Jalon Daniels sighting
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That is all correct and I would never commit the folly of saying JD's career was without its low-points. However, I think that his stretch of games from late 2021 through mid 2022 are important enough to make him a legend. In the 2021 season we had not been decent for over a decade. But the last three games of that season, something seemed to change. There was the win over Texas, of course, but we followed that up by close losses against TCU and WVU, suggesting the Texas game might not have been a complete fluke and that Kansas might have actually developed into a decent Big 12 team. Those three games were the springboard to our back-to-back bowl seasons and Jalon Daniels played very well in all of them.
https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/kansas/2021-schedule.html
Early 2022 was another key moment in Kansas football history. Starting 5-0, being ranked, appearing on college gameday, and setting ourselves up for a bowl game appearance were huge for our program, and I don't think that 5-0 stretch occurs without Daniels. He played great football and some of those close games (West Virginia, Duke) might have gone the other way without him.
https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/kansas/2022-schedule.html
I agree that Bean is more of a KU legend than Daniels. The way Bean stepped up when Daniels kept getting injured, played well, and was the starter for almost all of 2023 (our best season since 2007), and won us a bowl game puts Bean ahead of JD. But none of JD's flaws and nadirs can take away what he did for us from late 2021 to early 2022.
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@Jayhawk_69 I can live with that assumption
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Nice game by undisputed Kansas legend Jalon Daniels today! 189 passing yards, 23 rushing yards, a passing touchdown, and no turnovers as he leads Tampa Bay to their first win of the season!
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@Jayhawk_69 all he needed was the cowboys defense hahaha. Nice to see him get a win and have a solid game. I think they gave him a little better game plan this time out. They did a lot of underneath routes and didn’t force anything. The deep ball has never been JDs strength IMO. They got the run game going and kept the heat off of him. Will be interesting to see how much longer before Baker is back. They said he got his stitches removed this week and is ahead of schedule so next week could be the final start that he makes right now. It will be a challenge with Pittsburghs defense line vs the Bucs youthful offensive line.
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Wow, a road win for the Bucs no less. I was expecting a Dallas blowout.
Didn’t watch, but Jalen’s stats looked clean.
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@Jayhawk_69 Oh man thanks for the reminder of the WVU game! Was listening in the car towards the end and am still giddy over that one! The pic 6 when we were already up led to a NCAA record tying 13 point win.
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@rockchalkjayhawk does this speak to how poor our last OC was?
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@approxinfinity said in Jalon Daniels sighting:
@rockchalkjayhawk does this speak to how poor our last OC was?
Oooh good question! Maybe so. We’ll see how that plays out with Marshall i suppose.
Jalen has all the physical ability. If he can keep himself from making simple mistakes he’s got a chance.
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And that was an @approxinfinity sighting!
I feel like I just spotted Sasquatch
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@rockchalkjayhawk ha, I'll show you guys what I've been up to soon
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@approxinfinity stuff?
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JD didn’t look good today and had a few very costly turnovers. I think baker has a chance to return next week
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@kjayhawks2.0 his stats weren't great but he had at least 6 passes directly in the hands of the receivers that just flat out weren't caught.
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@nuleafjhawk I was only able to watch a little bit of this one and track it the rest of the time on espn. Hopefully he has down enough to continue to be a back up somewhere.
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Anyone go to Hawk Talk? Ask this question, please, and report:
"The defensive alignments are very vanilla and easy to game plan against. Why is the staff so adverse to blitzing?"
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@kjayhawks2.0 The announcers have been very complimentary of him. They say he looks very mature, not easily rattled, etc. Seems like he's doing well for an undrafted free agent.
