Ricky Spanish

My grade: Incomplete. It literally just happened. I'll grade it 3 years from now

I don't remember Coastal eating his lunch, for the most part it was the guard that was failing that game.

Gurley ran hella fast until lingering Knee issues derailed his career. I'm not upset by the pick, but I am noticing a trend in the moves Fit has made so far. I hope like hell it all works out.

He's a Texan now.

... Someone says that every year.

The injury concerns concern me. In fact, damn near all of Fit's moves this offseason have been injury concerns. My worry is everyone dies by week 8 next year.

Gettleman Era - 4/6 good Hurney Era - 2/15 good players (Kalil and Chinn). 3/15 meh guys (Foster, Marshall, Jackson). Rest Sucked. Pre Hurney Era - 5/7 good players We kept that one piss stain as GM for 13 years...

Raiders about to trade the next 4 drafts to move up to 1 to take him.

Man it might be worse than Matt Kalil. Kalil only made 25.6 Million for a year of mediocrity and a year on IR. Teddy is walking out the door with 31 Million for one year of subpar QB play. No bueno.

For the right price, yeah I would. Dude went through a very similar clusterfug in SF years ago, he'd probably be able to provide Darnold some good insight/direction. Also would be good to have a vet Backup in the QB room. Have Darnold stay in his pocket much like McCown his rookie year. Honestly, low risk, if it's for the right price, why not?

Any LT with a pulse in this draft > what's on our roster.

We don't NEED a new stadium. But we're probably going to get one regardless.

Steve Young Ryan Tannehill Rich Gannon Trent Green Aaron Rodgers Terry Bradshaw That was off the top of my head. Do I think he's going to be great? No, not really. But it HAS happened before so there is a chance he could be.

I go camping for one weekend and this happens?

Reasons he might turn it around: He's still super duper young (23 almost 24). Younger than Tannehill was when he was drafted. Gase didn't start screwing up Tannehill until year 4 of his career. Gase got to Darnold year 2. Year 1 in NJ he had a lame duck HC. Darnold didn't have a QB coach with the Jets The Jets, as an organization, are bottom 3 all time in the NFL. Lack of supporting cast around him in NJ Hard working kid that WANTS to improve Has shown he can diagnose defenses pre snap and make adjustments Solid improvisational skills Our Coaching staff is far better than he's ever had in NJ Reasons he might continue to suck: Gase might have ruined him Lacks basic fundamentals at the position Mechanics still need work Bad habits might be ingrained at this point Could have been David Carr'd by the horrible line he had the past 3 years. Accuracy issues Whole bunch of hypotheticals on both sides of the argument. Lord knows what will happen. I'm rooting for the kid though. I'd love for him to turn his career around here in Carolina and want him to succeed.

I say build the line. See if we can't sucker Denver into trading up one spot (if they don't trade up to 4 or 7), attempt to recoup our 2nd next year then draft a tackle. I'm not sold on Darnold but I'm willing to give him a chance. Doing so would involve providing him a great Line to play behind.

GREAT video that breaks down the X's and O's. It's encouraging to hear that he is making the right reads consistently, but his mechanics are failing him from time to time. Can the be coached up and fixed? Darnold is young enough for me to believe that yes it can happen. I'm still tentative about everything and have low expectations but I think it will do Darnold a ton of good to actually have a QB coach instead of a megalomaniac trying to run the entire offense himself.

Agreed, I'm still not sold it's going to work out though. My expectations are so low that I can only be pleasantly surprised, so I have that going for me which is nice.

OK so I did some digging. Some actual advanced metrics for Darnold are not good: https://www.footballoutsiders.com/stat-analysis/2021/failed-completions-2020 32/36 on failed completion % (one better than Teddy) 35/36 on successful completion % (7 worse than teddy) I really don't think Darnold is the answer guys. I think we're in QB purgatory for at least one more year.

PFO does, I believe, on target throws and adjusted completion percentage based on throws that were catchable but coverage was extremely tight or the WR dropped the ball.

Pros: Not afraid to let it rip. Will throw the ball downfield Good pocket movement SUPER young. Younger than Mayfield, Burrow, Jackson, Allen, and Lock. Same age as Murray, Tua, and Herbert. 3 years NFL Experience where guys his age are just being drafted Strong throwing on the move. Last QB to leave Adam Gase became really, really good. Cons: LOOOOOOOOONG delivery. Kyle Allen has had better stats Has not played a full season yet May have been ruined by Adam Gase Still very raw. No QB coach in NY under Gase because Gase Turnovers an issue Conclusion: We screwed ourselves out of a top prospect in the draft this year by winning too many games, Watson is a(n alleged) serial predator, and the Stafford trade fell through. Darnold is very obviously plan D. We aren't wasting too much capital, and he is young enough to try to kick the tires on. If he sucks, we need to make a move for a QB in the draft next year. Gun to my head, he will continue to suck. Tannehill showed MUCH more promise at the same point in his career and was a more raw prospect coming out of college. Darnold is most likely not the long term answer, and we are continuing to kick the franchise QB can down the road. We are stuck in QB Purgatory for at least one more year. But I've been wrong before and hope I'm wrong again.

Fixed that thread title.

6th this year and a 2nd and a 4th in 2022.... Nope, no likey

Wife got her second shot on Tuesday and was out all day Wednesday. She's good now though. I'm looking forward to my second at the end of the month.