kungfoodude

He has given up on Darnold. The problem is there isn't an option other than Darnold. He knows it, Brady knows it, the owner knows it, his teammates know it. It's written on their faces, it's obvious in their actions/reactions and they are all but stating it publicly.

Yeah, they are all but saying, "Hey, we fuged this up and there isn't much we can do to fix it. This guy sucks."

Well what do you expect him to do? Start PJ? That isn't better. He doesn't have any options on the roster. Until those other options present themselves(Watson or trade or FA signing) these are the two turds we have. That's it.

It isn't coddling. They all know and have known he isn't the guy but they made their bed and they get to lie in it. It isn't just bad that they chose a QB completely incapable of being successful in the NFL, they also chose a backup QB who is as bad or worse.

Darnold would struggle behind the Dallas OL and with the Dallas running game. His issues aren't related to what happened to him, they are related to who he is as a player. And, really, why would anyone think he could suddenly just be an NFL QB after just one full season as a HS QB and two seasons as a college QB? Even at USC his disappointing RS sophomore season was blamed on coaching. So, at USC, the Jets and now here in Carolina it was always the coaches fault? His career and the idea of his talent was made on one year at USC, where he was playing with a ton of talent around him. It was never real.

Billionaires win by fixing the system. Ask Bob Kraft.

He isn't shell shocked, he literally isn't capable of processing what he sees on the field. He isn't capable of being a QB in the NFL. Go watch the All 22 of every game this year and watch how many times he misses reads or is late on throws because he just simply can't see it. Want to make it worse? Do the same and mark down every time he was legitimately pressured while missing those reads. You'll immediately understand why this was never going to work.

Our future was compromised when they decided to trade picks for Sam Darnold and extend him. That hurt our chances of improving the OL through the draft in 2022. The loss of cap space for Darnold hurt our chances to sign better OL and to resign core players. The future was compromised when we signed Teddy Bridgewater to a large contract. The future was compromised when we spent all 2021 offseason making poor decisions at OL after watching them hurt the team in 2020. Make no mistake, the future was already compromised.

Yep. I have been saying that quite a bit. They can't wrap their head around why you need very good to elite players that play at very good to elite levels. They assume they can just motivate and teach talented guys to get the most out of them. This isn't pee wee football, it isn't high school football and it isn't college football. It is pure hubris. They believe they can succeed with players that have already failed or they believe they can take guys 90% of the league don't think can be successful and make them successful.

It is completely between the ears. He isn't unlike other bust QB's in that regard.

At least he was a backup at the time. Darnold is currently at Rodney Peete and descending to Chris Weinke. If he keeps tracking this way, it might be full Jimmy Clausen.

Pretty much this. Everyone who still believes he has the talent or believes there is still hope, this is you. If you couldn't see if before the season, if you couldn't see it in the first three games, if you couldn't see it last four games.....you can't see it.

Or the Teddy Bridgewater saga or the Sam Darnold saga or....

The 5th year option is mounting him to the wall and bragging.

The dysfunction is bad enough that I ultimately hold Rhule mostly responsible. He hired the dude, he had last word on Darnold and he had the last word on the OL. Tepper made him The Guy and as The Guy, he is getting The Blame.

He is who we thought he was.

Yep. The people blaming this on defense....I really have no idea what you are watching.

He has an average NFL arm. His inconsistencies with throwing are likely the result of the myriad of mechanical issues with his throws. He needs a lot of polish to fix some of the bad habits he has. Howell is only being discussed because of how weak this QB draft is. He is realistically a 2nd or 3rd round QB.

But....but....but...former first round pick! But.....but....but....versatility!

His floor was Sam Darnold. His ceiling was Ryan Tannehill.

I mean, we allowed 25 points, 103 yards rushing and 199 yards passing. They averaged 19.9 ppg, 91.3 rushing yards per game and 260.6 passing yards per game. Does that look like a stat line where we poo the bed defensively? Especially when, for the second straight week, we were in a 10+ min TOP hole. Given the injuries, the defense is still performing fairly well. Yesterday was arguably their worst game of the year and it was still very easy for a competent offense to turn that into a win. If we get more of our injured starters back, they will likely just get better. That is if they just don't start laying down because the offense keeps shitting the bed.

The constant shuffling at OL is just another sign that these guys don't have the coaching chops to succeed. You had all offseason to establish a pecking order for your OL at each position. The first injury starts a cavalcade of position changes, player rotations, etc, etc. The lack of continuity is amazing. How in the world could anyone see that going on and think that could ever work? You can move these guys around like they are chess pieces and expect them to all perform as they did before. That's not a real thing in the NFL.

Yeah, oddly the best thing for Darnold is to be pressured. His clean pocket awareness is the worst I have seen in a long time.

The consistency of the third quarter struggles is the most obvious and glaring sign of a coaching staff that doesn't adjust well to the game.