he didn't have some magical QB dust and wasn't going to be special from day 1. Not many QBs are. Eli sure as shit wasn't.
Meanwhile - he's got a flawed team around him too, and Todd Bowles as his coach. All things considered, given that he's started from day 1, I think Darnold has looked fine.
Darnold has looked "fine" - my point is that we will have opportunities to draft QB's who are on that level. He's not a generational talent or anything close.
Saquon Barkley looks like one.
There will be no Saquon Barkley in next year's draft.
Look, I know we need a QB - I've been harder on Eli than ever. It's over for him. We need to draft someone.
But I would rather suck again and wind up with Barkley + Herbert than have Darnold and ? in the next draft.
Also, I realize Eli looked like shit in 2004 - but first off, 2004 was 14 years ago and the league has changed a LOT since then. Second, Eli is Eli. He has always been a massive enigma. His entire career has consisted of valleys where he looked like one of the worst players in the game and peaks where he was completely unphased in the biggest, toughest spots imaginable and did some of the truly unthinkable (in a good way)
Things are different now.
I don't know - without trying to derail the thread Â
I think you guys are shortchanging here by not considering the learning curve associated with RB vs QB. I don't think most 'special' QBs displayed much of that ability in the first few games that they played in the league, especially when they're thrown in there from day 1.
Obviously, that debate is for a later time, we won't know who got the better end of the deal until a few years from now.
I haven't followed them too closely, but I know that Reich inherited all of McDaniels hires before he took the job. Any word on whether or not he retains them?
I haven't followed them too closely, but I know that Reich inherited all of McDaniels hires before he took the job. Any word on whether or not he retains them?
Luck is a good player perpetually stuck surrounded by a bad team. When he's not hurt that is
Darnold has looked "fine" - my point is that we will have opportunities to draft QB's who are on that level. He's not a generational talent or anything close.
Saquon Barkley looks like one.
There will be no Saquon Barkley in next year's draft.
Look, I know we need a QB - I've been harder on Eli than ever. It's over for him. We need to draft someone.
But I would rather suck again and wind up with Barkley + Herbert than have Darnold and ? in the next draft.
Also, I realize Eli looked like shit in 2004 - but first off, 2004 was 14 years ago and the league has changed a LOT since then. Second, Eli is Eli. He has always been a massive enigma. His entire career has consisted of valleys where he looked like one of the worst players in the game and peaks where he was completely unphased in the biggest, toughest spots imaginable and did some of the truly unthinkable (in a good way)
Things are different now.
Arc, as usual, you're spot on. I'm in complete agreement.
I feel terrible for Andrew Luck. Even now, after the injury - he is still one of the best QB's in the game. He has NOTHING.
His WR's today are Chester Rogers, Ryan Grant...
He's missing his starting TE (Doyle) - though Ebron has been excellent.
His RB's are Hines, Mack, Turbin and Wilkins. Most of them are JAG's. Mack bungled an easy screen that turned into a pick 6, Hines dropped an easy TD, Turbin fumbled on a short yardage carry that gave the Jets an easy score.
And his line still isn't very good. Nor is his defense.
He is in an impossible situation.
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I think you guys are shortchanging here by not considering the learning curve associated with RB vs QB. I don't think most 'special' QBs displayed much of that ability in the first few games that they played in the league, especially when they're thrown in there from day 1.
Obviously, that debate is for a later time, we won't know who got the better end of the deal until a few years from now.
Yep. And it's not like most of the rookie QB's are surrounded by much, either. They are on trash teams, for the most part.
I think with a lot of upper-echelon QB's, you can see the talent shine through the mistakes early on.
Darnold has done a lot of good things - don't get me wrong. He doesn't suck. He looks pretty good.
My point is simply that I don't think we're ever going to look back at Sam Darnold and think "man... we could have had THAT guy..."
I think Darnold is going to be very solid. Very good, even.
But I can't be mad at the Giants for taking the best player in the draft. Barkley IS special.
And hey, sometimes it takes time. Jared Goff looked crappy in his first year. Way better last year, and now he looks like one of the better QB's in football.
But guys like Russell Wilson looked really good pretty much right away. You could tell Russ had "it" from the start.
Same with Mahomes. I realize he sat last year and isn't a rookie - but this is his first year as a starter and he has personally accounted for more TD's than more than half the teams in the NFL.
Passing on Sam Darnold isn't going to cripple this franchise, but it also doesn't change the fact that we need to find our next QB.
The "Eli can play another 3-4 years" stuff has to be thrown in the garbage. It's not happening.
Starting for bad team with no skills players coming off back to back 5 win seasons. He’s going to be good. Has 2 TDS again today. Going to keep getting g better.
Starting for bad team with no skills players coming off back to back 5 win seasons. He’s going to be good. Has 2 TDS again today. Going to keep getting g better.
Yeah. He also had 3 TDs last week against Denver. A week on here where mysteriously, no one had a thing to say about him.
Starting for bad team with no skills players coming off back to back 5 win seasons. He’s going to be good. Has 2 TDS again today. Going to keep getting g better.
The Jets are hardly the Bills. They're not loaded with talent on offense but their line has played quite well, Anderson is a good deep threat and Enunwa has played well when he's been on the field. The biggest factor though has been their run game. They average nearly 5 ypc, 5th in the league. That makes life easier for a rookie qb. You watch a guy like Rosen or Allen and whether or not you think they'll be good players, they don't stand a chance.
Starting for bad team with no skills players coming off back to back 5 win seasons. He’s going to be good. Has 2 TDS again today. Going to keep getting g better.
It's about the trenches. Darnold has protection. The skill players are secondary. Their team is constructed much better than ours. They're building it from the inside-out. We haven't been.
It's about the trenches. Darnold has protection. The skill players are secondary. Their team is constructed much better than ours. They're building it from the inside-out. We haven't been.
They are also a great example of how nothing in the NFL is a given.
Surely they were destined for glory when miraculously Peyton’s injury lined up with Luck’s draft eligibility. Sure it was abrupt moving on from Peyton but they were destined for more winning right?
Well?
It is a testament to Luck’s ability before the injury that they appeared in an AFC title game. But even then there were cracks, and since then those cracks have become holes. It should also be noted that Luck was considered much more of a sure thing than any of the 2018 QBs.
7 years later the Colts seem further from winning than the day they drafted Luck. Things always what they seem in the NFL. People should slow down when they say the Giants fucked up the future.
I might be nervous if Barkley didn’t look like Barkley. But he looks like a perennial all-pro.
Things are usually never as good or as bad as they seem.
That’s the comparison we should focus on. He would have been an upgrade on what we have, he’s 21 and getting paid peanuts for the next few years. Unfortunately we have a guy running the team who thinks it’s 1975.
It's about the trenches. Darnold has protection. The skill players are secondary. Their team is constructed much better than ours. They're building it from the inside-out. We haven't been.
It’s about the trenches only because that’s the only area you have the slightest case. Age, time in offense, offensive fire power, coaching, play calling, etc not even close. Jets OLine isn’t Dallas.
It's about the trenches. Darnold has protection. The skill players are secondary. Their team is constructed much better than ours. They're building it from the inside-out. We haven't been.
C'mon, the Jets OL isn't any great shakes. Darnold has been running plenty thus far. The difference is he's not wearing cement boots when he runs.
It's about the trenches. Darnold has protection. The skill players are secondary. Their team is constructed much better than ours. They're building it from the inside-out. We haven't been.
It’s about the trenches only because that’s the only area you have the slightest case. Age, time in offense, offensive fire power, coaching, play calling, etc not even close. Jets OLine isn’t Dallas.
Nope - it's about the trenches because you still need to win battles there. It's football 101.
It's about the trenches. Darnold has protection. The skill players are secondary. Their team is constructed much better than ours. They're building it from the inside-out. We haven't been.
C'mon, the Jets OL isn't any great shakes. Darnold has been running plenty thus far. The difference is he's not wearing cement boots when he runs.
They have two RB's in the top 20 league-wide in rushing yards/game. Crowell is 5th behind Gurley, Elliott, Mixon and McCaffrey. Their OL has played very well this year.
I said the comparison is not good. Darnold is going to be good. How good remains to be seen but judging based on how he does as youngest QB ever on a bad team with poor talent around him and poor coaching is a stretch to make your point.
I don't think you guys understand what my argument is.
It's not that Sam Darnold sucks. It's that we have a better chance of drafting a comparable QB than we do a player on the level of Saquon Barkley.
Darnold looks good. I didn't say he didn't. I don't think he'll be special, though - and I don't feel like we missed out on something we can't get in a future draft.
We didn't botch our pick. There are still going to be opportunities to draft a QB.
It's about the trenches. Darnold has protection. The skill players are secondary. Their team is constructed much better than ours. They're building it from the inside-out. We haven't been.
It’s about the trenches only because that’s the only area you have the slightest case. Age, time in offense, offensive fire power, coaching, play calling, etc not even close. Jets OLine isn’t Dallas.
Nope - it's about the trenches because you still need to win battles there. It's football 101.
. But somehow Jets only won 5 games a year past two seasons with that dominant front. They are not a good football team no matter how you spin it.
I don't think you guys understand what my argument is.
It's not that Sam Darnold sucks. It's that we have a better chance of drafting a comparable QB than we do a player on the level of Saquon Barkley.
Darnold looks good. I didn't say he didn't. I don't think he'll be special, though - and I don't feel like we missed out on something we can't get in a future draft.
We didn't botch our pick. There are still going to be opportunities to draft a QB.
Fair enough. It remains to be seen. We need to see how good Darnold becomes and what answer NYG finds at QB.
It's about the trenches. Darnold has protection. The skill players are secondary. Their team is constructed much better than ours. They're building it from the inside-out. We haven't been.
It’s about the trenches only because that’s the only area you have the slightest case. Age, time in offense, offensive fire power, coaching, play calling, etc not even close. Jets OLine isn’t Dallas.
Nope - it's about the trenches because you still need to win battles there. It's football 101.
. But somehow Jets only won 5 games a year past two seasons with that dominant front. They are not a good football team no matter how you spin it.
I can't argue with you if you're going to make shit up.
Where did I call them "dominant" ?
I didn't.
What they have up front is better than what we have. Literally inarguable. I never called them dominant.
As if it is so good lack of any recognizable talent elsewhere doesn’t matter. But the bottom line is they are a bad team. Look no further than back to back 5 wins. They don’t have near talent KC does or Seattle did.
Meanwhile - he's got a flawed team around him too, and Todd Bowles as his coach. All things considered, given that he's started from day 1, I think Darnold has looked fine.
That just shows what kind of season we've had.
Good. Seeing Pouty Pants Cam on the sidelines with the towel over his head always makes my day
Saquon Barkley looks like one.
There will be no Saquon Barkley in next year's draft.
Look, I know we need a QB - I've been harder on Eli than ever. It's over for him. We need to draft someone.
But I would rather suck again and wind up with Barkley + Herbert than have Darnold and ? in the next draft.
Also, I realize Eli looked like shit in 2004 - but first off, 2004 was 14 years ago and the league has changed a LOT since then. Second, Eli is Eli. He has always been a massive enigma. His entire career has consisted of valleys where he looked like one of the worst players in the game and peaks where he was completely unphased in the biggest, toughest spots imaginable and did some of the truly unthinkable (in a good way)
Things are different now.
Obviously, that debate is for a later time, we won't know who got the better end of the deal until a few years from now.
Luck is a good player perpetually stuck surrounded by a bad team. When he's not hurt that is
Saquon Barkley looks like one.
There will be no Saquon Barkley in next year's draft.
Look, I know we need a QB - I've been harder on Eli than ever. It's over for him. We need to draft someone.
But I would rather suck again and wind up with Barkley + Herbert than have Darnold and ? in the next draft.
Also, I realize Eli looked like shit in 2004 - but first off, 2004 was 14 years ago and the league has changed a LOT since then. Second, Eli is Eli. He has always been a massive enigma. His entire career has consisted of valleys where he looked like one of the worst players in the game and peaks where he was completely unphased in the biggest, toughest spots imaginable and did some of the truly unthinkable (in a good way)
Things are different now.
Arc, as usual, you're spot on. I'm in complete agreement.
His WR's today are Chester Rogers, Ryan Grant...
He's missing his starting TE (Doyle) - though Ebron has been excellent.
His RB's are Hines, Mack, Turbin and Wilkins. Most of them are JAG's. Mack bungled an easy screen that turned into a pick 6, Hines dropped an easy TD, Turbin fumbled on a short yardage carry that gave the Jets an easy score.
And his line still isn't very good. Nor is his defense.
He is in an impossible situation.
Obviously, that debate is for a later time, we won't know who got the better end of the deal until a few years from now.
Yep. And it's not like most of the rookie QB's are surrounded by much, either. They are on trash teams, for the most part.
How do you not have quality talent in almost all the positions?
Dave, yup. Gun to head, we're thr worst team in football.
Darnold has done a lot of good things - don't get me wrong. He doesn't suck. He looks pretty good.
My point is simply that I don't think we're ever going to look back at Sam Darnold and think "man... we could have had THAT guy..."
I think Darnold is going to be very solid. Very good, even.
But I can't be mad at the Giants for taking the best player in the draft. Barkley IS special.
And hey, sometimes it takes time. Jared Goff looked crappy in his first year. Way better last year, and now he looks like one of the better QB's in football.
But guys like Russell Wilson looked really good pretty much right away. You could tell Russ had "it" from the start.
Same with Mahomes. I realize he sat last year and isn't a rookie - but this is his first year as a starter and he has personally accounted for more TD's than more than half the teams in the NFL.
Passing on Sam Darnold isn't going to cripple this franchise, but it also doesn't change the fact that we need to find our next QB.
The "Eli can play another 3-4 years" stuff has to be thrown in the garbage. It's not happening.
Ding, ding, ding.
Yeah. He also had 3 TDs last week against Denver. A week on here where mysteriously, no one had a thing to say about him.
It is what it is. Time to move on.
I literally said in the same line that I realize he's not a rookie - but this is his first year as a starter. He started one game last year.
Do you think Sam Darnold is going to be as good as Patrick Mahomes? I don't.
The Jets are hardly the Bills. They're not loaded with talent on offense but their line has played quite well, Anderson is a good deep threat and Enunwa has played well when he's been on the field. The biggest factor though has been their run game. They average nearly 5 ypc, 5th in the league. That makes life easier for a rookie qb. You watch a guy like Rosen or Allen and whether or not you think they'll be good players, they don't stand a chance.
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And plays for much bettter team with much better coaching. You can’t comaoare the 2. Jeez. Utterly silly comparison.
I literally said in the same line that I realize he's not a rookie - but this is his first year as a starter. He started one game last year.
Do you think Sam Darnold is going to be as good as Patrick Mahomes? I don't.
Surely they were destined for glory when miraculously Peyton’s injury lined up with Luck’s draft eligibility. Sure it was abrupt moving on from Peyton but they were destined for more winning right?
Well?
It is a testament to Luck’s ability before the injury that they appeared in an AFC title game. But even then there were cracks, and since then those cracks have become holes. It should also be noted that Luck was considered much more of a sure thing than any of the 2018 QBs.
7 years later the Colts seem further from winning than the day they drafted Luck. Things always what they seem in the NFL. People should slow down when they say the Giants fucked up the future.
I might be nervous if Barkley didn’t look like Barkley. But he looks like a perennial all-pro.
Things are usually never as good or as bad as they seem.
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And plays for much bettter team with much better coaching. You can’t comaoare the 2. Jeez. Utterly silly comparison.
I literally said in the same line that I realize he's not a rookie - but this is his first year as a starter. He started one game last year.
Do you think Sam Darnold is going to be as good as Patrick Mahomes? I don't.
So you are comparing a rookie to a non rookie on a much better team with much better offensive weapons and coaches? LOL.
No, I am comparing QB to QB. One has special ability. It has nothing to do with anything else. It's about skillset.
If you'd take Darnold over Mahomes, then I'll throw the pretentious "LOL" right back over to you.
C'mon, the Jets OL isn't any great shakes. Darnold has been running plenty thus far. The difference is he's not wearing cement boots when he runs.
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It's about the trenches. Darnold has protection. The skill players are secondary. Their team is constructed much better than ours. They're building it from the inside-out. We haven't been.
It’s about the trenches only because that’s the only area you have the slightest case. Age, time in offense, offensive fire power, coaching, play calling, etc not even close. Jets OLine isn’t Dallas.
Nope - it's about the trenches because you still need to win battles there. It's football 101.
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It's about the trenches. Darnold has protection. The skill players are secondary. Their team is constructed much better than ours. They're building it from the inside-out. We haven't been.
C'mon, the Jets OL isn't any great shakes. Darnold has been running plenty thus far. The difference is he's not wearing cement boots when he runs.
They have two RB's in the top 20 league-wide in rushing yards/game. Crowell is 5th behind Gurley, Elliott, Mixon and McCaffrey. Their OL has played very well this year.
It's not that Sam Darnold sucks. It's that we have a better chance of drafting a comparable QB than we do a player on the level of Saquon Barkley.
Darnold looks good. I didn't say he didn't. I don't think he'll be special, though - and I don't feel like we missed out on something we can't get in a future draft.
We didn't botch our pick. There are still going to be opportunities to draft a QB.
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It's about the trenches. Darnold has protection. The skill players are secondary. Their team is constructed much better than ours. They're building it from the inside-out. We haven't been.
It’s about the trenches only because that’s the only area you have the slightest case. Age, time in offense, offensive fire power, coaching, play calling, etc not even close. Jets OLine isn’t Dallas.
Nope - it's about the trenches because you still need to win battles there. It's football 101.
It's not that Sam Darnold sucks. It's that we have a better chance of drafting a comparable QB than we do a player on the level of Saquon Barkley.
Darnold looks good. I didn't say he didn't. I don't think he'll be special, though - and I don't feel like we missed out on something we can't get in a future draft.
We didn't botch our pick. There are still going to be opportunities to draft a QB.
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It's about the trenches. Darnold has protection. The skill players are secondary. Their team is constructed much better than ours. They're building it from the inside-out. We haven't been.
It’s about the trenches only because that’s the only area you have the slightest case. Age, time in offense, offensive fire power, coaching, play calling, etc not even close. Jets OLine isn’t Dallas.
Nope - it's about the trenches because you still need to win battles there. It's football 101.
. But somehow Jets only won 5 games a year past two seasons with that dominant front. They are not a good football team no matter how you spin it.
I can't argue with you if you're going to make shit up.
Where did I call them "dominant" ?
I didn't.
What they have up front is better than what we have. Literally inarguable. I never called them dominant.