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Brady, Dak, Rodgers, Burrow Those guys come to mind immediately.

Quickly going through reads and making a fast, good decision. The weird thing is that the more time Darnold has the worse he seems to be. He seems to play his best when the defense forces him into making a quick decision. That was kinda my main point.

Might try re-reading.

My specific critiques were that he holds the ball too long when he has time because he's slow to process and he's been inaccurate downfield. Those are the two things he needs to improve on to take his game to the next level. Do you disagree?

Don't feed the trolls. If you don't take the bait, they'll get bored and leave.

Honestly, I hadn't been paying attention to this thread. Yeah, I don't like it. I mean, the guy did it to himself attempting to plug his YouTube channel. But I still don't like it.

Brady has only been here for two years though. Yeah, passing gets tougher in the redzone. The field shrinks and the D has a lot less turf to cover.

What do you think most other OCs would look like when given Bridgewater and Darnold at QB and some traffic cones for an OL? Think about what a Shula-led offense would've looked like this year and last year.

It wasn't negative. I said a lot of positive things. I had two specific critiques. He's slow to process in the pocket and he's inaccurate downfield. You can feel free to disagree and provide your own numbers and/or examples. Or you can just keep whining about other people having an opinion. Like you said, you do you.

You want the context narrowed down to the point that it only includes Sam Darnold. When you're looking at all starting QBs and you're ranked in the mid-20s in certain categories it's not just gonna be future HOFers in front of you. Including Teddy's stats from last year was providing context.

If you aren't gonna read you really should stop replying. You're just making yourself look bad. Not that you need any help doing that.

It's all QBs. That also includes all the rookie starters, the Andy Daltons of the world, etc. I didn't just cherry pick the future HOFers.

So, you want an n=1 study? No thanks. That's not very useful. All QBs includes a whole lot of rookies and other young QBs.

League wide. All QBs.

That's why I went and looked up the stats. I wanted to see if my knee jerk reactions watching games were accurate. The stats suggest they probably were.

Doesn't matter to me. TDs are TDs. Most of them have been walk-ins because despite him continuing to be an effective red zone runner teams through today still aren't respecting it. I fully expect that to start changing, but like I said that should help to open up other opportunities.

Old Bill has something to say tonight because damn, so far he has Brady's ass dialed.

LOL! Calm down bro. It wasn't an argument, I was complementing the guy.

You really should have because this post really makes you look bad.

Another positive? He didn't fumble today. That's something he needed to work on. He didn't even come close to fumbling today. That's an improvement. He has 9 TDs on the season. Only 4 through the air, but 5 on the ground. Honestly, I don't care how the ball is crossing the goalline just that it's crossing the goalline. 9 TDs through 5 games equates to 38 on a 17 game season. I'll take that all day long.

If Darnold progresses throughout the season we should go all in on OL this off-season.

Did you read the initial post? I said he's far exceeded my expectations. I think this is an issue that can be fixed. All of this was outlined in the initial post. You just got triggered anyway despite the trigger warnings.

I'm hoping to see him improve here as he gets more comfortable in the offense. In the meantime, I think we have to help him with the play calling and encouraging him to hit the first open man he sees. Progressions exist for a reason.

NFL Next Gen stats

No. He's not. He's one of the slowest QBs in the league to throw. That's not gonna get it done behind this OL and it's not because we're going down the field. Hence the thread.