Vikings HC addresses the detailed QB plan

According to Kevin Seifert von ESPN, the potential interest of the Minnesota Vikings is currently “in the queue” in the quarters of Aaron Rodgers, while in 2024 Pick JJ McCarthy “is working through the offseason” Complete meniscus repair
That exposed him for all of his rookie campaign.

On Monday, the Vikings head coach Kevin O’Connell spoke to what he describes as “a fairly detailed plan for how we want to go”, adding at least one further quarterback in a room with McCarthy and long -term backup board.

“We were patient and rated many different options how we could possibly do this,” said O’Connell, as Kevin Patra von Seifert and NFL Media was shared. “There are potential trades and freelance agency and still the draft. We are just making the process to find out who the player is, whom we want to consolidate this room with the knowledge that JJ and board work here, and finally we will fill out this room and still have a competitive situation, but they look at it.”

Since March, O’Connell and General Manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah have deliberately refused to call McCarthy their starter 2025 week 1 after he had learned that Rodgers was interested in playing for the club that went 14: 3 last season. During a recent appearance in “The Pat McAfee Show”, Rodgers said that he was “open to everything”, as reports that the Pittsburgh Steelers are the only club who wants to sign him this spring.

On Monday, the Vikings were mentioned as a potential landing site for the troubled Atlanta Falcons Backup Kirk Cousins. Cousins ​​lost his starting job against 2024 Rookie Michael Penix Jr. last December, and the veteran played well under O’Connell from September 2022 until the 36-year-old had suffered one Achilles torn in autumn 2023. However, cousins ​​has a complete no-trade His contract and may not want to move his family for the second time in a row, just to serve as a backup with his former employer.

At the moment, O’Connell and Co. hope to be McCarthy when Minnesotas QB1 will be completed in June until the mandatory Minicamp practices.

“He did a phenomenal job (with) what I would really call (these) invisible habits, invisible work that he did, when nobody really watched, consolidate and completed his rehab in many ways,” said O’Connell, where McCarthy is in this phase of offseason. “Then into a phase in which he was really able to push them from a thrower (point of view) to the field and ultimately also to edit its technology and basics and then ultimately also the mental side of it.”

As long as Rodgers does not remain signed, outsiders continue to believe that he believes that there will be a certain chance that O’Connell will decide that the future Hall of Famer is the better option for a win-now team than an unpaid 22-year-old who has never taken a sensible snap shot as a professional. For what it is worth, it is unclear when the Steelers of Rodgers want to know before they go in a different direction.