The Vikings had a leper colony for an offensive line last year. In the off season, the GM, Rick Speilman went to work. He signed two free agent tackles. One from Detroit and one from Carolina. A couple yrs ago they traded a seventh round pick to Pittsburgh for a backup center (Easton). They drafted (3rd round 2017) a guard-center. Although the RT has missed two games due to concussion the GM has rebuilt this line in one off-season. Reese hasn't done much in five years and now we have our own leper colony. I can't blame Reese for all the injuries.. Gilbride said years ago the Oline needed to be addressed. Coughlin said "This is the team I have been given to coach". I say Reese goes and Macadoo stays. He's a coach, not a miracle worker. AND Eli deserves far better.
Spielman has had successes and failures. Just like every other GM. His career is a blip compared to Jerry Reese's.
Re: OL...You could add the Rams, Saints, and Lions have also evolved their OLs over the last 1-2 seasons.
Good post.
Spielman has had successes and failures. Just like every other GM. His career is a blip compared to Jerry Reese's.
He hasn’t been blessed with a franchise QB like Reese.
The Vikings have a better roster top to bottom despite the blown picks on Ponder, Bridgewater, and Bradford.
Treadwell is a bust but Diggs (5th round), Thielen (undrafted), and Rudolph aren’t. Something you conveniently neglected to fit your narrative.
The Vikings are the 2 seed right now with a 3rd string QB and their workhorse back gone for the year with an ACL.
Reese can’t hold this guy’s jock.
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Rick Spielman has been the de facto general manager of the Vikings since 2006. He has one playoff win in 11 seasons. He's the guy who drafted Christian Ponder 12th overall in 2011. His first round pick in 2016, Laquon Treadwell, has a grand total of 15 receptions in 20 games and zero touchdowns.
Spielman has had successes and failures. Just like every other GM. His career is a blip compared to Jerry Reese's.
He hasn’t been blessed with a franchise QB like Reese.
The Vikings have a better roster top to bottom despite the blown picks on Ponder, Bridgewater, and Bradford.
Treadwell is a bust but Diggs (5th round), Thielen (undrafted), and Rudolph aren’t. Something you conveniently neglected to fit your narrative.
The Vikings are the 2 seed right now with a 3rd string QB and their workhorse back gone for the year with an ACL.
Reese can’t hold this guy’s jock.
Thanks.. half the idiots on BBI just say 2 SB hence Jerry must be great.. They forget how hard life is without a franchise QB.. JR had one handed to him who provided 11 years of Hof/Elite level QB performance.. Yet JR's team has missed the playoffs more than they have made it..
HOWEVER - since 2011 he's been an awful GM, and after 6 years of mediocrity at best, it's time for a change in the front office. We just have to hope Ross and Mara go with him.
HOWEVER - since 2011 he's been an awful GM, and after 6 years of mediocrity at best, it's time for a change in the front office. We just have to hope Ross and Mara go with him.
what are the chances mara fires reese and mcadoo, and promotes marc ross to GM, and chris mara to marc ross's job. sadly, i could see this happening..
Not learning from their mistake, Minnesota drafted Laquon Treadwell in the first round. Guy can't learn the playbook and can't get on the field.
Not learning from their mistake, Minnesota drafted Laquon Treadwell in the first round. Guy can't learn the playbook and can't get on the field.
Good thing for them the draft is longer than 1 round. Maybe Reese will learn that one day.
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Guy couldn't learn the playbook and mainly just played special teams. He's playing for another team now.
Not learning from their mistake, Minnesota drafted Laquon Treadwell in the first round. Guy can't learn the playbook and can't get on the field.
Good thing for them the draft is longer than 1 round. Maybe Reese will learn that one day.
The Vikings played in four of the first 11 Super Bowls, never led in any of them, and they didn't score a point in the first half of any of them, either. They made their last Super Bowl appearance in the waning days of the Ford administration.
Meanwhile, the Giants have reached the Super Bowl five times in the last 30 years and have won four championships, including two in last 10 years.
Obviously, the Giants have been a far superior organization, at every level. Why have the Giants, and Jerry Reese, been so successful, while the Vikings, and Rick Spielman,have been such spectacular failures?
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Guy couldn't learn the playbook and mainly just played special teams. He's playing for another team now.
Not learning from their mistake, Minnesota drafted Laquon Treadwell in the first round. Guy can't learn the playbook and can't get on the field.
Good thing for them the draft is longer than 1 round. Maybe Reese will learn that one day.
The Vikings played in four of the first 11 Super Bowls, never led in any of them, and they didn't score a point in the first half of any of them, either. They made their last Super Bowl appearance in the waning days of the Ford administration.
Meanwhile, the Giants have reached the Super Bowl five times in the last 30 years and have won four championships, including two in last 10 years.
Obviously, the Giants have been a far superior organization, at every level. Why have the Giants, and Jerry Reese, been so successful, while the Vikings, and Rick Spielman,have been such spectacular failures?
60 years of history is irrelevant. Like I said earlier, Reese inherited a franchise QB. The Vikings GM didn’t, and despite blowing multiple first round picks over the years the Vikings have put together a deeper and more talented roster.
12 of 14 seasons with no playoff wins for Eli.
1 playoff home game in the new stadium.
It all needs to be blown up!
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Reese deserves credit for 2 Superbowls and the work involved in getting there is something you can't take away from him.
HOWEVER - since 2011 he's been an awful GM, and after 6 years of mediocrity at best, it's time for a change in the front office. We just have to hope Ross and Mara go with him.
what are the chances mara fires reese and mcadoo, and promotes marc ross to GM, and chris mara to marc ross's job. sadly, i could see this happening..
I don't see that scenario happening.
His best and only quality is time mgmt. that's it.