Apologies in advance for disappointing nearly everyone on earth, but we are not yet past the threshold where it’s appropriate to have a take on J.J. McCarthy, who is now—checks notes—three games into his professional career.
The Vikings beat the Lions on Sunday, which is neither a cause for celebration nor a cause for concern given McCarthy’s performance. In the box score, he finished 14-of-25 for 143 yards, two touchdowns and an interception (plus a nine-yard rushing touchdown). The McCarthy file is more of a ledger at this point, on which there is a line down the middle bisecting his good points from his bad. Ideally by the middle of next season, when a proper sample size has given truth to those points, we’ll be able to sacrifice him to the talk show gods with a higher degree of confidence.
