Minnesota Vikings history is filled to the brim with heart-in-the-right-place half-truth optimism when it comes to the team and especially the position of quarterback. For a team that had until recently not started the same quarterback in all 16-games in back-to-back seasons, nor draft and develop one, clear incomplete passers like Teddy Bridgewater, Case Keenum, and now Kellen Mond (if he was “erratic” when throwing deep in college, how can he do the same in the pros?) are elevated to mythic status far too soon.
Again, it comes from an understandable place. It’s wishful thinking from a fan-base who has been starved for the most important position in all of pro sports, save for a few one foot in-the-retirement grave players like Brett Favre, Warren Moon and Randall Cunningham.