Vikings QB J.J. McCarthy Gains Major Edge in West Coast Offense Over Kyler Murray
Tyler Forness breaks down why J.J. McCarthy's familiarity with the Vikings' West Coast offense gives him a significant developmental edge heading into year three in the system. With the playbook now coming naturally to him, McCarthy is starting to process reads faster and operate with more confidence, creating an advantage over quarterbacks still adjusting like Kyler Murray.
Video Transcript
It's not a very simple offense.
But once you get it down, you can just dominate it through and through.
And McCarthy's going to year three of a West Coast system.
That's a good thing for him.
He even talked about how, things would just come to him a lot quicker, when people would talk and, like, the play would be read, and it would just automatically pop in his head, like, "Yep, I know.
I got this."
That's a good thing, and it inherently gives him an advantage over Kyler Murray.
And I think that's an important aspect that we just haven't talked about enough.
The fact that he's been here is an advantage for J.J. McCarthy, and it becomes an inherent disadvantage for Kyler in the same way
