Jets and Sam Darnold did not make a good first impression

We should have known when the dark clouds began to form a few hours before the first training camp practice for the Jets, that it would not be a perfect start to the new season.

The lightning and lightning that chased the players inside disappointed fans who had planned to participate in the first public training session. Just as quickly, all the optimism surrounding the Jets has been filled with uncertainty about when the third overall selection of this year's NFL draft will take part in his first training. Same Old Jets.

Look, there is a lot of blame for Darnold, the so-called quarterback of the USC, who missed the first day of the training camp. But it's a bad look for the Jets when the holdout is on the tongue about what happens if the player who is supposed to be one quarter of your franchise is released. Darnold's experienced agent, Jimmy Sexton, wants a deal without compensation, which would allow the quarterback to receive all of his salary from Jets while being paid by another team if the Jets release him. . The Jets want an offset so that Darnold is not allowed to double-dip.

You can understand that the Jets who want to protect themselves knowing that Darnold's contract is estimated at $ 30.2 million will be fully guaranteed, but his ability to be a quarter of a franchise is not. It looks like it's good enough for Baker Mayfield, the first pick of the quarterback, and Josh Allen, who has Sexton as his agent, should be good enough for Darnold. Mayfield and Allen both have contracts that include offsets.

You would have thought that Darnold wanted to be there early in the camp to improve his chances of being the starting quarterback for the Detroit opening match. You would have thought that he wanted to show that the Jets were his team now. Instead, all of this is waiting now. The Jets are still Josh McCown's team.

"He goes through the commercial side of the sport," McCown said about Darnold. "We understand that, we wish him the best."

Every day of training camp is like the canine years. You study in the morning, practice in the afternoon, then study others. Friday's rain may have pushed practice inside, but the Jets seemed to touch every aspect of what they learned in OTAs. They worked on the racing game, the pbading game, the stretching block, the game check as well as the individual technical exercises. The players clashed and encouraged each other. With the least possible practice at the training camp, each session is valuable.

"Whenever you're not there, you lose something," said head coach Todd Bowles, who did not do much. . "I have [89] other players to coach."

Darnold may arrive on Saturday or Sunday or next week and he will not come back on Friday. The Jets were clearly caught off guard. The absence of Darnold left only two quarters, McCown and Teddy Bridgewater, to pitch to the receivers and take representatives during a team attack. Normally, there are up to four quarters at the beginning of the camp. McCown and Bridgewater can not keep up this pace

"You do what they ask you to do," says McCown.

Someone has already said that you had only one chance to make a good first impression. Well, this first impression suggests that there could be problems in paradise. If a rookie contract is so difficult, what happens when Darnold wants an extension? Will he go Darrelle Revis on the Jets? Welcome to the season 2018.