Please Do Not Show This List Of NFL Quarterbacks Who Played On Four Teams In Seven Years To A Minnesota Vikings Fan
Stephen Maturen. Getty Images.Are the Minnesota Vikings the most cursed NFL team in the league? That's been the vibe the past couple days since it was announced JJ McCarthy would need surgery and miss the entire season.
Now I would have to disagree with the idea the Vikings are the most cursed team just a bit. While they have a solid case, I don't think any fanbase is more tortured than the Chargers. But while the Chargers brand of torture is usually in the choking/blowing the end of a game department, the Vikings do a stellar job in the "lose your best players before you can even get excited" department. Teddy Bridgewater. Kirk Cousins. Now JJ McCarthy. Something seems to always happen. Not to mention Justin Jefferson early in the season last year too after starting out of a cannon.
I know Sam Darnold was pegged to start the season anyway, but I have to believe every fan was hoping to see that tune change after some preseason games. Now that dream is dead and it's time to accept reality. Sam Darnold is your starting quarterback. A seventh year player who's now on his fourth team. But is it really that bad? I ran some numbers to see what precedence there is for any quarterback to play for four teams in seven years since 1980.
Maybe take a drink before skimming this list of mostly almost has been wash outs.
note - my code didn't count team changes unless the guy actually played in a game
This is a tough list but we do at least have Super Bowl winner Nick Foles, and Super Bowl getter Chris Chandler. Baker Mayfield and Geno Smith are really the only trail blazers to keep any hope of Sam Darnold actually having a chance at reviving his career. This would be a true testament to the genious of Kevin O'Connell's playcalling and ghostbusting. And you know what? Looking back at the teams Sam Darnold played for in the Jets and the Panthers - both at the lowest of their respective franchise lowpoints - I could see 2024 being the year Sam Darnold has everthing go his way allowing him to show the world he is a mediocre starting quarterback. That would be a gigantic step in the right direction.
Anyway, I hope you Vikings fans like playing fantasy football because at the end of the day, you have one of the worst teams in the league this season in undoubetdly the hardest division of the NFC. You need something else to do this season. Would it be ridiculous to put an over/under division wins at .5? I mean, I'd probably take the over. Probably. I'd have to think it through.
To be fair to Vikings fans here - I think we should all take a hard look at the list above and find at least one name that we remember using the "I think this guy is going to get his break now that he's on my team" logic. I was about seven or eight when Steve Walsh was on the Bears. Certainly he was the answer.
Anyway, good luck Skol Nation.