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  1. nicksaviking
    Raise your hand if you had the Twins at 14 of their 26 players over 29-years-old come 2023. I thought they'd be amongst the youngest teams in the league at this point.
  2. nicksaviking
    You're not talking about the Vikings? I don't think they made an offer, but either way, the Vikings chance of winning a Super Bowl is also next to zero. At least Carolina has started their rebuild. The odds that Thielen makes it to year three of his contract and that Carolina is good in year three is probably slim. But it's still higher than the odds that this group of old washed up Vikings will bring home a championship.
  3. nicksaviking
    Where winning teams knocking at his door? I never heard any reports of teams interested other than Carolina.
  4. nicksaviking
    I too hope Mattison isn't the starter. He's decent enough as a backup, but he's not a dynamic runner, not even a little bit. Even if they don't draft someone, I hope Chandler or Nwangwu end up getting the bulk of the carries. I don't really understand this move. Why not wait to see what other RBs end up left and sign them to league minimum? There will be some left that are as good as Mattison.
  5. nicksaviking
    Sorry, but Kepler's problems, at least last year, were not related to luck. Maybe the Exit Velocity was good, but his LD% was only 19.9%, his FB% only 34.4% and his GB% 45.7%!!!!! That's not luck, that's using a hitting profile of a leadoff hitter who's value comes form stealing bases and doesn't even try for extra base hits. Too many groundballs isn't luck, it's poor hitting. Even if Kepler's batting average rises because he's getting more seeing-eye singles due to the shift removal, he's still not cutting it as a corner outfielder. He needs to be driving the ball, preferably over the fence.
  6. nicksaviking
    Elijah Moore is a forgotten guy already too. If I was a fan of a team that didn't have a real QB the last two years, and I had those two as 2nd and 3rd year WRs, I'd be extremely excited now that I had a real QB. Now if I was a fan of that team and thinking about Lazard, Cobb or OBJ getting targets instead? I'd be sick to my stomach. Is there a less productive free agent position group than WR? Veteran WRs from other teams seem to work out once in a blue moon, even when they're good players, which these guys aren't.
  7. nicksaviking
    Agreed. They certainly would be better, but the distractions Rodgers brings with him could lead to a worse W/L record. GB has had practice managing him for a decade and a half. There's a good chance the Jets, and the substantially larger market they play in, won't have the knack for dealing with nor patience and forgiveness for his behavior.
  8. nicksaviking
    If Rodgers is already throwing GB under the bus, they're going to need to watch out, because all he has to do is "retire" and GB will either have to decide on cutting him when he inevitably unretires in June, or they'd have to set aside 60M in payroll the rest of the offseason to accommodate him when that happens. Frankly, I'd love for that second one to happen. Rodgers thinks he has them by the short hairs, but then GB does nothing in free agency and the two parties have a game of chicken until training camp.
  9. nicksaviking
    Could be all of the above. I'm sure a deal would have already been done if GB wouldn't have decided they wanted more. Otherwise, why would there be a presumed deal at all? Also, Rodgers has not once in his career told the whole truth, so anyone taking what he says at face value is deluded. It also goes without saying that Pat McAfee is deluded, but that was clear long before Rodgers started going on his show.
  10. nicksaviking
    Ugh, I was really hoping the team would give Julien a chance. He better be getting reps in the corner outfield and 1B as soon as he steps back on the diamond, because he shouldn't have to rely on Polanco getting hurt to get a call up. This team needs help offensively and it's going to have to be the young players who give it to them.
  11. nicksaviking
    So Aaron Rodgers is pushing for the Jets to sign both Allan Lazard AND OBJ? Garrett Wilson and Elijah Moore are probably both miles better than those two. I wonder if Wilson is having second thoughts about stumping for Rodgers now that the QB is trying to bring in a bunch of average-at-best wideouts to take away his targets. I've never had much feeling for the Jets one way or the other, but if that's where Rodgers ends up, I'm going to enjoy laughing at the disaster they went out of their way to bring to their organization.
  12. nicksaviking
    I'm not sweating that part really, it's either going to be blown up this year, or it's going to be partially blown up this year and finished off next. Seems like blowing it all up now would bring you back more equity than having guys just naturally walk next year, that's my biggest complaint about it. But really, I probably need to see another (better) draft from this crew before I start wishing more picks to them. They're not building a contender without getting good at drafting.
  13. nicksaviking
    But if they got a 3rd for 30-year-old barely healthy Wallner, I'd have to think the Vikings still could have gotten a 2nd for Hockenson.
  14. nicksaviking
    Kirk is 35. It wasn't going to be a long term plan if they extended him either. And thank god they didn't.
  15. nicksaviking
    I would have liked the Gallo signing a lot better had he been the #4 outfielder. As a starter though, the floor is just so low with him, and I don't think the ceiling is all that high unless we think the league can revert back to 2019. If he doesn't get that power back, teams are going to stop walking him; we saw a big decrease in BB% last year already. Offensively he's starting to look an awful lot like Chris Davis at the end of his run. I hope he turns it around, but if he doesn't find a groove early, they have to pull the plug and turn to the young players. But he's getting paid well and his agent is new friend-of-the-family Scott Boras, so it seems unlikely that he'd get released regardless of his play.
  16. nicksaviking
    Initially, I agreed with Van, pay the piper now, not the next few years. But if they have that much money to spend in 2024 as Mike says, then I guess it doesn't much matter. Seems like they can go ahead and extend JJ at any time now.
  17. nicksaviking
    Agreed. I was mostly turned off by last year's draft. They basically did the exact opposite of what I was hoping for. Don't like this year's free agency start, but I'll admit it's a bit early to judge. But myself, I'll probably be calling for heads after one more year, not two. They don't need to be good next year, but they need to have players I can dream on. So far, they haven't acquired a single one. Well that's encouraging. The Saints did have a good D, so I guess maybe his numbers were due to a lack of opportunities. I really just remember him being a high draft pick and not performing as expected.
  18. nicksaviking
    A DE with .5 sacks and 29 tackles who was only good enough to start 9 games was projected for 12M? Man, this team needs to be better at drafting if that's the cost for a rotational DE.
  19. nicksaviking
    Marcus Davenport for 13M? I mean, they need a DE, but that can't be good value. Seems like you could sign a half dozen UDFAs who could at least have a shot at being as good as this guy. They're going to have to cut someone who's a much better player than he is just to afford him. I want them to stink and rebuild as opposed to tread water, but these first two signings are really, really suspicious.
  20. nicksaviking
    For sure it should make Harrison Smith uncomfortable. I'd even say a Cousins trade isn't out the window either. I mean, they still have to sign a bunch of defensive players, even if they're at league minimum, they don't have the space. I've had a few, so maybe this is hogwash, but if you trade Cousins and sign a guy like Tyler Huntley to a deal like Mike White got, a guy who scrambles but maybe has below average passing skills, a top end blocking TE makes sense too.
  21. nicksaviking
    For sure head scratching but maybe also intriguing. If the house cleaning is in effect, I'm in favor of flipping Hockenson. But of course, this new guy doesn't catch passes and some TE must. Could be more 2 TE sets, but maybe in name only, if Hockenson is actually the #2 receiver. Third thought is: Cousins has been here for five years, so we are keenly aware that he rarely can get through three targets in his progressions. It's first look, second look, then check down for him. If Hockenson is going to be the primary second look, might as well run lots of heavy 2 TE sets because if you're running 3 or 4 WR sets, the bottom wideouts tend to be decoys at best. Maybe they plan leaning into one of Cousins' weakness and are saying 'screw it, we're not fooling anyone, we'll just add more blocking'.
  22. nicksaviking
    OK, I still hate this from a waste-of-money perspective, but I guess if the idea is that securing the edges and stabilizing the OL is priority number one for the offense this year, the signing might be dumb, but maybe is a good sign that they plan on giving the QB better time in the pocket next year. Need to still fix the interior of the line though. Defense should be the main priority, but I don't want to see them chasing an ODB kind of WR or spending dumb money on a RB either. Better protection should be the only offense they try to address in free agency. Maybe they can sign one of the million available RBs on the cheap, but that can come much later after they've been picked through.
  23. nicksaviking
    A blocking TE no less. I mean, do you even pay Jim Kleinsasser in his prime that kind of money? How good could this guy actually be at blocking?
  24. nicksaviking
    He's cheaper than Derek Carr, but is he actually any better? This just seems like a really dysfunctional franchise. Said everyone every year for about the last forty years. My guess is that LV is where Rodgers wanted to go, but LV wasn't interested for whatever reason. Salary, draft pick compensation, head coach repellant or whatever.
  25. nicksaviking
    If they roster another journeyman vet over the half dozen young guys who are ready to play, I'd probably lose it.
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