Diana Russini

Okay, I can go on the other side of it.

Let's do the other side.

Like, we could do Browns.

You better stop.

I just keep thinking, like, I'm the senior NFL insider at The Athletic owned by The New York Times, and I'm going...

Yeah, it's find the right programs led by the right people, right?

I think Kevin O'Connell has done a great job with any quarterback that stepped in Minnesota.

Kyle Shanahan does it every single season.

It's why he's so well regarded.

It's this McVay tree, the Shanahan tree of people, of coaches that are the ones that seem to be unlocking a lot of the quarterback play.

So I think the story, or at least a lesson from this is,

You really can't give up on a lot of these guys that have the mental toughness, right?

Like I was talking to somebody in Indy recently about Daniel Jones.

And also I was talking to someone in Minnesota about Daniel as well.

And they just kept falling.

pointing to his toughness from his time in New York, dealing with a lot of those challenges, but also just the fact that he's so coachable.

And those are things I think that are just really important, even at the level of the NFL.

I think those characteristics exist.

Sam Darnold was probably one of the best examples of when you talk to coaches around the league, they used to always say, he can play, I'm telling you.

And it would get so frustrating because you wouldn't see it.