Goessling "Thielen Bombshell"

[purplefaithful]

You guys need to stop looking at Thielen as a 3 week bandaid.  If you bring Thielen in, you are bringing in a WR3 for the whole year, who can do time at WR2 or WR1 if need be.  We wouldn’t be looking at Thielen if it was only for weeks 1-3.  The only way Thielen makes sense is if your suspect on our WR depth as a whole.  I have to imagine that we’re looking at Moore being out for the year, Felton not really blossoming, and Lucky Jackson not being a dependable guy, and we’re like we pretty much are rolling with 3 WR for the season.  If Nailor’s hand is seriously questionable, now we’re talking about being down to 2 WR for the season and 1 WR for the first 3 weeks.  Thielen would mitigate a lot of question marks, plus he’s already practiced with JJM, and already knows the system.

That said, I totally agree that CB is a more serious concern (team-wise), but keeping your young QB surrounded by a quality support system is a very viable concern as well.

Depends on what bandaid means to you....For me that means he's relied on more the first 3 weeks than after JA is back. 

At the end of the day? That WR 3 is probably nothing more than 498 yds and 4-5 tds for the season.

Just a guess....Someone will correct me if I'm guessing wrong.

[medaille]

Depends on what bandaid means to you....For me that means he's relied on more the first 3 weeks than after JA is back. 

At the end of the day? That WR 3 is probably nothing more than 498 yds and 4-5 tds for the season.

Just a guess....Someone will correct me if I'm guessing wrong.

Definition of band-aid aside, I think I’m agreeing with your previous comments.  It seems like a lot of people are thinking this is to replace Addison for 3 weeks and that it’s a bad deal because of that.  If the Vikings were only concerned about weeks 1-3, they’d just figure it out with what they had, they wouldn’t be trading all these people for low round draft picks and having extensive negotiations over Thielen.  I think if they’re putting in this much effort, they are probably concerned about more than just Addison.

[comet52]

I'd be shocked if the Vikings overpay for Thielen. I think Carolina is trying to dump him on us because they're going younger.

I've said from the start this won't happen because Carolina wants him on the team.   They just increased his pay last spring.  He was Young's #1 target.   But I'm sure if they could fleece Kwesi they might do it.