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Minnesota Vikings News and Links, 7 May 2024
The Kirk Cousins latest story about him not wanting the Vikings to draft a QB being the reason he did not re-sign, if true, is amusing. I do not really buy it to be honest. I think the 100M guaranteed is what really did the trick.
I am more inclined to want to see JJ McCarthy sit the bench for the entire season just like Mahomes had to do. The concern is with Sam Darnold. Can he stay healthy and will he play well enough to remain starting? Also, and probably a silly thing to wonder, could the team go with Jaren Hall first if they decide to replace Darnold? That would be fantastic for the debates (er., arguments) that could rage here. I would love it!
I am hoping and praying that the Vikings have found their QBOTF. I am not buying all the folks who produce great stats, etc. trying to convince others that he is really good and just did not have the chance. I do think he is good but have to see more of it to believe it. I will get my chance.
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2024 NFL Free Agency Tracker: Best Remaining Free Agents
Players I like …
WR Tyler Boyd
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The Minnesota Vikings Mailed in the Guard Position Again – Minnesota Football Party
Why haven’t the Vikings re-signed Dalton Risner?
Being that Risner is viewed by many in the same bucket as Cleveland, that would mean getting around $9.5 million per season. That is too much for what the Vikings are willing to pay and Risner being a free agent exemplifies that.
Now, is that the right call? Well, you could argue that they should pony up the money because Blake Brandel is set to be your starting left guard. Now, Brandel is a quality player but not someone you want to trust as a long-term starting left guard. Something to watch for with Risner is the potential of signing late like he did in 2023.
Vikings’ Shaq Griffin Signing, Which Could Cost Them a Comp Pick, Still Baffles
Over a month later, the Vikings’ decision to sign veteran cornerback Shaquill Griffin to a one-year, $4.55 million deal in late March remains baffling.
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The Vikings were projected to receive a pair of third-round comp picks (which are in the late 90s overall) for losing Kirk Cousins and Danielle Hunter in free agency this year.
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And the Vikings’ decision to sign Griffin looks even more bizarre after a draft where they traded up multiple times in the first round, surrendering several of next year’s picks in the process.
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A 29-year-old cornerback on a one-year deal is, objectively, not nearly as valuable of an asset as a pick in the 98-100 range that comes with a four-year rookie contract.
Matthew Coller: Dallas Turner pick is about calculating the reward
Turner is set to make around $16 million over the four years that he’s on his rookie deal. Brian Burns makes $28 million per year. If Turner becomes a top-notch player, which his background and consensus board ranking would suggest is possible, the gap in cap savings between Turner and the top edge rushers is enormous. It’s not exactly the same level cap hack as a rookie QB contract but it’s getting closer as edge rusher prices go up. That has to matter in the equation.
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We could see a few showers south of U.S. Highway 2, but much of the region will start the day with sun. By the afternoon, the chance for a few pop-up rain showers will linger across northern Minnesota, and a few will track into northern Wisconsin as well. Temperatures stay in the 60s for most, with cloudy skies.
Wednesday, we are still cool, around 60 degrees for most, with clouds persistent early, but by the afternoon, we start to see sunnier skies. Thursday stays a mostly sunny day, with highs in the mid-60s.
Scattered showers return to the region Friday, and we likely will still see them off and on during the first weekend in June, but temperatures get up into the upper 60s and low 70s.
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MINNEAPOLIS — Linda Hood is always on the move. She’s a marathoner who has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.
In 2018, quadriplegia changed her body, but her will is the same — especially after she realized the basic task of using a public restroom was now alarmingingly complicated.
“We got on the floor and it was wet. It was cold. It was filthy,” Hood said. “It was awful and I looked at my husband and thought, this is disgusting.”
Babies have changing tables — why don’t kids and adults, she wondered.
So Hood got to work, getting the first adult changing table in U.S. Bank Stadium, helping push for the first one at the Minnesota State Fair and now it’s law in Minnesota for changing tables to be in large, public new builds.
This month, Hood set her sights on Washington to talk specifically about airport bathrooms.
“All I could do is say, ‘When are they gonna listen? I need someone to hear me,’” she said.
And they did. Hood says she was warmly greeted by Minnesota congressmembers Betty McCollum and Dean Philips, where she explained the experiences of friends like Prince Cole, a Minnesotan and native Liberian who wants badly to visit home more often.
“Every time I go to the airport, I get huge anxiety. My anxiety is around the bathroom” Philips said. “You have to get changed and get changed on the floor so some people would rather stay at home than go through that, a humiliating experience.”
So Hood fought back against the norm and the Senate passed the bill. It’s soon to be law to have adult changing tables in U.S. airports.
“I got results and if I could have jumped out of this chair and jumped to the moon, I would have done it,” Hood said. “I had that much energy and that much joy. I was elated. It made me feel so good and I Just wanted to hug everyone in Washington and say, ‘Well done, good and faithful servants.’”
“When I found out the change was coming, I was like, ‘Thank God for Linda,’” Philips said.
Because there’s no mountain Hood can’t climb.
The Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport already has two adult changing tables — one in Concourse D and the other near baggage claim.
Hood’s next mission is to broaden federal law and she is prompting the Olympic Committee to have adult changing tables at their venues.
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