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Yeah this is what DC said in week one. Joint practice gives you reps and limits injuries. He wants to evaluate our depth and keep our guys healthy. It’s a trade off.

https://x.com/JFowlerESPN/status/1825147136037601456 We made him an offer. Sounds like the Vikings came on stronger. I wonder if we go after another CB now? Adore Jackson could be a good upgrade.

Route running, separation, blocking. Basically everything but catching. I think Dalton would have received a lot of reps had he not been injured/recovering. I don’t get why Luton didn’t get more reps than Plummer. He has shown to be a better choice for QB3 if we even keep 3.

I think some of these are backups to the backups. Looks like the Jets are doing the same though.

Sanders will be interesting with his upgraded OL, but I doubt Prime lets him play here…

Honestly Dalton would probably have played last game some and this one if he wasn’t injured. He is a good one to put out there to really grade the other players on offense trying to make the team IMO. He will give them a chance and not poo the bed.

Where did you read that as anyone not wanting a good QB? The wait and see people typically won’t want him if he continues to struggle. Last year was just tough to grade anyone on offense. If he stinks it up he will lead us to the pick to replace him. This year should be better because we actually have a first to fall back on if we completely suck again.

Yeah all the Bryce “stans” went into hiding. I think we have people on here who want them to eat crow but since they are gone, they will lump any neutral position into that category in order to gloat. I’ve seen very few claim Bryce is the answer lately. There are some that want to see how he looks in better circumstances before writing him off. There are some that are extremely skeptical (probably the largest group) and there are a select few that either don’t like him or just really want their original opinion validated at all cost.

It can buy the staff some time telling the public they are better than they are sure. I don’t think anyone is falling for that again. No one is expecting us to be great this time. My point is it had little actual effect on our season. It just let them raise expectations a little longer, but I don’t see this staff doing that. DC isn’t talking about hiding playbooks. He is talking about ironing out the depth chart and trying to keep players healthy. He is basically saying our depth isn’t great, he wants to figure it out and we could really be screwed if a couple of starters get hurt.

“We approached preseason last year like it didn't matter and we had it all figured out. That ended up in us handing the #1 overall pick to Chicago to get DJ Moore a QB.” That is the quote I was originally responding to. It’s in this thread and they aren’t the only person to say something like this. My point is a lot more went into us sucking that out preseason approach. Hence why we sucked just as bad in week 18 as week 1. The reps could have helped sure, but we got plenty of regular season reps with very little progress. It was just a poo show.

I mean yeah we probably aren’t going to be great this year. We can give the starters more reps in the preseason, but we have a talent issue compared to most other rosters and that can’t really change in the immediate future.

Hey it worked for the Bucs with Baker…

We know now that last year was a poo show. That has happened. Playing more starters in the preseason would not have changed that. So when people say look at last year it’s a moot point. Preseason didn’t cause us to suck. We sucked all year long with 17 games worth of live regular season reps.

We weren’t any more prepared week 18 than we were week 1. Last year was a poo show preseason or not.

Exactly. Us playing more starters wouldn’t have made us better either. That would imply we would get better as the season progressed which was not the case.

I hear what you are saying, but what if I told you preseason had little to do with that. It was more on our staff, OL injuries/terrible play, no weapons, bad QB play, play callers changing back and forth, a toxic environment with members of the staff going behind each others backs, a HC getting fired during the season, plus MANY other factors than not playing in preseason. Playing our starters during preseason wouldn't have magically made us a better team last year. We were a complete poo show regardless. It's why we looked as bad in week 17 and 18 as we did in week 1. The reps didn't do much...

@rippadonnis getting a Vikings jersey soon! https://x.com/Vikings/status/1824539528272679135

More importantly https://x.com/Vikings/status/1824539528272679135

Have you seen a doctor?

I hope not. I hope IF they start playing well, most fans return to their excited phase and start cheering for the team. I'm sure there will be one or two that don't but that's always going to be the case. I feel like winning cures a lot of this... I do agree with it being boring and easy to predict failure for a player. Most players will struggle in the NFL and predicting it isn't really that impressive.

He is playing Plummer the whole time and you WILL like it!

No doubt last week was awful. Joint practices also throw a curve ball in there.