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  1. So a much smaller hole where they didn't have to upgrade the QB. You are vastly underselling how difficult it's going to be for them to get compliant and remain competitive next year
  2. When? When they replaced a $35MM+ QB with a draft pick and a 95th-percentile-outcome reclamation project to get out of a smaller hole? Those levers aren't available to pull this year. Ironically, Darnold made the cost of future potential Darnolds go up, as shown by Daniel Jones' market last year
  3. Add a 1 to the front of that figure and you might be closer. Daniel Jones signed for $14.5MM coming off a practice squad
  4. And they're pretty much all gonna need to be replaced through the draft or with fringe-roster types. There's a difference between becoming cap compliant and actually improving the personnel. They can do the former but not the latter. You can't just yadayada away a $50MM cap hole.
  5. Free agent QBs that give you something close to league average play cost money. They can't afford one. Their cap situation dictates that this is McCarthy's team for better or worse next year. Drastic improvement from him is their best bet at getting better for next year. They're going to spend next year's draft filling holes created by moving on from current starters just to get cap compliant. It's not ideal by a long shot, but they don't have a choice
  6. At least he has a lot of fake confidence How do they even improve the team this offseason? I don' think they should, but they can't trade Jefferson even if they wanted to - $46MM dead cap if they do. Negative $51MM in effective cap space per Over The Cap as things sit currently. Trading Jefferson adds to that deficit
  7. Very true. But Skule is a matador
  8. I had a feeling it wasn't going to be our day when my 3 year old daughter came up to me unprovoked and said "The Vikings are gonna lose Dad"
  9. The amount they've played is why I don't think they'd be a ton better if they'd kept Darnold. We saw what he looks like when protection breaks down at the end of last year. They'd be better, but not a playoff team
  10. My God, I'd trust Oliver or Ham over Skule at LT at this point. He is beyond putrid
  11. I'd start with maybe chipping or doubling Parsons from time to time
  12. Two straight drives dead in the water after a negative run on first down
  13. Parsons flipped on God mode on that drive
  14. At the half: 55 MIN passing yards 86 MIN rushing yards 111 MIN yards of made field goals
  15. Staying out of 2nd/3rd and long has helped a lot Very nice throw to Jefferson there
  16. Not much good or bad, honestly. No huge mistakes. Just sorta there
  17. This team just cannot defend intermediate passes over the middle. Like, at all.
  18. I don't understand the TE sneak, that's just too cute by a couple orders of magnitude. But they got absolutely blown out of the water trying to keep it normal on 4th down. If that's what keeping it normal looks like, I can understand throwing more in those situations
  19. There may be a reason he shies away from running in short yardage
  20. The WR screens are bad too. That second down screen to Addison was dead on alignment
  21. KOCs screen designs continue to suck. I like his offense overall but something is always off with the screens
  22. This has cover but lose written all over it
  23. Keep your head on a swivel for steamrollers
  24. I don't see the field size ever changing - too many logistical issues with that kind of move (they're not paying for stadium remodels if they're not paying for grass fields), and that would be a much more foundational change that a typical rule change, and people don't like foundational change. More likely to me would be rule changes like adopting the college rule where offensive players can block downfield before the pass if it's caught behind the line of scrimmage. Give the offense a chance to attack more downhill. Or perhaps a return to more downhill, power-based run schemes as opposed to zone schemes configured within spread formations. Or more radically, an adoption of some A11-type principles that would use a defense's aggressiveness against them. Or in the opposite direction fun-wise, getting even more punitive on the defense in terms of who is deemed a defenseless player Who knows. It's fun to think about though. I just don't think they've exhausted all options scheme-wise and rule-wise where they'd have to resort to something as drastic as widening the field
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