Sam Darnold and the Jets Have an Explanation for His Improvement

Mark Tenally/Associated Press

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Jets quarterback Sam Darnold walked into Coach Adam Gase’s office after the team’s sixth loss in seven games, an Oct. 27 rout by the Jacksonville Jaguars during which Darnold threw three interceptions and was sacked eight times. The second-year quarterback had a clear agenda: to improve communication between himself and Gase.

“I felt confident enough,” Darnold said in a conference call on Monday about initiating that meeting. “I felt like I knew the offense well enough to go in and have a really good conversation with him about it.”

Darnold, 22, was coming off the worst two-game stretch of his career. In that meeting he told Gase what was…