Sam Darnold Thoughts After Game 1

[therealmjl]

1 hour ago, PhillyB said:

important thing to me was his poise in the pocket. never panicked, stood through some punishing rushes, came up clutch on several occasions.

and he can gun it deep.

jury's still out but this was a GREAT sign.

 

Agreed

[therealmjl]

16 minutes ago, 45catfan said:

Hands on the ball should be a completed pass.  Was is a little high?  Yes.  Was it able catchable?  That's a yes as well.

It was a bad throw

[LinvilleGorge]

13 minutes ago, AU-panther said:

rare?

Anderson was wide open, and had to slow up.

If it would have been tight coverage it probably would have been an incompletion.

A rare throw is when your WR is covered but the QB puts it in the one little spot where the WR can catch it.

Don't get me wrong, it was a nice completion, but not what I would consider a big time throw.

 

It definitely wasn't a "rare" throw. I don't have a problem with it though. He made the safe throw. Anderson was wide open. Slowing him down a little was the safe throw. Trying to hit him in stride and you risk overthrowing for no benefit.

[AU-panther]

5 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

This. Darnold missed the throw to Darnold and he missed the throw to Marshall on the out route in the endzone. He should've had three TD passes.

and that is my point, those are the types of throws that good QBs make more often than bad QBs. 

No QB makes them all of the time and no QB in the league misses them all of the time.  The good QBs do it a higher percentage of the time than the bad QBs do.  Its only one game so not fair to say which side he is on yet, but by the end of the season that is what we have to look at.

Throwing a bunch of each check downs to CMC doesn't mean you are a good QB.

Just quickly looking at game logs.

11 third downs where we attempted a pass.

6/11 completion percentage but only 3/11 on conversions.  Several throws short of the sticks.  Are we looking for a QB that we can win with if everything else goes good or a QB that can carry a team?

Teddy could have done what was done today.

 

[ForJimmy]

1 minute ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Yep.

I even saw the players/coaches talking to Thomas on the sidelines immediately afterwards (granted there was no sound). I assumed they were wanting to keep his confidence up after the drop, but it could have been telling him good job/effort getting open.

[LinvilleGorge]

3 minutes ago, mav1234 said:

I thought he had his hands on it and it bounced around after.  It was a little high but I didnt think it was uncatchable.  I may be wrong tho.

It wasn't utterly uncatchable but it was a TOUGH catch. You gotta throw a better ball to a wide open receiver.

[LinvilleGorge]

Just now, ForJimmy said:

I even saw the players/coaches talking to Thomas on the sidelines immediately afterwards (granted there was no sound). I assumed they were wanting to keep his confidence up after the drop, but it could have been telling him good job/effort getting open.

I think you're the only person trying to paint that as a "drop". Sorry man. It was an awful throw and Thomas failed to come up with a complete circus catch on it.

[ForJimmy]

1 minute ago, AU-panther said:

and that is my point, those are the types of throws that good QBs make more often than bad QBs. 

No QB makes them all of the time and no QB in the league misses them all of the time.  The good QBs do it a higher percentage of the time than the bad QBs do.  Its only one game so not fair to say which side he is on yet, but by the end of the season that is what we have to look at.

Throwing a bunch of each check downs to CMC doesn't mean you are a good QB.

Just quickly looking at game logs.

11 third downs where we attempted a pass.

6/11 completion percentage but only 3/11 on conversions.  Several throws short of the sticks.  Are we looking for a QB that we can win with if everything else goes good or a QB that can carry a team?

Teddy could have done what was done today.

 

I don’t think Teddy hits Anderson deep enough for him to run it in. That’s a stop your route and catch the underthrown ball while getting tackled throw by Teddy all day….

[45catfan]

Let me see, a 68.5% completion rate, 102 rating and ZERO picks, but you guys want to nitpick.  Got it...

[Shocker]

Sam had no ints won the game and passed for 279 and a TD throwing and running.  And we are complaining 

[Pejorative Miscreant]

53 minutes ago, Stuart Smith said:

Sam Darnold was definitely worth a 2nd round draft pick. 

If he can maintain something similar to this level of play it will be a good deal.  I won’t pass judgement either way yet but overall it looks promising.   

[OldhamA]

6 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

It definitely wasn't a "rare" throw. I don't have a problem with it though. He made the safe throw. Anderson was wide open. Slowing him down a little was the safe throw. Trying to hit him in stride and you risk overthrowing for no benefit.

I mean it was a 45 yard off platform throw, but ok. 

[TheRumGone]

it’ll be interesting to see how Sam does when we NEED him to make a big play. Same thing was said about Teddy last year. If he’s gonna be the guy he needs to make those plays for us.

[Panthers Rhule]

1 hour ago, jopie87 said:

Sam has a shot at being the second or third best QB in franchise history. I was more confident going into today with him versus any point with Teddy last year. Saw nothing today to change my mind on that.

Lol 2nd or 3rd? I hope he's way better than that considering the best we ever had was average at best. A couple of them had a great year but we've never had a great QB. It would be nice if Darnold could consistently be a good one for 10 years or more. He's be our first in franchise history.

Edited September 12, 2021 by Panthers Rhule