00:00So I mentioned before the break that Jaden Daniels spoke about his offensive coordinator.
00:05Here is J.D. 5 at the podium.
00:09We're still, you know, learning and going through things.
00:12He's his first-time coordinator, so he has grown pains that he's going through and stuff like that.
00:16It's not going to be perfect as much as you want it to be,
00:18but we still continue to stick to the process and really just going from there.
00:23If you listen to the whole clip, do you have it, Valdez, where the question's asked?
00:28It's a little more, when you first see the quote, it seems like he's throwing him under the bus,
00:35but I don't think he is.
00:37I actually don't think he is at all.
00:38He's basically just being honest and saying, look, when you're new at something,
00:42it's not always going to be perfect every single time.
00:45He's just being, for the first time, he's actually being honest at the podium.
00:49He usually gives you a lot of, you know, doesn't answer things,
00:53just talks to get through the session.
00:56Imagine he's telling you that there are growing pains with a first-year guy.
01:00I don't think that's necessarily throwing the guy under the bus.
01:03He's just telling the truth.
01:04He says we a lot.
01:07I think people maybe initially, it's a little like he singles him out,
01:10like he, not we, but he says we a lot in there.
01:13Play the whole thing, Valdez.
01:16Oh, I guess he's still listening to it.
01:18Well, the thing that just bothers me, and I understand where J.D.'s coming from,
01:25and, you know, in every sport, if you have a first-year coach or coordinator or whatever,
01:30there's going to be a learning curve.
01:31Right.
01:32But I'm just talking about the common-sense plays and situations, right?
01:39Like J.D. taking that sack against the Giants,
01:43like calling that play on the check down this past week
01:46and not throwing into the end zone.
01:48I'm just talking about the common-sense plays.
01:50There's too many of them that go the wrong way.
01:53Those need to be rectified and or should never have happened.
01:56That shouldn't be blamed on a first-year coordinator.
01:59That just, there's a learning curve.
02:02That should be, everybody in the world should know,
02:04we've got to throw it in the end zone, down seven with three seconds left.
02:08I'm sorry.
02:08As much as anybody with you over the past several months,
02:12now that we're halfway through a season,
02:14where do you think you guys are in the evolution of your relationship?
02:18Yeah, I think we're far ahead where we were in OTAs,
02:21but we're still growing and we're still, you know,
02:24learning and going through things.
02:25He's a first-time coordinator,
02:26so he has grown pains that he's going through and stuff like that.
02:29It's not going to be perfect as much as you want it to be,
02:32but we still continue to stick to the process
02:35and really just go on from there.
02:38I don't think it's a big deal at all.
02:39No, he's very honest.
02:40I have no issues with what he said.
02:41Yeah.
02:42In the end, none of it really matters.
02:44It's wins and losses.
02:45Right.
02:45And he's going to have a first-year coordinator next year,
02:48probably, if the season continues to go this way.
02:51It wouldn't matter if he felt like he was singling him out,
02:53but I don't think he was.
02:54I think he was answering it honestly.
02:56When he first saw it, he thought,
02:57eh, maybe he's a little nice.
02:58Looks worse on print.
02:59Yeah, when you hear the whole clip, it's very normal.
03:02And I think it's honest, yeah.
03:04The whole Giants thing where he took the sack,
03:07I'm just going to write that off as a complete, utter, total brain fart.
03:10Like, that's the only thing I can say.
03:13This last one, I don't know.
03:14I don't know.
03:15I don't know what to make of it.
03:16We'll ask Adam Peters, though.
03:19I'm excited that he's going to be on, actually, before tomorrow's game.
03:24It's actually pretty cool he's going to be on today.
03:26Because we usually get him on Fridays, a couple days before.
03:29This is still, this is Wednesday.
03:30This is just a couple days after the last one.
03:32He must have a long weekend planned.
03:35Yeah.
03:35Because they play on Thursday.
03:37Yep.
03:38Trade deadline's over so they can take a deep breath.
03:40They finish the game.
03:42Maybe he goes away for a three-day weekend with the family.
03:45I mean, I wouldn't.
03:46I wouldn't.
03:46Probably not.
03:47Probably not in season.
03:48Probably not.
03:49It's something we would do.
03:50It's something we would definitely do.
03:52These guys are a grinder.
03:53I'm just saying he has an opportunity.
03:55So they play Thursday, and then they don't play until the following Monday, right?
03:58Or is it a Sunday night game against the Bengals?
04:00I'll check it.
04:01I don't know.
04:01I think it's a night game.
04:02It's definitely a night game.
04:03I think it's a Monday game.
04:04Yeah.
04:05So that's a pretty big break if they play Monday.
04:07So maybe he's got a built-in day there where he wants to get away.
04:09It is Monday night football.
04:10Okay.
04:11So that's a big break.
04:11The Commanders have the lucky opportunity of embarrassing themselves in back-to-back primetime games.
04:19Tomorrow night?
04:20Monday night football.
04:21I know you're picking the Giants.
04:22You actually wouldn't be surprised if they embarrassed themselves.
04:26You mean an end-of-the-game embarrassment?
04:28Yes.
04:29Okay.
04:29I wouldn't be embarrassed.
04:30Because they're not going to get blown out.
04:31I don't think so.
04:32Giants aren't that good.
04:33But they could have just a brain-blowing, weird play at the end of the game.
04:38I mean, how many more mistakes can they make?
04:40How many more games do they have?
04:42How many sort of inventive ways can they embarrass themselves?
04:47I mean, I hope they've gotten all out of their system.
04:49I hope that they've worked through it.
04:51I'm going to bet on them.
04:52They'll handle it reasonably okay.
04:55Just do theory.
04:56Do theory.
04:56Yeah.
04:56I mean, how many ways can you screw it up?
04:58I mean, it is a short week.
05:00Yeah, but they seem to have kind of...
05:02I don't know about any other ways they can screw it up.
05:04They keep finding new and inventive ways to botch things at the end of games.
05:08If that were to happen again, I already said this on Monday.
05:11Yeah.
05:12Bye-bye, Dan Quinn.
05:13There's no reason to keep him around.
05:16If you want to hand the keys over to Anthony Lynn for the last part of a doomed season,
05:21whatever, it's fine.
05:22It just tells me that the entire coaching staff would be blown out.
05:27And then Jaden Daniels wouldn't have to worry about stepping to the podium
05:30and talking about the first-year coordinator
05:33because he's going to have a new guy to deal with next year.
05:36Unless he might be a first-year coordinator.
05:38Oh, I don't think they're going to go down that road.
05:40I'm just saying, you never know.
05:41Yeah.
05:41But it would be his third coordinator in four years, right?
05:45And it's a lot.
05:46And then you start talking about him like you talked about Jalen Hurts in Philadelphia.
05:49Guys overcome it and can still play well.
05:51It's not to say he can't play well, but it just makes it more difficult, more challenging.
05:55There is something to continuity and knowing a system and being versed in that
05:59and having that as your base every single year.
06:02I know everyone's desperate to move on, and believe me, I do not think that Dan Quinn
06:06is special as a head coach.
06:07I do not.
06:08I think he's average at best.
06:11But I'm not desperate to go on to a whole new crew.
06:16I would prefer, and I know this will rankle a lot of fans,
06:20I would prefer they pull something out here and go on a late run
06:25and have some continuity.
06:26That's what I personally would prefer.
06:28I hope that happened, too, because the last thing I want is for them to lose to the Giants
06:32and just be floundering in a lost, miserable season.
06:36No, but I bet a lot of the fan base is already over it.
06:39They already figure we're going to lose out here.
06:40They want the highest draft pick.
06:42Well, they want the highest draft pick, but they also just want to –
06:44they're sick of Dan Quinn, and they're already probably sick of Blau.
06:48So they're like, yeah, I just want all new coaches.
06:50I bet you if you asked, I bet you more than 50% would say,
06:54yeah, I'd rather just start all over with new stats next year.
06:57Instead of going on a win four out of five, get back in the mix.
07:02It seems impossible, but any time a team makes a late run,
07:05you never could see it coming.
07:08So I would rather –
07:10because I don't want Jaden to have to go through another coordinator,
07:12learn another offense, and you're going to have another learning curve
07:17through the first six or eight weeks of the season.
07:19But the upshoot of that is the upside.
07:20Yeah, you're going to do this over again.
07:21You're going to do it all over again.
07:22But the upside is –
07:23That's why it's so depressing.
07:24Maybe he learns a better offense from a better offensive line.
07:28Yeah, but he's still going to have a learning curve.
07:30Okay, that's true.
07:30And it could be a better offense, which I would assume it would be.
07:33But it's going to be another learning curve, you know, more kind of –
07:37whatever.
07:38You're not going to be at peak.
07:41Yeah, not necessarily.
07:42I mean, so let's go to Jacksonville.
07:47Trevor Lawrence was kind of struggling,
07:49and people were trying to kind of figure out, is he a bust?
07:52Yeah.
07:52Why isn't he living up to his number one status?
07:55Yeah.
07:55Liam Cohen comes over there, and immediately he has his best season.
07:59Okay.
08:00Same thing happens with Caleb Williams in Chicago.
08:03You find that miracle worker.
08:04Caleb Williams, rough rookie season.
08:07Ben Johnson comes there, immediately turns that thing around.
08:10All right, you find your miracle worker, then okay.
08:12But I just think it's harder.
08:13That's not a miracle worker.
08:14I'm generally in favor of continuity, but if the continuity is bad
08:18and underperforming, I'm fine with kicking those guys out the door
08:21and starting fresh.
08:23All right, but I don't want – yeah, if they keep losing,
08:25but if they get on a heater, maybe we can build on it.
08:28I'm still holding out that hope.
08:29From a professional standpoint, I want to talk about games that matter,
08:33and I don't want to have to preview games where there's nothing really
08:39to talk about.
08:40It's all about next year, where they are on the draft order.
08:43I just want to talk about games that matter, and if they win, they're here.
08:47That's what I want to talk about.
08:47Do you know how bad it's going to be to preview –
08:49That's why if they lose to the Giants, next week it's going to be horrible.
08:52To preview like Commanders versus Titans and Commanders versus Cardinals
08:55in a lost season.
08:56When the games don't matter.
08:57Yeah, I know.
08:57I agree.
08:58It's going to be awful.
08:59Yeah.
08:59And people lose interest, and they don't care.
09:00And everyone's going to want to lose on purpose.
09:02There's apathy, and then nobody cares.
09:05Yeah, I hate it.
09:05I can't believe the number of people with eight games left are already over it
09:11and just want to lose and get the highest draft.
09:12I know.
09:13That's crazy to me.
09:14Well, I'm a big Commanders fan tomorrow night.
09:17Okay.
