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San Francisco beat Detroit 34-31
Kansas City beat Baltimore 17-10
San Francisco opens as an early 2.5 point favorite in SB LVIII
VIKINGS QUESTION OF THE DAY
Mattison is not a quality starter, Chandler can’t pass block, what should they Vikings do at RB? Sign a FA, draft someone, both?
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Per USA Today there could be 5 QBs taken in the first 12 1st Rd Picks.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/draft/2024/01/29/nfl-mock-draft-2024-caleb-williams-jayden-daniels-quarterbacks/72398714007/
I made pizza from scratch just now for supper, lunch tomorrow, etc.
Just got an email from work: Pizza party to celebrate new employee tomorrow.
I’m going to turn into Mario.
Or ninja turtles?
1) One can never have ‘too much good pizza’, so saving yours for another day is an option.
2) I have no doubt that the pizza you made is a bizzilion times more gooder than the delivery pizza that the company bought.
3) Eat just enough of the flavored cardboard’ that they ordered from the cheapest place that they could find to be polite and then later warm up yours and eat it in private.
Take home message…don’t take shit out of dead people and put it into living people…nature appears not to approve.
Rare cases of possible Alzheimer’s transmission uncovered in recipients of discontinued medical treatment | CNN
Prion diseases are one thing that scares me. Always hate being asked to get CSF in a jumpy patient with suspected CJD.
You know, when you speak Canadian nobody understands you.
Mt can’t speak English.
Ah, so I think he is talking about mad cow disease and such…
“Seeing as how the V.P. is such a V.I.P., shouldn’t we keep the P.C. on the Q.T.? ‘Cause if it leaks to the V.C. he could end up M.I.A., and then we’d all be put on K.P.”
“Living singleton IUP with AUA by CRL concordant with gestational age by LMP” – I say that ALL the time.
Robin Williams rec!
Bears trade #1 pick for draft capital/players Purple may be on bottom of NFCN looking up. Maybe stay with Fields.
Think they’d be better to trade Fields and draft Williams.
Oh the endless speculation between now and April 25. UGH..
Yep. think some get more jazzed up over this than the actual football.
Summary:
Florida says the Ravens lost on Sunday because of foot injuries
According to Jro42 Akayleb Evans is a double amputee
Eggslusher says certain feces got more popular the smaller NFL defenders got
NoDak loves hindsight, also predicts neither KC nor SF will win the SB
Eggslusher posts meme for street cred
NoDak and Eggslusher love a gay Danish dudes
Hun posts soda slut even though its not Wednesday
NoDak suggests Taylor Swift can’t hump a soda machine, admits to soda machine fetish
Nobody asked, but VP says you should look at Taylor Swift before peeking at him
NoDak says to take something home from the bar and go bareback
NoDak is grateful the Vikings took Nick Muse instead of Purdy
According to Jrob Hock must be having trouble with Pacific Time because he hasn’t had surgery yet
Wrenage encountered a “terse” man at the McDonalds bathroom trying not to shit himself who vanished as well as a wide eyed lady
Mjolnir drinks coffee and smokes weed all night to write elaborate things
Freezey made one comment today and of course was about a woman having a wiener
DE wrote an article about where Kirk will land next year, NoDak thinks you should boo him for his well documented thoughtful analysis/discussion
slo dae
Only good TE tears a knee, so purplish like.
haha!
I must be commenting too much…going to try to do more real work going forward.
Well, it could also be a lack of summary quality comments overall
to all of you who have contributed to today’s discussion, and either didn’t get in the summary or maybe only once….i say…
SUCK IT…
one comment and it was worthy.
Well done, thanks!
9ers early -2.0? Think Chiefs get Thuney back, i’m going Chefs.
Torn peck right? I think he’s done but I don’t know.
Oh, thought maybe a strain. Have to check.
It’s a strain but i guess long shot to play in SB.
I think I thought tear when I heard he probably won’t play the SB. Either way, yeah that’s a rough one.
Not beating against Mahomes/Reid.
Chiefs showed some D. Bottom line i’m going Mahomes over Purdy, if i had money and had to bet.
Swifties win. Game will be swayed for maximum drama. Kelce with the winning, walk-off TD. Taylor on the field. Embraces. Tears. Potential movie-of-the-week material.
LOL, perfect.
Nance and Romo SB? Like to listen on radio but i have cable and can hear play before i see it.
Fan Huddle post on Kirk’s options.
All you said is Kirk… could be Hammett!
Will read and comment on Kirk Day, aka Tuesday.
A well documented thoughtful analysis/discussion…..
BOO THIS MAN!
I tried to add it to the front page but I don’t know how and the people who probably do aren’t around.
No worries.
It’s just me rambling.
It’s not Tuesday, but I have a detailed Fan Huddle post ready to go about Kirks options for 2024.
Post your notification when you post it.
post it
I love that part of the Movie…
Been writing an original Murder Mystery Party for my wife’s 32nd birthday in February.
Here’s how elaborate things have gotten – I’m about 1/2 way done writing character bios.
That is incredibly awesome!
Was up all night drinking coffee and watching ‘Making A Murderer’ on Saturday night while working on this – I’ve got all the details laid out, just gotta tie it all together. Every person has a motive to kill and everyone is tied to everyone else either directly or in a 6 degrees kind of way. It’s been an absolute blast – and a lot of work for someone who isn’t close to a writer.
I’ve got estranged family members, stolen identities, aliases…. Deep dive into the character bios.
Sounds like a lot of work, but also a lot of fun.
holy shit… it’s gonna rule man. Do you know who the killer is yet and then it’s building around that? Or are you still building to who dunnit?
I’ve got a killer in mind…. I’ve got it written where I can kind of choose who I like.
All my cast is from all over the country: I’ve got 3 orphaned sisters (2 separated from the youngest) from Portland, Oregon.
A ne’er do well drifter female who kills and steals the identity of an old money Louisiana debutante.
I’ve got an academically gifted female cast member who graduates high school in her early teens, achieves 2 advanced degrees before being able to drive and ends up the youngest NOC operative in CIA history.
I’ve got enforcers from the Redneck Mafia and Winter Hill Gangs embroiled in a turf war.
A NOPD detective moonlighting as an assassin via the dark web hot on the trail of a Syracuse-sorority girl-turned-art thief who was in the same sorority (Jama Vi Brata) as the daughter of a former Army Sniper and Wild West Show trick-shot artist who had heavy gambling debts owed to various criminal organizations and vanished, believed to be murdered by said organizations (he wasn’t, he was murdered by the ‘fake’ debutante – also a member of the sorority and 1/2 brother to the proprietor of the Key West, Florida Bed & Breakfast where the murder(s) take place)
Said proprietor is actually in WitSec under the charge of a former Navy Seal and US Marshall and lost love of our gifted student who learns that she, is in fact, the 3rd sister from Portland and that the PI her siblings hired to find her is working under an alias (Burt Macklin) and in reality he’s a con-artist who’s been stealing from the sisters and happens to be the son of the man responsible for the faulty brake job that resulted in the deaths of her parents……
This is all coming together at the Manatee B&B on the island of Key West, Florida – 1/2 star rated on Trip Advisor known for damp towels and its basement ‘nightclub’ All of our cast members are stuck on the island with a massive hurricane bearing down.
TL;DR
A few more things to tie up but I like where I’m headed.
Hole. E. Shit. So you are like the coordinator of it all the night off right and just get to see it all unfold. I have a song for ya that’s very fitting for this:
Yep. I’m running the whole thing. Also a cast member and likely to die early (helps to run things) appreciate the song!
Wow, this is amazing. Should be one hell of a birthday present.
The killer must be a Packers fan
Looks like diagram of one of KOC’s super tricky plays
Thats some dedication man. I think iv lost that part of my attention span that would give me the patience to write that out ha
Marijuana….
Word…I do have edibles…but that indica puts me inda couch
olivia has a PP
you just get me freeze….
Awesome!
Just heard something makes me wonder.
Campbell getting his share of crap over 4th down calls.
But just heard this — Lions were running the Niners out of the stadium in first half – like 150 yards.
In the second half, they ran the ball 8 times.
I noticed this too. Seemed to be gashing SF on the ground with great success early – then went away from it in the 2nd half and all but abandoned the run after Gibbs fumbled.
Kinda skewed a bit, they ran the ball four times the first drive of the 2nd half, ran it the only play the second drive where Gibbs fumbled, by this time SF had tied the game and the Lions ran it the first play of the third drive before two straight incompletions from goff for a 3 and out. By the time they got the ball back again they were behind and basically quit running the ball but they shouldn’t have. Part of it was circumstance but they should have run more on that 2nd to last possession.
Think the two straight incompletions were big with game tied.
Yeah, they didn’t get much on first down and if you decide you’re throwing on second that means if incomplete you’re throwing again on 3rd. To me it seemed like Detroit looked like they were kinda choking, playing not to lose the second half, the only thing consistent was Dan Campbell going for it on 4th down.
This is a bit crazy – just a thought.
Detroit was cocky and pushing Niners all over field in the first half. Then right before half they had the 4th and goal at about 2 and a half, and kicked a FG – no time left. Now, I thought that’s the right thing to do, but it seemed so unlike Campbell and the Niners got a small lift out of it. I was surprised he didn’t go for that at 21 -7.
Just came from McDonalds…
I went into the bathroom to wash my hands after eating. There was a guy standing in front of the sink. Just standing there…
“Are you using the sink?” I asked.
He gave a terse, “No,” and backed out of the way.
As I washed, I noticed the stall door was closed and realized the guy must have been waiting to get in there. While I washed, he left. I exited myself seconds later to see a girl standing there with a wide-eyed look on her face, the man vanished and the ladies room door swinging closed.
I then put it all together.
That man was fighting a terrible battle and lost. His last resort was a blitzkrieg on the ladies room. I wonder how that turned out…
Its like don’t drive a car until its nearly empty….
Take care of that issue BEFORE it becomes critical.
Some people don’t get the privilege of that, with things like IBS, Crohn’s disease, food poisoning, or if you eat at taco bell you don’t get the benefit of any time before its critical.
true…
My buddy has Crohns. It’s brutal.
I have had a couple colleagues with it, if effective treatment is found it seems easily managed, but if not, yeah its pretty bad. I always liked former Jax QB David Garrard, who has the Crohns, though iirc it was some sort of chronic knee problem that led to his early retirement.
Hopefully he made it to the toilet.
Well, the ladies use the men’s frequently so I guess they are returning the favor.
Peeing never bothered me. Pooping is a life long inconvenience. Like climbing into deer stand, turn heater on, enjoy a cup of coffee then realize with 3 layers of clothes on you have to shit.
True that. Although I am getting of an age where the need to pee can go from a minor distraction to urgent in the space of ten minutes or so. Nothing worse than the zipper of your insulated bibs jamming and you start hopping around on one leg gotta pee gotta pee.
Used to laugh at women when faucet running they needed to pee, now it’s me.
My wife is the best….
She just heard from our friend Olivia (She’s the Box Office Manager of Pinnacle Bank Arena here in Lincoln) Heart & Cheap Trick are set to play PBA in August. Tickets go on sale Friday.
I’m a HUGE ❤️ fan. Ann & Nancy Wilson are legends in my eyes – helps that they sang back up on several of AIC’s albums.
Thanks to Olivia, I’ll get the opportunity to meet them – she’s secured us backstage passes.
Skol
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Dude that’s amaze balls! Hey I am planning to be down in Omaha for Amon Amarth… you going?
No – I literally just heard of these guys over Christmas from my nephew – been trying to listen to them a bit when I get free time – wife hates metal. I’ve heard good things about the Steelhouse though – cool venue.
C’mon man it’s VIKING Metal! lol. It’s gonna rule.
I like what I’ve heard – there isn’t enough time to listen to all the stuff I want to. Omaha is a cool town – spend some time in the Old Market – lot of bars and restaurants down there. Cool architecture.
Going to the show with the vocalist of the band I’ve been jamming with and some other dudes. Not till May if you change your mind, come out and have a beer!
Sounds great, will sure be an outstanding experience!
GFY, its nice to have friends with influence
Awesome!
Just heard Hockenson hasn’t had knee surgery yet. Knee is still too weak… we gonna need another TE, he’s going to be out at minimum half the year at this juncture right?
Nah, we still have Muse on our roster..
You know, the guy we took instead of Purdy…
I understand we were going to try to sign Purdy as a UDFA that year…
Thank God we took Muse instead.
The Viking mantras… “Almost” and “There’s always next year!”
Must be having tough time with PT. Won’t do surgery until he has full range of motion and adequate quad strength \.
Yeah heard it’s not stable/healthy enough for surgery yet… shit.
Gooooooose Morning Skolbronis…..
Happy Monday!
QotD: I’d love to see Minny bring in Braelon Allen thru the draft. Big, fast, good pass catcher and from what I’ve seen, solid in pass pro.
And he just turned 20 – lots of miles left.
Skol
LOL, saw a sports troll: Dan Campbell is the type of guy to get a 20 in Blackjack and still says “Hit me”.
Well, he would at least split the tens…..
Good point.
are you not supposed to split tens?
Honestly, I sometimes do on the rare occasions I am playing alone…
But if you are with other players it just pissing them off so much its not worth the hassle.
screw the other players, I’d split them and double down!
Unless you count cards you should NEVER split 10s.
The math work out that if you split 10s 100 times with a 10 dollar original bet…you will come out 120 dollars farther ahead by standing pat rather than splitting….
But its fun do to it sometimes anyway.
I like to live dangerously
Take something home from the bar and go bareback.
Give him credit for this – believes in ‘ you dance with who brung you.’
Probably for the best Detroit lost, he wouldn’t have survived two weeks in Vegas.
I, too, like to live dangerously…. (Austin Powers)
I am sure everyone has seen this and is shocked at what Mr. Walters has to say….
Charley Waters recently wrote about Cousins’ upcoming free agency, “The buzz now is that it will take $90 million guaranteed for two years, despite that he’s still not yet fully recovered from Achilles surgery in November, to sign free agent QB Kirk Cousins. If that’s the case, he certainly won’t get that from the Vikings.”
Of course this would run contrary to what JRobert’s inside source was saying…
They can’t both be right. The 45 million sounds like the correct market value dollar amount.
Charlie Waters wrote …. “the buzz. ” interesting.
Something I learned from the real estate business – there’s appraised value and then what someone ‘actually pays.’
Patience grasshopper patience.
There is no such buzz… just BS. Guy is throwing shit out like all pundits do.
Yup, see ya… gonna be an interesting year next year… damn.
Damn right
This song made me realize something…it’s not that I don’t like Rolling Stones songs; I just don’t like the way The Rolling Stones sound…
I understand fully what you are saying and feel similar about the Stones… how about this?
But don’t get me wrong there are a few songs from both I enjoy but I never throw on a Stones and Doors album… the Beatles on the other hand…
Bahah, dont get me wrong I love heavy music but this vocalist is…ass? He sounds like Cartmen throwing a fit or yelling at Kitty. I cant take it seriously lmao
lol, I don’t mind him. It’s just hardcore/metalcore vocal style. It’s not your thing I get it. But just remember old fucks now-a-days said the same kind of thing about AC/DC back in the day. It’s just history repeating itself.
Oh I like metal core, screaming, growls, etc. Just…not this guys ha.
Gotcha, that’s fair.
I agree, he sucks, but its only because of the influence of the beatles
ha!
Chiefs/9ers have their share of SB’s, hard to cheer for either.
When was the last SF SB win? Like ’95 maybe?
Been awhile ,won 4-5 tho. My point.
They’ve been to a couple recently, I just can’t remember the last they won
Joe Montana days.
Steve Young
Think i’m burned out on football. 2 weeks trash talking. 6 hours of pregame and 4,000 ads. Then the SB with Swift vs. 9ers.
Would you rather look at Swift or all those take aways to those old white men owners and their families.
Well, watching J Jones crying in his suite weren’t bad.
True, but looking at pretty women is always nice.
I’m an old white man. You should probably look at Swift before you give me a peek.
No – I saw your picture on Saturday.
Now, I’m the old white man.
1994 – Destroyed the Chargers, Young threw 6 td passes. Deion had a pick and got a penalty for taunting and pointing at the scoreboard.
LOL, Deion
Cheering for more T-Swizzle shots, go CHIEFS!
If only she could hump a soda machine…..
Like this, right?
Exactly!!
more of a fetish…I have a thing for soda machines.
🤔
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8nN7CJp/
Still 49ers over the KC Taylors – Sponsored by Phizer
I couldn’t help myself… 🤣. Gimmie all the thumbs down 😂
where’s the global warming – looks pretty cold.
JRobert DumDum…that was the 1920s, of course global warming hadn’t kicked in yet…If it had, those people probably would have never died…Global warming saves lives!
Of course I disagree with the message of the meme,
BUT a big difference between Dems and Republicans is that the Republicans can laugh at well done humor even when its directed at them…and I think that’s pretty well done.
It legit made me lol. Also I agree with the message of the meme. Every time it gets cold you hear… Oh global warming then why is it cold!?!?! But I 10000000% disagree on how Dumbacrats want to address it.
Yep, the question is how to address it. What we are doing is not helping.
See above
Its called cyclical cycles. My man please, think about it. The earth goes through phases of natural heating and cooling over 10s if not 100s of thousands of years, warmer and colder, less ice, more ice, around and around we go. 100 – 150 + years of recorded data is NOTHING in that time span. Humans impact on weather/ temperature is a drop in the bucket to the natural cycle. There’s ice core samples that prove this. There’s people that have spoken to the researchers that work on this at the poles and they LAUGH at climate change. The only thing climate change is is push for someone in Government to make money. Energy is the largest producer of income in human history, and if people want a shift for “Green Energy” they only want it for money, and they are pushing climate change as a false flag for that. Period. Im sorry, but you’re wrong.
How am I wrong? Have you read any of my other replies to this? God damn I hate how bad politics has us divided. All I said the earth is heating up… it is. Now if you want to call the cycle of whatever that’s fine, but it is. I think it’s so absurd and both sides do this they will deny absolute facts then admit to the fact they are denying but call it something else just so it doesn’t look like they are agreeing with the other side. Like this topic Republicans go THE EARTH ISN’T HEATING UP!!!!!!!! It’s called cyclical cycles where the earth heats up! haha. Fuck. We can’t even agree on facts because we are so divided. I swear to Bob, if gravity was a hot button issue if one side said GRAVITY IS REAL!!!! The other side would go NO IT ISN’T! But there is this force that pulls on other objects and depending on the mass of the bigger object dictates how fast the small object is pulled. I literally said repeatedly how much I hate how Dems are fooled by how the response to this fact is only lining the pockets of other people.
That is funny. LOL.
I love this Danish dude (well, he is gay so I want to be clear I don’t love him that way)
He points out the increase in temperatures over the last 2 decades has saved about 283,000 lives…Not something the lamestream media wants to acknowledge.
Its a good read.
Bjørn Lomborg: how rising temperatures will save lives – The Post (unherd.com)
Yup, love Bjorn. But how could you disagree with the message then? You understand that the world is heating up. It is. But we don’t know exactly why, and earth getting warmer is saving more lives than it’s killing and if the world got colder by a few degrees that’d kill even more! Check out Bjorn’s most recent sitting in with Rogan it’s great!
Yes, his whole point is you need to adjust to climate change not take wrong headed approaches to try to “reduce” it, which inevitable will fail and cause untold human misery….yet that is exactly what the Democrats are proposing…don’t drink coffee, have only electric vehicles that don’t work, don’t have an electrical grid with fossil fuels, etc. the list goes on and on and on.
Agreed, what they are proposing is coming down from people who have manipulated the game to make these Dems think they are imposing things that are so environmentally friendly and they care so much about the earth when really it is stuff that is just friendly to their pocket books lol. The same thing happens on the right. Two wings, same bird haha. Or better yet two wings of the same nut and as they keep twisting it down we’re all screwed.
Something I read recently. If the US stopped using all fossil fuels completely tomorrow, like ZERO, the effect on global temperature increase 25 years from now would be .1 of 1 degree.
Exactly, last I heard the biggest man made issue to global warming were poor folks in the Amazon burning it away for agriculture but it’s not as hip to go shit on those poor folks just trying to not die.
For lack of an ‘honest’ discussion …….
You can have a 10 day Artic blast for 10 days at 20-25 degrees below normal. As soon as it warms then the global warming talk starts.
Ok. I just gave you some street cred. Wear it proudly.
OK, I’ll give you one…LOL
I have decided neither the Chiefs nor the 49ers will win the Super Bowl.
The Chiefs can’t since Mahomes takes up WAY too much of their salary cap, and we all know you can’t win with a QB who takes up more than 12% of your cap.
The 49ers can’t since Purdy is NOT a mobile QB…his 40 time is similar to Kirks…can’t win with that.
Well, Purdy had 5 rushes for 48 yards.
How often does that happen? Guy is mobile enough, and SF is not throwing 14% of the salary cap at him(yet)
Mahomes had 6 rushes for 15 yards. Mahomes is a passing QB that is mobile vs Lamar being a running QB. I pick a passing QB that is mobile please….
With Mahomes, they build the surrounding team while he was on his rookie deal, and they will be in scramble mode every year trying to decide what roster holes to try and fill. But they started with a QB they drafted and build around him.
Viking can bring back #8 or bring in a vet, but there are so many roster holes that they will not compete. The prudent choice is to draft who you like and build the roster around that QB.
Maybe..I really don’t know what I want them to do or what the best path forward is…just poking fun of the narratives I hear on this site all the time.
Didn’t Chiefs have a playoff level team before Mahomes got there. Went to playoffs with Smith, Then drafted Mahomes, sat on bench for a year, and again went to playoffs with Smith. they had a team first.
Mahomes sat on the bench one season, thats it.
Isn’t that what I said?
Purdy is more mobile than Kirk, quite a bit at this point in Kirk’s career. Mahomes we’ll have to see what the Chefs look like next year, his cap hit this year was 37 mil, which is on the higher side but not excessive for the best QB in the NFL, next year its almost 60 mil and over 23% of the cap, we’ll see how prohibitive it is at that point.
I agree. Chefs better win this one, since it will be difficult to return once “cap hell” really kicks in.
Think Dan Gambles finatics cost him a SB. It’s one thing during the season but i’d suggest being a bit more analytical in the playoffs.
Agreed.
analytics are what he uses to make those decisions, but the problem with analytics are they don’t apply context, like who your opponent is, or the weather, or whether you are playing a regular season vs. the NFCCG. I wouldn’t have gone for both of the 4th downs, but MCDC is nothing if not consistent and he certainly isn’t going to change.
Not just giving up possibly 6 points but field position. Frankly, i’m glad he did it.
Yeah, I’m usually more of a take points if you can get them person. field positions wouldn’t change much if at all, I think that’s part of the analytics is that if you kick the FG they’ll get the ball back at the 25-30 yard line on average, so if you’re in the area of the field it doesn’t really matter. The kicker matters too, if you have a Butker or Tucker I probably kick it every time, but if we’re talking about the current Vikings kicker combined with Viking playoff history, I’m going for it every single time.
Yes, the kicker matters.
The 49ers tried a long field goal at 4th and 5, they missed it. Obviously they made the wrong choice….they should have kept their offense on the field.
Love 20/20 hindsight.
9ers won, by the way.
Yeah, that’s how it goes
Risky play can reap some great rewards, but also can reap some disasters. Sometimes risky is smart, other time risky is just trying to prove you have the biggest balls and is not smart.
Fortune favors the bold.
There is a difference between bold and cocky.
and… bold and stupid.
Once again, we saw some good O-Line play, yesterday. Why can’t we have that?
I know, right? I was jealous watching the O-line play yesterday…those QBs generally had time to go through all of their progressions…twice. And they were opening holes in the running game…Maybe the Dlines just sucked?
In the SF/DET game the Lions we’re making some plays early batting passes at the line and getting a little pressure, SF started getting a little pressure on Goff in the 2nd half forcing him to throw on the run. Lions ran the ball very well overall, SF was effective not spectacular running. Both olines played well, Detroit’s played really well.
I thought the olines sucked in the Bal/KC game, neither team could run the ball at all outside of a couple lamar scrambles, both QBs were pressured quite a bit, and KCs right tackle had what seemed like 10 penalties.
I’m pretty sure the announcers said more than once that you can run on KC. Baltimore did not run the ball very much. They had Lamar throwing from the pocket a lot which did not seem to be his strong suit.
Yeah, its like once they got behind 2 scores they just packed it in on running and threw every play, SF on the other hand stuck with their running game despite being behind 3 scores. One team will be in the SB the other sitting on their davenports.
Running back question is both interesting and important.
Noticed playoff teams run the ball and usually quite well. We are crappy at it.
Also see that playoff teams run screens quite well. We’re not very good at this either.
Someday, we will have a young QB. Both running the ball and screens help a young QB Even good ones from looking at yesterday.
We need a top notch back. Better run blocking too..
The outside zone shit got really popular when defenses started building themselves smaller and smaller to stop the pass and as always now we see we’ve come back to needed road graters. What you notice in the playoffs is good lines are what win games…
So which offensive lineman you want to draft.
TBH, I haven’t looked into the draft class this year. Obviously we are good at our tackles. But the interior needs an overhaul. Are there any other FAs coming available?
Risner is an upcoming FA, the FO signed him and traded Cleveland so he’s obviously better than ezra.
True and you would thing they traded Ez thinking that Risner was going to be a longer than one year solution. So really RG and C because Risner is may be coming back. Clearly nobody wanted him last year… and I would think a full offseason with the team would help.
I’m not sure what other FAs are available, but other teams seem to draft IOL in rounds 2-6 and are able to develop them into high end starters, the Vikings don’t seem to.
Good point.
I think we can forget the idea of tearing it all down. I really don’t think the Wilfs would greenlight that. They just won’t. So… Cousins or 3rd or 4th best QB in the draft? I mean remember y’all Mahomes was selected 10th overall…
I wonder. Was watching both of the games yesterday. Paid more attention to SF/Lions game. Thought our passing game is every bit as good if not better thn either of them.
But, both can run the ball really well and have top notch screen games.
Maybe we might go a lot farther if we showed in those areas.
Yes, passing game is as good or better, running game sucks..
We beat the 49ers, and we should have beaten KC, I was at that game and we outplayed them. The difference was their playmakers made a couple of insane catches in big situations, ours had chances to make the tough catches and were unable to do so.
Point is, based on those two games it would seem we are not that far away.
BUT I think we are going to suck for the next 3 years….my hopium level is on empty.
I agree – don’t think we are that far. But why do you think we are going to suck for next 3 years?
An excellent Question JRobert….
Therefore, I think we are in for some suckiness…I could be wrong, I often am.
So sign Kirk for a couple, draft a QB and then really develop him. That’s not kicking the can – it’s actually smart in many respects.
If you sign Kirk you are trying to win now…have to use draft picks to try to plug holes (which are many).
But I don’t think we would suck if we did that…
I’m always trying to win – short time and also be developing for long term. They need not be exclusive.
Everybody has holes – hell, Lions have no secondary.
Chiefs started 8 rookies on defense last year, won a SB as the developed over year and are pretty good this year. Good drafting and coaching are important.
On that I will agree, everyone has holes and good drafting is important…we have not done that 2nd part very well.
Both Cousins and a rookie. That was a weird draft though, Chicago traded up for a guy who played fairly well for all of one season when people generally thought the other two guys taken in the first were better, but the second QB didn’t even come off the board until pick 10. I always thought it odd Bears traded up to draft Trubisky, from what I’d seen watching them and what I’d read Watson was a better prospect, knowing what we know now, I wonder if there were character concerns about him way back then.
I still dont think all these QBs are going to go as early as people think. That RARELY happens. Two maybe, but 4 or 5 in the top 10..nah..not buying it.
I think Maye and Williams go top 3, someone will probably reach for Daniels in the top 10. After that I think someone will take McCarthy outside the top 10, whether thats around 10 or in the back half of the draft where someone trades back into round one for him later IDK. Penis a Nix probably round 2.
I am guessing 3 QB’s in top 10. 4 or 5 in first round.
Yes.
The Ravens kept shooting themselves in the foot. Gave away the game to the Chiefs. The Chiefs played very well in the first half, but the Ravens were dominating the second half, until they made all the mistakes (penalties, fumbles, etc).
Oh well, we are stuck with the Swifties vs the 9ers. Guess I’ll have to pull for the 9ers, the Swifties are getting annoying.
I am fine with the Swifties winning again.
Best QB in the NFL can keep winning as far as I am concerned.
He should be able to beat Brady’s record for Super Bowl wins, if he can stay healthy.
I don’t think he will get their, I don’t see Reid sticking around long enough.
I know a lot needs to happen, and you are correct about Reid.
Brady won championships with two different coaches. I think Mahomes is the best current QB but there are so many variables.
I am looking forward to seeing what the Chargers look like next couple of years.
Meanwhile Buffalo will implode.
Yeah Mahomes is the best QB in the NFL, the Chargers should be very good immediately, though they have some cap issues to work through.
It might even be more impressive if he continues to do it and win multiple with a different HC. How much more does ol’ Andy have left in the tank?
I didn’t see all of the Lions game, but it looks like Campbell left a couple of FGs on the table? I like his aggressive approach to fourth down and don’t think he should reduce that by much. Maybe just take it down a half notch.
If they have another good draft and can shore up their defense a bit, they are still in a solid place.
Yeah, they went for it twice on 4th down vs kicking a FG.
He claims no regrets.
The Lions had the game locked up, but then turned the ball over on downs vs kicking a FG, and that decision plus the circus catch Ayuk made off the lions facemask completely turned the momentum.
Campbell’s aggression cost them the game. Combined with a few bad throws by Goff when he needed to play better. Dude cannot move around in the pocket at all.
Goff isn’t particularly mobile, but what I saw is he’s just plain bad if he has to throw on the run.
he reminds me of plenty of good pocket passer QBs that are not able to move around in the pocket. Pressure up the middle will always affect QBs like that.
Purdy had a few boneheaded plays, but when he rolled left and hit his FB while not having his feet stable, it was a great QB play and a great sideline catch.
There are still several pocket guys tht can throw well rolling – both left and right. Goff is just not one of them.
Purdy seems to have some problems throwing from the pocket – perhaps height/sight is an issue.
Goff can make throws when rolling, but needs to be able to get his feet set.
The better/best QBs can make the throws even when their feet are not set.
Sad that Jordan Love looks to be able to do that.
Love still misses a lot of easy throws simply because he doesn’t set his feet and has time to do so.
Yeah, that first failed 4th down attempt really changed the momentum of the game. The 9ers (and the crowd) really got fired up and it turned the game around. That was a huge mistake.
The first one I’d probably have gone for it too. Halfway through the third quarter, you score a TD to up 21 and the game is pretty much over. The second one though, down three halfway through the fourth quarter I probably kick the FG to tie the score. Their kickers isn’t particularly good, so I’m guessing that factors in to some extent. The coach is either dumb or a genius based on the outcome of the play.
Agree on the 4th down calls. Game really changed on the Ayuk 51 yard catch which was piss poor play by the Lions DB and lucky as hell for the Nineres.
Reminded of one of our DB’s against the Chargers.
Yeah, Detroit’s CBs are not particularly good, Lions had a similar play where Williams caught a pass off a defenders head.
Same. Evans sucks badly. No hands or ability to play the ball in air. Should not be on a college roster, much less NFL.
Feel bad for Detroit, hopefully they can come back next season strong with their young roster. NFL is a harsh mistress, you never know what might happen to destroy your season. SF and KC just seem to be able to maintain their momentum, otherwise it is a crapshoot.
I don’t feel bad for Detroit…Hope their shitty players and their shitty fans cried all night long.
Nah, they’ve always been decent to us (Vikings fans) when they dropped by the DN. Chim was a good guy. Not the Lions fault they were a better team this year.
Except for the sign about taking out the kneecaps of Vikings and Rams players right after the same douchbag dback took out both HOCK and the TE from the Rams.
Fuck the Lions and their shitty fans.
At the RB position.
Maybe teach Chandler to pass protect better?
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