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  1. nicksaviking
    The edge guys are still there. And Hooker and Levis. Still no pick in, I’m sure they’re trying to trade back.
  2. nicksaviking
    And they signed David Montgomery and have D’Andre Swift. Someone’s going to get grumpy about touches.
  3. nicksaviking
    I don’t want Will Levi’s, I think he’s indecisive. Hope that report about the Vikes not liking him is accurate.
  4. nicksaviking
    Is that what happened to Mahle? He had the squirts?
  5. nicksaviking
    Well so much for Jackson! Didn't see that extension coming. Wish the Vikings would have extended Jefferson before the draft though. What if they do get a young QB like Richardson, Hooker or Lance? If they get a guy that's a question mark, how's Jefferson going to feel about that?
  6. nicksaviking
    With the Rodgers situation finally settled, I'm going to predict that there will be buzz about either Lamar Jackson or Kirk Cousins getting traded. Kirk to SF or NE, and Jackson to whichever teams whiffed on the top 4-5 QBs. Not that either will, just that there will be buzz. And don't hold me to that, I'm just more bored than normal during draft week.
  7. nicksaviking
    Smith and Myles Murphy are the guys I'd look at staying put for. I think Murphy will gone for sure though despite some of the mock drafts I've seen.
  8. nicksaviking
    I'm with you, I could see this being QB or bust in the 1st round. I guess I'd agree with that unless one of my very few favorites are still on the board.
  9. nicksaviking
    I figured the Twins were going to have to get lucky and have some of the young guys step up to drag this offense out of the mud, but if they can get 2019 or 2021 Polanco back, that would be the biggest boost they could ask for.
  10. nicksaviking
    Historically, he's got a non-concerning walk rate too. As far as bullpen arms go, high strikeouts and velocity plus decent walk rates make for great lightening-in-a-bottle candidates.
  11. nicksaviking
    Didn't see this one coming! More than happy to see what he's got though.
  12. nicksaviking
    If that was the place Rodgers really wanted to go, I don't know why he didn't flex and tell GB to make the deal the Jets wanted or he'd destroy their cap. Which makes me think, maybe Rodgers wanted to go to SF, which GB would never have agreed to but would have allowed them to put the pressure on the Jets.
  13. nicksaviking
    All things being equal, who gets a better return, Rodgers or Cousins? Rodgers right? Because of his history? Cousins was clearly the better QB last year though and comes with much less baggage and isn't going to be 40-yeras-old this season.
  14. nicksaviking
    For what it's worth, Peter King has Houston taking Hooker at #12 and Richardson sliding to the Vikings at #23. That would have seemed far fetched a week ago, but the QB opinions at the moment are about as volatile as it gets aside from Young going #1. Houston does seem way too dysfunctional to draft a 'project' QB though, so that would make sense. I mean, who would you trust to teach him how to play? Or, wait, I guess if they are too dysfunctional, then maybe they don't have the self awareness to know that they shouldn't draft a 'project' QB.
  15. nicksaviking
    He didn't label him a cancer, nor did he comment on his behavior with the Twins, you're making more attributions about his ambitions than he did about Donaldson's. *******Moderator Note************** I know where you want to drag this tangent but it is not going there. This thread will stay on topic or we'll be removing posts.
  16. nicksaviking
    Why would it matter when getting rid of him was a sound financial decision anyway?
  17. nicksaviking
    You mean like numbers? There was 52M ways to substantiate it in that case.
  18. nicksaviking
    Garver is the ONLY loss in that situation, and he's been injured basically the entire time. IFK and Rortvedt have no businesses being anything other than emergency, last-man-on-the-bench players and Donaldson is done. The Twins did a great job recognizing Donaldson was finished and getting the equity back so they could use it elsewhere.
  19. nicksaviking
    Kirk is a fine QB, but since I was ready to just cut bait with him to start the rebuild, the cost doesn't seem terribly high to me. The Vikings cut bait on 3rd round pick Mond after just one year, nothing should stop them from using a top pick on a QB next year if that's basically the priced for Lance and he doesn't work out.
  20. nicksaviking
    My biggest issue with Lance is that they'd have to make the 5th year option decision after this year, which would be complicated even more if he were to sit behind Cousins for a year. I used to think that Shanahan was a guy to listen to when he has a thought about a QB, but I'm backing away from that thought a bit. Not because he hasn't had capable QBs, but he seems to go out of his way to get not terribly mobile pocket passers. Kaepernick is out as soon as he arrives, then he wanted Cousins, goes with Garoppalo, Brian Hoyer, CJ Beathard, Nick Mullens, Brock Purdy and now, his most mobile QB, Sam Darnold. Lance sticks out like a sore thumb, why did they trade up for him when he's clearly not what they were going for?
  21. nicksaviking
    Nashville, Portland and now Salt Lake City (don't see that happening) are the places with established groups campaigning for a team. Since MLB has four places, including St Pete, vying for only one team now, I'd guess they'd pit them all against each other and make sure the word 'expansion' is verboten from all league talks until they fleece the city with the most generous offer.
  22. nicksaviking
    Seemed inevitable, but sounds like there's no stopping the relocation now. https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/athletics/major-league-deal-as-to-purchase-land-near-strip-for-new-ballpark-2764701/ In this case the city isn't without some liability I feel as that truly is a wretched stadium that they never had much appetite to fix. However, that ownership group sounds as vile as any in the sport. They have suppressed payroll for decades for the sole purpose of negotiating a better stadium deal, and now this sounds like the A's will fully fund the new Vegas stadium while Vegas is letting them develop the land around it. They were never offering to fully fund or even majority fund the proposed stadium in Oakland. I'd feel bad for Oakland fans but the franchise seems to have made a concerted effort to have no fans at this point.
  23. nicksaviking
    https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/trey-lance-on-vikings-radar-three-potential-trade-offers-49ers-could-consider-ahead-of-2023-nfl-draft/amp/ CBS sports put together three Trey Lance trades for the Vikings, none involving 1st round picks. Might be interested unless this same equity could be used to get Richardson. Who admittedly is this year’s version of Trey Lance.
  24. nicksaviking
    Yeah, I don't think we know the strategy from this distance, but I tend to think it's this one. The Twins would rather save the bullets for when he gets called up. Because while they MAY limit him at the MLB level because they don't want him going through the order three times, I don't think that would be the intention in AAA, I think it would be just an attempt to keep him healthy.
  25. nicksaviking
    With the high hopes we (I) had for Graterol, I'd honestly be pretty disappointed in him had he still been a Twin. He's been OK, but for the most part pretty fungible. That his fastball never translated into dominant strikeout numbers would have been a huge disappointment. MAYBE the Twins front office would have had him drop the sinker for a four seamer, and they probably wouldn't have had him add the cutter since the cutter and sinker are a pretty redundant pitch, but the Dodgers are known for getting the most out of their pitchers, so I'd think they're getting close to the most he has to offer.
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