Re: Next OC for the Vikings?
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2021 8:33 am
The NFL has become an offense driven league and while an elite defense with a below average offense can certainly win it all, it is not the norm. Those teams also tend to have very small windows to win it all and if everything doesn't go right, like the 2018 Bears missing a game winning FG, they rarely are able to repeat the defensive success the following year.CharVike wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 8:01 amAt the end of the day a Super Bowl can be or will be won in many different ways. Trent Dilfer is a Super Bowl winning QB. So you can win a Super Bowl with a less than average QB. I would not recommend going into the season with a QB like that because your chances lesson dramatically. Maybe it has already happened but someday the worst defense in the NFL will win a Super Bowl. Again I wouldn't recommend trying it that way. Marino and Fouts are the best example of that. I never thought a 43 year old QB could win a Super Bowl. This wasn't a one game fill in either. Eventually a 50 year old QB will win one. IMO you better be able to play decent defense. I prefer a D that puts tremendous pressure on the opposing QB which means sacks. You better have a QB that can play at a decent level. Our team wasted our two best defenses in our history 70 and 71 because we had less than zero at QB. It also helps if your in a division that is weak. Currently the NFC east is weak. I'd rather be there than were we are. It gives you a better chance of making the playoffs and getting home field. Our team faces the same problem that all teams have with a QB that takes up much CAP space. Prescott for Dallas is the highest paid player. The guy threw 30 TDs once. They play in a weak division. The Super Bowl should be a given. But it won't be. IMO the best way to get to the Super Bowl is to be red hot when you hit the playoffs. If your not hot say bye bye.StumpHunter wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 8:49 am
You need impact players on the defensive line no doubt, but that isn't his take. His take is that you need to have the best pass rush to win it all, when that frequently has not been the case. In fact, half of the SB winners have been bottom 5 pass rush teams over the past 4 seasons.
Interesting, because Wilson has literally never won fewer than 9 games, and has only won 9 games once. But you are saying he would win 8 if he was on the Vikings? That is statistically improbable.
How many wins would we miss out on if we didn't have Gladney next season?
You give up "much more" and you are you taking two steps back and taking 1 giant leap into SB contention.
Cousins isn't 10% worse than Wilson or Rodgers. Maybe against the worst defenses in the NFL he is, but against top 10 pass defenses he 0-11 as a QB for the Vikings and the offense has averaged scoring 15 points in those games. Wilson is 4-5 in 2018 and 2019, with his offenses averaging 22 points, and Rodgers is 7-5-1 averaging 20 points. That is why Wilson and Rodgers are consistently in the playoffs while Cousins is consistently .500.
Brady proves the difference between what a great QB can do and what a lesser QB who puts up big numbers can do.
When saddled with a QB who gives you a significant disadvantage in the playoffs compared to most other teams in the playoffs, yes, you absolutely need to make the rest of the team that much better. The problem is that the QB's contract makes getting that team to the point where you are so much better at every position that it doesn't matter you are at a disadvantage at most important one almost impossible.
If you have a great QB and in turn a great offense, that window is much larger. You get 4, 5, 6, 10 chances to have everything go right and win it all. That is why when one or possibly even two become available like they have this season, you should do whatever you can to open up that 5-10 year window. Get that QB who the consensus around the league feel is a top 5 QB going into his 5th season. Get that QB who has never missed the playoffs in his entire career and who has proven he can win it all.
It is the single move that gives you the best chance to win a SB and I don't understand why anyone wouldn't want to take that chance at getting that piece that almost every SB winning team has had.