All I’m saying is, I think this move sets the Vikings up for a reach/overpay but with a lower chance of success. A placeholder type should be at least average or you’ll be tossing that new draft pick in in week 10.
Again, better chance of a top ten not working out than a top ten success. And we aren’t picking top ten anyway unless we trade up and hamstring further drafting down the road while “in a rebuild”
Where do you rank Bryce Young, Anthony Richardson, Zach Wilson, Trey lance, Justin fields (11), Sam darnold, Jose Rosen and Daniel jones?
Oh, and baker mayfield, who finally arrived in year 6.
Apparently they expect a rookie QB to come in and replace the production of a top ten QB in a year or two.
Because the only place Darnold could hold is the page in the playbook. His numbers are bad bad. Have a season or two of guys throwing hospital passes to JJ and he’ll be gone before you could dance the griddy. So essentially you’re really drafting a guy would play very soon.
Vikings are in a brutal spot right now. Not high enough in the draft to get the more talented quarterbacks, won’t get higher without trading up (counterintuitive if in a “rebuild”), and the lack of a viable competent “placeholder”
Strap in folks it’s going to get ugly.
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10112583-nfl-rumors-49ers-sam-darnold-linked-to-vikings-after-cousins-falcons-contract
Going from Kirko to Sam darnold. That would be can’t miss television.
It can be both. Passed up a 48 yarder and a 45 yarder and lost by 3. Both makeable kicks. He cost them that game in Dallas by being overly aggressive too.