A lot changed on the Bills' roster in 2024, but not what matters most. Nobody's going to hold back the quarterback this season. We recap Week 1 of the NFL season inside, Giants to Panthers to Lions.
Great article, as always. Allen is so much fun to watch. I'm really interested, as a lifelong Vikings fan, to see if Sam Darnold can live up to his potential. If so, it's going to be a fun season.
When writers mention the “Sam Darnold-led Vikings,” there seems to me a whiff of a sneer in that description. Darnold was drafted and then traded into two early bad marriages, spent a season of safe shelter with the 49ers, and now he’s back on the dating market, looking for a career partner. The Vikings may have an interesting decision to make at season’s end—whether to extend Darnold for a year or two or three—or hand over the keys to JJ McCarthy, now in the midst of his own kind of recovery. Before he twisted his knee in the game’s twilight moments in Brazil, Jordan Love was very average, and at times, below average. There are sportswriters among us who see big contracts—in Love’s case $255 million—and predict big things about their careers. Love is not a poser; he seems like a nice enough young man, but the sportswriters who throw roses at his feet are posers. Some sportswriters think they know, but they really don’t. Some GMs named Gutenkunst think they know, but they really don’t. Quay Walker continues to be a line backing liability in Green Bay—the GM thought he’d be the answer—and Gutenkunst thought Love would be the next long-term answer at QB, but Love is closer to being somewhere between David Whitehurst and Lynn Dickey than between Favre and Rodgers.
Great article, as always. Allen is so much fun to watch. I'm really interested, as a lifelong Vikings fan, to see if Sam Darnold can live up to his potential. If so, it's going to be a fun season.
When writers mention the “Sam Darnold-led Vikings,” there seems to me a whiff of a sneer in that description. Darnold was drafted and then traded into two early bad marriages, spent a season of safe shelter with the 49ers, and now he’s back on the dating market, looking for a career partner. The Vikings may have an interesting decision to make at season’s end—whether to extend Darnold for a year or two or three—or hand over the keys to JJ McCarthy, now in the midst of his own kind of recovery. Before he twisted his knee in the game’s twilight moments in Brazil, Jordan Love was very average, and at times, below average. There are sportswriters among us who see big contracts—in Love’s case $255 million—and predict big things about their careers. Love is not a poser; he seems like a nice enough young man, but the sportswriters who throw roses at his feet are posers. Some sportswriters think they know, but they really don’t. Some GMs named Gutenkunst think they know, but they really don’t. Quay Walker continues to be a line backing liability in Green Bay—the GM thought he’d be the answer—and Gutenkunst thought Love would be the next long-term answer at QB, but Love is closer to being somewhere between David Whitehurst and Lynn Dickey than between Favre and Rodgers.