Minnesota Vikings 53-man roster projection 2.0

Minnesota Vikings 53-man roster projection 2.0

Purple Daily is daily Vikings entertainment. I just want the Vikings to win a Super Bowl before we die. I will ride with this group. Seriously, man. Please. And away we go. Autopilot Dex today. Very, very nervous cuz he doesn’t have to hit as many buttons for the new intro here. It didn’t crash. Here we are. In the long run, it’s actually a good thing to your point. I don’t have to hit as many things as I’m used to hitting, but my muscle memory tells me to one two three. It’s like a pilot doing pre-check and now I’m You’re just telling me this plane flies itself. Oh man. Oh boy. The the do juds takes fly themselves? We’ll find out. Oh, we’ll get we’ll get to your Well, I mean, technically AI is already making that. Yeah, the Judbot 3000 great old radio bit. Uh so Jud’s got a 53man roster projection here that we’re going to comb through. Kind of a light walkthrough type practice today as they ease into uh the two days of hellacious joint practice work against the Patriots. 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Took 1.0, made it 2.0, now made some interesting changes because things have evolved. So, yes, I am ready. Okay, let’s do it. What side of the football are we? Offense. We’ll start with offense. Special teams. Yep. I think we’re going to go uh the punting battle. It breaks down because I’ve counted about 18 times. It count breaks down 24 on offense, 26 on defense, and three special teams. Feels a little short on offense, not going to lie. Based on what I’ve seen at practice, it was uh I believe like 30 offensive players. It seems like they should. I believe they went in with 24 last year as well, but I do have some changes. All right, let’s start at quarterback where we keep three, which the Vikings will do. JJ McCarthy, Sam Howell, impressive enough on Saturday that certainly he sticks now. And there is a change though. Max Bromer is your number three now. And Brett Ripen is cut. I believe he has because of the new practice squad rules in the last what five years. I believe he has practice squad squad eligibility. I mean, I think he’s a coach and waiting. So, he’s a guy that probably he he wants to stay in quarterback rehab school as I am wearing the shirt. Look at you. Yeah. Not cuz it can fix him, but because he knows he can be a counselor. So, he’s fixed already, but he’s not going to be good good enough. And Max Bromer’s put, you know, on Saturday, he put some pretty impressive things on tape. For the most part, I’m like, go ahead and cut a guy in the final cuts because the cuts are so there’s so many players that flood the wire that for the most part you can get guys through to your own practice squad. But I don’t think quarterbacks are the same as let’s say you cut a offensive guard that you liked, but you don’t think that you can keep him. So McCarthy, Howell, Bromer, Brett Ripen, unlike 1.0 is the guy out this time. So Brett, are you saying like Brett Ripen has he’s gone through his quarterback rehab school undergrad. He’s pursuing a master’s so that he can potentially be a teacher of Yes. the quarterback rehab school principles in the future. Okay. Yes. In fact, the quarterback coach, uh, I believe it’s starting this season. He was on the staff last year with the Packers, but he’s been elevated. The quarterback coach is Shawn Manion. Mhm. you know, and he was probably destined as we actually saw him play against uh the Packers when Kirk had co or was on the COVID list. We actually saw, you know, what Shawn was, which was not much of a pro quarterback, but he was a smart one and he definitely benefited from being around smart quarterback people. So, I think Brett Ripen is probably on that same track if that is the career he chooses. Are we okay on the Brosmer thing? I know that. yesterday’s brunch edition of Purple Daily where we recap the first preseason game. It it did turn into just kind of a a Max Brosmer propaganda fest and I and I’m guilty of that. Are we trying to manifest Brosmer QB3 ahead of Ripen or do you think this is an actual thing that that they are going to do here in a couple weeks? So, first of all, the reason why I’m not over the moon about the Howell performance is I’ve seen enough in practices to be like, “Okay, that was good enough. Now, let’s see more. But the Howell performance on Saturday was also very much a What was the young man’s name? Kyle Slater. Uh, yeah. Well, there’s a clip of him. I know. It’s like a podcast clip cuz he he said that Vikings coaches told him, “You need to not play as well if you want to make this team.” Yeah, cuz Kirk wouldn’t like you then. But Kyle was a preeason just absolute star. And so Howell played well, but in practices I’ve still not been thoroughly impressed. Opposite with Brosmer. I’ve told you guys he has been the best quarterback not named JJ McCarthy on days at practice. That includes Sam Howell and Ripen. So this is not a just a sample size of oh he played well in the fourth quarter. So this is a guy who played well in practice, took it to a game. So that’s where I don’t think that this is just propaganda. If you are going to play well in practice, which Slater never did. That’s the thing is everyone said he looks terrible in practice and the fans are like, “But he plays so great in the preseason games.” But if you’re going to put together a imagine this, it’s a quarterback portfolio. It is a quarterback portfolio and Brosmer’s coming in and putting it on your desk and you’re flipping through it and you’re like, “Oh, this is pretty impressive.” Even when you’re not looking, you see things about that’s impressive. So, that’s where I don’t think that this is propaganda. It would be propaganda if you look crappy in practice and then had a good fourth quarter in the game on Saturday. They do like like we were kind of talking offline like Caleb Williams didn’t play in the Bears preseason game and and people are wondering how can that be well with these joint practices and with like what they do in these full padded practices just in front of fans and whatnot. coaches value that work more than they do like McCarthy’s the 13 play drive that of course we’re going to break it down for 45 minutes the next day in a podcast but they’ll put some time into that and there’s a couple things here and there but the sheer mass of reps that you get against your own defense against the Patriots later this week like Caleb Williams Ben Johnson said he got 70 live reps against I can’t remember who they played in their joint practice Dolphins. Yeah. So, it’s like, yeah, like obviously playing him in a game would be maybe we consider that for the second uh preseason game, but you’re right. What they see at practice is going to outweigh what they see in a preseason game. So, nice drive by Howell, 94 yards. Mhm. But does it make up for just some just some slow decision making and some errant throws and things that you’ve seen uh on the day-to-day grind? Mhm. It’s also held little tease. Sorry, D. My hottest take is is revolved around the the QB2 discussion. Little tease for today. A little tease. I have a hottest take on the backup quarterback. Okay. Stick around, kids. I I also think one important thing to keep in mind too about what Phil just said is is, you know, the quarterbacks in the Vikings practice are going against the Bflow defense in which he’s not pulling punches. Now, the quarterback can’t be hit, so that does help. But, and this applies to McCarthy, too. Everything we saw on Saturday, Demetico Ryan did nothing to to really really stop it. Like, that was as vanilla as you can possibly get. So, I think that doubles down on your point, which is what transpires in practices is as or more important because when you’re going against a defense that is really not trying to throw curve balls, it makes it much simpler. But of course, suddenly the regular season starts and you’re seeing stunts and you’re seeing different types of blitzes. And so I do think that there is something to be said for, hey, it’s good to play in games. There’s a pressure there. You actually can be hit. Uh, but you weigh everything and practices count a lot. And can I I want to clarify something on vanilla. Like just with the Texans for example, but this applies to every team in the preseason. Vanilla doesn’t mean that you’re not blitzing or that you’re not running. like they ran some stunts. In fact, there’s a couple great the the All 22 is floating around. There’s a couple great little clips of like Brian O’Neal and Will Fry and and Ryan Kelly handling a little a little twist action uh and giving JJ McCarthy time. It’s that they’re not game planning all week to hurt your weaknesses or to take advantage of your weaknesses. So, like when when we talk about vanilla defenses during these preseason games, it’s more about the preparation or the lack thereof. They’re working on their own stuff all week at practice and then oh it’s time to play the Vikings, right? We’ll just instead of let’s grind for 70 hours what the Vikings weaknesses are and try to attack them like you see in the regular season. Yep. You are seeing absolutely nothing that’s surprising. So anyway, I just think that that’s how you sort of take the whole stew. If there’s a practice stew for quarterbacks and you mix it up as opposed to, hey, the preseason games were great, so he should start. No, in the at the end of the day, Kyle Slater should not have started. All right, running backs. I have increased this number by one. So, I have taken away from a position. I have added to a position. The Vikings coming out of training camp last year in Final Cuts kept two running backs, Aaron Jones and Tai Chandler. And then they kept, of course, fullback CJ Ham. So, running back-wise though, I have Aaron Jones, obviously, Jordan Mason, obviously, Xavier Scott though, who who played well on Saturday and has looked impressive in training camp. I have him being kept now, which means Ty Chandler is cut. Trey Stewart is cut. So, I’ve reversed it a little bit and we’ll get to where I where I actually took the position down by one. But running back, I’m going up by one with Xavier Scott being the new addition. Yeah. Again, I have to ask much like Max Bromer, are we overreacting to a nice showing in a preseason game and some buzz at camp here? Is this something that that uh Sports Dad is manifesting or do you think that Xavier Scott is actually on the week one roster? I think as things stack up right now, he is on the day they make the cuts roster and then there’s the waiver wire period. And I’ll give you I’ll give you the logic why, but I think that there’s an argument to be made that when it’s Jones and Mason that you should keep a third. And but I don’t know that that means he’ll be on the week one uh game night September 8th, right? The Monday night roster. And I don’t know that he won’t bounce back and forth at times that he he could become a guy that goes practice squad, active practice squad, but I do think that he gets kept. Uh and just to go back through this quickly, CJ Ham gets kept. So, the back field now has four guys. But that gets us to But that gets us to your next point about, okay, so how are you doing this, sports dad? How are you making this work? Cuz it’s all in the math. And we all know that Declan and Sports Dad suck at math. Okay, here’s how. Coming out of training camp last year, the Vikings kept six wide receivers. Well, let’s play a game. It’s called Let’s Have a Stash. Declan’s been playing that game for that game for quite some time actually. Well, the Vikings are about to Kevin Oonnell and Quaz are about to jump on the let’s have a stash game show because Jordan Addison because of a suspension will start the season on a restricted list which means he is not going to count against the 53. Okay. So, the wide receivers go from my 1.0 projection of six down to five for the time being. Mhm. Justin Jefferson, Jaylen Naylor, Lucky Jackson, who I was cutting in 1.0, but I think he’s had a really good training camp. I am not going to cut him. And that’s a training camp thing more so than like the Texans game. He was fine there, but he’s just at a really good camp. Ty Felton, in my opinion, the third round pick. Still sort of a project. Uh I think he’s going to return kicks, though, and he’s a third round pick. He’s making it. And then my final my fifth and final for now is Tim Jones. The veteran signed from Jacksonville. Good on special teams, good blocker downfield, and teams prioritize that. Like a lot of wide receivers don’t like to block. Yeah. And so my cuts are uh Silus Balden, the UDFA from Texas, who replaced Rond Del Moore as the primary punt returner on Saturday. Dante Fleming, Deshawn Jones, Robert Lewis, who I don’t know if he’s taken a snap in training camp. He’s been hurt. Miles Price, The Thomas, and then the aforementioned Jordan Addison on the restricted list. And then the injured reserve, of course. I think we’ll probably learn this today. Rond Del Moore, who looked like he suffered a serious knee injury on Saturday. So tough, man. So, five receivers for now. Again, could you flip this before opening night? Yes. But I’m giving you my 53 ondown day. All right. I think I mean the the obvious worry here is with Addison out I mean yes you’ve got the best receiver in the NFL. So it it’s it’s not like some of the years back in the day where you don’t have anyone or you know we’ve talked about the bo Bobby Wade’s your number one receiver. So it’s like you got the luxury of Justin Jefferson which alleviates some of what I’m about to say. But beyond Jaylen Naylor, you got three dudes, and I’m not blaming sports dad here, uh, but you got three dudes. Lucky Jackson, who’s played in 14 different professional football leagues, but has never caught a regular season NFL pass, right? Ty Felton has never caught a regular season NFL pass. Yes. And Tim Jones, who was undrafted out of Southern Mississippi, spent a few years with Jacksonville, but over three years active with Jacksonville, caught a total of 17 passes for nine yards per reception. He’s never scored an NFL touchdown. So, yep, you’ve got three dudes that it’s great. It’s the third preseason game and Lucky Jackson’s going to catch eight passes for 100 yards, but there’s a different level up when you get to the regular season. And I just wonder, you need one of those three guys in the first three weeks to catch passes in regular season games, period. Right. Or or and this is where sports dad works the back door of the roster construction. So I’m doing the cutdowns as of cutdown day. This is where I think you go to the waiver wire. you claim a receiver and then and then Xavier Scott is down for the Bears game. So, this is where I think it makes sense because like here’s the thing. So, let let’s say that I keep a six guy. Okay, let’s say I keep Jashawn Jones, right? That doesn’t like make you like, oh, okay, you kept the sixth guy. I think you need I think they need to go find and they might do that now. So, 3.0 0 might actually have that guy, but I think you need to go find a guy. And so there’s nobody as I went down the current roster and the cut down list, I didn’t say, “Oh boy, you know, if I cut Miles Price, I’m going to be in trouble.” So there’s just nobody else on that list, the cut list that I gave you, Phil, that is a sufficient replacement. So I think for the actual game night, that there’s a very good chance that there is a unknown name as the sixth guy. And then Scott goes down. Okay. Do you think I mean the the biggest household just big name out there that’s still a free agent is 31-year-old Amari Cooper. Yeah. And he’s he’s certainly not the same guy he was 2 three years ago. I mean I think football life kind of came at Amari Cooper fast. Yeah. Now in fairness to him Cleveland had just a hodgepodge of random quarterbacks. So he might argue get me somewhere where I can. But the problem is he’s going to have no experience or timing with the system with the quarterback. You know, he went to Buffalo and uh didn’t make a ton of big catches and plays because he came in so late have sort of halfway through the year, but 31 years old, he’s not that old and he’s the name that keeps being pushed on any team that might need a wide receiver right now. You have to think he’s going to play in 2025. Amari Cooper do anything for you? As far as the Vikings think, probably not. Um, my it’s not sexy and it’s going to bore you to death. But my guess is they pick up a guy that can return punts as well off the wire or they call and this is going to cause eyes to roll. Brandon Powell. He’s still out there. Yeah. And and they know him. To your point about Cooper, he knows the system. He is Look, he’s not great, but he’s a pro and I’m assuming he’s stayed in shape and he has been here for two years. So, they could do Brandon Powell right now, which would not shock me entirely. Do I think it’s going to be a name where we’re like, “Oh, cool.” No. Uh, but I also don’t think I cut a bunch of guys that probably should be cut and I just don’t I don’t see the other guy, the potential sixth guy yet. Yeah, it’d be nice if I think at some point in the future they have a vision for Ty Felton being solidly in this mix as but but week one that feels like a stretch. There’s just a lot of development that likely needs to take place there. Agreed. So, okay, we move into the tight end room here now. Oh, man. Of course we are. Let’s just go walk in that tight end room. Okay. Okay. Status quo from 1.0 to 2.0 tight ends. We keep three. TJ Hawinson, Josh Oliver. I for now, and it’s funny, on Saturday, I felt like they really rotated them through. Uh, so I don’t know that one guy stood out. I am going to keep the Stanford turned Georgia kid, Ben Ursk, and I’m going to cut Bryson Nesbbit, Giovani Reichi, Nick Vanette, who was just brought in, and then it’s very clear that um that late round draft pick Gavin Bartholomew is going to end up on IR with a back. I mean, we have not seen him. I don’t think he’s coming back soon. He has missed too much training camp time certainly to contribute immediately. So, that’s probably a pipe dream. So, Hawinson, Oliver, Ursk are my tight end room. Nick Vanett is a is interesting. Not because he’s like some high-end tight end. Uh, but just because he’s such a trusted wy veteran. He spent this is now his 10th year in the NFL and like his eighth team and he did start 10 games for the Titans last year. So, and he has started even the year before that with the Chargers, he started a handful of games. So, he’s he’s been a starter for at least a small handful of games. Every year he’s been in the NFL. And I think this is just I mean you’ve got Nick Vanett who’s probably at the last year or two of his veteran tight end career, but he knows the NFL waters for a decade versus some of these undrafted free agent types that have never really been given a chance, but they’re eight years younger or whatever it is. What does Kevin Oonnell prefer for that third tight end spot is the question here. So, in the Star Trabune, I think it was on Saturday, Mark Craig, my former colleague, had an interesting piece on Urusk’s career and the fact that at Stanford, he was a big- time receiving tight end, went to Georgia, and became a blocking guy. Yeah. And it sounds like he’s a pretty savvy, smart dude. So, if I could go with the young guy as as my third guy, I probably would. But yes, there is a question, do they value the veteran experience, which I could see among the cutdowns, this to me is not a sexy one. Like, like it’s not like, oh, there’s a huge race here or something. Um, I think the fact that Bartholomew has not participated in camp is disappointing. Not cuz I thought that he would be great, but when I did roster projection 1.0, You know, I went in thinking this is a guy who’s going to make the roster probably and and get some time, not a ton of time, certainly a ton of time on special teams. So, I guess I’m a little bit disappointed there. But, uh, you’re correct. You could decide, hey, the the veteran guy is at least for the short term the best choice. So, I could see that. Okay. And that brings us to offensive line to round out the offense. Meat and potatoes. No changes here. No changes here. I think it’s pretty crystal clear. Ryan Kelly, Will Fry, Donovan Jackson, Christian Darasaw, Brian O’Neal. So those are your starters. Backups Blake Brle, Michael Jurgens, Walter Rouse, Justin School, who still has an outside chance of being your opening night left tackle depending on the Darasaw progress. And then that means our cuts are guards Henry Bird, Versan Lee, Joe Huber, tackle tackles, Logan Brown, Leroy Watson the fourth, Matt Nelson, who I believe Doogie told us got hurt in the nighttime practice last Monday. And then IR it looks like for sure the guy that was playing center uh behind Michael Jurgens, Zeke Carell, who broke his or fractured his ankle. Yeah, they’ve got there’s some interesting pieces here. They like Rouse and Rouse has been running with the twos quite a bit throughout practice and whatnot. He’s playing so he’s playing I believe he is the second team right tackle and the third team left tackle. Yep. Uh but they also they’ve like with Huber and Brown. Yeah. Those are those are guys that they seem to Well, I think they think they really like Huber. Brown has been Logan Brown was by all accounts and by the consensus big board the number one undrafted free agent on the board and the Vikings got him and he’s been with Wisconsin and then Kansas uh right tackle but he was on the left tackle part of the depth chart but he played exclusively right tackle I think in the fourth quarter of that preseason game and I texted you guys I just I was keeping my eyes on him he’s Jeremiah’s client and he literally it was now his run blocking I guess we’ll see. And it was the fourth quarter of preseason game. But on that Max Bros touchdown drive, Logan Brown sat every single edge rusher that came at him with zero problems. And so he was very highly regarded as a pass protector in college and he put some great tape out there in the fourth quarter. I wonder if with some of the injuries around the league with Huber and Brown if you would run the risk of losing one of those guys to a 53man roster. Uh, but they’ve got some interesting talent and they like Rouse and they seem to like Jurgens because right now he is their backup second string center, right? Yeah, exactly. So, you can’t keep 12 of these guys or even 11 of these guys. Looks like they’re going to keep nine. Sometimes you see teams stretch it to 10, but either way, they’re probably going to have to expose a talented young offensive lineman or two to the waiver process. Yes. And this is where the day that this would be done, the market is so saturated that teams are so focused on their own players and trying to get them back. Now, again, I’ll go back to if it’s a quarterback, that changes things. Like a quarterback, if there’s a quarterback that you saw on tape and liked and his name hits the wire, I think that there is probably a good chance that he gets grabbed. But if the market is flooded with like guards and tackles, right? So, I think your hope or your expectation is everyone’s so consumed with trying to keep the majority of the guys that that they like because the practice squads are so damn big now, too. Like, that’s the thing, too. These practice squads are what, 17 guys? They’re huge. So, yeah. Yeah. So, okay. Those are those are your your 24 offensive players. It sounds to me like you’re projecting Brett Ripen might have some more time to go golfing on his hands at the end of training camp. Where could he book a tea time, Dex? Go to golfthemets.com. Go to golfthemets.com to book that next tea time. Plus, they have a great humongous patio, too, so you can enjoy a fresh cold one before, in the middle, in the after of year round, doesn’t matter. And if you’re coming up for a Vikings game, uh, stop at the Meadows at Mystic Lake, bring the sticks up, put them in the trunk, go to golfthemets.com to book that next tea time. 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So find out more at minnesotaar rusco.com if you’re looking to make that remodel a reality. Trust the experts and we appreciate their partnership here keeping Purple Daily a 365day a year show. All right, the defense. We’re looking for 26 defensive players here. Sports Father, by my count, you have them. Say a prayer that I’m correct on the math and let’s go. And we’re off. Defensive line. I do have one change. Kept on the roster obviously. Jonathan Allen, Javvon Hargrave, who’s missed three of the last four practices. He didn’t play on Saturday. Now, a bunch of veterans did not. So, that was not surprising. But I asked Okonnell, I said, “We didn’t get to ask you about this, but he has been scarce of practice of late.” and Okonnell said he’s okay mind your business and that he should be good to go in the joint practices or as Okonnell initially called them the joints before saying by joints I mean practices to which we all chuckled what about after practice Kevin uh exactly right so Javvon Hargrave 2 Harris and Phillips three Jaylen Redmond uh Ingram Dawkins what the pronunciation of the first name again it’s Tyne Tyne Tyne okay I think it’s Tyne Tyne I don’t think it’s Tyne I think it’s Ty. Okay, Ty Tyen Ingram Dawkins. And then my new keeper is number six. So, it’s the same amount of guys I’ve just flipped to. I’m keeping Levi Drake Rodriguez, who no question is getting a lot of second team rotational time. I am cutting Travis Bell, Jonathan Harris. Now, here’s a guy who uh who flashed on Saturday, Elijah Williams. I’m cutting him. And then the cut of the guy that did make it originally and now I I have on the street at least for a little while. Taki Tymani. Feels like Taki has definitely fallen behind, but the names I the six names I gave you are either starters or what appear to be the main rotational guy. So Allen Hargrave, Phillips, Redmond, Ingram Dawkins, Levi, Drake Rodriguez. Yeah. Yeah. they gave. So in terms of like pecking order here, yeah, Levi Drake Rodriguez, Tyrie, Ingram Dawkins, and Jaylen Redmond are definitively from day one of training camp and in that preseason game the second string defensive line behind the three starters that you mentioned first. So yeah, Taki Tymani and and anybody else are outside of that group of six. You just drafted Tyron Ingram Dawkins, so he’s on the like it was a fifth round pick, right? You’re not cutting him and he’s running with the twos, so he’s in for sure. He’s good. Are you gonna cut Jaylen Redmond had some really good snaps at the end of the regular season for a 14- win team last year and Levi Drake Rodriguez continues to just be put in positions of uh it seems like the coaching staff likes him. So, yes. Yeah, it’s a it’s a deep group. It went from being a really thin weak group a year ago to being one of the deepest groups maybe in the NFL provided Harrave and Jonathan Allen stay healthy, right? But it’s nice that they’re not trying to pick up like a a former first round scrape guy. Jerry Tiller, right? Like Jerry Tiller, we sign him. It’s like, okay, he’s sort of been suspect. It’s nice that they actually Yes, there are probably some injury concerns on Allen and Harrave, but they’re also known commodities if healthy. I feel like the Vikings said, you know, the fixer upper defensive line not working so well. So, let’s actually go address it. Let’s go buy a nice home. And now they’ve got a nice defensive line home. And you’re still looking, you know, Hargrave and Allen are on the wrong side of 30 and Harrison Phillips is is getting up there, too. So, you’re still at some point you’re going to have to fire a first round pick on somebody that you could hope becomes an eight-year starter. But in the absence of that, when you got dudes like Hargrave and Allen available, go throw a couple bucks on them and fix it like they did, right? And I do think an important point, too, is this. Ingram Dawkins, Levi Drake, and Redmond now have a chance to ascend slowly. Like, they’re going to be big rotational guys, but you’re also not throwing them out there and saying start. Yeah. So, I I wouldn’t be completely shocked if a couple of those guys actually with the playing time that they’re going to get now. And by the way, watching professional veterans, if that helps their play to make them prepared to step in to start in in a year or two, I like what they’ve done. Let’s just say that they’ve redone the house and I like it. That’s right. All right, let’s go to let’s then let’s go to the edge of the house. The edge. Let’s go to the the trimmings. The edge room. The edge room which overlooks the ocean. You want to talk about the real estate here? Highriced. It’s that’s Minnesota rusco.com 1955 just looking over the ocean cup of coffee in hand gorgeous deck caramel California we are in the high rent district of the football team defensively outside linebackers five with no changes Jonathan Grard the gangster Dallas Turner Phil’s guy Gabriel Murphy who on Saturday and by the way he’s looked good all camp again he’s a guy that looked camp as well. Yeah, he did. Bo Richtor sticks just in part because he is a very very effective special teams player. The cuts then Tyler Baddy and Chaz Chamblas who started training camp on the pup actually I thought on Saturday played pretty well but there is nobody of the five I gave you the keepers that I would cut. And so I think that that that edge room is in great shape and I can’t tell you how important that is to this football team. I mean, let’s have a Gabe Murphy conversation here. I think you should. He was inexplicably undrafted out of UCLA after being one of the best edge rushers in all of America at a power five conference. Vikings bring him in. It’s becoming a trend where they go get the premier undrafted free agent, pay him a couple extra bucks, bring him in after the draft. Ivan Pace was one of those guys, too. No question. And he comes in and he was running with the first team defense at Chunks last season at training camp a year ago. Then he gets hurt, kind of falls behind and all right, got we got Patrick Jones, Dallas Turner, and he was kind of just behind the if you’re not in the group of four, you’re probably not part of the rotation. Well, Patrick Jones becomes a free agent. So, Gabriel Murphy is is solidly in that second uh rotation with Dallas Turner. So, he he winds up playing 30 snaps in that preseason game. And he hit the quarterback five times, two sacks officially and three hits that were very clean and very painful for Houston Texans quarterback. So, uh I I remember making that little write that down prediction or or if it was like a hottest take. I can’t remember the context, but you all laughed when I said Gabriel Murphy. Now you No, you paranoid. You’re paranoid now. Nobody laughed at you. I I gave you credit cuz I hadn’t really seen it, but I watched it. He has a motor that doesn’t stop, dude. He is super intense. He’s a machine. Yep. And he’s he’s for sure going to play regular snaps in that Patrick Jones role. or I guess technically Dallas Turner kind of steps into that like number three role and then right but those four guys are going to play and he’s going to do some damage in actual regular season games. Yeah, in fairness to Gabe again, I I think that Dallas Turner came in so chiseled and has looked really good in practices that Gabe get that the conversation about Gabe has been pushed off. But after what we did see on Saturday with his ability to just track down the Texans QBs, he’s going to get he’s going to get the love that he deserves off of that. And that’s one where just in a game when you see a guy that doesn’t stop like he’s relentless. Mhm. Absolutely. So, I agree. He has been great. He makes the team and I think he’s going to find a way if he continues this. Brian Flores is going to find a way to play him. Yeah. Yeah. Just I mean a reminder in college. So, this would have been 2023 for UCLA. And uh when you just look at like total pressures, he was right there with some of the guy like Jared Verse and Dallas Turner in terms of productivity. Bo Richtor was pretty high on some of those list, too. So, they’ve they’ve got talent, man, along the defensive line and the edge room. There’s not a lot of teams in the NFL that run as deep as the Vikings do with with the 11 guys that you just listed on this 53. Is there any team, and my guess is that this is a rhetorical question, the answer is no, that since 2022 has so many suspect draft picks and so many hits in the undrafted market, it’s kind of and remember Andre Carter was another one and you’re not going to hit on all these guys and uh he’s out of the equation now. But yeah, interesting interesting position group here. So 11 guys I don’t see any that that feels like a little bit of a bloated number but I don’t see any that make sense to cut here. So I think Bo Richter might be probably the 11th of of terms of the two position groups here but you’re right like he’s versatile. He’s a classic special teams multiase special teams guy. Got to have him. Got to have him. Okay. Inside linebacker room. It’s not sexy but it’s extremely important. Four guys kept Blake Cashman, sixth round 2025 selection out of Penn State, Kobe King. Ivan Pace, another special teams ace, and a guy that I think is actually going again to get snaps at the inside linebacker spot. Eric Wilson. I’m cutting Brian Oamoa, Austin Keys, Dorian is at Mousie, M AI, and Aamo. So, in fairness to Osama, I did not I have seen him playing special teams. So, I don’t know that that switch with Kobe King is as simple as I I thought going into camp because he’s a good special teams player and he is still very much getting a chance with the second team defense. So, I don’t think a decision’s been made there, but just as a projection, I think that they keep the current draft pick as opposed to the former pick. And so it’s Blake Cashman, Kobe King, Ivan Pace, Eric Wilson. Okay. Yeah. It kind of feels like Aamwa is right there on the 53man cut line. If if if there was like a this was brackology and you had like first four in or what last four in or first four, whatever it is. Yep. First four in. He’d be in one of those categories for sure. Yes. So, and just to uh just as an aside, if that happens, if Osamaw and Chandler are cut, I think you are down to one member of the 2022 draft class left, and that would be Jaylen Naylor. Naylor. I think that that would be it. Um, all right. Cornerbacks. In 1.0, I kept seven. Last year, they kept six. And I told you when we did 1.0, I said, “This number is going to come down.” And sure enough, it has. partially because the Vikings are being creative in moving some of their quarterbacks to safety. So, here we go. Six guys. Byron Murphy Jr. starter. Isaiah Rogers starter. Jeff Okudo right now a starter in the nickel. Mai Blackman who I thought was going to get a chance to compete with Okuda but he has not. Dwight Mclo and then I am keeping another just just like Dwight. I’m keeping another UDFA. This one from the 2025 class. Zamaya Vaughn. Wow. He’s got the length. I think he can play. So that means I’m cutting and I’m gonna cut three names and it’s not going to be like, “Oh, you kept Zamaya von over one of these guys. Keenan Garber, Ready Stored, Ambry Thomas, who by the way I like and I think he’s a practice squad guy.” He picked off a pass in that game. He did pick off a pass. He did and he let he and he let the world know about it. And well, I’m here. I’m here. All right. We got We see you. I’m him. But I would just like to say one thing. I mean, preseason games are bad. Okay. Especially late. The Houston Texans forcing me to watch Graham Mertz play quarterback in a National Football League game has done permanent damage. Like he was a bad college quarterback. He was supposed to be the Wisconsin Savior. Eventually went to Florida. He was no good. And I had no idea that he was in a camp. and to know that he was in the same building I was and that I had to watch him. I will be seeking football therapy later today. It was a tough scene out there. It’s always funny when you get some non NFL quarterback who’s filling a training camp roster throws a terrible pass and and you pick it off and it’s nice like it’s you make a big play or whatever you got 50,000 people in the in the stadium you’re jacked up but then you celebrate like it’s you know Sunday night football for the division week 18 but uh and then did you mention is it KF Hy who picked off two passes he’s been moved moved. He’s been moved. You got to wait for this. He He’s a safety now. Okay. Cuz he’s still classified as as a cornerback. That’s why sports dad’s here. This is why sports camp notes exist. We got guys moving left and right. Okay. This is a defense. The be defense is one in which, let’s just say head on a swivel. And I don’t mean quarterbacks. I mean reporters. All right. So, initially I kept four safeties in 1.0. The Vikings kept five last year and now I am up to five. So, so we are now back to what what the Vikings did a year ago in final cuts. Six corners, five safeties. Those five, Josh Batellis, Harrison Smith, Theo Jackson, Jay Ward, and then the aforementioned, at least for now, Khif Hules, who picked off two passes on Saturday and was moved like a week ago from a corner spot to a safety spot. Um, that means I’m cutting Javarius Owens, Michelle Powell, and Tavar, uh, Teviar Thomas, and Thomas was a cornerback himself originally. He has also been moved to safety. So, Huaci for now makes the team as my fifth safety. This is also assuming that he can play on special teams, obviously. Yeah. So, H I think it’s Is it H? You’re saying hacy, but it’s h a i l hac, right? Hi. It’s it’s uh phonetically a small h uh hyphen loss hyphen e capitalized hy. Okay. Yeah, he was undrafted the vaunted Western Kentucky Hill Toppers in 2023 and and he was identified by the Chiefs as an undrafted free agent. bounces over to Cleveland last year where he played 116 snaps and then um and this is actually I’m looking at those are preseason snaps I believe. So, did he plan he has not played Cleveland? He did play a 100 regular season snaps with Cleveland in 23. Yep, that’s it. But it’s been a couple years. So, but yeah, dude, he was uh he couple interceptions. He might who was the the Audi Cole was the two interception, didn’t he? House call two of them like 10 years ago against Buffalo at the metronome. Kind of reminded me of that. Very exciting stuff. Yep. So, wow. There it is. Let’s check your math. You got 11, 15, 26. So, we should be at 50 right now. We are. We’re at 50. All right. And then your three specialists, no surprises, will the thrill Riker, Ryan Wright, Andrew Depala is the long snapper, and then the the uh practice squad exemption, so he won’t even count on the practice squad will be Oscar Chapman, who I thought had a very nice punt. I like this kid. He’s got that Australian thing where he’s got like eight different types of punts. He’s got the fly angles. He’s got the pancake. He’s got all of these things. So Oscar Chapman is your practice squad guy. But no changes then in the specialist. So that is 53. Wow. Nice job. Judg Jud’s camp notes. We’ll do a 3.0 at some point too. So you’re Yeah. Yeah. I think what maybe we go through the next two preseason games cuz then there’s usually final cuts. They play the last preseason game. And then there’s usually a day or two or do they cut the day after the preseason games? I’ve been meaning to look that up. The date of the cuts this year because of the three I’m now thrown off because instead of four preseason games, it’s three. Who Let’s actually go through this quickly this and then Declan’s going to give us the hottest Vikings take of the week in a second. But if this was Bracktology, who would be the last four in like the four guys that are on but they’re right. It’s It’s 53, 52, 51, and 50. Hi. Yep. Zomayiah Vaughn. Probably Zamaya Vaughn. Um the linebackers, it’s Kobe King or or Aam. Aamisa, but it’s they’re keeping a fourth regard. And I don’t think you’re And King was a fifthrounder, right? I just don’t think you’re sixth round pick. Sixth round pick. But I think he sticks. Bo Richtor to me is is a lock because of what he brings special teams wise. Probably Levi Drake Rodriguez maybe. That’s a good one. That’s a good one. I don’t think maybe Xavier Scott, I guess. But I don’t think there’s an offensive line one because Jurgens, you have to keep him if you don’t have a backup center. He is your backup center. And school is your starting left tackle. If Darasaw can’t, so he’s on. Brle is your ultimate swing guy and was a starter for you last year. Yep. So that would mean you’d be if you kept only eight offensive linemen or if you kept nine and it instead of Rouse it was like Huber but they like Rouse. They like Rouse. His versatility is huge playing both tackles. Um the tight end room it’s definitely Uric definitely qualifies as a last one in. Definitely. Yep. And Tim Jones too would be in that discussion. Xavier Scott does as well. Okay. At running back. So guys we did not mention that are like Mcloth earns a lock at this point, right? I think so. Yeah. Gay Murphy lock. Okay. Ty Felton’s not quite ready necessarily to to catch a bunch of passes in a regular season game. He’s a third round pick and he’s super talented. So he’s he’s a lot. There are certain position groups at which this team is very solid like the edge group. I think they’re incredibly solid. They are. What’s funny is like this is for as strong as their quarterback room depthwise was last year, you had Sam Darnold, former third overall pick, and JJ McCarthy, a top 10 pick on ice, and then Nick Mullen’s a reliable veteran backup, and then you brought in another like fifth or sixth overall pick, and Daniel Jones. Yep. And now it’s so the the what are like maybe this is a deeper conversation for another day but the weakest position groups here quarterback let’s just be honest fair right yep until McCarthy proves it the depth of wide receiver depth is concerning the depth there is concerning um the offensive line I think is actually strong now agreed I like that room I like the defensive line room now now of course if guys get get hurt, that changes. But you could say that about any position group. Um out uh the edge room I think is is strong. I think the inside linebacker room has been improved. You know, quarterback is still a bit of a question probably. Yeah, it’s far it’s far from solidified completely. Jeff Auda’s name is doing a lot of work and carrying a lot of water on this roster right now because you know what you’re getting in Murphy. You think you know what you’re getting in Rogers, right? You hope you’re getting something that he hasn’t brought before in Akuda. Yes. And then Blackman, you’re hoping can stay healthy and and be what you drafted him to be. It lot of hope. Yeah. It on Blackman. It’s a little bit odd, too. I mean, I thought there would be no question that starting Trading Camp there would be a competition between Blackman and Okuda, and there has been zero. And Blackman played, if you saw this on Saturday, deep into the second half. Yeah. And now he missed a year, so that’s fine. But the point is, I don’t know if Blackman is just coming back slowly. He’s not a very big guy. I I don’t know exactly what it is, but the difference in how he was treated pre-injjury to now makes him I I basically use the bias of before he got hurt, right? Like he’s going to challenge for a job. I mean, hell, he played and it’s very clear he’s not in their mind the same guy right now. So, you could definitely say I think if we were to talk about depth of position concern where the top of the top of the position group is okay, but the depth is a concern, wide receiver for sure and cornerback for sure. Yeah. Uh, okay. Declan has the hottest Vikings take of the week here, which is always brought to you by Standard Heating and Air Conditioning. X and we might have a little delay there. Okay, you’re okay. Yeah, here you’re looking live at uh at at my air conditioning unit. This is Cameron. Thank god he came over. 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Going from college to the NFL is a little bit different, but Brosmer stepped into a brand new offense with the Gophers last year and had a very productive year. And he isn’t going to shipwreck games. Sam Howell will shipwreck games. Maybe I’m uh maybe the Jud Venom for Sam Howell has finally entered my vein. Yeah. Uh but here’s another hot take within it. If McCarthy goes down, Max Bromer would lead the Vikings to a better record over a full season than Sam How would. Oh jeez. So Brosmer is going to not crash this car. So yeah, Scotty, roll the boat. Go Gophers. I’ve seen enough. Max Bromer is the second best quarterback on the Vikings roster. That’s my hottest take. Oh man, I By the way, I’m here for all of the Max Bromer propaganda. Row the boat, Skya, gophers. What I find funny about this is it wasn’t that long ago. I think it was last week where Declan was uh was mocking and ridiculing the sports dad for always finding a way to slander Sam Howell. And like 5 days later, he is saying, “All right, in a game in which, by the way, Sam Howell orchestrated a 94 yard touchdown drive himself with several nice little throws, nice little plays, getting rid of the ball, tempo, all these things.” Mhm. uh and uh and Max Bromer against I think it was probably third and maybe like fourth string Texans defensive players. But I mean I don’t know if I disagree like right now if you threw Max Brosmer into the fire and said, “All right, you get 17 games in this infrastructure and so does Sam Howell.” Would the results be drastically different? Boy, I don’t know. And again, I’ll go back to what I’ve continued to say. There’s been s some days that Brosmer is the second best quarterback. Do I want to throw Brosmer into a regular season game right now? I would have my trepidation. I mean, hell, you know, Jiren Hall got thrown in and we saw that. But do I think that if I have a project on my roster or a player on my roster that I think over the long haul can be a better QB? I’m taking Brosmer for sure. So, it’s a little bit dicey. I I would like to see them have a backup quarterback I trust more than the current backup uh backups on the roster, but I’ve seen enough from Brosmer to know that I want to keep seeing it if that makes sense. You know, Al at at the bare minimum for Brosmer, he feel you know how there’s cuz there’s what anywhere between like there’s like 90 to n 90 to 100 quarterbacks on rosters throughout the NFL. Some teams keep two, some teams keep three. And there’s practice squad, but there’s always guys like Tim Bole that there’s no reason at all in their statistical profile or their performance why they stick around on NFL teams, but they’re there because of their quarterback energy, their leadership, their value in a film room. So, at bare minimum, Max Brosmer with all of those qualities that he exhibited with the Gophers and now with the Vikings, he’s gonna stick around for I think multiple years in NFL circles at worst. And at best, it feels like there’s a guy in there that could actually maybe start some games at some point. And then and then maybe he starts climbing the list, the Kurt Warers and the Tony Romos of great undrafted quarterbacks. But I like him. He can he’s accurate. Like I said, I’d keep him. You throw those little intermediate passes. Let’s go. I’d keep him. I don’t I have no idea if you throw him in if you know, knock on wood. If McCarthy gets hurt opening night and you throw Brosmer in, I have no clue what what happens. But I do know that the way that he goes about his business. And the thing I like about Bromer is it’s not that he’s the, you know, by any means a perfect QB, but it feels like his weaknesses are offset by his smarts. You can tell he knows what he doesn’t know, and you can tell that he knows not to do stupid things. And unfortunately, when he’s gotten a chance to play, Sam Howell’s track record is the exact opposite. So, it makes me nervous a little bit. What Declan is Well, it makes me nervous to keep him as my primary backup, but I very much think he deserves a spot, as I just said, on the 53. QB3 QB3 makes a lot of sense. And Brett Ripen, you want to stick around, you stick around. Do you really think Here’s the other thing, though. Do you really think that the VI the No one no one drafted Bromer? So, it’s not like you’d be, oh, are we going to cut the sixth round pick and then try to sneak him through waiverss. So, every team passed on him in the draft, right? and the only thing he’s put on film distributed to the rest of the league is the fourth quarter of a preseason game, right? So, would there really be a risk if you would would a team claim him to be on their 53 if you tried to sneak into the practice squad? I mean, he could also decide to go to a different practice squad because it’s a mutual decision. It probably depends on what his next two games look like. I think McCarthy is done playing. So, Howell starts the next two games. Bromer. I mean, Brett Ripen, we just sort of saw it, right? Like, he played on Saturday. I think he threw five passes, completed one. The other thing is I think Brett Ripen probably needs to make a career decision here. Like, what direction do you want to go to? Because if you cut him, I don’t think he gets signed. Like, he could retire. He could decide to go to a different uh practice squad or something. But I just think anything that Brosmer puts on film positive. I guess my question becomes, you don’t want to play Brett. You want Brett in your room. That’s what they want. But McCarthy has talked about that Max is great, too. Like Max is a student. This is what I like about him. He’s a student of the game. He loves the game. You can tell he grinds film. I could see him as a coach someday. So, I guess if Brett Ripen was a commodity, I would probably say I’d probably take a chance on Brosmer being snuck through the waiver wire, but he’s not. He’s just he’s a he’s a guy like Tim Bole. He’s just going to bounce around for in perpetuity. If I was him, I would stay here and benefit from being in a great quarterback environment. I would I would keep Rosemar and tell him just like keep doing all of the PJ Flet culture things like sprinting sprinting from one end of the field to the other for like the fourth quarter. uh using acronyms egregiously telling when somebody asks you how you’re doing respond elite. I just we just need a little bit of PJ acronyms. Hyperculture. Hyperulture. There’s a bunch of them. I think they make you I think you have to learn and know them to be part of the program. Oh yeah. I think you’re right. Which means that you you as a season ticket guy should have to learn them too. Since the Mackis have the nice uh actually we don’t we don’t this year. What happened? Uh we just we we don’t go to all the games. Okay. We’re going to be selective with the games we go to cuz it’s like if if by the end of the year you’re a season ticket holder and it’s like all right we we had to miss three games or whatever because of different family plans and things. So we’re going to we we’ll be at a bunch of games but we are not officially season ticket holders this year. still supporting. Still supporting. I’m not questioning you, so you don’t have to defend yourself. Uh, so hey, if you agree vehemently or disagree with any of this 53man roster projection, let us know in the YouTube comments. Click that like button and the subscribe button. And also, don’t forget about squar.com/bid. 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