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Happy New Year, everyone! I hope all of you had a fun and enjoyable new year’s eve. We watched the Boise State game, played some SkyJo (if you have kids and want a fun card game, I highly recommend it) with kiddo & one of his freiends, and went to bed early. It’s just after 11:00 as I write this, and it’s highly improbable that I’ll make it until midnight. I don’t see the point of sitting up so that I can watch them drop some stupid ball in New York City, I’m fairly certain I’ve never watched that in my life, however it’s possible that I watched it in my wilder days & don’t remember. Either way, I hope all of you have an awesome 2025.
Vikings News
MinnesotaSportsFan reported that the Vikings worked out a couple of punters and a couple of depth offensive tackles this week.
Kevin O’Connell talked about his strategy in the final drive to close out the Packers, from a to z sports.
The Vikings are considering the possibility of elevating Daniel Jones from the practice squad to the active roster, according to the New York Post. The move would benefit the Vikings in the event that Jones signs with a different team next season as having him on the active roster in 2024 makes the Vikings eligible for a compensatory pick in the 2025 draft. I doubt they’ll make him the primary backup, as Mullens has 3 years of experience in the system, but elevating Jones makes a ton of sense. The Vikings only have 3 picks in the 2025 draft, a first round pick and two fifth round picks, so some additional compensatory pick would be significant.
Patrick Reusse at the Star-Tribune looks at where the 2024 Vikings rank among Minnesota Sports surprises. I dunno, this year wasn’t a total surprise to some of us.
The Vikings are moving on up the power rankings after their big win against the Packers, from Vikings.com.
NFL News
The Cowboys are releasing RB Ezekiel Elliott, who hopes to join a contender for a playoff run, according to the Cowboys team website.
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Could not happen to a nicer bunch/group/team/QB.
Well except for FTP/Poopeaters/Cowgirls/etc.
Hope he is more successful than KC was at that.
It’s been a nice day. Lots of thoughtful and insightful comments.
Bed time now for this old guy.
Sleep well all.
And to all a good night?
Never expected Ohio St-Oregon to be the blowout and Texas-Iowa St to be the overtime game.
Glad Aaron Jones thigh bruise is not sidelining him.
Pat Jones is covered with Van Ginkel, Greenard and Turner plus Murphy now off of IR.
He said he’ll be ready to go.
Not sure if this is good or bad as they all seem rather poor to me. Every game there’s three or four calls that are just crazy.
8th most? Or 8th least?
Would assume most.
‘His crew ranks No. 8 in the NFL in flags per game (15.9).’
More interested in knowing what percentage of the flag ‘his crew’ throws are for the ‘home team’.
my gut feels is that being ranked 8 is in the middle. With at most 16 games a week, how many crews can the NFL have? 16-18? So being 8th means they are in the middle
Good point
There are 17 officiating crews in the NFL.
Here are all the stats on all the officiating crews in the NFL.
https://www.nflpenalties.com/all-referees.php?year=2024&view=total
Brad Rogers crew slightly favors the away team. They have thrown 103 flags on the home team, to 93 on the away team.
Hope they don’t try to ‘balance it out’ during the last game of the year.
Hadn’t thought of that. 10 more flags on the Vikings than the lions? Yeah, that would be tough to overcome.
Dang it, close game, was rooting for AZ
I really wanted to see a no SEC final four. Oregon or Ohio State will just have to knock out Texas and then Penn State take out Georgia or Notre Dame for a Big Ten championship
This ASU RB looks pretty damn good.
I’d fucking draft Skattebo.
Great minds. He’d be a great 2 punch if they keep Jones around
Kid must has balls the size of a truck.
Clearly a future Vikings kicker from TX.
ASU needs to pull this off.
2 misses with the last 2 minutes.
Pressure I guess.
Just like that Boise kicker last night.
Can Arizona State get a stop?
Finally a close game.
TX in FG range
Missed 48 yard fg. Arizona ball with 1:39 and two time outs. Fields goal wins it.
Now 57s to get into FG range for Texas.
72 yards away ATM.
Never could wrap my head around college football, even a championship game.
Damn good game
That New Orleans attacker was in the military, & was a real estate agent. 42 years old.
Was he bald and from Bismarck?
Nope. I was home all day.
And a nut job. Society is deteriorating at a exponential rate.
According to Biden, the only exponential threat to the country is Trump.
Tesla Cyber Truck blows up at Trump Hotel in Vegas. Loaded with explosives.
Looks like the attempt to stop Trump has started.
I’m sure the left perceives that as normal.
Not sure how a truck outside a Trump Hotel in Vegas is going to stop DT?
If anything, like the Lawfare did it will rally people around him.
Stop trying to deny my tinfoil hat conspiracies.
Reports now it was rented on the same app as the New Orleans pickup.
Yep. Coordinated.
@too dangerous to transfer power@
The way you guys talk this may lead into a game thread Sunday night.
If only we had more guys adding content instead of complaining all the time.
WHIS THAT?! I WANT HIS NAME!. HNY TO YOU AND TEACHER.
And to you and yours.
Don’t know any of their names only their ‘handles’ here.
Not a real chatty person, pick my times. Dudes on here have family and tis the season. I got 3 kids that are about middle age and live thousands miles away so i mostly check in for football talk.
I have my days.
Some days I have a lot to share.
Some days there is a lot to react too.
And then some days quiet works better for me.
Subject matter mostly. i mean snow blowers or diesel trucks not up my ally.
Yup.
Alcohol, drugs and ‘music’ are topics I normally avoid.
Cooking, snow blowers, drugs, and car mechanics, I have little to offer.
Oh and golf.
Golf should be avoided until a joke is being made.
Now you’ve gone too far!
For sure!
But I did it civilly so it is all good.
Laughing
I need to do some marketing, attract more people. Gotta reduce the politics, it keeps people away.
When we tried that the conversation died completely. It stays plenty civil nowadays.
Yeah, it’s been pretty good.
Civility is the key.
Just dropped back in and actually found you guys earlier discussion on cutting government spending thoughtful and a nice read.
I learned I can keep it civil by just ignoring Edge.
Civil most important. I mean politics is a big issue going forward, IMO.
As Americans, the political thing is kind of important at this particular time, in my oinion.
There is much going on and could, hopefully will, be much happening in the next few months.
Thanks for the thoughts, everyone.
I agree, I’m okay with an open conversation, with the understanding that it stays civil and that sometimes a comment string will need to be deleted if it has devolved (It’s generally not the comment that’s the problem, it’s the conversation that follows).
I’m a firm believer in using the collapse comment feature (I use it and recommend it highly if there’s a topic you want to avoid). That said, I DO understand those who don’t want to hear a bunch of political discussion on a football board, so please be respectful of them as well.
Also, fuck the Packers. I can say that now that it’s after dark, right?
Not sure if that qualifies as ‘political’ or not.
Minn-Wisc politics maybe?
Here’s a link to the Festivus report.
Some of the highlights include the National Endowment for the Arts funding ice-skating drag queens and promoting city park circuses. Additionally, the Department of the Interior (DOI) invested in the construction of a brand new $12 million Las Vegas Pickleball complex. DOI also allocated $720,479 to wetland conservation projects for ducks in Mexico. This year, the Department of State is featured eleven times, with expenditures including $4.8 million on Ukrainian influencers, $32,596 on breakdancing, $2.1 million for Paraguayan Border Security, and $3 Million for ‘Girl-Centered Climate Action’ in Brazil.
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/FESTIVUS-REPORT-2024.pdf
We spend tons of money on interest. Our defense is at a all time low. What does sniffer do? Comes back from beach house ad spend more, notably, UK.
For sure lots of highlight reel stuff. But are they going to go after the ‘big money’ – many of which are huge sacred cows?
Hopefully, Trump and the GOP have actually asked Musk and Raswamy how quickly they could erase the 32trillion debt.
Im not holding my breath.
Politicians love to spend our money.
Including Trump and the GOP
Ummmm… have you forgotten the DOGE office?
Just DOG. Leave out Efficiency.
I think with a majority in the House and Senate, Trump will be able to reign in excessive and wasteful spending. The Government wastes too much money, and the politicians are putting ridiculous amounts of pork barrel spending in every bill.
Just happy sniffer and cackles out the window. Can’t get worse, can it?
I definitely think we’re going to have a great 2025 under Trump.
Like how sniffer is willing to sell border wall for 5 cents on the dollar but he’s fine with his. I think they blocked that crap, not sure tho.
Yeah, Trump filed an amicus brief in the Southern District of Texas, urging a federal judge to halt the sale of surplus materials initially designated for the U.S.-Mexico border wall. No idea what happened with it. It was just before Christmas.
Taxpayer funded $500k beach house but staunch on a southern wall. How fucking stupid is the voting electorate with this ass clown?
i better stop venting, maybe some Twilight Zone.
I do, too. Changes needed, hopefully he can overthrow the establishment at the Republican Party too.
That’s the key. From my DC experience he’ll have to fight the Republican establishment just as hard as the Democrats.
That’s why 90% or more need to go.
In our dreams Grasshopper.
Trump won an election with an overwhelming majority. Politicians will challenge him now at their own peril. The mainstream media has lost its teeth, and the public wants Trump to fix the country. They really want him to eliminate the woke culture that rules Washington.
That is all truea nd well and good. But you already hear those jackass Republican Senators huffing and puffing over some of Trump’s nominations.
We’ll see.
ummmm….musk and raswamy are head of DOGE. The whole point of my post. Just because you create an office, doesn’t mean that they do anything.
Well, I guess I didn’t do a good job with that post. Trump is creating the DOGE, and so I was wondering why you said he “loves to spend money”. Remember he brought Boeing in, and challenged them on the cost of the new Air Force One aircraft, threatening to cancel the contract if they didn’t lower the cost. Trump is not a wasteful spender. He’s a businessman.
I’d be shocked if DOGE accomplishes lowering the national debt. I hope it does.
Too many politicians with their fingers in the pot.
Well first we have to stop deficit spending. The old “balanced budget” rule. Then we cut spending to the point we can start paying down the debt. I’d say we’re over 100 years away from paying off what we owe at this point.
Not to mention an entire culture in federal government that needs to change. When I worked for the forest service we would buy things we didn’t need because of we didn’t our money would end up getting relocated to fires and we wouldn’t get it next year.
DOGE has no real power is where the problem is going to come. They will only be able to point things out and it will still be up to congress.
Well Bow, that’s true, but House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer announced a new congressional subcommittee back in November. It’s going to be called the “Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee”, and it will be chaired by representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. They plan to work closely with DOGE to reduce governmental expenditures. Senator Joni Ernst was appointed to lead the corresponding Senate DOGE Caucus as well. This is a good sign that the GOP led Congress will be working with the DOGE to reduce spending, etc.
Yeah, but I’ll believe that when I see it. Plenty of promises have been made over the years.
Trump’s motto… promises made, promises kept.
Hopefully
We went $6 trillion further into debt under Trump, about the same as Biden. Obama & Bush were equally shitty.
Facts.
i hope for the best with Trump & excited for the changes, but I became fully aware long ago that the Republican Party is not saving shit, they’re part pf the problem.
Spending money to fix your country is one thing, sending overseas is another.
Gotta operate in the black regardless
Yep. There’s plenty of waste to cut i just don’t trust they actually will. No more omnibus bills.
90% of congress should be voted out. Dumb voters.
Yeah and term limits. No more career politicians. Get back to a part time, short time service to your country by people who have already been successful as intended by the founders.
Amen
I’m always torn on term limits, yes the bad politicians need to go, but I would hate to see a good one go, just because he/she was in office too long.
Then somebody else can step up and without the incentive of a cushy career, most of the bad ones will never try.
I agree with the cut in pay, I just wish the voters were more selective.
We don’t know brad, just sick of the last 4 years.
Me too. Political system been going to shit since Woodrow Wilson, FDR sucked too.
That number isn’t exactly in context GF. The debt increased dramatically in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic responses. Tax revenues went down, as businesses closed forever, and people were out of work. Congress passed spending bill after spending bill to try to keep the country going. In retrospect, Trump was right when he tried to turn the COVID overreaction off, and get people back to work. You might note the debt went DOWN by $109M in Trump’s first 6 months in office.
Results are results, no excuses
“Facts” out of context are a misrepresentation GF… that’s the reality of this.
I looked it up a while ago, as someone on Facebook said the same thing. Pre-Covid Trump was on course to add the same to slightly less than Obama and Bush did before him. Most of Trumps deficit was Covid related.
Correct.
Trump and GOP spend as well.
Probably less than Dems, but they don’t balance the budget either.
Dr. Rand Paul has released his 2024 “Festivus” report, citing more than $1 trillion in government waste.
He no doubt missed a few trillion.
Do you know what the biggest one or two items are?
No, I’m trying to find the report now.
Looks like the Eagles will be sitting Saquon Barkley this week against the Giants. Thus, he will end the regular season 101 yards shy of breaking Eric Dickerson’s NFL record of 2,105 yards, set in 1984.
Probably saving themselves a bonus payment as well.
Very likely.
He’s had a shit ton of carries i can see the team perspective. Wonder what he thinks?
Think i’d give the half to him and see where he’s at.
You have an opportunity to set an all-time NFL record, and your team sits you. You could be making history, but you’re sitting on the bench. Yeah, I’d be furious at the team.
Whomever beats Dickerson record may stand forever. Much more a passing game than the old days.
Absolutely
I would be surprised if it wasn’t a mutual decision.
You really think a hyper competitive, top of the food chain athlete, that close to an all time NFL record “mutually” agreed to sit the game out???
Barry Sanders did
Hmmm do tell. When did he do that? Willfully sat on the bench, instead of playing in a game where he could have broken the all-time rushing record?
I don’t think it was the all time record but I know he was given the chance to finish a game to break a record or win the rushing title that he was only 10 or 15 yards short of and declined so his teammates could play.
Hmmmm… OK… don’t rememberize that one.
He chose to retire, could’ve had the all time rushing record within a year or 2 & was still young.
That is completely different than your team benching you when you have the opportunity to reach an NFL all-time record. Sanders said he retired due to disagreements with the organization, and his own declining production. He was over 1,400 yards away from Walter Payton’s record at the time, and he was 31 years old. While he was “close” to the record, he wasn’t on the doorstep like Barkley is right now.
I would bet money, based on his press conference, he had a day in the decision. He’s being a team player and more concerned about the SB
Those records will start to mean less with teams playing 17 games now
I agree that there will need to be an asterisk associated with NFL records. 14, 16, and now 17 game seasons change the metrics for sure.
Carries, average yards per carry should be looked at. Most people prob won’t tho.
There’s no asterisk on the current one even though he had two more games than OJ.
Yes, which is why I said “there will need to be” asterisks.
Sniffer simply said “Happy New Year, folks”. Nothing about NOLA attack. What a POS.
Worthless… worst “leader” I’ve ever seen.
And a sorry ass person as well.
Absolutely
He is probably not even aware.
His staff decides what he knows about and responds in his name.
POS is what he has always been.
Like the Afghan disaster returning 13 dead soldiers. Sniffer is checking time on his watch. Took care of Hunter tho.
That was after making the families wait for hours so he could finish his nap on the plane.
Quiet, guess everyone is working.
Or recovering.
Think new years day deadest of year. Not even sure whats open. Not much.
The Teacher and I will be going to the gym/rec center soon.
An inch of fresh snow on the ground, don’t need to go anywhere else.
We were up till about 3 a.m. Nice party at a friend’s house. About 20 people, and we were jabbering away all night. I was driving Ms Daisey as it were, so I only had a couple glasses of champagne at midnight. Interestingly enough, there was a couple there who were huge Lions fans and we had some good natured exchanges regarding the teams.
Proud of you. Us old guys can’t usually hang that late.
Have to admit, we don’t usually stay up past 9 p.m. unless we’re watching football.
I could, but I really don’t see the point in it.
You’re not old enough, so you don’t count. And besides you had all that Army training.
I think almost 67 is old enough to qualify.
Plus Army Training
Happy New Year!
Happy Hump Day!
T-19. That’s great, made me think a little bit. Still a lot of extra garbage to go.
Bet Pelosi shows up and rolls her eyes, tear up some paperwork thinking she’s still relevant.
First Jan 1st I can remember there weren’t 10 college games on.
Maybe I’m just not paying attention lately.
But three solid games for the day.
Talkingheads still say the Pukers are “the team nobody wants to face in the playoffs.” Idiots.
Cram it up your Cramhole LaFluer.
I think that they are a solid 5th or 6th in the NFC. Depends on how you feel about the Rams and Redskins.
“the team nobody wants to face” always refers to a second or third tier team that somebody thinks may have a chance of winning. Take it as an admission that they are not one of the good teams.
What play was that exactly?
Think it was that fourth and two play deep in our territory in first half and Love tried a 15 yard pass down the field.
Happy New Year! Can’t wait for Sunday!
Happy New Year! May your new year be blessed.
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Damn! Nice post!
Happy Hump Day!
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Where’s our prevaricating, cackling, moronic administration these days? They haven’t been seen since the election in November, and actually not much before it. The vacancy sign has been hanging around their necks, literally the entire year.
Guessing sniffer is setting a record for most vacation days at a beach house with a tax funded wall. Cackles might be in Hawaii half drunk as i type. The fact that this classless admin got as many votes as they did is scary.
It is scary indeed. Joe Biden has never done a single thing of note in his entire political career (52 years) and has mostly blundered everything he’s ever attempted. Not to mention he continuously lies about his life, his career, and his accomplishments. It’s despicable. Kamala Harris is the the most ridiculous excuse for a “National Leader” in the entire world, and probably the history of mankind, as well. Yet, people are voting for these ass clowns?
The people voting for them have been brainwashed by the fake news. They are more anti-DT votes than pro-FJB/Cackles votes. Or they are alphabet people who want everyone to celebrate their mental illness.
the fact that anyone can be an elected official for 52 years should be a crime. Everything should have term limits
He’s headed to Rome next. Likely to get the Popes blessing for all the crimes he committed, to justify himself.
No more free trips on the docket after Jan 20th.
Moronic admin reporting for duty
Hi Ben! Happy New Year!
You too!
Better than having him in town signing executive orders and giving away more money.
Happy New Year to all!
I got Wordle in three tries today. My New Year is off to a good start!
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SKOL!!!!
Is Wordle still a thing?
My brother introduced me to it when we evacuated to his house during hurricane Milton, but I didn’t actually start playing it until about a month ago. He and I share our results each day now. Retired stuff.
You think Wordle is fun, give Quordle a try.
Once you get the hang of that, try Octordle.
Hmmmm… guess I have a new challenge to attempt. Thanks!
Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year Everyone.
It’s been a great year – Vikings and Trump!
Nice to wake up this morning without a hangover.
Happy New Year all
Happy new year to you, hopefully the Vikings continue to play this year like last year
Same to you Ben. Hope all is well with the new job and you are fully recovered from your surgery. All the best.
Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year JR! Go Vikings! Go Trump! Go (away) Joe Biden!
2025 big year – Super Bowl and Trump taking the reins!
Amen!!!