As Professional Soccer Discuss’s Mike Florio identified, Seattle Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold having a tough outing throughout a current organized staff exercise apply generated discussions about whether or not Darnold might lose the beginning job this summer time.
Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald did his greatest to place the subject to mattress on Tuesday.
“No, you guys are loopy,” Macdonald mentioned when requested about Darnold’s job safety throughout an look on Seattle Sports activities 710 AM, as shared by Kevin Patra of the NFL’s web site. “I respect that you have to ask it, nevertheless it’s only a loopy query. It is simply not going to occur. Sam’s our beginning quarterback. We love him. He is doing an amazing job.”
Whereas the Seahawks can escape the three-year, $100.5M contract they gave Darnold in March as quickly as subsequent offseason, it is downright laughable to assume a June throwing session would trigger Macdonald and Co. to have second ideas about beginning him in September. Present Seattle backup Drew Lock is actually a journeyman at this stage of his profession. Rookie Jalen Milroe, a third-round choose, is a undertaking for the longer term who must develop as a passer earlier than he begins below middle towards stay defenses in significant video games.
That mentioned, Macdonald and offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak each insisted this previous winter they anticipated to go into springtime exercises with Geno Smith atop the depth chart. Smith is now with the Las Vegas Raiders.
“God forbid you are the worst payer of all time since you made one dangerous throw or one dangerous determination,” Macdonald added about Darnold. “That’s not what we’re making an attempt to construct. We would like these guys to go put together the fitting method after which after they exit on the apply discipline, go freaking let it rip, after which we’ll go repair it. We have time. It is June 3. They will get loads of reps. We’ll get these issues mounted. Sam made a variety of nice throws [Monday] — he was gashing us on third-and-goal to start out the time out, too. So, yeah, it is type of a loopy query.”
Darnold endured a pair of nightmare outings to shut his Minnesota Vikings tenure final season, so it is comprehensible some Seattle followers could not love studying that he has generally been less-than-sharp on the apply discipline. The Seahawks could have to have some troublesome conversations relating to Darnold’s future in January 2026, however Macdonald has no purpose to fret about these potential chats within the first week of June.
