Bill Johanesen -> RE: General Vikes Talk (3/26/2023 10:22:03 AM)
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ORIGINAL: David F. Imagine if we were to free ourselves from all the void years, bloated-contract-vets, garbage and simply start a true rebuild. Now imagine we hit on a good QB in the draft. Allowing one-to-two seasons for the rookie QB to achieve great play, that leaves us with three seasons where we'd have our QB and could have our pick of free agents and could even resign our best existing players into long-term deals. It's as good of a shot at a Super Bowl title as we could ever hope for. Or, I guess we could just keep running it back with Kirk and Co. Heck we might even win another wildcard game. Yep, just admit we are doing a proper rebuild instead of an extended stab at mediocrity. We could have jump-started that process last year by tossing the bad contracts. Not sure if there is a sure fire blue print on how to do it. KC had Alex Smith(Kirk type) from 2013 to 2017 and averaged 11 wins but never made much noise in playoffs. Never really blew it up. Lucked into Mahomes when Bears reached for Trubisky. Could a Levis, Richardson or Hooker be our Mahomes to get us to another level? If they didn't get Mahomes they would still have gotten Watson. I've wanted a legit QB in the draft for a long time... Getting Mahomes/Burrow is the ideal. But I don't know that I agree gutting the team is the only way to win. It conveniently ignores the Bucs/Rams who built really good teams with the ability to pounce on the chance to bring in the vet QB as the final piece. The Vikes unfortunately chose Kirk as their "final piece". It also ignores Kansas City who built a good team and then replaced their vet QB with a superstar rookie QB. But didn't take the "we must tank" approach at all. Not advocating for tanking. My plan was to go only with a qb on a rookie deal, little to none vets on huge, bloated, but-the-fans-love-this-guy contracts, little to none dead money. Build with youth and even front load your young stars’ 2nd contracts when they come up. BUILD A GOOD TEAM ALL AROUND so that when/if you hit your qb you’re in the optimal position to go all in at that time. hell, give the ball to kyle sloter for the season - let everyone get that dude out of their system...or maybe he is the real thing.... five years as a professional football player - $1.4mm made in the NFL.... I looked up Sloter's stats, but he has no stats. No game logs. No situational stats. Nothing. ~$300K a year for basically bouncing around on practice squads isn't too shabby. I presume any possible CBA negotiations about more money will be predicated around players who are actually on an NFL roster. Even QBs [:D]
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