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Viking Rich -> RE: General Vikes Talk (3/6/2019 5:01:57 PM)
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Report: Everson Griffen and Kyle Rudolph not interested in restructuring contracts
https://www.dailynorseman.com/2019/3/5/18252390/report-everson-griffen-and-kyle-rudolph-not-interested-in-restructuring-contracts
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https://www.dailynorseman.com/2019/3/5/18252407/vikings-extend-cj-ham-and-matt-wile
Wow, if true, bummer and hopefully goodbye to 2 guys I really liked but were going to be overpaid.
As much as I like some of our players, at some point, to continue to pay big dollars and play them as their skills decline is not smart. Spiels has put together a very talented roster, but has achieved zero Super Bowl appearances. To some degree, I blame coaching. But IMO, it's time to cut bait on some, and bring in hungrier players with upside. And you have to retain players with upside over guys who are not performing. A perfect example is letting Colby Gossett get poached off the Practice Squad while watching absolutely horrible players like Compton take up roster spots. A potential young Oline player you drafted is gone.
Money is tight, and to get some relief, you have to bite the bullet and jettison some. IMO, guys like Barr, Griffen, Sendejo, Remmers and Rudolph are expendable, especially considering the diminishing returns for what you're paying. New England seems to get it right all the time.
Cut The Fat, infuse with some youthful talent, and coach them up.
You can't have All Pros at every position.
Pretty annoying to see Gossett started four games for the Cardinals.
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Where Arizona went 0-4 and scored 12.5 ppg. I suspect their OL was a bigger shithole than ours.
Of all the practice squad linemen, they go after ours, and we have one of the worst O-lines in the league. Along with the team's refusal to try anything different from Compton-Elflein-Remmers, despite consistent evidence of poor play, suggests to me that our O-lineman evaluation has been subpar.
When Arizona picked up Gossett week 9 their season was already a dumpster fire, didn't much matter who they put on their roster competition wise. And we have no idea whether or not Gossett would have been an upgrade to the players we fielded.
Correct, but we DO KNOW that the OLine was struggling badly, and as wrote earlier, we kept marching out the same shit show of poor play that gave Cousins no time to throw.
What is the point of going with the same crap every week that get you no favorable results?
And if Arizona season no longer mattered to them, why go get a player from another team's PS? Evidently they thought enough of him as a player, and more importantly, continued to try and get better play from their OLine. Not sure what Zimmer's rational was to keep with the same garbage that wasn't working.
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