SI's Albert Breer spent the latter half of last week with the Vikings.
for a few days of training camp and preseason action? You get new intel about the quarterback situation involving Sam Darnold and rookie J.J. McCarthy.
Darnold started Saturday's preseason opener against the Raiders before McCarthy entered the game and overcame an interception on his third pass attempt to finish 11-of-18 for 188 yards and two touchdowns, helping Minnesota rally for a 24-23 win. “What we’ve got to avoid is the illusion of quarterback play,” O'Connell told Breer. “It might be something as simple as,You get a top-10 pass rush in this league, and you took the wrong drop.
“That’s purely the comfort of making sure that 10 other guys in that huddle can break the huddle and run the play and be held accountable for the details of their job because I can do the baseline of mine, long before you have a ball leave your hands or make a check or an audible. That’s where I’ve seen the growth and development with J.J. He is getting better at that. Sam’s comfort of the system is growing on a minute-to-minute basis.
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