Sam Darnold never had a chance to look good. He was set-up to fail: Let's surround this kid with A+ fire power.

[Jetsfan80]

5 hours ago, RSJ said:

Robby Anderson is literally the best offensive player Sam has ever played with. Literally his college WRs were better.

Yet he sucked in college, too, outside of one Rose Bowl game.  

[munchmemory]

[Irish Jet]

DWC will make his let’s roll with Zach Wilson thread a week because the draft.

[Sperm Edwards]

18 minutes ago, shawn306 said:

At this point does it really matter ?

The Jets will draft "whatever QB" with the number 2 pick and in 2024 we will most likely be repeating this process.

Well in fairness none of our discussions here really matter.  

[More Cowbell]

24 minutes ago, TeddEY said:

[GreenFish]

While Wilson and Darnold have similar skill sets, here’s why Zach should be the guy and why Darnold could have plateaued even if not in ideal situations...

Sam Darnold needs to work on his footwork. This has been the case since his freshman year at USC. He has had 3 coaching staffs and a private coach and Sam Darnold (6 years later!) still needs to work on his footwork. You can blame one coach but 4 sets of coaching including his private coach?

Wilson showed clear progression from his freshman year. Darnold is still the same QB he was freshman year at USC. Edit: he improved his fumbling issues.

Unless Denver or Carolina offer far above draft chart value for pick #2, draft Wilson.

[Jet Life]

Sam is the 33rd rated QB over the last few years. With the perfect situation would he be maybe 20th? Which is a very big leap but still not great. Rip the bandaid off and move on. Really nice guy though , wish him well 

[Barton]

The Jets should not be drafting any defensive players until the 4th or 5th rd. Multiple Olineman, WRs, TE's and RBs in the first 4 rounds. Stop screwing around. 

[Joe W. Namath]

3 minutes ago, Barton said:

The Jets should not be drafting any defensive players until the 4th or 5th rd. Multiple Olineman, WRs, TE's and RBs in the first 4 rounds. Stop screwing around. 

They will.  Saleh is a good enough coach that he can coach up this defense.  Offensive playmakers are the focus of this team right now.

[Barton]

5 minutes ago, Joe W. Namath said:

They will.  Saleh is a good enough coach that he can coach up this defense.  Offensive playmakers are the focus of this team right now.

Bro, I think they will F up and draft multiple defensive players by the 5th rd. I'd be shocked if 1 of the picks in the 1st 2 rds wasnt for the defense, as well. Hopefully I'm wrong.

[Sperm Edwards]

32 minutes ago, Jetsfan80 said:

Yet he sucked in college, too, outside of one Rose Bowl game.  

Also Bridgewater and his sub-Pennington arm showed he's a much more versatile & dynamic receiver. Or even with McCown when he was still just a 2nd-year receiver. 

Removing half/partial games:

• 1 yr with McCown: ~69 ypg (1100 yd pace)
• 1 yr with Bridgewater: ~70 ypg (1100 yd pace)
• 2 yrs with Darnold: ~54 ypg (860 yd pace)

Anderson's not the greatest example to use, seeing how much worse his numbers were with Darnold, even in comparison to such non top-20 QBs like McCown/Bridgewater. 

[sirlancemehlot]

13 hours ago, Joe the Breadman said:

I think the ship has sailed on the Darnold era.

JDouglas will reset the QB position if for no other reason than the economics of the whole thing.

He owes Darnold nothing.