RENTON, Wash. -- Sam Darnold was almost 14 minutes into his introductory news conference at Seattle Seahawks headquarters on Thursday when he got the question he knew was coming.
What did he learn from the disappointing end to his resurgent season with the Minnesota Vikings?
"I was waiting for someone to bring that up," Darnold said while flanked on stage by coach Mike Macdonald and offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak. "I appreciate that.
"No, it's fair, man. You get all the way to that point, you have the season that we had offensively, as a team, and then you run into at the end of the day.