3. Navigational efficiency<\/p>\n
The Vikings were able to display a navigational efficiency in swapping picks that would be the envy of Dwight K. Schrute in the “Garage Sale” episode of the The Office, when he went from a thumbtack to a telescope before Jim and Pam offered up miracle legumes.<\/p>\n
Going from 97 to 102 and picking up 142 (while sending 187) was a lynchpin for the whole weekend, providing collateral to dance with a willing participant.<\/p>\n
The Vikings then used the 172nd pick to acquire 201 and 202 to further round out the roster (more on that below).<\/p>\n
“I think a lot of times people think we make an action, there’s a series of events that led to that action. Even if you think of our draft-day trades, it’s 102, but we ended up getting 139 and 142, which was a plan to take those next steps,” Adofo-Mensah said. “So all those connected things are musings that I think through, and I wake up and I tell them to Kevin and I tell them to my staff. They say, ‘You’re right.’ Then there’s new ones in there. It comes out in a vision.<\/p>\n
“It’s cool. We’re almost like a band, where we come up with a song and everybody’s got ideas and you guys get to see the final product,” he added. “Hopefully it’s a beautiful song like “Bicycle” by Queen or something like that and not something on the worst hits track.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3. Navigational efficiency The Vikings were able to display a navigational efficiency in swapping picks that would be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2073],"tags":[7,233,259,2529,270,1025,1219,6,234],"class_list":{"0":"post-3159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-vikings","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-minnesota","10":"tag-minnesota-vikings","11":"tag-minnesotavikings","12":"tag-news-draft","13":"tag-news-index","14":"tag-news-team","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-vikings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114407768363579836","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}