Frazier no longer wants Winfield to be full-time

[Eli]

No matter, it's not time to move a 36 year old player to another position. If the Vikings can squeeze one more productive year out of Winfield by playing him part-time, they should count themselves lucky. But honestly, if they cut him this year because he refused to restructure his contract, I wouldn't lose much sleep over it.

[MrPurplenGold]

None of this is going to matter if cook can't find a way to stay on the field and Robinson shows significant improvement in year 2

[Rus]

The team will continue saying this, then play Winfield as much as they can. Until he retires.

[Rus]

That's misleading. He's played in 22 of 48 regular season games or a little more than one season thanks to injuries and off-the-field issues.

No question 2013 will be a big year for him.

He's also been a very solid cover corner when he's played. Interceptions aren't the only way to judge a cornerback, and often that's the stupidest way to judge a corner. A lot of guys rack up interceptions because they're spending more time reading the quarterback and moving into position than they are locking down their responsibility. That means that a good quarterback (see: Tom Brady) will take one look at that corner moving between his intended target, smile, then check down to the guy that is wide open.

If a team's super tall, really famous wide receiver (Megatron, for example) ends the game with only 2-3 receptions, you know your corner did a great job. Even if he didn't get any interceptions. Hating on Chris Cook is just plain silly. The Vikings have had DBs over the past 20 years that did a decent job of picking off the ball, but were burned constantly on long plays. I'd much rather have a defensive back that prevented a long, fast touchdown strike than one that just got the ball back for the offense to try and push up the field again (and possibly just go three and out). That's how the 1998 Vikings really cut a bloody path through the league...back in those days, everyone was evaluating corners based on the Deion Sanders model, and the guys that got the most playing time were the guys who were taking the ball away the most. So the Vikings just picked up a bunch of tall, fast receivers and let their quarterbacks check down and roast them alive. Now the league is chock full of tall, fast receivers.