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Evaluating and Projecting the 2019 Roster


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7 minutes ago, Worm Guts said:

I’ll trust that the Vikings know more than we do, but it’s hard to swallow releasing a player who seemed  produce whenever he was given the opportunity over the last 3 preseasons.

Against the lowest competition, and largely vanilla defense. 

He’s far more exciting than Mannion but a backup QBs job entails a lot of gameplan work from week to week and helping the starter in that regard. 

Happy yo see the Vikings finally joining the list of teams keeping only two QBs on the roster and a third on the PS

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4 minutes ago, RpMc said:

Against the lowest competition, and largely vanilla defense. 

He’s far more exciting than Mannion but a backup QBs job entails a lot of gameplan work from week to week and helping the starter in that regard. 

Happy yo see the Vikings finally joining the list of teams keeping only two QBs on the roster and a third on the PS

I hate when people say “against 3rd stringers”. You can only compete against who you’re given an opportunity. If he was doing the same thing against starters, this would be absolutely unjustifiable.

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5 minutes ago, Worm Guts said:

I hate when people say “against 3rd stringers”. You can only compete against who you’re given an opportunity. If he was doing the same thing against starters, this would be absolutely unjustifiable.

Hate it all you want, but it’s valid. If the team saw what they needed to see from him in practice, he WOULD have gotten a chance to go up against higher levels of competition in the preseason. 

Writing was on the wall for him when he didn’t get elevated to even play with the twos. Why would the team elevate him when he, from reports on practices, struggles with commanding the huddle, getting the proper play in, getting the snap count, monitoring the play clock? Sure, he might just be a “gamer” but that isn’t going to work against the top competition in the league and isn’t going to help ensure your starter is ready to go week in and week out. 

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7 minutes ago, Worm Guts said:

I hate when people say “against 3rd stringers”. You can only compete against who you’re given an opportunity. If he was doing the same thing against starters, this would be absolutely unjustifiable.

But he wasn’t doing it against starters. He wasn’t doing the things needed to show the coaches that he could be trusted to move up the depth chart. 

The developmental QB didn’t really develop in three years. Time to move on. 

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6 minutes ago, SemperFeist said:

But he wasn’t doing it against starters. He wasn’t doing the things needed to show the coaches that he could be trusted to move up the depth chart. 

The developmental QB didn’t really develop in three years. Time to move on. 

Obviously the Vikings felt whatever they saw in practice was a better indicator than what they saw in preseason. If they’re wrong and he has success somewhere else, it will look pretty bad.

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3 minutes ago, Worm Guts said:

Obviously the Vikings felt whatever they saw in practice was a better indicator than what they saw in preseason. If they’re wrong and he has success somewhere else, it will look pretty bad.

In practice he goes against one of the better defensive units in the league that isn’t playing vanilla line movements and coverages. That’s honestly a better evaluation tool than a preseason game against another team’s backups. 

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13 minutes ago, RpMc said:

Hate it all you want, but it’s valid. If the team saw what they needed to see from him in practice, he WOULD have gotten a chance to go up against higher levels of competition in the preseason. 

Writing was on the wall for him when he didn’t get elevated to even play with the twos. Why would the team elevate him when he, from reports on practices, struggles with commanding the huddle, getting the proper play in, getting the snap count, monitoring the play clock? Sure, he might just be a “gamer” but that isn’t going to work against the top competition in the league and isn’t going to help ensure your starter is ready to go week in and week out. 

It’s valid but it’s not meaningful. Having success in minor league baseball doesn’t mean you’ll be good in the majors but it usually gets you at least an opportunity. That’s what is unusual here. Usually if you succeed, you get a chance at the next level.

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