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Good point. For some reason, I thought Pierce was signed on a one year deal and was a FA again.
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Eh. TD is getting to be a bit too homery. This should be a make or break year for the FO and it doesn't look much different than other offseasons. Potentially strong offense that's going to strike out a lot, with a low OBP. No ace. Bullpen heavy pitching staff loaded with quantity over quality and games with 5+ pitchers. Boring baseball. We've had to rely on guys like Littell, Romo, Arreaz, Stashak etc in the playoffs. This is the least I've cared about a Twins team going into a season in over fifteen years. I'm also not sure much of the premise of this article is accurate. While defensive stats are pretty hard to pin down and last year was only 60 games, fangraphs rated the Twins defense pretty well, especially at short stop. I don't think Simmons, now 31 years old, is going to be a huge upgrade like others do. Yeah, they had a few bad moments in the playoffs but we managed two runs in two games because our offense was not good last year. And we still owe Donaldson 71m over the next three years. Uff-da.
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I want a massive run-stuffing DL. Not sure there are any in this draft but watching teams run the ball down our throat last year was not fun. I miss the days of the "Williams Wall." That was fun.
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Anyone like mock drafts not behind a paywall? CBS mock draft has us taking Azeez Ojulari LB from Georgia. Although maybe they think he's an edge rusher type? He's pretty young, which is good. NFL.com has us picking a WR which isn't crazy if we didn't have a coach who wanted to be run heavy.
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Ignoring everything else, this just didn't register as correct to me so here were the scoring drives he did with the ball and less than 2 minutes to go. Wk 1 v. GB - 3 plays, 58 yards for a FG to finish the half. (He also led the team on 3 long scoring drives in 4th quarter but that's a different issue) Wk 5 v. Seattle - 11 play, 57 yrd drive to get FG at the half Wk 9 v. Det - 6 play, 87 yrd for a TD at the half Wk 12 v. Carolina - 11 play(!), 41 yrd drive for FG at the half and a 7 play, 75 yrd TD winning drive at the end of the game Wk 17 v. Det - 6 play, 79 yrd TD drive at the half I really don't think he's the problem. He was awful the first few weeks but still finished a top 10 QB by pretty much every metric. I think people have a perception of him as a "loser" because he has mostly played on crappy teams, he has a bland personality, and he's not overly demonstrative. (Kinda like Mauer). But he's pretty good. The offense always seemed to step up when we ran no-huddle or were pass happy. It bogged down when we got overly run-happy. I think the offense's problems are more on the coaching, rather than the players. This should be a pass-first, fast paced offense that buries teams with a strong running game after we run up the score. Instead, we looked happy to play ball-control, run out the clock football from the start of the game.
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Anyone have access can tell me where the Twins fall on this list? Thanks in advance. https://www.espn.com/mlb/insider/story/_/id/30880410/kiley-mcdaniel-2021-mlb-farm-system-rankings-all-30-teams
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Middle of the road seems about right to me.
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Pretty sad story here. Not sure how many of us are like this young man but probably worth reading anyway. https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/09/investing/robinhood-lawsuit-suicide/index.html
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https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/08/investing/wall-street-market-bubble-yusko/index.html
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Any of you guys have thoughts on Snowflake or Square?
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I feel ya. We've all been there, done that. Don't let it discourage you. You doubled your money and identified a sound investment. That's great!
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An immortal of the game
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Kubiak retirement is now official.
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Can Cody Stashak Take the Next Step?
gunnarthor replied to Cody Pirkl's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Yeah, Guerrier would be a wonderful outcome. Just not a realistic one. -
Can Cody Stashak Take the Next Step?
gunnarthor replied to Cody Pirkl's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
He's 27 with 40 ML innings. Playoff teams shouldn't rely on him to make the difference. He could be an average bullpen arm. He might have a Matt Gurrier type career - less innings, obviously, but better k-rate. Solid set-up guy is probably his ceiling but it's probably closer to low-leverage bullpen arm. -
Why Did the Twins Let Liam Hendriks Go?
gunnarthor replied to Cody Christie's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Physically, he looks a lot bigger than he did with the Twins and he is throwing the fastball 6 miles per hour faster. I believe a few of his teammates in Oakland were caught using PEDs. Would anyone really be surprised to find out that he was using PEDs? -
I lost an idiot friend from law school who works in the DOJ civil rights division. Crazy times.
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I have no idea what the draft looks like. Assume the Clemson QB won't be there at 14. Is there a good DT or OL that isn't a reach at 14?
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I did. Should have bought more. ROKU was also a really nice buy, too. I bought that at 47, IIRC.
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I think the biggest problem/concern I have with the offense had more to do with its philosophy more than anything else. With Cousins, Jefferson, Theilen, Cook, Smith and Rudolph, this should have been a pedal to the medal attacking offense that builds an early lead and then has the ability to pound the game away. Instead, and I think this is Zimmer's fault, it seems that we want to be an early ball control team that keeps our defense off the field and create long 10+ play scoring drives. The TB game was probably the worst example of this where our offense dominated a good defense but had only a few points at the half because of missed field goals despite a huge advantage in stats and time of possession.
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Anything happening in the world that you didn't expect today? Looks like Kayne might be getting divorced. Few other things happening ...
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Part of it, I figure, is that the defense is demoralized and just not playing to the best of their abilities. They know they suck.
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We score 33 and lose by nearly three touchdowns. I'm done with the Zimmer era. He was a good coach and a nice upgrade over the Tice, Childress, Frazier period but it's time to move on.
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Ironically, a lot of that describes how the Eagles game started as well. It isn't Cousins fault that the coaching staff is calling a run heavy early game. That probably cost us the Bucs game and probably a few others. Zimmer-ball ain't doing us any favors. But if Hurts was our QB, that wouldn't change, in fact we'd be hearing about how it's necessary to support a young QB. But Cousins has been a pretty good QB this year. He isn't the reason we have a losing record.
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Cousins isn't the problem. He has a 102 rating on the season, which is 8th overall. Hurts rating in his big game was 102 for the game. The offense is fine. Our defense and special teams(!) are horrific and our coaching is a bit iffy at times. Hurts has, what, two starts? Probably a bit early to size him up for that HOF jacket.
