00:00I don't know how anybody comes to the conclusion that this is all or mostly on Jaden Daniels.
00:07It is certainly on him from the perspective of he had a chance to look over at Quinn and Blau
00:15and say, you guys are dummies. I'll take care of this. And I'll save you from what would be an
00:22all-time embarrassing moment for both of you. I'll take care of this. We're going to get up
00:27and we're going to spike it with 12 seconds to go get the kicker ready. He could have done that.
00:32It's disappointing and it's concerning that he didn't know enough to do that. And in many ways,
00:41it's not even about whether or not he was told that he had a timeout left. He should want to
00:48know.
00:49This is something a quarterback in the final two minutes, in a final drive situation, in overtime,
00:57in a tie game. That's the first thing he should ask as he takes the field after the fumble by
01:04Scadaboo. How many timeouts do we have? Where are we trying to get to? And then when we get down
01:11there,
01:11which hash? Middle, right, or left hash? And where are we running the clock down to?
01:18That's a real field general. That's a real situational awareness quarterback. So I want
01:26to take him off the hook if he didn't know that they didn't have any timeouts. But the only way
01:31I
01:31actually can take him off the hook is if somebody said to him, we have one timeout left. And he
01:39said,
01:39are you sure? Yes. Don't look at the scoreboard. We have one timeout left. So on this play,
01:45if Senate's not open, just get down and we'll call the final timeout. And certainly the reaction
01:52from 10 of the 11 players, not named Josh Connerly Jr., certainly would appear as if for some reason,
01:59they thought they had a timeout left. And the people who have said, well, why didn't Jaden get up
02:04and call a timeout if he thought he had a timeout left? Because he wasn't going to call a timeout
02:09with eight seconds left. That's when the play ended. Look, I don't, I don't think, I think he
02:14knew, or maybe he blanked, whatever. But I mean, you guys have watched football before. That's the,
02:21you know, shot of the coach standing next to the referees. The clock goes five, four, three, timeout.
02:27Players usually don't call timeouts. It's usually the coach in that situation.
02:32Um, I, you know, yeah, Jaden could have erased it. You know who else could have erased it?
02:40Quinn, by not calling the play. Blau, by not calling the play he called. Both Quinn and Blau,
02:46when they saw that the team was still in the huddle with 25 seconds left. At that point,
02:51they had to know with the long count and the pre-snap motion that they were in, you know,
02:58as Colonel Jessup would say, grave danger. Is there any other kind?
03:03Uh, yeah. How they didn't at that point kill it is beyond me. You know, I've heard some of the
03:11stuff that maybe you guys have heard. I don't know. Heard some of the stuff about the communication
03:16had gone out. I'm not buying that personally, because if the communication went out, they would
03:24have told us that. Why wouldn't they have said we did have a problem with the communication? Why didn't
03:29we see Jaden running over to get the play? Why? There's some stuff that's been floated out there.
03:37Okay. I don't know that I'll buy it, but it doesn't matter anyway, because grandpa Quinn in the
03:45recliner fell asleep with the cigarette in his hand by calling a play to begin with. It was a totally
03:53controllable situation. All right. Did I say, are we ready to move on? I guess we're not ready to
03:59move on. I'm ready to move on. You know, I really, really want the redemption story the rest of the
04:06way. There is a level of feeling this week that some empathy, some compassion, you know, people
04:17have had a majorly embarrassing situations and they've come back from those. And I do think that
04:25Quinn and, and Jaden, for sure. I don't know Blau, you know, and I don't think he's nearly visibly
04:33on the same level right now, because most people don't know who he is. And I'm talking about the
04:38national people who are, you know, skewering and criticizing and, you know, clowning the coach and
04:45the quarterback. Um, Jaden's been already been through this once this year, you know, not of his
04:51doing, of course, with the Jersey number at LSU. Uh, but he got clowned and he got memed for about
04:58a
04:58week and a half off of that. And here it goes again. So I believe in these guys to turn
05:06it around.
05:06What I am a bit worried about to some level is what does the rest of the team think?
05:15You know, I do believe that it's a team that is professional, that believes mostly in its head
05:24coach and it's in its quarterback, but it's hard after something takes over the way this does
05:34for several days in a row. And it's about your team. And it's about your head coach and your
05:40quarterback. And it's everywhere, everywhere you turn. It's a conversation that people have been
05:47consumed with. And I do wonder do the men in that locker room and even in that building,
05:55do they have second thoughts about a guy they've believed in, in Dan Quinn, a guy that they have
06:02followed a guy that they came here to play for in many cases, you know, the coach, the OC, the
06:09quarterback, they made a colossal, almost unforgivable, inexcusable mistake that is comedy.
06:20I mean, it's so bad that you have to question, my God, are they ever going to put us in
06:28this
06:28position again? Are we doomed because we've got, you know, a simpleton making the decisions?
06:36You know, we're going to find out Monday night and it's not necessarily going to be based on the
06:43final score. It's going to be based on how they play. How do they respond to this week? You know,
06:51do they still buy in to Quinn for whatever you guys think of Quinn? They like Quinn. Quinn relates
06:58to that environment and has throughout his life. It doesn't mean that he's a great coach.
07:07It does mean he's a great guy and he is a leader of men and he understands the kind of
07:14environment
07:14that's conducive to winning and building that. I do, I do believe that about him, but when some,
07:23we don't, this is unprecedented territory, man, this is territory in which we've never seen such
07:30a blunder go so national, be so embarrassing only to be trumped by how incompetent it was.
07:39And then to see how the men involved in the men that follow the men that made the mistakes,
07:45how they handle it. I'm rooting for the redemption story of the year. This could be literally the
07:52sports redemption story of the year. If they go out and they win eight or nine of their final 12
07:58and they're getting ready for a playoff game in January in Landover and the whole pregame stuff
08:04is about how they turned it around after October 11th, 2026.
08:11It's easy to root for that when you're a fan of the team. It's also easy to root for that.
08:17I think
08:17if you're a compassionate person and sports fan, go skins, beat the Niners 49ers on Monday night seems
08:27out there in terms of the possibility of that, but man, that would immediately, immediately shift focus
08:35away from this if they could bounce back with a shocking Monday night upset win.
