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JJ McCarthy or Bust!
It appears that the consensus is that JJ McCarthy should be given the QB job without any competition. If alternate idea is suggested for discussion sake, the defenders arrive in full force and will label/slander the person making the idea. Comical.
I do plans every offseason and I try to do different versions for possible discussion. I have no clue what the team is going to do nor do I have a preference. Yet. I will not be upset with any outcome besides bringing back Kork.
Vikings first-round QB J.J. McCarthy just asking for ‘fair opportunity’ in 2025 return
“All I can ask for is a fair opportunity,” McCarthy said Tuesday on The Rich Eisen Show. “That’s the one that I feel like everybody’s given and it’s fundamental. When money gets involved, things get complicated, and reps get skewed and there’s different things that come into the whole ‘political’ world that everyone talks about. But I really just have to focus on controlling what I can control. My feelings don’t matter.”
Despite his status as the 10th pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, McCarthy isn’t expecting any preferential treatment upon his return it would seem.
“I’m not getting any grace,” he said. “There’s no sympathy. This is the big leagues.”
The 22-year-old just plans to move forward, much as he did during the season, taking from it what he could and trying to draw from O’Connell.
“Our conversations have just been [about nothing but] the greatest thing for the Minnesota Vikings,” McCarthy said. “At the end of the day, there’s a lot of things that are certainly above my pay grade and some things above his pay grade. He’s the one that has the pen last on the field, and that’s about all I know. So, just be in the moment with him every chance I get to interact with him and really pick his brain, because those are a lot of moments I could mess up thinking about the future, thinking about the uncertainties I can’t do anything about. It’s really just optimizing each moment and each time I have with that great mind of the game.”
“I’m just gonna control what I can control,” he said, “and attack each day with an enthusiasm [unknown] to mankind.”
J.J. McCarthy confirms he’s ahead of schedule in recovery from knee injury
“I would say this, he’s ahead of schedule,” Sports Illustrated insider Albert Breer told Rich Eisen this week. “He’s able to do just about everything now. The second surgery was really just a clean-up. And he’s gonna have a full offseason. So he’s not gonna be limited by anything this offseason.”
McCarthy, appearing on Eisen’s show on Tuesday, was asked if that characterization is a fair way to put it.
“That’s very fair,” he said.
Justin Jefferson on the Vikings QB situation: ‘J.J. will definitely get his shot’
*Alright, JJ yesterday said he just wants a fair shot...
