00:00what Quinn said a little while ago. Why don't you play it again, Max, for those that are just
00:07tuning in? He was asked about Jaden playing in these preseason games. Here's what he said.
00:12You've seen with Jaden Daniels. Would you be comfortable if he plays zero preseason snaps?
00:17Yes, I'd be comfortable with him and other veterans that have played to go. But yeah,
00:22we haven't decided in terms of will we or won't we. We had a joint last week. He got a
00:27lot of
00:27reps. He'll get a lot today and tomorrow going against our defense. So I'll have a better sense
00:32for where everybody is before we make any of those decisions. But
00:36he's thrown like an incredible training camp, his accuracy, his command
00:40of it, a new system. You wouldn't feel like that for him.
00:44But I've been certainly impressed by what I've seen so far by him.
00:49So, I mean, I think it sounds like he's not going to play. He's
00:53said immediately he would be comfortable with him and other veterans.
00:57Not playing. I mean, Jaden is a veteran, but really, he's got one season under his belt
01:03as a rookie season. He barely played last year. I understand the fear. I understand the risk.
01:11But so do other teams. And they're trying to get their starting quarterback and their starting
01:17offenses and defenses into a little bit of rhythm. Look, this is one of those things that
01:24I, we, when we talk about these things, we're probably in over
01:29our skis. With that said, if they come out and
01:34lay an egg against Philadelphia on September 13th and they get
01:39pummeled by the Eagles and none of their starters played in the
01:43preseason, we're going to point back to it.
01:48You know, they didn't have a great first game in Tampa
01:51two years ago, but to be fair, I mean, it was his first game.
01:56They played well enough. Openers are weird, but they didn't play well in week two at Green
02:01Bay on a short turnaround. I mean, they don't have that short turnaround this year.
02:08Maybe playing a little bit more would have helped with the short turnaround going into
02:12Green Bay after the opener last year. You don't have that this year.
02:14Um, but it does open him up to criticism. If they look like they're not ready to play in the
02:23opener
02:23and you know what they would probably say is playing a series or two wouldn't have made a
02:30difference. And that's probably true. It would have made a difference in the reaction and they
02:37shouldn't really care about the reaction. At the same time, if he were to play the starters and a
02:43big time starter went down, God forbid, it was Jaden in one of these preseason games, he'd be
02:51massively open to criticism from the other side that said, what are you doing? But it wouldn't be
02:59unique to play the starting quarterback. You know, the Sean McVay, um, trend of basically not playing
03:06any starters in the preseason. It's easier for him because of the track record.
03:13Like they've won a Superbowl. They've been a great team. He also has a 38 year old starting
03:21quarterback in Matt Stafford who really doesn't need preseason work. I personally would love to see
03:30with, you know, uniforms on against an opponent in a stadium with fans, with a scoreboard,
03:40with a clock, with a play clock. I'd love to see two series. And by the way, if you're going
03:47to do
03:47it, I don't just want to see the ball getting hand handed off three times to keep him safe.
03:52Let him, let him throw it around a little bit. Let him get into rhythm, throwing the football around
03:57a little bit. You can do some quick game stuff.
04:03301-230-0980. 301-230-0980. Are you okay if Jaden Daniels doesn't play at all in the preseason?
04:15By the way, it goes beyond Jaden Daniels for me. I think all of these starters with two new
04:21coordinators, it just seems like they could benefit from playing. It seems like at the very
04:27least, the downside is nothing. Well, the downside is not nothing. The downside, of course, is risk of
04:33injury. But they could get injured in the first quarter of the season opener. I would like to see
04:40the starters play against the Lions personally. What do you think? 301-230-0980. 301-230-0980.
04:48It certainly sounds like if he continues to practice well this week in these two padded practices
04:54today and tomorrow, that he and probably many of the other starters are not going to play against
05:01Detroit on Saturday. That game, by the way, is a 12 noon kick on Saturday, if you didn't know.
05:08All right. Question, not about Sam Hartman. Are you okay if Jaden Daniels, and I'll just say the starters,
05:16both sides of the ball, are you okay if they don't play in the preseason? I don't love it.
05:21I wish they would play football because it's been a long time and you got a lot of new players
05:26and
05:26you got two new coordinators. How about just getting, you know, are they going to be okay
05:31with Alec Reddy and Jaden in the first time they're snapping, you know, under center or shotgun,
05:38doesn't matter. In a game being the Philadelphia game, I don't know. Max, what do you think?
05:45Do you want Jaden to play? You want the starters to play? Yes or no?
05:48Yeah, absolutely. I mean, especially like with the installation of a new offense, I selfishly,
05:54I want to see what it kind of looks like. I know dip blouse.
05:56We won't see what it looks like. We're not going to show anything, but I also want to see Jaden
06:01out
06:01there just looking the part and going back to what he was in 24, at least just looking good.
06:09That's all I want to see, but I understand the other side of it with how last year went injury
06:16wise and especially with Marcus getting hurt in the first preseason game. You don't want anything
06:20bad to happen to Jaden. So I get the protecting element of it, but at the same time, I, you
06:27got
06:27to get some game reps on the field, at least in my eyes, you know, so last year, if you
06:34recall,
06:35um, Jaden Daniels played one series against Cincinnati. That series was a four play 74 yard touchdown
06:45drive. Ran it in himself. He, he, there was a reverse to Debo for 19 yards. Uh, Chris Rodriguez
06:53ripped off a 40 yard run. Uh, then Rodriguez went for one yard and then Jaden on a drop back
07:01on second
07:01nine scrambled and ran for a touchdown. And remember Cincinnati's defenders basically could
07:08have hit him and chose not to in the end zone. And they weren't thrilled that he took off and
07:14ran
07:15in that spot in traffic up the middle of the field, not towards the sideline, not sliding.
07:21Maybe they just don't trust him in a preseason game. You know, seriously, it could come down to
07:27that. The more that I think about it, it's like, you know, we'd like to get a series or two,
07:33but when
07:35he's out there, he's competing at a level that we're concerned with considering the circumstance
07:41I've said with respect to Jaden, the number one, I think thing you've got to see in terms of growth
07:48is he can't treat first and 10 in the first quarter, like it's fourth and five down six
07:56in the fourth quarter. You know, you can't take on a defense in a preseason game on a 14 yard
08:04touchdown
08:04run. All right, let's start with Stan in Sterling. Stan, go ahead.
08:10Yeah. Thanks, Kevin. Just to expound on it. So I believe that they should definitely play their
08:17starters at least a series or two. You know, you have two new coaches basically on the offense
08:23and defensive side. So, you know, if we still had Kingsbury and Witt, you know, and we're in a third
08:29year of a system, I could see why they wouldn't play familiarity. You know, they don't really need the
08:33reps. It's familiar, but since you have two new coaches, you know, you got to get some reps that
08:37I think at least play a series, in my opinion, you know, you don't want to, you know, not do
08:42that and
08:42then look rusty to start out in the opener. So especially with some tough opponents coming up,
08:48you need some of the reps in practice. So. Yeah. You know, by the way, in looking up last preseason,
08:55what I discovered is, yes, he played, but he did not throw one pass because he only was in there
09:01for four snaps against Cincinnati. He didn't play the first preseason game against New England
09:06and he didn't play the last preseason game against Baltimore. And maybe they're like, well, what's the
09:10point if we're going to put him in for one series and, you know, and we'd be concerned that under
09:17pressure he might take off. And maybe they're concerned about pressure in particular without
09:23game planning for the pressure. Maybe that's part of it too. You know, they don't game plan.
09:28They're not scheming up protections. They could if they wanted to, but because you're not game
09:35planning and you're not planning on helping Brandon Coleman or helping, you know, against, uh, you
09:41know, an Aiden Hutchinson, if he plays, I don't know if he is or isn't for Detroit. Maybe they're
09:45like, yeah, we just, we, you know, the two padded practices and the, uh, Ravens, you know, uh,
09:52joint practice with yellow jerseys on is fine for us. Uh, thank you, Stan. Let's go
09:58to Mark in Glen Echo, mild stomping grounds. You're certainly near mild stomping grounds.
10:03Mark, go ahead.
10:05I agree with you, Kevin. I think he should play. Um, and I, you just said something about
10:11and that kind of triggered me a little bit, not far negatively, but just, you know, far
10:16as Jaden with these competitive juices. I mean, if that's, that's the only comparison that
10:22I would have with him at RG three, do Dan Quinn trust him enough to, to stay within, you
10:28know, himself and, and not just, you know, you know how these athletes are, they get
10:33competitive and they might do a little something, tweak something, but injuries are part of the
10:37game. Uh, I would love to say on play, but if he's meant to be locked in and they think
10:42he's mentally locked in based on these next two practices, padded practices, then, uh,
10:47Hey, I got to roll with it. I'll, I'll give them a pass, but I'll be watching. Yeah. Look,
10:51I mean, we are, we're, we're, we're stretching beyond our capabilities here, um, and trying
10:57to give them direction on playing players in the preseason where we're not stretching is
11:02understanding what the reaction will be if they don't play them in the preseason and then
11:08they go out and play poorly in the opener. They shouldn't care about that at all. Shouldn't
11:14bother them at all. I'm just saying that there will be a lot of criticism from many
11:20corners. If nobody plays in the preseason and they don't appear ready to start the regular
11:26season. Uh, let's go to Peter in Wilmington. Peter, go ahead.
11:32Good morning, Kevin. Listen, I'm not happy about the quarterback situation. The backup quarterback
11:37situation. Marietta didn't play that well last year. Sam played okay. Good. Yeah. He played
11:44okay. But what I'm saying, he's hurt. If I want him to play, be nice. If he, if Jane gets
11:50hurt in this game and for any game in the beginning of the year, and we have no backup quarterback
11:57other than Mariota, which I really don't trust him. If they lose seven games in a road, Dan
12:03Quinn will be on his way out mid season because the fans will go crazy. This is a bad situation
12:10that they got themselves in. They really don't have, they have a backup, but he's hurt and
12:15he didn't play that well. In my opinion, last year, Marcus Mariota is a, is, is a top. We
12:22looked this up. I mean, I thought he would be top five, but he was like 11th or 12th. Marcus
12:26Mariota is a solid veteran NFL quarterback who plays similarly to the starter. And look,
12:34he wasn't great last year, but he gave them a chance in a lot of games. He absolutely gave
12:41them a chance in a lot of games last year. How many games did he win last year? Well,
12:47that's, that's beside the point, isn't it? Um, he didn't have like Jaden, when Jaden played
12:52a few games, there wasn't a whole hell of a lot around him, but you know, he played,
12:56he played well in that Denver game. He was excellent in that Denver game that they almost
13:00pulled off a big upset. He played well. There were a couple of games. He was okay. And what'd
13:06you say? That was a one good game, but I'm telling you, this is a, this is a disaster waiting
13:13to happen. If they don't straighten this out, because they have no real backup now only with
13:18Mariota and he's hurt. And how, how long is he going to be around it? Well, they say
13:22he's apparently going to be ready to, to back up Jaden in the opener. So we'll see. Thanks
13:29Kevin. Great show. Yeah. Thanks Peter. All right. Mark in Largo, Mark in Largo has the stage
13:35that he so desires on a twice or three times a week basis. Go ahead. Oh boy. Here we go
13:44with this crap. Uh, he, I think he should play, but I can understand why Dan doesn't want
13:50him to play. And I, I don't think it's more about Jaden. I think it's more about Alec
13:56Reddy. And what I don't understand, Kevin is why we haven't gone out and got a center.
14:03Um, because there aren't any right now to go out and get, well, you can't get the, I know
14:08there's a guy who's available that one of somebody in the front office used to play
14:12with, uh, some, uh, some, uh, see who's the summer. I forgot it. He played with the
14:18lion, play with the lion, not Decker, not Decker. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I thought you were
14:24talking about Decker. Cause he's not too. It's another guy that plays with, uh, that
14:28plays center who's available. He played with the lions last year. Um, and I know
14:34he's six. Yeah. Graham Glasgow, Graham Glasgow. I don't know anything about him.
14:40Yeah. But you got to get depth and see, I think what Dan is concerned is not so much
14:47about Jaden. Well, you could say Jaden, it's the center position. And here's the other thing.
14:52I think the first, the first series last week, that offensive line got beat up again. And I
15:00don't, is there anyone else that could play left guard outside of Chris Paul? I saw a rating
15:05of him last, uh, yesterday, which was not good. A rating for what? A preseason game
15:11for a series? No, no, no. I'm talking about last year. He was like, he had some good games
15:17offensive line in 25 than we did in 24. It's truly amazing when Brandon Coleman didn't play
15:23and I'm not talking about learning. But I mean, the coaching staff made a big tip of replacing
15:30Coleman with Paul, which turned out actually not to be a good idea. Uh, that's, that's
15:36debatable. Um, I, I, I know that some advanced numbers didn't necessarily evaluate Chris Paul
15:43that well, but there were plenty of people that thought that he was a road grader at times
15:48in the run game and was better than Coleman was early in the season. I mean, they obviously
15:54felt like when Coleman got injured that they, he never, uh, that Paul was, was more than good
16:00enough. At the same time, they were willing to let Paul go into free agency, uh, before
16:05realizing he didn't get a deal and they brought him back and now he's got to start because
16:09Coleman's got to start for tons.
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