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Kevin O’Connell says JJ McCarthy is putting in the work and impressing: “He’s been wearing us out in the facilities and working his tail off. He’s growing every single day, and confirming a lot of things that we thought about him in the pre-draft process.”
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Will the Vikings win 2, or 3 Super Bowls while JJ McCarthy is on his rookie deal?
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Sorry., work issues today.
Ben must be at a job interview or a bender.
Ben bendering?
Seems appropreate.
GF/Ben/Bow/Surly…
The American Woman song, towards the end, keeps playing in my head when I think of the Skoloholics admins.
“I got got got got got no time……..”
——
“Gonna look you straight in the eye, tell ya what I’m going to do……
“You know I’m gonna LEAVE….”
“You know I’m gonna GO….”
Your move hippies! 🤣
It may be a working AR, but being made of aluminum, I foresee a lot of burnt faces and missing fingers in his future.
Going to have to keep down his rate of fire.
Or wear shooting gloves and not nuzzle the stock to aim.
It would take some practice but for a ‘free’ AR 15………
Today is June 12th, the 164th day of the year. There are 202 days left in 2024.
The Vikings announced they’ll begin their training camp on Saturday, July 27th, with their “Back Together Weekend” event. Monday July 29th, the pads come on and real practices begin. In case you’re counting, it’s 45 days until July 27th.
SKOL, and FTP!
” Back Together Weekend ” – Kumbayi , ready for choir practice.
I don’t care if the thread is a Tuesday thread.
You will get soda slut and like it.
Always appreciated
Okay admins, I’m all caught up and ready for a new thread.
Same here.
SHIITTTT!!! I almost forgot its Kirk Tuesday!
Here is a nice article talking about what a great teacher and leader Kirk is in Atlanta.
‘This is the guy that’s gonna lead us:’ How Kirk Cousins is playing a role as teacher to help young offense (atlantafalcons.com)
Lead you to 8-8-1 and a WC Loss babyyyyyyy!
New offense, defense didn’t do their part, Bijan is a subpar running back,
I just got back from the doctor…
Interesting findings….
HDL is a little high – that’s good
LDL is about average – that’s O.K.
Triglycerides are a little high – that’s bad.
So anyone want to guess what a likely cause is of high Triglycerides combined with High HDL and Low to average LDL???…….
That’s right boys and girls….TOO MUCH ALCOHOL!!
I guess the damn Triglycerides are going to have to be high….
Time to switch to meth.
Maybe switch your types of alcohol.
And sometimes a little high intensity cardio does wonders for cholesterol readings.
This is true. Tequilas/agave alcohols are by far and away the best alcohol for you.
I think Mjolnir would recommend something else.
Some twitter dude says JJ willhold out unless he gets 100% signing bonus up front.
That twitter user has been about 50/50 on shit they’ve posted since last off season. Ill wait until a legit insider reports it. Either way, its not a big deal, more of a minor hiccup. Also it would be JJ’s agent doing this, not him, he’s been practicing and will continue to do so I would assume.
Trying to hod off on clickbait crap, every once in awhile i peek.
Its hard in these dark dark times of the off season, I totally understand.
It doesn’t even make sense. The whole point of the signing bonus is that is the cash you receive up front.
Twitter dude is full of shit, only thing negotiable with rookie contracts is offset language
Is JJ’s new contract a ‘rookie contract?’
JJ the QB is a rookie. So yes.
Got my JJ’s messed up. Thanks.
Makes sense he should get up front. I mean contract will be around 20 mil, correct?
The point is, is that’s not negotiable.
Only offset language is negotiable in case he gets cut or traded.
This is rich. Biden spoke at some gun violence and gun control conference today just hours after his son gets convicted for illegally obtaining a firearm.
I thought JJ was only getting backup reps?
At least, that’s what’s been “reported”.
but i was informed he was throwing the ball into the dirt, looked like a rookie, and was a BUST
Just ask JoRo and NoDak! DOOOOOOOOOOOM
He is a bust!
What I believe I said was I was leaning towards him being a bust….
A bust?
Nice Puppies.
I like how she “fixes” a cup.
As if it matters.
are we sure that girl is legal?
that’s pretty MAGA of you to assume a gender.
Haha yeah, so hard to consider he MIGHT be a bust than get us 2-3 superbowls over the next 5 years. Wild thought.
Also, didn’t you and most others refute me when I said he’s not actually third string? Now all the sudden I could be right and you twist it into me being wrong about some other POTENTIAL future projection with normal Vikings-fan reservation? Not exactly fair.
Nope, wrong again. I agreed that he wont be starting this year and would be 3rd string behind Mullins. Your hate boner for me is twisting your vision. Anyway, Im not playing stupid games like “Were getting super bowls > him being a bust” I never have and dont project things like that. My comment is, the Vikings are finally trying something new and going down they path they should have half a decade ago and some people are still crying doom, AKA you. You’ll never be happy. Anyways, have a nice day XOXOXO <3 <3
You just admitted you were wrong, assuming this tweet means he’s not third string. “I agreed that he wont be starting this year and would be 3rd string behind Mullins”
You can’t have it both ways.
Also, I didn’t say “DOOOOOOM”, just said more likely a bust than the 2-3 superbowl hopium nonsense everyone is spouting. Also known as realism. You love to pick fights and then fly off the handle.
Training camp dates announced.
Parker Valby continues to crush it. Breaks Tuoy’s record. I think Valby has Olympic trials soon. She would likely get beat easily at the Olympic level, though. They’d be like 30 seconds faster than her. But she is young and has room to grow yet.
She looks like a real girl.
I hope she is a real girl.
She’d make a great Nazi!
AKA Viking?
How can you possibly ascertain this information simply by looking at a picture.
It is interesting to watch the women’s vs. the men’s 5K. The women get really strung out. Even at the D1 level they have a wide variance in talent.
Meanwhile, the men stay a lot more bunched together until one of them finally throws down and forces the talent to the front.
Murph wants to stay in Minny.
Akers still hanging around TCO.
And surprisingly Delvin Cook is still available.
Hopefully the WR position will give us that 1,2 punch for several years.
Add Hock when healthy and boom!!
And Harry moving to TE so they have a 1/2 punch there too. Jones in the backfield and JJ will have to do less to get to the SB this year than he did to win the Natty last year.
I’m not sold on Harry as a TE.
When you have to change positions to hopefully make the team, it’s usually not a good sign.
agreed
Yeah, I don’t know how bowbunch can logically think or expect he will be a valuable asset there.
Who said anything about being logical? This is about the hype train!
Haha I forgot to buy a ticket! Do they throw you off if you are without or can I just jump on the next time the train slows down?
Better get on now. It’s not slowing down and no ticket needed.
If they use him as a catching TE and not so much a blocking TE, he could seriously light it up against covering LBs.
Anything is possible.
But he had to put on 25 lbs? I think.
He’s playing at weight he isn’t used to.
Scary signing him after 2025.
Miami managed to pay 2 WRs.
Plus, he’s under contract through 2027 so I wouldn’t expect an extension until after 2026 unless he turns into a diva in which case trade his ass.
Suppose Darrisaw is more important now.
Wait on cap space, as always.
He’s under contract through 2026 with a fifth year option for 2027.
Not really on the radar yet.
Offensive firepower is great but after watching the AFC playoff games and the SB, would say defense is a really big deal.
To the extent you are allowed to play aggressive defense in today’s NFL, sure.
Then we need to figure it out as it seems the Niners and Chiefs have.
Have more than one person that can generate pressure on the D line would fix a lot of issues. It trickles down. If you pressure the QB the secondary doesnt have to play perfect every down.
Agree 100%. No tricks, generate QB pressure from your D line is the secret to success.
And then be good enough against the run.
Sure.
The new defense in the NFL is about taking away plays.
I mean, they have now banned certain tackling.
Good luck reffing that.
So you have do things scheme wise to not allow a play to develop.
I’m just of the opinion offense is the way to go in today’s NFL.
While defense matters to an extent, I’m just not sure what defenses will be allowed to do anymore.
i was (is) big believer in it’s an offensive league and they really have crippled defenses.
But looking at KC the last couple of years, they took eight rookies and their defense now ‘wins’ games.
I don’t worry at all about our offense.
A strange question for everyone. And this is probably as age thing.
Yesterday I complimented Edge on improvement in his BP and running.
He then posted a video of his new band and a song.
Now, I mean no disrespect to Edge, and music is hardly my thing, but I have never heard anything quite like that.
Am I just over the hill?
you have never heard/seen someone take a compliment by posting a video of them singing?
or you have never heard that kind of music before?
That kind of music?
i didn’t listen. was it scary?
If you listen to it backwards, it is very clearly meant to summon Satan.
LOL….
“Stairway…to heaven….”
Backwards…”My sweet satan…”
Allegedly
I love metal music, but growling vocals are not my favorite thing.
I have learned to like them in some instances, though. I simply prefer singers belting stuff out in singing voices.
i enjoy a mix of it. i don’t mind some growling as long as some singing counterbalances it out.
Psychosocial by Slipknot does a nice job of going from growling to real singing. I don’t listen to a lot of Slipknot, but I know that song!
This is ” metal music” with singers belting stuff – interesting. Think I prefer Chicago or Blood, Sweat and Tears – age thing. Thanks.
how old are you?
73 and 3 months from next birthday (God willing)
I am not really a snob of any genre when it comes to music. Musical taste is so subjective as to be mindboggling.
Didn’t mean to be snobbish, just hadn’t heard anything like that – age for sure and a sheltered life I guess.
It’s like you can see both sides now!
Now that sounds a little more like music I am used to.
What a great song!! Beatles Smeatles…..
Agreed. Someone who doesn’t get enough credit in the whole “best singer” discussion (with Freddie Mercury winning always, it seems) is Daryl Hall of Hall & Oates. Just great vocals.
And I have to vote Whitney Houston for female.
For female, LeAnn Rimes. Male, Don Williams.
Well I wouldn’t say this song sounded anything like that or those people.
BANG YOUR HEAD!!!!….SCREAM!!!!
That’s me watching the Vikings DB’s trying to bat the ball down.
Haha I know, I was just commenting on Wrenage’s appreciation for good, strong, normal vocals.
We call those “Cleans” in the bigs. I appreciate metal and rock vocalists that can do both. Constant growling and screaming for 4+ minutes doesn’t do it for me and I like HEAVY music but more balanced vocals.
That’s fair to appreciate both. Everyone has their preferences of course.
I remember DH & JO Private Eyes playing on the school bus radio, and everyone would clap to the refrain.
Good times…
It’s mostly an age thing.
I never got into that. Good old rock and roll from the Beatles through the 80’s is my flavor. Led Zeppelin & Pink Floyd are about as heavy as I got.
My brother who is 6 years younger than me, loves the heavy metal genre.
His girlfriend from Germany is a metal groupy. She and her friends travel across the country to metal band concerts, backstage passess etc.. to this day.
Me too – rock and roll thru eighties works for me. Somehow, because of one of my daughters, grew fond of Lada Gaga and Pit Bull. Pretty stage – love the song Bad Romance. But then this morning was listesing to Leslie Gore’s It’s my Party.
Music strictly a generational thing. Not going to say one is better. To each his own. Like the taste of beer, drink what you want.
Correct.
Truth.
See the cost for dear Jill to fly back to hunters trial and back was $345,400. Surely the dumbocrats don’t expect taxpayers to pay, do they?
Heard the DNC is going to help pick up the tab.
I’ll be watching.
Saw a story that the DNC was going to repay the cost.
I am sure that was just a story planted in response to questions.
Doubt that the ‘check’ will ever arrive.
Also, that’s okay use of campaign funds?
Doubt contributors would see it that way, i wouldn’t.
They don’t care. Democrats good, Republicans bad is all they care about.
Democracy is at stake and all means necessary are worth it. The ends justify the means when you are trying to save the country from the Orange Devil.
You kind of wonder where a lot of those contributions end up.
QotD: All of them.
Stefon Diggs believes the Vikings traded him to Buffalo to punish him?
thevikingpage.com/posts/stefon-diggs-still-bitter-about-minnesota-vikings-trading-him
Saw that.
Dude is a bit of a psycho.
If the Vikings wanted to punish him, they would have traded him to the Jets/Panthers/Redskins/Falcons etc….
Think he was thinking more about ‘middle of nowhere’ than he was ‘terrible football situation’.
Maybe. But that would be an even dumber position by him to take IMO. Me thinks it was more about who wanted to give up the most draft capital or players. Just my bogus view on it.
Heaven forbid a receiver have to go to a place to get thrown to by Josh Allen.
Diggs would have probably made an AFC championship game or two if Mahomes wasn’t in the league.
Some punishment…
He’s just jealous of the hero/legend status that Jets has achieved in MN.
0 Superbowls. I am concerned about everyone’s extreme confidence in him, but I understand the hope and hype. We’ll see, but I am going to expect bust and hope for better. Less hurt that way. 🙂
‘expect bust and hope for better’
This is the way of the Viking fan.
Yep, hard not to be this way.
Oh, I have zero confidence in the Vikings ever winning a superbowl.
But I’m glad they are trying something new for a change.
So I’m on the bandwagon….
Reasonable. I’ll be in the same corner for the time being.
So you can damage statues and burn stuff down if you are a BLM or Palestian rioter at colleges etc…
But put skid marks on a “pride crosswalk” and you get charged with felonies.
Washington State is woke, Spokane less so then the rest.
Have a son in law that lives there visited once.
His wives parents are old hippies, but we got along for the day we visited.
It’s easy to get along with old hippies. The hard challenge is getting along with the young woke.
Very true.
The ‘old hippies’ are today’s college professors that are teaching the young woksters snd that agenda.
I guess “old hippies” to me means people older than me. They aren’t teaching anymore.
Hunter guilty.
Now the fun begins.
Sentencing. Pardons. DOJ dismissal.
Joe going full on dementia rant.
Jill will sic the IRS on the jurors now.
Wouldn’t shock me one bit.
All part of the plan. Sympathy for old Joe and he abides by the rule of law – and that makes Trump a crook.
They will use this as a “see, nobody is above the law” moment to legitimize Trump’s convictions, then pardon Hunter after elections. I would bet $10,000 on it.
As Jessie Waters said yesterday on The Five, it will be difficult for FJB to tarnish Trump with ‘Convicted Felon’ when his own son has the same label.
True, but it’s not him directly. They’ll still use it, and “34” felonies vs less for Hunter.
But the ‘point one finger at someone else and 3 are pointed back at you’ effect will still be in play.
And the more they try to tarnish Trump the better his numbers get.
But Trump is running, Hunter is not and Uncle Joe is a down to earth guy from the Puerto Rican, Black, Cuban, etc community.
Don’t forget Scranton…..
That’s the funny thing, that seems to be one place he doesn’t claim to be from anymore.
Oh he’ll use it again when it comes time to sure up the union and blue collar vote.
think you have a solid bet. It is now all out on no one is above law and Joe even supports it when it doesn’t go his way -he’ll take care of Hunter later. Hunter’s conviction actually adds strength to Dems attacking Trump on 34 convictions.
Exactly. Part of the playbook, and perfect timing too, with his sentencing probably coming about a month before the elections. They’ll come down hard on him and then pardon him after the dems “win” another election.
Actually, he will be pardoned regardless of the outcome, if necessary, by Joe or whoever is in charge. They would have until January 2025 to pardon him.
Oh, I know, but I’m saying it’s another way to appear neutral with the DOJ and “buy” votes under the gumption of fairness.
Correct
I agree, if it even gets that far.
Wouldn’t shock me if he is sentenced to zero jail time.
$10 fine. 1 month probation.
Something like that for sure.
Even it’s a $100k or more, he will just paint and sell them to dem politicians to cover the cost.
He’s on trial again in Sept for back taxes. If he skates on both it speaks volumes for the double standards in this country.
I Photoshopped myself into a picture of all of the James Bond actors. When you combine that much handsomeness with that much averageness, it is pretty eye-opening for one’s self-image.
Bottomline: I’m even more better looking than I thought, and all those guys are more ugly than I realized.
Oh yes, I can tell you that.
Re: Nigerian prince.
Anyone have any experience with estate affairs? A couple of weeks back I had heard from my sisters that a distant great aunt (I only met her once, in Wales, when I was 8) had passed away and a genealogy research company had tracked them down.
Today I received an email stating their research into the family tree is done and they are “now in a position to act in the estate” and will email the “next steps”.
The next steps is an estate claim contract – a signed statement that I authorize Family Wise LTD as sole agent in pursuing my potential entitlement to a share of the estate (number of clauses including no guarantee of inheritance, no prediction of value of estate, 12% commission, no inheritance of debt nor fees if there is no inheritance), AND a formal document providing name (ie copy of a passport) and address (ie copy of a utility bill).
I’m definitely getting the Nigerian prince feeling here. All of this for what could be £0 or £1,000,000. I’m inclined to ignore the whole affair and they can give my share to charity for all I care.
i’d gladly accept your charity
Do you really need charity Mr. Lake House?
i always need charity
I don’t know who Charity is
The Riviera needs carpet in the trunk if you’re giving money away
I’m just saying my suspicions are aroused when someone in Wales says they need a copy of my passport. I don’t recall anyone verifying my identity in my grandmother’s estate.
Yeah, it’s an obvious and repeated scam, but you never know and you probably have a few thousand to throw to em just in case they’re legit.
https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2022/08/contacted-about-long-lost-relatives-inheritance-hold-minute
I’m thinking I’ll just ignore it and see what happens to the smaller bait fish (my sisters).
I’m guessing they just got the information about a relative from your search for relatives.
Did they give you a deadline?
No, there is no hard press. It states if I accept their terms and conditions to complete the contract and submit the required items, can send HQ photos of the documents if I wish.
That was the site I found and surprisingly it seems like it might be legit. Here’s a sight where you can check the list of current inestates. If this long lost relative is on there, there might actually be something to it. I found a couple blogs of people asking about the company too and they say it seems legit (that could be the scammers, but). Their website doesn’t have any of the normal scammer flags.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/unclaimed-estates-list
Looks like you can file a claim yourself as well and not give some company a percentage.
This is the website for the company letterhead included in the emails. The founder is who my sister talked to (purportedly)…she called my sister in the evening (England time) so the call came from her home or a cell I assume.
What does the sisters say about the great aunt?
Did they get a similar letter/offer?
An internet search should give you an idea about the companies bona fides.
My sister met her once, as well, when she was a teenager (the great aunt came to visit). My half sister never met her, as she was unknown to us until I was in my 30s.
The email is to the three of us.
That company does indeed exist and has a storefront in Calne.
So family does not know if great aunts estate has assets or debts?
So the passport is for proving your identity?
Do your sisters plan to go forward with the process?
We may be the only living relatives. Keeping in mind I only met her once as a child, I obviously don’t know anything about the decedent.
Our belief is that her estate must be quite small.
Proving identity, yes. I don’t imagine there is a well established family tree for the genealogy research given the circumstances and time that my father emigrated to Canada.
Not sure what my sisters plan to do. That’s their business. I’m willing to let them be the chum in the water.
It is their business but it also family business.
Working together on the issue is not the same as telling them what to do.
It doesn’t seem that you are all that close to your sisters that you are willing for them to be bait for you.
Yours is a fair assessment. I am being crass. I don’t want them to get swindled but at least my sister was more excited about the initial contact than I was, and it is impolite of me to ascribe her motives.
My sister and I are not close…we are ten years apart and she is the one that yelled out in a public place “I want to rip open your ball sack with my teeth, pull out your balls, and throw them against the wall.” She has all of my father’s stubbornness so I’d never get far telling her what to do. My half sister is sweet but I had never spoken to her until I was 45.
As they by happenstance live only blocks apart in Calgary they are more in touch but I believe the last time I asked my sister said she hadn’t talked to our halfsister in a year.
In terms of seeing them, it has been 100% one sided (I travel to see them, not the other way around).
I should call my sister and see what her plans are. She seemed to think it was all legit after talking with Kirsty.
‘I want to rib open your ball sack with my teeth’.
Seems a strange thing for a sister to say. Maybe a Canadian thing.
I am not close to my sister either. She is in North Carolina with her ‘partner’ and is an odd duck. She was deep into Y2K and e-mailing info like how much water we should have on hand for each person when the grid shut down.
If something like this happened in our family we would have some that needed the money and others that would be more ‘risk adverse’ like yourself.
I’ve previously recounted that story on the DN. Essentially she was waiting in a swanky by Montana standards bar with her husband for my wife and I to show up with our daughter, who was by chance staying at the same hotel for a orthopedic conference. The bar was filled with orthopods from around the state and my sister had drank about half a bottle of rye. She started out saying some shitty thing about me, my wife rose to my defense, and my sister explained in graphic detail how upset she was that at age 17 (she was 7) I left for university and was not readily available to absorb my father’s insults and passive aggressive barbs. I’ve long since come to peace with my upbringing and give credit where credit is due, really I just struggle not to ever act as he did.
‘I just struggle not to ever act as he did’.
Exact same relationship I had with my father. Glad you survived yours so well.
I firmly believe that ‘you can become like your father or you can become as different as possible trying to avoid becoming like your father’.
I am trying to write a book, and I am having trouble with dialogue, thinking, “No one talks like that in real life…”
Then I see…“I want to rip open your ball sack with my teeth, pull out your balls, and throw them against the wall.”
And I realize…I am way overthinking my dialogue choices!
Do you have any relatives or friends, over in Wales, who can confirm in person?
To the best of my knowledge, she was my last remaining Welsh relative. She is the only person my father ever mentioned in the last ten years of his life that lives over there. My sister did chat with the lady by telephone, which is obviously a bit difficult given the difference in time zones.
Have no idea of typical protocol in Wales but here usually people with estates of some worth have a will or some other document directed disposition of assets.
this sounds like all living relatives are entitled to something. Doesn’t quite all add up.
I surmise (guessing really), that she didn’t have a will. I have heard nothing about a will, just that this company was assigned to track down relatives as it was known many if not all of the relatives reside abroad. The three of us may be the only living relatives.
Then I’d guess the estate is small. Would seem reasonable for you to go back and state something like before I pass along my personal information could you please provide an idea ( 1 grand versus 100 grand) of size of asset we are talking about.
And if you wanted to check further, perhaps Wales has some kind of BBB or Ministry of Incorporation that could shed light on the legitimize of the settling company.
Thanks, JRob, Bow’s article he shared lists the UK equivalent of those organizations.
That’s a great resource. Thank you.
Well, I have to acknowledge that Florida had the better team last night. I wouldn’t be maudlin being down 2-0 in the series if the loss was due to a fluke overtime goal or some glaring gaffe by a defenseman, but the Oilers had no intensity to match the Panthers. Being down to only four defensemen for the majority of the game didn’t help, but I’m a lot less optimistic for the series than I was after game 1 when it was more about a HOF performance by “bob”. I’ll still cheer for them at home on Thursday and Saturday, at this point it’s either gonna be over in 4 or the SCF are going the distance. Have to revise my Oilers in six prediction to Oilers in seven.
Go Oilers!
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TEEEEEEEEE
PEEEEEEEEE
SKOL
How about 5?
speaking of shark attacks (below conversation)
the beach we went to in san diego (Del Mar) had a shark attack just 2 days after we had been there.
i thought i was being super smart by not going much deeper than waist/chest deep…
then i hear about how deep the last couple attacks in florida were (waist-ish deep water) i guess there is no safe spot in the ocean…
such a good movie. i still get the scared/intense feeling watching it
I like the Jaws movies.
But they just make me chuckle with that fake fish gnawing away.
Jaws 3-d was awesome in the theater. It was my 1rd time watching in 3-D.
I watched Jaws about two weeks ago. It gave me culture shock to watch something so well done.
I particularly noticed how bad modern actors are compared to then. Emotion is way overplayed by modern actors. They don’t leave any room for the viewer to project on them.
One of the best movie lines, ever!
And so well delivered.
Agreed.
I’m like you, I usually hang out just beyond the break line, 7-8 foot deep water, figured I was safe from sharks. Then you see these drone videos of sharks swimming right there. Oh well, sorta like getting caught in a thunderstorm, when it’s your time it’s your time.
you go further out than i ever would…
i want to be touching at all times. both for a healthy respect of sharks AND rip currents.
that being said, the ocean is awesome and me and my family had a blast boogey boarding and such. it was my kids first time in the ocean so that was a great memory. while we were there a surfer got stung by a stingray, so i had to teach the kids how to shuffle their feet in the water.
all so different from the lakes we swim in back home
Yes, your kids are used to having their own private lake.
I do love swimming in the ocean.
QotD – I’m more of an optimist. After we win one this year with Darnold i’ll start thinking about JJ.
Good Plan.
‘Never Make Any Decisions Until You Have To’.
QotD:
Greedy!
If JJ continues to grow everyday, eventually he will become an enormous QB that will devour us all!
Ain’t nobody tackling him then.
That’s all set up for the golden shower.
Don’t pee on Trump and tell him its raining. It will be the end of democracy!
i don’t know if i will ever be able to forgive KAM for bypassing Kyle Hamilton, trading down, and getting Cine…
Typical christian – Edge
i lol’d
How many SBs will they have to win with JJ for you to forgive him? Will Dallas Turner being DROY help?
it might be unforgivable.
i haven’t decided yet.
The Trade was horrible, KAM thinking he was the smartest person in the room.
The players involved evolved to make it that much worse.
Seems like KAM has matured as a GM. Hope he becomes so good that we forget the stench of that first draft.
i think the trade is the icing on the cake.
it would be one thing if we traded down and drafted a dline or something like that, but the obvious choice was Hamilton and we traded down and still went safety.
I just hate it. i need to get over it. but maybe i wont.
Picking Cine instead of Hamilton can’t be forgiven. Maybe if we win 3 out of the next 5 Superbowls I’ll start thinking about forgiving Queasy for this.
i still have yet to see Hamilton
It’s a nice city
Population of 4,600 is not much of a ‘city’.
More like a decent sized town.
Good morning, SKOL!
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Good morning. Today I’m a FloridaSkol too! I could get used to this.
Watch out for the sharks, they’ve been biting tourists around here, lately.
But if Pirateflip is a FloridaSkol that means ‘not a tourist’ and so sharks should not be an issue.
#logic
LOL
Have you decided on a new name for this blog?
Maybe we should all put in suggestions and then hold a vote for the winning name?
I have a month before the move is complete.
Easy answer is NLSCMF but we will see if inspiration strikes between now and then.
“Never Make A Decision Until You Have To’.
I thought we decided this last month.
SoCalMinnFanFromIdaho
I_DA_HOE is my suggestion
But the name is about me not you.
#grin
Lol
Florida is a red state and even the sharks can. tell red from blue.
Once the Shark takes a bites then the water and victim will become Red.
If it was cold water then the victim would be Blue.
Not sure how the colors change the dynamic of the situation.
Going out to be bait shortly
Don’t become red.
Here is a good article on why those local shark attacks happened last week. Be careful out there.
Why did those sharks attack on June 7? Here’s what the experts say (msn.com)
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