kungfoodude

Yeah....there are ample things to criticize about the guy but that isn't one of them.

So about that development.....

That's precisely how you build a terrible franchise. Overpaying for players that really don't want to be there outside the money.

Current history is not kind to spending wildly on safeties. I agree. Like the player but the price needs to be low and his contract demands probably don't make sense for a roster like ours.

Literally everything you say is Fake News. You are a walking fact free zone.

This is stretching towards mental illness, TBQH. How you felt the need to make this about Baker Mayfield just shows how much space he has in your head at the moment.

Hogwash.

Yeah. They wanted to get ahead of the narrative before it turned on them. I am sure they share some small part if the allegations are true, so they decided to make the wise business and get ahead of that.

No and I imagine there isn't much mutual interest in a deal.

Someone please crudely photoshop a Baker Mayfield/Icky Ekwonu "The Bodyguard" poster.

Pretty much this. Has to be cheap and a short term deal. He is likely pushing towards the back end of his career.

The level of butthurt over us not wanting their choker QB is hilarious.

High on copium. Cousins has pocketed $105 mil since he signed with the Vikings and is due another $80.2 mil for 2022/2023. The Vikings have been to the playoffs one time in that period. Stats don't mean poo when you suck. Cousins doesn't win.

I think Corral's learning curve is going to be a little steep coming from the type of offense that he has been playing in. But the same was said of Mahomes and Herbert. If we can develop Corral into a quality backup QB, it was a win as a pick. Anything more than that is icing.

Exactly. Hence why guys like Baker Mayfield don't always pan out. It's between the ears that matters more than any other individual trait.

4-8 wins post Mayfield, IMO. I'd put 6 wins as my personal guess.

In a true competition that is the way it should be handicapped.

He also just may micromanage in other ways. We will really never know until we start hearing people talk about it. That isn't likely to start happening until after he gets fired. Yeah, it is very hard to determine what kind of head coach Rhule is, other than an extremely ineffective one.

Yeah but if he is obviously better than it should show immediately. What is the risk of a competition?

I want a competition between Baker and Corral. I would rather not see Darnold included at all, for fear that Matt Rhule might double down on doing something stupid.

The fact you think I am drinking any sort of Kool Aid shows how emotionally invested in this strange rant you are making. Feel free to check any and all Baker Mayfield statements from about February onward. They don't match anything close to the scenario you are inventing in your head. Furthermore, the incredibly strange hissy fit about the "disrespect" for a 3rd round QB that was literally the #2 QB on the roster through minicamp is profoundly odd. You do realize that the overwhelming majority of the board wanted to see Corral start over Darnold, right? I mean...there were multiple threads about this.

I don't think he did meddle with the offense at all. I think he handed it all over to his guys and let them work. Which, that also flies in the face of the "micromanagement" criticism that often gets thrown around. So perhaps that isn't true either. Either way, it's been fuging weird to see it all unfold.