03-12-2024, 12:08 PM
As a Cub fan in addition to my suffering years as a Vikes fan, I like when an organization that hasn't seen success sets out in a different direction. I define success as winning the whole thing. It was clear that resigning Cousins was not going to get us over the bump. There was still a significant gap between ourselves and the top teams. Our defense would have been lit up against any formidable playoff opponent.
Flores did a magnificent job mixing and matching to put a competitive D on the field. But good QB's were always going to pick that D apart. Our Run Game simply was not up to par even with a healthy Cousins providing more balance and threats to get the defense out of the box.
Moving on from Cousins allows us to improve at every position but QB, and we're already seeing the windfall from doing so, even with $28MM in sunk cost. Now, you have a place to work from in the draft that I believe gets you to the QB you need. I really am high on McCarthy as a guy you can bring in without having to bankrupt your future and can give a year or two to grow, all while staying semi-competitive. You put a staunch defense in place and an offense with all of our weapons guided by a head coach that should be able to coach up Darnold, you may sneakily be a fringe playoff team this year. Then next year, you open the floodgates and build off that cheap rookie contract.
Is it a sure thing? Most decidedly not, but I do think it puts you in a better situation to possibly be a real factor down the line, unlike the charade that was the last couple of seasons where we pretended we had any chance of having a say come playoff time.
Flores did a magnificent job mixing and matching to put a competitive D on the field. But good QB's were always going to pick that D apart. Our Run Game simply was not up to par even with a healthy Cousins providing more balance and threats to get the defense out of the box.
Moving on from Cousins allows us to improve at every position but QB, and we're already seeing the windfall from doing so, even with $28MM in sunk cost. Now, you have a place to work from in the draft that I believe gets you to the QB you need. I really am high on McCarthy as a guy you can bring in without having to bankrupt your future and can give a year or two to grow, all while staying semi-competitive. You put a staunch defense in place and an offense with all of our weapons guided by a head coach that should be able to coach up Darnold, you may sneakily be a fringe playoff team this year. Then next year, you open the floodgates and build off that cheap rookie contract.
Is it a sure thing? Most decidedly not, but I do think it puts you in a better situation to possibly be a real factor down the line, unlike the charade that was the last couple of seasons where we pretended we had any chance of having a say come playoff time.
