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(01-28-2025, 10:49 AM)JimmyinSD Wrote: well I know we have a fat bank account for FA, but I dont think we have enough to add high tier talent to the OL, and DL, and still fill the other holes we have. We are going to likely have to use that first rounder on a player that we fully expect to make a first year impact at an area of need. IMO DT is likely that spot.
Other teams have fat bank accts too, players will benefit.
I think FA is open to IOL, DT or CB...Any or all!
How they prioritize those will be interesting to see.
I suspect we'll see Akers or Jones back next season too.
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(01-28-2025, 10:52 AM)purplefaithful Wrote: Other teams have fat bank accts too, players will benefit.
I think FA is open to IOL, DT or CB...Any or all!
How they prioritize those will be interesting to see.
I suspect we'll see Akers or Jones back next season too.
Yep, Minnesota won't be operating in a vacuum, so they'll either have to overpay for guys which is usually the case or sometimes competitively lose out to other teams that will drop a bit more money.
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(01-28-2025, 09:57 AM)pattersaur Wrote: As a big Kwesi defender I really don't wanna see another first round fleecing. The ingredients might be there but I'm sure he's learned his lesson. Right. Right?
IMO the problem wasn't trading down. The problem was the underwhelming return for the trade and then the player we took. Right now I do hope we trade down, maybe even a couple times. Right now we have one day-two pick. Like to find a way to turn that into three.
(01-28-2025, 10:52 AM)purplefaithful Wrote: Other teams have fat bank accts too, players will benefit.
I think FA is open to IOL, DT or CB...Any or all!
How they prioritize those will be interesting to see.
I suspect we'll see Akers or Jones back next season too.
I tend to think they won't prioritize. I think they pretty much have to go after everyone available. For example, they could decide CB is a higher priority than IOL, so they go hard after DJ Reed with their biggest wad of cash. Meanwhile Smith, Dalman and Fries sign deals elsewhere. We have to be in on everyone, because you never know who's going to turn us down (Wilkins).
I'm fine with Akers and Jones coming back as long as it's cheap and they're not starting. This offense has a chance to be special in the next couple years. It needs a young, special back to go with it.
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(9 hours ago)MaroonBells Wrote: IMO the problem wasn't trading down. The problem was the underwhelming return for the trade and then the player we took. Right now I do hope we trade down, maybe even a couple times. Right now we have one day-two pick. Like to find a way to turn that into three.
I tend to think they won't prioritize. I think they pretty much have to go after everyone available. For example, they could decide CB is a higher priority than IOL, so they go hard after DJ Reed with their biggest wad of cash. Meanwhile Smith, Dalman and Fries sign deals elsewhere. We have to be in on everyone, because you never know who's going to turn us down (Wilkins).
I'm fine with Akers and Jones coming back as long as it's cheap and they're not starting. This offense has a chance to be special in the next couple years. It needs a young, special back to go with it.
Absolutely that's why I referred to the fleecing, not the trade down part. There's just a lot of similarities between that draft setup and this one, with us likely wanting to move back and the value potentially not being there. Lot can change before April (May?) though. Maybe we even trade away our first before then who knows ha.
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