
The “S” in September football is for “Sloppy.” Teams simply are less than ready for real football. If one goes looking back in the day they can find stories about Johnny Unitas leading a fourth-quarter comeback with all the starters against Philadelphia in pre-season game #4. If processing that for a moment the realization may hit that Jayden Daniels didn’t even throw one pass in pre-season. It showed on Sunday. Against a Giants team that looks to be on the verge of dysfunction Daniels’ passes were off a number of times. He was behind on crossing routes pretty much all day. Two deep shots resulted in two overthrows with his feet fully set. Clutch your pearls if you wish. But, this type of performance is to be expected to start the season. Almost 12% of all snaps during Week #1 resulted in penalties. Washington contributed mightily with 12-infractions. Like it or not the early NFL season is really the old pre-season…only the games count.
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