Really not sure what you expected out of JJ…Watched a replay of the first half, as usual score not indicative at all in a preseason game. No Houston starters on offense and mostly 1st team for the vaunted Vikings D and HOU rolled thru them and scored a TD. Thought McCarthy looked average and missed some throws. Hard to tell on the offense as Jets is a game changer and didn’t play.
I was fine with JJ series vs Houston, was about what I expected from him as essentially still a rookie QB
I also didn’t think that many starters on D opened the game. Houston went through them like a hot knife cutting butter…but preseason is meaningless with very vanilla D fronts & schemes.
The single most important part of playing QB in the NFL is accuracy. When guys have to fall down to catch your throw that’s not good. He has nothing to worry about cause Howell looked even more inaccurate this week. Brosmer is making the QB depth chart decisions very difficult. With Jefferson out we won’t know anything until a couple weeks in.
There is a scene in the 2nd season of the Netflix series "Quarterback" where (I think it was Cousins) the guy breaks down what a QB has to do at the line of scrimmage before EVERY play. It's insane. The second season of that series is definitely more technical than the first.
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Really not sure what you expected out of JJ…Watched a replay of the first half, as usual score not indicative at all in a preseason game. No Houston starters on offense and mostly 1st team for the vaunted Vikings D and HOU rolled thru them and scored a TD. Thought McCarthy looked average and missed some throws. Hard to tell on the offense as Jets is a game changer and didn’t play.
I was fine with JJ series vs Houston, was about what I expected from him as essentially still a rookie QB
I also didn’t think that many starters on D opened the game. Houston went through them like a hot knife cutting butter…but preseason is meaningless with very vanilla D fronts & schemes.
The single most important part of playing QB in the NFL is accuracy. When guys have to fall down to catch your throw that’s not good. He has nothing to worry about cause Howell looked even more inaccurate this week. Brosmer is making the QB depth chart decisions very difficult. With Jefferson out we won’t know anything until a couple weeks in.
I don't disagree about Howell, but not sure there's enough there to assert McCarthy can't complete a pass without his receivers falling down.
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We have a trade.
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The Vikings have quite a bit of depth at DL/OLB so one of themes was cuts were going to be difficult there so this helps with that.
On the flip side depth at WR, TE, and CB are lighter so I wouldn't be surprised if they look to add somebody from one or more of those positions and now they some more draft capital if an opportunity presents itself.
Amari Cooper is still out there (free agent). I'd advise against it, but if they are desperate enough...
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We have a trade.
so once again a Minnesota pro team makes a trade and picks up a terrible draft choice 6th round?
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Clearly Phillips was beaten out as a starterWe have a trade.
so once again a Minnesota pro team makes a trade and picks up a terrible draft choice 6th round?
(based on the Vikings off-season trade acquisition)
…so rather than keep him as a bench player they traded him…sonewhere he has a chance to start…the sky isn’t falling.
The little I looked into it, they’re saving some cap money this way and deep on the d line and are looking to use the draft picks and the cap space to go after a wr. I don’t think it’s a bad move. JJ needs some weapons to throw to, especially weeks 1-3.
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