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Multiple links about how the Vikings may use Jake Golday in a role similar to Van Ginkel here and here. He was my favorite draft choice this year and I’m looking forward to seeing him play.
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3 days ago he said it was an even competition and it was up in the air.
He/They will say whatever it takes in order for you to click and make him/them money.
True……
That’s interesting coming off of two days where I heard nothing but JJ was better than Kyler. So JJ does better, Kyler misses even more throws and reads and fumbles more, but that’s how he solidified the job? They’re all just guessing and trying to cover their previous guesses. Worst case they are wrong and nobody gives a rip.
Did you expect ‘honest reporting’ from the ‘experts’??
Just talking points, either handed to them or made up to get clicks.
One other major writer said it’s Kyler’s job to lose and now he has to follow suit. It’s just like draft prospect rankings and sleepers.
He should consider being a HS Football Coach.
He has been.
In Florida.
Was fined or suspended for helping out a kid. Like he donated money and said he couldn’t do it.
Yup and then they changed the law afterwards so that coaches could help out players with small things like food and the like.
Per Google
‘The Teddy Bridgewater Act’ is a Florida law signed by Governor Ron DeSantis on May 22, 2026. It allows public K-12 head coaches to spend up to $15,000 a year of their own money to help players with basic needs like food, travel, and medical rehab’
It’s clear the WNBA wants Clark and Cunningham to quit.
They are targets for injury.
The “inclusive” crowd doesnt like straight white women, unless they accept their woke agenda.
Its a microcosm of most democrats.
‘the WNBA wants Clark and Cunningham to quit’
Even though those two bring the most attention/money to the league.
Logic is not something the Woke does very well.
Logic – and then there’s envy and jealousy. Talk about killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Didn’t they kill the Original Goose because they wanted to get to the gold faster.
They are killing this one because they are jealous and full of hate.
Well, now they have the opportunity to support two black trans women, but I’m sure that won’t happen.
I agree.
A New rule is coming about what a Women is.
Kanter identifies as black?
No, they love the drama. The league has never had so much attention. They love money.
Autumn Begins In Martin’s Ferry, Ohio….
‘…In the Shreve High football stadium,
I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville,
And gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at Benwood,
And the ruptured night watchman of Wheeling Steel,
Dreaming of heroes.
All the proud fathers are ashamed to go home,
Their women cluck like starved pullets,
Dying for love.
Therefore,
Their sons grow suicidally beautiful
At the beginning of October,
And gallop terribly against each other’s bodies…..’
Goddamn I love football.
Skol
Happy Sunday
Happy Saturday.
Some more almost real football is coming up this week. Yeah!
I watched the last few minutes of the Hall of Fame game and that was a fun last couple of drives.
For NBA player declaring to enter the 2027 WNBA draft….
Royce White also declares for the draft.
And he says that if they ‘discriminate’ and don’t let him in he will sue them.
Pretty funny actually.
https://www.foxnews.com/outkick-sports/former-nba-player-royce-white-declaring-next-wnba-draft-enes-kanter-announcement
Love it!
If they just stuck to playing basketball for women……you know…..the W nba
FAFO
That’s the conundrum for them. They include biological men in the W if the men “are women by their lived experience.” That’s a subjective definition, so now they have put themselves in a position to either judge something subjective based on their own subjective opinion (whether the person is lying about identifying as trans) or have to redefine inclusion in the league according to biological fact.
They apparently are going to discuss how to do that. Lol
https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/49561324/engelbert-wnba-continue-transgender-discussion
I like how Royce White said ‘I identify as a woman for basketball purposes’. Kind of limited but like you said they have ‘subjective definitions’.
I’m guessing no team drafts them.
The league probably comes up with “being in translation therapy”…. or something to qualify as a woman.
Defining a woman is hard in 2026 for some.
Not for common sense people though.
Sidney looks she would be nice.
The problem is the rules don’t say that now, that is the rules they have declared their eligibility under and to not allow them into the draft would be discrimination. If the league discusses it as a whole and says they won’t draft them, that is text book conspiracy. There is no way the WNBA wins this fight. They will either let big bearded NBA players play and show what a joke the league is or discriminate against what they claim to support and get sued into oblivion. Good thing the WNBA makes something like negative $200 million per year to cover those legal fees. The NBA salaries are going to drop to keep the WNBA alive.
Too fat.
-five
Don’t mess with Kirko……
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49555077/raiders-cousins-crosby-scuffle-friday-practice
Pro Tip for Ben…..
They have arcades with bars? Man how things have changed since my teenage years.
It’s a wild world in 2026
He admitted that they both had their pants down and he had her ‘bent over’ but insists no penetration happened.
@sounds legit@
Drinkie affects the winkie
I am no expert in ‘drunk sex’ so I will defer to your experience.
Not sure what that has to do with any Bens but crazy story
All of the “experts” said that the best case scenario, during the 2024 draft, for a new QB was the Vikings. I think they were way off, I assume they were saying that due to JJetts and Addison being the receivers, but our Oline has been atrocious for years.
It doesn’t matter how good your receivers are, if you have D-linemen in your lap the second the ball is snapped.
Or maybe McFragile just sucks.
If we had Drake Maye, I believe we would have a different outcome.
They tried. Pats made the right decision in not accepting the trade.
Is Sam Darnold transcendently good, then? Or does he not care about the pass rush? Or was the offensive line significantly better during his year?
Our line has been graded out average to slightly below average for the past like 5 seasons. I think the excuse of the line being awful is over blown. Pats made it to the SB with a sub par O line last year
9-8 seems right.
Last place seems wrong.
No one in the Division wins more than 10 or 11 games games imo. Im going to go Vikes 11-6, Lions 10-7, Packers 9-8 and Bears 8-9. Thats with out looking at their schedules
I agree with your first take.
I doubt the Vikings finish 11-6 though.
9-8 is standard Minnesota Nice.
11 is best case scenario, projection is subject to change 🙃😉
Is USA Today is still a thing??
LOL, terrible. The Buccaneers will win the NFC South, not the *aints. Chargers will do better, Broncos will slide. The the NFC North is a mess.
I think the NFC North and South could see 9-8 division winners.
I think Bucs, Broncos, Bears regress.
Picking the Saints and Bengals to win divisions is bold.
If the Bucs regress and the *aints are a bold pick to win, then who you got for that division?
To me it’s a toss up.
But I leaning Carolina.
you like Cam Ward?
You mean the Tennessee QB?
I can’t wait for Vikings to be 2-6 at midpoint of the season and then string together some meaningless wins at the end of the season to end 9-8 and sit in the middle of the draft picking order again with no QB on the roster for 2027. Nothing could make me more excited as a Vikings fan.
My scarred fandom has the Vikings going 6-2 and crumbling to 8-9 or 9-8.
But either way, that’s Minnesota sports.
And you are likely correct about middle of the pack.
I’m praying for 8-8-1
That’s even more Minnesota Nicer.
Can’t beat up on too many teams, and losing creates hurt feelings.
lol bears ain’t winning 12 games, Vikings might win 9 games though
LOL, he’s ridiculous
…..of golf?
Exactly.
I’ll have what he is smoking.
The game last night was better than I was expecting. Did not stay up for the entire game, since I had no horse in the race, but what I watched was actually entertaining.
Same here. I watched the first half, it was entertaining.
Same.
Beck looked good against scrubs.
Agreed.
Happy Friday,
Skol
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Pretty decent HOF game.
Decided on the last play of the game (+XP).
That was fun to watch. It’s nice having football back.
Adam Vinatieri, Hall of Fame.
From SDSU.
Go Jacks!
Actually he’s from the black hills of Dakota
‘black hills of Dakota’
That sounds a little bit racist.
I guess the Beatles were racist, I never did like them anyway
Some racist probably started the rumor that they were racist.
I saw one SDSU game live. They were very good. My kid went there for a year (didn’t go to class and is now paying off student loans with a real job, welcome to real life, son!), and so the family and I went to visit. They crushed their opponent.
I attended SDSU from 1979 – 1983. Back then, they were a middle of the pack Division 2 team. Fun to watch, but nowhere near as good as they are nowadays. They have become quite the powerhouse, along with NDSU.
Football is on TV. It feels good.
Beck looks pretty decent so far.
Vanilla offense vs a vanilla defense but still.
Agreed
Purdue’s new AD is a bit of a Moron.
He said ‘That if you don’t want to win Championships go to Indiana’.
Ummm Indiana just won the National Championship in football and they have 5 Championships in Basketball. Purdue has never won a single one in either.
https://www.foxnews.com/outkick-sports/new-purdue-athletic-director-tries-trash-talking-indiana-athletics-bizarre-moment
Happy Friday eve.
My wife once again reminded me of how much better this team would be if they had drafted Bo Nix instead of McFragile.
It sucks that she was right about that.
It sucks more because I will hear about it until Bo Nix retires.
Lets not pretend Bo Nix is a world beater yet. He rode that Top defense last year, and was one of the worst QBs statistically passing over 15+ yards.
I agree with that.
Still, Nix was much better than JJ last season.
Maybe everyone but Maye will end up a bust in that draft….
I was about to say the same thing. Nix was able to sustain a successful offense. McFragile™ not so much.
Don’t forget Denver had the best o-line last year as well.
Well ours was almost as ……….
Ok, never mind.
Buttholemouth is a huge douche but the guy can coach, Nix getting the benefit of that
For sure, will agree there. Lots of factors. Im just not proclaiming him a Good QB yet.
Bo Nix is decent, JJ (QB) may very well turn as good or better.
The Vikings could have screwed up with Bo just as much as they did with McFragile.
In fact the only thing Bo has done is stay on the field more, not an Iron Man but compared to JJ (QB) so far he might be considered one.
I thought we should have stayed at Pick 11 and taken which ever one was still there. Once Penix was gone, one of the two would have been there and we would have saved some picks.
Is Tim Tebow better than Bo Nix?
https://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/survival/register/joinprivategroup/?gid=2019&invitation_key=7c1ac0bb8f97b8a1
hopefully I did this right. Rob asked me to post this.
Thanks.
I’m in.
It works.
Name of your sex tape
LOL
At least I have one…..
I see this is for the Survival league, but can you please let Rob know that I am no longer participating in the regular FF league? I’ve tried posting over there for a few years now that I’m not playing, and responding to the emails, and I keep getting emails to prepare for the new season, then I get autodrafted, then my team gets creamed all season long because I’m not playing.
It’s not fair to the guys who ARE playing, unless they like getting a W on what amounts to a Bye Week when they play my team.
It’s a Yahoo thing. I hate the Yahoo format.
Rob says thanks and he will let CMyWilly know (GA Skol) as he is the commish.
Much appreciated!!
Side note, my son got nailed by a ground nest of yellow jackets today while mowing the lawn. It’s too warm to keep them in the nest so I can do my usual 2:00am extermination. How much $$ do I need for an effective suit? I see them available for $50 on up.
3rd nest of them this year too close for comfort.
If it’s a one time thing you can probably get away with a cheap suit. If you are using them on the regular you get what you pay for. I have two hats with veils that cost $60 apiece (for those days when you feel like taking some chances but not going crazy, and for onlookers), and a jacket and veil combo that was $165.
I feel like for dispatching yellow jackets on occasion you could get away with a veil, layered work shirts, leather work gloves and maybe work jeans over sweatpants, with the legs tucked into socks with combat or cowboy boots.
Honeybees are obviously a lot more friendly to work with, unless they aren’t, but as a novice I’m learning the smell, sound, and visual signs that they are annoyed. Some days I walk up bare chested wearing my thin workout pants, take a look, and open up the hive without smoke, other times it’s a big nope and I tuck the pants in my socks, and put on the veil and jacket, and then proceed to smoke ’em. BTW wasps do not respond to smoke anywhere near as well as honeybees.
I have yet to wear gloves with the bees. I’ve been stung a total of four times this year, guess what, three times on the hands.
an MT TL;DR post, shocking
Thank you. I’ll keep my eyes open for a suit.
Temps only getting down to 60 lately, so they’re active all night long. This morning I shot some expanding foam wasp/hornet killer down the hole, and stood by with my mosquito fogger for the returning foragers. I had to use the fogger to get insecticide inside my soffits and siding to eradicate the other 2 nests – it’s slower, but still effective.
After about 20 minutes there was nothing coming out of the hole any more, and the number of foragers returning had dwindled.
I’ve tried 2 recipes for a bait that they’re supposed to take back to the colony and kill everything, but neither has attracted a single wasp.
I just joined, every week one pick is a crap shoot. Going by last years teams any team can win their game week 1.
I thought he retired a decade or so ago, didn’t he get injured??
As you can tell I don’t follow Fake Wrestling.
He got cut in training camp that season he tried out. Can they really call him a Viking?
yes.
Anything is fair game in the twittersphere.
You gotta get clicks to survive.
Fauci held in contempt.
Criminal referral to the DOJ.
When Roger Stone and Steve Bannon did this, we had live coverage on CNN of them being arrested.
does fauci have family? where will all that blood money end up? isn’t he, like, 85 years old?
He is 85.
Not sure about family.
He’s going to flee the country imo.
Anyone ever heard of peona cullei? I just learned of it, and damn what a tough way to go out
Wow, never heard of it before. Just read about it. Sounds pretty vindicitve.
For those who don’t know, it was the punishment for killing a parent back in ancient Rome. If my kid killed me, I wouldn’t want this for them.
Sounds about right for Gregg Williams, though.
Too lenient for him.
Same for butthole face.
yeah, you’re right. it gets the creative juices flowing though.
I’d build a soundproof room in a sub-basement with a drain in the floor and a toilet seat mounted on an otherwise seatless chair over the drain. I’d tie him naked to that and keep up with water and whatever cheap pet food would keep him alive. Then I’d periodically show him whatever news clips come up with his family worried about his whereabouts.
I imagine eventually they’d call off the search, and there would be news about that. I’d share that with him as well.
It is pretty damn creative, I mean who would think of that
Remind me to stay on PPB’s good side.
LOL
Gregg Williams is the only person on my bad side. It’s a bit of a joke, as it’s so abstract/theoretical (because face it, I’ll never meet the guy)
It’s a funny way to reinforce my general attitude of being gracious, giving the benefit of the doubt, and forgiving those that do wrong.
Guy cuts me off in traffic? Maybe he’s on the way to the hospital and scared for his loved one.
People hate my politics? They probably feel they’re trying to do good by voting for a government that will force others to contribute to social welfare programs.
Lady celebrates her abortion? I feel sorry for the grief she’ll endure for the rest of her life, also a victim of evil propaganda.
Gregg Williams?
FUCK that guy.
(hahaha)
I got a feeling a “True Crime Documentary” is about to be broadcast.
If I’m ever infamous, I hope it’s for this
You have a vicious side…
Calling Dr Fauci….
And Sean Payton
He’s an idiot. Can’t stand looking at him. I’m not nearly as pissed at him, though.
Jonathan Vilma, if anyone, would be the 2nd guy on my ’09 *aints revenge tour.
Nice to see you are staying up to date on execution techniques.
I was watching an old George Carlin special and he mentioned something about getting sewn into a large sack with a snake monkey dog and rooster and then thrown into the sea naturally I was skeptical so I googled it and it was actually a thing.
What are the wooden shoes for, though?
That part I can’t figure out, I mean it’s all pretty crazy, you’re going to die drowning while being attacked by a monkey, bitten by a venomous snake, bitten by a feral dog and pecked on by a cock, best case scenario the animals kill each other and you just drown, worst case (and most likely) you drown having been attacked by all and you’re wearing clogs for some reason.
Symbolic.
The person wasn’t worthy of touching the ground, so wooden shoes were used to protect the earth.
Ah.
I could see PETA going crazy that the animals suffer the same fate as human.
I feel bad for all of them except the snake
Be praying the snake bit the monkey and the dog ate the snake…..
snake bite won’t kill immediately though and the monkey probably goes nuts, plus you still got a drowning cock and dog, plus you’re drowning, it’s going to be miserable all around
True. Would be awful.
thats how Carlin finished the bit….
‘then it’s just you and man’s best friend….’
yeah, god I love Carlin
Happy Thorsday,
Skol
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Hall of fame game tonight, looks like it will be a real barn burner.
Football tonight! WooHoo!
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barn burner?
it’s panthers/cardinals, right?
who is even the cardinals QB right now?
Jacoby Brissett, but he is not playing tonight. Some obscure rookie gets the start.
Comical how they handled the QB situation this year. Very Vikings-like.
Dump Midget, so Brissett knows he is the starter but his pay is shit. So he holds out until he gets paid.
Much like the Vikings letting Sam walk, then acting shocked when Jones goes to Indy.
I would say that the rookie starting for the Cardinals tonight is a bit away from “obscure”. He played something like 20 years of college football and was pretty darn successful.
I wonder how much of Gardner Minshew we’ll see
Considering he works out naked, probably all of him
Carson Beck? Yep, he had some good years with Georgia and Miami. Played in the CFP Title Game in January.
Well, he is obscure to me since I rarely watch college football, and while I did watch the playoffs a bit last year, I still have no clue who that guy is. I do know he was taken in the third round of the draft.
Maybe I will watch the first few series…
Would you say he is…Prolific?
I totally forgot about Jones!
I wonder if Brissett will get overpaid.
Worst QB moment for the Vikings (IMO) was March 2018 when Sam Bradford, Teddy Bridgewater, and Case Keenum all left and the team handed Kurt Cousins 84 million dollars. (sigh)
He got a one year deal with $15 million guaranteed.
Kirko still got $20 million guaranteed with the Gayders.
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wow, kirk might be the most overpaid QB in the history of the league.
he’s going to suck so bad this year, LOL
Not might be.
Is.
He is like the 4th highest NFL player of all time.
Way overpaid….
I’m trying to think of worse quarterbacks that got paid anywhere near as much as he has. Coming up empty.
Dak is the closest.
In fact, Dak might surpass Kirko within 3 years.
There’s a reason his teammate called him the black Kirk cousins
You mean black Kirk?
Jimmy G made quite a bit, nowhere near Kirk level but still a ton for a moderately ok QB
‘barn burner?’
I assumed sarcasm.
I was fairly sure, but I’m so out of the loop that I wanted confirmation
How’s the battle between McSucks and the clown midget?
Addison jambs thumb.
he’s fine
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Translation, give me $100M/4 years guaranteed or I’m sitting out TC and preseason
Might/could be on to something there.
Olave and Flowers both signed big deals in recent days. While a knucklehead and not near the production of either of those two, I personally believe Addison is more talented than both. His displays of dumbassery and our recent quagmire at QB are both major factors in that lack of production, but still think he’s a better player than both.
4 years for $100 million sounds about right. But I’m not a GM and I don’t play one on tv.
I think the emergence of Tai Felton, we should be able to handle the loss of Addison.
I’ll wait for actual games to call Felton an “emergence”, hopefully he has developed though
Why cant I watch these on Skolholes? It directs me to Twitter which I dont have so I cant get audio.
Unless it’s not true…..
Pick your narrative.
😬
Diggsy to sign with the Redskins.
Does this mean that Aiyuk’s live streams from DC will end????
At this point I’m rooting against him.
Yeah.
Dude needs help fo sure.
One ‘Anonymous Expert’?
Only those that use it to support their narrative give it any notice.
The anonymous coach was me. I am offensive, but not really a coach. More like an armchair coach.
An ‘Armchair QB’ Coach?
I’m getting one
I don’t have any Wendy’s close enough to justify this, sadly.
Can confirm…70 miles to the nearest one. Besides, my wife makes better milkshakes.
Someone got the reference!
I’m a lot closer to a Wendy’s than I am to your wife
Maybe you two could ‘Meet In The Middle’.
AD for sure, don’t care about the rest
AD should be a lock.
But Woke NFL + Viking = ‘Only Probable’.
Should be.
But the Vikings curse is real.
“the Vikings may use Jake Golday in a role similar to Van Ginkel” (words up top)
The team still has Van Ginkel, right? Are we going to have two ball-hawk LBs on the field at the same time? That could be a lot of fun.
I’m excited about having VG, Turner, Cash Man, and Golday on the field at the same time, add in in the amputee and the fat fruit and things could be really fun
I think Golday is more of an understudy this year.
I think it means that a 3-d printer will be used to copy Van Ginkel.
Good ol’ Dennis Prager
According to various X sources, a fan yelled something mean at JJM at practice yesterday. People are upset. I haven’t seen exactly what mean thing was yelled, though.
I fear this incident will be a gateway to bigger issues. Next thing you know, fans are going to make mean signs to bring to games…
NOT MEAN SIGNS
I am reminded of that crazed fan in the movie The Perfect Game, who yells at Costner, “I HOPE YOU DIE!”
From what I gathered, the fan yelled, “We hate you, JJ!” And folks like KOC and Jefferson got mad about it, too.
Man, Kobe Bryant would have laughed at the guy and then went out and purposely scored the Lakers’ next 20 points. Kobe made a whole commercial about trolling hecklers. He loved shutting them up.
I feel like what the fan yelled is not that bad. Mean? Sure. But if ignored, then totally forgotten.
LOL.
If they are butthurt over that (JJ, KOC, and Jets) they should never play in Philly or NY.
If I were there I would have yelled “JJ, Suck Less please”
Man, play better or go away. And I am still sad I got that damned shirt.
That was ‘For Love of the Game’
Aging Detroit pitcher throws a perfect game @ Yankee stadium. Decent movie.
foreskinface loves that movie
From the sounds of it, that was kind of JJ’s response. I read somewhere that he looked way better after getting heckled and basically didn’t miss a pass.
so, we need someone standing near him yelling at him so he plays better.
McFRAGILE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Skol
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