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I hope everyone had an enjoyable and relaxing draft weekend. There was a lot of uncertainty heading into the draft, and in the end, it turned out unlike most people expected. Most fans expected the Vikings to trade back, but they did not. They stood pat in the first round. The remainder of the draft went mostly as expected. The Vikings front office had limited draft capital heading in, and they made due with what they had.
I’ve seen reactions fom one end of the spectrum to the other regarding the Vikings draft. I thought that KAM was better at navigaiting trades in his sophomore draft. Overall, I feel that he did a good job of using the limited resources he had, and using them to produce a draft that has potential to be a good one.
I would have liked to see us find a long-term solution to our QB position in the draft, but that expectation is unrealistic considering the limited draft capital combined with being in the 23 spot, which makes it nearly impossible to move to the top few spots.
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Minnesota Vikings News:
At MSN, they wonder whether DeWayne McBride being drafted spells the end of Dalvin Cook in Minnesota. LOL, Dalvin may be leaving, but I think other factors played more of a role in that decision than our seventh-round draft pick.
KAM stated that he’s excited for Kirk Cousins, but every option is open going forward, per NFL.com. I like it.
CBS Sports looks at winners and losers from this year’s draft.
Video of the Day:
Here’s a Jordan Addison highlight reel for your Monday enjoyment. Enjoy!
Lots of steam that Cook is going to the fins for a 5th.
It’s probably true but they cant announce it till June 01
I don’t care if it’s for a 7th round pick… if we don’t have to pay for any of his salary.
Well I’m not going to make this a salary issue only. Cook is a great player but $14 mill is to steep I agree. I’d like to see a 4th rd pick honestly but if it’s a 5th then so be it.
Well, the value is the same as a 2025 4th round pick if that helps. 😁
Spent the day with USSOCOM at MacDill in a conference. Gonna be in discussions with them through Thursday. Met a guy who was born in Green Bay and over lunch struck up a conversation with him. He says the Packers are going to suck now that Rodgers is gone.
I hope he’s right.
Not possible. QB’s aren’t responsible for wins.
They are obviously not that sold on Love as they only gave him a 1 year deal.
Only $103 for 3 plastic bags of food. We’ve turned the corner.
Lifer said it’s not getting worse as fast as it was so that means it’s getting better.
Have 3 grown kids. Kids of their own. $103 is just for me!
Prime Rib?
Caviar?
Top end wine?
Breakfast sausage, few brats, some hamburger. WTF is prime rib and caviar?
You got meat and it was only $103?? Nice!!
And more truth, from the sermon on the mount
“My issue with him isn’t his money. It is his mindset. His mindset has been an issue his entire career. Jay Gruden tried to convince him he needed to take more chances. Mike Zimmer tried to convince him he needed to take more chances down the field. KOC won’t call him out publicly. When he talked repeatedly about the offense needing to be more consistent, he was talking about Cousins.
There is a reason Kirk is always in one score games. He will not play aggressively unless it is absolutely necessary. It is why he is basically a .500 quarterback despite having as much arm talent as any of the other top QBs outside of Mahomes and Herbert.
He also might be the most immobile starting QB in NFL history. He isn’t the least athletic. He is the most immobile. He makes playing Oline much harder than other QBs. He makes decent lines look average, and he makes average lines look awful.
The only way you are winning with Kirk is with an all-time great defense and a top 3 offensive line. Good luck with that.”
Who is this quote from? and where does it end in your post?
Just a rando. I just agree with what he’s saying and believe he makes great, sound points. Also not a fan of paying the 17th ranked QB by EPA the 7th highest salary.
Perhaps you’d like a little context from someone who lived in DC at the time.
First a strange fact about the Gruden quote and Jay certainly said that. But at the same time he sent Cousins to his brother Jon’s camp – Jon was considered the big QB guru. But here’s the part that doesn’t get written. Jon told Kirk HE TAKES TOO MANY RISKS. Yes, you read that correctly. Remember this is the Redskins!
Now, any of you ever play QB? Any of you ever played QB for a defensive minded coach? Chapter 1, Verse 1 – he who wins the turnover battle, wins the game. Verse 2 – QB’s shall not force the ball and throw interceptions. Zimmer may say that publicly – but behind closed doors?
Stafford throws an interception, Mcvay comes over and gives him a hug. Cousins throws an interception and Zimmer smears and walks to other end of bench. This is pure bullshit!
And the line stuff – ever wonder why his offensive lineman speak so highly of him? Believe just the center last week.
What garbage!
Jeeez, someone struck a nerve. Think you need to call it a day.
Then stop posting BS
I’m much higher on KC than most on here. Prob not as much as NVF but who is. It’s very much a team game. I bet the 9ers would take him in a heartbeat.
Eh. I don’t know about that.
At what salary?
There hasn’t been one credible report of the 49ers ever being interested in Kirk, other than , “Shanny loves Kirk”
Kirk is good.
Just don’t think he will win a bowl, even if everything else is perfect. Would love for him to prove the “Kirk Haters” wrong.
They seem out of love with Lance and Purdy is a big if. They have a dynamic team, qb is a big variable.
They are, but could they afford Kirk, without some significant cap casualties to the roster?
Prob not, but welcome to the club. Guess they will roll the dice.
LOL…It’s Kirk’s fault he’s always in one score games…bawahahahahaha…how fucking stupid are you?? We had historically one of the worst defenses in franchise history that were easier to go through than a wet brown paper bag and you have the NERVE to blame Kirk for the team being in one score games??? REALLY??? Maybe expand your mind just a little and look past your skewed hatred for Kirk and realize if we had even an average defense most of those games we would have won by multiple scores.
Dude you have no idea what the hell you’re talking about.
Straight facts being posted on Reddit surprisingly
In regards to Kirk and his “stats”
“Because he was 12th in CPOE, 17th in EPA.
The comebacks weren’t an accident. Dude disappeared for roughly half of each game.
“Comebacks” isn’t a real stat. Dude disappeared for entire halves weekly and it’s reflected in the stats”
Also learned that Geno Smith is short for Eugene…
Eugene?
I dated a gal from Eugene once.
where did you get all this crap? How many TD’s has he thrown last three or four years? Do TD’s count? Comebacks don’t count! Go tell that to every football analysts,coach, or whatever. How many 40 plus yards has he completed? How many 20plus air yards has he completed? What’s his TD/int ratio over last 5 years? Does that count?
and you’re trying to tell me below you are objective. Right
Sure, it “counts” as far as numbers and raw stats, great. But CPOE and EPA put those raw stats into Context. And when you look at it, Cousins is not a top 10 QB but he’s being paid like one. You lose the forest through the trees. He’s not consistently good against top competition and only puts the foot on the gas when its too late. Im objective enough to know that what makes a great QB great is more than just ” OOHHH TDS OOGA BOOGA”
Don’t believe I ever said he was a top 10 or ever said he was great. Now I did say he plays his position at a high level. And since we only have a handful of players that actually play their position at a high level, I worry far more about that issue than QB play. And you want to post old articles and stats to make Cousins look bad – good for you. But none of that does one thing to make the Vikings any better.
And if you want to impress, post an article that tells me why Hunter plays like crap half the time, or why Z doesn’t even show up. Or why H.Smith has pieces of his jock all over the field from the Giants game due to all the missed tackles. Hell, there’s lots to talk about!
LOL…this is so fraudulent it’s beyond ridiculous. He doesn’t “disappear for entire quarters” There’s a little something called game plans and strategy, featuring running the ball and ball control against certain defensive units you have to play conservative against. You fail, yet again, to understand the context of executing a game plan and not going full tilt trying to score all the time for 4 qtrs. That’s what casual dumb fans think is happening when in reality exactly what I’m taking about is exactly what they did to stay in close games, not make costly mistake, and when the time came to be aggressive they were and broke the NFL record for come backs and winning one score games in a season. That was because of KIRK COUSINS.
Also newsflash….he’s not even in the top 10 for QB compensation currently. Quit saying that it makes you sound even dumber than you are on this subject. Hater.
Safe to say he’s the least of our worries in 2023.
Did you all know Ray Rice is still with his same wife and they have a happy marriage/ family? Fuckin wild.
Serious? Wow, that is crazy.
Yeah it got brought up in a podcast I was watching today, I had to google it to confirm. Maybe they actually love each other?
Can’t say I blame him, she is a knockout
I should prob go to grocery store and drop another C-note.
Picking up a dozen eggs and a gallon of milk, eh?
Just eggs, milk next week.
LOL
It looks like Biden turns into John McCain when he pops.
If it was McCain then inflation would be spun as a good thing or not his fault by all the indoctrinated right wingers on this website… down votes = what I say is true and offends your snowflake little feelings.
inflation is dropping whether the right wingers want to admit it or not….
I’d sure hope so when you’re now comparing it to the historically horrible numbers. 7% on top of the 8% experienced a year ago is not something to brag about.
It’s like justifying you stealing 10 dollars from somebody and saying it’s ok and a good thing because last time you stole 15.
I wonder if the previous 4 yrs of 2 trillion massive tax breaks for the wealthy and the complete bungling of the pandemic response had ANYTHING to do with inflation being at 7% when Biden took office??? I mean are we blaming Biden for it being at 7 when he stepped in to the Oval Office day one? Really??
Until they turn off the power plants with the new emissions rules…
life is a do-it-to-myself project with these people…
Ah yes the sky is falling response to factual details proving the original narrative to be false. That’s the problem with Americans today….easily distracted with fear based propaganda.
Cut off one head… another takes its place…
Got a commenting closed and kicked off today. Never sure what this site is going to do.
AI emerges
Have yet to get that. Just the dumb “You’re commenting too fast because our website is unoptimized as fuck and we cant handle more than 2 submissions a second”
You’re getting an error message that says that? Wow, crazy.
More or less
Read Texas massacre guy was deported at least 4 times. FFS.
@so what. It’s the guns fault@
Yes, they have bad attitudes.
It’s the access to guns not the people that use them but unfortunately that’s to hard for some to comprehend.
Nothing against background checks. Did i say that? 500 million fucking guns in this country, think bad people can’t find one?
Lifer doesn’t care about background checks.
He wants guns banned.
Except the gun he wants, or the left wing gulags can have guns.
that’s right and we’re coming for you..just watch fox they’ll tell you.
Its the access to vehicles not the drunk drivers that use them unfortunately that’s too hard for people to comprehend. That’s literally your retarded argument, I just swapped two words. Keep going, you’re doing great digging that hole.
Another brilliant analogy because we have so many mass killings in our schools, places of work, stores and churches by “drunk drivers”. This is the level of stupidity we’re up against.
Whose “we”? You and the Twitter bots? There’s no mass killings where I live. More guns than people in my state. Plenty of drunk accidents though. Stew on that one for a bit Sherlock. There’s shot guns in our school parking lots every fall for bird season, has yet to be a recorded incident. Crazy how that gun didnt spout legs and walk into the school and start blasting. I’d says its the mental illness you perpetuate on a daily basis is what we (sane people who dont live on Twitter) are up against.
I just wish they’d outlaw murder. Obviously criminals will follow the rules.
So I know some “upgrades” were done to the site.
WTH is this, “your comment is awaiting SPAM approval”?
Think i saw one of bens. Said awaiting approval and vanished. Not sure, it was quick.
It happened on one of my comments.
And it vanished as well.
Not sure if ben but saw waiting for approval.
I’ll look into it
I just un-spammed it. So weird.
Not all of the changes are for the better. I get blocked by Cloudflare unless I use an American IP adress. Sucks.
And he never showed up in July or August for the fappers lol
I’d like to believe he’s JUST highly motivated but I there’s no way some of that isn’t him being an ass to rub it in to the Packers.
100% spite shit. Which…I guess I can applaud him for? He may very well hate GB as much as us at this point. Its a weird relationship.
I think all of his relationships are weird. He’s a weird dude.
Big May Day celebration at the balloon factory today. We get a lunch grilled for us, signed George Soros posters and a little bonus money collected from the extra taxes on higher income brackets. Glorious day.
Workers of the world, unite! Ah comrade it is a fine day. Now all the bourgeoisie will feel our might! Those capitalist scum who have a credit rating of 680 or higher will now pay and extra $40 a month for their mortgage, about time they pay their fair share.
May the motherland rejoice in the crumbling capitalist west. Now….WE DRINK!
That was an adventure. I missed most of the draft coverage because I was on a 27 hour road trip. My son needed to be in Seattle for his next duty station and because there is not housing available yet for his family, he was going to have to do the drive all by himself. I volunteered to help out. We left Friday morning and made it to Columbus, MT and spent the night there. The next day we made it to Seattle. It was a total guy road trip. No detours for sight seeing. No stops to “let’s just check out that store”. No stops for a family meal. Just stops for fast food to go, potty breaks and gas.
And I bet you both remember it forever…..
It had been awhile since just the two of us hung out, so it was nice. We had a lot of guy silence time, but we also had some times of reminiscing, family history stories, etc.
I routinely road trip with my Dad – north to Minnesota or south to Texas, Arizona, etc. I’ll drive and he’ll ride sidesaddle and we both enjoy the time. Can’t get any of it back once they’re gone.
You going to wear the collar and start hitting on alter boys?
Nope. I’m good. As Carlin said ‘I was raised Catholic, until I reached the age of reason….’ 😂
I was the one that drove the most on this trip. I prefer to drive, it gives me something to do. Plus, I usually dislike anybody else’s driving.
No stop in Glendive to say hi? Jeez.
We thought about stopping in Glendive to spend the night, but when we got there it was too early, so we kept on moving.
I remember doing a military move summer of ’80 in a 1979 Mercury Zephyr from Ottawa to Edmonton (as a dependent/army brat). My dad did all of the driving, I got the front seat and did the navigating, and mom and my baby sister were riding in the back. Covered a lot of country. Of course that was back in the days when the Trans Canada highway and the Yellowhead were two lane all the way.
Didn’t miss much. Draft was a D- for me. Would’ve been an F, but I liked a couple of their UDFAs
Well, it’s official!
I’ve officially been deemed an official officiant – deemed so by the proper officials – so now I can officially officiate our friends wedding in Vermont and everything will be all official. Feel pretty special – only those 21 and over with a credit card can become one….
I have a friend who became one for the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Pastafarian. She did officiate a weeding too. Good stuff.
That’s great. This one is for friends of ours. The Brides – as we call them, and as I understand my power to officiate is for this one wedding and expires immediately after I sign the marriage license. All legal mumbo jumbo I don’t have the time to concern myself with. I’m taking it as though I have the power to marry anyone to anyone at anytime and I intend on wielding that power with reckless disregard for the safety of society…
So two ladies getting married?
Yup.
So then do you way I now pronounce you wife and wife?
Didn’t draft a single OL which is interesting.
Terd, Ezra, and Ed again
All need to improve and Darrisaw stop getting concussed.
What could go wrong.
O’Neil has a setback? Full of good news, ain’t i?
LOL
Getting those Kirk excuses ready like
actually just the opposite. When we play the guys that bring their big boy pants to games – like the Cowboys and 49ers – and Kirk gets destroyed, then all the haters can say “Kirk can’t carry the team” or “Kirk can’t play in big games.”
Book it.
Correct. Kfey a kirk hater and says that each week when we lose.
Incorrect and strawman. In fact, I usually avoid this place on Mondays during the season because I dont want to deal with you idiots. Keep spreading lies about me though 🤡🤡
I’m sure you avoided Monday’s with those 13 wins and Kirk dealing W’s even with the worst defense in the league. Who’s the clown here?
Because he cant lol. Thats not a hater statement, its a statistical fact. Would you like a QB that can escape pressure and win against play off caliber teams? I sure would. Call me wakey
You’re not wakey – just seems to me a little biased. Maybe go back and watch the SB game between the Bucs and Chiefs – that’s the greatest QB on earth that got grounded by bad line play.
And on a person side, I get up every morning rubbing a fake knee, an arthritic shoulder,and then shake out bad trigger finger on the ring finger of my throwing hand. All because of being tossed on my ass by a large defensive lineman. So maybe I have a much better appreciation for the correlation between good OL and QB play.
Im aware having a trash line makes it impossible for QB to function. However, I am also aware that our line has basically been average outside of maybe 2018 and 2020 they were closer to below average then but still not league worse. My point is what Kirk has to work with is what maybe..80% of the rest of the QBs in the league have to work with as well..maybe 3 or 4 have ELTIE pass blocking lines. The rest are right there with Kirk. Im not biased, Im just sick of the excuses and what aboutisms of the past half decade.
Everyone here who calls me hater forgets I was HUGE advocator for Kirk from the moment he signed until the start of the 49ers game at the end of 2019. I argued against Five and Montana (users you arent aware of) that Kirk needs a chance, and some help, much like the Kirk stans here are advocating for now. Only difference is I came to reality that theres more to it than that with him at the end of 2019 and accepted that we need to move on then and there. Now 4 seasons later, we are no closer to having a better off, well rounded roster or being an actual play off competitor. I gave up on Kirk when it was time to, some others just havent.
Just need to buy better rum for the playoffs next year.
First, I didn’t say you were a hater. I said the haters will be out after the scenario I presented. Now, we disagree on some facts (opinions).
Unlike you, I think Kirk performs at a very high level behind pretty crappy conditions. Sure all of them perform well under great conditions and Kirk is poor when the pocket is absolute crap. But unlike you, the rest of the league does not perform at a high level in “pretty crappy.” conditions and Kirk does this just about every game it seems. Hell. just go watch some tape of brady(bucs) and stafford(rams) when their lines get crappy. Balls start flying all over the place.
Funny you mention the 2019 SF game. Believe Kirk got sacked, hit, hurried more than any QB at the time. He looked poor. But, then the Packers went out there the following week and the niners did the same thing to Rogers – he looked like crap. And I’m guessing he’s a first ballot HOFer. If I had been GM. I would have gone out and gotten a couple of IOL like Andy Reid when Mahomes got tanked by the Bucs front.
You want the Vikings to win, so do I. Our methods are different. I don’t think it matters(very little) if Kirk throws 30 TD’s or 45TD and 5000 yards. WE’re not in the AFC. For us to get to the SB we need to beat teams like Dallas, SF, Eagles – last year’s playoff games were brutal. We can’t match that. We need more physicality, QB play is a side show..
WAKEY!
I don’t mind the iOL. Terds pretty bad but it’s hard to find a center even halfway as decent as bradburry is.
Ingram has potential but a long way to go.
I think Ezra is pretty decent.
Yep.
No worries…
Almost grass szn
smaller yard + small kids x multiple neighbor kids = crappy grass that i don’t care about
Not gonna lie I’m obsessed with my lawn. Looking fire right now.
Mine is more dirt than grass. Kids and a hyper active dog are hell on grass.
Lol
Yeah, I take mine a bit too seriously, too.
Im debating thatching this week, warming up, grass is starting to grow…but not sure if its still too early. We arent out of frost season yet
Soil temp is probably warm enough now.
@My backyard is really greening up…I was admiring the lush growth last night.@
How long till the Shouddition is finished?
Hopefully before snow flies this fall.
So around mid August?
well, good luck
Nice. Just how deep does one plant uh rock?
You put a concrete wall in your moat?
Heh heh this is going to be fun as the project continues…”you put a cement roof over the moat?”
Love a great lawn.
Neighbors walk by our property and love it.
Cutting grass again this evening.
I know you guys are busy gushing about the draft but that was one crazy weekend in the hockey playoffs. First and foremost the Panthers took down the Bruins in seven games, scoring the tying goal late in the third with the goalie out, then potting the winner in OT. The Bruins set the NHL record for wins and points. Second the Western Division winners the Avalanche were taken down in game 7 by the second year expansion team Kraken. Third depending on the results of the NYR-NJD tilt tonight IIRC the visiting team has won the series in all the matches with the exception of the Knights-Jets tilt. Crazy how the President’s Trophy winner curse marches on, took out the “vice-president” this time as well. They say the first series is the toughest on the road to the Cup.
Oh, and last but not least the Oilers took out the always tough Kings in game 6 on Saturday despite a broken goaltender stick allowing the Kings to tie in the third on a shortie. Will Farrell was devastated. On to the LV Golden Knights should be a great series!
Imagine Leafs-Oilers for the Cup. Bananas.
This is one of my favorite Lifer comebacks. I feel a sense of accomplishment when I get this one.
lol….I belly laugh every time I post one….
That hockey tournament thing sure does take a long time.
Should end about July 4th.
The year has 3 cycles: 4 months of NHL tournament, 4 months of soccer tournament world thing, 4 months of NBA tournament.
True…..
Mn pro sports franchises have gone 50 straight playoff appearances w/o a championship. Fun times.
I mean… that sounds bad but how does that compare to others?
Not sure. Should have said mens but i ain’t no WNBA guy. 91′ Twins seems rather long ago.
Here’s your answer
Yuck!
Yeah its gross, somewhat skewed because the TC has all 4 major sports leagues, but still very gross.
Minnesota Meh.
No Dalvin to the Bills
i didn’t know he was still alive
He had some good games with Denver last year. Was the only bright spot offensively
I don’t think that would dissuade them from trading for Dalvin.
True.
It’s Dalvin’s salary that is the issue.
Right. I wonder how they’re going to address the money part of Dalvin’s trade (assuming it happens, which I hope it does).
I think Dalvin and/or the Vikings will have to eat some salary to facilitate a trade. I don’t think it happens.
Why not?
a lot of money to devote the the position with Cook on his current deal
Murray? he’s on a vet min deal so signing him won’t change whether they want Dalvin or not, Dalvin’s contract does though.
Davlins getting cut.
Our DBs:
Murphy
Evans
Booth
Blackmon
Joejuan Williams
Ward?
Smith
Bynum
Cine
Metellus
Ward?
Ward is a tweener, which a few analysts said was the reason to select him while others said it was the reason not to.
He 6’2 188 and Blackmon 6’0 175 are both on the smaller side but Booth is 6’0 195 Evans is 6’2 198 While Murphy is 5’11 190
Smith, Cine, Metallus, and Bynum are all over 200lbs and Joejuan is real big at 6’3 212.
All over the place.
It isn’t hard to see Ward putting on 10-15lbs in an NFL program and fitting in with the rest of the safeties.
These guys may turn out to be pretty good. But, does it move the needle much if you can’t rush the passer?
Or stop the run consistently.
this would be a bonus.
Like covering the middle of the field.
That, to me, is the biggest scheme change (I hope) Flores will bring to the defense.
no more Daniel Jones 400 yard games.
It was the same every week. No changes. Bend (a lot) and hope not to break. Why would the offenses do anything different?
That 11 minute drive we gave up to the Giants almost sucked the soul right out of me. I watched that shit-show in person.
Our 3 and out Drive did me in more
Which one?
And the craziest thing is, the Vikings defense managed to “hold them” to a FG
Has to be a record.
I’d like to see Flores blitz a ton.
Hunter, Z, Davenport, PJ II, Wonnum, Vijan, and now Carter.
Carter is a little small.
This would help – will help even more if you can get pressure from front four. If Hunter and Z are top 10 rushers, it’s about time they start playing like it.
PFF had em top 13. It seemed like it was opposite end of the season they were effective.
I’d like to see the Vikings keep both of them and add Davenport to the mix.
Z can’t stay healthy. He dropped off noticeably once he got dinged up in the 2nd half of the year.
Yep.
I think he is the player that is most likely gone in order to provide salary cap space.
I thought he might’ve gotten traded prior to the draft. I was wrong.
It’s hard to know what a GM is thinking.
Not sure why Kwesi just doesn’t come to Skoloholics to act on all of our advice…….
He’s probably a lurker
If he’s as smart as everybody says he just finds a way to absolutely do nothing suggested here.
Kwesi when he stumbles upon the comments of Skoloholics
I found the draft fairly underwhelming. They didn’t have any horrible trades so that’s a step in the right direction I suppose. I didn’t hate the WR pick, WR wasn’t the greatest need, but it was ok and a much better alternative than reaching for an inferior player at a position of more need. Drafting Hall was stupid, especially after Kwesi stood at the podium and said they weren’t going to take a flyer on a QB. We’ll see in a couple years how these players develop but I’m not overly optimistic about them as of right now.
In his mind Hall isn’t a flyer………he’s the future?
I doubt it.
Probably a guy they thought f it for a 5th lets bring him into camp.
We’ll know for sure if he’s much if they spend a roster spot on him or if he goes the the PS to get poached.
Yep.
I think if he is on the Playing roster in December, we have out backup QBOTF for a few years.
I mean at the beginning of the year.
No reason to roster 3 QB’s and I believe that Mullens has like a 2m dead cap hit if he’s cut.
Just needed a QB3.
Addison should have an instant impact.
Not only for himself but the offense as a whole.
IF they’re clicking out the gate they’ll be fun to watch.
My big question mark is whether or not that RB can climb the depth charts and see any significant snaps.
They still have AJ Rose if I’m remembering correctly so theres a few guys ahead of him to go through.
I liked Rose last year in preseason, I hope he gets a shot.
We’ll see what they do.
Saw that the Dolphins were talking about Cook, maybe they make a move.
Either way, I’m not counting on him being here for the season.
I liked the DBs they took for the value.
Addison should succeed, so it’s a safe pick in my opinion (assuming his personality holds up). I think it wasn’t a need, and I would have loved Bresee there though.
I do like the DL they picked, too. It’ll be good to get some pass rushing skills there.
There’s not much invested in Hall, so why not.
Time will tell if our defense pans out.
They’re going to try and throw out a bunch of young DB’s and see if they sink or swim.
We’ve seen this one before
Injuries are the biggest concern for me with the DBs
We have a whole stable
Well, it’s interesting because of the dynamic of the NFCN seems to be changing. No longer is there A A Ron in his prime that was going to throw a lot and Stafford as well. I feel the Pack is loading up to run first with PA off of it. Drafted two TEs (ugh!) and have a very unproven QB. So I don’t feel having to have top tier elite corners is as necessary as getting pressure on the young QBs in the division right now. Sans the Lions with Goff playing, he’s got a lot of experience.
They still have 11 games against non-NFCN teams to worry about.
Well 14 I guess.
Right but part of the logic in the past is, Vikes HAVE to have elite DB play because of A A Ron and Stafford twice a year.
Yeah I get it and I don’t remember which divisions they are playing this year.
NFC South.
AFC West
Philly
SF
Cincinnati
Thought so too. Either get a top guy or spend that pick on defense/IOL.
Anyone do May Day baskets? We did those when we were kids, fill baskets full of candy or whatever & leave them at people’s doorsteps.
We used to do them in school and then bring them home to our parents.
we have neighbors who do them, but it’s weird because last night they did it at like 9pm and i saw the neighbor filming us opening the door and getting it.
seemed very weird to me
That’s odd. I’d be uncomfortable with someone filming me I think. You should have gone out naked to grab it.
Heh heh that sounds a little creepy.
Ask Lifer.
I did a complete May Day historical post this morning that first place cock Mick wouldn’t approve after it got kicked to review. Fucker.
So nice of you to educate everyone on the historical aspects of a European festival of ancient origins marking the beginning of summer, Happy May Day!
I liked the draft, I thought they did well with what they had.
Smoked ribs on Friday night, turned out amazing. 2nd night was low-key since the Vikings didn’t have picks until the end. Saturday, I made a crab boil, it was yummy.
That’s about it too. Turned 5 picks into 6 and got one next year that he’ll probably trade away LOL.
Addison should be a baller. If you get a starter or two & some depth out of the rest, then the draft was a success.
Exactly.
yeah, that first pick needs to be a starter.
If the rest can become starters at some point, bonus.
Reports are that next years draft will be quite a bit better than this years
Maybe we should start doing mock drafts.
Ok, here you go
This assumes the Vikings finish about .500 or worse in 2023.
Plausible.
Most likely somewhere between 12-24
I’m sure you’ve already been mocking.
I am now!
Ribs and Crab boil in one weekend… HELL YEAH! I have never done a crab boil. I’ve seen them on cooking shows and whatnot. Not too hard to do?
Very easy. I have a 30 quart stainless steel pot and a burner that hooks up to a propane bottle. Season the water, bring it to a boil. Add potatoes, wait 7 minutes, then add the corn & andouille, wait 7 minutes then add the crab, wait 5 minutes & add the shrimp, 2-3 more minutes & it’s done.
Wow, right, doesn’t seem that bad. I am hoping to do my pork butt pulled pork this weekend. It’s been a while.
Here’s the burner I ordered back in 2015, still have it, works great.
https://a.co/d/1UBKQue
Good to note, I might have to ask again the future lol.
Smoked a pork butt a couple weeks ago, love that stuff.
This one is going to have a little more kick than usual. I am upping the jerk spice this time. Caribbean style pulled pork.
Sounds yummy. I need to splurge and do a prime rib one of these weekends. Haven’t done one of those in a while.
I’ve smoked a Prime once and shit was that good! I need to do that again too. But if I am gonna pay out for a prime I’d probably do brisket lol.
Brisket is really good, too. I’ve done a lot of them. Prime rib is hard to beat.
Trick to the prime rib is to take it off the smoker before the internal temp hits 125, then let it sit covered for 10-15 minutes before cutting into it.
I also sear mine on the grill prior to smoking.
I take off at 120, let sit for 10 minutes, then sear. Sit again, then cut.
Sear it after you smoke it? The point of searing is to seal in the seasoning and create a “crust” to retain moisture?
You’ve never heard of a reverse sear? I never sear before smoking, closes pores to the smoke.
So, I’ve learned this from Alton Brown. His perfect steak is to dry brine just salt over night and leave in the fridge on a drying rack over night. This brings out globular proteins which is literally what gives you a crust. So he oven bakes until 120, then let’s rest for 10 minutes so you don’t lose juice when pulling the probe out. Gets his cast iron scorching hot sears for 45 seconds on each side. That reverse sear locks in the flavor and that overnight brine gets you an amazing crust.
I use a coarse coffee rub and adjusted that for smoking till 120. Then Searing. Absolutely rules.
Putting salt on the night before pulls out the moisture, though.
It does not. So, it’s funny. Alton Brown did a correction series. His first episode of Good Eats in like 1999 he said the same thing. He went back through his stuff and corrected things he has learned to be wrong that use to think was right. It does pull moisture to the surface which pulls out those globular proteins that gives the crust. But then most of that moisture grabs the salt and pulls and goes back into the meat. I love that guy. Willing to go back through and correct himself love it.
Anyone have a blackstone type griddle? I have three smokers and one gas grill that rarely gets used and is 15 years old. Hooked up to the natural gas line.
Thinking of dumping the grill and getting a blackstone griddle.
Since I mostly use the grill for burgers or chicken breasts, figured I could do that, plus bacon at the same time.
I have a friend who loves his blackstone, especially in the summer. It’s made me contemplate it as well. But my smoker also doubles as a wood burning grill. There is a lever you pull and then you get the flame direct! Check out the Campchef woodwind. Smoker and grill all in one. Pair it with grill grates to get a griddle surface.
I have a blackstone and was talked into it by MT.
He’ll probably sing its praises as well but I love mine.
You can have it hooked up to natural gas with the conversion kit but you can do so much with it.
There are people on youtube that have dedicagted channels just to cooking on it you should check em out.
This guy has a bunch of videos.
It is frickin’ awesome. I actually have two, an indoor one and an outdoor one. Before you go all ‘gouger grumble grumble’ I bought the second one for our place in Billings before we moved permanently to Glendive, had the first here as a good all around cooker as I wanted something versatile for outdoor cooking.
Easily my favorite cooking platform, ahead of the Weber and the GMG.
I want to get one for making brekky (learned that from Bluey).
Yep I use mine for weekend brekky all the time.
I bid on one on a silent auction a week or so ago, but I didn’t win it. I might just go buy one.
I have one.
It’s great.
You can make anything on it.
Breakfast is awesome. Eggs, pancakes, bacon, sausage, etc……
Yes, and do it. Do it now.
Relevant article? Haha
Also, that new QB we got in 5th round is not going to pan out nor is the solution for Kirk.
Overall, I do think Kirk is going to get extended now based on how the draft went and KAMs comments post draft on Saturday.
Sorry Kirk haters!
I don’t have any expectations really for a 5th round flyer QB.
The plan was always to extend him but they gotta put their feelers out in the media and see what the reaction is.
We’ll see what kind of deal they can actually get hammered out.
All the pre-draft hype was talk to try to get Kirk’s side to give a little more. That’s been my guess all along.
I don’t know who’s side was pushing it but there is some back and forth.
True, I’m guessing there was BS coming from both sides.
Pay the man for ’23 and ’24 and when he plays well like he has he’ll get more.
Exactly.
That was my take as well.
I doubt Kirk moves at all in negotiations. He will demand fully guarunteed money. My guess now is that KAM caves in.
Better not. OR, fine have your guaranteed money but your no trade clause is waived. That would be my counter, take it or leave it.
I don’t think Kirk moves an inch. He has never given a team friendly deal. Ever.
He is eyeing 2024 and the Franchise tag.
Which will be $40 million plus plus plus….
Looks like 43 mil for exclusive, 36 mil for non exclusive tags, I think.
Yep. Something like that.
And an ensuing legal battle since the Commies already tagged him.
I doubt the Vikings would tag him at this point. But yes. A legal battle would likely take place if it did happen.
They can’t tag him i don’t think because he’s been tagged twice already.
An NFL player can be tagged a maximum of 3 times in his career.
The only relevance that has is that the Vikings would have to pay him 144% of his previous years salary, which comes to 43 mil. He would not be able to tagged again after that though, that would be the 3rd time.
I keep reading, “if a player is tagged for the third straight year…”
1.) It would not be a third straight year.
2.) what if they used the non exclusive tag?
I do think a legal issue would arise.
But I don’t think he will be tagged by the Vikings.
Isn’t there disagreement as well if the Washington tags even matter? I thought the language says something about one team tagging a player multiple times so as far as the Vikings are concerned he has not been tagged. I’m sure the union would not go along with that interpretation however. Unions are stupid.
Correct.
There is the question of whether the third tag is oriented at the team or if it follows the player.
According to the contract expert guy MarkSP18 talks with Kirk’s tags count regardless of them having been with a former team.
That’s correct
Kirk’s coming back whether people like it or not in 2024 and likely 2025 too
I figured when they did not move up for one of the top 2 it would be 3 more years of Kirk.
This team , and Kirk, inspire no confidence for me.
Meh.
I’m hoping they find a way. You never know, maybe Kirk will light it up this year & prove us wrong by leading the team deep into the playoffs. I won’t hold my breath.
Right? After a decade, I’m not gonna hold my breath that this will be the year he goes deep.
Its just straight up not going to happen. I have time and history on my side. And that wins every time.
There’s a slight possibility
Not in my mind lol. Fool me once, fine, but fool me 5 times? Going on 6? Nah
Well, if Kirk does really “light it up” does it make that much difference with the scrubs we have on defense?
Excuses already?
Excuses for what? Don’t understand your question?
Not making a deep playoff run.
I apologize for not expressing my point better. I don’t think it really matters if Kirk throws 28 or 38 TD’s next season. If we don’t play better defense we ain’t going anywhere in the playoffs.
The defense has been nearly completely overhauled with a new (and much improved) defensive coordinator. I see no reason to think that the defense won’t be better.
I hope you’re right but heard some of that last year.
Kirk is the regular season and sub .500 winning King. He will throw for 4000+ yards, 30+ TDs, 5-10 INTs. Vikings will have a 8-10 win ish season, then the “High-powered” offense will go out on WC weekend and score 20-23 points and lose to an underdog and then excuses will abound about how the team let Kirk down. This crystal ball is surprisingly clear, I can see the future.
LOL
Well with history as our guide Rodgers will be in Minnesota in 2024 so there’s that to look forward to.
It would be hard to cheer for Rodgers. I had no issue embracing Favre, but Rodgers would be difficult.
Yeah, absolutely agree.
Agreed. Im actually rooting for the Jets…for their fanbase mostly. And besides Rodgers the team seems likeable.
I will literally vomit
It;s actually worse that this. Our team is carried by our passing game. And anytime we play a team with a really physical, tough front seven – Dallas, 49ers, Eagles etc – we are screwed.
And in my world, if you score 24 against an offensively challenged team like the Giants in the playoffs and lose, you don’t deserve to be there. Just imagine what the Chiefs will do to you.
Could not agree more. And its why this ” WE WON 13 GAMES DURRR” argument is invalid to me. Any one with any critical thinking knew last season team was a sham and would get waxed the moment they encountered an actual physical, well rounded team. There’s going to be some serious ass whoopings with the schedule we have.
WE WON 13….. comment is sort of true. We will get waxed and smoked by a team like Dallas, Yet, if we play a team like the Chiefs we may lose like 45 – 30, still waxed, but in a different way. I really don’t care who our QB is, just think if we don’t fix the underlying problem we are screwed.
Look how bad they lost to the high powered Bills that were a SB pick by many.
Bills LOST that game more than Vikings won. Fumbling the game sealing hand off on the 1? What are the odds of that shit? Also, Bills turned out to not be the world beaters people (including me) expected them to be last season.
C,on. How about the officiating – 12 man defense, catches out of bounds. And two plays before the fumble, Dalvin dropped a wide open TD pass (a JV player could have caught) and could have crawled into the end zone.
Maybe just a little even handedness.
It was an anomaly of a game. Exception to the rule of statistics. You cant point to it and be like SEE, THIS IS THE TEAM! THIS IS US! THIS WILL HAPPEN EVERY WEEK!. It was fun, im not taking that away from it. But it didnt change my mind that we werent SB ready
Every season has weird games for every team. Vikings always win a game they should lose handily, and they always lose a game they should win handily. Never fails.
Regular season is just for chuckles. The pretenders are quickly disposed of by the big boys once the playoffs start.
Vikings haven’t been a big-boy team in a long time.
Exactly. And I guess Im an ass hole and a hater for wanting them to step up and not doing purple cocaine.
Kirk does light it up.
Until the most important win is needed.
Then he will fall short. As he has his entire career.
Get ready for a parroted “Kirks Stats” post in response to this! Wait for it…..wait for itttttt
It wont be “stats”.
It will be team game or excuses.
NLNVF had a new one yesterday.
“Cousins has always had a bad kicker”
Jesus that is scrapping the bottom of the barrel. Next it will be “Its always been windy when Cousins plays out side, its not his fault!”
LOL.
You would think they would run out of excuses.
Said over the weekend, but I’m extremely disappointed in the draft. Could not stand drafting WR in round 1 so that’s probably jaded the rest of the picks for me.
Just feel we didn’t need a WR, especially that early. We’ll see how it pans out but to me KAMs off to a rough start. Especially if Levis or Hooker turn out for Titans and Lions respectively.
KAM could very well be on his death spiral already then. I don’t know a lot, but I know decent drafts are somewhat important to keep your teams shelves stocked.
I wasn’t a fan of WR at that spots. It didn’t sound like the trade down options were great because they couldn’t also get Addison and trade down.
Looking at what the Jags got it may have been nice to see a trade down and pick up the 4,5,&7 that they did.
I would’ve probably done things a hair differently that KAM for the later picks.
Fuck Tune he’s gone let it fucking go man.
Another year, another amazing draft.
Personally, I don’t know much about it, but I’m sure if I used Google, I could find someone who gave us an A grade.
What’s weird is that most analysts have an A.
other than the 1st rounder any of them working out as a decent starter would be a win.
Yep, I’ve seen several Bs and Cs on the web. Hopefully we’ll get a couple of good players out of this Draft.
D-
Yep, best draft ever, just like last years was until this one was finished.
Super Bowl, baby!
Accurate, and funny.
Gm
FTP!
except Kraft.
for now.
Hey lawdog….approve that comment I have sitting in approval status.
Yeah keep them uneducated and dumb so they can spout historically false truths.
When’s the next book burning?
2nd Thursday’s at 7 PM by the Oak Tree.
Right around where we do the hangings and witch removals.
Don’t forget your hood!
Don’t forget yours.
Reminds me…played golf Sat morning…our general manager at the balloon factory played with us and he brought a special putt head cover just for me…bastard. I yelled “BERNIE” on numerous tee shots.
Shot my 1st round of golf of the year, a 96 on a slope 124 course…
I will take it.
What does this mean?
Slope rating is the guide to what an amateur would likely shoot on said course.
Course rating is the guide of what a scratch golfer would likely shoot.
they’re guides on how hard a course is.
Great round NDR!
Thanks man..hope to get back into the 80s by June
Nobody gives to craps about that stuff. Post more Vikes stuff and golf things. People actually like that
*two
all of us
Nobody likes golf.
Everything good about this has nothing to do with golf.
You are missing it.
Ask for help with your swing.
Help her with her swing if needed.
4-5 hours of pure joy.
What did you comment? Something very tolerant and gracious I’m sure.
Junk
Good morning, SKOL!
HA! I agree. This is a tough one to swallow man. I don’t care though. I am going to the cheer for the kid and for any team he’s on success while he’s on it. Whatever. Bud DAMNIT! I thought we were safe when they took that first TE. I already cheered for him at SDSU when I played for a team that was an SDSU rival before they went to D1 so, kind of use to it lol.
Well…
I guess if the Vikings lose to the pukes.. Him catching the game winning TD would soften the blow a bit.
I laughed when I saw that pick
This is so funny. Love the internet haha.
hahaha that is pretty funny
His oldest brother had a sport jacket on. He is now known as “suit man” haha
The place the draft party was at was suit man’s hanger as he does crop dusting. Scary, their biological dad crashed and died crop dusting in like 2013. BUT Tucker’s uncle was their just giving anyone who wanted a ride a ride in his helicopter. I had never been in one. That was a FUN ride. Drinking beer while on a helicopter ride and going 100+ miles an hour over water, around trees in beautiful landscape… hell yeah!
Seems McBride is solid after contact.
Lifer, had my first round of Golf Saturday. Teed off at 41 degrees. too cold.
After the first hole where I topped my two attempts at hitting the ball, I warmed up and played well(for me). Only lost 1 ball in the ice water, par on two par 4s, and overall played as well as I had been at the end of last season.
Biggest win for me was not being sore at all. I guess this exercise thing is good for me.
Awesome Surly!! Yeah I’ve played numerous rounds the past 3 months off early in the morn temps hovering around 40…just kill distance and crisp contact. At least you get some swings in tho and sounds like you did really well. Topping is a normal occurrence after laying off playing for a while. Have to teach yourself to hit down on the ball again.
Hmmmm first today.
SKOL… Vikings draft picks were so awesome I have no words.
Not first.
I was also a bit underwhelmed.
I do think the Vikings did find a possible backup QB. And I like the WR pick.
Defense is going to be rough this year.
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