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Vikings vs. Packers
Sunday’s game was fun to watch for most of the game. Sam Darnold was dialed in, and the Vikings offense was moving the ball at will. With the exception of one throw that was picked off, Sam Darnold put together a masterpiece of a game. The defense stifled the Packers offense for much of the game, and it looked like Jordan Love might finish with under 100 passing yards, and they did a good job of limiting Josh Jacobs’ run production.
I need to mention the O-line, because they played an amazing game on Sunday. All of them, even Bradbury. Sam Darnold dropped back to pass 44 times on Sunday against a team that blitzes A LOT, and Darnold was only sacked once and other than that play, was barely touched by the defense. Also, Aaron Jones had several amazing blocks where he picked up a blitzer and took him out of the play. He reminded me of Chester Taylor, one of the best blocking running backs I can remember.
The lone sore spot for Vikings fans was the Vikings building a big lead and then nearly giving it up. The Vikings were up 27-10 and it looked like the rout was on. The Vikings had the ball, and the future looked bright. Then Darnold threw a pick, then the defense forgot how to stop the Packers offense, and the game became much closer than it had to be. I’d like to see the team learn how to play with a lead, it would be nice to see them win without causing a heart attack. However, the team is 14-2, so I should quit complaining. Oh, our kicker also missed two field goals. One was from 57 and landed just short, the other was doinked off the left upright from 43 yards out. Nothing to worry about, IMO.
At the end of the game, the Vikings got the W, and they completed the season sweep of the hated Packers. The Minnesota Vikings are now 14-2 and are one win away from being the #1 seed in the NFC and receiving a first round bye. Watching the Lions and their depleted defense play the 49ers right now, I like the Vikings’ chances against them next week. SKOL!!!!!!!!!!
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From Vikings.com, full highlights from Sunday’s win.
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The final score, stats, and highlights from last night’s Lions @ 49ers MNF game, from CBS Sports.
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Merry Freakin New Year you animals!!!!!
Boise is keeping right in there.
17-14.
There are fireworks around here anytime Boise does something good.
Not to dwell but, I don’t get Pukers fans complaining about a legit off sides call to give us a second chance and 3 points on the field goal before the half.
I think that series of kicks may be what cost us 6 points in the second half. I believe those 3 kicks did something to Will’s leg.
I think Penn St wins by 10+ points tonight.
Final four will be the top 4 teams in the nation.
OR/OhSt, TX, PennSt, GA.
You might be right.
But Boise St played #1 Oregon to at 37-34 game in Oregon at the beginning of the year. Game was decided on a last second FG.
“Past performance is not indicative of future results” but I think/hope/pray that Boise has more than a punchers chance.
#nojinx
I would like to see no SEC teams in the final four.
I don’t see Arizona St beating Texas but stranger things have happened.
Notre Dame has a good chance against Georgia and their backup QB.
Reasonable
Snip on phone says Sam projected to get 4 yr 141 mil. Maybe back to 9ers. JJ is young, i might bite on that. Sam has coaching and some weapons.
Just tag him for 2025 at $43M, we have the cap space.
Next year reevaluate how JJ is and make a decision for 2026.
Not sure on our defensive core. FA and such. Flo, variables i’m not sure of.
KC and Hunter void years cap hits fall off next year.
I trust KAM to make it all work out if possible.
Their void years are done after this year, none next year, team chose to pay it all off in 2024.
Know that I reread what you said, I think that’s what you were saying anyway. Never mind me.
I would have avoided the Mea Culpa and just deleted my post. I have done so in the past.
Read twice and post once is the new ‘measure twice and cut once’ I guess.
Guys guys guys we lucked out into having a top 3 draft pick fall into our hands with poise, accuracy, durability, and pocket awareness. On top of that, he is only 27 years old! On top of that topping, he had a miserable experience in the school of hard knocks and is locker room jelly for this team…you think he might be happy to stay here?
Are you going to throw that away by either a) taking a flyer on a rookie taken 7 spots behind him, who now has a known meniscal injury with repair and significant risk of recurrence…with a 50:50 shot of becoming a legit starter in this league, or b) franchise tagging Darnold which is only going to piss him off, turn the locker room jelly to gum, and (potentially) leave us with no long term option in 2026?
There is now way in h ….
oops I’m waiting for the offseason, not sure how I feel about the QB situation.
‘tagging Darnold which is only going to piss him off,’
KAM is not going to tag him without discussing options with him. Short term contract (2 years), long term contract, various tags vs letting him walk.
I suspect Sam wants to stay, Vikings want him to stay, they will work it out.
Michigan had a 69 yard punt for a touchback and Alabama followed it up with a 61 yarder on the next series.
It is shaping up to be a pretty good game.
https://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/alabama-crimson-tide-michigan-wolverines-202412310029/
Alabama 4 incompletions inside the 15 to seal the 19-13 loss.
And this was the team complaining that they were the last team eliminated from the NCAA playoffs?
Yeah, their run is over. Saban bolted at the right time, didn’t want to deal with the whole NIL thing.
Even more than NIL, schools are coming up with ‘Revenue Sharing’ as well.
https://atozsports.com/college-football/texas-longhorns-news/texas-athletics-revenue-sharing-model-likely-similar-to-what-texas-tech-is-planning-for-red-raiders-athletes
Didn’t know that. Transfer portal also shakes things up. College football is going through a pretty big transition/change right now.
They need to reinstitute the rule that says if you transfer you sit a year.
They’re in the SEC so they are automatically better than the Big Ten teams.
Last 4 viking QB’s to beat packers twice in regular season:
2024 Sam Darnold
2017 Case Keenum
2009 Bret Favre
1998 Randall Cunningham
Uh Oh…
yeah, I know history says this ends poorly.
While that could be true, this year just feels different.
They are calling this weekends game ‘The greatest regular season matchup in NFL history’.
It could match the 2018 Rams/Chiefs game between two 9-1 teams that the Rams won 54-51.
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/is-vikings-lions-finale-the-greatest-matchup-in-nfl-regular-season-history-150121806.html
The NFL is good at hype.
I hope somebody takes Kerby Joseph out of the game next week
Maybe a little Hockenson pay back?
mostly just so he doesn’t have a chance to hurt any of our guys later in the game. I don’t like his style.
If Minnesota’s up big they should design a play where they throw straight to Joseph and the linemen know it’s coming so they can bury him on the return.
Just have Hock light him up on a slant.
fine by me
I hate football injuries but cheap shot artists need paybacks.
yeah, I wouldn’t shed a tear for ol Kerby
Just received my 2021 Tax Refund in the mail from the IRS because I didn’t file for the Covid handout. They are sending them to whomever qualified but didn’t claim it.
$363 free dollars I guess.
https://fox8.com/news/irs-is-sending-out-unclaimed-2021-tax-credits-could-you-qualify/
Send it back or become a socialist.
Maybe I can ‘Refuse Delivery’ or some such.
The staffing in this country is getting beyond stupid and it starts with government. I fought with Capital One several times because they said they did not receive a payment check. Finally i found my payment was credited to someone else! WTF?!!!
The local ISP (MidRivers) has a (by Glendive standards) brand new shiny office building downtown. Signs pointing you to the drive up service window, payment drop off, etc.
Only problem is that since 2021 they have no on site staffing.
So it’s not just the government.
Our old town had that at The Community Services Bldg. But at least they had a drop box at the drive thru for your payment envelopes.
I don’t hone in on automatic withdrawal. Scams and data breaches are getting worse. And, USPS just raises costs and their service sucks.
The USPS says sending checks thru the mail is unsafe.
So why did the IRS just send me a check in the mail?
https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/u-s-postal-service-warning-checks-mail/
That does seem weird. I always get mine direct deposited or withdrawn with the feds.
I have not even given the IRS my new address since I’ve moved.
LOL. Companies want automatic withdrawal cuz they are so effing cheap to send a barcoded envelope with a prepaid return. This country gets more effed up by the second. Take the money and buy teacher something.
Got her a Spa Day for Christmas after the year she had. But our anniversary and Valentine’s day is coming up in Feb.
Happy New Year everyone (can’t say “guys” anymore, noticed you have another lady on the site, awesome). Like most of you, I stopped going out on NYE years ago, but today is also my birthday, so we do go out to eat in the afternoon.
I was very impressed with the pocket Sam had in the Packers game. What a difference a great Coach, good to great OL, and top skill players can make for a QB. So sad that so many young QB’s careers are ruined by being drafted on crappy teams.
Happy 39 KC!
Haha! If I could, I would go back to 30’s and 40’s. Definitely not the 20’s, still to young to have fully developed common sense.
Old Jack Benny joke. You might be too young.
I remember Jack Benny, but don’t recall the joke.
He was always asked about his age, his standard answer.
I remember very little of my 20s.
That might be better than remembering some of the stupid stuff most of us did then, lol.
Amen.
Happy Birthday and Happy New Year!
Have a good birthday meal.
KOC is on a roll for sure!
Thank you, and Happy New Year to you and yours.
Happy bday, your folks got a entire year of tax deductions for one day. Strong work.
My brother was born on Dec 31st and yes he was induced for the tax deduction.
Haha! I’ve heard that many times over the years.
Have a sister that was born 12:06 am Jan 1 in Chicago. Parents of the first baby of the New Year got a bunch of gifts from a bank that had a promotion through out the years. Diapers, crib, savings bonds etc. My dad thought she was a shoe in. Turned out in a city that size there were 2 babies born before her.
Oh no. I remember the first baby of the year promotions. I was actually born in the early AM on December 31.
I’ve mentioned before, so many holiday birthdays in my family (not a good thing). We were really hoping my oldest grand wouldn’t be born on July 4, but of course, she was. She’s 10 now, and the youngest is 8.
My oldest was born in November and was baby new year for Jackson.
Either the sex ed classes are really good in Jackson or really bad.
We have a small hospital, now affiliated with a larger one. They did not deliver babies, but my son was 2 months early and an emergency.
Interesting.
I like my assumption better. It is funnier.
Way funnier
Thank you, Happy New Year.
Happy birthday! We aren’t going anywhere today. I have a roast in the crockpot for tonight.
Yum! I’m a “where’s the beef” girl.
Happy Birthday, Kathy! 🙂
Thank you PPB! Happy New Year. So awesome to have you back, you were sincerely missed.
Glad to be around (although I’m not all that active or consistent – I find it’s better for my health)
So true about the health thing, but sports/fan sites like this aren’t bad imo. It’s fakebook and tweety bird that are cess pools.
Happy birthday and cheers to many more.
Thank you, and have a great New Year.
Happy Birthday Kathy! And Happy New Year!
Thank you, Surly.
Happy 29th birthday.
29 with grands! Imagine!
I started really young, haha.
Thank you, lol.
Happy birthday, Kathy!
Happy birthday, Kathy.
My mom turns 80 tomorrow, for a day she’s only 40 years older than you.
Haha! Thank you, MT.
Happy birthday Kathy!!! Hope you have a great day, and many more birthdays ahead!
Thank you, NLNVF. Have a great New Year.
Any diesel drivers in these parts anymore? Weighing some options on mine.
My Mercedes Sprinter (RV) has a diesel, but I suspect you are wanting input on a big ol’ 1 ton pickup.
Yeah. Trying to decide how much I like the emission system. The problems I experience over the weekend are going to be about $4500 to fix.
EGR? Mines deleted.
Yep. They want to replace the EGR valve, EGR bypass valve and the EGR cooler. I can get it deleted for $4000.
They all have those problems. When I worked at MDU, our fleet guys said that if you don’t need the diesel for pulling power, get a gas engine. All our stuff was brand new (0-3 years old), and they averaged three times a year in the shop.
I pull a heavy camper a lot. I’ve had this for just over 4 years and the only problem I’ve had so far was electrical stuff and the DEF tank having to be replaced (under warranty). I’m leaning towards the skirting the EPA route but that makes resale a bit tougher.
DEF is one of the bigger issues with them, emissions systems have lots of problems, good idea to keep it under warranty.
It’s a 2016 with 160k on it so the warranty is gone. My extended warranty is gone too.
Your older pickup will probably have fewer problems than a new one.
I have a 2005 ford f350 6.0
Might be possible.
Sadly i think he leaves. Bring back Donatell. His man coverage was awesome.
JJ Watt said in the Sam video (posted below) that new coaching hires have to be Offensive Coaches due to the importance of QBs in todays NFL.
Plus Coach Flo’s NFL lawsuit for Racial Discrimination is still ongoing.
I am hoping we get to keep him for a little longer.
Hope the suit deters teams. Bears are prob ready for anything different.
Generally I agree.
But I think one team will hire him.
I would be surprised if McCown is around next year as well.
Why the hell would anybody wanna go to that shitty organization?
Well, someone will.
Aint going to Chicago unless they are morons. They need an offensive minded HC who can work with Caleb and get the best out of him.
Which is exactly why they will hire an inexperienced defensive guy.
Do you think an hot offensive coach would make the moronic decision to accept the Chicago job?
I made the mistake of clicking on a Yahoo article. It was about an actress that was agreeing with another actress about sexual harassment in Hollywood 30 plus years ago. I made a bigger mistake and went into the comment section. I think a psychologist could write a whole book on the article and the comments. Of course there was some lady that basically blamed all men. I know I can be oblivious at times, but in my 40+ years of working outside of the family business, I am only aware of one sexual harassment case in a place where I worked. Also, most of the places I have worked have been populated by a large percent of females. Women can harass each other also. My biggest question after reading the comments was were are these people working?
Mostly fantasy land.
Yahoo probably got this story from MSDNC.
Had a female co-worker at the prison who often said ‘It is much better if you harass them before they harass you’.
She was fun to work with.
I can tell you from first hand experience (visiting dad at work) that in the Canadian military of 45-50 years ago there were no enlisted women on base, but there were frequently female civvies serving in secretarial roles (at least in Germany). These female civvies were often single and I’ll just say that if the banter that took place in those days were uttered by me today I’d be fired in an instant. Things like “hey Jean Jean the sex machine what you got under that blouse” were de rigueur before signing a request for additional niffle pins or lemmy gaskets.
Things have cleaned up somewhat. But a night shift nursing station can sound like a locker room or a smut novel at times.
Sunday has to be chippy. Watch Joseph close.
I wonder if the Loins have a bounty scheme.
Seems like they do.
Where would they possibly get the idea to do something like that? Definitely not from the knee cap biting coach.
Discussion on McAfee about Sam and his future with us.
JJ Watt insists that the Vikings need to keep him regardless of cost.
Tag discussion breaks out. Some interesting takes.
8m of discussion then filler.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzb8wV-3uWw&t=573s
Dinner reservations, home parties. I tend to lay low on New Years Eve. Can’t remember last time i was awake at midnight.
I don’t go out, either.
For us, definitely no place like home on New Year’s Eve. Watch a little Netflix, do a little foot rub, smooch and off to bed by 11.
Lol ill be up until 4 am tonight because of work. Nothing like a solid nothing like a 21 hr work day in the middle of the week.
going to my sisters for a potluck ice skating/bonfire party that unfortunately will probably be ice skating-less due to the warmer wet weather
Quite going out years ago. At that time, getting on the roads with all the drunks was a bit dangerous.
Stay home, cook out some great steaks and just enjoy the evening.
Even when I drank, I didn’t go out on NYE. Those of us who were professional daily drinkers looked at NYE as amateur night.
Same with St. Patrick’s day.
Had a boss who enjoyed some alcohol. Stayed home, said tonight was for amateurs.
We have stayed home for years. Once we had kids, the draw of new years eve parties no longer made sense.
We would stay up until 11 PM so we could all watch the ball drop in NY, then off to bed.
Now I do not even make it until 11.
We’ve started doing the dress-up themed parties, where everyone gets a character and a script to (more or less) follow.
Last one we did was a 30’s gangster murder mystery, had a blast.
I’d like to dress up as Cagney with his accent. I’d win hands down.
Last year I threw a ‘Murder Mystery Party’ for my wife. 12 roles, all with different backgrounds – I wrote the whole thing. Was an absolute blast. Lot of double identities and elaborate backstories.
The killer got away with it.
Smoking grass, playing cards with some friends at the house. Tube on in the background. Music. Snacks. Chilling with the Goose.
Been years since I’ve gone out on amateur night.
Toss Goose a few treats.
All the treats. I’ve got meatballs and smokies – traditional snack stuff. He’ll get it all, sans the chocolate covered peanut butter balls.
My wife was making a chicken and broccoli casserole yesterday. A delivery came from FedEx, she needed to open the shop aka the dog’s den, so she put them in the living area so they didn’t suffocate by salivation the delivery guy. 30 seconds passed and she realized she had left the casserole dish open on the counter as she hadn’t added all the ingredients. Bubba the younger had already daintily scarfed three chicken tenders and most of the broccoli while balanced on his back legs, without disturbing the casserole dish so as to make it appear to be divine intervention.
Bubba has mad skills.
We don’t go out either. My wife is usually sleeping well before midnight. I am a night owl, so I will be up to midnight, but I will probably be either watching football, if there are any games that late or watching a movie.
Some college games i’m sure. Twilight Zone marathon tonight. Have to catch a few episodes.
Falcons QB Kirk Cousins predicted to replace Deshaun Watson as Browns starting quarterback | Sporting News
Hmmm….
Cleveland, where quarterbacks go to die. RIP Kirk.
I think he already died.
But go to Cleveland and get buried?
Gotta make it official.
It’s not about the team, but what the team represents.
click bait
i heard he wants to retire a brown
LOLOLOL
😆
Exactly.
If he can steal a bag of money, he will.
It’s not stealing if someone is stupid enough to hand it to you.
Man, kiddo clawed back in our FF league, made it all the way to the championship, we played each other. The lead changed hands several times last night, he had Purdy and I had Gibbs.
He was about to overtake the lead again when Purdy got hurt and came out of the game. that sucked, I was rooting for kiddo to win. Damn close match.
Darn, that sucks.
Kiddo did 10x better than I did in that league.
He started off 1-5, did a really good job after that, rattled off 6 wins in a row.
I’m gonna be that nit picky little bitch…
The score was 20-3 when Darnold threw up the INT…I remember thinking if we can march down the field and put up 7 here we will be up by three TD’s and three 2 pt converts…game over. But if we can’t do that, at least run clock and don’t throw an … GD IT!
Reichard actually missed three FGs but the refs gifted him a do over. Sarcasm noted but I am very concerned at his trajectory.
However…
Beating GB allows me to relax a little. Last thing I wanted was them to leapfrog us for seeding in the playoffs.
i am also concerned with Reichard. He is either not fully healthy or needs a good talking to. I don’t feel calm when he’s kicking like i did earlier this year…
kickers are such fickle creatures, especially getting injured and coming back from an injury
Just a rookie hiccup. He’ll be fine.
Actually fine, not Zimmer fine.
Remember when Blair Walsh was one of the best kickers in the league his first two years? Watching him deteriorate was not fun.
I assume that having Zimmer as a head coach didn’t help him any, Zimmer wasn’t very nice to kickers……. or anyone else.
Think the new kid will be fine, we have other issues going forward.
Agreed. Curious to see how they handle their QB situation. Having two good quarterbacks is a much better problem to have than not having a QB.
I’d try to keep both Sam and JJ.
Out of respect to my fellow skoloholics I am keeping my QB opinions as close to my chest as possible until the off season. Doesn’t mean I haven’t already had significant tells as I am a poor bluffer.
yeah we get it YOU WANT SLOTER BACK
Wonder if they activate Jones. He signs elsewhere they get a compensatory (sp) pick. I want to JJ more, maybe the real deal.
Kinda curious to see what D. Jones can do in KOC’s offense, his legs could help make him a weapon.
They almost HAVE to, right?
What (little) KOC said about Jones was suggestive that he’s doing well in the Vikings’ system. I’d think that Jones with just a little exposure to the system is better than Mullins with whatever amount of familiarity he has…..
He may not be better than Mullins (yet to thrown an incompletion this year) at this point but figure he has to be better than Rypien, who will not get a big enough follow on contract to qualify for a comp pick.
Sloter…sigh.
Never got his chance…
Oh crap, you’re right. I was going off of memory, I should’ve looked it up.
i really wish we were playing at home this sunday night.
detroit is going to be ROCKING.
Big deal. Not scared. Let them rock.
We beat Seattle in Seattle. I get it – it wasn’t against the Legion of Boom – but I don’t think there’s a tougher place to play in the league. Maybe Lambeau – where we also won. Won in London, Tennessee, Jacksonville, Chicago. This team travels just fine.
In the immortal words of Public Enemy (featuring Anthrax)…
’Bring The Noise’
SKOL
ohhhh i like this.
thanks for bringing me around to see it from your angle.
Since this is the final Tuesday of 2024, do we have one last Kirko debate?
Or, has everyone finally realized that the best thing for the Vikings to do since the 2018 season is to move on from that severely overpaid and average qb?
i was a kirk fan when he was here.
i’m glad we let him go.
things are looking up for the vikings and sam darnold
things are looking down for kirk. i do not feel bad.
That’s fair. I was a Kirk fan until the end of the 2018 season. I gave up on him as a QB after that terrible Chicago game that was basically a playoff game(win and in). Easy guy to root for as a person, just unending frustration for me watching him play poorly at the worst possible moments, over and over.
Glad he got paid by ATL, and even happier the Vikings have moved on.
I agree Freezer. His contract killed us, not his play. Yes, he was not very mobile, yes he was somewhat risk averse, but he was very accurate and could throw a nice deep ball. He needed a good team around him, and at $40+ million, it was not possible.
i am glad he is gone too, and I don’t fault him or feel bad
I didn’t want us to give him that huge contract, but once he was here, I cheered for him.
i’m very glad we’re done paying him after this year. i’m also glad we have Darnold.
We franchise him it’s back to the Kirk syndrome. Effing qb’s eff up the cap.
At least a tag is only one year with no void years. I’d rather em transition tag him. The cost is less and somebody might get desperate and give you a couple 1’s for him.
I feel like he’d play for less with the Vikings since they basically rescued his career. If he’d take a Baker Mayfield type deal, I’d sign him to the 3 year deal & have two good QBs on the roster.
Agree
First deal was fine. It was obvious to anyone with eyes the experiment was failed at the end of the 2019 season. The extensions were fire able offenses imo. And Him, Zim and Rick should have been fired into the sun that same day.
Zimmer didn’t want him in the first place, Rick was the guy who signed him. You’re right, fireable.
Yep. Kirko/Rick is why Zimmers’ defense fell apart. Lack of talent will do that. Zimmer was very up front about not wanting to overpay the QB position. Two months later, Rick brings in Kirko and they both end up getting fired after wasting years trying to make it work.
Yep, sounds like the 2021 draft was the end when Wreck drafted Mond, Zim said he & Wreck stopped speaking after that.
I feel like the reality is finally setting in, even for the Kirk Stans. He should retire and then im fine never uttering or typing his name ever again.
Unless he signs a fully guaranteed one day contract to “retire a Viking”
That’s gotta be worth $20-$25 mill I’m sure.
after watching the 49ers pretty much march down the field when they wanted to last night, i feel more confident about our game…
as long as darnold doesn’t pull a purdy and throw the ball directly to the defense a couple times, we’ll be fine. and darnold is better than purdy right now so we should be good.
lions had a couple “trick” plays, which i feel like or at least i hope, flores will have his guys prepared for.
i really do not like campbell though, he’s such a schtick. I love our coach so much more. much more genuine IMO
I do not hate their coach. I do like our coach better, but Campbell is entertaining. Too aggressive at times, and seeing him cry a few years ago when the Vikings beat them up, that was fun.
The Vikings can win this Sunday. I agree that turnovers cannot happen. Detroit will score some points, but the Vikings defense should be better than the lions defense. #nojinx
he’s just annoying though, he tells the on field reporter “we need to stop getting into the redzone and leaving points on the field”
well….you go for it every 4th down and left 2 field goals on the field, so that’s actually YOUR fault you moron
I agree. he is over the top, and KOC seems very genuine.
Campbell was a *aint in 2009.
Well, now I can hate him.
Happy to help
He didn’t play, he got hurt in preseason. Didn’t get a ring because he did his rehab in Texas instead of with the team, so Peyton wouldn’t give him a ring. He was still a *aint.
This…. MCDC is part of the Sean Payton coaching tree.
eff that guy.
I agree, the only reason the 49ers lost was because of the two interceptions. There were no punts in that game.
The last time there were that many touchdowns and no punts was 1937.
Lost in the chip by 5.25 points. Messing with my flex on the xmas games doomed me. Over management strikes again. Oh well!
This is where I stand after week 1 of a 2-week championship…..
Looking good for my 4th title in 5 years
God your scoring multiplier must be bananas if you are dropping 300 in one week.
It’s insane. 3 IDP spots – DB/DL/LB. Full PPR, 1/2 pt per carry, receiving/rushing first downs are a point. .25 points for a QB passing 1st down. Bonus at 100/150/175/200 receiving/rushing yards. 40 yard catch/run/throw bonus, 40 yard td bonus. Bonus for QB passing yards at 300/350/375/400. All TD’s are 6 points. Team Defense scoring is also high, as is IDP. It’s bonkers – and not my choice, I voted against the majority of these.
It does give you a wide variety of options late in the season when dealing with bye weeks and injuries. Lots of ways to score points – I’ve been leaning on Thielen the last 5 weeks and he’s been pretty good.
Lots of parity in the league. Had a 4 way fight for the last playoff spot. Also play against the median each week – which has screwed more than one team out of the playoffs.
Thats wild! And almost too much to take into consideration. We added one IDP in our main league and that was enough to cause league wide panic, mostly because the GM made the change on a random night 3 days before the draft while drunk but yeah, we made it work.
I played Jacksonville’s defense instead of Baltimore and that stupid Chase Brown knee at the 1 screwed me. That was a 12 point swing and I lost by 11.7. I also had Nabers on the bench but not going to second guess playing McConkey, Addison and Bijon over him.
Brutal. I have a yahoo league that I won with all rookies. Bucky, Tracy, MHJr, McConkey, Bowers, Nabers (Flex), Daniels and Reichard. Spot started the Philly defense.
Kirko looked good on the bench Sunday night.
Where he belongs. Where he belonged 4 years ago.
His only hope for a Super Bowl is to be holding a clipboard for a winning team.
Still has the best agent in football.
SoCal says there are video’s of the Lions players, talking smack about the Vikings players.
As Ray Lewis said, “this is a man’s game”. The final match-up between these two is going to be even more violent, and personal now. Guys are going to be looking to put a hurtin’ on each other.
Probably but Detroit is in a strange position. They have an excellent offense but their defense is a mess. See more of a track meet than a slug fest.
The Lions have one of the best O-line’s in the league. Goff is fully immersed in the offense now, after 3 years with Ben Johnson. His play is totally instinctive, and the offense can add wrinkles (trick plays) at their whim.
Flores MUST disrupt Goff. He has to get to him, or the Lions will put up 35 or more on us. Our offense can and probably will, put up at least 27 points. This game will rest on Flores shoulders.
Here is the one that I saw.
Phillip did you get your Chrome working again? PC could need a display driver update too.
Everything is working now. Thank you for the advice. Stupid cache.
Good morning, SKOL!
FTP!
FTL!
That 57-yard attempt hit the crossbar and deflected straight down.
Typical man. If he had 3 more inches everyone would be happy.
That’s what my wife told me.
Skol
FTP
FTL
FT*
Why is it considered a near comeback, when opposing teams QBs get a couple TDs at the end of a game? When Minnesota does that, particularly Kirk Cousins, it’s considered garbage time stats.
Green Bay’s last 2 TDs were garbage time TDs.
Because Kirk is the king of Garbage Stats, and Jordan Love is the second coming of Bart Starr.
Been traveling. What a game on Sunday. Listened to it in the car via the iHeartRadio app (awesome and free, by the way). PA and Bercich were enjoyable to listen to, I have to say. Both homers, and Bercich very much cheers (and complains) like I do, especially about the refs. He provides excellent analysis, too, as he’s pointing out schematic things going on.
HUGE game on Sunday night coming up. Biggest regular season game ever? Tons on the line, and both teams are really good.
One thing I’ve noticed about almost every game that gives me great hope is that the Vikings seem to regularly be the best team on the field. They make mistakes and do their prevent thing to let teams back in it constantly, but the only games they haven’t been clearly the best team are the Lions and Rams games. They looked the best team for maybe 1.5 quarters of the Lions game, though, and the Rams game was a short week after that tough Lions game.
It’s going to be a wild ending to the season in the playoffs no matter what happens on Sunday. Fun, crazy season! Skol!
Yes. This. I listen to PA & Bercich every week and I love Pete. He’s not afraid to call out the team, players, bad play calls. And he bleeds purple. Despises FTP. I have an earbud in my ear during games to listen to them over the tv announcers.
He definitively melting down about the officials. I would love to hear that on national TV. Of course, then the NFL would complain to the networks like a little girl.
I expect a crazy game. When something bad happens to this team, they do not panic. That could be huge this week, since I do not expect a perfect game. I do expect a lot of points to be scored.
FTL !!!
and still FTP
FTL!
FTP!
FT*!