Justin Jefferson news coming soon?

[StickyBun]

Per Rosen at KFAN. Contract redo/extension once Cook is cut/dealt?

[Guest]

Highest paid non-QB in the league? Who says no? Either way, Viking fans will bitch about it and say it was the wrong thing to do. 

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The more you pay one guy, the less there is for everyone
else, and the less resilient you are to them getting injured.  I don’t think you can have Cousins,
Jefferson, Darrisaw, O’Neill, Hunter all on big contracts.  I just hope we don’t end up in a situation,
where we pay JJ a ton, have to cut Cousins, but can’t find the right guy, then
JJ forces his way out and we eat a ton of dead cap.  *Cough* Raiders *Cough*

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@medaille said:

The more you pay one guy, the less there is for everyone
else, and the less resilient you are to them getting injured.  I don’t think you can have Cousins,
Jefferson, Darrisaw, O’Neill, Hunter all on big contracts.  I just hope we don’t end up in a situation,
where we pay JJ a ton, have to cut Cousins, but can’t find the right guy, then
JJ forces his way out and we eat a ton of dead cap.  *Cough* Raiders *Cough*

so you dont want the league’s best WR in a passing league?

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@Skodin said:

@medaille said:

The more you pay one guy, the less there is for everyone
else, and the less resilient you are to them getting injured.  I don’t think you can have Cousins,
Jefferson, Darrisaw, O’Neill, Hunter all on big contracts.  I just hope we don’t end up in a situation,
where we pay JJ a ton, have to cut Cousins, but can’t find the right guy, then
JJ forces his way out and we eat a ton of dead cap.  *Cough* Raiders *Cough*

so you dont want the league’s best WR in a passing league?

Don't think he said that.  Just that paying a WR and QB huge contracts is tough to balance.

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In a few years, it won't seem like so much in comparison given how the contracts just keep leaping upward.

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@PurplePastor said:
In a few years, it won't seem like so much in comparison given how the contracts just keep leaping upward.

True dat...

I remember marveling when the Wilfs bought the Vikings from Red for $600mm

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@Skodin said:

@medaille said:

The more you pay one guy, the less there is for everyone
else, and the less resilient you are to them getting injured.  I don’t think you can have Cousins,
Jefferson, Darrisaw, O’Neill, Hunter all on big contracts.  I just hope we don’t end up in a situation,
where we pay JJ a ton, have to cut Cousins, but can’t find the right guy, then
JJ forces his way out and we eat a ton of dead cap.  *Cough* Raiders *Cough*

so you dont want the league’s best WR in a passing league?

There's a lot of delusional Viking fans right now.  If you go on the Vikings subreddit, it's filled with people who want to see us break the bank for Jefferson, as if the higher the number means the more the betterer, because that means Jefferson is even besterest than if he was paid less.

The NFL isn't won by paying players the most.  The NFL isn't won by having the best WR.  The NFL is won by figuring out how to get the most talent on your team and with a salary cap that means figuring out how to get the most talent per dollar spent.   Obviously Jefferson is great, no doubt about it, but the more you pay for Jefferson, the less you get to spend elsewhere, and mere moments ago, we learned the lesson of spending too much money on too few of players, such that we couldn't field a full and robust roster to weather normal amounts of injuries.  We literally just experienced this as we gave generous contracts to multiple players who earned it and they're almost all gone now.

So if we spend a ton of money on Jefferson, I'll be happy for him.  I'll be happy to see more of him on my team.  But I'll be bittersweet knowing that it means more compromises elsewhere.  

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Every time a big contract comes up for any team's fanbase, the negative factor is kind of hilarious. Do you want top level players on your team or not? Fans bitch about a GM and their track record, then the ones they hit on fans seem fine with either not paying them or 'trading' them.

What fans really want is their favorite team's players to take less money for outstanding performance: does that work well with you and your workplace? You fine with that yourself professionally??

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@StickyBun said:
Every time a big contract comes up for any team's fanbase, the negative factor is kind of hilarious. Do you want top level players on your team or not? Fans bitch about a GM and their track record, then the ones they hit on fans seem fine with either not paying them or 'trading' them.

What fans really want is their favorite team's players to take less money for outstanding performance: does that work well with you and your workplace? You fine with that yourself professionally??

Why would we want good players? We just have to pay them.