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It is nice that there are no contract hold-outs for the Vikings, and the team seems to be working well together. Nobody mad at each other, etc. The Vikings will start JJ at QB this Saturday, and that may very well be his only preseason action. I would like to see him play more than one preseason game, but I also realize he needs to be healthy week 1 vs the Bears. I still really like the Over (8.5 wins) for this team again. Last year was crazy, and I am not expecting 14 wins. I am expecting the defense to be even better than last year, and I feel 10 wins is doable. More would be great.
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Wow… that sucks. Season over already.
So they had a backup O-Lineman and he got injured, so they signed another one and now that one is injured?
If someone has to be injured and lost for the season it is better to be a backup/camp body. Harsh I know, at least they get paid what a ‘normal person’ would consider ‘real money.’
Hmmmm… The NFL has reportedly BANNED all smelling salts and ammonia packets, according to George Kittle.
Why? Only been around for like forever.
The NFL Head, Neck and Spine Committee has concern that ammonia inhalants have the potential to mask certain neurologic signs and symptoms, including some potential signs of a concussion.
Farts are still okay, right?
Asking for a friend.
Twinks going against Paddock tonight. Tigers win.
Could the twinkies finish worse than the white Sox??????
Lose 90+. Still in Minny?
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The grift continues.
Hunter has an official job.
Not sure what he would do.
He be a better advocate for drug addicts.
What’s he get – a $1million a month.
And this is a nonprofit, right.
Yep.
What government funded NGO is funding this?
Guarantee you that this is a federally funded position.
Bidens have hearts of gold. Shove it up your ass you pardoned crackhead.
Might try to watch this Friday night.
Could be interesting.
As expected…..
So does this push Nailor to the WR #2 slot?
My guess would be a combination of Nailor and Moore.
And they drafted a guy as well. They’ll be fine. It’s only the Bears, Falcons and Bengals. Two of which are at home.
Eh.
Rookie QB.
Could be a rough start.
KOC can scheme WRs open, if JJ cant hit open WRs then there are bigger problems
I agree with this, and honestly KOC is still going to want to throw the ball deep. He’s still going to want McCarthy to take some shots. So I expect we’ll run several deep crossers every game.
Probably to start.
I would guess someone gets picked up off the waiver wire when rosters are cut.
Run the ball.
Haven’t seen who’s going to start under center for the Texans Saturday.
JJ gets a half Saturday? Did i dream that?
He gets some amount of time is all KOC has said I believe.
Think a few series enuf, given what i hear about Howell. True or not.
I said I wanted a half. Doubt it happens.
Saw Rory skipping FedEx cup.
1st leg maybe.
Rory learned in 2022 that he can miss the cut in the first leg and still win the FedExCup, so there is really no need to play in the first tournament if you are highly seeded. This year, he’s the number 2-seed so he can rest for a week ahead of his attempt to capture a fourth title.
I would rather see him play a little in each, it may help his acclimation
The U.S. national motto is “In God We Trust.”
How long before the Muslims take over our Government and replace it with Allah?
Think I’m joking? London is now 54% Islamic. In Germany, the Muslims are telling the Germans to leave the country.
The voting base gets dumber by the second. Lots don’t speak English and the youth has no knowledge of math or history.
I can’t find any supporting stats for your claim that London is now 54% Islamic…Do you have a reference?
I read it in an article somewhere. Would have to research it.
Just an observation. Last time I was in London stayed at Grosvenor Square. Was talking with the hotel staff and they claimed that true Londoners couldn’t afford to live there any more and the Arabs had bought up all the real estate.
NoDak, I can’t find the article, in a quick search. I read stuff from all over the world, every day. According to this article in the British Tribune, the number of Muslims in Britain has quadrupled in the last 32 years and the projection is that Islam will become the majority religion (over Christianity) in the next ten years.
There are lots of different numbers from different sources, saying the Muslim population accounts for anywhere from 5.6% of the population to 20%. So my 54% number in London is wrong by a large factor. I wish I could find the original article where I read this. It was pretty detailed.
Read Gopack below, think he’s about 15.
Remember when the Vikings played in London, and the crowd sang this song?
That was awesome…
Crowd must have been so drunk that they had no idea what they were doing.
Have no clue why this song had anything to do with the Vikings or why it would be considered ‘awesome’.
That’s like the only part of a foreign game I’ve seen!
The British people sing it in stadiums regularly. It’s not like us singing Seven Nation Army, though. I think it is for the Manchester bombing.
From the Viking Age:
For years now, the Vikings have been trying to fix their offensive line through the draft and through free agency, and have not been able to find the right combinations. But it seems that they finally found a combination that could work for them and their rookie quarterback JJ McCarthy.
Minnesota Vikings general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah selected Ohio State offensive lineman Donovan Jackson at pick 24 in the first round. Jackson is turning heads at training camp lately and fans are fired up to see him get some snaps in the preseason before the regular season starts.
Well as long as he doesn’t have to face Javon Hargrave as noted below…
haha i was just going to say, from all the reports from camp, the dline is KILLING our oline this camp, so how on earth this could even be known yet:
seems like a stretch as of yet
I haven’t followed camp closely enough: are Darrisaw and Fries back 100%
No, Darrisaw is being eased in and didnt get any action until a day or two ago.
Yeah but its not our starting O line. Our projected starting Oline hasnt been on the field yet
i was just being facetious for the fact that they can’t say the oline has looked good as of yet
BUST!!
Not easy for a pulling guard.
Seems a step too far.
Just fine them $500 a day, mock them mercilessly and when they finally come back take the vote and brand them losers.
I’m good with standing up to the political theatrics with actions that will stop them right now, and discourage them in the future. These are elected officials actively choosing to leave the state instead of being in session. The redistricting vote isn’t the only thing they are screwing with. Funding for victims of the floods, and other things are sitting on the table, awaiting their action. The citizenry should not have to suffer and I mean actually suffer, because politicians want to play politics.
I doubt it on both counts. These are the type of theatrics that actually help get radicals re-elected. Now, removing them from office with no chance of a future in public office would be chef’s kiss.
Logically that makes sense.
Politically I think we can reach the same goal without affording them any political capital.
Yes, run them down and they will become political martyrs, hero to the left.
But there must be a way for that legislature to resume ‘normal’ activities even if they don’t return. If this was allowed in the Congress, there would never be a quorum and nothing could get done. The losing party just never comes to work and can block anything.
This is appropriate. When Clinton put Top Secret/SAP information in an e-mail that she sent to a person with no clearance whatsoever, much less a classification of that level, across her unsecure server, she should have gone to jail.
Remember the young Navy kid who took a couple pictures of his bunk and some other places on a nuclear submarine, sent those pictures to his parents, and went to jail? What Hillary did was much, much, much worse.
I think that they make a ‘Lovely Couple’.
Progressive socialists. Cute couple.
That’s too nice. They are Communists, Islamic champions and antisemetic.
TE and QB starting to worry me a tad.
Yes….the 8.5 over/under line is awfully tempting, but the QB reports are just a bit troubling. I Yes, I think JJ is going to be a stud long term…but he is the youngest starting QB in the NFL, and he has zero experience, and apparently he needs to learn to put “touch” on the ball.
He is a rookie going against defensive studs in practice.
The fact that he should struggle occasionally/regularly should be expected.
I will start to worry when the season starts and opposing defenses are regularly beating our offense.
don’t worry, be happy
JJ will be fine. If he goes down, that might be a different story, but the starting QB is not something to be worried about right now. With the team they’ve built, he doesn’t have to be a stud out of the gate. Just play at least average and grow into himself.
Well put.
Hope he stays healthy. The NFL injury bug gripes my butt.
Can’t say I’m worried about JJ. But then, I’m not worried about the defense, not worried about the offensive line (finally), not worried about running game or the wide receivers. Maybe kicker a little, but not so much.
So, 12 wins and the division (barring injuries).
Absolutely. McCarthy has the physical and athletic ability to throw a football to another player in a football game. He can hand the ball off, and even use his own legs. He just has to be cool and not make ego driven or foolish mistakes with the ball. I think KOC is fully capable of bringing him along. My expectation is with the cast he has around him, he’ll have a pretty good year. Our defense is gonna dominate, and all he has to do is not cock it up.
Yes. Stay healthy and limit mistakes. I’d take that for now.
And what do you think will actually come of this?
Make the Democruds play defense until after the midterms?
Or it gives them another reason to scream about how Trump is destroying democracy, get their based fired up and they dominate the midterms and make the last 2 years of the Trump presidency mean nothing.
Only way that happens is if the conservatives sit home and don’t vote. If they do that then they deserve what they get.
Perhaps. But remember when the Republicans ran the Benghazi Committee? They actually took the most unlikeable politician in America, Hillary Clinton, and made people feel sorry for her.
Someone somewhere actually felt sorry for ‘The Bitch’?
Absolutely nothing.
I don’t recall. I invoke the 5th amendment…………..
Some of them can’t plead the 5th since they have been pardoned already so they have nothing to incriminate themselves on.
I’m sure justice will prevail.
OK then, ” I don’t recall ” Or the good ole catch all – “to the best of my memory”……. and then lie after lie.
People will conveniently pass away before Hillary testifies. Billy has Presidential immunity.
Nothing happens to anybody.
Any word on how Reichard did at the night practice last night?
dont know.
from the vikings news:
The evening concluded with an impressive kicking display by Will Reichard, who aimed true from 48 to finish a 2-minute drill and followed with makes from 33, 45, 46, 49 and 51 yards.
Good news.
But as we all know ‘Past performance does not guarantee future results’.
Except when ‘The Curse’ is involved of course.
I have now had John Randle like three of my posts on Facebook. It appears to be the real John Randle, too.
I’m pretty sure we are going to end up best friends soon. So I will see if I can get some autographed items for you guys. Maybe I will see if Randle will come to one of Freezy’s lakehouse parties.
Happy KirkTuesday everyone! To save you the time of reading the article,
No, they are not suggesting Kirk to the Vikings, they are suggesting Kirk to the Rams.
Dark Horse Team Emerges for Kirk Cousins
In case of Stafford injury?
Injuries could open up several options for KC and Atlanta.
I don’t know if Stafford has even practiced yet. I think he’s still nursing a neck or back or shoulder injury or something.
Back issue. I think he’ll be fine. He’ll be ready for week one.
He is getting older though and had taken a lot of beating during his career.
KC would be a short term fix if Stafford’s warranty wore out.
This is fodder. Garoppolo is the back up. I think Sean McVay is comfortable with that.
Jimmy G. at his best, couldn’t stand in the middle of the field and throw a 15 yard out that didn’t look like a rainbow. No way McVay would settle with that.
He has a better arm than he gets credit for. Also, McVay was one of the first OC’s to give the QB the play call, then tell him what to look for and where to go with the ball. McVay’s mind is extremely fast, and he has basically a photographic memory. He can really help any QB succeed.
Did you see his throws when he was with the Raiders?
And even in the Niner Packer playoff game that Niners won 10-7, Aikman was going crazy over Jimmy’s lolipop throws to the sideline.
And yet he’s thrown for almost 16,000 yards and has a career 67.4% completion rate.
When he played for the Niners, he could throw a 5 yarder to Kiddle and he’d run with it 50 yards. They also had Debo and a 5 yard out would get taken to the house.
You could have QB’d that team. He was terrible on his own with the Raiders with quality receivers.
So does every other QB in the league.
Wait until Goff goes down for the season and he’s goes to the Lions and wins them their first SB.
There are a few teams that this could happen to. Lions, 49ers, Rams, Green Bay, etc. Any contending team with a top shelf QB and offense, is gonna consider Cousins if they lose their guy.
.
Could happen.
Except the Falcons want a fortune to let him go, so it won’t happen
If you want to win a Super Bowl, and your team is built to do it, you’ll find a way. And the Lions currently have just under $48M in cap space.
Short on 4th and 8 when it mattered the most.
Except QBs don’t determine wins or losses, according to self proclaimed experts.
The Eli Manning Fan Club agrees.
Except as usual you misstate what people have said here DE. QB’s affect the outcomes of games. They do not individually determine them. I’m sure you have the intellectual capacity to understand that, so you will never make this ridiculous comment ever again.
Kirk better say, “This one goes out to ‘Sota!” when he hoists the trophy.
Laughing… right.
Sorry, gotta downvote that. Thats not a time line I want to live in.
Good for the defense… bad for the offensive line…
Very good vet vs. rookie. I’ll hold judgement.
Agreed.
hargrave sucks, runs right past the qb…..
genius move by jackson
Deep thoughts… by Freezey
kind of nice to have some actual talented DT’s this year….
given the play that Greenard and Van Gink had last year with absolutely nothing from the interior Dline…this could be a crazy fun year.
Yep
4x Pro Bowl OLB Anthony Barr is retiring after 10 NFL seasons.
The former top-10 pick of the Vikings started 108 games during his career.
Will he retire a Viking? Sign a one day contract?
If he’s not going into the HOF, does it really matter what team he “retires” with?
I just wondered if he’ll come back to the team that drafted him, and where he arguably had his greatest games and impact in the NFL.
I guess I’m just asking why does it matter.
I think most fans would want that to happen.
I would care more if Teddy did it.
At least to get that NO stank off of him.
I am surprised he was still going.
Same. Had no idea he was still in the league.
He ‘retired last year to coach HS football.
Then he got a call and is un-retireing.
I remember the day he was drafted and his rookie year…players my age are retiring now 😭😭
Thinking of it, wasn’t Barr’s last team he was active on the Vikings anyway?
I am eating Teddy Grahams with Hersey’s chocolate and marshmallow creme. Bite-sized smores and much less messy.
Breakfast of champions!!!
I also had a hotdog and mashed potatoes…
Weird breakfast today.
OMG… that is off the charts weird Wrenage. I had toast and coffee.
Yeah, I was cleaning out fridge this morning. I usually only take about 15 minutes from rolling out of bed to getting into the car to go to work, so I don’t put much prep into breakfast.
Normally, I just chug a liter of water, protein powder and a dash of coffee upon getting to work. I try to drink 3 liters of water at work a day and like to eat brunch around 10:30.
Then I just snack here and there until supper time and drink more fluids. I realized I spent most of my life in a state of dehydration. Doubling my water intake helped with a number of things.
‘ I usually only take about 15 minutes from rolling out of bed to getting into the car to go to work’
And I thought I took quick showers, impressive.
I only take morning showers if I do a morning run. I like to just leap out of bed and get after it.
I hit things hard right away because by the time the afternoon comes around, my energy levels wan, big-time. In a perfect world, I’d have my eight hours in by 2.
S’mores for the win!
TUESDAYS ARE….
Teddy signing with the Bucs?
Sources: QB Teddy Bridgewater expected to sign with Buccaneers – ESPN
Doesn’t look like they have much behind Mayfield…but honestly I thought Theodore was done.
No kidding. Nice gig if you can get it. Maybe he is pals with someone on staff.
One of my coworkers is from the same town as Todd Bouman. Bouman was done and farming with his dad and then the Jags called him up for one last go. That is probably where Teddy is at.
Since there were issues with Teddy at the HS where he coached I could see it.
Lots of ‘fine print’ when working around schools and sports now day. Easy to ‘do a good thing’ and find it was/is a violation.
I got to meet Bouman once when I was a kid. From what I remember, he was pretty cool to us. I got his autograph anyway.
The local football coach told him, Spergeon Wynn’s wife had called him telling him if he ever meets Todd, she is going to kill him.
Bouman looked at him and asked why is she mad at me. The coach told him, because of his injury Wynn is never going to make an NFL team again. Todd went in for Culpepper and got hurt and Wynn had to go in for a couple of plays and looked absolutely horrible.
From the article regarding Teddy’s connections on the team. Also, doesn’t mention Todd Bowles was the coach of the Jets for the brief period he was there. Bowles said at the time he was happy with Darnold’s progress, but wanted to keep Teddy (assuming he wanted to give Darnold a little more time before starting, or at least as a mentor). GM wanted the 3rd round pick from the Saints. Who knows, if Teddy had stayed at least for a while, maybe Darnold wouldn’t have seen ghosts.
“Bridgewater has multiple connections to the Bucs. He was the starting quarterback for new Bucs defensive line coach Charlie Strong when Strong was the head coach at Louisville. He was also with new Bucs offensive coordinator Josh Grizzard when they were with the Dolphins in 2022, when Grizzard served as the offensive quality control coach. He was also teammates with longtime Bucs defensive captain Lavonte David at Miami Northwestern.”
Good morning, SKOL!
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You guys ready to give up a 28 point lead against us again this year lol?
Game was over at half. Prevent entire second and never a chance of losing.
You guys were nervous in the 2nd half. We caught up lol.
You guys come to Lambeau first this year. You won’t beat us in our house.
Talk is cheap, whiskey costs money.
You’d think a house owned by “the people” would have better seats then shitty metal bleachers ripped out from the surrounding high schools. Trash.
An Excellent observation, KFEY
Wisconsin has to pay to upgrade from dial-up internet first.
You ready to overpay a top 10-15 QB again?
15 might be a stretch
So the NFL gives you credit for coming back and still losing?
That rule must be in the Packer Shareholder agreement.
We missed 2 field goals otherwise we would have won.
How are things going FiveFingers or Kodiak?
Hope all is well.
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I’m so glad others figured out those guys aren’t Vikings fans.
No I truly think they were, they were just older, very jaded and delusional Vikings fans. They saw the light on old Kwerky a full year before I did, and they were right. But they had really poor takes out side of that. Take NLNVF but 180 the takes.
Agree to disagree: I saw them as camouflaging themselves in just enough Vikings related posts to gain a little trust in order to hurt the real fans. Oof on the DN had Kodiak’s comment saved from comments after a tough loss saying something like ‘I love watching people with souls getting them crushed.’ It was only about hurting others and seeing others pain for that guy. It wasn’t a coincidence that Kodiak would only comment after losses.
If they bear wouldn’t have stopped to shit in the woods he would have caught the rabbit.
All the Packers should be worried about is not losing 3rd place in the division to the Bears.
Game last year was over after the 1st quarter. Good try trolling, junior.
Sure, are you ready to lose again???
395 days until retirement. I told my wife I was going to go to work today, quit and then come back home. She did not agree with me for some reason.
My Date is June 30th of next year. I will be retired.
I am so looking forward to it!
VP, I liked your plan, your wife was wrong.
She’s wrong a lot.
Wait, I think that’s supposed to read that I’m wrong a lot. Depends on your perspective I guess.
SO CLOSE!
It actually goes pretty fast near the end.
This I found to be true.
Once you are ‘short’ you can get away with a lot more, tell people what you want to say, do more of the things you want to do and not worry about repercussions so much.
i.e. Rule about shaving at work? Ignore it, they can start progressive discipline but by the time there are any real ramifications you are retired.
I just did the math and for full Social Security, assuming they don’t move the age again by then, I only have a little over 10,200 days to retirement. I’m going to go shoot myself.
Having been to both places, enjoy the journey.
It would be a lot easier of a journey to enjoy if I didn’t keep coming to work for the government to take my money and give it to lazy POS’s.
I didn’t mind going to work, but I hated going to the prison.
I had planned to work part time after retirement but then the pandemic broke out.
‘Man plans and Fate laughs’.
I’d heard it as “Man plans and God laughs” as an old yiddish saying, but I like this version better.
The Norse have their version of Norns or Spinners of Fate.
I figured this version would be less offensive to people of faith here, just in case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fates#:~:text=In%20the%20Old%20Norse%20Völuspá,sometimes%20also%20described%20as%20spinning.
Smart, wicked smart, Harvard smart…
There is no more ‘Harvard smart.’
Laughing… you have a point.
Are you accusing me of being ‘Ivy League’???
How dare you Sir, next you will accuse me of being a closet FTP fan.
Laughing… SoCal, I think you’re a closet satirist…
You want me to ‘Come out of the closet’?
You naughty boy you.
Again having been there, some times work gets crappy and paying high taxes always sucks. But, you and your family are young. You can watch your kids play Little League and a thousand other similar things. Can’t do that at 65. Life is a ‘total package’ – so I say enjoy the trip.
Taking away time off, time spent goofing off at work, time spent on skoloholics, time spent using the bathroom, etc…I have it at you only have 107 hours of work remaining.
Well, when you put it that way it sounds a lot better other than you didn’t account for the time I spend working when I’m supposed to be on vacation.
From that perspective, I must be retired already.
My wife really really wants me to retire sooner…I used to say 70, have compromised down to 62 (six years)…I know I will really miss my job…I could do remote part time work after 62…maybe get a big RV and spend six months of the year down south.
The fact that I feel busier at home than at work gives me pause.
I turn 62 next week.
10 more years of work for me. Maybe more.
Depends on my Wife and her shopping “hobby”
Yeah, I’ll probably be working into my 70’s also, unless something happens to make me change my mind.
You seem to work in a pleasant environment.
Maybe cutting back on hours or more remote working would be a good option.
Yes, I think I’ll drop to 4 day work weeks in a couple of years. They suck you in by getting you all attached to the small town patients and you start to feel personally invested in their care, wonder how they can possibly survive without you, which of course they can.
Actually when I say retire, I mean from my accounting job. I will then work full time at my bookstore for a few years. However, if I feel like taking a day off, I will. Also, a good chunk of my summers will more than likely not be full time in my bookstore.
Ah there you go…if you’re doing something you love, why retire?
724 contract days left(4 yrs. of teaching).
After a week of wearing sweatpants, I’m not enjoying putting on my dress pants for work.
I love wearing pyjamas at work…only thing I miss is in Billings the hospital would wash my PJ’s at the end of the day, in Glendive I have to bag them up and take them home to wash.
Don’t miss the days of wearing suit and tie in Rochester.
If you work from home, you don’t even have to wear pajamas.
Yawners.
Today is Tews Day.
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chiefly dialectal : to work hard
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dialectal : fuss, worry
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