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I worked from home yesterday, as we were digging out of our latest blizzard. Kiddo and I went sledding for a bit, and I gave the snowblower a good workout. Back to normal life today, sigh. Hey, a little news yesterday, as the players union surveyed 1,100 players and the results showed that the Vikings were graded highest out of all the NFL teams. The Cardinals and Commanders did not do well in the survey. Yikes, those two teams may want to make some changes.

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Minnesota Vikings News:

The Minnesota Vikings graded the highest of all NFL teams in a survey of NFL players by the NFLPA.

Vikings.com has HC Kevin O’Connell’s full combine press conference.

Rumor has it that Mike Pettine may be heading to Philadelphia after one season in MInnesota, according to MSN.

From NFL.com:

Video of the Day:

Thanks to Lifer for the suggestion. Here’s an awesome tune by a legendary band, it’s the Doobie Brothers with What A Fool Believes. Enjoy!

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No longer New Vikings Fan
2 March 2023 6:09 pm

Laughing…

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DE Viking
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
2 March 2023 6:12 pm

Lol. So true

Edgecrusher71
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
3 March 2023 8:14 am

The worst. My ex-In Laws in Arizona put up like a canopy over their outdoor table and chairs and it barely was higher than their fence line. They promptly got a letter stating they didn’t ask for permission to put that up and need to take it down and put in a request and if approved they can put it back up. Fuck that.

No longer New Vikings Fan
2 March 2023 5:32 pm

So Lifer, you noted that my wife’s cat is shall we say… “portly” yesterday. Yes he is overweight by a good amount. When we got him as a kitten (about 4 or 5 months old) he had been abandoned “in the wild” and was in bad shape and very malnourished. She rectified that to the extreme. The vet weighed him in December and he tipped the scales at 28.8 lbs. The vet convinced my wife this was not good and placed him on a diet which my wife has stuck to. Cats do not lose weight quickly though (or so I’m told) so it looks to me that since December, he’s down about 2 lbs. Over the next year we want to get him down to around 15 to 18 pounds.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
2 March 2023 5:39 pm

BTW… these are the Christmas kitties we picked up from the shelter for her. They like watching TV.

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benjammin
Admin
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
2 March 2023 5:41 pm

Holy shit, my mini golden doodle is 25lbs.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  benjammin
2 March 2023 5:54 pm

Here’s her fat cat…

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Lifer
Admin
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
2 March 2023 7:10 pm

He’s absolutely adorable. He likes to eat so be it.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  Lifer
2 March 2023 7:18 pm

Yeah, we cut his food back but he’s not starving by any means. He was the equivalent of a 400 lb man according to the vet.

Lifer
Admin
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
2 March 2023 7:27 pm

lol…that’s awesome. Enjoying life good for him!

Mick
Mick
Reply to  Lifer
2 March 2023 6:15 pm

Lol

I’d be ok with McKee.

he seems like the perfect guy to sit behind Kirk for a year.

Mick
Mick
Reply to  Mick
2 March 2023 6:24 pm

I don’t know if I’d go with him in the first….

I think I’d feel better about Tune or Duggan later jn the draft

Lifer
Admin
Reply to  Mick
2 March 2023 7:09 pm

It was pick 37 rd 2.

Mick
Mick
Reply to  Lifer
2 March 2023 6:18 pm

Also… that’s quite the trade for cook. Especially to a team who is probably set in the RB room

Lifer
Admin
Reply to  Mick
2 March 2023 7:07 pm

Penny has been hurt a lot and yes forgot about the rookie he’ll be the man so they wouldn’t take that trade.

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
2 March 2023 4:31 pm

Off tomorrow. In laws coming into town to meet the baby

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  SkoIdiers
2 March 2023 4:51 pm

@My Condolences!@

(After my divorce I liked my in-laws better then my Ex, they were on my side.)

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
2 March 2023 5:25 pm

Lol, they’re pretty chill. Older so they don’t care to much about things

Lifer
Admin
Reply to  SkoIdiers
2 March 2023 7:36 pm

Let’s talk about your lib parents that like me more than you.

norseman1
norseman1
2 March 2023 3:30 pm

Ded today? See some bickering going on. Just can’t behave can you?

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  norseman1
2 March 2023 4:31 pm

Meh off-season and no action for a couple weeks. FA in 2 weeks though

benjammin
Admin
2 March 2023 3:09 pm

Lifer
Admin
Reply to  Gone fishin'
2 March 2023 4:21 pm

Same

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
2 March 2023 2:35 pm

Another Skolly offseason article/poll dropping tomorrow AM.

Make sure to vote and don’t be a pansy, stupid-lib, or dog ****er and not vote bc you want to be smart, analytical, or more importantly, NOT FUN!

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  SkoIdiers
2 March 2023 2:38 pm

What if I vote to be smart, analytical, and not Fun??

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
2 March 2023 2:40 pm

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  SkoIdiers
2 March 2023 2:51 pm

Rude!

lol

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
2 March 2023 4:29 pm

🙂

Rob
Rob
Admin
Reply to  Gone fishin'
2 March 2023 2:44 pm

It’s not Ponder, sad

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  Gone fishin'
2 March 2023 2:57 pm

I think it’s John David booty

HUNViking
Reply to  benjammin
2 March 2023 3:29 pm

It´s not McLeod Bethel-Thompson, as far as I can tell.

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  HUNViking
2 March 2023 3:40 pm

Brooks Bollinger perhaps?

pirateflip
Reply to  benjammin
2 March 2023 4:01 pm

Norm Snead?

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
2 March 2023 1:49 pm

benjammin
Admin
2 March 2023 1:45 pm

Just got out of Stillwater prison, nice to be somewhere not locked in a building.

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  Gone fishin'
2 March 2023 1:54 pm

bout 5 hours, had a work thing their today. something about being somewhere I can’t leave without someone unlocking a door makes me feel not great.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  Gone fishin'
2 March 2023 2:21 pm

You get used to it after awhile.
Heck we would get ‘mandatory held over’ for a 16hr shift and it felt like we were one of the inmates practically.
(and they could do that to you 3Xs a week, good $$/terrible quality of life)

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  Gone fishin'
2 March 2023 2:36 pm

It was based on Seniority, so they longer you were there the less it happened.
It always happened when it snowed and they closed the only Hwy in and out,
Dang SoCal drivers not knowing how to drive in at stuff and getting into accidents.

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  Gone fishin'
2 March 2023 1:53 pm

I like yoga

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SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  benjammin
2 March 2023 2:07 pm

Jen Setler is her name I believe

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  benjammin
2 March 2023 3:38 pm

Nice pooper.

Northwoods
2 March 2023 1:15 pm

Best movie set in the 60s?

American Graffiti does it for me.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  Gone fishin'
2 March 2023 1:33 pm

1978 per IMDb.

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  Northwoods
2 March 2023 1:41 pm

Apocalypse Now

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  Gone fishin'
2 March 2023 2:02 pm

Yeah, he’s good in everything he’s done, my favorite movie of his is probably The Apostle.

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  Gone fishin'
2 March 2023 2:57 pm

That’s great as well

FloridaSKOL
Reply to  benjammin
2 March 2023 2:58 pm

Mick
Mick
2 March 2023 12:56 pm

MT are you here?

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  Mick
2 March 2023 12:58 pm

He’s still mad nobody shared his favorite Wednesday gif yesterday.

Mick
Mick
Reply to  bowbunch
2 March 2023 1:07 pm

You’ll work.

should I take a vacation to MT in April? Anything crazy to do?

Northwoods
Reply to  Mick
2 March 2023 1:18 pm

Are you a rockhound?

Mick
Mick
Reply to  Northwoods
2 March 2023 1:56 pm

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  Mick
2 March 2023 1:29 pm

Yeah, go to glacier park.

Mick
Mick
Reply to  Mick
2 March 2023 2:03 pm

Ok guess we’re going to Denver.

wgonna have to find 5er

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  Mick
2 March 2023 3:00 pm

Check the local bath house, probably find kodiak with him

wgonna have to find 5er

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  Mick
2 March 2023 3:50 pm

Not much happening in April. Most of the mountains will be snowed in until at least May or the beginning of June.

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  bowbunch
2 March 2023 3:54 pm

Is like to live somewhere like that where things are snowed in for months at a time.

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  bowbunch
2 March 2023 1:32 pm

He’ll show up soon after this comment

Mick
Mick
2 March 2023 11:47 am

Sounds like the Vikings have met wkth Richardson… that’s coming from Wolfson. He’s not my favorite QB

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  Mick
2 March 2023 11:48 am

They met with Riddler and Malik Wilis last season. Doesn’t mean anything.

Also, he sucks. Can’t get past his first read

Mick
Mick
Reply to  SkoIdiers
2 March 2023 11:53 am

Ok skolly. I’m just spreading the news don’t shoot the messenger.

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  Mick
2 March 2023 12:17 pm

You’ll kill skoldiers Kirk boner talking like that

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  benjammin
2 March 2023 1:49 pm

He’s getting extended. I don’t know why we have to continue ahving this debate. Hate him like him… he’s on the team for a few more years.

Pointless arguing what is reality

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  SkoIdiers
2 March 2023 2:04 pm

I agree, he will be extended. Won’t be a long contract since that’s not what he does but he’ll be extended.

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
2 March 2023 11:29 am

KFEY93
Reply to  SkoIdiers
2 March 2023 12:00 pm

Can he play for the team he owns?

KFEY93
Reply to  Gone fishin'
2 March 2023 4:11 pm

Would be fun seeing him yelling on the side lines “I OWN YOU! DO BETTER!”

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
2 March 2023 11:27 am

For Gopher fans lol

NoDakRube
2 March 2023 11:18 am

I would ALMOST welcome another Kirk Cousins debate rather than the debate about whether or not our coaches/gm/owners know what they are doing.

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  NoDakRube
2 March 2023 11:24 am

Clowns for those thinking KOC is a joke.

Surly Viking
Admin
Reply to  NoDakRube
2 March 2023 11:27 am

Coaches/GM I will give another three years before I pass judgement, and I will be wrong again.

Owners are smart, and care about money and selling tickets. They give zero fucks about championships other than the extra money that brings in.

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Rob
Rob
Admin
Reply to  NoDakRube
2 March 2023 1:25 pm

Kirk sucks

LFG!!!

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
2 March 2023 10:59 am
Northwoods
Reply to  SkoIdiers
2 March 2023 11:03 am

I bet she’s a real hit at parties.

NoDakRube
Reply to  SkoIdiers
2 March 2023 11:06 am

What a buffoon.

Lifer
Admin
Reply to  NoDakRube
2 March 2023 11:36 am

Why? For not getting Covid? I’d say you’re the buffoon for making fun of someone who’s done well avoiding contraction. I had it for the first time 3 weeks ago so I applaud this woman.

Mick
Mick
Reply to  Lifer
2 March 2023 11:48 am

i have yet to contract the vids

kathy.clater.3
kathy.clater.3
Reply to  Mick
2 March 2023 6:02 pm

I don’t fly, but not only have I never had Covid, I haven’t had so much as a cold since 2020, even when I’m around the grands who have colds. I never took the jab and I don’t wear a mask. All I do is take the recommended preventive vitamins and wash my hands or use hand sanitizer frequently, especially out in public.

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  Lifer
2 March 2023 11:51 am

Did you just assume it’s gender? How right wing of you.

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  bowbunch
2 March 2023 2:08 pm

HAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Lifer
Admin
Reply to  bowbunch
2 March 2023 4:26 pm

You’re right and clearly speaking from experience from walking around with bitch tits and being mistaken for a woman.

NoDakRube
Reply to  Lifer
2 March 2023 12:12 pm

Yes. She is a buffoon.

NoDakRube
Reply to  Lifer
2 March 2023 12:14 pm

My son didn’t do any of that shit and never got the virus…She is a buffoon.

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  Lifer
2 March 2023 12:14 pm

All you can say for certain is that it claims to have never tested positive for Covid, not that they have never contracted it. Especially with the vaccination, the odds of being asymptomatic are very high.

HUNViking
Reply to  Lifer
2 March 2023 12:26 pm

They named the flu “Covid” and, with the help of the media, were extremely successful at scaring people into behaving like that nutjob in the tweet. What exactly is that being proud of? Not getting the flu in the last 3 years? LOL

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  NoDakRube
2 March 2023 12:54 pm

I hate to agree with Lifer, especially against my ‘brother from another mother’ NoDakRube.

Yes she/he/it looks like a CoVid Karen but I can’t call her a buffoon with out knowing Its medical situation.

The Teacher has Asthma, she is surrounded every day by 1st Grade Germ Factories.
She could not teach 25 kids to read (plus additional drama as mentioned before) and try to make them all wear their masks properly when it was required, it’s like herding cats.
The parents send them to school even when they are sick (it is free babysitting after all) and Admin/Nurse will not enforce the rule when she sends coughing/sneezing/snot nosed kids to them.
She is surrounded by Positive CoVid/Colds/Pneumonia/RSV/Bronchitis/ect. She tests 2x a week, more often when she has had a close contact.
I am fully Vax-ed and maintain social distance, not so much because I am worried for myself but I don’t want to add to her risks.

So comparing her situation in Crazy/Calif to Save/Sane Minot is not fair.
We are trying to make smart medical decisions that make sense for us until we can get out of this place/situation.

Mick
Mick
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
2 March 2023 12:57 pm

Well that does it.

Socal=stupid lib.

can’t be both that’s unpossible…. Now ya gotta choose.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  Mick
2 March 2023 12:59 pm

We are becoming Not Socal as soon as we can. Just over a year left.
Until them we have to survive the world we live in.

Mick
Mick
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
2 March 2023 1:11 pm

I get it.

at least the weather is nice.

I don’t really think you’re a stupid lib either. I don’t care what people do to protect themselves as long as the feel the same about me:

also… parents that send their sick kids to school are dickheads.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  Mick
2 March 2023 1:14 pm

yup, only snowed a couple of xs yesterday.
Been rain/wind/temps in the 20-30s before that.
Maybe nice compared to some.

It even snowed in Dizzyland yesterday. Haha
(Snow White must have been pleased)

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  Gone fishin'
2 March 2023 3:01 pm

The consensus at the Prison was ‘I can be Sick and Miserable at home and burn Sick Hours or I can be Sick and Miserable at work and make money’

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
2 March 2023 3:41 pm

Sharing is caring they always say, might as well share your misery

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  benjammin
2 March 2023 3:45 pm

That all stopped with the Plague after a couple of outbreaks caused by sick staff.

They posted a guard at the entrance and they took your temp. Fever = go back home.

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
2 March 2023 3:56 pm

Yeah, the prisons here just lifted the mask mandate not too long ago, they were super strict about stuff

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  benjammin
2 March 2023 3:58 pm

Absolutely.
Even a small outbreak caused huge problems with isolating and housing inmates.
And there were no ‘small outbreaks’.

KFEY93
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
2 March 2023 4:15 pm

Move out of CA. The real worlds been out of it for a long time. You and 99% of the human population is fine and is no where close to danger of dying from it.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  KFEY93
2 March 2023 4:18 pm

We already have the house in Idaho.
Once the Teacher can retire in a year we are gone from here.

Her Brother died from it recently but he was not fit or healthy.
Staying fit and healthy is the best insurance against the Plague.

Northwoods
Reply to  SkoIdiers
2 March 2023 11:10 am

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MT Viking
2 March 2023 9:10 am

Gotta say…on an iPad/Safari…if you leave the page to view another page, when ya come back, logged out, forgotten page view history, ads everywhere. Really limits me to checking in in the morning only.

NoDakRube
Reply to  MT Viking
2 March 2023 9:17 am

I get the same ads most days…somebody really thinks I should be building outdoor sheds and gazebos… I don’t remember ever searching for gazebos.

Northwoods
Reply to  MT Viking
2 March 2023 9:34 am

Do an EBay search and see what happens to your ads.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  Northwoods
2 March 2023 9:37 am

The Teacher of the House does a search and I get ads as a result.
Lots of ladies clothing and shoes ads for me.
Not that I mind as there are some cute ladies wearing that clothing.

NoDakRube
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
2 March 2023 9:43 am

Have you found any in your size and color scheme yet?

FYI I continue to hear from connected sources that the dismissing of the 6 officers at MAFB was total bullshit. Sounds like their direct subordinates rated them poorly in an anonymous survey and they got canned. So a 19 year old kid doesn’t like the way you order him around and you can get canned.

If this is true, I fear for our country.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  NoDakRube
2 March 2023 9:50 am

I don’t have a color scheme, as an expert on the topic maybe you can explain it to me.

Sounds Woke. I can see if they signed off on paperwork saying checks were done on the Nuke Inventory with out actually knowing if checks were done on the Nuke Inventory it being justified.
But seems like more smoke to cover up what really went on.
Junior Whistle Blowers reporting on Shenanigans perhaps??

NoDakRube
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
2 March 2023 11:08 am

Maybe, my sources tell me it had nothing to do with the Nukes, either the handling or the related documentation.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  NoDakRube
2 March 2023 11:25 am

It has to be more to it than just a survey.

Heck if all Cdrs were fired because snowflake Jrs didn’t like the way they did things there wouldn’t be any Cdrs left.

NoDakRube
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
2 March 2023 12:13 pm

I know, hopefully more details emerge.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  NoDakRube
2 March 2023 12:16 pm

Please carry on.

The Truth Will Come Out.
(i hope)

JacksonVike
Reply to  NoDakRube
2 March 2023 9:53 am

Northwoods
Reply to  NoDakRube
2 March 2023 10:06 am

The future of our military:

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FloridaSKOL
Reply to  Northwoods
2 March 2023 10:54 am

or this

Northwoods
Reply to  FloridaSKOL
2 March 2023 11:00 am

Python autorec. Love the Fish-Slapping Dance.

kathy.clater.3
kathy.clater.3
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
2 March 2023 6:15 pm

Because I like sports, internet thinks I’m a guy, so I get ads aimed at guys, unfortunately including the occasional hooker, but I block the hookers.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  kathy.clater.3
2 March 2023 6:26 pm

Laughing… so hard…

kathy.clater.3
kathy.clater.3
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
2 March 2023 6:32 pm

It’s the absolute truth, lol.

VikingPhilip
Reply to  Gone fishin'
2 March 2023 8:49 pm

Good.

Lifer
Admin
Reply to  MT Viking
2 March 2023 11:38 am

Said the same a few days ago and was shunned and ridiculed by the young cock swollen greenhorns here who laughed saying it’s easily resolved.

Northwoods
2 March 2023 8:42 am

Watched the first couple minutes of KOC’s presser before I had heard everything I needed to hear, which was the same exact babble I heard last year.

He DID have that look on his face this time that suggested he’s starting to realize that people are getting bored with his talk about “culture” and “championship caliber team” so maybe NEXT year he’ll have something a little different to say.

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KFEY93
Reply to  Northwoods
2 March 2023 8:49 am

Yup, put up or shut up. And if you’re going to be mid/suck at least do it while trying something new instead of the same schtick with the same mid players over, and over, and over, and over.

Wrenage
Reply to  KFEY93
2 March 2023 8:56 am

If not in the NFC Championship or close to it by year three, no year four.

Don’t know if the Wilfs would actually allow KOC and Kwesi to enact on their vision or not, though. They seem to like competitive rebuilds. Time will tell.

KFEY93
Reply to  Wrenage
2 March 2023 9:05 am

Agreed. That should be the bottom tier of your standards, get to conference championships so you have a CHANCE to get to the bowl. Winning division is meh ( I understand it helps with seeding) but at the end of the season its a lame goal, get 1 play off game is as well. Its worthless. Do something of note. Dominate bad teams, compete with good teams.

Mick
Mick
Reply to  KFEY93
2 March 2023 9:09 am

I’m guessing the plan was to beat the giants…not just to go 13-4 and have a wild card loss.

damn near the same team the last two years didn’t make the playoffs. This one went 13-4.

they have made one move this off-season and you’re talking all this babble about mid/suck but they fire the guy responsible for the shitty part of the team.

I wonder if you even know what you’re talking about sometimes or if you just type stupid shit to see what people say.

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  Mick
2 March 2023 9:57 am

Exactly why he’s clown #2

KFEY93
Reply to  SkoIdiers
2 March 2023 10:01 am

Thought out response. I see you are banging on all cylinders this morning. Find me another GIF monkey boy. You new born knows more about winning Football than you do at this point.

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  KFEY93
2 March 2023 10:56 am

KFEY93
Reply to  Mick
2 March 2023 10:00 am

Dont be mad because I saw through the thin veil that was the teams record and can critically assess our roster and you cant. I know damn well what im talking about. Enough with last years record, holy dog shit, it was SO MUCH LUCK. Weird records and goofy things that just so happened to go our way. In any other reality we win 9-10 games last year. So please, just stop with the 13 wins.

Swapping our D coach is not going to automatically make us a respectable defense again, that takes multiple drafts, free agent moves and growth from young players in a new system. Automatically assuming they will magically be great is childish. (Talk about stupid shit). D line, (its depth) CBs, LBs are all problems on the defense.

We have no legit WRs outside of JJ. KJ and Thielen ( who will probably be gone) are WR3s -4s on actually high powered offenses. We still have no legit Guards or centers on the roster. RB doesnt worry me, hopefully Cook is gone, it wont matter who carries the ball if our line cant run block and play calling doesnt improve.

Do we have a kicker for next season yet? What fuckery does that have in store for us? I still dont trust Joseph.

And you already know my feelings on Cringe Lord under center. Now, combine that with a first place schedule, and no horse shoe up our ass for 1 score wins (thats not happening again, like, in the NFL, let alone for the Vikings) and you think we’re legit? Fuck out of here man.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  Gone fishin'
2 March 2023 10:10 am

Well they do it better than Pass Blocking anyway.

KFEY93
Reply to  Gone fishin'
2 March 2023 10:10 am

In 2020, 2021 sure, Last year as a group they were better at pass blocking than run blocking. Individual levels are different.

Mick
Mick
Reply to  KFEY93
2 March 2023 10:12 am

I don’t know where you’d get that I cannot assess the roster. Teams don’t just slip into 13-4. It doesn’t happen like that. Luck is a good word for saying you don’t know why they won and you can’t explain it but it doesn’t fit your narrative so it’s luck.

The defense absolutely can be “respectable” next season. Without a doubt. KC’s OL got the fuck best ojt of them by TB and guess what? They fixed it and went to win the SB. I’ll reserve my judgment after the moves happen and not before.

Kicker.. how hard can it be to upgrade from the worst in the league? Defense fits that bill too.

you shoot your mouth off calling people at the very top of their professions stupid/mids/sucks when you’re nowhere in the same realm as these dudes. You’re some jabroni on a blog with an opinion. Just like the rest of us.

Speak in facts and not hypotheticals like the should have lost, or they will lose, or they got lucky.

KFEY93
Reply to  Mick
2 March 2023 10:38 am

You refuted nothing of what I said. If you think NONE of those 1 score wins were lucky bounces then idk what to say to you except you willingly put blinders on. It CAN be, but its highly unlikely we take a giant step forward. Thats just going off oh history man, not pulling it out of my ass. No defense goes from bottom 3 to top 3 in one season. Stop comparing us to KC. Just, stop, thats a giant leap in logic already. You see us signing top O line free agents and drafting studs? I dont. Again, as history and past odds back me up. You like to point out exceptions to the rules as facts, while I prefer the rules themselves.

“How hard can it be to upgrade from worst in the leage” – Again you are assuming were magically going from meh to great. You are assuming we will get better everywhere when thats not how reality works man. Unless you’re fucking 5 years old.

Also, I never compared myself to anyone here or an NFL player or coach, I compare them to their peers, so you can just put that bull shit right back where it came from.

Again, pot meet kettle when it comes to facts vs hypotheticals. Look in the mirror dude. The only difference between you and me is you view this team through purple colored glasses and I took mine off about 4 years. Other than that, we’re both dip shits. So get off the high horse.

Mick
Mick
Reply to  KFEY93
2 March 2023 11:23 am

 It CAN be, but its highly unlikely we take a giant step forward. Thats just going off oh history man, not pulling it out of my ass. No defense goes from bottom 3 to top 3 in one season.

Nobody ever said this. Here is what I said...The defense absolutely can be “respectable” next season. Without a doubt. 

What is respectable? Top 3? I doubt it. If this defense was average the record would have probably been better that 13-4 and there wouldnt have been a need for the one score wins.

Stop comparing us to KC. Just, stop, thats a giant leap in logic already. You see us signing top O line free agents and drafting studs? I dont. Again, as history and past odds back me up. You like to point out exceptions to the rules as facts, while I prefer the rules themselves.

I use KC as an example because it works. How about Philly? They had a fuck of a qb situation and drafted one in Rd 2 and made it to the superbowl. They now have a ton of decisions to make regarding the cap. How about cincy? They needed an upgrade after the whooping by the Rams last year and what did they do? Upgraded. Your “facts and history” are 15 years of the Rick Spielman being the GM and the Vikings NEVER winning a super bowl. I’m not sure if you’re aware or not but he’s gone. This is the first offseason for KAM after seeing how his team played a year so I’ll reserve my judgments until there is some actual facts or history.

“How hard can it be to upgrade from worst in the leage” – Again you are assuming were magically going from meh to great. You are assuming we will get better everywhere when thats not how reality works man. Unless you’re fucking 5 years old.

See above. Nobody ever said great. I said respectable. How you care to define it to fit your narrative is up to you.

Also, I never compared myself to anyone here or an NFL player or coach, 

You said this…And if you’re going to be mid/suck at least do it while trying something new instead of the same schtick with the same mid players over, and over, and over, and over.

This is the comment I was referring to. None of these dudes are ‘Mids’ nor do they suck. They’re at the top of their professions and only a couple years older than you..so you better get to work before you start throwing the shit.

Again, pot meet kettle when it comes to facts vs hypotheticals. Look in the mirror dude.

What hypotheticals did I provide or rely on? Vikings went 13-4… Fact
Defense was one of the worst in the league… Fact
Kicker was one of the worst in the League…fact
Blaming luck is cope for a lack of an argument… fact.

I dont have any purple glasses on, I will reserve judgement until they make bad moves rather than shoot my mouth off about the hypothetical they could/might/maybe will do something and the hypothetical outcomes of those hypothetical decisions.

I broke this down so you could understand a little bit better what I was trying to say and better respond than accusing me of dodging you.

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  Mick
2 March 2023 11:25 am

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  KFEY93
2 March 2023 11:25 am

Wrenage
Reply to  Gone fishin'
2 March 2023 10:24 am

I would hope so, but there was speculation that Kwesi wanted Harbaugh and the Wilfs kaboshed it.

Never know about speculation, though. Anyone can do it.

We will find out.

HUNViking
Reply to  Wrenage
2 March 2023 12:39 pm

Not to take anything away from KOC, he has done a good job so far as far as I can tell, but I still would have preferred Harbaugh.

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  Wrenage
2 March 2023 3:05 pm

If that’s true the wilfs need to sell the team, let the people you hire make the decisions you hired them to make. My guess is with KAMs commitment to “collaboration” the wilfs probably weren’t completely on board but would have let him hire Jim but he went with KOC so they could all sing kumbaya together.

manly-purple
Reply to  Northwoods
2 March 2023 9:49 am

Lol, this comment is hilarious.

The players just voted them the best organization top to bottom.

He went 13-4 in his first year with a terrible defense. Didn’t waste time and brought in the best DC replacement.

KFEY93
Reply to  manly-purple
2 March 2023 9:50 am

Lol if you think last years team was a legit 13-4 and was/is a contender your football opinion is laughable. Take off the purple glasses dude. We’re a long way off.

Mick
Mick
Reply to  KFEY93
2 March 2023 9:54 am

Lol

Maybe you should take the shit glasses off. 9ers got whomped because they don’t have a QB. Does that mean they’re legit?

Your strive to be 5/kodiak is funny.

Going 13-4 isn’t easy.

Going 13-4 with the worst defense in the league is even harder.

Knocking the coach who goes 13-4 in his first year and makes the players when the last regime couldn’t get over .500 with almost all same guys?

That’s stupid.

KFEY93
Reply to  Mick
2 March 2023 10:06 am

Not knocking the coach. The new vibes are great, but at the end of the day, play off pushes and SBs are whats going to matter if he wants to keep his job. Thats the point. I would LOVE the 49ers roster and coach right now. They’ve made pushes deep into post season, they’ve been to SBs in the past decade, let alone my life time. So yes, that does mean they’re legit. We play them next year, and Ill be you right now they beat us by 2 scores. I like KOC. I dont like the make up of the roster right now. Fuck Five, Fuck Kodiak, im me baby. Dont forget it.

Mick
Mick
Reply to  KFEY93
2 March 2023 10:14 am

Lol and the 9ers would love our QB.

funny how that works.

your word choice sucks.

KFEY93
Reply to  Mick
2 March 2023 10:40 am

Meh, they got way further than we did with their no name QB squad. Funny how that works. But I hope they do love our QB, I hope they take his loser ass off our hands.

manly-purple
Reply to  KFEY93
2 March 2023 9:57 am

His first year with a crappy team, and he turns the franchise around to something actually hopeful. Yet we’re going to give him a hard time about his pressers?

I yelled at the TV as much as the next guy this last year, and it will be few years IMO until we’re true contenders, but to criticize KOC for changing a publicly toxic culture around in one year is ridiculous. I’m tired of hearing the “collaboration” buzzword, too (and KOC acknowledged that in his presser as well if you listened to it), but if it works keeps it going.

Northwoods
Reply to  manly-purple
2 March 2023 10:16 am

I have no problem with what they’re doing. It’s listening to him say the same things over and over that gets old quickly.

NoDakRube
2 March 2023 8:38 am

Kirk Cousins sucks….he is like 20th in DVOA, which is the most accurate and objective statistic.

He is not worth 30+ million a year – can’t pay top 10 money to a below average QB.

Mick
Mick
Reply to  NoDakRube
2 March 2023 9:04 am

Great work!

NoDakRube
Reply to  Gone fishin'
2 March 2023 8:28 am

What a random comment…

FloridaSKOL
Reply to  Gone fishin'
2 March 2023 8:32 am

My wife loves it. Sings every song…every time she watches it.

Wrenage
Reply to  Gone fishin'
2 March 2023 8:47 am

It’s got some quality karaoke songs, though.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  Gone fishin'
2 March 2023 12:20 pm

‘You mean drunk people? No Thanks. I avoid it like the plague’.

FIFY

MT Viking
Reply to  Gone fishin'
2 March 2023 8:52 am

Never seen

freezeyface
Reply to  Gone fishin'
2 March 2023 8:59 am

its as overrated a movie/musical as the beatles

Mick
Mick
Reply to  Gone fishin'
2 March 2023 9:04 am

One of my daughters loves Grease and Grease 2.

I don’t mind it… there are much worse movies.

Surly Viking
Admin
Reply to  Gone fishin'
2 March 2023 9:09 am

Maybe , but the play is enjoyable. Played tenor sax for a theatre that did that and “Ain’t Misbehavin”. Both were a blast, Grease was more popular, especially with teenage girls.
Wife loves Grease and Grease 2 (the stupid “cool rider” song has to be one of the worst things ever )

I am sure the Pink Ladies tv series will be watched when that comes out.

Mick
Mick
Reply to  Surly Viking
2 March 2023 9:11 am

My daughter goes around the house…

Just belting out the chorus..

”REPRODUCTION!”

hahahaha

Wrenage
Reply to  Surly Viking
2 March 2023 9:12 am

That’s funny. Every now and then, my brain still goes, “I want a coooOOOOooool rider!”

And I only saw Grease 2 once in like 1985…

Northwoods
Reply to  SkoIdiers
2 March 2023 8:45 am

Now just picture he actually could break tackles too!

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
2 March 2023 7:33 am

Hit all 9 NBA winners in a 9-leg parlay last night. Was like +3000 something odds.

Pretty nuts

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  Gone fishin'
2 March 2023 8:12 am

15 bucks into 750

FloridaSKOL
Reply to  SkoIdiers
2 March 2023 8:14 am

Surly Viking
Admin
Reply to  SkoIdiers
2 March 2023 9:10 am

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MT Viking
Reply to  SkoIdiers
2 March 2023 8:58 am

“Shake a day” up to $3200 at the Wagon Wheel. Give ‘er a whirl.

Rob
Rob
Admin
2 March 2023 7:20 am

Did Kirk sign his long term extension yet?

Rob
Rob
Admin
Reply to  Rob
2 March 2023 7:23 am

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  Rob
2 March 2023 7:33 am

Can’t wait

Rob
Rob
Admin
Reply to  SkoIdiers
2 March 2023 7:39 am

They can do better than a 30 something year old that’s immobile, can’t improvise and has a big ass cap hit

Surly Viking
Admin
Reply to  Rob
2 March 2023 8:07 am

pirateflip
Reply to  Rob
2 March 2023 8:18 am

FloridaSKOL
Reply to  Rob
2 March 2023 8:25 am

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  Rob
2 March 2023 1:12 pm

No they can’t. They have one of the best QB’s in the league and of all time with the Vikings. Yeah, let’s get rid of THAT guy and replace him with someone who can’t come close to his level of play on the field.

Wrenage
2 March 2023 7:11 am

Dentist appointment today. Good times will be had by all.

VikingPhilip
Reply to  Wrenage
2 March 2023 7:24 am

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Surly Viking
Admin
Reply to  Wrenage
2 March 2023 8:08 am

I have another root canal appointment in a week. This tooth pain is not fun.

Wrenage
Reply to  Surly Viking
2 March 2023 8:48 am

My root canal didn’t work. The tooth was cracked vertically, so I have to get it pulled. While in there, they are going to pull another one, too.

I might look like a chipmunk tomorrow…

FloridaSKOL
Reply to  Wrenage
2 March 2023 9:59 am

Wrenage
Reply to  FloridaSKOL
2 March 2023 10:25 am

I floss all the time!

Wrenage
Reply to  Gone fishin'
2 March 2023 10:28 am

I’m still trying to decide on the fix. Implants are going to run about $8000. I think I’m going to go bridge, though. Implants just go in the same spot, but a bridge would shape the teeth on either side slightly, as well, into a slightly improved state.

Plus bridges are less.

Or maybe I will leave them be. It is all teeth near the back. Nothing visible. Will have to chat with doctor more today before she sedates me and poses me in funny positions while I’m out.

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  Wrenage
2 March 2023 12:01 pm

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VikingPhilip
2 March 2023 7:07 am

I wonder how it would go over if a state had a specific department that was designated only to search for missing white women and girls?

MT Viking
Reply to  VikingPhilip
2 March 2023 8:54 am

Eek

VikingPhilip
2 March 2023 7:04 am

I haven’t been able to check in much the last couple of days. Have you guys got the Cousins situation all figured out?

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Lifer
Admin
Reply to  VikingPhilip
2 March 2023 7:06 am

Surly Viking
Admin
Reply to  VikingPhilip
2 March 2023 8:08 am

JacksonVike
Reply to  VikingPhilip
2 March 2023 9:51 am

The only question left is, if he actually wins an Owl for the Vikes, will he be considered the greatest Vikings QB or will that designation still go to Fran.

Mick
Mick
Reply to  JacksonVike
2 March 2023 9:55 am

Lol right?

HUNViking
Reply to  VikingPhilip
2 March 2023 12:48 pm

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FloridaSKOL
2 March 2023 6:56 am

Happy Thorsday!

FloridaSKOL
Reply to  Gone fishin'
2 March 2023 6:58 am

That is awful.

Lifer
Admin
Reply to  FloridaSKOL
2 March 2023 7:04 am

Can’t imagine two trains full speed head on the amount of force and impact that had. Those engineers had to be horrified in their final moments. One would think there would be systems in place to alert two trains are on the same track heading toward each other.

DE Viking
2 March 2023 4:15 am

When I think of a team in pro sports, the first thing I want is a breastfeeding room. My workplace is evil. No breastfeeding room available for our wives.

The only area in which the Jaguars got a worse grade was in family treatment. The Jaguars are one of 14 teams that do not offer a family room and players’ wives breastfed their babies on the floor of the stadium’s public restrooms, per the survey. The Jaguars are also one of 11 teams that do not provide day care at the stadium.

Lifer
Admin
Reply to  DE Viking
2 March 2023 5:17 am

The balloon factory has a breastfeeding room, cuck room and beta safe room.

JacksonVike
Reply to  Gone fishin'
2 March 2023 6:39 am

And for Festivus to be a paid holiday.

Rob
Rob
Admin
Reply to  DE Viking
2 March 2023 5:43 am

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  DE Viking
2 March 2023 6:41 am

You’re supposed to say chest feeding so you don’t offend the dudes who want to be women

FloridaSKOL
Reply to  DE Viking
2 March 2023 7:01 am

Breastfeeding room and daycare at the stadium? Really? I am way too old…

VikingPhilip
Reply to  FloridaSKOL
2 March 2023 7:03 am

Of course they need a daycare at the stadium. None of these guys can really afford to pay to have their kids taken care of somewhere else. They all are working for minimum wage.

Lifer
Admin
Reply to  VikingPhilip
2 March 2023 7:05 am

Quit having fucking kids. Life is better without them and we have too many humans on this planet anyway.

VikingPhilip
Reply to  Lifer
2 March 2023 7:08 am

I promise Lifer, I won’t have any more kids.

JacksonVike
Reply to  Gone fishin'
2 March 2023 9:46 am

Maybe you should try harder

FloridaSKOL
Reply to  Lifer
2 March 2023 8:20 am

Sounds like China is running short of young people. Too many reproduction controls. Wanna go over there and help breed the new generation?

Wrenage
Reply to  FloridaSKOL
2 March 2023 8:54 am

Wrenage
Reply to  FloridaSKOL
2 March 2023 10:29 am

I think they are maybe short of girls, too, because when they did have kids, they wanted boys.

Mick
Mick
Reply to  Lifer
2 March 2023 9:10 am

Wrong.

Lifer
Admin
Reply to  Mick
2 March 2023 9:55 am

Spoken like a true Christian breeder.

HUNViking
Reply to  Lifer
2 March 2023 12:51 pm

we have too many humans on this planet anyway

More woke propaganda bullshit.

Rob
Rob
Admin
2 March 2023 4:12 am

let’s go….

Rob
Rob
Admin
2 March 2023 4:09 am

First

JacksonVike
Reply to  Gone fishin'
2 March 2023 6:40 am

He looks just like my dog, and about as dramatic when he is tired.

HUNViking
Reply to  Rob
2 March 2023 12:52 pm

First auto rec

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Gone fishin'

Gone fishin'

I'm a dad, husband, Army vet, believer, and a die-hard, life-long Vikings fan from the great state of North Dakota. I've been a Viking fan dating back to 1980, I've been covering the Vikings for nearly a decade, and I founded Skoloholics in 2022. I work in real estate and property management, I love spending time with family, working in the yard, doing anything in the outdoors, and as you can tell from my username, I love fishing. SKOL!!!!!!!!!!

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