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ORIGINAL: Murph

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ORIGINAL: Daniel Lee Young

Our IOL has been a patchwork mess ever since Hutchison, Birk, Herrera…

One dumpster fire of SPACKLE and gauze, ever since.

Maybe karma for the poison pill we put into Hutchison's contract?

I'd think that we've paid our dues by now?

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ORIGINAL: Murph

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ORIGINAL: Daniel Lee Young

Our IOL has been a patchwork mess ever since Hutchison, Birk, Herrera…

One dumpster fire of SPACKLE and gauze, ever since.

Maybe karma for the poison pill we put into Hutchison's contract?

I'd think that we've paid our dues by now?

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ORIGINAL: Murph

quote:

ORIGINAL: Daniel Lee Young

Our IOL has been a patchwork mess ever since Hutchison, Birk, Herrera…

One dumpster fire of SPACKLE and gauze, ever since.

Maybe karma for the poison pill we put into Hutchison's contract?

I'd think that we've paid our dues by now?

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ORIGINAL: Ricky J

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ORIGINAL: Murph

quote:

ORIGINAL: Daniel Lee Young

Our IOL has been a patchwork mess ever since Hutchison, Birk, Herrera…

One dumpster fire of SPACKLE and gauze, ever since.

Maybe karma for the poison pill we put into Hutchison's contract?

I'd think that we've paid our dues by now?

I'm almost convinced it's the Minnesota Massacre of 1862 - the IOL? pfft, ain't going to be a SB for us, either ...

Lent's over, whew! Miss me?

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ORIGINAL: Todd M

Where's Spielman when you need him?

Also means more guys pushed out into UDFA.

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ORIGINAL: Mark Anderson

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ORIGINAL: Todd M

Where's Spielman when you need him?

Also means more guys pushed out into UDFA.

I think we already have 71 guys signed.

8 Draft picks and 11 UDFAs.

Of course we can cut some guys and pick up some more UDFAs.

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ORIGINAL: Tom Sykes

I have no idea if the order or timing of our pre-draft roster moves indicates anything ... but there is a loosely ordered approach*:

Phase I, first 10 days [3/13- 3/22]
QB: Cousins (E 03/13), Mannion (R 03/22)
ST: Berry (R 03/16), Joseph (Tendered 03/14)
D-Front Seven: Hicks (S 03/15), Phillips (S 03/16), Smith (S 03/22), Hunter (RB 03/22)

Phase II, second 10 days (3/23 - 04/01)
CB – Sullivan (S 03/25), T. Smith (R 03/28), Hairston (S 03/28), Peterson (R 03/30)
IOL – J Davis(S 03/28), Reed (S 04/01)

(*To keep my overview tidy, I differentiated between trade/no trade roster decisions for Cousins / Hunter and simple CAP restructures for Thielen / Harry; I also didn't include fringers Mundt, Schlottmann, Taylor)

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ORIGINAL: bohumm

I can't find any brightness with the situation at center. The only current hope as it stands is that they have a plan for an internal solution that isn't at all apparent from the outside. Because that would be a clear path to making things work with Bradbury via scheme and/or technique or a position switch/emergence that seems highly aspirational at best, I only see a hole at center. In combination with the degree to which middle pressure fukks with Cousins, I don't see a lot of hope. The draft looks like a lot of guys with the same issues as Bradbury, not to mention going into the draft with a gaping hole at center is how we ended up taking Bradbury. The viable FA options at center all seemed expensive, but it really seems we need another experienced body--even a broken-down or reclamation body--heading into the summer. In my estimation this is the one total void left, though there is a global problem with depth at all but a few positions (RB, ILB) and a lot has to break just right, esp on the injury front.

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ORIGINAL: Phil Riewer

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ORIGINAL: bohumm

I can't find any brightness with the situation at center. The only current hope as it stands is that they have a plan for an internal solution that isn't at all apparent from the outside. Because that would be a clear path to making things work with Bradbury via scheme and/or technique or a position switch/emergence that seems highly aspirational at best, I only see a hole at center. In combination with the degree to which middle pressure fukks with Cousins, I don't see a lot of hope. The draft looks like a lot of guys with the same issues as Bradbury, not to mention going into the draft with a gaping hole at center is how we ended up taking Bradbury. The viable FA options at center all seemed expensive, but it really seems we need another experienced body--even a broken-down or reclamation body--heading into the summer. In my estimation this is the one total void left, though there is a global problem with depth at all but a few positions (RB, ILB) and a lot has to break just right, esp on the injury front.

I think it will be Reed...the IOL we signed from the Bills.

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ORIGINAL: Phil Riewer

quote:

ORIGINAL: bohumm

I can't find any brightness with the situation at center. The only current hope as it stands is that they have a plan for an internal solution that isn't at all apparent from the outside. Because that would be a clear path to making things work with Bradbury via scheme and/or technique or a position switch/emergence that seems highly aspirational at best, I only see a hole at center. In combination with the degree to which middle pressure fukks with Cousins, I don't see a lot of hope. The draft looks like a lot of guys with the same issues as Bradbury, not to mention going into the draft with a gaping hole at center is how we ended up taking Bradbury. The viable FA options at center all seemed expensive, but it really seems we need another experienced body--even a broken-down or reclamation body--heading into the summer. In my estimation this is the one total void left, though there is a global problem with depth at all but a few positions (RB, ILB) and a lot has to break just right, esp on the injury front.

I think it will be Reed...the IOL we signed from the Bills.

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ORIGINAL: Bill Johanesen

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ORIGINAL: Tom Sykes

I have no idea if the order or timing of our pre-draft roster moves indicates anything ... but there is a loosely ordered approach*:

Phase I, first 10 days [3/13- 3/22]
QB: Cousins (E 03/13), Mannion (R 03/22)
ST: Berry (R 03/16), Joseph (Tendered 03/14)
D-Front Seven: Hicks (S 03/15), Phillips (S 03/16), Smith (S 03/22), Hunter (RB 03/22)

Phase II, second 10 days (3/23 - 04/01)
CB – Sullivan (S 03/25), T. Smith (R 03/28), Hairston (S 03/28), Peterson (R 03/30)
IOL – J Davis(S 03/28), Reed (S 04/01)

(*To keep my overview tidy, I differentiated between trade/no trade roster decisions for Cousins / Hunter and simple CAP restructures for Thielen / Harry; I also didn't include fringers Mundt, Schlottmann, Taylor)

So basically you're saying we went second wave value shopping for CB and IOL because we plan to draft those positions high [8|]

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ORIGINAL: Phil Riewer

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ORIGINAL: bohumm

I can't find any brightness with the situation at center. The only current hope as it stands is that they have a plan for an internal solution that isn't at all apparent from the outside. Because that would be a clear path to making things work with Bradbury via scheme and/or technique or a position switch/emergence that seems highly aspirational at best, I only see a hole at center. In combination with the degree to which middle pressure fukks with Cousins, I don't see a lot of hope. The draft looks like a lot of guys with the same issues as Bradbury, not to mention going into the draft with a gaping hole at center is how we ended up taking Bradbury. The viable FA options at center all seemed expensive, but it really seems we need another experienced body--even a broken-down or reclamation body--heading into the summer. In my estimation this is the one total void left, though there is a global problem with depth at all but a few positions (RB, ILB) and a lot has to break just right, esp on the injury front.

I think it will be Reed...the IOL we signed from the Bills.

quote:

ORIGINAL: Phil Riewer

quote:

ORIGINAL: bohumm

I can't find any brightness with the situation at center. The only current hope as it stands is that they have a plan for an internal solution that isn't at all apparent from the outside. Because that would be a clear path to making things work with Bradbury via scheme and/or technique or a position switch/emergence that seems highly aspirational at best, I only see a hole at center. In combination with the degree to which middle pressure fukks with Cousins, I don't see a lot of hope. The draft looks like a lot of guys with the same issues as Bradbury, not to mention going into the draft with a gaping hole at center is how we ended up taking Bradbury. The viable FA options at center all seemed expensive, but it really seems we need another experienced body--even a broken-down or reclamation body--heading into the summer. In my estimation this is the one total void left, though there is a global problem with depth at all but a few positions (RB, ILB) and a lot has to break just right, esp on the injury front.

I think it will be Reed...the IOL we signed from the Bills.

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ORIGINAL: Phil Riewer

Zone Coverage likes this C who played against Georgia and held up ok...

https://zonecoverage.com/2022/minnesota-vikings-news/luke-fortner-is-the-antithesis-of-garrett-bradbury/

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ORIGINAL: Bill Johanesen

(KOC has already anointed Bradbury the starter at C, so it is what it is)

Nah, that was the first smoke screen of the offseason!

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ORIGINAL: Bill Johanesen

(KOC has already anointed Bradbury the starter at C, so it is what it is)

Nah, that was the first smoke screen of the offseason!