Regardless of the end, I’m proud of sam

[Ghostface Chilla]

I know losing always sucks, especially after clawing back to spend it to overtime. But wasn’t this season supposed to be a rebuilding season? The early wins had people thinking that maybe we could actually go far into the post season and then we lose CMC. With that, we lost all momentum and are back to reality that we are still a rebuilding team this season. It is what it is. Just hope the season eventually bears fruit that we can grow on and make some noise next season.

[rico6]

The moves recently made by Fitt and Tepper beginning his theme park construction does not scream “rebuild” to me. 

[ncsfinest21]

Who is the person who is going to chew the team or when we are not performing. Who is the guy who isn't going to accept the failure that we have become the past 3 games and call a players only meeting and light a fire. We need someone on offense and defense. And not wait til 4 mins in the 4th to fire up the team. 

[Fox007]

1 minute ago, ncsfinest21 said:

Who is the person who is going to chew the team or when we are not performing. Who is the guy who isn't going to accept the failure that we have become the past 3 games and call a players only meeting and light a fire. We need someone on offense and defense. And not wait til 4 mins in the 4th to fire up the team. 

We have a lot of quiet types.

Sam clearly isn't going to be a fiery leader. DJ Moore is soft spoken, the OL sucks too bad to say anything, CMC is soft spoken...there is no disparity in the type of player we have in that regard. Smitty was going to bring the heat and fire up the crowd/team. Cam would as well.

We are missing that and it does matter. I mean speaking of the crowd...tune into what going from Smitty/Cam to                               .(blank for a reason)

[Khyber53]

On 4th and 10 from the 4 yard line, Darnold just went out there and Delhomme'ed the hell out of it. The kid carried an entire team down that field and willed a touchdown and two-point conversion into existence.

Had the coin toss gone the other way, we'd have won that game.

Or had say two passes not been dropped at any point in the game.

The kid is a fighter.

[Fox007]

8 minutes ago, Khyber53 said:

The kid is a fighter.

Yea the difference is the demeanor. Jake would get animated and hype we just are missing that type of player anywhere on offense. Doesn't have to be the QB but I think it'd be useful to have a hype man.

[Khyber53]

Just now, Fox007 said:

Yea the difference is the demeanor. Jake would get animated and hype we just are missing that type of player anywhere on offense. Doesn't have to be the QB but I think it'd be useful to have a hype man.

I agree with you on that. Maybe we saw Darnold growing a pair yesterday during that moment.

The kid is just 23, but for a moment there he looked like a 10-year vet QB who deserved to be here.

 

[LinvilleGorge]

I give him a lot of credit for the final drive.

As we were taking the field I told my dad, "There's literally zero chance Darnold doesn't throw an INT here."

His response was, "Well, I don't know... he might fumble instead."

[frankw]

[WarPanthers89]

This is funny….even the threads I started, claiming he was absolutely worth the trade. He absolutely fell off a cliff. No one could deny that his first three to four games he looked good, but damn I’ve never seen anyone regress as bad as he did after that.

[Waldo]

His only positive for the year was the late 4th Vikings game drive. That was his ceiling and he could barely touch it once this year. I'm more proud of the dump I took this morning than that poostain of a QB. And that moment lasted longer too

[Waldo]

14 minutes ago, WarPanthers89 said:

This is funny….even the threads I started, claiming he was absolutely worth the trade. He absolutely fell off a cliff. No one could deny that his first three to four games he looked good, but damn I’ve never seen anyone regress as bad as he did after that.

He didn't even look that good the first 3 games, he just was covered up by the D and CMC being 95% of the offense game plan early in the year when football is sloppy and there isn't enough film.

It was always fools gold, Teddy had a stretch and so did Allen. Reality always comes crashing down after 4 to 6 weeks.

[firefox1234]

Did we have these type of threads for Clausen?

[frankw]

The Sam Darnold defense force is BIG mad today.