Vikings were ready to take Justin Fields: ESPN.com
@"jargomcfargo" said: Moving up for Fields when your starting QB has a guaranteed contract for the next two years doesn't make sense to me. It makes more sense to build the team around Cousins and take a flier on a QB with a low price, but huge potential. Maybe Fields is the guy. But Chicago paid a huge price to find out. I'm glad the Vikings didn't.The Bears will have a hard time putting the pieces around their new QB, and their defense is aging.
Even if Mond doesn't work out, it won't hurt the Vikings going forward.
And if Mond does work out, Rodgers will likely be gone, and the Vikings should be able to have a good team around him.
Yeah, what GM would do something like that?
Interestingly enough, Mond has longer arms and bigger hands than both Fields and Lance. Superbowl?
Some more interesting bits of info on this.
https://thevikingage.com/2021/05/04/minnesota-vikings-justin-fields-2021-nfl-draft/
With a number of talented college prospects returning to school for next season, the 2022 NFL Draft is expected to feature a lot more talent than what was available in this year’s draft. Knowing this, combined with the fact that Minnesota general manager Rick Spielman values draft picks like they’re his own kids, they weren’t going to agree to a trade that required them to give up a 2022 first-rounder for someone who could potentially sit for the next two seasons.
So basically, since some of those involved in making the draft decisions for Minnesota didn’t see much of a difference between Mond and Fields, the team wasn’t will to make a huge change to their 2021 and 2022 draft capital to land a young passer with similar abilities to someone they could wait and grab in the third round.
Just said this re: Justin Fields on the radio: the Vikings made an effort to trade up for him, but as I understand it, it wasn’t unanimous in their building. Some people liked Mond as much as Fields, and Fields’ epilepsy was a question for some. https://t.co/qgxfdnqRQX
— Ben Goessling (@BenGoessling) May 3, 2021
They liked Fields, but weren’t going to drop everything to get him, as I understand it, especially when they liked Mond as much as they do. Mond also doesn’t raise immediate questions about their QB pecking order; keeping Kirk Cousins after drafting Fields might have been tricky.
— Ben Goessling (@BenGoessling) May 3, 2021
@"PurpleCrush" said: Some more interesting bits of info on this.https://thevikingage.com/2021/05/04/minnesota-vikings-justin-fields-2021-nfl-draft/
With a number of talented college prospects returning to school for next season, the 2022 NFL Draft is expected to feature a lot more talent than what was available in this year’s draft. Knowing this, combined with the fact that Minnesota general manager Rick Spielman values draft picks like they’re his own kids, they weren’t going to agree to a trade that required them to give up a 2022 first-rounder for someone who could potentially sit for the next two seasons.
So basically, since some of those involved in making the draft decisions for Minnesota didn’t see much of a difference between Mond and Fields, the team wasn’t will to make a huge change to their 2021 and 2022 draft capital to land a young passer with similar abilities to someone they could wait and grab in the third round.
https://twitter.com/GoesslingStrib/status/1389352485702172672
https://twitter.com/GoesslingStrib/status/1389353000674611202
This makes much more sense to me than what was reported a few days ago. The Vikings brass must have been some nervous hens toward the end of round 2 waiting for Mond.
@"StickyBun" said:@"PurpleCrush" said: Some more interesting bits of info on this.https://thevikingage.com/2021/05/04/minnesota-vikings-justin-fields-2021-nfl-draft/
With a number of talented college prospects returning to school for next season, the 2022 NFL Draft is expected to feature a lot more talent than what was available in this year’s draft. Knowing this, combined with the fact that Minnesota general manager Rick Spielman values draft picks like they’re his own kids, they weren’t going to agree to a trade that required them to give up a 2022 first-rounder for someone who could potentially sit for the next two seasons.
So basically, since some of those involved in making the draft decisions for Minnesota didn’t see much of a difference between Mond and Fields, the team wasn’t will to make a huge change to their 2021 and 2022 draft capital to land a young passer with similar abilities to someone they could wait and grab in the third round.
https://twitter.com/GoesslingStrib/status/1389352485702172672
https://twitter.com/GoesslingStrib/status/1389353000674611202
This makes much more sense to me than what was reported a few days ago. The Vikings brass must have been some nervous hens toward the end of round 2 waiting for Mond.
I'll bet they were more nervous waiting from 15-20 in rd 1Zimmer looked a bit rattled when rd1 was over imo.
I'll say it again, I think they feel like they had a real good bead on Mond through Kubiak and his Aggie connections.
Vikings chose wisely.
On a talent scale of 1 to 10, Mond might be a 4 and Fields a 6. On the cost scale Mond was a 1, Fields a 10.
Between Trubisky, Fields, Foles and Dalton, the Bears are spending $22M on QBs and have spent three 1sts, two 3rds, two 4ths and a 5th to get them.
For Mond, the Vikings used a pick they didn't even own the day before.
What's more, Mond goes into a situation where he'll get the time he needs to develop. For Fields the pressure is on from day one. Sure, they might start out with Dalton, but fans and media will get restless because there are high expectations for 1st round QBs.
And despite this ENORMOUS difference in investment and expectation, Fields might have, what, a 10-15% better chance of making it as an NFL starter?
Advantage Vikings.
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