Luckily for Jets fans, Sam Darnold isn’t the only quarterback ever to see ghosts.
“That’s a term that (former Packeras coach) Mike Holmgren would say to me quite often, my first one, two, three years with the Packers,” NFL legend Brett Favre said Tuesday on SiriusXM NFL Radio, according to Pro Football Talk. “It’s not a new term.”
“Seeing ghosts,” as a mic’d up Darnold put it on the sidelines during the Jets 33-0 loss to the Patriots, refers to feeling defenders coming when they aren’t.
It’s the product of dominant defenses like the Pats, and leads to quarterbacks getting flustered in the pocket and making bad decisions.