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The Sports Junkies

Should Washington Shut Down Jayden Daniels?

The Sports Junkies

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Sports

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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From 12/08 Hour 2: The Sports Junkies debate if Washington should shut down JD5.

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0:00.0

No, I didn't. He's upset. But no, I didn't. It was just my call where we were at and just thought, we're off, you know, as a team. And so I felt like, hey, this is the right call at this moment. It wasn't anything other than that. Like I just felt like, man, we were off as an entire group, offense, teams, defense. I thought, is the right call at this time and let's regroup it and see what we can do.

0:26.3

It's Coach Quinn talking about his decision to keep Jayden Daniels off the field after he went down with the injury.

0:33.8

That right there sounds to me like a guy who's got no answers for what's going on.

0:39.6

He's got no solution to the problem that's unfolding in front of him.

0:43.8

Well, the game was gone.

0:46.2

The game went completely sideways.

0:47.4

The game was gone so he saw no benefit to playing Jaden and he was scared.

0:52.2

He raised a white flag in that game. He's at the bottom of the... Also, he was just coming off the heels, so keeping him in too late. Like, two, three weeks ago. That was playing heavily in his mind. Yeah. He's in a deep pit and can't find a way out. But, like, he can't find his way out? The underlying issue, the underlying issue is the cornerstone of the franchise,

1:12.0

Jaden Daniels, has been injured several times this season, which has cost him games.

1:17.8

Last season, to his credit, he started all 20 games.

1:22.4

He did have the rib injury, which we learned was more serious along the way in the middle of the season.

1:29.1

And he didn't finish the game against Dallas, and he had, you know, the injury against

1:34.9

Carolina.

1:35.9

But give him credit.

1:37.6

He was there for basically all of last season.

1:40.1

This season, he's missed a ton of games, and he hasn't finished games.

1:45.7

It's been a disaster. And so question is what do you do if anything about it and what is your fake in his availability i don't think

1:52.5

you're saying i don't think you're saying anything you can physically do to keep him from getting

1:56.4

injured going he proved to you he could play 20 games last year if things go right and you know,

2:01.6

you got to be fortunate to some extent. And this is just a year where literally nothing's going

2:06.6

right. I keep harping on this. I think they got to change the offense a little bit. It's not,

2:12.3

and this is not a game to game thing, but I think you got to have him under center a lot more than

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