(12-30-2025, 05:29 AM)StickierBuns Wrote: He's a very skilled thrower. But he has a narrative to get past and he can do it in this year's playoffs.

(12-29-2025, 04:43 PM)JR44 Wrote: I do not get all of the absolutes with Darnold.  He played one year in our offense and turned his career around and based on what he is doing this year, it was not a fluke.  He very may have continued to improve in our offense as he continued into year two and gained more familiarity in the offense and with KOC.  I think we would have seen an ever better version this year. 

The narrative that he can't win a big game or he chokes is a complete joke.  What is it based on?  Until last year he had never played in a playoff game or any game of great significance.  Sure, he did not play great in the last two games, but the entire team was awful, he had no protection.  So we are basing the narrative on 2 games?  Go check the game tape of the MNF agains the Rams and tell me how he can't win a big game.  He has the Seahawks at 13-3 and has won plenty of big games in the process as he did here last year in taking us to 14-3.

(01-18-2026, 09:53 AM)MaroonBells Wrote: Inquiring minds want to know: Did yesterday's game qualify as a "big game" for Darnold? On Darnold's injury, some idiot said "it sounds like the set up for an excuse." Does any QB get the shit that Darnold gets? It really is unbelievable.

(01-18-2026, 10:22 AM)purplefaithful Wrote: He'll never have to carry that team with that D and that running game...But that was a really badly beat-up 49'er squad...

Sam makes some throws I can only dream of JJM being able to do some day. 

I think Sammy gets his ring this year. Good coaching staff in Seattle too.

I am embarrassed by how wrong I was about Seattle going into this season.

(01-18-2026, 10:55 AM)MaroonBells Wrote: That throw to JSN in the corner of the end zone was a remarkable throw. But I've seen JJ throw similar passes. JJ's tough passes are dimes. It's the easy ones he struggles with.

(01-18-2026, 01:52 PM)Zanary Wrote: For all the whining (and, of Vikings' pages on FB and elsewhere, it's a TON of whining) about Sam leaving...again, he turned down the offer given and bet on himself. He'd looked like hot garbage for us against Detroit and LA, so his departure wasn't surprising to the attentive, at all.

All the "ifs" mean nothing. There's no way to know how he would've done if he'd stayed...he could've been on IR after 3 snaps, he could've been QB deep into the playoffs, there's equal possibility of both: zero. He ain't on the team anymore, and all the grousing is nothing more than noise.

Seattle is carrying Sam, via their defense and running game. He's made great plays, but he's also made a ton of forgettable plays that just get...forgotten.

If Chicago/LA can disrupt his timing, like any QB, he'll look pretty average pretty quickly. Seattle is smart to keep a lot of focus on their ground game.