Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz and senior NFL writer Frank Schwab discuss the Washington rookie quarterback’s thrilling last-second play to lift the Commanders to an 18-15 win over Chicago on Sunday. Hear the full conversation on “Inside Coverage” – and subscribe on , , or
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Washington gets the win over Chicago in the ending of the year.
I mean, uh hail Mary and ending of the year, like one of the endings of NFL history.
Like I, I’m not, what’s the greatest Hail Mary you’ve seen, I can’t think of a Hail Mary that, that uh off the top of my head cause my favorite team never gets him.
And this, this is the, the real moment like you look at it and you’re like, oh man, no, my favorite team never gets the on side kick, never gets the Mary never gets that, that break.
Washington Commanders fans before this afternoon.
They’ve been the team.
Uh, we never get that play and they did in the, you know, the eighties, early nineties, 91 you know, like maybe back then, but it’s been good solid three decades before this has happened to that franchise.
This one is going to rank up there and part of it is the Jaden Daniels story.
This isn’t just some, you know, random kind of Hail Mary that happened.
This is a guy who was already having one of these rookie seasons that you could tell this is magical we’re watching something different right here at J and Daniels.
Uh, this is a different type of rookie season and that’s before he runs around for 12 seconds.
Uh, Nextgen stat said it’s the longest touch.
I think they said the longest touch shot pass ever for a guy who’s held the ball that long on a single play.
He just runs around, runs around rate time, race time and he just heaves one deep.
How do Chicago Bears let Noah Brown wide open in the end zone is just a, a fiasco.
Like how, how does this happen?
But ball gets tipped up.
Noah Brown catches it and for me, I, I was at Buffalo Wild, we talk a lot about it.
We go to Buffalo Wings and the whole game.
I, I, I’m in the dining room area at the, at the bar.
I could see these guys.
There’s three guys, obviously, friends, two of them are Bears fans.
One of them is a Washington fan and when that play happened, all of them lost their minds for different reasons, obviously, and the Commander fan is just running around the bar and it just felt like and I got a text from one of my good friends, Jake a long time suffering Washington fan and he’s just like we got that dude and you could just the excitement for Washington fans.
They fit like you, you just kind of talked about it.
They never get this play.
But now they got a dude that gets that play.
Like this is, we’re watching something here.
We, this, this was a happening today like we are gonna be sitting here.
Hopefully, we’re doing this show in 20 years and something’s gonna happen.
It’s gonna be great.
Hail Mary.
I would be like, oh Fitz, remember the time when Jaden Daniels, the Hall of Famer, Jayden Daniels hit Noah Brown and, and we’re gonna laugh about it.
That’s the type of play.
This was awesome and absolutely unbelievable.
I’m so jacked up for this.