After Monday night’s 23-6 loss to the Bills, in which Carson Wentz completed eight of 25 passes for 81 yards, two interceptions and an 8.9 passer rating, Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell was asked if the team would consider acquiring a quarterback before the trade deadline at 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday.
“I defer to general manager Nolan (Teasley) on that,” O’Connell said. “We’ve had discussions about a lot of different positions. And tight deadlines obviously playing Monday night’s game before that, and we’re going to start working on any potential moves that may be there. But we really focused on tonight’s game, which wasn’t good enough one way or another.”
No, that wasn’t the case. It was worse than horrible.
O’Connell was asked at one point if he had ever felt as difficult as he does right now, as a point guard.
“No,” he said.
They have options. Multiple teams could be looking to make a deal. And even if it is expensive, it will be necessary to save what was, only nine days ago, a very promising season.
It still can be. A return of Kirk Cousins would be a B-12 coup for the franchise. Even Daniel Jones would make things sound better than they are.
And if they want to go all-in, try to make a deal for Justin Herbert – who might be happy at this point to put on an eyepatch and escape from Los Angeles
Whatever the Vikings do, they have to do something. Otherwise, there may not be a quarterback change at the end of the season.
There could be a change of coach.
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