Recent content by mradtke66

The entire point of "edge" is that 3-4 OLBs and 4-3 DEs are more largely, if not entirely, equivalent. In nickel, you probably won't see any different in the front 6.

I think it is the same issue. The Vikes raised the price because of the inter division penalty. I generally agree with you that more picks are more valuable, but what is the difference between moving up the 1st vs. any other round? Particularly if Watson was "that guy" ? What if they had a...

I wouldn't say he got fleeced, but certainly the Vikes raised the price because they are within the same division.

So they tried that. Hyde broke camp his second year as a starting safety. He lost his job to Ha Ha around game 7. Sure, but that doesn't immediately mean they played him out of position. He had most of the skills to succeed at either.

I just think it's a hard position to draft for. CB tends to be drafted early because the good ones are rare. Safety is harder because what is asked of college players isn't what is asked of Pro players. I think it is analogous to what TEs have to go through.

No worries. It happens. We're all human and I don't trust memories. Least of all my own. (There was plenty of googling to confirm dates, I assure you.) Had HaHa or Randall panned out OR had Shields not had the concussion, no one looks back on this period with any strife at all.

I think there is a lot of hindsight in that assessment. Hyde Hyde ended up a better Safety than corner, no argument. But when he demonstrated that he was a better safety than corner, we had already drafted HaHa AND Hyde began the year as one of the starting safeties. He lost the job to rookie...

I'd argue he was a better 3T. 3T's generally get to rush up field more and be disruptive. NTs tend to need to 2-gap more often. I put Raji's misuse on the sheer volume of snaps he had to play for a man of his size.

I don't mind taking the risk for one more preseason at least. Anders popped his ACL in 2021 and he got an extra year (COVID related?) to play in 2022. 2022 was pretty poor for him, probably because he wasn't fully healed. He had a mediocre rookie season, but it's his first back being healthy...

You probably understood most of it more than you realize. 1. Most of the changes are related to coverage. 2. In the modern NFL, its nickel, so the expert harped on nickel. 3. Our nickel front will be almost identical to the last 15 years. 4. Gary and the other guys will probably have their hand...

Meh. There are two sides to this coin. On one hand, you cannot trust a GM in an interview. Why would he give away trade secrets? On the other, he likely did want them back. Negotiations break down. It's also possible the part he didn't say was "for the veteran minimum."

My concern, if you want to call it that, is that what Jacobs is good at (in the passing game) isn't what Jones is good at. I don't see Jacobs being split out and succeeding the same way Jones could. The player you might want to target is a shifty receiving type RB to fill some of the gap...

I was specifically talking about running routes and catching passes.

Honestly, I think moving Raji off the 0/1T position should make his life easier. 3T's generally have more pass rushing, less run defense responsibilities. And it let us keep Pickett at 0/1. I'm more annoyed about what happened after Pickett retired. I'm not sure how we used Hyde was wrong...

I do think Capers should have been let go before he was, but the only two formers that went on to do good work was Micah Hyde and Hayward. Hyde wasn't a safety for us, more nickel back tweener. We had what looked to be an ascending pair in Dix and Burnett. Hindsight, oops, but at the time, a...