This is actually 2 questions:

  1. How do you proceed after the bye
  2. How do you proceed after the season

As you can imagine, Vikings fans have a lot of opinions here. You have your Kirk loyalists, your tank commanders and even your Dobbs defenders.

It’s a bit of a cluster, but I am confident /r/nfl will have the answers.

Let’s start with the 1st question. You have 3 options here:

  1. Start Mullens: very likely this will give you the best chance to make a playoff run, but let’s be real… you are not going to do anything when you get there.

  2. Start Dobbs: Maybe you could delude yourself into thinking last week was a blip and not his luck running out?

  3. Start Hall: He looked good in the couple of series he played, why don’t you see what you have to get a more accurate picture for our next question?

Now on to question 2, again we have 3 options here:

  1. Resign Kirk, make no mistake, you will not get a discount. Let’s assume it’s a market rate deal. He will be 36 for most of next season coming off the injury.

  2. Fuck them picks and try to get in spitting distance of one of the top QB prospects in the 2024 draft.

  3. Let it fall to you, take a QB in the top 50ish picks, have Hall and rookie QB dual it out, let the chips fall where they may.

It’s a complicated situation, and we need answers. Obviously Kwesi is here religiously so give him some good advice.

  • FOMOBraggins@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think Kirk has earned another shot to make a run with JJ. It’s not like he’s been known for his legs so as long as he doesn’t have PTSD he should still be able to perform when he returns.

    I think that next year those options that you referenced should be an understudy to Kirk and then reevaluate after next season.

    They need some hungry young RBs for a new committee next year. Mattison is a player with more upside to replacement IMO. The trend says RBs are replaceable so replace them with young guys with lots of juice, and drill home the ball security. QBs are not so replaceable and take time, or you’ll risk killing their confidence like we’ve seen so many times.

    I just think Kirk will have it still when he comes back so other holes should be addressed and a slower approach taken to the QB slot.