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  1. TheLeviathan
    Turner is here to play today. Darnold showing why he's not the guy. Also, their RG Bradford is the most hilariously bad linemen in the NFL today. Watch him a bit today he's a mess.
  2. TheLeviathan
    The article from Arif seems to show he's even having trouble spitting out plays in the huddle. I know he's young and that injury last year hurt his progress....but right now we're broken at levels I didn't think were possible.
  3. TheLeviathan
    Yup, I'm in this for a franchise QB. I don't want any strategy that isn't aiming for that mark.
  4. TheLeviathan
    Teddy Bridgewater isn't 33. I demand a recount! Seriously though, why does it feel like the correct answer should be 43?
  5. TheLeviathan
    Rick Spielman was fired 1,414 days ago. If you strip him of guys like Metellus and give KAM Redmond and anyone else under the sun you want that isn't a veteran FA....Spielman STILL is impacting that 14 win roster last year and this year on a larger level. By snap count. By PFF grade. By impact of any measure you want. Read that again, the dude fired over 1400 days ago is still having a greater impact. There is no insult. No strawman. I don't need to point out that his draft trades were for a guy in Hockenson we're about to cut with no real benefit gained. For McCarthy who looks terrible. For Turner who is significantly behind other guys taken after him. No, I don't need to do any of that. An argument predicated on "Ed Ingram was a hit for the Vikings draft room!" has lost before it began. That's the stretch of absurdity you ought to really focus on rethinking.
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  7. TheLeviathan
    I had the details wrong - it was Hockeson who picked him up!
  8. TheLeviathan
    All the negativity aside - I'm prepared to keep going to war with him for the rest of the season and into next season. I knew this was a possible outcome of this path and that's what I signed up for. I don't want 10-6, no playoff-win finishes. I want a franchise QB. I'll deal with the lumps to come out the other side with the right guy. (Or wait until we invariably trade for one!)
  9. TheLeviathan
    I'm pretty sure I know which play it was too. He scrambled to his left at one point and awkwardly went down (falling backwards) and took a shot in his shoulder area. O'Neill or Fries hoisted him up off the ground by his shoulder pads and you could see him shaking it off. I thought he was legitimately hurt at the time but forgot about it once he started sucking it up again.
  10. TheLeviathan
    That's my conclusion - the stress and speed of the game live has caused him to revert. Poor results have compounded that and caused the regression further.
  11. TheLeviathan
    Right now we have a QB crisis in the sense of "this guy is terrible", but if Brosmer plays well in a tough place like Seattle now we add another (far worse IMO) layer of crisis in "who should we be developing?" That wouldn't be a concern if it was Wentz stepping in, but Brosmer is young. He might be worth that investment if JJ is this injury prone and this terrible.
  12. TheLeviathan
    If Max Brosmer runs a competent offense, then we're very quickly in a full blown QB crisis.
  13. TheLeviathan
    You keep reducing the success of the GM to wins and losses. Yes, those matter, but they aren't all that matters. If your GM can't draft: you're in trouble. As pointed out by Nick...we still have more starters that were drafted by Spielman than we do KAM. There is no way to sugarcoat how TERRIBLE that is. You're welcome to your opinion, but you're on the flat earther side of this and trying passionately to argue science. It doesn't compute man.
  14. TheLeviathan
    100%, but he wasn't on the field for the first three quarters. :)
  15. TheLeviathan
    Yeah, don't listen to excuse makers on drops or the offensive line, this is still primarily on the quarterback.
  16. TheLeviathan
    McCarthy has certainly been pressured...but he's holding the ball way too long. It's the same as what Darnold did at the end of last year: you make your dudes look bad if you turn every three step drop into a 5 step one. They set differently depending on when the ball is expected to be out.
  17. TheLeviathan
    Had Hockenson ever practiced that sneak? Because that looked like 8 bit where the guy's legs are moving but he isn't actually going in any particular direction. (And definitely not forward)
  18. TheLeviathan
    You're right that they probably haven't exhausted everything...but rule changes are hated just as much as the playing surface. Maybe more. (Certainly we have lots of examples with roughing the passer, PI, etc) At some point there are just not enough gimmicks to overcome a distinct advantage the defense has slowly been able to create with the fine-tuning of athletes and coaching them to do a myriad of things well. It's one thing that both the college and NFL game agree on. (Colleges fighting against spread formations and all the gimmicky offenses has been a big part in fostering this environment IMO)
  19. TheLeviathan
    I'm honestly not sure. I just think it's a conversation that is eventually going to start happening. I agree the logistics seem challenging, I'm just not able to think of many viable alternatives.
  20. TheLeviathan
    I do think it's a combo of things and you're right that athleticism does progress over time. I guess my thinking is that in a playing field that isn't getting any larger, there is only so much room on the field. Yes, the offensive athletes are even better, but that doesn't make the playing surface larger. It's a distinct advantage for the defense to narrow down/shrink the room the offense has to operate. The offense has no such counter now that they've maxed out the vertical spacing they can achieve. (That's why I think the late 90s, early 2000s saw a huge jump. Vertical spacing became a huge factor. Defenses have now largely eliminated that with 2 deep looks while still having enough athleticism to shrink the intermediate and shallow areas of the field) It's my explanation for the pivot to jumbo sets. Or LA running 4 tight ends. They know they can no longer stretch the field as an advantage, so they're going to rely on winning by pure size instead. There will be more ebbs and flows, but I think one thing that will be here to stay is that defenses are going to be much, much more difficult to attack because they can simply defend far more of the field, far faster, than they ever have. The only solution (and I'd wager we start hearing about it soon) is to widen the playing surface.
  21. TheLeviathan
    I agree and what I'm about to say may add to your thoughts, it may be a slight alternative, I'm not exactly sure how to frame it: I think it has to do with the leaps we've seen in athleticism on the defensive side the last decade. I'm old enough to remember what the athletic profiles of guys in 2010 looked like. Would Chad Greenway even get on an NFL team today? Could Jared Allen be as good as the guys now like Parsons? Every time an offense steps on the field they square off with 300+ pound guys that can run a 4.7. Edge rushers with get-off an speed totally unheard of not that long ago. Linebackers that can run like safeties. Safeties that can cover and tackle. So many hybrid-types that are multi-faceted super athletes. IMO - this has seriously squeezed the space on the field. Forcing the passing lanes, running lanes, and opportunities to be much more difficult to find. I wish I had a more quantifiable analysis for it, but it's what I believe to be the issue. (Coupled with an ever increasing drought of capable NFL offensive linemen. That is another huge piece IMO.)
  22. TheLeviathan
    There wasn't much more after that. What struck me was how much the penalties and confusion are on him. I assumed it was a combo of things, but Arif made a compelling case that JJ is struggling in the huddle. A lack of command there definitely worries me. Like I said, I'm all in on this process and I'll stand by it being the right path no matter the outcome. But there is a LOT of work to be done. His leg whip, pitching style throwing motion has to be totally reworked. Also (especially for those Thor Nystrom folks) the issues with JJ not being able to throw to the left have a Mitch Trubisky trajectory right now.
  23. TheLeviathan
    Arif is a brilliant writer and analyst.
  24. TheLeviathan
    I do think having a rookie scale QB for seasons 4/5 is enormously beneficial and should be part of the goal of drafting and developing a young QB. But if you hit on that QB you will have to pay them. When you do, you will have to draft well to stay in contention. Part of why KC has stayed in the mix was that they nailed the 2022 draft in getting Karlaftis, McDuffie, Bryan Cook, and Leo Chanel. Rashee Rice in 2023. Right now, KAM's draft success makes the odds of making McCarthy work dubious no matter which angle you take at it. He won't be adding talent to support him now or extend the window into the future.
  25. TheLeviathan
    /offseason What a barnburner! Glad we're all set!
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