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Minnesota Vikings Face Tough QB Decision With Sam Darnold
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1/16/2025
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I thought the Minnesota Vikings entered week 18 against the Detroit Lions with a very easy
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decision to make at the quarterback position.
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Bring back Sam Darnold, let him be your starting quarterback, and do not rush J.J. McCarthy.
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Darnold's play through the first 17 weeks, 16 games certainly earned him that starting
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job with McCarthy coming off of, I believe, multiple knee surgeries, but ultimately again,
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you know, a huge injury this off season and throughout this season.
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You don't want to rush him.
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There's no reason to do that if you were the Minnesota Vikings through your first 16 games.
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Then there was the Darnold performance against Detroit.
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That was concerning.
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That was not great, obviously.
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It was arguably his worst game of the season.
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It was undeniably one of his three worst of the season.
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And you had to hope for a number of reasons, right?
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Well, next week will be better.
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Next week when we go out there and take the field in LA against LA in Arizona, Darnold
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is going to be better.
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And he wasn't at all.
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Darnold was arguably worse than the week before.
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Again, gave you one of his worst performances of the season.
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And now for Minnesota, the decision is probably just as easy.
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It's just a completely different decision, which is you let Sam Darnold go, you thank
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him for a fun season, but you obviously cannot go at it again with Sam Darnold.
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Not with a first round draft pick that people were excited about behind him.
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Not with a first round draft pick that some thought would ultimately beat Darnold out
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for the job this year had health not been able to get in the way.
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You cannot have Darnold and the season with these two performances and then trot him out
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week number one next year.
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You can't do it.
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You can't because Sam Darnold and his play through 16 weeks, it seems was going to command
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him let's say around a $40 million contract annually, maybe 30 if the market was logical,
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but it doesn't ever seem we do that, especially at the quarterback position.
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And Minnesota paying Darnold that much money would have been again, acceptable if there
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if it wasn't with this ending, because you already have McCarthy on a cheap deal.
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You can make things work.
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If you were Minnesota, well, Sam Darnold cost himself millions of millions and millions
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of dollars these last two weeks, undoubtedly about truly about as costly a two weeks as
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you will ever see in NFL history.
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What happened with Sam Darnold's performances in those two games?
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It is hard to imagine though, that Darnold is going to go from commanding a potential
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40 million annual contract, right?
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Where it's maybe a three year deal.
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You can get out after two, right?
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The Daniel Jones contract to backup quarterback money.
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And that's what he would be in Minnesota.
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He would be a backup quarterback.
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So now if you were Minnesota, the decision is kind of made for you.
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You just have to let him go.
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