Daily Norseman
Well, we have ourselves another QB debate! The sides are lining up and slinging arrows already (yours truly included). Gotta love it no? I do not know what is going to happen but we have now reached the stage of bloggers, media types, and doofuses (of doofi – also raises hand) are speculating on trading JJ. Things move fast eh?
I am going to guess that the team laughs about it internally. You cant stop the speculators from speculating. If the team, not any of us fans, decided to trade him they would eliminate any lingering summer quarterback controversy and eliminate media distractions. If Kyler starts and play most or all of the season then JJ is going to be sitting on the bench and his value will be less next year.
You can see from the links below that some “writers” are already going way too far with some of the stuff liek JJ stretching away from the other QBs. Maybe Kyler is a gassy dude? Maybe JJ had gas? Who knows? I watched Edelman talking about Moss who always stretched with the defensive linemen. It’s much ado about nothing but that is the kind of stuff that will get written all summer. Every facial expression will be analyzed.
I think the Jets who have three first round picks next year should jump at the chance to get JJ. They might do badly and have a top pick next year but if not, then they have to hoep to be able to trade up. The Vikings were unable to trade up for Maye (I’m told). Then, what do they do? Sign Baker Mayfield is he hits the market? IDK. I think the Jets have the draft capital to make a deal.
The Jets send a 2027 2nd and a 2028 conditional 5th for JJ.
Josh Rosen was traded for a 2nd and a 5th and McCarthy’s tape over his first 10 starts is vastly superior to Rosen. Darnold was traded for a 6th, 2nd, and 4th round pick. The Justin Fields trade is a bad analogy because he was traded after 38 starts.
If the team was going to trade JJ then I think this makes a lot of sense on both sides.
My guess? I do not know now. I think they will hang onto him longer but if they really do feel that Jyler is the one then they would be doing “right” by JJ to let him go to another team before training camp so that he can get into the offense.
In the meantime, we shall “debate” away!
A little note about links. I do not write these and they are what pops up when I google “Vikings news”. I usually post most of the links and unfortunately there are a lot of stories about the QB situation.
Viking Rumor Watch: The Top Trade Piece, J.J. McCarthy “Controversy,” Week 1 Perk
https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/viking-rumor-watch-top-trade-050500846.html
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