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  1. nicksaviking
    When did I say that? They've had 24 picks from 2022-2024 and only one of them has proven to be a capable starter in the NFL. As I said, it's still TBD on the 2024-25 classes, but there's no way to say Vikings have drafted well during his time. Maybe in a few years it we will say it turned out pretty good, but it's clearly isn't getting positive grades.
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    A #2 WR who probably won’t get a second contract and nobody else? I guess we could debate whether it was bad or just ‘eh’ but it definitely wasn’t a positive checkmark for anyone.
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    Agree, one awful draft, one pretty bad draft and two TBD drafts. Definitely overall a poor area of job performance at this time. But due to his excellent free agency moves, I'd rather have him, than not have him, so I guess I'm OK with this. Still, I'd like the Vikings to do something revolutionary and hire someone specifically to head up the draft process. Still have many people working many functions and collaborating in scouting, research, interviews and drafting, but one draft guru who has the final say: not KAM. Yeah, it takes authority from the GM, and GMs across the league wouldn't like this, but it really would be no different than the head coach. The GM is still HIS boss, but the head coach still has final say in who starts and what plays are run, and I suspect on most teams, which players make the roster.
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    All things being equal, obviously you want to bring in new guys who are good clubhouse guys. But my frustration stems from the question, why can't the Twins ever develop enough of their OWN positive clubhouse guys? Every year they seem to have to bring in this 'leadership' from the outside. Why? Or is the idea that all 26 players must be clubhouse leaders? Because if that's understood to be impossible, a better use of your free agent funds would be to have an already built up cadre of internal leaders so that you can bring in the most talented free agent possible, not the most vocal leader possible.
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    Why? They are both too old to be considered meaningful prospects. Like I said, I don't believe in McCusker, but there is absolutely zero reason to use his prior stats to compare him to Sabato. The ONLY reason anyone is/was interested in seeing him called up is because of what he was doing right now this year. Sabato was a bad and irrelevant comp, you are using future expectations instead of concrete data. For all you or any of us know, Sabato will be in this same situation with the Reds next year and end up crushing at the MLB level. If you want to sell your argument, you need to find other guys like McCusker who crushed AAA at an advanced age, finally got a MLB call up and flamed out. There are dozens of those.
  6. nicksaviking
    When you're that bad with the bat, you're going to lose about as many games with a guy who has a .600 OPS as you are with a .500 OPS. The point of diminishing returns works the opposite direction too. No need to go out of your way to roster either player.
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    While I don't believe in McCusker, comparing him to Sabato by using McCusker's 2024 numbers instead of his 2025 numbers, which include an OPS over 1.000, seems like cherry picking.
  8. nicksaviking
    I guess I don't get the argument against Will Holland and his poor bat but the argument for Arcia and his poor bat. Stay the course, don't intentionally add another offensive black hole to the roster. These glove-only players float across waivers all year long. No need to grab this one just because he was a big name prospect a decade ago. If emergency action is required, they can grab whomever is desperate for a job at that time.
  9. nicksaviking
    First time I saw the tush push I said that's completely illegal. I had no idea the NFL had quietly removed the flag for pushing a player a few years earlier, but I distinctly remembered Matt Birk getting flagged for pushing Robert Smith into the endzone back in the day. So I always thought the tush push was BS. I think it should be banned, but I don't like the narrative that it's basically all a way to stop the Eagles. It instead should be framed as it being too perfunctory of a play. If it's successful at say a 90% rate, you just compare it to when you used to kick extra points at the seven yard line. Any play that is so easy to execute isn't reflective of a professional sport. Anyway, that's how I'd argue it.
  10. nicksaviking
    Swapping out players for different players who still work, or even fit better every year, is a waaaaaaaaaay better strategy than the old one, which was, just keep extending and re-working the players we have now until our salary situation becomes unworkable.
  11. nicksaviking
    Velocity often tails off in the later innings.
  12. nicksaviking
    Here's a link to a fan sight that would happily keep the status quo if their team finished no lower or no higher than .500 for 100 years straight: https://twinsdaily.com/
  13. nicksaviking
    Well written David, and spot on about people in this area feeling like asking for help is an unforgivable stain on their soul. It's not. Thanks for sharing and reminding everyone what's important, and of course, I'm very sorry to hear about your friend.
  14. nicksaviking
    The Steelers definitely have shown in some instances you can have job security if you can manage to just be an average team and never a bad team. But I don't think the Yorks are anything like the Rooneys. Harbaugh got fired after a more impressive run than Shanahan just went through. This should be really interesting to watch unfold. Waaaaaaaay too early prediction, but I'm saying that Shanahan is coaching the Giants next year. And he's NOT going to want Jaxson Dart.
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    This is the issue because I don't know that they actually whiffed on Lance so much as Shanahan won the battle with Lynch and got to ignore him almost completely. Credit to the organization as they sure make it all sound harmonious, but there had to have been some unreported tension with that decision, because Lance is the complete opposite of Shanahan's QB archetype. Next time they do draft a QB, it's almost certainly going to be Shanahan's choice.
  16. nicksaviking
    It's not ridiculous, and the 'know it when you see it' stuff is only because people used to struggle to articulate it. But it's obvious. The elite QBs can and will successfully improvise on a regular basis, either with their arm or their legs. Hurts obviously does the second very, very well. I'll say this for Purdy, maybe he can or would be a gunslinging, improvisational wizard, but it's clear that Shanahan wants nothing to do with that kind of QB. He wants a pocket-passing statue that will run the play and the prescribed audibles as called. It's possible that if Purdy had Andy Reid or Sean McDermott as a HC, he would have the freedom to take the reigns and steer the ship his way when he sees fit, but he doesn't so it's hard to say he's an elite QB.
  17. nicksaviking
    No, it's their heads.
  18. nicksaviking
    https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/caleb-williams-wanted-to-spurn-the-bears-join-the-vikings Change of pace from what we normally feel here in fly-over country.
  19. nicksaviking
    Yes, that makes things difficult I suspect.......
  20. nicksaviking
    I think instead that means the Wolves will take any attention from the Twins during two Twins games, not one. If the Pohlad's were smart (insert laugh track) they'd have a back-to-back double header like God intended and start at 11 AM and try to avoid fans leaving for Target Center next door.
  21. nicksaviking
    Cleveland and Pittsburgh were the primary road targets this year for my annual boys trip away game. I can't go international without brining the wife though, and it's probably too expensive for both of us to go right now. Also, no one really wants to see Americans traveling abroad right now, and for good reason. Pretty unwelcoming time to travel over seas.
  22. nicksaviking
    Demand to be traded to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
  23. nicksaviking
    Yeah, but remember when Archie Manning told the Chargers not to draft his son because they were a garbage franchise? It's going to get real awkward when he has to tell his former club the same thing for his grandson's sake.
  24. nicksaviking
    That situation has veteran QB written all over it. But Rodgers is t going there over Pittsburgh and Atlanta isn’t trading Cousins in the division. But a season long tank could be coming too.
  25. nicksaviking
    Yeah, such a stubborn franchise. They keep doubling down on playing football 'their way' with their idea of ball control and defense. Congratulations, you're never a bad team. But you will never be a meaningful contender again until you ditch that old school philosophy. Other teams learned a decade ago that the best ball control offenses don't come from high percentages of run plays, but high percentages of higher percentage pass plays.
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