Evans was good before going out. He and Shelley were pleasant surprises. It wasn’t like their veteran stars were flops, it’s just that none of them really played great, and the defense didn’t have anyone come out of nowhere to play great. It was like everyone played a notch below their contract. Hopefully that’s mostly coaching and can be addressed.
Cousins is always going to put up stats and continue to fail when it matters. He’s going to keep fleecing nfl teams for millions of dollars as he continues to fail in the big games and continues racking up playoff losses.
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So to be clear you would do a job for significantly less than the market says you could do it for? He's not supposed to maximize his earnings while he's capable of doing so?
It’s not cousins fault it’s the Vikings fault, they massively overpaid. I still don’t understand what they were thinking paying him that much.
Plenty of NFL players have taken contracts for less than they’re worth in order to win a ring.
What they were thinking was they could pay a lot to keep Case Keenan or roll with Teddy, if he ever returned. Keenan had a fluke year but both are backups. It was not a good contract, but the alternative really is tanking. There are literally only these scenarios at QB to win:
Disagree. Cousins was not the problem. He was money in the 4th quarter this season.
And what could the Vikings spend money on to improve if they didn’t have to pay such a massive contract to cousins?
It’s really not that massive in the grand scheme of QB contracts. Dalvin Cook has a much worse contract for the team than Kirk. Harrison Smith, Kendricks, Thielen, and other older players also have worse contracts than what Kirk has
Is Cousins even in the top 5 QBs by yearly salary? With his salary as guaranteed as it is, you lose out hard by letting him go. It quite literally saves nothing.
I don't disagree with your point, but it's a large part of how the greatest QB of all time came to be the greatest QB of all time, so you'd think more QB's would maybe take a page from that playbook. Tom prioritized winning over money during the prime of his career and I'd say it worked out pretty well over him. To each his own though
I like this idea, but on the other hand I went to a game at US Bank Stadium in December 2016 when it was -20 degrees with a wind chill of -45 at 9 am that day. it was brutal even riding the light rail to the stadium … it would not have been fun to be outdoors or to have the doors open that day.
