QB Nick Mullens is now a Viking

We have ourselves a good backup

Originally posted by valrod33:

im just glad his emergence will allow us to move on from Cj Beathard. CJ has no business being on an NFL Roster. He is the racist white version of Nathan Peterman

Wait what?

Originally posted by Goatie:

Originally posted by LambdaChi49:
Mullens definitely looks poised and seems to go through his progressions. Anyway I'm not going to get too excited. There have been endless guys who come off the bench and make things happen for a bit and then come crashing down to earth big time.

Tim Rattay (yeah way back)
Shaun Hill
JT OSullivan
Troy Smith
Nate Davis (the zone wanted him to start because of one ridiculous circus throw he made in garbage time pre season).
Blaine Gabbert
CJ Beathard

I'm sure I've missed some. Hell even Alex Smith in 2009. That Texans game he came in to start the second half and threw like 3 TD passes on literally the same play to Vernon Davis three different times thanks to the genius of Jimmy Raye lol. And then he starts the next year 0-5 and nearly gets boo'd off the field ("We Want Carr")

Frankly I still need to see more of Jimmy G.

Blaine Gabbert when was he ever good?

I agree with Jimmy G. He has potential but he has to maintain it and he especially has to show he aint going to do stupid stuff like get injured just to gain two extra yards.

Mullens has to do a lot more push ups to develop arm strength so he can throw it deep. He is accurate at short range and gets it out quick but we will be playing some better teams soon so we will see if he can lift his game.

Just minor corrections:

2009 - Mike Martz was OC not Jimmy Raye, Nolan was fired, Sing took over as interim HC, Alex got benched for Shaun Hill and we went on a bit of run to close out at 8-8. Sing became HC after the season and immediately and idiotically fired Martz.

2010 - Sing hired Jimmy Raye as OC and Alex was named starter over Hill. Not for any failure by Hill, mind you. We regressed bigtime that year. Jimmy Raye was possibly the worst OC anytime anywhere.

Originally posted by RTFirefly:

Originally posted by Goatie:

Originally posted by LambdaChi49:

Mullens definitely looks poised and seems to go through his progressions. Anyway I'm not going to get too excited. There have been endless guys who come off the bench and make things happen for a bit and then come crashing down to earth big time.

Tim Rattay (yeah way back)
Shaun Hill
JT OSullivan
Troy Smith
Nate Davis (the zone wanted him to start because of one ridiculous circus throw he made in garbage time pre season).
Blaine Gabbert
CJ Beathard

I'm sure I've missed some. Hell even Alex Smith in 2009. That Texans game he came in to start the second half and threw like 3 TD passes on literally the same play to Vernon Davis three different times thanks to the genius of Jimmy Raye lol. And then he starts the next year 0-5 and nearly gets boo'd off the field ("We Want Carr")

Frankly I still need to see more of Jimmy G.

Blaine Gabbert when was he ever good?

I agree with Jimmy G. He has potential but he has to maintain it and he especially has to show he aint going to do stupid stuff like get injured just to gain two extra yards.

Mullens has to do a lot more push ups to develop arm strength so he can throw it deep. He is accurate at short range and gets it out quick but we will be playing some better teams soon so we will see if he can lift his game.

Just minor corrections:

2009 - Mike Martz was OC not Jimmy Raye, Nolan was fired, Sing took over as interim HC, Alex got benched for Shaun Hill and we went on a bit of run to close out at 8-8. Sing became HC after the season and immediately and idiotically fired Martz.

2010 - Sing hired Jimmy Raye as OC and Alex was named starter over Hill. Not for any failure by Hill, mind you. We regressed bigtime that year. Jimmy Raye was possibly the worst OC anytime anywhere.

Martz was the 08 oc. Raye was the oc in 09

Originally posted by SteveWallacesHelmet:

Originally posted by valrod33:
im just glad his emergence will allow us to move on from Cj Beathard. CJ has no business being on an NFL Roster. He is the racist white version of Nathan Peterman

Wait what?

huh? CJ is racist now?

Mullens is a keeper. Good darts with short to medium passes. Needs to step into and work on his deep passes. He's only 23yrs old, couple more years of improvement should be good.

Originally posted by crabman82:

Originally posted by RTFirefly:

Originally posted by Goatie:

Originally posted by LambdaChi49:
Mullens definitely looks poised and seems to go through his progressions. Anyway I'm not going to get too excited. There have been endless guys who come off the bench and make things happen for a bit and then come crashing down to earth big time.

Tim Rattay (yeah way back)
Shaun Hill
JT OSullivan
Troy Smith

Chris Winkie

Jim Drunkenmiller

Ken Dorsey

Matt Barkley

Colin Kaepernick
Nate Davis (the zone wanted him to start because of one ridiculous circus throw he made in garbage time pre season).
Blaine Gabbert
CJ Beathard

I'm sure I've missed some. Hell even Alex Smith in 2009. That Texans game he came in to start the second half and threw like 3 TD passes on literally the same play to Vernon Davis three different times thanks to the genius of Jimmy Raye lol. And then he starts the next year 0-5 and nearly gets boo'd off the field ("We Want Carr")

Frankly I still need to see more of Jimmy G.

Blaine Gabbert when was he ever good?

I agree with Jimmy G. He has potential but he has to maintain it and he especially has to show he aint going to do stupid stuff like get injured just to gain two extra yards.

Mullens has to do a lot more push ups to develop arm strength so he can throw it deep. He is accurate at short range and gets it out quick but we will be playing some better teams soon so we will see if he can lift his game.

Just minor corrections:

2009 - Mike Martz was OC not Jimmy Raye, Nolan was fired, Sing took over as interim HC, Alex got benched for Shaun Hill and we went on a bit of run to close out at 8-8. Sing became HC after the season and immediately and idiotically fired Martz.

2010 - Sing hired Jimmy Raye as OC and Alex was named starter over Hill. Not for any failure by Hill, mind you. We regressed bigtime that year. Jimmy Raye was possibly the worst OC anytime anywhere.

Martz was the 08 oc. Raye was the oc in 09

Fixed....

Originally posted by crabman82:

Originally posted by RTFirefly:

Originally posted by Goatie:

Originally posted by LambdaChi49:
Mullens definitely looks poised and seems to go through his progressions. Anyway I'm not going to get too excited. There have been endless guys who come off the bench and make things happen for a bit and then come crashing down to earth big time.

Tim Rattay (yeah way back)
Shaun Hill
JT OSullivan
Troy Smith
Nate Davis (the zone wanted him to start because of one ridiculous circus throw he made in garbage time pre season).
Blaine Gabbert
CJ Beathard

I'm sure I've missed some. Hell even Alex Smith in 2009. That Texans game he came in to start the second half and threw like 3 TD passes on literally the same play to Vernon Davis three different times thanks to the genius of Jimmy Raye lol. And then he starts the next year 0-5 and nearly gets boo'd off the field ("We Want Carr")

Frankly I still need to see more of Jimmy G.

Blaine Gabbert when was he ever good?

I agree with Jimmy G. He has potential but he has to maintain it and he especially has to show he aint going to do stupid stuff like get injured just to gain two extra yards.

Mullens has to do a lot more push ups to develop arm strength so he can throw it deep. He is accurate at short range and gets it out quick but we will be playing some better teams soon so we will see if he can lift his game.

Just minor corrections:

2009 - Mike Martz was OC not Jimmy Raye, Nolan was fired, Sing took over as interim HC, Alex got benched for Shaun Hill and we went on a bit of run to close out at 8-8. Sing became HC after the season and immediately and idiotically fired Martz.

2010 - Sing hired Jimmy Raye as OC and Alex was named starter over Hill. Not for any failure by Hill, mind you. We regressed bigtime that year. Jimmy Raye was possibly the worst OC anytime anywhere.

Martz was the 08 oc. Raye was the oc in 09

I sincerely apologize for "correcting" correct statements. I didn't remember Sing or Jimmy Raye being around that extra full season. I also didn't mention that Nolan was fired as GM, too. But in 2008.

I did get it right about Jimmy Raye being the worst OC!

Originally posted by qnnhan7:
Mullens is a keeper. Good darts with short to medium passes. Needs to step into and work on his deep passes. He's only 23yrs old, couple more years of improvement should be good.

I agree with him being a keeper. I don't think he can improve his arm strength much at this point. You either have it or you don't. At this point I think he is a good reliable guy to come in late in a game when your team has a lead if your starter goes down or you just want to protect your starter from getting hurt. He can keep the team moving with short throws and eat up some clock. On the other hand, I don't see him coming in and making big comebacks since he can't throw deep or make the long out throws. If he could do those he would be a starter and not a backup.

I'll be interested to see the all-22. Being at the game, there were a few plays in particular that he had Guys open deep but wouldn't pull the trigger. At least CJ can make the D pay for sitting on short routes.

Makes me wonder why shanny didnt see what we all saw in preseason...

So far his hand picked guys have not done well....

Originally posted by CatchMaster80:

Originally posted by qnnhan7:

Mullens is a keeper. Good darts with short to medium passes. Needs to step into and work on his deep passes. He's only 23yrs old, couple more years of improvement should be good.

I agree with him being a keeper. I don't think he can improve his arm strength much at this point. You either have it or you don't. At this point I think he is a good reliable guy to come in late in a game when your team has a lead if your starter goes down or you just want to protect your starter from getting hurt. He can keep the team moving with short throws and eat up some clock. On the other hand, I don't see him coming in and making big comebacks since he can't throw deep or make the long out throws. If he could do those he would be a starter and not a backup.

The last play he threw over everyone out of the endzone. The long pass to -- can't remember the WR --Goodwin? He over threw high trying to drop it between bracketing defenders. He lacks accuracy on the deep pass. His arm strength is not bad.

Originally posted by IdahoNiner:
Makes me wonder why shanny didnt see what we all saw in preseason...

So far his hand picked guys have not done well....

we really only know a few of those. There's no complete list. That's all internal.

Originally posted by TheXFactor:

Originally posted by IdahoNiner:
Makes me wonder why shanny didnt see what we all saw in preseason...

So far his hand picked guys have not done well....

we really only know a few of those. There's no complete list. That's all internal.

Of the few we know for certain, he isnt looking like that great talent scout his dad was.

Originally posted by qnnhan7:
The last play he threw over everyone out of the endzone. The long pass to -- can't remember the WR --Goodwin? He over threw high trying to drop it between bracketing defenders. He lacks accuracy on the deep pass. His arm strength is not bad.

On the last play they were on about the 30 so throwing out of the end zone does not really show arm strength. On plays like that he has plenty of time to wind up and throw as far as he can. I have seen 13 year olds at the punt, pass and kick competition throw farther than that. Arm strength is more than distance; it is accuracy plus velocity. I'm not knocking Mullens but he is what he is.