00:00jay daniels is not hiding he's not hiding and some people believe he's the most important player
00:06in the nfc so let's play a manti teow who is now on the nfl network here's his take jay
00:13daniels is
00:13the most important person in nfc why because when you look at the commanders i don't know what i'm
00:18getting out of the commanders you know you look at the running back room you got bill krosky
00:22merritt young you got rashad white who was rb2 over there for tampa for a long time you have a
00:29very thin quarterback room and you have a very young defense now i know the day i know dan quinn
00:34is
00:34a head coach i know what i'm getting there but then you also have an offensive coordinator that
00:39has the same amount of coaching experience in the nfl that jay daniels has playing experience in
00:44in the nfl but this is what history will tell you you don't sleep on the washington washington
00:50commanders when jay daniels is at the helm we were sleeping on them in 2024 at least i was
00:56and now all of a sudden they're playing in the nfc championship game against the philadelphia
01:00eagles if jay daniels is healthy which all reports out of minicamp and otas that he looked like his
01:08old self if not better do not sleep on the washington commanders because if this guy is
01:13on his p's and q's he is the most important player in the nfc east because he does move the
01:18needle that much i happen to agree with him i praise i happen to agree with him there's so
01:23many we we sit we've said it all uh whatever summer that all of this stuff it's almost kind
01:30of silly going through all the different position groups and everything because it all just hinges
01:33on jayden health how are you gonna feel is it different than doc prescott in dallas i just think
01:38he moves the needle more how is it more i mean is it jalen hurts just as valuable for his
01:43team as
01:44jayden is for maybe but i think we could literally be like a three or four win team without him
01:49or be
01:49a 10 or 11 team i guess the other teams have more help like if philadelphia lost jalen hurts you
01:54yeah but it's andy dalton or i don't even know who they're right you'd still expect them to win
01:58because they've got sake that's the point when you go through all the personnel groupies and you go
02:02well they're better there no i think he's definitely very important i just think the quarterback
02:06especially for a big name quarterback is just as important i generally think any team in the nfc
02:12east if they lose our starting quarterback a huge chunk of the season they're done like the backup
02:16is not going to be able to sustain they won't be able to replicate but i think the drop-off
02:20in
02:21washington would be the most i think terick's point is right yeah because you we we've been going
02:26through the position groups and you know if a backup steps up for uh jalen hurts they're just going to
02:33have a lot more help around them remember they've got better personnel a couple years ago and the
02:37backup came in and won like five games you remember that bum he won't be he beat washington
02:42yeah i think he won like five games well cooper rush right yeah uh like that's not gonna happen
02:47here we don't we're not good enough yeah not good enough supporting cast we saw last year but i
02:52don't know how many games they won that year you have to go back and look it doesn't matter the
02:55point is they won five one more than marcus it was like one for 11 i mean i'm sorry if
03:00dak goes down
03:01as of right now his backups are joe milton and sam howell neither of those guys oh that's right sam
03:07okay are leading the dallas cowboys even with cd lamb and pickens and their embarrassment of
03:12riches it doesn't matter they'll have it doesn't matter doesn't mean they're going to the playoffs
03:16they'll have more success than we do if our quarterback goes down we're in more trouble than
03:20anyone that's that's my point i have more faith in marcus mariota than i do joe milton or sam howell
03:26so you're not part of the howell hive it's not a point of that cakes it's a point of the
03:30other people
03:31their other players are better than ours we we are kind of elite at one position everything else
03:39is kind of and he's he makes everything better i agree with that but if dallas's trigger man goes
03:44down joe milton and sam howell are not leading those guys to the playoffs no matter how talented
03:49they are i would bet for that too but i bet they'd win more games than if our quarterback goes
03:55down
03:55maybe because they might win seven and yeah maybe a game or two or five exactly what's crazy is suck
04:01i could i could i could guarantee let me ask you this eric how important obviously it's not important
04:06in terms of um you know chances of making the playoffs because it's only one week how important
04:11is opening week at philly for you if they if they get blown out you know 31 17 and jayden
04:18looks
04:18how what's your what's your take on that i wouldn't i wouldn't make some big uh conclusion on jayden's
04:24performance about one week okay no well just the overall performance but if dallas if they lose
04:2931 to 35 and the defense looks leaky or even if it's 27 but they just get beat like they're
04:35never
04:35in the game they just keep get beaten soundly yeah they're never in the game i mean i don't know
04:38i'm
04:39not gonna be crazy about it but it's week one it's an open it's week one anything stadium it's a
04:44road
04:44game i don't know i think it but we're a recency effect type of sure group i think the opening
04:50eight
04:51games are brutal i'm hoping that we can steal a few to be honest with you two and two would
04:57be
04:57an okay start you'd be you'd be happy with two and two to start the season based on schedule we're
05:03favored in like i can't remember what it is favored in like three or four games but there is a
05:08lot of
05:08pressure on jayden daniels because he does have to uplift the team they don't have this ridiculous
05:16receiving core great running back room remember when new england and brady went down and matt castle
05:22went in and just carried because they just kept going that's that that's not the situation here
05:28our quarterback goes down where it's over more so than other situations it literally the entire
05:35team's fortune hinges on him staying upright and healthy and presumably playing the way he's capable of
05:42playing i just assume he'll play he's a big deal on the whole i think he'll play pretty darn well
05:47most games he's a big deal it's funny how homerism being a homer which is natural your home teams
05:54can bias people to the point that there was a period of time when sam howell was here and he
05:59was starting
06:00games that people wanted to run it back with sam howell thought he was the future i think that you
06:05could win a few games with sam but yeah i mean sam's nowhere near he's no he's about one 100th
06:09the
06:09quarterback jayden is he's lucky to be in the league at this point he's going to be a career
06:13second or third stringer probably more towards third stringer you're right he'll make a good living
06:20and a good career out of it yeah let's just show you how quarterback started we were you don't want
06:24him to be a starter dude the quarterback salaries are so much baker mayfield is up for an extension
06:30he's in the final year of his contract and i like baker he got a three-year hundred million dollar
06:35deal i think they're talking about baker getting 50 million or more now he's worth it i mean he's a
06:42he's worth it above average starting quarterback in the league and that's above average right he's
06:46not great right he's not elite but he's above average and that's what above average gets you
06:5050 million a year he's got elite moxie he's got he's got great leadership skills great leadership
06:56skills he's got all of the traits the problem is he loses mike evans this offseason and chris godwin
07:03is kind of a shell of his former self but if he's going to make 50 million what's jayden going
07:08to be making if he has a bounce back season he plays like he did as a rookie he's gonna
07:11be making
07:1265 plus million if yeah he's gonna make a lot plays like he did if he plays it's a big
07:16year for
07:17to be my home's money yeah it's a big year for him oh yeah no doubt it's a big proving
07:22ground type
07:22of year it really is there's so many questions with this team but it's intriguing remember later in the
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