April 10, 2025 • 15 mins
Minnesota Tim discusses J.J. McCarthy, the Minnesota Vikings' franchise quarterback, focusing on his winning mentality and the challenges he may face transitioning from college to the NFL. Tim emphasizes the importance of not prematurely labeling McCarthy as a winner based solely on his past successes in high school and college, arguing that the NFL presents a different level of competition that requires proof of success at that level.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Welcome into the show today. Thank you for making this
podcast a part of your day. My name is Minnesota Tim.
Hit that subscribe button if you are watching on YouTube
or if you're listening somewhere else. The topic today is
Jaj McCarthy, the Minnesota Vikings franchise quarterback, and he is
(00:30):
really going to be the topic for roughly the next
year because based on how he plays and performs, whether
that's good, whether that's average, whether that's bad, Jaj McCarthy
is going to be the lead story amongst Minnesota Vikings fans, podcasters,
(00:54):
and the people inside the Vikings facility. An Egan, But first,
before I dive into McCarthy, I need to tell you
about five Star Bath Solutions of Minneapolis. My wife and
I were in the market for a bathroom. We needed
one badly. Our bathroom was outdated. It was gross. It
(01:15):
was nasty, moldy, single sink, gross floor, big step. See
the bathroom before us was made for elderly people that
had movement issues. There's grab bars everywhere. We didn't need
that and we didn't need a step going into the shower.
So we looked at five Star Bath Solutions of Minneapolis.
(01:37):
Here's how our bathroom used to look. I talked about
it a little bit. Had the step, had the blue floor,
moldy shower, handrail in the shower, just kind of disgusting, outdated,
gross looking. So I found five Star Bath Solutions of Minneapolis,
and they did all of this in four forty eight hours.
(02:01):
It was not a six week project. Plus they have
financial payment options available. Take a look at those floors, beautiful,
modern looking floors, updated shower and bath, double vanity, new sinks,
double sinks, new vanity, beautiful bathroom. In forty eight hours.
(02:25):
It was not a six week project where we all
needed to cram downstairs into the basement for six weeks
while they got this project done. They got this done
in forty eight hours, and we were using that bathroom
three days later. Five Star Bath Solutions of Minneapolis. There's
a reason why they're called five star because they get
five stars. Five Star Bath Solutions of Minneapolis. Contact them
(02:49):
today to get the best bath remodel in the world. Okay,
so JJ and McCarthy. Aaron Jones went on the Good
Morning Football television show, which is also a podcast, and
he had this quote to say about McCarthy. JJ's a winner.
(03:11):
If you look from high school to his time in college.
He's lost one career game, and there's nothing wrong with
that fact he's lost one career game. He won the
national championship at Michigan. Highly successful player. They're a highly
successful player in high school. Sounds like you want state
(03:34):
championships in high school. To this point in McCarthy's career,
all he's done is win games. And if there's one
thing that I know is true about McCarthy, it's that
the dude has a winner's mentality and a winner approach
(04:01):
to the game, Meaning the dude is going to do
whatever it takes to win football games, whether that's jumping
over the pylon for a touchdown, whether that's pulling off
a Brett Favre play where he's blocking for Adrian Peterson
twenty yards down the field. That's the quarterback that McCarthy is,
(04:25):
and I've never had any doubts about his willingness to
have that mentality of a winning quarterback. The way he talks,
the way he prepares, the way he discusses football, you
can tell that this guy bleeds football and that's really
(04:46):
one hundred percent of his life. Now to point holes
in that formula of all you want to do is
win great, you know, if you want to be a
successful NFL player. But as far as their personal life,
maybe should have a little bit more personal life than
just all one hundred percent of football all the time.
(05:07):
Personally speaking, I think it's okay to be Kirk Cousins
and having a sabbath and not being one hundred percent
dedicated to the game every single day of every single hour.
But that's McCarthy. That's what he is. That's how he's built,
and that's the mentality that he has. And you can
tell based on how he talks because he hasn't played
(05:29):
a single game yet, so there's no evidence in the
NFL that shows us that he's all this all that,
but the way he prepares and the way he discusses
the game, you can tell that he is that kind
of player. There's a video posted the other day and
I thought this was remarkable. Jaj and McCarthy back in
(05:54):
high school firing up his teammates before the football game.
Take a look at this video, because this is pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Boy, Bolly, remember why you played this game?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Like we're thinking too much? Who cares about the ESPN?
Who cares about all the fans out there. We play
this for us. We played this together.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Nobody's been working harder than us. We know we can
run whatever we want out there.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
We know we can do it.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
We know we can execute, we know we can dominate
them on all three basis. But when we started getting complacent,
that's what happened.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Now, put that on me too.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
We all we all have played that part. We all
were struggling. My legs were tired, my mind wasn't right.
We though, hey, how we gonna handle that versus in
our second half.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
I do not when things.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Go wrong the second half, I do not want to
see one head down.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I don't want to see callings in the air. I
don't want to see any any calling out.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Because we're a family, We're a brotherhood.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
We talked about it, we preach it.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
We gotta act like it when we out there.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
The whole world. What that's McCarthy. That is classic McCarthy.
And you listen to him talk and the player that
McCarthy reminds me of is Tim Tebow. He's got a
Tim Tebow mentality, but hopefully has an arm like Joe Burrow,
(07:24):
because that's who we drafted him. To be. We drafted
him to be the franchise quarterback. But the part that
we know he has down is the ability to lead
men and the ability to wear that see on his
shoulder pads and actually take on the role of captain.
(07:49):
But going back to his winning mentality, JJ's a winner.
If you look from high school to his time in college,
he's lost one career game. What does high school football
or college football have to do with anybody's success at
(08:16):
the highest level. Are the best quarterbacks the ones that
win the most amount of games collegiately, are the ones
that pass for the most of the ours collegiately? Are
the best quarterbacks the ones that always win national championships?
(08:37):
The answer is no. Patrick Mahomes, he never won a
national championship. Joe Burrow, Sure, yeah he did. He also
is throwing to Justin Jefferson, Jamar Chase and had overall
one of the greatest collegiate football offenses that college football
(09:01):
has ever seen. Josh Allen Did he win a bunch
of collegiate football games at a small Division I school?
Was he touted as a guy that could take his
team to a bunch of w's No. Aaron Rodgers was
he a guy that led California to a bunch of
(09:26):
big time rose ball ball game victories? No? So can
we quit with this idea of McCarthy was the Winter
in high school? He is the Winter in college. And
that automatically means that that is going to translate into
(09:49):
Jameis Winston w's at the NFL level. That's ridiculous, And
you know that's ridiculous. But because you think and believe
that McCarthy is going to be the greatest quarterback ever
because the Vikings drafted him tenth overall, then you are
(10:13):
buying into though he's a winner in high school, as
a winner in college, and now he's going to be
a winning in the NFL. Because he's a winner at those
two levels. The NFL is a completely different level that
cannot be compared to collegiate or high school football. Because
if it was the case, if it could be compared
(10:34):
to collegiate football, the number one overall pick would never
be a bust. JaMarcus Russell would be the greatest quarterback ever.
Jamis Winston would be leading his team to Super Bowls
every year. The NFL cannot compare to the collegiate or
high school level. Everything is an estimation on players everything.
(10:58):
So to say that McCarthy was in college, good for him.
But because he won in college does not mean that
he is going to be a winner in the NFL.
I just looked at the draft Kings' odds for the
Vikings next year, and the over underwing total right now
(11:21):
is eight and a half. If McCarthy struggles his first
season and the Vikings win eight games, what does that
say about McCarthy's winning mentality. I thought he wanted a
high school in college. I thought he had this winter mentality.
I thought he was a winner. Why is he losing?
(11:43):
It takes one bad season, one season where he loses
more games than he wins, to punch a hole in
this theory of well he won in high school and
he won in college. You need to be careful with
it because you could easily run the other way and say,
well is he a bus Then he had one bad season,
(12:05):
the Vikings have a losing record. What about his college wins?
What about his national championship? I thought this guy was
the Beasneys. So you need to be careful about labeling
McCarthy as a winner. He was a winner in high school,
He is a winner in college, but he's not a
(12:27):
winner in the NFL yet. You need to prove yourself
at every single level. Just because you won in college
does not mean you're gonna win in the NFL. And
just because you won in high school doesn't mean you're
gonna win in college, although there is probably a greater
chance of that happening from high school to college because
(12:48):
then you're gonna get recruited by a top program like
Alabama or Michigan, and then things will be looking probably
pretty bright for you because those teams are always loaded.
But the point still remains. Everyone is so quick to
call McCarthy a winner because of what he's done in
college and high school football, but he has not done
a single thing in the NFL, so he is not
(13:11):
a winner yet, and he does not have the accolades
to be called a winner at the NFL level. He
has a winner's mentality and he has a winner's work ethic.
He acts like a guy that cares so much about
the game and loves the game, and you can call
(13:32):
that a winner's mentality, but it doesn't mean that that's
automatically going to translate into winning seasons every year. So
I just every time I hear that, I push back
against that thought because Patrick Mahomes, Tom Brady, these guys
(13:54):
were not the winningest collegiate football players. Took forever to
Brady to even start in college, and those are two
of the greatest quarterbacks the game has ever seen. So
if that's the case about guys that didn't win in college,
it certainly does not mean that guys that won in
(14:15):
college are going to be automatic winners in the NFL.
Because you think about college football and the players that
are playing collegiate football, how many of them go to
the NFL. Certainly less than five percent of them, probably
(14:38):
less than two percent of them. So you're playing collegiate football,
it's a high level, but you're not playing NFL competition.
When you're in the NFL, you are playing the top
one percent every single week. So because of that, winning
(15:00):
collegiately doesn't automatically mean you're a winner in the NFL.
So let's just pump the brakes, hold their horses, and
take a chill pill on labeling McCarthy as a winner
in the NFL. Thank you for watching this episode and
(15:21):
for making this podcast party day. Check out five star
Beth Solutions of Minneapolis and be an amazing, happy customer
like my wife and I are. It's awesome, incredible. Thank
you for watching, and thank you for making this podcast.
Privy Day
Welcome into the show today. Thank you for making this
podcast a part of your day. My name is Minnesota Tim.
Hit that subscribe button if you are watching on YouTube
or if you're listening somewhere else. The topic today is
Jaj McCarthy, the Minnesota Vikings franchise quarterback, and he is
(00:30):
really going to be the topic for roughly the next
year because based on how he plays and performs, whether
that's good, whether that's average, whether that's bad, Jaj McCarthy
is going to be the lead story amongst Minnesota Vikings fans, podcasters,
(00:54):
and the people inside the Vikings facility. An Egan, But first,
before I dive into McCarthy, I need to tell you
about five Star Bath Solutions of Minneapolis. My wife and
I were in the market for a bathroom. We needed
one badly. Our bathroom was outdated. It was gross. It
(01:15):
was nasty, moldy, single sink, gross floor, big step. See
the bathroom before us was made for elderly people that
had movement issues. There's grab bars everywhere. We didn't need
that and we didn't need a step going into the shower.
So we looked at five Star Bath Solutions of Minneapolis.
(01:37):
Here's how our bathroom used to look. I talked about
it a little bit. Had the step, had the blue floor,
moldy shower, handrail in the shower, just kind of disgusting, outdated,
gross looking. So I found five Star Bath Solutions of Minneapolis,
and they did all of this in four forty eight hours.
(02:01):
It was not a six week project. Plus they have
financial payment options available. Take a look at those floors, beautiful,
modern looking floors, updated shower and bath, double vanity, new sinks,
double sinks, new vanity, beautiful bathroom. In forty eight hours.
(02:25):
It was not a six week project where we all
needed to cram downstairs into the basement for six weeks
while they got this project done. They got this done
in forty eight hours, and we were using that bathroom
three days later. Five Star Bath Solutions of Minneapolis. There's
a reason why they're called five star because they get
five stars. Five Star Bath Solutions of Minneapolis. Contact them
(02:49):
today to get the best bath remodel in the world. Okay,
so JJ and McCarthy. Aaron Jones went on the Good
Morning Football television show, which is also a podcast, and
he had this quote to say about McCarthy. JJ's a winner.
(03:11):
If you look from high school to his time in college.
He's lost one career game, and there's nothing wrong with
that fact he's lost one career game. He won the
national championship at Michigan. Highly successful player. They're a highly
successful player in high school. Sounds like you want state
(03:34):
championships in high school. To this point in McCarthy's career,
all he's done is win games. And if there's one
thing that I know is true about McCarthy, it's that
the dude has a winner's mentality and a winner approach
(04:01):
to the game, Meaning the dude is going to do
whatever it takes to win football games, whether that's jumping
over the pylon for a touchdown, whether that's pulling off
a Brett Favre play where he's blocking for Adrian Peterson
twenty yards down the field. That's the quarterback that McCarthy is,
(04:25):
and I've never had any doubts about his willingness to
have that mentality of a winning quarterback. The way he talks,
the way he prepares, the way he discusses football, you
can tell that this guy bleeds football and that's really
(04:46):
one hundred percent of his life. Now to point holes
in that formula of all you want to do is
win great, you know, if you want to be a
successful NFL player. But as far as their personal life,
maybe should have a little bit more personal life than
just all one hundred percent of football all the time.
(05:07):
Personally speaking, I think it's okay to be Kirk Cousins
and having a sabbath and not being one hundred percent
dedicated to the game every single day of every single hour.
But that's McCarthy. That's what he is. That's how he's built,
and that's the mentality that he has. And you can
tell based on how he talks because he hasn't played
(05:29):
a single game yet, so there's no evidence in the
NFL that shows us that he's all this all that,
but the way he prepares and the way he discusses
the game, you can tell that he is that kind
of player. There's a video posted the other day and
I thought this was remarkable. Jaj and McCarthy back in
(05:54):
high school firing up his teammates before the football game.
Take a look at this video, because this is pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Boy, Bolly, remember why you played this game?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Like we're thinking too much? Who cares about the ESPN?
Who cares about all the fans out there. We play
this for us. We played this together.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Nobody's been working harder than us. We know we can
run whatever we want out there.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
We know we can do it.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
We know we can execute, we know we can dominate
them on all three basis. But when we started getting complacent,
that's what happened.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Now, put that on me too.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
We all we all have played that part. We all
were struggling. My legs were tired, my mind wasn't right.
We though, hey, how we gonna handle that versus in
our second half.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
I do not when things.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Go wrong the second half, I do not want to
see one head down.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I don't want to see callings in the air. I
don't want to see any any calling out.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Because we're a family, We're a brotherhood.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
We talked about it, we preach it.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
We gotta act like it when we out there.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
The whole world. What that's McCarthy. That is classic McCarthy.
And you listen to him talk and the player that
McCarthy reminds me of is Tim Tebow. He's got a
Tim Tebow mentality, but hopefully has an arm like Joe Burrow,
(07:24):
because that's who we drafted him. To be. We drafted
him to be the franchise quarterback. But the part that
we know he has down is the ability to lead
men and the ability to wear that see on his
shoulder pads and actually take on the role of captain.
(07:49):
But going back to his winning mentality, JJ's a winner.
If you look from high school to his time in college,
he's lost one career game. What does high school football
or college football have to do with anybody's success at
(08:16):
the highest level. Are the best quarterbacks the ones that
win the most amount of games collegiately, are the ones
that pass for the most of the ours collegiately? Are
the best quarterbacks the ones that always win national championships?
(08:37):
The answer is no. Patrick Mahomes, he never won a
national championship. Joe Burrow, Sure, yeah he did. He also
is throwing to Justin Jefferson, Jamar Chase and had overall
one of the greatest collegiate football offenses that college football
(09:01):
has ever seen. Josh Allen Did he win a bunch
of collegiate football games at a small Division I school?
Was he touted as a guy that could take his
team to a bunch of w's No. Aaron Rodgers was
he a guy that led California to a bunch of
(09:26):
big time rose ball ball game victories? No? So can
we quit with this idea of McCarthy was the Winter
in high school? He is the Winter in college. And
that automatically means that that is going to translate into
(09:49):
Jameis Winston w's at the NFL level. That's ridiculous, And
you know that's ridiculous. But because you think and believe
that McCarthy is going to be the greatest quarterback ever
because the Vikings drafted him tenth overall, then you are
(10:13):
buying into though he's a winner in high school, as
a winner in college, and now he's going to be
a winning in the NFL. Because he's a winner at those
two levels. The NFL is a completely different level that
cannot be compared to collegiate or high school football. Because
if it was the case, if it could be compared
(10:34):
to collegiate football, the number one overall pick would never
be a bust. JaMarcus Russell would be the greatest quarterback ever.
Jamis Winston would be leading his team to Super Bowls
every year. The NFL cannot compare to the collegiate or
high school level. Everything is an estimation on players everything.
(10:58):
So to say that McCarthy was in college, good for him.
But because he won in college does not mean that
he is going to be a winner in the NFL.
I just looked at the draft Kings' odds for the
Vikings next year, and the over underwing total right now
(11:21):
is eight and a half. If McCarthy struggles his first
season and the Vikings win eight games, what does that
say about McCarthy's winning mentality. I thought he wanted a
high school in college. I thought he had this winter mentality.
I thought he was a winner. Why is he losing?
(11:43):
It takes one bad season, one season where he loses
more games than he wins, to punch a hole in
this theory of well he won in high school and
he won in college. You need to be careful with
it because you could easily run the other way and say,
well is he a bus Then he had one bad season,
(12:05):
the Vikings have a losing record. What about his college wins?
What about his national championship? I thought this guy was
the Beasneys. So you need to be careful about labeling
McCarthy as a winner. He was a winner in high school,
He is a winner in college, but he's not a
(12:27):
winner in the NFL yet. You need to prove yourself
at every single level. Just because you won in college
does not mean you're gonna win in the NFL. And
just because you won in high school doesn't mean you're
gonna win in college, although there is probably a greater
chance of that happening from high school to college because
(12:48):
then you're gonna get recruited by a top program like
Alabama or Michigan, and then things will be looking probably
pretty bright for you because those teams are always loaded.
But the point still remains. Everyone is so quick to
call McCarthy a winner because of what he's done in
college and high school football, but he has not done
a single thing in the NFL, so he is not
(13:11):
a winner yet, and he does not have the accolades
to be called a winner at the NFL level. He
has a winner's mentality and he has a winner's work ethic.
He acts like a guy that cares so much about
the game and loves the game, and you can call
(13:32):
that a winner's mentality, but it doesn't mean that that's
automatically going to translate into winning seasons every year. So
I just every time I hear that, I push back
against that thought because Patrick Mahomes, Tom Brady, these guys
(13:54):
were not the winningest collegiate football players. Took forever to
Brady to even start in college, and those are two
of the greatest quarterbacks the game has ever seen. So
if that's the case about guys that didn't win in college,
it certainly does not mean that guys that won in
(14:15):
college are going to be automatic winners in the NFL.
Because you think about college football and the players that
are playing collegiate football, how many of them go to
the NFL. Certainly less than five percent of them, probably
(14:38):
less than two percent of them. So you're playing collegiate football,
it's a high level, but you're not playing NFL competition.
When you're in the NFL, you are playing the top
one percent every single week. So because of that, winning
(15:00):
collegiately doesn't automatically mean you're a winner in the NFL.
So let's just pump the brakes, hold their horses, and
take a chill pill on labeling McCarthy as a winner
in the NFL. Thank you for watching this episode and
(15:21):
for making this podcast party day. Check out five star
Beth Solutions of Minneapolis and be an amazing, happy customer
like my wife and I are. It's awesome, incredible. Thank
you for watching, and thank you for making this podcast.
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