Breaking down everything we learned about the vikings at the NFL owners meetings………
General Manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah and head coach Kevin O’Connell are about to make the decisions that will either get them fired or pave a road toward competitiveness and relative career longevity.
We are on the eve of one of the most pivotal Aprils in Vikings history.
By the end of the month, the Vikings’ brain trust may have chosen a franchise quarterback, progressed toward signing their best player to a record-breaking contract, and set themselves up for a rapid rebuild with the help of a ridiculous amount of salary cap room, or …
They will have failed to find a franchise quarterback, or invested faith in the wrong draftee, possibly alienated their best player and doomed themselves to last place for the foreseeable future in an increasingly competitive division.
To put it more succinctly: Vikings General Manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah and head coach Kevin O’Connell will this month determine their fates. They are about to make the decisions that will either get them fired or pave a road toward competitiveness and relative career longevity.
They undertake these momentous decisions against the landscape of one of the most unpredictable NFL drafts ever, a draft in which quarterbacks could be chosen with the first four picks for the first time in history, which would be a nod to not only the value of the position but the value of having a quality quarterback on a salary-limiting rookie contract.
Here’s one observer’s opinions of the decisions they’ve made and the decisions they should make as they try to prove that the phrase “competitive rebuild” is more than a marketing scam:
Letting Kirk Cousins leave: They’d be a better team with him, but he isn’t worth what Atlanta paid him, so his departure was necessary.
