Post by VikingsBoss on Dec 29, 2018 11:22:33 GMT -6
Really? Anoint Kyle Sloter, who has been inactive for 25 straight games including the post-season, who has never so much as taken a snap in a real NFL game your starter...two years from now? And sign him to a contract on the promise of that?
I could list a litany of problems with that, but amongst numerous others:
Your whole premise may be flawed in that it, for some reason, presupposes Cousins leaves-which he may very well not do. I am confident in saying it will be the Vikings decision to not re-sign Cousins that would cause him to leave and really nothing else. And, if that is the situation, the regime that brought him in isn't coming back either.
That would also be the same regime making this hypothetical promise to Sloter.
Secondly, I don't think you can, even under-the-table make such a promise.
What if the bottom completely falls out and the Vikings end up with the number 1 overall pick in the 2020 or 2021 draft?
What if Cousins gets hurt, Sloter plays and he sucks? Isn't that just as likely a possibility as his being great, given what NO ONE has ever seen of him against legit NFL competition?
What if, Miracle of Miracles, the Vikings win a Super Bowl one of the next three years (this one isn't actually over...yet), Cousins isn't going anywhere.
What if the Vikings are legit contenders for three years-winning 30-35 games and a perennial contender but don't get over the hump, and Cousins wants to stay?
Are you going to blow up and start the rebuild with Kyle Sloter as your centerpiece, if the Vikings don't win it all in three years? KYLE SLOTER? KYLE-FRICKING-SLOTER?
What if one of those, or any innumerable other things come to pass and going into 2021, having Kyle Sloter has your starting QB looks like a slightly less attractive option than French-kissing a plague patient?
But that is the answer, Alex. 
... and neither is this Chris guy.