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VIKINGS NEWS – Nothing. I am ready for training camp to start
NFL News – FTP!
Question of the day- Will Justin Jefferson hit 2000 yards this season?
Happy Hump Day!
Puppies got a SG in the draft.
Minnesota
Timberwolves
Robert Dillingham
Round 1 – Pick 8 (8) (from Spurs via Raptors)
School
SG
Position
Yahoo Sports Commentary
Dillingham is one of the best guards with the ball in his hands and can get downhill and put pressure on the rim. There’s no doubt that he’ll be electric in Minnesota, but his size at 6-foot-2, 164 pounds, is concerning for a lead guard in the NBA
Maybe the debate will generate some traffic.
FTP
FJB
FJP
FTP
Now those are both things that I can support.
One against three – Trump should be able to handle it.
Maybe we should have a pool – how many times will Trump’s mic get cut off? Or how many times will a moderator cut Trump while speaking and call him a liar?
Lots of possibilities
Yup. Network/hosts. Will watch closely.
As of today I say over 10 times they cut off Trump.
Might change my mind after thinking about it for a day.
10 sounds good to me.
Well folks, 80 comments at 3 pm is a pathetic effort.
I will be gone the next 4 days (golf outing with the bros).
You all try hard to carry on without me.
‘a pathetic effort.
Yes, you should have done better.
Here
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Thank you for your support.
The problem is all fixed now.
It is a worthless time of year football-wise, that is for sure.
Have fun Golfing!
You’re starting to play more golf than a PGA tour member.
There are worse habits to have, oh wait I have those too.
Yes, for as much golf as I play I am pretty shitty.
Na you shot 90 last time – pretty good. maybe 85 next.
Playing small town courses the next 4 days. Their slopes are 103, 107, 111, and 122.
I play on a 124 slope normally…so it is quite possible I could shoot an 85 on one of those 3 easier courses.
Hell with those slopes it’s 82 or bust.
Pro tip – no penalty strokes and 3 puts.
Good luck.
My Lib friend posted this on facebook
“If your version of Christianity wants to put the 10 commandments in schools but take free lunches out of them. You are worshiping something other than Jesus”.
So by extension she is saying Christians need to be in favor of giving free stuff to everyone or they are not Christian.
My response “There is no such thing as a ‘free lunch’….something the left fails to comprehend”
Feeding hungry kids is important.
Of course people are going to abuse it and use available money for drugs, booze, etc and not feed their kids.
Kind of like buying groceries with a ETB card and then buying smokes and alcohol with cash. Been behind those types in checkout lines often enough.
Don’t like it, but feeding hungry kids in important enough that I will stomach it.
My daughter teaches, on many occasions kids asked for an extra weekend sac lunch for their pre school sibling. The 7 yo wasn’t scamming they and their siblings were just hungry.
very much in favor of assisted lunches for kids that need help. very much not in favor of free lunches for everyone.
^this
Let me re phrase that with the proper terminology…I am very much in favor of Skolfrom MT, myself, and everyone else who is gainfully employed paying for lunches for poor kids who need it.
I am very much not in favor of Skolfrom MT or myself paying for lunches for kids whose parents can certainly afford it.
I had forgotten there is no free lunch.
Seems like another false narrative. Can’t I be for the 10 Commandments and for “feeding needy kids” ?
Unnneedy kids probably don’t need free meals.
Good point JRobert….
Same with my wife and my daughter. Both teachers.
We gave some kids shoes, without the school knowing about it. Not supposed to happen.
Having said that, I still think parents should be responsible for feeding their kids. Plenty of parents are complete idiots and will buy themselves stuff before feeding their kids.
But that is what the public school system has become.
I would only feed the kids if they did their homework.
2 Thessalonians 3:something…
PFF(for what it’s worth) has Viking pass rush ranked 30th, ahead of Denver and AZ.
PFF sucks.
I thought PFF was based on “data” and #analytics?
How can they come up with a 2024 ranking based on zero actual data?
Their infinite wisdom.
Doesn’t matter we let our best passer go – must not be important.
should be “best pass rusher” go
Someone get Greta on the phone. Just read an article that says we are making the planet hotter by reducing air pollutants. Turns out the pollution acted as a bit of a filter, so it has some use other than killing people.
is that the same article i read that said while making the planet hotter, we are also making the planet cooler??
MAKE UP YOUR DANG MINDS!!!
And thus the administration is pursuing spraying aerosols into the atmosphere to cool things down.
Hydrocarbons had done this quite well.
cloud seeding. it’s perfectly fine, don’t worry about it……………………….
It was and never has been about the planet.
It’s about controlling people.
And they know it.
Which means…..
They will double down on their idiocy and push CLIMATE CHANGE times 100 down our throats.
Just cooked steak fajitas on the griddle. I have had that griddle for less than 2 weeks and used it 5 times. I really wish I had gotten one sooner. Bacon and eggs, smash burgers. So easy to use.
Now I gotta fire up the smoker for some pulled pork for carnitas on the griddle…..
yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Sounds good Surly… I’ll bring the napkins…
I love that thing.
Same.
I’ve got to get a griddle for my outdoor kitchen. Sounds great!
Tickets to Nashville on the weekend of are looking as low as $194 round trip, but I would get in at 8pm that Saturday. Can pay $245 and get there at noon. I think im going to go that route.
I wish. One day before I die Id like to have a cocktail on a private jet. Hell, Ill even run the bar myself lol
I don’t want to work. When is communism taking over?
Well, you have forgotten want communism is.
It is FORCED work.
Yet another example of politicians that are totally clueless on how business works.
Shocking,
You mean raising taxes and fees doesn’t actually help out businesses?
But that is the way we do it here in the Granola State and it seems to be working out fine (for the politicians anyway).
Granola state, heh heh never heard of that phrase before although I’ve heard, “land of fruits and nuts”.
Don’t forget the flakes.
Calif = Fruits, Nuts and Flakes.
Those running the place anyway, the rest of us are trying to get out.
It’s like they have this bone in their head that takes out critical thinking.
“Customers will by a $5 delivery fee on an $8 order! Yep. This will help the driver!”
I was going to do an auto pay on a monthly utility bill, but the fee was 10% on the bill. I’m not doing that. They will get their money by a check and pay the AP clerk to process it.
Must be a brain virus out west. See the most stupid shit ever.
Oh, the stupid shit is not confined to out west. Plenty of it out east too.
Yep, in Murderapolis the city council passed a minimum wage law for Uber and Lyft drivers. Last I heard the two companies were moving out of the greater metro area. I believe the city clowncil was going to review it but haven’t heard anything for a while.
I was wondering about the status on that idiotic idea.
Just read that they came to a compromise the Clowncil lowered the minimum, and Lyft and Uber stayed.
So can we now call the Clowncil (LOL) anti-worker?
LOL!
Slow day…little dog talk.
Saturday I was mixing up another batch of water and powdered pig blood to spray on my treelets (deer repellent). This time I decided the chocos could be out with me, my wife was in town and they like hanging out with me outside. Tuck, the elder, was out in the field hunting mice and voles. Bubba was right there with me, sneaking licks at the corner of the bucket, wanted to lick the paint mixer agitator, etc. My son-in-law pulled into the yard just as I was finishing decanting the blood from a 5 gallon bucket into a sprayer through a cheesecloth filter. I tossed the filter in the empty bucket and turned to talk with him for all of 30 seconds before I said let me just rinse this stuff off. I clean out the bucket, no filter? Did he or didn’t he? Long story short I dosed him with 4 doses of H2O2 while the SIL and I planted a big honey locust, by the 4th dose he was crawling under the pickup to get away from me. Wife came back into the yard, I’m starting to panic, he hasn’t thrown up, she has me call the vet and tells me to calm down “why are you so calm when people are sick but freak out with the dogs” well duh. Never so happy to hear the sound of a dog getting sick, up came the filter. Dumbass.
Monday morning I took Tuck in for some routine blood work. We have a new vet, he’s very nice and knowledgeable but sorta on the spectrum. I’m used to them poking the vein on the front of the leg. Not this vet, he does a jugular stick…got blood immediately. I cried out, “like a friggin’ BOSS!”. Ooops did I say that out loud.
Glad Bubba is doing ok.
I had that horrible thought – what if I set the filter somewhere and it blew into the field, and we go in to vet and get his stomach pumped for nothing?
Only later did I think to review the security camera footage, where you can clearly see him bob his head into the bucket and snarf down the filter. He is the prototypical walking stomach Lab, he loves all manner of vegetables and fruit. The older “brother” is much more choosy about what he eats, he’ll sniff pizza crust before he’ll eat it, for example.
Two hours later I was his BFF again.
Dogs, I tell you.
Labs are the worst. My daughter, a Vet, confirms that from patients she sees.
We had a lab – eat cloves of garlic, bounce (from the dryer). but seemed to have a particular taste for deer poop. And of course, few hours later would throw it up all over the house. Wonderful cleanup.
I’m convinced that if Bubba got into a 45 kg bag of dogfood he would eat as much as he caninely could stuff into his stomach and then die of bloat.
Tuck did a nice assist last night, my wife had seen a mouse on the deck so I checked my 4 bait traps…all were empty of the bait/rat poison. Last trap I opened there were three mice staring up at me – mouse house! Brought Tuck outside, set the trap down in the middle of the gravel drive, and popped open the lid…3 running mice…3 dead mice.
Need to recruit more snakes into the neighborhood. I hate mice.
can i bring my cat out there for a while?
she is a killing machine.
i am usually awaken at the most annoying times (2 or 3am) to hearing her making a mess of some poor animal. usually bunnies. but we haven’t seen hide nor hair of a mouse since she has taken over the neighborhood
My lab loves deer poop, but he doesn’t throw up from it. The nice thing with labs, is if they need medicine it is not an issue. They will eat it up. Had a small dog with heart problems, was suppose to take a pill every day, but we found out after he had passed, he would hide it and spit it out later. found like twenty pills under the couch when we moved.
That is true – labs will eat just about anything.
You’re lucky about the deer poop, really hard to clean up from light colored carpet.
Dogs rock.
Thinking of getting one once we are all settled in.
Kind of complicates things, getting someone to take care of them while we are away. Being in the desert means you can’t just leave them outside for the day with 100+ temps.
Ours have a dog door to get in and out of the shop into their kennel area.
We still haul them with us to Bismarck or Billings doggy hotels to stay in kennels when we are gone, haven’t found anyone local we trust.
Our lab/border collie mix (RIP Jasmine) somehow managed to reach a plate with 2.5 pounds of freshly cooked burgers, and ate them all, without knocking the plate off the counter.
She was so happy and proud of herself.
She also still wanted dinner 3 hours later when the other dogs were fed….Nope.
H2O2 makes dogs vomit? I did not know that. Typical OTC stuff, what’s the dose?
Ideally you have a 60 cc syringe on hand (I do have some but at the moment I couldn’t remember where I have them stashed) – about 45 mL for a Lab sized dog squirted into the cheek pouch. Dose is 2 mL/kg of 3% hydrogen peroxide. My method in the field was to have him sit, stuck my fingers in his maw, and squirted the peroxide into the back of his throat, followed by me clamping his mouth shut and massaging his neck to encourage swallowing. I estimate I gave him about 60 mL.
What amazes me most about dogs, is that they don’t give a crap about what they eat.
Moving/Organizing/Packing are going well.
Couple of friends came by yesterday and took some misc games, household goods, etc so thereby reducing the things we are dealing with. Took a load to donation center and even dropped off Calf Dept of Corrections Patches/etc at the local prison, which they actually thanked me for.
Still enough to do but most of the ‘heavy lifting’ is done, other than moving some shelves from the storage units and clearing that so we don’t have to pay for another month.
Have I mentioned how much fun moving is this week? But other than that ….
Just think….the cesspool that is California will be in your rear view mirror soon!
Just this morning The Teacher was reading about 3 shootings last night in Lancaster, the closest city to us.
It feels like we are getting out just in time and most of our neighbors agree with us and wish they could leave as soon as well.
Don’t know much about Idaho. Going to Boise?
A suburb of Boise, Nampa.
About 125k, very conservative even by Idaho standards.
We even get ‘reverse sicker shock’ with how much things are cheaper there than Commifornia.
Glad you can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I thought we had disposed of everything when we moved from Billings, but after we went through the boxes the movers packed (two+ years later as the addition took so long to complete), we still found plenty of stuff to give away. It is a great feeling getting rid of so much stuff.
I think you are going to love Idaho. Not as much to love as Montana, but of course we are full.
I actually just found a box in the garage that had not been opened since I moved in here 19 years ago. Some pictures that might be worth saving otherwise I doubt the contents will be missed.
I just threw out 99% of the pictures I had in a shoebox that had been sitting in storage. Sure I can evoke some memories going through them but just a bunch of dumb shit from long ago.
I found that the standard for picture keeping got much higher the longer I had to go thru them.
Initially it was ‘this is nice’ and it eventually got to ‘can’t think of a reason to keep this one’.
Couldn’t even get myself to shred them, into a box and off to the dump with um.
I have about 30 shoeboxes with photos. Some mine, some from my parents when we filtered through there things.
I have enough digital storage that I am just taking a digital of any picture I like, and then I can throw the paper copy away.
Think only one thing can stop JJ ( no injury) is a running game
Last year, if he and Kirk would have stayed healthy believe he would have reached it. we had no running game – we had to pass.
Even playing with Mullens, JJ caught a lot of passes.
So, regardless of who plays QB, we’re going to pass the ball and JJ is going to get all he can handle.
IF the O-line improves, and Darnold is comfortable, he can deliver the ball. That said, teams will scheme to take JJ away, so to get him the ball will take both good game-planning, and good QB play. I hope and pray that we get our passing scheme built in a way that makes Darnold better. He has a career completion percentage of 59.7 and a career passer rating of 78.3. Folks think he has “untapped potential”. Dunno, but that’s everyone’s hope.
They’ve been scheming to take JJ away for years now, and somehow he gets his numbers (with the very rare exception game here and there).
True, but on the other hand, he has gotten his numbers because he had a QB willing to stand in the pocket and take a beating, while delivering the ball into very tight spaces. I honestly don’t see a QB on our roster at the moment that can do that.
Correct.
Jets had almost identical receiving stats with Cousins as he did with the other “bad QB’s” in 2023.
Im telling yuh JJ is getting schemed WIDE open in most of our games, very QB friendly when your WRs are wide 75%+ of the time. Theory will be tested this season.
I agree that Jets should be able to get open.
Hopefully, they start off with quick outs or slants to get Jets and the new QB on the same page early.
New QB is Sam at least until the team is out of the playoffs.
He could surprise some people, but even if he is bad, it is worth the 10 mil of wilf-bucks to wait for JJ to be ready.
But….. o-line improves. They just don’t seem to run block well.
Now, our bread and butter plays are deep crosses with drag routes. Do you think KOC really wants to run the ball much.
And, if you really want to run the ball well, put your QB under center.
And, teams have been trying to double and take JJ away for a couple of years.
If Mullens could get the ball to JJ well, see no reason why any of our QB’s won’t be able to.
And if I’m KOC, I’m passing the ball 70% of the time – why not?
Just a couple of thoughts.
How you been?
Mullens can get the ball out of course, but he doesn’t see defenses well. That’s why he throws so many interceptions. Having athletic ability, and having it between the ears, and also being able to take hits and still deliver the ball, is rare. I don’t think any of our current QB’s can do that. Just my opinion. I have always said KOC doesn’t use timing routes and slants very much, and puts a big load on the QB’s ability to process, and deliver the ball accurately. Gonna be interesting to see if he sticks with that this year.
I’m busy, and also my sister requires somewhat constant care and attention. So, not much time to blog.
Hope all is well with you and yours.
All well here, Good look with sister.
KOC – he has little choice at this time. We have the highest paid WR, TE and a number 1 draft pick as WR2. We have to pass the ball and these guys aren’t ‘ possession’ type receivers. Got to fling it down the field.
Just my thoughts.
It’s gonna be interesting to see if we can keep passing the ball well. Obviously we have skill position players who can get the job done. I think we’re all curious to see if we can get good QB play out of Darnold. That’s the bottom line. Fingers crossed we can.
Happy Hump Day!
QotD:
I’m getting on Bow’s bandwagon. Jefferson will get 3,000 yards, Addison will get 2,000 yards and JJ will be both rookie of the year and MVP.
Jefferson will not get over 2,000 yards.
But since Jets will require defenses to commit to him, I expect Addison to flirt with 1,500 yards.
QOTD:
No, Jefferson will underperform. He got his money, so he will get complacent and have more injuries.
Good morning, SKOL!
FTP!
QotD:
No, there is no one to throw him the ball.
So the Vikings are going with the Wildcat offense this year?
GM
FTP
SKOL
I vote no on the QotD. I want Jets to get over 2k receiving yards, I am just expecting a bit of a drop off with the QB change. Even though I think the team is better, and I take the over on 7 wins.