kungfoodude

Well, through six games they weren't being terribly critical of Teddy yet. That has not been the case for Darnold. Rhule talked yesterday about how Darnold hasn't been playing well. IMO, they will be off that bandwagon far sooner. Teddy can lull you to sleep because he completes a high percentage of his passes and does a decent job of taking care of the ball. Darnold does not have that. His mistakes are so incredibly obvious and back breaking. That will make any coach around upset. Plus, Teddy is pretty static in his performances game to game and Darnold is ALL over the map.

Darnold can technically make all the throws. He just struggles with processing and timing it looks like. IMO, that is why he has been such a dramatic failure. The physical skills are obvious.

Interesting that their performances were relatively close, albeit each one better in their relative strengths.

Teddy actually has some pretty obvious advantages over Sam. Pocket presence is definitely a big one. He also takes much better care of the ball, as well. He's actually putting up a better year than he had last year in Carolina(and far, far, far, far, far better than Darnold's 2021) over in Denver. We'd probably be in a better situation had we stuck with Teddy, simply because he isn't going to turn the ball over at the insane rate Darnold has. Now, we wouldn't see him march down the field to tie the game up like Darnold did yesterday. That isn't something Teddy is capable of. In either scenario, Darnold or Teddy, we'd be looking for a new QB because neither are quality NFL starters. Hell, Darnold might not even be a quality backup in the end.

I am wondering if this is because we can't run our playbook because CMC is out or because we can't trust Darnold or because we can't trust the OL. I wonder if that has changed from the first three games to the last three games?

I somewhat question if we aren't seeing the WR's frustration out on the field. Both with the playcalling and with Darnold.

One thing that stood out to me in the Simms clip was how repetitive we are being with our playcalling this early in the season. That is a really, really bad sign for Brady.

Unless there is a stud OL available at our pick, I would expect to see a trade down and gather some additional draft picks. I'd love to end up with an additional 2nd or 3rd rounder to get another OL prospect.

His future is probably an elite OG that can slide to OT. I think most scouts see him as an OG and not an OT. I would love to have him in Charlotte. Really, really nasty disposition. Something we haven't seen since Norwell.

Elflein, Erving and Paradis are unlikely to ever be those guys in their career. Elflein will be 28 next season and is largely likely to be who he is after 5 years in the NFL. Erving is a similar story at 29 in 2022. Paradis is basically close to the end of his career at 33 next season. The issue is that they all suck at most aspects of their job. That's why a combined 6 teams have let them go elsewhere in their careers.

This data was available from just about every other instance of a top paid RB in the past 15 years. On average their career length is quite short because of the beating they take. Even elite RB's typically have a relatively short span of high level production before injuries start setting in or they just generally break down. That ship has pretty much sailed now. We'll have CMC and really at this point need CMC enough for at least a couple of more years. We just have to hope he can give us some longer streaks of being healthy eventually. I know this switch to a 17 game season isn't doing him or us any favors.

I believe you mean clearly. The issues aren't all Darnold's fault, to be sure, but he is clearly a big part of the problem with our offense. Hard to blame his career high TO's/game numbers on everyone else.

I wouldn't have wanted to subject Fields to this nonsense, even if he was just a backup. At this point, he'd probably already being seeing playing time given how poor Darnold's play has been. Then we would be ruining another QB.

This is an easy concept and has existed for decades. If you don't want to be the enemy of your WR's, don't throw them into career shortening collisions. They exist less now because of player safety emphasis but that probably doesn't make Terrace Marshall feel any better.

We don't have the option of dumping him because we have no one else. I'd rather let him take the bullets from this firing squad of an OL than a promising young player. Make no mistake, once we have that remedied, he'll be out the door with them.

Case in point for the people that want to blame everything on everyone else. Darnold is as much the problem as his surrounding cast.

Uh....no.

Yes, there are multiple Darnold fanboys who literally pop up in every thread blaming Brady, Robby, the OL, Rhule or whoever else for any mistake he makes. That is a group here, although getting smaller as they all realize what he is, a very subpar QB being put in a situation to fail.

RB's are a dime a dozen, so we can do anything we want in that realm.

Agreed. Spend the money on the OL and then position yourself in 2023 or 2024 to snag a top tier QB prospect.

People are just reacting emotionally to him having a bad game and a fairly bad season. It's partly people looking to blame everyone because we are losing, partly people that didn't want to sign him to an extension and partly the Darnold fanboys who refuse to see his flaws and will blame anyone and everything.

I mean, they definitely suck but we can't shut the season down. There just isn't a lot we can do about it now other than make do with that we have.

I wouldn't read too much into his attitude. We get tiny snippets of info. We aren't there are the sidelines, field, locker room, practices, etc.

It's still a contact sport. We can't shut down for the sake of a 5th round draft pick, even a promising one. Ideally we get CMC back and they can share the load together.

Yeah and I am not against keeping a guy like Darnold around next season if we have better help. At least that might buy us time to get even better on the OL and then actually get an NFL caliber starting QB in here.