BMitch & Finlay are cool with Jayden Daniels saying he's cool with coming to DC? Cool!
Okay, so some new news on the Commanders’ draft front: Jayden Daniels is ‘okay’ with DC!
JP Finlay read the report of Daniels saying during a pre-draft media session ‘I'm blessed to go wherever I'm called. Whoever calls my phone when the commissioner gets up and says my name, I'll be blessed and they're going to get my all’ – and later saying he’d be ‘100 percent’ okay if that’s Washington.
Okay, great, is that settled now?
“I’ve been done with this; the next time somebody else read it, can we just not hear it?” BMitch said. “He addressed it the other night and said the exact same thing.”
JP didn’t think Daniels’ visit with Chad Ochocinco got deep into Washington exactly, but from what Brian remembers, ‘he addressed that directly – the dude said I will be happy and blessed to go anywhere that picks me and I will give them my best. Same words he just used just there.”
A caller named Al then called in and gave it straight in an interesting manner:
“I want our fan base to stop smoking crack right now. Just stop, leave it alone, because here's the thing that everybody fails to understand: all of us have had jobs, and candidates can say whatever they wanna say about working for X company or Y company,” Al said, “but guess what? When they get that job offer, all that crap they may have talked about that company goes away. Why? Because they're professionals. This is what we're looking at right here. I might wanna work for Apple or Microsoft, but guess what? I don't work for either of them! I work for this company and I'm gonna do my best job here right now because that's where I work. So all of this is crap about him not wanting to play for them.”
Nailed it, Al.
“I understand the excuse that this is the way the world is today…not necessarily!” Brian said. “I think a lot of times I see people changing their whole course when they know more than what the person just stated on social media. You don't have to react to everything that's said out there.”
“Yeah, a lot of this is craziness and nonsense,” JP replied. “Maybe there was a period of time where Daniels and his representatives really wanted the Raiders, and I interviewed Antonio Pierce in Orlando back in March and he was very clear how much he wanted Jayden Daniels in Vegas. Maybe there was a period of time where they were hopeful that there was some sort of trade that could be worked out or something, but that period of time has clearly waned. It sure seems like you don't want to lock yourself into something because this group has proven they can surprise you, but it sure seems like Jayden's the guy, and it sure seems like Jayden's cool with coming here.”
And hey, that's good man!
“You're talking about a guy with that athletic profile, and the stuff he's had to overcome leaving Arizona State – that Arizona State situation seems like it was an absolute mess,” JP said. “He comes to LSU, has the balls to follow the immense success Joe Burrow had, and delivers on it?”
“And with a coach that's very tough, in a conference that's super tough, for a fan base that expects the world, and he went through it smoothly,” BMitch replied. “The ultimate thing is, if they could get rid of most of the social media sites, I'd be happy as hell, because people need to get back to the world and start knowing and just reacting off of things you see, instead of what somebody says. We make people be like bigger than life just because they say something, and we jump.”
And there are reasons for that…
“What I've said repeatedly is in the void of real information, reported information becomes real, and so much of this, outside of the emoji and the liked tweets…that was something somewhat real,” JP said.
“Most of these things that have popped up got some smell to it,” B replied. “It’s a bunch of you know what. He put an emoji out there, and does anybody know what the emoji meant? No, but we had 700 million damn meanings of what it was.”
