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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. The Great Hambino
    Very true. But Skule is a matador
  7. 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"
  8. 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
  9. The Great Hambino
    My God, I'd trust Oliver or Ham over Skule at LT at this point. He is beyond putrid
  10. The Great Hambino
    I'd start with maybe chipping or doubling Parsons from time to time
  11. The Great Hambino
    Two straight drives dead in the water after a negative run on first down
  12. The Great Hambino
    Parsons flipped on God mode on that drive
  13. The Great Hambino
    At the half: 55 MIN passing yards 86 MIN rushing yards 111 MIN yards of made field goals
  14. The Great Hambino
    Staying out of 2nd/3rd and long has helped a lot Very nice throw to Jefferson there
  15. The Great Hambino
    Not much good or bad, honestly. No huge mistakes. Just sorta there
  16. The Great Hambino
    This team just cannot defend intermediate passes over the middle. Like, at all.
  17. 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
  18. The Great Hambino
    There may be a reason he shies away from running in short yardage
  19. The Great Hambino
    The WR screens are bad too. That second down screen to Addison was dead on alignment
  20. The Great Hambino
    KOCs screen designs continue to suck. I like his offense overall but something is always off with the screens
  21. The Great Hambino
    1B will be 41-year-old Paul Goldschmidt on a 1 year, $4MM deal
  22. The Great Hambino
    This has cover but lose written all over it
  23. The Great Hambino
    Keep your head on a swivel for steamrollers
  24. The Great Hambino
    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
  25. The Great Hambino
    I think it's more likely than not that Jeffers is retained at least through Opening Day. The move is just too low-wattage to truly be driving decisions in any direction. Just like attaching Dobnak's buyout to the Paddack trade (the only purpose of that was to pass the burden of his buyout off onto Detroit) wasn't proof that they're cutting costs as much as possible. They are not meaningfully worse off if they do ultimately decide to sell off anything of value in a true rebuild. If anything, it's a treading water move that doesn't preclude them from going in whatever direction ownership dictates with their budget. I also wonder if catcher might be a unique position in that it can aid in the development of others on the team (young pitchers in this case), which could potentially add value even if you're not caring about wins and losses. Most positions are kinda doing their own thing for the most part, but if they think Jackson is in a better position to do that then Rortvedt, Pareda, or anyone else available in the dumpster, then I can see that as plausible. I hadn't heard of Jackson before today so I have no idea if this is true, or if this is another miscalculation in player evaluation, but I think it could make some sense. I don't know if I'd feel the same way if they'd made the same kind of move for a 1B, for instance
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