RandBall: All eyes on Carson Wentz after rough Sunday for former Vikings QBs

Ahead of a critical “ Monday Night Football ” game against the Bills and a Tuesday trade deadline that could alter the course of the Vikings’ season , all we really learned Sunday is that maybe Minnesota doesn’t really want any of the quarterbacks they used to have. Kirk Cousins threw three interceptions as the Raiders were blown out. If the Colts’ Daniel Jones’ total QBR in a loss Sunday was an age, it wouldn’t have been old enough to vote in last Tuesday’s election. J.J. McCarthy started and won for the Giants, but he missed a portion of the game with an all-too-familiar injury. That all served as a backdrop, or at least an appetizer, for the Vikings to turn to Carson Wentz as a replacement for the injured (ahem, and also ineffective) Kyler Murray in a showdown between very different 6-1 teams. Let’s try to make sense of what it all means. Advertisement J.J. McCarthy has a J.J. McCarthy game for the Giants McCarthy, who was traded by the Vikings a little over a month ago after losing a training camp battle with Murray and being demoted to the No. 3 job in Minnesota, started his second consecutive game for the Giants. It was, to be sure, the quintessential McCarthy game. He played OK in the first half, but the Giants trailed the slumping Eagles 8-6. Early in the third quarter, McCarthy took a big hit and left the game. He was seen in visible pain while trying to warm up afterward. View post on X Backup Jameis Winston came in and led the Giants on their only touchdown drive of the day, but McCarthy did return later to finish out a 19-11 win.