Pick your poison

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These are average figures per year not the real contracts which are most likely weighted into future years.  Especially Geenard's contract.  We could have resigned Kirko at $45M/yr and Danielle Hunter for somewhere in the $25M/yr range or


Sam Darnold $10m
Aaron Jones $7M


Blake Cashman $8.5m


Andrew Van Ginkel $10m


Jonathan Greenard $20m
Total $55.5

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They could have signed Kirk and all those guys except Darnold - no problem at all.

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@Havoc1649 said:
They could have signed Kirk and all those guys except Darnold - no problem at all.

They will already have to do cap gymnastics to get everyone to fit under the cap.  They had $32M to start FA.  I was actually on the sign Kirko ship but certainly not at the contract Atlanta gave him. 

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@Havoc1649 said:
They could have signed Kirk and all those guys except Darnold - no problem at all.

I miss Kirko Chainz also.....but then saw what Atlanta gave him. Vikes are done paying an A+ contract for B+ work (credit Cowherd). Time to take a swing and let this guy blow the Gjallarhorn:

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@StickyBun said:

@Havoc1649 said:
They could have signed Kirk and all those guys except Darnold - no problem at all.

I miss Kirko Chainz also.....but then saw what Atlanta gave him. Vikes are done paying an A+ contract for B+ work (credit Cowherd). Time to take a swing and let this guy blow the Gjallarhorn:

Draft charts say our 1st and 2nd is enough to move up to 5 if LAC will do it.  If there was a world where we trade our 2 top picks and maybe a lower pick next year instead of mortgaging the future, go for it.  I don't want to give away next years pick though. 

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@AGRforever said:

@StickyBun said:

@Havoc1649 said:
They could have signed Kirk and all those guys except Darnold - no problem at all.

I miss Kirko Chainz also.....but then saw what Atlanta gave him. Vikes are done paying an A+ contract for B+ work (credit Cowherd). Time to take a swing and let this guy blow the Gjallarhorn:

Draft charts say our 1st and 2nd is enough to move up to 5 if LAC will do it.  If there was a world where we trade our 2 top picks and maybe a lower pick next year instead of mortgaging the future, go for it.  I don't want to give away next years pick though. 

Staying at #11 to take JJ McPonder would be enough, but it appears as though were gonna have to trade up for him because every team now knows we starved at QB. 

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@CFIAvike said:

@AGRforever said:

@StickyBun said:

@Havoc1649 said:
They could have signed Kirk and all those guys except Darnold - no problem at all.

I miss Kirko Chainz also.....but then saw what Atlanta gave him. Vikes are done paying an A+ contract for B+ work (credit Cowherd). Time to take a swing and let this guy blow the Gjallarhorn:

Draft charts say our 1st and 2nd is enough to move up to 5 if LAC will do it.  If there was a world where we trade our 2 top picks and maybe a lower pick next year instead of mortgaging the future, go for it.  I don't want to give away next years pick though. 

Staying at #11 to take JJ McPonder would be enough, but it appears as though were gonna have to trade up for him because every team now knows we starved at QB. 

Ahhhh, I see now. You are here to just shit on every, single thing. Got it. Excited to continue to hear hilarious things like 'JJ McPonder' all offseason from you. No matter what the team does, it won't be enough. Cool. 

Weren't you the guy that materialized out of nowhere mid-season when the injuries started to pile up and Cousins was out? I mean, the long timers here like Happy and others who are unhappy, if they want to bitch and complain, I'm here to listen to it. You? Not so much. 

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@AGRforever said:

@Havoc1649 said:
They could have signed Kirk and all those guys except Darnold - no problem at all.

They will already have to do cap gymnastics to get everyone to fit under the cap.  They had $32M to start FA.  I was actually on the sign Kirko ship but certainly not at the contract Atlanta gave him. 

That cap number for this is meaningless. We are eating like $28 million on Kirk’s last contract that KAM decided to push out. His actual difference would have been about $10 million over that or even less depending on structure. Hell they could have structured it at $28 million and Kirk would have not changed the cap at all. They have a massive amount of cap next year that they could have easily spread these contracts into. 

Cousins was easily affordable and so were the rest of those guys. KAM didn’t want to give anything more than one year contracts so he could get rid of Kirk and his contract quickly if they get a good enough rookie. 

For stupidly obvious reasons, Kirk, like every other person with a functional brain and kids at home, wasn’t down with being immediately expendable. Shocking. 

The Vikings moved on because they think the grass is greener with youth. They didn’t want to commit. That is why Sam Darnold is our new starting QB, not the cap. 

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The Vikings have $153,000,000 in cap space next year before the cap rises and large old contracts like Harry’s still on the books that can be removed. 

It will take no “cap gymnastics”. I could sign all those guys, Kirk, JJ and eventually our LT without issue. 

The cap played no role in the Cousins decision. It was all about Kwesi beung able to dump Cousins and his contract as soon as a viable young guy was on the roster. Cousins didn’t want to play that game. Now we have Sam Darnold and a crap load of cap space.

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@StickyBun said:

@CFIAvike said:

@AGRforever said:

@StickyBun said:

@Havoc1649 said:
They could have signed Kirk and all those guys except Darnold - no problem at all.

I miss Kirko Chainz also.....but then saw what Atlanta gave him. Vikes are done paying an A+ contract for B+ work (credit Cowherd). Time to take a swing and let this guy blow the Gjallarhorn:

Draft charts say our 1st and 2nd is enough to move up to 5 if LAC will do it.  If there was a world where we trade our 2 top picks and maybe a lower pick next year instead of mortgaging the future, go for it.  I don't want to give away next years pick though. 

Staying at #11 to take JJ McPonder would be enough, but it appears as though were gonna have to trade up for him because every team now knows we starved at QB. 

Ahhhh, I see now. You are here to just shit on every, single thing. Got it. Excited to continue to hear hilarious things like 'JJ McPonder' all offseason from you. No matter what the team does, it won't be enough. Cool. 

Weren't you the guy that materialized out of nowhere mid-season when the injuries started to pile up and Cousins was out? I mean, the long timers here like Happy and others who are unhappy, if they want to bitch and complain, I'm here to listen to it. You? Not so much. 

I’ve been around since the purple thoughts board, thank you. I think Williams, Maye, or Daniels all stand at least a puncher’s chance of being a legit QBOTF. Wouldn’t complain about that at all. 

I just don’t understand the hype or hope behind JJM. He couldn't hit the broad side of a barn at the combine. Harbaugh says he’s the “best QB in the history of Michigan football” and everyone’s ready to pull their wagon up to captain hand off. 

He’s honestly the most Christian Ponder QB to come out since Christian Ponder