Vikings Franchise ....a new era..(Season 2)

[Purplepower]

As the Vikings sat and watched the Eagles beat the Colts in the Superbowl, we new there was a lot of work to do in the off season. I wanted my long time Viks to be a force in the league, and losing my frist playoff game is not what I had in mind. This Thread picks up from my first season. So hope once again I hope you enjoy. Lets meet the staff, as I have a couple of new hires. The numbers are new and old rating.

D. Bevell - Off Cord - 27 rating (20)
L. Fraizier - Def Cord - 47 rating (38)
S. Kwan - Special Tm - 30 rating (new hire - old 20)
K. Rodgers - QBC - 43 rating (32)
E. Bieniemy - RBC - 57 rating (45)
J. Sullivan - WRC - 57 rating (new hire - old 13)
P. Morris - OLC - 88 rating (77)
F. Pagae - LBC - 44 rating (34)
J. Lynn - DBC - 44 rating (new hire - 16)
K. Dunbar - DLC - 65 rating (53)
R. Spielberg - GM - 79 rating (77)
R. Wyman - Trainer - 99 rating (new hire - 14 old)

As you can see the most improvement is the Trainer as I had a major upgrade in this position. This is a must in this game, and hopefully I will do better with the injuries.

Also, our new WR Coach - J. Sullivan, and DBC - J. Lynn, will help in these areas as well. Most of the staff improved by about 10 pts this year over last year with 13 wins.

I wanted to fire our Off Cord, but I would have took a major hit from the owners approval, as he wanted to keep him.

Current approval ratings is 67.

[Purplepower]

A couple of key losses hit the Viks as a contract could not be reached with the following:

M. Birk - C - 91 ratings
Ty Law - CB - 81 rating
C. Henery - WR- 82 rating
K. Williams - DT - retired- 89 rating

Following players where not offered a contract as the Vikings are wanting to go in another direction.

RG - M. Lentz - 81 rating
ROLB - I. Gold - 74 rating
DT - G. Jackson - 80 rating
ROLB - E. Henderson - 71 rating
LG - B. Daniels - 80 rating
QB - G. Frerotte - 73 rating

[TheDutchDad]

Nice. Can't wait to see where you go in FA and draft.

[Purplepower]

The Vikings need to upgrade at a few key areas and hoped to during the free agent signing. Hopefully I did ok, and upgraded my backup players as well.

WR - Reggie Brown - 82 rating (start)
WR - Dashon Gordon - 82 rating (#3 WR)
TE - Benjamin Watson - 88 rating (start)
FS - OJ Atogwe - 85 rating (start)
RT - Ryan O'Callaghan - 86 rating - (could start)
RT - Jon Stinchcomb - 80 rating - (back up)
LT - Mike Toudouze - 76 rating - (back up)
LG - T. Fonoti - 85 rating - (could start)
LT - Frank Omiyale - 77 rating (back up)

[Purplepower]

Vikings made a couple of trades to beef up next years draft.

Traded WR S. Rice to Denver for a 2010 4th rd pick. Rice just droped too many balls as well as his playbook knowlege just wasn't getting it done. He only caught 36 passes last year for 673 yds and 5 TDs.

Traded SS D. Sharper to Houston for 2009 3rd rd pick and 2010 1st rd pick. I could not pass up on this, as I have SS Russell. Sharper placed ok for me, but age is catching up. Last year he had 35 tackles and only 1 int.

[Purplepower]

COULD VIKS HAVE GOTTEN A BETTER DRAFT:

Vikings HC D. Horne attended his first draft, and was looking to get at least one starter and did just that with their #1 pick, and traded next years to get another late 1st round pick.

Rd 1 - ROLB - M. Wright:

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84/90

Rd 1 - C - Mack Jones:

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83/92

Rd 2 - QB - N. Wyoming:

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79/91

Rd 3 - WR - V. Harper:

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71/82

Rd 4 - SS - E. Watts:

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64/69

- cut list
Rd 5 - DT - D. Lewis:

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74/77

Rd 6 - WR - D. Dotson: (CUT)
Rd 7 - WR - B. McClain: (CUT)
Rd 7 - HB - C. Clemons: (CUT)

Did not make any good choices in the late rounds. It was either late, and me not paying attention, or I just drafted bad their. However, I did get two that are going to start.

[TheDutchDad]

Did you sign any big name FA's?

I have the English draft path...so no help from you...but you had a good draft. I like the Sharper trade.

[Purplepower]

Quote: Originally Posted by Mercurial23

Did you sign any big name FA's? I have the English draft path...so no help from you...but you had a good draft. I like the Sharper trade.

Biggest is TE Watson. Hopefully he gets more involved than the guys from last year.