#NFLVideos: More intriguing QB-hungry team on draft day: Vikings or Raiders?

More intriguing QB-hungry team on draft day: Vikings or Raiders?

Time for Throwdown Thursday, as my parents call it. That day of the week. Thursday our guy Daniel Jeremiah dropped his mock draft 3.0 this week. And no surprise, Caleb Williams going first overall to the bears, followed by Drake Maye to the commanders and Jayden Daniels to the Patriots. After that, it

Gets a little interesting. He has the Vikings trading up for J.J. McCarthy at four and the Raiders selecting Michael Penix Jr at 13. So for our first throwdown, which quarterback hungry team will be more intriguing on draft day? The Vikings or the Raiders? Jason I’m rolling with the Vikings

Here. I think the Vikings need to do something more than the Raiders for the Raiders. You look at it Josh McDaniels. They’re they’re entering a new regime Antonio Pierce takes over and they went out. And they’ve gotten Gardner Minshew. And I feel like you have a little bit

Of time to figure out what’s going to be next for this organization. On the Vikings hand, it’s just like you’ve had that girlfriend for a long time and you don’t know if that you should take that next step and go ahead and get that ring and really commit to her for the

Rest of your life. But it’s like at the same time, what’s behind door number two can be really scary. But then you see her go off and get married to somebody else and looks like they’re having kids during the honeymoon phase. And for the Vikings right now, last off season, they

Decided to let Kirk Cousins play out. They restructured them and play out his contract. Kirk Cousins now has gone. The girlfriend has left and she has found the person that is right for her. As you watch him donning Atlanta Falcons in the chain and everything that’s going on. And there’s Vikings

Fans like you know what? We’re tired. We saw what Kirk Cousins had to give us and we’re ready to find something new. They’ve signed Sam Darnold. They said they really liked Darnold and believed that him in the right situation. Maybe he can do something that maybe we saw from Daniel Jeremiah’s mock draft.

Move up and get a guy like JJ McCarthy who knows how far to move up if they’re willing to do so. But I look at the Vikings. Kirk Cousins is a guy you can say whatever you want to say about him. He’s going to keep people employed because we’re

Kirk Cousins out there. You’re going to win games. You’re You had a guy that was productive for you, you decided to move on. What is going to be the solution? I feel like them as a quarterback. Hungary team, you need to figure out who that guy is going to be. Are you

Really telling us that it’s Sam Darnold? He is going to be the guy for the future? Or is it one of these guys in the draft that you’re willing to move up and go and pluck the Raiders? I feel like have some time on their side. They made a trade last

Week with Houston to pick up the 23rd pick two. So now they have a little bit more Arsenal. They can go 11 and 23 and then maybe package that and something else and move all the way up. That’s great. I look at the Raiders and as much as Sam Darnold might not

Be the guy long terme I don’t know if Gardner Minshew is either. I don’t feel like they signed Minshew as the future Raiders signal caller. That’s going to take him to great glory. I think they signed Gardner Minshew because he’s a good NFL quarterback to have in

Your building, and if he can win you some games, he can win you some games. But I don’t know if that’s the future. The part that really intrigues me is the connection between Antonio Pierce and Jayden Daniels. Antonio Pierce is at Arizona State as a coach under Herman Edwards, and Jayden Daniels was

The quarterback. The relationship, I’m told, is through the roof, not only in a in a mentor type way, but also in a, in a friendship and also in a coaching way, like really leaned on him a lot. Jayden Daniels transfer years last couple of years goes to LSU and

Antonio Pierce of course goes on this NFL journey. You also add in a new general manager. That’s Tom Telesco. Tom Telesco comes from the Chargers. Very rare. Do you see a general manager fired from one division rival then hired that same offseason by another? But I don’t think

Telesco is here to sit on his hands and say, let’s take a nice slow build and figure this out. No, you’ve got veteran players all over that roster. You’ve got Davante Adams, you’ve got Max Crosby who’s going to is going to want to see wins right away. And he just signed of course

Christian Wilkins. So I say all this because I think the Raiders lining the weeds a little bit at 13. And yeah maybe Michael Penix is the pick. And that seems like that was a little bit of a reach based on what you’re seeing other people write about Penix

And where he went in mock Draft 3.0 by Daniel Jeremiah, but I look at Jayden Daniels, as does Tom Telesco become a riverboat gambler and get on the phone and call Washington, or call the Patriots and say, we’ll give you the next three drafts. We want to get Jayden Daniels because

Antonio Pierce and Jayden Daniels have an incredible relationship. Silver and black, Mark Davis, all this stuff tells me renegade, Maverick. And as much as the Vikings think they’re doing the prudent thing and collecting picks, don’t count out the Raiders. I think their their franchise as a whole has always taken big swings, and

I think they’ve been sitting on their hands a little bit this offseason waiting for a big swing at quarterback. I like the connection there with AP and with Daniel, and I think if you’re the Raiders, like they’ve got the squad and like AP turned the light on like all of a

Sudden they came to life. When Antonio Pierce took over, they beat the Chiefs I mean Christmas Day hasn’t happened in years. So the Raiders could be scary if you give them a quarterback. But I look at offensive talent and I look at what’s going on in Minnesota right now. You look at

What the Vikings have. Talk about it. Are you kidding me? If you’re Kevin O’Connell right now you’re I’ll trade everything you want. My couch. What do you want? You want all my squirrels? What do you want? What else can I give you to help you make the decision to give me a

Quarterback? You’ve got TJ Hawkinson. He was almost a 1000 yard receiver last year. Got Jordan Addison and Justin Jefferson all. All they’re waiting for is some magic arm to come in there and just deliver this ball. That’s Aaron Jones now to look Kevin O’Connell one games with Josh Dobbs. Like we

Had Jamie over here with a Dobbs taped up jersey with the tape number 15 on there because nobody knew who the guy was. And he had just I mean, he was living in a hotel and yet they won games with him and the pastor, I think the pastor well

Played for the Vikings right now. If you’re a Vikings fan and you’re a skull is great and all that stuff, we need points like, give me, give us a quarterback that can deliver the ball to these stars. Because Jefferson, one of the best in the game, if

Not the best. And I think you’ve got to have somebody that can sling. You’ve got to have somebody that can get the ball out there on those big explosive plays and Kevin O’Connell has got to be licking his chops. Yeah, Justin Jefferson I think it’s like, hey guys, what’s

Going on here? Who’s going to be throwing the ball. Like I think that they are such an interesting team. The Vikings, where they are right now because the quarterback position is obviously complete, unsettled. And the last time they had a franchise quarterback. What you have to go back to Fran

Tarkenton, back when JFK was alive and a president like this has been so long that the Vikings have wanted and needed a franchise quarterback. And yes, Kirk Cousins was doing his thing for a while, and he was probably playing the best of his career before he got hurt last season.

But Justin Jefferson, he needs answers just as much as Vikings fans do. And everyone around the NFL watching the Vikings right now, because Justin Jefferson is still on his rookie contract. So you could say, well, Davante Adams also wants to know who’s going to be throwing the ball.

But he’s in a very different part of his career and Justin Jefferson was boys with Curko as he called Kirk Cousins. So I think that this is super interesting and I saw the other day Alec Lewis who’s the Vikings beat writer for The Athletic, he put out a tweet talking about

How back in 2018 that Josh McCown, who’s now the Vikings quarterback coach, and Sam Darnold, who they signed through free agency, used to they watched every single Drake Maye high school game to give feedback. And sure they’re not making the pick at all. But I think that that little wrinkle

Is also interesting that the two of them would sit together, watch his tape come up with feedback and criticisms, and this is going back to his high school time. So I like the idea of the Vikings trading up like DJ has in his mock draft, but we

Just have to wait and see who they will actually take. It’s crazy. You know, we were talking about like, should Caleb Williams say, I don’t want to go number one overall. Like there’s been some banter about like, does he pull a John Elway. Yeah. Like, hey by the way I never

Said that go. Not you. Did I say you said that. We also said that’s not our there’s been banter out there about how he should forego being selected number one overall because the bears are in such dysfunction. If that is the case and if that is true, if people believe that

You could make the case that the Minnesota Vikings would be the one team that every quarterback in this draft wants to go to because of the receivers we talked about, and they have two of the best tackles in the league right now Christian Darrisaw Brian O’Neill. So you look at a young quarterback

Getting drafted, you’re going to Chicago. It’s like, man, the offensive line is like it’s just close the loop. The reason with the Drake Maye thing, obviously if you’re Josh McCown was coaching Drake Maye in high school a couple years back when he was out of the

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