I’ve seen the tv series, is your pretty typical American school drama type thing, is good if you like those sorts of series Not seen the film or read the book. I don’t think the film and tv series are linked at all, apart from being about high school football
Don’t think it’s related to the tv series then. TV series is about a Texas high school team and the players/coaches in a typical American high school drama type thing, maybe inspired by the book to a degree, as I say worth a watch if you like that type of show. Will have a look at the book, how seriously high school sport is taken in America has always interested me just for its batshiness in comparison to the UK
It’s pre season, the receivers are getting wide open against players who probably aren’t going to be on a roster by the time the season starts, really hard to learn anything from these games tbh
Oh I'm aware of that. But then this is McCarthy's first time throwing in an NFL stadium in a game. Besides, JJ won't be starting the season as first choice. It's all about how he looks at this stage and his potential as an NFL QB. And I've liked what I've seen. Very early days but I have high hopes fir him.
He played for Michigan, I don’t think the Vikings stadium is going to bother him. But I get your point. I can see Darnold being starter for majority of the year and being OK
I'm Always up for some highschool drama. I heard about the series but never watched it because I'm not sure what streaming service it's on and I refuse to have anything more than Netflix and Disney Plus. As for now seriously high school sports is taken, I agree. It still bemuses me that high school sport is frickin televised and the results are posted for all to see. Honestly I don't think anyone outside of my school cared about the sports results but in America people seem to actually care about highschool results. I guess because some of the players will eventually become NFL players. For example there is a site called Max preps which has various high school results. Imagine people actually caring about the results of your highschool. Craziness
It’s to do with there not being academies linked to pro teams like there is with football here. So every player who will go professional plays at high school then college (in football anyway, not the same with other sports) but yeah it is still mental and the life these kids lead is crazy, everything done for them and handed on a plate, even if high school is the pinnacle of their athletic ability. When I was 16 I got offered the chance to go to Florida and play football in some camp which college scouts came to and you could maybe get a scholarship offer to an American college. We were staying in a hotel and in the hotel was an u14 ice hockey team who were competing in the nationals for their age group. ESPN were interviewing them, their whole town had come to watch them (they were from Maryland if I remember rightly). Was ****ing mental, must have been awesome to be a kid and that happening.
That’s most likely him done for the season. They will opt to do a full repair to not risk the complications that come with a trim. Not the end of the world as Darnold would likely have been the starter for majority of the year but obviously he could never recover/misses out on training for his rookie year
There's no such thing as curses. It's fine, he can learn the playbook, watch lots of tape, get lots of advice from Darnold, Kevin, the QB coach etc. He can develop mentally even if he can't develop physically
Yep another definitely not cursed off season for the Vikings Kyree Jackson dies Jordan Addison gets arrested a week later for DUI Mekhi Blackmon tears his ACL JJ McCarthy has a sore knee and turns out his meniscus is ****ed I mean this season was always likely not going to amount to much anyway but this isn’t the best preparation for it
Isn't surgery for a torn meniscus normally around a 6 week lay off? Sure they won't take any risks at all but as knee injuries go it's not a particularly bad one.
Sounds like there are two options, a trim which is about 6 weeks or a full repair which is 3-4 months. Won’t know what is required until they open up the knee and see, but a trim leaves the possibility of issues returning so I doubt they will opt for that even if it is possible to do
OK so even if it's the latter option and it's a few months, it's hardly going to be a huge set back like an ACL injury which can be 12-18 months. I would say the development pathway the Vikings have set out for him will be largely unaffected.
Assuming everything goes well then yeah. He has age on his side but knee injuries in the NFL aren’t good. He can still watch and learn but he is going to miss a large chunk of training in his rookie year so we’ll have to see how that effects his development
All of which are unfortunate coincidences. We only notice them because we support the Vikings. Who's to say similar things haven't happened with other teams? Plus Addison has free will, no curse forced him to get drunk or high or whatever it was.
