Yahoo Sports NFL analyst Nate Tice and fantasy analyst Matt Harmon discuss if Vikings QB Sam Darnold can lead Minnesota to an NFC North title or if he’ll regress to making mistakes that plagued him in the past. Hear the full conversation on “Football 301” – and subscribe on , , or
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I will say everyone’s saying, well, the bottom might drop out on Arnold.
He already has a turnover every game like a brutal one.
So what if he doesn’t, how does this offense look like?
What if he does have a game where he doesn’t have a turnover?
I want to hedge against the people that are hedging against this.
Like I, I think this is more real because the run game is real.
The designs are real now they have multiple pass catchers that are good, the interior offensive lines.
Meh, but they, again, they mitigate it and they know how to kind of shore up the weaknesses.
So I don’t know, this offense feels a lot more real every week that I watch it.
I mean, that was, that was gonna be my only concern was just like the theoretical darn trap door, you know, like when is he going to fall through that and just become the Sam Arnold that we used to know.
Uh and I, but with each passing week, I’m losing faith that that’s even gonna happen or I’m, I’m my, my faith is being restored in that not happening because not just of how the offense is designed and all these great players around him, but it is just the confidence that he’s playing within himself in the system right now.
He’s not, he’s definitely every now and again trying to do a Sam Arnold moment.
Um, but those, that’s like maybe two times a game as opposed to five times a game, six times a game or something like that.
Yeah, once a series, this team’s great.
I mean, from confidence level, I don’t know where you’re at to where they’ll win the division.
But it’s tough because Packers are good.
I think the Lions are good against them.
It’s the division.
That’s really good.
So, I’m like a, I would say they have a four and, oh, like head start, I’d say I’m probably at like a seven that they’ll, I’m at a six and it’s nothing against them.
It’s just that three of the four best teams in the FC are in the NFC North.
Like these three, the Packers, Vikings Lions and 49er and then the Bears who are the fourth team have a top five defense.