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I have to apologize here. I have stopped paying attention to any Vikings things like press conferences or articles about what this team needs to do. I am not buying any of it, and am rooting for the Patriots now because I like their coach and they have a competent QB. In the NFC, I am rooting for the Rams. Someday this team will be worth paying attention to again. I will still watch this Sunday, but only for the comedy.
FTP!
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Personally, Id call him play to play…
True…
Woke logic does not equal logic.
Hell it’s harder to get on an airplane than vote.
Schism!
Kwesi gonna get another draft. Wilfs won’t fire him this off season. He’s gonna have a few picks this time around, so he better not eff it up.
……and the way it’s going, probably earlier picks for every round.
Adam Steelen
Hopefully he can drop 4-5 passes and catch 3 for them for the end of the season.
Love this!
Enough to make you choke up.
If you were not a ‘real man’ of course.
It is the dust in here that The Teacher is kicking up with all the decorations she is currently putting up that is making my eyes water.
Even though we hear a lot of crap, there are tons of very good people that make us proud to be Americans.
Well…
Thats pretty funny.
This is totally me now…
My knees made me stop running, power walking is easier on the knees.
2.5 hrs of PW is equal to about 1 hr of running it seems.
Good thing I am retired and can afford the extra time 3Xs a week.
Heve you tried nd eliptical?
I have.
We had one at the SoCal house. Of course The Teacher bought it before I met her and it was delivered broken. The lowest setting was a 5 or 6, I could only do an half hour on it.
I have used them in Fitness Centers when we travel and never gotten used to them vs running or power walking. They are very popular at the gym and always occupied so I adjusted my workouts to the indoor track and I find it less boring.
I was a runner too before knee replacement. Really loved running and felt like I could walk to Philadelphia and it just didn’t get it like running. Nothing dies I guess. Both the bike and eliptical are boring, but they do seem to get my heart beat up almost as well as running.
Still, I walk a lot and have learned to enjoy it
The Army made me a runner. Then 10Ks, 20K, half marathons, 25Ks and finally a full marathon had me hooked.
But as I aged and my knees deteriorated and the prison work schedule and life in general reduced me to just walks.
These power walks (with weights) are almost as good, I had to order smaller pants on cyber monday.
Hmmm…
I love these…
There are many of these out there and they are all funny as hell. The ones with Kamala and Sleepy Joe are just great. On one, Trump is playing golf with Baby Joe who shits his pants and stinks up the course. Funny stuff.
Hmmm…
Was just posting this. At least a team picked him up.
i’m just glad he gets to chase his super bowl dream now………………….
I think he was sorta fascinated with having Aaron Rodgers as his QB… actually.
I agree.
No way in hell Steelers are going to the Super Bowl.
LOL thielen to the steelers.
I guess if you search in the weeds hard enough you can find some ‘silver linings’ among that sh*t show that we endured on Sunday.
https://thevikingage.com/even-in-collapse-two-minnesota-vikings-defenders-made-history
This is gonna be a winner…
I still don’t understand how those things work. I can’t imagine the longevity of the phone screen is great.
Some vloggers do intensive testing at how many times they can open and close until they tear/crack. Makes me want to stay away.
Plus I don’t like the crease in the screen.
Well that didn’t last long…
Thinking this means JJ (QB) is on track to clear concussion protocol this week.
Yep
Until he gets a hangnail in pregame warmups….
Monty Python Auto Rec.
Yeah, $20 oughta cover it…
I think that was a $20,000 bill, not a $20 bill.
Stevie Nicks… one the greatest ever…
Ever seen the history behind the album Rumours album lyrical content? Buckingham wrote Go Your Own Way about Nicks so Nicks wrote Dreams in response to that and so on and so forth lol.
No, I didn’t know that. Cool. Stevie’s voice is so singular though. So amazing. Their music was also off the charts great as well.
She’s an amazing singer. I might be wrong, but I believe she is the only female artist that is enshrined in the rock and roll hall of fame twice. One solo, one with Fleetwood Mac.
Didn’t know that either. You guys are educating me today!
I read something about that. They were apparently breakup songs that they each wrote.
In some regards Stevie wrote songs that were “fuck yous” to him and made sure they had spots for him to do backup vocals so he had to sing songs aimed at himself. Haha
I dunno about y’all, but I cannot wait to see another 3rd and 1 handoff to Hockenson.
Forget that! We want a 40 yard pass into double coverage!
Pard… that’s known as an interception round these parts.
I’m just ready for the Cats to beat the smarty pants from Yale this weekend and begin their trip to Nashville. Why don’t they just move the championship game to Minneapolis or Denver since its pretty much guaranteed to be a Montana/Dakota game?
Minneapolis and Denver – two of the great cities in the country. Maybe they could have a Pride Parade to start festivities.
If they held it at US Bank at least there would be some good football once a year.
‘Minneapolis and Denver’
The criminals/gangs/thieves are salivating at the prospect.
@Why go to Nashville when MSU or UM are just gonna get beaten by NDSU?@
Agree they should just save the travel money and hand NDSU the trophy.
I’m surprised we haven’t heard of a signing for Thielen. Maybe they’ll give it a few days so no allegations of tampering haha. Figured he had a team all lined up…otherwise his phone might be really quiet.
He might have to go through waivers, but as a vested vet I don’t think so. The rules could be different now that the trade deadline passed.
Thought he wanted to come ‘home’ and spend his last season as a Viking.
He wanted to play football. Not watch football.
Why not stay with Panthers then. He and Young had a great chemistry.
He wanted to finish up his career with the Vikings.
He also believed he would be a bigger part of the offense, not a healthy scratch like he was on Sunday.
I’m guessing KAM/KOC lied to him, saying “Oh, you’ll get a LION’S SHARE of throws your way!!”
I think Thielen felt the Vikings had a better chance at a playoff run than the Panthers, honestly. Plus there was a strong fan base here cheering him on.
Why KOC didn’t really do much with him is a mystery to me. The drops were very disconcerting though.
8th grade flag football, I was QB for my team.
I had a guy who was scary fast, could get wide open, but dropped everything I threw to him.
I stopped throwing to him.
Laughing… I guess that would do it.
Was his last name Williamson?
Haha nice pull
I think we all thought the vikes had a better chance at the playoffs than the Panthers did.
He needs to get signed by one of the Vikings opponents so he has a chance to one on vs Harry – he might actually get open.
Some discussion below about trading getting picks.
Based on KAM’s history, he should trade everything for 7th rounders.
Then sign UFA’s. He’s had way better luck doing that.
Slick was right.
One thing I’d like to see KOC try on for size is a 13 personnel look (three TE’s and one WR). This would make running the ball, and passing the ball easier. The RB, WR, and two or even all three of the TE’s could be viable passing targets on every down, and play action would be really stressful on the linebackers. This alignment fundamentally forces a defense into playing an 8 man box on every play. Then it’s real, mano a mano football. This scheme takes a whole lot of pressure off the QB. Most throws will be within 7 yards of the LOS, but if the defense leaves the WR one on one (like Jefferson for instance) it could all be over but the cryin, because THAT guy is gonna win in that coverage situation.
Are we good enough tackle to tackle in the line to run this scheme.
This is the thing, we aren’t good enough tackle to tackle to NOT run this type scheme IMO. With five O-linemen, and three TE’s you have eight “blockers” initially on every play. This will give the QB a lot more protection, and if you run the ball, a lot better “push”. If the QB is considered as an additional runner, then there are nine guys (with the RB) who could open up running space for him.
Other than this sounding like Zimmer ball, it sounds good. But why wouldn’t other teams do this. Even the Eagles and Ravens who are strong running teams, don’t do much of this.
The Ravens do run this concept, but because they have a lot of skill position players and an experienced QB, they can change up formations routinely. The Eagles have one of the best O-lines in the league. They don’t need to run this scheme. They plow right through you.
I think teams with young QB’s need to do two things. First, provide strong protection schemes on pass plays. Second, run the damn ball with real authority.
I like it, think we should try it… But worried about the mano a mano situation… our backup mano get merked!
Basic football, and straight up takes a ton of the processing out of the QB play. McCarthy is weak in the processing department, and can’t really see defensive changes post snap. So let’s take all that off the table. One day he might could get there, but right now he isn’t. So every TE can go “hot” on any play call, block initially, then hit an open spot on the field for a simple pitch and catch play.
Defenses have to respect all three TE’s, especially if early on, you get some balls to each and every one of them.
Would love to see it tried. Not holding my breath that it will be.
Unfortunately, it runs against KOC’s grain. He wants lots of guys running complex route combinations to confuse defenses. He loves the deep crosser to Jefferson, but you need a QB who can throw that ball. It’s one of the hardest throws for a QB to time up, and hit. He wants to throw the ball, force linebackers into coverage, and then attempt to run the ball. The problem is, he needs a QB who can see it quickly, and deliver it on target. Right now he doesn’t have a guy like that under center.
Agreed all around.
This is why I appreciate coaches that make something out of what they have instead of shoehorning guys into “their” system.
So to use the guys you have the suggestion is to take some of the best WRs in the league off the field and play mid to low tier TEs?
‘If it is stupid but it works then it is not stupid’??
We have two good WRs. Thielen was Drop City this year sadly when he did get the ball thrown to him.
We’re actually paying a good amount of money to two TEs.
Two TEs. To go to 13 personnel you need a 3rd and only get to put Addison OR Jefferson on the field.
Not every down. Just would like to see KOC try something different.
WR’s are not targeted at a high rate anyway Bow. Going five wide, or even three wide, you need an O-line and RB that can provide the protection a QB needs to process five route combinations. Our O-line gets beat a lot.
One man’s take…
Yeah but whomever chose Byron Murphy must be really smart! Get rid of the guy who picked JMac and get the guy who picked him!
The post forgot to mention Bo Nix was taken after JJ….
Just because Kwesi picked the wrong QB, does not mean it was bad strategy. If this team had Bo Nix, I am sure the record could be better than what we have today.
Plus we would not have needed to trade up from #11 to number #10 thereby saving a 4th and 5th (swapped for a 6th) if we stay in place and taken Nix or JJ (QB) whomever was still there.
They obviously they preferred JJ (QB) and currently that looks like a bad choice although the final results are not yet know.
That is true.
JJ could become a good QB someday.
I think he dies on the field before he has that chance.
Love reading about the generosity of Minnesotans and Tim Walz towards the Somalian diaspora…can the readers send some of that generosity my way?
Also, how could the military not mount a risky and expensive rescue mission to recover the severely wounded drug smugglers after the boat was inhumanely destroyed, fly them back to the US to receive the best surgical and medical care possible, and allow them legal representation and visits to Capitol Hill? MURDER!
Only inside the Capital Beltway is this an issue. Most sane people think destroying drug boats that kill over 100,000 Americans is a good thing, as well as the thugs in the boats.
As to the Minnesotans, leave that subject to the folks who live there.
I remember listening to KQRS and Tom B years ago, right around 1999 to 2000 I believe. The Somali’s were picketing and protesting because he actually had the nerve to say that his issue with the Somali immigrants, is that they seem to have no intention of assimilating, and expect the people of the state to let them create Somalia here instead.
He was correct.
I hate Minnesota…
The MN I grew up in is very different from the MN I now see when I come back to visit family.
Minnesota is still a great state. So many beautiful places/areas throughout the state. I lived there for the first 38 years of my life, the last 12 years across the river. I think the somali thing is more Minneapolis than the whole state, maybe Rochester also.
The five years we lived in Roch crime on the SE side of the city increased, a lot of bad blood between the Hmong and Somalis that lived in those neighborhoods.
Overnight call rarely involved much in the knife and gun club category but had a noticeable uptick my last couple of years.
Yeah, it’s pretty noticeable in Rochester. I had a buddy that lived there for a while, lots of somali neighbors. I have no reason to go there anymore except for the occasional mall visit, yes the Apache mall is still opened, it has a great Scheels store.
Minneapolis/Rochesters/St.Cloud
all bad and getting worse.
My family doesn’t understand why I don’t go visit more often. If I wanted to go to a foreign country I’d go to a nicer one than the frozen mosquito middle east.
Same.
Was just there for two weeks, and everywhere I went, I felt like I was the foreigner.
Muslim garb everywhere.
Don’t mean to pry, but I’m guessing you and bow are talking bigger cities. I grew up rural, SE Minnesota. Definitely different circumstances.
If I do go back I drive through St. Cloud and do not go to the cities. Even the “rural” part isn’t rural anymore unless you get up north, like Brainerd or higher.
I don’t know, still a lot of “rural” from red wing down to the Iowa border.
My question of the day, somewhat driven by reading below about dumping players to get draft choices.
Are we are bad team because we don’t have enough good players (overall roster talent) or simply because of poor QB play?
Honestly, I really think the O Line is still a huge weakness of this team.
The center needs to retire before his brain is complete mush. Both tackles have been just ok at times. But when injured the backups are pretty bad. Same with guards. Starters seem OK, but the backups are crap.
I also think the QB play has been mostly crap. Other coaches make changes and modify the offense to best take advantage of the team strengths and hide and protect the weaknesses. This team should be able to run the ball, with the money spent on O line. They cannot. So now you need an inexperienced QB to throw more than they should and still have slowly developing routes. Stupid.
Still angry. This team should not be this bad. It is on the QB and the coaches and the O line, and on the WR for dropping balls.
I saw someone post that the team does not have a high number of dropped passes, however, when you are throwing less and less, the few drops we see are huge.
Maybe the WRs are just shocked to have a ball thrown anywhere near them?
Thanks. Nice summary
Seems the defense is ‘good enough.’ Has some holes but. most all teams have holes.
The offense, we seem to always be lacking in the offensive line. That should or would be a priority to me. Regardless of the QB or RB, any of them will do better with improved line play.
Just read the WSJ article “The Costly Miscalculation That Sank the NFL’s Most Expensive Team”. In summary, JRobert, QB.
Remember, this team has spent money on QB’s, not just Kirko, and it always has ended in failure.
This season is just very “Ponder-Like” and is hard to watch.
Sometimes I think KOC is not helping with scheme/play calling and so our QBs struggle.
But then I watch young QB around the league throw the ball successfully around the league. Even average QB play would have made all the difference in most of these games.
So is it more of a ‘chicken or the egg’ type of argument??
I think both together are creating the issue. Can’t pin it on just one or the other.
I agree with manly-purple, and since he is crushing us all on the pickem thingy, he must know football better than most of us.
Makes you appreciate competent QB play (i.e. Kirk), doesn’t it? A lot of people here take that for granted. And the “let’s just pay a cheap rookie and we’ll get to the super bowl” strategy is garbage unless you have a generational talent.
I never took Kirk’s durability for granted. Guy played something like 97% of the snaps.
NFL QB is truly one of the hardest positions to play in all of sports. It takes high level processing at lightning speed, and a very impressive, accurate arm to come close to being good in the NFL. Young QB’s get by with exceptional athleticism (i.e. running around and making plays with their legs) while they evolve (or don’t). The NFL has sold the public on the idea that first round draft picks can somehow come in, and be an exceptional QB from day one. They can’t. They can be exceptional athletes with a whole lot to learn on day one.
You need a fast brain and exceptional arm talent to be a really good NFL QB, and you’re still going to take your lumps your first couple of years. That is of course, unless you’re the SeaHawks with Beast Mode and the Legion of Boom shutting down opposing offenses.
That year for Seattle was just the defense being allowed to mug everyone with no penalties, since the NFL decided not to call defensive holding or pass interference that year. They would never have been as good if they actually called penalties like they should.
Definitely in todays NFL they would be flagged repeatedly. They were a physical defense and they did mug receivers a lot. Still they possessed one of the most athletic and fearsome defensive backfields, ever.
Not really. Unless we could have Kirk for 1/3 of his current price, I think Denver and NE and Chicago are showing the benefits of having a QB that does not completely suck on a rookie deal so you can build a long-term roster.
Kirk was good(not great). His salary was an issue.
Cousins was actually great though Surly. Our O-line has always been weak. Cousins was amongst the most hit, knocked down, and sacked QB in the league every year. Yet, over his five and half seasons (88 games) he threw for 171 TD’s and over 23K yards, with a 68% completion rate, and a 101.2 passer rating, under five different OC’s. It’s unbelievable how good Cousins was with that.
To contrast what Cousins dealt with, Tom Brady had three OC’s in 20 years with the Patriots, a top five O-line pretty much every year, and a top five defense pretty much every year. Opposite ends of the spectrum.
None of that matters, though. QB WINZ! 😉
Laughing… indeed.
It was a hell of a lot more fun to watch than this year’s garbage though.
I absolutely understand that bringing in expensive FA QB’s has led to short term success but long term failure. You and I have been there, seen that.
It was the brimming confidence in our young drafted QB, the Howell situation, late add of Wentz, and the oddity of the long ankle sprain recovery and now the concussion protocol that smell of poor decision making.
To bring it into my wheelhouse, it would be like my championing a complex medical procedure to be performed in house, working with the nurses and technologists day after day rehearsing how we will work together to accomplish our aim, spending money on the equipment and resources necessary, and then on the day of the liver transplant watching the team drop the liver on the floor, and then put it where the kidney belongs.
Someone has to be held accountable for the decision to wing it with McFragile™.Is Lane Kiffin available?
Would seem like bringing in FA’s like Sam would do just fine for us.
The only washed up QBs that we brought in, in the past, that gave us any chance of a suberb owl win, were Favre and Cunningham. So out of the 20 or so veterans we had 2 competent QBs.
Yeah, since the “Kumbaya Krew” just got extended, there is not going to be any accountability for this.
Just like Wryck drafting Ponder.
Here we are, and it will suck for a while, possibly several years.
I am pretty sure the team will be around average to above average next season. So what?
Bored with it.
Are we going to hang on to KAM for a decade or more as we did with Rick?
And those changes made to the offense are like actual changes, the scheme actually changes, not let’s just dink and dunk, bubble screen inside the same scheme. This is my biggest gripe with KOC. Adjust the scheme for who you got, otherwise you are just literally spinning your wheels digging a deeper hole.
Yeah, our “Coach of the Year” seems way outmatched.
This is getting silly bad.
Coaching seems to be our major issue.
Play calling is not helping our young QBs and preparing the team to play/game plan/in game adjustments are all severely lacking IMHO.
I’m not sold on him being outmatched but seems so stubborn he refuses to change.
Just like Zimmer, on the other side of the ball….
Fok! Didn’t think about it that way but it’s kind of true!
I can’t remember who it was, but it was a former NFL player, he said that teams should look at special teams coaches for head coaches. They require a knowledge (Nolege for the Nebraska fans) of both offense and defense. They are more in tune with the complete game rather than a DC or OC.
Yeah, but has a special teams coordinator ever been successful in the NFL as a head coach?
I’ve never looked it up. It may be interesting.
John Harbaugh, Bill Belichick, Mike Ditka, Bill Cower, Dick Vermeil and Marv Levy were all ST coaches at one point in their career.
John Harbaugh comes to mind…
What scheme would you suggest? We have spent big money and draft choices in our receiving group. If they are all already here. what scheme do we change to?
It’s the long-developing, WR choice/reaction routes that we can’t run effectively because our OL sucks and our QBs’ minds get scrambled with pressure.
Watching this same offense for four years, our line always sucks, our QB’s get killed a lot. Yet guys like Cousins, Darnold seemed to make it work well. Hell, even Nick Mullens (despite INT’s) made this offense work well.
Maybe we just need to go find an average, competent QB to make this work.
This offense is not for a rookie or first-year starter, that much has been revealed.
Sadly our roster and contracts don’t line up with being contenders in three years.
Yep, and the NFL doesn’t have a powerhouse team this year. A great year to have a crap QB…. Bad decision-making by the front office.
and that’s a real shame. This was a down year in the NFC
Who would have seen, back in February, that there would not be a powerhouse team this year. Nobody, including all of the GMs in the NFL.
I would suggest not doing 3 wide. I saw a deal that ranked every teams EPA via formation and listed them and it was out of 300 and Minnesota running 3 wide was like 298 out of 300 and yet it’s one of our most ran formations… I don’t care how much money you have spent IT’S NOT WORKING! When something doesn’t work you don’t just keep doing it expecting different results.
KOC is the king of doing the same crap that isn’t working, hoping it will get better. A big reason why I think he’s a garbage coach.
I went back… So personnel groupings across the league ranked. Minnesota running 3 wide is the 2nd worst combination in the league for EPA and we’ve ran it 70% of the time!
Yep, stupidity at it’s finest. He claims to want to run all the time, but when it’s working, he doesn’t. KOC is a fool.
And to a degree that’s admirable and he really believes in that they are payed to do a job, here is the job I need you to do, now DO IT! That has worked in some years… it’s clearly not working this year. Time to show you can adapt and change. Plan B!
Yeah, I get what you’re saying – the trust and belief that they can make it happen. But the “we are averaging 6 YPC, so let’s stop running” plan is always going to be dumb. Especially in short yardage situations with a couple downs.
‘the O Line is still a huge weakness of this team’
I think the issue with the OL is health not talent.
Working the trenches in the NFL is brutal work so injuries are to be expected. Depth could be better but that is true of most, if not all, teams.
Yep, the offense is a huge mess, and it begins with the OL.
I thought this was supposed to be the year that all changed.
Don’t give the coaching a free pass.
Coaches make a huge difference. The culture created and the schemes planned are the biggest key to success.
But that coaching took a losing team and turned it into 13 wins. Bad luck (Cousins injury) killed the next year. Last year that coaching won 14 games.
Seemed like there was a very solid culture created and since we have a fortune. tied up in our receivers, what scheme would be better?
Yet we all looked at those 13 wins and 14 wins with rose-colored glasses and refused to see the insane number of one-score games we were eking out.
The playoffs revealed the truth both seasons.
I don’t want another winning season. I want a frickin’ Super Bowl. I’m tired of this “we’re sort of good” crap. Get a solid coach and go win one.
I cannot see us winning anything with KOC or Kwesi at the helm.
Well we all want what we want. I’ll take a winning team over being dead last in the division, by three damn games.
We get to the playoffs, then I’ll worry about the next step forward.
What’s funny is when I became a Vikings fan (as an adult with decision making capability) in 1991 I was sure they would win a Super Bowl heck multiple SB’s in my lifetime. Now I’m 56 and I honestly don’t see it happening. Figure if I’m lucky I have 20 to 25 more spins around the sun.
Speaking of astrology I heard an amazing fact on Survivor of all things. All of the remaining planets in our solar system would fit between the Earth and Moon. Crazy. Just makes you realize how vast space really is.1300 Earths would fit inside Jupiter, for example.
That dude is smart (contestant on Survivor).
But I think you meant astronomy.
In case you did mean astrology, I am a Leo
Dammit you are correct.
I’ve said this several times before. KOC and Kwesi aren’t the answers. They make too many bad choices and dumb mistakes to get anywhere.
The 13 and 14 win years, could have easily been 8-9 years if the ball bounces differently, just once in almost every game. In other words, we were lucky to win that many games. This year we are seeing what happens when the ball bounces to the other team, more than to us.
‘if the ball bounces differently’
I suspect that is true of most teams, one bounce or turnover determines several games a year.
Yes, and how many times, over the last few years did we come on this site and say “I can’t believe we won that game” based on a couple of lucky breaks. The big one that comes to mind is the Buffalo game with JJettas great catch, followed up by the lucky fumble in the end zone to give us the win.
It happens to most teams, but not the great teams. The great teams win games on their own.
When there are several good to very good teams but no ‘great teams’ (like this year) then the bounces/fluke plays/turnovers make all the difference. IMHO
Laughing…
I would be okay with the Vikings losing the last 5 games and trading anyone of value, that does not want to be a part of the rebuild. If we can get a few extra 1st and 2nd round picks, we could replace Smith, Kelly, Fries, Metellus, Pace and all of our CBs. Maybe pick up a stud running back as well.
That would be some Trump level deal making.
It wouldn’t be that difficult, if we lose the last 5 games. We should get a top ten pick which could be traded for either a couple of 1sts or a 1st and second depending on how high of a pick. Trade Hock for a 1st or 2nd. Trade Jefferson for a couple 1sts and a 2nd. We could probably get a 3rd or 4th round pick for Metellus. Throw in Oneil for a late 1st maybe early 2nd. We could possibly end up with 5-10 first and second round picks, and a couple 1st and 2nd round picks next year.
Jefferson’s cap hit makes him untradeable. You’d be lucky to get a 4th for Hock. 5th or 6th for Metellus. Don’t get rid of the good O-line pieces.
Jackson sounds like me on Sunday, until just_rob brought me down to earth about Jefferson’s contract.
If we trade Justin after June 1st, it is a $33mil dead cap hit in 2027. Which would be a year we are loaded with rookie contracts.
Yep.
Team is stuck in mediocre to bad territory. Gonna be a long haul.
Next season should be a little better, if only because of the easier schedule.
9-8 or so? Maybe squeak into the playoffs and lose again in round 1?
@yay@
All the picks in the world do no good, if the GM makes the wrong decisions over and over.
Yup, I think GF mentioned on here a few days back that half of kwesi’s draft picks aren’t even on the team anymore. That’s horrible drafting, and can’t build any depth like that.
I agree – fire sale, Twins style. Except you can’t trust Kwesi with the picks. That’s the main problem with this strategy, but can’t keep getting nowhere with the team we have now, so try it.
Can we put them all in a bag Scrabble-style and redraw?
I still say his 1st draft was bad, but he has gotten better. Obviously the jury is still out on JJ but Donovan Jackson, Dallas Turner, Jordan Addison and others have turned out to be good.
I think Mason is a ‘stud running back’.
He might not get lots and lots of snaps and the OL isn’t helping much nor is the play calling.
I think Mason is a good downhill running back that will get you 1-2 when you need it, but will not break away for a 50 yard TD. He is too slow to outrun DBs.
I think of Mason as one of those “punishers” that wears down the secondary and seems immune to injury.
‘one of those “punishers” that wears down the secondary and seems immune to injury’
Sounds like a stud to me.
No way can we trust Kwesi with that much draft capital.
Good morning, SKOL!
FTP!
Rec for FTP and good morning.
FTP Auto Rec.
There’s always a silver lining.
We’re only three games out of next to last place in the division.
We’re that close!
Rec for first!