Sam Darnold's Journey to NFL Success and Confidence

You know months removed from winning the super bowl warren take that sam darnell story Here's a guy that was on so many different football teams And here he is a super bowl champion and how about this stat here warren since 2022 He has the highest win percentage of any starting quarterback in the national football league How did he turn it around? He just got the right environment. Well, first of all, you know The quarterback draft for quarterbacks is not a It's not a complete science and a lot of quarterbacks go to bad football teams that are good quarterbacks coming out of college but when you get in that bad situation, it can really hurt your confidence and and really Affect the way you actually play the game So he moved around to a lot of different situations and finally found a couple that were really good for him. I think uh going to Minnesota was good for him. I think going to san francisco before he went to minnesota was good for him just to get around some good structure and really get back into the game and Not have to be the guy on the field at that time. He was just a backup there and and uh, Really found himself again. Then when he got his chance to go to minnesota He made the most of it and and of course seattle again It just kept improving his confidence has so much to do with with being a quarterback And then also your environment to surround you has a lot to do with if you're going to be a quarterback or not And sam finally found situations that helped him get his confidence back And he also found situations where he had a good infrastructure around him that helped him become successful again How about this one? Do you think going through all of that and that journey that he went through? Because you've told me this before quarterbacks learn from the lows not so much from the highs And so when you get around when you see good coaching and you feel good coaching and the most important thing Where you feel wanted I mean all of those experiences. Do you think that played out this past year for him in seattle? Well, there's no question about it. I think it it was the same way in minnesota he felt wanted there because they they sought him out and they brought him in there and uh, You know all the other situations as well He went to a very dysfunctional situation when he went to the jets out of out of college And then when he went to carolina, they were a team that was still trying to find themselves But when he went to san francisco, he went to a stable organization there that had been successful for many many many years Great head coach there and then he goes on to uh, minnesota where you know Kevin, okano is like a quarterback whisperer. He kind of takes quarterbacks and and makes them, you know better players And uh, he really prospered from that situation. So yeah being in situations where you want it and and it's a good Healthy environment for you to learn in That has a whole lot to do with a quarterback being successful how about to change a coordinator with Clint cooper now not being there and they're going with brian flurry here You know, I tell people this all the time just because you have the same playbook doesn't mean that's going to be executed the same Because it's like somebody reading a newspaper Versus another people somebody's going to deliver the content completely different in how they do it Is that the same when it comes to being a coordinator? You can read the same plays but situational play calling Is that going to be something you're going to keep an eye on this year when it comes to having changed that offensive coordinator? Well, that's something that happens between brian and and um and sam They're going to get together and really get to know each other very well this summer. I'm sure they probably have uh When it comes down to play calling those two are going to spend a lot of time together to figure out You know what sam likes in certain situations what brian likes to call in certain situations? And he had to go through that same uh same type of um Structure with with with kubiak. So it's a learning process. There's no question about it But a lot of the same concepts that that he is he learned in in seattle last year Brian's bringing those in along with some other things that's going to spruce that offense a little bit From san francisco and sam was in san francisco So he kind of he knows it a little bit about what they used to do there so I don't think the The learning curve is going to be that difficult for sam because of all the familiarity between the two