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Looked pretty good early, but went downhill fast. Kinda like Teddy.

Eh... yeah, it's a legit concern

I agree. Darnold has a lot more upside potential than Teddy but just as importantly IMO is that he has far more massive bust potential too. You know what you're getting with Teddy. Straight up mediocrity. Darnold is far more boom or bust which is a good thing in my mind. Better chance to be the answer and also a better chance to land us a premium draft pick of he's not. Win/win in my book.

He's on the roster now so hopefully he works out. If he doesn't work out I just hope that he bombs HARD. We don't need 5 or 6 wins again. Go big or go home. Be the answer or be our Clausen 2.0. Anything in between would just plain suck.

When we hired him I think everyone already knew that if he was successful he wasn't going to be here long.

Yep, I'm pretty much right there with you.

Agreed

On the contrary, I'm really against passing on one of them if he's there at #8.

For now. Now could be this season of for the next two weeks. I'll be surprised if Darnold is the answer long-term.

If Darnold is your ultimate answer then you're probably ultimately gonna get fired. Hopefully he will be, but you can't go all in on Darnold and pass up QB prospects that you otherwise would've taken at #8. Sam Darnold isn't a reason to pass on top 10 QB talent.

I don't think it exists. Sure, people want what's best for the team and hold out hope for Darnold but I think there's very few who truly think he's gonna work out. History doesn't bode well for reclamation projects.

I'll trust the evaluation. Honestly, I'm kinda all in on my avatar. I think Darnold can deliver him.

Yeah, I think there's a decent chance we went to that pro day, watched him, and said "Yeah... this dude ain't gonna be there at #8 so we better figure out something else."

"Value" doesn't indicate how good a prospect will be, just what their perceived worth is at the time. Three years ago, the Jets drafted Darnold #3 overall. That was his perceived worth. After his last three seasons, they were probably glad to have gotten what we gave them for him.

That would be odd considering how much Snow talked about him at safety and how that would be the best for him and his career long-term.

Yeah, based on what the Niners traded to get one of those guys and what we traded to get Darnold... I think that hypothesis has already been disproven.

I absolutely don't think QB is off the board at #8, I just think it's unlikely anyone we value at that spot at QB will be there hence the Darnold trade.

How many undersized pass rushers does one team need? If the deal is cheap enough it makes sense for us to give him a look, but surely he has to realize there's probably a better roster opportunity for him out there.

I was off big time on the square footage. It turned out to be 3000. Closed today. Not looking forward to the move over the next few days but definitely looking forward to finally being settled down again. Selling a house and moving across the country during the peak of a pandemic and lockdowns then buying a house during an absolute real estate feeding frenzy... yeah, if you have the opportunity to pass on that, that'd be my advice. LOL!

Davis Mills - QB, Stanford Shi Smith - WR, SCAR Keith Taylor - CB, Washington James Wiggins - FS, Cincy Andre Cisco - FS, Cuse Chazz Surratt - LB, UNC Hunter Long - TE, BC Josh Myers - IOL, OSU

The Bengals have two young OTs who are pretty promising. They're probably going IOL pretty early and possibly pretty often though.

Signing a recent UDFA off the scrap heap has zero implications of what you are doing with the #5 overall pick. With that said, go ahead and pencil in Ja'Marr Chase.

Yep, time will tell. We very well may be kicking ourselves in a couple of years for not doing it. That's very possible.

It's a calculated decision. We obviously just don't think he's worth it. I gotta trust that evaluation. I mean, we knew as soon as it happened that we no longer controlled our QB destiny as soon as we won that WFT game. If we were sitting at #3 instead of #8, I think there's likely zero chance we trade for Darnold and we'd be zeroed in on building around either Fields or Lance.

We went the safe JAG QB route last year. That's the worst option. That's purgatory. We're going with the more talented JAG option this year with higher bust potential. That's better. Either he works out or he fills his Clausen role and hopefully delivers our next MVP QB. Not sure who that could be...