Dianna Russini

And it almost felt...

over the top at times um and guess what you win a game like last night and he lives up to all of it and that changes the dynamic of that locker room and just the way we view this Vikings team which is a team that is built to win a Super Bowl Diana Diana how close were the Vikings to instead of going with McCarthy to either paying Darnold or actually bringing in Rodgers

yeah so going back to free agency when they had to make that decision it wasn't easy from what i gather like they had serious talks because remember they had daniel jones there too right so daniel jones he wanted to be the starter he didn't want to have to come in there and compete and the vikings were like hey we're going to sign you come back here compete against jj and if you win the job you're the starter daniel's like now i can just go somewhere else make more money and pretty much have a better shot of winning right because you know for daniel jones's perspective

Competing against the draft pick, the top choice, is going to be a tougher challenge, especially when they want J.J.

McCarthy to work.

Whereas the Anthony Richardson experiment had already kind of been out.

And obviously Daniel Jones seemed to have made the right decision, as did the Colts.

As for Sam Darnold, there were definitely tons of discussions.

What do you do?

He was fantastic in the regular season.

He won 14 games.

No, I agree with you.

I do think there has to be a bit of a patience.

At least the fan base needs to be patient here.

But when you see what he was able to handle last night,

in Chicago in the fourth quarter and bouncing back from a pick six back bouncing back from the turnovers and really just a poor performance for three quarters and rally his team to win a guy that just doesn't lose I look I don't want to overreact it's week one I get it but for a organization that put all their chips in Kevin O'Connell Kwesi the ownership everyone said he's the guy

They this gamble seems to be working out based on just this one game.

And look at the way Kevin O'Connell can coach.

It doesn't really even matter at this point who the quarterback is.

He's able to figure out how to run an offense through his quarterback, even if it's a little simple, because that was some of the criticism here was that, oh, my goodness, unleash this kid like he's got the training wheels on.