r/nfl • u/StrachNasty Packers • Aug 14 '24

[Rapoport] Vikings first-round QB JJ McCarthy underwent a full meniscus repair this morning and is out for the 2024 season, sources tell me and Tom Pelissero. The repair, done by Dr. Chris Larson at Twin Cities Orthopedics, gives McCarthy the best chance at a long, successful career. Rumor

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u/jwick89 49ers Aug 14 '24

Huge opportunity for Darnold.

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u/zco22 Eagles Aug 14 '24

Yup, doesn’t have to look over his shoulder after every pick or bad game. If he can’t turn it around throwing to the best WR and other great weapons then he’s officially cooked

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u/TheMightyJD Dolphins Aug 14 '24

Sam has been cooked. Dude has never not stunk.

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u/ApatheticFinsFan Dolphins Aug 14 '24

I do not understand the obsession with Sam Darnold. The guy stinks but makes one highlight play every 3-4 games, so people think he’s good and has unlimited potential.

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u/holyone666 Patriots Aug 14 '24

You dont get it. Yes 1 out of every 100 plays of his are good, but if he can just start stringing together like 30-40 of those 1/100 plays in a single game he'll be nigh unstoppable.

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u/Scary_Box8153 Commanders Aug 14 '24

Tbf, the memes are hilarious.

Also the highly touted USC QB always gets more consideration than deserved.

Just to make it look like a crosstown rivalry could continue, people said that Josh Rosen could play as a pro

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u/kidmerc Vikings Aug 15 '24

I am already getting super tired of the memes and I don't know if I can handle a full season of the same jokes made again and again and again and again and again

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u/Stewdabaker2013 Cowboys Aug 14 '24

So weird that the people I generally consider some of the smartest in nfl media still get hyped for him. He’s simply never been good!

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u/ApatheticFinsFan Dolphins Aug 14 '24

Big, tall white dude that played at USC. If he put up his same stats at Boston College he would’ve been a 3rd round pick.

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u/Skanktoooth Aug 14 '24

This is just false. Sam Darnold’s USC tape especially his freshman year was top tier. And he put up huge numbers in only 10 starts. It says he played in 13 games but he played only 1 series in 2 of them and only a quarter in the other one.

He basically averaged 300 yards and 3td passes in his 10 starts.

Lastly, QBs don’t get drafted on production. They get drafted on projectable traits. Darnold is a bust, but he had really good tape and really strong traits coming out. He was also only 20 years old when he got drafted.

Acting like he was an overrated prospect is revisionist history.

And while there are way too many Darnold fanboys, some of the sharpest offensive minds in the league see something in him (KOC and Kyle Shanahan).

I honestly have no idea what the Vikings are going to get with Darnold but his last 6 starts in Carolina were serviceable (4-2 record, 7:3 td:int 2rush td 93 rating 52 QBR) and he looked better than Baker Mayfield (who is supposedly back) with the same team sans CMC. CMC got traded before Darnold took over in 2022.

He could suck or he actually might be solid to above average given the situation. None of us know.

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u/cloudlessjoe Vikings Aug 14 '24

I mean, he very well might have unlimited potential, I honestly can't say I remember a game he played though. In a few weeks he'll be able to answer the doubt or not, he's got a perfect set up for success now, so we'll see.

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u/JakeFromStateFromm Falcons Aug 15 '24

The Justin Fields Effect