A Contrarian View On Darnold

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This is from Steve Palazzolo, a senior analyst at Pro Football Focus.

44 thoughts on “A Contrarian View On Darnold”

  1. I remember, when I was younger, they said Bradshaw wouldn’t make it too many interceptions, and some guy named Montana that didn’t have any arm. Especially compared too the great Dan Marino, another surefire guy, or maybe there was Ryan Leaf another can’t miss guy. I could go for weeks on the knuckleheads and their opinions. Right Rams?

    • We only care that he leads USC back to the Promised Land this year after a decade in the wilderness.

      • As long as he points us in the right direction, I’m good. But I’ve got a feeling he’s better than that.

    • Well I would hardly call Dan Marino a bust if that is what you are insinuating. Otherwise I agree… and you could throw Bret Farve into that list.

      • I meant only that after his first Super Bowl, the pundits wisdom was don’t worry there would e many and often.. didn’t really work out like that.

      • I seem to recall Marino had a mediocre Senior year and got into trouble smoking weed or something. He had his share of skeptics at the time. There’s a very long list of guys who excelled or flopped in spite of what the pundits predicted.

  2. Well if ‘Steve’ honestly believes Sam Darnhold’s skill set warrants that assessment then how does he feel about the current class of NFL ready qb’s for this year’s draft? None of them are any where near as good as Darnhold by any measurement – the guy went t MA-Lowell never played a down of football even allowing that one doesn’t need to have played to be an executive in pro football his critique is amazingly lacking in knowledge.

  3. LAA just exploded for a 6 run 9th inning to sweep the SEA Mariners 10 – 9 for a 5 – 2 record.

  4. More experts that I’ve never even heard of before. Only Sc*tt W*lf could find these guys.

      • steve palazzolo, A Senior Analyst, NO. A Name Wolfman pulled from a Pizza menu YES.

        • From what I’ve read, he is the he real deal. Would be a great get. Thes coaches have worked Utah pretty well the last two years.

          • Early on it feels like we are his leader. And like you said the recent success in Utah has gotta help us.

          • With you on that, btw, Chris Swanson has film of ol/do recruits on twitter, some good stuff.

          • I seen the video of him and the kid from Temecula today. He looks like he’s college ready.

    • Hot Sports Take:
      Darnold isn’t the greatest quarterback ever of all time.

      -Me, Expert.

  7. The only somewhat glaring issue with Darnold is his footwork in the pocket. There are times when his feet are lined up with his target, but he gets away with it because he’s a phenomenal athlete. I also think that he’s a humble enough young man to realize that he has some work to do before he’s a finished product.

    • His feet don’t line up with his target…

      Wolf is that you?

      The QB that had much better footwork than Darnold is now taking snaps at Pitt competing against a Sophomore.

    • It stuns me that posters here foresee no possible improvement in Sam, nor any shortcomings, when Darnold himself stated he wants to work on his elongated throwing motion and other technique issues after spring practice.

      Maybe he recalls Michael Jordan: “I never stop working on my game… [aiming to] “take a perceived weakness and turn it into a strength.” MJ was blessed to be “bigger, stronger, quicker, faster,” but he made himself the GOAT by striving to overachieve–every day.

      Maybe Sam remembers when when Tom Brady came to L.A. to work with an ex-QB coach he liked [at UCLA 🙁 ].

      When you declare yourself a finished product, you’re finished all right. Why else would PC’s mantra have been: “Always compete”?

  9. So what is it? Overrated and interception-prone? Or the only reason USC ever wins? Not sure you can have it both ways, Scottie.

  10. Another “analyst” making a stupid, controversial remark to get himself short-lived visibility.

  12. Darnold doesn’t have a prototypical throwing motion but anyone can see that he gets rid of the ball quickly. One of the fastest releases I’ve seen in a while.

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