Mags FTW wrote:Kerb Hohl wrote:Mags FTW wrote:Packers have significantly better SB odds right now.
We're getting into the weeds but not a ton better...lots of people probably taking the money on Rodgers for the SB but the teams are not too far apart right now.
Point being, gimme a rebuilding or QB wasteland Vikings over Cousins plus a full deck of supporting cast given where the Packers stand and our current window. Now, if you wanna argue that Cousins will keep them just short of winning it all more likely and that it could come crashing down in 2 years for the Vikings, sure, though they had to take this shot at the Super Bowl and this was probably the best one to take.
I edited my post to mention some other ramifications the Cousins contract had.
They'd have lost most of that with Case Keenum or somehow taking a year off at QB and praying for Foles the following year. And Cousins is better than Keenum unless one believes that Keenum can only succeed in MN.
We've lost more by giving Aaron Rodgers eleventy-billion dollars. That's what happens when you pay a top 15 QB or top 3 in Rodgers' case.
Their window was now and Cousins was arguably the best option. Of course I've argued this 2-3 times on other threads but my only contention here is the "lol look at that guaranteed money" is a bad, basic take. Even if only $45 of the $84 million for Cousins was guaranteed, they'd be picking up year 2 this year anyways instead of cutting him and eating $12 million this year.
I would have been completely OK with them going, "well we don't want the fans to not understand the nuance of this and be mad about all the guaranteed money for the 15th best QB in the NFL and losing a handful of fringe starters" and just trying to draft a QB, meanwhile spoiling a great supporting cast they had built while the Packers are in their last 4-5 clear years of the Rodgers window.
