🚨BREAKING: Vikings Announce Carson Wentz Will Start vs. Chargers

🚨BREAKING: Vikings Announce Carson Wentz Will Start vs. Chargers

We got some breaking news for you Vikings fans as Carson Wentz was officially named the starter for the Thursday matchup against the Los Angeles Chargers. My name is Patrick Seatman and welcome in the Vikings now by chat sports. Just going to get this off my chest here first. I completely disagree with this move. I think they should have went to Max Bromer obviously since JJ McCarthy clearly isn’t 100% healthy just yet. But I uh completely disagree with it, but I give you guys uh give you guys my thoughts here in a second. But it was Tom Pelisero. He tweeted this out saying, “Vikings coach Kevin Okonnell is the team.” But JJ McCarthy dealing with an ankle injury through an onfield workout this morning. And while the team is encouraged, quote was, “He’s just not there on a short week. Carson Wentz starts again. Max Bromer backs him up and McCarthy will be the emergency third quarterback. But he also tweeted this out which I thought was interesting. Kevin Oonnell says if there was a game this Sunday, JJ McCarthy might have a chance to go. That would seem to put him on track to be available to start week nine against the Lions. Which if JJ McCarthy if for whatever reason this guy is not starting week nine against the Lions, I am going to blow a casket. I am going to be absolutely furious just because one, the Vikings have been just kind of lying about this JJ McCarthy injury. either it’s way too serious or way more serious than we thought or JJ is just clearly not there as a starting quarterback. Like clearly they have no faith in him executing any sort of a game plan. But back to this Carson Wentz decision. I completely disagree with this. Just going to get this out there. Wentz was so bad against the Philadelphia Eagles. You go back and watch the All 22 version from the quarterback’s angle. He was just missing wide openen touchdowns like the CJ Ham throw. He’s got CJ Ham wide open and flat with a lead blocker. Wentz pisses down his leg, throws the ball into the dirt. Intentional grounding. You’re backed up third and 18. You’re not starting. The Jordan Addison throw when he caught on the right sideline. First drive of the game. That was a walk-in blown coverage touchdown for Jordan Addison. He throws it about seven yards behind him. Addison’s looking for the ball here. Has to turn around, make a diving catch, and those were like the viral plays we saw. But it was even just not even giving Justin Jefferson a chance whatsoever in the fourth quarter. He was targeting him, but he was throwing the ball three yards away from him. Like I remember when, you know, with Kurt Cousins, with Sam Darnold, even when Justin Jefferson is covered, he’s still open. Get him more chances. He was just absolutely horrible against Philly. And I’ll get to this. Why not start Max Bromer? Like, I understand he is a UDFA. He has never played a snap of regular season football. But what upside does Carson Wentz bring? Like first off, I don’t even know if Carson Wentz gives you a better chance to win this week compared to Max Bromer. Like let’s just say Wentz goes out there, he is 250 and two and maybe he looks good because Carson Wentz, he is a very, you know, polarizing player. He’ll have some, you know, great plays here and there, but majority of the time if he’s throwing the ball 42 times a game like he did last week, he’ll have about nine to 10 plays. you’re just sitting there saying, “How the hell is this man a starting quarterback?” But let’s just say Max Brosman went out there against the Los Angeles Chargers and he threw for 250 and two. I would much rather have the conversation heading in the next week against the Lions. Who should start, Brosmer or JJ? Cuz those are both young quarterbacks, guys that can develop into a franchise guy. We know what Carson Wentz is. He doesn’t bring any upside. So, I just completely disagree with this move. And also, he will never win you a big game. This is a big game on Thursday. You are three and three. You’re going against a Chargers team led by Justin Herbert and Jim Harbaugh. You are not going to be able to walk into that building with poor quarterback play. Now, maybe KOC if you staying committed to the run, Jordan Mason is getting it going like the run game and the defense can go win you that game. But if this game script and this game flow requires you to have your quarterback make big time throw after big time throw after big time throw, Carson Wentz’s not going to do it. But back to JJ. If JJ doesn’t start week week nine, we officially have major issues like officially because then I’m thinking in my head like, man, does KOC really just know not trust this guy? Like does he not even want to develop him or is this you know injury clearly way more serious than it was? It was initially reported from the jump. This was a two to four-week injury. Okay. So then he wasn’t out there after the four fourth week. JJ gets a second opinion. They’re saying it’s a six week injury. So week nine, that would be seven to eight weeks removed from week two against the Atlanta Falcons. If JJ is not starting week nine, we officially have problems. And then everything KOC’s been saying his press conferences over the last couple of months. Like he’s been just lying, like just flat out lying to the media and to the fans. So if JJ doesn’t start week nine, we officially got issues. But let me get you guys’ thoughts on this. Maybe you guys disagree with me. Maybe you think Wes, you know, should be the starter for whatever reason. Drop that uh down below in the comments section. Give me one good reason why Carson Went should start against the Chargers this Thursday. Let me know your thoughts down below. Now, the only reason I can see, you know, why Kevin Okonnell made this move is one, the Vikings believe the season isn’t lost. And I also don’t believe this season is lost. Like the people who are saying, you know, I see it on social media, on Twitter, in the comment section all the time where it’s like, oh, the Vikings, this season’s over. Might as well start developing young quarterbacks. You are three and three football team. You can turn that around instantly. Now you look at the schedule, it’s a gauntlet. Like I can hear the argument why you would think the season is lost, but as it stands right now, it is not completely lost yet. So if you don’t think the season is lost and you still think Carson Wentz gives them the best chance of win, then yes, I can hear you out. But also, I disagree with that last part. I don’t think Carson Wentz gives you the best chance to win. He lost you that game against the Philadelphia Eagles. There was probably 45 quarterbacks on the planet right now that could have won that football game. like the Eagles. Jaylen Herz was fantastic. AJ Brown and Dvonte Smith, they were cooking you guys. You just can’t go back to Wentz and that’s what the Vikings decided to do. So, I just disagree with this move. And honestly, if we’re just looking back at this off seasonason, it’s been horrible for the Vikings. Like Will Fry, Ryan Kelly, Javon Javon Hargrave only played 50 snaps of I think it was like 79 last week defensively. He was getting outrepped by Jaylen Redmond. Jaylen Redmond also had 20 more snaps in him. Jonathan Allen, he had a good game, but for majority of the year, he’s been pretty poor. Like all these free agent signings you made were the reason why you brought those guys in was because you didn’t pay Sam Darnold. Well, those guys you brought in haven’t been living up even close to the contracts you gave him. And this is my biggest gripe about the offseason. It’s not even about letting Sam Darnold walk, letting Daniel Jones walk. My biggest gripe with this Vikings off season was why did they not value a backup quarterback? You had JJ McCarthy, 22 years old, coming off a torn meniscus. Why did you not bring in a backup quarterback like a Joe Flack who’s playing good football, like a Jacobe Brassette even who’s playing good football over the last two weeks? And I can already see it. Well, Patrick, the comp pick formula. Comp pick my ass. You have a young quarterback who needs a one a veteran in that room and you just decided, oh, we’re going to play the comp pick game. Oh, but we’ll trade for Sam How on draft night and then we’ll see Sam How in the preseason we don’t like what we see and then we go trade for Carson Wentz to be the backup. Like that process is so bad. Like even if Wentz would have worked out and he would have been a good backup quarterback for which he really hasn’t sure like maybe you can make the argument that you know the result was good but still the process was poor that you were valuing a comp pick as the reason why you didn’t want to go bring in a Joe Flacco a Jacobe Pep because also Flacco wasn’t signed for you know majority of this offseason you could brought him in at any time a gardener Mchu even but they didn’t do that because they wanted to play the comp pick formula and also these two Guess we can just call it like it is. This looks like a horrible mistake. A horrible mistake. Sam Darnold looks better than he did in Seattle than he did the previous season in Minnesota. Daniel Jones, you guys know the Colts offense has been historically great this year. Historically great. They are averaging the most points per drive over the last 25 seasons. They’re averaging more points per drive than the 2007 Patriots with Brady and Moss, the 2018 Chiefs when they were one of the best offenses of all time at Payton Manning back with the Denver Broncos when he won MVP. Like, I just don’t understand this. And the one thing I don’t understand is that KOC didn’t want Sam Darnold back. like the fact that he saw Sam Darnold in his offense, win you 14 games, throw for 35 touchdowns. And he didn’t say to the front office, “Guys, do whatever you can to bring him back. Even if we have to pay a little more than we want, even if it’ll limit our free agents spending on some defensive tackles on some interior offensive linemen, we can make this work.” Because the one thing that’s also driving me crazy, and listen, I’m not saying most people, most Vikings fans were okay with letting Darnold walk after the last two weeks. But Sam Darnold, what if he had another year learning the playbook? What if he had another year building that connection with Justin Jefferson? Like, what if his late season collapse was just because that was his first time playing real big boy football in the NFL where it was a week 18 game taking on the Lions for the number one seed. That’s a big time spot. like necessarily like it kind of felt like Darnold’s like not like rookie year obviously but his first year being a legit guy. So I just can’t believe KOC and maybe it was an ego thing with them because I’m sure KO probably told Quazi where it’s like hey I can I could get anybody to have that. I could get Carson Wentz to have that performance. You can’t like the quarterback position is the most important one of all sports and the fact that they just let Sam Darnold go for I mean Darnold signed a threeyear hund00 million contract with only about 37 million guaranteed. You could have made that work. You didn’t need to go get Javon Harrave for another 40 million. You didn’t need to go get, you know, Ryan Kelly for another 12. Like I just uh it is just looking bad. Like it is just looking bad. And listen, I’m not saying the Vikings also could have won a Super Bowl with Sam Darnold, but man, you would have been a whole lot better. And also, let’s just say you brought Darnold back for a year or two. You could just go the Green Bay Packers route where you could just say, “Hey JJ, we’ll give you another year. keep on developing, keep on working behind the scenes, get, you know, fully healthy from that torn meniscus. I’m just stunned. Like, I’m stunned we are in the position we are right now. So, we’ll talk about more injury news here in a second. But before we do so, I want to tell you guys about today’s presenting sponsor, that being prize picks. Now, if you guys download Prize Pix app today, put in that promo code CNS, we’ll hook you guys up with $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup. 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It’s promo code CLS to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup. Massive shout out to the prize pics for sponsoring today’s show. Prize Pix, it’s good to be right. All right, we got to get some positivity here on today’s show. A lot of negativity, but uh some good news. The Vikings are designating running back Aaron Jones to return from injured reserve, which is uh you know, obviously good to have him back. I I still think no matter what, uh Jordan Mason will be the lead tailback. Um even once Aaron Jones returns, but still having him in the blitz pickup, having him in the pass catching game, just having another safety net option will be nice because, you know, honestly, the running backs outside of Jordan Mason right now haven’t been good enough. Um, anytime the Vikings run the ball without Jordan Mason, it just hasn’t gone anywhere. Um, it hasn’t been positive plays. And KC did say like there is a chance he plays Thursday. He was honestly giving Aaron Jones a lot of credit saying, “Hey, like he doesn’t really need, you know, obviously everybody needs practice, but he doesn’t need need practice because he is a veteran. He knows the playbook like the back of his hand. So, if he’s fully out or fully ready to go, I do expect him to be active for the Thursday game against the Los Angeles Chargers. And I’ll tell you what, no more Xavier Scott touches. Xavier Scott was a cool preseason story. This guy’s clearly not ready to be an NFL like starting caliber running back in the NFL uh regular season. So, no more Xavier Scott touches. That would be fantastic. And you know, in the end, like you need to get downhill against the Los Angeles Chargers. The Los Angeles Chargers defense for, you know, being led by Jim Harbaugh and Jesse Miner, they haven’t been the same against the run as especially close to what they were the previous year because they were, you know, up with us, the Minnesota Vikings, as one of the best rushing offenses or defenses in the league. And that hasn’t been the case this season. Teams are running for 5.1 yards per clip on them. That’s 28th in the league. They are averaging almost 25 rushes a game. That’s 11th in the league. Opponent rush yards per game, 123.6. So clearly teams are finding success running the ball against the Chargers. And also they’ve been gashed by the some of the top running backs in the league over the last three weeks. This is ridiculous. Jonathan Taylor running for six yards a carry. He also had three touchdowns on the ground last week. Devon Achan going for 16 carries, 128 yards, eight yards a clip. And then Bill Crosky Merritt 14 carries, 111 yards, 7.9 yards a clip. Like there’s really no excuse to not get Jordan Mason the ball and just stay committed to getting Jordan Mason the ball. It doesn’t matter who is in that quarterback, whether that’s, you know, JJ, Froz, get 27 the football. You want to make that quarterback’s life a whole lot easier. That starts with number 27. He’s a physical, bruising back. I still think he is one of the most underrated players in the league. Kevin Oonnell, please get to hit this guy the football because if you don’t probably gonna lose this game if you can’t run the ball like the Vikings going to have to almost play a perfect game like in all other aspects besides the passing game because I really don’t have any faith in Carson Wentz at this point. Like the film was that bad. Like, you know, normally it’s a it’s old cliche. I think it was Bill Parcels who said it was like, you know, when you have a really good game, the film is always not as good as you think it is. And then like on the opposite end of the spectrum, like when you have a bad game, the film is always not as bad as it really is. For Carson once this past Sunday, it was way worse. Like way, way worse. Just missing wide openen receivers, you know, missing wide open touchdowns. So, if you want to help him out, that’s the guy to do so. Number 27. Let me ask you guys this. Over under 72 and a half rush yards for Jordan Mason on Thursday. The Vikings want to win this football game. This better be uh a for sure over. You guys let me know. Give me an over for over. Give me you for under. If you’re going to take uh Jordan Mason 72 and a half rush yards this Thursday.

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