Re: ** Official 2013 Draft Thread **
Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 3:40 pm
Rogers, plz, Rogers.
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Rus wrote: You take a specialist because you really need one badly.
If you can grab a guy who dropped down to the fifth, then you do that, even if it's just for depth. You can keep 6-8 linemen, 5-6 receivers, several linebackers, 3 running backs, a mess of defensive backs, etc. You can only keep one punter unless you feel that it's a good idea to stow one on special teams. If you're going to stow a guy on special teams, then you better have a punter that is seriously past his prime. Like 37 or 38 and can't get the ball 45 yards anymore. These guys don't HAVE to immediately contribute. They're depth that competes with possibly inferior depth. This becomes vital later in the season when things like the playoffs start.
There is obviously still value in this draft that has fallen that would have pushed some of the current Vikings backups. Having a good backup makes contract negotiations a lot more straightforward. Punters don't even score points or stop the other team from scoring points. The purpose of a punter is a pure team purpose, it's about field position.
You're looking at it entirely the wrong way. You're so obsessed with taking the best or almost the best player at a position without assessing the value of the position itself.
I don't really like Cobi. He's reasonably big, but not exceptionally fast, and he drops easy passes sometimes. Kind of bugs me. If he were 6'4" then maybe. But we'd be drafting him as a 5th or 6th wide receiver, and I think at this point the ones that would help the most are off the board. I'd roll the dice with Brandon Kaufmann, though. 6'5" receivers seem to get away with being slightly less talented. Maybe he could be Vincent Jacksonesque.Purple Rage wrote:Or should we grab Cobi an possess the whole ark wr core?
To the 28th spot?S197 wrote:Looks we might get tampas next years 5th
Edit nope looks like we just moved back a bit
What about the Wash st kid! They were talking about him earlier big body good hands..Rus wrote: I don't really like Cobi. He's reasonably big, but not exceptionally fast, and he drops easy passes sometimes. Kind of bugs me. If he were 6'4" then maybe. But we'd be drafting him as a 5th or 6th wide receiver, and I think at this point the ones that would help the most are off the board. I'd roll the dice with Brandon Kaufmann, though. 6'5" receivers seem to get away with being slightly less talented. Maybe he could be Vincent Jacksonesque.
Ha ha, arguing with guys over drafting a punter to replace an established one. Absolutely classic.saint33 wrote: I think what you're missing is that the positional value of a starting punter is greater than that of a backup who will likely never see the field at another position. As odds would suggest, that is what you're most likely to get at the end of the 5th round.
Minnesota Vikings: Acquire picks No. 196 and No. 229 in 2013.Eli wrote:Yep. We dropped down 7 picks, from 189 to 196. But what did we get for that?