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Vikings/NFL News and Updates:
Injury report for Sunday’s game as of Wednesday, Pace, Bradbury, and Ward DNP, Addison and Turner were limited, and Darnold was a FP
Former Viking Tommy Kramer announced he has dementia, sad.
QOTD:
What has surprised you the most, the defense being so good, Darnold not sucking, something else?
Yesteday Summary:
Hun was first, posts Soda Slut
Wren posts pickem standings update, also suggests Dallas has mental health issues
Jvike posts MT’s favorite gif
Freeze would rather nap to golf than baseball, whatever that means
GF thinks underwear in bed are uncomfortable
Wren wants to hear more about MT’s nudity
Darnold discussion
PeterPlaysSkinFlute sighting
MT wants to see Jimmy Kleinsasser’s butte if you know what he means
Freezey reports Greenard has three scrotums
Media Selection:
Here’s a cool story about Carson Steele, the Chiefs RB who is filling in during Pacheco’s injury/absence. I have Steele on my fantasy team, not that it matters.
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Is Mike Zimmer an asshole?
I think he might be
Gosh, both teams playing tonight suck. The Vikings would throttle either right now, correct?
Correct
whew!
Do I hate the Giants more than the Cowboys?
I think I do
ppb trying to pass my comment total… I think he succeeded.
According to BETMGM the majority of the bets and money is going on Minn.
% of Bets
% of Money
Money Line
MIN +115 GB -135
62% 38%
88% 12%
Point Spread
MIN +2.5 GB -2.5
82% 18%
65% 35%
Tried to edit it so that the numbers lined up a little better but it kept defaulting back to this.
Still understandable but one just has to work at it a bit more.
https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/minnesota-vikings-green-bay-packers-20240929009/?section=game_odds
Marley’s birthday today….
Rrrrrrroast beast time!!
this is CRAZY
I agree, it was a beautiful thing.
DNP:
Jonathan Bullard
Christian Darrisaw (sickness)
Ivan Pace Jr (getting concerning)
Jay Ward (no biggie)
Limited Participants:
Jordan Addison
Garret Bradbury (was DNP yesterday)
Kamu Grugier-Hill
Josh Oliver (need him back)
Full Go:
Dallas Turner (was limited yesterday)
Sam Darnold
Hope Darrisaw was ‘just something he ate’.
remember when players had to take 10 days off if they got sick?
ahhh the good ol days
I’m guessing he eats a lot
So Darrisaw is down with the sickness? That’s bad.
A summary! I did miss those, thanks Ben 🍻
Back at the hospital unfortunately, a little complication after the procedures I had done last week, but should be fine now after another operation… not Zimmer fine, I sincerely hope 😬😅
Hope you get better soon.
Glad to hear you’re doing better. Those penis enlargements and butt implants can be tricky. TMIK.
😂
Get well soon.
‘should be fine now after another operation’
#nojinx
Get well man!
So your new boobs slipped?
Kinda 😂
Thank you guys!
Hope I can leave the hospital tomorrow already. Being back home for the weekend would be nice.
Take solace in the fact that if you lived in the US you would get a massive gouger bill that would take a couple of months for the insurance company to settle their part.
Speaking of ….
The Teacher just got notice that the Hospital and the Insurance settled her bill from her stay (due to sepsis) in Oct last year.
She/We don’t owe anything.
Yea!!
YAYYYY!
Did you have Wren’s wife get after them?
Naaa
We just let the two of them duke it out.
And no point did we get a bill, just an occasional notice that the matter was still being ‘worked out’.
At the end the insurance co stated that ‘some items had to be re-coded’ before they could be accepted’.
Figure that is medical speak for they had to call it something else before the insurance will accept it.
Well, indeed. The social security system does take a substantial cut from my paycheck every month, but when SHTF it does have its merits.
Oh man, that sucks. Hope you get better soon!
Thanks mate!
Hun’s fine
-Zim
😂👍
Get better soon.
My wife and I got in a big row over Christmas lights.
I favored putting up the 240 feet of lights on the shouse at heights varying from 14 feet to 25 feet using an extension ladder, so as to punish myself with wind sprints running up and down the ladder and perilous leaning out to put up just one more light on the string. What’s the worst that can happen?
She favors renting a boom lift and putting all my supplies in the basket with me and rolling around the shouse, get it done safely and in 1/4 of the time.
The lift rental is $300 with a $125 fee for round trip transport. I told her that and she said FFS you make how much?
Women I tell you, can’t live with them, can’t live without them.
You’re a doc, what’s the worse that could happen if you fall from 25 feet? Maybe a broken back, hell no bog deal.
Personally, I hire someone else to do it.
And I’m a poor middle class stiff.
Actually, the last time we had a boom lift at our place (while the addition was being installed), two teenagers were running it, drove it through the muddiest part of our property for no apparent reason, got stuck, had to be winched out as we missed a day of work getting it out, and I got to spend three hours repairing the massive divot in my yard with the tractor. Then they drove it directly over our drain field despite the orange flags we had placed, ignoring our caution to NOT DRIVE OVER THE DRAIN FIELD.
TL;DR “someone else” = nincompoop. Plus they’re kinda fun to use.
Don’t hire teenagers.
I get that, but the guy you hire to cut down trees or put up lights or build an addition usually has a couple of nincompoops that they have do those simpler chores while they do the more important finish work etc. Trust me the teenagers weren’t getting the cheque directly from us.
Yes they are, I used to work for a painting company in Owatonna. We had one similar to the one in your picture. We rented a 76′ one to paint the steeple of a church and a roof cap on a five story building.
I only got to take it up to about 50-60 ft, but another guy on the crew took it up the full 76′. He was painting the little roof cap/cone. It was probably 1 foot tall and 8-10 inches in diameter. It took him 2 hours to paint it. The wind would blow him away, and when it would let up he would quickly paint what he could until it rocked away again. When he got back to the ground he was white as a sheet and could barely stand up, his legs were shaking so bad.
That would be me. I would freak out.
I don’t have any issues until I get back to the ground and see where I was.
My brother and I were painting a Victorian style house, basically 3 stories tall. We had a 36 foot ladder, but it would not reach the peaks. So we put the ladder fully extended on top of his conversion van. We put the bullhorns on the ladder and I stood on the very top rung, and painted the very peak, reaching as high as I could.
I can’t imagine being that cool up there. I get vertigo bad when I get up in the air. Limbs start trembling. Feels like the heart is pumping low-grade battery acid.
I can get up on top of grain bins and stuff like that, but the situation like you described would put me in a sanitarium.
I hate heights. I’ve walked the roof ridge of the shouse, sitting at 25 feet, with what seems to me like a teflon metal roof on each side sloping away at 3:1, and almost panicked as in I almost froze. It took everything I had to slide back down to the ladder. I can only imagine being in a whipping bucket at 76 feet.
The company I worked for used to paint water towers, I never got to. But, I heard from the older employees, they sway about 15-20 feet in each direction when you’re painting them. One guy froze when he got to the top and had to have a helicopter come and get him off.
I feel for that guy. I was suppressing those panic thoughts because I knew if I let them come to the forefront I was gonna freeze at 25 feet. Leave me up there for a day or two and eventually I’d come down I suppose. The good news was that (I had bare feet because I felt it was too slippy to get up there with shoes on) I was sweating so bad that I had plenty of sweat to help my feet grip.
A guy I know climbed radio towers for awhile.
If someone put a gun to my head and told me to climb a radio tower, I wonder how far I’d get before I simply got shot.
That was the big selling point for applying for the job. The owner said he had 250 50 ‘ tall towers that needed to be painted. He ended up not getting the bid.
We actually have a boom lift at the farm. A guy had one for sale. At the time, we had to do a bunch of tree trimming at the farm, and dad figured for what all of that would cost, he could buy more than half the boom truck for sale, so he bought that, and now we trim our own trees and whatever else that requires a boom truck.
We even had a nearby small town asks us to bring it over to help them hang Xmas lights. it actually gets used quite a bit.
Moral of the story: get a boom truck.
That is pretty accurate.
It is like no boom truck I have ever seen. It is blue with a tilt-forward cab. Probably from the 1980s.
This is what the one I’m renting looks like (technically an articulating crane). There was actually a larger genie boom truck for sale at auction two weeks ago that I looked at…really couldn’t make the dollars work at the $10,000 I thought would be the max bid – versus the cost of renting the few times I need one. It went for $29,000 hohoho MT knows squat about auctions.
Swing by my place with it when you’re done and get the giant branch out of my cottonwood tree before I kill myself on an extension ladder trying to get to it.
Yeah, 29 grand is a bit extreme.
Ours was listed at $10,000. Not sure what dad got the guy to accept it for, so it paid for itself pretty quick considering what tree trimmers charge.
you pay more for dog care for 1 week than i pay for childcare in 1 year…
i think you can afford the safety of a lift rental…
I secretly love the grim look my wife has when she says FFS you make how much?
Doesn’t she really say….
”FFS….WE make how much?”
IRL she does say that, interspersed with we have how much in the bank?
Life is good. I pity those that are about to (my suspicion) put in a straight blue executive and legislative majority.
I would pay someone to hang the lights. but I am a grinch now, and just put lights on a few outside plants at ground level.
Ladders are not for me.
Have permanent Xmas lights installed.
They actually are permanent lights.
“a big row”
I have never heard of this phrase before
You bloody blighters that weren’t raised with the King’s English.
I have heard it fairly often but then I read a lot.
Give’r, you keener!
I consider myself witty and well read.
Hope that will be good enough until I reach wise.
How about wearing a toque and bunny hug on a cool fall day?
‘togue’ or toupee? togue is a lake trout, not sure why anyone would be ‘wearing’ one.
‘Bunny hug on a cool day’ sounds like a fuzzy coat or blanket to keep you warm.
So togue = ski cap
and Bunny hug = sweatshirt?
or are those brand names?
It’s toque with a Q. Pronounced /təʊk/ – if you walk into a store in WEM (West Edmonton Mall) and ask for a ski cap or stocking cap they will likely have no idea what you mean. Kinda like when I was looking for Febreze in Regina once upon a time when our dog had an anal gland squirt in the back of our SUV.
Bunny hug is just a generic hoodie. Actually it was more common in Alberta to call them pup tops, bunny hug being a Saskatchewan phrase, but bunny hug is more endearing.
with a Q google says
a woman’s small hat, typically having a narrow, closely turned-up brim.
HISTORICALa small cap or bonnet having a narrow brim or no brim.CANADIANa close-fitting knitted hat, often with a tassel or pom-pom on the crown.
AKA, In American English, this type of hat is known as a beanie or a watch cap, while in Canadian English, a knit cap is known as a toque, touque, or tuque (pronounced /tuːk/)
Oh the pom pom is a must. I never encountered a non pom pom toque until I moved to the states.
My ex father in law was originally from Regina, came to the US when Canada went to nationalized medicine. As a Dr (GP) he often railed/ranted against that system.
Talking to him gave me a few insights into Canadian English.
I miss that old guy. His daughter not so much.
Reminds me of Bob and Doug Mackenzie…
He speaks Canadian
Get a boom lift
Today is a big day. I am going to receive my Lucky Charms marshmallows to add to Frosted Cheerios to see if I can create gourmet Lucky Charms…or Marshmallow Maties, if you prefer…
“Frosted Wrenage Charms” ©️
My kids like fruity pebbles, I’m a honey bunches of oats man myself
The dairy building fruity pebbles malt at the state fair was very good this year.
2 hours and $46 to renew a drivers license, f the mn dmv
Idaho DMV sent me a set of duplicate plates in the mail last week.
I called to ask why and how to dispose of them as just tossing them seemed wrong.
They said that the had issues with ‘military personalized plates’ issued around the time I got mine so they just reissued all of them. They said I could just save them in case one of mine got damaged.
Did they charge you double? MN definitely would
No charge, they just decided that the easy answer was to reissue them all. Certainly easier than running down all the plates issued and seeing if there is an issue with them.
Nothing in the envelope but two new plates identical to the ones I have on Taco Ma.
Neighborliness……..
What a stolen valor clown, this state sucks
Our next VP, show him some respect.
Don’t disparage my name. VP.
He/she sucks. The end
@it really sucks living in a sparsely populated area@
@I envy you MSP dwellers@
Hmm…….
Lite beer – mostly water anyway.
True
Lots of debate if it’s a Mich Ultra or a Pepsi
Looks like a pepsi to me.
It is the more logical answer as well.
Yeah, I struggle with a 4 year old guzzling a beer that fast. My stepkids and grandkids found a single jalapeno in their nachos to be almost unbearable to eat given their sensitive taste buds. That being said, c’est la vie.
After watching the video, it is clearly an Ultra. But it is Texas, so be thankful it was just the 1.
Not much better for a toddler.
100% is NOT a beer
I lean the opposite.
Pepsi doesn’t have a single red ribbon at the top of the can.
According to the people who recorded this…..
Lol. Girl probably loved the game and wants to go back
Looks exactly like the Michelob can
Yep.
Pepsi looks like……..
No single red ribbon at the top.
Maybe they are from Germany.
Michelob Ultra would seem like a kids drink to a German.
HunViking supports this GIF.
Probably all propaganda to keep the Vikings guessing on the QB.
Id bet Love doesn’t play, given all the hype that he could play.
prepare for Love, eat Willis alive if he gets the start
Not sure which would be better for the Vikings to face.
Love is a known but probably a bit rusty and maybe hobbled a step.
Willis is young which is prime meat for Flores but he did pretty well last game and we have a history of allowing back up QBs to imitate Hall of Fame level play.
That’s my take as well.
I probably wouldn’t play Love. He is the long-time QB. They have gone 2-0 without him. I’d let him marinate another week.
Same.
Thats why I think it’s smoke and mirrors.
I hope the Vikings get at least 5 sacks this week, and do not care what QB they hit.
Both is fine. Knock out Love, then sack Willis.
Yep.
Shouldnt matter.
Take them both out.
Sounds KOC and the Vikings are bucking the trend of ‘dumbing down’ the offense so that QBs can run it with limited practice time.
Watching analysis videos that show Sam going thru multiple reads and the WRs running thru complex schemes leads me to believe that is not what we do.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/super-bowl-champion-coach-jon-gruden-agrees-tom-brady-offense-being-dumbed-down-young-qbs
But Sam is not a young QB and has been around long enough to read NFL defenses and their various coverages.
Was thinking more about JJ and KOCs plan to get him dialed in on the offense.
There doesn’t seem to be any indication that they want to simplify things for a rookie or a QB new to the system.
Referencing am old teammate perhaps?
Diggs had a bunch of catches and yards last Sunday, he was probably happy despite his team getting blown out
Yup, getting his stats seems more important than winning.
Maybe he as a heavily incentive laced contract.
He’s always been a self centered person
Well, Allen said his comments weren’t aimed at Diggs. Also, stats get you into the Hall of Fame, earn you prestigious awards, and they get you paid. If your QB isn’t throwing you the ball, you aren’t garnering any of that.
Just a different perspective.
Allen looks better than ever despite losing a his top wr, coincidence I think not
Perhaps more time is needed to fully evaluate. Bills have played three of the poorest defenses in the league, and even this week, the Ravens pass defense is giving up 300 yard per game.
LOL! I’ve never seen that before. Thanks for sharing!
That ending though lol
Johnny Randle is timeless
This is my shocked face…
Rest is over rated.
More surprised thats not a Packers stat. Coddled to no end.
I’ve never been a fan of the Thursday games (except for Thanksgiving). Not enough time to rest and prepare. I wish they would stop those games, but, I know, money drives the train…
Hey what’s Turdberry’s injury?
Knee. He was playing hurt at some point during the game last week. Heard its a little jacked up
He’s needed. I know he isn’t great physically but he does make the line calls and we saw significant drop off when he was out last year.
Dont we have a new guy that wasnt on the roster here for his back up plan?
Dan Feeney or Mr. Feeney if you will.
I’d say his ability is injured.
Consistently gets bulldozed and takes false starts.
Thanks Ben!
sad to hear about Tommy Kramer. The worst part is, the NFL probably won’t do shit for him.
genuinely curious what the NFL should be doing for him.
shit, clearly. that’s what GF laments the NFL won’t do for him.
Hard to say, TK has been a big time boozer over the years, which likely contributed to his situation
Yep.
Amen.
According to Tommy, they will help with the medical bills that his Indians doesn’t cover.
watched the old 1960 Swiss Family Robinson with the kids last night.
there was a 20 second long “we don’t agree with the depiction of this that and the other things blah blah blah”
and i am still trying to figure out what was racist in the movie….the pirates were of a different ethnicity and they all spoke a different language, but there was nothing RACIST about casting them etc…
man we are soft
I am thankful that my kids were able to watch the original Peter Pan, Song of the South, Dumbo etc, before they were cancelled. While some of the depictions in those movies is certainly racist, it is also a picture of what the world was like at the time.
Glad I have a copy of Blazing Saddles
Yeah, Disney does that with every movie now, it’s emptying
Disney is dead to me
I wish it could be to me, but with two girls ages 5 and 2 I can’t bring myself to refuse them the princess movies
understandable
I was really grooving to “Island Girl” by Elton John last night.
@odd that he hasn’t performed that song since 1990@
Almost forgot….happy Thorsday!
This work stuff is interfering with my goof off time. After another busy morning I have to run out and pick up an SVU load of packing supplies for my bookstore this afternoon.
I’m going to have to bring back the salt mine gifs.
Special Victims Unit?
Nice catch. Too early for the brain to work.
I have to drive to Hettinger today. Middle of nowhere, my kind of place.
I have to go to Crosby tomorrow, northwest corner of ND.
That is some serious road time
I’ve never been to Hettinger. Supposed to be field of dreams for pheasant.
QOTD: Yes.
good to see the summary again, thank Ben…
QOTD: i’d say Harrison Smith has been surprisingly agile, mobile, and not senile
Hopefully the coaching staff plays him reduced snaps over the season, he was great early last year but seemed to wear down later in the year, geriatrics need more rest.
You’re welcome, at my current job I don’t have the flexibility to do summaries like I used to, I have to do more actual work, which is good but also kinda sucks in that regard
i’ve missed you. i don’t think anyone else around here has, but i have.
Congratulations on the new job. Hopefully it’s everything you wanted.
Congrats on the new job. Hopefully, as you settle in, you can figure out ways to be more efficient and skilled and then can devote more time to wasting time!
I continually question my process on everything I do at work to see if there is a way to do it better, faster and more accurately.
Like I am starting to look at AI. It can help with something things. Like if I need an article about a boring general subject, AI can quickly whip up a first draft and save me a lot of time on technical subjects.
Like movie reviews?
Nope, movie reviews are 100 percent from my brain.
I only cheat on subjects like…”what are safety tips for extension cords?” And, frankly, I am ready to cheat. I have written so many of those articles that I scream inside when I have to do another one.
They definitely need Harry on a pitch count. He fades about as bad as Dalvin Cook.
I always thought they shouldn’t even play Dalvin Cook until two thirds of the way through the season, so he would actually be useful at the end and in the playoffs if they made it.
Yeah, dalvin also got hurt pretty much every season, at least Harry is always available, despite being a senior citizen
yeah, he doesn’t need to be in on likely run plays
He was out there pretty much every play at the end of the season last year, while the young guns were all injured. He may have looked slower, but he was also trying to get the backups where they were supposed to be and cover for their mistakes.
Yeah, we got clobbered by the injury bug toward the end of last year. It got pretty brutal there at the end.
That’s awesome. Was this the job as a pinch hitter at the fertility clinic?
lol, not exactly, manager at one of those big box home improvement stores, between Ed Harris for Home Depot, Gene Hackman for Lowe’s, and whoever the crazy Menards guy is, I’ll let you guess which store
You get discounts on power tools?
Ben, have I mentioned you look quite handsome today!
I do get a 10% discount on all products!
I am going to visit all of them, cause a scene and then claim, “I know the manager!”
Eventually, I will hit on the right one. Might take awhile with all the jail time, but I got time.
I’ll be on the lookout for a really tall guy causing a scene!
QotD. As I had predicted Sam would do very well, it has to be the defense – by a long shot. Solid running game deserves mention also.
Isn’t this the dream to find a couple of friends and do a choreographed dance to welcome in the morning?
Good morning, SKOL!
FTP!
Watching Hurricane Helene pass well to the east of my location, today. Stay safe in the Big Bend area.
East? It’s going to be west for me. Already fair amount of wind.
Yeah, it looks like you will get it much worse than me. Stay safe.
AotD:
Blake Brandel, I had a feeling the defense was going to be good, didn’t think they would be this good. I thought Sam I Am was good, but I think Brandel kinda came out of no where and everyone thought, here we go again, the Oline is going to suck. Well, now we’re up to 3/5 good to elite.
QOTD
Id say the dominant defense is the most surprising. KOC knows how to run an offense, proving that an average QB can do well.
And not overpaying for an Average QB feels amazing.
The strength of the defense has really surprised me, as well. It is fun to watch the defense, again.
GM!
FTP!
SKOL!
Question of the day – I think the play of Sam Darnold is the most surprising for me. I expected the Defense to be improved. Both are doing better than I expected.
My hope was for a winning record at the bye, now that is a guarantee.
Thank you Kirko for leaving.
I predicted a 6-win season. Happily, it looks like I will be way off.
SKOL!
Don’t count those chickens too soon.
The Vikings are one of 5 teams to go 5-0 and miss the playoffs.
In fact, the Vikings have done it twice.
I want the Vikings to finally shut the 72 Miami dolphins champagne celebration down for good.
@not bitter at all@
I doubt the NFL will ever allow that.
That is a great GIF. I can well imagine the fear of that guy, knowing the impact is coming and he might very well die and then…egad! I surived!
Well both of those 5-0 teams won more than 6 games. The ’03 team finished 9-7 and the ’16 finished 8-8.
If fact no Viking team that won it’s first 3 games have ever won less than 8 games (only ’16 had that few). So it looks like history suggests his chickens should be lined up to be counted.
While true, it’s the Vikings.
You should know better.
Oh while I am not comfortable (yet) that they will make the payoffs I am pretty certain that they will accomplish 6 wins.
3 out of 14 is do-able even if Sam and Mullins were out.
#nojinx
This is your friendly reminder to get your picks in for Pick ‘Em League before the Thursday night game. Otherwise, you might miss out on losing points by picking the wrong team!
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