Matthew Coller and The Athletic’s Alec Lewis react to the first week of Vikings training camp and give their overconfident takes on what they have seen so far.
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Could the defense check out Lewis Cine at cornerback?
Thanks for putting in the time Matthew
1hr gang
Great insight today…keep up the great work
does this dude block people on youtube too. hey, matthew, i disagree with something you said in the video!
Honestly, Darnold being his usual self gets benched for Mullens and JJ still doesn't see the field is fine to me. This team did that in 1999 with Daunte. Cunningham benched, in comes Jeff George for the rest of the year. 2000 comes along and it's Daunte's team. That is a more than acceptable blueprint regardless of 2024 outcome.
Title change 😉It's not over confident…..call it McCarthy Confident😅
I'm curious to see the question, asked to coaches
Are you happy with JJM mechanics now?
Question for you guys (again keeping it in perspective ie vs 2s vs 1s)
Over the middle how do you feel confident fitting it into the window? Darnold? JJM?
Question for you guys (again keeping it in perspective ie vs 2s vs 1s)
Over the middle how do you feel confident fitting it into the window? Darnold? JJM?
My over confident say is JJM is checking all the boxes, moving quicker than expected
Thinking he has moved from QB3 right now to QB2, he will be the backup….ie if you have to put in a backup to win , better chance with JJM rt now,not a knock on Mullens
Curious to see how preseason gms go
As well as shared practices?? Is that a thing this year?
Put JJ McCarthy in against the Vikes 1st Team Defense and see how he does , to get a better idea where JJ is at.
JJ McAurathy
Last year they had trouble getting the run game going in the first 2 quarters, where by they were explosive, and kept defences off balance, slow down the rush
You get the threat of Jones/chandler being able to break that first tackle and open the run game…..will make the pass protection that much better
Darrisaw got 77.5 guaranteed of the 104new, 113m overall
As you said team friendly but quarenteed for the player that's making it work for a allstar top LT
This is a top 5 offence less the QB…..personal wise
Question becomes, does one or two QB elevate their game where they are competent and able to limit turnovers and help propel the offence into scary territory
Up until the cb problem, I was very confident that with losses and new personal coming in , that the defence will be more diversified and top defensive team this coming year( even with some holes)
Meaning they are keeping the ball in the offences hands more, and keeping opponents defence on yhe field more😊
Do you have any evidence Mahomes needed to sit other than "experts" didn't know what they were looking at pre-draft. Btw, as an "expert", where did you think jj should have been drafted? Lol.
Duke will lock it down on his side,I couldn't believe it when the teams were targeting duke and he stood strong, and they got over on pat p.
Seriously the best Vikings content! SKOL
I still think Mccarthy is starting day 1.
Sign Gilmore or trade for Sea CB. Xavien Howard ??
I will not accept Duke Shelley slander!
Lazer McCarthy
If you look at Darnold's turnovers in the past 2 seasons – they are markedly down on his first 4 seasons, 7 TDs and 3 INTs in 6 starts in 2022. In 2023 he only played about 5 quarters, and threw one redzone INT pressing when 14 points down vs the Ravens with 2 mins to go, (rather than a check down on 4th and 8), so I don't think it's such a big thing now.
For the record, in 2022 Baker started the season 1-6 (with CMC), and Darnold closed the season out, after CMC was traded, and under an interim coach, 4-2.
Kirk was pretty terrible in his first 3 seasons, even worse than Sam, so maybe we should park the NY Jets history.