LinvilleGorge

Honestly, I hadn't been paying attention to this thread. Yeah, I don't like it. I mean, the guy did it to himself attempting to plug his YouTube channel. But I still don't like it.

Brady has only been here for two years though. Yeah, passing gets tougher in the redzone. The field shrinks and the D has a lot less turf to cover.

What do you think most other OCs would look like when given Bridgewater and Darnold at QB and some traffic cones for an OL? Think about what a Shula-led offense would've looked like this year and last year.

It wasn't negative. I said a lot of positive things. I had two specific critiques. He's slow to process in the pocket and he's inaccurate downfield. You can feel free to disagree and provide your own numbers and/or examples. Or you can just keep whining about other people having an opinion. Like you said, you do you.

You want the context narrowed down to the point that it only includes Sam Darnold. When you're looking at all starting QBs and you're ranked in the mid-20s in certain categories it's not just gonna be future HOFers in front of you. Including Teddy's stats from last year was providing context.

If you aren't gonna read you really should stop replying. You're just making yourself look bad. Not that you need any help doing that.

It's all QBs. That also includes all the rookie starters, the Andy Daltons of the world, etc. I didn't just cherry pick the future HOFers.

So, you want an n=1 study? No thanks. That's not very useful. All QBs includes a whole lot of rookies and other young QBs.

League wide. All QBs.

That's why I went and looked up the stats. I wanted to see if my knee jerk reactions watching games were accurate. The stats suggest they probably were.

Doesn't matter to me. TDs are TDs. Most of them have been walk-ins because despite him continuing to be an effective red zone runner teams through today still aren't respecting it. I fully expect that to start changing, but like I said that should help to open up other opportunities.

Old Bill has something to say tonight because damn, so far he has Brady's ass dialed.

LOL! Calm down bro. It wasn't an argument, I was complementing the guy.

You really should have because this post really makes you look bad.

Another positive? He didn't fumble today. That's something he needed to work on. He didn't even come close to fumbling today. That's an improvement. He has 9 TDs on the season. Only 4 through the air, but 5 on the ground. Honestly, I don't care how the ball is crossing the goalline just that it's crossing the goalline. 9 TDs through 5 games equates to 38 on a 17 game season. I'll take that all day long.

If Darnold progresses throughout the season we should go all in on OL this off-season.

Did you read the initial post? I said he's far exceeded my expectations. I think this is an issue that can be fixed. All of this was outlined in the initial post. You just got triggered anyway despite the trigger warnings.

I'm hoping to see him improve here as he gets more comfortable in the offense. In the meantime, I think we have to help him with the play calling and encouraging him to hit the first open man he sees. Progressions exist for a reason.

NFL Next Gen stats

No. He's not. He's one of the slowest QBs in the league to throw. That's not gonna get it done behind this OL and it's not because we're going down the field. Hence the thread.

Don't get triggered now. Read through it all if you're going to react. I'm going to try to be fair. So far, Darnold has far exceeded my expectations. He's looked good under pressure. He's been much more of a threat with his legs than even his most ardent supporters would've expected. Sam Darnold running the football has shockingly been our biggest red zone threat, though that's something I would look for defenses to take away from us going forward now that it's established - but, that should also open up other opportunities forcing defenses to account for Darnold running. Now for the triggering... Sam Darnold has processing issues in the pocket. I said it in the game thread today, it's weird but he actually seems to play better when pressured into making a quick decision. It's when he gets a clean pocket that the issue shows up. He's slow to process when given time and has a tendency to make a bad decision and/or throw when given time. I don't know why. It's weird. Just think back to today's game. He had two open downfield opportunities. Both from a clean pocket. Neither were even close. His two INTs and one should've been INT all came when he had time. The danger ball he tried to force to (I think Marshall) came when he had time. Almost every time when he threw to a blanketed WR (the throw to Robby on the near to the camera sideline comes to mind) came when he had time to scan the field. My observation has been that the better the protection and the more time he has, the worse he tends to play. His worst throws came when he had time. Oddly enough, our shoddy OL seems to actually be helping Darnold in our offense by forcing him to unload the ball earlier than he would like to on a lot of our passing plays. All of the above are just my knee jerk reactions watching the games. So, I went to look at the numbers to see if they told the same story. Darnold is ranked 25th in average time to throw at 2.87 seconds (Teddy's average time to throw last year was among the league's fastest at 2.6 seconds). That's wild considering how often he's forced to dump it off quickly due to immediate pressure. And it's not because he's going down the field. He's ranked 23rd in average intended air yards at 7.9 yards per attempt. He's also 23rd in the league in average air yards differential at -2.5 indicating a lack of success on deeper pass attempts. He's 17th in the NFL in air yards to the sticks on 3rd down with his passes on 3rd down coming up an average of -0.7 yards short of the marker (Bridgewater's number here was -1.7 last year for comparison, so he's still not nearly as bad in this department as Teddy was last year much to our chagrin causing much teeth gnashing). If we're going to have more consistent success on offense behind this porous OL we have to find a way to speed up Darnold's processing time. When he isn't pressured, he's simply too slow to read the field. I think he can do it. Like I said, oddly enough he seems to play better when early pressure forces him to make a fast decision. We just have to find a way to get him to make these decisions without the defense forcing his hand.

Derek Carr was my dark horse MVP candidate. I fully expected them and him to be sneaky good this year. I definitely didn't expect the Cardinals to be 4-0 though. They've played some decent competition. Don't let the Vikings' 1-3 record fool you. Their three losses are by a combined 11 points.

That's what you took from today's game? Okay. LOL!

Did you catch the Cardinals game this afternoon?

We played well in the 1st half. We didn't quit when getting our asses kicked. DJ Moore is one of the NFL's best WRs. Shaq and Burns were great.