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Tom Sykes -> RE: 2024 Draft (3/15/2024 9:23:31 AM)
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The perfect draft day scenario for me:
Trade Justin Jefferson to the Bears for Justin Fields and their #6 pick. Draft Joe Alt from Notre Dame at #6. Your quarterback room suddenly looks more talented and your offensive line gets a franchise player for a decade. 2nd round you get a Keon Coleman/Troy Franklin type WR.
I know people don't want to give up Jefferson, but Super Bowl champions are not built on the backs of diva wide receivers. Jefferson got his first hamstring injury in 2023. That's the beginning of the end for wide receivers. Once the soft tissue issues arise, they never seem to go away.
In addition, the Vikings need to take a page from the Patriots (in their hay day) in that you don't negotiate through the media. Jefferson needs to shut up and play football. Do what it takes to help the team. Randy Moss tried to negotiate his contract through the media and he was sent packing on the next train out of town by the Patriots. He never got his ring.
JJ has been the opposite of Diggs....I would be open to trading him for picks but he hasn't done anything on social media but support his QB. Pretty good trait in a player actually but he is just like the rest of the players--they work out together for years on the routes and little intricacies and now he has to start over and if we don't draft one it will be QB carousel.
It's not his job to support his QB in the media. That's arrogant and overplaying your hand. Shut the hell up and catch footballs. Football is a business. He created a rift in the organization by saying he wanted to keep Kirk Cousins. I'd trade him like a hot potato.
He wasn't the only one to want to keep him.....again he has been the opposite of Diggs.
Again, you are not seeing my point. It's not his job to openly campaign to keep a quarterback through the media. I do not care how many others were doing the same thing.
Cousins was a polarizing figure, which is why I would have gotten rid of him after the 2021 season. The organization needs to make it clear to players that they are about winning football games, not giving their opinions in the media.
1) Show up to work
2) Do your job
3) Shut the hell up as it relates to player-personnel issues
A failure to do any of those three things could land you on another team.
Nobody did this better than the Patriots for about 15 years.
That was so 7 years ago and it barely worked with Tom Brady's that last year. Oh did Bill get another job as a HC? Zimmer get another job as a HC?
Get off my lawn doesn't work and you obviously don't aren't including KOC/Kwesi opinon in your mentality......
SIX TROPHIES
Past performance does not equal future performance....by the way it was as much Brady as that philosophy.
I will agree, Brady was a part of the equation. He understood his job. Hw showed up to work. He shut up as it relates to player-personnel matters in the media. A perfect employee.
There’s a big difference between campaigning for your QB and publicly supporting them. If you’ve gone to battle with them for a couple years … you’d have to be a self-centered jerk to ‘shut the hell up’ and not voice an opinion when grilled by the media.
That being said, pivoting the franchise face and cap cornerstone position from your QB to a WR, I agree, is not a great way to team build. I’m dead tired of JJ’s commercial blitz … which absolutely meets the standard of a ‘campaign’. The focus on records seems to be a growing fixation, so ….
I’m all for trading JJ depending on what the return is. It sure as hell wouldn’t include drafting the top OT this offseason.
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