Charles Davis will be in the booth at Northwest Stadium on Sunday, on the call for Commanders-Steelers with Ian Eagle, but on Friday, he was on the air with G&D as they were in Maryland for their Field Trip Friday!
And, Davis is excited to once again get a look at Jayden Daniels, who he had, and still has, high hopes for.
“It's fun to be able to watch this Washington team blossom. From the moment they drafted Jayden Daniels, there's a different spotlight, because we're all eager to see how a rookie quarterback does, especially when he's going to be the starter right from the beginning,” Davis said. “Brand new head coach, brand new GM, a fresh feeling around the franchise because of the new ownership – but let's be honest, everything was all speculation, right? We were all like, let's see; each time hope has been sold, hope has not lasted very long, but this one feels real, and this one feels like it's going to be on the tracks for a while.”
What Davis has seen from afar is an offense that has come together quickly under the Dan Quinn culture and Kliff Kinsgbury system.
“For me, it's watching an offensive line that had so many different question marks about it going into the season come together, even after splitting left tackle,” Davis said. “You’ve got a team coming in with Pittsburgh that embodies next man up, because that's all the head coach ever talked about, and it feels like DQ is very similar. So you see that come together, Zach Ertz brings leadership and he can still play, they figure out the run game without Brian Robinson, and you get out to the wide receivers, Terry McLaurin finally has a quarterback…and the message that Dan Quinn brought with him from day one, you can see it solidified. They have bought in and locked in, and the brotherhood is real.”
And it all starts with Daniels, who Davis was high on in the pre-draft process, but has gone to a different level over the first 10 weeks of the season.
“It’s been crazy. When you look at quarterbacks at the top of draft classes, essentially, if one plays well, the other one doesn't. In this case we had six, and one’s not playing because he’s hurt and another isn’t playing because a veteran has the ball,” Davis said. “But everyone else has the ball now, and with Daniels, it’s all the things that we keep hearing from the team – the maturity, the work ethic,” Davis said. “Malik Nabers said he was a different guy than college, that he’s escalated what he already had in him with the work ethic and wanting to be great, and that’s what we see now.”
Davis told a story of Zach Ertz telling him he stumbled upon Daniels doing some extra work on his own and not wanting the team to know because he ‘didn’t want attention for doing what he thought was his job,’ so that mentality is clear.
Take a listen to Davis’ entire visit above, as he also discusses the Marshon Lattimore trade, how the Steelers look coming in, and more!