Retool or Rebuild for 2022?

Aren't those easier said than done? Reminds me of the old Steve Martin routine: "How to be a millionaire! Step 1: Get a million dollars."

How do you talk Kirk into a team-friendly deal? Just because he said, "Viking 4 Life!" in an interview, he hasn't ever gone for that in his career. Some new self-realization the team needs some of "his" money to build a winner around him? He could have seen that after the 2019 season when he signed the new extension, couldn't he? He gave them a bit of cap relief for 2020, but at the cost of crippling the team the next two seasons. Is that his idea of team-friendly?

I think Kirk has heard there is going to be a cap increase with lots of teams able to spend this offseason, and aiming to get traded to some team that will give him one more fat long-term deal. Oh, they will think, "He signed an extension that lowered his 2022 salary from $45M to $30M for us! And all we had to do was guarantee $105M over the next three years..."