Kirk, Or A Potential First Round QB in 2024?
Dec 27, 2023 21:38:55 GMT -6
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Post by mngopher35 on Dec 27, 2023 21:38:55 GMT -6
That’s exactly why what he said is true lol. The time it makes sense to push to the future in order to get something now is if you are making a legitimate run at competing as a contender. The rams did it to large level and it really paid off. Those are the types of situations it makes sense, otherwise it won’t be worth it in the end.
If you are just middling like the Vikings have been it makes no sense to do this year after year. It just leaves you with mediocre results (0 playoff wins the last 3 soon to be 4 years) and then you have to pay up later when you should be building up the roster. With the end result being us being over cap heading into the season and having 50+ million in dead cap hits lined up for next year. It just never made any sense as many fans have pointed out and we still have yet to realize this and stop doing it even with the new regime.
Since 2020 it hasn’t made much sense to keep repeating that general approach. We clearly failed with our push around cousins by that time and the roster had fallen off (especially defensively). While I am sure any player and probably even coach wants the best pieces to win right now even at the expense of the future that doesn’t really make it the best route for management. I sure hope they pay JJ to be a wr and not the gm.
Where did the Vikings say their plan was to be mediocre? It seems to me they have been pushing money back because they are perpetually thinking they can contend.
What you are really saying it’s only smart if it works. Which is a poor argument because it is a gamble. And gambling in and of itself isn’t smart.
Well it is very telling if they thought we had the talent to contend all these years and keep thinking that. Everything from other mainstream opinions to those with $ on the line have known it wasn’t the case. Many in this fan base could see it too.
The real issue is probably that not everyone has the same agenda than being so ridiculous. A regime that feels like it needs to produce or it will be fired might keep taking that approach as a “last grasp”. An ownership that pushes for that “super competitive” route before even making hires might prefer to keep a team good enough to keep fans engaged each year (mediocre team fighting for playoffs) than risk a run of bad years.
No. I’m saying it’s only if you are a legitimate contender. Where people outside the fan base actually think you might have a solid chance comparatively for a Super Bowl. Where you can see the talent is better than most other teams in the league. The teams that have won the sb are the best examples because they have worked but there are others where it made sense even if it didn’t. I even have said before you could at least argue it when we initially brought cousins in due to our talent level. When that clearly failed despite top 10 defenses and great weapons with an inability to sustain it is when that clearly shifted (2020). After that wasting more and more time and money was obviously a bad decision as many were saying at the time. The results just confirm what was obvious to many.