Happy Tuesday, and welcome to Skoloholics. Buffalo was able to outlast the Rams 37-34 last night. I watched the first half of the game and it was quite the back and forth. It looked like the last team to score was going to win it.
QOTD:
The Vikings have a bye this week, so who is everyone tuning in to watch?
The Bears travel to Atlanta to face the Falcons, and the Packers host Dallas.
Vikings News:
Vikings snap counts and notable PFF grades from dominant win over Saints
NFL News:
Media Selection:
Just checking in to take a break. Been a rough few days around here. Hurricane damage everywhere. Lots of people in serious situations. Thank god for organizations like Samaritan’s Purse and the Cajun Navy. Lots of great help from the State and numerous regional power companies. Incredible volunteers everywhere helping out. We have a few scammers and gougers taking advantage of people, but they are being handled.
This area is tough and has handled this situation many times over the years. These types of situations really bring out the best in communities.
SKOL Vikings!! 5-0 Baby! Makes me smile!
Thinking of yall down there…..
Certainly are great people in the Panhandle and it does seem like the gulf side of the state gets regularly tested.
All the best to everyone.
Gotta love our Governor, he does such a great job with preparations, communication and recovery.
Prayers to you all.
Stay safe!
QOTD, I won’t watch anything, my moms coming to visit, will try to remember to set my fantasy lineup though
Is your mom included in your fantasy lineup, Oedipus?
No. She visits more often than previous since my father passed a little over a year ago, I have worried about her often and how she may adjust to life without her husband of over 40 years. She has engaged more in the community, joining several boards and delivering meals on wheels. Despite not being my biological mother she chose to be my parent for 42 of my 44 years on this earth and I will forever be grateful. I know you meant that as a joke but I do not take kindly to it.
She sounds like an amazing lady.
Watched somebody apply for dumb dumb of the day, also seeing if the software I have makes decent gifs.
Well, I can’t get it small enough to post it directly here, so I’m testing some X stuff.
Dang!! Was the dufus on the phone?
Nope, just a stupid purple hair 20 year old.
Hey, that’s Billings! That won’t even make top 10.
Well, it was my idiot driver of the day and I was testing the whole actually posting something on X and pulling footage from my dash cam.
It worked well!
If we split the remainder of our games we will be 11-6. Looking at the schedule, I can see us winning 6-8 of the remaining games, that would put us between 11-6 and 13-4.
(W) vs IND 6-0
(L) at DET 6-1
(L) vs BUF 6-2
(L) at FTP 6-3
(L) at SF 6-4
(W) vs ATL 7-4
(L) vs CAR 7-5
(L) at NEP 7-6
(W) vs DET 8-6
(W) vs WAS 9-6
(W) at NYJ 10-6
(W) vs CHI 11-6
Small disagreements
W at Detroit
W at FTP (because FTP)
maybe v SF since it’s a neutral site game
W vs CAR
FTP certainly. I’d love that to be a win. Division games are so unpredictable, though.
Of the losses I listed, I think New England is a little more beatable than Carolina, but we get the Panthers at home, so I could see one of those flipping to a W for 12-5
SF will spank us (or the Vikings will beat the best team, give us hope, then lose to the hapless Falcons at home the following week) D’oh!
SF har har hardy har
I think we win 1-2 we shouldn’t (SF, SEA, Det or FTP) and lose 1 we shouldn’t (ATL, CAR, NEP, WAS). But yeah, that’s pretty much how I see it too.
yeah, it’s often the case that the Vikings beat a superior team and lose to an inferior team, but I so rarely get WHICH teams correct that I think it’s merely luck when I do
Doubt they lose to Carolina, might lose one of the home division games though
I bet Carolina will be 7-4 when they come to Minnesota
Maybe but if so they’ll be7-5 coming out of Minnesota
Battle of the midgets.
Never underestimate the ability of the Vikings to let us down. About the only time I’ll ever accept this could be our year is if we’re up by 17 past the two minute warning with the opponent having no time outs left and possession on their own 20 yard line in the Super Bowl. Not even the Vikings could lose at that point. PROVE ME WRONG GOD!!!
I agree. Yet I receive criticism when I question the legitimacy of the Vikings actually being good or we’ve just had a cake schedule so far.
So if we finish 11-6, will people be upset?
Yeah after the ensuing one and done in the playoffs
Since it is slow a thought on something I think is pretty screwed up. This is sort of a current event to me and do not mean it in any political way.
If there is one thing in this country we do well, it is how to kill people. We shoot them, hang them, stab them, electocute them, poison people, overdoses you name it.
So a couple of weeks back a state is going to execute someone. What happens, they blow it. But then after blowing it and realizing they failed, they rush the person to the hospital to save their life.
So we tried, failed, saved them, and from what I read we are going to try again.
What a mess.
Definitely a cluster…..
Maybe enroll her into the MAID program in Canada…….
If she said she loved Trump the hospital would kill her quickly.
They tried harder to save somebody on death row than unborn babies.
that was my first thought (well, close – that failed abortion attempts seem less likely to receive life-saving measures than failed execution attempts)
abortion is America’s single biggest problem, IMO
So very true.
Her sentence could be commuted to Life after the failed execution, though what she (and her boyfriend) did to that kid was worthy of execution.
Just my opinion, though. It’s not right, it’s not wrong.
Not bad for Old Man Jones.
QOTD-I’m going hunting all weekend
Ditto. Well, hopefully I’m cutting up a deer. This is the last week of archery season and Thursday and Friday are the youth hunt so gonna try and get the kiddo a deer.
Ohhhh, nice.
Does and smaller six and eight point bucks are moving in the morning, hopefully i can down one of them this weekend
Good luck. I just got confirmation that I have permission to hunt some private on Thursday. Gonna be a weird Minnesota style hunt. Sitting in a tree stand, yuck.
G luck
We installed tower blinds, I bring a thermos of coffee, food and my phone for entertainment.
It’s just fun to be outdoors, bonus if I see game, double bonus if I decide to shoot one.
I hate sitting still for more than like 30-45 minutes unless I’m looking over a bunch of country. Just thinking of sitting in a tree stand in the river bottom for a couple of hours is already boring me.
QOTD….redzone channel all day!
From some dufus beat writer:
“Stock down: Jauan Jennings, WRIt was hard to find many weak spots in the Vikings’ dominant win, but after another goose egg from Jennings, it’s getting harder and harder to see what his future in Minnesota is. With just two catches on the season despite injuries to Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison, Jennings is starting to look like a very expensive WR3 who doesn’t add any value on special teams.”
Now I’m no football analyst, but last time I checked you can’t contribute much when they don’t throw the ball to you, or when they do, they overthrow you. The camera goes where the ball goes, so it’s hard to say if he’s getting any consistent separation, but Murray doesn’t have a problem throwing to other WRs who are covered……..
there was for sure one play where he was looking jennings way and he broke open to the endzone but kyler went a different way (he was looking at jennings)
but you are right, it’s not always on the wr at all. i’m surprised to see how little jennings has done so far this year. he was a very good wr at san fran
Watch the bears falcons or play golf after church….Its a really tough call. Not to many golf days left here in Nodak land. I think I will golf.
Just put your skates on!
Play golf!
Question below about which is stronger NFCN or NFCW?
Not totally sure but I’d rather we play the Packers, Bears or Lions rather than the Niners, Rams, or Seahawks.
No question that SF and Seattle are better compared to any team in the North.
Well except the vikings of course.
I think they are better than the Vikings.
I’d bet the Vikings lose to both of them.
Possibly even the Lambs.
Agree. But that could change if we can truly get our offense rolling.
True.
Bad timing.
Offense gets rolling, time for the bye week….
Vikings history of fading after the bye…..
The bye week…..
I am thinking about buying a JD S240 riding mower.
Slightly used 2026.
$2,500
I think that’s a good deal.
DO IT
I bought a pretty old JD rider a few years ago, and something happened with the deck that’s causing me to go through belts too fast. I need to AI some troubleshooting.
Get a robot mower!
LOL
The Vikings made the list twice, seems like they are always over-achieving.
Since the NFL expanded to a 12-team playoff format in 1990 (and continuing through the modern era), only six teams have started 5-0 (or better) and failed to make the playoffs:
1993 Saints 5-0 finished 8-8
2003 Vikings 6-0 finished 9-7
2009 Giants 5-0 finished 8-8
2009 Broncos 6-0 finished 8-8
2015 Falcons 5-0 finished 8-8
2016 Vikings 5-0 finished 8-8
2026 Vikings 5-0 ………………..
I love those old Doublemint gum ads
Double the pleasure
I still hated the playcall since we were gashing them on the ground BUT…..kyler would have been able to run for weeks, perhaps months, on this play
If you flip the view, so could the Saints player, had he intercepted it.
thankful his hands and helmet were bricks
Low/slow IQ QB didn’t recognize the giant defender right there in front of him, could have faded towards the sideline and JJ lob it over them……
Skoloholics Pick ‘Em League Update #????
I don’t know what week it is. I don’t know what day it is. All I know is waking up, cornfields, work in between, more cornfields and going to bed. Things will look better in another week. I actually hope it rains Thursday, so I can get a break and only deal with regular work. It will feel like vacation!
Apparently, there were football games this week. I don’t even know what a TV is right now either. There is only corn, corn and more corn. Most corn I have ever seen in my life, and I’ve seen a lot of corn.
Bowbunch has taken the lead. Did he have the lead last week? I can’t remember. I think not. But we do not need to worry about this. Soon, Bow will take to the woods to hunt and forget all about pick ’em league as he battles elk and bear and mushroom-hunting hippies who demand he hugs animals rather than eat them. They will then show him the way by hugging a bear and dying hippy deaths. Mourne not for them, however. It’s how they wanted to go, one with nature as bear poop.
PA is in second place. Again, my memory is fuzzy, and I’m not going to actually to research to confirm, but I think PA has steadily been moving up in the rankings, as well. Do we need to worry about him? If PA stands for Pennsylvania, I honestly don’t know. Does anyone know anything about Pennsylvania? What even is it? It is one of those states that has no identity. It is never mentioned by anyone. Is there any state that is more bland? Maybe New Hampshire?
Mjolnir remains steady in third, and he is only five points out of first place. Five points is easy to make up. All he needs is one coin-flip game to flip in his favor while the people ahead of him took the other team. Like that Jax/Eagles game. I heard that game flipped in the final seconds. Speaking of flipping, I think I finally figured out how to avoid the failure of that first pancake. I must let the pan heat up more to an even medium temperature. It is difficult to display that amount of patience, however. The need for pancakes overrides all rationale.
Peterplaysbass is in fourth place. He can see the podium on the right and the abyss on the left. He is lukewarm, biblically speaking. Will he be spit out or pick a temperature? He’ll know that reference…
JacksonVike slips to fifth…or did he return to fifth? These are questions for stat nerds. All I remember is that he used to be in first. I wonder what it is like to taste those dizzying heights of success and then be mediocre? We could probably ask Nelly Furtado about that…
I am in sixth place. I can live with that. I was in the bottom of the standings at one point Sunday, but I clawed my way back up a smidgen.
Surly and DE are tied for the bottom spots. They are not in a hopeless position, however. One decent week and they could be back up in fifth or thereabouts. Plenty of weeks left for that.
Everyone got the Bears and Cowboys games wrong. Honestly, the Cowboys should just disband at this stage. How do you lose to the Bucs with Mayfield out? The Bucs were running a rookie QB according to Google. What team would get beat by a rookie QB or backup that handily?
…
Don’t answer that…
Everyone got Houston and Cinci right and that is it. It looks like it was a tough week on everyone. Very few gimmie games. Then Giants and Redskins tied, so all those points were negated. I only had three points on that game, so not a huge loss for me.
We had two Iconoclast Picks. DE was the only one to take the Eagles over Jax and he was almost a genius for it! Surly was the only one to take the Chargers over Denver. Man, what happened to the Chargers? They were supposed to take the leap with Harbaugh, and they are going backwards.
We didn’t really have an Genius Picks. The closest we get is the Ravens/Falcons game. Me, Jacksonvike and Peterplaysbass took the Ravens. I honestly have no idea how that game went in my favor. It appears Lamar Jackson was out. I had no idea that was the case. Like I said, all I know is corn right now.
We had two Traitor Picks. Me and DE were the only ones to take the Saints over the Vikings. I just figured our luck was going to run out sooner or later. We know the Vikes aren’t going undefeated. The percentages will nick them at some point.
No one has to worry about being a traitor this week. Bye week, baby! Which Viking will embarrass the organization this time?
I’m going with Reichard. He’s going to get arrested for soliciting a hooker while tripping on LSD. He seems the type…
great biblical reference about PPB!!
this was a corny update! haha
I really wanted to pick the Bucs, but I wussed out when I saw that Mayfield’s backup is not only a rookie, but an undrafted one at that. I saw one place allude to that and didn’t fact-check. I just switched my pick to the cowgirls.
I might stay lukewarm. Once I got out of the back of the pack I went conservative, picking mostly favorites. We’ll see. I might get whacky one of these weeks and plummet to the bottom.
A.) I’ve been making my picks from the woods so they’ll probably go downhill when I have nothing left to chase for the year. Lucky for me that’ll probably be in January when the last session closes.
B.) Start the pan before mixing your ingredients on your pancakes. Unless you’re cheating and using boxed mix (YUCK) that gets the pan about right. Side note, if you want the second side to look as nice as the first side, move your spatula around underneath the pancake until the bubbles are all gone before flipping it.
oh man, I made well over 100 pancakes last weekend – could’ve used that bubbles tip
next time!
Guessing that was a church function. If you want to be the super star, make some Mickey Mouse ones for the kids. You’ll have kids lined up and parents happy because their kids are eating. All ya gotta do is pour two small circles for ears.
Adorable idea!
It was for high schoolers at the public high school though, kids in the theater program have long practices on Saturdays and parents take turns making lunch
We also put 60 eggs into eggbakes and sliced a zillion oranges
I guarantee you those HS kids would get down on some Mickey Mouse pancakes.
probably
I won’t be able to watch any of the early games this week as we are traveling an hour and a half away to a small church to help out on Sunday morning. Then since we will be close to my cousins house, we are going to go out to eat lunch with her. I don’t expect to get home until the late games start. I haven’t looked at the schedule, but I suppose since the Packers are playing Dallas that will be a late game. Yuck. If that is the only game on, I will watch it but I won’t enjoy it. I may either read or take a nap while it is on.
Hopefully the travel and church and lunch will be nice.
I’ll be skipping football this week. My parents are prepping to sell their home (been there 43 years!) and my sister and I will be spending the afternoon helping to organize their stuff.
oh how i pray it only will take an afternoon to organize stuff of someone who has been in the same place for 43 years haha
well, we’ve already done quite a bit, but I think this Sunday will be about sharing memories and stories, and my sister and I picking out a few things special to us that we’ll keep
It is going to be a long week, no Viking game to start getting stressed about.
This is where we need NLNVF to bring up a topic unrelated to football to stir us up. I just hope he is doing ok after the passing of his sister.
Looking at NFL standings, is the NFCN the strongest division in football? Or does the NFCW take the crown? I dont think the Vikes are better than SF…..yet. but i dont see any North team as bad as the Cardinals. Bears might be better than the Seachickens, once Williams is back.
I am looking forward to us going into November UNDEFEATED!
Currently the Vikings are seeded #1 in the NFC and FTP, the Loins, and the Bores are seeded 5, 6, 7 respectively. That’s all 4 NFCN teams in the playoffs!
I don’t know what happens to an image when it gets posted here as a thread cover, but it seems like part of the problem might be choosing too small of an image to begin with. Here’s one to try if you care to attempt a swap, JV:
That looks better, thanks
Hey, cool! 🙂
Good morning!
I missed the MNF barn burner because my 17 year old dropped a 100-pound plate on the tip of his finger at the gym.
The emergency room experience is one I’d rather not revisit.
FTP
FT*
Ouch.
This is why I don’t lift weights, not good for your health.
That sucks, reminds me if you don’t wear steel toe boots, whatever you drop lands on your toe. If you wear steel toe boots it lands right behind the steel toe.
I dropped a 15 pound weight on my toe once as a kid, and that pain was monumental. I can’t imagine a 100 pound plate on a finger.
He was a little shook up at first, but handled it well. Fortunately it only fell half the height of the plate (from being on the bar of the legpress to the top rim pinching his finger on the bar)
and if you drop toast on your boots, it lands butter side down