Sam Darnold’s Journey to Success: A Look at His Promising New Situation and High Expectations

I’m really excited to see Sam Darnold, I think finally in a good situation. Stats are stats. Numbers are numbers, so you. You can’t tweak it. I think it’s hard to argue he. He’s been in a tough spot after tough spot after tough spot. It’s no tough, um, like kind of a. A. Like, impossible to succeed type spots. This last season was the first time he was in a locker room full of winners LED by a front office who’s a bunch of winners. It wasn’t like that in Carolina. It wasn’t like that in New York. It honestly wasn’t like that at U S C. Or at ST. Clement High School. Right. So this was his first exposure to what winning looks like, and so I think that context last year. Now enter a new locker room. Kevin O’connell. Um. Some great pieces, obviously, in that huddle with him, and I’m just excited to see him in that situation. And my expectations are really high. No, what. What quantify him. What do you mean? What. What expectations are what. What do they need to do to win the playoff or to. To make the playoffs. Right. So they’ve got to come in first or second in their division. And so when I look at the matchups there in that division and what Sam can create, Kevin O’connell and Kirk Cousins had a lot of success together. Yes, they did. The way I look at it is he hasn’t Really had somebody with this mobility. Sam is a. Is more on the upper end of mobility at quarterbacks. And so how does a creative mind like Kevin O’connell use that mobility? And how do they create more opportunities for all these pass catchers? Cause it’s not just Jeff. For Justin Jefferson. I think this is a playoff caliber team for sure. And I think this is a Comeback Player of the year type setup heading into this year.