Sam Darnold to Seattle
 

Just heard on NFL Radio.

Three years, $110.5 million, $55 million guaranteed.

Schefter just updated the total amount of the contract… $100.5 million.

That is a little bit of a surprise

Sam Cassel dude is cheeks

LMAO

Pretty nice for a guy that was considered a total bust in his first contract.

If he's a bridge while they develop someone it's ok. If they think he's the answer than ROFL.

I actually think this is strangely a decent move. Turn darnold into a pure game manager and lean heavily into running behind walker/charbonnet. It’s better than last year where they were way too aggressive passing behind a mid qb. Seattle not competing for anything but it seems a better fit for their team than geno

This guy sucks.

Hes going to return to his old form in Seattle

I hope he dies!!!!!

I don't think that's a bad deal.

I think Darnold has mid-tier ability and if he's protected he's capable of making a lot of throws that other QBs in that tier can't.

Seattle has a pretty strong OL.

If you aren't trying to make him throw it 40+ times/gm, you should be in nice shape. And it's a short term deal so you can still sniff around for a long-term option. Moreover, he's young enough that if he shows last year (in aggregate) was no fluke, he can be your long-term guy going forward.

Geno was trying to get a new deal. Given where Seattle is in the competitive cycle, I think they were better served dealing Geno and getting a guy with more ceiling in Darnold (who's also much younger) in Darnold while also getting a decent pick in return for Smith.

Honestly, this surprises me. The play for Seattle seemed obvious after trading Geno. Bridge Start Sam Howell, whom they traded for, while you draft and develop your guy this year.

What does Darnold give them that Geno didn't?

Their Oline was terrible for Geno and he is more mobile.

What am I missing? :hmmm:

Younger.

Geno < Darnold

Geno was asking for 45 million AAV. Made all the sense for Seattle do do this

They got a 3rd round pick...

This team is going to be built around riding Walker and Charbonet while building a high level D.

Little if anything.

Some youth and some upside.

But they got him to say yes to a 2 year deal. Geno was evidently asking for 3 on top of the year he has left.

And someday we'll start to realize that 'mobile' means shit in terms of making life easy on your OL. Geno is a lot like Watson in that he's not as mobile as people think, he zeroes in on his targets and waits for them to get open and he holds onto the ball too long.

Really nice thrower -- really bad processor. That's hellish for OL. And Darnold may ultimately not be much better in that regard.

But the Seahawks got a younger QB with shorter term and more upside as well as a 3rd round pick. The downside? Absolutely nothing at all. They weren't going to acccomplish anything with Geno that they couldnt' accomplish with Darnold. If anything, their ceiling is a little higher and their floor a little lower, which is only a good thing for a rebuilding squad that was trending towards QB purgatory.

He has a stronger arm, and I think he’s just a tad quicker scrambling. That said, I don’t think he’s an upgrade.

Seattle just lost their Wild Card game.

Seattle is kind of in that no man’s land where they’re good enough to still compete. It’s kind of like throwing in the towel when you know you can win games with Alex smith.

Geno is a better qb than darnold. But it felt like a really weird fit. He wants to push the ball but Seattle has the horses to be a really really good running team. Until they find a true qbotf a game manager makes more sense than a gunslinger.

Complete mediocrity is worth $55 million guaranteed.

He's Matt Ryan reborn, with a decent cast around him he can win you ten or so games year in and out

It's that or $30 million for Justin Fields. Double edge sword to say the least haha

The Seahawks haven’t drafted a QB in the first rd in since Rick Mirer in 1993 over 30 years ago. So basically they’ve been the Kansas City Chiefs pre-Mahomes but got lucky for a few years with Russell Wilson working out.

I hope that Mahomes fundamentally changes the philosophy for this franchise bc you have to take shots at a 1st rd QB if you ever want a good one long term.

Oh, no, no, no.

Darnold is nowhere even close to Matt Ryan.

They should be a good running team. Charbonnet is solid. I don't know what's up with Kenneth Walker. He lit the world on fire his first couple of games and then injuries messed with him the rest of the season.

Wha, c'mon man... Ryan was the king of that just below elite tier, a Madden 85-88 at best

Thats Darnold on his current trajectory, though fighting through a Seattle rebuild could quickly derail that trajectory

Darnold is a flash in the pan.

He won't do anything near that again.

Ryan had a long stretch of just below elite play. Years of it.

Maybe he is, maybe he isn't

He just keeps sticking around and showing signs of improvement

His ceiling is Matt Ryan, and he can reach it on the right team IMO

Nah, he's right. The career year that Darnold just had is slightly better than Matt Ryan's career averages. Ryan averaged 4562 yards and a 28/13 career TD/INT ratio, Darnold got 4319 and 35/12 in by far his best season ever

Wow, that's hard to believe. Darnild really was basically left for dead post NYJ

Seriously man, before Mahomes we would've been BEGGING for a Darnold

Just some elementary display of basic competence would've been all it took to send us all wild, it was once that bad here

Rebuilding Seattle did well to claim this guy IMO

Darnold was helped IMMENSELY by the Vikings system and talent.

He won't be near as effective in Seattle. Maybe a 87 QB rating guy.

true and does Seattle even have any WR's that are good still?

There's no shot that he replicates what he did with the Vikings.

So why didn’t the Raiders just sign Darnold and save their 3r pick? I know it takes two to tango but I really don’t u/s that move for a very limited player. Seahawks get a 3r pick and sign a younger comparable player. Neither are winning anything but the latter seems obviously smarter.

I mean, neither are contenders with these QBs. But I think darnold needs to be dialed back into a scripted game manager. And geno needs to gun sling. So I think they both ended up in the place that suits them better.

Jaxon Smith-Njigba is damned good.

You'd have to think hey'll focus on getting a couple of WRs in FA and the draft. They really don't have too many other pure holes in their roster, mostly just need fo focus on trying to improve some areas.

Pete Carroll wanted Geno in particular is my assumption.

Well yeah but he’s not gonna get a team like that. But in Minnesota you’re absolutely nuts if you’re not feeding your WRs constantly. In Seattle darnold can sit back and let the RBs run the show. Seattle doesn’t have to put darnold front and center

And their ceiling is probably an NFC Division game.

Welcome to hell.

Don't agree with this ....:doh!:

What I don’t get is why Seattle doesn’t recognize the moves that got them Russell Wilson. They traded valuable picks for Charlie whitehurst. Even still they gave Matt Flynn a mega contract. And yet they still drafted Russell relatively early and had the balls to start him even after all they sunk on Flynn/whitehurst

For that matter I still do not understand why franchises settle for middling QBs. Signing darnold isn’t the worst move if you commit to a relentless search for a young qb to take his place.