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03-14-2022, 08:00 PM

https://twitter.com/VikingNations/status...49321?s=20&t=b1ub8Da-LsBolisrqWNIvg

03-14-2022, 08:24 PM

Quote: @badgervike said:
https://twitter.com/VikingNations/status...49321?s=20&t=b1ub8Da-LsBolisrqWNIvg

Finally some good news.

03-15-2022, 10:34 AM

Janik Eckardt

@JaEc07

·8h

Kirk Cousins' record when the defense allows 23 or fewer points:

2021: 5-2

2020: 4-0

2019: 9-3

2018: 8-1

total: 26-6

For reference: The average NFL defenses allowed just over 22 ppg (17th Chiefs and 16th Cardinals).

I realize there's a strain of fact restraint humanoids that are beyond reach, but this does give me some hope.

Maybe let's see what we can do with an average D, hmmm?

03-15-2022, 11:12 AM

PFF graded the Cousins transaction Below Average.
Not a good way for Kwesi to start out.

03-15-2022, 11:14 AM

Quote: @purplefaithful said:
In 1990 the Burns led Vikings went 6/10.

In 1991 the Vikings went 8/8. That was Burnsie's last year. So hardly a team ready to roll onward and upward.

In 1992 the Sheriff took over the Vikings; installing all new schemes, new coaching, holes to fill in roster...He went 11/5

So anything is possible I guess.

I don't want to minimize what Green did, but that team he took over was very talented but underperformed under Burns. Green was the shot in the arm it needed. So there are similarities to this year.

03-15-2022, 11:19 AM

I think its a little to early to decide about Kwesi. Lets see what they do with the draft.

03-15-2022, 11:20 AM

Quote: @Norse said:
I think its a little to early to decide about Kwesi. Lets see what they do with the draft.

Or maybe at the end of the first 24 hours of FA.

Just a thought

03-15-2022, 11:36 AM

Quote: @Wetlander said:

@AGRforever said:
Cousins took a pay decrease to remain a Viking. He did the exact thing most of you were bitching about. We get a two year deal to see if the new coaching staff wants to hang their coat with Cousins or learn that he's the turd some of you think he is.
Kirk didn't take a pay cut... he actually went from getting 35 million this year to like 50 million with the extension. The deal just lowered his cap hit this year and next because of the void years tacked on. Let's not act like Kirk did us a solid lol

No, he didn't take a pay cut. Nor should he have. He merely agreed to add two void years to reduce the Vikings' '22 cap hit from $45M to $31M. Where he ranks now in terms of cap hit, average salary, percentage of cap is now roughly in the 6 to 8 range. And of course, a year from now it will likely be outside the top 10.

So no, not a pay cut. Unless his name were Tom Brady, then all you'd hear about is the pay cut he took.

03-15-2022, 12:20 PM

Quote: @MaroonBells said:

@Wetlander said:

@AGRforever said:
Cousins took a pay decrease to remain a Viking. He did the exact thing most of you were bitching about. We get a two year deal to see if the new coaching staff wants to hang their coat with Cousins or learn that he's the turd some of you think he is.
Kirk didn't take a pay cut... he actually went from getting 35 million this year to like 50 million with the extension. The deal just lowered his cap hit this year and next because of the void years tacked on. Let's not act like Kirk did us a solid lol
No, he didn't take a pay cut. Nor should he have. He merely agreed to add two void years to reduce the Vikings' '22 cap hit from $45M to $31M. Where he ranks now in terms of cap hit, average salary, percentage of cap is now roughly in the 6 to 8 range. And of course, a year from now it will likely be outside the top 10.

So no, not a pay cut. Unless his name were Tom Brady, then all you'd hear about is the pay cut he took.

So... what was wrong with my post? Glad you agree it wasn't a pay cut since he IS making more money in the next year than he would have if we just left his contract alone. It gave us some cap relief the next two years, but the term and structure wasn't favorable for the Vikings. Now we have dead cap pushed off in the future and have to make the same decision on Kirk again next off-season (extend, trade, or cut).

Just trying to keep this in reality. Yes, it benefits the Vikings since we are now under the cap, but this also benefited Kirk because he's getting more money and has more contract leverage than he did under his previous deal.

It is wasn't meant as a slam on Kirk. Just clarifying the facts since AGR wasn't correct in the post I responded to...

03-15-2022, 12:20 PM

Gaaaah, this is almost the s**tshow it is on FB and Twitter.

The number one reason, above all else, that Cousins' contract is a big deal is because...some fans insist it is!

Seriously!

The Vikings are neither the first, nor the only, team that had to work around some blue-chip contracts in their team building. They have an absolute Jedi Master at cap manipulation, plus we have a new GM and a new HC who lack the previous regime's myopic limitations.

The Vikings offense can score, and did...despite a head coach who was borderline useless on that side of the ball, despite the infamously bad OG play, but because the QB (he threw for 33 of the 44 team TDs, in a run-first offense) to talented skill players that are (mostly, at least) returning...and will now have functional offensive coaching. Blowing up that facet of the team would have made the least logical sense.

Cousins, already known to our receiving core, will be here for at least two more seasons. This year's draft is supposedly weak at QB, so...that kinda works, even for the Cousins Hate Club.

The team's glaring problems, somehow much less discussed across social media, will hopefully get attended to magnificently and the new regime can have an amazing debut season. That said, the mega-nega quit-b*****s that are already calling it dead in March should quit pretending to be fans.