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Bill Johanesen -> RE: General Vikes Talk (3/21/2020 5:55:07 AM)
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https://thevikingage.com/2020/03/20/todd-gurley-release-bad-minnesota-vikings-cook/
Good points on why NOT to pay Cook now...
Yeah let’s continue to get rid of our best players...Yipee!!!
Cook came back from his ACL and returned to 100%. Gurley never truly has recovered from his, and he now has a degenerative condition that ain’t coming back.
Dalvin is just scratching the service on his skill set, and was one of the main reasons we went as far as we did.
He and Mattison are the best RB combo in Football..
Thought the article was more about not paying Cook a bloated fat contract that we would regret like Rams did with Gurley pre injury, leaving them boxed in with huge dead cap hit now...
Is true that RB position has come way down in overall value per cap dollar for current contracts and the players signed just a couple years ago to huge contracts are albatross' to their teams.
So not saying to let Cook go, just dont make that mistake and give some huge franchise player deal...
Give him a big deal but structure it so it doesn't screw you in the salary cap department if you need to dump him later.
If you pay him and he lives up to it. the money was worth it. If he doesn't you can get rid of him without a debilitating cap hit.
Its a tough business, but you simply can't pay a NFL RB $10 million a year, there are way too many of them that can plug in to a system like ours and preform at a suitable level. We don't feature a running back in our offense, we feature the run. Is Cook better than Mattison, sure, but how much. History is full of guys who's names I don't even remember, that had thousand yard seasons. I'd love to keep Cook and if he would sign a deal for 8 Million a year for the next five years I'd do it, but reality is, he won't. His agent will demand over $60 million for the next four year and it's simply not worth the money. That's reality in the RB world and it's been proven way too many times to ignore it. Draft a guy in the fourth to learn the ropes and next year he backs up Mattison, I'm afraid that's the coming reality for RB's in the NFL.
For the most part, I agree.
Williams, Michel, Blount, Hillman, Lynch, Rice, Bradshaw, Jackson and Thomas all have a ring, while being the feature RB. (Fun little game, do you know all of their first names?)
22 years ago, a RB was Super Bowl MVP.
Having said that, we are real short on explosive players. Cook is that. I didn't think he would be. He is.
You think we're going to be okay without explosive skill position players?
We've created our own problem then. It sucks because we were just down this road not too long ago giving AD $12 million, $13 million, good lord $15 million a season. I think if anything, the lesson here is don't draft RBs high. They'll either fail to meet expectations or perform so damn well that you can't afford to keep them.
When it became clear that AD was not a three down back (giving very little to nothing in the passing game) I would agree with Pete, and yourself.
Gotta be self evident Cook does it all. Not saying we should make him the highest paid player in the league, but he still has a pretty new set of tires on him, and he certainly makes us a better team in multiple aspects of the offense, and as Pete said, we’re low on playmakers..Completely agree
What makes him great is what also makes him expendable. No fear, he takes and delivers serious contact every time he touches the ball.. He's a real deal warrior. Unfortunately, his style of play isn't business-smart in today's NFL.
You describe Mattison to a tee.
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