The Vikings have a quarterback battle for the first time in a long time... how will it play out? Well, that's anybody's guess
Have you ever thought about the number of times in Minnesota Vikings history that the results of the quarterback position have been insanely different than expectations going into a season?
How about telling someone unfamiliar with Vikings history that the Vikings had an eventual MVP quarterback as their leading passer for three years but he wouldn’t win the award for another decade. Or that they had a Hall of Famer in Warren Moon for three seasons but did better with a ninth-round pick who mostly played basketball in college.
What we can do is go over all the potential outcomes and what they would mean to the Vikings’ 2024 and beyond.Back in 1999, George took over for Randall Cunningham and put together a remarkable 8-2 run and led the Vikings to victory over the Dallas Cowboys in the wild card round of the playoffs. The “Greatest Show on Turf” Rams beat them 49-37 the next week and the Vikings decided to move on from George and hand the pigskin over to first-round draft pick Daunte Culpepper in 2000.
In order for Darnold to reach the point where the Vikings are considering keeping him next year and beyond, he would have to perform at a level that has essentially not happened in many, many years. Out of all QBs to throw at least 1,000 career passes in the last 10 years, Darnold has the second lowest QB rating only ahead of Brock Osweiler. He is behind Mike Glennon, Trevor Siemian, Blake Bortles, Brian Hoyer and, yes, Case Keenum.
The Vikings’ schedule through the first half of the season makes this one pretty plausible. Following their opener against the New York Giants, they take on the 49ers, Texans, Packers, Jets, Lions and Rams. All teams with extremely high expectations and mostly good-to-great defenses. Putting aside the bizarre injury part of this, it could play out this way for the Vikings: They enter training camp assuming that Darnold is going to start and then McCarthy ends up winning the job and playing the entire season even if the consensus pre-camp was that he needed a lot of development.
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