Mark Anderson
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ORIGINAL: TJSweens Actually Harris had 2 consecutive very good seasons. Depends on how you look at it. I see it as one good season then a very good season. Harris played very well in both 2018 and 2019. In some ways (solo tackles), he played better with fewer opportunities in 2018 (9GS in 2018, 14GS in 2019). I agree with KG here, 2018 was a good season, nothing to be ashamed of and his 2019 campaign was his best yet, but lets remember, he's a safety playing opposite of an all pro. Sandejo looked good too, although not the level of Harris, but with Sandejo we had a top tier defense, better than the last two years. Before anyone starts going crazy with "it wasn't Sandejo" I get that, but it was the same players and they were pretty damn good. My point is that safeties get a lot of tackles, it's the nature of the position. I really like Harris a lot, I just don't want to invest $23 million in the two safety spots when you can get solid production out of the spots for around $14 or $15. That's just me, but I can understand how many feel about Harris, we were blessed to get him, I loved it when we did, I just wish we could have signed him for $6 million a year a season ago! I would never pay him $13 million, period! There were a few of us pointing out that Harris should have been extended after the 2018 season. But the problem was many of our core players were getting extended (some shouldn't have) and we had little to no money to get out in front of some of our young players when they could be extended early at huge savings. What bothers me a lot is that we use to do this. We also never back loaded contracts like we have been the last 2 years. But this is what an owner gets when he has a GM and HC on lame duck contracts. So you're saying that Wilf should extend Spiels and Zimmer. One or the other. But anyone can see they are kicking a lot of money down the road in an effort to look good short term. Do you really think their motivation is to 'look good' short term? Hopefully, they are still trying to win short term. IMO Spielman and Zimmer made a plan for a 5-6 year window – let's call it 2014-2019 – they drafted, signed and assembled a core group to the best of the regime's ability, paid them handsomely to keep them together for as long as possible, tossed in a huge franchise QB salary (because drafting didn't work out for them) ... but failed to reach the main goal. Not only did the plan fail but variables including but not limited to carrying too many high paid salaries, under-performing core players, top talent wanting to jump ship – and SF pounding a stake through the competitive heart of the plan (that the Eagles had first inserted) – and it is simply time to move on and retool. I prefer not gutting the whole thing and starting a new 5-6 year plan. I have no confidence that Spielman and Zimmer can break new ground or even augment the old plan and come up with a more competitive playoff version. But what the hell, been here before, done that. Can't wait for the offseason to unfold! "You never know" is a grand curse and copyrighted by Vikings fans everywhere. New Orleans was kind of where we are a few years ago. Bradford smoked them 1st game of year and it looked like they were in a rebuilding mode. But, they hit it big in draft a few years in a row. Lattimore, Kamara, OLinemen, Thomas We can do that but it will take us drafting 2 studs and 2 other starters. This year's draft is huge.
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