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Vikings Discussion & Random Thoughts
I’m doing my best to wrap up this week’s and next week’s work by the end of the day today, I’m pretty sure I’ll make it. I’d like to have some free time tomorrow, because we’re leaving for our mini-vacation on Sunday & there are some things we’d like to get done before we leave.
Fantasy Football League
I was hoping to actually start our fantasy football league on time this year, and we were thinking of giving everyone longer to pick, especially in the earlier rounds, and maybe even have an open chat turned on for those of you who want to use that feature. Throw some comments out there if you have thoughts on a time of day, or a specific day or time frame that you think would work best. I’ll try to be more active in comments and see what everyone thinks, we’ll figure something out. If anyone else is interested in joining, please let me know. It was a lot of fun last year, hopefully we can build on that this year. I’m new to this fantasy football stuff, so I’m learning on the fly.
Vikings News
We Slotergoat fans will appreciate the information in this story. From MSN, former Viking Kyle Sloter shares some interesting stories about his journey as a backup NFL QB.
NFL.com looks at a pivotal rookie on each NFL team, easy choice in Minnesota, G Donovan Jackson.
https://www.si.com/nfl/vikings/news/vikings-training-camp-recap-day-12-one-more-before-preseason-beginsSports Illustrated brings you a Minnesota Vikings training camp day 12 recap, the last one before the preseason begins.
The Vikings will be wearing a #70 patch on their helmets this season in honor of Jim Marshall, per Vikings.com.
NFL News
Someone is hitting the sauce early over at NFL.com, they have Justin Fields and Cayleb Williams as candidates to break out in 2025.
Media Selection
Sean Ryan asks Father Dan Reehil whether we are in the end times. Enjoy!
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100 yard kickoff return for a TD by the Pats to start the game against the Redskins.
They caught the shooter in MT neck of the woods.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/army-veteran-arrested-after-week-long-manhunt-following-deadly-montana-bar-massacre-killed-4-people
Good let’s have some good old fashioned justice – hang him at noon in the county courthouse square tomorrow.
We need to stop screwing around with these people.
Ok, as long as they have a trial first so it is all legal like.
Breakfast, quick trial, found guilty, noon hanging and then a party.
Everyone can bring the family.
Legal – with the judges we have in this country? And then of course we will have to have a psych evaluation and all of that. Three year s later and a waste of a million dollars or so, let’s just hang him right now.
I don’t care if his Mommie didn’t breast feed him and all of that.
Good Old Fashioned Justice doesn’t have all that stuff.
Should take about an hour, jury only needs 30m top.
Should even have time for him to visit the preacher man before we string him up at noon.
“Laughing like children, living like lovers
Rolling like thunder under the covers
And I guess that’s why they call it the blues”
Elton… WTF?
Elton sucks. It is known.
The 49ers placed Equanimeous St. Brown on injured reserve today due to a foot injury. St. Brown injured his foot during Thursday’s training camp practice, just two days after signing with the team after Andy Isabella (ankle) was let go. By being placed on IR, St. Brown will be forced to miss the entire 2025 season unless he reaches an injury settlement with San Francisco.
I thought teams could take guys off IR? The rules escape me.
Not sure how this movie missed me, but I just watched “Nobody” on Amazon prime.
I absolutely love movies like that. Sequel comes out this month.
I’ll pretty much watch Odenkirk in anything. Nobody is a fun flick.
I haven’t watched it yet. Now maybe I should.
It was pretty good
Taylor Heinicke will start Sunday’s preseason game for the Chargers against the Saints, Trey Lance started the Hall of Fame Game and played deep into the second half, with both Heinicke and Justin Herbert being held out. Heinicke will now lead the second-string offense Sunday, followed by Lance and DJ Uiagalelei working with the third/fourth units. Heinicke seems like a favorite to enter Week 1 in the backup QB role, but there’s always some chance Lance could be tabbed instead. Heinicke and Lance signed similar one-year contracts this offseason.
Cowboys OG Robert Jones was placed on season-ending injured reserve today. Jones will miss the entire 2025 season due to a broken neck. He had been penciled in as the starter at left guard prior to the injury.
Yikes! 😖
Hey oofda, good to hear from you, it’s been a long time since my DN days which I really enjoyed when Teddy was with the Vikings, but I love it here.
Wow, broken neck, scary.
ICE has arrested four more child sex offenders since July 21st — as part of “Operation Apex Predator,” an ongoing effort to target “illegal aliens with histories of child exploitation.”
The most recent arrests now make up a total of eight illegal aliens who were apprehended as part of this specific operation.
Abolish ICE
Use ICE for the Epstein case please.
OK… this is officially special…
Love
Really enjoying Hard Knocks.
While watching Buffalo kick our ass in 2018, I can say I was there when Allen went poster style over Barr….
The Super Bowl will be held on Feb 8, 2026 in Santa Clara, California, home of the San Francisco 49ers.
Think the Niners might be a little more motivated this year?
Saw a bit of Ravens, think they are AFC champs.
They are strong, especially during the regular season. But not so much come playoff times.
Wonder who plays on our O-line tomorrow if JJ is in?
That’s a good question actually. Does KOC throw the whole starting line-up out there for a series or two? Darrisaw is definitely not playing, and neither is JJets. So who will take the field with McCarthy?
Ravens are pretty much always in contention. Adding Derrick Henry last year was a big move. I expect they’ll be in the mix again this year. They can run the ball outdoors in December.
They are loaded.
Jackson sucks in the playoffs though.
Yup.
Nice!
Kid sharted himself! 😂
That kid is gonna remember that forever. Awesome.
I gave my boss my retirement date this week. 391 days to go.
A friend of mine gave his employer his retirement date verbally well ahead of the date. In the meantime, the company offered lucrative retirement packages as part of a downsizing. My buddy could not take the lucrative offer because he’d already chosen a retirement date. 🤬
That sucks. We are a small non-profit, so there are no retirement packages. I will probably get a retirement luncheon at the best.
Yore boss giving yore retirement speech:
Back in the day when I worked for a living, there was a rumor going around starting in January that I was going to be attending medical school that fall. I got called in the office and asked if I was going to be leaving and I said #1 that’s NOYB and #2 do you think me stupid as to tell you in January that I’m leaving in the fall (actually late July) so that I can be given all the crap shifts and extra call, etc. Boss said well congratulations if that’s the case, that’s all I wanted to say. Uh huh.
They got two weeks notice.
Now my contract says I have to give two months notice. When the time comes that’s what they’ll get.
My boss already had a pretty good idea of when I was going to retire. I just wanted to firm it up for her. I promised that I would train the next person. Plus, with the BBB we don’t know if we will lose any grants. If we do, I have volunteered to give up some of my work to the younger accountant that will probably be next in line to take over for the CFO in 5 years or so. If I walked in next week and they told me that I was done, it wouldn’t be ideal, but I would be ok with it.
That’s what my boss wants from me, and I will, but not sure how much notice I should give them.
90 days, I’ll be sending my medical director a gif from Battlestar Galactica
”start the clock”. She won’t get it
LOL
90 days seems to be a bit much for a requirement. Is that in your contract?
Yes
Wow a whole year.
I’m thinking of retiring July 1.
Haven’t said anything.
What year? (Always keep em guessing)
Do it.
Gratz!
I only have 2,702 days left…..
Congrats!
Kevin Stefanski said Shadeur Sanders will play about 50 snaps in tonight’s preseason opener against the Panthers.
Joe Flacco will be rested while Kenny Pickett and Dillon Gabriel continue to nurse hamstring injuries. Thus the Browns are left with only Sanders and recent signing Tyler Huntley to play QB. Stefanski said the rookie will play most of the game, with Huntley apparently scheduled to only come in toward the end.
It’s a nice opportunity for Sanders, although he’ll presumably be surrounded by fellow backups, and possibly facing Carolina’s defensive starters on the first drive or two.
I’m watching that tonight.
I haven’t really seen Sanders play.
We’re getting the Lions vs the Falcons on the local broadcast, and I have the NFL Network too, of course.
That said, I’ve never seen Sanders play either, so I’ll watch it later for sure, and follow it a bit on-line live.
I will watch with interest.
I wanna see if he was all hype or if he can handle scrubs on defense while scrubs are pretending to block for him.
At the very least, we should see some exciting runs and he tries to stay alive.
Looks like Hendon Hooker will start tonight’s game for the Lions against the Falcons. Hooker is competing with Kyle Allen for the top backup spot behind Jared Goff. Allen started and played the first half of the Hall of Fame Game against the Chargers, while Hooker mustered just 18 passing yards and an interception in the second half of that 34-7 preseason loss. Hooker will likely get the first half of tonight’s game.
I haven’t watch a single second of preseason yet this year. I’m saving myself for tomorrow afternoon.
Live a little, let go! Saving yourself is a waste. Enjoy the thrill! Be a little daring. Take a chance, and find some ecstasy!
All the things I said to girls in high school.
I was mostly afraid of girls in high school.
I was related to 75% of the girls in my high school. Could hardly wait for college…
But that didn’t stop you.
It in fact did.
Ya big chicken. I have a third cousin that was seriously hot back in high school.
😳
What do they say about hillbilly reunions?
Also, that must have been kind of sucky.
West Virginia boy?
Close…Kansas.
Yep. Same diff.
Flyover country.
I went after everything in a skirt for the most part…
Stud, all I said was would you like to dance…got used to rejection helped toughen me up.
Laughing… I was a lifeguard in the summer. I got more tail than I could count.
I’m an alien.
Im not allowed to see your gifs.
Just came across the LLWS on TV and see that North Dakota, Fargo is being trounced by South Dakota, Sioux Falls 6-0 in the bottom of the 6th.
What is up with that?? Is ND too close to the Twinkies?
Ok, game over, SD is the Midwest Champ.
Hey oofda.
A Question for all the legal experts around here. Appears the law is changing.
So if my neighbor says something to me that I find offensive, I can throw him down, kick him in the head and gut several times,
He provoked me after all. Maybe I should just have got a gun and shot him.
I’d call that assault and battery. Offensive words or phrases do not warrant physical violence.
‘Sticks and Stones’?
You and NLV might want to review the Baltimore Judge’s ruling today where a young black man beat up two elderly gentlemen.
And I would be a thousand bucks the defense in the recent Cincinnati incident will be provocation from a racial slur. There’s already one council person saying the two (who were fighting against 12) deserved it.
And should they be found guilty they will merely get a weak hand slap.
Hmmmm… judges need to support law and order… not defecate on it.
Hmmm lets see.
A black, liberal judge downgrades a conviction so she can give probation to a black man, 27 year old who attacked and injured an 70+ year old and a 80+ year old who had the gall to pray outside an abortion clinic.
Yeah, he was provoked, sure.
You make my point. This guy should have been locked up, period.
‘You make my point’
I believe we have the same point.
It all depends on your political affiliation and race.
Morons are going to moron.
Good to see Lifer doing well…..
I think you won the internet today Mjolnir.
i, for one, am loving the oofda sightings lately.
Texans secondary has taken a number of hits this week. If KOC wants McCarthy to throw the ball, he should have success.
wow, i thought good QB’s didn’t take days off
When the season starts, they don’t.
Unless they have an injury.
Good work Freezey.
Yes, why would anyone ever take a day off from any physically and mentally-demanding job to stay fresh and recover? Makes no sense.
There is a world famous trainer, Pavel Tsatsouline who trained Russian weight lifters, has a saying about this – “More is not better, it is just more.’
Nobody said JJ isn’t working, they just don’t have team practice today.
Good work Freezey.
No see um. Twatter no good with my browser.
Dude. What you doing here? You say pansy on that other site? I forget the name.
Hilarious!
First chance of the summer to go golfing today and it’s windy and supposed to start raining about when we are supposed to tee off. Just my luck. Then I open X and this is the first thing I see.
At least its his left arm…
Well have fun playing. Remember, you can’t win the British Open if you can’t play in the rain.
And fuck Waltz.
The British Open is a little different than a fundraiser scramble for my kids’school.
Rain is OK, slows the greens down and makes them easier to putt.
Always aim high Bow… you can do it!
Just an average Joe
Who is carrying an Asian woman behind Walzy?
Who doesn’t carry around an Asian woman?
Well…that Asian woman.
Well they are ‘fun sized’ for a reason.
I’m thinking Rickie will need to shoot at least 5 under today to stay in contention. Guys are starting to make some birdies in bunches.
So who would you select as the top five head coaches in the NFL right now?
Still on my first cup of coffee so I can’t think of the top 5.
I would put KOC on the list even though he hasn’t won a playoff game.
Probably ‘Homer Talk’ but there it is.
I have to admit I wasn’t a fan of the Vikings bringing in KOC as the head coach. I am pretty damn impressed with him now though. I still think he’s a media hog who loves seeing himself on TV, but that’s just a personal thing.
PR is part of a Head Coaches job.
Well I’d refer you to Belichick on that.
Shanahan, McVay, Reid – need to think some more on the last two.
Shanny needs a deep playoff run soon for himself and lynch.
He does but he’s getting to SB’s which puts him ahead of guys like Harbaugh (Ravens), McDermott and LaFleur. in my book.
True…
And ahead of Kneecaps Dan, Harbaugh (LaChargers) and our very own KO, to name a few.
I’d have to put those three guys way up there too. I do think John Harbaugh should be included due to his longevity and his teams always being in contention.
Pretty solid list there I must say JV.
Love our head coach, but until he wins a playoff game, he is not top 5 for me.
I can agree, but my next option was LaFluer, but FTP.
Reid
Siranni
McVay
McDermott
Jim Harbaugh
All of these guys consistently win playoff games.
i’m trying to figure out the picture above.
is that a picture after the peaceful protests in minneapolis…
or is it a future rendering of what minneapolis will look like AFTER the vikings win the superbowl
Yes.
Just a typical large US city after 20 years of progressive (communist) rule.
Rendering of Minneapolis the day before the Vikings were going to win the Superbowl.
Weekend eve… I’m relaxing and tuned into the FedEx St Jude Championship. Had a great breakfast of scrambled eggs, waffle, and ham. Homemade waffle. Can you believe my wife got up and made the batter and everything for my breakfast? I was just going to eat some cereal, and she shooed me out of the kitchen, and went to cooking.
Keeper.
Well done. Sounds way more fun than my day. Me all day coding….
My brother was a coder. He started back in the mid 70’s when it was a pretty new endeavor. Made good money for a long time, and basically invested well. He retired about 10 years ago. He wrote all the code for a major telecommunications company’s billing system. Then he sold that code to other companies for their billing systems.
Seems like it was a good career choice for him.
I look back and like the Military/Law Enforcement choices I made.
They say ‘He who has the most toys when they die wins’, I disagree. “He who has the most ‘war stories’ when the die win’.
As Abe Lincoln said “don’t count the years in the life but the life in the years”
Oh and on a side note will AI be able to take over coding? Will they be able to write/change their own code?
Yes and No. I think that currently AI is being used a lot for rudimentary tasks that would normally fall to junior programmers.
We are at a “use it or get passed by” stage, where if you are not utilizing it at least as a productivity tool, you will probably be replaced.
I plan on working 10 more years. It is possible that AI will cause a drop in pay rates, and that could impact my decision. Someone still needs to watch the bots. Corporations have been outsourcing heavily since the 90s to keep pay rates down. AI is just the next cheapest labor. Until AI decides to eliminate all competition
Eventually they will win.
It is why so many young people are going in ‘physical careers’ like construction and such. Things AI won’t have as much impact on and can still offer a good salary.
Yep. You can get a CS degree and be a software engineer, and compete with people from India and China for entry level positions that pay less than managing a fast food place, or do something like HVAC where you start out making good money, and it gets better as your career advances.
Still, I can walk without pain most days (Arthritis is starting to be annoying) at 62, and my construction worker neighbor is struggling at 52 to keep doing his job.
My sister works in HR (remotely) and that seems an industry almost completely replaced by AI.
Given my interactions with HR at my shop the last fifteen years I can honestly see why.
HR in Commiformia is out of control.
We had people written up because they ‘misgendered’ a trans.
We had a couple of officers fired because they were joking about women (who doesn’t) and a third officer reported them because he was new and he was trained that if he didn’t he could lose his job.
Lots of examples, part of why I retired as soon as I could.
In my experience, HR has always been out of control. They have to try to justify themselves having a 40 hour per week job.
I guy I welded with for years ended up getting a job in HR. They created a very dumb rule, can’t remember exactly what it was, but I told him it was an unfair rule. His response was we don’t have to make it fair we just have to make it even.
Every time I call HR and ask them how to do something they send me a pdf and link to the page.
Oh you want to change a beneficiary, I’ll send you a page explaining how to do it.
Which is fine but not exactly the way to ensure job security.
My brother was a computer nerd and I was the action/adventure guy. Totally different personalities. His kids and grandkids love me because of all the countries I’ve lived in, and all the real life war stories I have. They attended my retirement and listened to a former four star friend and colleague talk about many of my career events.
Two brothers who lived two very different lives.
Like my brother and I.
He retired as a VP of Finance at Apple while I want off to ‘play Army’.
He made a lot more money and now is the definition of ‘Liberal Elite’. Two very different brothers.
One of the grandkids asked me how many people I had killed, and I told her, enough to still be here today.
Good Answer.
And my brother and I. He was gay and owned and operated a string of hair salons. I was sports, military and business. So different, you would have no idea we came from the same parents and grew up in the same household.
Good point.
We were 4 brothers who grew up together.
Oldest was the Apple guy, me, then Construction/contractor brother who was helping a classmates dad flip houses while he was still in HS. And then the youngest who was sports/hunting/family and all around most loved. He passed before age 40.
My brother died at 50. For a lot of reasons we fought our entire lives. Then he died and to this day I wish we could have buried our differences and gotten close.
Sounds idyllic.
Fantasy Football League. I would prefer around 6-7 PM for a start time of the draft. I think Labor Day or the Tues or Wed after labor day make the most sense to prevent drafting someone that is injured for the season. Anytime after week 3 of the preseason would be fine though.
I would not make the early rounds too long. Maybe 3 minutes each pick? Once you are past the first few rounds 1 minute is plenty. You could take a 15 minute break after the first 3 rounds for taunting, trash talking, and beverage refills, and then have 1 minute for each pick after. That would take around 90 minutes for the first three rounds, and the rest would take about the same after the break.
My two cents.
Also, we are all still waiting for our swag from seasons 1 + 2
This works for me.
Definitely an evening during the week as weekends and holidays may be difficult
We are studying Revelation in our bible study and discussed this very question last night. I’ve been thinking we are in the “end times” for 40 years, so at this point, I have no clue.
They are totally clueless.
Irv Smith Jr will be the breakout player in 2025 after 10 years.
i can GUARANTEE you, if someone knows when the end is happening, they are WRONG…
i bet most if not all of the Christians in Rome thought it was the end times when Nero was lighting his garden with burning Christians.
my opinion on it all, live your life ready for when Christ comes again, and you should be good.
Freezey is on fire today.
Good advice, for both believers and non believers.
The “end times” in Scripture are the whole New Testament era. That’s what Pentecost signaled. (Acts 2:16-21)
Jesus’ message is: You don’t know when the Last Day will be, so be ready.
Revelation is a vision given that describes these “last days” (the end times) in symbolic and repeating fashion. The visions overlap each other and give us more insight into the spiritual battle going on. The whole point of the vision: Jesus wins, so don’t fear what you’re going through.
Also, almost all of the imagery is borrowed from the Old Testament, so don’t forget to use that and its context as the “key” to its meaning.
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