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We passed for 649 fewer yards in '21 despite having a 17th game. That's a differential of 40 yards per game. That's the difference between being the #1 passing offense in football and being the #10 passing offense in football. Darnold sucks.

San Diego is a city of transplants though. In the 2017 census only 46% of San Diego area residents were even born in the state of California. Sure, folks relocate to Charlotte but not like THAT.

We're talking football. You're just sensitive and limited in the same fashion as Sam Darnold.

There's been a four year trend of teams with Darnold as their starting QB having a terrible offense. Our offense had to completely change because of Darnold's limitations. We had no problem moving the ball with Teddy previously. I honestly think Darnold didn't play in the preseason because once the staff actually got a chance to work with him they realized they were basically going to have to try to run a HS offense in the NFL so they had to hide him as long as possible.

That clip was on 1st and 10. The very first offensive play of the game. The guy has four years of starting experience. There's plenty of sample size. Survey says... he sucks.

Meh... My Sunday quality of life improved once I finally stopped watching the Panthers in the last 3-4 weeks of the season and if they stopped playing all the other non-NFL pro sports I wouldn't even notice.

Yeas, some business owners will make millions. Already basically said that. But the overall economic benefit to the community as a whole is minimal at best. The vast majority of those jobs are low paying service sector jobs.

Very likely the same thing that has happened his entire career... if he actually starts games for us is even on the roster. Darnold has all of the physical QB traits and none of the mental ones.

Sounds good in theory, but reality doesn't match. This is what happens far too often when Darnold has time. He isn't pressured in the least. The panic is all in his head. It was his first snap of the game in week 6. Not like he'd been getting the hell best out of him all day or all season at this point.

At least direct the handouts to areas that create good, long-term jobs. A new football stadium ain't it.

How can people buy into this myth? Go back and watch Darnold. A lot of his worst play comes when he has good protection and time to survey the field. He plays well when his first read is open or when he's forced to dump it off to his checkdown due to immediate pressure. Sam with time to survey the field against decent coverage is usually a recipe for disaster. Better protection isn't going to fix his issues. He just doesn't see the field like a QB needs to.

Yep. The "trickle down" just never happens. Most of the "good" jobs crested are temporary related to the construction. The long lasting jobs are primarily all in the low paying service jobs area. It's just another handout to the wealthy. The folks who benefit are the team owners and owners of the surrounding restaurants, hotels, apartments, etc. The rest of the surrounding community sees minimal economic benefit. Hell, you could argue that the resulting likely increase in local cost of living is a net negative for much of the surrounding community.

Yeah, spending TONS of public dollars to create some primarily slave wage level service industry jobs is a great investment. Sports fans way overestimate the impact of sports teams on the local economy. Industries that create good paying jobs don't give AF about the local sports teams. The vast majority of the folks looking to relocate don't give AF about the local sport teams. It's icing on the cake.

If Tepper wants to move this team and needs help packing his poo, I can be available.

His situation? The previous three OU QBs produced two Heisman trophies, two #1 overall draft picks, and another Heisman finalist and a 2nd round draft pick out of a guy tossed to the wayside at Bama. There's no better college situation for a QB than OU. Hell, there's not even a close second IMO.

George Shinn 2.0 can fug off for all I care.

Touché

Borderline top 10 will be a good showing from this unit.

We lost our leading pass rusher and our best, most experienced CB and yet a middling defense is going to be #1? Getting Horn back will help but we're thin at DE and LB. Borderline top 10 would be a good showing IMO.

This. It isn't a dwindling potential customer base issue, it's an increasingly competitive market issue.

I see people say this as if they're making a solid point but then I realize that Netflix has less than 3% of the world's population as subscribers and two thirds of those are outside of the U.S. They're in absolutely no danger of running out of potential new customers, their biggest threat by far is increased competition in the streaming market.

Minus the very significant off-field issues with Watson, Watson by miles. Elite QBs are few and far between.

It's why we need to get Corral on the field as soon as we can. Gotta find out what he's got. Don't create another Christensen situation where you get just enough of a glimpse to be intrigued. If the vets suck, play the damn rookies.

I think this whole fiasco has shown me that if I'm ever insanely wealthy and my significant other wants to sue me for some super embarrassing poo... fug it, just write the damn check.

Teams that lack even a replacement level starter. Every team either has a top 10 QB, has a guy they think can develop into a top 10 QB, or they should be shopping for a QB.