and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider once again one hour

before the Minnesota Timberwolves take the floor it didn't work out as great for us doing it last time but we'll give it another shot here before game two and just talk a little bit of football and I'll tell you what's on my mind for today is normally on the written

side I do a Friday mailbag each week so that means fans send in all their questions I I answer them in the mailbag, you know how that works.

And one of them in particular caught my eye that asked about Sam Darnold and whether we should discount

Sam Darnold as the potential quarterback of the future.

Now I think I know what your thinking is probably the same thing that I was thinking is okay okay let's not go crazy here

because Sam Darnold was brought here on a one year ten million dollar contract and has no history of success in the NFL before.

But the argument that was being made was, look, it's not just that he had bad circumstances. He had the worst circumstances and players can develop the situation here is very good and when you look at just the pure talent that he has, we have seen this come to fruition before.

Now have we seen it come to fruition where someone was really this bad through that many

passes and ended up turning it around entirely that we have not seen.

Even when it comes to the Baker-Mayfield example, Baker-Mayfield had more previous success than Sam

Donald when he was with the Cleveland Browns. I mean, Baker Mayfield was a couple

of passes away from going to the AFC Championship with the Cleveland Browns.

They lose Chad Henney runs for a first down.

You know, the Chief's defense makes a couple stops and then he doesn't get there.

But at very least, Baker Mayfield had shown signs before whereas we haven't really seen that from Sam

Donald outside of a six-game stretch where he went four and two two years ago and then the way he played for the San Francisco

49ers in the one start that he got and the one relief appearance looks pretty

comfortable and looks pretty good. So I don't see Sam Darnold as making an argument for being this team's future quarterback.

That would be a lot to ask and it would be one of the biggest jumps that we've ever seen.

The only guy that I can think of,

and Gino Smith was pretty rough too,

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