NFL Week 16 -- Football overload

Jets watching Vikings-Seahawks, led by Sam Darnold and Geno Smith, and wonder why they can’t draft quarterbacks like them.

It’s not them, Jets. It’s you.

I can’t wait for Zach Wilson to blossom.

 

Are you planning to follow him in the over-30 flag football league?

 

Giants looking good for the top pick, colts and eagles left.

 

It's absolutely incredible the baseball teams are likely going to have more recent wins than the Giants going into next season.

 

Darnold is having a great year, but every time I see him I get a strong Case Keenum vibe — a supposedly washed up QB on his third or fourth team, resurrects his career with an unexpectedly great season with the Vikings, signs a big free agent contract, and then immediately goes back to being washed up.

Come to think of it, the Vikings have a long history of guys like that. QBs who they pulled off the scrap heap, got one more good season out of, and then they immediately turned back into a pumpkin. You had Keenum, Sam Bradford, Favre, Jeff George, Warren Moon and Randall Cunningham. And then there were a few other guys they tried it with who couldn't find the magic.

 

The Giants beat the Browns on Sept. 22. Since then, the San Francisco Giants have more wins (3) than the New York Giants (1).

 

Gannon, Wade Wilson, Tommy Kramer, Culpepper,

 

All of those guys were drafted by the Vikings, weren't they?

 

This play by the Lions was brilliant, from the idea for it to the linemen yelling "FUMBLE! FUMBLE! FUMBLE!" while Goff and Gibbs are carrying out their fakes.



And then there's this — it might have been inspired by an actual broken play against the Bears from last season.

 

Maybe, Vikings QBs always seem kind of the same though - journeymanish - very much like Cousins. Good, not great. Good enough to keep the team from being in a position to draft a better replacement.

 

Fran Tarkenton is the Vikings' all-time leader in passing yardage. He retired following the 1978 season and was succeeded by Tommy Kramer, who is the Vikings' no. 2 all-time passer. And after that it's 40 years of Some Guys:

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/min/career-passing.htm

A team having two franchise QBs over a 15-year span and then not finding The Guy for four decades? THAT'S INCREDIBLE!

 

Oh, definitely. Gannon had his best years long after he left the Vikings, though. Culpepper and Teddy Bridgewater both had early success and then had bad injuries they never fully recovered from. I was thinking more of the guys that were already past their prime that the Vikings got one more good year out of before they completely hit the wall.