mosscarter wrote:its obvious what the vikings are doing--nothing. i was never a fan of doing nothing at all i'm not too sure of that approach. for instance, we cold have probably gotten brandon marshall for a 4th round pick and basically released jennings and taken care of our receiver situation. his attitude got blown out of proportion; i would have been upset with cutler as my qb after every game. so, if peterson leaves we have a need at rb, wr (or two), o-line, middle linebacker, and corner. heck of an approach so far.
Signing Marshall would not have solved our WR need at all. This team is young, and it would be nice to get a young #1 WR to grow with Teddy, not sign another old wr, cut and pay the previous old wr in Jennings, and then in a year or two do it over again. Just solve the problem at the position for the long haul and be done with it.
Wide Receiver seems to be the one position in the draft the last few years, that has almost guaranteed to turn out. So I would feel way more confident if we drafted a #1 WR and eliminated that position from our list of needs. We continue to do this bring in a veteran thing and it doesn't work out.
We knew the risk with drafting CP and it has shown, but he is still young and can still be a great WR in this league. Only time will tell.
It's pretty said when Chris Conte takes your place.