The Washington Commanders had three seconds left within the first half on Sunday and a call to make.
Take the factors or give Jayden Daniels yet one more shot from the Dallas 1-yard line.
Dan Quinn selected the latter. It ended about as badly because it probably might.
Daniels went down awkwardly after Chris Paul stepped on his foot and was finally carted off with a dislocated left elbow. Washington did not rating, went into halftime trailing 17-10 and needed to play the remainder of the afternoon with out its beginning quarterback.
Even in any case of that, Quinn is not second-guessing the decision.
Dan Quinn has no regrets after Jayden Daniels’ damage
Quinn was requested concerning the determination following Washington’s 37-20 loss. Contemplating Daniels’ damage got here on a play that by no means needed to occur, it was an apparent query.
Quinn did not dance round his reply.
“Trying again on it, on the one-yard line, we’d like touchdowns. I do not remorse the decision,” Quinn said. “Anytime somebody’s injured, you play the what-if sport. I do not suppose that is a kind of occasions for me.”
It is exhausting guilty Quinn for the damage itself.
This wasn’t Daniels taking off downfield and absorbing a large hit for a couple of further yards. Paul stepped on his foot, Daniels misplaced his steadiness and tried to catch himself along with his left arm. It was a freak play.
The timing was simply terrible.
Washington might have kicked a brief discipline objective and gone into halftime trailing 17-13. As a substitute, the Commanders acquired nothing and misplaced their beginning quarterback on the identical time.
That makes the choice extremely straightforward to query after the very fact.
Quinn is not doing that.
He defined that Washington knew it must rating touchdowns towards Dallas. Getting the ball to the 1-yard line with one last likelihood earlier than halftime was apparently sufficient for him to roll the cube.
The gamble blew up in spectacular vogue, even when the rationale had nearly nothing to do with the precise play name.
Commanders now face an anxious watch for Daniels
Daniels’ damage additionally carries some added concern as a result of it is the identical left elbow he dislocated final season. Preliminary X-rays confirmed no fracture, and Washington will be taught extra after further testing.
Till then, Marcus Mariota is the man the Commanders should lean on.
Mariota completed 11 of 16 passes for 111 yards and a landing after changing Daniels, however Washington by no means climbed all the best way again into the sport.
Quinn can dwell along with his determination. Now he simply has to hope the Commanders do not must dwell with out Daniels for very lengthy.
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