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  1. nicksaviking
    Hard to complain about the Vikings offensive line and the Vikings non-Jefferson wide receivers after watching a Chargers game. I mean, you'd think it couldn't get worse than what the Vikings have, but wow, I guess it can.
  2. nicksaviking
    We'll see how they like him next week when the Texans get a week to gameplan for him. And I'm not cheering against him, I'm just excepting to be cheering for his renaissance about two years from now, not this year.
  3. nicksaviking
    Also looking like that unexpected decent showing by Daniel Jones in 2025 wasn't the real Daniel Jones.
  4. nicksaviking
    No kidding. He's too injury prone to get hit, and he doesn't know how to avoid getting hit.
  5. nicksaviking
    Chicago letting Atlanta back into the game. Also, every time Penix gets hit, I keep expecting him to get up limping. And he's getting hit a lot.
  6. nicksaviking
    I could certainly be wrong, but I never thought JJM's redemption arc would be possible this year. I always assumed he needed a couple years learning how to be a QB instead of an athlete.
  7. nicksaviking
    Yup. And this stuff is why I'm not mad about the McCarthy pick and why I appreciate the decisiveness about cutting the cord. The Broncos and Falcons (and Commanders?) are now kind of stuck with a QB that's good enough to play in the league, but probably not good enough to be the difference maker in a big game. The Vikings now get to roll the dice again, while those teams will most likely have to spend at least one more year treading water hoping for something that likely won't turn out.
  8. nicksaviking
    Seattle has a great secondary and a good pass rush, so I could understand a dink and dunk offense this game, it's been like that all season. But looking at his numbers, while it's lower this year, he's at the very, very bottom of the league in pushing the ball downfield in all three of his seasons: Drew Brees never came close to seeing these low of numbers. So is Nix too tentative? Or is Sean Payton keeping the reigns tight on Nix?
  9. nicksaviking
    No, I'd bet the team would have kept him if he hadn't looked so bad in the national games.
  10. nicksaviking
    Also, is Bo Nix what Sam Darnold would have been if Darnold had been drafted by a competent coach, and is Sam Darnold what Bo Nix would have been if Nix had been drafted by dumpster fire?
  11. nicksaviking
    Yeah. He certainly seems to struggle in big prime time games unless his defense puts the game out of hand and there are few big pressure plays on offense.
  12. nicksaviking
    Right, the goal was for Kreidler, Gray and Arcia NOT to play. It would be great if the Twins had their long term 3B option now set. Need to see the OBP pushed to the .320 range at least though. Without that stability, we'll probably be getting more of a frustratingly streaky Eduardo Escobar situation. Big improvement over last year for Lee though, so I think he can do it.
  13. nicksaviking
    Yeah, they'd need to show past instances of them honoring employees this way for any credibility. But there's no way a competent GM would ever tell the marketing team to do this. And I really hope we have a competent GM. Perhaps not though. Fingers crossed this was just a terrible idea from whatever 22-year-old fantasy football fan operates the billboard.
  14. nicksaviking
    https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/john-harbaugh-wed-be-negligent-if-we-didnt-see-if-j-j-mccarthy-can-help-us The Giants did use JJ McCarthy a bit last week, but it was basically just for QB scrambles. And it sounds like that might be the plan. So, John Harbaugh's idea is to turn McCarthy into a Taysom Hill? Sounds fun in theory, but McCarthy is slim, and let me do a quick Google search.....yup, looks like he's got a lengthy injury history.
  15. nicksaviking
    He'd hate it here after one game once he realizes that he'd be a sacrificial X receiver used to run routes to draw coverage off of Jefferson. He wouldn't come close to the target share he'd expect.
  16. nicksaviking
    What?? That's the first I heard of that. That's weird and obviously insane by whomever chose to do it. I can't imagine Teasley is talking to the marketing department about possible free agents before the team actually signed a free agent. And if he is, I would completely reconsider my interest in keeping him.
  17. nicksaviking
    Josh Jacobs is still getting the cold shoulder from the league, and what he did sounded much tamer than what Hill did. I’d guess Hill hits the commissioner’s exempt list for the entirety of the season if a team was foolish enough to sign him.
  18. nicksaviking
    I picked the Chargers to win the division. Now looking at their schedule, they’re going to be 0-7 no matter who the OC is, and 0-9 if the Texans defense wakes up.
  19. nicksaviking
    I hereby knight thee a member of the Pitching Coach Roundtable where the opinions are spoken with the sharp tongue of truth and the bar wenches keep your chalice full of ale.
  20. nicksaviking
    He sounds more than qualified, but maybe not a slam dunk JUST because he came from Tampa. The Rays aren't exactly known for developing their own pitchers; starters in particular. Just about all have come from elsewhere. And the two that were from within the organization, McClanahan and Baz, have long track records of injuries. And if we're talking Taj Bradley, I think you have to give the departed Phil Maki the win on that one. It kind of feels like the Falvey hire (not trashing either hire) in that fans saw good pitching on their former teams and thought getting a pitching guy from them was a great move. But neither team developed their own pitching. And, hey, getting other team's developed pitchers has been working for the Twins too. So I'm on board with that route for sure.
  21. nicksaviking
    I'm not sure I see posters here saying that about Addison. In his defense though, between Murray, Wentz and McCarthy, the last two years he has played with QBs who tend to zero in on one target before turning to their check-downs. I guess in McCarthy's case, zero in on random spectator in the stands.
  22. nicksaviking
    Daniels mostly likely either didn't know there were zero timeouts, or that the game would be over, but I still think the OC messed up and thought he had three TOs in OT instead of two. They huddled before the play and had wide receivers running deep routes, so someone other than Daniels called that play, and that play was NOT to spike the ball. And even if the OC did stupidly call a play to throw the ball down field, either into the endzone or out of bounds, obviously you're at least going to say to your young QB, 'Uh, remember, nobody can get tackled in bounds on this play'. And that play without a doubt was stupid. Because even if Daniels did throw it, it could still result in a turnover or the receiver getting tackled in bounds. No play caller should have ever, ever, ever called that play with where they were on the field. I think most likely Daniels is a young QB without a command presence who like a robot does what he's told without question. Which was always my Kirk Cousins nit pick actually (though even Cousins the boy scout wouldn't have followed THAT call). Obviously a good vet QB would disregard the play call and then chew out whomever called it later in the locker room. Also, the OC, David Blough is all of 31-years-old. He's actually more inexperienced calling plays than Daniels is running them.
  23. nicksaviking
    Good. Low profile as long as possible sounds like the best course of action right now. Murray looked significantly better last game, and the play calls seemed much more suited to his style. I actually think there's more good things coming from the offense. Not elite obviously, but possible high-end game manager kind of play perhaps.
  24. nicksaviking
    I hope we find out more about the end of the giants commanders game. Quinn is fired, whether it’s now or end of the year, but he’s not calling offensive plays. I suspect the OC messed up. The receivers were way down field, so it wasn’t a situation where Daniels was supposed to spike the ball.
  25. nicksaviking
    I presume Culpepper. Unless it turns out Culpepper at third and Lee at second is better.
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