Mr. Scot

I don't "like" Darnold. I have no idea whether he's going to be good or not. I do know the team believes he can. And I get that the concept a group of professional NFL personnel people could be right and you might be wrong is a difficult one to understand, but hey...

Call me crazy, but when a team chooses to execute a particular option, I tend to think that's the one they preferred.

Thank you for providing an example of the kind of person I described.

Ask Rhule. He basically affirmed it. Just out of curiosity, are you planning to be salty about them going with Darnold over who you wanted for the rest of the year or will you be letting this go at some point?

The fact that they had a couple of highly crowded prospects available, and passed on them, then executed Darnold's fifth year option the next day, ought to make it pretty clear to you the thing was a smokescreen. If that's not an obvious enough clue, look at what they did in the draft and what they're saying about Darnold now.

Multiple sources have confirmed we weren't interested in Lance. They felt like he didn't fit Joe Brady's offense. Their not attending his second pro day probably should have been a clue.

They were always going to pick up the option. That's pretty widely acknowledged now. I know some folks can't wrap their head around the Panthers commiting to Darnold (generally for no deeper logic than that they wouldn't have done it) but they did. It's pretty obvious to anyone who's paying attention.

It has to do with the fact that this year isn't standard.

A fourth from Houston.

Ah. Wasn't part of that convo, but I wasn't a big believer in Newman either. He had an awful Senior Bowl then skipped out on Georgia's pro day.

Pretty sure he's being sarcastic. For the record though, Newman is an Eagle.

I'm telling you how the evaluators see it, and yes it makes sense. If you were asked to hire five people this year based solely on stats but couldn't meet or talk to any of them while knowing that next year you also needed to hire people but would be able to fully interview and vet them, which of those two processes would you have more confidence in?

In years when there there was no Covid, sure. It's different this year, and multiple NFL people echo that sentiment.

The logic behind it actually has to do with the evaluation process. Even with things easing up, the virus left coaches unable to do a lot of the traditional things that are part of player evaluation. They did the best they could, but still had major limitations. It's expected that those conditions won't exist next year, which will mean that the evaluation process should be more reliable and effective.

It was reported and confirmed by Fletcher himself.

Don't forget, we could all be gone by next Sunday.

Yep. Based on what I've been told by several huddlers before, this is a clear sign that the staff doesn't really believe in Sam Darnold and they only picked him up just in case they couldn't get someone better

Most picks since the expansion season...

With this many draft picks, the pinned topics take up half the page

So how about now?

Might take the over on Voth's question

Three for one...

Traded down again