Week 5's Most Absurd NFL Moment Made the Commanders More Aggressive Than Their Redskins Nickname

Quarterback Jayden Daniels lay on the field for several seconds, giving Washington's coaches a chance to kick a field goal and defeat the New York Giants.

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Washington Commanders QB Jayden Daniels and HC Dan Quinn spoke to the media after the team's 27-27 tie against the New York Giants.

The Washington Chiefs didn't lose on Sunday, but what they did do is the kind of thing that helps fire a head coach. It's the kind of stuff that turns fans against a popular, but unpopular quarterback.

What the Commanders did was more offensive to fans than the franchise could convince most people their former Redskins nickname ever was.

The commanders tied the New York Giants. They replaced a likely win with the NFL's dumbest move in Week 5, and that's saying something because there were plenty of candidates in the rankings for dumbest moves.

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When it was over, coach Dan Quinn told reporters, "I feel bad for our team."

It's like a man with a fillet knife saying he misses fish.

After taking a 14-point fourth quarter lead, the Chiefs found themselves in overtime at the Giants' 26-yard line with 55 seconds to play. All they had to do at that point was kick a field goal and figure out how to celebrate.

But, they ran the football instead. And then lined up with 22 seconds left to seemingly throw a pass on another play.

Except there were no timeouts left and quarterback Jayden Daniels clearly didn't know that.

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So the Chiefs gained two yards on Daniels' scramble, when he had to throw the ball to Jupiter to stop the clock.

Daniels could also jump to his feet and knock the ball down with seven seconds left in his layup. But he stayed on the ground to look around for a moment or two, as if waiting for new orders from headquarters.

The captains could not line up and punt the ball before time expired. They never made the field goal they should have had 55 seconds earlier.

"I'm leaving tonight with a tie, like a loss," Quinn said. "And the last sequence, we throw it out of bounds, clock it, you give yourself a chance to hit it. And we take pride in those moments at the end of the game.

"And after that first down, it's still trying to get more for the kick. Honestly, the right call is we can get to the clock early and not put ourselves in that spot and that's my responsibility. Nobody else's. I'm upset for our team."

Quinn looked distraught immediately after the play, simply standing on the 25-yard line. alone It does not look at anything in particular. Do nothing special

It is unclear whether the Washington coaches themselves were aware of the timeout situation, and if they were, it is unclear whether they communicated the situation to Daniels.

However, Daniels appeared to be completely unaware of the timeout situation as he lay on the ground as the clock ticked away for the win.

"Yeah, like the sequence doesn't get to him," Quinn said.

It must have fallen on him because he was on the ground waiting for someone to tell him to get up. Taking responsibility away from Daniels shows he doesn't trust the coach to know what time it is.

Does anyone think Joe Montana, Peyton Manning, Tom Brady or any high school quarterback with the slightest bit of awareness could be that oblivious?

"We just have to get better," Daniels said afterward. "We all have to be better. Positional football. It starts with me. Everyone says the same thing, but we have to be better at positional football."

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Daniels knew what LSU was going to do with No. 5 this year in the preseason, but he didn't know what to do in the final 55 seconds of the game.

"We have to stop the clock," Daniels said. We need to know the conditions. We should file it as a violation. It starts with everyone, from the top down. Ultimately, it's up to me."

It's Roy Quinn whose team is 1-3-1 instead of 2-3. That's on the offensive line coaches who didn't seem to adequately inform Daniels of his condition. Hestroy Daniels, who needs a stopwatch to fit into his uniform.

And maybe he is in a football team that did not know the rules governing overtime.

Maybe changing the nickname was a blessing. Because this shame does not sink into the legend of the Indians.

Armando Salguero is the senior writer for NFL OutKick.

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