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VIKINGS NEWS
Vikings sign 17 to the PS
Jets sign former Viking bust Lewis Cine to the PS, he played a grand total of 10 snaps on defense despite being a 1st round pick. That 2022 draft is looking worse by the day.
NFL NEWS
Nothing of note
Question of the Day
The GOAT signed something like a 10 year 400 million dollar contract to broadcast games. Would you still bring him in as QB1 and how much would you pay him if so?
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Gov. Tim Walz is facing yet another scandal after it was revealed he signed new teacher licensing rules that target Christians, Jews, and Muslims.
Taking effect in July 2025, Minnesota will require teacher license applicants to affirm transgenderism, race, and other culturally sensitive issues that violate their religious beliefs. If teachers refuse to accept the new regulations, their teaching license will not be renewed. The policy applies to both public and private schools.
Patently unconstitutional, but Dem’s don’t care about that.
Make of this, what you will…
The Vermont Department of Health says to stop using the terms “son” and “daughter” in order to be more inclusive.
This erosion of the meaning of words and the dismantling of family as the building block of society is wrong. We need to stand up to these lunatics and not give in to their views. Time to tell the “woke” to go back to sleep.
Just because they want to deny reality does not compel me to deny reality.
Dak Prescott says he has stopped listening to Jerry Jones’ media comments during his ongoing contract negotiations.
“I stopped, honestly, listening to things Jerry says to the media a long time ago. It doesn’t really hold weight with me,” Prescott said, per Calvin Watkins of the Dallas Morning News.
CNN videotaped their “interview” with Harris and Waltz, vice doing it live. This will be an edited, choreographed, and scripted promotional video, not a serious effort to ask difficult questions and challenge the candidates. The future, unburdened by the past…
Not sure it matters what she says or how she might express it. Her rise in the polls without opening her mouth is breathtaking.
Dims just want power and a 1 party system. They keep her away from press cuz she has no policies. Brain dead.
Oh, think she has policies, just nothing you and I would like. And probably most Americans – they just won’t tell them until later.
She wants a 5 Trillion dollar tax increase.
Did she say that – I don’t listen to her?
Don’t all tax increases have to originate in the House?
Regardless, that kind of tax increase would absolutely tank the economy.
Yes, the Congress has the power of the purse, but the President has to sign the bill.
So she’s going to collect all this money from the bad bad rich and then give it away to everyone else.
The characters may change but the plot remains the same. Dems been using this for 50 years.
Actually, that’s not what will happen. How are you going to get 5 Trillion dollars out of the “very” rich? If every Billionaire in the country gave all their money to the Government, it wouldn’t come close to 5 Trillion dollars.
Of course it won’t happen – I was being sarcastic.
And it was never the plan. As you note there simply aren’t enough millionaires and billionaires.
There real target – where the money is – is the professional group that make between 400 -800k per year. Doctors, lawyers, executives etc.
Of course it’s not good politics to say you are. going after doctors et all. Billionaires plays much better. But as we know billionaires have more tax lawyers than the IRS and can move money and income all over the world.
Yep
And, going after those rich corporations. Recall what Obama did to them. GE was the richest corp in US, He gave them a boatload of tax credits for ‘green’ products and they ended up paying zero taxes.
KAM explaining parting ways with both his first two picks in the 2020 draft (Cine and Booth) and doing his best Kamala Harris impersonation:
“I think when you look at decisions, you try to break them into outcomes. What happened? Bad outcomes, good outcomes whatever they are. And bad outcomes can happen from a lot of things. Bad decision making bad process, bad information, bad implementation when they get here [or] bad support.
There’s a lot of different things that can go a certain way. So you’re always in real time, trying to evaluate how you’re doing it as an organization, not just for the good of the organization but for the good of the person. And I think at times, you get to a place where that roster spot, that value received is better used elsewhere and it also might be better for that player.”
blahblahblahblahblah “i suck at drafting”- kwesi
Seriously… KAM and Kamala must be related somehow…
At least he admits they were bad picks and dumps them. If it were slick wrick, he would have signed both to gawdy contract extensions.
Ummm he didn’t ever say they were bad picks, or even take responsibility for making them.
Maybe not in that short quote, but he did talk about learning and growing from the mistakes he’s made.
Never hire a guy to run your organization with no experience.
Yep, better to hire somebody stuck in their ways and unwilling to adapt.
Are you mockin me… Mr Gambini?
Vikings signed T Ricky Lee III and RB Zavier Scott to the practice squad.
They released RB DeWayne McBride, and WR Jeshaun Jones.
we released JJ?!?!?!
Shocking… I know.
I started a YAHOO PRIVATE PICK ‘EM LEAGUE
All are welcome to join.
Just search for “Yahoo Pick ‘Em League.”
Click “Join Group.”
Then you will want to “Join Private Group.”
Enter Group ID# 32719
Password: RandyMoss84
I also started a YAHOO PRIVATE SURVIVAL LEAGUE
All are welcome to join.
Just search for “Yahoo Survival League.”
Click “Join Group.”
Then you will want to “Join Private Group.”
Enter Group ID# 20681
Password: RandyMoss84
I will try to post this regularly until the season starts…
So season starts 1 week from today.
Wow, I guess it does start in only one week. I was thinking Sunday was the first game, but it starts September 5.
Good to get this going now then!
Two Thursday night games.
Ravens-Chiefs and FTP-Poopeaters.
One should be interesting and the other deserves a meteor.
Isn’t the Gravy Guzzlers/Poopeaters game on Friday?
Yes.
Actually, I think the FTP-Poopeaters is a Friday game on Amazon prime.
Yes, my bad.
O.K. what is the cost? I would likely do the Survival League…The Pick ‘Em League seems like a lot of work.
It’s free. It is just for fun.
If its free I might do both.
$50 send it to me.
Just your pride.
Cool.
thanks Wren !!
I’m in both.
Yes, thanks Wren, I have signed up for both as well.
i signed up for both…
over under two weeks before i forget to do anything in either….
I will make a point of mentioning them during the week. I don’t think we ever did reminders the last couple of seasons, so it was easy to forget.
“the season of love” brought to you by wren, continues
Plus, I got knocked out of the survival league the first week every time I joined it, so that one I naturally forgot about immediately!
You need to remind freezey early, since he doesn’t login here on Saturdays. You might want to post it over at the DN. That’s where freezey does hangout on the weekends.
this message makes me smile.
you ol so and so
I aim to please.
I’ll take the under.
I signed up for both and have my picks in….The rest of you are all playing for 2nd now.
Story of my life…
Congratulations on your wins!
What??
So did we know he had issues?
Did Kene know he had issues?
do you know you have issues??
I know about most of them, The Teacher is gracious enough to remind me.
I have no doubt that there are others of which I am unaware.
Butthurt from being cut by the Vikings?
WTH happened in the markets at 2pm Eastern?
Indices were up 1.5% plus, until 2pm.
Since then it’s tanked.
It happens when the Fed releases info, but I haven’t seen anything.
Aiyuk again NOT on the practice field at the early open portion of Thursday’s practice. Think John Lynch is done being accommodating. They can fine him $45K a day, and I bet they do.
This picture made me chuckle.
Angers me… we have a President who is completely unable to perform his duties. Our “Commander in Chief” while the Middle East is burning.
Well to be honest the Middle East has always been burning.
For the last 1500 years
If you want to include Caesar and the Roman Empire it’s really the last 2,000 years.
Longer than that. At easily more than 3,000 years.
‘The origin of the Jewish diaspora in Persia (aka Iran) is connected to the deportation of Israelites in 727 B.C. from Samaria to Media and Persia.
Correct.
I didn’t want to get all biblical but since God chose Israel for the proclamation of his word, it is the center of world aggression from the beginning of time.
If God chose Brazil, than South America would have been the center of world aggression.
If you want to get biblical you can go back almost 4,000 years to the exodus from Egypt.
Although that was a ‘mostly peaceful’ exodus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagues_of_Egypt
39.1% of time in office on vacation. When he is at the WH he does stupid shit.
Doubt it is him doing ‘stupid shit’ unless you mean filling his depends.
The Cabal that is running the government does stupid shit, yes.
Do we really want Joe calling the shots?
And should Kamala get there, do we want here calling the shots?
I certainly don’t, to both your questions.
But there seems to be 50% of the country that is ok with it.
I tend to think they know Joe (and Kamala) don’t really have it, but they are OK with it.
Probably as much an anti ‘Orange Man’ than a pro FJB/Cackles thing.
This is the disaster of the 2020 election, which I strongly feel was stolen by the Dem’s. I can’t accept Biden received over 81M votes, campaigning from his basement.
People don’t care.
With mail in voting, you’ll see even more votes this time.
This is a simple election and it’s not about issues.
One side sees the world threw a DEI/CRT/Woke lense.
The other is the smashing ram against that view of the world.
Just an opinion.
Did you see the news reports about the China meeting?
If you don’t think China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, etc aren’t voting Democrat, you don’t know what’s going on.
Are the woke clearing them to vote along with all the illegals?
Our current (from Obama) policy towards Iran couldn’t be dumber if you took stupid pills.
I’ve kind of given up on being upset about this stuff.
All I can do is vote.
I have to let the Lord handle the rest.
Kind of where I am at.
I won’t be able convince anyone to change their minds at this point.
In SoCal my vote didn’t count cause Commifornia, here my vote doesn’t really count due to ‘Blue Heaven’, but I will vote regardless.
Why wouldn’t it count in Red Idaho?
I’ve looked back at every state I’ve lived in and which Presidential candidate won that state or not.
Every state I’ve lived in went for democrat since 1980.
My vote has never really mattered my entire life.
It matters on local issues maybe.
But Idaho is going red if I vote or not.
So adding my ‘red vote’ among them won’t count for much.
But voting for the winner of the ‘state election’ for President will be a pleasant change.
Have not gotten to do that since the Reagan Days, 1980s
Politics and elections have changed.
Was watching a preview of the electoral college last night. Most states are already decided and a few will decide the winner.
The model presented had it all coming down to Georgia. But this assumed Trump won Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
Don’t feel real good about the voting around Atlanta, Philadelphia and Milwaukee.
Still a rather small number of votes will decide the election winner.
Models are not exact, even 90% right can mean a different outcome.
Trump wasn’t picked by any election models in 2016, not sure what they looked like in 2020 before the shenanigans.
Ballots ballots ballots.
Probably going to see a replay of 2020 when ballot counting stopped at 10 pm in 6 battleground states only, no other states, just those 6, and when we wake up it will be Joy in the morning!
Or they drag it out for a couple of days to get a read on exactly what they need.
Correct.
But Lara Trump is co-chair at the RNC, so they may be able to find a way to deal with those shenanigans.
That I will pray for.
Milwaukee is a sewer that stains Wisconsin.
Although I agree with the sentiment, especially the last line. I think it is our duty as Patriotic Americans to not go quietly into that good night. I am extremely outspoken among friend and family groups – not mean or obnoxious but neither am I quiet. And I got involved in politics at the local level.
If this nation goes to hell, and it certainly looks like it might, I need to be able to look and my son and grandkids (maybe someday) and say I fought the good fight, I was not quiet, I may have failed but at least I tried.
Bravo for you. For years I simply voted. Now that I’m retired with more time, I try to get involved in small ways locally. Think the school board type stuff is very important.
And shoot, I argue with people all the time.
And lastly, whether we admit it or not, there’s a lot of money in politics. So I give a little. Never did this much before.
If we lose, like you, at least I can say I did a little something.
Zactly! I should give, but with a kid in college I don’t think my wife would approve right now. (And he is a white non-disadvantaged male so his scholarship opportunities are limited)
When I was where you’re at I didn’t either and not much now.
Is there any news on a Pick ‘Em or Survival Yahoo League?
I think Mick usually set them up, but I haven’t seen him pop in lately, unless he was in one day when I wasn’t around.
Someone, ie you, could just start a league and see who joins?
I can maybe look into that next week.
It would be nice if like 10 people would truly be willing to commit to it.
And I don’t mean they say yes and join, only to “forget” and not make any entries after 5 weeks.
Are Pick ‘Em and Survival League the same. I have done Pick ‘Em before but not sure of ‘Survival League’.
Two different types of leagues.
Survival is picking one team to win every week.
Once you use say the Chiefs in week 1, you can’t use the Chiefs the rest of the year.
If your pick wins that week, you survive to the next week.
If your pick loses, you are done for the year.
And Pick ‘Em is just picking winners and whomever does has the best record at the end of the year is the winner?
Correct.
There can be confidence points in pickem.
So you may have made fewer correct picks, but because you awarded and won games with higher points, you can win by picking fewer games right, if that makes sense.
Yeah, if I start them, I will make sure to remind folks regularly in the daily threads to get their pick in.
I enjoy being in those leagues. It is a little diversion every week to make the picks.
I would definitely be down for a survival league, if you were to start one.
Same.
I’m committed to things I do.
It will give us some bragging posts to keep things interesting around here.
If I joined I would see it though.
Doubt I would do very well but if they needed to fill out the league I would join and participate.
I would join.
Ya know, the Vikings could sign Hall to the practice squad, if he clears waivers.
Question as I don’t know how this works. Couldn’t they have placed Hall on PS yesterday and then picked up Rypien?
Think Hall would have had to be waived and gone thru waivers before he could be signed to the PS.
Correct.
So, maybe, a team was looking at Hall, and asking about him as the cuts were approaching. Vikes might have waited until today to waive Hall, after said team made another QB move (Chargers?) then waived Hall, got Rypien, and in the end, will keep Hall.
Or he has an injury that they just found out is more serious than they thought?
Then he would have had to be wavied with an injury designation.
Maybe they waited to see how bad it was, once it was determined it was minor then they could waive him without issue?
Just read this from elsewhere – about cutting Hall.
He played OK in preseason games but had played very poorly. in practice and KOC put a lot of stock in this – one read, bad throw.
Then again, this could be complete BS.
Well, if he clears waivers and the Vikes don’t bring him back, that might have been the case.
I heard KOC blames Hall for JJ’s injury.
Thought that was Ponders fault.
Oh Lord find me a Mercedes Benz, my friends all have QB’s that can stay on the field.
The switch is interesting.
Guess they kept Hall while seeing if Rypien was cut, passed thru waivers, and not signed to another practice squad. Once he made it thru all of that KAM/KOC made their move.
Rypien evidently has a decent arm and has worked in a ‘McVay’ offense in the past. Not sure why they didn’t sign him to our practice squad if they thought highly of him.
Obviously KAM/KOC didn’t think that much of Halls performance in Preseason game #2 and #3. Was he injured during the hit on his last play, pretty good hit? KOC did mention after the game that he got hit pretty good and was dealing with a ‘leg thing’. But if injured that complicates the wavier situation.
Lots of questions, not a lot of answers. We will have to see what they said in their next press conference.
KOC swapping Rypien for Hall…..
I thought he swapped hall for rypien
tomato…tamotto…..
The picture told the story.
as for the question of the day….
i’d take tom brady when he’s 70, over….ANYONE so yeah….
More blather…
In case you didn’t know it, this guys twitter handle is nothing but BS on purpose.
That’s his schtick apparently.
Ahhh soooo… thanks!
The Falcons traded Heinicke to the Chargers. They only have two QB’s on the roster right now. Hall on his way there?
Maybe. Isn’t the Falcons new OC a McKay guy and runs an offense like ours. Would be an easy transition.
Must be a day to flip 3rd stringers.
Yeah, I think the Falcons OC is a rookie from the McVay coaching tree.
Yes, Zac Robinson, former Oklahoma state qb, played under Mike gundy
Strange day. See where Cine has flipped and is now signing with Bills.
Wow… didn’t see that one coming either…
Didn’t see this one coming… Vikings are signing QB Brett Rypien and waiving Jaren Hall.
Would rather sign Angela Rypien…
That’s what I call “sports entertainment”.
this honestly shocks me…
Same
not because i like him or think he’s really good…but we’ve spent a good amount of time and effort into him and our offense…
Not that I was that high on Hall, but not down either, but this makes little sense to me. WTH?
Yeah, dunno JR. Rypien is decent, but he doesn’t know our offense, and Hall looked good in preseason. Maybe Hall has an injury or something we’re not aware of. Strange decision to me.
well he did have an injury in the last game and they took him out earlier than i think they planned…
can they waive someone that’s hurt?
Isn’t there a waiver with an IR designation? I’m not sure how it works, but I think I recall hearing something like it.
I think they waive them with a designation and if unclaimed end up somehow getting money from the Vikings or are semi under contract but don’t count towards the 53.
Rypien likely knows the bulk of the offense having played for McVay
KOC to Jaren:
Rypien has a MUCH stronger arm than Hall….unfortunately both Mullens and Darnold are a bit on the lower velocity side. I think Hall’s upside was pretty limited.
Maybe they want some drama or are trying to mend fences with their kumbaya powers.
Wow.
QOTD:
I don’t think the GOAT would be in playing shape, so it’s a no.
He kinda fell off the cliff his last year, I can’t see him getting better 2 years later.
Yep. When you are in your 40’s, it’s tough to get the body going again.
he’ll be well rested!
The Browns have restructured Deshaun Watson’s contract, converting $44.79M of his 2024 base salary into a signing bonus and creating $35.832M in cap space.
Cleveland now has over $62M in cap space, the most in the entire NFL.
Got to figure that they plan a move if they need the cap space at this point.
Might suggest a trade for say Aiyuk.
A team can only move about $25 million into the next year so if they have $62 million, they have to be spending big in 2024.
There seems to be a couple of ‘disgruntled’ WRs.
Don’t know enough about the Browns roster to make a suggestion.
Niners have Aiyuk and Williams.
Steelers have TJ Watt
Bengals have Higgins
NFL/NFPA require that teams have to spend like 90% of their cap every year. So something has to happen.
I think the minimum requirement is an average of 3 or 5 years possibly but I’m not sure.
Yep. I still think Cleveland has to spend a bunch of money this year to avoid a problem.
With the initial 53 man roster established (still expect some moves will be made) and 10 days till the first Vikings game of the season, it’s time to make some predictions.
I predict a win, with Darnold playing decently. Not great, not terrible. I think our defense finds a way to force some turnovers, and that will be the difference in the game. Vikings win 13-10.
Vikings win 35-3
Two defensive scores.
That’s what I call overwhelmingly positive!
Giants are poor – we should crush them!
They will be looking for revenge though for the Vikings tricking them into giving Jones that extension.
Will just say, if our defense let’s Jones run around like they did in that playoff game, heads in the defense room should roll.
Giants win, but not by much.
Daniel Jones will remember that the Vikings are the only team he can beat.
Vikings can win if OL and Darnold have a confluence of A games.
i think our offense hums.
i think our defense gets the stops we need and we win comfortably 28-17
QOTD….HELL NO…I wouldn’t pay him 10 million….
We have the next GOAT already. Just gotta get through this year with Lego Man.
bowbunch! You made it! Did you have an enjoyable Birthday Dinner?
Yep, ribeye, shrimp, zucchini and potatoes on the grill followed by a fantasy football draft. Yahoo says I’m only going to win 1 game this year so championship inbound.
You get get shrimp out there?
So, which QB is going to get hurt this year?
That was the Skolholes league that I don’t think is happening this year. I ended up with Love in this one though.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit stayed a lower court decision on Monday, meaning that the state of Florida can now begin enforcing a 2023 law prohibiting doctors from prescribing puberty blockers and hormone therapy to minors.
In its 2-1 ruling, the court’s majority suggested that they did not believe that the law intends to harm or discriminate against transgender people, in contrast to an opinion a district court had reached.
The two judges that voted in the majority, Judges Britt Grant and Robert Luck, were both appointed by Trump.
Florida’s law will remain in effect while the court reaches a final determination on the constitutionality of the statute.
This is ridiculous. Minors can’t use alcohol, but doctors can give them drugs and perform surgeries on them that will alter their bodies forever? And the State of Florida has to enact a law to stop it? And that law is being challenged for discrimination? We have lunatics being allowed to destroy our children, and people support that? WTF?
Ridiculous…..
I was always impressed with my parents and grandparents generations. They may not have been the smartest, and certainly not the most informed, but they had a lot of plain old common sense.
Yeah, me too. Unfortunately, now we have uncommon sense, surrounded by lunatics.
Notre Dame and Texas A&M are playing Saturday. My sister is a Notre Dame fan, and my wife is an Aggie graduate. Guess it’s gonna be interesting.
Neither of them seem like the violent type. I am pretty sure you will be ‘fine’.
I think Beastmaster 2 actually broke something in my brain…
Kudos for you for watching that. I could not even finish the original.
Funny review. well plaid.
The best part of series is still Tanya Roberts.
Hawt!
You should watch adventures in babysitting
I remember seeing Adventures in Babysitting in probably 1988 on VHS at a friend’s house. His older brother came home with their dates, and they made lewd comments about Elizabeth Shue…
Strange, the things that stick in one’s brain.
That is quite a review…..I think I shall pass on the movie…
That is the wise choice. Only a sense of duty got me through it.
Now I kinda want to see it. Spose I should watch the first one first tho.
Sounds about as entertaining as the fake movie Serial Apeist in Big Bang Theory
Only if Cine is elevated from the PS.
Didn’t age well, this tweet, if Cine is now indeed signing with the Bills instead of the Jets.
LOL.
I haven’t seen that.
Tweeting at your own peril I guess.
Ranked starting QBs according to sporting news.
Perhaps the good thing is nobody thinks the Vikings will be very good.
Vikings tend to do the opposite of expectations.
https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/nfl-quarterback-rankings-2024-qbs-best-worst/e202e2b22c31a247a2196f58
I really hope Sam plays well. I would hate this to be a completely lost season. I have zero interest in ever watching Mullens play QB again.
Really? After watching Dobbs, I thought Mullens was the second coming of Joe Montana.
According to Kyle Shanahan, he’s still trying to figure out who he wants as his back-up QB, Dobbs or Brandon Allen. Says they both bring different skill sets to the table.
True – one’s a QB and one’s a RB.
Laughing. Shanahan’s offense is a very complex running game scheme, blended with a lot of timing routes in the passing game. He doesn’t want the QB to think too much. He wants to get the ball out quick. Purdy is really a perfect fit. He’s not an improviser. He’s a technician, and a good one.
Dobbs, could be OK in this offense, because it’s not built on an extremely complex passing scheme compared to other offenses (like KOC’s) and the running game is amongst the best in the league.
“Get the ball out quickly” – Dobbs?
When Dobbs knows exactly where to go with the ball, he can get the ball out quickly.
GM!
FTP!
SKOL!
Heading to the State Fair today. Pickle Pizza and Rueben Bites from O’Garas are the first two things on my list.
Dairy building malt, and probably some kind of mini-donut as well.
Then I will need a beer or 3.
Have a good day.
Weather good for today?
Good until around 4-5. Have tix for Motley Crue. Could end up just eating more food in the grandstand or food building if they cancel the show.
Good morning, dingleberries.
I watched a 2023 Ohio State vs Michigan game last night. Made me reallllllll excited for JJ….
Hello numb nuts.
Hard to be excited about JJ when he won’t play until 2025, Lord willing.
Meanwhile, FTP!!
Good morning, SKOL!
FTP!
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