LinvilleGorge

And you're Mr. Positive no matter what. Pot, meet kettle.

Oh wee mayne. Listen, I hope you're right. I just don't see any evidence to support such confidence.

It baffles me how we seemingly think that some decent preseason snaps will make the rest of the league forget about four years of sucking out loud in the regular season.

Its just amazing to me how confident some fans (well, admittedly very few to be honest) fans are that our coaching staff has everything under control with a flawless grand plan when all evidence and our record strongly suggests otherwise.

The starters are getting all the reps... meanwhile, Mayfield and Darnold are splitting the starter reps.

I guess we've fully embraced our role as a feeder organization for actual good teams.

I honestly think these guys believe they're going to be able to trade Sam Darnold and giving him more time and reps is going to facilitate that. I think that their belief is very dumb. Do you really want to deny your 3rd round rookie QB valuable time and reps to maybe get a conditional late round pick while still eating the majority of Darnold's contract? Dumb.

If he's that fragile mentally he's not gonna make it anyway. I'm curious to see how he bounces back from what can only be considered as a pretty disastrous debut.

It's like once the staff determined he was unlikely to help them save their jobs this year then he just wasn't seen as a priority at all.

I just don't understand trading up to take a guy in the 3rd and then treating him like a complete afterthought.

The only play call I really didn't like was the final 3rd down. On 4th, PJ could've easily tucked and ran for a few to setup the FG attempt.

Worthless poo posts like this are why you changed your screen name. If there's nothing to judge, why are you posting?

Pretty much what I expected. About half the people posting about football the other half just mad at me.

I thought he looked pretty good. There were two plays that I feel confident would've went badly if not catastrophically with Darnold.

I really liked the down and distance management early on. On the first drive we consistently got into 3rd and short and converted. It's a lot easier to convert 3rd and 3 vs. 3rd and 8. At 3rd and short you have your full playbook available.

Darnold is a proven abject failure in the NFL. It seems like the only person who hasn't accepted this reality is Matt Rhule.

He looked like I expected him to look. Everyone else thought he had a "down year" last year. I saw the opposite. I already knew what he looked like surrounded by good talent. We found out what he looked like not surrounded by good talent. We saw a guy who still found a way to compete when everything around him was going to poo. We found out he could actually run. He never did that before. What impressed me the most was that he never got frustrated. He always just focused on doing everything he could do and blocked everything else out. He was the best QB in this draft class and I don't know how the NFL missed it.

I just didn't like the decision. The play was designed to take a shot but the shot wasn't there with the safety lurking over the top.

Shi Smith on offense and Barno on defense for me.

For those of us who were stuck watching the Commanders' broadcast, I took a peek at one of their forums just to see what they were saying about Howell and couldn't help but notice that they were bagging on their over the top homer announcer just as much as we were. You KNOW it's bad when the hometown fans are annoyed by the level of homerism.

Well, at least we didn't trade the farm for Watson since he didn't look any better and still faces an unknown eligibility situation.

Elflein and Jordan can't start. Hell, they probably shouldn't make the final roster.

The difference is the arm. I think the NFL botched this evaluation big time.