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Is the Darnold Experiment Over?


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What say you. What do we do now? Do we give up on him after this year? Do we fire Brady and then make him learn another system? Do we draft our guy in next year's draft? Do we wait until we actually get a competent o-line to evaluate him again? This situation sucks. We're back to looking at a gloomy future. It was stupid to build a dominate defense in this era of football when the rules are literally set up for you to score 30+ PPG. What's the point in building a dominate defense when our offense can't even score 10 points?

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Probably.

He wasn't the first or second option. We clearly wanted Watson before the massage debacle, then offered a ton for Stafford (he didn't want to come here), and then after looking at the draft prospects, decided meh, sh*t, guess we have to go with Darnold.  

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You guys are being a little melodramatic here. Darnold has been poo the last few games no question. Today being by far his worst game, almost pickles level of quarterbacking out there.

We are on the way to 3-3. We need the coaches and veterans to step up and guide this team if we want a chance at being better than 3-14 this season. You know what I saw the vikings do that the panthers didn't? Fight. For every yard, for every play. It was plainly obvious the entire game that no one on the panthers wanted this. 10 dropped passes, darnold looking like he is seeing ghosts, defense that can't stop a cough.

Some of the blame for playing bad is on darnold. But lets not sit here and try to say if we put anyone else out there then all of our woes will be fixed. We are currently not a good team across the board, but we have the talent. Only coaching and leadership can fix this. W

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If the Panthers had provided Darnold half decent protection they might have stood a chance at rehabbing Sam this season.  With our Jets caliber line the Panthers have likely destroyed whatever chance Sam had of turning things around this season.

Darnold might yet still be salvageable, but he likely needs to be benched and relegated to backup duty for the rest of the season.

Rhule and Fitterer appear to have gambled and lost (screwed the pooch) on this one.  

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1 minute ago, hepcat said:

The offense is absolutely atrocious without CMC 

But we've already ran him into the ground. Dude just can't stay healthy. All those years saying we needed to lighten his load, yet we did nothing, and now you're seeing the result. Can't rely on him to finish a season anymore.

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This only way the Sam project works is if he had adequate protection. We just continued his ruin by out Jetting the Jets.

He’s got this yip/hesitation. He’s incapable of just letting the ball go on his first read. Probably due to four straight years of getting his ass kicked. It probably can’t be coached out of him at this point.

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I just said it in another thread that I don't think it's in Darnold's DNA to be a franchise QB. He's an OK game manager to drop into a good enough team, but that's about it. I don't know why we exercised his option. It seems like we always jump the gun with these suspect QBs--that is, we give them an extra year too long as opposed to letting them play for an extension.

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