Vikings Territory Breakdown Podcast
Organized staff actions started in earnest this week in Minnesota, and quarterback Kyler Murray donned purple for the onlooking media for the primary time. He was joined by final season’s inheritor obvious to the place, third-year QB J.J. McCarthy, who spoke after follow concerning the quarterback room (which additionally consists of Carson Wentz and Max Brosmer from final season). In keeping with Alec Lewis of The Athletic, who reported the next quote, J.J. could or is probably not happy concerning the former Arizona Cardinal now a Viking.
“It’s just like two guys in a classroom,” McCarthy mentioned. “He sits on one side, and I sit on the other side. It’s the coaches’ responsibility to teach us and coach us.”
Now, whereas this quote doesn’t precisely smack of the West Aspect Story’s Jets and Sharks-type rivalry, it doesn’t sound like all is kumbaya both. Because it shouldn’t. If something got here out of the primary days of OTA’s, it’s that the quarterbacks obtained the message that there can be a real competitors—which was not the case for McCarthy, the erstwhile “anointed one,” final season. So, till these teammates are listed on the ultimate depth chart (and even the primary one), they are going to do battle.
However within the meantime, that’s simply the sort of factor we media sorts feast upon. Due to this fact, the fellas on the Vikings Territory Breakdown podcast—Joe Oberle, senior author at vikingsterritory.com and purplePTSD.com, and Mark Craig, NFL and Vikings author for the Star Tribune and startribune.com—will feast away. Tune in for that meal and different OTA morsels. Skol!
Joe Oberle is a veteran sportswriter/editor/reporter and has coated the Vikings since 2008. The creator of three books, he … Extra about Joe Oberle
