Is Vikings QB J.J. McCarthy poised to be next GREAT quarterback? | THE HERD NFL w/ Colin Cowherd

Is Vikings QB J.J. McCarthy poised to be next GREAT quarterback? | THE HERD NFL w/ Colin Cowherd

Welcome to the Herd’s official YouTube channel. Make sure to like and subscribe. Don’t forget to check out the Colin Coward podcast, all of our NFL instant reactions, and more football content. You know, Jay Mack, I uh listened to Chicago radio this morning. They’re all worked up. Everybody I had three different people. Well, what do you make of what do you make of Caleb Williams? I said, it’s a long season. I’m not sure. But I was thinking about this this morning. We’re both parents and you know parents want their kids to be number one. Number one in the class validictorian. Got to start on the basketball team. Number one. It’s all nonsense. It’s all nonsense. Where you go to college. Where do you fit best is where you should go to college. If you’re going to be a success, Phil Knight started at Oregon. He eventually went to Stanford, but he started, you know, at Oregon. And that’s kind of the reality of um of life. It’s about fit. Here’s where finishing number one doesn’t necessarily help you. Getting drafted as a quarterback. JJ McCarthy was the fifth quarterback taken and Bo Nicks was the sixth. Yet they got Kevin O’Connell and they got Shawn Payeyton. Lamar Jackson, last quarterback, first round, last player actually went to the Ravens. Patrick Mahomes the 10th pick went to the stable chiefs. Josh Allen third quarterback taken. Aaron Rodgers, Dan Marino fell in the first round. One got Don Shula Super Bowl second year. The other one got, you know, the Packers. I don’t know how good JJ McCarthy is. I don’t know how good Bo Nicks is, but I suspect they’re both going to win their division a lot and over the course of 15 years, they’re going to win a bunch of games because I think Kevin Oonnell is the best young offensive coach in football. I know Shawn McVey, yeah, but I mean I I don’t even consider Shawn McVey young anymore, right? Like he’s a veteran head coach and that’s a lot of it. There are a lot of bad coaching staffs in this league. And even when you get a coach that’s not bad, pretty good, Mike Tomlin, it doesn’t mean he has any understanding or any sensibility on how to help a young quarterback. If you go look at Jared Goff’s entire career, it is tied to how good his coach is. and the Minnesota Vikings. My wife used to live and work in Minnesota, not a big sports fan. And we were talking about Minnesota beating the Bears because we now live in Chicago. And she said, “Well, the Vikings are always good, right?” And I’m like, “Yeah, that’s right. The Vikings are always good. They always have good owners. They always have a good front office, a good general manager, a solid coach.” I mean, Sam Darnold and Kurt Cousins both finished top 10 in offense. I mean, Sam Darnold’s career was over and all of a sudden he’s MVP talk. I don’t think that would have happened. Didn’t happen in Carolina. Didn’t happen to the Jets. So this idea, this our society is you’ve got to finish number one. Where do you fit best? I don’t care if it’s a high school choice, which a lot of times you don’t have options, but when it’s a college choice, the Ivy League isn’t for everybody. Big state schools, you know, Texas, you know, they’re not for everybody. Some kids need more tutoring, smaller schools. Some kids may need vocational schools, a junior college, whatever it takes. But I look at Bo Knicks, you know, Bo Knicks in September. I looked this up this morning. In September in his career, two touchdowns, six picks. Yet Bo Knicks has a winning record in September. That’s called organizational support and coaching support. He’s been bad in September and he has a winning record in the AFC in a division with Justin Herbert and Patrick Mahomes. You’re not doing that with bad coaching. So JJ McCarthy, Jim Harbaugh to Kevin O’Connell. I’m sorry. A part of his success is that it’s not fair. Baker Mayfield got Cleveland and Hugh Jackson. Mahomes got Andy Reid and the Hunt family. Now, I think Mahomes is better than Baker and it took Baker a while to prove he could be a franchise guy you could trust. And I do think talent eventually finds its way. But in the NFL, injuries, regulated levels of violence, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes you get banged up. Drew Brees wanted to be a Miami Dolphin and they wouldn’t let him. And thank God Shawn Payeyton was there, right? Like like banged up in San Diego. Dolphins are not interested. Team doctor says no. What if Shawn Payeyton doesn’t exist? one of the all-time greats gets another situation where it’s just not perfect for him. So, listen man, we all know this. The longer you live, parenting is not fair. Some people get bad parents and bad boss bosses and bad coaches. And you know, I just all I know is I look at JJ McCarthy and Boone Knicks. One is the fifth quarterback taken, one is the sixth quarterback taken. I mean, through three quarters, JJ McCarthy was about as bad as you can be in the NFL at quarterback. That pick six was Will Le stuff, but his coach stayed with him, hung with him, supported him. Here’s Kevin O’Connell on JJ’s budding bond with his teammates. All the credit in the world should go to JJ and and his teammates. I mean that that relationship that’s built been built and you know many times around the league that those you know the requirements sometimes are you got to do those things first. We got to see it for our team to still trust in that moment and then kind of that explosion of energy and emotion when he was you know making some of those plays in the second half that you know that can be uh infectious for a while I hope because now we do have confirmation. We are obsessed with finishing number one. When it comes to quarterbacks, yeah, I mean, you know, there’s there’s the occasional John Elway, but look at what Caleb Williams inherited. Ownership down. And look what Boone Knicks got. Maybe the richest owners in sports. I think I read yesterday they’ve got a new stadium. It’s Shawn Payeyton. They led the NFL in sacks. Bo Nicks doesn’t have to get in shootouts. By year two, his defense was keeping him in games. JJ McCarthy as Brian Flores. I was talking to a Bears fan this morning that was all dejected. I said, “Listen, the bottom line is Brian Flores in your opener is a rough is a rough game.” Caleb Williams probably faced his best defensive coordinator in the first game of the rebuild with Ben Johnson. Well, I’m fired up to announce Hard Rock Bet as the volume’s new presenting sponsor. Everybody knows Hard Rock Hotels and casinos are iconic for entertainment. Well, now the Hard Rock Bet app brings more energy and excitement than ever to the world of sports betting. What does it mean for you? Well, here at The Volume, you’ll start to see us use Hard Rock Bets lines when talking about the biggest games, college or pro. 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Training camp, OTAAS, pre-season, week one, he’s holding himself and Caleb Williams accountable. Best bosses I’ve ever had, do the same thing. I always tell my boss, bark at me. Just upset, tell me. I’ll figure it out. Remember Matt Eberloose? They lost the Hail Mary game. Gave up all those free yards before the Hail Mary. He was questioned. Nothing to see here. That is just no big deal. It’s a big deal. It was a big deal. A lot of things were a big deal. And it was always Mike McDaniel ice cream for breakfast. Mike McDaniel, Miami players stroll in late. Tyreek Hill criticizes his quarterback publicly in camp. Remember this year in camp when teams practiced against those joint practices practiced against the Dolphins. And I forget the team, but one of the players in the team said, “Yeah, they don’t practice like us. Miami doesn’t practice nearly as hard as us. Standards, excuses, not holding people accountable.” Shawn McVey admits now with the Rams he had to lighten up. He was so harsh and intense. Tom Coughlin lightened up and then beat Brady and Bellich twice in Super Bowls. If you look at Coughlin and Shawn McVey, their resumes are filled with accountability to themselves and others. It’s one of my knocks on Mike Tomlin. He’s too player friendly. It just just I mean and again I don’t expect my coaches to be perfect, right? We’re all on our couch watching. You know, when you’re in a game and it’s fluid and it’s going fast. I was joking with the staff this morning. It’s like going on a date with a beautiful smart woman. You want to be funny but not silly, confident but not arrogant, smart but not preach. like you know like it’s oh this date’s happening and she’s judging me and I don’t have time and they make their mind up in eight minutes and it’s much easier to sit and watch the date and go boy he’s not handling it well he’s not asking her about her he’s doing too much talking that’s the way we judge in the media coaching well how come he didn’t do this and how come he didn’t do that you got a million things going on in your head you’re dealing with coordinators you’re on the headset you’re dealing with players you’re dealing with a clock so I don’t I don’t I don’t think coaches are Perfect. But when they make mistakes, just own it. You just got to own it. And Ben Johnson was in Detroit with Matt Patricia and in Detroit with with Dan Campbell. So, he’s seen good culture and bad culture. And that’s the one thing about Dan Campbell. I don’t think he’s a schematic genius, but he’s an authentic guy who when he screws up, Dan Campbell owns it. And that is a great quality to have as a quarterback or as a coach or as a boss or as an employee. That was a Dolphins Lions joint practice. Yeah, it was a Lions player who said, “Yeah, Miami, they don’t practice like us. They’re not nearly as intense.” There you go. Got to own it.

Colin Cowherd reacts to the latest in the NFL. He starts with J.J. McCarthy and whether the Minnesota Vikings quarterback really is poised to be the next great quarterback. Next Colin reacts to Chicago Bears head coach Ben Johnson’s comments regarding his loss to the Vikings. Is Caleb Williams or Ben Johnson to blame?

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