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We’re trudging through the slow season. I’m really looking forward to March 15th. No, not because it’s the Ides of March, but because that’s when free agency begins. I’m really curious to see which moves the Vikings make, especially on defense and the interior of the offensive line.

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Minnesota Vikings News:

The Broncos are interviewing Matt Patricia for their defensive coordinator position, per NFL.com.

CBS Sports ranks every NFL QB who threw a pass in 2022. They have Cousins at #9, which I feel is pretty accurate.

ESPN looks at 2023 NFL offseason questions for each team. They list Kirk as our biggest off-season question. I’m actually more curious to see which moves the Vikings make on the defensive side of the ball. If the Vikings don’t take a QB high in the draft, then we’ll know that Kirk will get an extension.

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Here’s a duet you may not expect to see, but they were amazing together. This is the legendary Merle Haggard and Jewel singing one of Merle’s classics, Silver Wings. Enjoy!

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VikingPhilip
23 February 2023 6:54 pm

Are we going to have to change it from stupid lib to stupid commie now that NoDak has shown his true colors?

Lifer
Admin
Reply to  VikingPhilip
23 February 2023 8:14 pm

Welcome comrade NoDak….We drink to mother Russia and to the death of the West.

bowbunch
bowbunch
23 February 2023 4:43 pm

US housing market sees $2.3T drop in value, biggest since 2008
Don’t worry, nothing to see. The economy is in great shape and there won’t be any real estate crash or dip.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 4:45 pm

FJB

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  Lifer
23 February 2023 5:26 pm

Biden and mayor buttplug have had more than 2 years to re-implement those regulations if they were so important but they did nothing, as per norm.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 5:39 pm

They did to do something.
They played the ‘Blame Everything On Trump’ mantra like they were told to.

Lifer
Admin
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
23 February 2023 6:09 pm

So let me get this straight…we’re now blaming the guys who didn’t sign the bill for the disaster instead of the guys that did sign the bill allowing the railroad companies to skirt safety updates?

The freight rail industry has spent more than $254 million lobbying the federal government in the last decade, according to federal disclosures compiled by OpenSecrets. 
In that same period, industry employees and political action committees gave $43.6 million to federal election campaigns, with most of the money going to Republicans, according to OpenSecrets data.

Also once a bill like this is signed the next president can’t just remove it. Congress needs to lead on this and Pete B is trying to get the safety regulations updated and sent to Congress.

Blaming the current administration is fucking lazy and I won’t stand for it. Do you understand…don’t say it again or I’ll lash myself.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  Lifer
23 February 2023 6:29 pm

I don’t believe my post blamed anyone. I stated that they blamed Trump as per usual.

But didn’t ‘$254m in the last decade’ include administrations from both sides?

And didn’t the Demacruds have control of both houses during the last two year so they could have ‘taken the lead’ on this if they wanted to, as stated by Bowbunch.

Again you take a complicated topic, rant in your Trump Derangement Syndrome and expect people to take you seriously?

Lifer
Admin
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
23 February 2023 6:40 pm

You absolutely did blame the current administration for blaming the guys WHO SIGNED THE FUCKING BILL. What do you expect them to take the blame for it??

Yes I’m sure some of that $254 went to democrat lawmakers but for who knows what it’s not all just trying to deregulate safety measures but I’m sure a lot of it is.

They (democrats) have been trying to mandate certain safety measures like requiring two train engineers to be in a train carrying hazardous materials. Of course the Norfolk CO has been fighting it as it cost them $$.

No again I point out how Trump is directly responsible for this tragedy, his name is on the fucking bill not Biden’s. On top of it that MF’er is in Ohio basically campaigning and getting free media coverage for his fucking water which is probably also contaminated. Guy has no shame and you fucks want to still act like he’s ok and a worthy candidate to be president again. I can’t wait until he’s either in prison, swinging from a rope or dead in the fairway from a heart attack.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  Lifer
23 February 2023 6:54 pm

I believe the consensus here is that Trump is an AssHole who got things done that helped the Country.

People with TDS can’t see past their Feelings on the issues.

Now I have no idea who is to blame. I suspect that the Blame Pie has lots of pieces to go around. Some with an R next to their name and some with a D. Railroads Execs also own a big slice.

Trump absolutely made a ‘Political Event on the Issue. But even that was more than Brandon did. Mr Racist Roads was shamed into making a Political appearance as well.

Lifer
Admin
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
23 February 2023 8:17 pm

There is certainly some blame on both sides. No doubt. They play off each other casting blame and sit back and let us all twist in the wind.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  Lifer
23 February 2023 5:37 pm

Under Trump everything in our economy was growing and thriving. Under Biden we are all losing money at a record pace.

Lifer
Admin
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
23 February 2023 6:13 pm

That’s your response…we’re all losing money and the economy was doing so much better under Trump? Really??

Why don’t you just say fuck these people in Ohio, fuck poor people in general who suffer from the deregulation of safety standards in general and as long as the economy is thriving and rich fucks in non effected areas who don’t live by train tracks and chemical plants and oil pipelines and coal fire plants, as long as their ok, fuck the rest of you.

You’ve got some fucking nerve man….

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  Lifer
23 February 2023 6:58 pm

Those ‘fuck poor people’ have less under Brandon as well.
Mr ‘I will end fossil fuel’ isn’t looking out for them either.

Lifer
Admin
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
24 February 2023 4:18 am

That is simply not true and a deflection from the facts you simply can’t accept. Trump is responsible for the deregulation of the Railroad safety system that lead to this disaster. Deal with it.

KFEY93
Reply to  SkoIdiers
23 February 2023 4:32 pm

Nooooo $$$ for da Vikes

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  KFEY93
23 February 2023 4:34 pm

He said he wants to win anyway.

NoDakRube
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 4:36 pm

He will sign with the Bears.

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  NoDakRube
23 February 2023 4:38 pm

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KFEY93
Reply to  NoDakRube
23 February 2023 4:46 pm

Bears win a play off game before the Vikes do? Anyone wanna bet? Im not saying next year but ill bet da Bears get competitive way sooner than we do.

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  KFEY93
23 February 2023 4:48 pm

They need a QB first, not a RB with a low number on his jersey.

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 4:49 pm

Well, that doesn’t make as much sense as it did a year ago but you get my point.

KFEY93
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 8:18 pm

I seriously think fields is a good QB coach and system away from being pretty dang good. I could also be very very very wrong lol. Thats whats fun about it, and thats why I want a new QB so bad. We already know what we got with lame ass mid 8

NoDakRube
Reply to  KFEY93
23 February 2023 4:51 pm

Bears win a play off game before the Vikes do?

I AM ALL IN…how much do you want to bet and do you have a line of credit???

KFEY93
Reply to  NoDakRube
23 February 2023 8:19 pm

lol, nothing big. This is for shits and giggles. $100?

NoDakRube
Reply to  KFEY93
23 February 2023 10:17 pm

WE will discuss further.

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
23 February 2023 3:48 pm

Rodgers back with puke?

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  SkoIdiers
23 February 2023 3:53 pm

That was the only realistic outcome from the get go. Nothing will be official until August though. Waaron will want as much attention on him for as long as possible.

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 4:02 pm

Lol

Lifer
Admin
Reply to  SkoIdiers
23 February 2023 5:26 pm

like I said from the beginning…he’ll be back in GB to get his money. No other team wants him because of his contract and GB would love to trade him but can’t find any takers. Best thing for the Vikings is he stays put and drains their cap and they lose starters because of him.

No longer New Vikings Fan
23 February 2023 3:43 pm

I think we’ll see Cousins extended pretty soon.

The Vikings are cash-strapped with less than three weeks to go before free agency. They’re underwater between $21 and $24 million, depending on your cap website of choice. Extending Cousins while getting creative with his dead cap hit in future years can free up around $15 million on this year’s cap, meaning KAM can add a player or three on defense. Regardless of your Cousins opinion, this should be of interest to you.
Why? Minnesota ranked 27th in the league via defensive DVOA in 2022, so that side of the ball needs support. Recommitting to Cousins is an avenue to free up 2023 funds.

Plus, Cousins is really good.

Lifer
Admin
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
23 February 2023 5:30 pm

100% correct, I’ll give you a thumbs up to offset the cock sucking dumb fucks who gave you a thumbs down and who know about as much about football as the morning deuce Mick sends to his septic tank daily.

bowbunch
bowbunch
23 February 2023 2:57 pm

Mention the KGB/FBI and the site dies?

NoDakRube
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 3:01 pm

the FBI at this point is just a wing of the Dumbocrat party….sad.
My Grand Father chased the FBI off of his farm with a shotgun in the 1950s.
But my grandpa was literally a member of the Communist Party of America…

MT Viking
Reply to  NoDakRube
23 February 2023 3:04 pm

@I knew you were a commie@

NoDakRube
Reply to  MT Viking
23 February 2023 3:07 pm

He was a commie, my mom is a commie, my sisters are commies…..
I however, am not a commie.

I remember reading his propaganda magazines he received directly from Russia….he was filled with Marxist ideology…haves vs have nots, Oppressors vs Oppressed….etc.

JacksonVike
Reply to  NoDakRube
23 February 2023 4:16 pm

That’s exactly what a commie would say.

NoDakRube
Reply to  JacksonVike
23 February 2023 4:34 pm

I’m a Commie, you’re a Commie,
We’re a Commie all,
And when we get together
We do the Commie Call!….

O.K. I’ve got nothing to finish that off with…I am so disappointed with myself…

VikingPhilip
Reply to  NoDakRube
23 February 2023 4:36 pm

You should be ashamed. Are commies ever ashamed?

NoDakRube
Reply to  VikingPhilip
23 February 2023 4:37 pm

Well yes, but all equally.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  NoDakRube
23 February 2023 5:00 pm

Laughing…. now THAT’s funny!

NoDakRube
Reply to  MT Viking
23 February 2023 3:09 pm

The communist party was pretty big among the rural farmers in ND in the 1910s and 1920s. He was a young, impressionable man then.

MT Viking
23 February 2023 2:03 pm

Anyone listen to old songs by Frankie Laine or Marty Robbins? My dad was a big fan…heard “Cool Water” and “El Paso” on the radio the other day, of course made me think of my dad RIP.

MT Viking
Reply to  Gone fishin'
23 February 2023 2:16 pm

I sing just like him in the shower, too. “Out where the horses were ti-eeyee-d I caught a good one it looked like it could run and away I did rye-eyyeeed…”

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  MT Viking
23 February 2023 2:19 pm

Thank God you live in Montana and can’t hear.

MT Viking
Reply to  norseman1
23 February 2023 2:21 pm

Hot Mexican girl, horse thief, gunfight. The perfect ballad.

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  MT Viking
23 February 2023 2:23 pm

Like Brad to play Highway Man again. Classic.

stuman55
Reply to  MT Viking
23 February 2023 2:24 pm

did you just assume ethnicity AND gender. Wow

KFEY93
Reply to  MT Viking
23 February 2023 3:04 pm

Big Iron or GTFO

bowbunch
bowbunch
23 February 2023 1:57 pm

Is there a way to see who or how many people are logged in at any given time? I’m curious how many lurkers we have that took the time to create an account (probably to down vote or it’s the FBI tracking us).

MT Viking
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 1:59 pm

I do that all the time on the Vox Oilers site. Oh there is one person viewing the content, that’s cool, wonder who it is…oh.

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  MT Viking
23 February 2023 2:01 pm

Imagine that. I mention that a lurker is probably the one voting on all the posts and I get a down vote. That or the FBI is unhappy that I’m on to them. Don’t they know that the CIA has already got Hun here?

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 2:08 pm

Or was it the KGB?

stuman55
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 2:12 pm

is that a new part of the acronym describing various identities

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 2:15 pm

Soviet intelligence, have we done a background check on HUN yet?

GA Skol
Reply to  MT Viking
23 February 2023 2:01 pm

One day Canadia will get the internets

stuman55
23 February 2023 1:55 pm

B-rad you can use this post when you talk to the nerds and they’ll see how urgent it really is that we get the Z key. “HEY NERDS, this is very urgent, So urgent BIG STU even made a meme!” is what brad will say

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MT Viking
Reply to  stuman55
23 February 2023 1:58 pm

@I’ve never seen this meme before@

MT Viking
Reply to  Gone fishin'
23 February 2023 2:04 pm

Have I told the story about the hot sauce that exploded in our kitchen in Rochester?

MT Viking
Reply to  Gone fishin'
23 February 2023 2:20 pm

We bought this super hot sauce in Glendive of all places, I don’t know if Blair’s After Death Sauce comes in different strengths but it had a skull on it and the proprietor of the store advised against buying it. It was extremely hot, like I could put a couple of drops of Tabasco on my tongue no problem but this stuff was killer, the most I could do was one drop in a bowl of chili.

My wife was dusting the spice cabinet and the sauce tumbled out and broke on the tile floor (I was at work). She grabbed the dogs and put them out before they started trying to lick it and as she came back into the kitchen the pungent cloud was bad enough it made her eyes water and she had to take breaks cleaning it up.

I’d imagine a spray of that in the eyes would ruin your day.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  MT Viking
23 February 2023 3:15 pm

We had a bottle of Ghost Pepper Sauce at work that people liked to challenge others with trying (hint they never won).
It got dropped in the office one day and is smelled/acted just like the Pepper Spray we carried to subdue violent inmates with.
Yeah it was never replaced.

Surly Viking
Admin
Reply to  Gone fishin'
23 February 2023 4:12 pm

stuman55
23 February 2023 1:38 pm

I see many downvotes, y’all goin crazy when I’m gone. have the l*bs apologized yet for getting us in this spot? Going to go use the women’s bathroom quick because I’m a narcissist who wants attention

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  stuman55
23 February 2023 1:43 pm

Nothing to apologize for. The country is as secure as ever and the economy is doing great. Much better than when Trump was president.

stuman55
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 1:57 pm

oh yea that’s right I forgot

MT Viking
Reply to  stuman55
23 February 2023 1:46 pm

I don’t see these downvotes everyone is talking about?

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  MT Viking
23 February 2023 1:47 pm

I don’t either.

stuman55
Reply to  norseman1
23 February 2023 1:50 pm

well you guys are just dumdums I guess

NoDakRube
Reply to  stuman55
23 February 2023 1:54 pm

Yes, dumdums

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  NoDakRube
23 February 2023 1:56 pm

Was staring to think you are nice guys, my feelings are hurt. Hope your happy.

MT Viking
Reply to  NoDakRube
23 February 2023 1:57 pm

Like, how you guys would say waaa or boo hoo or such? My dad used the phrase da-dums. “Dad, I tried tightening the brake on my bike and the bolt sheared off!” “Da-dums, you’re not getting any money for new brake from me, when I was your age I rode bike uphill to the coal mine both ways with no brakes.”

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  MT Viking
23 February 2023 1:50 pm

Maybe try a refresh?
I see dozens, maybe 6-7 of my comments have them.
Not as bad a expected.

MT Viking
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
23 February 2023 1:52 pm

I still see none. I think Brad disabled them for me as they hurt my feelings.

stuman55
23 February 2023 1:34 pm

MT Viking
Reply to  stuman55
23 February 2023 1:36 pm

Stu!

stuman55
Reply to  MT Viking
23 February 2023 1:39 pm

My man, what’s up Dr?!?

MT Viking
Reply to  stuman55
23 February 2023 1:50 pm

Cold over here but we don’t whine about it cuz we’re real men.

Had a pt show up for UGI which involves a lot of rolling around, told me she couldn’t stand, would throw up the barium, and couldn’t lie on right side or stomach because it hurt post surgery. Well, that’s that. Called the surgeon to tell him I couldn’t do the stupid test he ordered, he seemed shocked. Shocked, I tell you. Fucker.

MT Viking
Reply to  stuman55
23 February 2023 1:51 pm

What’s a day in the life of Stu look like?

stuman55
Reply to  MT Viking
23 February 2023 1:53 pm

a bit busier these days, but it’s nice and cold out (-9 I think) and 30 mph winds so I certainly can’t complain there!

I miss this old group, trying to be back on more often to ignite some fury and own the L*bs!!

NoDakRube
Reply to  stuman55
23 February 2023 1:56 pm

Lifer is the only Lib that regularly shows up…and he is delusional so hard to engage with.

NoDakRube
Reply to  Gone fishin'
23 February 2023 2:57 pm

Welll there is edgslusher…and of course Ben.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  stuman55
23 February 2023 1:36 pm

Sup Stu?

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
23 February 2023 1:37 pm

Probably paying for shit. My ass.

stuman55
Reply to  norseman1
23 February 2023 1:39 pm

I’d never pay for that. And I literally pay for EVERYTHING

stuman55
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
23 February 2023 1:39 pm

WADDUP

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  Gone fishin'
23 February 2023 12:40 pm

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  Gone fishin'
23 February 2023 12:41 pm

Nada

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  Gone fishin'
23 February 2023 12:41 pm

The usual and not much of that.

DE Viking
Reply to  Gone fishin'
23 February 2023 12:43 pm

Summary….

Bowbunch is trying to embed stuff thereby wasting valuable posting space.

Someone is downvoting every post. Obviously pissed that there is no Kirk talk going on.

People are bitching about the snow but it’s their own fault for living in snow country.

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  DE Viking
23 February 2023 12:49 pm

We need to find this down voter

HUNViking
Reply to  SkoIdiers
23 February 2023 12:50 pm

But how?

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  DE Viking
23 February 2023 1:22 pm

no Kirk talk going on

Maybe AZ would be interested in Kirk for Kyler and some picks.

KFEY93
23 February 2023 11:31 am

Love me some Tim Dillion, give this a watch if you want a good laugh.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
23 February 2023 11:17 am

100th comment!!
@yea@

NoDakRube
23 February 2023 10:48 am

I just went out to start my car, have to get to the office. It didn’t want to start but it eventually did…Cold weather sucks.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  NoDakRube
23 February 2023 10:50 am

You weren’t plugged in?
Thought Block Heaters were standard in Minot.
They were when I got my old Nova there back in the day.

NoDakRube
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
23 February 2023 11:21 am

I should have plugged it in, or parked it in the garage overnight….but I did neither.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  NoDakRube
23 February 2023 11:25 am

I tell Southern Californians about going to a Store in Minot in Winter and that the entire parking lot of cars engines were running to keep them from freezing up.
It is fun to watch their heads explode.

NoDakRube
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
23 February 2023 11:28 am

Yes….that still happens although with advent of remote starters many people shut their cars off until they are close to checking out.

Do people in So Cal have remote starters? What would be the point?

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  NoDakRube
23 February 2023 11:33 am

They do, not sure they are ‘needed’ but they are standard on a lot of high end cars/trucks.

MT Viking
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
23 February 2023 12:37 pm

Cool down the car on a hot day? My Vulva has some setting where it will open the sunroof and run the cabin fan on high at a set time or via the phone app. Called preconditioning or some such.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  MT Viking
23 February 2023 12:41 pm

That may be it, it gets up in the 110-115 degrees here in the summer.
I find it easier just to roll down a window but the Lady of the house doesn’t agree.

NoDakRube
Reply to  Gone fishin'
23 February 2023 12:58 pm

I do not like to perspire when I drive so I like the AC on.

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  NoDakRube
23 February 2023 1:14 pm

Ventilated seats are a game changer.

MT Viking
Reply to  NoDakRube
23 February 2023 12:36 pm

I’m so happy my little hospital gives me a parking spot with a plug in. I had no such luxuries in the big city of Billings.

bowbunch
bowbunch
23 February 2023 10:46 am
bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 10:49 am

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NoDakRube
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 11:21 am

Market looks like its going into the toilet…

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  NoDakRube
23 February 2023 11:24 am

My 401 is fine, don’t have one.

NoDakRube
Reply to  norseman1
23 February 2023 11:29 am

Well I do, and it sucks….

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  NoDakRube
23 February 2023 11:30 am

But the economy is doing great. The Sniffer in Chief said so.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 11:34 am

@and it was on the internet so it has to be true@.

MT Viking
Reply to  NoDakRube
23 February 2023 12:52 pm

I have a problem with a small cap fund that is set up S-corpish. The fund manager, a friend of my stepson’s, is very bright, set up the fund out of college (business degree from Notre Dame) and lives in Chicago. Given the structure the capital gains and dividends come right back to you. Well, since 2016 870% return and the tax man cometh year after year. You either suck it up and keep escalating the quarterly payments, sell a portion of the fund to pay the tax bill, or sell the position. The old “my private fund is outperforming the market so well the taxes are killing me” paradigm.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  MT Viking
23 February 2023 12:56 pm

1st world problem??

MT Viking
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
23 February 2023 12:59 pm

Exactly.

I did eliminate my bond fund position on the non retirement side of things. The fund was down and the dividends being treated as ordinary income were killing me. Pushed that over to the retirement side of things.

I hate taxes on investments.

NoDakRube
Reply to  MT Viking
23 February 2023 12:59 pm

Thats rough…..

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  norseman1
23 February 2023 11:32 am

I have 7yrs until I have to start taking $$ out of mine.
Not a real loss until you take it out.

NoDakRube
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
23 February 2023 11:36 am

I know….but still….
I probably will start taking out in 4 to 5 years…

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  NoDakRube
23 February 2023 11:38 am

72 is the requirement as I understand it.
Maybe not a lot of $$ but it has to start then.

NoDakRube
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
23 February 2023 11:40 am

I won’t be taking it out because I hit 72, I will be taking it out because I will be retired and I will need it.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  NoDakRube
23 February 2023 11:43 am

Hopefully we will have a DeSantis Administration and sanity will be restored and you won’t lose $$ when you do.

MT Viking
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
23 February 2023 12:47 pm

My rich friends say RMDs are a PITA.

MT Viking
Reply to  norseman1
23 February 2023 12:47 pm

You’re not serious, are you, chief?

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  MT Viking
23 February 2023 12:48 pm

I have 2 very secure fixed incomes, i’m fine.

NoDakRube
Reply to  norseman1
23 February 2023 1:00 pm

Government worker??

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  NoDakRube
23 February 2023 1:02 pm

30 years at UPS, as long as they live so will I.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  NoDakRube
23 February 2023 1:06 pm

I am a triple dipper.
Army Retirement/State Retirement/Social Security.
When I pay Federal Taxes I consider it going toward my Army Retirement, when I pay my State Taxes it goes to my State Retirement, when I pay my Social Security Taxes it pays for that.
Takes a little bit of the sting out of making those payments.

NoDakRube
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
23 February 2023 1:08 pm

Thank you for your service.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  NoDakRube
23 February 2023 1:10 pm

Thank you for your support.

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
23 February 2023 1:11 pm

Funny how they can even threaten SS and Medicare but there is nothing we can’t do for illegals.

MT Viking
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
23 February 2023 1:21 pm

Thank you for your service.

What did you do in the military?

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  MT Viking
23 February 2023 1:28 pm

Started as an MP.
Once i got the security clearance they wanted me to stay working at Nuke sites and such.
So I transfered to NBC -Nucular/Biological/Chemical Defense and got a $16k bonus for doing so.

MT Viking
Reply to  norseman1
23 February 2023 1:00 pm

Oh a defined benefit pension. Sweet. I’m jealous.

NoDakRube
Reply to  MT Viking
23 February 2023 1:06 pm

defined benefit packages tend to get governments and businesses in trouble, and then they come asking for federal assistance for their failing benefit packages…it irritates me greatly.

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  NoDakRube
23 February 2023 11:28 am

Yeah, I was trying to embed a ticker. I’ll try again later. This place is deadville today so I might as well do something productive.

NoDakRube
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 11:30 am

Thats the spirit!
If at first you don’t succeed, fail again!

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  NoDakRube
23 February 2023 11:30 am

Might as well fill this board up with something. GF needs to have the developers install whatever needs to be installed to embed Bookface videos.

MT Viking
Reply to  NoDakRube
23 February 2023 1:30 pm

Back in the green, baby! Profits profits profits I just mirror what Paul Pelosi does.

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 11:47 am
bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 11:48 am
SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
23 February 2023 10:38 am

KFEY93
Reply to  SkoIdiers
23 February 2023 11:32 am

Who cares?

HUNViking
Reply to  Gone fishin'
23 February 2023 12:47 pm

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NoDakRube
Reply to  Gone fishin'
23 February 2023 1:01 pm

Uhhggg

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
23 February 2023 10:37 am

Also, good morning skolflakes

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  SkoIdiers
23 February 2023 10:39 am

Guten Tag Mien Herr.

HUNViking
Reply to  SkoIdiers
23 February 2023 10:51 am

Morning Skolly

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
23 February 2023 10:37 am

Overhyped I see for you Minny peeps

GA Skol
Reply to  SkoIdiers
23 February 2023 10:38 am

Just like the vikings. Always falling short of expectations.

DE Viking
Reply to  GA Skol
23 February 2023 10:42 am

Correct.
@But not this year. This is the year we win the owl@

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  DE Viking
23 February 2023 10:47 am

It’s our break out year??
Us and Irv all the way!!

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  DE Viking
23 February 2023 12:43 pm

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  GA Skol
23 February 2023 12:42 pm

But how can they have expectations if they always fall short?

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  SkoIdiers
23 February 2023 1:03 pm

I like to have expectations of them being bad and I am happy to have them fall short.
Kind of like last season.

bowbunch
bowbunch
23 February 2023 10:28 am

Did you guys know that the Scarlett Witch/Wanda Maximoff is the younger sister of the Olsen twins?

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 10:29 am

Who and who?

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  norseman1
23 February 2023 10:34 am

Avengers,
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And lots of stuff,
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And holy crap do they, especially one of them, not look good these days. One of them looks deathbed sick.

DE Viking
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 10:36 am

My girls loved them growing up.

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VikingPhilip
Reply to  DE Viking
23 February 2023 12:36 pm

That is a scary pic.

DE Viking
Reply to  Gone fishin'
23 February 2023 12:55 pm

That and probably drugs/alcohol…..

SkoIdiers
SkoIdiers
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 12:44 pm

VikingPhilip
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 12:04 pm

Yes.

VikingPhilip
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 12:13 pm

If you enjoy her character you should check out the show WandaVision on Disney+.

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  VikingPhilip
23 February 2023 12:29 pm

I watched it. It was ok. I was just trying to spark a conversation of some kind. I really don’t want to be productive today.

VikingPhilip
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 12:31 pm

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bowbunch
bowbunch
23 February 2023 10:25 am

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SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 10:27 am

Get into an argument with Lifer.
Those are entertaining and it is easy to do.

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
23 February 2023 10:28 am

I’d rather argue with the walls of my office, I’ll get further.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 10:29 am

Your office wall is probably less predictable as well.

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
23 February 2023 10:28 am

Easy to do. LOL

Lifer
Admin
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
23 February 2023 1:39 pm

VikingPhilip
23 February 2023 10:08 am

Somebody is really cranky today. There are a lot of downvotes.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  VikingPhilip
23 February 2023 10:32 am

Downvotes don’t bother me.
I take a second to wonder why and it usually seems to come down to politics.
No comment just passive aggressive like they don’t like it but don’t want to articulate why.

Like my mom, the typical liberal says when I ask her why she supports some view.
“I can’t explain it I just know how I Feel”.

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
23 February 2023 10:34 am

I’m done voting, doesn’t seem to work.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  norseman1
23 February 2023 10:37 am

I appreciate a vote in either direction.
Figure it means someone felt about it enough to react to a post of mine.
Better than being ignored I think.

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
23 February 2023 10:39 am

I’m pretty laid back, think i was flagged about 15 times on DN but fuck them.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  norseman1
23 February 2023 10:40 am

Yeah, some Drama Queens back on the DN.
Some here too but less options for them.

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
23 February 2023 10:43 am

Yeah, the use of the world pansy is ban material. Welcome to the new world, you can have it.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  norseman1
23 February 2023 10:46 am

I just shake my head and chuckle.
If they upset you then they are winning.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  Gone fishin'
23 February 2023 12:48 pm

I can imagine the ‘my feelings were hurt’ ones.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  Gone fishin'
23 February 2023 12:52 pm

Kind of like when 5/Kodiak/Lifer go off and start spewing their opinion?

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  Gone fishin'
23 February 2023 12:58 pm

I never flag.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  Gone fishin'
23 February 2023 1:12 pm

Me 3.

Except the spammers.
Maybe not Paula but the rest of them.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  Gone fishin'
23 February 2023 1:01 pm

Oh, didn’t mean to imply that they did.
Just that they start a ‘discussion’ and get worked up when the logical fallacies are pointed out to them.

Lifer
Admin
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
23 February 2023 1:39 pm

@I’ve never done that.@

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  Lifer
23 February 2023 1:46 pm

Proper use of the sarcasm font, Good Job.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  Gone fishin'
23 February 2023 12:50 pm

Morality Police have been around a log time.
They just have different Morals now and more reasons to be offended with the Interweb/Social Media.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  Gone fishin'
23 February 2023 1:15 pm

But it made him/her ‘feel better’ writing all that out, Kind of like therapy.

MT Viking
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
23 February 2023 1:31 pm

You guys are describing my typical day on this site.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  MT Viking
23 February 2023 1:39 pm

Sharing is caring,
We are happy that you care enough to share your situations with us.

stuman55
Reply to  norseman1
23 February 2023 1:49 pm

I like the up/down vote, but it’s used far less here than the rec’s were at the DN for whatever reason. Probably because it doesn’t change color…. yet……

It was always great being the guy with the most purple comments

stuman55
Reply to  Gone fishin'
23 February 2023 1:51 pm

awesome! I was about to post my Jerry Mcquire meme I made, too, so good timing

stuman55
Reply to  stuman55
23 February 2023 1:54 pm

screw it imma post it anyway

MT Viking
Reply to  stuman55
23 February 2023 1:54 pm

Kate gifs will do that.

VikingPhilip
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
23 February 2023 12:06 pm

There are downvotes on just about everything today. Someone is trying to be funny or has a massive stick up their butt.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  VikingPhilip
23 February 2023 12:08 pm

Feels kind of like a Prius Driver doing exactly the speed limit in the fast lane because ‘he is saving the planet’ from the ‘gas hog speeders’.

VikingPhilip
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
23 February 2023 12:12 pm

It amazes me what silly things people will latch on to and make it part of their identity so much that they are willing to die for it. Then they go around bragging about how great they are. I think part of it has to do with low self esteem so they have to find something to try to build on.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  VikingPhilip
23 February 2023 12:15 pm

They see themselves as social/green/diversity warriors and it gives them a purpose they otherwise lack.

DE Viking
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
23 February 2023 12:26 pm

Wait until they discover that the battery in their EV actually releases more carbon than a gas car.
Electricity will be bad again.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  DE Viking
23 February 2023 12:29 pm

And the replacement cost will be quite the shock.
I guess they don’t see where they are disposed of so that won’t worry them too much.

VikingPhilip
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
23 February 2023 12:33 pm

I was speaking in even more general terms. Some people pick the stupidest stuff to be the hill they want to die on. Be it a green warrior (isn’t that Hulk) to which side of the bed they have to sleep on.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  VikingPhilip
23 February 2023 12:38 pm

I was taught that if you are not a liberal when you are young you have no heart.
If you are not a conservative when you grow up then you have no brain.
Some/most of those people fail the Brain part.

VikingPhilip
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
23 February 2023 3:50 pm

I apparently have no heart. I do have a brain however. Not that I use it all the time.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  Gone fishin'
23 February 2023 12:54 pm

Got to see a cop pull one over once as it was clearly posted ‘slow drivers stay in the right lane’.
We could see people in other cars cheering, as were we.

DE Viking
Reply to  VikingPhilip
23 February 2023 10:34 am

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  DE Viking
23 February 2023 11:26 am

I figure those eyes have to have contact lenses right??

Lifer
Admin
Reply to  VikingPhilip
23 February 2023 1:35 pm

Oh just one of these grievance filled wingers calling for a national divorce and mad at the world.

stuman55
Reply to  Lifer
23 February 2023 1:37 pm

everyone should be mad about the current state of the world.

Our corpse is flying over to hug it out with an absolute menace to society and he’s gonna get us nuked. Good job, Lifer, at least your feelings won’t get butthurt leading up to the explosion.

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  stuman55
23 February 2023 1:39 pm

lol

bowbunch
bowbunch
23 February 2023 10:00 am

Live look in of Rodgers contemplating his future:
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DE Viking
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 10:05 am

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  DE Viking
23 February 2023 10:07 am

GA Skol
23 February 2023 9:56 am

I think it’ll only get up to 77 today. Going to be a bit chilly

VikingPhilip
Reply to  GA Skol
23 February 2023 10:09 am

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norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  VikingPhilip
23 February 2023 10:11 am

Hawt. Her, not Harry.

DE Viking
Reply to  norseman1
23 February 2023 12:38 pm

You are assuming pronouns aren’t you?

bowbunch
bowbunch
23 February 2023 9:55 am

Russia demands UN investigation of Nord Stream explosions, saying it has no trust in Western nations
As more information comes out continuing to point toward the US being involved, Russia wants a neutral investigation. The US says, nah we didn’t do it so just trust us and don’t worry about investigating it.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 9:57 am

If the US was not involved in it why do they care if it is investigated or not??

KFEY93
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
23 February 2023 9:59 am

Oh we 100% did it, dont kid yourself.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  KFEY93
23 February 2023 10:01 am

Did not say we didn’t have anything to do with it.
Trying to follow the logic trail of their/our argument.

Lifer
Admin
Reply to  KFEY93
23 February 2023 10:02 am

Supporting the Kremlin as usual. Maybe you should go fight for Putin he needs more bullet catchers.

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  Lifer
23 February 2023 10:07 am

It would make zero sense for Russia to have sabotaged their own pipeline. They already controlled it and had shut the gas off. They would quite possibly now be in a position to sell gas to desperate European countries at an elevated rate. At the very least when this conflict is over they would want to reactivate the pipeline and make money. There is zero upside for Russia to have the pipeline destroyed. Open your eyes. The only people that benefit are the US and UK.

NoDakRube
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 10:26 am

Sometimes Lifer has periods of clarity, but they are rare. He should indeed open his eyes…he still thinks Masks prevent Covid and that Trump was a Russian agent. He is, for the most part, delusional.

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  NoDakRube
23 February 2023 10:28 am

Trump a Russian agent. LOL

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  norseman1
23 February 2023 10:29 am

Well yeah, he paid that Russian agent for fake information, oh wait that was the other presidential candidate.

HUNViking
Reply to  Lifer
23 February 2023 11:02 am

I´ll explain it slowly, one more time:

Biden said the US would never allow Nord Stream to become operational, while Scholz sat there watching and grinning like the good little puppet he is.

Demonstrations started in Germany in the beginning of winter to open Nord Stream to secure gas for the people. Those of course stopped after the US (helped by Norway, as it looks like, and likely other NATO fuckwads) blew up the pipelines.

What sense does it make for Russia to blow up their own pipeline when all they had to do was to control the switch, which they did?

Deny it all you want Lifer, it looks very much like the US had those pipelines destroyed, our of geopolitical interest. Coincidentally, the (German) owner of the company that was responsible for maintenance of those pipelines died in a plane crash a few weeks before they were blown up, along with his whole family.

This is a dirty war, and those who have an interest in waging it don´t care about you or me or the people they pretend to represent. We are all just meat for the grinder.

NoDakRube
Reply to  HUNViking
23 February 2023 11:25 am

Well said, but I fear you used a few too many multisyllable words.

KFEY93
Reply to  HUNViking
23 February 2023 11:35 am

He’s psychotic. And that means you cant argue with them with words or logic.

KFEY93
Reply to  Lifer
23 February 2023 11:34 am

Lol, least I know how to use a firearm effectively. Worthless piece of shit joke of man child.

NoDakRube
Reply to  KFEY93
23 February 2023 10:24 am

Yep KFEY we absolutely did it….the circumstantial evidence is overwhelming.

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
23 February 2023 9:59 am

Exactly. Only one government leader promised that Nord Stream 2 would not open, one way or another. The US is the only country not hurt by the pipeline being shut down that has the technical capabilities to do it, maybe the UK.

KFEY93
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 10:00 am

If going off of how much I got back in my tax return this year is any measure of how much I trust our Government, its not a lot.

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  Gone fishin'
23 February 2023 1:17 pm

I pay in, lots of social programs in Minny. That 17.6 billion surplus? Wonder who got it?

MT Viking
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 12:57 pm

I love how they think they’ll find some convincing evidence the US was involved. Like someone wrote “SSN-700 wuz here” in a water proof marker on the pipe next to the break.

norseman1
norseman1
23 February 2023 9:47 am

9:46 summary.
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bowbunch
bowbunch
23 February 2023 9:39 am

bowbunch
bowbunch
23 February 2023 9:06 am

Not a leader, not respected by teammates.
https://fb.watch/iTeBfEYNVB/

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 9:08 am
bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 9:12 am

Don’t mind me, just going to fill the comments up with trying to figure out a way to embed a Facebook video.

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 9:18 am
<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script async defer crossorigin="anonymous" src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v16.0" nonce="jRUtAtsr"></script>
bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 9:19 am
<div class="fb-video" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/minnesotavikings/videos/509564841249889/" data-width="500" data-show-text="false"><blockquote cite="https://www.facebook.com/minnesotavikings/videos/509564841249889/" class="fb-xfbml-parse-ignore"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/minnesotavikings/videos/509564841249889/">The Voyage Presented By Tradehome Shoes</a><p>Kirk Cousins was named on every single ballot to be a captain except one. His own.

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/svg/1f4fa.svg: https://mnvkn.gs/3Ii8Fcp</p>Posted by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/minnesotavikings/">Minnesota Vikings</a> on Wednesday, February 22, 2023</blockquote></div>
bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 9:19 am

<div class=”fb-video” data-href=”https://www.facebook.com/minnesotavikings/videos/509564841249889/” data-width=”500″ data-show-text=”false”><blockquote cite=”https://www.facebook.com/minnesotavikings/videos/509564841249889/” class=”fb-xfbml-parse-ignore”><a href=”https://www.facebook.com/minnesotavikings/videos/509564841249889/”>The Voyage Presented By Tradehome Shoes</a><p>Kirk Cousins was named on every single ballot to be a captain except one. His own.

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/svg/1f4fa.svg: https://mnvkn.gs/3Ii8Fcp</p>Posted by <a href=”https://www.facebook.com/minnesotavikings/”>Minnesota Vikings</a> on Wednesday, February 22, 2023</blockquote></div>

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 9:25 am

<iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/JIf_D5tqss4?start=263″ title=”YouTube video player” frameborder=”0″ allow=”accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share” allowfullscreen></iframe>

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 9:25 am

.

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  DE Viking
23 February 2023 10:10 am

I’m thinking there is some sort of plugin that needs to be added to the website for Facebook videos to work, but I’m no IT guy.

DE Viking
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 10:13 am

No clue.
I failed.

KFEY93
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 9:25 am

Just hype up that trade package bb. 49ers are desperate.

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  KFEY93
23 February 2023 9:26 am

And the Jets. The owner has said no price is too high.

KFEY93
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 10:00 am

Perfect. Will take a 2nd or 3rd round pick and sauce for ollll Kwerk.

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 9:26 am

I tried to delete most of the replies, they disappeared but when I refresh they come back.

VikingPhilip
23 February 2023 8:22 am

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KFEY93
Reply to  Gone fishin'
23 February 2023 9:26 am

Same. Got a dentist appointment at 1230 tho so ill go back in after that.

VikingPhilip
Reply to  KFEY93
23 February 2023 10:06 am

Someone must really be gunning for you kfey since they downvoted this comment.

NoDakRube
Reply to  VikingPhilip
23 February 2023 10:28 am

I think KFEY may be downvoting his own comments to garner sympathy.

HUNViking
Reply to  NoDakRube
23 February 2023 11:11 am

bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  NoDakRube
23 February 2023 11:16 am

Sounds like even more reason we should be able to see who is voting. Gotta keep those type of shenanigans to a minimum.
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bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 11:32 am

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bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  bowbunch
23 February 2023 11:33 am

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KFEY93
Reply to  VikingPhilip
23 February 2023 11:36 am

Lifers off his meds today. Its all good in the hood

VikingPhilip
Reply to  Gone fishin'
23 February 2023 8:46 am

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bowbunch
bowbunch
Reply to  Gone fishin'
23 February 2023 8:50 am

We’re up to a balmy -7 at the moment.

FloridaSKOL
Reply to  Gone fishin'
23 February 2023 8:51 am

I do not miss that…

Stay warm!

MT Viking
Reply to  Gone fishin'
23 February 2023 9:29 am

Nice!

NoDakRube
Reply to  Gone fishin'
23 February 2023 10:29 am

I shoveled the driveway in -40 windchill…Only took me about 15 minutes but damn that was cold…I didn’t dress appropriately

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  Gone fishin'
23 February 2023 1:20 pm

Snow done, -6 tonight.

MT Viking
Reply to  norseman1
23 February 2023 1:24 pm

We Montanans sneer at your Minnesota sniveling.

However, when it hits 90 degrees with 90% humidity in the summer in Minnesota in the summer, count me out.

norseman1
norseman1
Reply to  MT Viking
23 February 2023 1:27 pm

Montanians are wimps, cowards. Oil suck too.

Lifer
Admin
23 February 2023 6:32 am

Wake up little fella….time to be a big boy and face life….I know it’s too hard 🍼
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KFEY93
Reply to  Lifer
23 February 2023 9:26 am

Stop ruining good Jim Carrey GIFs dude.

Lifer
Admin
Reply to  KFEY93
23 February 2023 9:42 am

You don’t tell me what to do.

KFEY93
Reply to  Lifer
23 February 2023 10:02 am

Nah I will. Its a public forum, BS can be called out. For me and you.

Lifer
Admin
23 February 2023 5:52 am

Your morning Mick deuce enhancer.

I like this draft as it would allow us to release Kendricks and pick up two dynamic rookie LB’s both who cover space well and Sanders is probably the best pass rushing LB in this class and would fit in Flores 3-4 perfectly. 3 CB’s picked would really boost our corner secondary room and maybe allow for Harry to move on and save cap if the safeties don’t have to coverup the lack of corner quality play we’ve had.

I think Hyatt is the sneaky most needed rookie in this draft we need KAM to make his #1 priority day 2. I think he can bring what Moss brought in 98 as a deep field threat and would mesh perfectly with Cousins excellent deep passing and JJ’s / KJ / Hock would feast underneath and in the intermediate zones with Hyatt stretching the field.

An excellent center and guard prospect and we have some tools to build a competitive 23 squad.

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DE Viking
23 February 2023 3:29 am

Saw this take.

Minnesota Vikings

  • Minnesota Vikings salary cap room: $-21.32 million

Minnesota will have some difficult decisions to make ahead of the start of NFL free agency. Kirk Cousins’ $36.29 million cap number for 2023 is an albatross. It’s highly unlikely that the Vikings will restructure said deal and link themselves to Cousins beyond the 2023 campaign. 
Instead, we can envision a scenario in which veterans Adam Thielen, Harrison Smith, Za’Darius Smith and Eric Kendricks are released here soon. Cutting the four would save north of $34 million against the cap. If they were designated post-June 1 cuts, said savings would increase to $52 million.

Lifer
Admin
Reply to  DE Viking
23 February 2023 5:04 am

Yeah….this take reads like either an outsider without the particulars and true scenarios going on in the building at TCO, or a Cousins hater. Probably the prior.

Yes the Vikings are -$21 in the hole but that’s not from Cousins contract being an albatross, he ranks 9th in QB comp for 2023 only $2mill more than Goff lol. It’s more Rick and the previous regime’s monkey football fucking that is the issue.

Those like us here, brilliant, informed, good looking and sex masters of the female erotic zones know Cousins is getting extended and deservedly so. He’s proven his level of play is top 5 in the league vs salary (Rodgers is #1 in 23 cap hit and Cousins has outplayed him for the past 2 yrs IMO certainly did last yr). That will likely put $15-$20 mill back in to the cap for 23.

From there we’ll probably see a combo of releases and restructures. I could see Kendricks, Zadarius, and Harry staying, Thielen and possibly Cook leaving. All said should be able to get us around $35 mill above the cap and let Flores go shopping for some pieces to fix this defense.

DE Viking
Reply to  Lifer
23 February 2023 7:13 am

Personally, my guess is that only Kendricks is gone of the starters. Most will redo deals for the 15th straight competitive rebuild.

KFEY93
Reply to  Gone fishin'
23 February 2023 9:28 am

They need to, but will they. MN teams have a problem with nostalgia and memberberries. Holds them back from making moves at the right time and improving.

JacksonVike
Reply to  KFEY93
23 February 2023 9:50 am

Lifer
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Reply to  Gone fishin'
23 February 2023 9:42 am

And Cousins had better stats.

KFEY93
Reply to  Lifer
23 February 2023 9:58 am

Rodgers played in an NFCCG. Something Kwerk will never do.

NoDakRube
Reply to  KFEY93
23 February 2023 10:31 am

I downvoted you for such a negative, unsubstantiated comment.

KFEY93
Reply to  NoDakRube
23 February 2023 11:37 am

<3 love you

stuman55
Reply to  Lifer
23 February 2023 1:50 pm

Lifer
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Reply to  stuman55
23 February 2023 5:36 pm

I miss these…😘

KFEY93
Reply to  DE Viking
23 February 2023 9:27 am

I would like this approach.

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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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