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Vikings Discussion & Random Thoughts
Got back from Denver late last night, long drive but a great trip. The Vikings play again tonight after a short week, it says the game starts at 7:15. Let’s hope the Vikings can turn it around tonight, and get the offense firing on all 8 cylindars. Hell, firing on 6 would be an improvement.
Vikings and NFL News
From Vikings.com, a week 8 Vikings @ Chargers game preview, the Vikings @ Chargers final injury report, and how to watch, listen, and stream tonight’s game.
Yahoo Sports also has a preview of tonight’s game.
CBS Sports looks at 9 players who would benefit from a change of scenery prior to the trade deadline.
Baker Mayfield says he does NOT expect clean play from the Saints, saying “I do not like them”, per NFL.com. Smart dude, another reason to like Mayfield.
Media Selection
Great video here, I can’t remember which of you shared this one the first time. Whoever it was, blame them.
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I posted it, accidentally categorized it as Fan Huddle. It’s fixed.
Vikings @ Chargers: Key Insights and Predictions – Skoloholics
O looked bad.
Hope the Defense is ready to play.
The game thread is under Fan Huddle. Scroll down to the bottom of the front page.
Our line is not going to win any awards for blocking thus far.
Lucky
That was a great thrwo by Wentz getting hit like that.
Running game is 0-2.
JJ (WR) 1st down reception.
There is holding on 90% of kickoffs.
The game thread is up… been up…
Where cause I don’t have it.
It doesn’t show on my Skol page,
maybe you provide a link?
I don’t see it either
Guess we are not ‘special enough’.
Going light and refreshing tonight – Corona and lime.
LET’S GOOOOOOOOOO Vikings
Red wine but may go heavier depending on how things go.
Two minutes to game thread?
Brad said he set it up but I guess he got the wrong time zone.
Not that I could do better.
Nope, not yet.
Been up for two hours
Don’t see it
Great news – my daughter talked my wife thru way to sign on so we can watch the game tonight. Took my wife 30 minutes but we got it. Heck, I didn’t even know we had this service.
And proud of it. Children of our country’s Greatest Generation.
Congratulations.
Inactives
No Potato means more TE help on that side hopefully.
Good news
So much for all of the doom today.
Well half the doom, we will know about Potato in a bit.
As a guy who’s had a bad knee, his walk doesn’t look all that good.
All 2 and a half steps in that video?
Yep – notice the protective gate for the bad leg. Walked like that for two months following knee replacement.
But ha, maybe he’s just being a little stiff after sitting. Doesn’t really matter, doc says he’s playing.
Damn, hope they can keep him on pracyice squad, had hopes for him.
Good thing McCarthy is sitting.
It very much could be Justin Skule at LT and Walter Rouse at RT for the Vikings tonight.
Chargers Edge Khalil Mack is ramping back up from injury and is expected to have close to a full workload tonight.
It might get ugly tonight guys and this doesn’t include Blake Brandel probably getting the start at Center again who led the team in allowed pressures last week.
Look we’re 3-3 and don’t need another lose. If it were the Navy they would say we need an all hands effort.
So all 53 need to pick it up and play their best football.
Coulda, shoulda, woulda. Both might start, both might sit, one or the other may start, they may start and be on a snap count restriction.
If one sits then a TE can be used to slow down/help on that side. Not ideal of course but a little soon to call for panic as well.
That’s probably WHY JJ isn’t playing. KOC decided he would rather sacrifice Wentz to the wolves than risk JJ’s life.
A true red haired step child.
I’d run the ball until they proved they can stop the run.
I would to but KOC is like a converted alcoholic thst keeps walking by the liquor store – got to take his shots.
I’m okay with that, but it seems wise to be balanced in order to keep defenses honest. Allowing them to sell out against the pass is not a good strategy and will ninder the passing game. If the D has to keep guys inside in order to stop the run, it’ll open up opportunities in the passing game.
So are you TPP on Twitter or are you just quoting people again without citation?
He likes to think he is the smartest guy in the room.
At least he has stopped using Dov Kleiman as his source.
What does your comment mean?
He is implying that NLNVF is using other peoples ‘takes’ from the internet and not postlng where he got them.
Well, I mean it is word for word the same post, so I just want to know if that is him. He has blatantly said he does not copy other people’s posts. I want to know which pages I should follow and/or ignore.
I still don’t get it. I would never think NLV, or anyone else here, gets Lightening Bolts from the Lord with the information they post.
Thus, NLV got the information somewhere and posted it. So what?
If I post something like “Joe Biden’s prostate cancer is getting worse.” Am I suppose or required to say where i heard or got that info?
Writing your own post is different than copying and pasting somebody else’s thoughts. It’s called plagiarism.
Oh please – this isn’t a college term paper.
I set the gameday thread to post at 5:00, give folks more pre-game time.
PM?
worth asking, you’re a busy fella.
not great at ramps, but busy.
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LOL, yes, I checked to make sure on the time AND the day, I’ve screwed both up before.
Couldn’t find the appropriate Seinfeld GIF
What time zone? I don’t see the gameday thread at 5:15 pm Central.
Don’t pester him. He has had a hard day/week/month/year/decade.
If he didn’t ride bicycles off of ramps, he would be fine.
it will be fun to have him play 3/4 of the game
Not sure he is much of an upgrade over Mason.
Probably an upgrade over Scott.
Upgrade in pass pro and the screen game imo…..
I don’t claim to be an ‘expert’ so I will except not argue about it.
Hamm was suppose to be an ‘upgrade’ in pass pro but he didn’t seem to make much difference on Sunday when he came back.
I’m hoping it will at least prompt KOC to run the ball more. We don’t need to play Zimmerball, but we do need to run the ball more and be more balanced. It’s one of KOC’s weaknesses, teams can sell out to stop the pass because we run the ball so infrequently, IMO.
Wow, we’re currently at 43/57 run/pass. I thought we’d be lower. We’re still in the bottom half of the league (20th).
Link
2025 NFL Run/Pass Ratios – FFToday
Link
The top teams in the league in terms of % of plays that are runs.
Buffalo
Seattle
Detroit
Green Bush
New England
Philly
Warshington
Chitcago
NY Giants
Indy
The Chargers are 31st in the league in running %. Vikings secondary better be ready to play tonight. Let’s maybe not leave their WR1 in single coverage against a safety on 3rd and a mile. Just a thought.
I’ll never forget my first death’s head tattoo. Had it for 20 years before I realized it had a nefarious meaning. I thought it was about pirates…
I get his explanation… Marine, drunk, gets a tattoo that he thinks looks badass with his buddies. I accept he likely didn’t know it was associated with Nazi’s. He’s made comments though that are an insight to his personal perspectives of other people that are documented, and I’m not sold that he is fit for office. I haven’t looked into all of it, and probably won’t since he’s not in Florida.
If I was him, I would get the thing removed, but I’m not him.
Yea he’s sober now and realizes what it is. So why didn’t he get it removed.
Voters should research his background and things he’s said in the past. Apparently he’s trying to explain away all the terrible things he’s said with comments like “it was just humor” or “I said it but I don’t really think like that”.
A leopard doesn’t change its stripes.
You look around at some of the current elected officials – like members of congress – people that couldn’t have gotten elected to dog catcher 10 or so years ago.
Pure trash totally unAmerican people are easily elected.
Once the ‘machine/establishment’ chooses someone they can ram just about anyone through.
This is true. AOC was a bartender. Decided to run for Congress.
She wasn’t qualified enough to be a bartender, she was a bar maid.
Barista, she made coffee. They wouldn’t trust her to handle alcohol.
Pure trash. Send her to a couple of the Muslim Nations to go lead the “good life.” And her chanting friends can go along.
That’s the part that amazes me. Do they not realize how women are treated in those countries?
We have a lot of stupid people running around in this country.
He covered it up with a celtic knot symbol (with dogs because he and his wife like dogs).
Woke/Lib Logic is not Logical.
SKOLOHOLICS PICK ‘EM AND SURVIVAL LEAGUE UPDATE WEEK ??
I have not figured out what week it is yet. The time after harvest is usually a disorientating temporal vortex. For example, I go to work, and I get to go home at 4 p.m. “Only eight hours?” I ask. “This is a cakewalk!”
Then I go home and fall asleep, get up, stare into the void, go to bed and repeat. It takes me awhile to find rhythm again.
But this is what happened in the exciting world of Pick ‘Em! DE, Kirko and Lasallegrouse were the top scorers of the week. I was pretty happy with my picks. I only got three wrong. Unfortunately, my confidence points allocation sucked, but so many of the games could have went either way in my head.
Overall, Freezy and Little Fishin hang out at the bottom. They haven’t been getting all of their picks in. Don’t they know this is the future? They could just have AI do it!
Bow, PA, me and JacksonVike are in the next clump. Frankly, we need to do better and hit the 600 point barrier if we want to be taken seriously. It is unmanning to be where we are. My wife has even noticed. Last night she said, “You seem a lot more feminine to me lately. Please, sleep on the couch…in the garage…preferably at your mother’s house.”
Little does she know, that is fine with me. My mom knows how I like my eggs.
Meanwhile, NoDak, Let’s Fish, Lasallegrouse, DE and Surly are all fairly close to one another. Any of them could leap into the top spot with a good week and a corresponding bad week by those above them. This is certainly made them more attractive, as well. My wife also said, “Why can’t you look more like those guys?”
Sorry, hon, not all of us can be a 10, which is what you get if you added all of them together. See what I did there? That’s called a roast.
ManlyPurple and Kirko are in the top spots. Can they hold on to them? We will find out starting tonight as our Vikes take on the Herberts!
Genius Pick of the Week went to DE. He was the only one who got the Bengals over the Steelers. Meaculpa. I should never underestimate Zombie Flacco. That guy is good for a number of wins until he eventually flames out from being, you know, old. But if the season is only six games long, he is your guy.
Iconoclast Picks were Kirko and NoDak with Dolphins over Browns and Surly and Me with Bucs over Lions. What can I say…I really like Baker…maybe even more than Herbert.
Traitor picks were DE, Kirko, Lasallegrouse, Surly and Me. We all took the Eagles over the Vikes. I was honestly surprised so many took the Vikes. I thought we would all be traitors. Heck, I took the Eagles with 13 confidence points. So did DE.
The question this week is how to pick the Vikes. I am not going to spoil my decision yet because I haven’t made it. It is next on my agenda.
Meanwhile, no one was eliminated in Survival this week. Manly and PA remain the only ones without a strike. DE, Let’s Fish and Me continue to hang in there with one strike.
GET YOUR PICKS IN BEFORE THE GAME TONIGHT FOR BOTH LEAGUES! I AM GOING TO GO DO IT NOW…
Congrats on surviving Harvest. Did your brother get ‘all better’ in time to assist?
Yep, big wimp. Last day of corn combining he comes staggering out of the house and says, “I think I can drive the combine a little bit now…”
So he even stole the glory of the last round!
At least it is not hereditary.
There is always at least ‘one’ of those in every family is seems.
so even though i’m a city boy, i have helped with my father in laws harvests a couple of times.
i would go out there for a week and work with him. I didn’t want the stress of running the combine, so i was in the trucks getting loaded up with wheat, driving them down tiny washed out trails, to the bins and unloading the wheat, then driving back up and getting loaded etc etc.
i enjoyed it, and that was truly hard work. i slept so hard each night.
I went from an F grade semi driver to a C+ this year because usually my brother drives those. Repetition helps.
I can still screw up the downshifting, though. Once I figured out not to use the clutch but just shift by RPMs, it helped.
On the old grain trucks, I clutched all the time, but it is easier to skip that on the semis.
Backing up is still kind of a crap show, however…
I don’t think this is a true statement.
I would agree, I believe two handsome men were eliminated.
I see that now.
I had my week numbers messed up. Dang it!
I wanted to save you from the humiliation. I see Rodgers got you one more time!
My rule is to never pick in a division matchup for survivor games but I was in a hurry and in a meeting when I made my pick last week.
That is a good rule.
I know how that works. Sometimes you just can’t think that stuff through. Stupid real life always bugging.
Darrisaw has soreness in his knee, so might not play tonight. O’Neill is also not 100%. Could be bad news for the offense.
This is one reason why there should be no Thursday games.
I agree with this. There is an old NFL adage… “it’s not who you play, it’s when you play them”. Getting the Vikes in a situation like this is very beneficial to the Chargers.
Have you looked at the Chargers are going to be starting on their offensive line tonight? This is a two way street. They aren’t coming in super healthy either.
Good cause I don’t want to hear any injury excuses. We got what we got, they got what they got.
Now just go beat them.
Reports I’ve heard say although the Chargers O-line is banged up, they expect all their guys to play tonight.
I just know if we lose it will be directly because the announcers will talk up Flores on the first Chargers possession, and then Herbert will proceed to throw for his personal record in yardage and TDs.
It is inevitable.
If we win it will be because Herbert throws multiple INTs.
Good beat them at their best.
Run what you brung. If you’re into drag racing.
Yep, you dance with the guy that brung you.
Somehow, that doesn’t sound quite right but you get the idea.
Laughing
Sports and online gambling is legit and a good place to risk your money.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/nba-legend-chauncey-billups-heats-terry-rozier-arrested-part-fbi-gambling-probe
widespread throughout sports, IMO. Too much money involved, and very little oversight.
I will do an over/under for a season if I happen to be at a casino and the bets looks good.
But the last time I did that it had been a couple of years and the ‘ticket’ was expired. Eventually a supervisor approved my $30 payout. I just don’t go to a casino often enough. I do enjoy hanging out in the Sports Book while The Teacher plays with the slots.
This is one of the reasons the NFL continues to be less appealing to me each year. Just seems too fishy watching games.
I feel like NFL games are more consistently close at the end of the game than they used to be, and I don’t find it a coincidence that it started getting that way as sports betting became more popular and refs seemed to be getting worse.
Yep, it’s becoming obvious that they meddle with the games.
Yeah, the number of games that are failing to cover a spread because of some flukey call or play is getting ridiculous.
Yup, it’s obvious to anyone who looks at it objectively.
Good GIF is good.
It was a underground poker/black jack not sports betting im pretty sure.
Both. They were running rigged poker games as well as organized cheating on sports betting by benching players and making prop bets on things with inside information.
Men and their hobbies…
Jesus lol that is worse than I thought. Makes you wonder who else is doing this shit in any and all sports.
Evidently the Heat player faked an injury after taking ‘under’ bets on himself, played only 9 minutes and won over $60k.
The feds say he took delivery of the money at his house so he could count it all.
I mean, this surely won’t happen again because we are a much more evolved society now.
Per Google:
During the early 1900s, sports gambling was a widespread and often unchecked practice in the United States, despite being largely illegal. While it fueled the growing popularity of professional sports, it also led to pervasive corruption and game-fixing scandals.
An underground industry
Corruption in baseball
The Black Sox Scandal
Shoeless Joe Jackson was innocent, no proof of wrongdoing.
‘During the World Series in question, Jackson had led both teams in several statistical categories and set a World Series record with 12 base hits, including, during the last game, the only home run in that World Series’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoeless_Joe_Jackson
Make sure to watch the video up top. Serious content, but still worth watching.
The Llama Song????
😁
The Vikes are gonna wipe that smile off your boys face tonight.
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