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Washington’s season is unraveling in the final seconds, and the finger-pointing inside the building is getting loud. Did Jayden Daniels go rogue on the final play, or was he set up to fail?

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00:00All right, so we wanted to get into why are the commanders
00:04continuing to fall on their face at the ends of games?
00:08It's become like a national talking point for this team.
00:13EB talked about it in the last hour.
00:15One of his buddies from San Diego basically is mentioning
00:18what's going on with the commanders in all these end-of-game scenarios
00:22where they're just committing basically unspeakable type of mistakes
00:28and penalties or questionable plays.
00:32Even going back to the Bates play, you remember the shuffle pass
00:37or whatever when they went for two?
00:39There's been a lot of weird situations, not getting plays off,
00:42weird plays where your stars aren't getting the ball,
00:44not even getting the ball in the air for guys to get a chance.
00:47And some of that you might be able to chalk up to,
00:49okay, new offensive coordinator, we're going to have some bumps in the road
00:53for the first couple of games, but we're heading into Week 10.
00:56I feel like I'm going to chalk it all up to that.
00:58But, I mean, sure, Jaden makes mistakes.
01:01The other players make mistakes.
01:03But at the end of the day, he's the offensive coordinator.
01:05He's the one dialing it up.
01:07I feel like he's the difference.
01:10We didn't have these problems the first two years.
01:11All we heard about was the winning time moments
01:13and how well coached they were and all this.
01:17Well, first year, yeah.
01:18Yeah, I mean, last year was a disaster.
01:22But the X factor to me is Blau.
01:25He's the new ingredient.
01:27This is even a bigger disaster, in my opinion, than last year,
01:31even though last year was a 5-12 season.
01:33Because they're at least out there playing?
01:35Well, because Jaden's out.
01:36I mean, Jaden's missed two games.
01:37Okay.
01:38But at least he's out there.
01:39Yeah.
01:39And they didn't have these end-of-the-game blunders
01:43that they're having this year.
01:44Right.
01:45I was told that the second-to-last play,
01:49when there was eight seconds left,
01:50remember I said I tried to read DQ's lips?
01:52Yeah.
01:53I think I was pretty accurate there, but I could be wrong.
01:55I thought he said, I want to get closer.
01:58Right.
01:58And so that's why they didn't throw the ball into the end zone
02:00with eight seconds left.
02:02I was told that J.D. was not supposed to throw it
02:05down the middle at the digs.
02:06He was supposed to throw it to Williams
02:08near the right pylon.
02:10Okay.
02:11Because apparently they played press coverage on Jefferson.
02:13I think it was Forbes that was on Jefferson.
02:15And he was supposed to throw it to give Williams a shot
02:19on the right sideline.
02:21Okay.
02:21And he didn't.
02:22He threw it down the middle to Diggs.
02:23If Diggs catches it, game's over anyway.
02:25Right.
02:25At least Diggs had the wherewithal not to catch the ball
02:28because it would have ended the game.
02:30The last play, I don't know what happened there.
02:33So I wrote down a couple things
02:34knowing that we were going to talk about it.
02:36And the first was kind of what EB was talking about.
02:38And if you want to chime in, 1-800-636-1067.
02:41I think there have been bad play calls.
02:44So if you think about the Eagles game,
02:47we didn't like the fact that they were trying to win it
02:51with a shovel pass to Bates
02:52or try and actually tie the game and push it to overtime.
02:55If you think about the game where it ends in a tie,
03:00the last couple plays were super questionable.
03:03And then if you think about this game,
03:05they ran four verts there.
03:07As you say, if he catches it, it's over.
03:10And then the last play was horrendous.
03:13Throw the ball in the end zone.
03:14It's just a basic thing versus this dump off,
03:17which I don't think was a hook and lateral or hook and lateral,
03:20however you want to call it.
03:23But I think it was a check to like a normal play.
03:26And Jaden threw to Chig and it just, it was a bust.
03:30I don't think that, it just makes no sense to me.
03:32Why would there be, in a final play situation,
03:36a check to a normal play?
03:38That makes no sense.
03:39Because they thought that if they were bringing everybody to the house,
03:41there would be a chance for Chig to run unabated to the end zone.
03:46I don't buy it.
03:48So those plays, they're also overshadowing digs running out of bounds
03:53on that last drive.
03:54We have Dan Quinn.
03:55He joined WSA 9 to talk about that play
03:59and these plays at ends of games that are haunting the commanders.
04:03Were you okay with backing up a few plays earlier?
04:05Stefan Diggs makes the big play to get you guys into that position.
04:08He was close to the sideline.
04:09Looked like he could have gone out of bounds.
04:10He chose to fight for an extra five yards or so.
04:13What were your thoughts on that?
04:14And those ones you want to get out,
04:15the time is at the premium with no timeout.
04:17So we call that chunks and clocks.
04:20So you want chunks, meaning first downs,
04:22so you can go clock it.
04:23First down to clock it.
04:24So that was a good chunk and a good drive starter.
04:27So yeah, we want him out of bounds there.
04:28Get it clocked.
04:30And then now save yourself another one for another chunk, another clock.
04:33So chunks and clocks with no timeouts.
04:36What do you see different in the last two plays?
04:38Well, on the second to last play,
04:40first I was pleased to see the execution,
04:42how quickly we clocked it.
04:4412 seconds is a quick one to go to Bradley,
04:46which leads to the third and four.
04:49And so in that instance with eight seconds left,
04:52man, we've got to get the ball in the end zone.
04:53And we know that.
04:55And so that's the one you got to get up through man rush and take your shot.
04:59Anything short would be, you know, the end of the game.
05:02So we call that ozone,
05:03meaning has to be either out of bounds or in the end zone,
05:06knowing that we want to get the second play.
05:08Diggs has been in the league long enough to know that getting out of bounds there
05:14is much more important than the extra three to five yards that he's gaining
05:18by staying in bounds.
05:20Like if that happened to Antonio Williams or a first or second year player,
05:24you can kind of write it off as, okay, young, inexperienced.
05:27But even those guys should know that at this point.
05:30Diggs has to know that.
05:32I wonder if he thought he could take it to the house though.
05:35Yeah, he probably did.
05:35Because he just thinks if I juked this one guy,
05:39I'm taking it to the house.
05:40I wonder if that's what he was thinking.
05:41I just think he was just trying to get as much yards.
05:43I agree he should have gone out of bounds in hindsight.
05:44Yeah.
05:45Yeah.
05:45He was just trying to get as much yards as he could to get closer.
05:49But I can't kill Diggs like I can kill.
05:52That wasn't the big play.
05:54The big play was the last two.
05:58It did waste, what, 15 seconds or whatever it did?
06:02I think it was 12.
06:03Look, I think that the play calls is the biggest issue.
06:06But I think Jaden Daniels is responsible for about 25% of the problem
06:10at the end of games.
06:12Because you can absolve him in the Eagles game.
06:14Because coaches call a play.
06:17It sucked.
06:18Yeah.
06:18But the tie game, you can't take a sack and run the football.
06:23You've got to throw it away.
06:24Okay?
06:25To set yourself up for a potential field goal.
06:27If you go to the 49ers game, it's a Hail Mary situation.
06:32But he gets sacked.
06:34He just can't take a sack there.
06:36And there have been too many times where Jaden has made questionable decisions
06:40whether he's taking a sack when he shouldn't,
06:41whether it's throwing the ball out of bounds when he should throw in the end zone.
06:45And in this case, I think whatever the call was,
06:50you just don't make that throw.
06:51You've got to throw it in the end zone.
06:52Like, you can't tell me that Josh Allen or Patrick Mahomes are making that same play.
06:59They're going to freelance it, as Cakes said.
07:02They're going to do something where they're going to actually give the team a chance to win
07:05with the throw into the end zone.
07:07That play had no chance.
07:09If you're Jaden, you shouldn't care about getting yelled at or screamed at by the coaches
07:13by not listening to them.
07:15You're at least going to give your team an opportunity to try to win the game
07:20or tie the game by throwing the ball into the end zone.
07:22Like, you know this.
07:24I just don't believe the play.
07:25I'm sorry.
07:26I disagree.
07:26Until they tell me.
07:27Otherwise, then I'll say, I guess you guys are right.
07:29I don't believe the idea was to throw it to Chick and have him rumble 35 yards
07:33and break 11 tackles.
07:33That could not be the plan.
07:34That's impossible.
07:36It's impossible for me to believe.
07:37I would never believe that.
07:38Then I know you should fire Blau if that was the check down built into that play.
07:44JP seems to think that David Blau saw the Ramondre Stevenson play from two weeks ago
07:48and he just was going to mimic that.
07:51I refuse to believe that.
07:52If that's the case, then fire him immediately.
07:54Did that look like a hook and ladder play?
07:56It looked like a terrible play.
07:57I don't know how to really describe it.
07:59It looked like a play that had no chance of succeeding.
08:01In 25 starts or whatever Jaden's have, I've never seen him sprint after the receiver
08:05like he did on that play.
08:06It's the first time I've ever seen him do that.
08:07Yeah, so it makes me believe that maybe on some level he was supposed to get the ball
08:12at some point.
08:14I've never seen him react that way.
08:17So, I don't know.
08:18I refuse to believe that the idea was, okay, we're going to go to the end zone.
08:22Oh, no, we think they're going to have zero blitz or something.
08:24So, let's just throw it to Chick and hope he can break seven tackles.
08:28Either way, it had no chance of scoring.
08:32Yeah, that's the other part that's overstated so much.
08:34Is it, you know, it's a Hail Mary.
08:36It was like a 2% chance they're going to win the game.
08:38It's all the other stuff that's more annoying to me.
08:40I'll put it mostly on the coaching.
08:42But Jaden is responsible for a lot of this.
08:47He's got the ball in his hands.
08:48And at times, he's not pulled the trigger when he should have.
08:52And in this case, he throws it to Chick on a play that's got no shot.
08:56Yeah.
08:57I think Jaden threw the staff under the bus in his presser when he basically said,
09:03I just got to call the play.
09:05We got to execute the play that's called.
09:08You mean the last play?
09:09Yes.
09:09Last play or two.
09:10Yeah.
09:10He's basically saying.
09:11I think he was throwing the staff under the bus.
09:13He's basically saying, well, I'll call that play.
09:15Can you find that?
09:16We play it again, Valdez.
09:17I know it took you a minute or two.
09:18The last play with three seconds left, I don't understand why Chig is running a short cross
09:25and Williams is running kind of a deeper cross.
09:28And there's only two receivers going towards the end of those.
09:31That was Bradley and Diggs.
09:34Why?
09:35Maybe they're trying to occupy some defenders who are going to have to take those two guys
09:40so you'd have less on the outside for a shot.
09:43But he didn't take the shot.
09:45I just think it's a bad play.
09:47It was a bad play.
09:48It's a bad play.
09:48There's no thinking.
09:49It was a bad play.
09:50That's why I said, to me, the biggest problem is the plays themselves, but Jaden is culpable.
09:57He's definitely responsible for some of it.
09:59Let's go to the phones.
10:001-800-636-1067.
10:02If he had a fatal decision-making flaw that literally was fatal to his game, I think we
10:06would have seen it in the previous two years.
10:08And all of a sudden, this stuff's all popping up this year, and I think the X factor is blau.
10:12This team, for whatever reason, needs a comeback win where everything looks well-orchestrated,
10:18a well-oiled machine two-minute drill.
10:20Well, it's gotten so bad that Quinn had to jock them for getting to the line of scrimmage
10:25and time.
10:25Yeah.
10:27They need this to erase all of this narrative that's boiling over from week to week.
10:34If you remember, in 2024, you were thrilled.
10:38It was kind of like RG3 in 2012.
10:40I hate to make that comparison, but in 2012, when they won that streak, you were thrilled
10:44when RG3 had the ball late.
10:45You were thrilled in 2024 when Jaden had the ball late.
10:48We're like, oh yeah, we're going to win.
10:49Jaden's going to march him down.
10:50He's great in these situations.
10:51Now, all of a sudden, he's the worst in the country in it.
10:54It just doesn't make sense.
10:55Here, do you want to hear the answer?
10:57Yeah.
10:58I mean, going up to watching the film, I think they had one versus, I want to say, the Raiders,
11:07I want to say.
11:07I'm not too sure.
11:09Don't quote me on that, but they bring pressure on that.
11:11You know, in those moments, last play game, I think it was like seven, eight seconds left
11:15on the play clock.
11:17They want to get the ball out the quarterback's hand as fast as possible, so you know, you
11:21could know you have to take a shot to the end zone so they could get home before you
11:25get the ball up or you let your guys get it down there.
11:28You know, that's probably ideal.
11:30So that was the play call that was called, and we got to execute it.
11:34I don't even know what to make of that.
11:36I don't either.
11:36It was looking like they were going to send some heat, but they ended up only sending
11:38five, I think, on the one that you threw underneath to Okonkwo.
11:41So was that a situation where you couldn't, like, adjust the way into the end zone?
11:45Did you have to stick with the lateral play at that point?
11:47It was a play call.
11:48You got to execute it.
11:50Yeah, he's basically saying, Blau called a bad play.
11:53I have to just...
11:54The reporter, by the way, is referencing it as a lateral play.
11:57He's not saying, no, it wasn't a lateral.
11:59Well, because there were laterals.
12:01I'll acknowledge that, but I don't think it was a hook and lateral design play.
12:04It was just one lateral.
12:05It was.
12:06Sheik was grasping and threw it back.
12:08It hit the ground.
12:09I agree.
12:10It was poorly executed.
12:12There wasn't somebody to lateral to when he threw the ball to Sheik.
12:15Sheik was trapped by the sideline.
12:16I think Sheik was there.
12:17He was, like, 15 yards behind the play.
12:20Not when Sheik catches it.
12:21Not when he started looking to chuck it.
12:24Yeah, but when Sheik catches it, Sheik's 15 yards behind the play.
12:28When Sheik gets to the 15, Sheik is a couple yards behind him.
12:33With, like, three defenders there.
12:35But Sheik's got nine guys that are going to tackle him.
12:37It's so dead.
12:38I'm not saying it was a good play.
12:40Good design.
12:41I'm not defending it.
12:42Just trying to figure out what it was.
12:43I'll tell you what.
12:44I will give you 20 bucks if it was designed for pass to Sheik back to Jaden.
12:49Or if he's one of the options.
12:51I just refuse to believe it was pass to Sheik, and that's it.
12:55Why couldn't they have made a strategic mistake where Jaden's got a second play, and he's got
13:01two receivers going to the end zone, and he just had a little bit of a brain meltdown
13:05and threw a checkdown play.
13:07Well, I just don't even think that would be in the cards, like, a checkdown play.
13:12Well, watching the game against the Bears a couple weeks ago, it made no sense when
13:17Drake May threw that little pass to Ramondre Stevenson.
13:21And then Stevenson went through the whole defense.
13:23Maybe there is something what Valby's said during one of the breaks, that he thinks Jaden
13:28is a little bit of a robot.
13:29Like, Jaden hears the play call.
13:31It's just a theory that I have.
13:32Must execute play instead of, oh, this play is terrible.
13:36I need to take a shot at this.
13:38I don't know if I was ready to reveal that theory, but my theory is that he's a little
13:42bit, he's been so programmed and taught to do the right things in certain situations,
13:47is that when he sees the situation in front of him, he assesses the situation, and he
13:53goes with what he's been taught his entire career.
13:55Right, but I just don't think that would be the particular checkdown on that play.
14:00Instead of going, holy ass, I'm at the 30-yard line.
14:03I mean, I don't really have a play after this.
14:05I got to bomb it into the end zone, regardless if it's the right breed or not.
14:09Exactly.
14:10It was a bad decision.
14:11That's what his brain should have clicked into.
14:13Yeah, but Blau might have told him, get it to Chig across the middle, and we're going
14:16to, he might have told him that.
14:17He may have told him that, but then if you're Jaden and you're not a robot, you say, that's
14:20a terrible play.
14:21What's the next play?
14:22Agreed.
14:22I'm not running that play.
14:23But if you watch the play over and over again, Jaden doesn't look down the field at all.
14:27He's only going to throw it to one person.
14:29JP said, if that play comes into Josh Allen or Mahomes or Joe Burrow, they're going to
14:33say, that's a horrible play.
14:35Give me your next play.
14:35Well, their offensive coordinators would never call that play.
14:38You're probably right.
14:39Can you?
14:40No, 100% right.
14:42Because they're better than Blau.
14:42That's probably right.
14:43Better than Blau.
14:43That's a t-shirt.
14:44No other offensive coordinator would call that play from the 32 with three seconds left.
14:48Can you just text your friend over there and ask him what the hell was the design of
14:51Can you get some intel for us?
14:52Did you text him that yet?
14:53Just ask him, what was the intent?
14:55Were they supposed to lateral it?
14:57Your unnamed friend?
14:57Did Jaden go rogue and decide to...
15:01Last place.
15:04Second one was a bad play call because they put in a check for a zero blitz, which they
15:08shouldn't have done.
15:09Jaden sensed pressure, so checked it down, but there wasn't a zero blitz.
15:13So that's the last one.
15:15That's the last play.
15:16Well, if that's the case, horrible decision by Jaden.
15:19You threw a check down.
15:19You threw a check down when you need to be in the end zone.
15:22You threw a check down that they called.
15:24Well, it's part of the play.
15:25Yeah, they definitely called it.
15:26They ran a play with...
15:27That's his point, though.
15:28What the guy's saying is they shouldn't have put the dumb check down in there.
15:32Check down shouldn't be an option.
15:32Correct.
15:33It was a bad play call.
15:35But he did execute what was called.
15:37So I guess you guys want him to override what was called.
15:40Yes.
15:40You want him to override what was called.
15:42Yes.
15:43Okay.
15:43I wonder if Blau said, all right, let's check it down.
15:46Let's get it to Chig over the middle.
15:48If he said that, that's why he's saying I had to execute the play.
15:55Their check down was that dumbass call.
15:57If that's what Blau said, he should be tarred and feathered out in front of the...
16:01So you've got to fire Blau.
16:01I said it was a bad play call, but it's also a bad decision.
16:06And by the way, that sounds to me like it wasn't some hook and lateral play.
16:10I agree with that.
16:12But I still stand by.
16:13It's a bad decision.
16:16He is the one on the line that is supposed to read the defense.
16:20Okay?
16:20They talk to him for 15 seconds.
16:22He gets to the line.
16:23He now reads the defense.
16:24They've got everybody up.
16:25He thinks it's going to be a blitz coming.
16:27When he drops back, the blitz isn't coming.
16:30He's got time.
16:32He then throws the Chig.
16:33He doesn't have to throw the ball to Chig.
16:35I think he called it at the line.
16:37He called it at the line.
16:39So what are you going to do?
16:40They're all running different routes.
16:41When he drops...
16:42Who are you going to throw it to?
16:44Either Bradley or I believe it was Diggs on the right side.
16:48Bradley's on the left.
16:49Bradley's on the left.
16:49He has time.
16:50He made a choice.
16:52He threw the ball to Chig.
16:54I think he's doing what he was coached to do.
16:56Maybe there's a little bit of a robot element to what Valdez is saying.
17:00Okay?
17:00I don't buy it completely, but I think there's a little bit of that.
17:02He's doing what was coached up to do.
17:05And he's being coached poorly.
17:07Bottom line.
17:08He's being coached poorly.
17:09I agree with both of you.
17:10All right.
17:10We're going to try...
17:11Because he doesn't look to throw to any other receiver on that play.
17:14He gets rid of the ball in less than two seconds, and he looks at one receiver.
17:18And is anybody within five yards of him?
17:20Of who?
17:21Jaden.
17:21When he throws the ball.
17:23I mean...
17:24Nobody's within five yards.
17:25That's when he throws it.
17:26He has a perfect pocket.
17:29Because he wasn't ever going to look at the end zone because that wasn't called.
17:33But look.
17:34He's not going to throw it to anybody else.
17:36Look where he's looking.
17:36I know.
17:36I said to me...
17:37Because he's executing the play.
17:39The play call is terrible.
17:40He's executing the play that was called.
17:41No, he could still...
17:42He could take another half second and then launch into the end zone.
17:46Right.
17:46That's going rogue, though.
17:47He looks...
17:47It's not really rogue.
17:49The receivers are running routes.
17:51It's not like it was a one-route concept.
17:53Listen.
17:53I'm telling you.
17:55He's doing what he was coached to do.
17:56He can make a choice.
17:57There's four receivers in play.
18:00He chose the shallow receiver.
18:03Maybe they're clear-out guys.
18:04I would love to know.
18:04Maybe Antonio Williams is running the deep across.
18:06Remember, McVay called a timeout before this play.
18:08Yes.
18:09And Blau was out on the field talking to all the players from the receivers and J.D.
18:12and all.
18:13I wonder if he said, all right, just check it down to Chig.
18:17Or if he said, if you don't find anybody deep, then check it down to Chig.
18:22I wonder if that was said.
18:23No.
18:24Because if he said, we've got to get in the end zone.
18:26Well, then David Blau is a complete moron.
18:28I think he's a moron.
18:29How can he be a moron?
18:30He's been around football for 30 years.
18:33Turns out he is.
18:33He's been a quarterback in the league.
18:35Turns out he's dumb.
18:36I don't get it.

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