StumpHunter wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2019 12:38 pm
Pondering Her Percy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2019 12:17 pm
All I've heard on here is "Yeah, I think letting Case walk last year was the right decision", but those same guys are the first to shred Cousins. Well if you think Cousins sucks, thought it was smart to let Keenum walk and are sitting at 30th in the first round then who in the hell did you want as our QB this year?? lol. Because not one person has answered that question. A couple of you love to shred Cousins and act like you have all the answers but dont have the slightest answer to a better QB option for us this past offseason. Weird.
I can give dozens of better options than locking up 84 million in a slightly above average QB over 3 years. A QB who you have virtually no shot at winning a playoff game with, let alone the SB. If he continues to play like he did last season, that is what the Vikings did.
Has no shot at making the playoffs? You dont have any idea if this team will catch fire, who they would play, who would be healthy, along with many other factors. After week 2 of last year when Keenum got blown out by Pitt (or even anytime before that) and looked like a deer in headlights, do you think anyone said "yeah this guy will totally "win" a playoff game for the Vikings"? Absolutely not. But the team caught fire and everything was going in our favor. There is no reason that couldnt happen with this team and Kirk. Everyone on earth thought we were doomed after week 2 with Keenum. You included. It's all about how the TEAM comes together.
And I'm still waiting on those "dozens" of better options that would do the equivalent or more than Kirk did given the schedule, the OC, the OL and lack of run game this season. I mean, we were picking 30th and pretty much out on drafting a QB because every one went 10th or earlier except Jackson (who I'm pretty sure doesnt know how to throw a football). So not much there....and then veterans.... you have a guy like Alex Smith, that we would have to give up draft picks and a player for just to pay a 34 year old QB $71 million guaranteed and $4 million less than Cousins was paid in 2018. So we're out a player and a pick or two, plus a ton of money there. Or a guy like Nick Foles (who I personally dont think is , who just came off winning a SB but wouldnt be traded for anything less than a first round pick and THEN we'd have to give him a huge contract. And we'd be paying him that much more than he deserved just because he was SB MVP. So we're out a first round pick and a ton of money there. Or Case Keenum, who proved he’s now back to reality this year and will soon be back on a bench. Sam Bradford....knee is now shredded and was cut this year. And finally teddy....who couldn’t go forward in a week 17 mop up game against the tanking panthers and got blown out.
....I guess I must be missing “dozens” of options still....with Kirk cousins, we lost a little more money but no draft picks or players due to trade. And not one of those QBs I listed above was going to save this season and how it went for us as a TEAM I will say that. From a pure talent standpoint, Cousins was the most talented.
He's 66-78-0 which converts to a .458 win percentage. Kirk is 34-38-2 which converts to a .473 win percentage. So like I said, Stafford literally has a worse win percentage than Cousins does. As for playoffs, Stafford made the playoffs 3 times in 8.5 seasons, Cousins has made the playoffs 1 time in 4 seasons. Again, Stafford has 4.5 more seasons under his belt than Cousins does. 