Jalon Daniels sighting
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I think whether someone is a legend or not depends on context sometimes as much or more than raw data. Climbing out of the deep hole of depravity in late 2021 and early 2022 is one of the most important accomplishments in KU football history and JD was a big part of that. I think that cements him and Devin Neal as KU legends.
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@Jayhawk_69 Neal there isn’t any question at all IMO that he is a legend. I’m good with your take on JD my problem is during those back to back bowl years he played the first few games against inferior opponents while Bean did the heavy lifting in the meat of conference play. It was all his team in 24/25 and he crumbled. Losing both against inferior opponents and conference rivals we were better than talent wise.
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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
I still read everything on here. I've been building a lot of stuff.
