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Josh Jacobs, FTP RB was arrested for a number of crimes, mostly assault including felonies. I’m Guessing he’ll get suspended at some point, but its the FTP so who knows
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Not much new going on, nobody hurt yet as OTAs started.
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Aside from the RB spot, which I think is underwhelming, it’s hard to disagree.
Should have quality offensive line play. Should. It’s hard to beat the trio of Jets/Addison/3rd and Juan
Need something out of Hock – and he likely gets the chance to rejuvenate his career. Kyler loved throwing to the TE in Arizona.
Well since we don’t use the RBs all that often.
Maybe with our new FB blocking for Mason we can get a little short yardage success.
As an old school football guy, I have loved the fact that the Vikings have had a FB on the roster continuously.
Same.
As a Nebraska football fan the FB was a huge part of the option offense we ran for years.
My favorite fullback of all time, Tom Rathman, is from Grand Island, Nebraska.
I also loved Mike Alstott and Lorenzo Neal.
I had an interlude at MacDill AFB golf course with Mike Alstott at the Super Bowl golf tournament many years ago (Giants vs Ravens in Tampa Jan 2001). On the first hole we had it set up as military themed hole. On the tee box I was there shouting orders etc. We had a small tree about 10 yards off the tee box and I was telling everyone if they didn’t hit their ball past that tree, they were gonna drop and give me 20. Stuff like that. As the day wore on the crowd around the first tee grew and grew, and I kept the act going pretty good. Alstott came to the tee box with his group, and there was an open air tent there where they had water and snacks for the players. Alstott wandered over there and got on his cell phone while I went through my schtick. Eventually it was time for them to tee off, and Alstott was still standing in the tent on his phone, holding everyone up. Soooo… I went into the tent and gave him a good what for, and ordered him to the tee box. I was loud… and he wasn’t real happy about it, but he got off his phone and walked onto the tee, and hit his shot. I yelled something like “now get your ass in gear Alstott and stop holding the whole GD tournament up”. He sort of stormed off the tee, but the crowd loved it and started cheering. Rush Limbaugh’s group was next, and he walked up and said “Nice job”.
A great blocking TE ala Donnie Warren will do even better than a FB.
Translation:
’I’m going to use my low center of gravity to dry-gulch this kid into a locker….’
Laughing…
I bet McCarthy shoots spitballs at Kyler…..
Laughing… sounds like it. Seems like a very immature response to me. Just my opinion.
Take it with a grain of salt…
Man that sure is a great ‘trot.’
Epic even.
@he put on the wrong color jersey@
No charges have been filed against Josh Jacobs.
‘Lawyers Statement’?
@There might be some unbiased truth in that.@
OJ didn’t do it either…
My post from this morning.
Hence, no charges will be sought….
QB room:
QB1 – JJ McCarthy
QB2 – Kyler Murray
QB3 – Max Brosmer
QB cut – Carson Wentz
I still think JJMac beats Murray for the top spot and we can stash Brosmer on the practice squad.
Option 2:
QB1 – JJ McCarthy
QB2 – Carson Wentz
QB3 – Max Brosmer
QB Traded – Kyler Murray
If JJ is showing that he is truly the QB1 we may trade Murray for a bag of balls and keep Wentz.
Option 3:
QB1 – Kyler Murray
QB2 – Carson Wentz
QB3 – Max Brosmer
QB Traded – JJ McCarthy
If JJ isn’t the guy, we might as well get a bag of balls or an extra kicking tee for him.
None of the above.
QB1 Murray
QB2 Wentz
QB3 Brosmer
IR – McCarthy.
What if Wentz beats them all out?
I have this same sense. I wouldn’t count him out.
Than we might as well not show up and settle for the #1 pick in next years draft.
Trading McCarthy requires someone to want him. Who wants a project QB that is the worst passer in the NFL? I seriously doubt the phone is ringing off the hook for a trade.
The QB ranking will boil down to who can run the offense the best against NFL defenses. I have some concerns about Murray for sure, but less than I do about McCarthy.
We’ll see where it goes from here.
Option 4:
IR – Murray
IR – McPonder
IR – Wentz
Cut – Brosmer
QB1 – idk
Option 5:
QB1 – The Goat
QB-2,3 – Not needed…
sarc
I’m pretty sure we are not keeping JJ Murray and Wentz. One of them will not be on the team at the start of the season. Unless you think we can get JJ to the practice squad without him getting poached.
Wentz will be back in ND in time for hunting season.
I hope JJ wins the job and if that is the case, Murray will be QB2. If for nothing else, somebody will sign him next year for enough that the Vikings end up with a comp pick for it.
Wildcat!!!!!
I hope he does also.
But I doubt he will, due to politics.
Figure he will get his chance during the season due to a The Might Mouse injury and hope he seizes it and never gives it back.
More likely is he will get his chance, get injured in turn and then it will be Wentz’s turn to be ‘next man up.
With luck by the time Wentz gets hurt one of the other two will be healthy. Otherwise it is Brosmer off the practice squad.
I wanted to copy my Wisconsin comment I posted earlier this morning on the old thread but I’m not technically inclined apparently.
Wisconsin:
Chris Farley
Orson Welles
JJ Watt
Danica Patrick
Frank Lloyd Wright
Georgia O’Keeffe
August Derleth
Clifford D Simak
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Charles and John Ringling
and some of you will really recognize these names:
Valentin Blatz
Frederick Pabst
Joseph Schlitz
That’s a great list. RIP Chris Farley.
Interesting note on Valentin Blatz – Bavarian by birth but immigrated to Milwaukee in 1849 – but he died in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1894.
It’s believed his last words were: ‘45 years in that dump is enough, I’d rather die than go back….’
Thanks Jackson. I was on my phone at work and just couldn’t get it done.
Na, that was his post back to me saying I didn’t really get it (which I later answered). Think VP answered with some good folks from WI.
I’m all over busting on Packer’s fans, but I’ve actually lived in Wisconsin over twice as long as I lived in MN. There are some great people here in WI (as long as they don’t talk about the Packers). And while politics suck everywhere, WI is much better than MN in that arena.
I totally agree…
Brake light on.
No grinds. No squeaks. No mushy pedal.
Fluid fine.
Take to a local shop.
Squirrel chewed through a connector.
Quick soldering job – $50
Brake light off.
I can’t get into to any shop without an appointment.
No quick jobs where I live.
Youtube and O’Reilly. I also have the benefit of some pretty skilled coworkers and friends, but that’s beside the point.
I can do a few things on my own.
But I emphasize a few…
Yeah, there is a limit. The friends I have been blessed with have been helpful.
Was lucky – made the appointment this morning at 830. Got in @ 1130. Out by 1.
Stabilizer brackets on my camper broke. I just happened to notice it a couple weeks ago. Went to take one off to go to the parts store this weekend and noticed a crack in the frame. Upon further inspection, the frame is cracked on both sides.
Just ignore it and it’s not broke.
That should work fine. What could possibly go wrong with broken suspension and a double broken frame on a 10,000 lb camper?
That sounds pricey.
5th wheel? Pull behind?
Bumper pull toy hauler. I got the parts for the suspension for like 14 bucks. I just need to decide if I want to put new springs in since I’ll be working on it. I’ve got a buddy that said he’ll be able to weld the frame for me so that shouldn’t be too bad.
All these talks about draft picks with injuries, QB1 vs QB2… All I am concerned with at this moment is, is Darrisaw a full go?
I heard he has an air cast on and is sitting in a lawn chair sipping some lemonade with a little Kettle One in it.
Anyone good at reading lips? Cover up the words and try and figure out what he’s saying…….
Love the trolling….
“What you do screams so loudly that I cannot hear a word you are saying.”
Emerson
I worked with a very fine lady who once offered this advice to me – ‘Believe 10 % of what you hear and 90% of what you see.
That is another good one.
I believe very little of what I hear unless it is backed up by what I see.
With AI you can’t always believe that eithor.
Then there’s always rule two – ‘If it looks too good to be true, it probably isn’t.’
According to my siblings, my grandpa would say don’t believe anything you read and only half of what you see.
Pretty wise words from Grandpa.
Now maybe it’s just the times with all the information sources, but seems there are fewer people with just plain common sense.
NHL – Central Division was swept to the side for the fourth straight year by a Pacific Division team. What’s up with that?
That was a shocking result. I thought the Avs had the best team this year, by far. But, like the old saying goes, “That’s why they play the games.”
the wild played them so good, the avs didn’t have anything left…..
Just like the Stars did to us.
Nothing will happen to Josh Jacobs.
The local police and prosecutors are shareholders.
The land of Jeffery Dahmer and their fans likely hold his arrest as a badge of honor.
He’s headed to the puker hall of fame soon.
i came here for updates from the OTA’s….
do i actually have to do work to find them? Come on guys.
Bad placement by Murray, cut him.
Look at yesterday’s thread. NVF posted a few.
Why’s he got a plastic forehead?
Magic???
Orange man bad.
Cause the real Joe Biden died years ago.
I’ve seen these reports but I have to say, they don’t make sense. If they replaced Biden with a stand-in as claimed, why would they replace him with somebody so physically frail and mentally challenged?
To make everything make the falls make sense. I don’t think he was actually dead, but I do think he was replaced a few times. His walk and face changed too much too many times. I think most of the verbal gaffs were real and then they would replace him for photo ops and drug him up for certain appearances.
Wednesday is a great day for a lengthy, boring Zoom call!
Way better than a Friday afternoon, that’s for sure.
Worked in an organization once upon a time that had a 1 p.m. staff meeting with the Director every Friday. It was a meeting to set things up for the weekend regarding operations going on around the world. This was the policy of every Director for many years of this organization. A new Director came in and told everyone he didn’t do Monday or Friday meetings. Folks were thrilled. Over time though the Director realized that having the Friday meeting was needed for a 24/7 global operations organization. Eventually he went back to the Monday, Wednesday, and Friday meeting schedule, and we often spoke on Saturdays and Sundays. When he retired he told me it was the hardest place he’d ever worked.
From the ‘Mythical Words Up Top’.
“nobody hurt yet as OTAs started”
#nojinx
FTP!!
And welcome to Happy Wednesday.
Rec.
also…. F T P!
Good morning, SKOL!
FTP!
Top of the morning to you as well.