Mr. Scot

I get the feeling this thread will be as popular as the one announcing they fired Marty Hurney. Wonder which of those two transactions folks feel is the bigger relief.

I said the team needed to treat him like a rookie. Based on what he's said, it sounds like Matt Rhule agrees.

I don't really think this means anything as far as our draft plans at all. It's long been known that Bridgewater wasn't going to play here this year.

We got something for him. I'm fine with that.

Based on the assumption that Darnold will be bad and Fields will be good. As mentioned previously, you don't know if either of those things will be true.

There's a restructure of some kind involved but I haven't seen specifics yet.

To quote our old friend Eugene Robinson, "It's over!"

I think that's a lot of us. I haven't seen anyone definitively saying Darnold will be a star.

The Jets have said many times they weren't definite on trading Darnold. Even after the trade was done, some (including GM Joe Douglas) were questioning whether they should have.

It's actually not guaranteed that either of them will be available at our pick.

Joe Person acknowledges that in that scenario, you'll never get the kind of return that you'd get by trading down during the draft.

Most NFL coaches think they can turn bad players into good ones. Rhule wouldn't be unique in that idea at all. That just kinda comes with the territory. The prime example of course is up in New England.

You're wasting your time on that one. He doesn't have a clue, but he wants to look like he does.

Well I'll say this for myself. My opinion is based on actual information I read rather than TV shows on Showtime.

I don't remember if they ever said. I think someone speculated that it might have been the 49ers since they later went in another direction.

Just saw that. Yikes!

How do you square that with the report that they were offered a first rounder by somebody else and turned it down?

I'm not convinced the "Watson at any price" thing was ever really true, especially not after Fitterer balking at what the Dolphins wanted for number three. I don't doubt that we were interested. I do question whether we'd have given up as much as people think.

Months ago when Fitterer was hired. Rhule himself acknowledged it, but said he wasn't going to act like a dictator.

The Jets wanted to do all of their draft prospect evaluations before deciding whether to trade Darnold or not. We patiently gave them time to do it while also exploring other options and deciding that none of them were worth it. Then ended up actually finalizing the terms of the trade at Justin Fields pro day. How you take that as proof that they weren't really that interested in him is beyond me. There's no logic to that at all.

Riiiiight Good luck with that. You could turn out to be right, but personally I'm more interested in talking football than trying to be Miss Cleo.

See above.

That's your logic? You think if you really want a guy you'd just talk about it once and then give up? Seriously? You do remember that the Jets weren't initially willing to trade him, right? Yet we kept talking to them.

Yeah. Verge's statements that were not likely to take a quarterback at #8. But even with what Verge says, I'm acknowledging that none of us really know what the Panthers are going to do. You're talking as if you have complete inside knowledge.