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*JimmyinSD* · Yesterday, 01:34 PM

(Yesterday, 12:53 PM)MaroonBells Wrote: Seattle has to be over the moon with what they've gotten from Sam Darnold. Seattle has the best record in the NFC and just beat the team many thought were the best team in the NFL. They're paying Darnold $33M per, which ranks 18th among QBs.

i didnt actually watch the game, but what I saw from the highlights it wasnt so much Seattle beating the Rams, it was more like the Rams lost to Seattle. That backwards pass hitting the defender in the head and casually picked up by an offensive player for the conversion just screams case keenum's horseshoe.

purplefaithful · Yesterday, 01:43 PM

I think 3 times the Rams were in the red zone and had to settle for field goals that game...But yah, I suspect Darnold has delivered on the high end of their expectations Yr1 with the team.

One of those feel good win/wins for player and team - especially if you like the Seahawks.

comet52 · (This post was last modified: Yesterday, 01:51 PM by comet52.)

(12-19-2025, 01:59 PM)StickierBuns Wrote: Yeah, me neither. Uncle Sammy still makes Uncle Sammy mistakes. He's a beautiful thrower of the pigskin, but I still maintain he's a bed wetter in aggregate big moments.

He still can't process what's in front of him at NFL speed. That's never changed and it's why he throws so many bad balls at bad times. It's unlikely he ever takes a team past the early rounds of the playoffs.

Give him credit for stepping up from years of awful to being serviceable and landing himself a nice contract, but the big pressure moments mostly look the same to me. He did do a nice job in the comeback but I think the momentum from the punt return td mostly carried the team to an improbable comeback. Up until then the Rams were outclassing them everywhere but once that boulder got rolling downhill they couldn't seem to stop it.

supafreak84 · Yesterday, 01:56 PM

I mean good for Darnold, but that game turned on the Shaheed punt return. Prior to that Darnold had thrown 6 INT's in seven quarters of football against the Rams. He was abysmal. I'd take the Rams all day long in any kind of playoff rematch because I simply don't trust Darnold to play winning football. I said when they signed him that he'd be the reason their season came up short and I'll stick by that

hogjowlsjohnny · 9 hours ago

(Yesterday, 01:34 PM)JimmyinSD Wrote: i didnt actually watch the game, but what I saw from the highlights it wasnt so much Seattle beating the Rams, it was more like the Rams lost to Seattle. That backwards pass hitting the defender in the head and casually picked up by an offensive player for the conversion just screams case keenum's horseshoe.

Darnold did what every Vikings fan expected, until the very end. Then he delivered and won it. Stafford had no pressure and Darnold was pressured most of the game. Hard to predict what he will do going forward, but there is no doubt in my mind the Vikings would have been a playoff team if Darnold had been their QB this year. Instead, it appears, the Vikings an embarrassment in their division without a lot of hope for the near future.

*JimmyinSD* · 3 hours ago

(9 hours ago)hogjowlsjohnny Wrote: Darnold did what every Vikings fan expected, until the very end. Then he delivered and won it. Stafford had no pressure and Darnold was pressured most of the game. Hard to predict what he will do going forward, but there is no doubt in my mind the Vikings would have been a playoff team if Darnold had been their QB this year. Instead, it appears, the Vikings an embarrassment in their division without a lot of hope for the near future.

We were a playoff team with him last year, but there wasn't really any hope of winning it all. I challenge anybody that thinks he was going ro be the qb that put us over the top to go rematch last years games from an all 22 aspect and see how many plays he left on the field, how long he would hold the ball with guys running open, how many sacks were on him amd not the OL. It was a fun story, but he wasn't the future so we moved on.

Almost all young QBs have a year like this one starting out, the good ones learn from it faster so we should know sooner than later if we have our guy in JJM, if not we go back to that well, either way SD was not our future anymore than simply making the playoffs is an acceptable goal.

JR44 · 1 hour ago

(3 hours ago)JimmyinSD Wrote: We were a playoff team with him last year, but there wasn't really any hope of winning it all. I challenge anybody that thinks he was going ro be the qb that put us over the top to go rematch last years games from an all 22 aspect and see how many plays he left on the field, how long he would hold the ball with guys running open, how many sacks were on him amd not the OL. It was a fun story, but he wasn't the future so we moved on.

Almost all young QBs have a year like this one starting out, the good ones learn from it faster so we should know sooner than later if we have our guy in JJM, if not we go back to that well, either way SD was not our future anymore than simply making the playoffs is an acceptable goal.

I definitely think he could have. It was only his first year playing in our offense, with KOC and this team. He was worlds better than he had been in his previous seasons. Why wasn't it possible that he could have continued to have gotten better and improved upon his weaknesses. He has a cannon for an arm, a quick release, great pocket presence, extremely smart and while not the fasted guy was able to slide well in the pocket to avoid pressure. Also he was a great teammate and coachable. We won 14 games with him, that was no fluke. Think the narrative that we had to move on due to 2 poor games at the end was not valid, look at what he did Thursday, despite looking terrible for most of the game, he rebounded and made some big time clutch throws to win the game.

*JimmyinSD* · 1 hour ago

(1 hour ago)JR44 Wrote: I definitely think he could have. It was only his first year playing in our offense, with KOC and this team. He was worlds better than he had been in his previous seasons. Why wasn't it possible that he could have continued to have gotten better and improved upon his weaknesses. He has a cannon for an arm, a quick release, great pocket presence, extremely smart and while not the fasted guy was able to slide well in the pocket to avoid pressure. Also he was a great teammate and coachable. We won 14 games with him, that was no fluke. Think the narrative that we had to move on due to 2 poor games at the end was not valid, look at what he did Thursday, despite looking terrible for most of the game, he rebounded and made some big time clutch throws to win the game.

Thats not my narrative, he was showing decline as the season went on IMO. I went to a few games last year and in person I was able to see his shortcomings getting worse, not better. Could he have gotten better, its possible, but what I saw from the start of the season to the end was he wasn't reading the defenses pre snap and he wasn't seeing the open receivers when the defenses brought pressure. If I had to guess.... the qb whisperer got into his head to much and he started trying to think instead of just play.