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Vikings @ Packers
Wow, another big win yesterday for the Vikings as they rolled into Lambeau Field, and although they made it closer than it had to be, they secured a big win on the road against the Packers. It’s never easy to beat the Packers at home. The Vikings looked like they just might lay down a whoopin’, as they went up 28-0. Mistakes cost the team, starting with a fumbled punt at the very end of the first half which paved the way for the Packers to get their only score of the first half. They turned the turnover into a quick TD, and the half ended 28-7. Two more turnovers in the second half, along with a sputtering offense, almost gave the game away. The defense, in the end, came up big with forced turnovers of their own in the 4th quarter, and the Vikings won 31-29 (yes, it got that close).
In the end, a win’s a win. The Vikings are now 4-0, are 1-0 in the division, and are still sitting alone atop the NFC North. I don’t think many fans expected the team to be in this position heading into week 5, so I think we can go ahead and be happy. It’s hard. As Vikings fans, we’re always waiting for the gut punch. It still might come, but this year’s team sure feels a lot different than teams of the past. I honestly think this is the most talented and balanced team that I’ve seen in my Vikings fandom, which stretches back to 1980. I’m lovin’ it.
The rest of the NFL
If you have no other reason for optimism, look around at the rest of the NFL. I don’t see a team that really scares me anymore, it feels like this Vikings team has a legit shot to defeat any team they face. There is a lot of turnaround this year in terms of good teams getting worse. Who expected the Eagles to look as bad as they’ve looked? The Bengals (year 2 of sucktitude)? There are some good teams, and I expect the Vikings to have the ebbs and flows of an NFL season. I’m not expecting perfection, but this should be a really fun year to be a Vikings fan.
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The Vikings @ Packers post-game wrap-up, courtesy of Skoloholics.
Over at Vikings.com, check out full highlights from yesterday’s game, get all the stats and boxscore, and peruse the site for interviews, locker room speeches, and more.
Get all the week 4 NFL scores and highlights, courtesy of ESPN.
If you didn’t see Matt LaFleur’s tantrum yesterday, here you go, courtesy of youtubes.
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I just picked up Geno Smith as my back up quarterback. Hurts is my starter, bye next week. I’m not sure who I’m gonna keep as my starter going forward.
Are the Detroit and Seattle offenses that good or are their defenses suspect?
Yes
Seattle inexplicably goes for two after their TD, and fails. Down 28 to 20, instead of 28-21.
Sounds like the head coach is outsmarting himself.
That decision confused me, too
Miami not looking good at home. Rudolph might actually be better than Levis.
Levis having a rough time getting going. There isn’t much of a team around him, very little running game, not a great defense.
Wait a minute GF. You know damn good and well, that only the QB wins or loses games.
That’s not Detroit playing. Those uniforms are not Detroit.
Skolly’s mayo boy is bad at football
Yep.
Mason Rudolph looks better.
He throws to the wrong team far too often.
Pete Rose dead at 83.
RIP Charlie Hustle….
Maybe he can get into the Hall of Fame now.
It was a ‘lifetime ban’ after all.
It seems all of the major leagues are all into gambling so they should probably forgive him.
It was illegal, he knew it was, he knew what the penalties were, he did it anyway.
He can rot as far as I am concerned.
He was a great player, not so much a person.
Eh.
NFL players have been suspended for gambling. NFL promotes gambling.
So do other sports.
Doesn’t change anything I just said.
There’s room on the bandwagon!
Baseball season is over.
Looks like Pace back for London, guessing Hock out cuz of bye.
It will be nice to have Hock back when we play the Loins.
Not sure he will be needed against The Douche.
#nojinx
Him and Saleh not getting along, cadence issues.
Accountability issues if you ask Rodgey.
Rodgers is smart but he is wrong on this one.
Lions prob cheap shot Hock again.
That’s how he got injured, cheap shotted by the Loins. Maybe KOC should let him sit this one out.
Pace’s replacement has earned field time though.
Definitely. Dude is playing out of his mind right now. Go with the hot hand.
Nice to see Seachickens win but doubt it.
Either there will be only 2 undefeated teams left (us and KC) or we will be two games up in the NFC North.
Neither will be bad things.
People who “report the news” are so freaking dense.
Do they even read what they “report”?
US publication about viewing tips for the upcoming Solar Eclipse………
in freaking SOUTH AMERICA.
Hated blowing that lead but looking back kinda neat sending puker fans home with it. Nasty ain’t i?
I don’t mind that we let them get their hopes up before crushing them.
FTP tears are delicious.
True.
And two missed field goals to intensify the pain.
Been even sweeter if Joseph missed those.
Man, getting into the 30s around here at night.
Days are still pleasant, about 70, but not ready for this yet.
Climate change is real.
Yep,
It has always been real, since the earth had climates.
It has been warming for the last 10,000 years since there was a 2.5m ice cap over North American.
Damn those 10k year old cars!!
Nah, it was caveman farts back then.
Living on a 2.5 mile deep ice cap required some inventive ways to keep warm.
Farts are generally 98.6 degrees.
Unless you ate a lot of red beans and hot peppers the night before.
As a geologist who has studied the earth and it’s climatic cycles for the past few BILLION years, I am sure if a few things:
1. Earths climate is changing, it always has, and always will
2. We are contributing to some of that change, but know one knows how big our contribution is
3. When we become extinct, the earth will recover.
My favorite climate change fact revolves around Julius Cesears first invasion of Brittain, a few years before the birth of Christ. The seaside port in France that the Romans launched from us now 50 km inland. all due to a changing climate
I believe in taking care of the planet we all live on, that only makes sense.
I also believe that most ‘Global Warming/Climate Change’ alarmists are just trying to make money i.e. Carbon Offsets.
That’s true.
But just as true is that the elites want to control the peasants.
I hear this from a climatologist several months back. So may or may not be exactly true, but seems reasonable.
He claimed – if the US eliminated ALL fuel vehicles today, the effect on world temperature would be one tenth of one degree 50 years from now.`
Seems to me there is time for. reasonable approaches.
agreed
Not sure why but i’d like to slap that face.
This was so me, yesterday
Amen
After Nailor muffed, I started thinking about that 33-0 game against Indianapolis. Please don’t let us be that team!
all my friends were texting me saying GAME OVER before halftime and i was like SHAME ON YOU
That’s funny, my wife and stepdaughter were talking in the other room and when I walked by (28-0) to get some more water they asked how the game was going and I said “I’m not going to say anything because it can only go downhill from here”.
I was watching the first half and my wife and daughter were like telling me I was making too much noise.
In the 2nd half they checked in on me and was wondering why I was so quiet and angry.
So it’s your fault.
This is about as disgusting as it gets. The left is filled with vitriolic hate.
TDS is a hell of a Drug.
but she’s all about tolerance and love
remember: love is love
For all my life there has been dems and repubs, liberals and conservatives, but there has never been pure hate like you see nowadays. What the hell is wrong with people.
And this is someone who is “instructing” others!
I disagree there has been pure hate on both sides. Although it has gotten worse on the left. I don’t think it could get worse on the right. That is not a smack on the right, because it’s not correct to lump the right in with the super crazy religious nut jobs on the right who protest KIA soldiers with signs that say, “Thank God for Dead Soldiers.” Those people identify as conservatives but you can’t use that has a measuring stick for basically conservatives. If you can understand that easy logic you can understand how this psycho on the left also does not represent the left. We need to stop vilifying whole groups because the actions of the extremists. It just further divides us.
I think social media make it more obvious.
I have read a lot about A. Lincoln since we shared a birthday. Media was just as divided back then saying lots of outrageous things. What newspaper you read showed which side you were on, much like ‘news sites’ today.
I don’t know if this is so much “extremists” as the more general tone of the left these days. There were dozens, if not hundreds, of these comments after the attempts on T’s life.
I don’t know how you can say the right is so bad it couldn’t get worse. Your perspective is very skewed IMO.
The right is so bad that they keep trying to assassinate people, duh.
I think they mean ‘the right is so bad it makes the left want to assassinate people’.
Yeah the right would never partake in anything that involved force or violence… riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight….
Well I guess it couldn’t get worse as far as pushing the extreme further by that insane religious right. I guess numbers of people the extremes could absolutely get worse. So you are right in that regard. It has gotten worse on the left like I said, I agree. That they think it’s OK to hate and wish harm on people and that being justifiable has gotten worse on their side.
But make no mistake about it, there are plenty of crazy folks on the right as well.
Perhaps, but I rarely see that, whereas I see the other side almost constantly. So it seems the opposite of what you say.
Of course you rarely see that. Just like when I talk to libs and they say the right is full of violent gun toting bigots, which of course there are some and of course that’s what their news algorithm or news sources they choose show… but when I say, you can’t label all people on the right because of a few extremists and there are crazy fucks on the left. They go, “I don’t see that kind of thing from the left like I do the right, or it’s rare that I see it.” Gee I wonder why they have that perspective… almost like they have a personal agenda attached to the situation. Seriously, you guys sound exactly the same. Like to a T, when I argue this exact thing with Libs, it always come down to, the bad things I am pointing out from their perspective is it’s rare for their side to be guilty of it and the other side is SO much worse from what they’ve seen.
Disagree with what? I didn’t make reference to ‘sides’ one way or the other, just more hate nowadays,
And this particular person – since she choses to be a spokesman of hate, which is her right – but she should chose another profession.
You seem to be looking for an argument where there wasn’t one necessary.
Edge, you are trying your best (once again) to say “both sides this, and both sides that”.
I am a Conservative. I do not openly push for the decapitation of a President like Kathy Griffin, and pose with a likeness of his head for pictures. The levels of vitriolic hate speech we have always heard from the activist left continue to rise. Conservatives are not emotionally charged hate mongers like the left. Please stop stating we are.
There are people on the right who are crazy nut jobs who support violence. There are also those folks on left. If you think it’s only the left you are blind to the reality of things. I have said, the left has gotten worse I agree.
This is another lie of the left. Extremists that are labeled “right” aren’t Conservatives, or politically right voters. This is just the trick of the labeling trade to associate terrible behavior with the right. More propaganda BS from the left. We’re not fascists, or racists, or Nazi’s, or white supremacists, or misogynists, or tyrants trying to overthrow democracy. That’s all the crap the left tags the right with. It’s all lies, and I am damn sick of it. Again, stop with the assignment of traits that no Conservative would ever consider, with the right.
OMG, you can’t be this naïve, thick or whatever. There are ABSOLUTELY crazy fucks who vote conservative/Republican. That is an absolute fact. But like I said in my original post, it’s not right to blame the right for those nuckin futz people. But the same exact sentiment can be applied to the left. There are CRAZY FUCKS on the left too. You understand that that right? Please tell me you understand that. I really don’t want to think you are this twisted or brain washed or whatever. Either you think it’s OK to label BOTH sides by the actions of the extremists or it’s not OK for either side. You don’t get to have it both ways. Because I know plenty of left folks who aren’t the crazy woke, libturds you guys on here think they all are. C’mon now.
Perhaps you might want to reread his post. Believe his point was true conservatives don’t act like that.
Maybe, just because some nut votes republican doesn’t mean he is a conservative.
And by the same measure “true progressives” don’t think killing or hurting people is right and don’t think cancel culture is right. My point remains the same.
As does mine – there are nuts everywhere and I believe most of the folks here are smart enough to know that.
There’s even crazies in the middle.
Agreed
I will have to disagree.
There have been two assassination attempts and treated as if it’s perfectly fine and normal.
Get ready for the STHTF over the next 35 days.
Childs play up to this point.
I’m sure Tim Walz and JD Vance will be besties tomorrow night.
Hope JD mops the floor with him.
Interested to hear what they have to say about Walz’s lies about his service.
They?
The media/moderators won’t say one word about it except that it’s “misinformation”.
JD Vance will likely spend the night answering “fact checkers”
I hope Tim does his best Howard Dean scream….
Fun times.
Me waiting for the Vikings Band Wagon to really get rolling so my last 3 games sell…
Me hoping to score a great deal on Vikings and Lions tickets in a few weeks haha
As the team keeps winning those tickets are just going to go up up up
Which games are you selling?
I have 2 for Chicago, 4 for Indianapolis and 4 for Arizona. “Cost” for Skoloholic contributors….
I’ll check dates & see if we’re interested.
We’re thinking of hitting the Jacksonville game, give us an excuse to go to Florida & be warm.
Although it was friggin 97 degrees here yesterday. Set a new record.
While it was “cool” in the morning, I mounted a box on the side of our shouse to house the power and controller for our Christmas lights. Had a couple of complications so by the time I was ready to scurry up on the roof to put up snow guards it was uncomfortably hot. Snapped my lines and was all set to place them and the nincompoops shipped the wrong size so I aborted.
Checked the time and it was 1230 in God’s time zone so figured a good time to quit and go start the game – but the grandson and his other granddad showed up with a load of manure and an auger the size of my torso mounted to an L95 (I’m planting trees next week). The soil was so dry where he drilled holes for the trees that it was like fine baby powder, so I set to work with a post hole digger pulling the soil out, by the time I got that powder out of the hole and filled the holes with 75 gallons of water apiece I was sweating like a highway worker in Alabama in August. I easily drank a gallon of water during the game. 96 at the end of September, gross.
let me guess, did it break a 100 year old record?
that crazy climate, couldn’t have been THAT hot 100 years ago could it?!?!?!
Nothing wrong with being warm! And that team is a shit show right now so tickets should be cheap.
Vikings could have a losing record the rest of the season, and still finish with 10 wins.
Plenty to make the playoffs.
Yes, I said playoffs.
I guessed 12-5 at the beginning of the year, I’ll have to revise that upwards.
I guessed 8-10 wins, and bet the over at 7.5.
I am very glad they started strong. The middle of the schedule looks much easier, and they will get Hock back soon.
I think he is eligible for next week.
Don’t know if he is healthy enough but I think 4 weeks was the minimum.
The Vikings currently have an 85% chance of making the playoffs and a 16% chance of making the super bowl per ESPN odds. San Fran has a 17% chance of making the super bowl.
Interesting. Why is SF’s better than ours – I wonder?
Cuz we’re the Vikings…
Yep, they were there last year, so that gives them a couple advantage points.
easier schedule? softer division? doesn’t reflect which team is better necessarily
RIP
I seen that, very sad only 58. He had brain cancer.
Damn, way too young for that.
? 88 with Lyme disease?
Missed the connection.
Also Kris Christopherson passed this weekend.
One more to complete the trifecta….
Already completed. The older cop partner in the Beverly hills cop series. John Ashton passed last Thursday.
Ah…
Good point.
I forgot that I heard about that…….
Victory Monday!
Lots of good early, lots of bad late.
Snuck out of that dump with a W – always good (even if it wasn’t pretty)
Lot’s to clean up. I said this yesterday: was the best and rarest of wake-up calls – one that ended with a win.
Jets D will be tough. I think BFlo can make Rodgers uncomfortable by coming after him. Worked for Denver yesterday. Vikes are unbeaten in London. Hoping it stays that way.
Addison a difference maker when healthy. Athleticism off the charts. Get Hock back healthy soon. Offense looks to be damn dangerous a month from now with continued good health and continued good QB protection (#nojinx)
SKOL!!!
🔨🔨
GF:
My rebuilt stride is finally paying off. I got a new 5K record of 27:25 yesterday morning. Maybe I can still break 27 before the year is up.
Now it is off to the beanfields…
That’s awesome, man!
for me, running is all about the power of peer pressure…
i ran a 5k a few years ago, and it was like 30:10, terrible time, i had to stop a couple times, felt gross and out of shape..
2 months later, i rana 5k for a friends bachelor party (he had a decathlon type event, 10 different sporting events and the first was a local charity 5k) and i ran it in 24:25 to keep up with all my buddies…
the power of peer pressure!!!
Kiddo has been running in cross country races, he’s running the half mile in under 3:30 (3:28 is his best time, beat his previous best by 14 seconds in the last race).
Hell yeah! I had my fasted 3.5 mile pace last week. Finally got under 10 minute per mile pace average… Then my cat died Thursday, then got sick Friday… still sick haha.
Your cat died before he got sick?
Doesn’t hurt to plan ahead
Cat’s name is Lazarus.
Nailed it, haha
HA! I got sick. Cat died Thursday, I slept like shit Thursday night and got sick.
Losing a pet is always hard, sorry to hear that.
He was the best fuckin cat!
I thought he was going to successfully campaign to have the flag picked up.
I got a good belly laugh out of watching that tantrum.
calling unsportsman-like on the coach is hilarious
Observations from the game
kicker is good
Jones is better than any back for the last three years
Nailor WR is getting good, PR not good
defense had no pass rush the second half, but that guy filling in for pace has a knack for the ball
Ingram still sucks
darnold mostly good
‘Nailor WR is getting good, PR not good’
Good, even if obvious, take.
Ingram still sucks.
Yes, indeed.
Yep, can you imagine a game down the road against the Chiefs and they put Chris Jones over Ingram?
That wouldn’t be pretty. I’m hopeful that they’ll try to pull of a trade prior to the deadline.
Wouldn’t hurt to find a center, unless they like Jurgens. I hope Jurgens gets a shot, he’s a nice kid.
An interesting article about what Americans really believe privately vs what they say they support publicly.
Americans are pretty united when ‘social pressure’ is taken out of it. For example:
Only 4% trust the Government to tell them the truth.
Only 7% trust the Media to tell them the truth.
Although not mentioned in the article I suspect more than 90% think the Puckers suck.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/most-americans-hesitant-share-honest-opinions-key-political-issues-social-pressure-index
Ha “90% think the Puckers suck”
Sam Darnold Passer Rating: 118.9 – 1st in the NFL
Kirko Passer Rating: 83.5 – 21st in the NFL.
Careful its not he who should not be named’s day of rest. But yes, lol indeed. Like..230 yards and an INT, yeah that worth $100 + Million.
Well its NOT Tuesday so you guys shouldn’t be talking about Kirk..but since you brought him up….Another amazing 4th Qtr comeback for Captain Kirk yesterday….puts him 6th on the active QB 4th qtr comeback list.
Was really disappointed in that score board, NO needs to do better.
Always a good day when the *aints lose, no matter if it might help Kirk looking decent.
It was more Atlanta’s defense and special teams.
This ^
@So you’re saying teams win or lose games not the QB@
Yeah theyre a Poverty Franchise but my hate for them was built in with Fisher and Peyton, and Breeze and all 3 of those are gone. So, im pretty meh on them. Also needed them to sack Kirk 3 times and they couldnt even do that.
Yep, another comeback victory for a guy who crumbles under pressure, supposedly.
Except when you randomly bring Kirk up…….
Glad Kirk is happy with his money.
I watched the game yesterday with a Fellow Vikings fan who I dont see much any more and another mutual friend whose a Packers fan. I had fun, but I told him as soon as Nailor lost that punt in the Sun (which is what I think happened) that that was a momentum shift and I had anxiety and saw the wheels falling off the entire second half. I almost couldn’t watch the on side kick even knowing the odds of it happening were slim. Glad we kinda showed some week spots and still pull off the W. Now we know what to work on.
I dreaded the onside kick seeing that the cowpies had a successful one the week before. Very happy that the Vikes managed to escape with the W, but it should never have gotten that close. Our second half was crap, need to work on finishing off the opponent.
MT might be right though, if we’d embarrassed the FTP at home to the tune of a 50 burger they might have gone head hunting next time we play them. I’m sure the Vikes would have been capable of pulling it off the way they played the 1st half.
I, for one, was relieved at the outcome of the game. Snatching victory from the jaws of defeat and all.
We had one sack by Pat Jones.
‘Elite to very good.’ Perhaps, but who is playing better?
In other news: I almost destroyed my marriage this weekend. I was driving home from my nephew’s cross country meet. Wife calls.
“Are you going to Hy-Vee?” she asks.
“I’ve already been there. On my way home.”
“Why didn’t you call me?”
“Uhm…”
“I always call you before I go to Hy-Vee in case you need something. Now I need something, and I’m stuck.”
“What did you need?”
“Cotton pads for removing makeup.”
“Okay…”
“Yeah, are you going back to get some?”
“No, I’m like a mile from home.”
She hangs up.
The battle continued once I walked through the door with further lectures on calling people when going to a store in case they need something. I then decided to just bite the bullet and went to a nearby store and got some cotton pads.
Of course they were the wrong ones. And I paid $3 too much for them besides.
An hour later, she was normal again.
PMS, man. It’s a trip!
Words like “Listen here broad” and “Calm your tits” always seem to help in these circumstances
“Why don’t you take a minute to calm down and make me a sandwich?”
LOL
I gotta try that
My roommate in college would hold his hand up making basically the letter C and go, “You know what this is? You know what the problem here is? This is my hand without a sandwich!” Hahaha, chicks loved it.
My wife gives me the list.
I get EVERYTHING on the list.
I don’t mess around. I get the stuff and check out.
After I leave the parking lot and head home, almost every time, I get the, “hey can you pick up this as well….”
Nope, I left and am almost home.
You would think she would remember that I don’t waste time in the store.
The Teacher, AKA The Amazon Queen, seldom has large shopping lists.
I will even text her with suggestions while shopping but she knows she can order it on line, get it in a day and probably cheaper.
You are still resisting the training, at your peril.
As an example, it took me awhile to call my wife if I was going to be even 15 minutes late getting home from work. “What took you so long?”, she would ask…oh a tough case came in/doc stopped in wanting a consult/was behind/had a quickie behind the developer with a hottie, etc. My personal undoing, the silent treatment for 30-45 minutes, would ensue.
Now I call and say I’ll be about 15 minutes late…”Why?” oh well such is the work part of marriage.
15 minutes is our agreed upon time frame as well…If I am going to be 15 late or later I give her a call. Funny how it only works one way though…if she is out doing something or at work she just comes home whenever and never calls me about being late….
My main concern with implementing a “call if stopping at Hy-Vee” rule is that I will receive directives like, “Yes, pick up…
Cayenne pepper/dried-yogurt powdered flakes, NOT flaked powder
Light heavy whipping cream, lactose free, 2 percent oat milk, NOT goat mile
Flour-free, gluten-free bread in an organic sack
12 dozen boxes of Maxi-Pads with no price tags so they have to do a price check
I’m glad I don’t have to live with that.
Thank you Amazon next day delivery.
Although I am past the Maxi-Pad thing, it is part of life.
Part of becoming a doc is learning that everyone gets embarrassed by things that are part of the normal human condition. Embrace it!
I remember back in my care free single days I was getting it on the regular. I discovered that a large box of condoms was much cheaper at the warehouse stores. One time they had a coupon next to the boxes and I grabbed one. The young lady at the checkout didn’t know how to use the coupon thing so there was the whole elaborate “manager to the front” with ten people in line behind me. I almost died of embarrassment.
Now I would say, whooo hoo you go MT!
This should be your response, always.
I don’t know, guess I’m just insensitive, but if my wife ever started down a road like that, I’d probably say “Oh, I didn’t realize my actions have caused the Earth to stop spinning on its axis, and we’re all gonna fly off into outer space”.
I could use that line sometimes, but PMS Girl is immune to all charm, logic and humor!
My wife and I are more independent like that, too. We met when we were 36 years old & both of us had been lifetime bachelors, so that probably has a lot to do with it.
Probably.
The Teacher’s ex was a trucker, gone more often than home.
She was pretty much raising their 3 kids on her own.
Got her teaching degree when she figured out he couldn’t be counted on.
She is/was used to doing things on her own although she is grateful that I am there to help when needed.
I also think it’s the military in me as well. I’ve survived two helicopter crashes, RPG’s, IED’s, and a number of gun battles where bullets whizzed by my head so close, I could hear them and feel them. Cotton balls? LMAO.
Just wait.
Menopause is worse. Not even close.
Monty Python Auto Rec.
And that is an under statement!
Yup
I’m fortunate that my wife never really had the PMS rage thing and now that she is doing the menopause thing, the only really annoying thing for me is her hot flashes. We will be driving along and all of a sudden she is cranking the air way down and the fan way up. I may have to start wearing a parka in the vehicle.
I found in the middle of winter having the bedroom window wide open to be quite chilling.
But then comes the part where they are past menopause and no PMS…..and they are still moody as shit…..how does that work?
Anthony Richardson got hurt?
huh, crazy.
He also sucks when healthy
Yep.
Old man Flacco keeps his dream alive.
Kind of like Jason in Halloween?
Am I remembering that correctly at the end they look out the window and his “dead body” is gone?
Lolz
Season is setting up good for viewing this harvest, so I don’t have to miss so many games.
Next up is London morning game. I always miss those regardless. Then we get a bye. We can hopefully have the corn combined by the 20th when we play the Lions.
I even get a break with no game October 27 because I got stuff going on that day.
The last several seasons, I didn’t give a rat’s patootie if I missed games, but the Vikes are actually fun to watch again, so I have seen them all, except the Giants.
If you combine the corn with lima beans, you’ll have succotash.
And if you add in a lisp, you get suffering succotash.
I do like this commercial…
me too
I giggled at it too.
I’ve never seen that one. That is good!
Commercials generally annoy me, but that one is funny. Jerry is eating……rice. That’s proof right there.
That’s a funny one, one of the few commercials I enjoyed.
I am ok with idiots like that being murdered for sport.
What the hell… I am able to listen to the game while driving to band practice. I feel pretty good getting to practice and we are up 28-7 which should have been 28-0… Have the game streaming on my phone while at practice for the 2nd half. Couldn’t watch much but able to look over every now and again. I did look over right when Kraft score his tuddy which was exciting but… what the hell? The offense go conservative? Offense get complacent? Did GBs defense figure them out?
Defense went prevent.
Offense failed to drive and answer in the second half. That is, until the FG drive we desperately needed. Should have kicked the FG to force them to score two TDs, imho.
Yeah, I agree about kicking the FG, also, the three turnovers were a way bigger issue than the prevent defense
Damn, 3 turn overs in the 2nd half alone. Were they stupid offensive turn overs or did the defense make a good play?
One was gifted to them by the refs.
Yeah, that wasn’t a catch. Throwing that pass was also a horrible decision by Darnold.
They just tried too hard to get Jones his LameBlow TD. Stupid.
Agreed.
Muffed point by Nailor, who was only in because Powell injury, bad Darnold pick that took points off the board, and a strip sack
Agreed
Agree about kicking a FG on 4th down there. I think they were trying too hard to get Jones a TD.
I kind of thought it was a crappy spot. I was surprised they didn’t look at it more closely. Yeah, he slipped, but I still think he got jobbed a bit on where they put the ball. His leg was parallel with the ground a bit before his knee went down.
I think Vikes were out of challenges at that point, so they couldn’t do anything about it.
Maybe it was my imagination, though. The replays didn’t give it the same amount of look overs they gave everything else.
No, you are right.
His knee never touched that early.
That’s good it wasn’t just me then.
I was actually getting up to go home after that play (I was at mom’s) because I figured, first down, game over…
It was absolutely a screw-job, they didn’t want to highlight it.
I was wondering that.
Had the same impression, I thought we had that first down. Same with Sam’s INT, that was not a catch as the ball was bobbled and the catch not completed. Refs reversed a call in the 1st half after a KOC challenge in an almost exact same situation with a FTP WR. Packers did get a little help in the end there to make things interesting…
He had a first down.
Still should’ve taken the 3.
I disagree on kicking the field goal there…if you don’t get it, and we didn’t they still need a TD and a FG and they are 95 yards away…If you do get it they game is for sure over and you have made a statement. I am fine with that call…I would be fine if they kicked it as well.
Yeah.
I preferred going for the first down. Game over if you get it.
And he did get it. Bad spot.
I can understand that, too.
I saw that watching the video, LOL, it would have been great if he hit Wilf right in the nose
That wouldn’t help his contract extension talks.
Yeah, you’re probably right, and I just realized how racist my comment was suggesting Wilf get hit in the nose of all body parts
Here is my favorite Jew joke because it is so subtle.
Two gentiles run into each other on the street.
One asks, “How’s business?”
The other says, “Fine!”
Lol
So we completed our September sweep! Now on to London to face the jets. They don’t scare me, looked like ass yesterday.
Hey… they put up 9 points!
almost won, too!
Indeed.
England games are weird, the Jets defense is good, and I won’t count out Rodgers. I think the Vikings will win though.
Agree. It could be a lot of fun, but I expect a close game. again.
We’ve won all our games in London so far. Hope that streak continues.
#nojinx
Jets look like crap. I have their jackwagon wide receiver on my FF team and he annoys me.
Matt LaFleur yesterday.
That’s funny, yes, he looked like a fool throwing that temper tantrum.
I put a link up top.
obviously the W is the most important thing. We will take that W PERIOD…
but also, KOC said no one hurt, no known injuries from the game. That is also SUPER GOOD
I was concerned about Sam’s knee after he started hobbling.
You and every other vikings fan.
Some major coping going on over on Acme Packing site. “We’re the more talented roster top to bottom” haha. And not one mention of the fake interception in the comments. “There were some bad calls, but it all evened out in the end”, which is what a team that benefits from cheating says. Those guys are an overrated joke. Congrats, you beat Will Levis and Anthony Richardson. Wow.
They really are delusional.
I told my Packer fan wife yesterday that the Packers really need a genuine #1 WR. Love had no one he could toss it up to when he needed.
Name of their sex tape
I thought it was Baa Baa Black Sheep.
As someone who grew up on a sheep ranch, I feel conflicted about that joke
Still have your velcro gloves?
Rubber boots are what I use.
3 biggest lies a cowboy tells
Today we are playing the best football on both sides of the ball in the league. If the SB were next Sunday, we would win.
That said, doesn’t matter who has the best roster, it’s who’s playing the best football. Now, that can change come January..
Yeah, those dudes are delusional. I used to go over there from time to time.
I can’t remember who it was from the DN who got banned there, but I remember that it was really funny.
Sounds like a 5 thing.
No, it was someone who you wouldn’t expect to get banned. It was so long ago, I can’t remember.
SkolTroll went to the Twins site one day & said “WAR sucks”. That one was funny.
This is one reason I hated the prevent-type change. Maybe it’s just PTSD from the last couple of years of Zimmer.
Zimmerball pissed me off. We gave away game after game due to his BS.
Yeah, you don’t give up the “big plays”, but I would argue to make all the short to medium plays very easy and thus, it is just as bad or worse IMO.
Yup, 7 plays of 10 yards equals the same distance as one play of 70 yards.
But 7 plays take longer and it is about the clock.
I don’t like it but I understand the logic of it.
Both are terrible if they don’t work.
Both are ok if they do work.
The touchdown drive that made it 31-29 took 1:22
The TD drive that made it 28-22 took 27 seconds.
Granted, that one was only 20 yards
The 1:22 drive was 96 yards. Ouch.
And how much would 1 play have taken?
I did say they are terrible if they don’t work.
If it’s an 80 yard scramble by Kirk, about 4 minutes.
The next time that happens will be the first time that happens.
Look, just because they time Cousins with a sundial…
Generally agree. If I remember correctly, Zimmer’s last year, our 2:00 minute defense gave up more points – before half and at end of game – than any team ever.
SKOL!
FTP!!
I’ve changed my mind about Sam. He’s NOT ging to get CPOY – he’s going to get MVP instead!
A bold prediction…if the Vikings keep winning he would have to be in the conversation..
PFF did not like Sams game yesterday…47.5 woof…..
Forget about PFF. Most of the guys here know more about QB play.
Collie Molesters
He might. We have a shutdown defense that allows the offense to play wide open now, instead of that prevent offense we have had to watch for years. That Zimmer era, ball control, burn clock, long, time-consuming drives, to keep the game close shit always bugged me. The offense can attack now, and go for big plays. LOVE IT!
Ravens looked pretty good last night. The Derrick Henry addition is looking like a genius move by thier front office.
They pretty much chewed up the Bills defense and spit it out.
I enjoyed every minute of it.
Bills defense is a joke, has been since the playoff game where they gave up like 50 yards in 15 seconds to lose against KC
Well, before last night, they were averaging 16.3 points given up per game.
Counterpoint: They’d played the Jaguars, Dolphins (w/o Tua), and the Cardinals (gave up 28 to them).
I have the Bills D on my FF team. They suck, cut them.
Derrick Henry is a 250 pound monster…it takes some courage to get in his way.
Dude is fast, too, when he gets a head of steam.
Yeah, that’s what surprised me on that long run. I didn’t realize that he had that kind of speed.
I told my wife yesterday that “cheat mode” would be engaged when the Vikings were up 28-0 to start to close the gap and make the game watchable (and the NFL’s general desire for the Packers to win), and wouldn’t you know it, some terrible calls get the game to be winnable for the Packers.
I was reminiscing about the time a 50+ yard field goal only took 3 seconds off the clock in order to allow GB enough time to come back and win against some team a few years ago. They needed that last 1 or 2 seconds for the final play, and by golly, they got the W!
Granted, there were other factors in this game (offense ineptitude in 2nd half, KOC being his Jekyll-Hyde self of good/bad), but some pretty significant calls for the Packers to keep them in it.
I do believe that the NFL has the refs adjust calls or refrain from making calls in order to keep games closer. To me, it’s obvious.
It is officially ‘entertainment TV’.
https://www.tiktok.com/discover/Roger-Goodell-admits-the-NFL-is-for-entertainment-purposes-only
Yup, this.
Undoubtedly. When they review calls and still get them wrong (in obvious ways), it’s hard to believe otherwise.
Yet, some people still think there’s integrity in the NFL. They claim “they couldn’t rig it with so many people, that’s just dumb”. For those geniuses – It’s just the refs, not the players and coaches. They’re not telling players to drop balls. They’re just “missing” calls and calling stuff to stifle or extend drives, etc.
Such a great movie
Nice to start the week off with the SKOL song!!!
I missed out on the game yesterday, as my wife and I were helping a friend and her husband (he’s 80) recover from Helene storm devastation. They live near the Gulf coast in New Port Richey and their beautiful home was flooded by over two feet of storm surge seawater. It’s a mess, and of course there will be a significant reconstruction effort. We moved all the furniture out of the house, cleaned up debris, fill garbage bags full of stuff that was totally ruined, etc. Long day, with several friends who showed up. No power of course, and the house was hot and smelled like a sewer. 12 and half hours later, we all were dog tired, but the elderly couple was so thankful for our support.
Nice of you to help. Sad situation for sure.
You are a good doobie NLNV. This is what loving your neighbor is all about.
I missed the game as well due to my own incompetence. We were scheduled to help take care of my father-in-law (dementia and diabetes) this weekend and I thought I had set up the DVR to record the game. When I got home at 3:15 and put on my Vikings gear and looked for the recording I was pretty disappointed that I had botched it somehow….Oh well, first world problem.
Kudo’s to you NoDak as well. Dementia is such a terrible thing. It is so heartbreaking. I watched the replay of the game this morning on my NFL+ subscription, so at least I got to see it. My wife is Ravens fan, and we turned the game on when we got home. Fell asleep within 10 minutes. She watched that game this morning and was delighted to see Josh Allen get his ass kicked, while Cris Collinsworth slobbered all over him the whole game.
The Ravens are for real…They are a well balanced team like the Vikings…Perhaps it can be an all Purple superbowl this year?
I honestly think it could. All purple SB would be great, but I’d be living in a house divided, grin.
A good neighbor indeed.
Still amazes me that a few miles inland makes so much difference when it come to these hurricanes.
Rest up today.
Thanks JR. We had a lot of high winds, lost a couple screen panels on the Lanai, and had a lot of debris to clean up, but we had no issue with flooding. This house is going to be torn down to the studs inside and all the wiring, and outlets replaced etc. Gonna take a couple months.
A wet house sucks and like you said, it smells. I’ve had a little experience with that and it’s no fun. At least with ours, it was just a finished basement. While I had to throw out 1000 books, at least it did not disrupt our main living areas. Wet shag carpet really smells in case you are wondering.
That’s really the case VP. That salt water just stunk up everything. My wife is already cooking up a meal for them today. She is a born Angel.
Bless you for that effort.
Thank you FloridaSKOL. I’m sure our friends would do the same for us, if we suffered such a catastrophe.
out of all the challenges yesterday, the “interception” seemed the most easy to overturn…
funny how that works
Haha yeah, exactly what makes me think (know) the NFL is rigged to a large extent. We can all plainly see that he bobbles and doesn’t have control, but yet, “it’s an interception!”. Along with the Nailor spot at the end. Just rigged BS.
Is that Harvey Keitel?
Ken Jenkins I think.
scrubs cast
Any relation to Leeroy Jenkins?
Scrubs is a very funny show.
GB kicker missed two very makeable FGs, Vikings kicker made all of his kicks, seems like that is usually the opposite
the demons have been exorcised
This kid seems very good, KAM chose correctly with that draft pick