Sunday, May 20, 2012

Vikings off-season picture is...fuzzy

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It’s been a while…I know, and I’m (sort of) sorry. I haven’t found a good reason to write about the Vikings in a long time. But now that we’re about to enter the offseason, I thought I’d do a Super Bowl + offseason thoughts post. I’m super disappointed that the Super Bowl is featuring the Boston and New York markets…puke. I’ll be semi interested just because I hate the Patriots, so I’ll be pulling for the Giants. I think Eli is proving some haters wrong in how tough he’s been, and how much he’s been winning when it matters. There aren’t a lot of QBs out there doing this right now…so it is nice to see. My prediction: Patriots 33, Giants 20. Since I want the Giants to win a close game, that means it’ll be a blow out by New England. Oh well…moving on to the 2012 season. News this week came out that the Vikings were taking calls on the 3^rd pick in this year’s draft. ALERT…ALERT…ALERT……..this is NOT news. I can call the Vikings about the 3^rd pick and offer a DVD, limited edition, The Toxic Adventure DVD…and it would mean nothing. They won’t be trading that pick until draft day. Sure, they’ll probably have some deals in place depending on how the 1^st two picks go and what other trade may happen (Rams trading the 2^nd pick possibly…?). I’d like to see the Vikings take Kalil or move down, grab a few additional picks, and grab one of the top 3 offensive tackles. Is Kalil that much better than other top tackles in the draft? I don’t know the answer to that...but the Vikings will have to make that decision. What scares me the most: The Rams make a huge deal with someone for the 2^nd pick and RGIII goes 2^nd, at which case…the Vikings get Kalil but don’t make a trade. I don’t see anyone making a Julio Jones style trade for Blackmon this year…but I could be wrong. This further proves the point that it is NOT news that the Vikings are shopping the 3^rd pick. Some of the free agent interests I’d like the Vikings to take a peek at, are guys like Mario Manningham, Dwayne Bowe and Colston (doubt he’ll get away from the Saints). I don’t think Vincent Jackson will come here, nor do I think any free agent WR will be worth the money he’ll get. We need a guy who can go up and get the ball, but also get down the field and run GOOD routes. We don’t need a Wes Welker or anyone like that, we have Percy to run the slant routes. We also need more level headed guys than the DeSean Jackson types. I’d say that a guy like Stevie Johnson is interesting…but I don’t think he’s a number one receiver, and we lack that…big time. There are too many players I’d like to see the Vikings dump (Shiancoe being one)…but we have a lot of positions to target in the draft, so whatever free agent needs we can’t fill, we will have to make up for it in the draft. It’s a complicated process for the Vikings front office, but have a GM who apparently is making the final decisions…should help. It’s also beneficial that were picking 3^rd in each round, rather than in the teens or twenties. There isn’t much more to dive in to right now…but we’ll try and keep up when there’s interesting topics to talk about. Unless there’s some major stadium news or massive rumors about who the Vikings do/don’t sign…it’ll be fairly quiet on the Vikings front at WhatWouldBudDo.com. Keep up with us on Twitter in the meantime…we’re always staying active on there - @Purple_Domino and @WhatWouldBudDo