This won't be an easy fix

Staple this to every seat at US Bank Stadium.
Share it everyhwere.
Ted has the absolute 100 percent correct take here. KAM/KOC are still cleaning up the mess that Rick/Zim left them.

It. Takes. Time.

You know how you clean up a mess! The draft! Bs excuse

Whatever helps you feel optimistic though, and helps you sleep at night. I’m still ok with our coach , but the GM???

For the op. While I agree with you in the sense Rick did a pretty poor job his last few years and was abysmal in the qb department and extended some guys who shouldn’t have been extended, I also disagree with a lot. I do also agree that is usually takes more than a year or two to fix a prior regime mistakes. And the wilfs don’t help anything with their mandate of never completely tearing it down and wanting to compete every year for a playoff spot even if it’s obvious the team has no shot at winning a sb (last year great example).

However I’m saying that, specifically on KAM, his first draft is turning out to be one of the worst in Vikings history. He started with the 12th overall pick and moved all the way to the last pick in the first round while getting back much less in value than the history of most teams giving up that high of a pick to move back that far. What’s worse is he made the trade to a division rival who right now looks like the best team in the division. Thst was my first clue that I might need to look at KAM a little closer. His decision to choose cine with thst pick was confusing at the time on top of it as in these times you usually don’t take a safety in the first round unless he looks like a sure fire PB prospect every year. You usually spend first round picks on more premium positions like DE, QB, CB, O tackle, WR. The rest of the pics in that class don’t even need to be brought up as every one of them outside of Ingram is on the bench and Ingram is flat out terrible and not getting better.

Yes Rick messed the oline up and didn’t fix it, but thst has been a known issue for years and years. KAM did nothing to fix it. Don’t say risner because we haven’t seen him play yet so that one is not known. He re-signed Bradbury who was never good and at best is average at times and below average others. Kirk is an immobile qb, so one would think we would do something about addressing the oline as a main priority to give our qb more time to throw the ball. An extra second or two every play would help immensely not to mention would help the run game which is another topic as a negative for KAM, but who would have thought it would be hard fixing it with a mid round pick who is un proven as a starter and a bunch of late round and undrafted players who also haven’t proven anything.

Then there is the defense. The talent on defense has got to be one of the worst groups in the league. Flores is a good defensive coach and he is trying hard to create different looks on d and it is showing how bad the talent is. If the ingredients are sh!t it doesn’t matter who the cook is they can’t dress it up to be a fine dining experience. The dline was not good in the talent department when KAM came in and hasn’t gotten any better. Arguably his 2 best moves are taking addison in the draft (which cameras showed in war room during draft KOC had to nudge KAM to draft him) and trading for TJ. Outside of thst what else has he done positive in 2 years of roster building? Because the list of negatives is going to far outgrow the positives.

One more thing. JJ. He hasn’t been extended yet and should have been before the year started. With how terribly the season is going and the outlook is we aren’t even going to make the playoffs and there is tons of work to be done on the roster, what makes you feel anymore comfortable JJ will want to be extended here after this year? He will make his money wherever he goes. If the situation is turning sour quickly here and doesn’t look like it’s going to get any better in the near future and filled with uncertainty, why would JJ want to sign an extension next offseason? He should have been re-signed this past summer. That’s on KAM.

Agree. I usually give any gm or HC for that matter three full years before making a judgement on them as you have to give them time and a chance, but kam moves in his first two seasons are very underwhelming and the outlook for the teams future in the next couple seasons is very murky. Outside of us earning a top 2 draft spot or trading up into a top 2 spot to get either willams or Maye, I think the next couple years after this year are going to be really not too good.

Yes, lol. Individually they have very good players. When they execute they can beat anyone. When they shoot themselves in the foot, they don't have the talent on the team overall to overcome their mistakes. And it exposes holes in the roster that were in a lot of ways masked by the winning last year.

The pieces are there for a good team, but the big lynchpin here is Kirk. Moving on from him at the end of the year almost assures a drop in wins for a year or two, but it opens up the salary cap to improve the overall roster and get a more complete team.



I think people are way overreacting to one draft, which was admittedly bad, and three losses out of the gate. He got rid of vets that should've happened before he got here, made a good trade for Hockenson and then got an extension signed, and I think his second draft, at least so far, looks a lot more promising than his first.

I think the Vikings are headed in the right direction long term, even if it doesn't look it right now.

One thing that goes unnoticed is that KAM leaves room to get out of his mistakes without any long term cap ramifications. I dont know if people realize how important this is.

I am not a huge fan of his player personel decisions so far as many havent worked out yet, but it allows him to pivot when he screws up. Will he get better at the player personel department, who knows, but his cap strategy has been amazing so far