OT: "Darnold's Debut was Amazing!" - ESPN

[CPcavedweller]

15-21 for 121 yards, 1 TD and 1 Interception. 5.7 yards per attempt.

Tell me any other quarterback that has received a review of "amazing" for that stat line. It's almost as if he were an UDFA and he was just picked up off the street yesterday. Dude was the 3rd pick in the draft, that line isn't amazing, it should be expected that he could and would do better.

I like his poise and his footwork but his pick 6 was terrible, their first TD drive was helped along by a BS called catch (and reviewed) on a 3rd down in the red zone. The ground obviously helped him gain possession of the ball. 

All in all, I think it's a complete exaggeration of how mediocre his performance was. The only question I have is why? Why would they give him such a stellar review for a well below average stat line and relative performance?

[LinvilleGorge]

They want another star QB in the Big Apple. Elis star faded quite awhile ago. Some due to his own decline, some due to the team falling apart around him especially along the OL.

[ellis]

Darnold was hot garbage early on. 

ESPN should be interviewing the entire defense. But, that doesn’t move the needle.  

[Chaos]

His first career pass was a pick 6 (which I called, no joke).  That could have damaged the young kid, on the road but he bounced back.  But amazing no, nowhere to go from there.

[TheSpecialJuan]

That's nothing, NFLN actually had a segment in which they made excuses on the 3 Jimmy Garappolo interceptions. According to them, it was because they lost their RG in injury. 

[t96]

Ignore the stat line. The kid started out with a pick 6 first play and instead of doing a Nathan Peterman he rebounded and played damn near perfect football from there on out. D and Stafford sucking helped them but I thought it was a very impressive showing for the youngest QB to start game 1 in nearly half a century.,.

[t96]

1 hour ago, CPcavedweller said:

15-21 for 121 yards, 1 TD and 1 Interception. 5.7 yards per attempt.

Tell me any other quarterback that has received a review of "amazing" for that stat line. It's almost as if he were an UDFA and he was just picked up off the street yesterday. Dude was the 3rd pick in the draft, that line isn't amazing, it should be expected that he could and would do better.

I like his poise and his footwork but his pick 6 was terrible, their first TD drive was helped along by a BS called catch (and reviewed) on a 3rd down in the red zone. The ground obviously helped him gain possession of the ball. 

All in all, I think it's a complete exaggeration of how mediocre his performance was. The only question I have is why? Why would they give him such a stellar review for a well below average stat line and relative performance?

Stat line is wrong too he had 198 yards and 2 TDs (one of which was an absolutely beautiful pass to Robby Anderson).

[ok2h8pep]

Someone has to say it :

24/27 64.9% 422 yards 2 TD 1 INT

Rookie's first NFL Game.  Guess who?

[PantherOnTheProwl1523]

On NFL radio the sportscasters were talking like "wow his first NFL pass was an interception" but I bet they are eating crow after Jets won the game with Darnold at QB. This just hopefully may be the QB the Jets needed to start winning games(knock on wood).

[MikeD83]

On a side note, check the box scores of last night’s games and laugh if anyone tries to tell you that Carr or Stafford are better than Cam. 

[panther4life]

Well after starting off with the pick 6, he did rebound very well for a rookie. 

16-21 for 198 yards and 2 TD’s and 1 pick was his actual stat line.

 

[rmoneyg35]

Darnold did well. Yes he threw a pick 6 in his first throw but afterwards he only missed 4 passes. 

 

He had 2 TDs, high completion percentage. Sure he didn’t have a lot of yards but considering they ran the ball a lot you can’t expect him to have a lot of pass attempts.

 

 

also the Jets have a horrible offensive line. If people on here want to always give Cam excuses because of his offensive line shouldn’t Darnold as well?

[Asurfaholic]

3 hours ago, ok2h8pep said:

Someone has to say it :

24/27 64.9% 422 yards 2 TD 1 INT

Rookie's first NFL Game.  Guess who?

Huh? That’s like 89%

[Jackofalltrades]

Their job is to sensationalize and you’re buying it hook, line and sinker. Once upon the were supposed to objectively report, but that fell to the wayside long ago. 

Lastly- who cares? If anyone should care it would be Cam and he seems perfectly content, so why waste the energy being offended on his behalf?