Vikings' 'insider' info

Tom pellisaro said it was for Bryce Young but when he went 1,  their offer was off the table.

@"StickyBun" said: Hard to know what to believe anymore as more and more media 'insiders' are exposed for being straight up liars. Its SO easy to lie and not be held accountable in today's media because they all want clicks and views, not the truth. So its the old 'don't ask, don't tell' horseshit for job justification. Take this with a big grain of salt:

“I don’t think people realize how hard the Vikings tried to trade up for Anthony Richardson last year. Like, the hall that they put on the table was massive. They were going to give away the entire farm, all of it. They were going to give everything.”

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— vikesinsider (@vikesinsider) January 6, 2024

Here is the full report FWIW:

Brett Kollman believes Vikings will trade up for QB in 2024 NFL Draft (msn.com)

Who plays quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings in 2024 is a giant question and so is the question of what the Vikings will do in the first round of the NFL Draft. 
With Kirk Cousins a free agent, the starting quarterback job for the Vikings is up in the air but@BrettKollmann"> Brett Kollman of The Film Room and The Bootleg Football Podcast believes the Vikings will try to trade up for his replacement in the 2024 NFL Draft.
"I don't think people realize how hard the Vikings tried to trade up for Anthony Richardson last year," Kollman said on The Mina Kimes Show Featuring Lenny. "The haul they put on the table was massive."
Kollman continued to insinuate that the Vikings were ready to make a move for Richardson, who was selected fourth overall by the Indianapolis Colts. 
Since the Carolina Panthers selected Bryce Young with the first overall pick and the Houston Texans selected C.J. Stroud with the second pick, Kollman's hunch possibly involved the Arizona Cardinals, who traded the No. 3 pick to the Texans before the Colts took Richardson.
"They were going to give away the entire farm, the cat...like all of it," Kollman said. "They were going to give everything, but it takes two to tango. Their trade partner thought they were going to be too good and so they went elsewhere because they didn't want low picks."
"I still feel like Minnesota's going to make a move," Kollman continued.
Because the Vikings were supposedly so aggressive in trying to land Richardson a year ago, Kollman believes the Vikings will do the same in this year's draft. While the Chicago Bears could select USC quarterback Caleb Williams with the first overall pick and UNC's Drake Maye is projected to be gone soon after, Kollman speculates that LSU's Jayden Daniels could make a perfect target for the Vikings in April.
"I just feel like he's a Kevin O'Connell type of quarterback to me," Kollman said before also mentioning Washington's Michael Penix Jr. as a target. "I really do think the added mobility and all the stuff that you can do with him in the run game is kind of a factor there and if they tried and failed to get last year for that exact reason, I have to imagine Daniels is on that list too. If they can go up and get him I think they will."
Daniels spent the first three years of his college career at Arizona State, throwing for 22 touchdowns and three interceptions in his first two seasons before throwing 10 touchdowns and 10 interceptions in 2021.
After transferring to LSU, Daniels threw for 2,913 yards, 17 touchdowns and three interceptions while completing 68.6 percent of his passes for the Tigers in 2022 and took off this past season, throwing for 3,812 yards, 40 touchdowns and four interceptions en route to winning the Heisman Trophy.
But the added element of Daniels's game is his running ability, which has accounted for 2,019 yards and 21 rushing touchdowns over the past two seasons.

Even if the Vikings are interested in Daniels, it could involve a hefty trade to bring him to Minnesota as NFL Mock Draft Database currently has Daniels as the fifth overall pick on its consensus mock draft board.
Kollman speculates that the Los Angeles Chargers, who already have Justin Herbert at quarterback and the sixth overall pick entering Sunday's games, could make for a potential trade partner if the Vikings are interested in a deal. Kollman, by the way, works with the Chargers. 
With Cousins's future in limbo, the Vikings could be in the market for a quarterback in the draft. But if Kollman's intel is true, they could be on the verge of a blockbuster deal that could shape the future of the franchise.

They're not insiders, just guys for whom social media is a place where they can pretend to be such.

Are you going to trust a guy who spells the word haul as "hall"?  Most of these clowns are barely literate, let alone bright enough to somehow get fed info from inside an NFL team.  It's laughable click bait.

I think it's pretty clear the Vikings tried hard to move up last year and I think it's fairly likely we'll see them try again this year. 

But who they tried to trade up for last year is still unclear. There was a report last year that said this was about Bryce Young. Kollman seems convinced it was Richardson. It may have been both. 

Either way, I like that the Vikings mindset (then, and maybe now) is to go big and not just settle for the next guy on the list.

It might work out better for the Vikings that no one agreed to trade with them last year. Sure, we'd be done with Cousins right now, but as it is, we'll probably get Cousins back for at least one more year, and the QB we draft this year will get to work with Justin Jefferson and Addison. 

It's a QB league, we certainly saw that this year, look at the Buffalo roster, not much better than ours, outside of Diggs they have no playmakers on offense, yet they are always in it cause of Allen even in a down year for him.  I think you have to do whatever it takes to get your franchise QB, I would give up whatever it took for a shot at Williams and would also consider a significant package for Maye.  I am not high on Daniels, would not move up for him.  I would take either Penix or Nix at our pick, moving up for Penix if I had to.  

I feel like if they were willing to give it all away to move up, they'd have taken one of the two qb's that fell. But they passed on both Levi's and Hooker. Of they were that in to taking a QB, seems like we'd have gotten one that didn't involve giving up any other picks or players. 

@"wiviking" said: I feel like if they were willing to give it all away to move up, they'd have taken one of the two qb's that fell. But they passed on both Levi's and Hooker. Of they were that in to taking a QB, seems like we'd have gotten one that didn't involve giving up any other picks or players. 

I think they were willing to give-up the farm for Richardson or Stroud. Not Hooker or Levis. 

@"purplefaithful" said:

@"wiviking" said: I feel like if they were willing to give it all away to move up, they'd have taken one of the two qb's that fell. But they passed on both Levi's and Hooker. Of they were that in to taking a QB, seems like we'd have gotten one that didn't involve giving up any other picks or players. 

I think they were willing to give-up the farm for Richardson or Stroud. Not Hooker or Levis. 

We saw with Dobbs that adding mobility at QB opened up things on offense, but also mobility wasn't enough on its own. With the Vikings picking anywhere from 10th-12th, they are in good position to either take a QB that falls or move up for one.

We also saw that Mullens, Dobbs, and Hall are all backup level QBs. Maybe Hall becomes OK with more time, but you can't really depend on him as a QB of the future at this point. Ideally, it would be nice to sign Cousins on a 1 to 2-year bridge deal, but nothing about how he's handled contracts in the past makes me think he'll take a team friendly deal. He does like it here and stayed involved with team once he got hurt, but if anything the play off the backup QBs just gave him more leverage for a contract.

@"comet52" said: They're not insiders, just guys for whom social media is a place where they can pretend to be such.

Are you going to trust a guy who spells the word haul as "hall"?  Most of these clowns are barely literate, let alone bright enough to somehow get fed info from inside an NFL team.  It's laughable click bait.

I just couldn't disagree more! Much like the insiders on the networks, they are inside their mothers basements!

I would be shocked if that was the case. I expect they tried to move up, but most likely for Stroud. Stroud by a country mile was the best option. 
If they looked to give up the farm for Anthony Richardson, I have to question their overall judgement. Perhaps Richardson will be good, but he has a huge bust risk factor. He only completed like 53% of his passes his last year in college.