Kevin O’Connell on Lewis Cine: Our No. 1 Goal Was to Add Our Kind of Football Player

Cine is good, that’s not the issue, not good enough value for dropping down 20 damn spots is the issue, and ending up taking a Safety anyway lmfao. These next two picks better be home runs. Cine is gonna be a good player.

He is a good pick . Hopefully we can land kyler Gordon or Andrew booth .

They clearly like the guy. Lots of very good players get picked outside the top 20. Interesting to see who they get as almost a first rounder tomorrow.

I like the idea of disguising coverage subbing between 3 safeties and locking it down with Harrison getting older. We couldn’t get our CB and with crafty secondary coaching (which this is Ed’s thing!), a good to possibly really great pass rush combined with an explosive offense. Let’s go, a lot of good corners still on the board!

Such a typical mediocre move
This is definitely the Vikings 😂

Hamilton is pretty much a athletic Linebacker freak that’s playing safety and many are saying he’s gonna be the next Cam Chancellor but only time will tell.
I’ve live long enough to understand that no draft pick are ever garentee.

Hamilton is big and strong and is a aggressive safety that can come up to help stop the run and is a tackling machine and in college they play him like that in multiple situation as the 8 man in the box to help stop the run.
Kinda like how the vikings have been using Harrison the HitMan for years.
So if the Vikings did draft Hamilton instead we will need to play him the same way we play Harrison for him to be successful.
Which wouldn’t make any sense to have two type of the same players on safety and why I think Cine is the better fit for Vikings.

Everyone have a weakness and no one is perfect.
The biggest weakness about Hamilton is in pass coverage.
If you watch college football alot you’ll know Hamilton have the tendency to get beat down field and have the tendency to give up short quick plays that turns into big plays for the opponents and that’s due to his slower speed.
Which is something that music video highlights won’t show.

Hamilton biggest weakness is his speed but again only time will tell of that will be a issue for him in the pro NFL.
If the Ravens use him in a similar system like how the vikings use Harrison I’ll say he’ll be fine.
What most people forget is that Harrison speed was also a issue coming out of college, but luckily Harrison IQ football was so good that he’s always been able to position himself to make plays and never let his slower speed be the issue much.
Is also the reason why Zimmer always try to not to leave Harrison on a island much because when it does happen that’s the only time Harrison tend to get beat.
I also expect the Viking new Defensive coordinator to continue to use Harrison the same way Zimmer did.

As for Cine when it comes to stopping the run he’s just as aggressive as Hamilton in coming up to help but his tackle can be questionable from time to time compare to Hamilton.
Because again Hamilton is pretty much a athletic Linebacker freak at the safety position.

The good thing about Cine is that he’s way better at pass protection then Hamilton period and that’s not even a close argument.
Cine can track side line to side and can track all over the back field and have the speed to recover with his freakish 4.37 speed.
The only issue is that because of his speed he have the bad tendency to be out of position because he rely to much of his speed to bail himself out of trouble, but that’s something that can be coach to get rid of bad habits, but you can’t coach speed which is something Cine have.

For me I hate the trade back because we’ve experience to much of that with Spelman.
I also don’t like that the trade was with a division rival.
But I like the pick…

Honestly really like his attitude, being a real leader and more outspoken than Zimmer. This video would be 4 minutes long with zimmer

Love the pick. But hated the trade. There was no reason to trade our 46th for their 66th. To me, we should have just traded our 12th pick for Detroits 32nd and 34th. Period. That would have given us positive value. Now we got negative value and Detroit got the better deal. Oh well

Worst pick so far in the draft. Cine wasn’t on anyone’s draft board in the 1st. Lost our on Hamilton, Wyatt, Davis, Johnson… This offense is going to get destroyed next season. You heard it here first! Bet against the Vikings!!!

So 12 to 3 or 4 is a long way to go up, but 12 to 32 isn’t a long way back? Make it make sense

Everybody wanted more for the trade. With that said, Cine looks like The Flash on the field, especially in run coverage and blitz schemes in the box. After today this entire deal will look a lot more salvageable, especially if they grab a CB like Andrew Booth or a LB like Nakobe Dean at #34.

This comment section is full of experts but not one of them sits at KAMs desk or makes his money. Did all of you geniuses apply for the GM job when it was open? Just curious and if so, what happened? Why is KAM in there and not you? Maybe the packers need some water boys. I mean you could take your crying asses over there and find out at least. Worth a shot right? 🤷‍♂️

I really wanted Booth Jr. hope we take him at 34. I really like booth’s ballhawking ability in donatell’s defense

The Vikings’ biggest needs are at guard and center on the o-line. This new regime apparently is just like the last one, not recognizing the importance of pass protection for Kirk. It’s ludicrous to invest so much in Kirk and then not give him the pass protection he needs in order to reach his full potential, which he has never been given the opportunity to do. It looks like Kwesi in one fell swoop has just turned the Minnesota Vikings into the Cleveland Browns.

Trading down was a bad decision to start with, compounded by the fact that they got very little in return for it. You trade a number 12 first-rounder, you should get a better first rounder than 32 in return. Terrible move, TERRIBLE.

Should have drafted Hamilton

The Vikings trade deal is like this – A guy walks up to a kid and says – “Hey kid, I have a quarter, and has the number 25 on it. My 25 cents is a piece of metal from the periodic table, and my “25” is a larger number than the number “20” you have on that silly piece of paper. Why don’t we trade”
The kid says – “Yeah! That sounds like a great statistical move – you have a silver coin, and all I have is a piece of paper, and your number 25 is a bigger number than my 20. I love statistical analysis and theory”
Trading these pick slots was some persons wet dream, but in reality – stupid.

We should have had Lions 2023 1st round picks, period.

We could have had WR; Williams, Dotson, Burks. If they wanted a Safety, we could have had Hamilton or Hill. We also needed Tyler Linderbaum. We missed Jermaine too!
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Lot’s of world class temper tantrums in these comments😂😂 SKOL VIKINGS!!!

I still trust Kam and koc they know what this team needs and it sounds like they have a solid plan let’s give them the peace of mind they need to bring this team home a Lombardi

the defense gave up 426 points in 2021- 24th
look for more defense picks tonight
offense scored 425 – 12th
defense is the weak link
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