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  1. nicksaviking
    Home runs AND station to station hitting in the same inning? What's going on here?!?!?
  2. nicksaviking
    Agreed. That's why my conspiracy theory brain thought the Patriots would surprise everyone by picking a possible generational WR talent in Marvin Harrison first, than try for the QB. But that would require the Patriots being self aware enough to know that they are currently a mess, and most dysfunctional franchises probably don't realize they are dysfunctional.
  3. nicksaviking
    I think it's more than about not having players to support Maye. NE was foolish for not wiping the slate clean and instead going with the remains of the Belichick regime. Should have hired a completely new front office and completely new coaching staff. The 2024 Patriots feels like that Jason Bourne movie that didn't have Jason Bourne in it. Seems like an imminent disaster.
  4. nicksaviking
    Seems too obvious for it not to be out there. Certainly I've just missed those. But I suppose that's more your neck of the woods in the Pacific Northwest.
  5. nicksaviking
    Agree with the first part about pushing biology to the max, but not the second part. I'm in better shape at 45 than I was at 30, but I can throw out my back by sleeping on a new mattress and set off a pain in my knee (arthritis?!?!?) just walking up the stairs. I'd probably end up in the hospital running the bases.
  6. nicksaviking
    Just occurred to me, why isn't anyone mocking Michael Penix to the Seahawks at 16? They just hired the OC from the U of Washington to run their offense. Even if they actually have no interest, the obvious connection is there and no one believes Geno Smith is their long term QB.
  7. nicksaviking
    Random draft thought: If the Giants truly want a QB, the Vikings are screwed, as trading back to 6 is a heck of a lot easier to swallow for teams than trading back to 11. However, if the Giants actually want a WR, then they have a vested interest in making everyone think they want a QB so as to get other teams to swap picks with AZ and/or LAC, who very likely would take Harrison and Nabors before they fall to the Giants.
  8. nicksaviking
    I'm not asking for a specific QB, because you're right, I don't know who will be good long term. I am asking them to try though. I understand the risk, if they get one of the top four guys and he busts, I won't hold it against them. And O'Connell is one I'd trust most about judging them, so I'd want one of the guys he's banging the table for. Even if it's overpaying to trade up. However, I haven't seen any scenario where the price was three 1sts AND Addison though. But really, my posts above were mostly just ruminating on Adofo-Mensah's thought process. He has to be thinking that if they miss out one the top four guys and have to go with Nix/Penix, he might get an extra year's leash, but if they don't immediately pay off, everyone will blame him for not going after QB X who's now a good QB. If he gets none of them and they loose with Darnold, I don't think he survives next year. So all I'm really saying is that I think Adofo-Mensah is going to be in desperation mode, and if he is, that's obviously not a great situation for the Vikings. I wouldn't be surprised if he swings a deal that even I get disgusted at.
  9. nicksaviking
    I'd like to hang on to all the picks, but if they miss on the top four QBs by doing so, I won't be happy. If they come away with Nix or Penix they'll SAY that was the guy they wanted all along, but I wouldn't believe them for a second.
  10. nicksaviking
    It's a given that any trade up will be an overpay, but these teams have scouting departments and long evaluations for a reason. Only an incompetent team would say, "Eh, they're all basically the same." There is literally no reason for scouts or even a GM if you're just picking these guys like donuts. But I'm not sure what you're suggesting. It sounds like you're saying the Vikings should stand pat and take what QB is left at 11. Do you mean Nix and Penix? Because while I've seen some mocks showing one of the top QBs falling to 11, most do not.
  11. nicksaviking
    He was in as a pinch runner for Chili Davis (who had already hit two HR in the World Series) with no outs in the bottom of the 9th. Some things never change with the Twins!
  12. nicksaviking
    Well you're not turning around the franchise and competing for championships without a top QB so letting the other teams dictate your fate probably doesn't work too often since they all want you to fail. Unless Darnold turns into a stud, I'm not sure how the GM keeps his job whiffing on the QBs, shrugging his shoulders and saying, sorry, the price was too steep. With a young QB you buy yourself some leash to develop him, without one, you're getting blamed for pinning your hopes on a QB on his fourth team in four years. Also, I doubt Jefferson wants to stay without a long term QB solution now. And all that stubbornness about trying to get a non-competitive team into the playoffs last year is what is causing the high trade prices. One fewer win and the Vikings are picking 6th ahead of the Giants. They could have all but guaranteed getting a QB without sacrificing painful additional picks.
  13. nicksaviking
    Even if the fans are up for it, no way Kwesi survives if he misses on all the QBs and the team struggles in 2024. Especially if the reports that he wanted to trade back again last year and O'Connell put his foot down and forced the team to draft Addison, the only good pick made in the last two years. I've accepted the idea that Kwesi will be desperate and get fleeced.
  14. nicksaviking
    I like Daniels, Maye, McCarthy in that order though the likelihood of landing them is surely in reverse order. But I think all of them have the potential needed.
  15. nicksaviking
    Alright, a day early, but I'm excited and ready for action. Who ya'll want?
  16. nicksaviking
    I want nothing to do with them, but to be fair both were on contending teams last year. Every team has at least one player like this, even the good teams. There's zero rule that they have to get 15 PA per week though.
  17. nicksaviking
    I'm very disappointed in ownership, but there were only three free agents I actually wanted this offseason and all would have still be affordable, so the team could have been capable with better construction. I'm also disappointed in the veteran bats, but since I didn't want most of them, it's hard to blame players who I thought shouldn't be on the team to begin with. I don't like what's happening with the offensive strategy, but even if that is solely a coaching decision (and I don't think it's 100% them) those pulling the strings could tell them to stop, or replace those coaches. So, front office gets the blame for me, and since I think it's largely due to inflexible roster construction and ill fitting coaches, I'm most specifically pointing the finger at the GM, Thad Levine.
  18. nicksaviking
    33M and 35M should make no difference. The number of guaranteed years seems to be the Vikings sticking point, but they better be over that phobia already. One guaranteed season is obviously a hard stop for Jefferson. One of the best non-QBs in the game shouldn't have to give up what every other team would willingly give him.
  19. nicksaviking
    That would be just fine by me.
  20. nicksaviking
    "The results, or lack thereof, speak for themselves, but it’s the process that seems broken. While it’s assumed that the club is constructed solely to be boppers that launch home runs and celebrate strikeouts, that’s not entirely true. Michael A. Taylor and Joey Gallo were jettisoned with the idea that Manuel Margot and Carlos Santana could even out the team's mix of skills and increase its collective contact rate. " It's wholly possible this system may have worked, but they replaced two poor hitters with a huge flaw, with two poor hitters with different flaws. Margot and Santana should be the last guy off the bench on a contending team, not taking up regular plate appearances. Subbing out the high strikeout players with low strikeout players who can actually still play baseball, like Lourdes Gurriel and Justin Turner, might have worked. But we'll never know because they reversed course on trying to acquire quality players last offseason.
  21. nicksaviking
    The Lions gave Amon Ra St Brown his big contract. 120M over 4 years with 77M guaranteed. In pretend money that's 30M per year, but that 77M guaranteed is more than two full years of actual money. Hopefully this dominos into the Vikings extending Jefferson, but perhaps one party is waiting for the Cowboys and Lamb to do a deal. I hope not because I think the Cowboys are on the brink of lunacy. I don't expect them to make the right decisions with their veteran players in the near future.
  22. nicksaviking
    Even if Kepler returned to his 2021-22 self, the Twins would probably have to eat most of his salary to even get a no-name prospect back. And he's a long ways away from his previously low point of 21-22.
  23. nicksaviking
    I've liked the Twins pitching trades, even the ones that didn't work out. However, I was saying this all winter: The offseason trades the Twins made for pitching have been overall good, the midseason trades have been poor. And I believe there is good reason for this. At midseason, the team buying the prospects have all that more information on them. The team selling the prospects should have the advantage the further away they are from the majors, as they should have a better handle on these players than the team they are dealing them to.
  24. nicksaviking
    Very few people believed in 28-year-old Cody Bellinger's bounce back season; nobody should have believed in 38-year-old Carlos Santana's bounce back season. I can't find a player who was bad for three seasons in their mid 30s and suddenly reestablished their glory for more than one season in their late 30s. One season? Yeah, happens from time to time, two seasons? Quite possibly never in the history of the game.
  25. nicksaviking
    First, yes, second, if those are the only two choices, someone isn't doing their job. Santana shouldn't have been an option if there were zero first basemen left on the free agent market. Honestly, I'm not sweating this season as the team was never going to amount to a contender, so I'm at the point of hoping Joe Pohald reaps what he sows. If you don't eat your meat, how can you have any pudding. You won't give me a championship caliber team? I hope you pay for it in attendance and viewership. Learn your lesson and do better next year.
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