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The Vikings locked in Harrison Smith yesterday, and I expect that we’ll see something happen with Dalvin Cook today. The Vikings can save anywhere from $8 million to $11 million by trading or releasing Cook, depending on whether they designate the move as post 6/1. I seriously doubt that the Vikings want to roll into 2023 with a $14 million cap hit for their running back, but you never know what’s going on behind closed doors.
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Minnesota Vikings News:
The Minnesota Vikings agreed to terms on a deal with Harrison Smith to keep Smith in Minnesota.
From NFL.com, the Bears are signing D’Onta Foreman and Robert Tonyan, and the Eagles agreed to a 2-year $42 million extension to keep Darius Slay.
CBS Sports has an NFL free-agency tracker where you can keep up on all the latest moves.
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Here’s a little Mitch Hedberg for your Friday. Enjoy!
Comment #420. Moljiner would be proud.
I’m outta here. Y’all have a wonderful weekend, drive fast & take chances!
Somewhere V22 is feeling like me right now after WVU got bounced in the tourney.
Sorry V22.
Wow.
West Virginia has a college? I never would’ve guessed.
Rather watch Golden Girls than early conference play.
Not much quality teaching or sports goes on there but plenty of drinking and quality fucking.
Sounds like a great college
Lol….Elway is such a tool.
Better at getting pressure than Tomlinson then.
I’m not sure how good Tomlinson really was. We need better play in the trenches.
He underperformed imo. Maybe had a few game stretch where he was getting pressure but never showed that enough which is exactly why the Giants let him go to FA.
I agree. Certainly not worth the money he got from the Browneyes.
Competition for Tonga
Likely a starter
Rotational at best.
-Five
Miss the big 5?
No.
(On Lowery…Could be the case for rotational: After having a strong 2021, where he had 5 sacks and 42 pressures, he only had a half-sack and 17 pressures in 2022. That’s still a decent amount of pressures but not great.)
I expect little from my clubs, rarely disappointed.
Have to admit this is pretty boss by our GM.
What were they playing?
March madness. Big upset over #2 team yesterday
Ohhhhhhhhhh, I see.
How was Princeton in the tournament? I didn’t know they even had a basketball team. Figured all their students would be busy doing nerd things.
We got him!
Trenches!!
Ha, Spanky!
Been with the Packers since he was drafted in 2016
Injury guy, another Irv, big deal.
There may be time, I think this guy may be onto something.
I doubt I’m gonna be around ’til 5:00 today. Nope. Not happening.
24 minutes
Plus an hour, I’m on central time. I suppose I could switch to eastern time until after I leave here, then I won’t be leaving early.
To make room for their long snapper
GTD money Cook and Z get now. Signals they won’t be flat out released.
Either on roster or trade.
Why would you think otherwise?
Competitive Rebuild
Keep winning Baby!! ONe of these years we will win the OWL.
Uncompetitive rebuild 2023.
Well yeah, but that verbiage doesn’t play to the fan base.
Greatest living President Gerald Ford??? Smoking crack.
lol
This guy is hilarious. Uses the wrong names all the time, fucks with people non-stop.
Haha
Time’s up… Cook and Z Smith gtd money is in the bank.
That’s not Sean Connery
and he was Scottish
Moore weren’t bad, Connery all time fave.
I have the full set of original Ian Fleming books.
Envious
It’s intentional.
Ahhhh soooo
Little more than 30mins to go
27 minutes and counting
Money becomes gtd, but doesn’t mean they’re gone. Just signals they won’t be flat out released. They’ll either keep them or trade. Release will be out of the question
15 degrees in cities. Average is 42. No umbrella needed though, so there’s that.
We’re at 8 right now, feels like -14.
33 on Sunday!
No travel advised again today. Good grief, this shit just won’t end.
Had another store close in town for “roof conditions”
Damn, another one? Yikes. I used a roof rake on the house once, may need to go out again.
Thought the metro was bad, you guys getting hammered.
Yeah, it’s ugly over here. No end in sight yet, but at least we’re getting close. Allegedly.
my wife is supposed to be leaving tomorrow morning for Montana.
how are the hwy’s out by you looking? Been checking the hwy maps but they don’t always tell the story
Good around glendive. Sun shining so they’re all cleared off.
yeah, north dakota has some bad roads right now though, which is going to be her main portion of the trip.
They’re fine. – Zimmer
You have this link, correct?
https://travel.dot.nd.gov/
Pretty accurate. Minny has 511mn.org, worth looking at.
Yeah, they do a good job with keeping this updated.
yep i have the montana/nd/minnesota all 3 up on my computer right now
March sun helps alot, even if below normal temps.
You’d better do the driving.
i don’t have the vacation time…
let’s just say the mrs decided to listen to her dad over her husband for when she should travel (i suggested wednesday even though glendive was getting snwo that night) so far we have waited till now and tomorrow doesn’t look like a good travel day either…
Well if she gets as far as the Bloomfield highway but can’t make it to her folks I’ll keep her safe and warm at the shouse.
Blowing snow is reducing visibility. Wind is supposed to die down by morning, so visibility should be okay. I’d be worried that with the blowing/drifting snow, the roads will become icy.
just put brand spanking new michelin crossclimates on her van, so those things will ride well and safe,but don’t love the idea of sending her on crap roads without me there
Minivan? Sheesh. Brave lady.
Good tires, though. I still like Coopers better, but Michelin makes good tires.
Same minivan with the questional battery?
Crappy at the moment, hopefully will clear by tomorrow. Right now, there is no travel advised for the eastern half of the state, scattered ice from Bismarck all the way to Montana.
Wow, no travel advised all the way from Fargo to Dickinson, pretty much the entire state.
Better clear up by next Friday. I gots to get to Bismarck.
In one of my rare weighty posts, I have discovered a new reality show gem. If you hadn’t guessed, I have sworn off Bachelor franchise for…reasons. But this new show “Farmer wants a wife” has been a breath of fresh air. None of these ridiculous fairy tale dates, the five women are living in the bachelor’s real farm home and eating real food and going on real farm dates doing things like stacking wood and feeding cows. I get a real smile when a city girl says this just isn’t something I’m used to, no glitz and bustle of NYC.
None of those “guys” are farmers. Good grief.
Well, GA Hunter is an aspiring musician but does have some prairie poodles and hosses. NC Ryan has a cool barndominium with attached horse stables and does seem to know the horses he raises. Landon has 600 acres and three dogs in Okrahoma. TN Allen has a 200 acre cattle ranch and seems super genuine, also avid hunter. I am going to veto your comment. I identify with Allen.
I’m sure they’re good actors.
LOL.
My daughter is watching this show.
And is thinking about applying to be on it……
She should…looks like fun. Good resume builder. I’d sure as heck glad I married a country girl.
My wife and I like this show. I kinda got sucked in. Gonna get juicy
I feel bad GF is soured on the show. I love that these are real dates, set in far from dream houses, the contestants are doing some of the cooking, etc…
“real”
This might’ve been posted already.
Who has the leverage?
Packers?
Jets?
Rodgers?
I say Jets and Rodgers. They can both walk away. Of course I don’t want to see the Packers get 11 and 13, move up and pick up a generational QB, etc…
Me too.
FTP
I’d rather the deal fall through and force Green Bush to keep him. I don’t want to see them get a bunch of picks.
Correct
What was the latest, 2023 1st and future 1st?
They want a first “and more” from the last I heard.
Turns 40 this year, hope Jets don’t do something stupid.
First and more.
That’s a lot.
especially if you want to give up 3 to get QBOTF.
Jets.
What do they do for QB?
are the coach and GM on the hot seat?
Jets can say kiss my ass & draft a QB or roll with Wilson one more year.
They can but are they in win now?
whst other vet… besides Kirk could they make a move for?
Saleh and Douglas (GM) may be in win-now mode, but I would think ownership would step in the way prior to letting them tank the future for a one to two-year rental.
I feel the same especially with the dead cap but I also think om biased
yes?
I am guess all have some
but none have all/most.
thinking the Puckers have the least unless someone else steps up to offer a deal.
My take on it is, the Packers do not want to trade him. They would prefer they force him to retire, which would save them millions in cap space. However, if I were Rodgers I would say screw it, I’m staying in Green Bay taking on the full contract. And play so badly they have to play Love anyway.
0% chance he retires.
Packers have said their moving on and Rodgers claims they don’t want him back
But if they request an ungodly amount for him the Jets won’t make the deal. So if he does not want to play for FTP his only option may be to retire.
He won’t retire. Ain’t no way he’s gonna retire the same year Brady retires. Absolutely no chance.
That is why I am hoping the deal falls through with the Jets and he stays in Green Bay and just burns up the pocket book of all the Green Bay owners.
Would make me happy.
I think pick 13 is an Ungodly amount
3 years & $22 million wouldn’t allow the fam to live stress free? Goof ball.
Interestingly enough, my wife and I live monetarily stress free and we don’t make anywhere near that amount of money.
Now if I wanted to own a castle, then maybe I would need that to live stress free.
Gotta have 2,396,352 pairs of shoes, too.
How can you live stress free if you don’t have 2,396,352 pairs of shoes? What if your late afternoon, casual time, out in the park, during spring, when it is 64 degrees out shoes fall apart? I would be devastated and would need medical attention.
Anything less would be uncivilized.
Situations like that stress me out daily.
Who was that timberwolf goofball who famously said he needed 50 million to take care of his family???
the comeback was “For how many generations?”
Ah yes it was Spreewell…
I don’t really GAF, but it is ridiculous how much pro athletes make. However, if they can get it good for them. Guess I could stop watching but jeepers I like watching the NFL. I figure I’m doing my part in limiting ad revenue for pro sports by only watching the NHL if the Oilers are in the playoffs and MLB if the Jays are in the series.
Yep, claimed the Timberwolves were taking food off his children’s plates, with the contract they offered him.
Don’t think he got another contract, wonder how that worked for him. Nut job.
I read he filed for bankruptcy shortly after he retired. His rim business failed as well, he owned the company that made the spinner rims.
Lots of personal/financial issues. Nut job.
That was a fun year with the Three Headed Monster.
True. Watched Wolves back in the day but they exasperate beyond belief, for decades.
Would have been in the finals had it not been for the cheating referee that handed the Lakers the series.
Our best shot. Wondering if i’ll see another championship of any kind. Even ’91 Twins getting old.
An hour & 43 minutes left.
For what?
The end of the world?
Z Smith & Cook have bonus money coming at 3:00, the thought is that they’ll make a move prior to that if they were gonna make a move. I’m not convinced, but hey, it’s something to look forward to.
I think they’re gonna eat the money which signals they’ll either be kept or traded. Release is not going to happen
I never expected them to release either player, TBH.
When you can’t reach the goal change the goal…
Good to know there will be more “proficient” students in New York.
New York lowering minimum test scores for student proficiency in math, English: the ‘new normal’ | Fox News
I’m starting to think the movie Idiocracy was a prophecy, not a comedy.
I read 1984 again recently. Eerily prescient.
I would like to read 1984 and Animal Farm, when I get the time.
Both worth your time…
Very much so.
And Lord of the Flies.
I’ve read Lord of the Flies 5 or 6 times great book.
Sounds like a Stupid Lib thing to do,
Wouldn’t expect anything different from the New York cesspool.
Finally got an ad that I’m interested in. Hawaiian shirts up to 90% off!!!
Hawaiian shirts are inexpensive at Costco in you guessed it Hawaii.
Do they really wear Hawaiian shirts in Hawaii?
Never been there. One of 4 states I have yet to visit.
Yes. Well mainly haole. But yes.
I got an ad for the Walabot. Would love to have one but for a limited use tool $135 is a lot to spend.
That thing looks cool as hell.
I’ll probably end up pulling the trigger on one, at some point. When I showed the wifey, she said that would be a cool tool to have. I don’t think she saw the price though.
Not a bad deal, really, if it works. A shitty stud finder costs $35 & works 25% of the time.
3PM confirmed
https://twitter.com/LukeBraunNFL/status/1636774791477858310?s=20
TLDR… He likely stays if no info past 3PM but maybe the money is tradeable?
The money is tradeable I believe. So essentially, cuts/release are out of the questions but would have to find trade partners
My guess is they are both staying.
Competitive Rebuild.
Signing a $13M defensive end and a $7M blocking tight end ate up $20M in cap space this year. We have 8 players on contract right now in that DE/OLB/Edge rusher role. Potentially we’ll cut half of them.
Those are key positions though
It’s one role with two guys on the field at any given time. I was covering the semantics of the position because depending on the front, people refer to them differently. “Edge rusher” basically covers it all though and we have eight of them on contract right now.
We have one of those at skolohlics, too.
OTC isn’t as reliable as spotrac, IMO. They’re certainly not as quick to update.
This one is also pretty scary…
Some ants were able to recognize themselves in the mirror, displaying self-cleaning behavior after seeing themselves with a dot painted on their clypeus.
Once the ants become self-aware, it’s over for us. We don’t even need to wait for Climate Change!
I have actually been meaning to rewatch this. Classic!
They are thinking about remaking it. Shouldn’t do it. Plenty of bad movies with good concepts to remake. Them! did a decent job the first time.
There is a lot of old movies I still need to watch.
That is actually pretty scary
Although according to the latest estimates the total human population currently outweighs the total ant population.
Whites aren’t people, though…
Even though they are subhuman we will count them.
The weight of the total number of ants in the world outnumbers the mass of all the world’s wild birds and wild mammals combined!
Or equal to one mother-in-law…
Ha!
This random fact frightens me for some reason…
Dung beetles can navigate only when the Milky Way or clusters of bright stars are visible. They are the only insect known to orient itself by the galaxy.
If they are so smart, why do they eat shit??
Maybe they are Philly natives?
Hey, let’s not insult dung beetles here!
Anything going on with Dalvin Tomlinson?
Have not heard anything since they moved his Void date.
Either that or I missed it because I am old.
Signed with the Browns
Thanks,
DN needs to update their Free Agent Tracker.
Have him listed in Moved On and in Rumors Section.
He’s gone. With Stefanski in Cle
Hi.
Hello…yes, has Irv broken out yet?
or is Duke Shelleu actually good?
Irv sucks
Duke is lightening in a bottle. Pass on that grass
Bob & Doug’s more athletic brother?
https://twitter.com/jonnajarian/status/1636731996415066112?s=20
Not so funny today. I hit the parking lot hard getting out of my truck this morning. Filled out an incident report, debating on going for XRays but I’m pretty sure it’s just soft tissue damage.
Definitely go for X-rays…definitely (deep ominous chuckle).
Ben, when you do the summary make sure you mention that Northwoods hurt his boobs.
LOL
You boys and girls behave yourselves. I’m gonna take the kiddo out and try to shoot some pasture poodles for the day.
Nice, enjoy!
Pasture poodles are cows, yes?
Not sure. We call sheep “prairie maggots”
I don’t think the rancher would let me back out there if I shot one of those.
Davenport has not signed yet. Wonder if its because of Z and what they’re going to do.
Pass a physical is my guess.
https://www.facebook.com/SNFonNBC/photos/a.116090781777223/6410258942360344/
Nice !
March Madness, wish they could fast forward to final 4.
Why?!?! Then we wouldn’t get to see Princeton beat Arizona, or Furman beat Virginia. This is the fun part!
I doubt I’ll watch a minute of it.
I am in an eliminator pool..Those are pretty fun..I took Virgina day 1.
WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT???
Taking Virginia is right next to starting a land war in Asia…..don’t
I learned that the hard way. So I can re-buy in, which of course I did, but now need to go 4 for 4 today.
I had Virginia losing the next game so it doesn’t hurt me too bad, no worse than everyone else in the contest.
I know nothing about college basketball, so I am stabbing blindly anyway. It seems like upsets are more common now than ever, though.
I blame the Internet. It gives all schools access to the same data to use in game-planning, practice, nutrition, etc.
Enjoyed camela alma getting destroyed and that stupid locker room speech.
I’m looking forward to the NCAA wrestling quarterfinals today. I filled out a bracket for basketball at work but I don’t know anything about any of the teams or who I picked, I don’t even remember who I picked to win.
Not much of a college guy with any sport, until the end of playoffs.
Four days without gluten, I’m finally starting to feel human. They say it could take up to two months for my body to return to normalcy.
Do you ever get gastrointestinal issues while running? If so, this could also help with that.
I have a pretty sensitive system. My favorite time to run is when there are cornfields for as far as the eye can see. Then I always have a bathroom like twenty feet away!
I was diagnosed with celiac’s a few days ago, so yeah, I was having major issues. They did a scope, took biopsies, & one of them came back positive for celiac’s. I was having a lot of issues that I couldn’t explain, and I’m normally very healthy.
This all started in November, so I’m grateful that I now know what the issue is so that I can take action to solve the problem.
I don’t have celiac’s but I may as well due to my sensitivity issues. This summer my wife brought home lamb curry from a restaurant. I thought it was lamb biryani, which is much less spicy at ate it.
I was no kidding sick for two months. I had a colitis flare up that was brutal. Constant bleeding. No fun.
Also, this incident taught my wife how she can easily kill me and make it look like an accident…
I’ve always been able to eat anything, so this is new for me. It’s not easy to eat gluten-free, holy crap.
Lots of protein I would imagine, Carbs will be hard to come by. Friend of mine has that disease…has had it for a long time. Healthy, well-built guy though, seems like he is none the worse for it, in fact maybe better.
It’ll ultimately improve my health. I’ve been wanting to make some dietary changes, and have been making some, but this’ll help in the long run.
It still sucks. I can’t even eat Girl Scout Cookies anymore.
I have a pretty good gluten-free chocolate cake recipe. I will have to remember to bring it in next week and type it up for you.
Oh, that would be awesome.
Eating regular meals isn’t too bad, as meat, fruit, & veggies are all okay. Eating out is tough, but other than that, meals are not hard.
Between meals isn’t easy.
My daughter is trying gluten-free as well to see if it helps her auto-immune issue. She just started this week.
I couldn’t go gluten free.
I love bread !!!
Maybe it wasn’t an accident, but prudent testing on her part.
My wife is basically Kato!
You should fear for your life.
Has she recently gotten interested in the status of your life insurance policies?
Gotta rehearse if you want the show to turn out right.
What did you feel like before? An aardvark?
Sorta.
I’ve never felt as shitty as I felt at times over the past few months. It sucked, mostly because I had no clue what was wrong.
Good luck!
Pretty cool that you no longer drink. Gluten free beers are mostly crap.
Some ciders are pretty good.
So, is Celiac something that can develop later in life, or have you just suffered all along and not known why?
NM……read down far enough to answer my own question.
While classically a disease of infants, celiac disease now commonly presents at age 10-40.
I never would’ve thought of it, but they took a biopsy when they did a scope last week & it tested positive.
They say it’s usually dormant, but can be triggered by high stress or other life events. This all started in November, shortly after they announced that they’re selling our company. The more I learn, the more I understand what’s been happening the past few months.
Man that sucks. My wife has a couple relatives on her side with it, we’re all getting used to cooking for the group (we do a lot of group family camping and other social events).
It stinks that it lies dormant and can be triggered, but they say it never goes away.
There are tons of “leadership” books, classes and seminars. If everyone is leading, who follows? Why aren’t there follow-ship classes. I’m sure I could benefit from that.
Because leadership is harder than follow-ship…but this is an interesting point.
I would prefer not to lead or follow. I just want everyone to leave me alone.
King of your domain of 1, Master of your own universe…
I get it…
Amen
Wow, he knew the secret to winning: don’t be greedy & they can build a team around you.
The exact opposite of Kirko chains.
And then walk away and totally toast the last team you played for.
I’m trying to think of ways to break QB paradigms because the NFL gets too copycat at times, as in, “We need a $50 million QB to compete.”
This morning’s theory is that all NFC teams should switch to rookie QBs. There is no point for any NFC team to pay out of the nose for their Tier B QBs. The AFC is full of QBs that have wrecked the curve. High-paid Tier B QBs are now useless.
All NFC teams should have a rookie QB and devote the money saved to building an elite-QB-destroying team. If the rookie QB turns out to be elite, pay them. Otherwise, move on to the next rookie QB and do what you can to maintain the elite-QB-destroying aspect of the team.
High-paid Tier B QBs are the new Tier D QB. They are a trap. Don’t fall for it.
Well said, I agree 100%.
That’s good. I had no idea whether the concept is stupid or not, but the worst that can happen is I get called stupid. I’ve been called stupid before…and numerous times the label was aptly applied. In that case, I can live with it.
I’ve been called much worse.
I think the worst thing I’ve ever been called was a “victim” by a girl I had the hots for. It was a total slap to the face in the moment, but, upon reflection, I realized she was 100-PERCENT RIGHT.
Totally changed how I dealt with various situations. I am very thankful she did not coddle me and gave it to me with both barrels.
Sounds like she didn’t give you any of her “barrels”…
lol
Well-played!
Stupid lib – Five
Who is your “assigned female at birth” NCAA champion this year?
Which sport?
I think he is talking about softball….
Womens softball sucks though….
I don’t mind watching Women’s basketball…
I don’t watch basketball. I’ll watch women’s volleyball sometimes because my wife watches it. I think the uniforms look nice.
you may have a bi-wife on your hands…not that there is anything wrong with that.
She played volleyball through college, then coached at the college level for more than a decade. I’m no geologist, but I’m guessing that is a bigger contributing factor to her watching volleyball.
You never know, though!
Ahh, that explains it…My wife coached girls basketball, thats why I have grown used to watching it…I sometimes prefer it to guys, much less one on one, much more team work, but yes the athleticism is lacking.
How dare you, you sexist pig.
I am hopeful that might change as more and more dudes play womens sports.
My youngest granddaughter (10) is really into volleyball. She is also the smallest player on her team by far. She is not blessed with genes that will make her 6′ plus so I doubt she gets to the college level but once she sets her mind on something she puts her all into it.
I spent an hour bumping and setting for her, after that I was sore and she wanted to keep going. Sigh. I used to play volleyball in HS so she just absorbs my pointers. Too bad we aren’t closer so she could work with your wife a bit.
You don’t have to be tall to be a great college volleyball player. Teach her how to set and she will be fine.
Yep, it is possible. I knew a girl who was about 5’0 make the SDSU team.
My volleyball season just ended. Now I know who to ask for tips for next season!
As a former basketball player, spiking is hard for me. All my muscle memory is built to try to get the ball at its highest point with my arm fully stretched out.
We’re lucky, play sand all year. The bar I play at has a dome over the 3 courts from October through April.
Nice. Playing on sand is great!
Well i meant basketball, but me being dum dum I didn’t specify….