ducky
Well-Known Member
The Vikings continue to shoot themselves in the foot.
Kind of but not really.
Zimmer is a good, not great, coach. Spielman is a good, not great GM.
Together they are just good enough to field an above average team. Which means when they are bad, they usually arent bad enough to draft early and hit on a generational player. And when they are good, they aren't good enough to win more than 1 playoff game.
It's tough. Do you take a chance and fire two solid guys in hopes of finding "the guy who will put your over the top". Because if you do that you also risk having a guy that can bury the franchise in years of bad years too.
I really don't know the answer to that. Part of me thinks that you keep solid GM and coaches hired because it is the players not the front office guys that make the team. But then you look at a team like the Pat's. So maybe coaching and GM ability is more important than players. It really is a damned if you don't but likely damned if you do situation either way.