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Danielle Hunter Jersey , missing five games and six total starts due to a medical issue. He appears to be ready to have a big 2019.“He is a man on a mission,” Vikings defensive end Stephen Weatherly said Friday, via Chris Tomasson of the . “He’s coming for everything and more. He’s motivated, he’s driven. He’s back in front leading the group, and we’re going to go as far as he goes.”Griffen doesn’t see his performance as the product of being driven to have a big year.“It’s not really about motivation, it’s about being disciplined,” Griffen said Eric Kendricks Jersey , via Tomasson. “Last year was hard, but I got the right team around me now and my teammates, the coaches, the whole organization behind me, and that feels good. And I just stay disciplined, stay consistent and keep on doing what I’m doing.”As Tomasson points out, Griffen agreed to slash his salary from $10.9 million to $6.4 million for the coming year. That may end up being a bargain for the Vikings.“He made some really good plays Trae Waynes Jersey ,” Weatherly said of Griffen. “Pass-rushing plays, he was where he was needed. Run plays. He knew everything. He was making all the right plays.”Griffen remained pragmatic about the situation.“We’re out here to get better,” Griffen said. “We’ve got one thing in common, and that’s to win games.”The Vikings didn’t win enough in 2018. This year, they’ve made a conscious effort to address weaknesses on the offensive side of the ball. The defense has fewer weaknesses; if they can get Griffen back to a high level of performance, the Minnesota defense will have an abundance of strengths, at every level. Russell Wilson signed the richest contract in NFL history. But is it the best contract in NFL History? Maybe not.An argument could be made that the contract signed last year by Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins is better than Wilson’s new deal.(Let me know when you stop laughing.)Wilson’s deal commits him to the Seahawks through 2023 Mackensie Alexander Jersey , at an average payout of $31.4 million per year. Of the $157 million payout, 68 percent is guaranteed for injury and 44.5 percent is fully guaranteed at signing.Cousins’ contract covers only three years, with an average of $28 million per year. The full amount — all $84 million — is fully guaranteed at signing.While Wilson is getting $3.1 million more per year, Cousins will hit the market again in 2021. Wilson won’t hit the market until 2024, at the earliest. And there’s an important difference regarding whether Cousins and/or Wilson will hit the open market. Wilson will be subject to the franchise or transition tag. Cousins has a no-transition tag in his contract, and the 44-percent rule (since he’s twice been tagged before) would make his franchise tender a whopping $44 million in 2021.Whether Cousins will get a market-value deal in 2021 will depend largely on whether and to what extent he plays well enough to merit one. But with the top of the quarterback market already spiking from $25 million per year to $35 million per year in less than 22 months, and with the salary cap poised to continue to spike with a new labor deal Laquon Treadwell Jersey , new TV deals, and the growth of legalized gambling, Wilson may soon regret being committed through 2023.Cousins, on the other hand, may be very happy to be hitting the market at a time when agents and teams will know much more about where the cap is heading than they do now.