Judging the Vikings’ decision on when to start J.J. McCarthy over Carson Wentz | The Rich Eisen Show

It’s week seven of the NFL season. Quickly approaching right here. And who else would we want to break that down with? My very good and old friend Jamie Erdall is here with us in the studio. How’s everybody doing? Doing fantastic. You great. You know, it’s uh this is like hour nine for me, awake and functioning and talking about football. So, just a quick drive over from Good Morning Football to here to just keep it rolling. The last time that that we were sitting here was right after you moved to Los Angeles. Uh there’s been an evolution of the show obviously since then. Mantai Teao has been fantastic on the show uh with you guys out here. How how are you adjusting to uh to life on the West Coast? You know, uh my kids are a little younger than yours. Uh the the young kid life lends itself to the morning show life. So our whole house is just dark at 8:30 p.m. Um everyone’s asleep by then and I get up at 3 and I do the show and I’m home usually if I’m not doing something like this at by 10:00 a.m. I’m sorry I’m sorry to take you away from it. So, not only you’re hosting Good Morning Football, but you have a new YouTube show called No Breaks with Jamie Urall. And I was like, “Oh, and I now contributed to the no break thing.” This is normally probably the break. Yep. When one of the kids is at school and instead you’re here, which I appreciate. Walk the walk, talk the talk, live the life. And it does feel like right now in this era, there are no breaks for me. And uh also a play on the all gas, no breaks football thing, but this is no commercial breaks because no one’s paid me to take one of those yet. So, I just talk and yap for about 35 minutes every day uh live on YouTube at 400 p.m. Eastern. And it’s it’s pretty much all the thoughts that I don’t get out on Good Morning Football. So, it’s anything that’s not football related, parenting, uh family, friendships, marriage, what have you. So, it’s it’s kind of a fill-in- thelank Mad Libs type show. How much of scheduling that at 4 p.m. is about making sure that you actually power through and then aren’t taking like periodic naps through the day. so that it screws up your overnight sleep. It’s actually a great question and you saw right through me. Uh, so it is it is locally done at 1:00 p.m. And if I didn’t have something to do at 1:00 p.m. I also had this realization the other day as I was walking to the little studio that I built into the house for it, which was I walked right past the treadmill and the the exercise bike that I had and I was like, you know, it’s weird how I fully carved out 45 minutes of my day to do more talking and sitting and not like what could I do for my cardiovascular health instead? and I just was like, “No, I’m going to go do that YouTube show instead.” So, and today you’re talking in sitting and more sitting and talking, which we greatly appreciate you coming by. You got to know what you’re good at. You know, we’re we’re a third of the way through the NFL season. What’s the biggest surprise to Jamie Dall so far this season? You know what I love about this season is that everyone’s right and everyone’s wrong and people can stop complaining or yelling at you if you got something wrong about their team because everyone’s kind of mediocre and I like it. you know, it’s it’s we everyone predicts things and I just hear less beef and less chatter in the inbox, if you will, from fan bases because everyone’s been humbled at some point already this season. We were talking this morning on Good Morning Football, 11 four- win teams. And I like it like that. I I I personally think that it’s more fun if you don’t have the juggernaut because then we kind of are really all focused on the juggernaut. And I like the fact that teams are demanding us to talk about them in normally a term that we wouldn’t like a Seahawks team like a Jaguars team. So I like spreading the wealth because at least editorially it makes it more interesting for us. 11 four- win teams. There’s also I looked this up yesterday 20 teams that are three and three or better. So right now sitting here we are 20 days out from the trade deadline. And to the extent that in in talking to and texting with GMs yesterday, everyone’s like, “Yeah, it’s really quiet.” It’s like because there’s not many teams that yet can convince themselves, much less their owners, like, “Hey, we should trade everybody right now.” Everybody except maybe the Jets and the Titans are kind of in a spot where it’s like, “Well, we still got an opportunity. There’s a path for us to get back into this thing.” And then you just got done talking about like the Tomlin, the weird AFC North triangle, which I was really enjoying that conversation. And just like we always look at the Cowboys as and Jerry Jones as he says things to kind of stir the pot and I fully think Tomlin doesn’t take that approach. I just think he says things to say them. that’s on his mind and it’s not to stir the pot. It’s how he actually feels. So, it’s, you know, I I was wondering that about the trade deadline. First of all, it’s odd that it’s so late. It kind of bugs me that it’s into November. I kind of put Halloween as like my trade deadline and they bumped it a couple of years ago. Yes, trade deadline was on Halloween two years ago. It was uh we had trades felt I felt great getting past it. We did our show. I went out trick-or-treating with the kids. woke up to approximately 47 missed calls and text messages about Josh McDaniels being fired immediately after the trade deadline. One of it’s the short list of like three firings I’ve ever slept through. But that was a case where I’m like, “All right, we got through the deadline. I’m checking on it, but it’s like they’re not going to fire him on Halloween night after the trade deadline.” And they did. And they did. And you never know when that’s going to occur. No, you do not. I thought you were going to say you slept through it because like that Raiders team was just one that you were sleeping on, if you will. I had my AirPod on. You know, it’s triggering in Minneapolis. You sleep with AirPods in? It depends. I sleep with AirPods in if there’s a specific piece of news I’m waiting for. And what does your AirPod say to you? Is it a voice? It’s like, “Wake up, Tom. Things are happening.” No. Siri though will be like, “You got a text message for this person said this.” Okay. Okay. Wait. No. No. If I So then when Siri says, “Tom, you have a text from mom.” You’re like, “Go away, mom. I’m not going to respond right now.” It reads from it reads the whole text. Stop it. And your brain is processing it through osmosis or something. I I mean I will sort of jolt awake and then if it’s not important, I’ll click the little thing and it’ll go away. I don’t think it’s about insiders. This last year it happened. I don’t think this is healthy. I I did it last year. It was middle of the season and again I was like, man, I’m I’m bushed. It’s it’s 10:00 or 10:30, whatever. When the central time the you know, the Sunday night game had ended. I’m like, “All right, I’m going to go to bed, but like there’s enough stuff here that like something weird could happen.” So, I’m I have my AirPods in and sure enough, like 20 minutes later, the phone rings. In that case, it was a call, but then I’ve got the ringing in my ear and saying, “This person is calling you.” And I picked it up and it was, “Dude, you better call Vegas cuz they just fired Luke Getsy, the offensive coordinator.” If I hadn’t slept with the AirPods in, and that was literally from that Halloween experience. Ever since then, if I think there’s a faint chance of something happening overnight, AirPods are in. What is playing in the AirPods when you want to sit here and interview me? Kind of. Yes. Yes. No. Bring it on. Bring it on. People are always wondering how you guys get this stuff done. And frankly, I’ve never heard of this before and I’ve never had the audacity to ask and that was really fascinating to me. Now it makes me feel a lot less productive than me having like three television shows that I’m trying to manage. Well, you have and and I feel it when I’m here. Two two years in a row. I have been here hosting this show when the first head coach firing of the season happened last year. It was Robert Salah on a Tuesday which happened right before because Rich Kurt and I had just done that Jets Vikings game. Correct. And I came back and it was like I I was on the Jets sideline for that game just staring at the back of Aaron Rogers like sad body language. The worst we’ve it’s I will always say I covered Aaron you know from early in his career his first year as the starter in Green Bay and I was at the Green Bay Preset. I I have never seen him play a worse game than that one. And I but my thinking was Aaron is done. It wasn’t Robert Saul is gone. Though in hindsight, you looked back and there was just kind of this this sinking vibe around the team. Woody Johnson had already kind of decided he didn’t want Salah to be the coach. But usually if you’re going to do that, then you you fire him on Monday, not waiting till Tuesday, right? And then this year, live on this show, Brian Callahan is fired via press release. Yeah. Uh in the middle of the show. So I mean yeah there’s but there is my point is when you’re doing those shows you are so enscconced in it from 2 hours before the show prepping for GMFB through in your case a 4hour show including good morning football overtime that is a little bit different than me popping on your show for 90 seconds making a wise crack about Kyle delivering you some injury news and then going back to making calls again. You do it so beautifully though and we appreciate the effort that you do. I do appreciate that. What do you think of your Vikings right now? You you got to see him over there. I did. Uh I’m still holding out judgment on it. It’s it’s a weird season. And honestly, I’m glad that what’s happening to them again is kind of happening to everybody right now. And it’s he who manages the injuries the best is how this season’s going to go. I don’t really I haven’t struck up an opinion yet about when we should see JJ McCarthy again because of how well KOC and Josh Macau handle any quarterback that comes in the building. I think JJ, I talked to him in in uh Dublin before the game and he seemed in good spirits and he really wanted to practice. I personally, I don’t know about you or or the philosophy on this. I was surprised that injured players were on the trip to be honest. Like I think about swelling and travel and all that jazz and it’s like Aaron Jones was on IR. Andrew Van Gingle had didn’t play either of those games and JJ’s there. That’s three pretty important players. I felt like leave him back in Egan, you know, leave one trainer with the guys. Well, I saw they fired up Aaron Jones for some type of community event. So, maybe that was part of the role, which is like he can he’s got time. He can go over and do it. I mean, the Steelers brought their uh quarterback was on injured reserve and he got jumped and robbed uh in uh in Toplin. So, yes, there there’s something to be said for that. You know, with JJ, I I feel for him because I mean, think about the amount of time the guy has missed. He’s never really been injured before. I don’t know if I feel for him that badly, honestly. It’s it’s a lot for a young guy you’re draft I mean look at every other quarterback who we were talking about last year. It is Caleb Williams, Jaden Daniels, Drake May, Michael Penn Jr. Bon Knicks. They are all they’ve all got winning records this season. They’re all at various stages of their development. JJ, we didn’t see him one second last year. We see him for two games this year, but one of which is on a short week, plus he missed the day because he had a child born, gets hurt. Now he’s right back to being injured from what from what I’m told. I said this on on Sunday morning on game day kickoff. He’s not 100% yet on the ankle. They’ll see him this week. They’ll see his mobility is. But this is a ton of time. Guys don’t miss a year of football and just bounce right back. And so I just I pumped the brakes on anybody who’s like JJ clearly like this is not going to work out. He’s played badly. It’s like he hasn’t had time on task and that’s hard. Oh yeah. That’s that’s what I meant I guess by holding out judgment. I’m going to hold out judgment on their current decision- making about the quarterbacks and about long-term decision-making about JJ. I what I meant what I said I don’t feel badly for him is that I didn’t see that going well the month of September. I think honestly sometimes you start driving on a road trip and like you get the flat tire and then you run out of gas and you’re like, you know what, I think I need to stop the night at a hotel. Like I think this day needs to be done. Just take the break for a second. And I actually, not that I wish injury upon anybody, but I do feel that him having the two games experience and then even if it is a long break, now he can actually conceptualize what it means to be a starting quarterback. When when he’s sitting in meetings last year, he had no concept of what the speed of the game felt like, what the IQ demands were of the playbook. He was thinking he could. It could be explained to him. Now he’s got two game sample size. I think he needs to be like 110% healthy before we even and then add another week and then get him in there. But they’ve got two games in five days next week coming off of a buy. So I think we see Carson for a little bit and I’m okay with that. The the easy thing to do would be just say, “All right, there’s all this pressure on us. We got to prove that JJ, we got to prove we picked the right guy out of the six quarterbacks. Let’s push him back out the moment. He’s he’s healthy.” There’s a difference between healthy and ready, which is where I give Kevin O’Connell credit for doing the hard thing. And again, we’ll see whether or not he he might look great in practice this week. And Carson, who’s got a bad left shoulder, might not look good in the course of practice here. Maybe he plays. But the the hard thing, which is what Kevin’s going to do, is just go, I I don’t need like to push the I don’t care what the media is saying. I don’t care what the fans are saying. Like, I’m going to wait until he’s in a groove operationally. He’s got everything here. But it does it does put the Vikings in a spot where, you know, you’re I don’t think anybody drew it up as let’s have a Carson Wench revenge game against the Eagles in week seven. That is especially cuz he wasn’t even on the team. No. Until late August. It’s a sweet story and all and I feel like we’re really gripping for some revenge game storyline sometimes. Like it’s there’s not enough. I’m always up for a good revenge. You can find it. It’s like enough. I feel like there’s only five authentic revenge games in a season and like we’re already at max capacity just because of all the movement that goes down. But I hear you on the Carson Wentz thing. I just think I would rather rely on Carson Wentz the way a Joe Flacco is. Like the guy’s got experience. He knows what’s up. He knows what he can and cannot handle. And I just don’t think you can say the same about JJ McCarthy right now. He doesn’t know what’s what. And that’s okay. You’re allowed to be like that in your second year. What was Dublin like? The game aside, what the first time the NFL has been there. Unique city. I don’t know if you had visited before, but what was it like? So, I’ve had the unique experience in the last couple of years to I was in Munich for the first game and then Dublin for the first game. So, I kind of understand uh and I’ll be in Madrid next month. I kind of understand what it what it means like for the first touchdown, you know, regular season game and whatnot. So the the what I felt in the city was they couldn’t have picked two better organizations. I feel like in terms of fans willing to travel kind of like genealogical connection to the region of the world, if you will, of like Vikings fans and motans and then just the Steelers. I thought the city was 50/50 in terms of fans. Then you get into the stadium and it was like 7030 in favor of the Steelers. like it was wild in there. Um, but the the city performed well. Someone told me before I got there that like you you really understand how many shades of green there are once you get to Ireland. And that was true. A lot of grass was very rich, very lush landscape. And it was it was a fine game. It wasn’t like the it wasn’t like the greatest game I’ve ever witnessed in person, but Dublin was fun. Guinness was great. I liked it. I probably will only ever drink it in Ireland if I could be so bratty. Did it taste different? I’ve not been Okay. I’m a beer drinker. Uhhuh. But I I had not had Guinness in the continental US. See, you should have then you got to establish the baseline, the control subject because now we can’t take anything in terms of I think now I’m just going to be like high maintenance and highbrow like that. Like I’m only going to drink champagne in the south of France and like I’m only going to drink red and ruin it forever in any other venue any other time. I will only drink co domestic coffee in Seattle and I will only have uh Guinness in Dublin. And it was fantastic. And the whole like splitting the G phenomenon that I was attempting to do. I mean, I just signed up for drinking like so many Guinness cuz I was just trying to hit the line right there. It was a lot of attempts. Tom, I I saw they were running that clip of you repeatedly. I don’t know if you guys saw this. I don’t know if I saw it to and from break a whole show for 4 hours of Jamie. So, the idea explain explain the G. The classic Guinness glass has the branding in the middle and this apparently only recently became a social media phenomenon and it’s you get it poured on top and there’s the creamy top and then the Guinness. Well, you’re supposed to drink the the beer and you are trying to do it in a in a singular gug to when you set the beer down, the foam and the dark beer is perfectly on the bridge of the G. And as you know on GMFB we do a lot of things like for the purpose of entertaining television of course and I really regret I undersshot it on my first one so I was like I only I had about that much to go on my second one I should have just gone full send and I really regret that you came up short of the first one if I don’t see them Tom no you came the first drink was bigger than the second from what I could tell yeah and then I started to like try to overcorrect on the sips and like that’s not how you play the game and then I ended up just chugging the whole beer on my Instagram. So, and then you went out and then you did another three and a half hours of TV pretty much, which is very slow. No breaks. No breaks. No breaks. Uh, speaking of no breaks, I know you have none. We have to take one. Can you stick around for one more segment? More. More Jamie Dall in studio. I’ve already gone through my nap window. Stories. We’ll keep her up. 4:00 if we go break ever. Both the name of her new YouTube show as well as uh a lifestyle. Yes, it is from Good Morning Football. There it is. That is a fantastic sweatuit. You are a sweatuit um connoisseur. Thank you. I regret wearing jeans today. Honestly, it just feels very off-brand for me. But you know, you should have worn that green sweatsuit when you went to Dublin and walked around like everyone dresses here like this, right? It says I didn’t wear green. For sure. The streets in it. For sure. I was running in with the grass and the the random golf courses that I drove by. Thank you. Yeah, it’s um I I I don’t like taking uh still photographs like that. Photo shoots may be uncomfortable, but if I have to do it, it will be done in a sweatuit. Honestly, impermanence. Like I don’t think I’ll ever take another photo professionally without it being in a sweatuit. Photo shoots are it’s an uncomfortable thing. Like we have to do it every like 3 years for NFL Network. And I’m always like, “Hey, I’m wearing a nice suit. Like I think I look good.” And then they’ll be like, you know, they click through on the computer. I’m always like every every like horrible face. I’m like, “Do I look like that?” Let me ask you this, Tom. Some people would have an opinion about like, “Oh, I should be like holding a microphone in my professional head shot and like the former player’s got to be like spinning the football. Do you hold like the pen and paper or the cell phone in yours? No, they they give me the football and then that’s another thing where I’m like, “Hey, I’ve never seen a football before.” I’m like spinning it, but I’m like dropping the ball. So somewhere there are hundreds of proofs of me like the ball spinning off my hand, me having just dropped it. Your photo should should be sleeping with the AirPod in your ear. Totally. Yeah, that that would make quite the uh quite the profile photo on social media right there. Yeah. Unfortunately, yeah, like Brockman posted a photo over here when I was on phone before the show the other day and again I’m like that’s not a face that needs to be anywhere. So, I don’t even know who you were. You could have been talking to your wife. I don’t remember what it was, but it was it was something that seemed important in that moment. But everything is important. Uh that’s what I respect about you guys. The he who lies within the insider world of the NFL. It’s like you guys take everything so seriously. And for a show on Good Morning Football, sometimes we don’t take things enough things seriously. probably you come on and you sometimes you’re like you you straighten us up real quick like you’re like the shoelace that we I’m always the bad news guy though on that show does have to change sometimes when I welcome you talking about the most like I don’t want to say inane things but just like silly nonsense and it’s Kyle doing a bit and Manti reacting and we’re talking about his muscles or his shirt or whatever they’ll be like and Tom there was devastating news yesterday as this former coach died and it’s like I don’t I don’t really feel comfortable making that turn because I’m just coming on. That’s right. And I just bring it back down to the lowest point. You know what I appreciate about you, Tom? Because you and I have known each other for so long. I think you and I do have like a good um unspoken language between the two of us. So that we’ll be talking about something ridiculous and I will have a sense for like you know what I think Tom would want to add to this and so we will include you. I try to give you the ESP where I just kind of give you one of these looks like work. It’s honestly ask you should ask me about what you were just talking about. like you think we’re being ridiculous, but I do have something to add or I know that if we have we’re either like up against a break, no breaks. Uh if we’re up against a break or it is something kind of serious, a suspension or a firing or a a significant injury, I know like my tone has to change. But it’s really annoying when you guys are like, you know what, I do want to add. I’m like, well, now I look like a buffoon because I just tried to take a left turn. You’re you’re very you’re very good at navigating and making the turns. So, you’ll be in Madrid first game ever in SP. What do we know that you can share with us right now about what that entire week is going to look like? Oh boy. Um, that’s a great question, Tom. Can we go back to me asking you questions? No. I I mean, I know the teams that are going to be playing and I and unfortunately in the worst football cliche possible right now. I I think I’m I know I’m going and it’s like one one day at a time kind of situation, but um I know honestly I don’t know much. I And that’s a that’s a truthful statement. Commander Dolphins. So, you’re going to show up and they’re going to be like, “Jamie’s running with the Bulls pregame.” You’re going to be like, “Oh, I should have read the production.” Are you doing that? I don’t know anything. I You know what? I think that’s why they send me a handkerchief around your neck. I think that’s why they send me to these things is my willingness to do the ridiculous because in Croak Park, this guy, the security guy, walked over to me and like, “Did you know they give tours up top and this thing was the top of the stadium?” And I was like, “Did we fax out a camera up there cuz I want to go.” And they tried and I was going to go full send and so I will do like the raft dash. Yeah. Above the raft dash. That’s not for me. Oh heck yeah it is. Fear of heights of if it’s good for television it’s good for me. I agree with that. Right up until I might die doing it. That’s where I draw the line. I figure if someone takes a tour up there they probably have one of those like belt hooks or something. They could have kept me tethered. It would have been fine. The point is I will go to Madrid and I will participate in the culture as best that I can as documented with the Guinness drinking. What is the most ridiculous live shot you’ve ever done? Going back to CBS days, other places you’ve worked, like the one that jumps out where you’re like, “That was so ridiculous that it was also really fun.” Oh man, what a great question. Uh, racking my brain. Racking my brain live shot. So, uh, at the NC on the NCAA tournament assignment, we will have our, um, day of eight of four games and then the next day is is a down day for us, but the other sites are playing. But if there’s like a Cinderella feel-good story, they want us to do like a feature shoot with the guy. So, Little Rock, Arkansas beat Purdue in Denver. It was one of Purdue’s many like number two seated losses and I I think I’ve witnessed like four of them. They don’t want me near their games. So, Little Rock, Arkansas beats them. Chris, what’s his name? He coaches Texas Tech now. Chris, doesn’t matter. Yeah, he’s coaching Little Rock, Arkansas. Um, and he’s got this player who says he eats cinnamon ice cream before every game. So, like then we got to get the cinnamon ice cream in between. And so, we’re like live eating cinnamon ice cream and like Barkclay’s got something to say about it. And just like the commentary, kind of going back to the Guinness, the commentary while you’re eating or drinking something on live television and you’re trying to like not look like it’s just going to be the most clipped off thing on the internet is a really hard balance. So, that was one. I did a horse jumping competition once live in my first job in Boston and that was just like honestly the horse jumpers the athletes would come over to me and I’d be like what am I supposed to ask you right now? I didn’t jump high. Yeah. Like exactly it’s how I used to handle with hockey players in games. I’d be like what am I supposed to ask you right now? Like that’s how you learn TV sometimes how to do it. So horse jumping and cinnamon ice cream eating at the NCAA tournament. I’m also a fan of eating on TV. It has to be contextual. It can’t just be I’m going to hoon down a hot dog in the middle of every show and tada, great TV. I don’t think there’s a time that a hot dog’s ever contextual. What do you got over there, bro? I’m going to cinnamon roll. Where’s it from? The our bakery across the street. Tell me why I should eat it. Smells delicious. Tell me. Want to split a cinnamon roll. Tom, this is this is quite the challenge. Also, Jamie, when you were uh describing how you were taking the Guinness to the dome, you you gave me a new fantasy team name, I think. And that’s Guinness of the Dome. No, Singular Glove. Singular glove. Singular change one of my team names to that. Could also be if you start another YouTube show because you need more things to do. It could be a you’re drinking a beer, you’re talking about sports and you take the singular glug that is a one taste Dave Portoy pizza and that is the entire substance of your review. Yes, I do on my no break show I on Thursdays I do an NA Thursday blind taste test. So, I’ve had I’m trying new NA products because they say, you know, take a break sometimes. So, like I’m going to do that in terms from drinking. Um, and so I try NA products and then on Fridays I call I do crackit Fridays and I and I taste new beers because it’s it’s a Friday and I it’s been a week. So, I’ve I I’ve got I’m going to try I think Sam Adams next week. They’re going to send me some stuff. And yeah, it’s just like a new way for me to be able to try things. Um, in the spirit of I did this social media series this summer where I listened to old CDs of mine, blind listen, no judgment. And so now I’m like, what else can I do blind on camera and just like just your full authentic judgment of it immediately? It’s like when Brockman will bring up extremely popular ‘8s and ‘9s movies and I won’t have any idea what he’s talking about. He has no idea what we’re talking about. I have no clue. I’ve gradually been making my way through them, namely on planes when I come here and I’ll be like, I’m going to watch the Terminator for the first time on for you because you’re like Mr. Music, I feel like from those eras, but it doesn’t hit with the movies. I think it was a a hard line of parents not letting me watch R-rated movies when I was a kid. And so, like, there’s just this huge glut of movies. I’m slowly making my way through them, but then we had the director from Bull Durham on yesterday. I’m like, never seen Bull Durham. Rich, it was a tank interview with Rich to be clear. I would have watched it if I were doing uh the interview. Uh we got 30 seconds left. You haven’t been aggregated enough for anything you said so far today. So, your MVP favorite right now. Go. I uh God, I really sound like I have a problem right now. I pretend chugged a beer on Good Morning Football to promote the fact that I thought Baker Mayfield was going to win MVP. And this was on September 1st. So, I’m going to stand by that. It’s a pretty solid paint. That’s awesome. Yeah. Yeah. I uh it was an orange soda. We duct taped it to pro make it look like then it was hard for me to put the key in this and then I couldn’t crack it. My hands were sweating and I finally got it open and then it just went everywhere. Which orange soda is much worse than beer because that will sink in and stick. Yeah. Beer you wipe off like water. Yeah. So I I stand by my initial pick of Baker Mayfield and because you need a good story and a good character and he is all those things. Jamie, you are a good story. You’re a good character. Good sport for being there. Appreciate it. Jamie Erdall. Everybody can see her. Good morning people watching. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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27 comments
  1. There’s no shortcuts to a Super Bowl. If JJ doesn’t get through his reps it’s just delaying his development. Carson Wentz will not win a SB for Minnesota. At best it’s limp into the playoffs and first round exit. Just get it over with and get the rookie his experience. Or keep drafting 30 year old QBs teams give up on and making the playoffs just to lose round 1.

  2. This season is pretty much an average attempt. Work towards the future now, go w/ MCarthey while he’s in maternity leave and even Jake Brosmer should get some time. Eagles will take out this offensive line and make it easier to decide this week. But Vikes will be good next year.

  3. The problem is that the current fan base has no patience for QB development… Peyton/Aikman were a combined 3-24 in their first year—-now if a rookie QB doesn’t make the 2nd round of the playoffs in his first year he’s considered a bust. Relax, people.

  4. What we know about JJ is he's injury prone and didn't learn much from his first year. McCarthy hasn't had to face a lot of hardships in football or in life for that matter and it translates on the field. Not saying he can't be the guy in the future, but he's simply not ready yet. It's eye opening that they didn't resign Darnold or at least pick up a vet like Daniel Jones or Aaron Rodgers for him to learn under during training camp. Instead they signed Wentz during week 1. Seems like the Vikings aren't trying to capitalize during their play off window.

  5. To think darnold is playing well, Daniel Jones is playing well. They had both in the building as young qbs. You go with JJ and he's been rough to say the least, and they're already debating carson Wentz
    …… sucks to be a vikings fan woof

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