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As the #Vikings try to sort out their cap situation, sources continue to say they've been trying to trade Danielle Hunter, who's got an $18 million roster bonus due on Sunday.

Hunter has a $25.83M cap figure. The Vikings need to clear space to make their new deals official.

Via Ben Goessling

makila wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 10:07 pm I remeber a few seasons ago complaining about the organization not fully understanding who they were. And what they needed to do to achieve the ultimate goal of a sb.

Starting to think it's an ownership trait.

Wonder what we may get if we move him.

*sigh*

I don't get this offseason. At all.

makila wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 10:07 pm I remeber a few seasons ago complaining about the organization not fully understanding who they were. And what they needed to do to achieve the ultimate goal of a sb.

Starting to think it's an ownership trait.

Wonder what we may get if we move him.

*sigh*

I don't get this offseason. At all.

Pondering Her Percy wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 10:01 pm

As the #Vikings try to sort out their cap situation, sources continue to say they've been trying to trade Danielle Hunter, who's got an $18 million roster bonus due on Sunday.

Hunter has a $25.83M cap figure. The Vikings need to clear space to make their new deals official.

Via Ben Goessling

Im about to lose my mind over Kwesi and this new regime if they trade hunter. As bad as the saints cap management is, the fact that they just saved $80 million by not releasing a single player further proves the Vikings can keep hunter. This is by choice. We’re not being forced to trade hunter. And it has nothing to do with cousins. His contract saved $15 million. They are paying a 29 year old linebacker $13 mill, a 31 year old WR $16 mill and a 33 year old safety another $13 mill. But let’s trade our 27 year old elite defensive end and not touch their contracts.

I’ve said for how long that this is the one player outside of JJ you do not touch!! I don’t care about the injuries. They were fluke injuries. And the most serious (the neck) had zero effect on him last year. I will officially throw the towel in on this regime if this is the route they go and they trade hunter. Unless we get some ridiculous haul, which I don’t foresee, I’m done with Kwesi only a few months in. And anyone that knows me after being on this board for 10 years, I always give players, coaches, GMs some time. But I honestly can’t deal with this sort of stupidity.

As for cousins, what’s the point of extending him when you’re going to tear down the little we had on defense?. If you want to trade hunter, then you should’ve traded cousins along with it and done a full rebuild. You’re setting cousins up for failure if you’re going to trot another 31st ranked defense out there. I don’t care how good your offense is.

Why we haven’t restructured a single contract yet is beyond me. This isn’t a hard concept. Plenty of ways to save money and instead, they are shopping hunter BY CHOICE. Not because they have to or are forced to. Absolutely baffling that we’re paying all this money to aging veterans but attempt to go this route instead. Vikings fans are going to run this guy out of town if he moves hunter. And given they’ve been “trying to trade him” shows me that they aren’t getting the compensation they want. And if they dump him for a couple mid round picks, I’m literally going to throw up. Only way I’m good with this is if we get a stupid haul for it which again I don’t foresee.

I’m pretty sure I have steam coming out of my ears right now.

Pondering Her Percy wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 10:01 pm

As the #Vikings try to sort out their cap situation, sources continue to say they've been trying to trade Danielle Hunter, who's got an $18 million roster bonus due on Sunday.

Hunter has a $25.83M cap figure. The Vikings need to clear space to make their new deals official.

Via Ben Goessling

Im about to lose my mind over Kwesi and this new regime if they trade hunter. As bad as the saints cap management is, the fact that they just saved $80 million by not releasing a single player further proves the Vikings can keep hunter. This is by choice. We’re not being forced to trade hunter. And it has nothing to do with cousins. His contract saved $15 million. They are paying a 29 year old linebacker $13 mill, a 31 year old WR $16 mill and a 33 year old safety another $13 mill. But let’s trade our 27 year old elite defensive end and not touch their contracts.

I’ve said for how long that this is the one player outside of JJ you do not touch!! I don’t care about the injuries. They were fluke injuries. And the most serious (the neck) had zero effect on him last year. I will officially throw the towel in on this regime if this is the route they go and they trade hunter. Unless we get some ridiculous haul, which I don’t foresee, I’m done with Kwesi only a few months in. And anyone that knows me after being on this board for 10 years, I always give players, coaches, GMs some time. But I honestly can’t deal with this sort of stupidity.

As for cousins, what’s the point of extending him when you’re going to tear down the little we had on defense?. If you want to trade hunter, then you should’ve traded cousins along with it and done a full rebuild. You’re setting cousins up for failure if you’re going to trot another 31st ranked defense out there. I don’t care how good your offense is.

Why we haven’t restructured a single contract yet is beyond me. This isn’t a hard concept. Plenty of ways to save money and instead, they are shopping hunter BY CHOICE. Not because they have to or are forced to. Absolutely baffling that we’re paying all this money to aging veterans but attempt to go this route instead. Vikings fans are going to run this guy out of town if he moves hunter. And given they’ve been “trying to trade him” shows me that they aren’t getting the compensation they want. And if they dump him for a couple mid round picks, I’m literally going to throw up. Only way I’m good with this is if we get a stupid haul for it which again I don’t foresee.

I’m pretty sure I have steam coming out of my ears right now.

Pondering Her Percy wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 10:01 pm

As the #Vikings try to sort out their cap situation, sources continue to say they've been trying to trade Danielle Hunter, who's got an $18 million roster bonus due on Sunday.

Hunter has a $25.83M cap figure. The Vikings need to clear space to make their new deals official.

Via Ben Goessling

Im about to lose my mind over Kwesi and this new regime if they trade hunter. As bad as the saints cap management is, the fact that they just saved $80 million by not releasing a single player further proves the Vikings can keep hunter. This is by choice. We’re not being forced to trade hunter. And it has nothing to do with cousins. His contract saved $15 million. They are paying a 29 year old linebacker $13 mill, a 31 year old WR $16 mill and a 33 year old safety another $13 mill. But let’s trade our 27 year old elite defensive end and not touch their contracts.

I’ve said for how long that this is the one player outside of JJ you do not touch!! I don’t care about the injuries. They were fluke injuries. And the most serious (the neck) had zero effect on him last year. I will officially throw the towel in on this regime if this is the route they go and they trade hunter. Unless we get some ridiculous haul, which I don’t foresee, I’m done with Kwesi only a few months in. And anyone that knows me after being on this board for 10 years, I always give players, coaches, GMs some time. But I honestly can’t deal with this sort of stupidity.

As for cousins, what’s the point of extending him when you’re going to tear down the little we had on defense?. If you want to trade hunter, then you should’ve traded cousins along with it and done a full rebuild. You’re setting cousins up for failure if you’re going to trot another 31st ranked defense out there. I don’t care how good your offense is.

Why we haven’t restructured a single contract yet is beyond me. This isn’t a hard concept. Plenty of ways to save money and instead, they are shopping hunter BY CHOICE. Not because they have to or are forced to. Absolutely baffling that we’re paying all this money to aging veterans but attempt to go this route instead. Vikings fans are going to run this guy out of town if he moves hunter. And given they’ve been “trying to trade him” shows me that they aren’t getting the compensation they want. And if they dump him for a couple mid round picks, I’m literally going to throw up. Only way I’m good with this is if we get a stupid haul for it which again I don’t foresee.

I’m pretty sure I have steam coming out of my ears right now.

StumpHunter wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 10:29 pm

makila wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 10:07 pm I remeber a few seasons ago complaining about the organization not fully understanding who they were. And what they needed to do to achieve the ultimate goal of a sb.

Starting to think it's an ownership trait.

Wonder what we may get if we move him.

*sigh*

I don't get this offseason. At all.

I think ownership absolutely knows what they have, or they don't fire the GM who put most of this roster together.

Where I think the issue lies with ownership is they are far too willing to sacrifice the ability to build a SB roster in a couple of seasons in order to win 8 games in the upcoming one. They are unwilling to risk a bad season to get better in the future and that makes any GM's job really, really hard. So they go out and get KAM to fix Spielman's mistakes, and then don't allow him to actually do anything that could make that rebuild more successful.

makila wrote: ↑Thu Mar 17, 2022 7:03 am You don't extend Kirk and then trade Hunter. You are either in or out imo.

StumpHunter wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 10:29 pm

makila wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 10:07 pm I remeber a few seasons ago complaining about the organization not fully understanding who they were. And what they needed to do to achieve the ultimate goal of a sb.

Starting to think it's an ownership trait.

Wonder what we may get if we move him.

*sigh*

I don't get this offseason. At all.

I think ownership absolutely knows what they have, or they don't fire the GM who put most of this roster together.

Where I think the issue lies with ownership is they are far too willing to sacrifice the ability to build a SB roster in a couple of seasons in order to win 8 games in the upcoming one. They are unwilling to risk a bad season to get better in the future and that makes any GM's job really, really hard. So they go out and get KAM to fix Spielman's mistakes, and then don't allow him to actually do anything that could make that rebuild more successful.

Maelstrom88 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 17, 2022 9:31 am The cap is a joke.The need to shed salary is a lie. The Saints have shown this the past few years. They just restructured and converted like 80 million in the hole to plus 30 and are probably going to get Watson. We just have a bad front office now it would appear.