QB Jayden Daniels | October 5, 2025 | Press Pass | Washington Commanders | NFL

QB Jayden Daniels speaks to the media after the Washington Commanders victory over the Los Angeles Chargers 27-10.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You got, as you know, never what do you get?

Speaker 2 (00:03):
You swear in your own style.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Uh, it means a lot.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
First game back, uh after a couple of weeks off
and uh to be in my hometown.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
I mean you can't uh drive right up a better story.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Just focused in on the little things around the ball
really well, old line gave me some time to make
the throws them.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Guy stepped up and makes a big place where walk. Yeah,
the quarters come before safety with squadding and gotta trust
my guys to make it play and they did it.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
You got a guy like Bill happen a day like that.
Your whole walk back though, and you come out of
us after a little funk last week going the next
week thinking what just build on it. I mean it's
nothing really more.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Uh just gotta hone in on the little things week
in and week out, cause every week's in the week
so we can't. We could use the momento, but at
the end of the day, we still gotta focus on
the little things.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
You had to wait three weeks through.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
What Yeah, finally get back out there. Really feel great,
feel great, happy we got to win.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yay. Feel when you started mean y'all telling me how
the need look jam to new yorder that that like
from the interesting point of moments, Stan point, how big
was up for you girls? I mean huge?

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Uh we got points to tie it up to go
into halftime. Uh, that was huge, huge played by Luke
and this from the road though.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Luke has made a really big play for you guys,
how or words for you? And you put him a
lot of work with him to see him kind of
having those moments. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Man, the work that he puts in day in and
day out, he deserves all the plays that he made,
cause he put in the work.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
It's saying and the dead with a lots on the
right fool.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, I mean he kind of feed off those little things.
Defense Uh helped us out obviously getting that turnover allowing
us to go down the score and obviously it's better
be down ten seven to ten nothing. Yeah, he had
a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Of prison and obviously had the game. Then helped to
have a lot of braid. Honestly, Like I said, I
mean it's a lot. Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
I dreamt the moments like this to be able to
play in front of my family back in my hometown,
whether I was here or wherever else, I was blessed
enough to get drafted to so for my first return
game back to be at home, it means a lot.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
He's a long guys been under fire the first time
or so came out with it's a really good team.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
I mean at the end of the day, three and
two it is different than two and three, But it's
a long season.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
What do you.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
What do you love? The kid runs hard and he
makes plays. I mean, he runs hard and he's smart
and he's gonna do whatever it takes to help win
the football game.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Getting pretty hard.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Of You got a little fire ups team out of
the Yeah, I mean that's we have a standard that said,
and obviously starts with DQ and Bobby is well respected
on this team and throughout this league, and you know
me being the quarterback and respected to so sometimes he
can't just be all cool on cons. Sometimes you gotta

(03:04):
be a little fired up to make to get guys going.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Uh s, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
I mean I just signed to me heeling on the field.
I wasn't nowhere close. I don't know where he was
yelling at. Just went over and talked to him and
that was it.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
I thank y'all.