This is actually 2 questions:
- How do you proceed after the bye
- How do you proceed after the season
As you can imagine, Vikings fans have a lot of opinions here. You have your Kirk loyalists, your tank commanders and even your Dobbs defenders.
It’s a bit of a cluster, but I am confident /r/nfl will have the answers.
Let’s start with the 1st question. You have 3 options here:
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Start Mullens: very likely this will give you the best chance to make a playoff run, but let’s be real… you are not going to do anything when you get there.
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Start Dobbs: Maybe you could delude yourself into thinking last week was a blip and not his luck running out?
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Start Hall: He looked good in the couple of series he played, why don’t you see what you have to get a more accurate picture for our next question?
Now on to question 2, again we have 3 options here:
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Resign Kirk, make no mistake, you will not get a discount. Let’s assume it’s a market rate deal. He will be 36 for most of next season coming off the injury.
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Fuck them picks and try to get in spitting distance of one of the top QB prospects in the 2024 draft.
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Let it fall to you, take a QB in the top 50ish picks, have Hall and rookie QB dual it out, let the chips fall where they may.
It’s a complicated situation, and we need answers. Obviously Kwesi is here religiously so give him some good advice.
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As long as the Vikings are mathematically alive, go with Dobbs. If you get eliminated from contention, roll with Hall. If he shows anything that can be considered franchise QB material, you go with Hall as the starter next year and Dobbs as a vet backup, or whomever could be a good mentor to him and let Kirk go. If Hall shows nothing at all, bring Kirk back
If Kirk wants to come back on a much reduced contract I bring him back, if not I let him walk and get a comp pick.
Dobbs, thanks for the fun, hope you get us a comp pick back too.
Hall/Mullens + a first round pick (please be Big Penix energy!)
how much is cousins asking for next year? if the vikings could get him to play on a team friendly deal, seems like their best option. i dunno much about cousins, but he’s been there a LONG time and i’m guessing he wouldn’t mind retiring there. he prob has at least 1 or 2 good years left in him when he comes back from injury. keep jefferson, continue building around cousins, pick a good RB, and maybe pick up a later round QB too to learn behind cousins. I feel like having a rookie sit behind a good starter for a year or 2 has been completely abandoned by the NFL, except for the packers. i mean Love didn’t look great when he was drafted, but he seems to be playing a lot better now.
anyway, with cousins and a lil more help, the vikings could go to the playoffs next season. but i’m not sure y’all are a SB team with cousins. prob get bounced by SF or Eagles in the playoffs. but who fuckin knows, when you get to the playoffs every team needs a lil bit of luck.
I just had this conversation with my vikings fans coworker today. The viks are up the creek without a paddle right now. They are in a situation where they can make a playoff push, but it’s unlikely that they get anywhere in the playoffs without a QB. They’re also in a situation where they are going to have mid round picks so they can’t take a realistic shot at one of the top QB prospects this year without selling the farm. So I say start Hall, see what’s there and hope that it’s good enough to avoid having to pay a TE, QB, and WR top dollar.
The next question is, do you allow Jefferson to come back or just shut him down? Or does Jefferson (in a contract year) shut it down and decide the risk isn’t worth the reward in this case.
Let’s not forget that the Vikings’ skill players aren’t much to speak of when Jefferson is out, especially when Hockenson is less than 100%.