It’s a little earlier than we usually get them to you, but we’ve got our SB Nation Reacts results for this week about our Minnesota Vikings, and we’ve even got some bonus results for you this week! So, let’s go ahead and get to those here.
Our first question for this week was, as always, how you feel about the direction of the team. And if we had started and ended the survey on Monday night, the returns may have found a way to dip into the negative numbers. However, shortly after the Monday Night
debacle against Buffalo, the Vikings pulled the trigger on a big trade. . .we’ll get to that in a bit. . .and that shifted things upward a bit.
With this being the midway point of the season, our graphics folks put together a look at how our confidence figures have gone this season, along with key points along the way.
As you can see, despite the Vikings being the last undefeated team in the NFL, the ol’ confidence graph has been pretty up-and-down over the course of the season so far, due largely to the struggles of the offense. This week, we’re back up above 50%. . .not by much, but we’re still there. . .and, hopefully, we can get that number even higher this next week.
Which brings us to our other question for this week, which was us asking you to grade the deal the Vikings made for Kirk Cousins with the Las Vegas Raiders. The Vikings wound up trading a 2027 third-round pick. . .the (much) lower of the two third-rounders they currently possess. . .to acquire Cousins’ services for the rest of the season, and they needed to do something after what we saw from the quarterback position over the first half of this season. So, what did people think?
Well, we got a majority on this one, with 59% of those who responded to our poll giving the deal a solid “A” grade. Another 29% gave the deal a B, so a full 88%. . .isn’t that a convenient number. . .think this is an above average deal for our favorite team. Another 8% gave it a “C” grade, while the other 4% of those who responded were evenly split between “D” and “F” grades for the deal.
Honestly. . .for a third-round pick, there is just about no downside to this deal for the Vikings. Cousins doesn’t have to be great for this team to be successful. He just has to be. . .you know. . .not what Kyler Murray and Carson Wentz have been this season. Then, maybe the Vikings’ defense won’t have to be on the field for 40 minutes a game and they can crush opposing offenses in the fourth quarter just as badly as they crush them in the first two or three quarters.
It isn’t just Vikings fans who like the Cousins trade, either. The folks from the mothership asked which of the trades that happened at or around the trade deadline in the NFL would make the biggest impact and, well. . .
. . .the majority of people said it was the Kirk Cousins trade, with 54% of people who responded to their poll declaring that to be the biggest move around the league. The only one that was even close was the Bears acquiring defensive lineman Jeffery Simmons from the Tennessee Titans, which got 35% of the vote. Here’s hoping that will be the way things work out for the Vikings as far as this trade is concerned.
Those are our SB Nation Reacts results for this week, ladies and gentlemen. As always, we want to thank all of you who took the time to participate in our polls for this week, and keep your eyes open for next week’s questions!
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