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Stephen A's Take: Commanders' Jayden Daniels can become the first rookie QB to win a Super Bowl.

Jan 21, 20255 min
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Stephen A. Smith is a New York Times Bestselling Author, Executive Producer, host of ESPN's First Take, and co-host of NBA Countdown.

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Speaker 1

Number one.

Speaker 2

I'm here in Atlanta, Georgia for the National Championship game the night between the Ohio State Buckeyes and of course Notre Dame games. Notre Dames got one chance. They have to be incredibly physical. They have to be the more physical team. There's no other way that they're going to beat Ohio State. Ohio State just have skilled individuals that practically every damn position. Jeremiah Smith is the truth. A freshman, He's probably the best receiver in football. He is sensational.

Will Howard can throw that football at BOOKA is no joke.

Speaker 1

As well.

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Trayvion Henderson running out of the backfield, there's no joke. Ohio State with their twenty million dollar nil roster, with eleven NFL caliber players having returned to the lineup this season.

Speaker 1

They're the best team right now.

Speaker 2

There is no way that not the Dames should win this game unless they have a lot of luck, and that's gonna be facilitated by an elevated level of physicality. Their defense is no joke. Sensively, Riley lenn has got to run the football effectively, and he's got to throw the football accurately and not kill himself by committing turnovers. So I want to get that out the way. I've got Ohio State winning this game. I would love to

see Marcus Freeman win a game. Martin Luther King holiday in Atlanta, Georgia, a black coach winning the national championship in football for the first.

Speaker 1

Time, and it's oh my lord, I would love it.

Speaker 2

I just don't see them beating the Ohio State without an absolutely perfect game and complete panic and choke job on a part of Ohio State. So I got Ohio State winning this game.

Speaker 1

Number one. Number two.

Speaker 2

We saw Lamar Jackson lose last night in the AFC Divisional playoff game to the Buffalo Bills. I know he committed a turnover through a bad interception. I know he also committed a full hardy turnover and losing the ball that was ultimately scooped up by Von Miller returned a few yards before Buffalo scored those seven points. But I can't put the weight of the loss to the Buffalo Bills on Lamar Jackson. Mark Andrews is one of the

most reliable tight ends in all of football. He got stripped to the ball in the middle of the field while they were driving by Terrel Bernard. I saw Todd munkin again, knowing that the Ravens were running the football effectively, still refusing to run it as much as he should. First came, they blew out Buffalo thirty five to ten. During the regular season, they accumulated tw hundred seventy one yards rushing. Last night it was one seventy six. Not bad at all, but you still could have ran the

ball more. Then I saw Lamar Jackson drive the Baltimore Ravens down the field eighty eight yards in crunch time with the game on the line, needing to having to have it. Twenty seven to nineteen was the deficit. You needed the touchdown in the two point conversion. Lamar Jackson got you that touchdown, and then he threw the two point conversion right into the hands of.

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Mark Andrews, who dropped it.

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Lamar Jackson was not perfect. They gotta stop turning the football over. Those turnovers don't happen. They probably win this game, but it was still Theirs to win, and Mark Andrews messed up now once by twice.

Speaker 1

Can not can't take that away from Lamar Jackson. Last sports subject.

Speaker 2

Is Jaden Daniels for the Washington Commanders, ladies and gentlemen, This brother is the truth. Now, I know that the Detroit Lions had a bunch of dudes on the injured reserve, on the injured list rather on the defensive side of the ball.

Speaker 1

I don't give a damn. Jayden Daniels is that dude.

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Now he's got the biggest challenge of his life going up against the Philadelphia Eagles this weekend in Philadelphia and the NFC Championship Game for a right to go to the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1

I get that part, but.

Speaker 2

I will remind all of y'all that Jayden Daniels has played the two playoff games as a rookie. In his career, He's accumulated over six hundred and fifty yards, six touchdowns, three interceptions, completing seventy percent of his past sixty five percent of his passes. I'm sorry the brothers. The real deal, no panic in him, and Washington knows what they have on his hands. He's better than RG three was, and RG three was fantastic. Before Holod he NodD and nearly

had his leg amputated with that vicious hit. Even before then, as great as RG three looked, he didn't look like this.

Speaker 1

Jaden Daniels is the truth and a half.

Speaker 2

And if he beats Philadelphia with Vic Fangio's defense coming at him and he finds a way to pull this off, I think Jayden Daniels might win the Super Bowl. I think Jaden Daniels might be back to Mahomes and Josh Allen. I don't know that yet, but I think he could. I just want to say that

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