khans2k5 wrote:JasonIsDaMan wrote:TheSP wrote:JasonIsDaMan wrote:bleedspeed177 wrote:I think you are right on Robison. I felt like he would have been cut, but we have a lot of young DE's behind him that should be ready to play and god damn as president of the Jaleel Johnson fan club he will be a force this year.
I agree about waiting out an OG. I wonder what we do at CB. We need a vet for depth.
We are really setting ourselves up to be able to draft best available. I was surprised about Murray too. I just don't see there being a market for him, but I think he has been a good lockerroom guy and did his job. That is certainly a big thing with this organization.
We are lucky to have Wilf's as owners. I would have to rank them as the best sports team owners in the state and top 10 in NFL. I think Polads and Taylor get more shit then they deserve, but are not the same level as Wilf's.
Funny, I think Taylor and the Pohlads get way less shit than they deserve, and Craig Leopold may be the worst, which is really scary.
What is wrong with Leopold?
An owner's main job is picking the right GM. Everything flows from there. Fletcher has been bad. He looked like a genius when he got Dubnyk, but his other deals have been horrible, and no GM should get credit for Parise, Suter or Stahl because those guy just picked the Mild because its the closest team to their house. And if I read one more story about how Fletcher is god's gift for drafting that Russian who will never play for MIN because Putin paid off (put definitely never threatened) his father, I'm going to throw my computer against the wall. The guy was there in the 5th round for a reason.
But back to the Pohlads for a minute. EVERY player with a no-trade has the Twins on it? Why is that? Molitor? Mauer? Morris? Blyleven cursing on TV? Shinders going out of business? All the downtown pizza-by-the-slice places closing up? The Al Franken incident? Doubt it.
This is just more championship or bust BS mentality. Fletcher has overseen the best stretch of hockey the organization has ever had. We've made the playoffs 5 straight seasons and we're on our way to 6. That's not a bad GM. He's far from perfect and he's made his share of mistakes, but that's BS to call him bad. I haven't been a fan of all his decisions (his trade deadline moves last year tanked the most promising season we've had because he brought in too many guys who needed to play), but he is far from a bad GM. He's just not a perfect GM so he's garbage according to Jason. I'm shocked.
Great work Khans. Leopold realized that if you are sticking up for Fletcher that he has to go. I have some other things I need you to type IN YOUR OWN WORDS to get the M/SP sports scene a thumpin'.
The Vikes are totally set at CB and should ignore the PHI game.
The Vikes are totally set at OL and should ignore the PHI game.
The Twins should not sell high on Sano because he is in no way a huge screwup waiting to happen.
The Wolves should ignore any trade that involves Wiggins or Dieng and totally need Afflalo and Biyambo
(Short of a time machine, you have already done all you could for the Wild.)
Not a big Gopher fan, but what the heck, PJ Fleck should absolutely keep running his mouth about Clayes even though Clayes won 9 games his final year and Fleck should continue to do nothing to the ten guys involved in the "gangbang" as he continues to "change" the culture.
(And just because I'm dying to see the result) Richard Pitino will never be like his father.