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Minnesota Vikings Discussion Topic of the Day
The Vikings missed the playoffs, which sucks. They likely would have made them if not for the injury to Cousins, but in all likelihood would have just got curb stomped in the Wild Card Round anyway. What do the Vikings do moving forward at QB, RB, LG, DE, CB, CB, S, and QB?
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Got the Michigan/Washington on. Streaming it on You Tube.
Have no idea who the bald freak is in the shiny outfit is but I had to turn off the sound until It’s inane takes/talking points were off air.
‘Which team/program do you think will get more from a Win, Mich or Wash??’
Really? That is The View Level Analysis there.
ESPN really has become a woke toilet.
Down go Huskies.
34 -13.
It was kind of close until Michigan scored 2 late 4th qtr TDs.
Wash had a 255 -140 advantage in passing yards.
Mich had a 305 -50 advantage in rushing yards.
Neither one of the QB’s was really impressive. Penix threw the ball 51 times though. Couldn’t break 300 yards and barely completed half his passes. He had a TD and 2 interceptions. McCarthy didn’t put any points up with his arm, and only threw 18 passes. These aren’t NFL QB’s in waiting.
Boats loads of discussion from national pundits about Saints running score up on Falcons from victory formation.
Made me wonder though, I thought Detroit had some pretty unusual play calls at the end of game – screen pass, one right another. no kneel downs or even run plays.
Was anything locally said about this?
No… but most folks just view it as typical Dan Campbell.
The Saints players apparently decided to score the last TD on their own.
Well, I thought the Lions were bush with all those screens.
Don’t disagree.
I still hope Dalvin gets on the field for the Ravens in the play-offs, and does well. Hope the Ravens win the Super Bowl at this point, and Dalvin gets a ring.
Looks like a low turnover for HC this year.
Panthers
Raiders
Chargers
Falcons
Redskins
possible but likely imo…
Patriots
Titans
Bears
5 new head coaches last year, 5 more this year. So one third of the teams will have new leaders in 2 years.
I thought it was more last year.
So maybe 5 is the average rate of turnover.
Dunno… used to be 5 years was the basic standard for a HC to get a team right. That seems to be moving more towards 3 or 4 now.
*Not likely
Amon-Ra St. Brown responds to dirty hit from Vikings Harrison Phillips – Pride Of Detroit
Phillips is a dirty player…cut him
I’ve seen worse…
lol…that’s nothing compared to Kirby Joseph (Lions DB, which stands for both defensive back and douche bag) launching the crown of his helmet into JJ’s helmet/face mask and later Hockenson’s knee (ending his season) in game 1 between the Lions and Vikings.
Fuck that guy and FTL.
Indeed, Amon Ra should STFU.
Kevin Seifert article on Kirk, couple of quotes about taking a hometown discount…
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39266834/kirk-cousins-hopes-stay-vikings-structure-most-important
“what the dollars represent,”
As D. Culpepper said ‘it is about respect’.
You know who is pretty much universally respected? Tom Brady, who routinely took team friendly deals, he wasn’t grossly underpaid, but took less and allowed for structure to help the team.
GOAT both on the field AND team player
Yep.
He did that once…
Just read that article…don’t quite know what to think of it.
As close as I can come is “It’s not about the money, so I might play for less than full marktet, but I don’t want to be disrespected.”
LOL.
When he says it’s NOT about the money, you can GUARANTEE that it will be about the money.
And all the Kirkstans will just slobber this up like Sunday supper.
So, it’s more about control than money. He wants to be able to control his future, and not let the organization have control to move him or trade him at their whim.
That’s fine. Just sign a deal cheap enough they can bench him in 2025. He’d be a great backup for the guy they hopefully draft this year.
Yep, I’d be fine with that.
This is correct FloridaSKOL. NFL contracts are written to control the player, and are pretty much worthless from a players perspective. The only way to combat that is to have enough guaranteed money, and a no-trade clause, that a team can’t cut you or trade you at their whim.
Cousins has offered below market deals to his GM three times now in his career, and all three times he was rejected (twice by Bruce Allen and once by KAM).
Fair deal, guaranteed money, no trade clause. That’s what Cousins will play for.
i know the popular opinion by most the people here is that kirk is greedy and wants everything guaranteed etc….
and that’s fine, i’m not arguing that point.
the thing i want to say is, out of most of the qb’s in the nfl, kirk, to me, seems like the type that would entertain a team friendly deal if it’s for multiple years, if it ensures being able to spend the right money in the right places.
if he can be convinced that they are going to do everything in their power to draft offensive line, defensive line and get a team that can make a run, i do not see any reason to think, if he is convinced they are gonna do it, that he can take a very team friendly deal to help…
that being said, i come at it from the mind of a poor person who doesn’t understand why players demand such high amounts if it hamstrings the team from putting multiple quality players on the team to build a contender.
After 10 years he hasn’t done this yet.
Not sure I would expect it now.
But, maybe he’s changed.
And taking $2 million less per year isn’t a team friendly deal. What type of free agent help can you get for $2 million when the league minimum is like $1 million.
i get it….i’m not saying his track record should prove different…
maybe he was doing that so that at some point in his career, he could be more team friendly. he doesn’t have insane endorsement money like tom brady….but this is just my “hope”
People can change.
I guess we find out by March 13th at 4:01pm eastern.
i think it could be a very interesting offseason for the vikings.
Or it could just be really boring
or this.
dang. i didn’t even think of this.
It will be boring up to March 10.
Freezy dum dum
Re-signing Kirk, restructuring Smith, re-signing Hunter, etc. and just running it back would be fairly boring.
There is pressure from people outside Kirk or the team as well. Agents are definitely greedy and how much they make is dependent on the size of the contract. The NFLPA also pressures players to try get as much money as possible. Then there’s his family, who I would imagine want to not move somewhere else so I’d guess Julie is telling him he should do what it takes to stay.
LOL.
Great decision…..
We had the same amount huh?
True !!
LOL
So, his TD to fumble ratio was 0-3. Good for him.
Mattison sucks. The end.
Heard KAM found our QBOTF….
Gonna get him cheap too…
I was talking about the actual bridge itself…..
Hmmm
If the choice was him or the Crybaby I might have to give up football for awhile.
Speaking of unpatriotic assholes….
Did you guys see the clip of the American Jr. Hockey team after they won the World Jrs Hockey Tournament? While the Star Spangled Banner was being played they all started to sing along very loudly and proudly (none of them can sing worth a damn but its the thought that counts).
Anyway, ESPN couldn’t be bothered to show that even though they were covering the tournament – the Canadian station showed it which is the only way we know it happened…
Linky to article with the actual clip.
USA Hockey Team Praised For Their National Anthem Decision (msn.com)
I remember ESPN being ‘must view TV’ back in the day.
Man this woke crap sure messed it up badly.
Yep, I always turned on SportsCenter to catch up on all the different sports every day. Good recaps and funny hosts who understood it was all about a game and entertainment. I do miss that.
Same.
That andhow we consume content has changed drastically and they’ve been slow and ineffective in responding ftmp. Its why they went out and paid Pat Mcafee a bunch of money, he had something they’ve been unable to develop, a highly successful multi platform media company.
I saw it on twitter. Actually teared up to see that compared to all of this woke nonsense.
i am genuinely excited to see where the different qb’s this year get drafted and how they all do. lots of potential. lots of talent.
That’s what they said about RGIII… grin.
i’m excited to see who the hits AND misses will be and if the vikings grab QB, i’m gonna hope they are on the hit side.
I certainly hope whatever KAM does, it comes out right for us. Do have a lot of confidence that will happen? Not really.
Spend more time watching film and less looking at “advanced metrics”
KAM is a finance guy, not a football guy. His first draft he got played badly, making moves on the board for no apparent reason, then picking the wrong guys. His second draft he was again, singularly unimpressive.
I don’t expect him to suddenly become a brilliant horse trader and talent evaluator this coming draft.
His second draft was a lot better, Addison is a good pick, Blackmon is up and down but played fairly well for a 3rd rounder. He traded their second rounder for Hock, who has thus far been worth that trade. The rest are all guys who contributed on special teams but are still developomental, as most late round picks are. He also found Pace as an undrafted free agent. The first draft was horrendous though.
So baby steps then?
Hopefully he can get the QB right this time around since it seems like may try to go ‘all in’ since he whiffed on getting Richardson last year.
#fingerscrossed
I think they dodged a bullet with Richardson last year, but also, I had heard it was Stroud they were targeting if he fell to a certain spot
Since I’ve given up on Harvard, and. normally advanced metrics, watching film is excellent advise – it seldom lies.
I have more confidence in KAM than I do in Spielman, but that’s mostly because KAM hasn’t drafted a first round QB yet.
I didn’t like any of the QBs in the last draft even though everyone said it was supposed to be a great class. Stroud was outstanding this year, I didn’t think he would be based on the history of Ohio QBs. Young was pedestrian. Richardson sucked before season ending injury. Levis was up and down before injury. Obviously not all rookies develop at the same rate, but Stroud looks like the only sure fire NFLcaliber QB among them atm.
I’ve really enjoyed watching Stroud this year, and can’t help an occasional chuckle over the Panthers taking Young 1st. Of course, Young could end up OK if he ever has a decent team around him.
Hi Kathy, living with sis? Hope fam is good and don’t let grands wear you out.
Yes, all is well. We only got the grands a couple days over the holidays, although they were also all here for Christmas dinner, which was great. We were supposed to get them a couple more days after Christmas, but that turned into their parents trying to figure out why the fish in the aquarium the girls got kept dying.
Life ain’t easy. You want to give cuz that’s what people should do. Think we live in a world that just wants to take. You have a good head, trust your judgement.
I felt sorry for my daughter. She and her hubby are good people. Daughter is exhausted all the time, full time job and two kids. She was supposed to take a couple days after Christmas to rest, but understand her trying to fix the issues with the fish.
Trying to talk her into getting a housekeeper. Ours is going to give her a quote Wednesday. She really needs to take something off her plate.
Hard to figure. My kids full growed. Man, what a time to raise a family and maintain a relationship. You know.
Don’t know how the average family makes ends meet anymore. Crazy inflation/prices. Terrified about what kind of country we’re leaving our kids/grands.
We think the same Kathy.
Yeah, the funny thing is Reich and the FO liked Stroud better but the owner wanted Young so of course he was the pick. Their owner is Dan Snyder 2.0, their FO had a 3rd round grade on Dwayne Haskins and he made them take him at #15 overall. Luckily for Washington fans they’ve got a new owner.
Right, Panthers owner significantly interferes. He was all in on Watson too.
Like reading all the GM takes of what to do for next year – pretty new to me.
Was thinking though, being good st drafting has to be really important.
For example, we got JA with our number 1 last year for our WR2 . Pretty solid I think, he’s done well.
But was looking at Rams, they picked up Nacua as their WR2 with a 5th round pick. He has put up really impressive numbers.
Perhaps an even more solid pick.
Yes…if your point is you can find really good players past round 2 you are correct….
its just that the frequency of hits diminishes quite a bit.
That doesn’t take away from the notion that Addison was a solid pick.
It would be like saying Stroud wasn’t that great a pick because the 49ers found Purdy in the 7th.
No really. And Addison is for sure a solid pick
Was kind of thinking with all the holes we have, would be nice and helpful if KAM can hit some homeruns, even doubles, with later round picks. With all the top notch WR’s coming out of college very year, would think an “average GM” could find one with a first round pick. Given our situation, we need more.
My mention of Nacua was to just note that finding a “diamond in the rough” is a really big plus.
Yes, for sure would be nice if get lucky on some of those later round picks while NOT screwing up the early rounds.
You can fill a lot of holes if you draft well.
Nacua is their #1 WR. The only draft pick KAM has made that seems certain to be a good pick is Addison, the rest suck or are uncertain. Pace was a good pickup as a UDFA too.
Is Kupp gone?
nah man he’s still there
No, Nacua is just better
I don’t mind the JA pick, we had the offense that could/should have put up some serious points so maximizing that is OK imo. The rest of the picks STUNK! Now it’s time to bolster the defense for Flores imo this year.
They might want to look at a TE in the mid rounds with Hock’s injury. Should have drafted Kraft last year.
I think you could secure a decent enough TE through free agency….. maybe. Possibly.
I like JA too. I didn’t explain very well. tried some more below. I meant getting some solid hits, like real gems in later rounds, wold be helpful – given our situation.
Agree. Hitting in rounds 2-5 would be extremely helpful. Saved himself complete embarrassment by finding Pace Jr, but I bet Flores had more to do with that. Wait – I’m not betting, I know.
I’m kicking this spreadsheet’s ass! I might actually get 50 percent of the job done today if current progress passes peer review.
The secret to Excel is going on Google and typing…
“How do I…?”
#nojinx
I think if you did some pivot tables with Macros and VLOOKUPs you might finish it today.
I actually looked into that stuff, but I still couldn’t get it to work right. I ended up getting a tool bar from a place called Ablebits, which helped a lot.
Knowing how to locate and identify the proper tools is incredibly important.
Here is my prognostication/thoughts/hopes on what KAM will do this offseason.
QB, given the reports about how hard he went after Richardson in the last draft I expect him to identify ‘his guy’ and go get him. Then play him behind Mullins/Hall until he is deemed ready.
Sign JJ/HunterDarrisaw to a team friendly (cap wise) contracts that holds off the majority of the Cap Hits until KCs hit is off the books.
Then use the remaining draft and free agency to plug holes and bring in quality players (no couches please). Given enough $$/cap space he may well find some gems and improve the Def and the trenches.
Can it be done? Possibly. Can KAM ‘get it right’? Fingers crossed.
But it is a way forward.
Thats kind of how I see it too SoCal.
Since there is no way to know at this point how much draft capital it will cost to move up for their guy (#1/2? #4-6?) hard to know how the rest of the draft will go. Heck ‘their guy’ might fall to #11 for all we know.
I would turn the rest of the draft over to Flores if that keep him here and then fill the holes on the OL/RB in Free Agency.
You know it’ll take at least two 1st and two 2nd round picks plus whatever value DJ Moore has.
To move to #1? Maybe, especially as Chicago will ask for a premium for an Intra Divisional trade.
To move to #4 thru #6 from #11, I doubt we have to give up any future picks.
Again it all depends on who KAMs guy is. Richardson went 4th last year.
Yes for #1. That’s what Carolina gave up last year to get #1 and that was from pick #9..
If the Vikings want to get to 4 it’d take multiple first round picks plus.
IDK what they’ll do but I’m skeptical they will get it right.
Maybe they’ll give first round picks this year and next two years for the #4, then trade down to #12 to acquire a DB PLUS a sixth and seventh in this year’s draft AND next year’s draft. Oh baby I can’t wait.
Then KAM would find/make some trade chart/metric that explains how he made out well on the whole deal.
I can see it.
Spent all that capital for Bryce Young. It was interesting watching Panther/Buc game yesterday.
There isn’t much to work with on offense, but there is really nothing special about him.
Anybody know when teams can start trading again? After the SB? Start of the new league year?
Think when new league starts, March 13, guessing.
If I remember correctly the Stafford/Goff deal went down in January but wasn’t made official until March.
Back door stuff, i’m sure.
No Kink shaming.
No official trades until the new league year.
Go Wolves! Anything attached with Washington i automatically hate.
Those Rich Men North Of Richmond?
Wise, very wise.
Is that Harrison Smith in the music selection for the day?
looking at the 2024 draft order….
there are a good 5 or 6 teams ahead of us that are going to be looking QB and a few right below us that could try to trade up.
I saw let’s lock kirk up for 2 or 3 years, draft trenches trenches trenches and see what happens next year.
or get JJ mccarthy
You know there’s a very wealthy smart man that plays it this way – I buy when everyone else is selling, and I sell when everyone is buying. Seems to have worked pretty well.
Sign Kirk for 2-3 years AND draft McCarthy.
this, as long as we sign some FA trenches and draft good trenches.
if this is smith’s last year as a viking, we have Cine to replace him, so we are set there…
Let Kirk walk AND draft McCarthy.
Fine by me.
getting closer
no
Yes!
no
There is just no pleasing Mick today.
Defense – Let Flores build his defense and it’ll be set for 5-10 years even if he gets a HC job elsewhere. NOW
like i said, trenches trenches trenches
you gonna draft all D lineman? Frezzey dumdum
well, i said trenches 3 times. So at least 3 of them
BIG ones. MEAN ones. FAST ones. SMART ones.
so 4 of them. works for me!
Like the Spice Boys: Giant, Spawn, Speedy and Tron.
i’d prefer the more mean type. the vikings are always such sissies
there’s a reason the 49ers are always competitive regardless of who is under center.
Um, they only sign quarterbacks that don’t throw a lot of interceptions?
And dump their trash from ND.
Shots fired!!! I heard Keiwsi was going after Trey Lance….
Or Easton Stick since he is 0 and 4 as the Chargers starting QB
Actually the last time they weren’t competitive was when Lance was playing, last time before that was when Mullens was playing.
Didn’t they get to finals as Lance got hurt and Jimmy took over. Believe half the team was hurt when Mullens was there – can’t really remember thou.
The bears will auction off the #1 pick to the highest bidder
Commandos could look QB, could also look at trading back for moar picks
Pats likely draft a QB
cards no
chargers no
giants no
falcons likely yes
Bears no
jets no
Four very very likely looking for a QB when including whoever trades up to #1, the Vikings will have to trade up if they want someone.
Bears GM will get fired if he passes.
No he won’t, he can easily justify passing, especially depending on what he gets in return
Heard this last week – so it is plagarised. And numbers may be slightly off due memory, but close enough.
Before this week’s game, Field’s number’s 4 previous games and this is the high water mark for his career.
Four games – 4 TD’s, 200 yards a game passing, high 50’s completion percentage, and a QB rating 20 points below most all NFL starters.
After 3 years that’s the summit of where’s he’s at. Didn’t see yesterday, but heard slightly worse.
So the team that passed on Mahomes for Trebinski, is going to pass on Williams for this – after three years of experience.
Yeah, I could see them passing on a QB. Williams isn’t the generational talent everyone was saying he was before the season, but that aside the Bears and Fields got better, especially the second half of the season. They’ve got tons of cap space, two top ten picks and are a team that was already improving. They could trade back a spot or two and still take Harrison Jr. and another impact player at 9.
And a second analyst, Cosell from PFF as I remember, noted he’s improved but still doesn’t see the field well and go thru progressions. And still misses dunks and layup passes. And this is after 3 years of playing.
Fields hasn’t been terrible.
Someone would have to trade for Fields for da Bears to draft a QB #1 IMO.
He’s going for picks.
Theres no way in hell there are 5 or 6 QBs going in the first 10 picks, thats rarely if ever happened, people thought QBs were going to fly off the shelf last draft too and it didnt happen. This is a poor take and I disagree with it 1000%. Down vote.
Good afternoon KFEY!
Still hung over from bar xmas party…won $550 in pull tabs so that was nice at least
LOL
Rise my children rise, you are worthy.
I see how it is, Stu shows up and everyone runs away.
BB said he’s also willing to give up personnel control if that is what the organization decides, seems like he wants to stay in NE
He has what, 6 rings? Good looking old lady? Call it a career and sit in booth. NFL prob pay you.
I think he’s got like 8 rings total, and yeah, I’d take it easy but I doubt he will.
OK – I have some thoughts on this season and where the team must go.
I had heard from a number of mouthbreathers that KOC was the DUDE and an offensive genius. Exciting! HOWEVA!! We’ve seen what happens to his offense the second his overpaid QB goes down. Not a good look for KOC in my humble opinion – but since I don’t believe we move on from him we must;
Ask Kurt to sign an extremely team friendly deal. he’s made his money and even though some junk team would pay him 35 million/year he could stay here for $30M or less and WIN! Try to ink him for two years and;
Draft QB. Draft one in first or second round – don’t care. If this one isn’t immediately looking like the man than you draft one the next year. Always draft.
Use all other picks on defense in 2024. Line and backfield. All of them outside of the QB pick.
Use all other picks on RB and OL in 2025 draft outside of the QB pick if necessary.
Teach Kwesi how to draft – dude missed on everyone but Addison and give credit to whomever it was in the org that asked to bring in Pace undrafted. Probably Flores. Speaking of;
Sign Flores to whatever he wants
Sign JJ to whatever he wants – lifetime contract idgaf
Big Stu for GM and move Kwes to VGM and I’ll teach him.
Here’s a summary of 2023 comments, you weren’t around much and missed some real good insights. Also, you missed PPB yesterday, he came on the GDT and was very negative, but was still nice to hear from him.
VERY negative.
One should not dwell too long on the negatives. I’ll have to check out the GDT.
it was kind of sad to see how negative he was. really bummed me out.
Serenity prayer, my friend.
peter was here? WTF why no more peter
He just swung by to mock the Vikings and declare his ennui with life in general, promised to not be back for a long time. Too bad you missed him.
Hi Stu, btw
hello my fren
LOL that summary is hilarious. this one is quite on the nose:
I also still firmly question evolution because of the wing thing
How old is that youngster stu?
almost 7, almost 4 and 1.5. It’s too many but they are all adorable
must take after mrs stu
two is too many
I believe the original line was, “fatass whore”
This was golden! I think the funniest part is I don’t even remember some of the recaps referring to me what they were referring to. lol
Laughed Out Loud several times.
love you stu, really do…
but get off this “overpaid” qb schtick, it’s old and been proven false. there are worse qb’s making WAY more money than kirk.
Just because there are worse deals doesn’t mean Kirk’s wasn’t bad.
You do know the difference between guaranteed dollars and non guaranteed dollars right?
Ken Griffey Jr is still getting paid by the Reds – that doesn’t mean I’d be OK with the Twins signing a deal to pay a dude for decades after he retires??
I don’t care about other QBs making money I care about Kurt and the Vikes
i’d be ok still paying ken griffey jr…
although, he never won them a world series or even took them to the world series so i guess he was a trashy over paid player………..
he was overpaid by the time he was late into Reds career. He’s my favorite baseball player ever, can still accept reality. It’s dumb to pay players who no longer play for you
did you see the ohtani contract? haha now THAT is something
Genius move by him, defer almost all that money until after you get the hell out of commifornia so you don’t pay tons in taxes.
exactly.
Bobby Bonilla 2.0
I’m amazed by that contract. Can’t believe a league would even allow that kind of absurdity
He was always hurt as a Red
I also lived Junior. Favorite non-Twin of all time. Sweetest swing in baseball history.
Not sure anybody swung a bat better than Hank Aaron.
griffey’s swing was the prettiest swing of all time
Pretty – take a look at Al Kaline.
*loved
Just saw a message on sleeper from stu that you guys “ate screwed”
if you don’t know you can’t afford it
WTF is the deal over there? Skolly won the league but we’re supposed to pay Mick?
I paid Skolly
LOL.
If you checked in once awhile, you would know.
Both Skolly and Mick won money.
Since nobody collected all money at the start of the league, two people earned money.
Math is math.
1+1=2?
That seems racist.
Using wrong pronoun is racist now. The left/woke world can kiss my ass.
You just don’t understand because of your white privilege.
Old school Bow.
yeah its racist to understand math because only privileged white people get to learn it, its now banned
Couple of weeks ago I recounted a couple of odd encounters at the cash register, people don’t know how to make change anymore.
Yeah, its a lost art, kind of like common sense
this is very true and I’m almost offended it had to be said again – this is common knowledge
Hey, poor kids are just as talented as white kids.
gah, imagine if DT would have said that? Mainstream would still be talking about it daily and pointing to that as clear evidence he’s a white supremacist.
And imagine if he added that the Dums were going to put black people in chains or if he said that if you don’t vote for him, you ain’t white.
it’s almost comical – it would be if it weren’t so sad
Or support the second coming of the 3rd Reicht
I kind of forgot about FF a couple times this year
^^ He’s alive!”
I am – and the libs are MAD
LOL, i got your back.
Lifer hasn’t been around since like early october I think
all the libs in the world re mad I’m still alive is what I meant.
I predict civil war. I know where i stand.
get behind me stumaniac and I’ll lead the way
Free Doom? We have tons of that around here!
Lol
I’m him in braveheart. We have a puppet for president. Can’t climb stairs, needs Jill to walk of a stage. needs a prompter to say hi. Open borders while driving up debt to protect others. Feed, house and free health care for illegals at taxpayer expense. Crime is rampant and society is declining rapidly. Should i continue or do you know where i stand. Oh yeah, non citizens the right to vote. Power struggle? enjoy socialism.
You live in the wrong state, chief.
LOL, i think you know where i’m coming from. Your smart, guessing you agree on some things. I better shut the hell up and watch the game.
Oh
A sure sign of the offseason!
Where’s the Z key?!
I’ve lost all hope Brad and Mick will get us there – especially since ben buttface became a mod or “author” as the fancy people would call it
Brad and Mick have abandoned us. They pop in occasionally so it looks like they care.
Like the father who left his wife and kids, makes it back for every 3rd birthday….
Any condensed crock pot recipe for drummies. Bit off topic but we are in off topic season.
Condensed as in using Condensed soups or as in short/easy?
I usually cook with some onion then glaze in broiler with BBQ sauce. Some cook with sauce. Not sure. I’m lazy and want to be easy.
Beef? I usually make a stew with it. Did that yesterday with a small Rib Eye Roast (2.5 lbs). Was easy/filling/comfort food for the cold weather. Got compliments.
I never precook, heck I throw it in frozen and let the CP work its magic for 8-10 hours.
I have simple tastes so I go fast/easy/inexpensive whenever possible.
I love the “set it and forget it”. Right up my alley.
3 lb chicken, can go right from Freezer to crock pot
1 stick butter
1 can chicken broth
1 pepper(green, red, whatever)
1 chopped onion.
Cook for 6 hours, then add 8 oz cream cheese and about a 1/2 cup of cream
Soup. or Stew, or whatever you feel like calling it.
If you just want shredded chicken, skip the chicken broth and cream and cream cheese and add some spices and you will have shredded chicken.
Another variation you can add rice (1 cup rice, two cups chicken broth) and it is a tasty chicken rice dish.
Chicken broth, yes, why didn’t i think of that. Green pepper too. Will try, Thanks Surly.
Beef time.
Chuck roast (3-5 pounds)
1 can beef broth.
Potatoes and carrots (as much as you feel like eating with the meat)
Add SPG (salt, pepper, garlic)
Place the roast on top of the veggies, add SPG, then add broth
6 hours on high. shred roast with forks(should be pull apart tender), eat.
Mix in a pack of Italian dressing mix with the beef broth – my mother made it this way, called it Poor Man’s Prime Rib
So far today only two coaches fired, Aurther Smith was fired, apparently at midnight since the press release went out at 12:01am, and Ron Rivera was fired by Washington this morning. Also the Panthers fired their GM. We’ll see what happens with BB, he supposed to be meeting with Robert Kraft soon.
Ben Johnson to the Falcons is my guess.
Maybe, I’m guessing nothing happens until its decided what BB does, then what Harbaugh does.
Lots of Rumors about Cousins going to the Falcons….
I could see that happening.
But he said he wanted to spend the rest of his career a viking?
Ben DumDum is very gullible.
He can be a closet Viking while wearing a Falcons uni.
New coach wants to pay $40+ million a year for Kirk?
If he believes the team is nearly built and they just need a QB…..yes.
If you are interest in playoffs you can subscribe. Just a mere $99..99 a month. Enjoy fellas.
What a steal!
Just watched “The flight of the Phoenix”. Great movie, great actors,and Stewart a accomplished WW11 pilot. Young bucks here have no idea what i’m talking about.
Great movie and Stewart went on to become a BGen in Air Force. Could have avoided flying missions but didn’t.
One good bit of news: The SDSU Jackrabbits won the FCS Championship, again!
Go Jacks!
Was it as lopsided as the score would suggest.
Not really, it was a good contest. A few mistakes by Montana cost them the game.
Yes, Griz had many TO’s and SDSU just a better team, their D was smothering. I pulled for the Griz but really don’t care for their HC Hauck.
Season’s over…..
Boooooooooooo
Turnovers, injuries
injuries, turnovers
Thanks to Ben for posting a pic of Marley Dum Dum on yesterday’s summary – we lay my father in law to rest this week, boatload of family in town, stress level to the maximum. Wife got a huge kick out of seeing her little guy on a random football blog – made her day. Mine too.
Skol!
Prayers for your family. Tough times, brother.
Hope all goes smoothly with the fam and condolences to you and them. The pic of a dog sitting with a bottle of whiskey just seemed fitting for the Vikings 2023 season.
Hang in there, mate. 🍻
Also, how did the other season bets play out this year?
Anyone got winners?
i won them all.
I’m proud of you.
thanks, dad
first time?
just glad you are around again. or is it just for a bit
Life is busy lately. Something has to give!
Doesn’t mean I hate you all.
let something else give. we need you.
But you do hate some of us right?
Most
Fair
Do you at least hate some of us??
You lost survivor and pickem.
i think i forgot i signed up all together hahahaa
I bet the over (8.5 wins) so I have to pay my uncle in beer.
Ben, how do you want to square up?
Make him do this.
Oh, I forgot, I will go to sleeper
I paid Skolly
Fun movie factoid while waiting for my PC to chew on updates:
I just found out that the exorcist who did the exorcism that the movie The Exorcist was based on was born right down the road from me.
Before he died, he reported that he didn’t like the movie. While words in blood appeared and furniture did levitate, he said there was no pea-soup vomit, etc…
Yeah, if its just levitating furniture and blood words appearing nothing to get too excited about.
I don’t know what to think of the Catholic rite of exorcism really. It doesn’t seem to follow the Biblical model. Biblical model was basically, “Go away, in Jesus’ name” and that was about it.
Catholic exorcism rite is a long, drawn-out thing.
one of my favorite “exorcisms” was when Jesus told the the demon, legion, to get out and they were like well where the heck are we supposed to go? so he cast them into a bunch of pigs and they just ran off a cliff and died.
I actually wrote a short story referencing that event. It took place in World War I. The Germans basically got so desperate that they tried black magic, and the guy raised up those demon-possessed pigs that the good guys had to fight.
You have a dark streak to you, don’t you?
What a sadist. Those poor innocent pigs.
the farmers who owned those pigs sure were pissed
Did they sue Jesus and get reparations?
The owners of the pigs were Stines of the Pal and have tried since then to get their reparations from Jesus’s religious descendants. From the river to the sea is actually a reference to Jesus making the pigs run from the river they were drinking from into the sea.
LOL
farmers are evil according to cAnada
Hard to get paid to just say a few words.
Remember, the Catholics invented purgatory for money.
Also split the 10 commandments up (coveting ) so they could remove the one about graven images. Gotta sell more Mary statues, etc.
Viva la reformation!
Computers are against me, man. Got a time-sensitive, huge Excel project that needs to be done this week. Got here bright and early to get going, and low and behold, my Excel program decides to randomly dumb the add-on tools that I need. It just disappeared the entire tab. Freakin’ machines…
Seriously mean machine auto rec
Excel sucks
The end.
Yup.
We lead league in turnovers? Nice to be #1 at something.
Unfortunately that is a very telling stat WRT W/L’s.
Kirk to Washington !!
Advisor’s on the Washington hire…..
Julie does love Ashburn.
They may roll with Mullens, he has some skills. Draft a qb but don’t sell the farm. Wish i could fast forward the 999,000 mocks and watch draft.
You may be right, I think the signs are pointing to them moving on from Cousins. What if Cousins really wants to stay here and signs on for 2 years 50 million? (I know, I know, put down my pipe)
Given his age and injury i’m sure he may be more team friendly. Like i mentioned before, kids in school, lake place on Michigan. But, i’m not known for my smarts.
Now for something light.
Did you see Taylor Swift getting all butt hurt about the joke on the Golden Globes last night? I thought the joke was funny, Taylor needs to lighten up, maybe it was her time of the month….
“As you know, we came on after a football double-header,” Koy told the audience in Beverly Hills. “The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL – on the Golden Globes fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift.”
LOL
That’s a solid roast. She should have fun with it.
Thats what I said, she should have laughed and been light-hearted about it, scowling and being poopy makes you look like a spoiled little baby.
If you look like a spoiled little baby, you may be a spoiled little baby.
Good roast, LOL!
Nice to see JJ have a nice day and go over a 1,000. Missed 7 games. Competent qb and line play maybe 2,000!
I see our next years opponents are out…
Cardinals, Texans, Niners, Colts, Falcons, Jets – Home
Rams, Seahawks, Titans, Giants, Jags – Away.
We win the division and go on a deep playoff run.
Put the pipe down NoDak.
I’m good with Kirk for 2 more years, and use our 1st to draft his replacement and groom him.
The whole Mullens/Dobbs fiasco shows we need a solid QB1 AND a QB2 who doesn’t hand out TOs like Halloween candy.
After that, add to the DLine and CB room, maybe another flashy RB to pair with Chandler.
With only 9 picks, that will be all we can accomplish this coming draft, unless Quesi can pull a couple more rabbits out of his @$$ with UDFAs.
Given the shit line play yesterday, remarkable Mullens threw for almost 400 yards yesterday.
The O-line was definitely a problem, but there were some plays where they did a great job as well. This has been Cousins experience basically his whole career as a starter. The ability to produce TD’s and yards consistently, and keep your team in games, behind O-lines like that, is a trait Cousins gets no credit for.
Mullens can do the job in this offense, and be very good, with just a little better protection. He doesn’t process as fast as Cousins, nor does he possess Cousins arm talent, but he can be competent enough (IMO) with a little better line play.
we lose all preseason? So, 7-14? This team is likely to suck for some time. Too many holes.
There a spread on game tonight? We watching our future qb?
No idea and hopefully.
Michigan is favored by 4.5. Hopefully not the Washington QB.
I am on the JJ Mccarthy band wagon.
I have been since last years Big Ten championship game. He is not talked about as much as the other QBs, of the rumored 1st round talents he has by far the fewest attempts as Harby runs a very run heavy NFL style offense. We’ll see what happens but I’m 100% convinced KAM will select the wrong QB if he picks one.
JJ to JJ just sounds meant to be.
yes, just because he isn’t “asked” to carry the team by throwing 40 times a game doesn’t mean he can’t.
I have been impressed with him the few games I have seen him play. Good poise, good reads, strong enough arm, good accuracy, good maturity for a 20 year old.
We know Kwesi will select the wrong QB.
I like he WA qb, , but I also did not realize McCarthy is about 4 years younger. Makes sense that he did not look as polished.
Also he does not have the injury history.
I will enjoy watching the game tonight knowing the Vikings will choose incorrectly again in April
I’m not sure they’ll even draft a QB
I see the Vikings have the 11th pick in the draft. They’ve had that pick a few times as I recall. Most recently they took Waynes in 2015, who was ok not great and didn’t play for the Vikings beyond his rookie deal. He retired relatively early and now appears to spend most of his time hunting, good for him.
In 1999 the Vikings took Daunte Culpepper who had an up and down career that pretty much ended in his 6th season when he suffered a devastating knee injury which included tears of his acl, mcl, and pcl. He sucked the rest of his career, though he still hold the record for the most fumbles in a season with 23, he’s also the only player in history with at least 16 fumbles in three consecutive seasons. Daunte had two really good seasons, one was MVP caliber, he pretty much sucked otherwise though.
Then there is Derrick Alexander, who was taken at #11 in 1995. Warren Sapp was taken at #12 and that’s all there is to say about that.
We need an impact player at #11 – Captain Obvious
Queasy effs that up then kick him to curb.
Then get that DL Ben mentioned last week from Illinois I believe.
Yes. stud interior defensive lineman. That is what we should do…fine with trading up and getting one of the top 3 QBs as well.
Why if next year is rebuilding we can role with Mullens and get the right QB when the team is built.
That doesn’t sound very competitive.
Competitive or complete – both are BS.
Because this years QB class is supposed to be superior.
What happens if we plug the holes and go to draft a QB and all we can find in the top 15 is Christian Ponder?? Its happened before.
If we can learn anything from the Bucs and Rams, once you have a team ready, you can get the QB -Brady and Stafford. Why go the crap shoot way on hoping for selecting the right one.
Because if you select the right one you have a chance to compete for SBs for 10-20 years instead of 1-2.
Yes. This is why.
You might – select wrong and you’re screwed.
How about build a team that is ready to compete, and then go get your QB – far less risky and you get to the same spot. And if you do screw wit up, you can correct very quickly.
Because you’re not going anywhere if you don’t have a QB.
well, the Rams had a team ready and went out and got Stafford. Bucs had a team and went out and got Brady.
Niners do it another way, they build such a strong team, they can get anybody to play QB and win.
I second this.
See at least chiefs/fins being streamed, peacock i thing. NFL is a bunch of greed mongering assholes and shove up GD ass!
They were going on and on last night on the NBC broadcast about the playoff game only being streamed on Peacock. They made it sound like a good thing, but it is not. I am not going to add another streaming service to watch one playoff game. It will be one of the least watched playoff games.
Where does it end? Even clicking on a cell article. Subscribe! Endless amounts of adds are not good enuf. What’s next? Streaming the weather channel?!!
Same here. F…them!.
That’s a lot of question Ben’s asking.
At first blush, think the premise is a little off – don’t buy we would have likely gotten curb stomped first round.
Looking at top of NFC – Niners, Cowboys, Lions. Think Lions/Cowboys really close and Lions probably beat Cowboys but got screwed. Regardless, that’s the NFC
We just played Lions twice. Our QB threw for over 800 yards but threw SIX interceptions. Last time Cousins played Lions he threw foe 425 with zero interceptions (Cook’s jump pass game). Think it’s reasonable to conclude with Kirk we could have won at least one of those games.
We might have lost a playoff game either way, but at the same time we could have played with anyone this year with Kirk, JJ and Hock on the field.
Going forward selecting players – depends on what type of team you want to be. QB dependent like the Ravens, or QB independent like the Niners?
Vikes come in at 7-10. I figured around 9-8, so they were a little worse, but that is the Kirk injury at play, I reckon.
They can get to 9-8 next year when Kirk comes back.
Kwesi really needs to nail this draft.
Tough draw for the Lions getting the Rams. They basically have Vikings luck. They finally win the division and get to the playoffs after years of futility, then they might get knocked out by their former QB. That’s going to sting if that happens.
But the Lions should be back unless Green Bay challenges them. Green Bay should be in an upward trajectory, as well.
Vikes are basically screwed for a couple of seasons if Kwesi is not on point.
Bo Nix, you are a Viking.
You think so? I was never too impressed with him. Watched him a lot when he was at Auburn.
Auburn tape sucked.
seems like a Viking move
Apologize for being short, the OC he had left and they renunited in Oregon.
He rates highly per PFF, doesnt throw many INT’s and has a good arm.
Problems is they say that Oregon’s offense is really simplified. He can make big time throws but most of his passes are short screens. VIkings really don’t have a screen game.
Like most college QBs he looks great running a typical college offense with a heavy dose of screens but looks pedestrian running any sort of NFL style offense. Pass.
Yeeah I’m not the biggest Nix fan.
I think most Top end talent 6-7 QBs would find success in the Vikings offense.
I mostly just hate all the QBs in the drafts and think they’ll suck, except once in a while I like one.
You’re mostly justified.
I wish 5 was here to talk about Trevor Lawrence.
Lawrence had a rough season, beat up all year.
looking forward to the college game tonight. Two QBs that would be nice to have, even though I prefer the WA qb to the Michigan qb. I have been told I am wrong often, so just seeing what Kwesi does will be entertaining if you enjoy tragicomedies.
Team needs a ton of help (mostly interior O and D line) in order to compete with the best. Defense needs more help that Offense.
Lack of depth and injuries and stupidity ruined this season.
FTP.
I cannot really root for Dallas. Ever. At least one team I hate will be eliminated this weekend.
I actually kind of hope the Packers win. Cowboys fans are annoying. I really want Stafford to go in and smoke the Lions as well. The media fawning the last month or so has been nauseating.
Cowboy fans are totally insufferable.
All the media types talking about Green Bay are insufferable.
Nope. FTP! Always FTP!
I believe the Packers have never lost in AT&T stadium.
That would be epic, as in Stafford kicking his old team’s ass out of the playoffs. The Lions hype is wearing on me, especially because German TV is madly in love with Amon Ra St. Brown because he was born in Germany or something. It’s getting nauseating.
As for Cowpies-FTP, go meteor!!
I just looked it up…Amon Ra was born in Anaheim Hills, Cali…but his mother is from North Rhine-Westphalia. Apparently he is fluent in German and French.
Yup, that’s it. He recently received some award from some German TV station for kids and talked to the boy who was picked to hand him the trophy in fluent German.
Still sucked that RTL was almost exclusively showing Lions games this season… not a single Vikings game on free TV, all Kitties.
With the conflict of that name, it is no surprise he was born in Cali. Amon Ra (Egyptian deity – combo of Amon and Ra the sun god) and St. Brown (assumed Christian reference).
Good morning, SKOL!
The long, dark offseason has already arrived for the Vikings…
Exactly. I was going to post that gif. The long off season begins…
Not even looking forward to the playoffs, will maybe root for the Browns (and a quick FTP exit)… draft will be interesting though, curious what Queasy is going to do.