Post by whoskmoon on Sept 13, 2020 0:20:08 GMT -6
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Part of the reason the Vikings have been able to work near the cap ceiling like this is because of signing bonuses, which come due eventually. It’s a balancing act, but it also requires owners who are willing to write the big checks. Wilfs continue to show they’ll spend to win.
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Sept 12, 2020 19:39:25 GMT -6 @aussie61 said:
I don't understand the rationale for committing cap dollars on a HB,and I don't understand the mixed messages coming from the Vikings hierarchy.![*rock*](http://storage.proboards.com/5999358/images/OnqXcphUwhfWjArRmZlv.gif)
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I thought we would have learned our lesson with Peterson, about not giving RB's huge contracts. Mattison and Boone even proved to everyone any RB can produce in Kubiaks system. This franchise continues to baffle me. I wish I were joking when I say it seems like our only goal is to just not become Detroit, but that's what all the evidence points to. Every move we made recently was all about maintaining the 9-7 status quo. Not a single move that shows it's trying to fill the trophy case with anything other than participation trophies.
Cook's contract won't be the thing holding us back either going forward. He could not play another snap on it and that missing cap wouldn't be the reason this team doesn't win it all.
Get over it people. We extended a RB for a third less than the QB makes a year, and not that much more than we paid Reiff prior to his pay cut. It isnt a franchise crippling contract, and we were screwed next year and the year after by our cap space anyway. At least now we have the chance of watching an explosive playmaker each Sunday.