Mike Macdonald on Sam Darnold's sterling 3-TD NFC title win: 'He just shut a lot of people up tonight'
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Sam Darnold threw for 346 yards and three touchdown passes and played turnover-free ball in Seattle’s 31-27 win over the Rams, vaulting the Seahawks into Super Bowl LX on Feb. 8 against the New England Patriots.

In the biggest game of his career, Sam Darnold delivered his finest performance.

Darnold threw for 346 yards and three touchdown passes and played turnover-free ball in Seattle’s 31-27 win over the Rams, vaulting the Seahawks into Super Bowl LX on Feb. 9 against the New England Patriots.

“You can’t talk about the game without talking about our quarterback,” Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald said. “I mean he just shut a lot of people up tonight, so I’m really happy for him.”

  • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    I think Darnold is proof that you can take any mid-tier qb and make them look amazing when they’re surrounded by a great team. A qb doesn’t get to the nfl by being shitty, they’re the top .01 percent of qbs in existence. See also: Flacco, Dilfer, Foles, Mahomes (yeah, I said it, he played like shit all year before he went down. His team got shitty and then so did he).

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldOP
      31·
      2 months ago

      I don’t think I agree with the Mahomes take.

      If you look at the drop-off without Mahomes, it’s a canyon reminiscent of the time when the Colts had to go from Peyton Manning to Curtis Painter. Mahomes should win the MVP award for how valuable he is to his team.

      • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        2 months ago

        The chiefs went 6-8 with Mahomes playing this season. That’s not a mvp anything. If he was so good, they would have gone 10-4. 6-8 is what you’d expect from a mediocre team with a mediocre qb. He even had most of his star players around from previous years.