Do you want the Vikings in the playoffs this year?

It takes a combination of luck and excellent scouting to turn any significant number of late round picks into contributors. I'd suggest there is plenty of room between extending him because a late round pick was a hit and firing him because they aren't all hits. The Vikings have done pretty well in that category for a very long time so that may well have more to do with scouting than Rick, but I'm not there so I won't pretend to know.

I don't know what their draft board looks like so while I may well have an opinion on individual trade backs, the opinion is based upon nothing concrete. When the players they want is projected to be available later in the earlier rounds I have no issue with trading back for more draft assets. In order to present anything more than a baseless opinion I'd have to know who they were targeting.

Finally, as they move beyond the first round the obvious cream of the crop tends to be gone and there are likely many players that they rate as being close to each other. In those cases when you can be assured that one or more of a number of players of equal value will be available then yes, trade back for more assets. Late rounds are a crap shoot, and the more chips you have the better your odds of hitting are.

No, you're a miserable person and your constant negativity is draining. Finally, don't complain about being labeled as a hater when you throw around the Homer label in virtually every post.

I'm the kind of fan who after many years of misery realized that none of my anger changed a thing, none of it won a Super Bowl, or Stanley Cup, or NBA championship, or even a lemon filled donut.