The Vikings don’t need Donovan McNabb, because while in the past the big thing to do was mentor young QB’s, the new big thing is to draft a young quarterback and have a really good running back next to him.
Look at the prime examples:
Matt Ryan had Michael Turner. Mark Sanchez had Shonn Greene and Thomas Jones (who together formed one really good running back). And the most recent example, Sam Bradford and Steven Jackson.
Sure in the past mentoring worked: despite what I believe was probably the most awkward mentorship of all time, the whole Brett Favre Aaron Rodgers thing worked out in the end for the Pack. And it even worked for us the when long ago, in 1999 we had Jeff Goerge mentor Daunte Culpepper.
But the reason those worked is because the young quarterbacks were heading into a pass happy offense, and didn’t have outstanding running backs.
(Robert Smith is great and all, but the 1999 Vikes were pass happy)
When Christian Ponder walks onto to the field as a Viking, he is walking onto the same field as a team with one heck of a running back.
Ponder doesn’t need McNabb as a mentor, he needs Adrian Peterson to run the ball.
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