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I believe that 1 of 2 things happened: the FO was gearing up to go All In one more time when Diggs finally forced his way out and changed their plans to 'Soft Rebuild'. Or the Wilfs wanted Cousins extended to keep butts in seats while the team quietly went full Rebuild, which is a terrible strategy since Kirk is eating up a huge chunk of cap space that could have been used this offseason and the next two to add more high upside younger guys.

Next step will be extending Cook, not that he's any part of the rebuild, he puts butts in seats.

SI has an article about Minnesota straddling the line between contending and rebuilding. Daily Norseman has one called What is the Team Doing. And an excellent podcast by BJ Reidell and Drew Mahowald called What exactly are the Vikings doing. A franchise that hates dead cap space is currently carrying the 5th most in the NFL. The GM and HC are on the last year of their deals.

Theirs so much speculation for a reason. Some moves look like a team that thinks its window is still open. Others smack of rebuilding. It's schizophrenic.

I encourage all of you to check out that Reidell and Mahowald podcast. I've never listened to them before but they had a very reasoned, intelligent discussion about what Minnesota is trying to do that really encapsulated things for me.

But you're looking at it from a binary either/or perspective - that their strategy is either "rebuild" or "go for it completely". IMO they are in a middle ground of just maintaining competence. It's not "mediocrity" but it's "above-average-ocrity".

The extension of Cousins proves this is their plan. Cousins has not shown he is an elite QB but he has shown he will win the easier games and even put up stats that let the team claim they have a solid solution in place at that position. He stays healthy and he seems to get along well enough with Zimmer. What more do you want from a QB??

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I believe that 1 of 2 things happened: the FO was gearing up to go All In one more time when Diggs finally forced his way out and changed their plans to 'Soft Rebuild'. Or the Wilfs wanted Cousins extended to keep butts in seats while the team quietly went full Rebuild, which is a terrible strategy since Kirk is eating up a huge chunk of cap space that could have been used this offseason and the next two to add more high upside younger guys.

Next step will be extending Cook, not that he's any part of the rebuild, he puts butts in seats.

SI has an article about Minnesota straddling the line between contending and rebuilding. Daily Norseman has one called What is the Team Doing. And an excellent podcast by BJ Reidell and Drew Mahowald called What exactly are the Vikings doing. A franchise that hates dead cap space is currently carrying the 5th most in the NFL. The GM and HC are on the last year of their deals.

Theirs so much speculation for a reason. Some moves look like a team that thinks its window is still open. Others smack of rebuilding. It's schizophrenic.

I encourage all of you to check out that Reidell and Mahowald podcast. I've never listened to them before but they had a very reasoned, intelligent discussion about what Minnesota is trying to do that really encapsulated things for me.

But you're looking at it from a binary either/or perspective - that their strategy is either "rebuild" or "go for it completely". IMO they are in a middle ground of just maintaining competence. It's not "mediocrity" but it's "above-average-ocrity".

The extension of Cousins proves this is their plan. Cousins has not shown he is an elite QB but he has shown he will win the easier games and even put up stats that let the team claim they have a solid solution in place at that position. He stays healthy and he seems to get along well enough with Zimmer. What more do you want from a QB??

Binary is how I believe it should be, JL. You're either All In or flat out Rebuilding.  Seattle has been Retooling since their last Super Bowl appearance and are stuck in the 1 & Done zone. With a significantly better QB. Their Defense still isn't back and their O-Line still isn't fixed and Russell is eat a big chunk of their cap. Rodgers isn't a whole better than Kirk any more and while they finally fixed their Defense the O-Line is starting to leak oil and they still lack weapons. 

I don't have any problems with Cousins other than the cost. Like any Retooling team the Vikings won't have much $$ to look to FA for solutions which will put an inordinate amount of pressure on the Draft to produce to keep the Retooling on schedule. Kirk needs a 9ers-esque team around him to win it all but the Vikings don't have the ammunition to put one together unless they get 6-8 Starters out of the next 2 Drafts. Doable but still a tall order.

I would have gone for it by keeping Weatherly, Mac, Kline and Diggs (fine him until he shuts up and let him know he's getting traded next offseason if he STFU) and added a a piece or 2 in FA and get the rest from the Draft. 

OR I would have committed 100% to the Rebuild, which means no stupid ass signings like Bret Jones or Abdullah. Load up on picks for 2021 and get your cost-controlled QB of the future.

In either scenario I would not have extended Cousins. Not because I don't like him or think he can't win it all. Because he costs too damn much to make either scenario work. So of course that's exactly what they did. Committed to the Middle Road. And I think Ownership were the ones that made that milquetoast decision, not Rick and Mike, cuz they want butts in seats more than a ring.

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I believe that 1 of 2 things happened: the FO was gearing up to go All In one more time when Diggs finally forced his way out and changed their plans to 'Soft Rebuild'. Or the Wilfs wanted Cousins extended to keep butts in seats while the team quietly went full Rebuild, which is a terrible strategy since Kirk is eating up a huge chunk of cap space that could have been used this offseason and the next two to add more high upside younger guys.

Next step will be extending Cook, not that he's any part of the rebuild, he puts butts in seats.

SI has an article about Minnesota straddling the line between contending and rebuilding. Daily Norseman has one called What is the Team Doing. And an excellent podcast by BJ Reidell and Drew Mahowald called What exactly are the Vikings doing. A franchise that hates dead cap space is currently carrying the 5th most in the NFL. The GM and HC are on the last year of their deals.

Theirs so much speculation for a reason. Some moves look like a team that thinks its window is still open. Others smack of rebuilding. It's schizophrenic.

I encourage all of you to check out that Reidell and Mahowald podcast. I've never listened to them before but they had a very reasoned, intelligent discussion about what Minnesota is trying to do that really encapsulated things for me.

But you're looking at it from a binary either/or perspective - that their strategy is either "rebuild" or "go for it completely". IMO they are in a middle ground of just maintaining competence. It's not "mediocrity" but it's "above-average-ocrity".

The extension of Cousins proves this is their plan. Cousins has not shown he is an elite QB but he has shown he will win the easier games and even put up stats that let the team claim they have a solid solution in place at that position. He stays healthy and he seems to get along well enough with Zimmer. What more do you want from a QB??

Binary is how I believe it should be, JL. You're either All In or flat out Rebuilding.  Seattle has been Retooling since their last Super Bowl appearance and are stuck in the 1 & Done zone. With a significantly better QB. Their Defense still isn't back and their O-Line still isn't fixed and Russell is eat a big chunk of their cap. Rodgers isn't a whole better than Kirk any more and while they finally fixed their Defense the O-Line is starting to leak oil and they still lack weapons. 

I don't have any problems with Cousins other than the cost. Like any Retooling team the Vikings won't have much $$ to look to FA for solutions which will put an inordinate amount of pressure on the Draft to produce to keep the Retooling on schedule. Kirk needs a 9ers-esque team around him to win it all but the Vikings don't have the ammunition to put one together unless they get 6-8 Starters out of the next 2 Drafts. Doable but still a tall order.

I would have gone for it by keeping Weatherly, Mac, Kline and Diggs (fine him until he shuts up and let him know he's getting traded next offseason if he STFU) and added a a piece or 2 in FA and get the rest from the Draft. 

OR I would have committed 100% to the Rebuild, which means no stupid ass signings like Bret Jones or Abdullah. Load up on picks for 2021 and get your cost-controlled QB of the future.

In either scenario I would not have extended Cousins. Not because I don't like him or think he can't win it all. Because he costs too damn much to make either scenario work. So of course that's exactly what they did. Committed to the Middle Road. And I think Ownership were the ones that made that milquetoast decision, not Rick and Mike, cuz they want butts in seats more than a ring.

I disagree on the Wilfs being behind this half assed approach.   This IMO is Rick and Mike saying that the QB is more important to winning this year than the rest of those guys (since they cant afford them all.   They were stuck with Cousins for this year anyway,  and the only chance at putting any sort of team together to try and get themselves an extension of their own was to lower Cousins cap number through an extension for him.  This half assed approach isnt about putting butts in seats by the Wilfs,  its about Rick and Mike trying to save their own butts IMO.

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I believe that 1 of 2 things happened: the FO was gearing up to go All In one more time when Diggs finally forced his way out and changed their plans to 'Soft Rebuild'. Or the Wilfs wanted Cousins extended to keep butts in seats while the team quietly went full Rebuild, which is a terrible strategy since Kirk is eating up a huge chunk of cap space that could have been used this offseason and the next two to add more high upside younger guys.

Next step will be extending Cook, not that he's any part of the rebuild, he puts butts in seats.

SI has an article about Minnesota straddling the line between contending and rebuilding. Daily Norseman has one called What is the Team Doing. And an excellent podcast by BJ Reidell and Drew Mahowald called What exactly are the Vikings doing. A franchise that hates dead cap space is currently carrying the 5th most in the NFL. The GM and HC are on the last year of their deals.

Theirs so much speculation for a reason. Some moves look like a team that thinks its window is still open. Others smack of rebuilding. It's schizophrenic.

I encourage all of you to check out that Reidell and Mahowald podcast. I've never listened to them before but they had a very reasoned, intelligent discussion about what Minnesota is trying to do that really encapsulated things for me.

But you're looking at it from a binary either/or perspective - that their strategy is either "rebuild" or "go for it completely". IMO they are in a middle ground of just maintaining competence. It's not "mediocrity" but it's "above-average-ocrity".

The extension of Cousins proves this is their plan. Cousins has not shown he is an elite QB but he has shown he will win the easier games and even put up stats that let the team claim they have a solid solution in place at that position. He stays healthy and he seems to get along well enough with Zimmer. What more do you want from a QB??

Binary is how I believe it should be, JL. You're either All In or flat out Rebuilding.  Seattle has been Retooling since their last Super Bowl appearance and are stuck in the 1 & Done zone. With a significantly better QB. Their Defense still isn't back and their O-Line still isn't fixed and Russell is eat a big chunk of their cap. Rodgers isn't a whole better than Kirk any more and while they finally fixed their Defense the O-Line is starting to leak oil and they still lack weapons. 

I don't have any problems with Cousins other than the cost. Like any Retooling team the Vikings won't have much $$ to look to FA for solutions which will put an inordinate amount of pressure on the Draft to produce to keep the Retooling on schedule. Kirk needs a 9ers-esque team around him to win it all but the Vikings don't have the ammunition to put one together unless they get 6-8 Starters out of the next 2 Drafts. Doable but still a tall order.

I would have gone for it by keeping Weatherly, Mac, Kline and Diggs (fine him until he shuts up and let him know he's getting traded next offseason if he STFU) and added a a piece or 2 in FA and get the rest from the Draft. 

OR I would have committed 100% to the Rebuild, which means no stupid ass signings like Bret Jones or Abdullah. Load up on picks for 2021 and get your cost-controlled QB of the future.

In either scenario I would not have extended Cousins. Not because I don't like him or think he can't win it all. Because he costs too damn much to make either scenario work. So of course that's exactly what they did. Committed to the Middle Road. And I think Ownership were the ones that made that milquetoast decision, not Rick and Mike, cuz they want butts in seats more than a ring.

I disagree on the Wilfs being behind this half assed approach.   This IMO is Rick and Mike saying that the QB is more important to winning this year than the rest of those guys (since they cant afford them all.   They were stuck with Cousins for this year anyway,  and the only chance at putting any sort of team together to try and get themselves an extension of their own was to lower Cousins cap number through an extension for him.  This half assed approach isnt about putting butts in seats by the Wilfs,  its about Rick and Mike trying to save their own butts IMO.

That doesn't make any sense. They extended Kirk to lower his cap hit this year so they could what, sign a Tier 3 FA Wide Receiver, retain the backup to the backup Center and keep the entire Special Teams Unit together? 

The same 2 guys that constructed a team that made the NFCCG and just knocked off the allegedly greatest #3 seed ever came up with this plan? There's no logical argument that can be made that this year's team will be better than last year's team. Unless you truly, homerically believe they will find a starting 3T, WR, Guard, a rotational DE, another CB and Safety depth all in one Draft.

Rick and Mike were ordered to do this. If not, they should be fired. Cuz if this is the plan to keep their jobs they've lost their ever luvin minds.

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I believe that 1 of 2 things happened: the FO was gearing up to go All In one more time when Diggs finally forced his way out and changed their plans to 'Soft Rebuild'. Or the Wilfs wanted Cousins extended to keep butts in seats while the team quietly went full Rebuild, which is a terrible strategy since Kirk is eating up a huge chunk of cap space that could have been used this offseason and the next two to add more high upside younger guys.

Next step will be extending Cook, not that he's any part of the rebuild, he puts butts in seats.

SI has an article about Minnesota straddling the line between contending and rebuilding. Daily Norseman has one called What is the Team Doing. And an excellent podcast by BJ Reidell and Drew Mahowald called What exactly are the Vikings doing. A franchise that hates dead cap space is currently carrying the 5th most in the NFL. The GM and HC are on the last year of their deals.

Theirs so much speculation for a reason. Some moves look like a team that thinks its window is still open. Others smack of rebuilding. It's schizophrenic.

I encourage all of you to check out that Reidell and Mahowald podcast. I've never listened to them before but they had a very reasoned, intelligent discussion about what Minnesota is trying to do that really encapsulated things for me.

But you're looking at it from a binary either/or perspective - that their strategy is either "rebuild" or "go for it completely". IMO they are in a middle ground of just maintaining competence. It's not "mediocrity" but it's "above-average-ocrity".

The extension of Cousins proves this is their plan. Cousins has not shown he is an elite QB but he has shown he will win the easier games and even put up stats that let the team claim they have a solid solution in place at that position. He stays healthy and he seems to get along well enough with Zimmer. What more do you want from a QB??

Binary is how I believe it should be, JL. You're either All In or flat out Rebuilding.  Seattle has been Retooling since their last Super Bowl appearance and are stuck in the 1 & Done zone. With a significantly better QB. Their Defense still isn't back and their O-Line still isn't fixed and Russell is eat a big chunk of their cap. Rodgers isn't a whole better than Kirk any more and while they finally fixed their Defense the O-Line is starting to leak oil and they still lack weapons. 

I don't have any problems with Cousins other than the cost. Like any Retooling team the Vikings won't have much $$ to look to FA for solutions which will put an inordinate amount of pressure on the Draft to produce to keep the Retooling on schedule. Kirk needs a 9ers-esque team around him to win it all but the Vikings don't have the ammunition to put one together unless they get 6-8 Starters out of the next 2 Drafts. Doable but still a tall order.

I would have gone for it by keeping Weatherly, Mac, Kline and Diggs (fine him until he shuts up and let him know he's getting traded next offseason if he STFU) and added a a piece or 2 in FA and get the rest from the Draft. 

OR I would have committed 100% to the Rebuild, which means no stupid ass signings like Bret Jones or Abdullah. Load up on picks for 2021 and get your cost-controlled QB of the future.

In either scenario I would not have extended Cousins. Not because I don't like him or think he can't win it all. Because he costs too damn much to make either scenario work. So of course that's exactly what they did. Committed to the Middle Road. And I think Ownership were the ones that made that milquetoast decision, not Rick and Mike, cuz they want butts in seats more than a ring.

I disagree on the Wilfs being behind this half assed approach.   This IMO is Rick and Mike saying that the QB is more important to winning this year than the rest of those guys (since they cant afford them all.   They were stuck with Cousins for this year anyway,  and the only chance at putting any sort of team together to try and get themselves an extension of their own was to lower Cousins cap number through an extension for him.  This half assed approach isnt about putting butts in seats by the Wilfs,  its about Rick and Mike trying to save their own butts IMO.

That doesn't make any sense. They extended Kirk to lower his cap hit this year so they could what, sign a Tier 3 FA Wide Receiver, retain the backup to the backup Center and keep the entire Special Teams Unit together? 

The same 2 guys that constructed a team that made the NFCCG and just knocked off the allegedly greatest #3 seed ever came up with this plan? There's no logical argument that can be made that this year's team will be better than last year's team. Unless you truly, homerically believe they will find a starting 3T, WR, Guard, a rotational DE, another CB and Safety depth all in one Draft.

Rick and Mike were ordered to do this. If not, they should be fired. Cuz if this is the plan to keep their jobs they've lost their ever luvin minds.

they had to make moves to get under the cap,  remember they had to cut quite a bit just to be able to afford this years draft class as well as filling some roster holes with cheap free agents, that is why they were forced to rework cousins deal to lower his cap number this year... they couldnt cut him to create space so since they are stuck with him they did what they had to do to fill the roster and that was the reworked deal.

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I believe that 1 of 2 things happened: the FO was gearing up to go All In one more time when Diggs finally forced his way out and changed their plans to 'Soft Rebuild'. Or the Wilfs wanted Cousins extended to keep butts in seats while the team quietly went full Rebuild, which is a terrible strategy since Kirk is eating up a huge chunk of cap space that could have been used this offseason and the next two to add more high upside younger guys.

Next step will be extending Cook, not that he's any part of the rebuild, he puts butts in seats.

SI has an article about Minnesota straddling the line between contending and rebuilding. Daily Norseman has one called What is the Team Doing. And an excellent podcast by BJ Reidell and Drew Mahowald called What exactly are the Vikings doing. A franchise that hates dead cap space is currently carrying the 5th most in the NFL. The GM and HC are on the last year of their deals.

Theirs so much speculation for a reason. Some moves look like a team that thinks its window is still open. Others smack of rebuilding. It's schizophrenic.

I encourage all of you to check out that Reidell and Mahowald podcast. I've never listened to them before but they had a very reasoned, intelligent discussion about what Minnesota is trying to do that really encapsulated things for me.

But you're looking at it from a binary either/or perspective - that their strategy is either "rebuild" or "go for it completely". IMO they are in a middle ground of just maintaining competence. It's not "mediocrity" but it's "above-average-ocrity".

The extension of Cousins proves this is their plan. Cousins has not shown he is an elite QB but he has shown he will win the easier games and even put up stats that let the team claim they have a solid solution in place at that position. He stays healthy and he seems to get along well enough with Zimmer. What more do you want from a QB??

Binary is how I believe it should be, JL. You're either All In or flat out Rebuilding.  Seattle has been Retooling since their last Super Bowl appearance and are stuck in the 1 & Done zone. With a significantly better QB. Their Defense still isn't back and their O-Line still isn't fixed and Russell is eat a big chunk of their cap. Rodgers isn't a whole better than Kirk any more and while they finally fixed their Defense the O-Line is starting to leak oil and they still lack weapons. 

I don't have any problems with Cousins other than the cost. Like any Retooling team the Vikings won't have much $$ to look to FA for solutions which will put an inordinate amount of pressure on the Draft to produce to keep the Retooling on schedule. Kirk needs a 9ers-esque team around him to win it all but the Vikings don't have the ammunition to put one together unless they get 6-8 Starters out of the next 2 Drafts. Doable but still a tall order.

I would have gone for it by keeping Weatherly, Mac, Kline and Diggs (fine him until he shuts up and let him know he's getting traded next offseason if he STFU) and added a a piece or 2 in FA and get the rest from the Draft. 

OR I would have committed 100% to the Rebuild, which means no stupid ass signings like Bret Jones or Abdullah. Load up on picks for 2021 and get your cost-controlled QB of the future.

In either scenario I would not have extended Cousins. Not because I don't like him or think he can't win it all. Because he costs too damn much to make either scenario work. So of course that's exactly what they did. Committed to the Middle Road. And I think Ownership were the ones that made that milquetoast decision, not Rick and Mike, cuz they want butts in seats more than a ring.

I disagree on the Wilfs being behind this half assed approach.   This IMO is Rick and Mike saying that the QB is more important to winning this year than the rest of those guys (since they cant afford them all.   They were stuck with Cousins for this year anyway,  and the only chance at putting any sort of team together to try and get themselves an extension of their own was to lower Cousins cap number through an extension for him.  This half assed approach isnt about putting butts in seats by the Wilfs,  its about Rick and Mike trying to save their own butts IMO.

That doesn't make any sense. They extended Kirk to lower his cap hit this year so they could what, sign a Tier 3 FA Wide Receiver, retain the backup to the backup Center and keep the entire Special Teams Unit together? 

The same 2 guys that constructed a team that made the NFCCG and just knocked off the allegedly greatest #3 seed ever came up with this plan? There's no logical argument that can be made that this year's team will be better than last year's team. Unless you truly, homerically believe they will find a starting 3T, WR, Guard, a rotational DE, another CB and Safety depth all in one Draft.

Rick and Mike were ordered to do this. If not, they should be fired. Cuz if this is the plan to keep their jobs they've lost their ever luvin minds.

they had to make moves to get under the cap,  remember they had to cut quite a bit just to be able to afford this years draft class as well as filling some roster holes with cheap free agents, that is why they were forced to rework cousins deal to lower his cap number this year... they couldnt cut him to create space so since they are stuck with him they did what they had to do to fill the roster and that was the reworked deal.

Ugh, that's horrible Roster Management. Maybe Maroon was right that Rick never planned on keeping Barr until he approached them and Zimmer just couldn't let him go Brokeback Mountain style.

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I believe that 1 of 2 things happened: the FO was gearing up to go All In one more time when Diggs finally forced his way out and changed their plans to 'Soft Rebuild'. Or the Wilfs wanted Cousins extended to keep butts in seats while the team quietly went full Rebuild, which is a terrible strategy since Kirk is eating up a huge chunk of cap space that could have been used this offseason and the next two to add more high upside younger guys.

Next step will be extending Cook, not that he's any part of the rebuild, he puts butts in seats.

SI has an article about Minnesota straddling the line between contending and rebuilding. Daily Norseman has one called What is the Team Doing. And an excellent podcast by BJ Reidell and Drew Mahowald called What exactly are the Vikings doing. A franchise that hates dead cap space is currently carrying the 5th most in the NFL. The GM and HC are on the last year of their deals.

Theirs so much speculation for a reason. Some moves look like a team that thinks its window is still open. Others smack of rebuilding. It's schizophrenic.

I encourage all of you to check out that Reidell and Mahowald podcast. I've never listened to them before but they had a very reasoned, intelligent discussion about what Minnesota is trying to do that really encapsulated things for me.

But you're looking at it from a binary either/or perspective - that their strategy is either "rebuild" or "go for it completely". IMO they are in a middle ground of just maintaining competence. It's not "mediocrity" but it's "above-average-ocrity".

The extension of Cousins proves this is their plan. Cousins has not shown he is an elite QB but he has shown he will win the easier games and even put up stats that let the team claim they have a solid solution in place at that position. He stays healthy and he seems to get along well enough with Zimmer. What more do you want from a QB??

Binary is how I believe it should be, JL. You're either All In or flat out Rebuilding.  Seattle has been Retooling since their last Super Bowl appearance and are stuck in the 1 & Done zone. With a significantly better QB. Their Defense still isn't back and their O-Line still isn't fixed and Russell is eat a big chunk of their cap. Rodgers isn't a whole better than Kirk any more and while they finally fixed their Defense the O-Line is starting to leak oil and they still lack weapons. 

I don't have any problems with Cousins other than the cost. Like any Retooling team the Vikings won't have much $$ to look to FA for solutions which will put an inordinate amount of pressure on the Draft to produce to keep the Retooling on schedule. Kirk needs a 9ers-esque team around him to win it all but the Vikings don't have the ammunition to put one together unless they get 6-8 Starters out of the next 2 Drafts. Doable but still a tall order.

I would have gone for it by keeping Weatherly, Mac, Kline and Diggs (fine him until he shuts up and let him know he's getting traded next offseason if he STFU) and added a a piece or 2 in FA and get the rest from the Draft. 

OR I would have committed 100% to the Rebuild, which means no stupid ass signings like Bret Jones or Abdullah. Load up on picks for 2021 and get your cost-controlled QB of the future.

In either scenario I would not have extended Cousins. Not because I don't like him or think he can't win it all. Because he costs too damn much to make either scenario work. So of course that's exactly what they did. Committed to the Middle Road. And I think Ownership were the ones that made that milquetoast decision, not Rick and Mike, cuz they want butts in seats more than a ring.

I disagree on the Wilfs being behind this half assed approach.   This IMO is Rick and Mike saying that the QB is more important to winning this year than the rest of those guys (since they cant afford them all.   They were stuck with Cousins for this year anyway,  and the only chance at putting any sort of team together to try and get themselves an extension of their own was to lower Cousins cap number through an extension for him.  This half assed approach isnt about putting butts in seats by the Wilfs,  its about Rick and Mike trying to save their own butts IMO.

That doesn't make any sense. They extended Kirk to lower his cap hit this year so they could what, sign a Tier 3 FA Wide Receiver, retain the backup to the backup Center and keep the entire Special Teams Unit together? 

The same 2 guys that constructed a team that made the NFCCG and just knocked off the allegedly greatest #3 seed ever came up with this plan? There's no logical argument that can be made that this year's team will be better than last year's team. Unless you truly, homerically believe they will find a starting 3T, WR, Guard, a rotational DE, another CB and Safety depth all in one Draft.

Rick and Mike were ordered to do this. If not, they should be fired. Cuz if this is the plan to keep their jobs they've lost their ever luvin minds.

they had to make moves to get under the cap,  remember they had to cut quite a bit just to be able to afford this years draft class as well as filling some roster holes with cheap free agents, that is why they were forced to rework cousins deal to lower his cap number this year... they couldnt cut him to create space so since they are stuck with him they did what they had to do to fill the roster and that was the reworked deal.

Ugh, that's horrible Roster Management. Maybe Maroon was right that Rick never planned on keeping Barr until he approached them and Zimmer just couldn't let him go Brokeback Mountain style.