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Vikings News
Justin Jefferson will be returning to the practice field. Whew. Not much else going on. Tuesday is traditionally the day when we argue about the most overpaid QB to ever wear a Vikings uniform. Yes, that grossly overpaid current backup QB is Kirk Cousins. Since he is soon to be out of the league until he becomes an overpaid and average announcer, I no longer really care. But we can still argue if you like being wrong. Kirko is pulling in 45 million this season. A simple google search of QB’s making over 40 million will show just how overpaid he is. He is not the only one. There are some bad QB’s on the list. Kyler Murray and Deshaun Watson and Dak Prescott come to mind. Ew.
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There was a game last night. Well, a practice game. Still, both QB’s looked good. Bengals look the same, good offense, zero defense. Redskins or whatever they wanna be called now, really looked like the better team when they had starters playing. Daniels will be fun to watch.
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I’m pulling a Kodiak and responding to posts after everyone has left.
Good Plan,
No doubt it will work well.
This means I have about 6 months before I’m banned.
Been nice knowing you.*
*Figured I would get that in early.
Coming by late. Tough day cleaning up dog messes. Old rule – big dog, big mess.
Found two posts insightful
JRo – Cousins still lives in peoples minds. Folks said no and then there were nine post confirming Jro’s thought.
And yes NLV. Hamilton would have been a better pick than Cine.
‘Hamilton would have been a better pick than Cine’
And ‘The Trade’ sucked even before considering that fact.
Hey JR, when you told me what you were doing for your daughter, maybe the first thing that came to mind was “poop patrol”. We have three cats and my wife is constantly cleaning litter boxes. I think you’re a pretty special dad at this point.
OK, I officially love this…
Even Minorities hate crime, no matter who is doing it.
‘DJTs crackdown on crime is racist’ per the Liberal Elites.
I don’t think anyone, regardless of race, color, or creed, wants criminals doing criminal things to them. People have a right to live free from crime. And the Second Amendment gives them the ability to do that.
This made me laugh…
Rec for Truth.
I remember when Bud Grant held one of those.
Missed it, darn it.
I would have stopped by had it been 3 weeks earlier.
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Oops, sorry Florida. I’m on my phone and I have fat fingers. Disregard the thumbs down
I see some others piled on after my finger slip.
I’m saying it was oofda and freezey.
@they all look alike@
Was close to buying one.
Changed my mind.
Might change it back…
I might have to get one. I had the poster, but I think my mom threw it away. Also had the 3000 hit club Molitor poster.
Cool.
$105 for autographed copy.
Not terrible.
Plus, they gave up a draft pick.
He will likely be QB2 for sure.
He is awful.
Mullens/Manion awful.
If he ends up playing, they better be able to run the ball and rely on Defense.
I agree.
He sucks. – five
I’d put him between those two, with Mullens leading the pack.
Honestly, there aren’t a lot of teams out there with a starting quality backup QB. Guys like Andy Dalton and Gardner Minshew can do a decent job. I think Jimmy Garoppolo can too. Jacoby Brissett isn’t a bad backup IMO either. But what team has a guy who can come off the bench and confidently, and competently run the offense as well as the starter? We all know the answer. The Falcons.
In our case, we have an unproven starter with no real strong backup behind him. I think McCarthy will do well, but he’s gonna still have his good days and his bad. He is in the best position I’ve ever seen since Mahomes took over as the Chiefs QB to succeed. He almost can’t muck it up. But if he gets injured, we will see where it goes from there.
They swapped 5th round picks.
Another guard.
Not sure what this means. If anything.
Maybe they need bodies for the game this week.
Maybe Fries is still banged up?
Either or.
Maybe…..
The last OL they signed replaced the one that was hurt in the night practice. This one replaces the back up center that was hurt in the 1st preseason game I believe.
Love to see how Kirk still lives rent-free in so many people’s heads. Haha
Meh. Not really. Since December 2018 I was convinced the team would go nowhere with him at QB. Same with any NFL team.
I have been proven pretty much correct.
Yep.
Not sure what he will use his “super bowl” shelf for at this point.
Maybe he will git gud at BBQ and win a trophy for that someday?
Elf on a shelf!
If he comes to Minny as a cheap backup, he has a shot at filling that shelf still. Just needs to realize he’s not going to be the one standing on the stage under the confetti.
When the Vikings do finally win a Super Bowl, I expect Jets or a defensive star to be MVP.
Jets this year, JJ in the next one.
Or they triple Jets the whole game and Addison goes off for 200 and 3 tuddies.
Kirk does nothing on the cheap.
Then he can eventually go home and stare at his empty shelf on the cheap (not really because he’s probably going to end up making a metric assload of money from ESPN).
Happy KirkTuesday!! There continues to be smoke about Cousins to the Rams….
I know Stafford starting practicing yesterday…but his situation sounds iffy….
Rams could eye Kirk Cousins as replacement for Matthew Stafford – Yahoo Sports
Kirko to the Rams would guarantee a collapse. Then Sam can win his new division, and then fold in the playoffs to the Vikings.
If folks want, I will set up a Pick ‘Em and Survivor League on Yahoo again this season.
I don’t mind doing it. It is something to play around with during the week.
I would like to make it past week two once in a Survivor League. Maybe this could be the year…
I’m in.
i’m in
Okay, I will set them up next week and then post something regularly until the season starts so people can sign up.
I’m in. I know I finished 2nd last year in the pick’em. Who was the big wiener???
I forget his name. He didn’t use the same name for the league that he uses here.
Sounds good!
I am in.
I will be out after the first week in Survivor probably, but I am in to start.
As long as you don’t promise prizes to the winners and not follow through, I’m in.
Another fun way to do it is a loser survivor league. It definitely adds more of a spin to it than you would think.
Damn. You lost me at “Yahoo “
Not sure how much this helps, but it’s a plus side on a comp pick.
Richardson sucks. I expected Jones to win that competition.
what a complete whiff of a draft pick.
i thought only the vikings did that (ala Lewis Cine)
2022 draft.
Dark days…
Still bugs me we could have had Kyle Hamilton
Not like the Vikings are hurting at safety though so knowing how bad Cine ended up being and where the team is now, Hamilton would not be my replacement pick.
yes, having an all pro safety on a rookie contract would have been terrible
But they’ve haven’t been hurting at safety at all for the last few years. That has not been an issue. Who would he have played for anyway? OK, so he plays for Metellus. You wouldn’t have saved any money and he wouldn’t have been enough of an improvement to make a single iota of a difference.
If anything, Metellus’s versatility might make him better, at least in Flores’s scheme.
OK Bow, you lost it on that one… Metellus isn’t in Hamilton’s league at all. The Ravens play him all over the field. He’s a game changer. Metellus is good. Hamilton is great.
Metellus played snaps at like 8 positions last year. Hamilton might be better, not arguing that. I’m saying that if they know Cine would be a bust, then Hamilton would not have been my replacement pick. You’re telling me there wasn’t a d-lineman or corner available?
Hamilton is a 6-4 225 lb safety, who hits like a freight train. He can cover big TE’s, stop the run with authority, and has made huge plays all over the field. He is someone that has to be game planned for. Metellus can’t do what Hamilton does. Nobody game plans for Metellus.
Hamilton would have instantly made the defense better. He is the #1 safety in the league. He was the only safety to earn at least an 88.0 PFF grade in coverage, run defense and pass rushing this past season.
Metellus was ranked 30th…
You’re still not listening. English comprehension is hard, I know. What I have now repeatedly said is that if I could redo the pick, knowing Metellus is there, the team would be better served drafting a stud DL or CB.
That is is a nonsense argument Bow. I listened, I heard, I understood. Metellus is NOT on Hamilton’s level. A DL or CB wasn’t going to be the impact player Hamilton is. He’s a game wrecker Bow. A bona fide game changing player. You refuse to accept that reality. Hamilton on our team would be a fearsome player other teams would have to game plan for.
I comprehend completely.
Good, not a game changer. Nice try.
Everyone whiffs on draft choices.
It just stings more when it is a 1st rounder.
I think Richardson was the 4th overall pick in the draft, and the Colts expected big things from him. But in his two years with them he’s only played in 15 of 34 games, due to injuries. He has a career completion percentage of 50.6% with 11 TD’s and 13 interceptions. That’s a rough start to a career for sure.
Looks like Jones made the right choice.
He’s starting.
remember the idiots trying to say Jones wanted out of minnesota because they didn’t know what they were doing and the organization was a mess?
um more wanted out SO HE COULD START and viola…
Yep.
Several idiots saying that.
Viola, great pitcher.
LOL did i mispell that. oops.
sweet music
Then you misspelled mispell.
ooooooooooooooooooops
Grammer!
Unbelievable…..
Hard to believe Mahomes is going into his 9th season already.
We get older and teenagers get younger…
Damn, that is surprising. Maybe he’ll finally start to decline a bit…
Laughing… one can only hope…
His numbers weren’t particularly great last year
I see quite a few AFC teams that are better than the Chefs.
Gonna be hard for Travis to get the dream retirement Super Bowl win/Propose to Taylor on the field post game.
Ravens/Bills/Broncos/Texans all have solid teams.
NFC side I have to hold my tongue. But I have said I think next year is the year for the Vikings. I would love to see it this year, but I am doubtful.
Still a homer, but doubtful.
The Broncos and Texans are non-factors in regards to SuperBowl aspirations.
anyone interested in coming and cleaning up a house that has 3 kids 10 and under in it, and getting it ready to sell?
Sounds like you made the decision to buy the new lake house.
it’s looking that way. but instead of a lake, it’s just a beautiful big lawn and lots of woods
Make sure to teach the wife how to mow the big yard.
i JUST got my son to learn how to push mow
she would probably love to mow with a riding lawn mower
dang, i’ve got it made!
It takes me about 2 hours to mow our lawn with my riding mower with a 52 inch deck. My wife hasn’t mowed in probably a decade
I have a stable of mowing paraphernalia that rivals an 18 hole golf course…52 inch Torrid rider, 60 inch midmount deck under my SCUT, 65 inch trail mower, couple of string trimmers, the new brush cutter, etc.
Same as you, takes me about three hours to do it all if you include the road ditches and hills.
My wife teases that she will learn to use the zero turn but after 28 years of marriage I know she will never mow.
Zero turns are fun….that’s not even a chore to mow with one of those.
The problem with zero turns is that they take 2 hands to drive and it makes it hard to drink your “soda”.
Use the dishwasher to mow the yard?!
😂🤣
Now THAT ‘s sexy!!
I assume a congratulations is in order.
well…not quite yet…
nothing has been SIGNED yet. but the homeowner said last night she is going to work with us and won’t accept any other offers and wants to get things figured out with us. So it’s looking like it will be a done deal.
Congrats freeze. I would love to get out of town but the prices are prohibitive.
yeah this fell into our laps and we are DEFINITELY getting a deal. Its kind of blowing our minds to be honest.
Good Karma is good.
Yeah, freezey!
We were able to sell our SoCal house ‘as is’ which makes the process much easier. I could have put lots into it to make it ‘sale ready’ but that would have cost money, time, effort and work with skills I don’t have.
Good luck with yours, we were ok with getting a little less for a lot less headache.
Great news, freeze, best of luck with the new house.
Make sure and save a little change for some new furniture and the inevitable move in projects that need to be done, like painting or new fixtures in the sink.
yeah this is what i’m trying to figure out.
moving from a .40 acre place to a 3 acre place is going to change the items i need for upkeep even just on the outside of the house, not to mention some stuff on the inside.
the homeowner has already said we can have the pick of their furniture as they want to work with us and set us up with all that, including all their deck furniture (which is not cheap)
You will need a new mower.
What city?
3 kids under 10 = 18 cats
thankfully, FOR THE MOST PART, my kids are toilet trained
3 under 10 is nothing.
We had 3 under 10.
My parents had 5 under 10.
i wasn’t trying to say it was something that had never been done before!
it’s just not ideal to be move ready in a couple days
Oh I know.
Three young kids are a handful.
Quite the crowd when going shopping.
5 under 10 is just insanity if you ask me
My mom had 5 of us and we were close enough in age that we were all teenagers at the same time.
So that means we would have been 5 under 7 when my youngest brother was born. If fact that is my earlier memory when he and my mom came home from the hospital I was 3 years and two months.
@not a big deal just do doordash and instacart sheesh these boomers and their complaints@
I remember my mom dragging us all grocery shopping, 3 stores, coupons and a detailed shopping list to maximize $$.
The more I learn the more I am in awe of all my mom managed with minimal help from dad.
Amen, those were the days. Handwritten shopping lists, clipped coupons, “you’d better behave or I’ll tell your father”, paper bags carefully packed by the checker, price tags on the items entered in the manual register. Plus we didn’t have no stinking child safety seats.
Yep, all of that plus we had to wait in the car while she went shopping. If it got too long she usually had a disagreement to handle too. No way kids get left in cars by themselves now.
One time when my daughter was a baby I was in the van with her with the seat back, (we were both resting) a lady saw her and called the “Mall cops” over, she was pretty embarrassed when I sat up and opened the window to ask what was going on.
My (16 in two months) grandson takes his driving test tomorrow. No driver’s ed now, instead they have an app in which they record number of hours on highway, town, night driving etc with a responsible adult.
I didn’t have driver’s ed either, instead I had my military issue father instructing with a rigid backbone. He actually did a great job teaching me, I’ve only run over a few people.
Grandson hasn’t driven in Billings (his principal residence, where his mother lives and he goes to school). I asked him when he was going to start driving in Billings, he said I’ll hold off as long as possible. I suggested he might get some experience with the traffic circles with an adult before he does it solo, and he said oh I already practiced in Miles City. Haha.
For the majority of you that don’t know, Miles is a small town with two single lane traffic circles, Billings is MT largest city and has scads of two lane traffic circles, some of which get extremely busy at rush hour.
Traffic circles were my biggest challenge when I had my learner’s permit…Edmonton had several large two lane circles and you had to be on your toes entering and leaving the circles cuz traffic was moving fast.
I should clarify, Billings and Miles (as well as Edmonton) now have “roundabouts”, which are tighter circles designed to slow traffic.
The old Edmonton traffic circles were much larger, like a couple of football fields across, and traffic did not slow, not at all, moving at a fair clip of 45-50 mph or so.
And we even drank from the garden hose. *Gasp*!!
mom dabbed this stuff on cuts and scrapes…
My mom used that on us as well
Mercury poisoning…that explains a lot about you and I.
I only have the 1 kid. My wife and I figure that since we didn’t replace our population (2), we have helped save the planet.
But you hurt the long term economy.
Good for you, I’m jealous. If the colleges will stop screwing my wife around, maybe we’ll be able to move out of town some day.
I am going to party like it is Tuesday today.
he’s a creeeeeeeeep
out of everything we agree on, politics, religion, region of residence, sports teams etc etc etc…
your take on tuesdays is my favorite thing to agree with. spot on.
Tuesday already, feels like it was just Monday.
Thanks Surly
We made it to another day
I would say that’s all because of the Lord.
Others would say the Aliens let us live another day.
Still others would say all thanks to Mother Nature.
The Twins would say this organization should….learn to swim
I don’t know. Let me think about it deeply and get back to you.
Good morning, SKOL!
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Hope all is well.
I saw your post yesterday about it being a long day.
All is well, thanks. Just a busy day of work and projects.
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