Vikings General Manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah generated some headlines last week when he addressed quarterback Kirk Cousins' future with the team and concluded "everything's in play."
It is the correct approach, even if Adofo-Mensah might not have foreseen everything being in play in the NFL during one specific Tuesday frenzy.
The two giant headlines from the day: Aaron Rodgers is staying in Green Bay, at least for 2022 and quite possibly beyond that depending on how correct the reporting is on a new contract. And just a couple hours later, the Russell Wilson trade to Denver overshadowed the Rodgers news.
(Aside: Great email from reader/listener Brian who says: "I wonder how upset Aaron Rodgers was that he was the second story, after Wilson, on the sports shows I saw yesterday. Once again, I expect his ego would make him greatly annoyed.")
As my colleague Mark Craig noted in writing today and I talked about on the Daily Delivery podcast, those two events had a huge impact on the Vikings and Kirk Cousins.
And it reinforces just how much can change in a week — or at least why you shouldn't make concrete decisions with incomplete information.
A week ago, it still seemed very possible that Rodgers would be traded (or retire). If that would have happened, keeping Cousins and trying to build a winning roster around him would make a lot of sense. The Vikings would have had the best QB situation in the division and could have put together a run of NFC North dominance with some savvy moves.
A week ago, Russell Wilson was still in Seattle and it was unclear what the market would look like for quarterbacks this offseason.
