J.J. McCarthy Will Forever Be Undefeated (As a Non-Father)
Your week can’t get much better than winning in comeback fashion in your first career NFL start (that was a year in the making for you, and arguably 60+ years in the making for your franchise) in primetime and then going on to welcoming your firstborn child to the world. That was the exact week that J.J. McCarthy had.
In the in-between of his first career professional football win and his first career offspring being born, McCarthy silenced all doubters and proved that winning is simply in his DNA. It was a truly awful week for the “Big Football Media” that wanted to peddle its vapid and substance-less arguments that McCarthy wouldn’t be a good QB in the NFL because he didn’t throw for a million yards and touchdowns in college.
Though on Monday Night Football against Chicago, he did exactly what he’s done for his entire life; he won. And it should’ve been to the shock of no one.
Am I being a little premature about someone that has only played in one NFL game (and it was against the Chicago Bears)? Yes. Am I the same someone who took an hour or two of his life to explain why Adam Thielen probably wouldn’t return to the Vikings, only for him to do so a couple of weeks later? Also yes. Do I care? No.
What I am saying is fact: J.J. McCarthy won his NFL debut on national television, won NFC Offensive Player of the Week along the way, and then welcomed a beautiful bundle of joy into his world later in the week.
This means, by simple math, that J.J. McCarthy will forever be undefeated in the NFL as a starting quarterback when not being a father to a child. The media is sick, and Ohio State Buckeyes fans are quivering under their beds with their blankies in fear of the letter “M”.
No other first-round QB from the 2024 NFL Draft class can say that they’ve accomplished what McCarthy has in this regard. Even Jayden Daniels, who has seemed to become the NFL’s golden boy, can’t say this.
Whatever the case may be for J.J. McCarthy when he and the Vikings play the Falcons on Sunday Night Football in Week 2, no one can take away his monumental debut during Week 1 away from him. Not Caleb Williams, not “Big Football Media,” no one. The stage has been set for McCarthy to continue to prove all wrong, as well as continue his lifelong winning ways both on and off the gridiron.
In all seriousness, congratulations to J.J. McCarthy and Katya Kuropas on the birth of Rome McCarthy. Congratulations to J.J. McCarthy on his Week 1 triumph after battling a year-long injury recovery, his Player of the Week honors, and congratulations to us, Vikings fans. As some of us have known since April of 2024, we got our guy. And now he has dad strength.
