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I don’t have much to say about the 2024 NFL Draft. Trevor Lawrence being an irrelevant, slightly better Blake Bortles in his first 3 professional seasons has erased any excitement I might’ve had for Caleb Williams coming in. The ‘generational talent’ allegations no longer mean anything.
The last no. 1 overall pick had all these ‘intangibles’ coming into the draft and now he looks like he’s 18 months away from standing on the Birmingham Stallions sidelines, holding Adrian Martinez’s water bottle.
JJ McCarthy is the first NFL industry plant. You cannot find game film of this guy showing any real, consistent signs of greatness that would explain all the NFL execs gooning over him like he’s the next Tom Brady when everything I’ve seen from him makes me think he’s Mac Jones mixed with a little bit of Bailey Zappe in there. Dangerous.
Michael Penix Jr was my favorite coming into this draft. Washington Huskies football was on my TV a lot last season and Penix can throw darts all over the field.
But NFL draft experts will not stop reminding me about Penix’s Tiny Tim little fragile legs and I can’t not be concerned. Plus, he’d be a 24-year-old rookie which just seems strange. Go home to your family, old man.
Drake Maye is a thiccc white boy who loves turning the ball over. He’ll be tricking NFL coaches into starting him until the day he chooses to retire. Carson Wentz is going to start an NFL game this season. He should not.
But this week, Jayden Daniels and his agent, Ron Butler, are making me fall in love with a guy I previously had zero opinions on.
Here’s a bit of the report from CBS Sports:
On Wednesday, Pro Football Talk criticized the Commanders for bringing in four top quarterback prospects for a group visit, rather than bringing them each in individually, saying the team was diluting its ability to maximize its time with each prospect. Later that evening, Butler responded on Twitter, replying to the PFT tweet with a “thinking face” emoji.
According to USA Today’s Commanders Wire, Butler also liked a pair of posts criticizing Washington’s process, including one that read, “How many companies do this? Puts them around their peers? Bring players from the team along and see how they interact? Who the f–k cares how they interact with players they will never player with? This doesn’t make sense to me.”
On Friday, ESPN’s Adam Schefter seemed to confirm that things did not sit right with Butler.
Jayden Daniels was close to being drafted with the no. 2 overall pick to the Washington Commanders and suddenly, a week before the draft, his camp is burning that bridge to make Jayden play for another organization.
I understand feeling as though your time is wasted in a group interview or you deserve special treatment if you’re Jayden Daniels and you believe you are better than your peers and teams should be going out of their way to court you.
But none of that actually matters. At least, it doesn’t matter enough to freak out at Washington as if they disrespected him.
So 1 of 2 things are happening here and either way, I’m all in on Jayden Daniels as my favorite for the 2024 NFL Draft:
1.) Jayden simply does not want to play in Washington
Perhaps the group meeting was the final straw for Jayden—who already wanted to play elsewhere—or it’s a lie he and his agent came up with because it’s a reasonable enough sounding excuse but either way, Jayden doesn’t want to be a Commander.
NFL media has talked about Caleb Williams being weary of Chicago’s history of mediocre quarterbacks as if DC is a QB factory.
And this is coming from a Patrick Ramsey stan. Still don’t think he got a fair shake. My guy threw for 300 yards and 2 touchdowns. Twice. I bet he could’ve done it a third time. At some point. Maybe.
Dan Snyder, the worst owner in sports, is gone. But I still wouldn’t consider Washington a dream landing spot for a quarterback like Jayden Daniels—whose success is 1000% dependent on the situation around him.
Nothing but respect for the young man taking his career into his own hands and making power moves to make sure he doesn’t end up like Josh Rosen or Zach Wilson.
2.) His agent is screwing him over
I looked up Ron Butler’s little Florida sports agency and he doesn’t represent anyone with a name recognition bigger than Jayden Daniels’s right now. It’s possible Butler—liking and commenting on Tweets out of frustration—is making an executive decision here on Jayden’s behalf.
Why would Jayden Daniels have a problem meeting Washington along with the rest of these quarterbacks? He has no prior experience with the draft process so he has no frame of reference on whether or not this is even common practice. It sounds more like something his agent would whisper in his ear so they can fall in the draft to a different situation like the Las Vegas Raiders.
Kliff Kingsbury may not be able to run a football squad but he’s shown he can create a dynamic offense. Jayden Daniels should rush at the opportunity to play for someone who will make him look like Kyler Murray. That should be the goal for Jayden.
Plus, you make more dollars going no. 2 in the draft.
It sounds like Ron Butler is in his first real position of power as an agent and he’s potentially fumbling the ball on the 1-yard line like Desmond Ridder.
And if that’s the case, it’s another reason to love Jayden Daniels. Cannot wait for the ESPN NFL Countdown story on Jayden overcoming a terrible agent who accidentally made him fall to the second round but he’s overcoming the odds and saving his career with a huge comeback win over the Cowboys (it’s also over the Cowboys).
I don’t know if Jayden hates the Commanders or he’s close to hating his agent but I’m all in on the guy destroying his relationship with a team a week before the NFL Draft for no real reason at all. That’s some silly shit I would do at 24.
Deadseriousness is officially a Jayden Daniels stan site.
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