Matthew, please feel free to delete this comment. Just posting to let you know that the comments seem to be shut down for your SB update post today. Thanks!
Love the point on Kwity Paye being tough to pass on at 14. Hits every box in that plays run and pass, size and athleticism clone of Everson Griffen. Whenever I run a draft sim and he's there at 14 I take him because I think Vikings will. Otherwise it's Team Trade Down as you say. Slater's great, but can drop into mid-late 20s and try to get Vera-Tucker, Mayfield, Cosmi, or Davis for O-line help.
Love the points on cuts and restructures and firmly hope Reiff is on the team next year. Two lesser guys to cut would be Samia and Holmes. $1.5M in savings together which might not sound like much, but they're really bad.
Love the points on finding some O-line help in free agency, and if that happens and Reiff is resigned then makes what I said above about O-linemen late in the first moot and you can focus on this defense in the draft. Looking forward to your article on that front.
Love the call out on Tom Johnson, maybe the most undervalued contributor to the Vikings success for three, four years there. A little undersized so Zim and co. didn't seem to want him to be a three-down guy, but played well when he did, and always could rush the passer. When you went over his pressure numbers it was startling. No good 3Ts in free agency so lots of time spent looking at guys like Onwuzurike, Nixon, Tufele, McNeil and slightly smaller guys like Twyman and Stills. If any play as well as Tom Johnson that would be great for this team. Three minute highlight clips aren't the best way to judge a player, but Twyman's is incredible. First ballot Hall of Famer waiting to happen. Guaranteed like Josh Rosen.
The other problem with drafting a later-round QB every year is that presumably they need time to develop (otherwise they aren't sitting there on day 3). There are only so many snaps, so adding a new one each year is counter-productive to having picked on the previous year.
It seems like extending Reiff is a better plan than needing to replace two OL. Do we know if the team gave him that additional $1M bonus last year for playing time (even though he didn't meet the criteria)? Would maybe that assuage some potential reluctance to extend on his part for taking a pay cut last year?
Matthew, please feel free to delete this comment. Just posting to let you know that the comments seem to be shut down for your SB update post today. Thanks!
Love the point on Kwity Paye being tough to pass on at 14. Hits every box in that plays run and pass, size and athleticism clone of Everson Griffen. Whenever I run a draft sim and he's there at 14 I take him because I think Vikings will. Otherwise it's Team Trade Down as you say. Slater's great, but can drop into mid-late 20s and try to get Vera-Tucker, Mayfield, Cosmi, or Davis for O-line help.
Love the points on cuts and restructures and firmly hope Reiff is on the team next year. Two lesser guys to cut would be Samia and Holmes. $1.5M in savings together which might not sound like much, but they're really bad.
Love the points on finding some O-line help in free agency, and if that happens and Reiff is resigned then makes what I said above about O-linemen late in the first moot and you can focus on this defense in the draft. Looking forward to your article on that front.
Love the call out on Tom Johnson, maybe the most undervalued contributor to the Vikings success for three, four years there. A little undersized so Zim and co. didn't seem to want him to be a three-down guy, but played well when he did, and always could rush the passer. When you went over his pressure numbers it was startling. No good 3Ts in free agency so lots of time spent looking at guys like Onwuzurike, Nixon, Tufele, McNeil and slightly smaller guys like Twyman and Stills. If any play as well as Tom Johnson that would be great for this team. Three minute highlight clips aren't the best way to judge a player, but Twyman's is incredible. First ballot Hall of Famer waiting to happen. Guaranteed like Josh Rosen.
I love much about this mailbag but mainly the Terry Kirby reference.
The other problem with drafting a later-round QB every year is that presumably they need time to develop (otherwise they aren't sitting there on day 3). There are only so many snaps, so adding a new one each year is counter-productive to having picked on the previous year.
It seems like extending Reiff is a better plan than needing to replace two OL. Do we know if the team gave him that additional $1M bonus last year for playing time (even though he didn't meet the criteria)? Would maybe that assuage some potential reluctance to extend on his part for taking a pay cut last year?