It should not be surprising that there have been speculation about the possibility that Matthew Stafford ends with the Vikings of Minnesota this year. Stafford suddenly uncertain future In Los Angeles, his familiarity with Kevin O’Connell and the obvious scheme that corresponds to Minnesota in making it an easy idea to indicate.
Chase Daniel de FS1The former companion NFL QB, is the last to suggest the Vikings as a landing point for Stafford.
“Throughout his career, he has never played in an outdoor team,” said Daniel. “Lions and Rams, the two interior teams. I think he must go to another interior team. And who is the other interior team there? The Vikings of Minnesota. Koc was his offensive coordinator during The year when the RAMs won the Super Bowl.
“Look, Stafford is 37,” said Daniel. “You can get two or three years more from him if you don’t like what JJ McCarthy is. … I think it will be summed up in a two -team race for staff. I think it’s the Vikings and I think it’s the Rams, going back there.
It seems good on paper. And from Stafford’s point of view, meeting with O’Connell while throwing Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison in an interior stadium is almost as good as possible from the football point of view if he leaves.
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The problem is that when you dive, it simply makes no sense for the Vikings. Any team that negotiates for Stafford will have to abandon the capital project and probably sign it to a new multi -year agreement worth at least $ 50 million per year. Vikings have the lowest collection of recovery choices throughout the league; If they exchanged their first round choice (n ° 24 in total), they would end up with only a third round and two fifths.
More importantly, the same reasons for creating a list for which they should not offer Sam Darnold $ 40 million per year apply to the idea of offering even more staff. The Vikings have many other holes to approach on their list, which becomes very difficult to do when using most of your ceiling space in the quarter. This is a great reason why they wrote JJ McCarthy tenth in total last year. And even with McCarthy which comes out of a significant knee injury, there is no reason to believe that they are not yet confident in its ability to be their QB franchise to move forward.
Put it like this: the Vikings are not a Matthew Stafford to become a real competitor of the Super Bowl. Not $ 50 million a year. Not when their offensive and defensive lines need as much work as them.
It will be fascinating to see what ends up happening with Stafford and the Rams. They put a dressing on his contractual situation for the last off -season, then came a game or two from the organization of the NFC championship match. His agent has since received authorization to speak to other teams to assess interest and assess his market value. It is not known if it will lead to a divorce, but it looks like a legitimate possibility if another team is ready to separate from an early recovery choice and to pay more than the RAMs are ready to pay it.
Here is @pSchrags Empty his bag on what he has and where things are with Matthew Stafford and the Rams 👇 pic.twitter.com/et4fcii6d2
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Albert Breer of Si reported that the Giants, the Browns, the Steelers, the Raiders and others “showed interest”. (Note a team that is not named there?) Doesn’t it seem that there is bad blood between Stafford and Sean Mcvay, but there is probably at least a certain awkwardness to the whole situation. Could RAMs decide to go with a cheaper and / or younger option to the post? Someone like Aaron Rodgers, Kirk Cousins or Jimmy Groppolo could have a much lower price.
As for a younger option, Darnold could theoretically have a lot of meaning for the Rams if they exchange staff, although the moment is interesting. He would be in a similar scheme, and although he is not cheap, he has a complete decade younger than Stafford. It is at least something to look at as a potential domino if the Rams find themselves looking for a new quarter -arre – and it is certainly a more realistic possibility that Stafford ending in Minnesota.
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