Cousins Wants To Remain With Vikes For Rest Of His Career

Anyone else just tired of hearing about Kellen Mond? We literally owe that guy nothing and he should have to earn everything... Even a roster spot next year ..

Your not but a lot of people are. I'm never in favor of tanking and stop gaps. Just blow it up if that's the case. Get rid of Dalvin and Thielen...

Any chance O'Connell is heaping praise on Cousins to set the price high for any team that comes knocking

I think it's a big risk for KOC and KAM to bet their newly minted careers at the top of the NFL food chain on Kirk.  Such careers are often short (except if your name is Rick or Mike, I guess) and if you fiddle around with Kirk and fail it might be over before it starts for these guys.  

I think trading Kirk is the best option - which means a bad season upcoming.  Play Kellen Mond at qb.  Tell the fans to be patient.   Get a high draft pick and use it with the picks you get from the Kirk trade to move to a spot in 2023 where you get that franchise guy.  Thing is, you can suck for a while on a honeymoon as GM/HC, but possibly having to do it *after* you run another 2-3 years of Kirk out there and go nowhere... good luck with that job security, fellers.

So yeah, heaping praise on him is possibly an attempt to help set the market.  Just like the sudden report that "he won't give a hometown discount" could be more stuff being fed to reporters by the Vikings camp to do the same.  "We want him but we can't afford him, what would you give us for him?" maybe sets up better than "We don't want him, what will you give us for him?" in terms of fielding offers.  

Any chance O'Connell is heaping praise on Cousins to set the price high for any team that comes knocking, or does he legitimately want him here?

Hopefully our new GM likes one of this year's draft prospects at QB and can free up enough cap space via trade to fix our OL and help shore up the defense.

If you dump Cousins then why get rid of those two?

We'll need them going forward and will be able to afford them without Kirk's bloated contract.