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Only a few short days until more Vikings football! It’ll be an earlier than usual start on Sunday morning, as kickoff is scheduled for 8:30 am. Let’s hope the Vikings can keep doing what they’ve been doing. I’d love to see Darnold light it up on Sunday and really put up a big game against the Jets, the team who drafted him then moved on from him.
Vikings/NFL News and Updates:
From CBS, the Vikings plan to bring T.J. Hockenson back to practice this week, another step closer in getting Hockenson back into the lineup. Hockenson is recovering from a torn ACL and MCL, an injury he suffered in the latter part of last season.
On KFAN, Jonathan Greenard said that he and many other Vikings are not happy with how the last game ended and that they are treating it like a loss, from Heavy.com. I like it.
Over at Vikings.com,, they posted the week 5 Vikings vs. Jets injury report, also a Vikings vs. Jets game preview. Head coach Kevin O’Connell talked to the media about flying to London, Hockenson’s recovery, the Jets, and more.
Media Selection:
I found this the other night, it’s hilarious. If you want to start your day off with a laugh, this should get the job done.
Caution: There are some NSFW words in here. Nothing excessive, but there are some curse words. Enjoy!
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so….
new daily thread?
who’s in charge here?
They all got…..
oh no
GM, it’s a beautiful morning here.
FTP, SKOL and FKH
Good morning and yes to all.
It is 39 degrees here this morning, so still T-shirt weather.
I should say it is t-shirt and jeans or shorts and sweatshirt weather.
Laughing… still enjoying 90 degree weather here…
Yea, still ‘enjoying’ 90’s here too.
Good morning, SKOL!
FTP!
It is raining over here today.
Here comes the rain again
Falling on my head like a memory
Falling on my head like a new emotion
The Eurythmics! Good tune.
Why didn’t you say….
“Walk with me. Like Lovers do…….”
I am shamed….
Love the Fall here in DE.
55 in the mornings, 75 during the day.
Lawn is always green and thick this time of year.
“I have a middle class family, with a lawn…”
I grew up in Fairfax Va. Fall was always that way there too. Cool mornings, warm, but not hot days. Football weather. Walking to school, and seeing your breath for the first time in the year. Loved the fall back in those days. Still do actually.
Oh no!!
Kirk with 500 yards, 4 TD passes, a 114.8 QBR and an overtime win in Prime Time.
Oh the humanity.
On the plus side both teams have two losses now.
It was a hell of a game. I should know better that to bet against Kirko in October.
He absolutely balled out. In my underdog gambling, I had Kirk throwing 1 INT, so won that bet. The yardage killed me for the other bets, so no win for me.
Couldn’t watch the game unfortunately, highlights will have to do. Kirktober still seems to be a thing. Now what if we play them in the NFCCG? 🫣
REVENGE GAME
We play them Dec. 8 before that……..and this guy gets to go front row baby!
Classic Kirko.
Balls out and his fans go wild expecting great things.
I’d think when a team produces three scoring drives, with less than a minute left and no timeouts to pull games out, fans might be pretty excited.
“expecting great things” – 500 yards, 4 TD’s, a game tying drive and then a game winning drive- for common folk like me that’s pretty great.
Yep….That’s the seduction of Kirko…..
Kirktober!
He played really well. Had a devastating INT late, but got another chance and cashed in for a FG and 4-play TD drive in OT.
I think, as you watched the play, it was 4th and 15, and the Falcons were down a score with just over two minutes left in the game. Cousins was getting creamed as he threw the ball, and he did what everyone here would have wanted him to do in that situation. Chuck up a “hope” ball. It was the only thing he could do. 9 times out of 10 you’re going to throw an interception there, but he had to just throw it and hope for a pass interference call.
Cousins threw a TD on 3rd and 14, and on 4th and 4 during the game. Both throws in those situations were dimes in heavy coverage. Clearly if he has time, he can deliver. That interception was just one of those “is what it is” circumstances though.
In the playoffs he’ll complete a safe pass short of the sticks in that situation
Dockworkers are done striking.
62% wage increase, no details yet on automation.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/dockworkers-union-reaches-tentative-agreement-suspend-port-strike-until-january
Don’t think Teamsters will care for word salad voting.
FKH
Saw a reporter asking a group of striking dock workers who was voting for Kamala, none of them raised their hands.
Good news and bad news. Who do you think is gonna pay for that raise? We are. Prices will go up to include that extra money needed to pay the Dockworkers.
Agree. Not much you can do. Pay attention to American productivity rather than resourcing to other countries. I’m sure cackles and tampon have that in mind.
If I understand it correctly, they’re going from $39/hr to
43 right away, then
47,
51,
55,
59,
63
annually over 6 years. How many people making $78k/year would like to be making $126k/year in six years? that’s an incredible amount of guaranteed raise. without any additional responsibility?
I took on extra responsibility as I went along in my white collar, college educated career and I think I crawled from $78k to $98k over a 6 year period. Paid off my student loans legit, too. Then I got laid off. Thanks, Biden.
No wonder so many people have jumped ship on their fair & traditional responsibilities. It’s very disillusioning to do all of the right things and watch others get better results.
Reminds me of when I borrowed way less money than the bank told me I could when I bought my first home in 2005. Never missed a payment. My employer sold their company, and I ended up finding work out of state and selling my house at a substantial five figure loss.
Next home I bought had been foreclosed/abandoned. Mold in the basement. Asbestos in the attic. Never missed a payment. Fixed the issues myself. Wells Fargo, holder of both of my mortgages to date, got bailed out by us taxpayers.
Now I play video games on YouTube for a living.
Until the morons on the top stop screwing the middle class, I’ve got a big middle finger for the lot of ’em.
Just listened to Barry McGuire ” Eve of Destruction”.
Over 50 years old and probably more relevant than ever.
Indeed
And the crap just keeps getting stacked higher and higher.
I believe in the goodness of people, but are people just getting dumber.
Limited Participants:
Josh Oliver (2nd straight LP)
Brandon Powell (2nd straight LP)
Full Participants:
Sam Darnold (2nd straight FP)
Akayleb Evans (was sick yesterday)
Ivan Pace (was LP yesterday)
Injury report looking good for the Vikings. Josh Oliver was Limited Wednesday and Thursday last week, then Full Participant Friday and played. So not worried about his injury. And Powell will be fine.
Been packing up donations all day for a “drive” that is coming around tomorrow to collect things for Helene survivors. Got about 10 contractor bags full of clothes, shoes, and other things like some pots and pans, cups, plates, silverware, etc. They want the bags out at 7 a.m. tomorrow, and clearly marked as donations, so they don’t inadvertently grab someone’s trash. We probably have 500 pounds in donations.
Nice. Good on ya.
Thanks. Funny thing happened. My wife was scooping up clothes she’d stacked up on the bed, and putting them in a bag. While doing this. she accidently scooped up the TV remote and it ended up in the bag too. She just spent the last 20 minutes rummaging through the bags to find it. She was a little hot under the collar, but she just found it, and all is well now.
I grew up with 3 channel antenna. Had to get up to change. Now i’m pissed if i misplace remote. Add that, 700 channels and nothing on.
Laughing, I can totally relate. We had rabbit ears with tin foil on them when I was growing up too. Got ABC, CBS, and NBC.
Same, same with the remote these days and the 700 channels with nothing on.
Same here, except we had a roof top antenna with a motor so we could swing it around to pick up channels (we could get PBS out of Fort Dodge, IA where I developed my love of Monty Python and Dr Who). I always tell my kids I was the remote at our house, “turn it to channel 12”, so like voice command now.
We also had this in my house. Called it a ‘rotor’ had a circle dial that we painstakingly calibrated and put numbered stickers where the channels were. We got ABC out of Omaha and Sioux City, Iowa. Fox from Omaha. CBS from Lincoln and NBC from the Grand Island area. Then my dad was one of the first to get DirecTV in our area. Cost over a $1000 at the time – but it was cable in the country and an absolute game changer…..
I have a ton of clothing i don’t need, thinking DAV.
I know a lot of people lost a lot of stuff to those floods. I’m sure folks would appreciate any and all donations. Lots of good organizations out there answering the call.
Wonder how they can distribute. Like air dropping supplies in middle east.
Here’s the Jefferson special I mentioned the other day.
Candice Owens is digging into Cackles family. She got interested when the left tried to cancel Janet Jackson for saying ‘I heard Kamala was Irish’ when she was asked.
She contends and says she is close to proving that her grandparents/parents were from Jamaica but that they were of Irish decent and slave holders with no black relatives.
She has already shown that the ‘grandmother’ that she was pictured with in her book died 4 years before Cackles was born so photos are obvious fakes. If this comes out Harris will have ‘some splaining to do’.
Personally I don’t care what her ancestry is but if she was scamming for votes those scammed to support her due to her being a ‘black female’ may have issues with it.
interesting
I find it so.
Of course Fake News will never report it but bloggers and podcasts and social media will get the word out there. Enough? No way to know with about a month to go.
It won’t make a bit of difference because of the existential threat that Trump poses to the future of not only our democracy but the future of the world.
I agree that the majority of her support is anti-trump.
But there is also the ‘black female’ support that could make a different in a close election.
Pretty interesting SoCal. That said, I think there are millions of voters out there who will vote for Kamala because she is a woman of color. That seems to be far more important, than her radical views, and total lack of any ability to run the country. Just a lot of people only see her gender and color and don’t care about anything else.
If Candace and Janet Jackson come out to say Kamala is Irish-Indian it could make a difference come Nov.
The swing states will be decided by a few thousand votes either way.
Got Helene, Longshoremen strike, middle east crisis.
Word salad trying to raise campaign money and sniffer doesn’t know what city he is in.
4 more years! 4 more years!
Who’s running the WH? Staffers?
The WH Chief of Staff is mostly in control, with political leaders in the background doing the things the President should be doing. Harris has no authority to conduct herself as the President, unless he is declared incompetent and removed from office. Biden still can sign things, even though he doesn’t know what he’s signing half the time.
Did he ever know what he is signing? I remember day one of his term he was signing a ton of executive orders and kept asking what am I signing.
I figure Obama is pulling most of the strings.
Deep State and minions do the daily chores required but Biden/Harris are just cardboard cutout that they prop up to show to the sheep occasionally.
WH:
A few little cowpies for the October surprise for the Democrats.
Wrenge here is my parlay for tonight on under dog for an example. This was only a $4 bet, so obviously the more you bet the more you would win.
It looks kind of fun playing around with all of that stuff.
I looked at the site a bit. I don’t need to spend anything to sign up and look around.
It looks like it has a line for entering a promocode or username.
What is your username? I could try signing up now and see if you get the $25 bonus.
Is underdogfantasy.com the right place?
Im using the app on my phone mostly. But yes https://underdogfantasy.com/
Is the legit site
Same as my user name here, im really original haha. No you can look around at the bets all you want with out making a deposit. You can even make practice line ups.
Okay, I signed up and copy/pasted KFEY93 in to make sure I didn’t typo it. Hopefully, you get the referral bucks
I may never play, but it is fun to look at it. I like all this stuff during football season.
Its fun, my advice is just do smaller 2-3 parlay bets that you are really confident on regardless of level of winnings to build up a decent sized pool and get a hang of it then start going more. You can go up to 8 picks and a $10 bid can net you $2500 depending on picks. I have yet to hit that but..its there. It makes games like tonights more interesting.
I will look at it more after harvest. Then I can sit down and goof around with it more.
Yeah, it looks like you don’t get $25 until I make my first deposit, which makes sense.
Correct. Appreciate yuh either way. Enjoy! Keep me updated on your picks / winnings!
I am having fun. deposited $100 and lost every bet I made the first two weeks. Then won a bit the last two weekends. Only betting NFL, but they have all sports.
Yeah, I would only look at NFL stuff. I don’t know much about any other of the major sports. I don’t know if I could even name a current major league baseball player at this time.
same. After losing a lot of 3 and 4 pick parlays, I finally just did a few pick 2s and won, then a few pick 4s with the flex option. pays less, but if you miss 1 it still pays. Up $30 so far. More fun than trying to play full on fantasy football with a full roster vs the pros (draft kings, etc)
Like seeing this…
Key is going to be the OL handling pressure on Darnold. I imagine they’ll leave their CB’s on an island and have lots of blitz packages.
Our defense matches up well against the Jets.
Seems like we are facing a good to very good defense every week.
So far we have been successful.
We have either lucky or good enough with our O line, hope it continues.
noinjurynoinjurynoinjury
From your mouth to His ears.
did MT find the Lord?
When I look for a gif like this, they are all so racist and sexist. All people of color and mostly women.
That cackles?
Over the weekend we replaced some floor vents for the AC/Heating. We saw lots of crud, toys, hand tools, debry and even what looked like a jar of peanuts that had been dumped into one vent.
We got a recommendation from our realtor/friend for duct cleaning. The guy came out yesterday and got video of the ducks and found mold and damp as they had not been cleaned out since the place was built 20 years ago.
Since we had been concerned that it was colder and damper here (but less dusty) here than SoCal how all that would play with The Teachers Asthma and my crud. So we had the full vacuum, decon, UV treatment to get our air system contaminate free.
Hopefully a good investment in a healthier winter for us.
I was saving those peanuts…
I asked him if they were Honey Roasted and he said he thought that they were.
Such a waste them being all moldy and covered with crud like they were.
That’s just added seasoning.
LOL
Heh…my coworkers decorated my office with little smiling ghosts and a sign that said Happy Spooky Ghosts (HSG). I didn’t realize at first the ghosts were tampons, which is an allusion to something that happened during an HSG procedure I did earlier in the year. There are many tampon ghosts all over the place, hidden here and there. I showed the decorations to one of the maintenance guys, he’s all like gross those are tampons – heehee they aren’t used for Pete’s sake.
I go into a biopsy procedure for someone who likely has non-Hodgkin lymphoma, explain everything, go to put on my leaded glasses and a ghost spills out of the case for the glasses, I burst out with a brief laugh and then thought oops not a time for laughter – tech told the patient I was startled by a prank they played on me.
Sounds like Walz made a visit to your office.
Despite living in Minnesota, I have managed to not expose myself much to Walz’s personality. Now with all the press he is getting, I’m pretty sure he murders kittens and smokes tampons.
I did run in a 10K once that Walz ran in. He beat me…
Thank you.
You know, you never hear anything about flashers anymore.
Have flashers gone out of style?
Did the Internet kill them, too, because now people just flash on the Internet via OnlyFans?
We need Ray Stevens to keep it alive apparently.
Never been to OnlyFans, anything good there?
Asking for a friend.
I think it is a website for sports that want more exposure.
Come on! This comment was brilliant and I got nothin’ from you guys.
Over my head…
I don’t know what that is, and I follow a pretty strict rule of not visiting any internet sites I read about on this place ever since the golden shower and “mowing the lawn” debacle.
Tough crowd, need to watch what you say. Like freeze taking a week to change a battery.
Aren’t you the one who searched “blue waffle?”
I still don’t know what that is because of the horror you expressed…if that was you.
No, somebody saved me as that was about the time “MT do not google” came about. Probably just_rob.
I miss Rob
And Karen
I can honestly say I have never been there. The way YouTube supplies with me dancing Asian girls, I have all the fetishes I can handle.
By the way…I think you mentioned the lack of emotion on the part of the Asian cheerleaders in that short yesterday, but I couldn’t reply because I was in the field.
I believe that lack of emotion is part of their act. It might have something to do with heckling the other team.
My big hangup on that clip was trying to decide if they were Chinese or Korean – MT “they all look the same to me” at his best.
I found that there was a ‘range of looks’.
Korea was invaded by the mongols and you can see that influence (flat faces) and also a lot of Chinese and some Japanese influence.
I thought they were Japanese.
…
I looked it up. They are Korean. That’s weird. I can usually pick out Koreans.
The smartest person I have ever known was Korean. They weren’t just smart. They were sharp. It was kind of spooky. They were always multiple steps ahead of everything.
I thought they were Japanese as well.
I can usually tell the difference between Asian nationalities on women.
I think the differences between Chinese and Korean women are the hardest for me. Very similar in my mind.
My roommate in college was born to Korean parents (ie his parents were born in Korea), although my roommate was born in High River, Alberta.
He was a scheming mastermind. He was also fearless with the ladies which I always admired, he helped me out of my shy shell. We were close.
After graduation from PT school, he wanted me and a couple of other guys to invest in a PT clinic on the outskirts of TO in 1995. I think it would have been like a $10,000 CDN contribution to the down payment. I declined…I saw his fire and passion and it kinda made sense but with me living in the US I could only see problems with taxation.
He sold his shares in the business of pt Health in 2012 for CDN$120,000,000.00.
https://www.ualberta.ca/en/rehabilitation/news-and-events/news/2014/may/mixing-business-with-physio.html
Lots of Koreans in health. The one I knew both of their parents were doctors and stuff. Highly successful, but also highly driven. I’m not sure they were totally happy. There was always a ton of pressure to excel in everything.
The culture is such that familiar obligation is paramount.
Family pushes kids to be successful and kids are driven to do their all to succeed.
The competition to get into their collages is insane.
https://austriancenter.com/educational-competition-asia/
This person didn’t make it into Harvard, and the parents were pissed, big-time. They were ashamed the kid went to a state school.
It might very well be their ‘shtick’ but I find it off putting.
I have never known anything but disinterested women, so I don’t even notice!
Surprisingly I have occasionally met women that were very interested in me.
Can’t explain it other than to say ‘women have the worst taste in men’.
yep, they are acting “bored” on purpose to troll the other team.
My frugal wife’s first comment on visiting my office – “those are expensive!”
That’s only because she didn’t spend the money.
I want to spend $500 on overseeding the lawn.
Wife: “That’s expensive”
Pointing out all of my Wife’s amazon purchases that exceeded $750 this month.
Wife: “but I need all of that stuff”
Guess who’s on their own…..
“there just Trump voters….who cares…….”
Add 2023 and close to a billion. No worries, we have taxpayers.
Remember to keep our Ukrainian allies in your prayers and pocketbooks.
It’s just like the NFL cap…it’s not a real entity. They’ll just borrow another trillion dollars or so, no big deal.
Correct.
While playing politics over the funding.
If you dont want to punch every person in this .gif in the face then idk what to tell you
LOL
I don’t make a habit of punching cute girls in the face (or really anyone else) but I agree with the sentiment. And no, I’m not talking about Kamala.
I see no cute girls in that .gif but i guess im younger and picky lol
One in particular several times.
Yes, that GIF is proof that sometimes you shouldn’t be yourself. You should do the opposite of that, in fact…
I love this. I also really love with Eli went undercover at an actual try out and the scouts were like creaming their pants that they might just have the next best thing then he took the disguise off and they got all depressed.
That was funny. Goff went to a college too. Here’s the full Baker one
NLNVF, are “vegan grenades” a real thing?
Laughing, so hard… no, and we don’t make them out of meat either. This girl is looney tunes. OMG I can’t believe this inane commentary.
I wonder if the Ukrainians are making sure to protect their gardens from the Russian tanks?
Gotta be an AI video
Definitely, but still funny and the sad thing is it wouldn’t be that unbelievable to find out it was real with this dunce.
haha true
It is listed as a satire site in the bottom right…
So sad the left is so looney that many of us thought this might be real.
You do have to evaluate very closely these days.
LOL! How pathetic.
I would think that is his first time.
Its beautiful! 😭
Poor Kirko…..
Kinda like to watch game tonight but no can do.
I am watching, and hoping the Bucs dominate.
Exactly.
But i expect an ugly close game that could go either way.
I enjoy betting on Underdog (Thanks KFEY).
Finally winning a bit, so I am betting on Kirko to throw an INT, and Baker to be over 240 yards passing.
What do you use to bet?
I see FanDuel has some promotion where if newcomers bet $5 they get $200 bonus dollars to bet, but I assume there must be some sort of catch on that. Like maybe the $200 is not real money or something…
Underdog is my favorite for individual stat parlays. And they have good promotions right now. And I get $25 in bonus money if I refer you 🙂
I will look at it. I thought it might be fun to make a small bet or two here or there from seeing you guys talk about it.
If I sign up, I will talk to you first, so you get the $25.
Back in 1990, I stumbled upon this shady deal called investing in low cost index funds at this place called the stock market. Believe it or not my initial $1000 bet is worth $32,200 today.
If you try it out, let me know – I require a single can of cold Busch Light for my advice.
My wife took over all our financials, which is a good and bad thing.
The good is she is super OCD about numbers and likes to keep stuff growing.
The bad is that if she leaves me, I’m screwed. She has all of the passwords and account numbers.
Fortunately, it is not a vast fortune, so I can rebuild pretty easily. Heck, I can get like $20 an hour working at McDonalds!
Our household is actually the opposite. If she leaves you and my wife leaves me, we would make a good team. However, I can guarantee we would not be sharing a bed.
However, my wife is very frugal. Yesterday morning we were drawing up time off requests for Jan-June and she said she would not go to (our timeshare in) Florida in March. As we had talked about surrendering it I told her I would call and see if I could figure out how to cancel the timeshare.
Had a long discussion with this person and that at the parent company and settled on surrendering it, which entails a $1200 fee (for each of our two weeks) and a 12 week process. That makes things tight but hopefully it is done before January 1 (otherwise we are on the hook for the maintenance fees or about $2000).
She had a fit – “we’re not paying maintenance fees” and I explained that even if we do we save the cost of airline tix, doggy hotel, hotel stays in Bismarck prior to the AM flight, car rental, etc.
She said “I’m not going to get pissed” but was still annoyed at the thought of paying the maintenance fees at supper. I let her grumble for awhile and then said, now wait a minute you have told me again and again that I need to respect your decisions and you said you were not going to Florida so let’s drop it. She started to say something about well I could have been talked into it before she realized what she was saying. So that ended well.
Wait…are you married to my wife, too? That sounds exactly like her!
Appreciate yuh sir. Way to enable my addiction <3 I keed. I will show you my parlay for tonight.
Careful what you wish for Surly, I’ve got Baker and Godwin playing against you in FF this week.
I am expecting to lose in Fantasy Football. I have a decent enough team, but I have no chance of winning, and since that is a freebie this year, I would much rather win $30 by baker balling out tonight.
As am I. Got band practice until 730ish so I should be bale to catch most of it.
I bet Kirk showers with shorts on
From this moment on it will be referred to as Samtember.
I’m trying to listen to Spotify as I work, but every time there’s an ad it’s Kamala Harris talking about all of the taxes Trump is going to enact. “A Trump tax on (this)…A Trump tax on (that)…A Trumpt tax on (this)…” Lies.
Plus the ad only makes listening to her voice all the more excruciating. I’m biased, but I don’t think the ad is doing what “Freedom Forward” wants it to do.
Socialism, legislating from the bench, and destroying the Bill of Rights, are not examples of “freedom”. They are the exact opposite.
She is very hard to listen to. I call that kind of weird, nasal, gravely voice “butt voice” yick.
I have always enjoyed Paul Allen as an announcer at the racetrack, but felt he was a bit over the top with the NFL Commentary.
I am now coming around and realizing he is pretty damn good at his job.
The Vikings winning does help my mood, of course.
Thats the spirit!! PA on the radio when im traveling or headed to a place to watch the game always keeps me fired up. And hearing Pete basically sound like a fan in the booth next to him complaining really makes it relatable.
If you have an issue with PA calling games, try listening to another teams broadcast team. The Packers are horrible. Last time I listened to one of their games, I remember the Panthers being about the worst in the league.
Wayne Laravee….. and he’s awful….
I can only imagine. I hate KCs because of his lame ass same old call for EVERY TD.
Broncos had great radio broadcast for games when I was there (2000-2008)
PA is way too much for me for a whole game. He’s great on a highlight reel.
Same. I love PA & Bercich…..
He does make nothing seem exciting….
“The kick is up and….it’s good !!!!!!!!……Oh wait, it’s NO Good…”
I ran into him at the track a couple of weekends ago while in MPS.
He is good at the track.
He has been a track announcer for a long time, and I always appreciated how good he is at that job.
NFL was just a bit over the top, but when they are winning, it works.
Also, one of my favorite calls ever from him is the Corgi races at Canterbury. Funny stuff
He does tend to go overboard with the Purple on the simple things. Like a PAT. It’s up- it’s goooooooooooooooooooooooood!
Edge, did you write a song about you and your favorite governor?
HAHAHAHA!
Diggs’ “revenge game” against the Vikings was a nothing burger… better luck Sunday Diggsy.
Saw this… there’s some real validity here I think…
Lol
Thats good.
Bingo.
Thanks DE… for some reason it didn’t display when I posted. Appreciate the assist!
You have to change the x in the url to twitter and then it will embed.
Ahhh sooo… missed that. Didn’t notice the x in the URL. Thanks!
skolholics deadnaming X?
for shame
So you’re admitting Walz will be VP… That’s very brave of you. Most on here just think and do whatever their overlord and savior Donald Trump tells them to blindly. Trump has never done wrong ever. To point out anything factually negative about him is character assassination. He’s never been bankrupt ever, everything he touches turns to gold. He’s a shining example of Christian morals and has been his entire life, you can’t hold anything against him in this regard. He’s only ever supported the American worker and industry, he’s never done things to hurt the American worker or went off shore for cheaper products and labor. He’s never lied, NOT ONCE! And he totally didn’t dodge the draft with like 5 medical deferments for medical ailments that only came up once he was called upon to go and defend his country. He has 2,562 confirmed bigly kills of terrorists as I recall!
I’m just wondering how long until his canonization.
The scary part is there are a lot of folks who would support that. They are the ones who bought the Trump Bible and don’t understand what a mockery that truly is of their religion.
The scary part is the large number of Dem’s that all want Trump dead, and are completely fine with Kathy Griffin posting a picture of herself with a beheaded Trump prop.
The Dem’s are the total danger to us.
THIS^^^^
Fuck you guys are dumb. The same people who spout that guns don’t kill people, bad people do. Dems are not the issue, bad people are. Not every Dem is spouting off supporting violence. You keep buying into this narrative that further divides us. There are people on the right that wore shirts depicting violence or had signs supporting violence against Obama or Kilary etc… The issue there is not the Republican Party either, the issue is shitty people.
Only one side is actively trying to take out the presidential candidate, Supreme Court justices, etc they don’t agree with though.
Edge, please do not refer to attmpts to kill your political opponents as a “narrative”. The Dem’s are trying destroy, jail, and kill their political opponents. That is a fact. Not a narrative. Just ask Steve Scalise, and Donald Trump.
My watch and shoes are on the way.
Ummm here you go again with your standard Trump is bad argument, and we’re all stupid lemmings. Stop with this ridiculous diatribe.
Oh he’s the best. He can’t do anything wrong ever. There’s literally not one reason not to vote for Trump.
There it is folks… just Trump bashing. That’s it. No rationale other than Trump hate.
Yep. If that is the standard, then there is literally nobody in the world to vote for.
We are all very well aware of Trump’s shortcomings. The media would not miss an opportunity to bring them up. I believe the reason you don’t hear people complaining about him, is there is no reason to. You can’t go a day without the MSM bringing something, no matter how miniscule, up that sheds a negative light on Trump.
A lot of people here bring stuff up about the Dems, simply because if we didn’t talk about it with each other, you would not hear anything about it in the news. At least, not ad nauseam.
Does Trump have his flaws? Most definitely, but should I listen to someone call me a sheep or follower because I believe, out of the 2 candidates, Trump is the best choice.
Well expressed.
Well, I’m not admitting anything.
Could happen. My bet is it won’t happen.
It’s the economy stupid.
As to your take on Trump and us here, you are false.
I don’t think anybody here ever said Trump is the savior.
Just plain false.
I can watch the other media and clearly see they think Kamala is the best thing since sliced bread.
Trump is far from perfect.
But I think he’s better for the economy than Harris.
By far.
Just because I support the policies of Trump over Harris, doesn’t mean I slobber all over Trump.
You are acting out the narrative you claim you hate.
EdgeCrusher is just a strawman crusher, but it seems to amuse him. I’m OK with letting him play.
So what do you all do when the Vikings play in the morning?
Breakfast food? Or regular food? Do you wake up extra early so 8:30 AM feels like noon?
Beer? Or no?
I’m thinking Taco Bell breakfast buffet, and starting with coffee, graduating to an orange juice and sparkling water mix, then beer after halftime.
Church.
I might be called upon to be there, but it’s easier to watch church after the fact than it is to watch football after the fact!
😉
I’d rather be in the mountains thinking about God than in church thinking about the mountains.
Yes. Nowhere else do I feel closer.
There is no better place to be able to appreciate creation.
Indeed, that can be nice. I love to be out in nature (usually fishing and taking in the surroundings). A peaceful day on the water is one of the best things in life.
Just a little encouragement (I’ll stop if it’s getting to be too much):
Doesn’t say that that word has to be read to me by somebody else while I’m half asleep. Bibles work in the outdoors.
True, but don’t forget the encouragement you can give others.
Gotta straighten out the self first, but there’s also this one
Also true.
But keep in mind that passage you quote is Jesus saying he is with two or three (“Everything must be established by two or three witnesses”) when you lovingly confront someone’s sin to turn them back to God and bring them back into the “church” (the community of believers).
Interesting. That is not the way it was taught to me. I am not disagreeing with you, that’s just not the context I remember.
Matthew 18:15-20
Listen, I pray during EVERY Vikings game, but I don’t think about the Vikings every time I’m in church. so there!
Just wake up and drink beer, then take a mask after the game, and watch more fireball
Interesting. Don’t know what taking a mask and watching fireball is.
Is the mask to protect you face from watching fireball?
Whatever turns your crank I guess.
maybe he woke up and started with beer today!
I’m guessing he’s going to take a nap after the game then watch more football
Or put on a Vikings mask and slam victory Fireball shots.
Plausible
Likely.
Special decoder needed sometimes around here…..
Mask nap, fireball, football, it’s all the same
I don’t watch the morning games. That is simply a silly time for a NFL game. I will YouTube highlights later in the day.
I will be bartending Saturday night and we usually dont get done cleaning up until 2:30-245ish then we hang out until 3-330ish. So im debating just staying up because is it really worth the 3-4 hrs max of not good sleep?
I’d consider pushing through if I were in your situation. Easy choice in your 20s, but not so easy in your 30s.
Well im 31 soooo…im feeling it trust me. I dont have much else to do sunday so I could be napping but 3pm and sleeping by dark lol
Take the three hour nap, wake up and have a bloody mary, enjoy game. Once the Vikings win, take another nap.
Its either going to be, try and sleep a little, watch Vikings, fix my leaky sink, nap. Or just stay up, watch Vikings, drink, fix sink, then nap, eat bed. Idk…play it by ear lol
Who eats their bed, that’s weird.
Dont judge me!
I wake up around 5 or 6 anyway so by the time kickoff hits, I’ll start on some trailer park bloody mary’s.
Yep, I get up at 6 or 7 for an 8:30 kickoff…have some bacon, eggs and toast while slurping bloody marys..
This Sunday I have church stuff I have to do until 11:15ish…so I will be recording it.
Game starts at 7:30 in God’s country. We could watch the whole game and go to the late service with a nice little buzz going.
I’m guessing I’ll wake up without an alarm at around 7. we’ll see.
Agreed, I have been getting up at 5 or earlier for the last 25 years. It drives my wife crazy, that I can’t sleep in on the weekends.
Same.
The only time I sleep past 6am is if I was up until Midnight.
Which is almost impossible for me to do.
So weird to wake up a 6, feel like you slept in super late and then realize it’s only 6 and nobody in the house, including the dog, is awake yet.
Your dog must not sleep in the bedroom?
I don’t care what time it is, if I move a little in bed and peek over the edge of the mattress at the dog beds next to our bed – two sets of beady little choco eyes are staring back at me.
He is a faulty lab. If I get up and go to the living room he’ll want to go outside and then go back to sleep in the living room with me. He knows better than to beg for food or wake me up for food because I’ll just lock him outside. He also doesn’t swim, barely fetches and is so far so so at finding birds.
Since I love lab talk, indulge me.
Bubba, the younger (3) somehow seems to have bruised the lateral pad on his front paw while alone at home on Monday. It pains me to see him hopping along on three legs on our walks but there’s no way he’s gonna risk just Tuck and I out there to be eaten by coyotes. He’s been getting some doggy ibuprofen so this morning a little better.
Not to be undone for attention, Tuck the indiscriminate eater found a cowpie last night while I was scooping dirt out of the holes I’ve been preparing for trees. I knew he would wake me up at some point. Sure enough at 2 am my wife nudged me and said the dog is up. Ran and let him outside, waited, and then as we are making our way in the dark back to bed I stepped right in the puke pile that lay unbeknownst to me on the carpet. Awesome.
Dang. There is nothing that will get you out of bed quicker in the middle of the night than the sound of the dog dry heaving. Mine’s good about being by the door and every time it happens it’s because he swallowed one of my wife’s socks.
Gotta watch that. One of my fellow residents in Roch had a mastiff that enjoyed eating the missus’ pantyhose and had to have emergency surgery three times for obstructions.
Yeah, luckily my wife has tiny feet. I had to take him in and have his stomach pumped once because he ate a little flashing light thing my kids got from school to wear trick or treating. He’s also eaten wood chips and potting soil.
I don’t have a routine for an early morning Vikings game per se, because they’re pretty infrequent. That said, we bought some ham steaks, and my wife is going to make her famous scrambled eggs with red, green, and yellow peppers, with onions, plus she makes some seasoned breakfast potatoes that are amazing. She makes them from scratch, so it takes some time, but man, they are awesome. Throw in some English muffins with butter and strawberry preserves, and it’s a breakfast feast for the ages.
That’s our plan for Sunday.
Not as much a football routine, more of a Sunday one, but if I ask the kids, I will be making biscuits and gravy on Sunday.
Love biscuits and gravy. Probably my military days kicking in. Chow hall always had them. My wife makes them for me too, when I’m in the mood.
Can you tell I’m spoiled? Grin.
I make homemade gravy and use breakfast sausage I’ve made. I’ll make homemade biscuits once in awhile, but that’s pretty time consuming so I usually roll with the store bought biscuits.
Hmmm… might have to drop by and check them out!
Now I’m hungry.
store bought biscuits are not as good, but they’re way easier than homemade. It’s a worthwhile choice often enough.
My wife made a shrimp boil earlier this week. With the leftovers I made a Cajun cream sauce and homemade fettuccini noodles.
That DOES sound like a breakfast for the ages, wow. I’ve got to dice an onion for Sunday
That sounds like a good feast for a Vikings W
Up by 530
Drink coffee
Watch ESPN
Fantasy football tinkering
I’ll be 2 joints in by kickoff…..
Skol
I’m lucky over here, game should start at 3:30 pm. No beer for me though, not allowed do drink alcohol for the time being after my operations.
Good thing I didn’t make any arrangements to attend the game in person, would have had to cancel everything, which would have sucked.
You should consider 2nd opinion!
I missed or forgot discussions about your operations…what broke down?
Gall bladder had to be removed, and they repaired a small hernia at the navel, all in one go. It’s the hernia thingy that still causes some trouble.
Ha, I really should!
I will be serving at church for the 8am EDT service.
Home around kickoff.
Nothing planned.
No beer at 9:30 for me.
Just eating breakfast sandwiches and watching the game.
solid plan. what will you be doing at church? are you an usher?
Mostly the money man.
But whatever they need.
Set up. Organize. Clean.
No ushers, but helping people find seats.
We are a very modern and young church.
Not traditional at all.
That’s a great answer!
Normally I golf 9 in the morning. Skipping that so I can watch the game instead.
Dogs get me up around 5 am no matter what I want to do. So I will get my workout in, then make some breakfast food and watch the game.
No morning booze for me. I notice that any more than 2 drinks and I feel like crap the next day. things really changed when I hit 61. I now drink less booze and less often.
Beer sometimes loses its luster for me (I’m 43). I’ve adopted merlot and whiskey into my plan. It’s been going well.
Tried the wine for a bit, it was ok. I do like whiskey, but again, one serving (probably about 3 oz) and I am done. I do not like feeling like crap in the morning.
Beer I can drink all day if I pace myself or when on a cruise, but since it makes me fat, I am trying to just avoid it or treat it like a dessert. Ok on occasion, but not daily.
I’ll go about my morning as if the Vikings are playing at their normal 11 am slot. Get my Sunday chores done and start the game up at about noon. Obviously avoid any live sports television and my phone until after the game is “over” on my feed.
That’s cool to have that option. As much recording equipment as I own, nothing to grab from an over-the-air broadcast.
Our local Legion is having a breakfast bar.
8:30 CST. Is that too early for a beer? I heard there’s a porkchop in every can.
it’s only too early if you wok up recently. I think if I got up at 6 and cleaned the garage for 2 hours, I’d be ready for a beer.
Incidentally, that might be exactly what happens.
Church.
I’ll keep tabs on it as I get alerts on my phone.
“Of course I’m paying attention, Pastor.”
Is your pastor not a football fan?
Our last priest was a Vikings fan. The one before that was a Packers fan and encouraged people to wear jerseys to church. He would greet everybody at the front door in a Packers jersey and a cheese head.
He was born and lived in MN until he was 13 before they moved to Indiana. He says he is a Vikings fan, but I think he is a casual fan. Most people at our church dress up on Sunday morning so I have never seen a football jersey during church.
Life tip for all you youngsters.
My father-in-law (dementia) ran a heatting/cooling business for years. He retired about 7 years back but his shop is full of aging inventory. Now its up to us to get what we can for all of this aging inventory. We found a guy who will take it off our hands but the father-in-law probably could have gotten a lot more for it if he would have aggressively sold it after he retired.
So….don’t leave it up to your kids to sell/get rid of your stuff that’s worth something….do it while you are alive and mentally able.
That’s good advice. Did you FIL’s business cease operations when he retired?
Another option, I suppose, is to sell the business before retiring.
Yes, it ceased operations…he tried half-heartedly to sell the business before he retired, but it is surprisingly difficult to get people to want to relocate to small town ND in the absolute middle of nowhere.
LOL, I bet
Sound advice. Grandmother on my Dads side passed away towards the end of August. We just went through the things we moved from her assisted living to a storage unit and went through them as a family a few weeks ago. Most things we thrown away/ moved to donation boxes but there were some things like jewelry , things she had kept from her older relatives that we had questions on that we had forgotten even existed.
When I die, I want to leave behind basically zero mess to clean up. I went through that with both my grandparents and dad. It is overwhelming.
Mom seems to follow a similar principle. She has done a good job of continually reducing her stuff as she gets toward the end.
Which country has the “death cleaning” tradition? Sweden, maybe?
My mom doesn’t have much stuff.
But she is making a list of who gets what.
I don’t want to break it to her, but most of it is going into the trash.
yeah, don’t tell her
That’s fair.
I gave most of my dad’s stuff away or threw it away, which mom was fine with. I don’t think he would have liked to have known that, though.
I really miss dad. He wasn’t perfect and had some WTF parenting moments that I look back on with bewilderment, but whatever. It wasn’t deliberate. He was just a dude muddling along the best he could like the rest of us.
I don’t want to know what my kids will do with my stuff when I die. But, then it will be there stuff, so they can do whatever they want. I did tell them that if they throw out my valuable books I will haunt them.
Your last statement reminded me, my wife and I are planning on changing our will to exclude someone, I said I would enclose a letter explaining our reasoning, and we laughed when we both realized that if we’re dead we won’t be in a state to worry about them being annoyed.
I don’t give a rats ass what happens to my stuff. Dead is dead.
only concern is the conflict it may cause between them and people you DO care about
Tell ’em that some of them are worth money and they’ll at least be tempted to get them appraised. Perhaps the good ones will end up with someone who will appreciate them!
3 years ago we dealt with my father going into Memory care with dementia. That finally got my wife on board with purging the home. We have rented two dumpsters and made countless trips to various charities to make things easier for our kids.
Auction isn’t an option?
Not enough high-end stuff for an auction…Some copper wire and some expensive Freon, then just a whole bunch of motors that very well could be obsolete.
My kids told me, I cannot build a woodworking shop, because they don’t want to have to deal with the tools once I’m gone.
Are they nuts? I’d take a nice bandsaw, router, and planer.
Jets defense is pretty decent. Their offense shouldn’t scare Vikings fans, though. I predict a low scoring game in the first quarter or two, then for the Vikings to slowly but surely pull away in the 2nd half.
Something like 24-13? maybe 31-13?
Pretty much feel the same way. KOC has made a living off of that first drive though. Always seems to have a great first drive planned and practiced, then sorta cools off for a while, then comes back.
maybe it’ll be 7-0 after the Vikings first drive, then the game will slow way down for a while. that’s a good thought.
Their pass Defense is good, their run defense is suspect. Go up early, pound the rock, blitz Sharron – GG NO RE
this. this is a good plan.
If it works. Sure.
Remember The Douche is king of the free play, so my guess is the defense gets burned more than once.
I predict we keep our scoring opening drive streak going and then kick their fucking ass! I want to see if this team really has a bad taste in their mouth after that soft 2nd half last week.
that would be fun
42-10 Vikings.
‘murica!
Some DVOA stuff in an article that came out earlier this week:
Interesting to see how gung-ho the metric is on the Vikings already when they were so hesitant to accept the success of the 2017 Vikings. And it never believed in the 2022 Vikings. Going 11-0 in one-score games is unsustainable!
That 2022 season was ridiculous.
Yes it was. I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop and it just didn’t, and didn’t, and didn’t….
so of course I embraced the ideas of fate and destiny and then the Vikings lost in the playoffs to the lowly giants.
I knew they were winning in spite of Kwerk and the bad prevent D, it was all a sham. I had fun for like two games but I knew the end was coming. No team with 8 under center has a chance in the play offs. Period. History backs me up, and so do current times.
Sam Bradford wore #8, didn’t he?
Man, I wish he had been more durable…
As part of my pessimism on Monday I watched the Philly game from 2016 – where the 5-0 Vikings dropped to 5-1 haha just a little blip.
Bradford coughed the ball up more times than a cat with sea otter hairballs.
(sigh)
If he had been more durable the Rams would have won several SBs
More than 60 comments by 8:30 a.m.!
Chatty bunch this morning!
Hey did The Daily Noresman do away with its daily thread? I haven’t gone there in a while but just popped over and didn’t see any daily threads. I guess when you max out at 10 to 15 comments a day what’s the point.
Quantity over Quality!
Those fart sniffers killed their own site through clenched-fisted stupidity. Happy to hear they’re still floundering.
They sometimes have a daily thread. It is sporadic. They also have articles at times that hit a decent number of comments. I pop in and look occasionally and sometimes drop a comment if I have a relevant point.
I don’t have a lot of relevant points on much, though.
what does GF call them again? Poodle F-ers? something like that
Collie molester
ah yes. that’s what it was. thanks!
Was it “collie molesters” maybe?
We might finish combining beans today. Then…onto the corn…
I am going golfing….that farming business isn’t for me – but thanks for the food!
You’re welcome.
Farming isn’t for me either. It’s duty.
Yesterday, we were two hours from getting beans done and had a major bean head breakdown. We had to pack everything up, drive an hour home and start trying to fix it. Basically, a shaft inside the header auger slipped out of its mount, and the retractable fingers in the auger weren’t retracting and jammed it all up.
You had to try to fix it through little access ports you had to stuff your arm in up to the shoulder. I honestly don’t know how we got it fix. Prayer probably. It was like building a ship in a bottle, expect all the ship parts were heavy hunks of steel and bolted together, so you had to try to get wrenches on them inside the bottle. Then it turned out two of the nuts were welded on, so we had to get a cutting torch in there, as well.
But, miracle of miracles, we got it going again.
That sounds stressful
That sounds terrible….I would have driven to the nearest implement dealer and bought a new header, this is why I would not be a good farmer.
That is basically me, as well. It is so stressful to me, that I would rather empty my bank account than deal with it.
But that is the nature of the beast. Family obligation, man. Got to help out and support the loved ones.
Happy birthday freezey
Happy birthday to you as well then
Minnesota is currently ranked NUMBER ONE in D.V.O.A. (Defense-adjusted Value Over Average) – a metric that attempts to measure efficiency on a play-by-play basis (and therefore, sustainable methods). Vikings have the top defense, and above-average offense and special teams.
Baltimore has the top offense and is #2 overall. At 2-2, DVOA puts them above all 3-1 teams.
KC, at 4-0, is ranked #9 overall.
DVOA Rankings (week 4)
1 MIN
2 BAL
3 *aints
4 SEA
5 DET
6 BUF
7 SF
8 PIT
9 KC
10 FTP
I am seeing the best Vikings team on the field, in a long, long, time. We have a defense that is for real. We have a good running game, and a good passing game. We even have a good kicker. This team can get to the Super Bowl this year.
Can’t say I understand this DVOA. But if Saints are three and Steelers are eight I’ve got to wonder about the stat.
in a nutshell, it’s basically looking at how many yards the offense gets per play, but every yard is qualified by context (down and distance, game context, etc). 4 yards on 3rd and 3 is worth a lot more than 4 yards on 3rd and 15, for example. Take into account the score and the gameclock and the opponent, and you can get a score that measures “success” on every play.
Thank you.
I just have a hard time thinking an offense like the Steelers is good at anything.
I can appreciate some of these ‘newer’ stats trying to better quantify performance but wonder if some don’t over think it sometimes – e.g.,QBR.
But thanks again.
Yeah, I find it fun to look around at the various stats available to see how they measure up against what my gut is telling me. Over the years I have found DVOA to align most closely with what I feel.
PIT’s offense is ranked 17th, by the way. They have the 7th best defense and the 7th best special teams, which helps their overall ranking.
Back when FootballOutsiders still existed, I had access to breakdowns between run and pass, as well as other breakdowns. The website was purchased by a company that failed though, and the owner of the DVOA methodology was hired by someone else, and many of the details are behind a paywall.
They have built historical averages for all these various situations based on data collected over the years (and continue to collect). They can use this data to compare offensive production against the current season, or the last five years, or since they began measuring DVOA. It can’t measure the quality of the opponents though, so it’s not a perfect measure (nothing with so many variables ever is). Weather, playing outdoors versus indoors, injuries to either team, etc can affect DVOA. To me it’s an indicator, but it doesn’t mean as much as the media makes of it.
Still wonder about guys doing the scoring. Been looking some at QBR – suppose to be a complete stat.
Last year saw Greg Cosell break down the same play by two QB’s – Cousins and Dobbs – with two very different scores.
Dobbs playing the Saints was on the 6 going in. He drops back, gets outside pressure, steps up, is uncomfortable in the pocket, does a neat spinout and scramble for a TD. Gets a high score.
Same play year before. Cousins gets pressure, steps up, but is comfortable there and waits a bit, then a receiver clears and he throws a TD. Gets a lower grade than Dobbs.
Dobbs was uncomfortable in the pocket and made his play. Cousins was patient and ran the play as designed – and got a lower grade.
This made me wonder. From my baseball background it reminded me of an outfilder who runs in at the crack of the bat, and then has to run like hell to catch the ball versus the good outfielder who merely takes a couple steps back and makes a routine catch. Fans rave over the former but real ball players know better.
Long story, you got to know what you’re doing.
QBR uses weighted measures, that usually reward a QB for being a playmaker, vice a distributor of the ball. It’s supposedly a “better metric” of the impact a QB has on the outcome of a game. So when the QB scores a TD by running it in himself, vice throwing a TD, he gets looked at more favorably.
To me that’s wrong.
It’s like rewarding pitchers more for how they field bunts versus throwing the ball.
Well this metric came to be, about the time the “dual threat” QB’s became the rage, and obviously highlights this.
Does the media speak highly of DVOA?
I always thought of it as an under-the-radar metric. At any rate, it helps me see which teams are likely to have their W/L % improve or worsen over the course of the season based on expected outcome.
I see DVOA highlighted in many articles I read. Thus, I kinda feel like pundits tout it as evidence a defense is doing well, (or not).
huh, interesting. I’m glad it’s got more exposure than I thought it had.
Thursday Night Football returns.
Get your picks in for Pick ‘Em League before the big game!
This is mostly a public service announcement. Most everyone has their picks in but Bow and Little Fishin’, and their modus operandi is to do it around this time anyway.
But I like to throw reminders out there just in case anyone forgets. It’s free.
Star rookie QB Caleb Williams??? Hmmmm… I guess he thinks he’s a star, and pundits do too. So far, he’s just a rookie QB in the NFL.
Happy Thorsday,
Good morning! FTP
Great main photo for the thread!
Let’s make The Douche run for his life on Sunday!
Lions are overrated.
So excited for this election to get done so we can go back to normal crappy ads.
How overrated are they? (the Lions)
They’re certainly not bad, I just don’t buy the media hype with them. Their defense looked really bad the other night, and their offense was going against a depleted Seahawks defense. Yet Buck and Aikman were slobbering all over them.
yeah, I watched a little and was rolling my eyes at the commentary. they’re paid to make every game seem more interesting than it is to try and keep as many eyes on the ads as possible.
True
Well we get to play them in a couple of weeks and can see how bad they really are.
Yeah hopefully I didn’t jinx us and don’t eat my words that day. Lol
But Goff went 18-18. Don’t think too deeply about the fact that something like 250 of his 280 yards was after the catch though or that there were a couple incompletions negated by penalties. Throwing screen passes is tough.
reminds me of when everyone was praising high completion rate
They got to the NFCCG last year and probably should have won, they aren’t overrated
They’re not playing consistently great so far, but they did drub Seattle pretty good!
I think they were overrated last year, too.
DVOA had them 7th overall (with a middling defense at 13th)
Certainly a playoff team, but they might have punched above their weight to get to the NFCCG
Easy schedule last year and they got pretty lucky with the teams they played in the playoffs as well.
GM!
FTP!
SKOL!
Happy ThorsDay!
Video up top made me laugh. Great start to the day.
Go Tampa Bay!
Good morning, SKOL!
FTP!
Happy Thorsday!
Morning. How’re things up in the Panhandle? Sunrise getting later, and later now. I used to have my first cup of coffee as the sun was coming up. Now I’ve already had two. Gonna have a high of 90 degrees today. Fall isn’t exactly here yet.
@climate change is real@
Laughing… indeed. Al Gore warned us.
It’s a beautiful morning over here. Wish I could enjoy it, a long day of work coming.
I am finally getting used to retirement. No work worries anymore. Still stay in touch with a lot of my old buddies, and even field questions occasionally, but no desire to get back in the ring so to speak.
when did you retire?
glad you’re enjoying it
I retired the end of August. I turn 70 in January. The 18 hour days, traipsing around all over the world, and constantly stressing about real world National Security threats finally caught up with me. Turned the reins over to a younger guy I had pretty much developed over a period of five years. He still calls me at times to ask my advice on things. But really, I have accepted I’m no longer responsible for anything.
Seems like that could be a bit of a jarring experience, but I’m glad you had years to bring up your replacement. Hopefully you’re both enjoying the setup you have where he can call and ask questions.
He is a very good man. Honest, smart, hard working, and devoted to the security of the Nation. We had dinner at the Capitol Grill a couple weeks ago. He said some very flattering things about me to my wife. She said “Thank you Tony, I’m very happy you have taken over, because now he’s finally all mine”.
Takes a couple of years to ‘fully’ let go – at least for me.
Yeah, my wife asks me why I still get up so early. I tell her I read the news from around the world, and send emails to friends occasionally asking about certain events. Obviously the stuff going on between Israel and Hamas, and now Iran, etc is bugging me.
Still up at five every day and still reading the same reports. Some habits never die my friend.
Israel and all of the related conflicts are immensely interesting to me. The history is fascinating, and I can’t help but wonder how current events will look in historical context ten or twenty years from now.
Yeah, this is the root of it. The conflict has been going on since ancient times.
Glad you are enjoying retirement. I expect to work until 70 at least, so 9 more years. But I just sit and my computer and
bitch about footballwork all day, and very few 18 hour days in my life lately. Had lots of that when doing Production Support data work. Still not end of the world stress, but to the companies I have worked at, they made it seem like every emergency was the end of days.You know, this is really true. Pretty much any vocation has stress. Businesses are trying to compete, and survive, and whatever you’re doing is important to that. Deadlines, legal issues, financial woes, or whatever, contribute to the stress levels.
It’s Florida. Will get nice by end of October.
Yeah, Florida goes from to very cool/cold quickly though. I’d like a couple months of 70 degree weather, rather than a couple days/weeks. But not complaining. I hate snow, raking leaves, and cold weather in general.
Must say, I really miss the fall especially all the colors in Virginia. But agree completely on the snow and raking.
Fall colors are nice, but that also means that a few short weeks after the colors begin, there is 7 months of a barren wasteland. 7 months of dead looking trees. 7 months of wondering why I thought the fall colors were a good thing. Several months of living in the dark because the days are so short that when you get up it’s dark and when you go to bed it’s dark.
As you can tell, I’m in a great mood this morning.
You’re such a ray of sunshine VP. Good morning.
And so I figured that part out and moved to Florida. ?Gave up the colors for 12 months of blue skies.
With some hurricanes mixed in.
Little variety once in while.
I miss the fall back home in the black hills, the colors stay much longer, are much more vivid and bountiful, and we still have snow and winter but not the bitter cold
Sounds like you live in Tuktoyaktuk.
Good morning and SKOL (we already FTP). The dock workers strike needs to be dealt with by the President quickly. He needs to advise the Unions he will declare a state of emergency and use whatever resources are needed to keep goods flowing through the ports. Be fair, and level-headed, but be firm. These unions will not hold the country hostage. Period.
Well, yeah, that’s works for me too.
I remember when unions helped the workers not be oppressed by employers. Now they oppress.
True PPB. Unions did a great job on unfair labor practices, fair pay, better working conditions, and safety. But they also became corrupt, and now they aren’t doing good, they’re a threat to the economy, and the country at times.
yup. power corrupts (sigh)
Biden ain’t no Harry Truman.
Biden’s not even Joe Biden anymore. 🙁
Biden has said that he won’t use a federal labor law known as the Taft-Hartley Act to intervene in the strike. Under that law, Biden could take action that results in an 80-day “cooling off” period for negotiations to resume while workers are back at work.
When asked if he would intervene on the strike, Biden said “no”. When asked why, he said “because there’s collective bargaining, and I don’t believe in Taft-Hartley”.
Translation: The Dem’s can’t win without Union votes. No way am I risking those, no matter what happens to the citizens.
your translation is spot-on, IMO
He’s a weak ass. Didn’t Truman claim ‘for the national interest’ he was going to nationalize the railroads and then they couldn’t strike.
Not sure, long time ago.
And as an aside, what Biden believes in is irrelevant, he’s the president of the “entire” country and it’s best interest. Not his political parties.
Biden isn’t really doing anything anymore, and hasn’t for a long time. He lost his marbles over two years ago. The media lied to the American public about his mental state and fitness to serve, while knowing full well and good, he often did not know where he was, or what he was doing. He is a travesty for the country, but handing the reins to Kamala is just as bad, if not worse.
God I really, really hate politicians.
Too bad installing robots will take months. I’d give them whatever pay raise they want, but there would be no agreements to not automate, which is the other big hold up with the union. So, I guess I would come up with a way to set up a secondary corporation that prepares to automates and then I sell the docks from one company to the other and automate the shit out of it. You wanted a 75% pay raise for uneducated, unskilled workers that were already making almost 200k a year? Good for you, they got some of that for a year or two and now they’re out of jobs and flipping burgers at Mickey D’s.