tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23140411.post3399389302345201259..comments2024-03-18T09:27:47.340-05:00Comments on Pacifist Viking: All Viking BlizzardPacifist Vikinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16630996018868040440noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23140411.post-89528553414104596222008-04-16T13:53:00.000-05:002008-04-16T13:53:00.000-05:00Oh, and yes, TE is another big need: I sort of lum...Oh, and yes, TE is another big need: I sort of lump the need for "pass catchers" together.Pacifist Vikinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16630996018868040440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23140411.post-33785386283277125662008-04-16T13:52:00.000-05:002008-04-16T13:52:00.000-05:00Here's why OL doesn't excite me: while OL might be...Here's why OL doesn't excite me: while OL might be a need because of McKinnie's situation, drafting an OL will not significantly improve the team between 2007 and 2008. The line produced very well last season. Certainly it can always use improvement (and if they draft a stud for the right side, yippee), but it's not an area in which the team will make giant strides (though if McKinnie is gone, it might become a simple necessity just to maintain quality play).<BR/><BR/>Other areas do need serious improvement: the pass rush, the pass defense as a whole, wide receivers (I like Berrian, but I'm not convinced that's all the team needs to do to upgrade the position), and quarterback. The team could take major strides if some of those areas are improved. Offensive line is obviously important, but I don't see it as the area at which the Vikes can make a major immediate improvement.Pacifist Vikinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16630996018868040440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23140411.post-2252901880096781232008-04-16T11:41:00.000-05:002008-04-16T11:41:00.000-05:00PV, I have to respectfully disagree. I think that...PV, I have to respectfully disagree. I think that the offensive line -- and particularly, tackle -- is the Vikings' biggest need. Mount McKinnie may soon get the Dwight-Smith-treatment; he's been arrested a bunch as a Viking, and I believe he is the only remaining boat-partier to have been convicted. (Please correct me on that if need be!) Ryan Cook shouldn't even be playing tackle, where he struggles. He was a center in college, and he may be again soon if Matt Birk retires or moves on. We're woefully thin after that: Marcus Johnson is a bust of a second-round pick. The top of this draft class is deep at tackle. Chris Williams and Ryan Clady promise to be great left tackles in the NFL; Jeff Otah, Brandon Albert, and Gosder Cherilus will likely play the strongside. All might fall to us. (Jake Long won't.) Frankly, we could use two of them.<BR/><BR/>The wide-receiver class this year is apparently pretty stout through the middle, but the top two prospects -- Malcolm Kelly and Limas Sweed -- have seemed less appealing recently. So why bother with wasting a first-rounder on one of them? I'm of the opinion that we have a young corps on the rise, and don't need to draft another wide-out anyhow. Tight-end is a much bigger need. <BR/><BR/>I'm not as excited about this draft as last year's -- last year, there was the distinct possibility of a play-making safety in LaRon Landry, or some guy named Adrian Peterson at the seventh pick. Picking seventeenth is less sexy, and picking a tackle is less sexy than that; but I'm at least anxious about this one, if not excited.Virginia Vikinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16617818363798706011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23140411.post-33137514784533306112008-04-16T10:55:00.000-05:002008-04-16T10:55:00.000-05:00Yeah, I'm not too excited about the draft either. ...Yeah, I'm not too excited about the draft either. Harvey would be a good DE pickup in round 1, but that's not that exciting.<BR/><BR/>Brian Brohm would be a sexy pick, but even that doesn't excite me because he likely wouldn't play well (if at all) this season.<BR/><BR/>I hear rumblings of Denver and Minnesota swapping picks, or of the Dolphins sending Taylor this way for McKinnie and a pick swap. That last scenario is the one that gets me a little excited, but still. Meh.Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06459312251088822284noreply@blogger.com