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  1. The Great Hambino
    I wonder if it's possible that he compensated in some way for the knee while coming back from it and developed a hole in his mechanics that they're still trying to unwind. It can be a vicious cycle - mechanics fall apart, starts pressing trying to fix them, mechanics become even worse, confidence goes down, now everything has fallen apart. Or he's struggled to translate the mechanical fixes to NFL game speed, so it looks fixed in practice but falls apart under the lights. I dunno, something must've happened. It seems like a footwork issue from what I've read and heard. It's hard for me to believe they all could whiff so hard on something like that
  2. The Great Hambino
    I would too, but I don't know if they're finding that sifting through the nontenders, at least not one that's already into their arbitration years and would only come with a year or two of control. My first choice would be investing in a real free agent My first choice among things they might actually do would be to acquire a promising ready or near-ready 1B prospect in a Ryan/Lopez trade
  3. The Great Hambino
    I don't think replacement-level outfielder is very near the top of the list of Twins needs right now - they're pretty good in that department I'd prefer they stay out of this aisle of the supermarket (nontendered hitters) altogether, but if they must go down this aisle, have it be for a 1B platoonable with Clemens
  4. The Great Hambino
    Prielipp has what, 140 competitive innings since high school? He'll be 25 years old next year. At the rate they're bringing him along, he might be ready to reliably shoulder a starter's workload in about 2032. Someone with his injury history has very long odds of sticking long-term as a reliable starter. Play the odds. Put him in the bullpen. He's one of the only in-house options with a legitimate chance to be a true weapon back there.
  5. The Great Hambino
    There are few things better in the NFL than a fat kicker I am in the Harrison Mevis fan club
  6. The Great Hambino
    The Browns are giving the Lions a run for their money in terms of true all-time greats forced to spend their careers with teams with no hope for any sort of success
  7. The Great Hambino
    It's impressive how his teams have been consistently competitive while basically sitting out Day 1 of the draft for years
  8. The Great Hambino
    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
  9. The Great Hambino
    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
  10. The Great Hambino
    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
  11. The Great Hambino
    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.
  12. The Great Hambino
    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
  13. The Great Hambino
    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
  14. The Great Hambino
    Very true. But Skule is a matador
  15. The Great Hambino
    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"
  16. The Great Hambino
    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
  17. The Great Hambino
    My God, I'd trust Oliver or Ham over Skule at LT at this point. He is beyond putrid
  18. The Great Hambino
    I'd start with maybe chipping or doubling Parsons from time to time
  19. The Great Hambino
    Two straight drives dead in the water after a negative run on first down
  20. The Great Hambino
    Parsons flipped on God mode on that drive
  21. The Great Hambino
    At the half: 55 MIN passing yards 86 MIN rushing yards 111 MIN yards of made field goals
  22. The Great Hambino
    Staying out of 2nd/3rd and long has helped a lot Very nice throw to Jefferson there
  23. The Great Hambino
    Not much good or bad, honestly. No huge mistakes. Just sorta there
  24. The Great Hambino
    This team just cannot defend intermediate passes over the middle. Like, at all.
  25. The Great Hambino
    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
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