Detroit Lions fans got surprising news on Sunday as the Washington Commanders beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on the road, punching their ticket to Ford Field for Saturday night’s Divisional Playoff game at 8 p.m. ET.
The sixth-seeded Commanders threw a wrench in Lions coach Dan Campbell’s prediction that Detroit would take on the Vikings for a second straight game, and now the Lions must prepare for a team that few saw on their radar screen heading into this weekend.
On Monday, a former Detroit Lions quarterback, ESPN analyst Dan Orlovsky, issued a warning for the Detroit faithful ahead of Saturday’s game.
Jayden Daniels (right) celebrates with Terry McLaurin after Sunday’s win over Tampa Bay in Tampa.
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Orlovsky declared Washington a new choice destination for NFL players on his X account while extolling the talents of Commanders rookie Jayden Daniels.
“Everyone wants to play in Washington now,” Orlovsky said. “And Detroit will have their hands full Saturday night.”
The former Connecticut Huskies star said that the Daniels’ recent success is all the more impressive considering he doesn’t have the same talent around him that other top quarterbacks in the National Football League have.
“He’s doing it really with a below average offensive line and Terry McLaurin,” Orlovsky said. “Could you imagine if Jayden Daniels had what other quarterbacks in that conference have when it comes to the perimeter players?”
“This is about a young man that has taken advantage of a situation, and strictly because he’s got all the necessary attributes of what it takes to play at that position at a high level, has us going, ‘Can Washington go to Detroit and upset the Detroit Lions?'”
