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Moving on to the Vikings, "Since I got hurt the new goal is 1,000 yards,” Jefferson said, via Kevin Seifert of ESPN.com. “I want to end every single year over 1,000 yards. . . . It's been hard to adjust those goals honestly."

I'm glad his goal is yards and not touchdowns.

Get the yards, the Touchdowns will come

With Jefferson, that’s been surprisingly not true.

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Moving on to the Vikings, "Since I got hurt the new goal is 1,000 yards,” Jefferson said, via Kevin Seifert of ESPN.com. “I want to end every single year over 1,000 yards. . . . It's been hard to adjust those goals honestly."

I'm glad his goal is yards and not touchdowns.

Get the yards, the Touchdowns will come

With Jefferson, that’s been surprisingly not true.

Yup

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Moving on to the Vikings, "Since I got hurt the new goal is 1,000 yards,” Jefferson said, via Kevin Seifert of ESPN.com. “I want to end every single year over 1,000 yards. . . . It's been hard to adjust those goals honestly."

I'm glad his goal is yards and not touchdowns.

Get the yards, the Touchdowns will come

With Jefferson, that’s been surprisingly not true.

Yup

Yup +1.

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I looked up Jefferson’s stats and he gets just under 193 yards for every TD. I looked at a few other top wrs and the 193 appears very high to say the least.

At a glance, Julio jones appears to be the only Notable wr that takes even more yards to get a TD than Jefferson. Outliers in the other direction are Adam theorem and Devonte Adams, who are closer to 110 yards per TD

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Has he had several catches of notably length that went out of bounds inside say the 10 or 5 yard line? Is that a look upable stat? Are we talking about an anomaly here? Is this a thing that one could say with accuracy, "He's just not as good as they say 'cause look at his lack of TDs compared to yards.?"

Intersting subject

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I looked up Jefferson’s stats and he gets just under 193 yards for every TD. I looked at a few other top wrs and the 193 appears very high to say the least.

At a glance, Julio jones appears to be the only Notable wr that takes even more yards to get a TD than Jefferson. Outliers in the other direction are Adam theorem and Devonte Adams, who are closer to 110 yards per TD

He's just not a td scorer. I'm not breaking the bank for that personally but I'm sure the Vikings will. His goals are yardage it seems and he does really well in that department.

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I looked up Jefferson’s stats and he gets just under 193 yards for every TD. I looked at a few other top wrs and the 193 appears very high to say the least.

At a glance, Julio jones appears to be the only Notable wr that takes even more yards to get a TD than Jefferson. Outliers in the other direction are Adam theorem and Devonte Adams, who are closer to 110 yards per TD

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I was glad to see Dobbs getting the start

I was disappointed to see, as I just checked, Mullens listed as #2, Hall at #3

There must have been a reason KOC demoted Hall to #3.

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Even with the 10 point clunker vs the bears the Vikings scored more points per game during the most recent 4 game stretch without Jefferson and a barely-starter quality qb. And they won the same amount of games. Tell me again why we need cousins and/or Jefferson? In Jefferson’s case I mean once he’s off his rookie contract. I’ll happily play a talented wr in his rookie deal.

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Even with the 10 point clunker vs the bears the Vikings scored more points per game during the most recent 4 game stretch without Jefferson and a barely-starter quality qb. And they won the same amount of games. Tell me again why we need cousins and/or Jefferson? In Jefferson’s case I mean once he’s off his rookie contract. I’ll happily play a talented wr in his rookie deal.

Thats the point I've tried to make for a while now.

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If Cousins wants to win a SB his best chance has to be here in MN.

How bad does he want win one?

If I had more money than God I'd take a heck of a cut to stay put - which is easy to say sitting at home in my easy chair.

I'm as interested as anyone what he'll have to have to sign in MN

Yup. Its easy for us to say we'd take less because none of us have ever had the kind of money he does.

But the thing I've found dealing with really wealthy people is most of them are super driven (obsessed even) to keep making more and more. There is no such thing as enough.

Cousins seems as "normal" as possible for a QB based on the Netflix show. He doesn't have a particularly fancy house. They don't drive really expensive cars or dress fancy. But he's been as mercenary as anyone ever in the NFL when it comes to his contracts.

I admire your ability to say it nicely. I'm not at all being sarcastic. There is a money problem in this country. Some people don't have any. Rich people never have enough. It's a sickness.

Cousins and his agent (McCartney?) have indeed gotten the best of NFL GM's for his entire career. I'd like the Vikings to move on, but I'm not shedding tears for any NFL owner or GM getting fleeced by a player. I just wish it wasn't the Vikings that he's doing it to.

How much did we pay Favre for his second year? Bradford? We have a history of this type of shit. We just don't seem to be able to draft or evaluate QB talent. I have always questioned our ability to coach up a QB, regardless of who is in charge.

Seems like we are just bad at QB's. That sucks.

Don't get me wrong, we are still suffering from the mistakes of Spielman....using a 2nd and 3rd on back up, mediocre at best, RB's and TE's. Irv Smith is probably the fourth best TE on his team right now. Sure, Mattison runs hard, so does Najee Harris. The bar should be higher.

I hope we have a plan for the future that doesn't consist of Cousins, Dobbs or Mullens.

Cousins will be 36 next season, and coming off an Achilles. It's a young man's game. Short of a significant pay cut, let him find his way in the world with the nearly $142-million he has made as a quarterback. With the money the Vikings have paid him, we could feed the homeless in this country for a couple of years.

You could feed a homeless person for a couple years off 250 bucks?

You get the point. No need to trivialize the number.

I honestly don't know what it costs to feed a homeless person per year. I was going to be quite impressed that it was that low.

Seems like a good time to do some homework and get involved. It's the holidays. Spread the wealth and help the needy.

Actually, Cousins has made over $230-million playing quarterback in the NFL.

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If we’re going by opinions then JMO he tortures and kills puppies and stands in line one hour early when boarding a flight.

Okay then.

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I'm in the keep JJ camp.

If you aren't paying huge money to a QB... I don't have a problem paying an extremely young, extremely talented player at a position where you can play out a long contract and reasonably expect to keep level of play or even improve.

I think this team is going to need some superstars for a chance to win it all.
I think our biggest problem of that fun 2017 team was we didn't have any superstars.
The team was absolutely solid across the board.
But no one really dominated or put the team on their back in the playoffs.

The idea that you are going to turn JJ into a draft haul and then turn that into star players is a huge gamble.
I know it's not apples to apples... but Moss netted Napoleon Harris and Troy Williamson... that is absolutely a possibility.

JJ is a known.

ymmv

Have we won games without him... yes.

But I think the last couple games you are seeing what this offense is going to be now that teams know how to neutralize Addison.
Not much fun to watch.