Vikings Desperate for QB Trade After Wentz Meltdown

All right, just a pathetic performance by the Vikings and really by Carson Wentz. Historically bad, Carson Wentz. Eight for 25 for 81 yards and two interceptions. His passer rating was 8.9. That's the worst since the Sam Darnold just seeing ghosts game, where he had a 3.6 passer rating in 2019. The Bills moved to 7-1. The Vikings dropped their second straight game. And at 6-2, sitting here at the trade deadline, All accounts, everyone reporting that the Vikings are going to attempt to trade for a quarterback. The problem with this today is when everybody knows you're desperate at the trade deadline. We really haven't seen this before in the NFL, where a team is desperate to acquire a quarterback and there are other quarterbacks available. Like it's one thing to be a team and be like, hey, we want a quarterback. It's a different story to say we want a quarterback and there are quarterbacks available for us to go and trade and go get. The question is the asking price. The Raiders should be holding on to Kirk Cousins for all the way to the deadline today, like all the way to like five minutes before the deadline to see what exactly the Vikings will do, because it's not just the Vikings. There are other teams that are thinking about trading for a quarterback today, but nobody is as desperate as Minnesota because of the team they've got. They have Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison. They've got Hockenson. They've got an offensive line that's pretty good. They've got two good running backs. They've got a defense that is historically great. They have a defensive coordinator who's going to walk at the end of the year. And you have a head coach who chose to trade away J.J. McCarthy because he didn't like the kid. And so he gave him up for a fifth round pick. And that's why. The Vikings are sitting in this position right now because it should be JJ McCarthy who's playing well for the New York Giants. So it's all about KOC. And this is where there are some people in the media and even Viking fans that are saying don't bail them out because KOC is getting fired at the end of the year because of what he did with this roster because of the trade with JJ McCarthy and the position to take Kyler Murray over over JJ and say, we believe in Kyler Murray. We don't believe in JJ McCarthy. And so we feel so good about Carson Wentz as the backup that we're going to ship JJ out for a fifth round pick. And now we may have to give up a second round or a third round, maybe even, I don't know, late first round pick even to get a quarterback who might be a rental for one year. Bringing back Kirk Cousins is big-time egg on the face for the Vikings. Like, that is brutal for that. So I'm really curious to see what happens today because, one, if someone in the chat is saying, free Justin Herbert, there are some thoughts. I don't know what Justin Herbert would bring back. You've got to give up multiple first-round picks, and I've got to go look at what the Vikings even have to get a guy like that. You could have gotten Jacoby Brissett. Before this whole thing went down, the Vikings could have been proactive, but because they have two quarterbacks in their room, really three, with Max Brosmer, they were so concerned. Hey, we can't bring in another quarterback. How do we do that? So they didn't want to. Now you have an injured. Kyler Murray, you have a highly ineffective Carson Wentz, who most likely threw his last pass in the NFL last night because he looks awful. I mean, he looked awful last night. And now you have to go out to the street midstream and trying to bring in a quarterback who has no rapport, has no connection to your roster. That's why Kirk Cousins is so needed. That's why that's the option. And if I'm the Raiders, I want a ransom. I mean, I want multiple picks. I want maybe even a player. I want, I'm going to go ahead and hold the Vikings over a barrel because you know you have Fernando Mendoza and it doesn't matter if he plays or not. This is a lost year. It's year one. Kubiak's not getting fired regardless.