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RE: General Vikes Talk - 9/1/2021 6:05:12 PM

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The #Vikings have released punter Britton Colquitt. It remains to be seen if he might end up coming back to the team in some manner.

Sweet. No LS or P ... we going for it on every 4th down.

surprising because colquitt has a $2.5m dead cap number....

I actually thought he did quite well in games 2 and three this preseason.

I think he comes back now that 3 players went IR.

That means he should be able to count on him for a little over 11 games in the reg season this year. Not bad.

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 9/1/2021 6:39:15 PM

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To make room on the 53 after claiming TE Ben Ellefson, the Vikings released DE Jalyn Holmes.

Good decision.

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 9/1/2021 6:40:52 PM

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The #Vikings have released punter Britton Colquitt. It remains to be seen if he might end up coming back to the team in some manner.

Sweet. No LS or P ... we going for it on every 4th down.

Wouldn't that be great.

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 9/1/2021 6:44:22 PM

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The #Vikings have released punter Britton Colquitt. It remains to be seen if he might end up coming back to the team in some manner.

Sweet. No LS or P ... we going for it on every 4th down.

And eschewing field goals and extra points

I have no problem eschewing XP kicks. Stats show it's better to go for 2. The kick should just be situational.

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 9/1/2021 7:03:28 PM

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I saw the note in DN how the Vikes may have to go to more 3 WR sets with their troubles at TE. Oh no! We may have to run a modern offense!!

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 9/1/2021 7:42:54 PM

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The #Vikings have released punter Britton Colquitt. It remains to be seen if he might end up coming back to the team in some manner.

Sweet. No LS or P ... we going for it on every 4th down.

surprising because colquitt has a $2.5m dead cap number....

I actually thought he did quite well in games 2 and three this preseason.

I think he comes back now that 3 players went IR.

That means he should be able to count on him for a little over 11 games in the reg season this year. Not bad.

Man you a hater this week, or what?

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 9/1/2021 8:22:52 PM

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Come on, Francis - as they say - I'm just having a little fun
ha ha

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 9/2/2021 2:49:06 AM

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The #Vikings have released punter Britton Colquitt. It remains to be seen if he might end up coming back to the team in some manner.

Sweet. No LS or P ... we going for it on every 4th down.

surprising because colquitt has a $2.5m dead cap number....

I actually thought he did quite well in games 2 and three this preseason.

I think he comes back now that 3 players went IR.

Colquitt is still on the vikings.com roster, but spotrac has removed him - he has a $1.7m dead cap hit....

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 9/2/2021 11:09:35 AM

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The #Vikings have released punter Britton Colquitt. It remains to be seen if he might end up coming back to the team in some manner.

Sweet. No LS or P ... we going for it on every 4th down.

Wouldn't that be great.

No!
The thought of a 4th down check down for 3 yards when we need 5 yards is not great at all.

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 9/2/2021 11:34:55 AM

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The #Vikings have released punter Britton Colquitt. It remains to be seen if he might end up coming back to the team in some manner.

Sweet. No LS or P ... we going for it on every 4th down.

Wouldn't that be great.

No!
The thought of a 4th down check down for 3 yards when we need 5 yards is not great at all.

Lighten up Francis. That would not be happening.

Roll the dice. You win some and you lose some.

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 9/2/2021 11:36:01 AM

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Come on, Francis - as they say - I'm just having a little fun
ha ha

Lighten up Francis. One of the best lines ever in a movie. Spoken by the Big Toe.

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 9/2/2021 11:44:11 AM

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Come on, Francis - as they say - I'm just having a little fun
ha ha

Lighten up Francis. One of the best lines ever in a movie. Spoken by the Big Toe.

Sgt. Hulka! Our best buddy and Big Toe.

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 9/2/2021 11:45:41 AM

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It looks like we might have to wait ‘til next year to see what Smith Jr. can do as a #1 te. That stinks.

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 9/2/2021 11:59:49 AM

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Come on, Francis - as they say - I'm just having a little fun
ha ha

Lighten up Francis. One of the best lines ever in a movie. Spoken by the Big Toe.

Sgt. Hulka! Our best buddy and Big Toe.

One of my all time favorite movies with lots of great quotes.

"Our forefathers were kicked out of every decent county in the world."

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 9/2/2021 12:09:32 PM

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Never mind: Vikings punter Britton Colquitt was at practice today and was on an updated roster (I had an old version from yesterday). His re-signing was just not announced by the team.

i think that spielman managed to squeeze a couple hundred grand of cap space out of colquitt's original deal with an overnight cut and resign...every dollar counts....

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 9/2/2021 12:12:52 PM

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The second coming of Sean Mannion. Fool me once …

As Levine has pointed out, its just Spielman’s MO … to put the most non-threatening person possible behind the QB starter. Its a declaration of negative nincompoopism - Cousins looking over his shoulder is much worse than forfeiting the season should he go down. Fortunately, Cousins has this weird nerdy elasticism going on like Gumby … so that probably won’t happen.

For any other season, its a no-ballsy trade-off … with a non-vaxxer starter, its almost begging for, at the least, a four game slide (or whatever the Covid protocols demand for possible exposure).

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 9/2/2021 12:14:59 PM

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Never mind: Vikings punter Britton Colquitt was at practice today and was on an updated roster (I had an old version from yesterday). His re-signing was just not announced by the team.

i think that spielman managed to squeeze a couple hundred grand of cap space out of colquitt's original deal with an overnight cut and resign...every dollar counts....

Its possible we saved money, but it was really about the roster spot:

Chris Tomasson@christomasson
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A savvy reader explained Britton Colquitt move #Vikings had to clear roster spot for Herndon by 3 pm today They couldn't put guys on 3-game IR til 3:01 pm So they release Colquitt for spot & he'll re-sign Thurs Then after 3:01 IRs of Smith Nwangwu Chisena they ink Griffen DePaola

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 9/2/2021 12:18:19 PM

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The second coming of Sean Mannion. Fool me once …

As Levine has pointed out, its just Spielman’s MO … to put the most non-threatening person possible behind the QB starter. Its a declaration of negative nincompoopism - Cousins looking over his shoulder is much worse than forfeiting the season should he go down. Fortunately, Cousins has this weird nerdy elasticism going on like Gumby … so that probably won’t happen.

For any other season, its a no-ballsy trade-off … with a non-vaxxer starter, its almost begging for, at the least, a four game slide (or whatever the Covid protocols demand for possible exposure).

Mannion is the ultimate Spielman/Zimmer back-up QB.

1. Completely non-threatening to Cousins because he's not an NFL caliber player.
2. Bad enough that even if Cousins struggles, the fans won't call for him.
3. Because he's older and been around the league (including with us), Zimmer has an irrational level of confidence in him if we need him.

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 9/2/2021 12:26:28 PM

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Never mind: Vikings punter Britton Colquitt was at practice today and was on an updated roster (I had an old version from yesterday). His re-signing was just not announced by the team.

i think that spielman managed to squeeze a couple hundred grand of cap space out of colquitt's original deal with an overnight cut and resign...every dollar counts....

Its possible we saved money, but it was really about the roster spot:

Chris Tomasson@christomasson
15h
A savvy reader explained Britton Colquitt move #Vikings had to clear roster spot for Herndon by 3 pm today They couldn't put guys on 3-game IR til 3:01 pm So they release Colquitt for spot & he'll re-sign Thurs Then after 3:01 IRs of Smith Nwangwu Chisena they ink Griffen DePaola

Did we have to absorb the 1.7 million dead cap hit to do this?

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 9/2/2021 12:28:04 PM

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Come on, Francis - as they say - I'm just having a little fun
ha ha

Lighten up Francis. One of the best lines ever in a movie. Spoken by the Big Toe.

Sgt. Hulka! Our best buddy and Big Toe.

One of my all time favorite movies with lots of great quotes.

"Our forefathers were kicked out of every decent county in the world."

That is a great quote.

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 9/2/2021 12:30:49 PM

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The second coming of Sean Mannion. Fool me once …

As Levine has pointed out, its just Spielman’s MO … to put the most non-threatening person possible behind the QB starter. Its a declaration of negative nincompoopism - Cousins looking over his shoulder is much worse than forfeiting the season should he go down. Fortunately, Cousins has this weird nerdy elasticism going on like Gumby … so that probably won’t happen.

For any other season, its a no-ballsy trade-off … with a non-vaxxer starter, its almost begging for, at the least, a four game slide (or whatever the Covid protocols demand for possible exposure).

Where did this narrative come from that Cousins would get his panties in a bunch if the Vikings ever had a good backup QB. He has never given any inkling of this and was very supportive of the Vikings drafting Mond.

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 9/2/2021 12:32:18 PM

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At least we put Mannion on Practice Squad.

Mond will be backup on Game Day. Unless there is a Covid deal or Cousins is out with a long term injury. Then we have to activate Mannion to 53.

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 9/2/2021 12:41:37 PM

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Courtney Cronin@CourtneyRCronin
Never mind: Vikings punter Britton Colquitt was at practice today and was on an updated roster (I had an old version from yesterday). His re-signing was just not announced by the team.

i think that spielman managed to squeeze a couple hundred grand of cap space out of colquitt's original deal with an overnight cut and resign...every dollar counts....

Its possible we saved money, but it was really about the roster spot:

Chris Tomasson@christomasson
15h
A savvy reader explained Britton Colquitt move #Vikings had to clear roster spot for Herndon by 3 pm today They couldn't put guys on 3-game IR til 3:01 pm So they release Colquitt for spot & he'll re-sign Thurs Then after 3:01 IRs of Smith Nwangwu Chisena they ink Griffen DePaola

Did we have to absorb the 1.7 million dead cap hit to do this?

dead cap $700k - new deal $1m....

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 9/2/2021 1:00:27 PM

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Courtney Cronin@CourtneyRCronin
Never mind: Vikings punter Britton Colquitt was at practice today and was on an updated roster (I had an old version from yesterday). His re-signing was just not announced by the team.

i think that spielman managed to squeeze a couple hundred grand of cap space out of colquitt's original deal with an overnight cut and resign...every dollar counts....

Its possible we saved money, but it was really about the roster spot:

Chris Tomasson@christomasson
15h
A savvy reader explained Britton Colquitt move #Vikings had to clear roster spot for Herndon by 3 pm today They couldn't put guys on 3-game IR til 3:01 pm So they release Colquitt for spot & he'll re-sign Thurs Then after 3:01 IRs of Smith Nwangwu Chisena they ink Griffen DePaola

Did we have to absorb the 1.7 million dead cap hit to do this?

dead cap $700k - new deal $1m....

Thanks, but this is still confusing to me. Did doing this cost us salary cap, save us salary cap or was it a wash?

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RE: General Vikes Talk - 9/2/2021 1:11:15 PM

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At least we put Mannion on Practice Squad.

Mond will be backup on Game Day. Unless there is a Covid deal or Cousins is out with a long term injury. Then we have to activate Mannion to 53.

We'll see...

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