Sam Darnold has found perfect fit with Vikings after doomed Jets tenure: Mark Sanchez
NY Post
There are many forces standing in the way of a Jets win when they play the Vikings on Sunday at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London.
The first of those forces are the Jets themselves, given how clumsily they got in their own way (did anyone mention the word cadence?) during last Sunday’s hideous, 10-9 home loss to the Broncos.
A close second on that list is Vikings reclamation-project quarterback Sam Darnold — a familiar face, having been drafted third overall by the Jets in 2018.
By all accounts (except perhaps from only Darnold himself), the Jets failed Darnold in his three seasons with them.
They never put enough talent around him. They changed offensive coordinators. They changed head coaches. It all gave Darnold little chance to succeed in green because his three years with them were so chaotic.
Mark Sanchez, a close confidant of Darnold’s as well as someone who walked in his shoes (and vice-versa), knows chaos, because he lived it in his five years as a Jet. Sanchez, now an NFL analyst for Fox, was drafted fifth overall by the team in 2009, nine years before Darnold.
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