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Originally Posted by GusJohnsonGOAT
Vikings are being dumb if they don't pay Cousins. Who else are you going to get?
It's like they are looking the results of the last 2 seasons and not what actually happened. Ran super hot 2 years ago and everyone knew you were frauds. Defense was bad and they lose predictably in the playoffs. This year, lose every one score game instead of win, QB gets hurt, and that's that. But wow, "look at our record the year before." Yet the only real difference between the two last seasons is that the defense got a lot better.
Pay Cousins, find a RB, and they can easily be a top 5 team next year if the defense is good again. SF basically just told us that if your QB is Cousins, you can win the SB. Won't be easy, but the alternative is almost certainly way worse.
vikings: its problem. they can't afford to pay cousins, jefferson and hunter, but they need all 3 to be as competitive as they were the last couple years. the good defensive players are all getting old and i don't think even brian flores can cover for them next year.
i was a cousins doubter my whole life until last year when i realized he was actually playing top 10... even in primetime. nonetheless, he's aging, coming off achilles tear, and they probably only have like 1-2% SB equity if they resign him with their current roster. the longsighted move is ditch him, trade jefferson, and roll the dice on a QB in the draft, but that's easier said than done for any GM.