The Giants fired coach Ben McAdoo after last season, and he wound up not getting a job for 2018. So he had some time this offseason to analyze NFL Draft quarterbacks.

And he doesn't sound particularly high -- at least in one regard -- on Sam Darnold, whom the Jets drafted third overall (after trading up from No. 6).

"I think the kid the Jets drafted has a lot of magic in his game,'' McAdoo told the New York Post. "I think he's special. He's obviously a talented guy. He can make plays with his feet. I'd just have a hard time drafting a guy in the first round where you don't necessarily like the way he throws.

"He can overcome it -- guys have -- but that's something that's a challenge for me. I'm going to be looking at that, trying to fix it, because it's a fundamental flaw, and I believe in the fundamentals. The quarterback, his No. 1 job is to pass the football. If I don't like the way he throws the ball, I have a hard time picking him, right?''

McAdoo (apparently) did not specify what he doesn't like about Darnold's throwing mechanics.

The Jets, in training camp, will give Darnold every opportunity to win their Week 1 starting job, as he competes with Josh McCown and Teddy Bridgewater.

McAdoo has an offense-oriented coaching background. Before the Giants promoted him to head coach in 2016, he was their offensive coordinator for two seasons. And he was the Packers' quarterbacks coach from 2012-13.

"There was no Andrew Luck coming out, no guy head and shoulders above everybody else,'' McAdoo said of this year's quarterback draft class, echoing an oft-repeated opinion.

McAdoo's top two quarterbacks were Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson, followed by Darnold, Josh Rosen, Mason Rudolph, and Baker Mayfield (who went first overall to the Browns).

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