Weatherly Up For An Extension

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Not sure they do it, but I'd be all for paying Weatherly. I've seen enough that if you can get him to sign a 4 year deal right now for something reasonable, I say go for it. He's a good player.
In recent years the Vikings have done a great job at locking up ascending talent. Not sure that's sustainable, but hopefully we're able to keep Weatherly around.

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@purplefaithful said:


Back to Weatherly - this sums it up nicely for me:

"The thing that Stephen, when he played last year, was he made a lot of plays,’’ said Vikings coach Mike Zimmer. “He’s improved in a lot of areas. I anticipate that he’ll have a much larger role for us this year as we continue to go forward. He continues to get better. You can just see he’s much more confident in everything he’s doing.’’

It's all about what can you do for me going forward in these situations. Great story with a 7th rounder too. 

Read something about Weatherly taking over the Jack role, the stand up pass rusher on passing downs that creates the mismatches in the blocking scheme.  If that is the case, sign me up as signing onto favoring the signs pointing to him signing an extension.

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We signed Hunter in similar fashion if I recall. I think it would be a good thing to get him signed

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Well Rudolph just got $36M. Not sure how this affects Weatherly...

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@pattersaur said:
Well Rudolph just got $36M. Not sure how this affects Weatherly...

Could be good if it created cap space for this season.

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@"Geoff Nichols" said:

@"BarrNone55" said:
I can see the allure of creating so cap space with Griff, but I thought we already went to that well? Regardless, Weatherly is certainly capable of starting at the LDE SPOT with Hunter swinging over, but then you are down to zero proven depth.

It is very important to have at least 3 functional DE's in Zimmer's defense. A 3-man rotation of Hunter, Griffen, Weatherly is strong. You need to add another name to that mix before you can think about moving on from Griff. If they hadn't restructured Everson earlier this year they would have drafted a DE early. 

They will get some additional cap space for in-season moves but they don't need to worry about 2020 much. They will tinker with Kirk's deal next off-season which will give them plenty of functional space one way or another. 

Does the possibility of using Barr at DE have any impact on the need for 3? Or is having Barr rush just something that gets talked about, and that he would like to do, but never actually becomes a significant part of the defensive scheme? If Weatherly is playing the Jack role, Barr won't.
I just think there is a lot of truth in this:

@StickyBun said:I think Z and the staff were blown away how much better Weatherly got game after game with the playing time. 

People panicked about Griffen sitting out, but as Sticky said - Weatherly improved with playing time. We'll never know if Bower or Aruna are ready to step up if they can't even get some playing time in the 3rd DE role.  

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We need to quit drafting good players that are also good people, makes it a lot easier to say move on when they gives us a reason to not like then.

Maybe rs needs to incorporate a smoot factor,  if they dont rank smooty enough they will be to nice and good to easily part with.

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I thought his weakness was his technique, but he has talked about working on that.  This guy is smart, soon to be real good.