00:00Now to the wild card teams and Donnie to be 14 and three in a wild card team is just a crazy
00:07Crazy idea, but that's what the vikings were this season
00:11Of course losing in game 272 one of the biggest regular season games to end out a regular season
00:17We had ever seen in nfl
00:19History, but the vikings end up as the 5c they take on the rams in the opening round
00:25They lose that game in glendale, arizona throughout most of the year drs. This was not expected for the vikes
00:32They drafted j.j. McCarthy 10th overall bring in sam donald as that veteran guidance
00:38But perhaps to start maybe a few weeks and then turn it over to mccarthy
00:43The preseason win total last year for minnesota just seven and a half. They nearly doubled that number
00:50But now what is the outlook?
00:52How does minnesota turn the page a 32 to 1 number to win super bowl 60 24th overall pick only three?
01:01Total picks and a projected comp pick for a third round selection, but 56 million dollars in cap space
01:08So of course the rs as it was in the back half of the 2024 nfl season
01:13Until sam donald kind of floundered in that final regular season game in the playoff game against la
01:21The question was about donald's future. It still remains
01:24What should minnesota do with sam donald who is a free agent this offseason?
01:30The tough part about it is like the quarterback position in the nfl
01:33If you're a start you're going to command big time money
01:35And what are you saying to your young kid that you just wrapped in the first round?
01:38You're not ready for two or three more years at this point
01:41so I think the decision was made for them based on how
01:44minnesota season ended the collapse in the last game of the season and then an embarrassing performance on a
01:49Neutral site playoff game against the rams not even a true playoff game at the ramps here
01:54So when you're looking at going forward you saw 14 wins last year for minnesota
01:58Unbelievable performance because nobody saw that coming specifically when your rookie quarterback goes down. Uh, donald hasn't had much success here
02:04Hopefully we can get a couple wins out of the guy to have that many wins. That was really impressive
02:08But understand this you see the cap space 56 million
02:11They got to pick up some cornerbacks
02:12But also try to add to that offense you saw justin jefferson come out in an interview and basically say I don't really care
02:17Who's throwing me the football i'm going to make plays, you know, that sounds all fine and good
02:21So i'm led to believe a quarterback that you drafted high
02:24I'm sure you have high expectations for who wasn't a passer in college is just going to step up in his first year
02:30Basically his rookie year as a starter and be as dominant as sam donald was throughout the season to get 14 plus wins
02:37That's not happening in minnesota
02:38And that's not necessarily been a bad thing
02:40Because your only goal this year is to make sure that you have your quarterback of the future at a progressive
02:45And if that means making the playoffs awesome
02:46But if it doesn't you're just grading it on what you feel that quarterback is going to do
02:51so for me
02:51This is one of the few teams that you look forward to a playoff run and say I got to downgrade him this season because
02:56The question mark is I don't know what i'm getting out of j.j
02:59McCarthy a rookie quarterback that all we saw was him tear his knee up and then has to go through his rookie season again
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