00:00Sam Darnold makes the great story.
00:01You know, Super Bowl, we need good stories.
00:03We got one with Darnold, of course.
00:05Throwing for 346 yards and three touchdowns in the NFC Championship game, so certainly
00:09living up.
00:10To the billing as far as needing him to have a big one to win, he did and made no mistakes
00:14too.
00:15It just seems like all the mistakes, Jacob, may have been made by the teams that he was
00:19on.
00:20Before Seattle, the Jets, most specifically, drafted third over.
00:25Overall, and look where he's come since then.
00:28I mean, you could even say the Panthers screwed up too.
00:30Now, San Francisco, I don't indict them at all.
00:32He was the backup there, and so he got the starting gig with the Vikings.
00:35But, Jacob, looking back, Jets screwed up, Panthers...
00:40I would say the Vikings probably did as well.
00:44Yeah.
00:45I think you can clearly make a case for that for the Vikings, just based off this year's
00:49performance alone.
00:50Now, maybe down the road, we'll look back and say, oh, J.J. McCarthy developed into something
00:53nice, and...
00:55And was able to lead the Vikings to on a title run.
00:57But, given Darnold's performance this year, you have to...
01:00I wonder, hey, had he been on the Vikings, would they be able to have made the Super Bowl?
01:04It's hard to say, but...
01:05I think you look further back, the Jets obviously did not have a good time there.
01:09We had the seeing...
01:10Ghosts moment there, which he'll get a chance to avenge in the Super Bowl against the Patriots,
01:13which is pretty awesome.
01:15Storyline, as you mentioned.
01:16But I think the biggest mistake on that list is probably the Panthers.
01:20Because I believe at the end of his time with the Panthers, he had maybe three to five starts.
01:24And he...
01:25He performed pretty well throughout those, and they sort of just let him go in free agency.
01:29I...
01:30I forget who they moved on to with their quarterback, but they could have just retained him cheap, gave him a...
01:35to prove himself as a full-time starter, and they didn't really want to do that.
01:38So, it has been a really interesting...
01:40It's an interesting journey to watch him kind of develop and grow with all these different teams, but...
01:44And I'll be...
01:45To be honest, Craig, when the Seahawks signed Darnold, I thought it was going to be a poor fit.
01:48I thought he was going to struggle.
01:50Because the offensive line in front of him hadn't been very good, but he's really defied what...
01:55expectations I had for him and outperformed really what everyone thought he would do.
01:59So, props to...
02:00Thank you to him for continuing to develop and continuing to prove the Jets and the Panthers specifically.
02:05That they were wrong to get rid of him.
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