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It was great to watch football again last night, even though the Lions B Squad made Trey Lance look good. Also, I really thought Collinsworth was less annoying than normal. Maybe just because I miss football that much?
Vikings signed two new depth players this week. No major injuries. Rumblings over the Defense being ahead of the offense, and we hear that every season this time of year. In 8 days we get to watch a practice game.
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I guess as we move into the last week before our first practice game, the biggest question I have is how many reps will McCarthy get? To me, he needs all the reps he can get. To KOC, I guess he has to weigh potential injury, to needed experience.
Good morning and SKOL! It’s Saturday, and it’s gonna be another hot one in Tampa. My wife made me some french toast and turkey sausage for breakfast, with some orange juice, and of course coffee.
One week away from Vikings football!
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Howell picked. Backup?
From what I remember there was stories that Sam struggled early in camp.
He did fine once the season started though.
Well until he didn’t do fine that is.
Mason scored on a 55 yd outsider.
Mason will be very good for us I suspect.
#nojinx
Think JJ having a poor practice. Hope it’s our D.
Better to have those growing pains early in camp I believe.
Every mistake is a learning experience.
The offense will make adjustments.
Yeah, but as Allen Iverson said, “we talkin bout practice”. McCarthy is learning what not to do. There are many, many things he has to learn in this regard. Knowing what not to do, prevents a QB from making boneheaded mistakes. Every QB in the league goes through it. More so young QB’s of course, but they all have days where their learning curve is expanded.
Micah Parsons requests a trade out of Dallas.
NFL is getting interesting….
Request a trade = give me more money.
The fact that he signed the contract is not as important as ‘keeping him happy’.
He’s on the last year of his contract.
But yes, it’s about getting the most money in 2026 and beyond.
Rookie contract up, beat up, trying to cash in.
Safe travels DE. Weather says sunny and better air tomorrow.
Thank you.
70’s in DE while I’m gone after 90s the last two weeks.
He put out a statement saying he does not want to play for the Cowboys. I’m sure he wants more money, but he clearly wants out of Dallas too.
He is the only Ciwboy i like. A great player
No doubt a great player.
And a PSU grad.
PSU grad. blech.
I put them with the Catholics ignoring priests abuse after the Sandusky thing.
Child molesters should be killed, not protected.
I agree.
My PSU reference was to PA Viking Fan.
I assume he followed Parsons while at PSU.
Thanks Pohlads for screwing the fan base for years. Got your nice stadium too. Make sure to add to price tag to load your pocket protectors.
i just hope they raise the food prices on the fans, to alleviate the lower ticket costs
BP sold away. Some pending FA’s. Almost 40% of active roster. If their selling a rebuild they can shove it. Tell the boys to pack a lunch when you go.
You would think fans would stop going to games.
I guess that goes against the whole Minnesota Nice thing.
I see lots of empty seats and 9-1 finals. Pitching was never good, make it worse. Will check in on game tonight out of morbid curiosity.
In his first 5 seasons (2019 – 2023), Terry McLaurin caught passes from 12 QB’s. Now that he has Jayden McDaniel (lucky number 13?), he wants a trade due to contract issues. I think the Redskins need to keep him, and make him a happy camper.
Agreed, I’d rather see him stay with them now that they are competitive and running like a good franchise. I also dont want him to end up on a team I hate.
Think Washington is on a bit of a “after Snyder” high and love the new ownership and GM. And if the new GM thinks he wants to much and trades him, fans will give the nod to management. I don’t know what he’s asking for, so have no idea what will really happen.
Whatever, for the first time in years they have “adults” running the organization.
I don’t know exactly what he wants, as numbers have never been detailed. I think he wants around $30M a year though. In March, the Bengals made Ja’Marr Chase the highest-paid non-QB in NFL history, giving him a four-year, $161 million contract with $112 million guaranteed. That’s over $40M a year.
Missed the game last night. (kidding, didn’t miss anything). Losing your O and D coordinators and i think about 5 assistants may cripple the kitties.
I think they’ll be OK, because Campbell made the new OC adjust to the existing offense, vice the whole offense being forced to adjust to the OC. Make one guy change vice 25. I think that’s smart. There will be tweaks for sure but the whole offense remains virtually unchanged. I think that’s brilliant.
Divisional games should be interesting. Might be tight top to bottom. Kitties have to be favored as of now. Injury bug you never know.
Lance actually looked decent, albeit against guys who’ll be bagging groceries in a couple months but he was pretty good
He did have a decent game.
I was mostly happy to see the Lions look like crap.
Yeah and the hooker sucked
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45859193/ranking-nfl-2025-season-coaching-staffs-best-worst-coaches-coordinators#MIN
can a coaching staff who hasn’t won a playoff game together actually be #1? my vote it no
I don’t know… last year our offense ended up 9th in points scored, and the defense was 5th in points allowed. That’s pretty strong. I don’t know if it is strong enough for #1, but it’s pretty damn good.
Andy Reid and Spags are pretty tough to beat, but somehow we did.
Good point. Interestingly enough, the Chiefs offense was 16th in the league in points scored. Their worst position since Mahomes became the starter. Their defense though finished 4th in the league in points allowed, and they won 15 games.
Thus, our earlier conversation. The Chiefs are short on quality Wr’s and despite the best QB in football, Reid went more to running the ball and playing defense.
While I think Sean McVay is an offensive genius, Reid ain’t too far behind.
Agree
All Kirk’s fault!
Day 5 at the edge of the world. There is a glimmer of hope that I will survive until tomorrow morning when we head back to civilization. Yesterday I caught the first fish and also caught the first pike. It wasn’t a giant but a good eater. I may not eat fish for another year. If you don’t hear from me in a few days, invade Canada and rescue me.
Stay strong VP!
this vacation sounds like my favorite vacations! remote, nature, fishing….can’t get better than that imo
Live look at VP.
Love these updates…
Understanding the team is a dumpster fire and has underperformed this year…
and rebuilding needs to happen…
but i can’t imagine a rebuild that happens without a bullpen. not only without a bullpen, but a bullpen of young GOOD arms, top 8 in the majors EASILY maybe top 5.
so when starting a rebuild, what do you need? Good, Young, Cheap players? huh…
come at me, Kfey, while i agree some of those players needed to go (Correa, Ty France etc) Getting what they got for who they traded out of their bullpen was BAD.
It’s bullshit, unless there’s a buyer lined up that told them to fire sale anyone possible, that’s the only thing that makes sense
Agreed, which is why I think yesterday was a fire sale to clear the books for the new owners that I think already have a deal lined up to buy and are waiting to sign/confirm it and make it public. My 2 cents
We can only hope
That’s my hope
Haven’t followed baseball much for years – think I went into hibernation after my Cubs ‘finally’ won a World Series.
But baseball has always been about good pitching. You need solid starters and a bullpen. Even if you are sort of starting over per se , do not understand why you would get rid of good, young strong arms. So, you could immediately turn around and then replace them?
Two of the 9 moves were bad, agreed. I will come at you for saying their BP was top 5-8 in the majors. They were 23rd in the majors in ERA, which is the only stat that counts for me, giving up runs. Thats bad. They had 3-4 REALLY good pieces that were getting over used and the rest were REALLY bad. So, disagree there.
i will argue with you on their bullpen.
i don’t think a team has trade offers for THEIR ENTIRE BULLPEN if they suck…. in fact, i would think that means they are actually VERY good. teams trading to BOLSTER their bullpen for twins pitching means they are good.
that being said.
my kids were very sad to see their favorite pitchers trades (Duran, Jax, north st paul boy Varland)
Agree to disagree. The numbers are numbers and cant be argued. 23rd ranked BP in the majors. They had good pieces, and awful pieces. You cant get top 10 prospects from other organizations for the awful pieces, so you have to move the good ones. The Twins could have kept all of their BP, the team still would not be relevant the next 2 seasons at least if management, coaching and FO stay the same. Could they have held on to a piece or two, especially the team control, yes. But they finally picked a lane and cleaned house which im a fan of. Stop being mid. Commit to an actual rebuild.
NOW, that being said, if they do all of this and DONT sell the team and or dont get rid of Rocco and the coaching staff and GM…then this will all be for not and they might as well move the team to Louisiana or something.
it blows my mind what the A’s got for Mason Miller vs what we got for Johan Duran…
but yes i agree, if this was all for nothing. It will be VERY easy to become a fan of a different baseball team.
Im in wait and see mode now until mid October. More dominos to fall. It will be kinda funny to watch the St. Paul saints take on the rest of the majors for a few months.
The really good spots in the ballpark should be a lot more affordable, maybe.
Yeah if anyone wanted to know what it looks like behind home plate, now is the time to find out.
Speaking of which, is the offer for seats in the box still open, freezey?
What was the random stat I saw yesterday? No team that has ever lost the Hall of Fame game has gone on the make the play offs. …I will say. I think Detroits starting roster is stacked (WR is good not great) but if Goff goes down, or they have injury bug even half of last years they are cooked.
Yea, but any team that loses it’s starting QB or is hit with the injury bug is going to have problems.
Also true.
Interesting, but usually somewhat lesser teams play in the HoF game. We know the Lions are a pretty good team.
That is also true. It is usually mid to poor teams, I just thought it was a quirky stat that we can reference later in the year.
It is a quirky stat. Wonder who figured it out? Sometimes these guys come up with some gems.
What’s interesting is both of those teams were playoff teams last year. And both went 1 & done iirc…..
Exactly. The Hall of Fame Game curse may be upon us! …didnt we play in it in 2014 or 2015?
Not sure last time vikes were in it. Florio mentioned this morning that it was 1991 for the lions, and chargers in 94.
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It felt good to watch some live football last night.
I fell asleep, but glad the Chargers won. Jim Harbaugh ran the ball 35 times, and only threw it 23 times. Hmmmm sounds like Ravens ball. The Harbaughs know that running the football is a great way to control the game, wear the defense out, and win. Herbert is going to benefit greatly from an offense that throws the ball when it wants to, not when it has to.
‘Jim Harbaugh ran the ball 35 times’
Isn’t he kind of old to be doing that, especially in an NFL game?
Clever boy…
It may be old school but when it works it is effective.
Oldest adage in football A great defense and good running game wins Championships. Ravens haven’t won a Championship in a while, but every year they are contending it seems. The Chargers went from a 5-12 team to an 11-6 team with Jim Harbaugh coming in as their head coach. Wouldn’t doubt he keeps them playing well again this year. If they work a deal with the Redskins for McLaurin Herbert is gonna be doing backflips.
The Niners and Eagles basically play this way and are really effective. The Chiefs and Bills, with stellar QB’s. are leaning on. the run more and more.
I will be in the Twin Cities starting on Saturday.
I’m a pretty good 2nd baseman.
Are the Twins holding tryouts after they traded away the team????
Looks like they traded 10 player including 5 from their Bullpen.
Plus they get to pay $30M to Correa after shipping him back to Houston.
Here’s the full list of Twins players who play on other teams after Thursday:
Carlos Correa, SS (Astros)Willi Castro, UTL (Cubs)Jhoan Duran, RHP (Phillies)Griffin Jax, RHP (Rays)Danny Coulombe, LHP (Rangers)Chris Paddack, RHP (Tigers)Harrison Bader, OF (Phillies)Ty France, 1B (Blue Jays)Louis Varland, RHP (Blue Jays)Brock Stewart, RHP (Dodgers)
https://www.twinkietown.com/2025/7/31/24478558/twins-trade-deadline-roundup-carlos-correa-griffin-jax-louie-varland-danny-coulombe
Wow, that was quite the yard sale…
Good morning all, happy Friday to you unfortunate souls still working. Off to my golf league today, i will check back for some great insights on our favorite team, and a host of other topics.
Anyone notice we have not seen GoPack-whatever since he told us he was beating himself?
Anyway SKOL and the obligatoey FTP
LOL.
He comes (no pun) around here every two weeks.
I suspect he will return.
Friday, welcome to weekend eve,
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They got manhandled.
Their kneecaps were busted !!
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