An early mistake and a triumph—this is the Sam Darnold story at the big-boy level.
Darnold’s across-the-field pick-6 on his first career NFL pass highlighted the “early mistake” part of the equation. ‘Man, what a disaster,” the collective diehards thought, in Detroit, Week 1 of the 2018 NFL season, as their beloved New York Jets finally boasted what felt like a real franchise quarterback for the first time in ages.
It didn’t get more “Joe Benigno-like” than that very moment.
Luckily, No. 14 is cut from a special sort of cloth. This is not Browning Nagle.