Minnesota Vikings Face Tough QB Decision With Sam Darnold

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00:00I thought the Minnesota Vikings entered week 18 against the Detroit Lions with a very easy

00:08decision to make at the quarterback position.

00:12Bring back Sam Darnold, let him be your starting quarterback, and do not rush J.J. McCarthy.

00:20Darnold's play through the first 17 weeks, 16 games certainly earned him that starting

00:27job with McCarthy coming off of, I believe, multiple knee surgeries, but ultimately again,

00:35you know, a huge injury this off season and throughout this season.

00:43You don't want to rush him.

00:44There's no reason to do that if you were the Minnesota Vikings through your first 16 games.

00:53Then there was the Darnold performance against Detroit.

00:55That was concerning.

00:57That was not great, obviously.

00:59It was arguably his worst game of the season.

01:01It was undeniably one of his three worst of the season.

01:07And you had to hope for a number of reasons, right?

01:13Well, next week will be better.

01:15Next week when we go out there and take the field in LA against LA in Arizona, Darnold

01:24is going to be better.

01:27And he wasn't at all.

01:30Darnold was arguably worse than the week before.

01:33Again, gave you one of his worst performances of the season.

01:40And now for Minnesota, the decision is probably just as easy.

01:51It's just a completely different decision, which is you let Sam Darnold go, you thank

01:58him for a fun season, but you obviously cannot go at it again with Sam Darnold.

02:06Not with a first round draft pick that people were excited about behind him.

02:11Not with a first round draft pick that some thought would ultimately beat Darnold out

02:15for the job this year had health not been able to get in the way.

02:21You cannot have Darnold and the season with these two performances and then trot him out

02:28week number one next year.

02:30You can't do it.

02:31You can't because Sam Darnold and his play through 16 weeks, it seems was going to command

02:40him let's say around a $40 million contract annually, maybe 30 if the market was logical,

02:50but it doesn't ever seem we do that, especially at the quarterback position.

02:56And Minnesota paying Darnold that much money would have been again, acceptable if there

03:04if it wasn't with this ending, because you already have McCarthy on a cheap deal.

03:11You can make things work.

03:14If you were Minnesota, well, Sam Darnold cost himself millions of millions and millions

03:21of dollars these last two weeks, undoubtedly about truly about as costly a two weeks as

03:28you will ever see in NFL history.

03:32What happened with Sam Darnold's performances in those two games?

03:37It is hard to imagine though, that Darnold is going to go from commanding a potential

03:4540 million annual contract, right?

03:51Where it's maybe a three year deal.

03:53You can get out after two, right?

03:56The Daniel Jones contract to backup quarterback money.

04:03And that's what he would be in Minnesota.

04:05He would be a backup quarterback.

04:08So now if you were Minnesota, the decision is kind of made for you.

04:15You just have to let him go.

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