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It’s the ultimate Misery Monday for Washington Commanders fans. The Sports Junkies opened up their phone lines and callers flooded the station to vent their frustrations regarding Jayden Daniels’ injury. What are your initial thoughts about Jayden’s horrific injury?
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00:00The question we're throwing out there is, do you have any faith that the season can be recovered?
00:05No.
00:06EB's saying no.
00:07I know the answer in this room.
00:08Let me just give you a scenario.
00:10Okay, I'd like to hear this.
00:11You start off 0-2, but there are 17 games to the season now.
00:15All right.
00:15There's a bunch of teams that are 0-2.
00:17Is it over for the Houston Texans?
00:18Is it over for the L.A. Chargers?
00:20Maybe it is.
00:20Based on percentage, it is.
00:21Maybe it is.
00:22I believe in the hit.
00:23I heard this.
00:23I got to shout out Mitch Tischler.
00:25I heard this driving in.
00:26I believe the Skins have started out 0-2, I think, 12 times in their history.
00:32They made the playoffs one time.
00:34So you're saying there's a chance.
00:36So it's grim.
00:37So let me just paint this picture.
00:39Okay.
00:40You haven't had a home game yet.
00:42So if you want to paint the positive picture, you haven't had a home game yet, and you're
00:49facing a team with a backup quarterback.
00:51Did you see what that backup quarterback did yesterday?
00:53I'm just saying.
00:54Hold on.
00:54You're facing the best receiver in the game, too.
00:57That's a real problem.
00:59Okay.
00:59Okay.
01:00And you're also facing a team whose defense has given up 17 points in two games.
01:03Now, maybe.
01:04This is a big maybe.
01:05It's an unwinnable game.
01:06It is Seattle coming here, flying east for a 1 o'clock kick.
01:09There they go.
01:10A lot of times, those teams come out lethargic.
01:13The travel catches up to them.
01:15Unless they all get food poisoning.
01:17Maybe you catch them snoozing a little bit.
01:19Maybe Drew Locke drew locks.
01:20That would be great.
01:21If somehow, Durante Jones and Dan Quinn can make Drew Locke.
01:24Well, maybe Darnold might be back next week.
01:26We don't know.
01:26He could.
01:27That's possible.
01:27It is possible.
01:28I just don't know who's going to cover JSN.
01:30I'm trying to paint a rosy picture.
01:32He's going to have nine catches for a buck 60.
01:35That's about the rest of the pitch.
01:36That you have a home game.
01:38Your first home game.
01:39So be charged up.
01:41That you're back at Northwest Stadium.
01:43All right.
01:43You got the home fans fired up.
01:45Yeah.
01:45And you're facing a team traveling with the West Coast to the East Coast that has a backup
01:50quarterback.
01:50You're just trying to be positive.
01:53And I'm throwing out the question.
01:54You're grasping.
01:55You're grasping.
01:56They don't have the talent to beat them.
01:57So you've already raised the white flag.
02:00You're waving the white flag.
02:02It's over.
02:02I personally waved it when the schedule came out.
02:04With Jaden.
02:05But JP, Seattle's.
02:06That's not true.
02:06Because you picked them eight or nine wins, right?
02:09That's not to make the playoffs.
02:10Yeah.
02:10That was just being optimistic.
02:12Go ahead.
02:13I was going to say Seattle's defense is, even if the offense isn't playing well, Seattle's
02:16defense can win the game for them.
02:18Right.
02:18Of course.
02:19Washington's can't.
02:20Of course.
02:20No, they cannot.
02:21We're ill-equipped.
02:22We have one player that's our entire restaurant.
02:25He's the entire menu.
02:25He's everything.
02:27So you're saying unrecoverable cakes?
02:31I'm still holding out the faintest glimmer of hope.
02:34But what is the...
02:35That somehow they have an inspired defensive effort and they can keep JSN to, I don't know,
02:40120 yards.
02:41Oh, so you're just talking about this particular game.
02:43He's going to cover them.
02:44That, I don't know.
02:45I don't have that answer.
02:46They don't have the play.
02:46I need DeRombeck Jones to figure that out.
02:49Yeah, he should be double-covered on every single play.
02:52I don't know if that's going to help, but he should never be single-covered by this defense.
02:56They can't beat him.
02:57Even when Mikey...
02:58You know what I'm going to let happen?
02:59I'm going to let Rasheed Shaheed beat me.
03:01I'm going to let Jadarian Price or whoever's running the ball for them, Emmanuel Wilson, let those
03:05guys beat me.
03:06I might even triple-cover JSN.
03:09Sure.
03:10I mean...
03:11I don't think that's unreasonable.
03:12I don't think that's a crazy thought.
03:14Because they are the guys who'll be wide open.
03:16Okay.
03:16I'll take my chances.
03:17You can't triple-cover a person.
03:19I can't let him go nuclear like he did against the dumb Arizona Cardinals yesterday.
03:25Well, he does.
03:26He'll get all his numbers in the first half, and then they'll quiet down.
03:29By the way, even when Mikey had good coverage, CeeDee Lamb still went over and caught a touchdown.
03:34There's no such thing as good coverage from Mikey.
03:36Like, the first CeeDee Lamb touchdown, I couldn't understand.
03:39I watched it 50 times.
03:41He gives him a little cursory bump at the line of scrimmage, and then he just releases him
03:46into the back of the end zone.
03:48I mean, is that planned?
03:49Is there supposed to be a safety coming over to help?
03:51Because the safety kind of looked over like, I don't know I'm supposed to cover CeeDee Lamb here.
03:57What's happening?
03:57I saw a couple coaches, not yelling at Mikey, but yelling or talking to him after certain plays.
04:03Well, they definitely sat him for a little bit.
04:04After the first touchdown, they definitely sat him for a little bit.
04:06I thought Robertson was competitive.
04:08Then he had to go back out there.
04:09Yeah, he does.
04:09He competes.
04:10He's competitive, but you know what?
04:11When you're getting dump trucked, stop talking smack to the other team on every other play.
04:15That's fair.
04:15Please stop that.
04:17Stop the woofing when the other team is about to put a 40 ball on you.
04:21Okay?
04:22Stop that.
04:22Now, the NFL is unpredictable, as we found out.
04:26Yeah, well aware.
04:26Okay, so anything can happen, but it doesn't.
04:28Some things are predictable.
04:30It doesn't look great.
04:31All right, let's go to the phones.
04:34Do you have any faith?
04:35Do you hold on any faith that they can recover and get this season back on track?
04:40I'm going to give them a 10% chance of winning against Seattle.
04:43And that's why you've held off the Titanic music today.
04:45I'm going to hold off until four weeks.
04:47I want to see what, maybe they come up with an amazing game plan to limit JSN, and they're
04:53able to win 21-17, like, defensive slugfest.
04:58But if the defense plays in any way, shape, or form like they did against Dallas, JSN's
05:05going to go for 200.
05:06They don't have anybody that can cover them.
05:07On his previous life, Drew Locke was kind of a donk quarterback.
05:11Yeah.
05:11So you need Drew Locke to come back to being a donk.
05:14In other situations, these guys are elite athletes.
05:16I understand.
05:17Yeah.
05:17He's got a great coaching staff, too.
05:19He's getting coached up.
05:20And he's got a great play.
05:21He's got a freaking Hall of Famer he's throwing to.
05:23Let's go to Jason in Omaha.
05:25Jason, what's up, man?
05:27You're on with the Junkies.
05:28What's up, fellas?
05:29Hey, Jason.
05:30Terrible showing.
05:32But, so I do not think the season is over.
05:41I'm trying to hold out hope, just like one of you guys.
05:43I heard you trying to hold out hope.
05:44I am, too.
05:45But, fundamentally, this team is just not constructed right.
05:50Adam Peters, from year one, has drafted soft players.
05:57And, for whatever reason, they're getting hurt.
06:00They need to change their philosophy of who they're targeting.
06:04You don't see Ravens players just getting hurt out of the blue.
06:08Like, they're tough.
06:09People get hurt all across.
06:11St. Flowers got hurt week one.
06:13St. Flowers, it's not true.
06:14St. Flowers, great player.
06:15He got hurt week one.
06:16Would you agree that other teams have tough players?
06:23I don't question they're tough.
06:24I think they're tough.
06:25Look at the injury list for this week.
06:26Thanks for the call.
06:27Look at the injury list for just this week.
06:29Well, a lot of guys don't pay attention to other teams.
06:32They just don't.
06:33Right.
06:33Is Saquon Barkley tough?
06:35He got hurt.
06:35He's generally tough.
06:36Caleb Williams tough.
06:37I don't know.
06:37Got hurt.
06:38Guys get hurt.
06:39Kyler Murray went out on, I think, the second series of the season for the Vikings.
06:43We kind of expected that.
06:44Now, you can question the choices.
06:47They drafted Mikey Sanderstol.
06:49They drafted Ben Sinnott.
06:50Those are fair things.
06:51You can go down the list.
06:53He's about 50-50, I would say, on draft picks.
06:56I don't question their toughness.
06:57That's crazy.
06:58Dennis, what's up, buddy?
06:59You're on with the junks.
07:01Good morning, guys.
07:02How are you doing?
07:02Hey, Dennis.
07:03Thank you for taking my call.
07:04Well, listen, I've listened to a lot of phone calls in the last, you know, since this game
07:10ended yesterday, and the one thing that really upset me yesterday, and you guys may go off
07:16on me about this and say it doesn't matter, but I'm going to tell you what, I am sick
07:20of the league, and I'm sick of the referees, okay, calling and taking touchdowns away from
07:25us and this, that, and the other thing.
07:26Second thing I'm going to say is, yeah, as far as the season goes, I think we're really
07:32a lot of trouble right now, because Jayden Daniels, just like y'all said, if he doesn't
07:38get the operation, he's going to get hurt again.
07:40You don't have an orthopedic guy on the phone, you know, that's talked to us on the phone
07:43yet today, but I'm going to tell you something.
07:45Joints are a really bad deal, and I'm a pro at having joint issues, because tomorrow morning,
07:49I go in for hip replacement surgery.
07:51Oh, good luck.
07:52Oh, wow.
07:53Thank you very much, guys.
07:55I appreciate that.
07:55I really need it to come through clean, so I can keep fishing.
07:58You'll be good.
07:58You'll be able to.
07:59You'll be all right.
08:00You'll be good.
08:00I've heard some great things about hip surgeries.
08:03I'm talking competition on the Potomac River, big waves.
08:06Look at this guy.
08:07All right, thank you.
08:08Hey, good luck to you, Dennis.
08:09But Dennis, we brought up the referee thing.
08:11It's just, it kind of gets lost in the shuffle when you have the Jayden Daniels injury and
08:15people questioning Dan Quinn's job, which we're going to get into at eight o'clock.
08:21We all were kind of perplexed by the call.
08:24I don't think it's some grand conspiracy against the commanders.
08:27I think sometimes the referees screw it up.
08:30Yeah, I don't know how they missed that.
08:32I thought it was a touchdown.
08:32Everyone did.
08:33The broadcast.
08:34The broadcast.
08:35They were like, how is that not a touchdown?
08:36Tom Brady's like, that's clearly a touchdown.
08:38No, what's the former referee who chimes in?
08:41Landino.
08:41Landino thought it was a touchdown.
08:43Yeah, I don't understand.
08:44I saw it wiggle a little bit, and I think they used that.
08:46I think that's what it was, yeah.
08:48But I still think they should have caught a TD.
08:50I think it was a touchdown, too, though.
08:51Let's go to Vic.
08:52Aki Geek.
08:53Vic, what's up, bud?
08:55What's up, y'all?
08:56What's up, man?
08:56You were optimistic before the season, right?
08:59I was because I would like to think for Dan's transparency
09:06and his willingness to talk about coaching football
09:12and the things that can lead to winning or not,
09:15he's not afraid to address it.
09:17And I thought that he would be moving in the right direction.
09:22What I've come to the conclusion of is Dan is too nice.
09:25Dan does not hold them accountable enough to the point where the expectation
09:28of fundamental football is played at a high level.
09:31In situational football, when it needs to be physicality
09:35and then when it needs to be decision-making.
09:37We see the same defensive woes that I said to you all 15 years ago.
09:41I called y'all.
09:42I thought I called y'all when I was 25, y'all.
09:43I'm 40 now.
09:44I've told y'all for years.
09:46Our linebackers, they never take real drops.
09:48They take four to five-yard drops,
09:50and they get the ball caught behind them all the time.
09:53Richardson caught two touchdowns because Leo Chanel just didn't keep dropping.
09:57He would have got right in the lane of the passing lane of the quarterback.
10:00He would have kicked the ball.
10:01It would have been an interception.
10:03Mike Fenton still does not get his head around.
10:06Somebody, one of you, just said it.
10:08He was in good position, but he didn't get his head around
10:10to make a play on the football.
10:12That's what JV and high school varsity kids are being taught.
10:16If I'm paying you millions of dollars and you still can't do that,
10:20then that means I need to get you out of the game.
10:22And if you can't get them out of the game,
10:24that means that Rod T. Jones is not being held accountable,
10:26just like Joe Witt wasn't.
10:27And it means that Dan Quinn is not the coach for us.
10:30And that is the bottom line.
10:32And I know people are thinking it, but we're afraid to say it.
10:35He's playing.
10:36He's coaching for his job next weekend.
10:38If they do not beat the Seattle Seahawks, he will be fired.
10:40I guarantee you.
10:41All right.
10:41Thanks, Vic.
10:42I don't think so.
10:43I don't think that's the case.
10:44Now, end of the year, possibly.
10:46They're not going to fire midseason after three weeks.
10:48Let's go to Joe.
10:49I wouldn't rule it out.
10:50I don't think after three weeks, but I wouldn't rule it out.
10:53Well, if they go like 0-7, 0-8, something could happen.
10:55That's different.
10:56But I do think a winless season is on the table.
11:00Winless?
11:01They're going to go winless.
11:02If they don't have Jaden, if they don't play Jaden the rest of the way,
11:05I don't know how they win.
11:06Winless is tough to do.
11:08It's very tough to do.
11:10If they don't have Jaden, I don't know how they win a game.
11:13No, I think if Marcus plays like he did yesterday.
11:14They certainly won't be favored in any of those games.
11:16Look, Marcus played just about as well as Jaden was playing.
11:20He had one touchdown pass.
11:22Should have had two.
11:23We all agree he should have had two.
11:24Okay, but over time, he's not going to play like that.
11:27He's not Jaden.
11:28Now, Jaden's running was excellent, but we've seen Mariota run the football.
11:33And he passed as well as Jaden did yesterday.
11:35Look at Jaden's – look at Marcus's win-loss percentage.
11:39I understand.
11:39I'm just saying yesterday in that game, if you're fair,
11:43Marcus passed as well as Jaden did.
11:45He passed okay, but he makes some ill-advised passes too, though.
11:48He got away with it.
11:49It's not the same.
11:50He looks – now, he looked uncomfortable because he came in
11:53and didn't have any first-team reps heading into the week.
11:56Hopefully, he's going to look better against Seattle.
11:59I have no faith in him.
12:00I'm just saying, in the passing game, they were as efficient,
12:03if not better, with Marcus Mariota just passing.
12:06Now, he didn't give you the running element that Jaden gave you yesterday,
12:09which obviously takes Jaden to another level.
12:11Yeah.
12:12His numbers were okay, but if he has to play, you know,
12:15eight to 15 games, his numbers are going to be subpar.
12:20I'm not disagreeing with you, but I'm not putting them on a winless team
12:24with Marcus Mariota.
12:25We would be better with Kirk Cousins.
12:28Sure.
12:28Of course.
12:29We would be better with Kirk Cousins.
12:30Kirk Cousins is like the –
12:31Like a 40-year-old Kirk Cousins, we would be better.
12:33Of course.
12:35He's better.
12:35He'll be disagrees with you.
12:37Okay.
12:37Just so you know.
12:38Let's go to Jay in Centerville.
12:40That's like saying you'd be better with Josh Allen.
12:42It's obvious.
12:43Well, a lot of people gave up on Kirk Cousins a couple years ago.
12:46Jay.
12:48Yo, good morning, friend.
12:49Thanks for taking my call, man.
12:51Yep.
12:51I don't think the season is over.
12:53I don't think the season is over.
12:54I think we need to hop on that Cadillac.
12:57I think we need to put Cali – give him a shot, Drew, please.
13:00I'm sorry, Drew.
13:01Drew Bledsoe was the man until –
13:04Yes, sir.
13:06Yes, sir.
13:07Give him a shot.
13:07I mean, everybody thought Drew Bledsoe was going to be the man until Tom Brady came.
13:13Give him a shot.
13:15I don't think we're going to win with Margotta.
13:17All right.
13:18Thank you for the call.
13:19Now, if they do go like 0-8, then you toss the ball to Cali Madness and see what he's
13:24got.
13:24See what he's got.
13:25That's when you go to him.
13:26That's fine.
13:26I don't hate going to him if they shut down Jaden for the year, right?
13:31They say, you know what?
13:33Jaden's our long-term guy.
13:34Yeah.
13:35This is just his third year.
13:36No, you've got to give the guys –
13:37We're shutting him down for this year.
13:39You've got to give the veterans a chance with Mariotta.
13:40I'm not saying – but I would roll them out after – like, let's say they're 0-5.
13:45Why not?
13:47I think you need to bring in a veteran.
13:49I agree with you.
13:49So I looked at the veterans.
13:50I looked at, like, all the practice squad quarterbacks.
13:53You wouldn't believe how bad they are.
13:54Oh, I believe it.
13:55The practice squad.
13:55Oh, I know who they are.
13:56They're drunken.
13:57There's not one you want.
13:59Even Josh Johnson, I believe, was called up to the active roster, if I have correct information.
14:02You have, like, Hendon Hooker, Joey Aguilar, Sean Clifford, Bailey Zappi, Shane Buscelli.
14:07I mean, Mike Moss, Luke Altemeyer.
14:09I mean, literally –
14:10Yeah.
14:11Drunk.
14:11Zeros.
14:12Yeah.
14:12Okay?
14:13And then you go, well, what –
14:14That's how hard the position is.
14:15What are the most attractive free agents that are on the street?
14:19Maybe you sign Jimmy Garoppolo?
14:21What's Will Levis up to these days?
14:23Will Levis is terrible.
14:24Jake Brown and Kyle Trask.
14:26These guys are all terrible.
14:27Do you want to try Russell Wilson?
14:29Like –
14:29No.
14:30There's nothing.
14:31I've never seen –
14:32Yeah, it's garbage out there.
14:33Man, I've never seen it this dark.
14:35Let's go back to the phones.
14:361-800-636-1067.
14:38Some people are saying the season's over.
14:41Can they recover?
14:42Look, they're facing a backup quarterback in their first home game.
14:47You're grasping.
14:48You're grasping a little bit.
14:49It's a great team.
14:50He is a backup quarterback.
14:51They're way bigger than their quarterback.
14:52He does have a lot of experience.
14:53He's got a lot of starts under his back.
14:55The Cardinals were facing that same guy, and he put up 31 on them.
14:57Yeah.
14:59Brian LaPlata, what's up, bud?
15:02Hey, Jim.
15:02How you doing?
15:03Hey, man.
15:04Terrible.
15:05Not great.
15:05As far as last night, yeah, I'm terrible.
15:07This is rock bottom for me.
15:09I think this is the quickest rock bottom we've been.
15:12I remember 2009, Jim Zorn.
15:14I remember end of the year with Mike Shanahan in 2024 shutting down on G3.
15:21Just to continue going, Jake Gruden, the 0-5 start, they're firing.
15:25This is rock bottom to me.
15:27If Jaden Daniels is shut down for the year, in which I think he should be,
15:31I don't even know where they go with the franchise now.
15:34Like, if Jaden Daniels can't stay healthy and you have the number one
15:40overall pick, what do you do right there?
15:44Do you trade it or do you draft a quarterback?
15:47No, I don't think you draft a quarterback yet.
15:49I mean, I understand the question, and I'm not saying it's unfair,
15:51but I think the talent is too great.
15:53You have to roll the dice on him.
15:55You've got to give him another year.
15:56And I agree with that.
15:58I do agree with giving him another year, but I would trade it.
16:01I would look to trade it, probably pick up more picks, but, I mean.
16:04Maybe you take one in his third round.
16:06I'd consider it depending on how the rest of the season plays out.
16:09So, let's say Jaden comes back in a few weeks from the dislocated elbow,
16:15and then he gets hurt again.
16:17Not the dislocated elbow.
16:18He gets hurt with the legs.
16:21He gets hurt with the ribs.
16:23He gets hurt with the shoulder.
16:25Whatever else happens, it just adds to the list.
16:28And then I pretty much have lost all faith in him being a quarterback
16:31that can play the majority of your games,
16:34and then I might draft a quarterback at number one
16:37because it is the most important position.
16:40It is the biggest question that this team is going to face
16:43in the next year or two.
16:46Can you trust the franchise to Jaden Daniels?
16:50So, your number one overall, if you did that next year,
16:54okay, so Jaden has the surgery.
16:56He recovers.
16:57He's 100% going into camp next year.
16:59That number one overall pick sits behind Jaden next year,
17:02like Mendoza is doing this year?
17:04I guess so.
17:06Are you trading Jaden?
17:07No, remember, my scenario is that Jaden gets hurt,
17:09a different injury besides the…
17:11Yeah, I understand that.
17:12Because I think that can resolve itself with the surgery.
17:16Right, but he's still going to be under contract.
17:17He's going to be healthy next summer.
17:19Yeah.
17:20So, what do you do?
17:21Yeah, I think your scenario is where he sits behind him.
17:23I think you have to eat it.
17:24And then, and let's say he's Jaden like he was as a rookie,
17:28well, maybe you wasted that first-round pick.
17:30That's what I mean.
17:31You can't afford to do that.
17:32But then, eventually, you could trade him.
17:34You could trade that first-round pick that he sits.
17:36But he's an insurance policy, because let's say Jaden starts in week one,
17:40and then it's the same old thing, and then, boom, you slide in Arch Manning.
17:43Well, when you draft the guy number one overall, that's…
17:47That guy's playing.
17:48Well, he might not play week one, but that's what you're building your franchise around.
17:53Right.
17:531-800-636-1067.
17:55Taking your calls, talking about the commander season.
17:590-2, coming home, is the season over, or can they recover?
18:03Do you have any faith that they can turn it around?
18:061-800-636-1067.
18:08It's another Misery Monday here on the Junkies.
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