This wasn’t the rookie year Sam Darnold imagined. He lost three times as many games as he won, dealt with an injury and it concluded with a coaching change, as Todd Bowles was fired after his third straight losing season.
“It sucks,” the 21-year-old Jets’ quarterback said on Monday, “and hopefully throughout my career here it never happens again.”
Darnold, the third overall pick in last year’s draft, expected to be consulted with by the team’s higher-ups as the process of hiring a new coach moves along. There is the belief by some the Jets should zero in on an offensive-minded coach capable of developing Darnold.