2021 Off-season Thread

Jedzz · Post #41 » by **Jedzz** » Fri Apr 9, 2021 8:53 am

Ol' Teddy is available out of the blue. If Hunter holds out they could always trade him for Teddy so when Cousins has a struggle they can bring back the 1TD dream. The perfect QB for Speilman's running back led teams. Zimmer's eye has been missing a twinkle ever since they lost him.

Seeing an unbeleivable article about Carolina trading for Darnold and making Teddy available made me think about all the great offensive lineman of the Teddy in purple era. Where are they now?

2015 and going into 2016...
Kalil, Boone, Berger, Sullivan, Fusco, Smith, Clemmings, Easten, Kerin, Sirles, Beavers, Faciane.
Any of them still playing? Can you believe that was only like 5 years ago?

Today it's
Hill, Dozier, Bradbury, Cleveland, Oneil, Samia, Udoh, Cole, Hinton, Bailey

People still wonder...Why do the Vikings never reach the top? I think the Patriots still have three depth Lineman from the 2016 season today starting or on the roster. Buccaneers still have Donovan Smith at LT and Ali Marpet G from 2016, still starting, maybe a third lineman is still on roster from back then. Remmers I think starts for Kansas City. Vikings had him in 2013 and again in 2017. He's only had two Superbowl starts outside his stints with Vikings.

Vikings have one LT and no depth for it. I suppose that means draft Tackle time? no? Good luck Vikings faithful. It's Rick's time of year, rejoice.

hermes · Post #42 » by **hermes** » Tue Apr 20, 2021 5:35 pm

anyone hearing anything about some orlando brown jr rumors? he'd be a nice get

Post #43 » by **Worm Guts** » Wed Apr 21, 2021 12:14 pm

I haven't. Obviously anything to improve the offensive line would be appreciated.

hermes · Post #44 » by **hermes** » Wed Apr 28, 2021 12:57 am

well brown got traded to the chiefs, so that's out

apparently there are rumors the vikings could trade up if a tackle falls far enough but i suppose that is the type of stuff that always comes out, any plausible scenario becomes a rumor. and with trader rick, every scenario is a plausible one

Post #45 » by **Worm Guts** » Thu Apr 29, 2021 4:22 pm

Draft day today! It seems the most common pick in the mock drafts I've seen is Alijah Vera-Tucker. Obviously the Viking need o-line help, so I wouldn't complain, not that I know anything specifically about the player.

hermes · Post #46 » by **hermes** » Thu Apr 29, 2021 5:50 pm

my prediction is there are handful of guys the vikes like at 14 and they move back a few spots (to the high teens range), and take someone there while acquiring a few more picks

then later they'll use those picks and some of their other ones to move back into the second round

hermes · Post #47 » by **hermes** » Fri Apr 30, 2021 2:13 am

trader rick strikes again

Read on Twitter

hermes · Post #48 » by **hermes** » Fri Apr 30, 2021 2:14 am

further back then i thought they'd move, we'll see who is available then

but now he has enough 3rds to get into the 2nd round

hermes · Post #49 » by **hermes** » Fri Apr 30, 2021 2:25 am

Read on Twitter

what do you think? too high for a guard? if the chargers didn't take slater right before we might have stayed and taken him

Post #50 » by **Worm Guts** » Fri Apr 30, 2021 10:06 am

Would have been nice if Slater fell one more pick, but I can't complain how it turned out. I expect the Vikings to trade back up into the 2nd round, but they also have plenty of positions I'd like to see filled, so I wouldn't entirely mind if they stood pat took a G,QB, and DE in the 3rd.

hermes · Post #51 » by **hermes** » Fri Apr 30, 2021 5:39 pm

yeah i'd say things worked out pretty well, got a good tackle and picked up a couple more picks. listened to the interviews, sounds like they tried to trade up but couldn't get any takers (maybe for slater), and then after they traded down to 23 they were trying to trade back up to make sure they could get darrisaw. again no takers so they kind of got lucky he fell.

hopefully they can get an opportunity to move into the second, especially since everyone knows that's what we want to do

hermes · Post #52 » by **hermes** » Fri Apr 30, 2021 5:41 pm

so the line is darrisaw/???/bradbury/cleveland/o'neill

i suppose cleveland could go in either guard spot, but i'd say we still need another guard. i'd really rather not have dozier starting again

hermes · Post #53 » by **hermes** » Sat May 1, 2021 2:02 am

i wasn't expecting a qb, i guess now all the anti-cousins people can rejoice. good to prepare for the post-cousins world i guess

i don't know anything about mond, is he any good?

Post #54 » by **Worm Guts** » Sat May 1, 2021 2:16 am

hermes wrote:i wasn't expecting a qb, i guess now all the anti-cousins people can rejoice. good to prepare for the post-cousins world i guess

i don't know anything about mond, is he any good?

He was the 2nd overall recruit coming out of high school and a 4 year starter. Kipper didn’t seem to be a fan.
Something called Chazz Surratt from North Carolina as a linebacker was just picked.

hermes · Post #55 » by **hermes** » Sat May 1, 2021 2:18 am

he's got a good name, chazz hopefully will go far with just that

hermes · Post #56 » by **hermes** » Sat May 1, 2021 2:43 am

got a guard, davis

don't know if he can start but more competition is good

Post #57 » by **Worm Guts** » Sat May 1, 2021 2:47 am

Wyatt Davis, guard from Ohio State. Could be a starter right away.

Post #58 » by **Worm Guts** » Sat May 1, 2021 3:00 am

Patrick Jones, DE from Pittsburgh. Needed a defensive end. Covered a lot of needs in this round.

hermes · Post #59 » by **hermes** » Sat May 1, 2021 3:00 am

d-end, hopefully he can get after the passer. we seem to be doing a good job of addressing needs

hermes · Post #60 » by **hermes** » Sat May 1, 2021 3:14 am

hitting the acc hard this year so far