Surprise! Player we will miss and one we won't

I realize signing two really good TEs doesn't guarantee they'll be able to cover Cooks 30 receptions and a touchdown. But sometimes you have to roll the ****ing dice and hope for the best. 

Regarding Datone. Players win rings before they are Vikings. Players win rings after they are Vikings. Players don't win rings while they are Vikings. Datone ****ed his best opportunity. But he's always got a shot after Minny cuts him loose. 

Hyde will be a really nice player on a good defense.  

Might as well get the negativity started early

He'll do well in Buffalo in good zone defense.  IF this draft pans out they got the guys they need for Wizarding.

With the subtraction of Jones and the addition of Adams I'm wondering if the ever changing Wizardness will go more two gap up front.  

I think they miss Peppers as a rotational guy.

Kendricks is younger than Cook and his career has largely been about unrealized potential, IMO. Think he's going to surprise some people now that he's got a real QB throwing him the ball.

I just hope Kendricks doesn't make me say this once during the season:  catch the damn ball!

We won't miss Lang. I feel there won't be a drop off at RG, now that Lang is gone. I'm going to miss Lacy running over and through vikings players. Maybe Ripkowski and take on that role for me, this year.

TT has a stable of young running backs and he only needs to hit on one to make Lacy but a memory. Odds of that happening are pretty good.

I hope they don't continue to miss Shields.

What about Bob?��

mrtundra posted:

We won't miss Lang. I feel there won't be a drop off at RG, now that Lang is gone. I'm going to miss Lacy running over and through vikings players. Maybe Ripkowski and take on that role for me, this year.

I think they are going to miss Lang because right now I don't see a suitable replacement.  If we get competent it should be enough but if we get Evans past his prime with Barclay waiting in the wings, **** will get hairy.

ChilliJon posted:

I realize signing two really good TEs doesn't guarantee they'll be able to cover Cooks 30 receptions and a touchdown. But sometimes you have to roll the ****ing dice and hope for the best. 

Regarding Datone. Players win rings before they are Vikings. Players win rings after they are Vikings. Players don't win rings while they are Vikings. Datone ****ed his best opportunity. But he's always got a shot after Minny cuts him loose. 

You can't say Datone isn't already having an effect in Minny.

"After the New England Patriots won the Super Bowl in February, the gambling site Bovada gave the Vikings 16/1 odds to win Super Bowl 52, which will be played at U.S. Bank Stadium next February. Now however, with the biggest moves in free agency in the rear-view mirror, the Vikings were given 33/1 odds to win next year’s Super Bowl"

Hungry5 posted:

I hope they don't continue to miss Shields.

Yeah this is continue to be the biggest loss. He was a legit #1 CB. King has the size/speed and cover skill to be a #1, but he's still a rookie. Hopefully Randall being healthy and taking the next step will be enough to make up for not having Shields. 

Agree on Cook.  I still was holding out hope they would bring him back somehow.  I hope the new TE's will help me forget about Cook's potential with Rodgers in a full season.   We'll find out if Cook can stay healthy an entire season.

ChilliJon posted:

I realize signing two really good TEs doesn't guarantee they'll be able to cover Cooks 30 receptions and a touchdown. But sometimes you have to roll the ****ing dice and hope for the best. 

Regarding Datone. Players win rings before they are Vikings. Players win rings after they are Vikings. Players don't win rings while they are Vikings. Datone ****ed his best opportunity. But he's always got a shot after Minny cuts him loose. 

Surprise being the key about missing Cook, right?  But you're right, I should have been clearer about that. Maybe in the post title or something 

And we agree on Datone looks like but also maybe I 'll just make that clearer next time. 

Miss: Tretter

I loved his mobility and he was a more consistent shotgun snapper than Linsley. That and if Linsley comes out it's likely Barclay at center.

Not miss: Hyde

Slow, Iowegian and Racist is no way to go through life, son.

Miss: Janis!

x4 will have to find a new whipping boy after he's a camp casualty

Not miss: Lacy

It's not as if he played much last year.

Herschel posted:

Miss: Tretter

I loved his mobility and he was a more consistent shotgun snapper than Linsley. That and if Linsley comes out it's likely Barclay at center.

 

Not miss: Hyde

Slow, Iowegian and Racist is no way to go through life, son.

I definitely think Tretter was the biggest loss on the oline.  I gotta believe they actually thought they'd get Lang re-signed when they let him go.

Tdog posted:

I just hope Kendricks doesn't make me say this once during the season:  catch the damn ball!

The Ram fans said the exact same thing about Cook. 

Wait & see what happens when a REAL QB throws them the ball.

Will miss Peppers. He was there when it counted most.

Won't miss Fatone. 

The Artist misses Fatone:

Can't agree on Cook.  His huge game in Dallas really overshadowed an injury plagued year.  If he went unreplaced, I'd agree.  But Bennett is better, especially as a blocker (which opens up even more TE usage in the offense).   And Kendricks is a better #2 than we've had in years.  

And I'll go with Lang as the guy we'll miss less than we think.  He's a great guard but guard play isn't that important when you have great tackle and center play.  Depth is obviously an issue but historically, injuries to our OT's have been the issue, not interior OL.  

Tretter backup center. Barclay backup center.

I'd feel better with 33 year old Nick Mangold sitting on the sideline as Plan B for center over Barclay. Then again I'd feel better with a bean bag chair starting on the OL over Barclay. 

I'd feel better sitting in a bean bag chair than in a Barclaylounger 

GBFanForLife posted:

Tretter backup center. Barclay backup center.

Barclay is a back up nothing.  Tretter has youth, athleticism and  actually can play the position effectively.  Calling Barclay a back up at guard and center is like calling me a astronaut and entertainer because I watched Star Ship Troopers and Shakes the Clown.

I love Starship Troopers.  

Henry - if you are 'out of this world' - actually or figuratively - you are an astronut.  (spelling intended).  

Maybe Kofi Amichia can be the new JC Tretter.  Tretter had a girlfriend to practice hiking to - does Amichia have a girlfriend?   Hopefully the Packer scouts covered that little detail.  

Grave Digger posted:

Hungry5 posted:

I hope they don't continue to miss Shields.

Yeah this is continue to be the biggest loss. He was a legit #1 CB. King has the size/speed and cover skill to be a #1, but he's still a rookie. Hopefully Randall being healthy and taking the next step will be enough to make up for not having Shields. 

What the Packers need more than anything is HEALTHY corners.  Then we might be able to find who can play and who can't.  We might miss Shields - but he isn't an option either.  So I think that drafting King, taking a flier on House, and signing taller undrafted corners like Rivers, Brown, and Pipkins are steps in the right direction.  Unlike Goodson and Rollins, these three come to GB as Corners - not as conversion projects that we can't afford to have at this point.  I do realize that GB has 2 other CB conversion projects on the roster at this point as well - Waters and Pringle.  If all that works out - GREAT!  I am all for it.  The way it looks to me is that Randall and Rollins are now in a competition with 10 other guys for the starting roles.  However, I really think it is effectively 8 guys.  

Super Troopers is even better.

To be fair, Randall had a good amount of experience as a cover CB and Rollins was a CB in college for the same amount of time Shields was. So they weren't/aren't really "projects", nothing about playing CB has been foreign to them. They just have had to acclimate to playing CB full time rather than part time or a short period of time.

Tretter had a girlfriend to practice hiking to - does Amichia have a girlfriend?

Tretter's sister is also his girlfriend?  Kinky.

Ghost of Lambeau posted:

Henry - if you are 'out of this world' - actually or figuratively - you are an astronut.  (spelling intended).  

Maybe Kofi Amichia can be the new JC Tretter.  Tretter had a girlfriend to practice hiking to - does Amichia have a girlfriend?   Hopefully the Packer scouts covered that little detail.  

Let's find him a good ole Wisconsin gal. 

Ghost of Lambeau posted:

Henry - if you are 'out of this world' - actually or figuratively - you are an astronut.  (spelling intended).  

Maybe Kofi Amichia can be the new JC Tretter.  Tretter had a girlfriend to practice hiking to - does Amichia have a girlfriend?   Hopefully the Packer scouts covered that little detail.  

WRONG!  It was his sister and I wanted her to replace Campen.

Goalline posted:

Ghost of Lambeau posted:

Henry - if you are 'out of this world' - actually or figuratively - you are an astronut.  (spelling intended).  

Maybe Kofi Amichia can be the new JC Tretter.  Tretter had a girlfriend to practice hiking to - does Amichia have a girlfriend?   Hopefully the Packer scouts covered that little detail.  

Let's find him a good ole Wisconsin gal. 

She must be athletic..

You people.

Ted's looking everywhere for OL help. 

Fedya posted:

Tretter had a girlfriend to practice hiking to - does Amichia have a girlfriend?

Tretter's sister is also his girlfriend?  Kinky.

Sorry!!!  It has been a couple years since I read it.  I thought it was his girlfriend.  But if it was his sister so be it.