The Vikings are toast.
Their desperate decision to trade their first-round pick next year (and conditional fourth in 2018) for mediocre Philadelphia quarterback Sam Bradford on Saturday won’t keep their playoff aspirations alive.
Minnesota won 11 games last season and was a team on the rise.
A gruesome season-ending knee injury to quarterback Teddy Bridgewater sustained in Tuesday’s practice will be too difficult to overcome to make the playoffs.
The Bradford deal does raise concerns over whether Bridgewater will be healthy for the 2017 season. Bridgewater suffered not only a torn ACL, but also a tibiofemoral dislocation.