ESPN: Inside the Viking's plans for JJ's lost rookie season

[StickierBuns]

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/4568...n-oconnell

[AGRforever]

We’ve got all our eggs in the JJM basket. Just stay healthy young lad.

[MaroonBells]

Good read. Sounds like after KOC accused other teams of having dirty hands in the development of their young QBs, he wanted to be absolutely, positively certain he would not be one of them. 

From the refusal to play him his rookie season even if he were healthy to putting a quality IOL in front of him to the VR reps to the DC scouting reports, they're doing everything the right way. I think it's going to pay off.

[StickierBuns]

Listen, nobody knows how JJ will do this year....it appears he's being set up for success and he's worked hard to get better. That will be part of the fun, watching it unfold. The thing that I've found so tiresome with the media, although all they really do now is put out eye rolling clickbait mostly, did they really think a guy they moved up to get in the Draft at #10 wasn't going to be handed the keys? Ben Leber said as much as well, it was a foregone conclusion. Every team would and has done that. Now the news on McCarthy has been stellar up to this point, but we were always heading right here. The 24/7 filler that is required for media output is so transparently contrived to either provide rage bait or flowery hyperbole, that engagement they need to monetize it. I find it extremely difficult to find anything decent to read that isn't obviously clickbait garbage. But of course that is what training camp coverage is all about, exaggeration unfortunately. I really detest both extremes: overly negative and ridiculously deluded positivity. I'm not speaking of this article, which I think is decent, but the other 85% of stuff I've read for the last 6 months.

Just stay healthy, Minnesota. Get us to MNF in tact and we can get back to reality based live football talk. Say what you want about Seifert, but he's usually level headed as a reporter. He's a touch dry for sure, probably trends toward curmudgeon....but I'll take it sometimes instead of some of this other stuff I bump into online.