Wild-Card Weekend Recap: The Jayden Daniels Show, Herbert, Love, and Tomlin Questions, QB Legacy Updates and the Arch Manning Future at Texas With Chris Simms
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What happened during NFL Wild Card Weekend?
A packed wildcard weekend. We'll break down the headlines, the stats you should know, and a little QB legacy update potentially as well. Chris Sims breaking down all of the games, what he loved from Jaden Daniels before the draft, obviously what we've loved his rookie year, maybe a peek ahead to Baltimore and Buffalo, and just what teams are doing to certain quarterbacks around the league. We've got life advice without Oregon, which is a disappointment, but enjoy the podcast. Let's recap NFL Wild Card Weekend. I'm going to recap all of the games with the headline, the stat you should know, when the game was over, and then some other stuff at the very end. We start with Washington's 23-20 win, a walk-off win against the Tampa Bay Bucs.
The headline for this one is that it's Washington ending a massive playoff drought. It's incredible whenever you go back and look at some of these things, but it's the first win for Washington in the playoffs since 2006. It's only their fourth playoff win as a franchise since they won the Super Bowl in 1991. in these numbers every time. Maybe I'm the only one that's always blown away by some of the droughts that we're Not as familiar with unless you are a fan of that team. Jane Daniels, man, needed one first down to run out the clock and set up the game-winning field goal. It wasn't a touchdown. Obviously, it was a game-winning field goal, but let's talk about what Daniels has done this season.
12 touchdowns in the fourth quarter and overtime this season. That's the most ever for a rookie in NFL history. He had five touchdowns in the last 30 seconds of regulation or overtime, which is two more than any other quarterback since the 1970 NFL merger. If you think about What it's like, again, as a non-Commanders fan, any of us just watching football, in that moment where you're like, yeah, this rookie QB is going to come in and he'll probably set him up for the game-winning field goal drive because it's what we've been seeing the majority of the season all year long. To have that kind of confidence, this calming, like, yeah, I'll probably figure this out, against Tampa's defense, where I think it's important to get to some of those numbers and what this team had been doing in the second half, it's just weird. It's weird to watch a rookie QB and think, Yeah, he'll probably just figure this whole thing out. And he did it again.
He completed all three passes on that game winning drive. And then again, the keeper on third and short where he runs it out to his right, dies the first down. So at that point, Tampa is just going to be behind the clock and it's not going to matter. When was it over? I'll do that for all the games. This game actually wasn't even over. with zeros on the game clock because the kick hit the upright on the right side and then snuck its way through and Washington advances against this Bucs defense where, let's remind you, it's a defense that had given up only nine points total in its last five second halves. They give up 10 in the fourth quarter last night, and now their season is over. Washington, if you want to talk about how tough this was against this Tampa defense, the commanders four straight from first and goal to one, they got back to a couple of times, right? They end up going for it. They don't get it. Tampa has the ball. A couple of plays later, Baker fumbles the handoff. And so Washington starts again with great field position.
and they don't convert until fourth and two, and that's the touchdown. So that's like seven straight times they had stopped him. It looked like Tampa was going to be able to hang on because of that defense. It's just really hard to ask any defense to do that eight straight times, and they had done it seven straight times, but it wasn't enough. Quarterback legacy update possibilities here with this one. Sure, the Baker, whatever. The Baker season and Tampa season, especially offensively, Coming down to a field goal, I think this is a really good season from this team. That was not among the heavy hitters in the NFC.
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