Vikings TRADE UP to select J.J. McCarthy at No. 10 | Pat McAfee Draft Spectacular

and now you have a guy who I think can come in and be legit on a lot of Roman Dooms teams, a great basketball player, and he's going to win a one-on-one game against the Jets. on the clock they

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d a spot by giving up 129 and 157 to the New York Jets, The Jets will be on the watch after this pick is announced. Guess who JJ McCarthy is going to the Minnesota Vikings?

It seems like this has been talked about since the combine, even before. They won't be able to pay Kirk if they pay Justin Jefferson Kirk. To go, we're going to look at a younger quarterback. JJ McCarthy is inevitably the guy they trade a spot to grab the former winning hockey player, another IMG Academy kid. Bill bich, yes, again, two number one picks for the IMG Academy. I mean, that's it. This is like, you know, Alabama, kick them out, this is awesome, but, you know, there's a lot of things I like as part of IMG. I'm just saying you should understand something when you look at his high school, what Coach Miller has done. over the last six years it's amazing, but anyway there's a lot of things I like about McCarthy, I mean, this gets tough, he's a great leader, you know, he's an alpha guy, the players love him, his teammates They love him and he makes a lot of good decisions.

I know he really helps your team, I think he'll work well with the Vikings and you know, I think coach McConnell did a great job with him and he's got some good players to work with, especially, you know? Jefferson, every time you think about the future of JJ McCarthy and he saw the movie, what we see, what we like, what we don't like and what Kevin Oconnell will be able to improve and take advantage of from a guy who has had success. With almost any quarterback you put in his offensive system, let's go to yeah, here he is.

I mean, there's not much to dislike about McCarthy. I mean, one thing is the question is his weight, you know, he weighs 202 and then 219. You know he's somewhere in there, you know we'd like him to be at 219, not 202, but again, this guy's got a shot. quick, he can get the ball out, he also reads coverage, he just has a lot more experience than uh and they huddled together too. Coach is a big deal as I know Nick was talking about playing him they actually got together and did all that and his defense wasn't used to seeing it and he plays under center you know he ain't in a shotgun all the time. time so he can handle under Center, he can handle play action passes, turn his back to the quarterback, uh, but here he is getting the ball out quick, this if you run back for a second foxy, uh, this is Look, foxy, so this is Chop Robinson. coming off the edge here and look how quickly McCarthy gets the ball out here, I mean get it out and have a full gain and have a 10 yard gain when he ends up essentially unblocked, so that's pretty good, he's got good ball security.

I know he had the two pick sixes against TCU in a championship game, uh, but I would say that in general, like this guy, it's third and 10, you know he's going to protect the team, he's not looking to turn the ball over and say his ball security is completely down. the field right there this is a second and 10 plays again another quick throw now it's third and a third and two get back on track those plays help your offense you know it again taking gains you know every play won't be an 80 yard touchdown you know he's good at making good completions good solid plays here he throws while running you know he puts the ball right on the money good solid gain of 10 12 yards like you need those plays in the NFL now if you want to run the ball with this guy it's a good runner and he's tough, so here he's athletic, yeah, here's the sweep, you know, he does a good job reading the hole, you know, and this is a really good run game decision, so sarpio, you know, he's reading. the rotation comes to the right side here and so instead of passing the ball or to the left side, instead of passing the ball here, you know he sees Isaac take it, he throws the ball down and then again, with a good solid race, just make good decisions in fourth and this is a really good play.

You know, they run the little thing here and everyone's covered. He has no one to throw to. He's six and seven yards behind the line of scrimmage. You have to get the first try and make a good one. I'm not saying this guy is a better running back than Jaden Daniels, but he just makes good decisions and is definitely good enough. Here's another second and second down where you know he has to read the defensive end and the rotation. top Sorry, yes, at the top of the screen, here, here, he takes the ball and runs away.

Isaac Edge, burn out, gets a first down, so you know these are the ones you want him to hit here, he's got the crossover pattern, you should bowl the over. he routes and yet he tries to, you know, get onto the field toward that flag, you know he has no chance of doing it again. There are also things he can work on, but overall, this kid makes a lot of good football plays, yeah, I think. What we like about JJ here is that he's also a winner, you know as you go, I think he only lost one game, he beat Ohio State and obviously there's been a lot of downtime at Ohio State because he What JJ McCarthy and Jim Harbaugh did for them in the last three years win a national championship, they played hockey growing up.

This is the type of person you would love to see leading the program. Yeah, he's the guy that I feel the players love. I saw him we were out there we were watching him he's meditating before the game under the goal post what's going on here GU Barefoot doing all this I like it I like all that I think it's cool the guys like the old lady mentality school old school toughness with some new age in it you know I think about mindfulness and it seems like he also loves his teammates and takes care of the ball like Bill says yeah I absolutely love JJ McCarthy Pat you mentioned that He's a 27-1 winner, you know?

A lot of times we don't talk about it, listen, if you win in college, there's a good chance you have the skills to win in the NFL, but I'm curious as a coach when you look at a guy like JJ McCarthy obviously played a lot in college. , do you think he'll go to Minnesota and be the guy that starts from Geto? Obviously they signed Sam Darnold, a guy whose soul you basically ripped out of his body, yeah, exactly. saw a ghost thanks to you um it's a situation where they expect JJ McCarthy to come in and start right away.

You know, I can't speak for Coach Oconnell. He would just say that for me he would initiate it when I believe. he's ready if it's the first week it's the first week if it's mid-season it's mid-season I think as a coach, when you feel like he's ready that's when you put him in, if you put them in too early you don't want to have to take them after the week Week four or week five, you have to wait until you know this is our guy, we're going to go all the way with him and he's ready enough to play at a moment's notice, meaning after the second preseason game.

I don't know, but I think with that position what you don't want to do is you're in, you're out, you're in, you're out once he's ready, you put him in and then you have to live with it. They may be a couple of bad ones, you know the tough spots there, but you're going to stick with them and you're going to get into a great situation as well. You mentioned that I see one with a lot of different quarterbacks that lost, they didn't do as well in those close games. but he comes with Justin Jefferson, who we think is going to quit, probably the best receiver in the league, and then Jordan Addison, who also had a great rookie year and will continue to create separation, so I think he's going to be in a good situation. every time it starts, definitely, five quarterbacks have been

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I think it was a 2021 or 2022, everyone had predicted that this year would go through all six quarterbacks in the first. Remember that Michael Penx was only minus 130 a week ago to enter the first round. JJ McCarthy was chatting about maybe he was the fourth quarterback. Instead, in my eyes, he finds a perfect home in Minnesota, yes.