they already extended him
That doesn't mean a damn thing.
Rams are the best squad in the league. Our two losses are flukey as hell. No team in the NFC scares me except Seattle.
Vikings are in a TERRIBLE position. Their first round QB is awful and unplayable. They have to give up on him but at the same time it’s really hard to give up on him this quickly.
The Steelers blew it and let the Ravens control the division again. The entire AFC seems suspect, they can make it to the SB
I get what you're saying, but with how roster construction is currently based around either winning while your QB is still on a cheap or team friendly deal, or being able to find value at crucial positions, McCarthy unfortunately isn't showing anything that suggests that this something that gets fixed before they have to commit serious money to him and start downgrading at some of the positions that are propping the team up. Some it you can write off as things he's behind on due to missing so much time did to injury, which is its own conversation to be had. But his bad mechanics are a thing that might take a full offseason to change, and then likely most of another season to truly break out of mentally. The poor reads and bad mental timing are things you would've hoped he worked on in that year off. Just based off of how he's playing right now, his timeline for being a viable starter doesn't really align with what the rest of their roster's timeline is.