bleedspeed177 wrote:We in Minnesota like it when we give someone a second chance and it pays dividends. I hope this works out for him and Treadwell to support Diggs and Thielen.
I'll mention there is excitement of Notre Dame guys Floyd, Rudolph (Wolfson said Rudolph was beaming about it at Greenway's golf event) and Harrison Smith to be back together. It does feel like this could actually work out well.
I guess I'll put this here. I've never really analyzed the 90man roster this closely before but it's interesting the breakdown of numbers at positions. I don't know how these numbers of position groups compare to what they have had in past years but it's kinda fun to look at.
2 kickers. The young Koehn (pronounced Cane) they signed was a 4 sport athlete in HS in Iowa (including wrestling Zimmer loves those guys right?!) and ran a 4.61 forty his pro day.
2 punters. Symmank ran an even faster 40!
9 CBs the only guy with any kind of experience beyond guys that played for the Vikings last year is Jabari Price. Man they are really counting on guys to stay health and coaching up guys. Looking at the number of DBs they had was how I got started with this.
16 D-lineman-that's a lot of guys
16 Olineman-makes sense to have a lot of guys
6 TEs
12 WRs-a lot of guys.
6 RBs-including Ham as a FB Bishop Sankey is still around
5 QBs-Teddy take up an extra roster spot here.
1 Longsnapper-Shocked there is no competition here. Jk
Good post. OL and DL seem to have too many guys. It makes me wonder how you can even coach any of them. We seem pretty light on CBs. I would think you would want at least as many CBs as you have WR in camp just for practice reasons.
bleedspeed177 wrote:Good post. OL and DL seem to have too many guys. It makes me wonder how you can even coach any of them. We seem pretty light on CBs. I would think you would want at least as many CBs as you have WR in camp just for practice reasons.
Well they already converted Sinkfield from a WR to CB so...lol
I'm no expert but I think most of these workouts are individual drills so idk if having too many guys at one spot is a big deal or having enough to guys match up.
"You know who could really use the services of Eric Decker and Jeremy Maclin? The Jets and Chiefs."
To me the Vikings signed Floyd I don't see them bringing in Decker. It makes the guys like Zulgad and Coller who were saying the Vikings HAD to draft WRs and then whined about how the Vikings didn't do enough in the draft look silly. The vet WR market the last few years are always ripe with options.
Would I rather have Decker over Floyd? Probably. I wonder if Floyd brings more of a deep threat type that the Vikings could use compared to Decker. Obviously you have less concerns off the field etc with Decker. Floyd probably will cost less money too so that's a factor.
bleedspeed177 wrote:We in Minnesota like it when we give someone a second chance and it pays dividends. I hope this works out for him and Treadwell to support Diggs and Thielen.
I'll mention there is excitement of Notre Dame guys Floyd, Rudolph (Wolfson said Rudolph was beaming about it at Greenway's golf event) and Harrison Smith to be back together. It does feel like this could actually work out well.
I've always held a view that hometowns for troubled people never work out. Generally, getting away from the hometown is what allows someone to ditch the baggage. I hope Floyd revives his career, but I do not expect it.
I'd bring in Decker. Give Bradford as many options as possible. Floyd isn't even guaranteed to make the roster. I think Diggs, Floyd, Decker is a high caliber WR trio for this offense if Floyd and Decker pan out. If they don't work out you can still fall back on Theilen and Treadwell.
