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Can Sam Darnold silence the doubters in Seattle?
Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz, senior NFL writer Frank Schwab and guest host Mike Golic Jr. discuss the new Seahawks quarterback’s outlook for the upcoming season and why the memory of his late season struggles with the Vikings in 2024 could carry over to this season. Hear the full conversation on “Inside Coverage” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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What about Sam Darnold?
You guys have mentioned him a couple of times.
He goes to Seattle now where he replaces Geno Smith.
If he goes to Seattle and has another good year, like we have to take the training wheels off that takes on Sam Darnold at that point, don’t we?
Yeah, like, listen, I think he did the bulk of his career renaissance washing last year.
Obviously, the last couple of games, he’s talked about it and been open about the fact that that undid a lot of the goodwill and for so many people it was saying.
Old Sam after that.
So, yes, going in and doing it outside of the context of an offense that most of us look at as bumper bowling for quarterbacks, yeah, I, I think would go a long way in people maybe absolving him in the last couple of games.
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I’ve never really seen a story like Sam Darnold, as far as he was awesome for 16 games.
Like he really was, like, he got, he got an MVP ballots.
He was, I think, 7th in the MVP voting, uh.
He was legitimately that good, where you could talk about him in the conversation of an MVP and then like you said, he has two bad games and everybody’s like, yep, he stinks.
Like it’s, it’s stunning to me how we have just erased the first, you know, 90% of last season because he played poorly in two games.
I will say if I if I could give them more favorable read, it would be a reminder that trust is gained in drops and lost in buckets.
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And now all of a sudden when you put a few here and then kick them over because right wrong or indifferent, like we always talk about this, we over.
Index on primetime games, on late games at the end of the season, on playoff games, because more people are watching those all at once than the rest of us skimming the red zone.
So they tend to more often and more fully inform our opinion just because there’s more casual eyeballs on that situation.
So it doesn’t make it any better.
I’m sure there is still some confirmation bias in there, but it’s also like, uh, this is like we talked about, uh, uh, before with Daniel Jones too, there’s a full body of Work already under the hood for some of these guys.
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It’s not like guys that started a couple of games and got their chance a year late.
These are multi-year starters in the NFL where we do have some body of work on who you’ve been.
I like Sam Darnold.
I think Sam Darnold is going to do pretty well in Seattle.
I think Sam Darnold’s a lot better than people are giving him credit for.
That’s basically my only thing, but to the point of our exercise right now, if he goes out and he stinks again, like he did the last two games, we’re just gonna trash Sam Darnold, but we’re just gonna say, yep, that that was just a fluke, those first 17 games or 16 games of the 2024 season.
Police are talking with a person who reported being a victim of a street robbery late tonight at or near California SW and SW Raymond. The initial report was that two Black male juveniles, both in masks and hoodies, held the victim up at gunpoint, stole their phone, and got away in a gray Tesla with no plates.
12:55 PM: Again this year, the West Seattle Junction Association has decked the heart of the business district with rainbow flags to celebrate Pride on the night of June’s WS Art Walk. As featured in our calendar and daily event list, Pride events tonight include a meetup at VAIN (4513 California SW) at 6 pm and then a “dance party” in the Walk All Ways intersection at 6:30; that’ll be followed by a drag show at Jet City Labs (4547 California SW) and the only event on the slate that’ not all-ages, an 8:30 pm afterparty at The Poggie.
ADDED 3:15 PM: Victoria at VAIN sent several reasons to stop there at the start of tonight’s celebration – “We have a limited number of Pride flags to give away before we proceed down to the intersection. We have a small run of West Seattle Pride shirts to sell. PFLAG wil have an info table with some giveaways as well.”
We’re just a few days from the first 2026 FIFA World Cup match in Seattle.
If you like driving, you should probably just avoid Seattle. Using your car is not going to be easy on game days. As King County executive Girmay Zahilay said during preparations, “for visitors and residents, our message is simple: leave the driving to us.”
Transit is really going to be the only way to get near the stadium district on those six match days.
Seattle has created an exclusion or no-go zone from Yesler south through the stadiums on those days. The southern border of the exclusion zone is Edgar Martinez Drive. You will only be able to drive southbound on 1st Avenue. That’s the only street available to cars from about four hours before matches until the traffic has cleared.
Alaskan Way will remain open. So will 4th Avenue.
Pioneer Square will be off-limits to almost all car traffic. Street parking is also a casualty. Those spots will go away as early as 2 a.m. on game days. There is no drive-up lot parking on match days. Those parking passes for lots outside the exclusion zone must be purchased in advance.
Sound Transit is the best way to get to the matches
CEO Dow Constantine shared this piece of advice.
“From the north, we’re going to encourage you to use Pioneer Square Station,” he said. “If you’re coming from the east, we’re going to encourage you to use the International District Chinatown Station. If you’re coming from the south, we’re going to encourage you to use the Stadium Station. All of these give you ready access to Seattle Stadium and to all the festivities around the matches.”
And Sound Transit has increased train frequency to move as many people as possible.
“Operationally, on game days, we will increase service on the 1 and 2 Lines, so we’ll be running eight-minute service on all the lines all evening long,” Constantine said. “That means four-minute service all day long from the International District to Lynnwood.”
The ferry service is maxing its capacity to meet demand. So is King County Metro.
Here are the dates you want to avoid being in downtown Seattle if you’re not going to games.
June 15. June 19. June 24. June 26. July 1. July 6.
Most construction is taking this time off to provide as much space as possible during the event.
You can ride bikes and scooters through the exclusion zone, but you will be subject to an 8 mph speed limit.
Chris Sullivan is a traffic reporter for KIRO Newsradio. Read more of his stories here. Follow KIRO Newsradio traffic on X.
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