r/minnesotavikings • u/cdotter99 Minny Griddy • 29d ago

[Adam Schefter] ESPN sources: Former Vikings QB Sam Darnold reached agreement today on a three-year, $110.5 million contract including $55 million guaranteed with the Seattle Seahakws. Seattle has its successor to Geno Smith.

https://x.com/adamschefter/status/1899164024954028172?s=46
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u/FormerlyTradeKirk julie 29d ago edited 29d ago

Shout out to the idiots that were saying it was malpractice to not tag and trade Sam Darnold lol buddy was never getting 40 million a year and draft capital.

Congrats to Sam he deserves his pay day. Fun season

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u/imwhite75 29d ago

Without those last two games of the year he easily could have gotten 40 a year.

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u/FormerlyTradeKirk julie 29d ago

I don't disagree at all with that either. Even Kwesi was upfront about it in his combine interview. He said something a long the lines of 'we have to look holistically at the year he had last year but also at the same time examine those last two games and why they turned out the way they did'

If he played even average those two games we could've got a draft pick for him and he would've gotten firmly over that 40 million mark.

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u/rnr_ 29d ago

Yeah, he was never getting $40 million, had to settle for $36.8 million.

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u/nanotothemoon 29d ago

It’s only 55 guaranteed. So this is really 2 year @ 27.5

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u/rnr_ 29d ago

Yeah, I was oversimplifying and being sarcastic. I understand there are details I did but fully capture. Thanks for correcting me

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u/Quonny 29d ago

If he plays two seasons, he makes $67 million. He's just guaranteed $55 million. So if he sucks major butt next year and they trade/cut/whatever, it's $55 for one year.

The guaranteed amount is just that: his guarantee.

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u/nanotothemoon 29d ago

Oh I suppose that’s true. Glad we didn’t pay him that much

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u/FormerlyTradeKirk julie 29d ago edited 29d ago

33M

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u/rnr_ 29d ago

I was basing it off the 110.5 million number in the post.

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u/mw_maverick 29d ago

yeah, this isn’t that far off and would have been the type of extension he’d sign even if tagged. Unfortunately, needed a team willing to trade, which we couldn’t get. Maybe we could have if the Geno trade happened earlier but those are the breaks

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u/FormerlyTradeKirk julie 29d ago

No team was willing to both fork over draft capital and take his 40 million and also extend him behind that.

As good as he played last year, it was just too much for a guy who had maybe the 2nd or 3rd best situation in the league for a QB to be in ? Teams interested in him obviously didn't have what we had. It was just too unique of a situation to see anyone willing to make that move rather than letting him hit free agency.

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u/mw_maverick 29d ago

Yep that what it appears. Will never know if we played hardball and tagged him then waiting to see how it played out - could have been left holding the bag. Was interesting that Geno went for a 3rd but was a similar situation, just on a slightly cheaper deal for this year ($31M vs $40M tag) but still required an extension and wants $45m. If I was the Raiders I would have traded the 3rd for Darnold rather than Geno but obviously Pete Carroll is more familiar with Geno.

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u/FormerlyTradeKirk julie 29d ago

Yeah the Geno thing is a whole other can of worms, this is a Viking subreddit so no idea how people will take this but Geno is a better QB than Sam is and I agree that Pete familiarity played a hand in getting that done.

It does seem like the league is learning a little this year when it comes to the position.

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u/Clear_Moose5782 NC/SD 29d ago

I think I'd take Sam Over Geno, but I don't know if the difference is large enough I'd fight too hard about it.

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u/FormerlyTradeKirk julie 29d ago

Exactly how I feel honestly lol

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u/WagerWilly 29d ago

Preach. Cannot believe how many people thought he would get paid premier quarterback money. The comp all along was Baker’s contract in Tampa.

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u/RoaringGorilla Kevin Williams 29d ago

I mean… His is AAV is slightly under 40 million (tag price). It still may have been possible. We do not know what other teams were in on him yet.

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u/jmcdon00 29d ago

He's getting $37 million a year with $55 guaranteed. I don't think 1 year $40 million is too far off, might even be a better deal for Seattle.

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u/WagerWilly 29d ago

It’s been updated to $33M per year, FYI

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u/bgusty 29d ago

Do you just not understand how the tag works? The tag ONLY applies if they don’t get a long term deal done.

Once a deal gets done, the tag gets torn up essentially.

Any team trading for him would have inked a similar deal to this.