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My takeaways from Fitterer’s presser

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I'm hopeful and do think that Darnold can be salvaged to some degree.  The only question is, what does a good Darnold look like?  Is he a Top 10 QB?  Or is he only a mediocre starter and place holder which we had? Granted, we couldn't continue to stick with Teddy after this offseason, but Darnold is still essentially our consolation prize.

Teddy was supposedly our guy, until he sucked.

Watson was our love, and not an option now.

Stafford was essentially ours, until he wasn't.

Lawrence was never happening, but we didn't seem to love Wilson/Fields/Lance enough to trade up.

Mac Jones may have been our only draft hope at 8 (bleh), but the San Fran trade dashed that dream.

Leaving the last girl at the bar before last call in Darnold. Like I said, I feel like he can be salvaged to some degree.  But is our what, 4th, 5th, or 6th option really our answer long term?  Rational thought says we're having this same conversation next year and talking about trading up for Howell or dreaming of Aaron Rodgers or Russell Wilson coming to a more complete team. 

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Wait a sec. Tepper is happy on the process here? 

 

Sorry but they had till may 5th to exercise the option on Darnold. Enough to see how the draft goes to see if your really need to commit 18 million more to Darnold or if a better option opens up at 8 (fields). Taking it early locks them in to the 18million, even if they move some into 2021. 

Little worried if that's a sound business decision and he approves of the process of exercising the option pre draft.

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So funny. This guy is a joke and should never have been hired. We could have had a real GM. Tepper deserves the poopshow on it's way. We are officially worse then the Jets. Even they know that Darnot sucks. Keep treading water not trying to choke on the fact we are terrible and run by people we would rather be playing against twice a year. 

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1 hour ago, NAS said:

5. My favorite insight was hearing how Tepper doesn’t evaluate players but makes sure that Rhule and Fitterer  have a solid decision making process for “why” a player is traded for, drafted, signed, cut. Etc.

You know what this is called...?  🤣😎

 

PS...nice post, thanks.

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6 minutes ago, chbright said:

Wait a sec. Tepper is happy on the process here? 

 

Sorry but they had till may 5th to exercise the option on Darnold. Enough to see how the draft goes to see if your really need to commit 18 million more to Darnold or if a better option opens up at 8 (fields). Taking it early locks them in to the 18million, even if they move some into 2021. 

Little worried if that's a sound business decision and he approves of the process of exercising the option pre draft.

I saw the news they plan to exercise the option, not that they have already done it.  Patience

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10 minutes ago, Jared Patterson said:

Like is this the move for the future or do we still plan to draft a QB? I just get nervous when Jets fans come on here and laugh at us. 

Most Jets fans hate the trade

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Most Jets fans hate the trade

Idk man a guy literally came to our forum to laugh at us and start a thread. And my Jets friends I know all just say he's okay and maybe he can be slightly above average. That just doesn't excite me. Now if we trade Teddy and draft Lance or Fields I will think we are geniuses 

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22 minutes ago, Jared Patterson said:

Seems like we are clueless and just throwing competition together. I wonder how they are selling Tepper on that.

I am not a fan of Darnold at all but what exactly would you have done? Throwing things hoping one sticks vs. what exactly? Picking a route you know if a sure fire way to get a franchise QB? What would that look like exactly? There is no for sure way.
 
I suspect the Panthers felt the Jets out for their pick while in talks and clearly they’re not trading it.

Falcons aren’t giving it to us either.

49ers are a team built to be able to give what they did for that pick but even still they’ll break NFL history if it works out:

2018, Jets traded up to No. 3 for Sam Darnold

2017, Bears traded up to No. 2 for Mitchell Trubisky

2016, Rams traded up to No. 1 for Jared Goff

2016, Eagles traded up to No. 2 for Carson Wentz

2012, Washington traded up to No. 2 for Robert Griffin III

Again not really a fan but there isn’t exactly a plethora of options.

Could've offered more for Stafford I guess but at least they tried, and to be honest, I’m glad more than 8 overall wasn’t offered for Stafford.

For myself I am debating if they should’ve just put TB out there as a lame duck, the same they should’ve done with Cam, and saved the cap/draft capital.

But it’s a low risk situation. I hope if for some reason a QB falls they take him.

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