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Offensive Skill Players Shurmer has to work with Minn v. NY

gidiefor : Mod : 1/16/2018 6:30 pm

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Here’s a comparison of the Vikings and Giants top offensive skill players (draft round in parenthesis)

QB: Case Keenum (UFA) / Eli Manning (1st)
RB: Latavius Murray (6th) / Wayne Gallman (4th)
WR: Adam Thielen (UFA) / Odell Beckham Jr. (1st)
WR: Stephon Diggs (5th) / Sterling Shepard (2nd)
TE: Kyle Rudolph (2nd) / Evan Engram (1st)
TE: David Morgan (6th) / Rhett Ellison (4th)

Interesting Offensive Skill Player Comparison by Dan Duggan - ( New Window )

Hopefully Â

SCGiantsFan : 1/16/2018 6:54 pm : link

The coaching made Minny's players better. Nothing wrong with our players getting better, too.

And the "non-skill" players: Â

CT Charlie : 1/16/2018 7:25 pm : link

the O-line?!

5 NEW Â

SHO'NUFF : 1/16/2018 9:00 pm : link

O-linemen

Thielen and Diggs aren't bums. Â

Ten Ton Hammer : 1/16/2018 9:01 pm : link

He's got some talent to work with.

according to their draft positions, Â

SHO'NUFF : 1/16/2018 9:28 pm : link

they should be bums.

Why should a 5th round pick Â

djstat : 1/16/2018 10:00 pm : link

Be a bum?

RE: Why should a 5th round pick Â

spike : 1/16/2018 10:01 pm : link

In comment 13793483 djstat said:

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Be a bum?

only if picked by Reese

RE: Thielen and Diggs aren't bums. Â

Jay on the Island : 1/17/2018 3:37 pm : link

In comment 13793433 Ten Ton Hammer said:

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He's got some talent to work with.

Thielen first two years without Shurmur:
a combined 281 yards
His two seasons with Shurmur as OC
967 yards
1276 yards
To clarify I am not saying that Thielen is a nobody without Shurmur. My point is that Shurmur helped to turn Thielen into a very good player.

RE: RE: Thielen and Diggs aren't bums. Â

Ten Ton Hammer : 1/17/2018 3:45 pm : link

In comment 13794385 Jay on the Island said:

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In comment 13793433 Ten Ton Hammer said:

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He's got some talent to work with.

Thielen first two years without Shurmur:
a combined 281 yards
His two seasons with Shurmur as OC
967 yards
1276 yards
To clarify I am not saying that Thielen is a nobody without Shurmur. My point is that Shurmur helped to turn Thielen into a very good player.

I agree with that. He was a from a nowhere school and didn't even get a combine invite but his athletic ability would have placed him well. He needed to be developed, but I don't think he's a product of a system. Kind of a victor cruz story.