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Wisconsin Dells Report
Since many folks who read this are from this area, and there may be some who haven’t made the trip to the Wisconsin Dells, I thought it might be helpful to share some thoughts on our trip. We love it here, it’s a great place for a getaway. This is only our second time here, we were here a couple years ago and had a great time.
Where to stay
We’re going to be here for days, and want to see a variety of entertainment and water parks, so we didn’t stay at a place directly connected to a water park. I normally stay at Marriott, so we found a Fairfield located in a convenient spot for us to get around to different places. If you’re here for one or two days, and are okay with going to only one park, then staying at a resort may be for you. They have a Great Wolf Lodge here, and the Kalahari is very popular, as is Mt. Olympus. There are many others to choose from, and this is only my second trip here, so I only have cursory knowledge of the area.
Things to do:
Man, there’s a LOT to do here. Instead of trying to describe it, just take a look at the official website, it’ll describe it better than I can. Things I recommend are the parks I mentioned above, the duck boats, Aquavia Lumina, the Land of Natura, and I’m sure there are a lot more, but those are the fun places we’ve been to. We also LOVED our dinner at The Boathouse, we were really impressed with the atmosphere, food, and service.
Our Trip
We like hitting the water parks. We went to Noah’s Ark Waterpark on Monday, it’s among the largest in the USA and a TON of fun. We went there last trip, and made it a point to get there again. Monday night, we hit this thing called Aquavia Lumina. It was actually pretty cool, you walk a mile through this wooded area where they have some cool light shows & what-not. You want to get tickets in advance, I think we paid something like $25 per person.
I won $500 on a pull tab at brunch on Tuesday, it was a good start to the day.
On Tuesday, we went to Mt. Olympus, a waterpark/amusement park, and part of Mt. Olympus Resorts. This is another one we went to on the last trip, and we went back again. The water park has the world’s tallest water slide (this is new, wasn’t there when we were here last time), and my son and I went down it. It’s something like 150 feet high, and was an absolute blast (ALMOST worth the one-hour wait to go down). There is also an amusement park with roller coasters, go-karts, and lots of other stuff to do. We rented a cabana, which made the day much more relaxing and easy to enjoy, it’s nice to have as sanctuary away from the chaos.
On Wednesday, we hit Natura Park, it’s an inflatable water park on a lake. We hadn’t been to this place before, and it was a ton of fun. It was just as fun as the water parks, just fun in a different way. It was like enjoying a day at the beach while having fun slides and jumps for the kids (and me) to go down. We rented a cabana, and again, it was well worth it, see the end of the paragraph above this one.
We’re heading out this morning, and we’ll have a report for you directly from Vikings training camp. We have tickets to the Thursday practice.
Vikings News
The unofficial 2025 depth chart for the Vikings-Patriots preseason game, from Vikings.com.
MSN pulls off a stretch that would impress Gumby himself as they bend over backwards to find a way to link the Vikings to Kirk Cousins. Dumb.
Rondale Moore placed on IR and out for the year, along with a couple other roster moves, from Vikings.com.
NFL News
CBS Sports does a league-wide wrap-up of NFL preseason week one.
The Browns’ Shedeur Sanders has an oblique injury and will sit out this week’s preseason game, per ESPN.
Media Selection
Some good information on Jon Gruden’s case against the NFL.
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Newly released footage from the backseat of a police car shows a South Carolina Democrat gubernatorial candidate being arrested while wearing only underwear and shoes. During the arrest, he unleashed a torrent of profanity, threats, and racial slurs, at times proclaiming himself to be both “God” and “Superman.”
William “Mullins” McLeod Jr., 53, a married father of four and Charleston-based attorney, announced on Monday that he would be running for governor for a second time — having first run unsuccessfully in 2010 as a Democrat.
“I believe there’s a job that needs to be done and it needs to be done now,” McLeod said in a campaign video posted to YouTube. “You see that job is curing a cancer that has infiltrated our state government over the last 25 years. The name of that cancer is corruption.”
Following the release of the humiliating police footage on Tuesday, members of his own party are now calling for him to exit the gubernatorial race.
The NFL will be bringing back end zone social justice messages for its sixth consecutive season.
All 32 teams’ endzones must feature:
“End Racism”
“Stop Hate”
“Inspire Change”
“Choose Love”
Virtue signaling liberals.
I can ignore it.
Actually other than “Choose Love” they all look like MAGA themes. Can’t see Trump saying go out and Love Each Other UP – well not like it’s presented here.
MAGA would be things like “America First” and “Make America Great Again”.
Go Trump go!!!
All the dirty laundry is being revealed at the Justice Department. It’s too early to talk indictments and who will be dragged through the mud, but these are damning document disclosures that have exposed Barack Obama’s entire inner circle, rightly, to legal scrutiny regarding their actions on the Russian collusion hoax, and now the investigation into the Clinton Foundation. To the shock of no one, federal agents found evidence of criminality at the organization, which arguably served as a slush fund and favor bank for the world’s wealthy and powerful.
Gotta feel gross just looking into this. The CF is a modern crime syndicate.
The thing is, there were investigations that revealed potential criminal activity, that went nowhere due to politics. None of this would have ever seen the light of day if Harris had won the election. No wonder they tried to kill Trump.
Think this is a bit of a two edged sword. Everyone has known for years that the ClintonFoundation wasn’t exactly straight up. Look at the Haiti situation and the funds Bill got channelled its way.
But there was sort of an unspoken rule in politics about laying off former Presidents. Who knows where all the money comes from to fund those libraries. The Clintons were extreme, but think the overall thinking about former POTUS is OK.
Now of course, all of that changed with Trump and it shouldn’t have.
Not sure if you remember they raided Trump’s home looking to see if he had files on Hunter’s laptop and the Biden crime family. The Dem’s went after a former President. They tried to jail him. They tried to kill him. Now you’re saying it’s Trump that violated the unspoken rule about laying off former Presidents?
Agee completely. It all changed when Trump left office and they went after him.
And now that precedent has been set and you can bet future regimes will regularly now do this.
Well, what regimes in the future will try and kill their opponents?
Since the game is now played win at all costs and how you do so is irrelevant, they all will.
Good, need him.
“just a little shoulder” reminds me of Chuck and his little shoulders
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Good times!
i knew that would bring back some fun memories
Any idea if his videos are still on YT? (And how would a friend of mine search for them?)
Donovan Jackson looks like the real deal.
Heading home? Getting a tad wet.
My eyebrows raised a little…and had to reread this. I thought it read something differently. Totally my dirty mind…
Brad puts on some serious miles.
Staying in Red Wing tonight.
My dad and my 3 oldest siblings were born in Red Wing.
this is a HILARIOUS gif, why didn’t i think of posting it
Vrabel in the middle of another scrum…he’s the common link!
he’s an idiot
He’s fine.
i’m laughing at the idiot coach who came running in to give whoever the wr was a five…
go away coach.
Broken collarbone. He’s out for the year.
Rub some dirt on it.
His pride is probably more hurt than his shoulder, just gave up a 40 yard TD on what I assume was a hail mary situation. 3 man rush, no linebackers, lots of dbs in the end zone.
BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dobbs out there for the Patriots
Reagor…..
🤣😂
Netflix has announced that it has sold all the advertisement time for the two Xmas football games this year a full four months before gameday. Man, another one of those companies I wish I had stock in.
Proof that all the NFL bowing to the woke left is killing the game.
(NLNVF)
Darrisaw starting week 1?!
https://www.vikings.com/news/christian-darrisaw-injury-recovery-rehab-patriots-joint-practices
How many games will Rashee Rice get?
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/25236208-chiefs-rashee-rice-reportedly-set-play-1st-4-games-nfl-discipline-hearing
The NFL is a clown show
Headed out to lunch with my beautiful wife. Rickie tied for first now!
See you there!
I mean…no I won’t. How could I? It’s not like I’m watching through binoculars. I’m all the way in Minnesota. So…yeah…
But I can,,, I live right next door.
Just got safely back from quick visit to DC. Thanks Donald for providing all the extra security. Seems people in the burbs like the idea.
Anyone with a lick of sense knows this is a good thing. More boots on the ground to stop crime, and arrest people? Remind me again how that is a bad thing?
Welcome back!
Lick of sense – they we have a lot of people devoid of sense, especially in the larger blue cities.
Something is working…
Source: https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/fbi-releases-2024-reported-crimes-in-the-nation-statistics
Couple of thoughts
Who provides the input stats to the FBI?
And if our nation’s capital has a higher murder rate than the capital of Nigeria (one of the most crime ridden nations in the world) that probably is not anything to brag about.
Lastly, for anyone who says things are all better and all, I dare them to take a walk down 14th Street or in Anacostia at 11:30 pm.
Right…data can be manipulated.
And I posted “something is working”, i.e. the report’s data shows improvement. I didn’t say the data is “good”.
But your suggestion ‘data shows improvement’ is truly only true if the data is not being manipulated
But the broader point is really the issue – it’s not that a 400 pound over weight man has lost 5 pounds, it’s that he is still a 395 obese slob – and that is still a huge problem.
How can one prove anything then?
And better is preferable to the same or worse, no?
You start to prove anything with solid reliable data. Flawed and/or biased data will not produce a reliable result.
But absent that – there is a common sense test as I suggested. If you, I, or either of our wives cannot walk down 14th Street at 11:30 pm without being robbed, raped, beaten up or killed, we in a total sense a very real problem.
Better is preferable? My example of the 400 versus 395 (better). But at that rate you never get to acceptable, you’re dead firat.
I guess I just haven’t given up.
OK. let me know when you are going to take the walk.
As soon as that’s the end all be all proof that violence has declined in the U.S.
I tried to be nice.
Funny how you don’t trust the FBI data. But you do trust Nigeria’s data. (I guess you should have sent money to that Nigerian prince!) But wait! Suddenly the FBI data is reliable when it shows the US is more dangerous than Nigeria. Brilliant!
“You tried to be nice” ? What does that mean. One of us lived in DC for 50 years and did walk the streets. And one of us worked with the gov’t crats for 50 years. And one of us actually been there, done that, and knows what’s real
It’s actually not funny at all that I don’t trust stats from hardly any of the gov’t agencies. But then I have a little experience dealing with the results of that data.
Since I’ll try to be nice, I’ll just skip your Nigerian Prince swipe. “But wait”…. are we the clever one..
Sorry you don’t feel safe.
Didn’t somebody just get fired or arrested for fudging the data?
Yes. And someone just got killed one block from the WH last night.
Are you talking about the labor statistics chief? I think that’s what his title was. He got fired because donny didn’t like the last labor report, no proof about fudging data. He just didn’t like it, and replaced him with a yes man. So be prepared to hear about great labor statistics from here on out.
He was a she, and she hadn’t produced an accurate new jobs report ever. Always wrong, and always revised.
But we’re talking about the police chief who fudged the crime statistics and changed reporting parameters to make it appear the crime in D.C. was declining.
There was steam that Minneapolis was pawning their violent crimes off onto the ‘burbs and the county a couple years ago.
Figures don’t lie… but liars can figure.
Can’t be. Have been reading here to trust the FBI data – and who provides input to that info?
Except for all of the shenanigans played with the numbers ie youth crime not counted, police officials told to fudge the numbers in order to make the situation look better, people not reporting crimes since they know nothing will be done since the police can’t show up for hours if ever.
Schumer says DC is safe, but then armed guards and a limo will make you think that.
Was watching the local DC news yesterday when he said that. Besides what you note, they suggested just to look at Schumer, think he could even walk ONE block him being in such “terrific” shape,
Ben Leber says JJ can make all the throws but needs to get comfortable with the chaos.
Said a QB should win 7-on-7s 80 percent of the time, which I thought was interesting. Said a QB doesn’t win 7-on-7s 80 percent of the time, that’s a red flag.
What about 79%?
Cut him.
What’s a “win” in 7 on 7?
asking for a friend.
Scoring.
👍 (posted for my friend)
Picture or it didn’t happen…
Missed you oofda
Well seriously! It’s not like I’m asking for US crime data here.
Like him, not sure how much talent will surround him going forward.
You mean what talent he’ll have around during preseason games?
Correct.
He seems to be improving throughout camp (from what I can see from the handful of clips over weeks of sitting behind my computer at my desk).
OK, that is extremely pedestrian.
The throw?
(Or the Twatter account?)
😜
The throw.
I didn’t see a pedestrian, it’s only players on the field. I could’ve missed it though.
🤣😂🤣😂
If 39 was a pedestrian, he sure looked like one.
Like my shirt? Only one like it that I’ve seen here.
Training camp is fun!
Skoloholics has a twitter handle?
Who knew…
I know, I need to be more active.
We’re on bookface too, I just never log on there
KOC say anything about QB play Saturday?
I would assume its Howell and Brosmer.
Rypien in the 4th.
Rory not looking good at BMW. +2 thru 8. Scheffler -3.
So far Rory is struggling, but he can still recover. Just needs to straighten his drives out.
BTW, it looks like Rickie will have to finish no worse than 3rd to move on to next week. Currently tied for 4th.
Doing better, Scheffler worse.
Neat article about Rickie in the WSJ today.
Really? Gonna have to take a look at it. Thanks JR.
Happy birthday to my best good puppy buddy and healer of my soul. 6 years old today he was born deep in the heart of red-clay country in Oklahoma. Named him Goose as I envisioned the ultimate wingman. Should’ve named him Happy – as that’s what he is, all day long.
Never met a stranger, gentle with the elderly and playful with children. Always curious. Runs like a thoroughbred, farts like a water buffalo and just howls at them Seward County cretins every time we’re in River Rat Country – scaring the shit out of folks with a hearty ‘BAROOOOOOOOOO’ letting everyone know a couple of Duke boys are rolling through like we own the joint. I’ve needed him lately more than ever, and he’s never let me down.
Best friend I ever had.
FTP!
FT*!
Skol
🔨🔨🔨
Very awesome Mjolnir. My daughter just lost her best friend (4 legged) of 20 years, a couple weeks ago. Her heart is hurt, and she texted me today, saying “I miss Chico”. They had a long, and eventful life together, traveling all over the world. He would ride on her motorcycle, hang out in her backpack while she played putt putt golf, etc. They were totally inseparable. Chico got old, went blind, lost his hearing, and yet always seemed to know exactly where she was. He died on the couch with his head in her lap.
That’s something you simply cannot replace.
Puppeh
Always nice to have an unconditional companion around.
If only we humans could offer unconditional love as can dogs. World would be a better place.
Always glad to see Goose’s picture.
Dogs > humans
Very much so
And they’re a lot cheaper than women!
Amen
He was a great friend!
Our cheerleader boys made it to Gutfeld last night. Minny is a item.
I saw a post on Twitter about them… had like 4K replies… the ones I looked at, were extremely mad about it.
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Been male cheerleaders in college football for decades. Heck, I think George Bush junior was even one back in his day. It’s not a big deal imo.
That’s a different type of male cheerleader though. I don’t care that much but I do think it’s stupid. Not as bad as Carolina though.
I don’t mind the male cheerleaders, I am not a fan of the hype because they are male cheerleaders.
Never heard of her
I would hesitate to wear my Vikings gear in public now.
Don’t need people making assumptions about my support of the Vikings after this story broke.
One of them is a North Dakota boy….I am so proud.
180 degrees from CNN.
K thanks.
Oof, Kodiak still around?
The #1 Late Night Show, it out draws all the woke shows even though it is on cable and they are on the main channels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutfeld!
Actual comedy.
Saw this on a tweet on Bleacher Report… do people really bet preseason games?
People will be on anything.
We used to have two or three old men at the bowling alley betting on every roll and score. They mostly just passed the same $1 back and forth, gave them something to do.
Laughing. Yeah, back in Maryland we played skins for a buck a hole. Some weekends I made out, some weekends I didn’t. I probably won a little more than I lost overall, but it was always mostly a social event for us.
We used to play”bingo, bango, bongo”. It is 3 bets per hole.
– First on the green
– First in the hole
– Best score on the hole
Only downside is that you must play your shot in proper”golf order”. So if i am 180 from the hole, and you are 175, you must wait for me to hit.
The good part is, even if you have a bad hole, you can still win a point by sinking a putt.
Bingo bango bongo is fun!
Any hiring action is discriminatory by default. The people doing the hiring decide who they want to hire. They discriminate based on their personal preferences, as well their perception of a person’s qualifications. There are plenty of black coaches, and plenty of other black NFL employees (GM’s etc) so proving discrimination based on race is going to be hard.
The NFL will do everything that they can to avoid ‘discovery’ they do not want to open their internal processes/e-mails/memos to Flores and his lawyers.
They will settle eventually.
Yep.
Personally, I don’t think it had anything to do with his race.
It was about his style of coaching that they all colluded on.
Personally I think he just rubbed people the wrong way. Remember when we interviewed Harbaugh? Oil and water.
I think he was like Zim in that he was a better DC than a HC.
He may have evolved further now but at the time he was a problem to some.
^^^I agree, this was VERY most likely the case. ^^^
His case has merit, though, because there is evidence the hiring process did not go through the minority interview requirement. Which is a requirement the entire league has to comply with because they said they would! (Virtue signaling biting them in the a$$.)
Yeah.
Was that the Bill Belichick text thing where they were talking about the wrong Bryan?
Can’t remember.
That’s a big part of it.
LOL yes, Bellichick “thought” he was texting Brian Daboll i believe
CoRECt.
Yes, Belichick texted him congratulations on the NY Giants HC job before Flores got to his interview, thinking he was texting DaBoll.
Ignoring all the racial stuff, the fact that the commissioner of the league is the arbitrator is the biggest joke around. I would love to be the arbitrator of all of my own disputes.
Great skit, love snl.
A political consulting firm, Targeted Victory, claims Gmail has been flagging Republican fundraising emails containing WinRed links as “dangerous” and sending many straight to spam folders. WinRed, the GOP’s central online fundraising platform, brought in roughly $1.6 billion for the 2023–2024 cycle. Its Democratic counterpart, ActBlue, appears to face no such labeling, with emails containing its links going through unimpeded.
(my shocked face)
Which one is it Dianna?
Is JJ bad like you say with Coward or good when you are at training camp??
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She just goes with the prevailing wind…
Maybe GF can say hi to her from all of us.
The international sign of peace:
Flores still alive in his lawsuit against NFL teams.
That’ll help him get a Head Coaching job! (This is sarcasm NLNVF)
OK oofda…
but wait, is THIS also sarcasm? (This is sarcasm NLNVF)
If it’s in sarcasm font and then you say it’s sarcasm, do the two sarcasms cancel and it becomes non sarcasm?
All this talk about water parks reminded me of this gem from John Pinette.
Free Wee Wee!!
Looks like Melania Trump is suing Hunter Biden for… get this… $1B, for defamation of character. Biden went on some talk show, or interview, or something, and said Epstein introduced Melania to Trump, intoning some salacious relationship with Epstein. The story is completely untrue, and Melania demanded a public apology from Biden by Aug 8, or she would sue.
His response was “F**k that”.
See you in court Hunter…
Breaking News.
People who live to 100 get sick less often.
Shocking.
https://www.foxnews.com/health/what-people-who-live-100-years-old-have-common-according-science
Wow… that’s deep…
I heard all you have to do to win a football game is to score more points than the other team too.
Also, water is wet.
Studies have proven that you live longer if you have more birthdays.
So have as many birthdays as you can get.
I grew up in Minnesota.
Never went to the Wisc Dells.
Graduated from UW Madison.
I’ve had enough of Wisconsin.
FTP.
Makes sense to me.
The Dells is one vacation we always talked about but never made. When the kids were young we camped with a group of family and extended family, we would take an annual vacation with all four families, and usually some of their grown kids, as well.
We only live about an hour and 45 minutes from the Dells, but we rarely go there. I’m not a big water park fan, but my wife has been to the Kalahari a few times with other family. What I like is the Paul Bunyan’s Cook Shanty. It is a family style restaurant where they bring dishes of food and you pass it around your table. We have also been to Buffalo Phil’s Restaurant with the grandkids. They deliver the food by train. The Dells also has some cool mini golf places.
Yesssssss to Buffalo Phil’s. Lots of Lego to look at for the kiddos. Good food and pop.
We also enjoyed Buffalo Phil’s, When we were in Wisconsin we stayed at the same place we always stay. Our camper.
You don’t like fishing, your opinions no longer count.
I’m not sure my opinion has every counted. I also feel outnumbered. I think I will get a social media account of some sort and record myself crying because I am so abused.
Well, since everyone else is doing it.
Hope Gruden comes out on top. I started to watch the video, but realized it was way too long, and turned it off. I hate what the league did to him though.
They will probably settle like Disney and Gina Carano.
Still annoyed they cancelled her.
The next Mandalorian spin off would have been fun
What did she allegedly do?
Said Conseritive things on a podcast.
To vocal about the left during covid.
Said some unpopular things, got fired. Full 2-3 seasons of a show cancelled because someone got hurt feelings.
Yeah, let’s just pay Gruden off, and sweep the vile attack we conducted on him under the rug. We destroyed your life and career. Here’s some money to go away.
That sounds about right.
I want Gruden to burn it down.
The NFL is just a money grubbing big business. As much as they want to put lipstick on the pig, it is still just a pig. They will try with all their effort to just pay him off.
And throwing Gruden to the wolves over their woke commitment is galling to me.
It would be kind of fun if that happened. The NFL knows they can get away with about anything and not lose enough fans to matter. Some humble pie would be okay with me.
The NFL has been ruled by liberal, woke people for too long in my opinion. The rule changes to make the game softer and more sensitive piss me off. Taunting? Really? These are grown ass men. Not children. Simulating a weapon in your celebration? 15 yard penalty? Please. The NFL cares more about their activist, social influence and entertainment, than the game.
I hear your jive, man.
I think they know they got the core audience in their pocket and are going for the fringes to keep trying to increase viewership however many percentage points possible.
Eventually, they will sacrifice a chicken on the 50 yard line on the winter solstice to try to make sure they got the .000025 satanist viewership.
What, you’re not joining the Viking boycott over the “male” cheerleaders?
I knew male cheerleaders. They were pretty cool. They tossed female cheerleaders around, held them up over their head with one hand, etc.
So I don’t mind male cheerleaders, but lady-boy cheerleaders are silly.
They already get the satanist viewership with FTP fans……
That’s the Eagles fans. The FTP fans are the incest crowd.
Me thinks you conflate corporate cow towing to liberal power brokers as owners personal views. They (owners) will do whatever it takes to make more money with their teams. My Googlerator search monster found only 3 NFL owners gave more political donations to Democrats than Republicans:
Zygi Wilf (oh the horror!!!!!)
Laughing… you can think what you want oofda. Woke is NOT good for business. The liberals running the league are the ones doing this shit.
I think the NFL is all about making money. If that means being/going along with Woke crap so be it.
With FJB and his handlers running things Woke was the way to go, not so much any more.
I agree that the NFL is about making money. But they promote every liberal cause imaginable, even if the fans hate it. So at some point their ideology usurps their business sense.
They haven’t lost many (any?) fans yet.
I’m not saying it’s right, but that’s the way I’m seeing it.
They are making more money even if ‘the fans hate it’ so there is no downside to keeping the Woke Activists from causing too much drama.
^^^ zactly this ^^^
For example: The Dems control the big cities where the most people are and where the stadiums are built.
You realize all the NFL owners are wealthy enough to hedge their bets. They bribe both sides willingly.
#me2
Filthy owners Phucking over a filthy person…I don’t have a dog in this fight.
But I’d like to see the NFL lose if it can be proved they leaked his data (emails).
Take it one day at a time. It’s a long season. Heal fully, and don’t rush it.
We love the Dells. Go every year with the fam. Great Wolf Lodge is great if you have little kids. They do a great job of making it fun for them, and there are lots of areas and slides to enjoy. Good stuff.
We weren’t nuts about Mt. Olympus. Seems like a big park that sacrifices a high end experience for more numbers. That said, I love the Medusa ride.
GM!
FTP!
SKOL!
Great write up about the Dells. We took a few family trips there.
I enjoyed staying at Great Wolf Lodge because they limit the number of people allowed in their park, so it was not as crowded as Kalahari and Mt. Olympus.
Also, agree on the Cabana rental. We did that when on family trips as well. It is nice to have a “base” while running around doing fun things.
Now that I am a grumpy old man, just get me a beach chair with an umbrella for shade and I am good.
Looking forward to your write up about today’s joint practice.
I’ve read some notes about the joint practice here and there. Sounds like it is neither good or bad in the end analysis, which is fine. It’s practice.
Some stuff that stuck out to me was lots of drops by the WRs. Apparently Brosmer had another good outing. JJ did okay, it sounds like. OL was having some trouble, though.
My biggest concern for this team is the three new OL players coming together quickly. I know they are all an improvement over last season, but they need to be working together as a unit. I hear that takes some time.
The interior O Line and injuries(lack of) are things that both need to go well this season.
I think JJ will end the season on IR if the OL does not play well. He will resort to running too much and get drilled.
#jinx
Happy Thorsday,
Skol
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