Bye Week - Vikings Must Fix ________

Nothing fixable during the bye/in-season for you? We are what we are? I'm desperate for more consistency, but I guess, in a way, we are consistent.

I would like more consistency from the offense. I love that we come through when it counts, but we wouldn't have to be in close battles if they'd operate better throughout!

Less three and outs, which has to be play calling, because I see no lack of talent. We're a Ferrari with a bad spark plug wire: we stall out at a stoplight often as not, but when the connection is there, it's 0-100 in 4 seconds. I think the D would look a lot better if they had time to take their helmet off before they're back on the field on non-scoring drives. Pick up a couple first downs before you punt once in a while, could be fun.

It’s pretty simple…we’ve needed a QB for 20 30 years lol. Cousins is a good QB. Hell a great QB foreal. But he can’t win you games by himself like I could name on other teams. He has no pocket awareness and can’t extend the play . His 3rd down dunks 20 yards behind the line of scrimmage, caught 1 yard short of the line of scrimmage, on 3rd and 10 are eye scratching . He needs a perfect team. And for 20 30 years we haven’t had a coach. I’m not ready to give up on him yet but damnnnnnn the play callings been bad . Get the ball in your play makers hands quick!! Can’t count on Cousins and our online to hold up to these long progression routes . I will say the timeouts being used are better this year lol. Situation football is better. But he’s got to get better .our guys like the guy lol. Defense is meh.

d) With the good start the Vikings are looking to be drafting somewhere between 18 and 23 with multiple QB needy teams (Carolina, Chicago, Indy, Atlanta, Washington) drafting ahead of them.

e) Kirk currently sits at 24th in YPA and 17th in passer rating despite one of the easiest schedules in the NFL. I listed 5 teams above who will be desperate for a QB, which one would trade for a QB who isn't even average against bad defenses with one of the better WRs corps, RBs, and an okay Oline? The only team I see in that list is Chicago, and the Vikings will not trade him in the division.

f) Kirk will refuse any trade that doesn't involve him getting large, fully guaranteed extension from the new team.

The Vikings will look at going into 2024 without an alternative at QB to Kirk Cousins and extend him once more, fully guaranteed for one year, 45 million, with a cap hit of 55 million that season, 10 million in dead cap in season 2025. This will continue to happen until age catches up with Kirk and the Vikings have no alternative but to move on, resulting in the 0 SB wins the Vikings would have gotten with a lesser QB if they had moved on, but also fewer SB wins than they might have had if they had just taken a chance on finding something better.

BTW, these are the QBs with a better or similar passer rating as Kirk that were available for almost nothing this past season:

Andy Dalton
Geno Smith
Marcus Marriota
Carson Wentz
Jimmy Garrapolo

None of those guys have close to quality of offensive players Kirk is working with.

And that's what I'm banking on.....we're getting wins and the schemes aren't even locked in yet
Comparing us in no other way but this- the Bucs added Brady and several new players, making significant changes to their offensive scheme, and were 7-5 before starting an 8 game win streak culminating in a SB win. It took them until late in the season before they really started clicking.