Percy Harvin wanted two things this offseason: money and a better quarterback, Jason Cole of Yahoo Sports reports. According to two sources, the straw that broke the Vikings' back with Harvin is when he bemoaned the fact that quarterback Christian Ponder, a 2011 first-round pick, was not good enough. That came even though Ponder consistently fed Harvin the ball. Last season, Harvin had team highs of 62 catches for 677 yards, and added three touchdowns before suffering a season-ending injury in the Vikings' ninth game. Harvin then got into a minor altercation with Vikings coach Leslie Frazier last season when Minnesota put him on injured reserve in December. Source: The Redzone
I hate ponder. All of this could have been avoided if they would have taken prince in the ponder draft and rg3 or luck next draft.
Don't trade for Herschel Walker and the Vikes probably already have a couple Super Bowls, don't they?
Probably not, but why respond that way now and not like that to my first post? Nothing changed but me saying lose one game, I was still saying what ifs and should have could haves. There should have been a plan in place to make a run for one of those two QBs since they haven't had a franchise QB since 78 and ponder is not the answer...but I digress.
No one was talking about RG3 as a franchise quarterback in early 2011. You can't build a franchise around planning to tank for the number one overall pick to draft Luck. I'm in no way defending Ponder, just that you can't say we should have drafted Luck instead of him. If we had ended up with the number one overall pick and then passed on Luck because Ponder was our guy then I'd be the first one there saying what a terrible decision it was, but thats just not the way the events unfolded.
I completely understand, I'm not trying to attack you, but I didn't say tank the season...just lose one extra game. I'm pretty sure anything RG3 provided would have been better than Ponder, but honestly I'm just engaging in this to make myself feel a little better about losing most of our stars on both sides of the ball...it's frustrating.
Absolutely anything RG3 provides will be better than Ponder. I'm kind of pissed about Winfield too. It was said that it wasn't to clear space for other moves, and that it was because he is a 36 year old CB making 7.5 mill. If thats true and all we did was cut our best DB to save some cash I will be livid.
They are saying Rick is leaving the door open to sign him back for a lesser deal, but he says that about everybody so you have to take that with a grain of salt. The Winfield release didn't make sense and I don't think he was willing to restructure his deal either.
