00:00If Jaden Daniels plays 17 games, start to finish fully healthy,
00:05how many wins for Washington in 2026?
00:11There is nothing anywhere near as important as that
00:14as far as this team's upcoming season.
00:18Nothing individually, you know, coordinators,
00:22you know, O-line, wide receiver situation, pass rush.
00:26You know, you even take two or three of those things
00:28and put them together, and they probably don't exceed
00:32the importance of Jaden Daniels being on the field healthy,
00:37playing start to finish 17 games.
00:40Last year, he only played in four games out of 17 start to finish healthy.
00:48You could actually make the case that it was only three games
00:51start to finish healthy because he got hurt in that Green Bay game
00:55and stayed in the game.
00:57And that was one of the four games he played start to finish.
01:03We do have our Waldorf Honda Twitter poll up.
01:08The poll of the day is driven by Waldorf Honda.
01:11It all starts with a click, waldorfhonda.com.
01:14And the question is, if Jaden plays all 17 games, how many wins?
01:19And the potential answers are 7 or less, 8 to 9, 10 to 11, or 12 plus.
01:293-0-1-2-3-0-0-9-80.
01:31Let's start with our guy, Kevin, in Arlington.
01:34Kevin, what's up?
01:37Hey, Kev.
01:38Thanks for taking my call.
01:39Sure.
01:40Oh, wait a minute.
01:41We didn't give our answers.
01:43I'm going to wait to give my answer.
01:45And so will Max.
01:46So you give your answer first, Kev.
01:49Okay.
01:49I'm bullish with a healthy Daniels.
01:52And let's just say if we don't have another injury plague.
01:56And to me, the injury plague, well, I'll never be able to prove this,
02:00but I would think it's rooted in the age of the roster a year ago,
02:05the lack of hunger, which the coaches cited.
02:08And let's face it, they had a club med preseason.
02:12They're not doing that this time around.
02:14And I like the team.
02:16I like the changes that have been made to the roster and to the coordinators,
02:21both of them.
02:22So, yeah, I see it being a team that battles for nine or ten wins because it's,
02:28you know, it looks like a monster schedule today.
02:30I'm thinking it's still going to look like a monster schedule in November.
02:33We'll see.
02:34But I think it's a team that's going to battle for a playoff spot.
02:38I'm not saying they're going to get in, but I don't see a losing record.
02:42I see a floor of nine wins, although I don't see 11.
02:48I'm thinking it's a nine to ten win type team.
02:51That's where I see it.
02:52Yeah.
02:53I mean, again, this is based on the assumption that the quarterback plays all 17 healthy
02:59start to finish because obviously the number changes drastically if he doesn't.
03:05Thanks, Kevin.
03:06Appreciate it.
03:07But, yeah, did you – did Kevin have something else?
03:10I'm sorry, Kev.
03:11Ian, go ahead.
03:14I'm going to go with nine and eight.
03:16I think –
03:18Whoa.
03:18Whoa.
03:19You think that's –
03:20I don't know.
03:21The way you – your tone in the offseason, not that it – you know, it's always this.
03:27It's always a bit off-putting and negative.
03:31But I was expecting you to be, you know, yeah, no, the coordinators, the coach, the general
03:36manager, the ownership, they all suck.
03:38This is a six-win team.
03:40So, you're going nine, all right?
03:43Tell me why.
03:44So, my official prediction is eight and nine, but if Jaden's healthy the whole way, I'll go
03:50nine and eight, even if Jaden Daniels plays, let's not say at an MVP level like you did
03:57his rookie year, but a Pro Bowl caliber level, I think the unknowns at offensive, defensive
04:04coordinator, the unknowns of the defensive players, and not, like you said, any top 100
04:09caliber players, coupled with the wide receiving core, and I think you bring up a very astute
04:15point that it's not Terry McLaurin from 2024, it's Terry McLaurin in 2026 with nothing else
04:22really around him.
04:23You've got three of the same receivers in Jalen Lane, Luke McCaffrey, and Antonio Williams,
04:28an unknown at tight end, a subpar running back room.
04:33Like, I just don't see enough pieces around him, enough coaching to get past nine.
04:41So, that's where I'd say.
04:42Real quickly, while I have you on, sorry everybody, I'm just going to ask him one question.
04:48You did predict the win over Bosnia, Herzegovina, last night.
04:52You said that they actually will have a shot at Belgium, if Belgium wins, they did.
04:57But, what was your soccer expertise opinion on the red card?
05:06Yeah, so, based on the way VAR is, where they use a lot of still images and slow image motion,
05:13I think it was properly adjudicated as a red card.
05:16However, I don't like the way replay is structured all across the world with freeze frames and
05:23still shots.
05:24I think it should be live motion.
05:27To me, I take the Zabe approach of replays should be there to overturn egregious misses.
05:34This wasn't an egregious mess.
05:36If it was normal in the field play, it was a tie-up, I wouldn't have even given it a
05:42yellow card.
05:42But, once you go to that slow motion VAR, it was obvious it was going to be a red.
05:46Because those images are too difficult to overturn.
05:49But, that's my analysis.
05:52Alright, thank you.
05:53Happy 4th to you.
05:55You too.
05:56So, if Jaden plays fully healthy, start to finish all 17 games, how many wins?
06:03So, I'm going to go, I agree with Kevin in Arlington.
06:06My number would be 10.
06:08Now, I mean, I could certainly see 9.
06:13I think if Jaden Daniels is your quarterback, 17 games, start to healthy, finish.
06:22Finishing healthy, start to finish.
06:24I don't see how Washington would ever be a bad football team.
06:32Like, that would be completely impossible for me to imagine.
06:37You know, an 8-9, 9-8 season, if your defense is horrendous.
06:42You know, I've pointed to the Cincinnati season from two years ago, 2024, when Joe Burrow had an MVP kind
06:49of a season with Chase and Higgins and, you know, that team.
06:53And they almost made the postseason, but they finished 9-8 because their defense was just so bad.
07:01And that's a scenario which can happen, which is you can have a great quarterback, which leads to a really
07:08good offense, but the defense is terrible.
07:10And then you're in a really tough division or you've got a really tough schedule and, you know, the quarterback
07:17can't, with his great play, you know, get you that extra win or two more.
07:22Whatever it takes.
07:23Because Joe Burrow in 2024 and that Cincinnati offense was ridiculous, but their defense could not get off the field
07:30at all.
07:31And they were in a tough division.
07:35So, I think if he plays 17 games start to healthy, I think this team is intriguing enough, especially with
07:42what they've done on the defensive side of the ball, that I could definitely see 10 wins.
07:46And I, again, would have a hard time predicting any less than 9 if he's your quarterback for 17 games
07:54healthy start to finish.
07:56Max, what would be your number?
07:58I'm going to be a homer here, Kevin.
08:00I think he could be 12 plus.
08:03Yeah, Brian just, I don't know if anybody heard that over the mic.
08:05Brian just clutched his chest.
08:07He did as a Cowboys fan.
08:09Yeah.
08:10But there are a defib machine in the studio.
08:13We'll have to get one.
08:14I'll get Roger on it.
08:15But I, Jaden, after last year, I just, I, I think he's really hungry to prove himself, to show that
08:23year one wasn't a fluke, that he's going to, he keeps distracting me.
08:28But I really, I, I, well, if he's not breathing, let's get him some help.
08:33Let's not, let's not let you finish, you know, uh, espousing your views.
08:38If, if, if you've shocked him into a bad health, let's take care of that.
08:43You, we got it though.
08:4412 plus wins.
08:45And you think Jaden's on a revenge tour in 2026?
08:50Yeah.
08:52I, God, man, I can't wait to see what he looks like.
08:56Uh, again, you know, could it be a slow go because of the new offense and the adjustments and the
09:02supporting cast?
09:04Maybe.
09:05This is where I hope early in the season, it's so obvious that the defense is just better, better players,
09:12better coached, you know, and sometimes defense can be a little bit ahead of offense early in the season.
09:18We got to see that against Philly, Dallas, and Seattle.
09:23Mark and Largo, if Jaden plays, start to finish 17 games, fully healthy, how many wins?
09:31I think you, you gotta, you gotta factor that in.
09:33It's not just Jaden, man.
09:35You, I think the most important people on that offense is you got to make sure the army's playing.
09:40You got to make sure it's Terry's playing.
09:41You got to make sure it's Jaden's playing because you're, you're, that's the most, you, you've missed the whole premise
09:48of what we're doing here.
09:49I'm assuming that even you understand the most important person, not only on, not only on the offense, but on
09:58the entire football team is Jaden Daniels.
10:01He's the best player.
10:03He's at the most important position.
10:04If he plays fully healthy, start to finish, no other assumptions made, how many wins?
10:15For me, I would say 11 or 12.
10:17Okay.
10:18The reality, okay, but, but, but, but Kevin, this is what you got to start understanding.
10:24I mean, you got to have a better receiving core than you had last year because I think that's what
10:31really got him hurt last year.
10:33Well, you just, you just went 11 or 12.
10:35That's your reality.
10:36I gave you the only assumption to go off of and you go 11 or 12.
10:43I'm happy.
10:45Yeah.
10:46Go ahead.
10:46Explain everything to me.
10:48Let me explain something to you.
10:50Okay.
10:50I understand that.
10:51We just need to, look, I hope Antonio Williams falls out.
10:57I think the key is De'Ami Brown.
10:59The hell with, with Brandon.
11:01I, you, I mean, Stephon Diggs, maybe.
11:03But the key, I think, is De'Ami Brown and Van Jefferson.
11:06And I hope Antonio Williams falls out because if he goes ball out as a receiver, as a slot receiver,
11:12and you have Terry and De'Ami and Traylon and Van Jefferson, I'm happy with that.
11:18None of this Luke McCaffrey crap.
11:20Okay.
11:20Let's just, let's pray him to San Francisco, whatever.
11:24But, look.
11:25Okay.
11:25We have to, this is a put up or shut up year for a lot of people.
11:29Well, I think for Jaden, but I think more importantly for your boy, Adam Peters.
11:33And you can't just, you can't, you can't go with that.
11:38But yeah, 11 or 12.
11:3911 or 12.
11:41Mark and Largo weighing in with a very optimistic max style prediction if Jaden plays all 17 games.
11:50That's the question.
11:51If Jaden, if I tell you right now, he's going to play all 17, he's going to be healthy, he's
11:56going to play in all 17 start to finish.
11:59Last year, he legitimately only played, I mean, literally only played three games start to finish healthy.
12:06He only played in four, you know, total start to finish, healthy or unhealthy.
12:12That's it.
12:13I'm giving you 17 of number five.
12:16How many wins, Kevin, in Virginia?
12:18Go ahead.
12:208-10 because Jaden can't play on first place.
12:23They don't play 18.
12:258-2-10 or 8-10?
12:29I'm sorry.
12:308-9.
12:328-9.
12:328-9.
12:33Got it.
12:34Because we did nothing, we did nothing to improve our secondary.
12:38I mean, we can't cover anybody.
12:40We need a number one quarterback and he didn't do that.
12:44We have the same group with a couple of scrubs coming in and Jaden can't cover people.
12:50He can't score that many points on his own to cover that gap.
12:54I don't understand.
12:55Maybe I don't understand the game well enough, but I don't understand why I didn't do more in the secondary.
13:01Well, they added Robertson.
13:03They added Nick Cross.
13:05They get Trey Amos back.
13:08You know, I don't know what it's going to look like with the scheme.
13:12You know, pass rush is going to be a priority.
13:14They've got to stop the run for the first time in a couple of years.
13:19There's a lot that will go into how the secondary will play.
13:23I'm not saying that it's not a legitimate concern because obviously it was a weak point last year.
13:28But they lost Trey Amos, who ended up probably being their best corner and they just didn't have a good
13:34enough pass rush.
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