Farewell Darnold

 

"Today is a day that will live in infamy"

Sleepy Joe Douglas did it again. A year after trading our defensive MVP in Jamal Adams and not bringing back Robbie Anderson, Douglas gives up on our franchise QB for a 2nd, 4th, and 6th round draft picks. It's like deja vu all over again with the Jets. This is a never ending ferris wheel, where we hitch all our hopes to the hot young QB instead of building a foundation for our current quarterback to grow.

After seeing the haul the Dolphins got for the third overall pick, I find it hard to believe that a team with Zach Wilson is better than Sam Darnold and three first round picks. Fun fact, even though Darnold is entering his 4th season in the league, he's 6 months younger than Bengals rookie Joe Burrow. 

The solution seemed easy to me, you let Darnold play out the fourth year of his rookie contract and trade the 2nd overall pick for a huge haul. The worst case scenario is that LaFluer can't turn around Darnold's career, we go 4-12 and have a top pick again to take Brock Purdy or whoever the analysts are getting moist over next season. Instead, we find ourselves in the same position as we were in 2018 when the hot young QB wasn't taken by the Browns or Giants but actually fell to the Jets for once.

It seems fairly obvious that since Douglas inherited Darnold, and he wasn't his draft pick, he never wanted to build the team around him. Last season he let his favorite weapon in Robbie Anderson leave over less than what Woody Johnson pays his butler. Everyone said this offseason would be different with Douglas, but with the 2nd most cap space in the league the Jets still went shopping in the clearance aisle, never going after one of the top free agents.

I hope Sam Darnold wins MVP next season after reuniting with Robbie, Sir Purr, and Matt Rhule, in a Bizzaro World Jets team in Carolina. Gang Green never gave him the support a franchise quarterback should have, and instead undercut him at every step, with terrible coaching a worse supporting staff. The Goddamn Jets