Sam Darnold: “Amazing feeling” to be starting

Jets fans have been crying about their quarterback situation for years.
This time was different.
“As usual.” Now she’ll get a chance to see her son become the youngest quarterback to start a regular season opener since the 1970 merger, when the Jets play the Lions.
And while that may seem predestined for the third overall pick, he had to play well enough to convince the Jets to trade Teddy Bridgewater and skip dependable veteran Josh McCown.
“As a football player, whether it’s Pop Warner, high school, college or now the NFL, your dream is to play the game,” Darnold said.
I just want to go out and play every single day.
“If Josh got the nod, I was going to be pumped for him and be the best backup I could be.
Now that I know I’m the starter, it’s just an amazing feeling.” Of course, he has a good role model in handling news with grace.
McCown said he was “personnaly bummed” to lose the job he held last year, but that he realized Darnold was ready for the assignment.
“Obviously, as a competitor, you’d love to play, but I kind of understood which direction it was headed,” McCown said.