This thread is full of blow hards saying Darnold was a pro bowler now... And the original poster also made note that Darnold was playing better after a game. Also declaring yourself right after a game, not a good look. Between this thread and the now 4 Mims thread this site is at its lowest point on the pathetic meter in my decade plus here. We preached patience and it took one half to demand sweeping changes, Darnold is a pro bowler... And 2 games to cry one of our best wide receivers doesn't play because of personal issues with the CS.
He just lost, at home, to a terrible Eagles team. And his late game INT was the back breaker. Fuck him. So glad we punted his ass.
The fact this thread is a ghost town the day he has a bad game speaks to the fact these people really automatically anointed Darnold a pro bowler after a game.
It was silly to think that Darnold was some sort of transformed quarterback after he had a couple 300 yard games (including a hundo each game in dump offs to McCaffrey before he got hurt). Darnold will never be a fundamentally sound enough quarterback to be an elite quarterback. He can, however, definitely find himself into solid situations where he ends up with Tannehill-like 'success.' But that just wasn't happening here.
This essentially says it all. The question really was whether the Jets taking a suck it and see approach by keeping Darnold and building everything else first with a load of extra picks was a better strategy than drafting the QB first and trying to build around him. Very few posters still thought Darnold could be the guy, OP excluded, but he might just be good enough to be respectable with the sort of weapons Mayfield has. And if he still sucked, which was likely to be the case, the new guy could come into a much better situation. The Jets have taken the ultra high risk long term gamble. The payoff could be huge though.
Sam Darnold's looked great lately without 175 yards of offense from Christian McCaffrey. He threw an awful pick on his first pass with ten seconds to throw to start the game.
Yea, you won't hear a peep from the Darnold crowd until he has a good game again. It'll be like it never happened.
I've been saying it since they hired him - hiring Rhule to be the overlord in Carolina to a massive deal was a huge mistake. Teddy Checkdown actually would've been a good do not turn the ball over player with this solid defense and as a ball distributor to the weapons.
It's crazy how he is the only thing keeping the Vikings in the game, 6 for 20 with 65 yards and an INT right now, if they had some competent QB play the Panthers would be ahead by mutliple scores right now, with the game damn near out of reach for the Vikings.
I think he's good. And I definitely think I'd rather have Darnold and Penei Sewell than Wilson. That's not a knock on Wilson; it's just that no QB is going to be good behind our perpetually dogshit offensive line.
I know Robbie is mad because he had 1,096 yards last year with check down Teddy (career high) and you just know he was glad to get away from Sammy only to have him follow him to the Panthers lol
He has 65 yards deep into the second half against a middle of the pack defense that struggles on the road. Their longest offensive drive was 38 yards that ended in a punt. And he has six picks in three weeks. How is he "good?"
The talent on the Panthers sucks just as much as the Jets. He got away from Gase and he went from being the worst statistical QB in the league to being an average QB (statistically). Meanwhile, the worst statistical QB in the league continues to be the Jets QB.
