What looked like a fun prime-time matchup between second-year QBs Michael Penix Jr. and McCarthy was mostly a slog. It was a lesson that playing QB can still be a big challenge in a QB's first few career starts.
J.J. McCarthy has played eight quarters in the NFL. Seven of them have been bad.
The Vikings’ fourth-quarter comeback in Week 1 was fun, but it masked the other problems that were evident from McCarthy and the offense. The McCarthy we saw from the fi... [3730 chars]