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Sam Darnold. And I would say mixed bag.
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I would say very mixed bag. And most of
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the mix was like those weird nuts that
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flake a little bit that you don't really
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want in that in that nut bag.
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I think what the what the Seahawks were
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doing was betting on a bit of a lottery
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that post Russell Wilson, they had
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pieced it together enough with Gino
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Smith, but they were really not a
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contender with Gino. They were they were
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okay. They were a playoff team. They
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were a fringe playoff team, but they
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were not a true contender for the NFC.
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And I think with Mike McDonald there,
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the belief is we're turning the page
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from the Pete Carol years. We want fresh
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starts and we really want to kind of get
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to that next level like we had a decade
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ago. And Sam Darnold comes from a spot
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where he had elite coaching and elite
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weapons and everything came together.
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And we all ask the question, is this
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really Sam Darnold or just the perfect
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Because if everything is perfect,
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Darnold can look like that.
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But it's rarely if ever going to be
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perfect. And if it's not, what does he
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look like? And today, I would say that
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you would grade him out as me.
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And we'll see. We'll see. This is
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Darnold's first trip with the with the
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Seahawks. His first experience tasting
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this rivalry. Obviously, the 49ers and
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the Seahawks have played some real
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brutal, aggressive, physical games over
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the years, and now he gets indoctrinated
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into it and he'll be better for it. But
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while the the Seahawks have some pieces,
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Kenneth Walker in the back field, they
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signed Cooper Cup. Jackson Smith and
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Jigba is a very good wide receiver, they
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don't have all of the pieces and all of
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the coaching and all the fit that the
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Vikings did last year, they don't have
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all of that. And I would say that for
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the Seahawks brass who believed they
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could replicate perhaps what Darnold did
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last season. Today has to be a little
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now I'm sure they still believe and they
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should. They signed him. They gave him
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But that was either evidence that
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Darnold ain't never going to be what he
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was in his glory year with the Minnesota
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Vikings or that the Niners defense is
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better than we gave it credit for coming
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into this season. I think a lot of
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people felt including myself like the
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NerS are a eh kind of an afterthought,
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but instead we saw that Seahawks offense
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really struggle throughout the day to
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move the football consistent
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consistently late in the game. you have
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the turnover. Maybe that's not
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necessarily Darnold's fault because you
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do have him going back to pass and it
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knocking into his his right tackle's
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back and it's a fumble. So maybe you
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don't blame that on him, but it was a
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slog for a lot of the day for Darnold
