Minnesota Vikings Discussion-Tuesday SkolAsylum: 30 Sep 2025

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Well, the news on O’Neill is better than it could have been, but the star RT will still be out at least a few weeks, which the Vikings cannot afford right now. 60% of the starting offensive line is injured, that’s almost half, and that’s a lot. Let’s hope KAM is on the phone getting some trades cooked up, because when it’s broke, you fix it.

Vikings and NFL News

Vikings.com opens the Monday Morning Mailbag.

Brian O’Neill has a sprained MCL, the official word after his injury against the Steelers, from ESPN.

SI.com has snap counts for the Vikings-Steelers game.

Tyreek Hill suffered a dislocated knee in last night’s Dolphins-Jets game, per NFL.com. That was an ugly one.

With all week 4 in the books, here are all the NFL week 4 scores and highlights, courtesy of CBS Sports.

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No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 9:49 pm

It’s always been this way… the liberals want you to forget though.

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No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 9:40 pm

Love this…

No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 8:11 pm

JR, you’re gonna laugh. I just saw that Nelly Korda follows me on Twitter.

Not sure why. Can’t be real.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 8:19 pm

What is a ‘Nelly Korda’??

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
30 September 2025 8:41 pm

Well she was the #1 ranked women’s pro golfer in the world last year, but she’s currently #2.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 8:56 pm

Women’s Pro Golf is a thing?
I guess there could be since there is such a thing as Profession Pillow Fighting.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
30 September 2025 9:04 pm

That is ridiculous…

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 9:20 pm

We agree on that.

No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 6:59 pm

Bettors think the rookie is better than Flacco…

No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 6:34 pm

No real surprises…

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 8:20 pm

Toss in some TEs, top with Ham, and maybe you have a recipe for success?

No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 6:25 pm

Man, the Bengals are a mess. They have a star QB on a 5 year $275M contract on IR, and Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins who will earn a combined $276 million on their 4 year contracts, with no one to throw them the ball. Their O-line is shit too BTW so the backup QB is getting eradicated every game.

No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 5:55 pm

There is a story going around that today 100,000 federal workers resigned their positions, and this is the largest resignation in history.

Here’s the reality they aren’t telling you.

This is the deferred resignation program initiated in January 2025 by the Trump administration, offering eight months of paid leave, with September 30, 2025, marking the fiscal year-end separation date.

These folks haven’t been at work for eight months.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 6:20 pm

Been my experience with this, the good ones leave and the losers stay. UGH!

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  JRobert
30 September 2025 6:27 pm

True, but a lot of this was from Federal organizations Trump closed outright, and most of them were interns if you recall.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  DE Viking
30 September 2025 5:34 pm

I’m still getting texts from my old colleagues who are bitching about this speech. They all know I’m conservative and I resigned by position under Biden. I told them to get in line, or get out, like I did. Live up to your principles.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 6:33 pm

I believe in the idea – if you’re going to be a soldier, look like one, Hated slob looking officers (and NCO’s)
But wonder about the PT thing, I doubt Ike, smoking 4 packs of luckies a day, could have passed a PT test. MacArthur either. Now, both of these guys looked like soldiers so I’m OK.
Just can see where the PT part may be tough.
Thoughts?

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  JRobert
30 September 2025 6:44 pm

I never ran the mile and half in more than 8 minutes and 45 seconds, and could do 50 pushups, 50 situps and 20 pull-ups till they day I got out at age 52.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 7:15 pm

I could do all that at 65, but I ain’t no Eisenhauer, or MacArthur. Patton and Nimitz couldn’t pass either.
I am of the mind if they look like soldiers, act like soldiers , lead troops like soldiers, brilliant military minds, and aren’t WOKE. I’m OK.
If they’re in combat arms in the field, and one and two stars, they need to be in shape though.
Marines are in great shape. Navy guys, I have no idea.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  JRobert
30 September 2025 7:54 pm

I’ll withhold comments on the Navy folks… grin.

The Generals in WWII were not fat, and they were sharp. I know that some of the fitness req’s are “age appropriate”. I mean climbing hills in battle rattle is for Capt’s and at most Majors.

I was still in the field at times into my mid 40’s though.

SkolfromMT
SkolfromMT
30 September 2025 4:36 pm

W !
Fly the Flag
Hey Chicago whadda ya say?
Cubs are gonna Win today…

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  SkolfromMT
30 September 2025 4:38 pm

It is tough to be a Cub fan. They broke my heart in 69 when they blew it.

SkolfromMT
SkolfromMT
Reply to  JRobert
30 September 2025 4:51 pm

It bothered Santo till the day he died.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  SkolfromMT
30 September 2025 4:58 pm

That team had some great players that are really under appreciated – Billy Williams, Ernie Banks and Ferguson Jenkins. And there were a host of other really good players like Santo. Always remember what a great year Jim Hickman had.
Ahh, what a shame, talking of things that might have been.

SkolfromMT
SkolfromMT
Reply to  JRobert
30 September 2025 5:26 pm

Kissinger at SS Becker at 2nd.

No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 3:49 pm

OK… interesting move…

No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 2:54 pm

Fascinating… this is good sports journalism… for once.

NoDakRube
30 September 2025 1:35 pm

I want a Hegseth/Noem ticket for 2028!!!

Edgecrusher71
Reply to  NoDakRube
30 September 2025 1:45 pm

I hope that happens. She will for sure cave that side of the ticket so fast. Hegseth on the other hand can apparently get the right supporting seeing the whites of children’s eyes being cradled by their mothers and surrounded by their unarmed elders then filling them all full of bullets and making up excuses as to why that’s OK all the while pretending to be pro life.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  Edgecrusher71
30 September 2025 1:51 pm

You lay it on thick, but as pointed out below Edge, this event has lived on through 34 administrations (including Obama and Biden), none of whom saw fit to revoke any of the medals awarded. NOW you condemn this administration for not doing it? Yeah right.

Save your BS outrage.

JRobert
JRobert
30 September 2025 12:23 pm

We’re talking about the military below and the new leadership standards. Reminded me of a true story that’s kind of funny too.
The Marines kind of think of themselves as the macho group and are Marines for life and all of that.
In the mid eighties higher ups in the Navy Dept thought the Marines were getting a little soft and needed some big changes in leadership. So, they named Al Gray as their next Commandant. He was considered a Marines Marine.
So Gray is in his Pentagon office a week or so after coming into office, He’s looking out. the window and notes all the Pentagon officers doing their midday jogs/runs along the river. You can tell the Marines by their gold and red shirts.
Gray watches and calls in his Deputy. He asks his Deputy what is the standard footwear for Marines going into combat. Deputy responded standard combat boots. Gray then asked – “then why are all my Marines out running in running shoes?”
Next day, all Marines were running in their boots.
Gray was tough. When he was a one star his boss told him he wouldn’t get a second star if he didn’t get married. Gray responded “If the Marine Corp wanted me to have a wife, they would have issued me one.”

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  JRobert
30 September 2025 12:45 pm

I ran in boots at the beginning of my tour of duty. It was not fun. Of course I also did 20 mile road marches in boots, (plus LBE and 30 lb ruck) that was not fun either.

I was impressed by the Cdr Gen at Ft Hood. He could be seen during morning PT running around the base while studying 3×5 cards. Talk about multitasking as he was also monitoring the base/troops/training while studying and getting in his own PT.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
30 September 2025 11:46 am

Joint Base MeGuire in Jersey under lockdown due to an active shooter.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
30 September 2025 11:53 am

I’m hearing the lockdown is ended now.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 12:00 pm

Wonder if is similar to one in Georgia a few months ago.
Not much news came out about that one after it ended.

No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 11:09 am

Isn’t that special…

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 11:32 am

Beautiful countryside, when it’s not raining.

No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 10:49 am

Hmmmm… right now it looks like we will be watching Myles Garrett line up against Justin Skule first thing in the morning Sunday. That might be a problem.

manly-purple
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 10:50 am

Skule + whatever TE is on his side.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  manly-purple
30 September 2025 10:54 am

Hopefully not Hock after watching him whiff last Sunday.
And then Ham ready to slow down Garrett once he gets past the RT and TE.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
30 September 2025 11:09 am

Good idea – have all three on him.

Edgecrusher71
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 12:14 pm

Whoever is playing QB by the mid 2nd quarter…

NoDakRube
Reply to  Edgecrusher71
30 September 2025 1:31 pm

Zactly

SkolfromMT
SkolfromMT
30 September 2025 10:42 am
SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  SkolfromMT
30 September 2025 10:57 am

No doubt the woke/Dim/DEI crowd will have issues with his speech.
How dare he call ‘Fat Generals’ fat, so insensitive, think of their feelings.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  SkolfromMT
30 September 2025 11:01 am

Honestly, I didn’t think he was a good choice as SECDEF, because I have worked inside the beltway at the highest levels of the DoD (now DoW) and I know the brutality of the political world that exists in the Department. I know how deep the woke culture is, and how infested the military is with liberal Generals and Admirals fully invested in the gender bending ideology of the left. I didn’t think Hegseth would have enough horsepower, connections, or experience to do the job.

Thank God I was wrong. Hegseth has stood against the many hundreds of high level liberals fighting him tooth and nail, and actually effected real change. He is a strong, competent, and fierce leader. Definitely the right guy for the job, hands down. Trans has no business in the business of killing people. A warrior ethos has to be reinforced every second of every minute of every every hour of every day. Woke ideology must be eradicated from our rolls. He is doing all the right things.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 11:07 am

I supported Hegseth because you can’t hire a Swamp Monster to clean up the Swamp.
I expect some ‘Fat Generals/Admirals and DEI hires to retire early. It is a wonderful thing.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
30 September 2025 11:14 am

My phone is blowing up right now. Lots of the “Old Guard” are calling for his head. How dare he challenge the status quo? My response? He’s the boss. Get in line, or get out. Some folks not taking that response well.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 11:25 am

And he is doing it with the support of ‘His Boss’ who was on site to make clear that they are in total agreement.

The ‘Old Guard’ needs to move aside for the ‘Young Turks’.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 11:27 am

I wondered about bringing in all the flags as opposed to maybe just the four stars. But really his call on how deep he saw the problem.
I just don’t understand why this was done so publicly.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  JRobert
30 September 2025 12:06 pm

You and I have been around for a long time JR. We have never seen a CINC like Trump. He is a great leader, and calling in all the top brass and addressing them together, face to face, is something no other President has ever done. The Joint Chiefs? Yes. All the stars? No. He went well beyond the norm here, and honestly, I’m not surprised. He’s the CINC, and he’s taking the bull by the horns. Totally in character for Trump.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 12:23 pm

None of those Top Brass will be able to say ‘I didn’t understand’ or ‘I thought that they meant something else’ or ‘I never got the e-mail’.
That last one was used by a Warden at my prison despite records showing when she got it and when she opened it. No excuses this way.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
30 September 2025 1:04 pm

Yep

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 11:38 am

Those guys should be ashamed. We’ve got subs coming up under fishing boats, ships running together, Irag’s taking our ships, airplanes sitting around for lack of parts (tanks too), and every major epuipment purchase is 300% over cost and at least five years late.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  JRobert
30 September 2025 12:11 pm

The old guard is deeply entrenched. The still think they can get past Trump and Hegseth.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 12:26 pm

And that’s why we need another Republican President to follow Trump. This will take time.

Edgecrusher71
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
30 September 2025 12:28 pm

Can’t hire a swamp monster to clean out a swamp… so you didn’t vote for Trump? haha. But for real. Hegseth, fuck that guy for wanting to exalt folks for the massacre of mostly unarmed men, women and children. Disrupt the status quo, call out lazy folks at the top and such… cool. But you don’t get medals for slaughtering those folks.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  Edgecrusher71
30 September 2025 12:31 pm

Don’t understand – Slaughtering what folks?

Edgecrusher71
Reply to  JRobert
30 September 2025 12:37 pm

Wounded Knee.

The Wounded Knee Massacre occurred on December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. It involved the killing of Lakota Sioux by the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment.
Estimated Death Toll:

  • Lakota Sioux:
  • Approximately 250 to 300 were killed.
  • Most of the dead were women, children, and elderly.
  • Around 50 more were wounded, many of whom later died.
  • U.S. Soldiers:
  • 25 killed.
  • 39 wounded (some later died from injuries).
  • A significant number of these were likely due to friendly fire.

Yeah, let’s celebrate and honor this bullshit.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  Edgecrusher71
30 September 2025 12:43 pm

Still confused. What does that have to do with SoCa’s comment about ‘cleaning out the swamp?’

Edgecrusher71
Reply to  JRobert
30 September 2025 12:48 pm

It’s about Hegseth in general. Gets it twisted that the ONLY reason people can not like him is some woke agenda. Which isn’t the case. He supports the slaughtering of unarmed men, women, and children. The part of Pro-life I thought would have issue with this.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  Edgecrusher71
30 September 2025 12:51 pm

He supports slaughtering innocent people? Where did that come from?

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  JRobert
30 September 2025 12:52 pm

It is a ‘Lifer Level’ unhinged rant.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
30 September 2025 12:53 pm

Must, cause comment makes little sense.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  JRobert
30 September 2025 12:57 pm

Yeah, he started with Trump and then went after Hegseth about something that happened over a hundred years ago.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
30 September 2025 12:59 pm

Exactly. Still can’t follow it.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  JRobert
30 September 2025 1:03 pm

Evidently Hegseth followed a recommendation by a panel convened by FJB not to revoke MoHs for Wounded Knee soldiers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/us/hegseth-wounded-knee.html

Edgecrusher71
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
30 September 2025 1:09 pm

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the Medals of Honor awarded to soldiers for their actions at the Wounded Knee Massacre will be kept, stating they “deserved those medals” and their place in history is “no longer up for debate”. This decision was met with strong criticism from Native American groups and lawmakers who viewed the Wounded Knee incident as a massacre and believe the medals should be revoked. 

Hegseth’s Statement
In a video posted on social media, Hegseth declared that the 19 soldiers would retain their Medals of Honor, emphasizing that the action is final and intended to make clear they were deserving of the recognition. 

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  Edgecrusher71
30 September 2025 1:38 pm

So you have a beef about something that happened 135 years ago? Sorry Edge, this is an over the top, emotional reaction that I can’t endorse.

History happens. In the past, people were decorated for doing their duty. That duty in those days, was fighting indians. Right, wrong, good or bad, that’s what the world was doing. 135 years later, the world has changed dramatically, and now, you want to be the virtuous soul, passing judgement and applying todays norms to actions of the past. Sorry, you or I don’t get to do that. Feel bad about it, condemn it, be angry about it, or whatever. Don’t act like the troops who actually fought and died for the country in those days were horrible people though. You state this was simply a slaughter of women, children, and the elderly, but you also point out 25 soldiers were killed, and 39 were wounded, so it wasn’t a bunch of unarmed innocents completely. The comment that most of the soldiers injured and killed were “likely” due to friendly fire is unfair. Lots of folks with an axe to grind against the U.S. military have used this event to condemn the entire profession. Good for them, and you might note this is the right we have actually died to protect.

Your feelings and self righteous indignation are duly noted.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 1:51 pm

It’s bull shit and you know it better – far more than most. You may, unlikely though, get a Bronz Star for something but you will never receive the Medal of Honor without doing something almost heroic beyond words.
I’ve seen guys that jumped on a grenade, got killed and save the lives of several others, and seen the recommendation be down graded to a Silver Star.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  JRobert
30 September 2025 2:12 pm

Yes, the Congressional Medal of Honor is reserved for the highest level of valor, and as you said, some very deserving nominations have been downgraded. They don’t hand them out like candy.

Edgecrusher71
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
30 September 2025 1:05 pm

Well the Trump thing was just a jab at not being able to have a swamp monster drain the swamp which Trump is a YUGE swamp monster.

Edgecrusher71
Reply to  JRobert
30 September 2025 1:04 pm

How have you all missed this?

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  Edgecrusher71
30 September 2025 1:21 pm

Haven’t gotten that far in my history. Still trying to teach my kids that George Washington was a good President and Thomas Jefferson was good and wrote the Dec of Independence, despite them both being “bad slave owners.”

Edgecrusher71
Reply to  JRobert
30 September 2025 1:04 pm

He’s making damn sure that all those soldiers keep their Medals of Honor. Such honor in killing unarmed women, children and elderly.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  Edgecrusher71
30 September 2025 1:16 pm

My computer won’t let me read SoCa’s article, but it’s about military people killing innocents? Right?
Believe when we fire bombed Dresden in WWll we fire bombed the entire city and killed 25,000 civilians. Also believe several flyers received Distinguished Flying Crosses and several other types of metals for valor.
Also believe when we bombed Japan at end of war we killed several hundred thousand women and children.
Lastly, I worked at the Pentagon while in service in the division that awarded medals. And anyone who received a Medal of Honor HAD to do something very, very heroic. Most requests, like 99% were downgraded.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  JRobert
30 September 2025 1:22 pm

Yeah, ‘unarmed women and children’ who managed to kill 25 soldiers and wound 39.

Woke rewrite of history?

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
30 September 2025 1:35 pm

History – indeed? You know my kids could tell me the first person kill in the Revolutionary War was a black man – believe it was Crytus Atiks?
BUT, they didn’t know Thomas Jefferson wrote the Dec of Independence. Can you imagine having your sense or priorities so screwed up?

Edgecrusher71
Reply to  JRobert
30 September 2025 1:35 pm

Wounded Knee is not that. This is not a bombing from the air. Wounded Knee was soldiers showing up to a camp that was CLEARLY mostly unarmed elderly men, women and children and they saw that with their own eyes, on horse back or foot and slaughtered them anyway. You’re disgusting if you support that. Not sure how else to say it TBH. Most military casualties are attributed to friendly fire too, that’s how little armed they were compared to the natives. Most the US soldier wounded were from friendly fire.

NoDakRube
Reply to  Edgecrusher71
30 September 2025 1:39 pm

Just to be clear, Loyd Austin (of the Biden Administration) had reviewed the Mohs and could have revoked them before he left office, but chose not to.

All defense department leaders going back to 1900 could have revoked the medals but did not. But you reserve your hatred for Hegseth……interesting.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  Edgecrusher71
30 September 2025 1:40 pm

I know this for an absolute fact – I worked there and the standards haven’t changed in 150 years. ANY soldier that received the Medal of Honor HAD to do an extremely extraordinary act of valor – and killing an innocent women or child would NEVER qualify.
I know that FOR a fact.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  JRobert
30 September 2025 1:46 pm

Oh, and I’m disgusting – OK.
History is history and sometimes gets spun a lot of ways.
But I guarantee you this, the requirements for receipt of the Medal of Honor are and have always been of the very highest standards.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 11:29 am

Fatties and dudes in dresses aren’t allowed anymore, but what about dudes in diapers?

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  bowbunch
30 September 2025 11:39 am

Diapers I get but Dirty Diapers is beyond the pale.

No Kink Shaming of course.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  bowbunch
30 September 2025 11:52 am

I didn’t watch the video, because just the thought of this is so disgusting. Sr NCO’s are the heart and soul of the military. Every young officer will regale you with tales of their first Sr NCO who coached them, protected them, instructed them, and carried them as they began their careers.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 12:50 pm

The acronym OIC stands for ‘Officer In Charge’, but for new LTs it actually mean ‘Oh I See’.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  SoCalMinnFan
30 September 2025 1:17 pm

Oh yeah… heard that one SoCal. Accurate too.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  SkolfromMT
30 September 2025 11:15 am

Wrenage
Reply to  SkolfromMT
30 September 2025 11:44 am

This always seemed like a no brainer to me. It makes me think of Patton who supposedly lived like his troops, so he knew exactly what he could expect of them.

I also don’t understand how NFL athletes can listen to fat tubs of lard of coaches when they are physical machines. Paycheck, I suppose…

Edgecrusher71
Reply to  Wrenage
30 September 2025 12:29 pm

Well I mean, this one isn’t hard. Andy Reid is a great example. Dude is a great coach and also a great tub of Crisco.

JacksonVike
Reply to  Wrenage
30 September 2025 12:46 pm

When I was in basic training one of the platoons I was not in had a fat Drill Sargent. My Drill Sargent was probably the fittest person I had ever met in real life. At 40, he was able to run the 2 miles in just over 8 minutes.

Anyway, we were on a 25 mile road march, with fully loaded ruck sacks and our M16s. The fat drill Sargent was leading the entire march. We were moving at a snails pace. I started passing people, since I was in the back to start the march (3rd Platoon). I wanted to see why we were moving so slow, I get even with my Drill Sargent, and he says if you pass me you will be doing push ups. I stopped got out of line and started doing pushups until the tail end caught up to me again. I got up and proceeded to pass everyone again. Get up next to my Drill Sargent again, he just said do not pass me, so I slowed down.

After the march I was talking to my Drill Sargent and asked him why he wouldn’t let me pass him. He went on a tirade about how the fat Drill Sargent shouldn’t have been leading the march, and if he couldn’t lead a march he should have stayed home that day.

No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 10:20 am

If we add Ham back to the active roster, who drops off?

NoDakRube
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 10:44 am

Our 3rd or 4th TE…You don’t need 4 TEs and a FB.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 10:51 am

More Pass Pro be good.

JRo_42
JRo_42
30 September 2025 10:16 am

Several little things that changed the course of the game on Sunday…. Ivan Pace not catching the blocked FG cleanly to run it back, Jefferson falling down on that catch, etc.

Of course there are the mental mistakes (which I don’t understand how they happen) of Skule and Hockenson both whiffing or not even blocking a single person on a sack, and other things like that.

Then there is the nefarious fake holding call to pull back the 50yd kickoff return by Price, along with the TWO personal foul calls where one guy flopped so hard it was reminiscent of a soccer match (I guess they were in Europe) and the other one where a Viking was getting pulled around by his facemask and slapped the offender as a result, where there should have been at least offsetting penalties (or a penalty on PIT before that happened).

Crappy play, some bad luck perhaps, along with the normal rigging of the NFL games makes gameplay harder and harder to watch.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  JRo_42
30 September 2025 10:29 am

Also thought it was kind of a. big play where Pace chased TE to flat leaving and easy throwing lane for Rogers to Metcalf for an 80 yard TD.

JRo_42
JRo_42
Reply to  JRobert
30 September 2025 11:09 am

Yeah, Rodgers did nothing to deserve at least about 50 yards of that along with the TD, but people still fawn over how great he is. Look at his stat line without that play (which was about 90% his receiver and not him).

Northwoods
Reply to  JRo_42
30 September 2025 11:00 am

Good points. I would also throw Addison getting run down by a LB when he had a 10-yard advantage……..

MT Viking
Reply to  Northwoods
30 September 2025 11:05 am

To be fair to Addison, there was a sign on the sideline advertising 2 for 1 Guiness specials for fans with a game ticket at a local pub, he paused to write down the address.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  MT Viking
30 September 2025 11:06 am

That’s funny MT… made me laugh.

MT Viking
Reply to  JRo_42
30 September 2025 11:07 am

The rule of thumb for all of sportsdom is never never retaliate to a cheap shot, as it is always the retaliation that gets seen. Much better to flop like a one year old taking their first steps.

JRo_42
JRo_42
Reply to  MT Viking
30 September 2025 11:10 am

I get that, it’s always the retaliation that gets caught. But the ref was literally trying to get the person pulling the Vikings’ face mask to let go – that should have been flagged immediately (it was after-the-play activities).

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  JRo_42
30 September 2025 11:13 am

But that makes it even dumber. Whether you get hit first or not, if the ref is standing right there it’s pretty lame to push the guy down

Northwoods
Reply to  JRobert
30 September 2025 11:19 am

It’s too bad the NFL doesn’t have some sort of review process where they can check the footage and see exactly what occurred, who did what, etc..

A shame, really.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  Northwoods
30 September 2025 11:21 am

Probably not allowed yet, but after the Vikings lose a game because of it, they will change it for the next year.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  Northwoods
30 September 2025 11:21 am

Yeah… what a shame…

JRo_42
JRo_42
Reply to  Northwoods
30 September 2025 12:08 pm

Would be easy to do, but the NFL doesn’t care about accuracy, they care about rigging games.

JRo_42
JRo_42
Reply to  JRobert
30 September 2025 12:07 pm

I’m not talking about the flop here, I’m talking the other incident. He slapped the other guy’s facemask while his was getting pulled and he wouldn’t let go. They showed a close up replay of it. Stupid BS. You get a penalty for facemask during play, but you can just hang on to a guy’s and pull it around without penalty.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  JRo_42
30 September 2025 12:33 pm

OK, got it.

No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 10:13 am

Yeah… it’s like that.

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 10:37 am

But…but KOC made penalties a ‘point of emphasis.
Maybe he made the emphasis getting them instead of avoiding them?

MT Viking
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 11:04 am

Amen

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 11:17 am

I don’t know if those numbers are right. I think the Jets had at least 18 pre-snap penalties last night alone.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  bowbunch
30 September 2025 11:24 am

Laughing… potentially…

Edgecrusher71
30 September 2025 10:07 am

It’s like Oprah out here giving out injuries… “You get an injury, you get an injury…”

MT Viking
Reply to  Edgecrusher71
30 September 2025 11:04 am

“I’m just glad we didn’t play starters in preseason or we would have no one left to play” – KOC

No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 9:56 am

Van Ginkel out?

MT Viking
Reply to  No longer New Vikings Fan
30 September 2025 11:03 am

I’m mixed about the McCarthy rehab. You would think rehabbing at the world class Twin Cities facility, not dealing with the rigors of overseas travel, etc plus with a new baby at home all in all it would have been better for him to stay in MSP. Perhaps it’s more about optics than common sense.

JRo_42
JRo_42
Reply to  MT Viking
30 September 2025 11:12 am

I agree, especially with the new baby part.

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  MT Viking
30 September 2025 11:18 am

Or they want him there in case they deem him healthy or wanted the insurance in case Wentz got hurt.

SkolfromMT
SkolfromMT
30 September 2025 9:31 am

“Vikings cannot afford right now. 60% of the starting offensive line is injured, that’s almost half, “

Made me chuckle this morning, thanks.

No longer New Vikings Fan
Reply to  SkolfromMT
30 September 2025 9:55 am

Same… laughed when I read it.

Northwoods
30 September 2025 8:15 am

In my own personal experience, dislocating a knee comes at the expense of the ACL at a minimum, potentially the PCL. I didn’t get the Phins/Jets game – anyone know which direction it was dislocated? Medial, lateral, posterior?

freezeyface
Reply to  Northwoods
30 September 2025 8:17 am

hey said he tore his ACL

Derby Skol
Reply to  Northwoods
30 September 2025 10:23 am

It was a medial dislocation.

Derby Skol
Reply to  Northwoods
30 September 2025 10:29 am

Fun side note, our ambulance service just started an EMT class and they covered this terminology last week. It was a good refresher for us current EMTs. We tend to use more and more layman’s terms over the course of time. I should do a better job of keeping up with my medical lingo when calling in reports to the ER.

Wrenage
30 September 2025 6:45 am

I saw a stat, don’t know if it is true because that would require research. Anyway, the stat is thus:

Offensive drives that endure a sack only score a touchdown 7 percent of the time.

If that is true, Vikings better clean that up or we are basically bringing FGs to a TD fight. So I expect a lot of FGs against the Browns if we move the ball.

JRobert
JRobert
Reply to  Wrenage
30 September 2025 7:59 am

This is interesting and reasonable. But wonder if you have a high risk high reward offense you’ll have more sacks but also hit more big plays, as opposed to a dink and dunk offense.

Wrenage
Reply to  JRobert
30 September 2025 8:01 am

It would be interesting to see it broken down by teams.

Like I imagine a Josh Allen sack is not equal in value to a Wentz sack in terms of possible TDs at the end of the drive.

Wrenage
30 September 2025 6:43 am

SKOLOHOLICS PICK ‘EM AND SURVIVAL LEAGUES UPDATE

There was no update last week. Harvest is beating me up like I’m a Vikings QB. All I want to do is take a nap. Last night I dreamed an entire 1990s style erotic thriller starring Shadoe Stevens. I think it was the result of stuffing too much beef in my gullet too late, the heat and the venom of about 1,000 noseeum bites flowing through my veins.

Anyway, Kirko Chainz!, Let’s Fish and Delaware Vikings were the top three scores this week. I was doing good until Indy and the Raiders decided to go full Vikings on me. What a doucheburger Colts player that fumbled out of the endzone…

Overall, Bowbunch and Little Fish’in have some ground to make up. Then we have a cluster of myself, Freezy, DE and JacksonVike looking up at a crowded top group. We are waiting until we smell blood and then will start picking off the weaker members of the leaders one by one by one.

From the top down, the crowded group is ManlyPurple, Let’s Fish, Lasallegrouse, Kirko Chainz!, Surly, NoDak and PA. I want to say nice things about their skills, but you now what, I’m not Kevin O’Connell and his feel good vibes. I want to destroy my opponents and hear the lamentations of their women.

Traitor Picks this week belong to myself, DE and Kirko. We all picked the Steelers over the Vikings because, honestly, why wouldn’t we? Vikings were sounding way too cocky about their first class flights and sterling European record. Meanwhile, Rodgers went over in coach, was jet-lagged and some reports say, hungover, so you know he was going to be drinking Purple Crush to recover.

We all got Bills and Lions right. Otherwise, all of us got burned numerous times. The Steelers picks also count as Iconoclast Picks. As do DE, ManlyPurple and Bowbunch taking the Jaguars over the 49ers. That probably qualifies as a Genius Picks, as well.

We all got Washington and the Chargers wrong. What the hell, Herbert? I thought we had something special, and you go and do something like this…

Meanwhile, we have our first victims in Survival League. Lassalegrouse, Kirko Chainz and Blue Plate Special have all gotten their two strikes.

To our fallen brethren, WE SALUTE YOU!

Myself, Bow, Little Fishin, and NoDak all have one strike. Stupid Falcons burned me. I figured since they beat the Vikings, they could probably win against the lowly Panthers. Nope, they got shutout 30-0. Truly, in a league where 42 percent of the teams make the playoffs, there are really only about five teams that actually count as legitimately good. The rest are just selling tickets.

Now me and Herbert are going to our counseling session. I think we will be okay. We just need to talk about expectations…

Herbert
manly-purple
Reply to  Wrenage
30 September 2025 9:24 am

bowbunch
Admin
Reply to  Wrenage
30 September 2025 11:21 am

Your boy burned me this week in the survivor league. He should shave his head in shame.

JacksonVike
30 September 2025 6:16 am

1st, Happy Kirksday,

FTP

Skol

FloridaSKOL
Reply to  JacksonVike
30 September 2025 6:55 am

Good morning, SKOL!

FTP!

SoCalMinnFan
SoCalMinnFan
Reply to  JacksonVike
30 September 2025 9:39 am

FTP Auto Rec.

About The Author

Gone fishin'

Gone fishin'

I'm a dad, husband, Army vet, believer, and a die-hard, life-long Vikings fan from the great state of North Dakota. I've been a Viking fan dating back to 1980, I've been covering the Vikings for nearly a decade, and I founded Skoloholics in 2022. I work in real estate and property management, I love spending time with family, working in the yard, doing anything in the outdoors, and as you can tell from my username, I love fishing. SKOL!!!!!!!!!!

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