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Daniels suffered the injury during a fourth-quarter scramble in a Week 2 loss to the Green Bay Packers, when defensive end Deatrich Wise Jr. and running back Austin Ekeler also suffered season-ending injuries. Daniels stayed in for the entirety of the game, despite often reaching for his knee after getting tackled. He hobbled to the line of scrimmage after one hit, then waved off Washington’s sideline to indicate he wasn’t coming out — then went on to throw two touchdowns by game’s end.
In the locker room after, Daniels had an ice pack wrapped around his knee and was noticeably limping. Yet, he told reporters that he was “good” when they asked about his physical health after sustaining 10 hits by the Packers’ defensive front.
“I said at the beginning we were going to be very diligent on his return to play and make sure we didn’t miss any steps,” coach Dan Quinn said of Daniels’s recovery. “So, we’re going to be smart, not just fast. The player wants to do everything all the time. That’s who he is as a competitor, which I love.”
Daniels did not practice on Wednesday or Thursday, the team’s most intense workouts of the week, but participated in a limited capacity — running and throwing — during Washington’s lighter workout on Friday.
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Like Daniels, Mariota does well with rhythm and timing throws where he can process information quickly and get to the correct read efficiently. So those basic staples of the offense can remain the same.
Where Mariota works best is rhythm and timing throws, but also attacking the short-to-intermediate areas of the field, especially over the middle. In the brief periods we saw him play last year, Mariota demonstrated the ability to manipulate zone defenders with his eyes and open up holes for receivers further down the field,
Commanders.com
What I tried to do after the game was identify what we do well and what we’re not doing well. A lot of times you try to say, “This play was good, that play was good,” but really you just have to reduce it to the simplest terms: here’s a specific task we do well—show examples of that—and here’s where we’re not meeting expectations. Be clear. The players usually acknowledge it and agree.
So we went back to basics: here’s what we do well, let’s keep doing it; here’s what we’re not doing well, let’s add extra reps to clean it up. Every player is different, so if everyone’s struggling with something, it’s probably not them — it’s either how I’m coaching them or what we’re asking them to do. So we all work together to correct it.
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