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21 minutes ago, Barry McCockinner said:

What QB would have been successful in this situation? Darnold is a product of his environment. 

Yea....the Jest are going to trade/cut Darnold and then on to the next poor kid.

Wash, rinse, repeat.

This franchise needs to be blown up.

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25 minutes ago, Barry McCockinner said:

What QB would have been successful in this situation? Darnold is a product of his environment. 

He's a product of not being all that good of a prospect in the first place, and then getting worse in his surroundings.  

The only thing he ever does well is when he is improvising.  But that's not sustainable in the NFL.  Even the most mobile QB's have to be able to throw from the pocket, consistently.  He can't.  

His ceiling was, and still is, Andy Dalton.  In short, not good enough.

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15 minutes ago, Aussie Jet said:

He has three 3+ TD games in his career - week 5, 2018 versus the Broncos (won 34-16), week 15, 2018 versus the Packers (lost 44-38) and week 10, 2019 at Washington (won 34-17). He has four games with 300+ passing - week 2, 2018 (20-12 loss to Miami), week 15, 2018 versus the Packers, week 6, 2019 (24-22 win over Dallas) and week 12, 2019 (34-3 win over the Raiders).

So no, he doesn't have five 3+ touchdown games in his career or five 300+ passing yard games in his career.

Joe Burrow almost has as many 300 yard games in his career and he is heading into Week 4. 

Sam wasn't give much to work with, but his production has been quite poor to say the least.

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Just now, Jetsfan80 said:

He's a product of not being all that good of a prospect in the first place, and then getting worse in his surroundings.  

The only thing he ever does well is when he is improvising.  But that's not sustainable in the NFL.  Even the most mobile QB's have to be able to throw from the pocket, consistently.  He can't.  

This unfortunately.  Darnold has been doing this for 3 seasons now.  He just isn’t getting better.  At least we’ll have another qb to gush about after the draft.

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25 minutes ago, jgb said:

When you trade three 2's to move up for a guy and you get Darnold-level performance, that is a bust.

Yep.  Even if he has a little bit of success elsewhere, he's not getting a 2nd contract here.  A QB who doesn't get a 2nd contract with the team that drafted him can only be a bust.

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Since he's our starting qb and we've got lots of season left, I'll reserve judgement for now and hope he works his way out of this as we get healthier. 

As tantalizing as it is to 'trust the process' again, I'd much prefer we see some real improvement from him in rest of season and build around as opposed to nuking. 

At some point someone has to break this cycle... 

 

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Even if Gase has to be fired now and Cooter put in charge of Darnold, the most important thing right now for the Jets is to improve and fix Darnold. 

Either they keep him or trade him, but the most important thing for the Jets is to fix him.

So trade more defenders, lose the rest of the games, and fix Darnold. 

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I can't read through seven pages of this.

 

Fact is, the kid got shell shocked last year and hasn't recovered.  He needs to sit and backup Brees for a couple years and then, maybe he bounces back.  

 

They need to draft Lawerence or Fields and sit them a year behind a vet while JD continues to build the team.  The extra picks will help so long as they don't have to burn them all trading up.  The only thing that can ruin Douglas' plan is a few meaningless wins.

 

That's why Gase has to stay the whole year.  

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3 hours ago, chirorob said:

You have to build something of a team first.   Any young QB on a team with no talent will bust.  

I am not saying he doesn't look like one.  But if you draft another qb, and throw him in there with no online, no running attack, no wr, the next one will bust too.

The lack of talent is amazing.

Arching Manning was the biggest, worst fcking bum that I've ever seen play. He got demolished week after week after week, year after year after year. He was so stressed his cystic acne almost put him in the hospital aside from the beatings he took. That being said, how much of a bum was he really? His supporting cast was a revolving garbage heap. 

I can't stand Stage Father Archie for a plethora of reasons, but I'm only bringing him up to demonstrate the point that Sam is starting to fall into the category of being a hell of a lot better looking with good skin and that's about the only dividing line right now. 

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2 hours ago, Mogglez said:

Stockpile draft picks, sit on a war chest, hire the Head Coach that he actually wants to see lead the team, use the war chest on smart FAs, not over pay for guys like Mosley or Bell, use the picks to draft a highly touted QB prospect + a young core of OL and skill position players. 
 

Douglas did the painful, but smart, thing.  He looked at the overall state of the roster and determined that the Jets are not going anywhere this year, saved the majority of his money, traded off an overrated malcontent for a haul, and is patiently waiting.  We all want “microwaved results”, but it’s just not feasible with the roster Maccagnan left behind.

You hearing this from the water cooler in one jet drive?

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52 minutes ago, jgb said:

It is a certainty that unless Sam is injured (probable) or benched (improbable) he will have just a good enough game where the Sam supporters re-emerge in force. Seen it with every "buried" Jets QB in my lifetime.

yeah I am over it.

Huge Sam guy.

That ship has sailed...time to move on.

Hell, if you watched the press conference after the game, he has moved on, too.

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1 hour ago, Darnold Schwarzenegger said:

Darnold has been ruined. The damage that Macc & Gase have done is irreversible IMO. Its sad to watch. He looks defeated.

The only thing keeping me on the ledge is Joe Douglas. Hes my last hope. I feel like if he can't turn around this dumpster fire, no one can. 

 

Dont hold your breath 

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1 hour ago, TeddEY said:

Last year Jameis Winston set the NFL Pick Six record with, fittingly, 6.

You guys think he's got it in him?

Pick sixes are kind of like TD charity, these defensive guys rarely see the end zone, it seems only fair to spread the wealth in 2020

 

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Sam Darnold may be a bust, he's still only 23 and has had the worst roster in the league and crazy ridiculous injuries to the offense.  His career arc may not be in sync with the patience of this front office if the #1 pick were to present itself.

In truth it's really the Jets organization under the Johnson leadership that is the real bust.  Just a gutted roster and a culture of losing.  Woody and Chris are in over their head, they need to give the keys to Joe D. to hire the next head coach and step away.

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1 hour ago, Jetsfan80 said:

 

 

He has just 3 of those:

  • @ WAS (Nov 17, 2019):  4 TDs
  • vs. GB (Dec 23, 2018):  3 TDs
  • vs. DEN (Oct 7, 2018):  3 TDs

Multiply the average of those 3 games by 29 to get what his true career stats should be. Math genius.

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Just now, Jetsfan80 said:

Those 3 games:  Not outliers.  Count them twice.

Darnold's 5 games with a QB rating below 50:  All outliers.  Don't count.

I have learned so much today about statistics and data analytics. Can’t wait to re-run the numbers on Geno tomorrow. I just hope he doesn’t talk about flat earth stuff in his Canton speech.

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5 hours ago, FidelioJet said:

deserved better.

lol gtfo. He could play better than what he has regardless of who is around him. Coach included. He got what he deserves, nothing. He, like most, deserve nothing. Earn it. He earned nothing. He is getting 3 years.. maybe more.. to show up and prove his worth, all the while being paid millions of dollars. He deserves NOTHING better. He got more than he deserves. 

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5 minutes ago, pointman said:

Rosen is garbage. 

Darnold is garbage.

Baker is garbage.

Josh Allen is the best of the group but still kind of a lukewarm garbage.

 

Who would have thought, after all that hype for the draft class.. it would turn out to be nothing more than a Monday morning trash pick up day.

Lamar not even getting mentioned? 
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5 hours ago, FlightBoyz said:

I think Gase may quit. He feels the pressure & knows it'll get worse.

He quits he doesn’t get the typical Jets severance package. We are paying Bowls through the end of this year 

10 minutes ago, pointman said:

Rosen is garbage. 

Darnold is garbage.

Baker is garbage.

Josh Allen is the best of the group but still kind of a lukewarm garbage.

 

Who would have thought, after all that hype for the draft class.. it would turn out to be nothing more than a Monday morning trash pick up day.

Lamar Jackson?

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3 hours ago, jgb said:

Mike McCarthy was the only legitimate guy with positive NFL HC experience that Johnsons have ever had the opportunity to get and they go with Adam Gase?!? It was like striking out at tee ball. I bet it came down to $$ and/or Macc worried that someone with actual NFL credibility would come headhunting for his scalp. Ironic.

andmcc plan to iwn thegame was...throw short to zeke elliot...    who, btw, made no one miss in the open field....

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