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Re: 2015 NFL Draft thread

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 9:14 pm
by dead_poet
@christomasson: Mike Zimmer: "I know for the last week we've been sweating he might go before we had a chance to pick.''

Re: 2015 NFL Draft thread

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 9:15 pm
by HardcoreVikesFan
dead_poet wrote:Wut.

@Andrew_Krammer: Zimmer: "It's hard to find 6-foot corners nowadays. To get big corners who can run w/ good change of direction, hard to find."
Except for the fact that Trae Waynes has horrible change of direction....

Re: 2015 NFL Draft thread

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 9:16 pm
by dead_poet
HardcoreVikesFan wrote: Except for the fact that Trae Waynes has horrible change of direction....
Yep

Re: 2015 NFL Draft thread

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 9:16 pm
by dead_poet
@ArifHasanNFL: When asked if Waynes adds new dimensions schematically, Zimmer said yes.

Re: 2015 NFL Draft thread

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 9:17 pm
by dead_poet
@Andrew_Krammer: Zimmer: "When you don't have to worry about the corners, you can do numerous things to attack offenses." #Vikings

Re: 2015 NFL Draft thread

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 9:17 pm
by Pseudo Everything
dead_poet wrote:@christomasson: Mike Zimmer: "I know for the last week we've been sweating he might go before we had a chance to pick.''
Except everyone and their uncle had him going to the Vikings at #11.

Too much spinning going on.

Re: 2015 NFL Draft thread

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 9:18 pm
by saint33
HardcoreVikesFan wrote: Except for the fact that Trae Waynes has horrible change of direction....
you know better than Mike Zimmer? Impressive

Re: 2015 NFL Draft thread

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 9:19 pm
by frosted
dead_poet wrote: Yep
Yeah, stupid Zimmer.

Re: 2015 NFL Draft thread

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 9:19 pm
by HardcoreVikesFan
saint33 wrote: you know better than Mike Zimmer? Impressive
Watch him play.

Re: 2015 NFL Draft thread

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 9:20 pm
by VikingPaul73
Cards only a few picks away now. Gordon and Gurley both gone......

Re: 2015 NFL Draft thread

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 9:20 pm
by John_Viveiros
dead_poet wrote:@christomasson: Mike Zimmer: "I know for the last week we've been sweating he might go before we had a chance to pick.''
Let's hope that's the last bit of BS we hear from Zim. If that was the case, they would have walked their card up to the podium the moment pick #10 was in.

Re: 2015 NFL Draft thread

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 9:21 pm
by saint33
HardcoreVikesFan wrote: Watch him play.

I have, I'm a Michigan St. fan

Re: 2015 NFL Draft thread

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 9:21 pm
by dead_poet
saint33 wrote: you know better than Mike Zimmer? Impressive
Watch the tape. Look at his combine. Play recognition and awareness aren't anything special either. I really hope I'm so wrong about him in a couple years. I have confidence Zimmer can help him though. We'll see.

Re: 2015 NFL Draft thread

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 9:23 pm
by Crax
saint33 wrote: you know better than Mike Zimmer? Impressive
Oh, cmon. Don't go that route. You can have a different opinion than the front office. I don't claim to be some great GM, but I thought Ponder sucked, does that make me a genius? No, cause tons of other people did too. Hopefully Waynes ends up proving us all wrong that don't like the pick, doesn't mean we have to automatically agree with every pick the FO makes.

Re: 2015 NFL Draft thread

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 9:26 pm
by dead_poet
Glass half full: allowed only one TD reception in 2014.

Glass half empty: Too many penalties. Not a great tackler. Kalil didn't allow a sack his last year.