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Yes, the spate of injuries has hurt. And no team IMO would be 8-1 with that laundry list.
BUT, a resilient and efficient passing game with Cousins, Pryor, Crowder, Doctson playing at a high clip would probably be enough to have this team at 6-3 or 5-4 instead of 4-5 and looking at 4-6 after the Saints game.
Pryor has contributed nothing.
Crowder started the season slowly and after catching 9 balls for 100 yards against Dallas slumped back this week to dropping a couple of key passes.
He has not turned out to be the third down ‘rock' we thought he might be.
Cousins meanwhile missed one TD last week in the end zone and threw a bad pick that gave the Vikings that extra 7 points that we ultimately could not overcome in an 8 point loss.
When healthy the OL and TEs are top shelf across the board but the WR and RB positions on this team are thin and need big talent/experience upgrades in the offseason.
I still wouldn't pay Cousins $120M with $95M guaranteed which is close to what is being bantered around in re a deal for Kirk for 2018.
I would rather ‘go fish' in the first round of a deep draft and look to bring in my own Wilson, Watson, Prescott, or Rodgers ( picked 24th in 2005).
100% in agreement with every point here. If we have a top 10-15 pick in the next draft, I might go QB even if we were able to lock up Kirk. I don't know that Kirk will ever be a top 3-5 QB but he's good enough to win with a healthy talented roster around him. That's a lot more than we've had in awhile. And drafting QBs at the top of the draft is a crapshoot.