Every NFL team has its end-of-season press conference, and usually, it’s just a reflection and saying they are looking forward to the following season. But sometimes, you do find interesting tidbits of information that make you really think.
Well, the Minnesota Vikings had theirs on Tuesday, and Kevin O’Connell shared his thoughts on how he thought quarterback J.J. McCarthy’s season went. Here’s what he had to say:
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“J.J., I was really encouraged by the type of football he started to play towards the second half of the season and finishing the way he did.
“We spend a lot of time talking about what the layers of change really were, and I think we all just tried to have a mindset on completions and however we could generate them, we started to see a little bit of that show up.
«We saw some explosives show up…saw the ability to kind of balance that with what I thought at many points this year, our run game was productive enough for us to move the football and stay in a lot of games.”
While this sort of feels like a generic answer, it could also be interpreted as not having a ton of confidence going into next season. There wasn’t a statement of excitement about his development going into 2026, and the «positives» were basically just flashes of potential. Maybe I am reading too much into it, but it does not appear this coaching staff has the utmost confidence in J.J. McCarthy heading into 2026.
This article originally appeared on Vikings Wire: Kevin O’Connell gives his thoughts on J.J. McCarthy’s season
