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The 2026 preseason didn’t last very long for Marcus Mariota. Jayden Daniels battled a multitude of injuries last season and Marcus Mariota stepped up and played well in his place. How important is Marcus Mariota to the Washington Commanders?
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00:00so marcus mariotta or mariotta however you want to pronounce it these days i will never pronounce
00:06it the way that you're that you did the second time like they did a million times on that
00:10broadcast i think it was collinsworth and tariko on a sunday night broadcast well that's the way
00:17he wants it pronounced doesn't matter mariotta mariotta he's just marcus mariotta it's not
00:22gonna work it sounds so much better mariotta yeah anyway he gets hurt it's not serious it's an mcl
00:29yeah he's gonna be out the rest of the preseason so roughly a month let's say is this something
00:36that the commanders should worry about 1-800-636-1067 i'll put this up as our junkies poll of the
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00:59their backup quarterback is injured no you were worried if your starting quarterback is injured
01:04if your backup quarterback is injured as long as he's ready for week one i don't think it's a huge
01:09deal you you let your younger guys and calic manises and i mean hartman you don't need to give him
01:14any
01:14more time he's a joke um you hate hartman i hate him it's just he he can't play at this
01:20level right
01:21but he can play he can play on saturday play on saturday that's fine he's just a warm body to
01:26get
01:26you through camp correct if that's what you want and need from him but mariotta being injured as
01:31long as it's not stretching into the regular season i don't think is a big deal it's like a
01:35two out of ten if he was out for six weeks of the regular season it'd be more concerning because
01:40then
01:40it's a problem because you definitely want your backup quarterback ready just in case jayden was
01:44out for a couple plays or a series it's a reason they gave him a one-year eight million dollar
01:49deal
01:50they value him as the backup to jayden yeah and if he misses time during you know pre-season it's
01:56okay as long as he's ready for week one what if he's out for six weeks if you let's work
02:01with a
02:01six-week timeline or six weeks from yeah the injury sometimes can have people out for as much as six
02:07weeks i guess i will dq expects him to be back for a regular season i mean maybe you start
02:12scanning for
02:13another guy to bring into camp of course to replace hartman but i don't think it's urgent at this
02:18point they say they're not if he was out six weeks he had to be more concerning the only thing
02:23is if you consider mario ta as some people do apparently one of the better backup quarterbacks
02:29in the league um do you do you run the risk of playing jayden in preseason no absolutely not
02:41jayden daniels does not play until week one against the eagles if i'm if i'm running the show you're
02:46always a bubble wrap gm and coach very conservative with my players health and safety if you if you
02:51go through the list of number two assumed number two backups okay right now if you might have
03:00joe flacco like him a lot right backup sure mariotta jamis winston i like as a backup jamis
03:10winston mendoza maybe he's a rookie though right mac jones does he get that now because he
03:16performed well given yeah he's considered one of the best opportunity he's considered one of the
03:20better backups that's about it maybe andy dalton like somebody could go in there and win a game
03:28gardner minchu that's a that's about it there aren't that great list not a great list that's
03:34why the commanders value mariotta yeah so he well how about even if he just got injured and it was
03:42just a scare he might not play and then like i might pull him in the next two games like
03:48let's
03:48just say it was uh a strain it wasn't even a sprain and he's fine and if it was a
03:55regular season he would
03:56play yeah i don't think i would play him absolutely not so why would i play jayden no you're not
04:02probably
04:02shouldn't you're not going unless you're going to start the entire first unit offensive line you'd have
04:08to do that and then you got both yours you got stefan and you've got but then you're now exposing
04:1311 guys that you really can't afford to really lose any of them right now to any significant time
04:21with with the the way the season opens up is brutal it's brutal sorry it is it's a brutal opening
04:27stretch yeah they need to be at full strength i don't think they're going to play i don't think
04:31they're going to play i think it's going to be the same same guys group you're probably right maybe
04:37they might sprinkle in like i said before they might sprinkle in some more defensive guys just
04:41to get them some action but i don't think they're going to play their offensive guys this is gonna
04:44why would you play maybe chig why though seems like you're gonna have a backup quarterback seems
04:50like a tough guy just i don't know he's tough but it doesn't make doesn't make any sense seems
04:54like he's built for it this is going to be the cali akmanis game against the lions preseason game
05:00number two and then four toss him the ball third one will be hartman the meaningless game i would
05:05just give i would give cali akmanis as many reps as i can if you're going to keep him on
05:09the roster
05:10and or the practice squad he's your developmental quarterback at least of the near future he's
05:16going to get all the reps good or bad some people were saying if he face plants so be it
05:22that's part
05:23of your learning process some people were saying they got they got like kirk cousins vibes when they
05:29did see that some people were saying that i felt like he kind of like when he walked up to
05:33the line
05:34his scrimmage all right he always looked like he looked a lot like kirk cousins i do like kirky
05:39all right let's say i like cali akmanis let's go to the phones 800-636-1067 does this concern you
05:47there's not a lot of depth at backup quarterback around the league and thank god he should be ready
05:54to go by week one i mean listen we all know the season's pretty much over if jaden goes down
05:58anyway
05:59um but if you don't have i mean think about the dolphins backup quarterback situation after malik
06:04was out their backups went four for 19 with two two picks or three picks i think it was three
06:10four
06:10for 19 with three picks yeah they better hope malik willow stays upright now even if he does
06:16they're gonna stink they're gonna win four or five games if they're lucky all right let's go to
06:22dennis that's just how bad some backup quarterback situations are and glenn bernie dennis what's up
06:27buddy y'all with the junkies hey good morning guys hey dennis i think and i agree that uh hartman's
06:36not the guy but i can't say the guy's last name i'll never know how to pronounce it cali akmanis
06:41cali akmanis that guy impressed me with the speed in which he gets the release that he gets rid of
06:50that ball so fast and he seemed to know his target he looks the part away yeah i and if
06:56he
06:56if he sits and i would like to see like the um case of saying i'd like to see him
07:02go
07:03the rest of the season the rest of preseason with all the reps he can get to find out what
07:09he's
07:09really got um kind of a one game thing um friday night but man did he impress me with the
07:16speed and
07:17the confidence he seemed to know who to throw to so so does it does it concern you that mar
07:23that
07:23mario is going to be out for the next two weeks no no it really doesn't i actually i think
07:30that
07:30there's a diamond in the rough sitting there and well let me ask you this does it does it affect
07:36your
07:36decision to play jayden or not because let's just say no if mario was was out for the first couple
07:42preseason games if if jayden just got uh a nick what if jayden plays in the preseason and it's not
07:48a devastating injury at all but it's a two-week injury he's going to miss the first two weeks
07:51you don't even have mariotta yeah or you have mariotta coming off an injury yeah it's not worth
07:56it no no i don't think i don't think it's it's but i don't think it's that bad i i
08:03don't think
08:04first of all i think um you're mariotta i think he's going to come back sooner than than later
08:11um i don't think the injury because when i saw him walking off i've had enough of those mcl
08:16sprains i've had my knees replaced so um i didn't see the kind of aggravation or injury
08:23aggravation that everybody's worried about but no i'm i would play jason anyway because i think
08:30jason needs to get in jayden jayden sorry yeah got you guys in the quarterback but stuff yeah um but
08:38anyway i i think that jayden should get skid reps because uh i don't want to see him start the
08:44season not really in game shape um i think he's in pretty good shape he's in great shape the controlled
08:51scrimmages don't they don't uh win you over at all if he plays well on those oh no they do
08:57they i'd like to see him again i'd like to see jayden play in it all these scrimmages i'd like
09:06to see
09:06him in the preseason um i'd just like to see my quarterback come to the beginning first season
09:12of the game first game of the season know what he's doing and and look in game shape here's the
09:17thing so if you play jayden as jason thank you dennis if you play jayden as jason said you got
09:23to play
09:23all the guys because you got to give them the full protection yeah sure yeah you can't put them
09:27behind julian good jones and have a jackson dart situation no it's the last thing but i just don't
09:32just speared i just don't think they're gonna do that preseason can you imagine if he had a rib
09:37injury dogged him in his uh rookie season if that happened again yeah i mean i just don't season of
09:43year three i lost the bet with eb paid him his five dollars because i thought jayden was gonna play
09:49yeah my rationale was this preseason was supposed to be different than last preseason
09:57the knock against last year's preseason and that was coming off a season where they made it to the
10:02nfc championship game was they were too soft and that there were too many rest days and they were
10:08too casual and then they had a bad season now is it because of that who knows there's a million
10:15factors but supposedly this camp was supposed to be different and so i thought maybe in the preseason
10:22you play your guys clearly they didn't do that in week one but they also had that joint scrimmage two
10:28days before so maybe this week's different if you want to ramp up your guys and see them all and
10:32maybe get a rhythm i wouldn't rule out the guys playing but but i do think if jayden plays yes
10:38you're starting off it's a line and they're all including allegretti who's coming back today
10:42yeah they might just expose too much coming back they're gonna play him yeah on a saturday no
10:48he's done no chance he's done allegretti will do some practicing yeah they're not he's not playing
10:53anymore preseason games no they need him for week one yeah all right let's go to dennis in arresting
10:58800-636-1067 if you want to chat i'm watching the the kalecmanis throws again over and over and over
11:04he kind of looks the part cakes i mean he's he's relatively big six two strong arm he kind of
11:11looks
11:12the part make some nice throws look if you can develop him and you found something in the seventh
11:17round every three quarters on saturday everybody in the league passed on multiple times and that
11:22that's a win for you and your scouting department dennis what's up man long time no here how are you
11:26buddy good morning guys i'm around i'm just just fishing a lot and whatnot but uh i agree with
11:32everything you're saying this morning regarding uh i think cali manis needs a lot of field time now
11:37uh we can't afford to have any of our qbs hurt and if they do play jayden absolutely the whole
11:44starting first line i mean front line and everybody needs to be in there get him get him
11:48in get him out and that but i agree with everything you're saying we need cali manis need some field
11:53time and that's it do you have any interest in seeing hartman play anymore yeah yeah sam hartman
12:00actually you guys um he really surprised me last week quite frankly um i wouldn't mind seeing i wouldn't
12:07mind seeing him i mean i thought he just was not good at all but he actually surprised me on
12:13some
12:13plays last week so you thought he was not good but you still want to see him he thought he
12:17was
12:17before oh okay okay yeah yeah i thought he was i thought he stank before but no last week he
12:22impressed
12:23me so i wouldn't not mind seeing him again a little bit right oh right and yeah he absolutely getting
12:28good he needs some field time too you know so that's what i i appreciate you guys taking my phone
12:33call by the way can you guys hear me okay with my phone right now yeah it's okay it's not
12:37great but
12:38it's okay okay i know what it is i know what it is it's my case that's what it is
12:42i took it off
12:43before you guys picked my call up so all right thanks a lot all right thanks for that tidbit that
12:47working things out here's where you're really going to know what the commanders think about sam
12:52hartman if he gets little to no time whatsoever the next two preseason games with mario to sideline
12:58then that that has to be the end of the road right for him here in washington i mean
13:04who knows like if well now the cali and plays most of the next two games yeah you're probably
13:11right the the writing's pretty much on the wall i would think you're probably right he just he
13:16doesn't look as impressive standing there like just as a specimen he makes a couple throws though
13:23he doesn't look as impressive you're gonna see sam hartman for a half and cali manis for a half
13:28that's what you're gonna see on saturday and then week three it'd be pretty much all cali manis
13:32maybe or maybe the same yeah maybe they split it he just looks like a shrimp he looks like jp
13:38they
13:38really should cut the third preseason i wish i was that sort of a shrimp he's six one i know
13:44well i know you wish he had his hair of course his hair's dreamy we all wish we did all
13:50right let's
13:50go to swoon when they see sam hartman let's go to joe in manassas joe what's up hey what's up
13:57guys
13:57junks i love this show as always man i'm almost over this talk bro like the mariotta mariotta
14:04who cares right like get jayden daniels out there i want to see him play i don't care you want
14:10to
14:10crown them all bro eb you've already crowned him like in the hall of fame dude yes we need to
14:15see
14:16action bro i mean telling you and then you're worried oh we can't put him out there oh we can't
14:21put him out there because he's brittle like come on man i want to see the dude play football put
14:26the
14:26protection around him let's get it going to stop with all the nonsense who would you sit like who
14:31would you sit in week two the week the second preseason game who would you sit doesn't talk
14:36anybody who am i sitting they sat 26 guys bro do you want to see i'm playing our football team
14:42i
14:42protect jayden get him out there i want to see what he can do i don't care like stop crowning
14:48him
14:48hall of fame worthy let's get the dude out there he played one season of good football and then he
14:53played and it been injured let's come on man let's stop it i'm a commander's fan let's get it
14:59together get the guy out there let's play live bullets let's do it right all right enough with
15:04the drug enough with the bx man so what happened to jeremiah love doesn't scare you what happened
15:10to jackson dart doesn't scare you i'll tell you what scares this guy yeah it scares this guy too
15:14i mean it's football it's a violent sport i'm well aware that guys get hurt you know what the first
15:20thing they do they do after every football game including preseason games they go over the list
15:28of injuries because it happens in every game these guys get banged up and you just hope it's not your
15:36key guys didn't you say over and over again the reason why jayden struggled last year is because
15:40he didn't have the reps the fits and starts no i thought it was the fits and starts you guys
15:44said
15:44all the time that he didn't he he wasn't out there game to game and he came out sluggish and
15:49yeah well
15:50if he doesn't play at all in the preseason you're taking a big chance of going out there and week
15:54ones and twos and whiffing and whiffing him trying to find his i don't know i think the joint practices
15:59gives them some good reps reasonable reps and i think i'm okay i think he's established he's wearing
16:07a jersey where they can't touch him it's totally different yeah but thank god i mean i was watching a
16:13clip
16:13the last night of tom brady and randy moss playing in the third quarter of a preseason game in 2010
16:20i know it's just different now i know but what has happened like we are people play scared it's a
16:25paradigm different i don't know we don't maybe maybe they had more depth then we just i mean
16:29if we lose jayden it's over everyone knows it well if any josh allen that's not true top ready
16:35went out matt castle won like nine games that year didn't he that was a year after his acl injury
16:39too
16:39if the bills lost josh allen their season's over he played in the preseason yeah he's just some
16:45coaches he's some coaches are all in and they're going to play their guys i'm not as worried about
16:50josh even though he plays a physical style he's more rugged he's just he's built he's built for okay
16:54but i know you cakes you wouldn't play him in preseason josh allen's a proven commodity you're
16:59josh allen there's the bench i know you're not used to sitting on the bench but there it's just a
17:03different approach right they're just they're they're playing the safe approach at least the first
17:09preseason i can't potentially risk sam hartman and i know it wouldn't happen because they didn't
17:15play him last year when it didn't matter i can't risk sam hartman being my opening day starter if
17:20god forbid jayden gets hurt in the preseason let's say let's say jay just pulls a hammy that would
17:24never happen that he takes off and runs pulls a hammy you can't play mariotta because he's still
17:29got his pcls a little bit that would be a disaster all of a sudden you start sam hartman that
17:32would be a
17:33disaster they would hold an open tryout at the at the commander's park before they would start sam
17:40hartman i i know i i agree you know who else hates him the the personnel department because they
17:45wouldn't start him when they were desperate i gotta take a break 1-800-636-1067 the rooster chris russell
17:53hill join us at 8 25 here on the junkies
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