I agree, these are the effects of taking a big gamble and missing. In retrospect, it was a shocking mis-evaluation of talent. Assuming they did think they could compete with what they had on the rest of the roster otherwise.
Fair, but like I said. Last year they got him a qb in FA who had a career year. This year they totally bungled it. I think the Vikings try to be competitive in a way I can’t say about the twins, for instance. There should be some leeway IMO
I think the main takeaway with all that is that these guys really do have low tolerance levels for crap. Even justin. He had a career year from a guy just last season. Yeah this season has been bad for him because of the qb situation, but even he turned fast. 12 games? Not much. Funny to compare it to baseball. Pitchers have statistically shorter careers than NFL players and I can’t imagine a pitcher asking for a trade after his team had a bad 3/4 of a season
Hopefully someone is telling him (after apologizing for the QB room) to just bite your lip the next 5 games and they’ll get a NFL competent quarterback in next season.
This is also one of the pitfalls of going the route of drafting a guy. As bad as this year is and we still have to hope 5 teams ahead of us win games when they’re even worse than we are. And then maybe that guy will work out for us, if we even get him.
Currently I see 5 teams ahead of the Vikings who are likely to draft a guy. Saints raiders browns cardinals jets. How many more games will any of those bums win?
Not to argue but the eagles didn’t take hurts until the 53rd pick in 2020 and the rams made a bold trade to get Stafford. They also had and still have strong rosters overall. It cant all be about hoping to draft the next HOF quarterback. We’re going to be waiting a long time if that’s the only hope. Seattle has Darnold but also a very good team around him that could still snag the 1 seed.