Vikings: Ranking 5 potential Teddy Bridgewater replacements from ‘pathetic’ to ‘less pathetic’
2. Josh McCown
Josh McCown has underachieved for most of his career. He has the prototypical size for an NFL quarterback (6’4″, 218 pounds), but lacks throwing power and accuracy.
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There is one outlier in McCown’s career — a stretch he had for the Chicago Bears in 2013. McCown, filling in for an injured Jay Cutler and with Alshon Jeffery, Brandon Marshall and Matt Forte at his disposal, had a resurgence. He posted then career-highs in completion percentage (66.8 percent), yards per game (228.6) and posted a sick TD-INT ration of 13-1. The following offseason, the Buccaneers rewarded him with a big contract.
McCown rewarded Tampa by throwing more interceptions than touchdowns, and getting benched for Mike Glennon. McCown had been so good with two big receivers in Chicago, conventional wisdom said he may do well with Vincent Jackson and Mike Evans too.
To quote Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt’s Freakonomics, “conventional wisdom is often shoddily formed and can be devilishly difficult to see through. But it can be done.”
Fool us once, you won’t fool us again. Josh McCown isn’t an NFL starting quarterback and Vikings fans don’t want to be next to find that out.
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