IS DANIELS SECOND COMING OF RGIII?

 

Just Stuff (… and not all sports) … 

Don’t they ever learn. Commanders or Redskins … no matter 

what The Washington Football Team is called … we can count 

on them doing something incredibly off the wall, borderline 

dumb or downright stupid … Now it appears they will call on

 JAYLEN DANIELS to play this week. At least that was the 

word from coach DAN QUINN … whose job could be in 

jeopardy and presumably would’t mind risking the health of the 

franchise quarterback if, somehow, he can turn the 1-3 team 

around.

Don’t forget … Daniels suffered the same gruesome-looking 

dislocated elbow that limited his playing time a year ago … and 

left the Commanders with veteran MARCUS MARIOTA 

under center. They finished under .500 after winning the 

Eastern Conference the previous season … When Daniels re-

injured the same (left, non-throwing) arm in Game 2, there was 

every reason to think the Commanders would keep him 

sidelined as long as it took this time… perhaps for the entire 

campaign. Better to sacrifice games instead of the franchise’s 

first-round draft selection (2d overall) … and risk Daniels 

becoming the incarnation of RGIII.

Wrong again, old-timer. With Mariota out indefinitely with a 

leg injury suffered early in Sunday’s 30-13 loss to the Colts, 

Quinn suggested Daniels could return this Sunday against the 

New York Football Giants. Surely he was putting us on but

no-o-o … there was the wounded QB working with the first 

team, wearing a bulky cast … and insisting he wanted to play. 

Daniels is a gamer, after all.

Besides, with Mariota likely to be sidelined “for some time” … 

and his replacement, rookie ATHAN KALIAKMANIS, 

performed like you should expect from a seventh-round, 223d 

overall draft selection. He wasn’t terrible but not good enough 

to be asked to help the Commanders right their floundering ship 

before it was too late to save the season.

Now it develops Quinn and Company considered using Daniels 

in Week 4 against the Colts … Meanwhile, the Giants will be 

without their best QB, JAXON DART, out for the season with 

a knee injury suffered in Week 2 … which means journeyman

 JAMEIS WINSTON will start for the third straight game, 

with newcomer J.J. McCARTHY, obtained in a deal with 

Minnesota, No. 2 … Oh, and several Giants were quoted as 

saying they won’t take it easy with Daniels just because he’s 

injured. In fact, they hope he will try to run, which Daniels 

tends to do.

SPEAKING OF ... hard to believe … To hear most TV 

“news” shows tell it, the mid-term elections are a lock for 

the anti-Trump candidates (read: Democrats) to take over 

the Senate, if not the House, too. After all, don’t the polls 

(A) indicate the opposition is running scared because (B) 

Trump’s “numbers” are very low, and getting lower?

Nice try … but don’t be surprised if Republicans score big 

when ballots are counted. The pollsters keep getting it 

wrong, especially when it comes to Trump, and – it says 

here -- there is every reason to think even legitimate surveys 

will miss the mark again.

FOR THE SECOND TIME this calendar year, ERLING 

HAALAND has asked to be taken out of game while playing 

for Norway’s men’s national soccer team … You might recall 

he couldn’t make it to the end of quarterfinal loss to 

England during World Cup 2026 … on a very hot, steamy 

afternoon in Miami.

Sunday he “gestured toward the bench” that he needed to be 

replaced in the 67^th minute of a 2-1 upset loss to Porto … after 

playing the full game in Norway’s first three Nations’ League 

fixtures – a win over Denmark and losses to Portugal and Wales 

… That, combined with a full schedule for Manchester City 

that followed a heavy workload in the World Cup had left the 

EPL’s leading scorer since joining City five years ago 

apparently borderline exhausted.

“He was tired against Wales … and we had a heart-to-

heartconversation … and went over possible options,” NMNT 

coachSTALE SOLBAKKEN was quoted as saying … 

Although Haaland limped off the field Sunday, “He isn’t 

injured,” the coach added.

SPEAKING OF MAN CITY … the EPL via an independent 

commission has found the franchise guilty of over-paying 

players beyond league restrictions – and lying about it. Still to 

be determined is what the league’s penalties will be. City faces 

potential exclusion from the world’s best soccer league, top to 

bottom.

Ironically, it led the league with a perfect 4-0-0 

record at the three-week international break which ended this 

weekend.

THE USMNT team is at it again, likely raising false hope for 

the next World Cup four years from now. The Americans went 

4-0 in a recent string of friendlies … including shutouts of 

Mexico (3-0 in Glendale, Arizona) and Canada (1-0 in St. Paul, 

Minnesota) … What made results even more intriguing was 

coach MAURICO POCHETTINO’s lineups of primarily 

newcomers including eight teenagers among them CAVAN 

SULLIVAN, 16, the youngest player in USMNT team history.

There has been nothing friendly about the Dems’ latest bid 

to regain Congress from Trump’s control. We’re not talking 

about the candidates, some of whom are scary with their 

hardly-disguised dislike of this country and everything it 

stands for, but the media, most of whom have stopped 

pretending they offer balanced coverage especially when it 

comes to Trump … who didn’t ban some, if not all, of the 

networks because they didn’t agree with him. That would 

have been clearly in violation of free speech. 

No, what finally got to be too much to be ignored was they 

allowed their hatred of the man to consistently – and 

therefor deliberately -- mislead the public … which IS, by 

any definition, contrary to the First Amendment. The 

wonder was, he put up with it as long as he did WITHOUT 

doing something about it

BRIEFLY TOLD … MIKE DITKA, who coached the Chicago 

Bears to their only NFL championship (1985) after setting 

records as a tight end for the same franchise, died this week. He 

was 87. Known as a tough, no-nonsense player and coach, 

Dikta also had a soft side, said his former NFL-on-NBC partner

 JIM GRAY, who was very emotional talking about the first 

tight end to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame 

(1988). “I will miss him … a lot,” Gray said.

The New York Rangers lost their mealticket for the season 

Friday night when goaltender IGOR SHESTERKIN suffered 

a serious injury in the second period in Washington … when he 

slipped (untouched) and, right leg extended, collided skates-

first with the right post. He had to be helped from the ice … 

with the score 1-1 in a game the Capitals won 3-1.

Until next time ...

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Just Stuff (… and not all sports) … 

Don’t they ever learn. Commanders or Redskins … no matter what The Washington Football Team is called … we can count on them doing something incredibly off the wall, borderline dumb or downright stupid … Now it appears they will call on JAYLEN DANIELS to play this week. At least that was the word from coach DAN QUINN … whose job could be in jeopardy and presumably would’t mind risking the health of the franchise quarterback if, somehow, he can turn the 1-3 team around.

Don’t forget … Daniels suffered the same gruesome-looking dislocated elbow that limited his playing time a year ago … and left the Commanders with veteran MARCUS MARIOTA under center. They finished under .500 after winning the Eastern Conference the previous season … When Daniels re-injured the same (left, non-throwing) arm in Game 2, there was every reason to think the Commanders would keep him sidelined as long as it took this time… perhaps for the entire campaign. Better to sacrifice games instead of the franchise’s first-round draft selection (2d overall) … and risk Daniels becoming the incarnation of RGIII.

Wrong again, old-timer. With Mariota out indefinitely with a leg injury suffered early in Sunday’s 30-13 loss to the Colts, Quinn suggested Daniels could return this Sunday against the New York Football Giants. Surely he was putting us on but

no-o-o … there was the wounded QB working with the first team, wearing a bulky cast … and insisting he wanted to play. Daniels is a gamer, after all.

Besides, with Mariota likely to be sidelined “for some time” … and his replacement, rookie ATHAN KALIAKMANIS, performed like you should expect from a seventh-round, 223d overall draft selection. He wasn’t terrible but not good enough to be asked to help the Commanders right their floundering ship before it was too late to save the season.

Now it develops Quinn and Company considered using Daniels in Week 4 against the Colts … Meanwhile, the Giants will be without their best QB, JAXON DART, out for the season with a knee injury suffered in Week 2 … which means journeyman JAMEIS WINSTON will start for the third straight game, with newcomer J.J. McCARTHY, obtained in a deal with Minnesota, No. 2 … Oh, and several Giants were quoted as saying they won’t take it easy with Daniels just because he’s injured. In fact, they hope he will try to run, which Daniels tends to do.

SPEAKING OF ... hard to believe … To hear most TV “news” shows tell it, the mid-term elections are a lock for the anti-Trump candidates (read: Democrats) to take over the Senate, if not the House, too. After all, don’t the polls (A) indicate the opposition is running scared because (B) Trump’s “numbers” are very low, and getting lower?

Nice try … but don’t be surprised if Republicans score big when ballots are counted. The pollsters keep getting it wrong, especially when it comes to Trump, and – it says here -- there is every reason to think even legitimate surveys will miss the mark again.

FOR THE SECOND TIME this calendar year, ERLING HAALAND has asked to be taken out of game while playing for Norway’s men’s national soccer team … You might recall he couldn’t make it to the end of quarterfinal loss to England during World Cup 2026 … on a very hot, steamy afternoon in Miami. 

Sunday he “gestured toward the bench” that he needed to be replaced in the 67^th minute of a 2-1 upset loss to Porto … after playing the full game in Norway’s first three Nations’ League fixtures – a win over Denmark and losses to Portugal and Wales … That, combined with a full schedule for Manchester City that followed a heavy workload in the World Cup had left the EPL’s leading scorer since joining City five years ago apparently borderline exhausted.

“He was tired against Wales … and we had a heart-to-heart conversation … and went over possible options,” NMNT coach STALESOLBAKKEN was quoted as saying … Although Haaland limped off the field Sunday, “He isn’t injured,” the coach added.

SPEAKING OF MAN CITY … the EPL via an independent commission has found the franchise guilty of over-paying players beyond league restrictions – and lying about it. Still to be determined is what the league’s penalties will be. City faces potential exclusion from the world’s best soccer league, top to bottom.

Ironically, it currently leads the league with a perfect 4-0-0 record at the three-week international break which ended this weekend.

THE USMNT team is at it again, likely raising false hope for the next World Cup four years from now. The Americans went 4-0 in a recent string of friendlies … including shutouts of Mexico (3-0 in Glendale, Arizona) and Canada (1-0 in St. Paul, Minnesota) … What made results even more intriguing was coach MAURICO POCHETTINO’s lineups of primarily newcomers including eight teenagers among them CAVAN SULLIVAN, 16, the youngest player in USMNT team history.

There has been nothing friendly about the Dems’ latest bid to regain Congress from Trump’s control. We’re not talking about the candidates, some of whom are scary with their hardly-disguiseddislike of this country and everything it stands for, but the media, most of whom have stopped pretending they offer balanced coverage especially when it comes to Trump … who didn’t ban some, if not all, of the networks because they didn’t agree with him. That would have been clearly in violation of free speech. 

No, what finally got to be too much to be ignored was they allowed their hatred of the man to consistently – and therefor deliberately -- mislead the public … which IS, by any definition, contrary to the First Amendment. The wonder was, he put up with it as long as he did WITHOUT doing something about it.

BRIEFLY TOLD … MIKE DITKA, who coached the Chicago Bears to their only NFL championship (1985) after setting records as a tight end for the same franchise, died this week. He was 87. Known as a tough, no-nonsense player and coach, Dikta also had a soft side, said his former NFL-on-NBC partner JIM GRAY, who was very emotional talking about the first tight end to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame (1988). “I will miss him … a lot,” Gray said.

The New York Rangers lost their mealticket for the season Friday night when goaltender IGOR SHESTERKIN suffered a serious injury in the second period in Washington … when he slipped (untouched) and, right leg extended, collided skates-first with the right post. He had to be helped from the ice … with the score 1-1 in a game the Capitals won 3-1.

Until next time ...

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