Darnold MVP!?!?

[Lords of Scythia]

He has some great athletic moves turning sacks into TDs. This article makes a lot of sense

Jeremiah: Seattle Seahawks' Darnold a top-five MVP candidate

"If you did an MVP poll, I think he's in the top five at this point in time," NFL Network's Daniel Jeremiah said of Seattle Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold.

sports.mynorthwest.com

 

[sutz]

Get back to me in December.

 

[bileever]

Sam Darnold and Baker Mayfield finished 10th and 11th in MVP voting last year. And those two could finish 1 and 2 this year, if they keep it up. (A big if.)

Russell Wilson famously never received an MVP vote.

 

[CouchLogic]

Writer from the Northwest thinks Seattle's QB is the MVP, never would have guessed. Personally, think it's way to early for this kind of chatter. Darnold is playing pretty good right now, let's see how he's doing by midseason.

 

[Wsumatt1982]

I get this is conversation and something to talk about. We have yet to play week 6 of 18. Could care less at this point. It means absolutely nothing.

 

[Ostatehawk]

I wonder if Sam Darnold owns a cat.

 

[RolandDeschain]

Get back to me in December.

Premature MVP talk is just a fact of life every year, get with the times.

 

[Double Tribble]

Silly to be talking about this now, but encouraging that he's playing well enough for it to be in the national discussion. If he can avoid bouncing balls off helmets and start pulling rabbits out of hats instead, he has a shot.

 

[MontanaHawk05]

He'd certainly be worthy if he spent the whole year playing the way he is now.

 

[hox]

According to AI, through week 5 this season:



The Daniel Jones thing is kind of crazy to me. Not sure if fluke or legit.

 

[Atradees]

I wonder if Sam Darnold owns a cat.

It's probably a Himmie.

 

[Frank12]

He's playing at an MVP level for sure, and if he continues this pace I don't see why he couldn't win the award given he was also a candidate last year aswell.. I mean people can't deny what he's doing at this point it's not a fluke doing this with 2 different teams.

 

[bileever]

Seriously, if Sam Darnold hadn't come out of nowhere last year, he would have received far more consideration for MVP. Consider the comparison with last year's MVP, Josh Allen:



Of course, Allen had more rushing yards, 531 vs. 212.

Of course, I'm not saying that Sam Darnold should have been MVP, or that Josh Allen didn't deserve it. (And if you're looking at stats, Joe Burrow's season last year was even more impressive than Darnold's.) I'm just saying that if there wasn't all this talk about Darnold's success being attributable to Kevin O'Connell and his system, Darnold would have gotten a few more votes.

 

[toffee]

or Dart, he might be the new darling of NFL.

 

[glenwo2]

I wonder if Sam Darnold owns a cat.

Why? I don't think he's a pussy.

 

[glenwo2]

Seriously, if Sam Darnold hadn't come out of nowhere last year, he would have received far more consideration for MVP. Consider the comparison with last year's MVP, Josh Allen:

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Of course, Allen had more rushing yards, 531 vs. 212.

Of course, I'm not saying that Sam Darnold should have been MVP, or that Josh Allen didn't deserve it. (And if you're looking at stats, Joe Burrow's season last year was even more impressive than Darnold's.) I'm just saying that if there wasn't all this talk about Darnold's success being attributable to Kevin O'Connell and his system, Darnold would have gotten a few more votes.

Well I think if Sam continues at this pace, people will stop with the Kevin O'Connell system nonsense 'cause he's doing it without his system, without Jefferson, without Addison, and without Hockenson.

 

[Dolomight12]

According to AI, through week 5 this season:

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The Daniel Jones thing is kind of crazy to me. Not sure if fluke or legit.

Someone explain it to me like I'm 5 what the hell the difference is between "1st in EPA/play" and "Leads league in EPA/play"

 

[flv2]

Darnold is playing on an offense that hasn't lost a starter or key rotation player. That doesn't in any way detract from his playing exceptionally well so far. Let's see what happens if/when he loses some of that help.

 

[glenwo2]

Darnold is playing on an offense that hasn't lost a starter or key rotation player. That doesn't in any way detract from his playing exceptionally well so far. Let's see what happens if/when he loses some of that help.

Are you TRYING to will that into existence or something?

We have enough issues Defensively right now.

Why would you throw bad karma out there like that with this post? WHY?

I mean don't get me wrong...I am confident Sam will do just fine as he's finding OTHERS to throw the ball to instead of just JSN all the time (if you hadn't noticed) but come on, bro!

 

[WmHBonney]

Premature prognostication