INTERVIEW: Michigan's JJ McCarthy takes one final walk through Big House memories before NFL Draft

INTERVIEW: Michigan's JJ McCarthy took one final walk through the Big House before the NFL Draft, reminiscing with us about some of the biggest moments from his undefeated career at Michigan Stadium.
The quarterback took us back to his first touchdown, the pass to Roman Wilson against Ohio State, and the final play against the Buckeyes, in victory formation on the way to winning the national championship

[@kylestarks9961]

Gonna miss seeing J.J, Blake, and so many of team 144. Such a special year man.

[@DreDunbar-pd8un]

Yessss. JJ go b great in the NFL and Michigan football winning back to back national championships 🏆🏆 still

[@evan1788]

Don’t forget stallions!

[@301gobluehailmich1]

@@evan1788 we wont, GOAT! NATTY!

[@Conorstallionownsxhixstate]

​@evan1788 yeah im the 🐐.. I broke your once tough image....

[@thebighousencaaattendancer478]

Best team in college football history!

[@christopherrobbins9985]

JJ is a certified Michigan L.E.G.E.N.D. Led Team 144 to the promised land. This UM Alum Class of '91 is forever grateful. Go Blue!

[@bobbyaxelrod5959]

Cheaters

[@Conorstallionownsxhixstate]

@bobbyaxelrod5959 not your mom so not cheaters....

[@Conorstallionownsxhixstate]

@@bobbyaxelrod5959 is jj your momma?? Your momma is the only cheater fool...

[@Conorstallionownsxhixstate]

@bobbyaxelrod5959 Yes yes keep crying cheater keep crying and projecting your inadequate 🗑 take.. keep crying..yummy your tears hydrate me.... 15-0 undisputed unblemished untarnished national champion.. while you lost to a middling Missouri team that says lot about the state of your once proud program..

[@Conorstallionownsxhixstate]

@@bobbyaxelrod5959 @bobbyaxelrod5959 Yes yes keep crying cheater keep crying and projecting your inadequate 🗑 take.. keep crying..yummy your tears hydrate me.... 15-0 undisputed unblemished untarnished national champion.. while you lost to a middling Missouri team that says lot about the state of your once proud program..

[@oregonpatriot1570]

Going to miss having JJ in the big house. We love you bro! Best of luck in the NFL.

[@paulamccue]

Man, team 144 was a movie.

[@Cbreezy74]

J.J., as a life long Michigan fan, thank you for everything you have done. Looking back at all the years of misery this program had gone through, I didn’t know when we would ever get out if it, but you showed us the path and took us to new heights. Good luck 9, and as always GO BLUE!

[@tonyattard8147]

The way JJ prognosticates and knows how his current action(s) will create and manifest the future outcome he wants on and off the field... It will be the smartest thing the Bears have ever done to give this guy his dream.

[@wolfemanhd9872]

🤣

[@mbalash3755]

Thank you JJ for all the memories you helped provide us fans. We will never forget. ❤️💪🏻🙏🏻

[@mpflood]

Good Luck JJ. We are all with you 🇺🇲🤙🇺🇲

[@Jefff72]

As a Vikings fan, I look forward to hearing JJ throws deep to JJ.

[@Adam-vs2in]

We were fortunate to watch this guy start at Michigan for 2 seasons. It flew by and he was fun to watch. That streak against osu and that NC… does t get any better than that.

[@Conada1002]

I think he’s going to be a stud I think evaluators, especially in the nfl overlook the simple habit of winning. This guy is a winner. The NFL is the get it done league, not the try hard league. He’s the best player in this draft. No question in my mind

[@jivepatrol6833]

Great interview Brad! JJ is a special player and love his positive outlook and winning attitude!. No matter what team he goes to I'll be rooting for him! Many thanks to both.

[@jasonbode1242]

J.J. thank you for the the time and work that you put in. Also I would like to thank you for all of the charity work that you did.

[@fardrives]

Bro's a film nerd. I love to hear it! Come to Minnesota!!! SKOL

[@ElizaEmerieGoodwin-ch8of]

It was an amazing year for sports in michigan

[@wolverineeagle]

He never lose a home game.

[@WeFreestyleForever]

*lost

[@DreDunbar-pd8un]

Jj is the goat 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐

[@mostlynoble]

I am so mad at myself. When I watched McCarthy during his first few games I kept saying, "He is not Drew Henson, He is not Chad Henne." I did not take the time to appreciate him for being himself. This kid seems like a special person, and he is a special talent and he has the hardware to prove it: 3 wins vs the OSU. Three Big10 championship, Keeping the little brown jug, 2-1 vs OSU, 3-0 vs PSU 1-0 in the Rose Bowl and a National Championship...27-1 as starter. Sometimes as fans we mess up. We gotta let these kids be who God mad them to be, and not who we think they are...God Speed JJ.....

[@paulmysliborski4832]

All of this is true, but without Harbaugh, JJ would not have had the team to succeed. I fear Michigan will fall back into mediocrity now.......... :(

[@HyzersGR]

3-0 vs OSU not 2-1

[@williambeatty4153]

We will never have another QB as good as JJ. I want to take a long walk off a short pier after watching the spring game. Thank you JJ.

[@xNuber]

Thank you JJ 🫡〽️

[@terrydizzydude4087]

JJ has recall like Aaron Rodgers...and that's a good thing.

[@jwells1914]

Legend!!!

[@marks.3498]

I was at the Rose Bowl, helluva game, UM never flinched.

[@martin4749]

Solid guy for sure. Thanks for the memories. 👍🏻

[@JW-28]

1 more year with JJ would have been sick.

[@fptrojans09]

God bless JJ and The Maize & Blue 💛💙〽️

[@emceestrange]

THE Michigan Wolverines have THE best fight song AND helmet logo in the country hands down 🫳🎤

[@jon-lucappling9528]

His long throw against western michigan on 3rd and long was amazing I will never ever forget that kinda throw:| I am serious that's what I am a fan also:| I am serious.

[@bowtiesixbanger]

Sometimes you gotta risk it for the bizkit 😂🤣. Love that guy!

[@saraxiong]

Vikings future QB! LFG! Bring that winning to us and deliver us our first Super Bowl! JJ to JJ, Jordan Addison, TJ Hockenson, Aaron Jones is gonna be legendary!

[@ne6764]

Forever my qb go blue

[@MrHunterbg]

One last walk before he comes a backup QB for life!

[@lakes26mi]

Gonna moss harbaugh and JJ. Ncaa forced harbaugh out. He would have stayed if they were all over him about every move he made.

[@davidgordon19]

I think he was back to the league regardless after the National championship win. But their treatment of him and the program has been abominable, simply because he stuck his neck out for the players. Few other coaches in the game care about those issues.

[@DreDunbar-pd8un]

Facts

[@terrydizzydude4087]

I'll always believe Harbaugh never got over the forced pay cut.

[@mauricestone2715]

I hope the Vikings draft him

[@natesfancaveart]

*

[@301gobluehailmich1]

our guy, our LEGEND, our GOAT!......GO BLUE!

[@David-ll2nq]

I pray 3 Hail Mary's every day for J.J.McCarthy to be a GIANT.

[@davidhernandez9985]

I hope that JJ falls into my NYGiants lap! LetsGoGiants🤘🏼, & always, GOBLUE-NATTYUP🏆!

[@cartercarlin6460]

Gonna miss him! Go Blue!

[@rds990]

Hold on...I read that the NFL did not invite him to the draft night event. They only invited 3 QB's plus lots of other positional players. May be wrong but that's what the NFL published.

[@joemartinez6217]

They invited him, he turned it down. You must have read three are actually going.

[@jennihovde3174]

I play hockey to

[@michaelmiller261]

Seems like a good young man and athlete. What about the deal with Connor Stallions? Is he concerned about likely fallout from the Electronic Surveillance scheme?

[@jamesholden7000]

Should have been the starter his first year

[@janetpartyka5968]

A glorious season(s) that I'll never ever forget. JH missing 6 games was tough to swallow, but he had all of his staff and players ready and they came through.

[@sianefer-ptah1258]

"You never lost here". That's a great, great thing. His only loss outside of the Big House was the green and white uniformed knuckleheads. Are they even a football team anymore, or are we even still some sort of rivals? 😂

[@tmr9069]

"And right here is where I learned the defense was blitzing off the edge before the play, so I handed the ball off to Corum"

[@buckhorncortez]

Whatever it takes for the team to win instead of being a prima donna "it's all about me"...

[@Conorstallionownsxhixstate]

​​@@buckhorncortez that's perfectly said.. idioits forget it's a team game.. Run game is destroying folks:" why doesn't jj throw the ball 60 times a game....

[@Conorstallionownsxhixstate]

34-13...

[@realdunbar9338]

hey shut up

[@jgiza8888]

Congrats YOU ARE NOW A VIKING!!!!!!!

[@vikingjerome2438]

Vikings perhaps 🤔

[@RSTI191]

This kid has Dan Marino's arm. Hope the Pat's take him..

[@airthief36]

I hope the vikings draft JJ. that would be a great team for a rookie qb. but just so you know, the Lions come 1st! GL

[@jon-lucappling9528]

why did he had to go the nfl?

[@rediknight9056]

Gonna miss these years so much man. I remember the beginning, fighting over JJ and Cade, feeling like it would never end. I always knew Cade was trash, and wanted him benched.

[@davidrizor1655]

Cade was NOT trash. WE would not have had 2022 and 2023 without Cade’s efforts in 2021!

[@Jonas2024-ru5fh]

So confused if he’s a Christian or not. He says God, but doesn’t say Jesus. I’m sooo confused

[@user-mk3my3es2q]

NCAA comin’ for ya

[@HyzersGR]

They got the rings and the trophy. NCAA doesn't control the CFP

[@DocNinini]

not in this lifetime

[@301gobluehailmich1]

cope

[@damonbigsby2901]

Michigan is lucky Kyle Mccord was our QB😂

[@nirvmisago3296]

“You guys are so lucky we had a good QB and not an elite QB to carry our program”

[@FayesFood]

They beat Stroud.

[@antoniosorge2037]

Y’all loved him and wasn’t complaining until THE game stfu lol.

[@Conorstallionownsxhixstate]

Your lucky you had the ncaa in your pocket or it wouldve been 55-7 win for michigan....

[@301gobluehailmich1]

thats your fault lol you guys chose mccord over JJ lololololol

[@Josh-ts7jj]

That's the next johnny manziel right there... no degree and no future in the nfl

[@jimmy5634]

“Ahh, I remember the good old days of cheating our way to the natty…good times.” J.J. McMuffin

[@buckhorncortez]

Uh...huh...you really care about cheating...right? That's why you're so concerned about Ohio offering to give SMU practice video of Maryland and ex-Ohio State employees working for Catapult giving Ohio unauthorized access to Big 10 teams' practice video. No whining about that? Why not?

[@DocNinini]

Fair and square - NCAA president

[@Conorstallionownsxhixstate]

30-24 without Harbaugh.. shame Shame shame shame.. " McCord looks fires intercepted Rod moore and michigan will go back to the big 10 title game " 3-0 since firing your mole on the staff....

[@301gobluehailmich1]

lol yep get to hear crying and excuses from haters lol

[@bobbyaxelrod5959]

Most overhyped college QB in history. And Michigan cheated to get that title. Trash program.

[@301gobluehailmich1]

crying and excuses lol your tears taste amazing

[@Conorstallionownsxhixstate]

Yes yes keep crying cheater keep crying and projecting your inadequate 🗑 take.. keep crying..yummy your tears hydrate me.....

[@jgdwick4067]

Michigan cheated should have not been allowed to play!

[@outdoorsman909]

Sparty or Bucknut, which one?

[@scottniland204]

@@outdoorsman909 It doesn't matter. They're both equally bitter and a bunch of cry-babies.

[@FayesFood]

How did they cheat? Was it that they didn't have their head coach for six games or that they didn't have their sign stealer for the season? Which one?

[@EffigyOfAdam]

your mom cheated when she got preggo with you

[@301gobluehailmich1]

lol we love to hear excuses

[@deathbyqtip33]

Michigan cheated

[@zc3810]

Huh?

[@Jumpman616]

😢😢😢😢😢😢 ][V][GO BLUE][V][

[@deathbyqtip33]

@@ErikThomasMusic Michigan cheated.

[@301gobluehailmich1]

we love to hear excuses

[@deathbyqtip33]

@@ErikThomasMusic hey bub, Michigan cheated

[@user-mk3my3es2q]

Cheaters

[@HyzersGR]

Cry

[@Conorstallionownsxhixstate]

Wahhhhh crybaby creep....

[@301gobluehailmich1]

rent free....natty

[@Conorstallionownsxhixstate]

Yes yes keep crying cheater keep crying and projecting your inadequate 🗑 take.. keep crying..yummy your tears hydrate me.....

[@Conorstallionownsxhixstate]

Yes yes keep crying cheater keep crying and projecting your inadequate 🗑 take.. keep crying..yummy your tears hydrate me.... 15-0 undisputed unblemished untarnished national champion.. while you lost to a middling Missouri team that says lot about the state of your once proud program.....

[@christophermotyka5384]

He's going to be a great pro.🎉

[@Jazz16-we1qc]

I'll be curious to see if he keeps that same team-first attitude when he's solidified as the backup with the Vikings. He may be a great backup, and good for him. He got his money fair and square with his 10th pick. Hope he starts and wins a superbowl. Imagine the Vikings and Chargers in the superbowl, and JJ takes another one away from his master!