What do you do in the offseason if you are the Vikings?

[RunKC]

Originally Posted by kccrow

If teams were smart, they would only sign guys like Darnold if they knew they were drafting a QB and wanted a year to marinate the rookie on the bench.

I'd never sign a guy like him based on some hope he'd win me a bunch of games and get me to the playoffs just to sell some tickets. Even if he does, he isn't taking you the distance.

The only ticket you really should be interested in is the golden ticket that gives you a true franchise QB and the only way you usually get one of those is to pick in the top 10. If you don't have one, you're just as well off embracing losing until you get your shot.

This will be a hard pill to swallow for us after Mahomes retires. You have to get a guy in the top 10. Maybe top 5. Sure you can try for a Hurts or Love, but look at those guys. They just aren’t good enough.

You have to hope that a guy falls just far enough like Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes due to the perceived bias of needing “a ton of work”.

Even then I don’t think teams are as dumb about this anymore.