JJ McCarthy's Struggles Impacting Vikings: An Analysis

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00:00Let's start with this Vikings Bears JJ McCarthy yeah terrible Liz all right eight false starts

00:07I mean what more do you need with that team last week tell us how you really feel I'll be honest

00:12that's it so JJ McCarthy has put together two good quarters in four games I think is probably

00:23maybe he played a little bit better than one quarter maybe he's played like three good quarters

00:29of football right there was the the quarter the fourth quarter against the Bears was really good

00:34and it was good for maybe like a half against Detroit I had it you know fine all in all though

00:41it's been a rough start for McCarthy who's in this weird situation because he is a year two guy but

00:49it's his first year playing after last year's injury he is replacing Sam Darnold who was prolific for this

00:55football team where are you at right now on McCarthy as not only pertains to betting him

01:01week to week but trusting him potentially long term with the Vikings I don't trust them long term

01:07that game was glaring last week against I understand Baltimore's playing much better defensively but

01:13again there were throws that were just not even close last week and again he I don't know like

01:21he just he's got that rookie panic at times and I know you hear the reports oh the the offensive

01:28linemen love him you know they they see that fire in his eye and what fire what what what are we

01:35looking at but he's going he's walking around he's going like this he's calling himself not

01:40I just I don't understand like get the football to number 18 and get the football to number three

01:47that is your job nobody cares about anything else but getting the football to your top two playmakers

01:54and he hasn't been able to do that consistently Jefferson struggle last week Addison didn't get a

01:59catch in basically until the third third quarter I mean that that's unacceptable and they don't have a

02:06dominant rushing attack with Jordan Mason and Aaron Jones to carry them they don't and that's a problem

02:13I think the Justin Jefferson piece of it is maybe the most important Joe because Justin Jefferson is

02:22well understood to be one of the best players in this league right even if you you know are changing

02:30some rankings around due to great years from JSN and Puka that's one of the five best wide receivers

02:35in football by anything you look at he has now had less than 50 yards in three of the four games that

02:43he's gone out there with with JJ McCarthy his low with Carson Wentz was 74 and he I mean had a broken

02:52shoulder basically it looks like throughout that entire run and for Justin Jefferson you can tell there's

03:00frustration now he's taking a lot more ownership it seems of the situation Joe maybe more so than what

03:06we've seen from some other wide receivers around the league but if you can't get the ball to Justin

03:15Jefferson you just cannot be the quarterback of this team I think that's fair like that is a very simple

03:26setup here for this Minnesota team McCarthy is not going to get a level of grace that other quarterbacks

03:33would I how much do you think the ball is forced isn't my favorite word but it's the one I have

03:43available right forced to Justin Jefferson in this game well again you got to give him targets that's

03:49the bottom line and that's why he had 12 last week but that's why Jake Browning it wasn't the starter

03:56in Cincinnati because he wasn't finding Chase and Higgins on a consistent basis he wasn't doing that