VikingsVictorious wrote: ↑Mon Jan 31, 2022 12:55 pm
VikingLord wrote: ↑Mon Jan 31, 2022 12:51 pm
"Being better" seems awfully subjective.
Also of note - Matthew Stafford is in the Superbowl this year and Kirk Cousins will be watching it. If he cares enough to watch.
I would absolutely love it if Mensah finds a way to unload Cousins and his contract. More than likely the Vikings will have to eat a big portion of it for that to happen, but those are the fruits of Spielman's gambling addiction at QB.
yes being better is subjective. Cousins numbers year after year aren't. He's clearly a better QB than Stafford and if you need any more help read what Vikefan in eagle land wrote. Matthew Stafford might be the best argument there is for the Vikings sticking with Cousins. Hopefully at a little better price. $30 million annually would be fair.
Regarding watching the Super Bowl if I were Kirk, or Tom, or Aaron or Pat or any QB that's not playing in the Super Bowl I think i could find much better things to do than watch two other teams playing for what I want.
Jesus, man. The only reason you’re citing someone else’s take as brilliant is because they agree with you.
You just keep saying “Cousins is better” without offering anything to support your argument except that somebody else agrees with you — and they’re not giving a substantive argument either! If this were a debate class, you’d fail.
Here’s why Kirk Cousins, even though he’s a “good quarterback,” is wrong for this team.
There are two working models for QBs in the NFL.
One is that you catch lightning in a bottle in the draft, pay him rookie scale, and use the extra cap space to build a monster roster around him. Think Joe Burrow.
The other is to pay a superstar like Brady or Rodgers or Mahomes huge money in the belief that they can elevate the less-talented roster you’re going to have because you’re paying your quarterback so much. In that model, the QB makes up for the roster deficiency.
What DOESN’T work is when you pay your quarterback Mahomes money, but he can’t overcome your roster deficiencies. Your honor, I present Exhibit A: KIRK D. COUSINS.
Kirk Cousins is a good NFL quarterback. He’ll get you numbers. He can run the play that’s called. He’s fine if you put an elite O-line in front of him. But he doesn’t lead. And he cannot lift a team. If everything isn’t perfect, he fails. And the biggest proof, the darkest mark against him? He’s 9-41 in his career against teams that end the season with a winning record. If you’re gonna command $45 million against the cap, then at some point, you gotta beat somebody. You don’t get to hide behind “it’s a team game.” You’re being paid to overcome. Winning 18% of your games against good teams is not overcoming.
Final point against Cousins: No team in NFL history has won a Super Bowl with its quarterback taking up more than 13% of a team's salary cap. That's in 30 years of salary cap. Kirk Cousins is estimated to take up about 22% of the Vikings' cap in 2022. It may happen someday, but I'm not betting on Kirk Cousins being the guy to do it.
THAT is analysis. It’s a combination of opinion and facts. It uses those facts to support an opinion.
Dude, you’re welcome to have a subjective opinion. Be my guest. But don’t sit there and claim your subjective opinion is gospel just because you say so. Try backing what you say with facts, not just other people’s opinions, and maybe people will take you seriously.
Your boy Cousins is as good as gone. If not in 2022, then certainly in 2023. And he’ll be gone because he’s expensive, and he's not a winner. It’s that simple.
