Someone will gladly trade for him after this season and give him Kirk Cousins money, get out while the getting good. Now if he brings the Vikings their first Super Bowl THEN shit gets interesting.

Given the hell, Darnold has been through with prior teams I wonder if he will take a more reasonable contract to stay with Minnesota. I think that would be the smart thing to do. But everybody just seems to try to maximize the money.

Can you imagine winning 14 games and being the 5th seed.. insanity.

As crazy as it is, I do love how the NFL found a way to make your division matter.

Winning the NFC North is critically important for the Lions and Vikings. As it should be.

unless he wins them a sb this year, tag and potentially trade.

he's as good as he is because of the team around him and once paid will regress as the team worsens. we've seen this story play out time and time again with mediocre qbs.

If I was a Viking this off-season I would congratulate the Kansas City Chiefs for a 3 peat well done. I would then become a Chiefs fan and get a Chiefs tattoo like I have. :arrow:

Hard to dislike this guy. Seems the locker room really loves him.

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That's fine.

If/when he does you already have the future on roster that you're paying pennies to. Keep Darnold and don't give another team what may now be a winning QB.

He brings the Krispy kremes to the film review meeting on Monday

Depends on what Darnold will say yes to.

If you tag him and play it out then he has another year like he just had, he's going to ask for Prescott money because SOMEONE will give it to him.

But if you can get him to take a Baker deal this year, sure there's risk, but there's also a real chance he vastly outperforms that contract as Baker has.

If you could get him to sign for something like $35 mil/season for 5 seasons, there's a real chance that you'd have the best veteran QB contract in football. I think I'd probably chance it.

I say trade jj to the jets dump a a ron and deport him to belize

Darnold is a great example of how much coaching means to the position. His college tape was really good, the Jets were a dumpster fire, Carolina no better.

He goes to SF for a year and then to Minnesota and magically he's good. There is something to be said for being in a proper organization.

sign him to a 2-year deal, give him a year to play then trade him the year after.

Right? JJ is a bigger risk.



Also Darnold looks every bit the first round QB with promising tools now that he's out of the talent sap that is NY.

I'm not even sure you can get a first for JJ might as well keep him for a year or so and let him play well in backup situations to drive his price up.

If he wins a playoff game...comes back next year and does the same you have to keep him. He's 27 not 35.