The Commanders\u2019 starting offense didn\u2019t play long in Monday night\u2019s preseason game, and didn\u2019t throw a single pass. But they still got some action from quarterback Jayden Daniels and wide receiver Deebo Samuel.<\/p>\n
Washington\u2019s sole possession for its first-string offense started with Samuel running for 19 yards and ended with Daniels scrambling up the middle for a 14-yard touchdown. Washington coach Dan Quinn said after the game that he was glad to see Samuel\u2019s running ability on display, but less enthused about Daniels taking off and running in a preseason game.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was excited to see Deebo run,\u201d Quinn said. \u201cI\u2019ve been on the other side of that and know what that movie looks like, so that was cool to see.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Quinn was asked after the game if he would tell Daniels that running the ball in the preseason isn\u2019t necessary, and Quinn indicated he had already done so.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou think those conversations haven\u2019t already been told?\u201d Quinn said with a laugh. \u201cIt is part of who he is, but it is one of the things we\u2019ve worked on, to say when do you take your shots and when do you go. There will be more of that, at times I\u2019ll say less of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was an impressive run from Daniels for the touchdown, but one that saw him take contact from a defender before scoring. In the regular season, that\u2019s part of what makes Daniels special. In the preseason, Quinn probably would have preferred to see Daniels slide around the 5-yard line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Commanders\u2019 starting offense didn\u2019t play long in Monday night\u2019s preseason game, and didn\u2019t throw a single pass.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-94281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}