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  1. nicksaviking
    The Raiders definitely tanked the last two games. I don't think the Cardinals tanked but I also don't believe Murray was significantly injured. I think they sat him to protect themselves financially and were foolish enough to think they could trade him. Same with the Dolphins and Tua. The Browns didn't tank; their defense played lights out through the end of the year. But offensively there probably hasn't been a noticeable difference between the Browns tanking and the Browns playing their hearts out this century so anyone who assumes so should be given equal consideration.
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    Pittman and Courtland Sutton seem like the same player though, both are big bodied possession receivers who move the chains but don't get you anything after the catch. Waddle still gets moved all over the formation and previously still looked pretty electric after the catch. Last year was a down year, but his whole team was a mess.
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    I'd much prefer Waddle, but I completely agree that draft values for existing players is really, really skewed. Either you're worth a 1st, maaaaaaybe a 2nd. And then any talent drop off after that goes to about the 6th round. Unless you're the Vikings trading for a washed-up Adam Thielen then you have to give up a 4th.
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    Yeah, these guys and Arcia are all the same to me, but they have always kept at least two on the 40-man roster, along with Arcia as the safety net on the MiLB deal. Again, I'm not saying 'no', but I think the Twins think rostering such players is more precious than it really should be.
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    I'm all for removing Gray and/or Kreidler, but I'll guess the Twins are less comfortable DFA'ing the shortstops.
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    If they do, I hope it's with their 11th pick because I don't know that I like more than three of them as first round picks this year, and I'll guess Lemon, Tate and Tyson are all gone by pick 30. I kind of take that back, I don't hope for anything really. I'm not Dolphins fan. They can stink as long as they want to for all I care.
  7. nicksaviking
    Found him. Alika Williams. Non-roster invite to the Pirates camp. Played for Shelton in 2023 and 2024. Hitting pretty well this spring too, but I don't see any Pirate roster predictions giving him a spot. Just for fun of course. Unless I'm right then I totally called it.
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    I'd guess having to add Arcia to the 40-man would tilt the scales in Kreidler's favor. Not sure Arcia would opt out; shortstop isn't as bereft of talent around the league as it used to be. For most teams. But I could also see a 4th option: a glove-first guy who's released by another team that the Twins won't rue returning back to waivers in a week or two when the roster calls for it.
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    I'm not a big believer in Malik Willis, because I think the Packers would have ran a similar offense with him to what they ran with Love if they truly thought Willis could make all the throws and reads. But still, weird signing now that they're clearly tanking. Two guaranteed years and a decent dead cap hit if he's gone before the third. Anyway, can't wait to watch an NFL team run an old school option offense.
  10. nicksaviking
    The Twins best relievers are always guys like Bradley, but just about to a man, they take a year of committing them to the pen before they produce. So it's not about 2026, it's about setting up 2027 and beyond.
  11. nicksaviking
    I have no disdain for Bradley, I’m very excited about him. Im just annoyed with how many service years this team blows chasing the preferred, but long-shot option of being a starter, instead of transitioning to the much more reasonable option of being a back-end reliever.
  12. nicksaviking
    Plenty do, but the Vikings don't. Particularly on defense. And I really don't want to be in a spot where the Vikings have to pass up someone who's unexpectedly falling because there's only a few starters Flores would start and they are force to get one. The years where this team was absolutely locked in on one position were almost always the worst drafts. They were locked in with Darrisaw and that worked out; Bradbuy was OK. But not McCarthy, Cine and Booth, Mike Hughes, Laquon Treadwell, Trae Waynes, Matt Kalil, Christian Ponder, Troy Williamson, Michael Bennet. When there's little doubt what the Vikings HAVE to take, it's just about always a reach that backfires. Maybe I can conceded to an OL rule, where those have worked out often enough that it's not the end of the world.
  13. nicksaviking
    Matthews probably should be in the bullpen. But we're talking about overall poor results from 25 starts and 117 innings across two seasons for him, versus overall poor results from 73 starts and 385 innings across three seasons for Bradley. What's going on here? To be fair (for now) to the Twins, I haven't seen THEM say Bradley gets a job over Abel or Matthews, but every article here seems to imply it. Why? Because the Twins need to give longer leashes to players so they can prove the front office was right about a trade? That's awful roster management. For the Twins, failed starters make for the team's best relievers. Just do it already.
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    I'd like to target both, but the problem when you have to find a starter in the draft, is that you can't sit and wait for one, since most probably aren't ready to start. And surely the other teams will take advantage of this. I'd like both spots to be filled with free agents, even if it's just a passable stop gap.
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    If the Twins want to present any facade of there being an 'open competition' for jobs, Abel has to get a spot. Why is Bradley being given a rotation spot though? If he had put up those 73 starts in three years all with the Twins, he'd have opened spring training as a reliever. Are we just ignoring his time with Tampa and presuming the Twins coaches have fixed what ails him?
  16. nicksaviking
    Maybe I'm under-estimating him. If he's as good as the remaining free agents, I guess that's fine. I just don't want them going into the draft thinking they HAVE to get a center. Targeting a position because of a recently created hole almost always backfires for them.
  17. nicksaviking
    Is this team really going to go into the draft with Brandel as their current starting center? If so, this is a terrible idea. I know many of us like the idea of grabbing a Center who can start early in the draft, but if that's the plan, then that means they're going to have to plan to waste more draft capital to trade up for someone. And that's just a poor use of the equity.
  18. nicksaviking
    I thought if you made the playoffs in the past two years you got a pass. Should you want the pass.
  19. nicksaviking
    Yeah, not sure what's going on exactly, but until it doesn't work, I'll trust it to work.
  20. nicksaviking
    Maybe different sites have different methodology, but on NFL Reference it shows Hargrave with 10 pressures and Allen with 15. Either way, It could take a step back. But the Vikings were 1st in pressure rate and 5th in sack rate in 2024 without those two. Sack total was 49 and pressure rate was 44% in both seasons. I can't remember if it was Allen or Hargrave who complained that DEs can't thrive in Flores' system, he's probably right, they're probably regularly clearing runways for the LBs and DBs to blitz.
  21. nicksaviking
    I'm trying to remember if somewhere in the back of my head I knew that Murray was a life long Vikings fan. He played with Larry Fitzgerald for two years, so that might have been mentioned at some point? Anyway, I'm not sure if that makes him slightly endearing, or if it means he's just resigned to losing big games like the rest of us.
  22. nicksaviking
    I was going to ask just that until I read this sentence. Honestly, I don't know that it matters. Flores is so good at masking coverages and getting quick pressure, most of these guys don't have to be great at man coverage. Even with a secondary full with guys most fans weren't terribly impressed with, the Vikings were second in the league in passing yards per game. Big pass plays typically weren't due to a CB getting beat, it was almost always due to blown zone coverage or the receiver just being good at finding the soft spots.
  23. nicksaviking
    The Twins can afford to pay for defense, it's dirt cheap. They need better than league average hitters, those aren't cheap. And I'm not sure if league average is expected of Houston, I'm remembering hit and power tools being graded at 40-45 for him.
  24. nicksaviking
    If a new level of consistency is a consistent 89 MPH fastball, that's not going to work. Consistently throwing a change up isn't going to work either. Ober was a great find by the Twins, and it's been a great run, but it's looking like it's going to be a short run. Really sucks. For the fans, but even more for him because it's looking like his shoulder isn't going to get him to a large multi year free agent deal or extension.
  25. nicksaviking
    I loved Maddux. But Greg Maddux with a defined and automated strike zone wouldn't have been Greg Maddux.
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