It is Sam Darnold who holds in his golden right hand the key to making sure this new collaborative partnership between the soft-spoken talent-evaluator whiz and alpha male offensive guru can function the way winners are supposed to function inside an organization that has known far too much dysfunction, from Weeb Ewbank Hall to the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center.
If you come to New York with the idea of building a champion, if you come to New York with the idea of coaching a champion, even for a franchise that hasn’t won a championship since Jan. 12, 1969, it doesn’t seem like such an Impossible Dream if you have a Sam Darnold waiting to greet you at the front door.