A 22-year-old Sam Darnold managed to go 7-6 with this roster and Adam Gase as his head coach
February 11, 2026
A 22-year-old Sam Darnold managed to go 7-6 with this roster and Adam Gase as his head coach
28 comments
More Darnold talk, refreshing
RIP DT
don’t besmirch DT
You mean Jamal Adams and the defense dragged the Jets to 7-9 after a 1-4 start. Darnold had 3 great games that year (Cowboys, Redskins, and Raiders), but the rest of the season was spent trying not to die behind an abysmal O-Line.
Idk man we should draft that Zach wilson guy from Utah /s
He was progressing fine. Trevor Lawrence got benefit of the doubt from his organization and fanbase.
And Sam Darnold didn’t.
I get why. They didn’t want to extend him and be in the position Miami is in with Tua.
It was a gigantic mistake for the organization. Why the fanbase bailed? That one I can’t explain.
I’m a Canadian Jets fans and the only game I have been to in NYC was Jets-Raiders in 2019, Sam Darnold played like an all-pro that day.
But someone here just told me that Darnold had good offensive pieces
It’s over move on
You do know the roster isn’t just the offense right?
And ? Jets will always be garbage.
I’m proud of Sam but there’s no reason to keep crying over spilt milk. This is a NY Jets sub not a Sam sub
Def Super Bowl caliber dragging this corpse of a roster and useless head coach, we just didn’t know it
I mean the defense was really good and the WR room actually wasn’t terrible (esp with Bell’s receiving ability). But that o-line… woof
Anyone who actually watched those games knows Sam himself was not making the best decisions play to play. There’s a narrative that he just was good from day one and the Jets didn’t know what they had. That’s nonsense. The truth is nuanced with shades of grey. Reality is he took a significant number of years to develop. Yes, the Jets did mot do a good job building a team around him. They are not without blame for the last 15 seasons. Obviously the haven’t hired the right people so far and haven’t drafted good enough in turn.
I remember when we drafted him people were saying he needed time because of how young he was entering the league and here we are. Hindsight is 20/20 and i definitely wasn’t on the “Keep Sam” train but could you imagine if we hired literally anyone else besides Gase.
OMG get over it. Darnold is long gone. He won the Super Bowl with a sub par performance. We made the right move by trading him, and the wrong move with drafting Zach Wilson. I don’t want to hear about something that’s 5 years ago in our franchise timeline. Focus on the present/future, not the past.
a couple of big names there.. but both were washed on the Jets of course
I remember Jonotthan Harrison and thinking he should immediately get into the WWE he had a beast of a frame
This year was so fraudulent. Our schedule was a fucking joke — the easiest we’ve had in YEARS— and we still couldn’t even scrape together a winning season.
Man I forgot just how horrible that OL was.
We couldn’t coach his full potential out of him. This franchise still can’t get their shit together enough to coach the full potential out of anybody they
draft. They could have drafted Patrick Mahomes over Jamal Adams in 2017, or Josh Allen over Darnold in 2018. It would have made no difference. They would have been poorly coached, and blamed for failure here. Then they would have moved on and found success elsewhere. Good franchises identify the strengths of their players. They lean into the strengths and work on the weaknesses. This gives players the opportunity to have success and perfect their craft. We have never really been able to do that for as long as I’ve been watching this team.
19 TDs and 3000 yards
I genuinely had forgot DT was on our team
I liked Crowder
RIP dt
What could’ve been if we took McCarthy instead of Gase
28 comments
More Darnold talk, refreshing
RIP DT
don’t besmirch DT
You mean Jamal Adams and the defense dragged the Jets to 7-9 after a 1-4 start. Darnold had 3 great games that year (Cowboys, Redskins, and Raiders), but the rest of the season was spent trying not to die behind an abysmal O-Line.
Idk man we should draft that Zach wilson guy from Utah /s
He was progressing fine. Trevor Lawrence got benefit of the doubt from his organization and fanbase.
And Sam Darnold didn’t.
I get why. They didn’t want to extend him and be in the position Miami is in with Tua.
It was a gigantic mistake for the organization. Why the fanbase bailed? That one I can’t explain.
I’m a Canadian Jets fans and the only game I have been to in NYC was Jets-Raiders in 2019, Sam Darnold played like an all-pro that day.
But someone here just told me that Darnold had good offensive pieces
It’s over move on
You do know the roster isn’t just the offense right?
And ? Jets will always be garbage.
I’m proud of Sam but there’s no reason to keep crying over spilt milk. This is a NY Jets sub not a Sam sub
Def Super Bowl caliber dragging this corpse of a roster and useless head coach, we just didn’t know it
I mean the defense was really good and the WR room actually wasn’t terrible (esp with Bell’s receiving ability). But that o-line… woof
Anyone who actually watched those games knows Sam himself was not making the best decisions play to play. There’s a narrative that he just was good from day one and the Jets didn’t know what they had. That’s nonsense. The truth is nuanced with shades of grey. Reality is he took a significant number of years to develop. Yes, the Jets did mot do a good job building a team around him. They are not without blame for the last 15 seasons. Obviously the haven’t hired the right people so far and haven’t drafted good enough in turn.
I remember when we drafted him people were saying he needed time because of how young he was entering the league and here we are. Hindsight is 20/20 and i definitely wasn’t on the “Keep Sam” train but could you imagine if we hired literally anyone else besides Gase.
OMG get over it. Darnold is long gone. He won the Super Bowl with a sub par performance. We made the right move by trading him, and the wrong move with drafting Zach Wilson. I don’t want to hear about something that’s 5 years ago in our franchise timeline. Focus on the present/future, not the past.
a couple of big names there.. but both were washed on the Jets of course
I remember Jonotthan Harrison and thinking he should immediately get into the WWE he had a beast of a frame
This year was so fraudulent. Our schedule was a fucking joke — the easiest we’ve had in YEARS— and we still couldn’t even scrape together a winning season.
Man I forgot just how horrible that OL was.
We couldn’t coach his full potential out of him. This franchise still can’t get their shit together enough to coach the full potential out of anybody they
draft. They could have drafted Patrick Mahomes over Jamal Adams in 2017, or Josh Allen over Darnold in 2018. It would have made no difference. They would have been poorly coached, and blamed for failure here. Then they would have moved on and found success elsewhere. Good franchises identify the strengths of their players. They lean into the strengths and work on the weaknesses. This gives players the opportunity to have success and perfect their craft. We have never really been able to do that for as long as I’ve been watching this team.
19 TDs and 3000 yards
I genuinely had forgot DT was on our team
I liked Crowder
RIP dt
What could’ve been if we took McCarthy instead of Gase
That O line was atrocious