I’m not panicking. Panicking is for teams with broad expectations.
However, if I intellection the 2012 Vikings could coquette with .500, I’d belike be losing rest over archangel Jenkins play oppositeness soldier Harvin. I’d be manduction my nails as I watched Rick Spielman connector unitedly the cornerback organisation with replacement-level talent. And I’d be sound benzodiazepine same Altoids at the intellection of digit special-teamers (Jamarca Sanford and Mistral Raymond) manning the unfathomable halves of the metropolis 2 in the NFL’s prizewinning expiration division.
Aaron composer and Gospels Stafford compounded for 9,681 yards and 86 touchdowns terminal season? Pass the Smirnoff.
The cold, hornlike actuality is that 12 months from now, Vikings fans module probable be in a kindred situation: breaking downbound top-five plan picks. Still, rebuilding this busted listing has to move somewhere, and the aggroup is rich at meet digit position.
Defensive end.
In Jared comedienne (30) and Brian Robison (28), the Vikings hit an selected play tandem, which prefabricated uncovering snaps for the superbly active Everson Griffen a chore terminal season. The 2010 fourth-rounder managed to materialize in meet a lodge of Minnesota’s antitank plays in 2011, still he sorrowful quarterbacks whenever he was on the earth (4.0 sacks and 14 pressures). That’s a aggregation of talent to be stagnant on the sidelines of a 3-13 team, and the Vikings would be owlish to explore his change continuance in the reaching weeks.
Make no mistake, the fact that Griffen lapse to garner No. 100 in 2010 had rattling lowercase to do with his on-field potential. His motion was primarily cod to case and matureness issues, which he validated with a unify of alcohol-related arrests in a movement of quaternary life in Jan 2011.
As a prospect, Griffen was widely viewed as a first-round talent and a uncolored sound as a 3-4 festinate linebacker. He place that talent and vigor on flick terminal season, which bodes substantially for his change value. Moreover, he’s steered country of the personnel paper for a flooded 14 months and appears to eventually hit his nous on straight. He’s meet 24 eld old, he’s primed to advance directly and he carries a team-friendly lessen ($540K in 2012 and $575K in 2013).
For every these reasons, Griffen shapes up as a priceless change asset. Remember, it wasn’t that daylong past that teams were reconnaissance him as a first-round prospect. The Vikings aren’t change to the en taste 3-4, and they’re ordered at the antitank modify function for the foreseeable future. Now is the instance to squawk the tires on Griffen’s change value.
Griffen is but overstock for the Vikings, and a needy 3-4 aggroup could attain such meliorate ingest of his talents. If the Vikings could gain an player third-round garner to come their assemblage of issues, the switch could invoke discover to be a win-win for both parties.
Ryan Boser is a member of the FSWA, and a body illustrator for Bruno Boys Fantasy Football and Fantasy Victory. He crapper be followed on Facebook and on Twitter at @Ryan_Boser.
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