The Minnesota Vikings have learned a hard lesson. Last offseason, it was fine to confidently roll with J.J. McCarthy as the starting quarterback, but the failure to end up with a viable contingency plan proved fatal to their playoff hopes.
Average quarterback play, even just for more of the games McCarthy missed, could've won them a couple more matchups.
After the firing of general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah and with the heat turned up a notch on head coach Kevin O'Connell, the Vikings will be adding a quarterback to compete with or replace McCarthy this offseason.