Khyber53

Please just remember that if you kill yourself from stress doing this job, your employer will have to hire someone else to do it for you. That's all. But there won't be anything you or your family can do about making it through the next couple of decades. Without you. You need a break, really a vacation. Realistically, though, you need to tell them you need two 40-hour weeks in a row to survive this. Do the job, go home, enjoy your family, rest. You are literally killing yourself so someone else can make a bunch of money off of your work. If dropping back to normal work for two weeks will crash their company and the project, then they are on such thin ice that even with you killing yourself to do the work, it could all come crumbling down before you see the big payoff. And what are they going to do? Fire you? If they are laying people off, don't bet on that severance package paying you off. Take care of yourself and your family first. Keeping the job is part of that, but don't let it ruin the lives of the people you love. There's always another job out there.

How about we fuging play the game before this poo?

Honestly, our offensive line is still garbage and is rarely being put in a position to help their case. On defense, as hard as it is to admit, Snow's scheme has been figured out by teams that have coaching staffs that are students of the game. If an opponent's OC or DC even aren't anything more than glorified college coaches then we can dominate them. I've been trying to be optimistic, but y'all have beaten me down.

Right now, the sample size just isn't big enough or without enough outside factors. If we'd have judged him based on our first three games, he's a lifetime starter here. After the last three, he's a bum. What do you do? The truth is probably somewhere in between. But, we have a long season ahead of us and since there just aren't any skilled journeyman QBs out there that still have the arms to be competitive, we're going to have to ride out the season and see what happens. Me, I think Darnold's a young kid and he's played like one up until that last bit against the Vikings. That last series he played like a man who is supposed to be here and was able to dictate the game to the opposing team. If Darnold can become that man he found, then things are going to get really good around here. If that was just a one-time deal and he reverts to being the passive participant he's been since his second year with the Jets, then it's going to be tough on him, the team and us fans. Eleven more games to go. Sure hope we're cheering our hearts out for the guy by the end of it.

Honestly, right now I think Darnold will be our QB2 next season if things don't change. Not sure anyone can be a decent QB1 with this offensive line being this, well, offensive. He could actually make a case for staying as the QB1, but it will require him to pursue a true gunslinger QB persona like he did at the end of the fourth quarter last week against the Vikings. If Darnold can bring that guy out on a regular basis, he's got a shot at QB1 here or being traded to be one somewhere else. If, however, he succumbs to the pressure behind a porous offensive line and receivers with dropsies and poor work ethics, no outlet and Ian Thomas as the featured TE, then it's going to be a rough ride to the bench. And he's been working with an OC that seems to be unable to really adjust for those deficiencies around him. And honestly, as a QB2 he's probably not a bad choice, just a really expensive one for next year. As a QB2 he could come off the bench and win a game or two. Still, there's the other line of thinking that you have to build a QB, they don't come out of college completely ready all the time. Darnold had no development during his time with the Jets to speak of. Here, it is his first year in the system, his third different system in four years of play. A case can certainly be made that there should be a year over year improvement if he stays and we stick with him. It could be next year, it could be later this year. The problem is the dilemma Darnold creates for himself. He has stretches of competence, he has a few moments of brilliance (that 96-yard drive to push it to overtime), he has some stretches of questionable play, and a few moments of just jaw-dropping bad decision making. He has such a mixed bag of results that it's really hard to look down the road and see who he will become or if he's already hit that peak. It's going to be tough for us to decide as fans. We don't hear the play calls, we don't have edge rushers bearing down on us, we aren't facing Pro-Bowl DBs. We should know by the end of the season, though. I hope.

Same old Huddle, same old time each year.

Lemme guess, I just asked your alt to go somewhere else?

Actually, I want to see Darnold with some more running options. Probably safer for him to be out in front of this o-line than behind it.

31 other teams out there. Just sayin'

Funny, to start the year off, Darnold was doing that actually more than Cam ever did.

Any drop can be a drive killer. Don't polish a turd, man. A drop is a receiver error, pure and simple. Each one of those on that day would have extended a drive instead of wasting a down.

Not sure we would see Brady making use of Cam very well. It's not in the college playbook he keeps using.

Shula had 2015, so that's going to be tough to beat. Honestly, though, I'd rather have Dan Henning back.

Sadly, there's quite a bit of truth in this.

Yep, that about sums it up, OP. This year is bonus round stuff, but I'm still not sold on the idea that we can't be competitive. We're going to be having some quality players coming back from injuries in the coming weeks. And we still have a soft schedule ahead of us. A win or two in the short term can do a lot to getting us back to right.

Donovan was a good QB, which is a hard thing to be in the NFL. He wasn't one of the greats, though.

Two QBs of differing experience and styles of play with minimal statistical differences, same results. Might be that the factors of O-line and OC they shared will end up with the same results.

That first throw's biggest error was that he threw it to Robby Anderson who decided not to contest it after lackadaisically wandering about during what should have been a scramble drill. The fact that the "receiver" had a sideline meltdown about not getting the ball (and that's what it was really about) the previous week may have even played into Darnold wanting to force that ball to Anderson. Still, the guy making the throw gets the blame. That's the way it has been since QBs started throwing forward passes, but in this case, there were some potential underlying reasons.

And that was the whole point of the original post! Thanks!

Yeah, it's definitely an adjustment to make. It allows us to change up personnel on the O-line, allows Chuba to do work (which he was doing yesterday) and takes the play-calling away from Brady a bit. And, most importantly, we might be able to once in a while actually succeed at a play action pass if we ran it a bit. 16 rushing plays yesterday. Mind blowing considering it was working and everything else was failing.

A lot of fairweather fans turned off the TV after the first play of the game. A lot of the remaining ones turned it off in the fourth quarter. Both sets of those folks are coming online today and chirping as if they'd seen everything.

Robby made it a point last week on the sidelines that he should be made a focus and that he was just being kept from making his big plays. Well, that theory just went down the toilet. Bench Sideshow Bob.

Just little boys who stole their daddy's matches. No worries mate. Good folks make good discussions. There are a lot of good folks here who haven't given up.

Yeah, that is the truth. He really needs to work on that. We have been spoiled by CMC who honestly is one of the five best receivers in the game. He'd be number one but he has all that running back work to do, too.

Yeah, I can certainly see that. Still, if it hits both of your hands, uncontested (as most of those drops were) then you're expected to catch them in this league. Big league fastballs are part of the game.