The cap structure was insane, but in dollars it’s hard for one year and $13 mm for a pass rusher in his mid 20s to be a bad gamble. It—and having Mattison be RB1–failed, but they were reasonable cash expenditures, and pale compared to eg the Bills signing Von Miller.
The defence was great when the starters were healthy. It fell apart when a combination of Murphy, Wonnum and Hicks were out. I’m old enough to remembr October 2023 when the 9ers couldn’t score more than 17 without Williams and Samuel. More depth would be nice, of course, but that was never in the cards this year.
This year wasn’t a success or failure as much as it showed the intelligence to retool, even coming off a 13 win season. Unless Cousins’s market craters, he’s gone. There are two goals for this offseason: the easy one is to stop spending future years’ cap dollars; the hard one is identifying which rookie QBs will be able to play on Sundays and getting one of them.
Thank you for being the voice of reason of the MN sports journalists. Reading Jon’s article in the Athletic just pissed me off. Forgetting the annual roller coaster Cousins put this team in while sucking up a massive chunk of the salary cap is old. Whether they bomb on the qb draft pick or strike gold making the same stupid decision has put the team in mediocrity. It’s time for a new direction.
So good, Matthew. All of this. Again I say, "What he said."
I really hope we go 7-10 and then get our QBTOF (Mr. Penix?)
The Davenport signing was a "win now" move that was a total disaster in hindsight. And we have a cap hit mortgage bill still to come.
The cap structure was insane, but in dollars it’s hard for one year and $13 mm for a pass rusher in his mid 20s to be a bad gamble. It—and having Mattison be RB1–failed, but they were reasonable cash expenditures, and pale compared to eg the Bills signing Von Miller.
The defence was great when the starters were healthy. It fell apart when a combination of Murphy, Wonnum and Hicks were out. I’m old enough to remembr October 2023 when the 9ers couldn’t score more than 17 without Williams and Samuel. More depth would be nice, of course, but that was never in the cards this year.
This year wasn’t a success or failure as much as it showed the intelligence to retool, even coming off a 13 win season. Unless Cousins’s market craters, he’s gone. There are two goals for this offseason: the easy one is to stop spending future years’ cap dollars; the hard one is identifying which rookie QBs will be able to play on Sundays and getting one of them.
Thank you for being the voice of reason of the MN sports journalists. Reading Jon’s article in the Athletic just pissed me off. Forgetting the annual roller coaster Cousins put this team in while sucking up a massive chunk of the salary cap is old. Whether they bomb on the qb draft pick or strike gold making the same stupid decision has put the team in mediocrity. It’s time for a new direction.
yeah, it's really amazing how quickly we forget the last 5 years after seeing a few bad games from backups