the writing on the walls is becomer increasinly clearer, get stadium deal done or wilfs dump team, aint any different than what big red did b4 wilfs, smart business decision but will be much harder to sell tix, have to rely on season tix holders to float the revenue

Minnesota is not a big enough market for the NFL.
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What does that say about the 15 markets that are smaller than the Vikings?

Using your informed brilliance we should just have 6 teams, 4 on the east coast and 2 on the west!

I feel bad for Vikings fans. Speilman doesn’t seem like the kind of guy I’d want as a team’s GM.

You don’t have to sign the big name/big money free agents, but bringing in some undervalued guys with talent has a lot of benefits — especially when your team is losing its edge.

With the new stadium Guadalajara it looks like the ideal place for the NFL’s first international team. The commissioner want’s to go international.

It will be great for the NFL to be in a new market like Mexico. It will be good for the franchise to have the a whole country cheering for them. It will be profitable for the new owner as well as the rest of the league.

Minnesota is not a big enough market for the NFL.

No one said to ONLY use Free Agency to magically transform your team. WHY can’t the Vikings use some prudent yet aggressive strategy and sign a handful of impactful Free Agents (and I do now mean Point Guards and pedestrian Tight Ends, etc.) PLUS also plan on drafting well? The team has WAY too many holes and weaknesses to not utilize every conceivable option to improve. And, last time I looked, plenty of other, smarter organizations are signing some very solid players – and not all of them come at prohibitive prices.

The Vikings have become the punch line to more jokes than they are ever mentioned with respect or admiration. Please, don’t try to tell me – with ALL the gaping holes this team has – you can’t do w lot better in Free Agency AND also have the brilliant Draft you so sorely need.

This team looks exactly like a 1-15 squad, when you examine their roster and the season schedule. How many teams actually have a crappier Roster? Seriously!!!!!! LOOK with your mind open, and I challenge you to name more than one other team nearly as bereft of talent and good coaching. I do not believe Ponder is a good starting QB; BOTH running backs are rehabbing serious leg injuries; they have ONE decent WR, and he is best suited to the Slot; the Defense is aging and has one of the most porous secondaries in the NFL (understatement); the best player on this team is possibly the Punter. YOU tell me how they win more than one game, if that. I don;t see it and that is hardly going to help them get any sympathy or support for the long-awaited stadium deal.

Sad and pathetic is what my favorite team has become. Anyone who denies that is delusional or a liar. USE FREE AGENCY + HAVE YOUR BEST POSSIBLE DRAFT!!!!!! Idiot, ferret-faced GM will last only until Wilf finally unloads the team to the investors who want to move it to another state… or country.

The Vikings better have a plan for the draft or we could be looking at another 3-13 season.

Incidentally, memo to Rick Speilman. It’s hard to trust you when you look like Napoleon Dynamite minus the bad hair, as is the case on the picture shown!

Good teams use both the draft and free agency to fill the holes on their rosters. Free agents CAN solve some of a team’s problems. Free agents CAN help a team to be competitive in the future.

The money the Vikings didn’t spend isn’t going to help them improve. It’s not going be carried over to be used in future years.

Finding a couple of mid-level (or the right top tier) free agents can help other players on the roster to be better as well.

Sure you can make a bad signing, but you can also make bad draft choices as well.