The AP Situation: What do YOU think?

[BwareDWare94]

As a Vikings fan, I don't really want him back. He is a great player--there is no question about that--but I'll reveal a hidden truth about the Vikings with Adrian Peterson.
 
Adrian Peterson is so good that he makes the Vikings offense inconceivably predictable. Good NFL defenses, and there are a lot of them, can minimize the damage AP creates, and contain what he could potentially day on Sundays.
 
Granted, those may simply be the days of lolBillMusgrave, but I've loved the potential I see in this offense as an offense that might do anything on a play by play basis. It's not better without Peterson, not right now, but for the sake of 3 years from now, when Peterson may well have declined, why not move forward without him, and without the distraction?
 
As an outsider looking at AP's situation, though, I have to say that I think the NFL is abusing its power by taking so long to sort out his playing status. That is unless the players agreed to something in this CBA that allows the NFL to take an absurd amount of time after a court case is settled. At the time, Peterson has been and is being paid during his absence, so I can't really empathize with him too much.
 
Tough call. What do you folks think?

 

[Giantmetfan07]

NFL is definitely abusing it's power. Always have, always will. All the leagues do it. They do it, MLB does it. Why have any kind of player conduct rules when you can hand down an indefinite suspension and say it's for the "best interest of the league". 
 
Though I don't really want to see AP back in the NFL this year so whatever. 

 

[elcheato]

There is no logical argument to be made that the Vikings would be a better team purely from a personnel standpoint without Peterson.

 

[BwareDWare94]

There is no logical argument to be made that the Vikings would be a better team purely from a personnel standpoint without Peterson.

 
Nobody has said that, but it may be better for them moving forward to part ways with Peterson. From an image standpoint. From the standpoint of where they can focus in the draft and FA, because McKinnon is not an every down back. They'll need to find someone to pair with him.
 
Answer the question the topic poses.

 

[elcheato]

You basically said in the beginning of your post that the Vikings could be better off as a team without Adrian Peterson simply looking at him on the field. I was responding to that

 

[Giantmetfan07]

Pretty much what Dan said. 
 

 
 
Adrian Peterson is so good that he makes the Vikings offense inconceivably predictable.