Mark Anderson
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ORIGINAL: Ricky J 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. Just going off the internet but it says Cousins net worth is $70M. And the guy is notoriously frugal on what he spends for himself. Take $115M off to give to the government and he still clears $115M. JMO but I think the guy helps the needy and is a stand up guy. And I still want a 1st round QB.
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