01:58You're up by 24 points in the fourth quarter.

02:01The game's a wrap.

02:02It was 38-7 when he got hurt.

02:04Yeah.

02:04So to me, so where's the outcry that Seattle, who's in a position to make the playoffs and make a run?

02:11Cause they're great defense that Sam Donald's playing his ass off.

02:14Sam Donald is to Seattle.

02:16What Jay Daniels is in theory to Washington.

02:19He's your franchise quarterback, make it a hundred million dollars.

02:22And as he goes, you go.

02:24So everyone that's yelling and screaming about, Oh, I can't believe they didn't take Jay Daniels out.

02:29Are you also screaming that Seattle should have taken out Sam Donald?

02:33Cause I don't hear anybody saying that.

02:34They're not saying that.

02:35And then I'll do you one better.

02:36Cause I went back in and looked at a bunch of their games when Washington had a 34 to 10 lead against the Raiders this year.

02:44They didn't take out Marcus Mariota.

02:46Nope.

02:47They left them in the whole game.

02:47And by the way, if Marcus Mariota had gone down, you're on your third string quarterback.

02:51Pretty important to keep that dude standing upright, right?

02:53Yeah.

02:54How about when they beat the Giants 21 to six and they're up by double digits late in the fourth quarter?

02:59Did they take Jay Daniels out of that game?

03:01No, no.

03:02How about when they were up 27 to 10, uh, in a game earlier this year, did they take him out of 17 in the fourth quarter?

03:08No, because we don't do that in the NFL.

03:12Did San Francisco yesterday in a blowout win final score is not indicative of how much that was a blowout against the Giants.

03:19They controlled the whole game.

03:20Did San Francisco take Christian McCaffrey out of the game in the fourth quarter or was he getting carries in the fourth quarter?

03:27He was getting carries in the fourth quarter, but the argument just be,

03:30is, is we don't do this.

03:32You said, because we don't take players out.

03:34We don't do it.

03:35And there's no expectation that we do.

03:37But is that a good enough argument?

03:39It is a good enough argument because this is not the NBA.

03:42This is a league where our star players play essentially to the bitter end.

03:47All right.

03:47Yep.

03:48Essentially to the bitter end.

03:49I know there's examples of guys coming out last drive of the game.

03:53You're hearing that.

03:54Maybe even two drives like Saquon, you know, last year against the Giants.

03:57You know, and then blow out playoff wins.

03:59But, you know, you're going for a Super Bowl in that spot, right?

04:02And there's nothing else to gain by him being in there.

04:04But starting quarterbacks essentially never come out of football games, no matter what the score is.

04:11Correct?

04:12Correct.

04:13I'll give you another example.

04:14Matthew Stafford.

04:16Damn near 40 years old.

04:17Matthew Stafford in a game 34 to 10.

04:21The Rams were up against the Saints.

04:23And oh, by the way, it was 27 to 10 in the third quarter.

04:27They shut the Saints out in the second half.

04:29Did Matthew Stafford come out?

04:31No.

04:32He's had neck problems, back problems, shoulder problems.

04:34The guy's been the walking wounded.

04:36Yes, thumbs.

04:36He's broken all his fingers.

04:37And it's almost like a microcosm, in my opinion at least, of what's wrong with society.

04:42We all got soft.

04:44We all got woke.

04:46Wah!

04:47The starting quarterback got hurt.

04:49I feel for Jaden Dams.

04:50I do.

04:50I feel for Washington.

04:52It is not going to be a repeat of last year's run to the NFC Championship game.

04:57But I'm not going to throw the head coach under the bus and say that he performed malpractice

05:03because his franchise quarterback is trying to bring his team back.

05:07It wasn't going to happen.

05:09We all know that.

05:10But what message do you send to the other star players on Washington last night if you pull

05:17the quarterback out?

05:18You've now told your team it's acceptable to quit.

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