Canales and Darnold

[frankw]

I'm much less concerned about missing on Darnold as I am Mike Macdonald. The guy has that franchise humming from top to bottom. Disgusts me. Seahawks fans have it made. Meanwhile we're over here consistently disappointing any time there are even remotely upward expectations.

[ncbob]

5 hours ago, kungfoodude said:

Sam Darnold is a "pretty good QB" on the Bryce Young QB Scale.

On the regular NFL Starting QB scale, he is bottom half to bottom third.

Maybe, but he is 12-3. 

[Johnstonny]

1 hour ago, ncbob said:

Maybe, but he is 12-3. 

yea....Minnesota fell off the map this year after going 14-3 with Darnold...bet they wish he was back... and his record looks good this year...maybe he figured it out.... he does get the tight azz in big games still.

[jb2288]

1 hour ago, ncbob said:

Maybe, but he is 12-3. 

30-9 since he left us. This place is a joke, sometimes you gotta look in the mirror. 

[CRA]

Vikings D was top 5 in points allowed in 2024.  #1 in takeaways. 

Seahawks D are top 5 in points allowed game in 2025.  #6 in takeaways.

Sam Darnold is Sam Darnold.   Sometimes he is paired with great defensive play, a great WR and solid overall teams.   But Sam is Sam.  All you have to do is watch him.  Like last night. 

[JawnyBlaze]

Darnold is fine but I always said we shoulda kept Baker. 

[WhoKnows]

14 hours ago, CRA said:

Vikings D was top 5 in points allowed in 2024.  #1 in takeaways. 

Seahawks D are top 5 in points allowed game in 2025.  #6 in takeaways.

Sam Darnold is Sam Darnold.   Sometimes he is paired with great defensive play, a great WR and solid overall teams.   But Sam is Sam.  All you have to do is watch him.  Like last night. 

Vikings offense was 9th in scoring in 2024 and 25th this year. Seattle went from 18th last year to 3rd. It goes both ways. Darnold has done very well. He’s got 8000 yards, 66%+ completion and 59 TDs in 2 years with 2 games left.

He’s contributed a lot. Ask Justin Jefferson if he misses Darnold and ask JSN if he’s happy with Darnold. I’d love to have Darnold.

[Daddy_Uncle]

19 hours ago, Tr3ach said:

This place really is something.   The team has shown year to year growth both years Dave has been here and half of the people here can only ever talk about the negative.

Its all a lot of people on here know how to do. If they can't see the improvements Canales has made to this organization, that no other coach could, then they are just blind haters with no facts to support their arguments.

[kungfoodude]

16 hours ago, CRA said:

Vikings D was top 5 in points allowed in 2024.  #1 in takeaways. 

Seahawks D are top 5 in points allowed game in 2025.  #6 in takeaways.

Sam Darnold is Sam Darnold.   Sometimes he is paired with great defensive play, a great WR and solid overall teams.   But Sam is Sam.  All you have to do is watch him.  Like last night. 

The Sam Darnold fanbois are so hilarious. It's no wonder we also have a contingent that still believes in Bryce. A significant chunk of our fanbase has no idea what a good QB even looks like.

[strato]

18 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

The Sam Darnold fanbois are so hilarious. It's no wonder we also have a contingent that still believes in Bryce. A significant chunk of our fanbase has no idea what a good QB even looks like.

Well I was a Darnold and I think you know what I have thought about Bryce since before we even drafted him. 
You can’t blanket statement this poo. 
But my standards start at tools/size. I am lenient when I see potential. 
Anyone that can watch our team for 8 years and be glad we do not have Darnold because he probably would choke in the SB or the NFCCG has eaten some real sour grapes. 

Edited 2 hours ago by strato

[ThPantherFan]

On 12/19/2025 at 11:13 AM, Jmac said:

Did they give up on Sam to soon?

They most certainly did.  If we had put as much time in Sam and we have Bryce, where would we be now?

[raleigh-panther]

On 12/19/2025 at 8:24 AM, CRA said:

to me the post would suggest Sam Darnold was good last night because Seattle won in a wild game.   Which is what we do with Bryce Young.  

Sam Darnold didn't play well last night.  Which is how he trends, goes to a new team.....looks okay and becomes classic Sam Darnold down the stretch.  Last 6 or 7 weeks old bad Sam is coming out a lot (and then a weird Atlanta game mixed in lol). 

We need to hope this scenario plays our next week

he fails with pressure…what that means with Evero, is beyond me

[toldozer]

1 hour ago, ThPantherFan said:

They most certainly did.  If we had put as much time in Sam and we have Bryce, where would we be now?

Depends, if we would have hired Wilkes and kept darnold were probably be right about where we are now. An average team fighting for a winning record and nfcs crown

[kungfoodude]

2 hours ago, strato said:

Well I was a Darnold and I think you know what I have thought about Bryce since before we even drafted him. 
You can’t blanket statement this poo. 
But my standards start at tools/size. I am lenient when I see potential. 
Anyone that can watch our team for 8 years and be glad we do not have Darnold because he probably would choke in the SB or the NFCCG has eaten some real sour grapes. 

Anthony Richardson has tools and size. He was also clearly fuging awful.

Darnold chokes without ever even reaching the playoffs. This revisionist history based on one game is utterly laughable.

He has gotten better, without question, but he is also a bottom third QB.