Through the years, Vikings have suffered QB curse

[purplefaithful]

The difference between Bradford and backup Case Keenum is the difference between making the playoffs and throwing away another season.

The Vikings have won one playoff game in the past 13 seasons. And that came with a renegade Packer making a cameo.
The Vikings haven’t won a playoff game with a quarterback they drafted since Daunte Culpepper beat the Packers in the 2004 playoffs.
The past two quarterbacks drafted by the Vikings to play in a Super Bowl: Brad Johnson with the Buccaneers, and Rich Gannon with the Raiders.
Other than Culpepper, the Vikings haven’t won a playoff game with a quarterback they drafted since Wade Wilson beat the Saints in the 1987 playoffs.
And if greatness and Super Bowl championships are the goal, this may be the most damning piece of history of all for the Vikings:
They haven’t drafted a quarterback who would make the Hall of Fame since 1961.
http://www.startribune.com/qb-injuries-r...445905833/

[Guest]

Sunday provided a reminder about the importance of the position. Keenum couldn’t threaten the Steelers downfield, wasn’t particularly good at making blocking scheme adjustments at the line, and allowed an aggressive defense to dictate the flow of the game.
What’s sad about the current situation is that Vikings General Manager Rick Spielman has acquired two good quarterbacks in the past four years.
He landed Bridgewater with the 32nd pick of the first round in 2014, a steal for a player of Bridgewater’s quality.
He spent a first- and fourth-round pick to acquire Bradford, who has completed 72.3 percent of his passes in his 16 games with the Vikings.
Now both have knee injuries that cast doubt on their futures.
Want to feel cursed, Vikings fans?
Ask why the best quarterbacks in recent franchise history seem to have spent as much time in front of orthopedic surgeons as behind center.

[Guest]

@purplefaithful said:
Sunday provided a reminder about the importance of the position. Keenum couldn’t threaten the Steelers downfield, wasn’t particularly good at making blocking scheme adjustments at the line, and allowed an aggressive defense to dictate the flow of the game.
What’s sad about the current situation is that Vikings General Manager Rick Spielman has acquired two good quarterbacks in the past four years.
He landed Bridgewater with the 32nd pick of the first round in 2014, a steal for a player of Bridgewater’s quality.
He spent a first- and fourth-round pick to acquire Bradford, who has completed 72.3 percent of his passes in his 16 games with the Vikings.
Now both have knee injuries that cast doubt on their futures.
Want to feel cursed, Vikings fans?
Ask why the best quarterbacks in recent franchise history seem to have spent as much time in front of orthopedic surgeons as behind center.

Daunte's career went in the crapper with his knee injury on a run.  We are waaaay overdue for some luck, that is for sure.

[Guest]

I was just thinking this very same thing.  We felt so optimistic after the season opener; especially having Sam being voted the POW.  Then "Bam!" it all comes crashing down, and we're stuck with average to below average QBs again.

Another season down the crapper.  Oh well, it's not like we don't know how this feels.

[Guest]

On the flip side, no team has been luckier than the Green Bay Packers.   Starr, a few bad years, then Favre and then Rodgers.


On the latter 2, that is 26 years and counting of Pro Bowl, Hall of Fame quarterbacking.
Cowboys are similar.  Staubach, then Danny White (decent and a Pro Bowler), Troy Aikman, Tony Romo and now a diamond-in-the-rough when drafted, Dak Prescott.
The Vikings don't have the best luck at picking QBs and Offensive Linemen.  The ones that hurt the most were the monster of Ponder/Freeman/Cassel
Vikes do now have 2 good QBs and a nice looking developmental 3rd QB.  But, that uncomfortable decision is coming between Teddy and Sam, and if the Vikings make the wrong choice, they will never be forgiven.  I fear Sam or Teddy going somewhere else and becoming Randall Cunningham of 1998, and then the other becomes Randall Cunningham of 1999 with us.

[Guest]

The haves in the NFL are those that develop/get lucky at QB.  The Pats went from mediocre to SB favorite every year with Brady.  The Cowboys, the Packers all lucky with QBs.

Us, not so much.  As Tom said, the Jackson, Ponder years were a major failure.  The one big fault I have with Rick is that he failed to keep trying and wasted years waiting for those 2 to develop.  taking shots at a prescott or other 2nd, 3rd, or 4th rounder.  You can't win the lottery if you don't play.