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Hello, welcome to my podcast. Do me a favor. Subscribe to the John Conreport, wherever you get

your podcast. If you're watching on YouTube, hit that like button. Hit that subscribe button. You can find us there as part of Empire Media, AMPI, or E. Always much appreciated when you tune in. Don't forget, you can read my work on ESPN.com. I have a story up now about, of course, the return of Jane Daniels, but also on Saturday about like taking a look at the defense under Dan Quinn, some things that have changed. What might, you know, what might this mean for the future? So that'll be up on ESPN.com on Saturday. There you go. And of course, for you club members, be doing my little private Zoom three hours before kickoff. So one o'clock Eastern time, I'll be doing that with you all. So look for the

link, join me there and appreciate you as always. So there you go. Now, I'm going to get to my

five thoughts in a minute, sponsored by AAA. Get to that in a minute. But at first, I was just a couple

little nuggets. Injury report. So you got Bobby Wagner's questionable. He was out of practice today on Friday.

Noah Brown questionable, but that's only because they haven't taken him off IR yet.

So once he's activated off that, I would expect that to come on Saturday, and then I would expect him to play on Sunday.

And of course, Jaden Daniels will be starting on Sunday. I'm sure you know that by now, and I'll get into that in a minute of my five thoughts. Also, former Washington safety, Donald Savage, was claimed by the bills. They could use some safety help. And he was claimed he was released by Washington earlier this week. All right. So basically, he asked for his release, but you kind of asked for your release knowing that

you're going to get cut.

You've been inactive, and they were bringing Will Harris back.

So you knew how it was going to go for him.

So Savage is now in Buffalo.

So anyways, that's all we got for that.

Let's get to my five thoughts, starting with Jayden Daniels is back, and this is a good thing. And I know, listen, I know people want him to be put in bubble wrap. That's not how you play this game. It's not ever how you will play this game. And when you have a dynamic quarterback, you're going to have to live with the good and the bad. And the only way he's going to learn how to protect himself, how to grow as a quarterback,

is to be out there playing with five games left. As Dan Quinn said, it's almost 30% of their season. You can't just sit a guy for 30% of the year if he is healthy. So that's why there's, and there's a few reasons why they really want to see,

listen, man, you want to go into next year with him taking these reps.

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