Vikings Quarterback Dilemma: Who's the Right Choice?

Here's the problem that I have with the Vikings front office here. How am I going to believe that they're going to make the right decision when over the last four years you went from J.J. McCarthy, then you went into deciding that even Daniel Jones, who's a competent player. was in your building. He was on your practice squad. You had Sam Darnold in the building, and you just let these guys walk out of the building. Oh, and then you turn around and you land on Kyler Murray because his contract is still being picked up by the Cardinals. You thought that that was a cheap way to go. And then you turn around and you land on Carson Wentz. What makes me believe that that front office is going to have some epiphany and turn around and do the right thing by going and getting a Mac Jones with San Francisco? The problem with many of these football teams, in my opinion, You don't spend the equity on the backup quarterback position if you lose your starter. Look at the Eagles and what's going on there. I mean, dude, if you want to win that North, winning the North might be tougher than winning the NFC this year. Go get a quarterback. Yeah, I mean, all four of the NFC North teams right now, if the playoffs started today, would be in the playoffs, and all of them are above 500. If you look at the NFC South, Dan, they're all tied with three wins, which is also insane. But you're right, I mean, and this is the old adage, like, if you don't have a quarterback, you don't have anything in the NFL. It's really hard to win, not only consistently, but compete to win a Super Bowl without a quarterback. And I said it when they let go of Sam Darnold, and I, again, this is the discussion I got in with some Vikings fans earlier today, They're not super sad by the fact that Sam Darnold went and left. You know, got a pretty much the same deal to go play in Seattle, wanted that change. And it's really salt in the wound, though, because what did he do, Dan? He went and he won a Super Bowl. And I know that, like, he hasn't been great so far this season, as in Darnold. But you are paid as a professional football player and a professional quarterback and a professional head coach and a general manager. What is your job, Dan, to go and win a Super Bowl? So every single dollar and cent you spend on these guys is designed to go and lift Lombardi, regardless of how you play after that. I know a lot of guys end up falling off after they... But you get the job done. You do the thing you're supposed to do. You win at the highest level and you get to the game that matters the most. You said it. I don't know what's going to happen with this general. Nolan Teasley, this is his first time as the general manager in this Vikings room. He hasn't had an offseason. He hasn't had a draft to be able to kind of make decisions there. I was reading something from one of the insiders on ESPN earlier today that, you know, it's a really interesting spot because you don't know what we don't know what this guy's going to do because they've never really seen it. So there's not really a lot of tape, quote unquote, general manager tape to go off of with this guy's decision making. So it's a fascinating thing. Try to bring in back Daniel Jones, as you said. Do they try to maybe swing for the fences and go and try to bait Kirk Cousins to come back to town? Do they try to get a Mac Jones? Like, if I'm the Niners, you said Mac Jones, why would you trade Mac Jones to the Vikings? Like, you're in the same conference. The Vikings, the Niners obviously always deal with injury problems. They're one sprained ankle from Brock Purdy away if they don't have Mac Jones from not being a good football team. So I'd be surprised if Mac Jones leaves town. I think that Daniel Jones or Kirk Cousins would probably make the most sense for either one of those football teams with the obvious situations that they both have. And for the Vikings, they obviously both have continuity with Kevin O'Connell in that offense. So those are the two easy ones. Maybe they don't get a deal done. And then we get to talk about whether or not this team's going to be able to compete with Kyler Murray or Carson Wentz going forward.