Pats have discussed a trade for Robby Anderson with the Panthers at the combine...

[*FreeFua*]

WR spends 2 years with crappy QB

WR goes to new team and his excited to get away from old QB

WR has his best season yet 

Old QB gets traded to WR’s new team. WR knows old QB stinks. WR mentally checks out and old QB stinks

[pantherj]

Robby is a good WR who looked like poop with Sam. He dominated with Teddy. You know Robby is a good WR. Jerry Rice would look like poop with Sam. Robby can certainly be traded as we're not doing anything in the next two seasons unless we land Watson.

[Mr. Scot]

Just now, pantherj said:

Robby is a good WR who looked like poop with Sam. He dominated with Teddy. You know Robby is a good WR. Jerry Rice would look like poop with Sam. Robby can certainly be traded as we're not doing anything in the next two seasons unless we land Watson.

Regardless of what you think about Darnold, the notion that all of Anderson's drops are Darnold's fault is ridiculously stupid.

[pantherj]

Just now, Mr. Scot said:

Regardless of what you think about Darnold, the notion that all of Anderson's drops are Darnold's fault is ridiculously stupid.

Well you knocked the hell out of the strawman you just erected.

[Mr. Scot]

1 minute ago, pantherj said:

Well you knocked the hell out of the strawman you just erected.

How's this?

The notion that "Robby's a good WR who looked like poop with Sam" is dumb.

[pantherj]

the notion that all of Anderson's drops are Darnold's fault is ridiculously stupid.

Just now, Mr. Scot said:

How's this?

The notion that "Robby's a good WR who looked like poop with Sam" is dumb.

"the notion that all of Anderson's drops are Darnold's fault is ridiculously stupid."

That is not something anyone has said in this thread. You alone said the above, and then attacked it. Do you know what a strawman argument is?

[Aussie Tank]

Good riddance dropped his bottom lip then started dropping balls 

[Mr. Scot]

1 minute ago, pantherj said:

"the notion that all of Anderson's drops are Darnold's fault is ridiculously stupid."

That is not something anyone has said in this thread. You alone said the above, and then attacked it. Do you know what a strawman argument is?

Yep. I also know what a weak argument is.

For reference, here's one.

 

[pantherj]

4 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Yep. I also know what a weak argument is.

For reference, here's one.

 

That would be closer to hyperbole, which can be fun. Have you ever fun?

[top dawg]

4 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

I was thinking of when they signed Brandon LaFell.

Well, he did catch the first TD of a Super Bowl of which they only won by 4 points. 

Edited March 5, 2022 by top dawg

[frankw]

3 hours ago, KillerKat said:

Darnold isn't out there swatting the ball out of his hands making him lead the league in drops.

True. But Darnold is still statistically the worst passer in the NFL the last two seasons and that's from a clean pocket. You just can't say enough how abysmal that is. I can't blame anyone for mentally checking out in that offense. The decision makers here should have damn well known better and some of this could've been prevented.

[Mr. Scot]

8 minutes ago, frankw said:

True. But Darnold is still statistically the worst passer in the NFL the last two seasons and that's from a clean pocket. You just can't say enough how abysmal that is. I can't blame anyone for mentally checking out in that offense. The decision makers here should have damn well known better and some of this could've been prevented.

I can't recall anyone else folding that quickly.

Said elsewhere that the early success was not an illusion, and it wasn't. Still, the switch got flipped after only a minimal amount of adversity.

Darnold probably has it in him to be good, but you can't be fragile. The league is just far too tough and challenging for that.

In fifty years of watching football, I've seen plenty of guys who looked good get broken, but never that easily.

Edited March 5, 2022 by Mr. Scot

[LinvilleGorge]

17 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

I can't recall anyone else folding that quickly.

Said elsewhere that the early success was not an illusion, and it wasn't. Still, the switch got flipped after only a minimal amount of adversity.

Darnold probably has it in him to be good, but you can't be fragile. The league is just far too tough and challenging for that.

In fifty years of watching football, I've seen plenty of guys who looked good get broken, but never that easily.

It was an illusion. As soon as the rest of the league had some film to study of him in our system he was done. He must have blatantly obvious tendencies on film.

[Mr. Scot]

5 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

It was an illusion. As soon as the rest of the league had some film to study of him in our system he was done. He must have blatantly obvious tendencies on film.

Disagree.

Darnold has had good games in the NFL before. He has it in him. But drawing it out of him requires a lot of work.

Could he be salvaged? Not sure but I'd lean towards no. It'd probably take more time and effort than anyone is likely gonna be willing to put forth.