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Can I ask that you two foe each other and move on?Pondering Her Percy wrote:Clearly you havent found a better kicker yet....PurpleKoolaid wrote:1 too many.PurpleMustReign wrote:How many years did he sign for?
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Per Tomasson, he's close with Cousins (roommates). Cousins went to Atlanta's playoff games two years ago when they made their run. He'll be a happy guy to be reunited with his friend.Pondering Her Percy wrote:Good depth signingVikings signed OL Tom Compton, formerly of the Bears.
Compton started five games at guard last season for the Bears, and he has also made starts at tackle in his career. He should compete for a swing role in Minnesota.
Get out of my yard!Pondering Her Percy wrote:^beat ya to itmansquatch wrote:https://247sports.com/nfl/minnesota-vik ... Newsletter
Vikings to sign former Bears lineman, Tom Compton.
From the link:
"Compton started five games for the Bears last season at left and right guard and figures to be a player that can come in and give a spot start when need be. With the Vikings looking at potentially losing Jeremiah Sirles in free agency and Joe Berger to retirement, they were going to be searching for depth during the second wave of free agency as things cooled down from the big splashes to open the league year.
Compton, who is 28-years-old, is a Minnesota native who grew up in Rosemont and is an alum of South Dakota State University. He was a sixth round pick of the 2012 NFL Draft of the Washington Redskins, where he spent the first four seasons of his career. He spent the 2016 season with the Atlanta Falcons before signing with the Bears last year and he has appeared in 71 career games with 15 career starts."
Looks like a depth signing more than anything, but one that they need as it covers an area where they are thin on the roster. Hopefully Compton can be competitive in his role.
mansquatch wrote:Get out of my yard!Pondering Her Percy wrote:^beat ya to itmansquatch wrote:https://247sports.com/nfl/minnesota-vik ... Newsletter
Vikings to sign former Bears lineman, Tom Compton.
From the link:
"Compton started five games for the Bears last season at left and right guard and figures to be a player that can come in and give a spot start when need be. With the Vikings looking at potentially losing Jeremiah Sirles in free agency and Joe Berger to retirement, they were going to be searching for depth during the second wave of free agency as things cooled down from the big splashes to open the league year.
Compton, who is 28-years-old, is a Minnesota native who grew up in Rosemont and is an alum of South Dakota State University. He was a sixth round pick of the 2012 NFL Draft of the Washington Redskins, where he spent the first four seasons of his career. He spent the 2016 season with the Atlanta Falcons before signing with the Bears last year and he has appeared in 71 career games with 15 career starts."
Looks like a depth signing more than anything, but one that they need as it covers an area where they are thin on the roster. Hopefully Compton can be competitive in his role.
It was literally 1 minute apartIt's not a bad signing considering the options, no. Hopefully DP is right and he's got his issues worked out. He did improve at the end of the year.Pondering Her Percy wrote:I mean he's 18th in FG%. Thats hovering around league average. Extra points I mentioned were not good. It's concerning but I feel a lot more comfortable with him than Walsh. We should definitely bring in competition but saying that it's a terrible move and so on given what is currently out there, is 100% false IMO
This is my concern and there should be better options. When Cairo went down in KC, they picked up Butker off the streets and he hit 90% of his FG's and every PAT. If another team can find a solid kicker during the season, Prifer should be able to find an upgrade in the offseason or else why is he here?Cliff wrote:He's down there. He's below average on normal FGs and he's *terrible* on extra points (compared with the league, of course) - which is a significant amount of his kicks. Half of his kicks last year were XPs and hopefully that ratio trends more towards XPs next year as well.Pondering Her Percy wrote:Exactly. Forbath is much better than Walsh. He's not the best kicker in the NFL but he's certainly not the worst.
Kicker is in need of significant improvement. Whether or not better options are there is up for debate but if we should be seeking improvement shouldn't be, I don't think.
Butker was an UDFA. There’s none of those really floating out there right now until after the draft. The FAs out there are not good. At allS197 wrote:This is my concern and there should be better options. When Cairo went down in KC, they picked up Butker off the streets and he hit 90% of his FG's and every PAT. If another team can find a solid kicker during the season, Prifer should be able to find an upgrade in the offseason or else why is he here?Cliff wrote:He's down there. He's below average on normal FGs and he's *terrible* on extra points (compared with the league, of course) - which is a significant amount of his kicks. Half of his kicks last year were XPs and hopefully that ratio trends more towards XPs next year as well.Pondering Her Percy wrote:Exactly. Forbath is much better than Walsh. He's not the best kicker in the NFL but he's certainly not the worst.
Kicker is in need of significant improvement. Whether or not better options are there is up for debate but if we should be seeking improvement shouldn't be, I don't think.
And maybe he will. I don't know the details of the contract, hopefully none of it is guaranteed. I'm just worried until I see some competition.
Meh. He's been s reserve for most of his career. I'd hope we do better.jackal wrote:Yes Berger is gone ... officially announced...
I like the Compton signing... he seems to be a decent
running blocking Guard ...
Exactly. That is why I listed the options so it will open some fans eyes to see how bad the kickers were out there. Like I said, Forbath is far and away our best option right now. Just takes a little research to find that out. The ones that dont look into it are the ones that get bent out of shape over itmansquatch wrote:I still want to know who they could have brought in (at this point) that is a better option than Forbath? To me this is just posting because there is nothing else to post about. It isn't like the 2nd coming of Morten Anderson was out there on the market and we picked Forbath over him. I'm not sure there was a better option than Forbath out there. Maybe there will be when the draft comes around and then we can get all bent out of shape about it.