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How did they mess up so bad with Mayfield and Darnold,

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TLGPanthersFan Grand Master

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Baker was never that bad and Darnold is literally in a perfect situation for him. A lot of people have been saying Darnold needs a perfect situation to be successful and he has it. 
That is so why teams need to be very wary of signing Darnold to a big contract. Because whatever team signs him won’t be a perfect situation anymore. 
Vikings offense has made it so easy for him and that defense has been able to make up for any mistakes, think bad INTs, that he makes. 

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Tepper is like the average Panther’s fan. If a QB isn’t immediately an all-pro hall of famer, he wants to move on. 

Football is the ultimate team sport. The team has to be good for the QB to be good and vise-versa. There are very very few exceptions.

Darnold never would have been good here because the team is still bad.

 

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Baker is mainly the same guy. He always had prerequisite talent and intangibles and had played at a highish level before but he was just a cocky asshat who got humbled harshly here. But he is still hot and cold at best and we've seen that firsthand.

Darnold is a bit different he's taken a big step forward that I wasn't sure he ever would. He got humbled here too for sure. And then he got sent packing from the 49ers. Clearly something has clicked after all that. But he's also playing in a situation that has high end talent and coaching. I do not think he would have ever been that here.

Anywho I'm not for looking in the rear view anymore. What's already done is done. We need to keep developing our core and bring in another young QB to develop in the offseason and build up the rest of the roster.

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Bad coaching which leads to bad choices. Rhule wasn't cut out for it and did not give Brady two things : time to develop as an OC and an environment that had enough structure/experience around him to guide. Then it was all desperation by the time Baker got here and that never goes well in the NFL.  Fitt and Reich did not spot the improvement from Darnold. If you watched his last few games, he was stepping up in the pocket and making good throws while under pressure. He would have been a bridge for us either way, we were taking a QB. Did he even want to be a part of that? 

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