J.J. McCarthy's Struggles Highlight Minnesota's Offensive Woes

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00:00Minnesota was so bad on offense.

00:02And I start with J.J. McCarthy.

00:03And I know it's hard to sort of grade rookies,

00:06even though he's in his second year,

00:07really his first year of starting

00:08because he missed last year with that knee injury.

00:10But the one thing coming out of Michigan,

00:12I just, I couldn't correlate was

00:14Michigan's biggest wins and Michigan's best games

00:17were, J.J., don't throw the football.

00:19And we were led to believe that,

00:20okay, he's just a great leader

00:21and he has a big arm,

00:22he'll be able to translate in the NFL.

00:24He stinks out loud.

00:25He was terrible yesterday.

00:2787 yards passing,

00:28two interceptions, a QBR of 17.9.

00:32I know it's going to take some time and some learning,

00:34but sometimes you look at throwing,

00:36you know, throwing the football and the mechanics.

00:38It just looks like he has a big wind up in loop

00:40and it just doesn't work.

00:41And also don't understand this.

00:42They have two quality running backs.

00:44They have maybe the best wide receiver in football

00:46in Justin Jefferson,

00:47who we thought was a boy genius also

00:49that's calling plays here.

00:50Something isn't working in Minnesota

00:52and it's completely on the quarterback's shoulders.

00:54Joe, last year, yeah, it didn't end all that well,

00:56but Sam Darnold had that offense cooking

00:58and that was actually a good football team.

01:00All you did was remove the quarterback

01:02and now you stink.

01:05Yeah, they're not good.

01:06I mean, it didn't get much uglier

01:08than what we saw with him there in that spot,

01:11in that game.

01:11I mean, and I don't know.

01:13I mean, usually Kevin O'Connell, right,

01:15is a very confident head coach,

01:17but my goodness, does he look,

01:21he just, he kind of thrown his hands off

01:23some of the expressions on the sideline

01:25with some of those throws yesterday.

01:27Like, he looks like,

01:29this is not working out at all.

01:33I mean, two interceptions for a third straight week,

01:36just buried the Vikings against what,

01:38I'm sorry, Donnie,

01:39I thought it was a very beatable Green Bay Packers team,

01:42but just never felt like this kid

01:45was in control of anything

01:46and, you know, I'll give him one more year.

01:49I think that's all you can do here

01:50with Kevin O'Connell,

01:51but it's not looking good.

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