Sam Darnold

But sometimes you ask the question, is it the organization that ruins the player?

Would he have been good in a different place?

Some of these questions, would a great player have figured it out with the Jets?

Like if Joe Burrow was drafted by the Jets, would he have taken them to a Super Bowl?

Well, they probably wouldn't be firing coaches.

Right, right.

So, I mean, at least in the case of Sam Darnold, there's no doubt that it was the organizational instability and the age in which he became a New York Jet that sunk that whole thing.

I often tell you I was here for three different coaches in three years.

three different systems and it gets you know three different people calling plays you know designing plays people that you don't even know you know you got to get to meet them and you get you know for three months and next thing you know you're thrown right into the fire with them and that's when you find out whether or not you know they know what you can do you know what they can do what they're capable of or incapable of I mean Sam was just in a turnstile of offenses and

And it's just not going to be, you know, it's just not going to be successful.

Then he goes down to Matt Rule in Carolina.

That wasn't successful.

And why would it be?

Because that team was rebuilding.

And then he sits for a year out in San Francisco.

And that's where the difference, I think.

He learned and he understood offense because Kyle Shanahan, Sean McVay, Kevin O'Connell, the Kubiak brothers, you know, they're all running the kind of the same offense.

A little tweak here, a little tweak there.

But he learned how to play quarterback under Kyle Shanahan, like really learned.

and how to become a pro and watch Brock Purdy prepare for these games.