Mike Tirico, Cris Collinsworth Knew People Would Be Asking About Jayden Daniels Decision

Jayden Daniels's return to nan Commanders connected Sunday nighttime ended successful disaster arsenic nan backmost suffered a gruesome injury precocious successful Washington's blowout nonaccomplishment to Seattle. There is wide belief astatine this constituent that nan dislocated near elbow will support Daniels retired indefinitely and perchance extremity his 2nd NFL season.

There is ne'er a bully clip to suffer a franchise backmost and there's nary measurement to make playing shot a safe proposition, but nan truth that Daniels went down pinch nan wounded while scrambling astir successful a 31-point crippled pinch half a 4th left to play is understandably frustrating.

NBC's announcing duo of Mike Tirico and Cris Collinsworth said astir nan evident questions and debate that began to harvest up online nan infinitesimal it was clear that Daniels's wellness had conscionable taken a awesome hit.

"It's for illustration 7 and a half minutes left, you're trying to spell down nan section present successful nan 4th quarter, get a thrust and build immoderate momentum," Tirico said. "Why isn't nan backup [Marcus] Mariota successful nan game?"

Commanders caput coach Dan Quinn answered that inevitable line of questioning post-game.

“Yeah, not successful that space. Obviously, successful hindsight, you don’t want to deliberation that measurement wherever an wounded could return place. Obviously, we were much blimpish successful that spot to tally and manus disconnected and not person sounds to go. But conscionable nan extremity result, evidently I’m bummed,”Quinn said successful response, via Nicki Jhabvala ofThe Athletic.

"You cognize him," Collinsworth said of Daniels. "You cognize he doesn't person that half velocity and he's going to return disconnected and tally and he's going to do everything he could to people that touchdown. And yet that's what sewage him hurt."

Collinsworth concluded that nan questions would beryllium adjacent and Tirico offered that coaches ne'er cognize what to do successful these types of situations.

At nan extremity of nan day, nan only point that matters is Daniels is not apt to beryllium a portion of immoderate imaginable push into nan playoffs. Which would beryllium a bummer nary matter really it came to be.

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