Mr. Scot

Nor is he in any position to talk to anyone that way.

Disagree. Darnold has had good games in the NFL before. He has it in him. But drawing it out of him requires a lot of work. Could he be salvaged? Not sure but I'd lean towards no. It'd probably take more time and effort than anyone is likely gonna be willing to put forth.

Definitely wasn't last season...

Was likely Martin Mayhew

I can't recall anyone else folding that quickly. Said elsewhere that the early success was not an illusion, and it wasn't. Still, the switch got flipped after only a minimal amount of adversity. Darnold probably has it in him to be good, but you can't be fragile. The league is just far too tough and challenging for that. In fifty years of watching football, I've seen plenty of guys who looked good get broken, but never that easily.

After that whole "we want the ball, we're gonna score" debacle, someone called him Nostradumbass. Kinda stuck with me...

Yep. I also know what a weak argument is. For reference, here's one.

How's this? The notion that "Robby's a good WR who looked like poop with Sam" is dumb.

Regardless of what you think about Darnold, the notion that all of Anderson's drops are Darnold's fault is ridiculously stupid.

FYI...

To be fair, this particular item is not a story we've heard before.

Also true that he went bad way before things started going downhill. Anderson stunk pretty much from preseason forward.

Hasselbeck but less of an arrogant prick would be okay too

Base Nickel is what McDermott ran most of the time under Rivera. Of course, he had Luke Kuechly and Thomas Davis Given that our primary vulnerability has been to the run, I'm not sure this works for us (even with a beefed up front).

Greg Beard is a Patriots reporter (Boston Sports Journal).

I was thinking of when they signed Brandon LaFell.

Depends on whether you want to use him as a designs pass rusher or an every down defensive end. When we used him in the latter role, opposing teams ran all over us.

Even when he's a liability against the run?

Or another spot like Hamilton maybe. Basically anything but quarterback. See, one of the reasons I dislike looking at unusual stories is that the teams who try to duplicate those feats usually fail. Some team sees what happened with Josh Allen and thinks to themselves "Oh, we can do that too". Then in an effort to duplicate what was done with Josh Allen you wind up with a player closer to Josh Rosen. This is the fallacy I see with people believing Malik Willis can be transformed into the second coming of Cam Newton. Especially considering we're talking about this being done by a staff who had zero to do with making Cam Newton what he was.

That's where it gets intriguing for me. Parting ways with one of Rhule's former Temple/Baylor guys might not necessarily mean he's losing power, but at the very least it could be that he's allowing himself to be talked into better decisions. Mind you, this would not deter me from wanting him fired.

Oh, restructures definitely add up. They add up to big chunks taken out of future cap.

This is not the draft to take a quarterback. It's absolutely the draft to take a tackle.