{"id":90425,"date":"2025-08-17T21:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T21:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90425\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T21:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T21:49:08","slug":"former-gophers-qb-max-brosmer-stands-out-with-the-minnesota-vikings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90425\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Gophers QB Max Brosmer stands out with the Minnesota Vikings"},"content":{"rendered":"

O\u2019Connell has lauded Brosmer from the start as \u201cas smart as any young player. … His ownership of the information [is] kind of right on par.\u201d <\/p>\n

But Brosmer said Wednesday that when he first started working with O\u2019Connell, it was like the coach was speaking \u201ca foreign language.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNumber one, it\u2019s a new league. You\u2019re playing in the NFL as opposed to college, and it\u2019s completely new structures of defense,\u201d Brosmer said. \u201cBut it\u2019s also just how he talks about ball, how he thinks about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Vikings quarterback Max Brosmer played the entire second half Saturday, finishing 15-for-27 for 156 yards. (Anthony Souffle\/The Minnesota Star Tribune)<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where the three other quarterbacks in the room, particularly Brett Rypien<\/a> (also undrafted out of college in 2019), have come in handy. Brosmer said he peppers Rypien with questions, so much so the older QB probably wants to lock him up and throw away the key. <\/p>\n

According to O\u2019Connell, Brosmer and McCarthy are often the first and last people in the building, joking that quarterback coaches Josh McCown and Jordan Traylor must not be getting a lot of sleep thanks to the pair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"O\u2019Connell has lauded Brosmer from the start as \u201cas smart as any young player. … His ownership of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-90425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}