Retool or Rebuild for 2022?

If we let him play out the final year, then it is no longer an extension situation (where there are no other bidders). It would then be a free agency situation with as many as 31 other bidders. That's hardly the backdrop for a team to demand a "reasonable contract." It's more likely that some desperate team with a lot of cap space way overpays to "steal" him from us.

Ha! Vikadan ... I get it. I mean we need it following this team.

Awww man, do we have to?

What about the OL? This is why Zimmer is a failure, as a "defensive guru" he should be getting more out of less on that side of the ball so we can focus more on offense, but whether it be picks or free agency, it seems like we always gotta invest a lot to make his D even serviceable. This offense could be scary if we actually fixed the OL for once and Zim stayed out of the way. The defense would just have to be average.

I’m torn on Rick. He has been given free reign and like 15 years to win a championship and hasn’t done it. So part of me says get rid of him and bring in someone else.

On the other hand I do feel he has assembled enough talent to be a championship team with the right coaches. But he picked the coaches.

My preference is to just start over and hopefully find a new GM that can bring in a head coach who can work with the talent we have and not turn the whole roster over.

My biggest wish is that we get a GM that has a solid offensive and defensive philosophy and hires coaches who can work within a scheme and with talent that we have.

Many of our issues with consistency on offense come from the revolving door of coaches and schemes we have had on a yearly basis.

Tooling an OL to go from zone blocking to man blocking and one scheme to the next takes specific physical and mental traits and we have been in a constant flux in that way.

If we would adopt a specific offense that we want as a team and consistently hire coaches who are good at that particular type of offense we can more accurately assess talent in the draft and develop it more quickly

Still need to look at C and RG, this line is no finished unit. Long overdue to get a very good unit out there. 

Ricky finally drafted some good O-linemen lately. I think we have LT, LG and RT covered. Cole and Oli in the next 6 games could make interesting. I hope the team uses a bit of patience and allow for these 5 guys to work together. Don't change the RG position just for the hell it. Oli is not hurt and Davis is such a unknown at this time. Davis has 0 NFL experience.

I see people say this a lot, and I just don't see the team that could have won the SB since Spielman became GM.  Looking at the playoff teams over the past 10 years:

2012:  A solid defense and the best run game in football paired with one of the worst QBs in football and terrible WRs was not good enough.

2015:  This team was good enough to beat Seattle in the first round, but was nowhere near the talent of Carolina, the eventual NFC SB team.  

2017:  The closest to a championship team Spielman has ever put together.  Good WRs, mediocre Oline, great defense but to win it all Zimmer would have had to do something only one other coach in the modern era has done.  Win the SB with a backup level QB starting most of the season.  That team was not better talentwise than Philly, in large part because of what Rick did the prior year to get Bradford.  Maybe that is what you mean when you say he has assembled enough talent to be a championship team?  That he did it for Philly?

2019:  The Vikings actually won a game against a more talented NO team, in large part because of coaching.  They then got destroyed by a much more talented SF team.  

Those are the 4 best rosters this GM has assembled and only one has been close to being good enough and even that one was horribly flawed.  Never has this team been the most talented in the NFL, and when you don't have the QB to make up for that, you aren't going to win a SB.

Totally spot on.