Happy Monday and welcome to Skoloholics. The bye week is over, we can now get back to cheering for our favorite team. I did not get to watch much football this weekend, as I was working on a project in my garden. But, I see there were some surprises; like the Rams getting beat at home by the Cardinals. This pick knocked just about everyone out of the survivor league. Sorry Kfey, I hope you didn’t take everyone’s advice. A couple others, Tennessee beating the Colts, the Browns beating the Ravens and Houston beating Jacksonville.
The Sunday night game didn’t go the way, I had hoped. Where are all of the meteors when you need them? I was hoping Dallas could actually do something and beat the Packers. Not that I would cheer for the cowboys to win, more so that the Packers would lose.
JJ McCarthy got into the game for the Giants and almost led them to a comeback win. JJ went 11/21 for 240 yards in just under 12 minutes. Did the Vikings give up too soon, or was it just a lucky day, for Nine x2.
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Will the Vikings be able to keep there undefeated streak alive, coming out of the bye?
Let us know in the comments.
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The Refs helped the Redskins make the game interesting but in the end the 9ers remain undefeated 23-17.
Agreed
There’s supposed to be a game in Paris next weekend. Will Paris still be there?
Well half of it will be burned down, but like SF when the Chinese Primer showed up, there will be enough police/troops around to safeguard their investment.
Stu and I are neck and neck in our survival league this week. He’s 1.5 points ahead of me, he had Evans, but he’s ruled out for the rest of the game, I have the 49ers defense.
An interception by SF puts me ahead, two sacks puts me ahead. I’m guessing I’m going to lose by a point or something.
Fun match though
Rams fat kicker sucked and got cut last week.
Current kicker got hurt this week, so the Rams are now looking for another kicker.
Nice to see some other team having kicking issues for a change.
It would be fun to see them resign the kicker that they cut a week ago.
That’s what I was thinking, rehire the fat guy
This Jalen Hurts situation is more than a bit strange. Interesting to see how this plays out as there are a lot of questions being now asked.
Is pretty odd.
Tanking for Moore, stealing MT’s plan.
Sounds like the medical staff is being investigated, I think they even fired the head honcho doc
i’m not going to let one quarter of “hey kid, we’re losing, chuck the ball against a prevent defense” sway any opinion i already have of idiot mcfragile boy.
now if he does this next week, i’m gonna burn tco performance center to the ground
If I fly into MSP you can pick me up and we can go straight to TCO …..
I think the Vikings gave up on JJ a bit early, but I’m not in that building and don’t know what exactly transpired. What I do know is the new GM has no ties to him, to me it comes down to KOC and he basically said nah, I want someone else so GM got what he could in the trade. There are reports about immaturity, not completely understanding the offense, poor fundamentals, but it’s hard to improve at anything when you can’t stay on the field and I think that’s been his biggest issue, the rest stems from there.
This ^ – two things can be true at once. In 10 years will he be a top 3 QB and make the Vikings regret letting him go? Maybe? But that hasn’t happened yet and it has a pretty low chance of happening, the time to fight about it is not 10/19/2026. He’s still ass as of today.
Yup
Sorry Wren
So you are saying that he choose the ‘Dark Side’??
Can’t put it all on Herbert. I think the new OC is part of the problem. Just doesn’t seem to be any sort of chemistry between them. Kids got all the upside that you could ask for in a starting QB, but has had so many changes of HC and OC in his 6 years. It’s a dysfunctional franchise with a shitty owner imo.
their organization is pretty crappily run
https://twitter.com/ShooterMcGavin/status/2112241483147563214?s=20
It’s just some upset students though….
Whispers out there saying we should see what the Bucs would need for Winfield Jr.
Wouldn’t HE be a nice addition, but only if he can play Gourd
That would be a trade I would be on board with. If only we would have drafted Hamilton instead of Cine….
wE DoNt NeEd MUlTipLe aLL pRo SaFetiEs, WE hAVe HaRriSOn SmiTH
‘One (soon to be) Hall Of Fame Safety to rule them all’???
that’s what everyone was saying when hamilton made all pro, trying to justify the horrendous miss by dummy kwesi
Not sure I want to mess with our defense right now.
Plus, the Thomases looked pretty good in camp and preseason.
I dunno. Maybe in the offseason we explore adding Winfield.
If B-Flo wants it then let him have it!
I’d be really interested in seeing what Flores could do with him, in college he played all over, in the box, back in coverage, slot, blitzing, in the Vikings defense he could be a real weapon
Jalen Hurts, QB, out for the season due to Blood Clots.
https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/breaking-news/article/eagles-announce-jalen-hurts-diagnosed-with-deep-vein-thrombosis-141647824.html
Saw that. Eagles were trash this year anyway.
LOL
I like the person alright, but hate Eagles-QB almost no matter what
I feel bad for hurts, always carries himself with class, as for the eagles and their poopeating fans…
Did the Vikings give up to early on JJ – not sure?
KOC is a fine coach and JJ may turn out to be a fine NFL QB, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it would work out here.
For whatever reason KOC lost confidence in JJ’s ability to learn, and it has been suggested KOC was very frustrated that JJ wouldn’t listen.
Sometimes two good people are a little like oil and water and just don’t mix well.
Hope KOC finds his QB and JJ does well with the Giants.
Saw all the same mistakes and issues in that one quarter of the giants game against a prevent defense. So far its the right move *shrugs*
As I said yesterday;
‘I also thought it was too early.
But the HC, OC, QB coach saw him every day and the new GM saw enough to be convinced he was a problem.
I have to assume that they know a heck of a lot more about the young man than I (or the media ‘experts’) do.’
Looks like quite the shakeup in the Collage Rankings, more politics than anything at this point.
https://www.foxnews.com/outkick-sports/week-7-ap-top-25-poll-complete-shuffle-chaotic-weekend-miami-taking-top-spot
I watched the ND/BYU game. ND did not impress me.
I did like the GA QB, Gunner Stockton. He had a rough game, but I liked the passing ability and grit. OK, 2 INTs, but a lot of passes just threading the needle
Miami is #1 because they made the title game last year. They needed 2 OTs to beat an unranked team this weekend and in fact have yet to beat any ranked team this year.
5 teams in the Top 25 that have 2 losses, all from the SEC, simply politics.
QOTD…….Yes, for one week anyway. The Colts suck. It would be a major disappointment if we lose that game at home, coming off of a bye week.
No way that defense and Will the thrill cant handle that putrid Colts team. Jones is DOG. SHIT.
But he was good for one year! KOC fixed him! Haha
A lot of unknowns, he might have been an average level QB with KOC on the cheap, which is fine, and all this roster needs it to be. But him getting a new deal and wanting to be a starter QB was always overkill to me. Glad we didn’t over pay him.
Why didn’t the Vikings hire Harbaugh?
Time is a flat circle
Looking at the Mamas/Papas thumbnail above, and I read a bit more about the band. Turns out the more talented singer (the plump one) died young and had a rather tragic career. Puts a bit of a pall on ” California Dreamin’ “
mama cass was a whole lotta woman
Mama Cass had some pipes, for sure.
Michelle Phillips was a fox – too bad her husband was a weasel. Some dark secrets (that are no longer secret) in that family.
On the JJ thing.
Time will tell. Only 52% completion rate yesterday, but he looked much better than Kyler has on this team for most of the season.
Murray looked really good last week. Time will tell.
As a Vikings fan, I expect things to go south for the Vikings, and the Giants will contend in the playoffs with JJ looking better each week.
If that happens,
ew
We watched the Giants game. JJM is a gamer, he never gives up, I like that. Most of his throws were high, just like his throws with MN. I wish him luck
Yeah, hard pass on that whole take.
The JJM stuff is too fun. Hope he starts next week, so we can gather more data.
I read something on Facebook, so take it for what it is worth, but Kyler Murray said as long as he is here a certain person would never see the field. He did not specify who, but it sounds like Kyler may have had more to do with JJ getting traded, then we may know.
Two things i have learned as i got older:
1. Never get medical advice from a stranger
2. Never take anything on Facebook as true
and never, ever, under any circumstances, should you believe medical advice from a stranger on Facebook
Unless it is MT.
speaking of MT, I wonder what he’d think if we traded for JJ McCarthy
he’d be for it since he hopes we tank this year
The Vikings will give the Giants a 2nd round pick in the offseason for him.
I mean, pending injury to Kyler and Wentz, he wasn’t going to be playing (at least this year). And I highly doubt they were picking up his 5th year option. I don’t see that as any wild information…
same
21 passing attempts in 1 quarter is wild
HE WENT FULL 9
i guess koc is truly the qb whisperer, he builds the qb’s and we send them to let the other teams benefit
that’s why we get so much draft capital for the QBs we trade
As evidenced by FLEECING the giants for a 5th rounderrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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Twice as good, as others here have referenced. lol
He had as many passing yards in 11 minutes of game time as the midget has managed in a whole game this year. Obviously JJ was the problem…
In 11 minutes, JJ had more yards than Kyler managed against the same team just a week ago and just as many TDs.
You don’t understand, Murray is in a new system and will need time to learn the plays and build a repertoire with his receivers. Remember he had to share reps throughout minicamp and part of training camp.
I know it is a small sample size, I will follow the Giants moving forward to see if JJ can build on where he started.
Against a prevent defense lol, you guys are wild and I hope its sarcasm
It’s not, they still believe he will be good-great. Which I will admit is possible, but not likely from what I’ve seen.
Ill admit that when I see it. One quarter against a bad Saints defense in prevent mode is not the hill to die on.
Agreed. We have plenty of bad football he played in MN to remember, so I’m in that camp too.
Compared to 4 quarters against the same bad Saints defense.
Ah yes, that game where we were in position to score 30+ points if two red zone fumbles dont happen? We moved the ball easily that entire game dude. There’s context there besides the box score. Murray also did some things that JJ wishes he could do so, im not sure where the hate is coming from.
Like rush for 50 yards? Oh, wait, JJ had 25 in less than a quarter. If they moved the ball so well, How come the team had only 382 total yards (229 passing, 153 rushing)? The Giants, including the 3 bad quarters from Jameis had 395 yards passing and 84 rushing. If the Vikings offense was any good, they should do better than the Giants. If this was one bad game, that would be a little different, but that may have been the best offensive performance of the year, which is not good.
Dude its week 6 and were 5-0…this is a wild take.
The Vikings are 5-0 because of the defense and a light-ish schedule and in spite of Murray. Maybe he’ll figure it out, but until then, Murray is and will be a problem over the next few weeks.
Well lets check back after two weeks. I think they will handle the Colts with ease and the offense will put up 21+ on its own not counting will the Thrill. They can and should score on the Lions. Murray has not been a problem for 6 quarters and I will argue with you on that.
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On the cusp of 6 and 0….who woulda thunk it??
Colts look VERY beatable
And they just fired their GM.
It looks like they are in full ‘dumpster fire’ mode.
Just what we need to prove that we are no longer doing ‘Viking Like Things’. #nojinx
https://www.foxnews.com/outkick-sports/shane-steichen-says-daniel-jones-wont-benched-coach-general-manager-chris-ballard-trouble
watch we’ll lose to the Colts and beat the 49ers
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