This might be the best chance general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah and coach Kevin O’Connell have at picking a franchise-altering passer.
Last Friday in his pre-NFL draft news conference, Minnesota Vikings general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah likened acquiring an additional, late first-round pick in the 2024 draft to auto insurance. Perhaps in an effort to tamp down speculation that this was a tool to help the team springboard into the top three and land a quarterback, Adofo-Mensah said one could go their whole lives without needing auto insurance, but in the case of an accident would be glad to have it.
Much like O’Connell’s successor, Mike Zimmer, the team’s current head coach does not possess the ability to stop churning. There is no white flag surrender in a season, and so handing him Joshua Dobbs with 45 seconds of game-planning time is good enough to help him win a football game. Minnesota is never going to bottom out, but they are peering into the same unattractive and consistent purgatory that got Zimmer fired in the first place.
? How tightly will the Patriots constrain the vice grip? Will they find a breaking point and turn this seemingly promising Vikings draft into a hype-less nonspectacle, leaving them desperate to play up the value of insurance? Or, they could—and should—be preparing to lay it all on the line now. It’s never an enjoyable moment for a general manager, as it truly binds the organization’s top decision-maker to a single person. But eventually it is a necessity. Only Ryan Poles of Chicago has artfully extended a run long enough without eventually cementing himself to the whims of another human being.
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