Fargo (the film) - Breaking Bad

A question: would there have been a Breaking Bad without the Coen Bros. Fargo?

Is the total sad sack, Jerry Lundgarde, who remains a loser

the father of the total sad sack Walter White, who become a king of crime in a sad sack turn-around?

Yah, one is set on blizzard-swept northern prairie and the other in the southwest desert, both equally filled with bleak desperation for many.

Personally, I gave up on Breaking Bad early on, disliking it very much. However, I kept watching the film, Fargo, and now the television series, because there is nothing I know as deeply in my dna as this:

or this: