Yahoo Sports fantasy analysts Scott Pianowski and Andy Behrens discuss the early season success of the Vikings quarterback, who leads the NFL in passing touchdowns through 3 games. Hear the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Forecast” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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Maybe darn is having his Geno Smith here.
Maybe he just, the timing was wrong.
He was on the Jets for crying out loud.
He got mono, you know, then he goes to San Francisco.
He never got a chance to play three games, man.
I, I don’t, one game, you don’t know, two games.
It could still be a blip.
We could all laugh about it down the road.
I’ve seen enough to Samar but forget he pimping good enough for Justin Jefferson shares and all that or Aaron Jones shares.
I want to play Sam Darold on my teams.
Yeah.
No, he’s going to be, uh, he’s obviously going to be featured in, in pickups this week these last two games, 449 yards and six touchdowns against the Niners and Texans.
Now are those flawed teams?
Sure they’re flawed teams, but they are two teams that we expect or expected at one point to make deep postseason runs perhaps this year.
So it’s not like he’s doing this, you know, it was easy to dismiss the, the Giants game, I think.
Week one.
Right.
But man, you do, you do this to the Niners and the Texans in back to back weeks, this was supposed to be the hard part of the schedule, right.
These were supposed to be the games that got Arnold booted out of the starting job and cleared the path for JJ mccarthy and they’ve done anything but you have national analysts and the NFL S, uh, social feeds itself, um declaring Sam Darnell to be an MVP candidate and shoot, if they had to vote for the award right now, after three weeks, he’d probably be it remarkable full start to his season.
And not to say that he’s like a fully accredited dual threat guy.
But we saw in the Carolina years a little bit, like if he has to run the ball, he can do it.
We saw it last week.
So that’s part of his game as well.
There’s an awful lot of, of, I think of fantasy appeal here and he’s the guy who gets to throw to Justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison when he’s healthy.
And that’s like, that’s another thing.
We haven’t seen the fully operational version of this offense yet.
Right.
It’s totally possible that we haven’t seen the best of Sam Arnold yet.