***2025 Minnesota Vikings***
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So if Caleb Williams, Drake Maye and Jayden Daniels were not in the draft, would you take McCarthy at 11?
He is either worthy of that pick or not. If there are 3 QBs picked ahead of him, that should make it less exciting.
Drafting QBs is a complete crap shoot. Trading up from 11 to draft one is a fool’s errand IMO.
About as likely as all the other 'proposed' trades this time of year.
demoncore1031
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That would not be worth Jefferson, we would need a Marvin Harrison Jr and 2 more 1st picks to be close. Jefferson is on the Jerry Rice trajectory, you don't trade a player like that for Tee Higgins and a few mid-range picks.
Wise move letting Cousins go. $180 million. One playoff win in 6 years. And Cousins had great weapons. Cousins has great agent.
Did the Falcons not realize that Cousins will be 36 coming off a ruptured achilles heel.
They can’t afford Higgins only because they have a #1 WR eligible for an extension this off-season who has been very open about JJ setting the market for him.
They are going to be looking to trim cap space for Chase next year. The Bengals better make a SB this coming season because it’s going to start getting real hard with Burrow and Chase with massive cap numbers in 2025.
Okay I'm glad they didnt bring him back at that cost too, but lets not pretend that somehow it was solely on Cousins that the Vikings only one one playoff game with him at the helm. I would argue it was more the fact that they had a defensive minded coach whose defense couldn't stop anyone in a two minute drill.
Point still stands why give up all those assets knowing you will lose Chase or JJ cuz you can't keep both.
Makes no sense.
I agree completely. It makes no sense from the Bengals perspective.
Cousins has a career record of 37.1 % wins against teams with winning records in 12 seasons. One can argue that Cousins beats the crappy teams and beefs up his stats against them. Play a winning team and you are most likely to lose. For $180 million I would expect to beat good teams and have more than one career playoff win. Cousins has arguably some of the best receivers in the league. Cousins is a mediocre player getting MVP type money.
I agree he is overpaid, my argument is that it isnt fair to put the 1 playoff win on him. Again glad he is not with the vikes for that contract or anywhere near it. Really hoping they trade up for the draft.
Would agree with this for the most part. I think he’s a good QB, with average results. The bottom line is that his salary doesn’t equate to playoff success. Glad the Vikes are moving on.
