Minnesota Vikings Discussion-Back Page: 09 Jan 2023

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Vikings @ Bears

The Vikings went into Soldier Field yesterday and got a win against the Bears. I know the Bears are a 3-14 team, but getting a win there on the road is never a gimme, so it was good to see the Vikings handle business and not make it harder than it had to be.

I loved what I saw from Kirk in the first half, as he was razor sharp (with the exception of the decision to throw that last pass at the end of the first half). Dalvin looked good, minus the fumble, and Mattison looked great. Reed still struggled with the snap count at times, but seemed to do better with it than last week. The rest of the O-line held up very well. In the second half, Irv Smith got some playing time, and made the most of it. He stood out for good reasons on a few occasions. Another guy who made the most of his opportunity to see the field was Jaylon Nailor, as he made a few nice looking plays in the second half. KJ put up another solid outing. The starters played the first half, then most of them sat in the second half. Mullens filled in pretty well at QB, minus one ill-advised throw that resulted in his only interception.

The defense did a really good job yesterday. Yes, I’m aware that it was against the Bears, but the Vikings defense has had a habit of making bad offenses look good all year, and they didn’t do that yesterday, so I’ll consider that a win. Duke Shelley really looked good when he got more playing time in the second half.

Greg Joseph missed the PAT on the first touchdown of the game. After that, he hit everything they asked him to kick. He also hit one at the end of the first half that didn’t count. He did enough to make you happy, but threw that missed PAT in there just to let you know that you’d better not take any kick for granted in the playoffs. Can you imagine if the fate of a playoff game hanging in the balance of a 45 yard field goal? How would your nerves be with Greg Joseph lining up to kick that 45 yarder? Or any yarder?

Yikes, this is going to be a stressful playoff run. You’d expect nothing else from this year’s Vikings. In the end, the Minnesota Vikings end the 2022-23 regular season with a 13-4 record. They’re the NFC North champions and are the 3rd seed in the NFC heading into the playoffs.

Speaking of playoffs, here is the playoff schedule:

So, the Vikings will take on the Giants at 3:30 American time on Sunday. Here we go!!!! SKOL!!!!!!!

Minnesota Vikings News:

We posted the post-game wrap-up.

Vikings.com has stats from yesterday’s win, also see all the highlights from the game, and there’s much more to sift through in the media vault.

The Lions beat the Packers last night, (link courtesy of ESPN) eliminating the Packers from the playoffs. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

The rest of your NFL week 18 scores and highlights, courtesy of ESPN.

Video of the Day:

It is my pleasure to continue our tradition of playing the fight song the day after a victory for the 13th time this year. STRIKE UP THE BAND!!!!!!!

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VikingPhilip
9 January 2023 12:18 pm

Hey Hun,

I found this in a book. Do you have any idea what language it is? It looks Eastern European.

VikingPhilip
Reply to  VikingPhilip
9 January 2023 12:19 pm

Sorry, image didn’t post.

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CCHOF5yearstoolate
Reply to  VikingPhilip
9 January 2023 12:27 pm

google says Bulgaria

skolifer
skolifer
Reply to  CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 12:31 pm

Big if true. The exchange rate on the dollar to Bulgarian Lev is 1.82. So, VP just found $5.49 before money exchange fees.

VikingPhilip
Reply to  skolifer
9 January 2023 12:39 pm

I’m rich!

skolifer
skolifer
Reply to  VikingPhilip
9 January 2023 12:41 pm

I can’t think of anyone around here that’s more deserving of such a surprise windfall. Don’t forget to report it on your 2023 tax returns.

MT Viking
Reply to  skolifer
9 January 2023 1:18 pm

True, just like skoldiers reporting his winnings from five.

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  VikingPhilip
9 January 2023 12:42 pm

Me too, got $500,000 of confederate money.

NoDakRube
Reply to  norseman1
9 January 2023 12:50 pm

Racist

skolifer
skolifer
Reply to  norseman1
9 January 2023 12:53 pm

Were your ancestors Democrats? Stupid lib.

VikingPhilip
Reply to  CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 12:38 pm

I tried the translation thing on my iphone but it wouldn’t recognize it.

HUNViking
Reply to  VikingPhilip
9 January 2023 1:04 pm

I see the bill has been identified already, congrats on finding such a treasure.

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 12:09 pm

skolifer
skolifer
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 12:14 pm

I can deal with most broadcast teams that don’t include a Buck, a Collinsworth or (more recently) a Romo. That said, I also like the crew we’re getting for this weekend’s game.

Lifer
Admin
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 12:26 pm

Thank god it’s not the grim big ear’d reaper Romo and his paw paw Nance.

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 12:07 pm

Thoughts on Rodgers staying or retiring?

I think he’s gone

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 12:18 pm

If you watch his press conference it seems pretty likely he’s done

NoDakRube
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 January 2023 12:23 pm

HA!

FloridaSKOL
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 January 2023 12:24 pm

LOL!

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 January 2023 12:46 pm

Didn’t you hear? The NFL is going to re-evaluate the teams in the playoffs and apply a DVOA metric to reset the teams that are participating.

skolifer
skolifer
Reply to  benjammin
9 January 2023 12:20 pm

Being Rodgers, I’m anticipating he’ll drag it out to milk the drama.

If he leaves, it looks like he’ll be out almost $60MM and Packers will have $40MM in dead cap left behind. Sounds good to me.

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  skolifer
9 January 2023 12:35 pm

Packers can recoup any bonus already paid but yet to hit the salary cap if he retires. Sounded like he said he’ll take some time but it won’t play out like last years drama.

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 12:17 pm

FloridaSKOL
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 12:20 pm

VikingPhilip
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 12:21 pm

I think he’s gone.

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Lifer
Admin
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 12:22 pm

I am so sick of the annual Rodgers Will he return drama.

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 12:45 pm

I would bet he will say nothing definitive until August so he can keep as much attention on his narcissistic ass as possible. Once training camp rolls around he will show up and act like nothing ever happened.

skolifer
skolifer
9 January 2023 11:50 am

There are a lot of reasons the Vikings may not last in the playoffs (five and Kodiak are happy to provide a list if you need one, or just see below).

Fuck that mentality. The Vikings won 13 games and they’re in the show. Time to get fired up and cheer until we can’t cheer now more. SKOL Vikings!

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  skolifer
9 January 2023 11:54 am

Did you know the Vikings are 31st in defense? Has anyone ever told you that this season?

skolifer
skolifer
Reply to  benjammin
9 January 2023 11:55 am

Shit. I had no idea they’re that bad. Scratch what I said above. FTV.

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  skolifer
9 January 2023 12:07 pm

Lol

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  benjammin
9 January 2023 11:56 am

What’s their DVOA though?

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  bowbunch
9 January 2023 11:59 am

IDK, if only there were someone around who would be willing to remind me 69 times a day…

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  benjammin
9 January 2023 12:02 pm

DVOA. De-void of accuracy.

Kodiak
Reply to  skolifer
9 January 2023 12:25 pm

We haven’t been in the show for over 45 years.

CCHOF5yearstoolate
Reply to  Kodiak
9 January 2023 12:28 pm

skolifer
skolifer
Reply to  Kodiak
9 January 2023 12:29 pm

You remind me of Aunt Bonnie in this GEICO commercial…”expired, expired, expired”.

GA Skol
9 January 2023 11:48 am

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  GA Skol
9 January 2023 11:56 am

Jefferson is just lucky he has Kirk throwing to him instead of a scrub loser, Watkins would have better numbers than JJ if Kirk were his QB, JJ way overrated because he has the 2nd greatest QB in NFL history throwing him the ball.

norseman1
norseman1
9 January 2023 11:45 am

GA Skol
9 January 2023 11:44 am

Some guy on the DN told you it would be a 13-4 season before it started. He’s a smart dude.

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  GA Skol
9 January 2023 11:45 am

What’s the DN?

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  bowbunch
9 January 2023 11:46 am

Dead Nation.

GA Skol
Reply to  bowbunch
9 January 2023 11:47 am

Some garbage site that no one likes

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  GA Skol
9 January 2023 11:49 am

Blind squirrel nuts on a broken clock twice a day

Kodiak
9 January 2023 11:37 am

This explains our season.

The Vikings entered Week 18 with the best net penalty yardage differential in the NFL at +258.

GA Skol
Reply to  Kodiak
9 January 2023 11:43 am

The team played disciplined and is well coached? I agree Kodiak.

Kodiak
Reply to  GA Skol
9 January 2023 12:20 pm

Makes a huge difference.

Big Stupid Face
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 11:38 am

Yes it is…..I’m just trying to figure out how you know that.

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 11:38 am

It’s up!

You seem excited about that. Is that not something you are used to?

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  bowbunch
9 January 2023 11:41 am

MT Viking
9 January 2023 11:28 am

Oh man I can’t wait for Sunday. Might break out not just one but two beers. Seems like it has been forever since we’ve been in the playoffs.

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  MT Viking
9 January 2023 11:30 am

Since 2019

Kodiak
Reply to  MT Viking
9 January 2023 11:38 am

1976 was a long time ago.

Big Stupid Face
Reply to  MT Viking
9 January 2023 11:39 am

I’ve had zero beers or any other alcohol so far this year. Not even on purpose. Just got too busy doing shit this weekend to drink anything.

CCHOF5yearstoolate
Reply to  Big Stupid Face
9 January 2023 11:52 am

damn if you’re pooping that much maybe you should go to the doctor

Lifer
Admin
Reply to  Big Stupid Face
9 January 2023 11:52 am

I’m on a 2.5 yr dry run. Have not a even a little desire to drink alcohol again.

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  Lifer
9 January 2023 11:53 am

That why you get cranky sometimes?

Lifer
Admin
Reply to  norseman1
9 January 2023 12:24 pm

Nah that’s just my nature, drinking I’ve been told amplifies It just a tad.

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  Lifer
9 January 2023 12:27 pm

Ok lifer, you’re smart, intelligent and a good citizen. Just get wound a little tight sometimes. 5 may be involved.

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  Lifer
9 January 2023 12:28 pm

Its been a little over 12 hours for me, probably not gonna make it more than 18.

NoDakRube
Reply to  benjammin
9 January 2023 12:30 pm

Ha Ben! I just made it 18 hours! Could even make 24 but that will be pushing it.

NoDakRube
Reply to  Lifer
9 January 2023 12:29 pm

A sober Lifer is volatile enough, can’t imagine a drunk Lifer…

But seriously, good for you! Much respect.

NoDakRube
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 January 2023 12:31 pm

But you aren’t just doing more instead are you Lifer??

norseman1
norseman1
9 January 2023 11:09 am

What’s the early spread vs gnats? Proverbial -2.5?

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  norseman1
9 January 2023 11:30 am

Vikings -3 favs. Think it hits too

MT Viking
9 January 2023 11:08 am

The only thing missing from the scene of Rodgers and Cobb slowly walking off the field and down the hallway to the locker room was a tear jerking score like “Unchained Melody”. Although Rodgers ruined it by politely pushing the camera in his face out of the way.

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  Mick
9 January 2023 11:02 am

Hah! I don’t have a Tweeter and I beat you to it. I just don’t have a fancy picture to go with it.

Big Stupid Face
Reply to  bowbunch
9 January 2023 11:28 am

I mean, without a fancy picture everything else is just moo.

skolifer
skolifer
Reply to  Mick
9 January 2023 11:03 am

What a mess in AZ. I never understood why they extended Kingsbury or Murrary, for that matter.

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  skolifer
9 January 2023 11:04 am

What coach is going to want to go there and be saddled to Murray outside of somebody who has never been a head coach and has no other option?

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  bowbunch
9 January 2023 11:20 am

Anyone coaching in the NFL or College that isn’t already a HC

Kodiak
Reply to  benjammin
9 January 2023 11:40 am

Exactly, the opportunity to turn those teams around is highly desirable.

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  skolifer
9 January 2023 11:22 am

Denver is job i wouldn’t take. General George S Patton is fucked.

freezeyface
Reply to  Mick
9 January 2023 11:06 am

but i was told he was a wunderkind and he has a really cool palatial palace of a home and he’s super good and will be the next best thing blah blah blah

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  Mick
9 January 2023 11:30 am

Not shocking. he sucks and same with Murray

GA Skol
Reply to  Mick
9 January 2023 11:40 am

Dude has had a losing record at every head coaching spot he’s had. He is terrible. I wouldn’t want him to coach a D-III school.

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  GA Skol
9 January 2023 11:44 am

They should hire Kiffin

bowbunch
bowbunch
9 January 2023 10:58 am

Kingsbury gone. That was a smart extension.

freezeyface
9 January 2023 10:39 am

i’m glad the packers gave me more fuel to the fire to keep my kids thinking they are just the worst…

“hey kid, guess what one of the packers players did, he shoved and tried to hurt a trainer who was on the field to help someone, how mean is that. who just shoves an innocent person when they are trying to help someone, see, this is why i tell you the packers are the worst kiddos”

Mjolnir
Reply to  freezeyface
9 January 2023 10:42 am

Should remind them they sell $300 pieces of paper to stupid people and get them to believe they ‘own’ the team…..

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  Mjolnir
9 January 2023 10:54 am

$300 is an expensive piece of shitpaper

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  freezeyface
9 January 2023 10:57 am

You should show them the video of the big baby manchild crying about as he walked off the field after getting ejected.

freezeyface
Reply to  benjammin
9 January 2023 11:07 am

they would be like hey that looks like us when we do something stupid and get it trouble for it….but we are little children….

norseman1
norseman1
9 January 2023 10:27 am

HAHAHAHAHA. FTP AND THEIR FANBASE AND QUAY WALKER!
Memories…..light the corners of my mind
of the way we were………!

Big Stupid Face
9 January 2023 10:03 am
Edgecrusher71
Reply to  Big Stupid Face
9 January 2023 10:17 am

Shouldn’t be hovering over an injured player especially one that isn’t your teammate, get the fuck out of the way. What a POS.

HUNViking
Reply to  Edgecrusher71
9 January 2023 1:21 pm

^^This^^

MT Viking
Reply to  Big Stupid Face
9 January 2023 10:30 am

Now that’s the funniest thing I’ve read all day.

NoDakRube
Reply to  Big Stupid Face
9 January 2023 11:16 am

This isn’t real is it? That player was hardly “man handled”.

Big Stupid Face
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 January 2023 11:29 am

I believe it is.

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 January 2023 11:31 am

If it gets posted on the internet, especially twitter, its 100% real

MT Viking
9 January 2023 9:56 am

Holy new font, Batman.

benjammin
Admin
9 January 2023 9:48 am

peterplaysbass
9 January 2023 9:27 am

Vikings Vibe on Offense

Solid, balanced opening drive; mediocre rest-of-first-half; turnover-filled third-quarter disaster; inexplicable fourth-quarter transformation into the 2007 Patriots.

Giants Vibe on Defense

Dexter Lawrence, rookie late-season sensation Kayvon Thibodeaux, and the front four smash everything in sight. What they cannot smash turns around to bite the Giants.

Giants Vibe on Offense

Four-yard Barkley run on first down. Four-yard Jones scramble or designed run on second down. Carefully constructed 3-yard toss to Richie James on third down. Repeat until the Washington Commanders beat themselves.

Vikings Vibe on Defense

Coordinator Ed Donatell encourages his defense full of savvy-but-pokey veterans to bend like a silly straw, but not break. The Vikings ranked 29th in DVOA against short passes and 29th against WR1s entering Week 18

Vikings Penalty Note

The Vikings entered Week 18 with the best net penalty yardage differential in the NFL at +258. Opponents were flagged for pass interference against the Vikings 11 times for 158 yards and defensive holding 11 times for 55 yards entering the final week. Justin Jefferson and Adam Thielen coaxed four DPI penalties each from defenders. The Vikings offense had been flagged for holding just 11 times, the second-lowest figure in the NFL.

Giants Special Teams Note

Graham Gano was 8-of-9 on 50-plus-yard field goal attempts.

Early Prediction

The Vikings managed to draw the least threatening of the NFC wild-card teams. Now all they must do is beat a team they needed a last-second field goal to defeat 27-24 in Week 16 in a rematch. Of course, the Vikings need last-second field goals to defeat everyone. Walkthrough is leaning toward the Giants: if we don’t get the upset, at least we get a push if this game ends like all other Vikings games (except for the ones in which they are mortally embarrassed by actual playoff-caliber competition).

All of the other wildcard games are reviewed also:
https://www.footballoutsiders.com/walkthrough/2023/wild-card-preview-49ers-poised-run

Big Stupid Face
Reply to  peterplaysbass
9 January 2023 9:31 am

I’m shocked that Football outsiders thinks the Vikings will lose.
Shocked.

peterplaysbass
Reply to  Big Stupid Face
9 January 2023 9:42 am

they were right about the games in Detroit and Green Bay

Vikings are going to need to host the Giants, the Bucs, and the Seahawks to have a chance at making the SB – unless they play a game that is (or is close to) the best and most unlikely game in franchise history, and they already have two of those this season (Bills and Colts)

Big Stupid Face
Reply to  peterplaysbass
9 January 2023 9:50 am

Vegas predicted a Vikings loss in those games too. Wasn’t really a shocker since it was basically a playoff game for those teams.
But now Vegas is predicting a Vikings victory.
The Vikings have not lost a game this year when favored by Vegas.

HUNViking
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 January 2023 1:24 pm

Very true.

Fivefingers
9 January 2023 9:24 am

vikes -3

JacksonVike
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 January 2023 12:43 pm

No if it were an algebra question it would look like Vikes -3 = W

CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 9:06 am

hope his treatment goes well

freezeyface
9 January 2023 9:03 am

I CAN’T BELIEVE THE VIKINGS ARE LOOKING PAST THE GIANTS AS AN AUTOMATIC WINNNNNNN

THAT COULD COME BACK TO BITE THEMMMMMMM

NoDakRube
Reply to  freezeyface
9 January 2023 9:09 am

There, you said it. We all knew you were thinking it.

peterplaysbass
Reply to  freezeyface
9 January 2023 9:14 am

typical

Big Stupid Face
Reply to  freezeyface
9 January 2023 9:23 am

All Caps. Nice.
You won’t see Lifer do that.
He hates capitalism.

NoDakRube
Reply to  Big Stupid Face
9 January 2023 11:21 am

He hates capitalism.


LOL!

HUNViking
Reply to  Big Stupid Face
9 January 2023 1:26 pm

Well plaid

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SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 9:03 am

I will admit the schedule for 2023 looks absolutely brutal…

Edgecrusher71
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 9:07 am

Meh, waaaaay too early to predict that shit. (also I agree). haha

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  Edgecrusher71
9 January 2023 9:10 am

Home: chiefs, niners, chargers, bucs, saints, packers, bears, lions

Away: Eagles, bengals, broncos, raiders, falcons, panthers, pack, bears, lions

It’s early but initially looking is rough

peterplaysbass
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 9:17 am

Chiefs, 49ers, Bucs, Packers will be worse next year
Chargers will be better, Bears and Lions both have potential

F the *aints

Eagles and Bengals are hard to peg. Broncos should be better. Raiders should have been better than they were this year – what will happen with their coach and QB?

Falcons blow. Panthers? Hard to say.

Fivefingers
Reply to  peterplaysbass
9 January 2023 9:21 am

lmao, iggles and bengals? Iggles have 2 1st rd picks

peterplaysbass
Reply to  Fivefingers
9 January 2023 9:29 am

Eagles will blow at least one of those picks (probably both) and they have other issues rising toward the surface

Fivefingers
Reply to  peterplaysbass
9 January 2023 9:48 am

lol

Kodiak
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 11:21 am

I see a couple wins anyway. Hope we don’t go 0-11 in one score games.

Fivefingers
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 9:08 am

now look at the 6 division games that are not going to be easy. 8 losses right there. The thing is we lose guys and go backwards, it’s a competitive rebuild like queasey said. It would help if cine can come back and booth is not a bust. Ed might be avg, evans could be decent.

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  Fivefingers
9 January 2023 9:09 am

We’ll definitely regress next season, I won’t dispute you on that. Rest of the division has to play the AFC west and NFC south though too. We just get eagles niners and bengals…

AFC gets the extra home game too

Lifer
Admin
Reply to  Fivefingers
9 January 2023 10:55 am

FFS…..stfu. Let’s get done with this year while you’re stuck on doomer repeat

MT Viking
Reply to  Lifer
9 January 2023 11:05 am

He might be delirious. “6 division games is 8 losses right there” I guess the other two losses are when the Vikings play the Vikings?

Kodiak
9 January 2023 8:55 am

So bRad, do you intentionally hide this page everyday and have the ol front porch on the main page? Why isn’t this page link on the main skoloholics page? Everytime I have to look under open threads. I would think if you had this link on the main page instead of the old front porch, more people could find it.

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  Kodiak
9 January 2023 8:56 am

That’s the point Kodiak. if some new member popped in here day 1 and read this thread they would be like wth is this website and leave.

Kodiak
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 9:04 am

Hey skolly, did beaker sign initial your sack or johnson yesterday?

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  Kodiak
9 January 2023 9:05 am

A Skol towel from a previous game. Good dude along with KJ

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 10:52 am

LOL, I love how you actually took the time to answer the question

Kodiak
Reply to  benjammin
9 January 2023 11:17 am

lol

CCHOF5yearstoolate
Reply to  Kodiak
9 January 2023 8:57 am

that’s literally the point (and it’s on the front page)

no one who isn’t already here wants to be here

Kodiak
Reply to  CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 9:03 am

It has never been on the front page on my laptop and thought bRad would want to know that.

Kodiak
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 January 2023 11:24 am

Okey dokey then!

CCHOF5yearstoolate
Reply to  Kodiak
9 January 2023 9:05 am

.

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SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 9:07 am

He doesn’t know how to turn his phone on and off from airplane mode… how do you except the boomer to navigate a scroll bar????

Kodiak
Reply to  CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 11:24 am

Not when I went there, as bRad said, he moved it.

CCHOF5yearstoolate
Reply to  Kodiak
9 January 2023 11:39 am

as brad said, that was done months ago. literally just scroll down on your frontpage

Big Stupid Face
Reply to  CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 9:27 am

Some of us who are here want to leave but can’t

Mick
Mick
Reply to  Kodiak
9 January 2023 8:58 am

I find this on the main page of mobile every single day.

Edgecrusher71
Reply to  Mick
9 January 2023 9:09 am

There’s no way. If mobile I go through the main page through the menus. On my PC I have it bookmarked to the back page. I could do that on my cell phone but just haven’t lol.

Edgecrusher71
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 January 2023 9:12 am

Same, that’s what I did on my PC just haven’t mobile yet.

Kodiak
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 January 2023 9:01 am

I don’t get this?? I am trying to help, because this page link is never on the main page on my laptop. I always have to find it under news, open threads.

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 January 2023 10:21 am

I think he was gone when it was moved so he missed the explanation and discussion.

Kodiak
Reply to  bowbunch
9 January 2023 11:26 am

I was, thanks for it being explained now. I was just wondering if it was intentional.

Mjolnir
Reply to  Kodiak
9 January 2023 9:40 am

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  Kodiak
9 January 2023 9:54 am

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SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  benjammin
9 January 2023 10:52 am

LOL

Kodiak
Reply to  benjammin
9 January 2023 11:27 am

That’s me with my phone

Kodiak
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 January 2023 11:26 am

Thank you!

skolifer
skolifer
Reply to  Kodiak
9 January 2023 9:38 am

^^^^

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freezeyface
9 January 2023 8:45 am

great season, 13-4, what a wild ride…

that being said, i think the giants will play us better than they did the last time we played them.
i’m not sure we will make the adjustements we need to make but i think the giants will make the adjustements they need to make…

Fivefingers
Reply to  freezeyface
9 January 2023 8:48 am

if they play any better they beat us since we won on a last second 61 yard FG. Issue is Thibs, Lenny and Lawrence now vs our ruined OL.

freezeyface
Reply to  Fivefingers
9 January 2023 8:51 am

too many people looking past the giants.
we have shown we can sometimes absolutely lay an egg.

Big Stupid Face
Reply to  freezeyface
9 January 2023 8:51 am

I doubt the Vikings are looking past them though.

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  Big Stupid Face
9 January 2023 8:52 am

They arent lol. Freezy had to many freezy pops this morning and has a brain freeze

freezeyface
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 8:53 am

where did i say the vikings are looking past the giants.
too many fans are making plans for after their win against the giants.

i’m not planning on a win. but hopeful!

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  freezeyface
9 January 2023 8:55 am

Exactly. Just enjoy, but I think we win. Round 2 idk though… likely dead but crazy things can happen. Ex. 2022-23 season in a nutshell

Kodiak
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 9:13 am

by double digits, no doubt.

peterplaysbass
Reply to  freezeyface
9 January 2023 9:00 am

I can’t believe you think the Vikings are assuming the Giants game is an automatic win

Fivefingers
Reply to  freezeyface
9 January 2023 8:53 am

I think vikes have to play a great game to beat them

HUNViking
Reply to  Fivefingers
9 January 2023 8:55 am

That will be necessary, yes. Or a very good game, at least.

Kodiak
Reply to  Fivefingers
9 January 2023 9:12 am

Not if we get 3-4 turnovers and 20+ points given to us and the refs stop 5-7 of their drives by penalty.

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  freezeyface
9 January 2023 8:51 am

I think KOC has something planned. JJ gonna feast and think we see more Mattison than Dalvin. Cook is struggling.

Terd should be back and help us in run game. Going to be crazy loud compared to last time we played them. Everyone was hungover on christmas eve and the blizzard affected fans showing up. Stadium was only half full that day.

I think Vikes cover.

Fivefingers
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 8:54 am

lmao

peterplaysbass
Reply to  Fivefingers
9 January 2023 9:01 am

roflmbo

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  Fivefingers
9 January 2023 10:49 am

LOL

Kodiak
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 9:14 am

You think, that is where I see an issue.

Big Stupid Face
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 9:22 am

I’m hoping he has been saving up his best plays for the playoffs.
The last few games has seen some really basic plays, especially in the run game.

NoDakRube
Reply to  Big Stupid Face
9 January 2023 11:28 am

Lets run that hook and ladder that the Lions pulled off last night.

Big Stupid Face
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 January 2023 11:33 am

That with the statue of Liberty play in one game would be awesome.

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  Big Stupid Face
9 January 2023 11:39 am

I miss the flea flickers to Moss.

HUNViking
Reply to  freezeyface
9 January 2023 8:52 am

It’s probable things will go the way you predicted here. Both Daboll and KOC are rookie HCs, might be Daboll will have his team more ready than KOC this time around. That’s why I’ll just sit back and enjoy the game.

If the Vikes win, splendid, a very fun season continues. If they lose I can immediately start bitching about the many shortcomings of the team, and that they should have hired Harbaugh.

freezeyface
Reply to  HUNViking
9 January 2023 8:54 am

yes, yes, yes and yes

Kodiak
Reply to  freezeyface
9 January 2023 8:56 am

Since last time we won by a miracle kick, this time you expect us to lose like the rest of the football world?

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  Kodiak
9 January 2023 8:58 am

We had control of that game for like 95% of it. If the defense didn’t let barkley run 45 yards for a TD under 2 min and PP barely missing the deflection on the 2 point try the game was over.

Giants needed a couple miracles just to tie us.

Fivefingers
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 9:00 am

lmao, this shit is hilarious. You might want to comprehend Tato is out and we have a street common trash OC now. terd sucks and even if he plays he’ll be at 50%. I doubt he does.

Kodiak
Reply to  Fivefingers
9 January 2023 9:09 am

These people are seriously delusional. It’s like democrats but on a different subject. It is truly amazing to see how their mind rationalizes insanity.

NoDakRube
Reply to  Kodiak
9 January 2023 9:11 am

Owl here we come! We are peaking at the right time and Shelley has turned into the best shut down corner since Prime Time.

peterplaysbass
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 January 2023 9:12 am

LOL

Too bad O’Neil is toast

NoDakRube
Reply to  peterplaysbass
9 January 2023 9:15 am

O’Neil hurts a lot. Drop off between O’Neil and his replacement is large.

peterplaysbass
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 January 2023 9:18 am

Ham will help, Mundt too. It’ll become obvious more often whether the Vikings are thinking run or pass by the personnel on the field.

freezeyface
Reply to  Kodiak
9 January 2023 8:58 am

i honestly don’t think winning by a miracle kick has anything to do with anything.
any given sunday anything can happen, as we have seen all the time.

i just am not sure KOC will have us more ready for the giants than Daboll has the giants more ready for us.

We shall see.

Im hoping for a win, unlike the non vikings fans here who hope for a loss (cough cough lifer)

and yeah kfey save the gatekeeper comment

freezeyface
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 January 2023 9:02 am

me as well.
it SHOULD be a good game.

obviously hoping we roll them and seemingly come into a new level of play.

Kodiak
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 January 2023 9:07 am

I think it will be a great game. It seems like the Giants haven’t been in the playoffs since dinosaurs roamed the earth. After this season for the Vikes, how can you not believe in any given Sunday.

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 January 2023 9:11 am

Cheer loud Brad! Do you like the 3:30 start?

Fivefingers
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 January 2023 9:16 am

uber?

Fivefingers
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 January 2023 9:49 am

figure uber won’t be anymore than lot and drop you off close

NoDakRube
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 January 2023 11:27 am

Five might be right on the uber thing…we generally park fairly far south for less than $20, I have felt safe just because there are so many people.

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 January 2023 11:39 am

Prob ok with uber brad in a populated area. The basic human scum in our country like to target isolated, helpless people.

GA Skol
Reply to  norseman1
9 January 2023 11:49 am

Nightmare with game traffic though.

CCHOF5yearstoolate
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 January 2023 11:46 am

If you decide to go on the light rail, when I lived down there it was super easy to park on the street near the 50th St station. Or you could park at Minehaha Falls (free but idk how much is plowed/available) and it’s a short-ish walk from there.

You do want to get on earlier (closer to MOA) if you are taking the light rail closer to game time, because it fills up quickly.

GA Skol
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 January 2023 11:50 am

I always either stayed at a hotel within walking distance or took the light rail to Mall of America.

MT Viking
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 January 2023 10:26 am

If you hang around stadium for an hour or so the LRT will be much less crowded.

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 January 2023 10:51 am

But do you like cramming your cylinder into a tube?

CCHOF5yearstoolate
Reply to  benjammin
9 January 2023 11:47 am

“cylinder”

Big Stupid Face
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 January 2023 11:48 am

The light rail is fine for games. I ride it with my kids to football or baseball games all the time. It’s packed with fans during games and the usual shitheads stay away

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  Big Stupid Face
9 January 2023 11:50 am

Fans are shitheads

peterplaysbass
Reply to  freezeyface
9 January 2023 9:00 am

surely Irv Smith will make a huge difference

Fivefingers
Reply to  peterplaysbass
9 January 2023 9:00 am

lol

Surly Viking
Admin
Reply to  peterplaysbass
9 January 2023 9:04 am

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Kodiak
Reply to  peterplaysbass
9 January 2023 9:10 am

Good one skinflute

Edgecrusher71
Reply to  peterplaysbass
9 January 2023 9:11 am

Honestly he could help. Two TE sets with AT, JJ and good runners in the backfield is a lot to account for. I am done with Irv as well but he could help. Dude knows right now he’s playing for his future.

peterplaysbass
Reply to  Edgecrusher71
9 January 2023 9:12 am

I’d love to see it, but I’m very skeptical, and rightfully so

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  Edgecrusher71
9 January 2023 10:33 am

Irv Smith is a no talent pussy who is going to get hurt walking into the stadium Sunday.

Edgecrusher71
Reply to  benjammin
9 January 2023 10:40 am

He’s got talent but he is a pussy. I think he is a guy who could be forgotten in a formation and we could use that to our advantage.

NoDakRube
Reply to  Edgecrusher71
9 January 2023 11:24 am

Hmmm….there is a big difference between a “no talent pussy” and a talented pussy…I generally prefer the later.

Edgecrusher71
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 January 2023 11:31 am

Haha fair. And there are talented people with pussies sometimes it’s the pussy itself that is the talent. haha

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  freezeyface
9 January 2023 11:00 am

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 8:42 am

Well boys… I almost had a perfect sweep this year for NFL bets here on skoloholics. Still made out very well owning Karenfingers 4 out of 5 times and DE earlier this year too.

Pretty impressive what Steelers did. Gotta admit I didn’t think they had a shot to finish .500. I owe Ben though as he wins.

Ben was it 25 or 40? I checked my notes but didn’t write down the number. Trust you with whatever was agreed just let me know and we can work something out

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 8:44 am

I guess 5 has a chance to go even. Doubled down on Eagles making it to SB lol. He’s dead. Eagles are treading water and sounds like hurts was from 100% too and got a little more dinged up. Could barely beat backups.

Fivefingers
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 8:47 am

oh lad, you have much to learn

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  Fivefingers
9 January 2023 8:50 am

Looking forward to my 120.

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 10:48 am

It was either $25 or $50, I’m going to guess $25 but let me see if I can find it.

Mjolnir
9 January 2023 8:38 am

Man…. JJ Watt might be my favorite non-Viking player of all time. What a game-wrecker. Lost the better part of 2 years to injury as well.

Fivefingers
Reply to  Mjolnir
9 January 2023 8:45 am

Earl Campbell

CCHOF5yearstoolate
Reply to  Fivefingers
9 January 2023 8:50 am

might as well tear his jersey off, you weren’t stopping him

CCHOF5yearstoolate
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 January 2023 8:58 am

He’s a brick …. howwwwwwwwwww-se

JacksonVike
Reply to  CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 12:51 pm

I have a friend that prides himself on open field tackling Earl Campbell by himself in a joint college practice or scrimmage.

Wrenage
9 January 2023 8:35 am
peterplaysbass
Reply to  Wrenage
9 January 2023 9:04 am

who looks like he could have been in an Underworld movie, if they needed a character to hand Kate Beckinsale a menu.

LOL – best line so far

peterplaysbass
Reply to  Wrenage
9 January 2023 9:07 am

really sprinkling in some personal history here!

 I want to swear at this movie so bad, but I promised to never swear at a TV again after the 2009 NFC Championship Game between the Vikings and Saints. On the bright side, Compulsion is dismal, yes, but still not as dismal as the Minnesota Vikings’ postseason success rate.

Kodiak
Reply to  Wrenage
9 January 2023 9:30 am

This review is hilarious!! This made me lol.

 you can almost hear the sighs of a thousand overweight single women who own four cats each.

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  Wrenage
9 January 2023 11:18 am

LOL,

A girl in white gets her throat cut. The cult members don’t even perk up for that. The sacrifice is basically like canned corn at a buffet: expected but perfunctory.

Do you only review bad films?

Big Stupid Face
9 January 2023 8:33 am

Shelley was a really nice pick up

Fivefingers
Reply to  Big Stupid Face
9 January 2023 8:35 am

agree, was a nice find. Not very tall but he’s sticky

Kodiak
Reply to  Fivefingers
9 January 2023 9:31 am

as tall as bRad and fil and towers over rob.

Surly Viking
Admin
9 January 2023 8:28 am

I won the Skoloholics pick-em thingy.
Do I win a bowl of soup or something?
Do the playoffs count? If so, I am screwed. Just like Kirk, I will collapse under pressure.

DE Viking
Reply to  Surly Viking
9 January 2023 9:15 am

I’m in second.

Celebrating early I see….
I have a shot……

Surly Viking
Admin
Reply to  DE Viking
9 January 2023 9:43 am

If the playoffs count, you will win.
I may drop all the way to 3rd.

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 8:26 am

Well, Vikes are gonna have to play at least one game on the road in playoffs if they make an Owl run. ZEROOOOO chance Seattle beats Niners.

I think eagles are beatable and may get bounced round 1 by Bucs (yes i think Bucs are going to beat cowpies, Dak is a mess right now).

I love our chances against giants. Niners on the road will be tough. Could have a chance to host Bucs in NFCCG.

Mick
Mick
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 8:28 am

ZERERRRROOOOOOOO

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  Mick
9 January 2023 8:29 am

ZEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO chance seattle wins. Zero. Although, the niners as 10 point favs is interesting. May take chickens to cover that. pretty big spread for a playoff game

CCHOF5yearstoolate
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 8:30 am

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Fivefingers
Reply to  CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 8:43 am

gonna write him off this draft too and take a qb

CCHOF5yearstoolate
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 January 2023 8:49 am

pretty average, surprised you think he’s u-g-l-y

skolifer
skolifer
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 January 2023 9:40 am

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bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 January 2023 10:26 am

It’s the glass jaw.

JacksonVike
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 January 2023 12:59 pm

He looks like JJ from Good Times

Fivefingers
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 8:32 am

agree. They should cover that easily.

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  Fivefingers
9 January 2023 8:36 am

Niners win for sure, but 10 in playoff game kinda steep

Fivefingers
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 8:32 am

lmao. 60/40 gnats beat us next week. That DL vs out depleted OL is an issue

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  Fivefingers
9 January 2023 8:36 am

Naw Danny Dimes gonna struggle with the pressure of playoff game and louuuud

Fivefingers
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 8:44 am

lol, no he will not. They are a running team and he runs a lot too. They rarely pass for over 225 yards and we have the 32nd ranked pass D. We need to stop their run game or slow it.

CCHOF5yearstoolate
Reply to  Fivefingers
9 January 2023 8:49 am

he stinks, bad

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  Fivefingers
9 January 2023 8:57 am

I did not realize, but was just looking, he ran for 700 yards and 7 TDs this year, would not have thought that.

Fivefingers
Reply to  benjammin
9 January 2023 8:58 am

yup, major wheels. Look how much allen went for as a pass first qb? astounding

Big Stupid Face
9 January 2023 8:25 am

NoDakRube
9 January 2023 8:21 am

I HATE to agree with Five on a football take,
but he is right, the Lions are going to be a problem for years to come.

Oh well, lets get the Owl this year! SKOL!

CCHOF5yearstoolate
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 January 2023 8:23 am

Meh, Goff has 1 good year and then falls apart.

Fivefingers
Reply to  CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 8:30 am

lmao

CCHOF5yearstoolate
Reply to  Fivefingers
9 January 2023 8:31 am

ask McVay

Fivefingers
Reply to  CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 8:33 am

lmao

Fivefingers
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 January 2023 8:30 am

team to beat now

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 January 2023 8:35 am

They did just go 5-1 in the division and could have easily swept it. They are very talented but also very young. Goff played better than any other QB in the NFC North this season but is he really the long term QB for them? We’ll see how good they continue to be after their OC leaves for a HC job this offseason.

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  benjammin
9 January 2023 8:38 am

Lions have potential, definitely will be in top 2 next year. Rodgers is done and Bears will still need a year to put it all together.

Campbell still way to aggressive to win consistently. He dialed it back once they went on that mad losing streak. He’ll do the same thing next season. He’s decent when he’s not on tilt.

Fivefingers
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 8:41 am

um, very strong chance we are last in the division next year

CCHOF5yearstoolate
Reply to  Fivefingers
9 January 2023 8:50 am

lmao

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  Fivefingers
9 January 2023 8:53 am

Kodiak is that you????

Fivefingers
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 8:56 am

Tell me who pack loses and they gain more draft picks and higher picks? Lions easily pass us. Bears have 120M in cap space. We likely lose 4-5 old starters and have only 4 picks and no money. tomlinson, P2, sully, turd, ole thelen, kendricks, etc.

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  Fivefingers
9 January 2023 8:59 am

Who knows… as of today our schedule for next season looks absolutely brutal.

Fivefingers
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 9:03 am

correct, 1st place schedule. I think they fire Ed and go back to 4/3

Surly Viking
Admin
Reply to  Fivefingers
9 January 2023 9:26 am

Yeah, Ed can go away.
Knowing this team, they will double down on him and the 3-4 and double down with another Kirk extension so we get a few more years of average/above average.

Fivefingers
Reply to  Surly Viking
9 January 2023 10:01 am

If they ink beaker longer 1 I will get a good laugh and then they will get a high pick and have to take a real qb regardless. Every year we keep him is a failed year, period. He’s going to struggle next weekend and if the win that he will be destroyed by 9ers again. Not sure what queasey will decide after watching him flail

Surly Viking
Admin
Reply to  Fivefingers
9 January 2023 9:25 am

Disagree. 3rd is possible behind Lions and maybe Bores.

FTP is gonna struggle.

Fivefingers
Reply to  Surly Viking
9 January 2023 9:50 am

I figure pack do better. Get Gary back, wr have more experience.

Fivefingers
Reply to  benjammin
9 January 2023 8:40 am

They should keep Goff, only 28 and that OC has him playng great. 5th in td passes, very few INT’s. None coming out are better imo. Team friendly deal for next 2 years too.

Mick
Mick
Reply to  Fivefingers
9 January 2023 8:42 am

OC going to get a HC job?

Fivefingers
Reply to  Mick
9 January 2023 8:49 am

who knows but he’s been impressive

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  Fivefingers
9 January 2023 8:55 am

I’d keep Goff but draft someone as well, maybe Levis or Richardson, who can sit for at least a year, maybe two.

Fivefingers
Reply to  benjammin
9 January 2023 8:57 am

They can if they realy like a guy but I’m not sold on these qbs, especially high 1st rd

Mick
Mick
Reply to  Fivefingers
9 January 2023 9:00 am

I hope KAM drafts MaKee out of stanford

Fivefingers
Reply to  Mick
9 January 2023 9:03 am

Haven’t watched him

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  Mick
9 January 2023 10:39 am

He sucks just like all the other college QBs you like

peterplaysbass
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 January 2023 9:11 am

if they don’t win the most division titles of the four NFCN teams over the next 10 seasons though, I win fifty bucks!

NoDakRube
Reply to  peterplaysbass
9 January 2023 9:12 am

That will be fun to track…I think that is a good bet for you, but the Lions are going to be good.

peterplaysbass
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 January 2023 9:14 am

sure, they could be, but I’ve already picked out a frame to put the fifty dollar bill into

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  peterplaysbass
9 January 2023 11:25 am

Have you looked at inflation lately? Ten years from now your $50 bill will have the purchasing power of 50¢ today.

CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 8:16 am

Duke Shelley – CB1

Northwoods
Reply to  CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 8:18 am

Yup, we got a good’un there!

NoDakRube
Reply to  CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 8:19 am

We would be in a world of hurt without Shelley….See? Size really doesn’t matter.

skolifer
skolifer
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 January 2023 8:20 am

Size really doesn’t matter.

I need to tell my wife the Duke Shelley story.

skolifer
skolifer
Reply to  CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 8:22 am

I love PA’s “The Duke. The Duke. The Duke is on Fire.” schtick. He and Bercich were singing it during yesterday’s game.

CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 8:00 am

too l8

Mick
Mick
9 January 2023 7:54 am

I am willing to bet the bears trade fields and get a ton of picks.

panthers?

texans?

seahawks?

CCHOF5yearstoolate
Reply to  Mick
9 January 2023 7:59 am

Neither Young or Stroud are better than Fields IMO. Not sure they’d trade him vs trading down.

Mick
Mick
Reply to  CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 8:00 am

Ok but does Eberflus want fields?

is that his guy? Or does he want to love on and still recoup huge value for him?

CCHOF5yearstoolate
Reply to  Mick
9 January 2023 8:02 am

Interesting question as to whether Fields or #1 overall recoups more value.

If I were them I don’t know if I’d let Eberflus decide the future of the team.

Mick
Mick
Reply to  CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 8:08 am

I think 1 overall will…. For sure.

but I see a bounty of picks coming for fields.

They traded a 22 1&4 as wel as a 21 1&5 to move up in 21z

i could see them getting another first for him.

CCHOF5yearstoolate
Reply to  Mick
9 January 2023 8:13 am

They traded a 22 1&4 as wel as a 21 1&5 to move up in 21z

whew that took me a couple of times to understand

Yeah I think they for sure would get a 1 and then some for Fields. He’s the best runner in the league and someone out there has to be good enough to use that like Greg Roman and early Lamar.

Mick
Mick
Reply to  CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 8:18 am

Yup. If they can figure out the throwing… we’ll chicago doesn’t care bout that but I just don’t think he’s “their guy”

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 8:02 am

Young is better, but weighs 190 lbs. and is a running QB, bad combo. Stroud is just the next Ohio bust.

Big Stupid Face
Reply to  benjammin
9 January 2023 8:38 am

Bears Twitter seems to think they are going 10-7 minimum next year.
Reminds me of the DN folks.

Fivefingers
Reply to  Big Stupid Face
9 January 2023 8:42 am

They have double any other team’s cap space. Have the first pick and another 1st and they will play a last place schedule. They could do that

Big Stupid Face
Reply to  Fivefingers
9 January 2023 8:48 am

Possibly. I do question the Bears staff’s ability to judge talent. KAM picked up Shelley and Tonga off the Bears practice squad. Shelley could easily be a pro bowler next year with the way he is playing and Tonga is an excellent depth piece that may develop into a starter next year.

Fivefingers
Reply to  Big Stupid Face
9 January 2023 8:52 am

Let’s not go crazy just yet.

HUNViking
Reply to  Mick
9 January 2023 7:59 am

Fields sucks, some desperate team might still give up a nice haul of picks for him. Not a betting man, myself, so no luck with bet, Mick 😉

Mick
Mick
Reply to  HUNViking
9 January 2023 8:01 am

I shouldn’t have said bet… becuase I won’t “bet” but I don’t see them keeping fields.

he’s young enough and early enough in his contract that they can move on and still get a haul for him.

Fivefingers
Reply to  Mick
9 January 2023 8:19 am

nope, but they will trade our of pick 1 and get a bunch of extra picks. Texans are lol

Mick
Mick
Reply to  Fivefingers
9 January 2023 8:25 am

i disagree.

I don’t think fields is their guy and they may go another way. Especially with a first coming to them if they do.

could grab defender at 1 overall and pick again the first.

Fivefingers
Reply to  Mick
9 January 2023 8:29 am

not happening. Catch anything?

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  Mick
9 January 2023 8:24 am

Zero chance. The city here is obsessed with Fields. Have fun pissing off the fanbase.

Bears will trade down for a boat load of picks

skolifer
skolifer
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 8:25 am

Good. I hope they stick with Fields. He’s come a long way but, at best, he’ll be another Jimmy G. Above-average QB that can’t stay on the field due to injuries.

Mick
Mick
Reply to  SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 8:26 am

Lol ok.

zero chance lions beat the packers in GB with the playoffs on the line

benjammin
Admin
9 January 2023 7:50 am

Mick
Mick
Reply to  benjammin
9 January 2023 7:52 am

This will go down in meme history as one of the better ones

Mjolnir
Reply to  benjammin
9 January 2023 7:52 am

What. A. Little. Bitch.

HUNViking
Reply to  benjammin
9 January 2023 7:56 am

LOL, what a cheap little punk. Embarrassing.

Wrenage
Reply to  benjammin
9 January 2023 8:03 am

I had the game on at that moment. My wife saw that video and her comments were quite derogatory and possibly homophobic…

FloridaSKOL
Reply to  benjammin
9 January 2023 8:07 am

LOL!

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  benjammin
9 January 2023 8:25 am

Didn’t do anything lol? He shoved a trainer trying to get to injured Swift lol

Big Stupid Face
Reply to  benjammin
9 January 2023 8:39 am

Totally unfair though.
You can push the medical staff of the other team, right?

skolifer
skolifer
9 January 2023 7:47 am

I watched a couple interesting YouTube videos over the weekend.

The first link is about the failure of the spread of the Vic Fangio defense across the league (the Vikings and Donatell are prominently featured, along with other teams/coaches).

The second link is about the history of the “nub” at the top of Minnesota that includes The Lake of the Woods and the town of Angle Inlet, which I had never heard of. Pretty fascinating. Thought some of you may enjoy one or both.

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  skolifer
9 January 2023 7:51 am

“nub”?

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skolifer
skolifer
Reply to  benjammin
9 January 2023 8:04 am

I used to sing that song around the house sometimes when my kids were younger. They’d be like, “Dad, what are you singing?”. I eventually had them watch the SNL clips so they’d understand. Eddie Murphy’s Buckwheat schtick was pretty damn funny.

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  skolifer
9 January 2023 8:13 am

Yeah it was damn funny, but all things have to end

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skolifer
skolifer
Reply to  benjammin
9 January 2023 8:19 am

RIP Buckwheat

CCHOF5yearstoolate
Reply to  skolifer
9 January 2023 7:58 am

you linked the same video twice, btw

skolifer
skolifer
Reply to  CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 8:02 am

I fixed it…you should see it if/when you refresh.

CCHOF5yearstoolate
Reply to  skolifer
9 January 2023 8:06 am

then I won’t refresh and you’ll continue to look like a fool! hah!

skolifer
skolifer
Reply to  CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 8:08 am

I’ll make plenty more comments before the end of the day that make me look like a fool. You don’t have to worry about refreshing.

Big Stupid Face
Reply to  skolifer
9 January 2023 8:07 am

It exists since we Minnesotans are a bunch of bad ass MFer’s and refused to give it back to Canada.
Take a look at WI. The fact that Michigan owns the UP tells you all you need to know about those little bitches.

skolifer
skolifer
Reply to  Big Stupid Face
9 January 2023 8:09 am

lol, WI

Mjolnir
9 January 2023 7:39 am

Good Morning Skolhols!
PLAYOFFS?!?
Pukers lose! Rodgers almost in tears walking off the field.
Nothing but respect for MCDC and the Lions. They’ll be a thorn for a while.
Packers undisciplined, undeserving.
Throwing forearms? Shoving trainers?
Chickenshit.
FTP!
SKOL!!!

Fivefingers
Reply to  Mjolnir
9 January 2023 8:22 am

torn? Try a severed limb

Mick
Mick
9 January 2023 7:33 am

4 straight years Rodgers loses a Primetime game at home to end the season?

HUNViking
Reply to  Mick
9 January 2023 7:39 am

Not even the refs could save the FTP this time. Can’t wait to watch the highlights tonight.

Mick
Mick
Reply to  HUNViking
9 January 2023 7:41 am

I didn’t watch as I did not care…

but I did say the lions would beat them.

@skolllyboy

Lifer
Admin
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 January 2023 10:57 am

Yes….yes they did.

skolifer
skolifer
9 January 2023 7:27 am

Has anyone heard an explanation of WTF Rasul Douglas was doing on this play? I’ve never seen anything like it…EVER.

Northwoods
Reply to  skolifer
9 January 2023 8:20 am

Shoulda gone into concussion protocol.

skolifer
skolifer
Reply to  Northwoods
9 January 2023 8:23 am

When I was watching the game, the only thing I could figure is that the Packers are so used to the refs favoring their team that their players now see themselves as an extension of the officiating crew.

manly-purple
Reply to  skolifer
9 January 2023 8:56 am

He knew they were going to call T.O. He didn’t want the kicker to get a chance to practice. Dumb, and so was the the shove to the face that cost them 15 yards.

MT Viking
Reply to  manly-purple
9 January 2023 10:13 am

Reasoning is correct but that is unsportsmanlike. Like a basketball player practicing getting set at the free throw line while a substitution is taking place and you kick the basketball.

CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 7:21 am

Also – Mike Tomlin is the best coach in the league. 7-2 in their last 9 games to preserve his winning season record with QBs who can’t throw for 200 yards a game and fewer team rushing TDs than Jamaal Williams got on the season.

Fivefingers
Reply to  CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 8:23 am

Ben won his bet with skolly now

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  Fivefingers
9 January 2023 8:52 am

I smrt, Skoldiers dum. The end.

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
9 January 2023 7:20 am

Skol!

CCHOF5yearstoolate
Reply to  Gone fishin'
9 January 2023 7:22 am

This saga has been wild. Kinda seems like he’s falling right back into the Twins’ price range (presuming they already had the medical info everyone else is balking at).
Would be hilarious for them to stumble their way back into Correa.

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 7:41 am

He sucks

-Skoldiers

CCHOF5yearstoolate
Reply to  benjammin
9 January 2023 8:03 am

I don’t listen to people who judge players solely on RBI.

Mick
Mick
Reply to  CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 7:43 am

Lol

they’ll sign him to a huge deal and the medicals will prove correct and they’ll be stuck with him and a bad contract.

cause…. Twins

CCHOF5yearstoolate
Reply to  Mick
9 January 2023 8:03 am

too true

freezeyface
Reply to  CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 8:36 am

we’ll be mediocre with him or without him, no matter

CCHOF5yearstoolate
Reply to  freezeyface
9 January 2023 8:53 am

much better with him, unless some players step up huge without any FA help I’m not going to be interested in their season at all

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  freezeyface
9 January 2023 11:28 am

Kind of like how Skoloholics is mediocre with or without you

CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 7:16 am

lot of fraud schedules in the playoffs

manly-purple
Reply to  CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 8:57 am

Or the better teams beat the lesser teams.

CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 7:11 am

Congrats to the Packers on their 2022 NFC North DVOA Championship!

HUNViking
Reply to  CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 7:15 am

Very prestigious title, I’m sure the Packers are very happy winning it.

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 7:21 am

And better point differential

NoDakRube
Reply to  CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 7:24 am

didi they wine DVOA in NFC North? I thought the Lions might have.

CCHOF5yearstoolate
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 January 2023 7:31 am

neither of them made the playoffs so

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 7:42 am

Hang. The. Banner.

CCHOF5yearstoolate
Reply to  benjammin
9 January 2023 8:05 am

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HUNViking
Reply to  CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 8:38 am

There it is! Will be a proud day when they unfurl this one at lameblow!

Big Stupid Face
Reply to  CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 8:10 am

Pete Bukkake banned me for no reason what so ever.

CCHOF5yearstoolate
Reply to  Big Stupid Face
9 January 2023 8:11 am

lol

skolifer
skolifer
Reply to  Big Stupid Face
9 January 2023 8:12 am

Did he do it before or after the Packers lost?

Big Stupid Face
Reply to  skolifer
9 January 2023 8:14 am

After.

skolifer
skolifer
Reply to  Big Stupid Face
9 January 2023 8:16 am

lol…that’s even better. He’s a bitter, little bitch although I’m imaging you said something that probably elicited his response, amirite?

CCHOF5yearstoolate
Reply to  skolifer
9 January 2023 8:18 am

definitely trust BSF on this one

for no reason what so ever

Big Stupid Face
Reply to  CCHOF5yearstoolate
9 January 2023 8:24 am

I was just using innocent dog metaphors. He didn’t like it when I told him “He really screwed the pooch” regarding a a prediction

CCHOF5yearstoolate
Reply to  Big Stupid Face
9 January 2023 8:26 am

tbf that’s one of those phrases that you think “where the hell did that come from?”

Big Stupid Face
Reply to  skolifer
9 January 2023 8:20 am

NoDakRube
Reply to  Big Stupid Face
9 January 2023 9:02 am

That seems pretty tame.

Big Stupid Face
Reply to  NoDakRube
9 January 2023 9:25 am

Yeah. The better ones are missing.

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  Big Stupid Face
9 January 2023 8:13 am

You banned from twitter?

Big Stupid Face
Reply to  benjammin
9 January 2023 8:15 am

No. I should have said blocked from Bukkake.

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  Big Stupid Face
9 January 2023 8:19 am

Doesn’t bukkakke pretty much block everyone?

Big Stupid Face
Reply to  benjammin
9 January 2023 8:24 am

Yes. Especially if you ask him about fucking his dog.

Big Stupid Face
Reply to  Big Stupid Face
9 January 2023 8:43 am

He also doesn’t like it if you ask him about using the Petfinder app in the same way normal people use Grinder.

benjammin
Admin
Reply to  Big Stupid Face
9 January 2023 11:48 am

I wish that twitter person who did the “don’t stick your dick in that” wasn’t banned, I feel like they need to just post a picture of a dog, tag bukkakke Peter, and say don’t stick your dick in there

Big Stupid Face
Reply to  benjammin
9 January 2023 11:36 am

I was going to say “Someone go check on Pete. He might be hanging by the leash of his support animal”

But I like my BSF twitter account.

About The Author

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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