12-31-2019, 05:04 AM
Womens Marcus Epps Jersey , my favorite time of year is here again. The time when the Vikings are eliminated and I can start dreaming about how they can get better and not get eliminated again next year. I believe there could be some turnover in the roster in order to free up cap space. In this version, I am going to be conservative and try to build through the draft.The Vikings will enter the off season with about 10.985 mil (for 43 players) according to overthecap and 731K (53 players) according to spotrac. Now spotrac is counting all of the players signed to futures contracts as 645K (3 players), 570K (7 players), and 495K (1 player). Plus there are some slight differences in a few other cap hits.When I use the Fanspeak Ultimate GM Simulator site (game) it has the Vikings with 7.848 mil available so I am just going to go with that for this silly exercise.Now the Vikings have some in house free agents they have to decide to make on offer, place a tender amount, or watch them test the market. They also will likely ask to restructure/extend some contracts. In this version, I am going to think outside the box. There really are not too many attractive free agents on the offensive line. They do not need secondary help. They could consider linebacker and/or defensive tackle help depending on if they extend Barr and Richardson. I do not see a receiver or tight end being added either. I think doing very little is probably the best approach. If Barr and Richardson go get huge deals then the Vikings could be in line for two 3rd round compensatory picks in 2020. That is the goal here.So, now that the strategy is out the way, here are the current free agents ...UFASheldon Richardson - 29 - 43DTLatavius Murray - 29 - RBAnthony Barr - 27 - 43OLBBrett Jones - 28 - CNick Easton - 27 - CDan Bailey - 31 - KMarcus Sherels - 32 - CBAmeer Abdullah - 26 - RBTom Johnson - 35 - 43DTTom Compton - 30 - LGGeorge Iloka - 29 - SAldrick Robinson - 31 - WRTrevor Siemian - 28 - QBRFAAnthony Harris - 27 - SRashod Hill - 27 - RTERFAMatt Wile - 27 - PC.J. Ham - 26 - RBCedrick Lang - 27 - LGJosiah Price - 26 - TEI would offer Easton a 2 year 2.5 mil deal with 500K guaranteedI would place the 2nd round tender on Anthony Harris which is 3.124 milWile, Ham, Lang and Price would get the minimum salary based on their years in the leagueThat would be all I would offer a new contract at the start of free agency.Barr and Richardson will likely get huge offers. The rest can test the market.Moving to the fanspeak here is what I propose ...Cap Space: 7,848,780CUTName PositionMike Remmers OTAndrew Sendejo STrade Waynes to the Colts for their 2nd round pick #58Mike Davis (RB) accepted your 2 year offer for $1,500,000 per yearCap Space: 25 Ameer Abdullah Jersey ,767,780I would offer Easton a 2 year 2.5 mil deal with 500K guaranteedI would place the 2nd round tender on Anthony Harris which is 3.124 milWiley, Ham, Lang and Price would get the minimum salary based on their years in the leagueAfter these in-house signings the cap space would be down to about ...Cap Space: 18,000,000That is it for free agency.I would wait for players to get cut and then see if I could sign some of them in order to protect the compensatory picks for 2020.Here is an article that is predicting which players might be cap casualties ...https://www.nj.com/eagles/index.ssf/2018/11/potential_2019_cap_casualties_for_all_32_nfl_teams_calais_ca.htmlSome players that I would want to attempt to sign if cut are ...Marcel Dareus DT, Ronald Leary OG, Kelechi Osemele OG, Danny Trevathan LB, Bobby Wagner LB, & Allen Hurns WR.... now these players might not get released but I believe the best strategy is to sign a player that is released and NOT an UFA that way you preserve and protect the potential compensatory picks. And you just might get better players.On to the draft ...This uses the fanspeak bigboardhttps://fanspeak.com/ontheclock/sharedraft.php?d=xfannuTRADESHOUSTON TEXANSSENT: ROUND: 1 PICK: 18 & ROUND: 6 PICK: 35RECEIVED: ROUND: 1 PICK: 23 & ROUND: 3 PICK: 22NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTSSENT: ROUND: 1 PICK: 23RECEIVED: ROUND: 1 PICK: 29, ROUND: 3 PICK: 37, & ROUND: 6 PICK: 23DENVER BRONCOSSENT: ROUND: 3 PICK: 37RECEIVED: ROUND: 5 PICK: 9 & ROUND: 4 PICK: 10PHILADELPHIA EAGLESSENT: ROUND: 6 PICK: 17 & ROUND: 7 PICK: 33RECEIVED: ROUND: 5 PICK: 2529: R1P29 DL CHRISTIAN WILKINS CLEMSON6’4” 300Kelley L Cox-USA TODAY Sports50: R2P18 G MICHAEL DEITER WISCONSIN6’6” 310Jeff Hanisch-USA TODAY Sports58: R2P26 G BEAU BENZSCHAWEL WISCONSIN6’5” 317Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports81: R3P17 G DALTON RISNER KANSAS STATE6’5” 308Michael C. Johnson-USA TODAY Sports86: R3P22 S JAQUAN JOHNSON MIAMI5’11” 190Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images112: R4P10 WR JJ ARCEGA-WHITESIDE STANFORD6’2” 222Photo by Otto Greule Jr/Getty Images120: R4P18 LB GERMAINE PRATT NC STATE6’2” 241Photo by Grant Halverson/Getty Images148: R5P9 TE JACE STERNBERGER TEXAS A&M6’4” 250Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images164: R5P25 CB COREY BALLENTINE WASHBURN6’0” 204Cliff Harris award winner for Small College Player of the Yearhttp://cliffharrisaward.com/198: R6P23 QB GARDNER MINSHEW WASHINGTON STATE6’2” 220Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports254: R7P38 DL GREG GAINES WASHINGTON6’2” 320Jennifer Buchanan-USA TODAY SportsObviously in this plan the draft picks are going to have to contribute. But the Vikings would still have Easton, Collins, & Isidora that at least have experience (save for Collins). If this draft happened then I would expect Risner to take over at right tackle (in a year) and O’Neill to move to left tackle.The main part of not doing any major signings in free agency is that it would preserve the more than likely compensatory picks the Vikings would receive for Barr and Richardson getting big pay days. Trading Waynes will be met with disdain by some. But the Vikings are probably not going to extend him after 2019. He is going to get over 10 mil per year. If he stays then Hughes may not play too much once he is ready which should be by the start of the season if not sooner. Cook came back early so with Sugarman you cant bet against Hughes being ready sooner. https://zonecoverage.com/2018/vikings/as...ght-have/I do not see the logic of taking a corner in the 1st round and then not letting him play a lot. As the 4th corner he would get some snaps for sure but Hill performed well for an UDFA last year and should get snaps too.I think Waynes can get the same trade as Marcus Peters. The Chiefs got a 2018 4th and a 2019 2nd for Peters and a 2018 6th. I think a straight up 2nd is good enough. The Colts need a corner and will have 123 mil in cap space. They wont have any problem taking on his 9 mil salary in 2019 and can decide if they want to extend him which seems likely. It is doubtful they get a corner as good as Waynes at the end of the 1st or in the 2nd. Of course this may not happen for real but it is happening here. 
Alternate draft ...This uses the fanspeak bigboardhttps://fanspeak.com/ontheclock/sharedraft.php?d=zcslcjTRADESHOUSTON TEXANSSENT: ROUND: 1 PICK: 18 & ROUND: 6 PICK: 35RECEIVED: ROUND: 1 PICK: 23 & ROUND: 3 PICK: 22BUFFALO BILLSSENT: ROUND: 3 PICK: 2RECEIVED: ROUND: 3 PICK: 7 & ROUND: 5 PICK: 1023: R1P23 DL JEFFERY SIMMONS MISSISSIPPI STATE50: R2P18 G BEAU BENZSCHAWEL WISCONSIN71: R3P7 OT DAVID EDWARDS WISCONSIN81: R3P17 WR HAKEEM BUTLER IOWA STATE86: R3P22 S JOHNATHAN ABRAM MISSISSIPPI STATE120: R4P18 EDGE JOE JACKSON MIAMI149: R5P10 TE CALEB WILSON UCLA192: R6P17 CB IMAN MARSHALL USC249: R7P33 G HJALTE FROHOLDT ARKANSAS254: R7P38 LB BOBBY OKEREKE STANFORDI wont do a final 53 but I think the Vikings would be in pretty good shape if they did very little in free agency and just wait for the players that get released.They should get two very good compensatory picks next year. When the agent for Vikings free agent linebacker Anthony Barr got on the phone to tell his client about a five-year Danielle Hunter Jersey , $75 million deal with the Jets, it was supposed to be a celebration.But Barr didn’t see it that way, with immediate hesitation that led him to back out on the deal a day later and return to the Vikings.Agent Ryan Williams told ESPN that he could sense Barr’s lack of enthusiasm over what appeared to be a winning lottery ticket.“He said, ‘I feel like I just made the worst mistake of my life,'” Williams said.Because the negotiations happened during the tampering window, Barr couldn’t sign anything anyway until Wednesday. So after the Jets made their offer, which seemed agreed upon, Barr’s second thoughts led his agent to ask the Vikings for a last-ditch chance to keep one of their defensive cornerstones, which came in that Monday night. Tuesday would be decision day.“I was up for all morning, just looking at my ceiling, just looking for a sign,” Barr said. “Talking to everybody, trying to figure something out. . . .“I was trying to convince myself of something I knew that in my heart didn’t feel right, and I think if you follow the heart, I can live with the results.”It’s not that Barr’s doing poorly with the Vikings Linval Joseph Jersey , signing a five-year deal with $67.5 million, with $33 million in guarantees. It’s $1.5 million a year less than he’d have made in New York, but that didn’t stop a family celebration that included margaritas, tacos, and tears.“It happened the minute he said I’m going to go back [to Minnesota],” his mother Lori said. “There were tears. It was pure elation — relief, appreciation, feeling valued, feeling reconnected. Just a range of emotions but mostly just sincere happiness that he was getting to go back to where he got to start it all and be with the people he loves to be with, with the organization, in a city he really enjoys and has now become his second home. It just really made waiting and not knowing worth it.”The Jets said they understood the business, and wanted guys who were all-in. And the Vikings benefitted from the time built into the system, for Barr to realize the place he was all-in was the place he already was.
Alternate draft ...This uses the fanspeak bigboardhttps://fanspeak.com/ontheclock/sharedraft.php?d=zcslcjTRADESHOUSTON TEXANSSENT: ROUND: 1 PICK: 18 & ROUND: 6 PICK: 35RECEIVED: ROUND: 1 PICK: 23 & ROUND: 3 PICK: 22BUFFALO BILLSSENT: ROUND: 3 PICK: 2RECEIVED: ROUND: 3 PICK: 7 & ROUND: 5 PICK: 1023: R1P23 DL JEFFERY SIMMONS MISSISSIPPI STATE50: R2P18 G BEAU BENZSCHAWEL WISCONSIN71: R3P7 OT DAVID EDWARDS WISCONSIN81: R3P17 WR HAKEEM BUTLER IOWA STATE86: R3P22 S JOHNATHAN ABRAM MISSISSIPPI STATE120: R4P18 EDGE JOE JACKSON MIAMI149: R5P10 TE CALEB WILSON UCLA192: R6P17 CB IMAN MARSHALL USC249: R7P33 G HJALTE FROHOLDT ARKANSAS254: R7P38 LB BOBBY OKEREKE STANFORDI wont do a final 53 but I think the Vikings would be in pretty good shape if they did very little in free agency and just wait for the players that get released.They should get two very good compensatory picks next year. When the agent for Vikings free agent linebacker Anthony Barr got on the phone to tell his client about a five-year Danielle Hunter Jersey , $75 million deal with the Jets, it was supposed to be a celebration.But Barr didn’t see it that way, with immediate hesitation that led him to back out on the deal a day later and return to the Vikings.Agent Ryan Williams told ESPN that he could sense Barr’s lack of enthusiasm over what appeared to be a winning lottery ticket.“He said, ‘I feel like I just made the worst mistake of my life,'” Williams said.Because the negotiations happened during the tampering window, Barr couldn’t sign anything anyway until Wednesday. So after the Jets made their offer, which seemed agreed upon, Barr’s second thoughts led his agent to ask the Vikings for a last-ditch chance to keep one of their defensive cornerstones, which came in that Monday night. Tuesday would be decision day.“I was up for all morning, just looking at my ceiling, just looking for a sign,” Barr said. “Talking to everybody, trying to figure something out. . . .“I was trying to convince myself of something I knew that in my heart didn’t feel right, and I think if you follow the heart, I can live with the results.”It’s not that Barr’s doing poorly with the Vikings Linval Joseph Jersey , signing a five-year deal with $67.5 million, with $33 million in guarantees. It’s $1.5 million a year less than he’d have made in New York, but that didn’t stop a family celebration that included margaritas, tacos, and tears.“It happened the minute he said I’m going to go back [to Minnesota],” his mother Lori said. “There were tears. It was pure elation — relief, appreciation, feeling valued, feeling reconnected. Just a range of emotions but mostly just sincere happiness that he was getting to go back to where he got to start it all and be with the people he loves to be with, with the organization, in a city he really enjoys and has now become his second home. It just really made waiting and not knowing worth it.”The Jets said they understood the business, and wanted guys who were all-in. And the Vikings benefitted from the time built into the system, for Barr to realize the place he was all-in was the place he already was.