JP and BMitch discuss the incredible rookie season displayed by Jayden Daniels in 2024 with former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf.
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00:00You know, everything today is blown up with social media and
00:03all but Jaden doesn't care about none of that. How
00:06important is that for football team? Yeah, I mean, he played a
00:09lot of college football. You know, he went to Arizona State
00:12where there was early success to be Justin Herbert as a
00:15freshman, transfers to LSU, you know, has a pretty good year as
00:19junior year but wasn't necessarily anything that
00:21people would think what would happen a senior year. They beat
00:23Alabama and then a senior year, he just, you know, he goes
00:27wild. The the statistics, the Heisman Trophy victory,
00:30everything that that comes with that and then being the second
00:34pick in the NFL draft, you know, not a lot of pressure,
00:36you know, as the number one overall pick. Yeah. It really
00:39is. There's something to it. When you're not pick one A and
00:41one B where there wasn't really a discussion. It was Caleb all
00:45along. He was better they said and Jaden was was firmly the
00:48better quarterback. Just more and then the mindset that he
00:52has. I I spoke to the Arizona State football program I think
00:54when he was a sophomore and I use this line with guys all the
00:56time. I talk about how once you get to the NFL, you're the CEO
00:59of a Fortune 500 company and so everything you do is about
01:03building the foundation strong enough to get you that second
01:06contract. Those are things that I didn't understand that I
01:08didn't do and he did exactly that. Like things like you
01:12heard, he lived with his mom, you know, he didn't go out. It
01:15was football, football, football, and guess what? He
01:18was handed the responsibility of handling the ball, the
01:22entire football game. He was responsible for it offensively
01:24and that is a lot to ask of a rookie. He has a lot of
01:27football under his belt. So, I mean, there's nothing but
01:30optimism ahead for them when it leads to the quarterback
01:33position. People are going to come after Cliff Kingsbury. I
01:35do not know why more people didn't. He was exceptional this
01:39year. He's been a head coach before. He knows what he did
01:41wrong, what he did right but they got everybody back. They
01:44gotta get better on defense. Clearly, injuries played a part
01:47of that but they got some rookies that were thrown into
01:49the fire at the corner position and they'll be better next
01:51year. For sure. Talking with Ryan Leaf here. Uh live from
01:55Radio Row, New Orleans, Louisiana. Um specifically with
01:58Cliff, you've mentioned it a few times. What do you think he
02:02did so well to really, you you kinda mentioned simplifying the
02:06offense and for me, I think they added more as the year
02:11went on and it became clear that Jaden could handle more.
02:14Well, what I think happened is is that that he just defenses
02:17dictated what he did with the football. Like, so, what it
02:21essentially is, it's it's the triple option. It's just the
02:24new generation of the triple option, right? Instead of you
02:27know, you have a a dive man and a pitch man. You now have a
02:31zone read man and then either the receiver out on the edge or
02:35your RPO game and so what happens is just what he got
02:38better at throughout the year is that he read it. Defenses
02:41did different things each every week trying to figure out a way
02:44to stop it and he just went to the next option with it but
02:47when there's three options and it dignifies what the defense
02:51does specifically, they have to be on point. There has to be a
02:54man to man for everybody accounted for and when they
02:57mess up and when they don't, Jaden made him pay. It's just
03:00it's plain and simple and you you say these things, you talk
03:05about these things, how you can simplify it all but to have the
03:08ability to have a player that can do it, that's that's a
03:11different story and those are those are few and far between.