As for a trade to bring a new player in, Spielman said the Vikings would have to consider salary cap ramifications for this season and beyond. He also pointed out it can be harder in football than baseball or basketball for a player acquired midseason to make a big difference.
“It is hard when you do make trades for someone to come in, not only to learn a system, get acclimated to the locker room, get comfortable with everything. That takes some time,” Spielman added. “Unlike other professional sports, whether it be baseball and sometimes basketball or other areas, this is such an 11-on-11 team game that it takes some time to create that chemistry.”
“The way our defense kind of started out a little slow and the way you see our defense has really started to come together, especially over these last couple weeks and how well they’re playing, I think the last two games we’ve created five turnovers,” Spielman added. “Well, that’s a bunch of guys playing together for the first time, where now they’re getting in game situations, and you see them getting more and more comfortable, like I said, not only with the scheme but with each other, knowing where each other’s going to be on the field, and so on and so forth. So we’ll always keep an open eye on things.”
