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I’m glad the bye week is over, the weekend just isn’t the same without Vikings football. I get far too apathetic on bye weeks. The Detroit Lions come to Minneapolis for a noon game on Sunday where both teams look to continue their strong seasons and notch a win. It won’t be easy, both teams are very good football teams. The Lions lost Aiden Hutchinson to a horrific leg injury yesterday, which is a big blow to their defense, especially their pass rush. Let’s hope the Vikings can notch victory number 6. SKOL!!!!!!
Vikings/NFL News and Updates:
Here are all of your NFL week 6 scores and highlights, courtesy of ESPN.
Our old pal Patrick Peterson says he’s interested in returning to the Vikings, according to MSN. Hey, I’m all for it, we all know that injuries can come out of nowhere, doesn’t hurt to have a backup plan waiting in the wings.
From Sports Illustrated, when asked about the Vikings defense this year, Cam Bynum said they’re “having fun and balling”. They sure are, and it’s a lot of fun to watch. Hey, just for fun, let’s think back to Donatell’s last year as DC. Remember that? Me too, let’s stop thinking about that. This year is a lot of fun to watch.
Media Selection:
I love math, here’s a cool video on Kaprakar’s Constant. Enjoy!
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I think if we play the Bills, we beat them.
In the SB?
‘Someones 0 has got to go’ at that point.
We should, didn’t look particularly impressive yesterday.
#nojinx
3 missed field goals and an extra point in this game so far.
Bass almost missed another a minute ago.
Tackling seems to be a lost art in the NFL.
Jets hanging on by their fingernails. Still think the Bills are going to walk a way from them soon though.
Bills defense is as soft as I’ve seen them in many years.
Ahhh did they sack The Douche to hard.
Not watching so did see the play just the penalty listed.
Jets looking like they didn’t like Saleh
Bills only one pass with 2m left in the qtr?
Jets DBs that good or Bills figure they can take NY with the running game?
10-12 at the half.
20-10 Bills.
20-17. Hail Mary by Rodgers successful as time ran out.
That was crazy, three Bills players right there, Lazard comes down with it.
21s,
figured the half was over.
Me too… crazy.
Bills@Jets. You guys want Erin to fail miserably?
yes
always bills
USPS loses billions every year but can fin time to take Columbus Day off. Pathetic.
They don’t have much choice on either of those options. Blame congress.
Some say Hutch may be ready 2025. Man, that seems risky.
That’s probably best-case-scenario. It’s all speculation for now.
Nah, he’s done for the (NFL) year. That was markedly displaced and angulated. No way it’s ready to take NFL style contact before training camp 2025.
100% agree. Hopefully no tissue damage beyond the bone stuff – could be longer than that.
Makes sense. Man, something like that would stick in my head for awhile. Only 24. Kitties suck but i wish him well.
Agreed
Depends on what month in 2025 – January or August. Bones are strong enough after 8 weeks, but the rest of him may not be ready…..
Heard a nasty rumor no Hock this weekend? Anyone have any intel?
Have not, think they would wait til Friday.
Who was cheap shot artist who took Hock out? DB, right?
did a little birdie tell you this?
Got excuse for church social yet?
i’ll record the game. if we lose, i won’t go home and rewatch. if we win, i will go home and rewatch.
i will check my phone multiple times during the potluck
Probably Lions fans starting rumors because they’re scared.
A question.
What’s with all the NFL commercials encouraging us to sign up and vote? Do they have an agenda?
I was brought up in a middle class family and i own a Glock. I was brought up in a middle class family and i own a Glock.
Oh yeah, tampon is very proficient with a shotgun he’s used all his life.
I wish they would have asked her how the safety works on her Glock.
Good one
They could have followed that up and asked her the safest way to release the hammer.
Cackles’ response would have something to do with being raised in a middle class family and a neighborhood that had nice lawns and every one had middle class pistols, like Glock, not Kimber or Sig or Spring field arms.
The part about the middle class blah blah, probably, but there’s no way she would know enough about guns to list Kimber, Sig, etc. She said she has a Glock because it was the only one she could think of. The true middle class gun is probably a Taurus or Ruger. Glocks are expensive.
They do or say anything to garner votes. So fucking shallow. You have to have shit for brains to bite on it.
lol…. This is so true. My father raised me on a P89….
It’s been a while since I bought a handgun,but Berettas were affordable too
LOL
She would have guessed and said it was a flipper style safety like a Beretta or AR.
I don’t think she would have known what that was, and even if so, she would not have been able to explain it in such simple words.
Being from Illinois, we used to actually have loaded shotguns when we went pheasant hunting.
Guys from Minnesota are so nice.
LOL
Given you don’t always know who is going to win, best for any business not interested in making political enemies, stay out of the fray.
Its been heavy that way since 2020 as far as I can remember. And yes there is an agenda.
i’m more concerned with how hungry i get when i watch NFL games
Oh, look at Jerry. He is eating….”Rice”
At least try rotating Sunday with that 67 dude. Not a lot to lose.
meh
Good, we need him at RG
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell was asked about the possibility of a Super Bowl being played outside of the United States, and it sounded like a real possibility.
“We’ve always traditionally tried to play a Super Bowl in an NFL city — that was always sort of a reward for the cities that have NFL franchises,” Goodell said, “But things change. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if that happens one day.”
Great idea there… and shows how clueless the rich are. Of course the American fans of the two competing teams can all fly overseas to see the game. No problem.
Why would he even think of doing this? Think he is just talking to be talking.
@Maybe they’ll hold it in Regina and I can drive up to Mosaic Stadium to watch the game from a $CDN15 nosebleed seat@
Plus I could say I saw the SuperBowl of Reginas.
Just drumming up interest from foreign cities to see what perks they can get from having a SuperBowl there. Not likely, at least for a long time.
The people that can afford tickets to the game can afford to go wherever they hold it at this point.
Exactly.
Bad idea, IMHO. I love the fact that they are playing games in London and Germany so I can attend games in person, but the Superbowl needs to be played in the States, period.
Not sure tv people will bite much. In the states it’s so much pregame and adds until kickoff. We send everything else overseas may as well be sports too.
“We’ve always traditionally tried to play a Super Bowl in an NFL city — that was always sort of a reward for the cities that have NFL franchises,” Goodell said, “But
things change. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if that happens one day.””money talks”There. FTFY.
In the spirit of things done too early, I put up (permanent) Christmas/Thanksgiving/Vikings victory/breast health/whatever you want lights all around my shouse last week. The boom lift was a gift from God, thank goodness my wife insisted I rent one.
If I can figure out how to fly my drone at night without it crashing I’ll take some pics. They look really good.
I built a wooden box out of 3/4″ plywood to mount my miter saw on an old Makiter table saw stand…had to take the guards off the table saw to accommodate the slab of plywood and despite thinking I was being super cautious I managed to tickle (no break in skin) the tip of my middle finger on the blade as it was spinning down and I was moving a piece of plywood. Takes the blade about 4 seconds to stop. That’s why you don’t reach over the blade until it stops…and why you set the height to barely above the stock you are cutting. No harm done but lesson learned.
Sunday’s game is going to be a real test. Hopefully KOC keeps his foot on the offensive gas.
It always pays to be careful.
A guy I know who is a super-duper handyman in his 60s recently lost part of his thumb and two fingers in a saw mishap.
I couldn’t believe it when I heard it. It is like hearing Bob Vila got injured.
He is doing okay, though.
In my head I’ve thought of it like (downhill) skiing, the guys that F* their ACL are the intermediate skiers, as novices are too cautious to do stupid things and experts are too good to lose control…however I’ve had to revise that as I had a rash of cut off fingers and nails embedded in bone cross my desk on local contractors. So maybe anyone can cut their finger off on a stupid table saw.
I was using one of those (kinda like a sawhorse) saw helpers but should have just grabbed my wife, but we get into a discussion as I always feel like she’s binding the stock against the blade by advancing the free edge too quickly.
i have a tree i need to take down in my backyard that i need to rent a boom lift to do.
makes me both nervous and excited. I know my kids will think i’m super cool for doing it too.
I had a Genie Z34. Was a piece of cake to use and makes you override the controls if you are in an unstable position for driving, like the boom is extended to the side you have to hold the override switch down and it just crawls along. If I can use one for 12 hours and not smash into the soffit or feel uneasy you should be like superman up there.
Make sure to use a retractable lanyard and harness. Good idea to have a lanyard attached to the saw as well.
Did you put up purple and gold strings of lights to be turned on on victory days?
do purple and gold strings of lights turn YOU on??
Possibly in the proper setting.
You can set to any variety of color and pattern and movement you want.
Get that drone up after dark. Curious. Yes, keep them permanent and shut off. Much easier.
Who gets fired 1st McCarthy or Pederson?
Zimmer
He would be easiest to throw under the bus.
I think Zimmer gets a pass this year due to all of the injuries. McCarthy is leading the offense and it looks like ass right now.
Anyone still think we should have taken Pederson over O’Connell?
I certainly did at the time.
We need Five back to tell us how great Lawrence is (and Jamo).
Five was certainly high on Lawrence. I am a little surprised at his regression this year, I must admit. Did the Jags get a new OC?
He really hasn’t ever been great and they were garbage the second half of last season. They’ve just picked up where they left off. I’ve never seen consistently good play from Lawrence to warrant all the hype.
I agree. I was never on the hype train for him. Never has shown much IMO.
Just a question-He is getting $200,000,000 no matter how he plays, right?
The danger of guaranteed money?
I’m not sure. I’m trying to look at it but this one isn’t making much sense. It looks like it though. Only 142 was guaranteed at signing but it looks like to avoid the remaining 58 mill in guarantees they would have to cut him in 2026 or 2027. They would take a substantial dead cap hit though. Most of his money is in option bonus and guarantees at goofy times. The 2028 option bonus of $35mill fully guarantees on the 4th day of 2027 for example so to avoid that bonus being guaranteed they would have to cut him prior to it activating which would mean a 44 mill dead cap hit in 2027. I think they’re tied through 2026 at least, could get out in 2027 with a little pain and then after that it becomes easier to part ways.
I was high on Lawrence as well, he’s proving me wrong. He seems totally checked out on improving and maturing into an NFL starting caliber QB.
“at the time”. I’m sure you weren’t alone.
I see Freezy is as good at entering his confidence points in the pick em league, as he is at changing batteries.
I like my job, but as with most jobs, there are a few things I could do without. In the next couple of months I have two large grant audits plus several grant close outs to do. I told my boss that I need an assistant. She laughed and said that she needs an assistant. Maybe we should compromise and get one for the both of us.
Or you could share one.
He/she/it can do the grunt work for both of you while learning.
Call it cross training until your audits/grant close outs are done.
Jury selection in the Delphi Murders trial today. Trail will maybe start Wednesday then.
Been waiting two years for this process to get sorted out and see how it goes. Hope they got the right guy.
Unless the trail drys up.
You would think that with that video it would be a slam dunk.
Don’t know all the details but it seems pretty cut and dry from afar.
There are lots of people into the Odin stuff, though. The defenders have been doing a good job of getting a trial in public and creating doubt.
It is fair to say maybe Richard Allen didn’t kill the girls, but he is 99 percent Bridge Guy from what has come out so far. He admits to being there at that time, wearing those clothes, his car is on video arriving, witnesses, bullet supposedly from his gun at the scene, confessed more than 60 times in prison, etc.
So, even if he didn’t kill them, if he is the guy that took them off the bridge to get killed.
We had some Odinists in prison.
Mostly redneck types who despised the Pedos.
Of course in prison you have to say that you hate Pedos unless you want to get sliced.
You are a special breed of man to be able to handle that job. Hats off to you.
Like walking the streets at night now.
When I joined the Army the Slogan was ‘It is not just a job it is an Adventure’. I tried to look at it like that every day.
Took the same approach when I started at the Prison. Needed the job for family reasons when my brother passed. Since I needed to be there looking at is as an adventure helped me deal with it.
Family needs is a good motivator for endurance.
Agreed.
“Needs of the Family outweigh needs of the individual.’
FEMA suspending some efforts for Helene relief due to threats? Serious heat.
Hillbilly/Rednecks and Bureaucrats don’t get along very well.
Kittens early +1.5 dogs. Bit surprised.
I saw 2 on ESPN app. Im not surprised. Divisional game on the road against a good opponent in a loud stadium. Im more surprised its not 3 or 4.
I’m sure lots of quiet living rooms in Detroit when Hutch went down. Tough sport.
Given we are at home, which is normally worth 3pts, guess that means on a neutral field the Loins are considered a slightly better team.
I don’t mind it, I think our home field advantage is worth more than that.
Not sure what to think. As usual, TOP, some run game and no turnovers. Goff can’t be allowed to sit in pocket either. There, my game plan boys. Damn, i’m good.
If we don’t get Aaron Jones back, Lions should be favored, I reckon.
I sincerely hope that #33 will be good to go, we need a functioning running game. Chandler can’t provide that on a consistent basis.
Sounds like he practiced today.
Excellent, thanks.
So now the wife is having stomach cramps and not feeling well. So I gues we’re hanging out here one more night.
Travel is an ‘adventure’.
At least you are not on a deadline.
Retirement is nice that way.
Safer is better than faster.
Played that all day yesterday, ‘go as fast as you can safely’.
A lot of 2 lane highways which can be tricky.
Thanks, and you’re right. My brother was like “stay another week if you want”. That is like THE greatest thing (he’s retired too). Again, blessed.
Hay, free room and board ain’t bad. And you can deal with the alligator later.
Hope the alligator has moved back to the lake by the time we come home.
Honest question can you shoot alligators on your property?
You probably have to say “choot em elizabeth” before you pull the trigger.
heh
Probably have to say that they were an immediate threat to kids/pets/etc.
Probably different outside of urban areas.
Think it’s actually a felony to shoot an alligator in Florida – even if it’s in your yard.
Now if there is immediate danger, not sure. Would hope some common sense would apply.
Self Defense should always be a trump card.
Sounds like the triple S play is needed then.
Shoot, shovel and shut up. We have that philosophy when it comes to cougars in our area.
I don’t know MT, but I have always just called the Florida Wildlife folks.
Just jump on his back and tape his mouth closed. Or tie a noose, slip it around the chompers and close. After that a quick knife to the back of the head and you have meat for the freezer and nobody knows anything.
Is that the technique you guys use of the bears out there.
I wouldn’t advise it. Bears have bigger arms and stronger jaw opening muscles. There was a college kid who tried it a year or two ago when a griz went after his buddy.
‘The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said there are rare circumstances in which someone can claim self-defense with a gator.
Experts say if a gator attacks you or your pet, you can take action, but if the attack happens off your property, it becomes more difficult to claim self-defense’
https://www.clickorlando.com/pets/2021/07/13/what-you-need-to-know-about-alligator-laws-in-florida/
Patrick Peterson didn’t let the door his his @$$ as he left for “greener pastures.”
Now he wants to play for the Vikings again since we’re winning?
Pass.
i haven’t seen anything, is that what he’s saying?
i mean we already have an old defensive backs room, might as well make it ANCIENT
Heard that when he was asked he said he was open to returning.
I didn’t hear anything about bad feelings when he left, just that he had a good year with us and got offered more some place else.
Good for him, he was a lot of help in 2022 with some timely picks.
I loved the signing when we got him, and appreciate what he did.
My beef is how millionaires aren’t satisfied with millions. If he “wants to play for the Vikings” he should have played for the Vikings instead of jumping ship for more $$ when he’s got enough already.
My memory banks are eroding a bit – did he leave for a team he thought was gonna make an Owl run?
I thought he left because the Vikings didn’t re-sign him and said “thanks for the memory”.
That is how I remember it as well.
Sounded like a business decision by both parties.
Went to Pittsburg and played in 17 games starting 16.
In Coach Flo we trust.
If he says he needs/wants him then fine.
34? Time to move on.
He can play cards with Hitman and Gilmore.
They just need one more for Pinocle.
Maybe one of the coaches is old enough to sit in.
3 handed pinochle is fun, too
Can be.
Two handed as well.
But neither are much of a replacement for a full game. More like something to do while you are waiting for the rest of the guys to show up.
Looking at Team Defense through week 5, Looks like the Lions and us match up fairly well defensively. They are fairly close to us in almost every defensive category, at least on the website I was looking…
It’s gonna be a good game on Sunday. Their offense is obviously firing on on cylinders as our offense was SPUTTERING against the Jets. Adding Hock will be a huge boost, but his first game back, i doubt he is out there a TON as they work him back in.
I expect the Lions offense to look better than ours. They can run and obviously pass very well.
This will be the biggest test for our defense yet, I think.
Hope the Lions refrain from going head hunting again, not that Hock gets injured again vs his old team. Remember when Lions fans celebrated Hock’s injury after the fact?
Not shocking, many of them are from Detroit.
Feel bad for Hutch, but those scum sucking kittie fans ain’t getting my sympathy card.
Same.
Love the Math nerdy stuff up top. I might use that number for all of my pins…if you forget it you can easily figure it out!
Happy Monday Muchachos.
Went off to visit grand babies last week in Oregon and NoCal, one brand new one.
10 hour trip home yesterday, got back just at ‘last light’.
I think the Bye week was a good time for it.
Tried to log in several times but my password wouldn’t work, works fine here. Maybe what VikingPhilip has is catching?
Found in NoCal at small restaurants/gas stations/stores where they have small bathrooms that they are not labeled Mens or Women’s any more, they are just labeled ‘Whatever‘.
Glad you’re back – was worrying about you some.
Stay away from women’s bathrooms. At least in red states.
Bathrooms in Red states are easy to figure out, just read the sign.
It is in Blue states were it get tricky.
Of course if you get it wrong in a Blue state just tell them you identify as a Whatever that day.
Looks like it has an empty belly, aka the Atlantic Ocean.
Winning % of teams played by the Vikings: 0.552
Winning % of teams played by the rest of the NFC North: 0.427
Winning % of teams beaten by the rest of the NFC North: 0.306
All of the Bears’ wins are against 1-win teams at this point.
Haha yeah, the Bears and Packers are overrated, and will likely come back to Earth (especially the Bears). The Packers have been so lucky with their cake schedule (particularly when Love was hurt), but eventually they have to play the Lions x 2, Vikings again, 49ers, and Seahawks. Hopefully that will be 4 or 5 losses (+ maybe Texans, but I think they’ll win that one). But the rest of their games are pretty easy I think, so they’ll probably make playoffs at like 10-7.
And it supports the narrative.
well, as of right now, the NFC North seems to be the division of winners.
I made a mistake – thought the Lions were over rated.
Don’t think so now. Their offensive line is really impressive.
Their hype will die after they get piss pounded on Sunday.
I was talking to my neighbor who is from michigan and has been a Lion’s fan since birth..
He said the vikings haven’t faced an offense like theirs yet (while that might be sort of true, without looking at rankings), i told him we have faced some pretty stinking good offenses (49ers, Houston, GB (the talking heads LOVE their offense)), but i reminded him that the Lions haven’t faced a defense like ours yet… AND our offense hasn’t faced a terrible defense like the Lions…
It should be a wild game IMO
#nojinx
We will be driving back to Tampa today. Leaving in a couple hours. By all accounts from friends, the water literally came up to our doorstep, but didn’t get in the house. Good by just inches.
Blessed and thankful and this point.
Wow, that was close! Good luck and hope all is well when you get home.
Many thanks. Not especially looking forward to the drive (getting old) but we’re looking forward to getting home for sure.
Drive safely.
Hope the home stood up well and not too much damage. Check the garage and make sure there’s no alligator in there!
All the best.
Thanks JR. Our friends say the alligator is still lurking, as the water hasn’t fully receded back to the lake yet. So we’ll definitely be watching out for him, since we’ll be arriving home after dark.
That is good news.
Laughing… indeed.
Awesome! Blessings on the drive!
Many thanks, looking forward to getting home tonight.
Good news, wishing you guys a safe and uneventful journey.
Thank you so much. We were smart to evacuate early, and lucky to have a place to evacuate to. God has been watching over us for sure. We’re blessed.
Good morning, SKOL!
FTP!
The NFC North looks very strong this year.
Ever since Zimmer said “I’ve never had a bad defense” his defenses have not been good. Works for me now because I hate Dallas.
FTP!
NFC North looked good yesterday.
I question how good Dallas is, especially with that Zimmer defense where everyone was wide open (looked more like a Donatell defense). No doubt Lions are good, but I still think they’re overrated. And now their defense is worse with Hutch out.
GB keeps beating up bad teams. I think they’ll come down to earth. They’re good, too, but also overrated.
The Bears live off of their defense. I think if they keep running the ball well, they’ll be tough. But again, the Jags are not good.
I honestly think all the teams in the NFC North are good, and possibly really good. Kinda sad that Caleb seems to be improving weekly. All 4 teams are getting good QB play.
Should be a wild ride.
It has helped that the Bears have played the worst 3 defenses in the league the last 4 weeks. That pick Williams had yesterday was bad bad.
I saw 2 Lions games so far this season, they could (and probably should) have lost at Arizona, a questionable call that negated a Goff pick 6 saved their hide in that game.
Yesterday they dominated a severely depleted cowpies defense, not that impressive IMHO. They are good, but the Vikes shouldn’t be afraid of them, at home especially.
Bears have beaten teams who, combined, managed to get whopping 4 wins so far, same with the FTP, who still get tons of help from the refs.
We should be able to take the division if we keep playing like we did the first 5 weeks.
Maybe all those years playing against Zimmer’s defenses helped the Lions. Dunno. But that was a whuppin.
‘We should be able to take the division if we keep playing like we did the first 5 weeks.’
#nojinx
Just to be on the safe side.
Thanks, I should know better than forgetting the #nojinx.
Between the two of us hopefully we can catch all the comments here that require a #nojinx.
#nojinx
That we will!
#nojinx
Yeah, has GB had the easiest schedule in the NFL so far? They keep getting cake games (besides the Vikings game)
Are McCarthy and Zimmer fired yet?
No word yet.
So, it is close!
It’s amazing how that team went off a cliff. I’m guessing Jerry is having buyer’s remorse over Dak’s big deal.
Their defense went from top-5 to bottom-10.
They have to do something. The players are going to check out.
He had no choice but to give Dak a big deal because of the last stupid deal he gave him. If they wouldn’t have extended him, I think there would have been a 60 or 70 mill cap hit next year.
I was surprised he gave in to Dak. I thought he’d let him walk after this season like we did with kirk.
It is shocking to see how bad Dallas has been playing. Changes have to be coming, soon.
Jerry isn’t firing anybody. As long as his stadium is full on game day, he’s good.