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Washington Commanders rookie Jayden Daniels helped interruption the team’s drought of NFC Championship appearances with a shocking triumph implicit the Detroit Lions past week.
Daniels was 22-of-31 with 299 passing yards and 2 touchdown passes. He was not sacked successful the game, and Washington was 3-for-4 connected fourth-down conversion attempts.
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The young quarterback’s quality to beryllium poised and nether power successful high-pressure situations earned him praise from arguably the top backmost of each time, Tom Brady. The erstwhile NFL prima compared Daniels to Tiger Woods during an occurrence of the "Let’s Go!" podcast.
"How bash we truly measure confidence? How bash we measure poise? Because immoderate radical person it. The moments aren’t excessively large for them," Brady said. "They look astatine the challenge, and they deliberation about, ‘Man, this is gonna beryllium astonishing erstwhile we spell retired and bushed these guys.’ And the different guys look astatine the situation and go, ‘Oh man, I truly don’t privation to messiness up.’ And I deliberation that fearfulness of failure, instilled successful a batch of radical successful aboriginal points of their life, keeps them from the eventual assurance that they person successful themselves, which allows them to turn to their maximum potential.
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"So adjacent though Jayden Daniels is conscionable a rookie, helium has that poise and confidence. Imagine, I guess, different correlation, look astatine a young Tiger Woods. He ne'er had proven connected the large signifier that helium was acceptable for those large moments successful the Masters successful ’97, but helium had proved that to himself successful each those inferior amateurs that helium won, that helium didn’t attraction who helium was playing. It was him versus him."
Daniels appeared to support the one-game-at-a-time mentality arsenic helium talked to reporters astir the anticipation of going to the Super Bowl with a triumph implicit the Philadelphia Eagles.
If the Commanders triumph the NFC Championship, it volition beryllium their archetypal Super Bowl quality since the 1991 season, erstwhile the enactment was known arsenic the Washington Redskins. Daniels would besides beryllium the archetypal rookie backmost to pb his squad to a Super Bowl.
"I’m not adjacent reasoning that far. It would evidently beryllium a blessing, but I’m conscionable focused connected however tin I beryllium amended time by day," helium said, via Pro Football Talk.
The Commanders and Eagles play astatine 3 p.m. ET connected Sunday. The crippled tin beryllium seen connected FOX.
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