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Hump day!!!! Not much news out there, lots of speculation and verbal diarrhea around the NFL news world. Most of the headlines are about mock drafts or hypothetical trades based on nothing. Oh well, only a couple more weeks until the draft. I can’t wait, I have a feeling we may have our best draft in quite a while. No triangle of authority, no Spielman stockpiling 7th round picks, and no Wall Street dude trying to outsmart everyone. Let’s hope Brez & Co. can knock it out of the park.
Vikings & NFL News
Vikings.com posted version 6.0 of their Vikings 2026 Mock Draft Tracker, and on Lunchbreak, a former Vikings coordinator is tabbed for the HOF Award of Excellence, and Stephon Gilmore retired.
The Star-Tribune reported that the Vikings will begin OTAs following the Memorial Day weekend.
At NFL.com, Kirk Cousins sees Las Vegas as ‘a great opportunity to finish strong’. I didn’t listen to the presser, but I’ll venture a guess that he mentioned wanting to retire a Raider?
From ESPN, Fernando Mendoza will not attend the NFL draft, choosing to spend the moment with family instead. Good for him! Solid choice, the NFL draft is one event I have zero interest in attending, it seems like it would be immensely boring.
‘Yahoo Sports looks at how a trade with the Giants for Dexter Lawrence may happen.
Media Selection
I posted this in the comments yesterday, but I thought I’d put it up here, too. It’s an interesting conversation. Enjoy!
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So Sonny Styles, LB, Ohio St, currently ranked about 4th overall dropped to us at #18 so I took him. One because he was BPA and 2nd cause our depth there could use the boost. ProFootballNetwork gave me a B- for the pick.
I guess at least it wasn’t a D. #sheesh
Well, were you trying to build the Vikings roster, thinking like a GM, or just trying to get a good grade?
The Twinkies have showed up on YouTubeTV just now. They have won the last two games vs the Tigers so now that they are on TV chances are they will lose.
The Stadium looks pretty empty, not surprising at all.
Minn scored 6 runs in the bottom of the 1st so it will make it harder for them to blow this game. I still have faith that they can do it.
If they win, i think they reach 500
Yes, 6-6.
Currently 8-2, top of the 7th.
They tried to give it away but couldn’t quite manage it.
8-6 Twinkies.
I lived in the U.K. back in the early 80’s so this bit makes more sense to me than it might to others. It’s still funny though.
Latest CNBC headline…
“The U.S. has violated the ceasefire agreement, Iran’s foreign minister says….”
It’s sad when our own media is a shill for the enemy.
I posted this late yesterday but don’t think many/anyone saw it so I will repost it.
Greenard to Chiefs trade proposal.
Vikings get #9 and #109
Kansas City gets #18, #163 and Greenard.
https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/espn-runs-jonathan-greenard-trade-233500529.html
Thoughts/Opinions?
Or do you like the version that includes former 1st Round Pick (#31), Edge Anudike-Uzomah, 6’3″, 255?
Decent trade proposal, just wonder who we’d take at #9?
Depends who is available.
Caleb Downs?
Thieneman sometimes is drafted between 10 and 18 so chances of getting him are greater at #10?
Trades back to later in the first to target McNeal-Warren would be worth more?
I don’t know who else between 10-18 that the Vikings current braintrust would target at this point?
Me either. I haven’t invested any time looking at draft prospects this year. I don’t usually look at anything but the QB class, and this year I haven’t even done much of that frankly.
In my last mock draft, Downs actually fell to me all the way to 18, so I grabbed him. Otherwise, McNeal-Warren is someone I am regularly able to grab even trading down a bit. He often survives until mid-20s.
I had the opposite happen to me. Downs went at 15, McNeal-Warren went 16 and Thieneman went 17. My mock looked like crap after that.
Not sure Greenard is worth 9 1st Rd spots, a swap of 4th and 5th rounders AND a new contract.
Seems pricey if I’m the Chiefs.
So you think the Vikings should take that deal if offered.
If I’m the Vikings, absolutely yes.
That’s a steal for a guy you’ve been trying to trade to save cap space.
I’d say it’s a bit of pipe dream though.
I think I’d like the version with Uzomah more.
Why?
I honestly don’t know. I just like the idea of getting a former 1st round edge if we are getting rid of one.
He didn’t play in 2025 due to injuries and he has a grand total of 3 sacks in his 4 years. Kansas City did not pick up his 5th year option.
That’s not so good.
Hope has been around for Alzheimer’s for over 10 years, yet not much has ever been publicized about this research. Why?
In 2011, a neuroscientist at MIT named Dr. Li-Huei Tsai made a discovery that should have been on the front page of every newspaper on Earth.
She exposed mice with advanced Alzheimer’s disease to a flickering light pulsing at exactly 40 Hz — forty flashes per second. Nothing else. No drugs. No surgery. Just light at a specific frequency.
Within one hour, the amyloid-beta plaques in their brains — the protein deposits that define Alzheimer’s — began to dissolve. Not slow. Not gradually. Within sixty minutes.
After seven days of daily 40 Hz exposure, plaque levels dropped by 50%. The mice regained memory function. Their neurons began firing in synchrony again. The brain’s immune cells — microglia — activated and started clearing the toxic buildup like a cleaning crew that had been asleep for years.
The study was published in Nature. The most prestigious scientific journal on the planet. Peer-reviewed. Replicated. Confirmed.
That was 2016. It is now 2026.
maybe they…..forgot?
Clever boy…
Here’s the section of the 14th Amendment that the democrats and RINOs hope you will never read:
Section 3
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.
I submit we have a number of representatives in Congress right now who violate this clause, and thus should be impeached.
The question is who gets to decide what qualifies as ‘given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof’.
The Biden Admin would have accused DJT of it when he ‘conspired with Russia’ to steal elections. A plot that the Woke/Dims/Libs/TDS types put together to discredit Trump.
False, unfounded, and baseless accusations are different from actions. Sending money to terrorist organizations and publicly stating support for an enemy nation state over the U.S. is what we’re talking about here.
Not only would they have, but they absolutely did use this clause to impeach him for J6. Why do you think they pushed so hard to call it an insurrection?
Saw this commentary, and agree…
“Yesterday many “experts” told you we were headed for nuclear war & spent the entire day losing their minds. Today the Dow opens up 1300+ points, S&P rises nearly 3%, & oil has dropped $20 a barrel. As always, it pays to be rational.”
The mainstream media spends almost all their time and effort to fearmonger the public about everything Trump says and does, and every single time they’re wrong. Day by day though, they are slowly but surely losing their grip on the messaging control they built up since the 1960’s. People are seeing them for what they truly are. Leftist propaganda purveyors.
Twitter has many more conservative views being expressed than ever before, which is driving the left nuts. How dare rational thought and reality be allowed to prevail? How dare anyone question their insane positions?
‘media spends almost all their time and effort to fearmonger the public about everything Trump’
It used to be ‘if it bleeds it leads’ and now it is ‘If it could made bad for Trump it leads’.
Truth
Unlike what you do on here, right?
This twitter post is based on Alec Lewis attributing Kwesi’s firing primarily due to his inability to align personnel staff vision with KOC’s coaching preferences and specific player evaluations. GM’s often diverge from the head coach’s preferences, but this appears to have been more excessive than the norm.
A bit of a replay of Rick/ Zim?
Definitely.
So, it WASN’T just the poor drafting??
I think part of it was that the drafting was poor because Kwesi failed to put scouts and such in place that understood the type of players KOC wants.
So KOC is basically saying, “I wanted to keep Sam.”
And/or he’s saying, “All of the issues weren’t my fault. If they aligned with what I wanted then it’d be going great.”
KOC isn’t saying anything.
And that is the best policy. No need to air the dirty laundry, no matter what Don Henley said
KOC/Brez are saying stuff to the media, trying to save face. That’s how it looks to me.
I haven’t heard KOC say anything about KAM… at all though.
Everyone has their own version of events.
Just watched this on twitter. Since some folks here are completely unable to divorce themselves from Cousins and bring him up endlessly… enjoy.
so of course, you bring up Cousins.
For the benefit of said crowd. I aim to please. In fact, I might start posting a lot of Cousins news every day just to satisfy their gluttonous appetite.
While yoar at it, could you post some Dobbs news too? I can’t seem to find any…
The two good Dobbs games gave me more joy then the entire Kirk run from 2020-2023.
Man, you are sour. I enjoyed the biggest comeback of all time, and I never even saw it, just heard it on the radio as I was driving home on vacation. He had good games and bad games, just like any other Vikings quarterback through the years.
As you wish… like I said, I aim to please…
Heading over to clean some more on that house. This lady used a hot glue gun to attach decorations to the walls & ceilings, I’m going to see if I can get it to loosen a bit with my heat gun so I can scrape the crap off without adding more damage to the walls. Luckily, I was a sheetrock finisher in my younger days.
That sucks. Folks should never damage a house they’re renting like that. Hopefully your idea works and it comes off easily. I know kerosene helps break down glue, but that’s not practical on drywall.
How is your son doing with his chickenpox?
The Teacher used some industrial strength double sided tape to attach some power strips to a wall length mirrors in the bathrooms of the SoCal house. I was worried we would either accidentally break the mirrors getting that stuff loose or leave them behind when we moved out. That stuff did not want to give up and let the stuff loose.
Would acetone or brake clean help?
Yesterday was my daughter’s 7th birthday, we met a couple of my friends and their kids at this place called claw land, where I spent $30 so they could win 8 stuffed animals. Then we went to Chuck E. Cheese where we ate pizza, opened gifts, and debated what Chuck’s middle name is. Fun low key evening. Now this weekend is the big party with like 12 kids, which will be terrible.
Hey Ben…Charles “Chuck” Entertainment Cheese is Chuck E. Cheese’s full name, in case you ever get into that debate again. My daughter advised me of this many, many years ago. How she knew I’m at a loss to explain.
Funny how after all these decades that chain is still going. I personally haven’t set foot in one of those establishments in over 40 years.
I’d never been before yesterday either, neither had my kids, it’s ok, the pizza was edible, but Dave and busters would have been better, space aliens too. Also, my daughter decided his middle name is Ernesto.
Well if your daughter says it’s Ernesto, then Ernesto it is, as far as I’m concerned. Grin.
Now I have a hankering for pizza for lunch.
You beat me to it.
What did you get her? What do 7 year old girls want these days? Do they still even play with toys?
I got her an Estes rocket, various art tools and accessories like paint, colored glue, etc, a kite, some clothes, hair accessories kit, break the ice board game, and a pack of Twinkies because she’d never had them. I also baked her a cake. She doesn’t really like many toys, she loves her drone and pink remote control Jeep but that’s about it.
That is a good haul.
I don’t think Twinkies are the same as when I was a kid. Back then they only seemed like half grown in a beaker. Now they seem totally grown in a beaker.
I took my Nephews to Chuck E. Cheese one time. I got about $20 in game coins. I split the coins into 3 piles and gave each nephew 1 each and kept the 3rd.
After they had a great time using up all of their coins they came back to the table and started eyeing my pile. Finally they asked for the coins and I asked what they were willing to do for them. They were stuck, they finally agreed to read a book of my choice each for the rest of the coins. I gave the teenagers War and Peace and Wuthering Heights. #grin
The Teacher said that it was evil of me, but she was laughing when she said it.
Tolstoy’s masterpiece was indeed a great choice.
“The strongest of all warriors are these two – Time and Patience.”
Do they still do the animal band, sing a long thing?
Did you see any fights?
https://www.wkyt.com/2026/02/19/fight-chuck-e-cheese-during-childs-birthday-leaves-man-medical-induced-coma-family-says/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=snd&utm_content=wkyt
This draft fell well for me in trades and position value in the top rounds. I ended up with so many picks that I probably should have traded a couple for the future…but I live in the now!
13 guys? The future is now! Do you remember the coach that embraced that phrase and why?
It rings a bell, but no names come to me, and Googling would be cheating. This is common for me at this stage. I am starting to forget names.
We just hired a new girl at work last week, and I went to grab a chair in a meeting and one of the other girls said, “Nikki is sitting there.”
And I said, “Who the hell is Nikki?”
Laughing.
George Allen was coaching the Redskins when he coined that phrase, after being criticized for bring in the “over the hill gang” and eschewing young players.
When Allen became the new head coach for the Washington Redskins in 1971, the rebirth of the team occurred. They had for many years been a mediocre team at best. But when Allen got there, he changed the culture of that team in a very abrupt fashion. Almost overnight, the ho-hum Redskins became the vibrantly emotional Redskins.
One tenet of Allen’s coaching philosophy involved “who” he would be coaching. Allen believed that it was much more beneficial for his roster to possess older and more experienced players. So right from the start prior to his very first game at the helm in Washington, Allen went about obtaining quite a few of those older players by trading away most of his draft choices.
In effect, Allen was trading away the promise of his team’s future for the potential of his team’s present. The term he used for these moves was
“The Future is Now.”
Allen was slightly ahead of my football time.
I first became aware of the Redskins during the John Riggins and Theismann years.
They were always an outsider team to me. Then they thumped the Vikes in the playoffs in 1992. I think it was a battle between Mark Rypien and Sean Salisbury. We had the better record and the game was at home, and we still got stomped.
At least Rypien has a hot daughter, so I have forgiven him.
I remember that game in 92. Redskins ran the shit out of the ball with Brian Mitchell for almost 200 yards and their defense held the Vikings offense to under 150 total yards. Sean Salisbury got sacked a bunch of times and only completed like 6 passes or something.
We had a solid year that year at 11-5. Redskins were 9-7, so my child brain felt good about that game.
Then we looked like unprepared turds.
I think the Vikings were in the middle of a streak of like 7 playoff losses at that stage. We didn’t finally win one until we got the Giants in overtime because Matt Walsh managed to recover an onside kick.
Yep… the Vikings were indeed heavy favorites in that game. I didn’t expect the Redskins to win either. Dennis Green suffered some serious rebuff afterwards.
Tacos are tasty.
Why would someone put tomatoes in a taco.
Especially those evil little ‘cherry’ ones??
I love tomatoes in a taco – except those cherry tomatoes, they are disgusting
I bet your wife puts them on there just for you
Salsa has tomato sauce in it, that is the closest any tomato should be to a taco.
I Still have no clue why any serious football person buys this guys fake schtick.
At least he hasn’t said, “I’ve always wanted to retire a Raider”….yet.
Anybody who believes what comes out of his mouth……
My guess is that he got cornered by a reporter, and that was the most positive comment he had
100%.
I mean, NFL players have to sound excited for the fan base.
But to me, this stuff is just so fake.
15 days to the draft !
That’s all we got.
But first, the Masters
Yes Sir !!!!
while I will watch the Masters this weekend, it is because I like naps,
Because sports is always more fun with gambling, I am in a Masters golf pool. I am sure I will watch most of it.
So who are you taking to win in your pool? I think Rory comes back with a good chance, you can never count out John Rahm, and of course Scheffler. I had Morikawa on my list, but it appears he is nursing a back injury.
In the end, I think it will be the guy who putts the best who will win the green jacket. The greens at Augusta always take their toll.
What did they do to ‘Happy Wednesday Dancing GIF’??
It is kind of like an accident you can’t look away from now.
You can complain about a 22 year-old QB that’s started 10 games.
I could.
Been there. Done that.
GM
FTP!
SKOL!
Happy Hump Day!
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