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Vikings Discussion & Random Thoughts
Happy hump day, everyone! The Vikings didn’t make a splash prior to the trade deadline, which is not surprising. The Jets were selling like crazy, collectingb draft picks like the kid & I collect baseball cards. Fortunately, it’s the Jets & they’ll likely screw up the picks anyway. The Colts made a huge deal, sending two first round picks to the Jets to acquire Sauce Gardner. There were a few other deals as well, I’ll put links down in the news section.
Only a few more short days until Vikings football! The purple and gold take on the Ravens at U.S. Bank Stadium on Sunday, kickoff is at noon. I’m excited to see if McCarthy and the offense can build on the game they put together against the Lions. I like that the offense was more balanced, so let’s hope they continue to lean on the run when it’s effective. The Vikings will need a strong offense if they want to get a W against Lamar Jackson and the Ravens. Lamar is not an easy guy to contain, so the Ravens will likely put some points on the board, the Vikings will need to put up more if they want a win, according to John Madden. Let’s hope they do!
Vikings and NFL News
The Vikings moved up the power rankings after their big win in Detroit, Vikings.com has the details.
The Sporting News claims there was lots of activity surrounding a T.J. Hockenson trade prior to the deadline. I don’t buy it, it would have screwed the Vikings, salary cap-wise. No, the soonest Hock will be moved will be in the off-season, likely after June 1.
The latest trade deadline news from around the league, courtesy of ESPN.
Jacoby Brissett is the new starting QB in Arizona as Kyler Murray recovers from a foot injury, per NFL.com. Rumors about a ‘soft benching’ abound, but you never know. Brissett did look sharp last night, but it was against the Cowboys, so take it with a salt block.
Trade dealine highlights from CBS Sports: The Jets trade CB Sauce Gardner to the Colts, the Cowboys acquired Logan Wilson from the Bengals, and the Dolphins sent edge rusher Jaelen Phillips to the Eagles.
Media Selection
This guy is pretty funny, even though I think he’s a Packers fan.This one summarizes the upper midwest very well. Enjoy!
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Well…
Well… crap. I hate the Eagles.
4 Meteor Games.
Upside is someone has to lose each of them, heck even ties can help us.
I was going to ask you idiots why i kept seeing Moreau out there on sunday.
Theo Jackson has a concussion.
goodness we sustain those regularly
Me and JR…
Wish my swing was that good. Maybe my follow thru is a little better though.
Laughing. I have never seen my swing, but I’ve been told it’s nice. I think the reason for that is I swing in balance, and with a very consistent rhythm.
NLNVF I thought you might find this article interesting. #grin
“Texas and A&M and all the large schools have given money to their players probably forever. Now, they’re getting mad at us. ‘Texas Tech?!’”
https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/breaking-news/article/texas-oil-and-football-how-texas-tech-has-raised-a-football-monster-in-no-time-at-all-162348066.html
Texas Tech is the red headed stepchild of Texas Colleges I think. Mahomes played there though. My wife hates Texas Tech.
Football is big business in Texas and high schools constantly try to recruit the best talent in the country.
He address why other schools and alums are upset at Tech.
“Other schools have spent as much or more than we did, but we aren’t expected to do that?” he says. “We’re not supposed to be competitive? We’re supposed to be this middling team?”
‘From Hocutt’s perspective, jealousy is at the root of the issue.’
You know… it really sucks that Lewis Cine has a Super Bowl ring…
it really sucks that KAM really sucks at drafting
Laughing…
I’d rather deal with all that than New Yorkers……
Preemptive work. Let them all go to California – they deserve each other.
Sad but before you know it Congress will be controlled by CA and NY.
Cheering for the Pack or Eagles is going to be tough. …thinking we would want the Eagles to win so pack dont have that tie breaker over us in the division standings?
Tiebreaker doesn’t come into play if we beath them both times. 🙂
This is true, I like where your heads at.
There will be no tiebreaker needed since the puke are 5-2-1
As it stands right now, it’s highly unlikely the Vikings and pukers could be tied. Pukers are 5-2-1.
There will be no need for a tiebreaker.
The way too early playoff rankings show the Vikings in 10 currently. One game behind both the Loin and the Bores, both of which they have the tie-breaker on currently.
It at least helps us with our ‘voting guides’ going forward.
https://thevikingage.com/updated-nfc-playoff-picture-reveals-importance-minnesota-vikings-week-9-win-over-lions
This is crazy. The Cowboys are pathetic and just one spot behind us.
‘both of which we have the tie breaker on’
English is hard sometimes.
If we are fixing English, you shouldn’t end a sentence with a preposition or a preposition/adverb combination. Therefore, you might consider
“One game behind both the Lions and the Bores, and we currently hold the tiebreaker over both of them.”
FYI I am sure I am going to heaven because I have already been married to an English teacher.
I accuse The Teacher of being ‘an english teacher’. She tried to deny it saying she was a 1st grade teacher that mostly taught reading.
So I asked her ‘what language to you teach them to read in???’ She gave up the argument after that.
Ha!
For those of you that like unusual humor. I’d post but don’t know how.
Have been watching on utube some short videos of these babies talking. For example, one Baby Trump takes Baby Biden golfing and another is Baby Trump Takes Baby Kamala Harris Golfing. There’s a bunch of these and i think they are funny as hell.
If you’re interested.
Like this?
Can you solve this? Took me a minute.
Nope. I can usually get the math patterns stuff, but after 4 minutes I am stumped.
OK… think outside the box… it’s not a math answer.
R
Winner, winner, chicken dinner!!!
Well, where is the N?
I don’t drive stick shifts so this wasn’t fair.
N is in the middle (horizontal line). I guess if you never drove a stick, changed the points in your distributor, or used a timing light, you’re not gonna understand this.
My ’62 rambler was “three on the tree”
This what we’re looking at across the NFL for QB numbers…
@Not seeing Kirko on this list@
Starters only
So JJ is doing better than the guy that is better than Kirko in ATL?
Got it.
It would be hard to win many games if JJs numbers stayed like that, but I don’t think they will.
What – his numbers are great. He has to be the most “efficient” QB in the league, maybe ever. Throws for 140 yards and puts up 27 points. Beat that.
At least he is #1 in average depth of target….
JJ THE GUNSLINGER!!!
I’ll be honest… I didn’t think McCarthy would be on the list. I didn’t notice till people started commenting. I was actually focused on Lamar. McCarthy’s only thrown the ball 65 times this year, and these lists usually have like a minimum of 100 throws. I guess it’s all the current starters though.
It also seems like it’s a total offense list of stats, not just the QB. The OL is a huge part of what these numbers are showing.
Most of the purple-est boxes have to do with the high pressure rate. That will naturally lead to struggles in the others.
zactly
OHHHH you mean like his 40% clean pocket success rate??? 31st in the league? Is that what you’re talking about?
No, the other ones 😂
Laughing…
I guess the LIV (54) golf tour is now going to be the LXXII (72) tour.
Hablas Ingles??
Laughing the LIV tour was created by a bunch of people that paid PGA Tour players to come play on that tour. Lots of top players took the money and changed tours. The LIV tour got its name because instead of four rounds (72 holes) their tournaments were 3 rounds (54 holes) LIV is 54 in Roman Numerals. This week, the LIV tour announced this coming season they would be playing four rounds like the PGA so their golfers could then qualify for the OWGR (Official World Golf Rankings). So now that they’re playing 72 holes I decided they needed to be the LXXII tour (72 in Roman Numerals).
UH OH!!!!
Hang on JR!!!!
“NEAR” historic….
that climate…..always be changing…..
Ice age… no wait… Global warming… no wait… climate change!
Whatever keep the money rolling in.
Indeed… I once posted the real climate change factor on this site. It has to do with the 28,000 year orbital cycle of the earth around the sun, which changes every year slightly.
The climate has been changing ever since we have had a climate.
The only thing that changed was that they have just figured out a way to make money off of it.
Indeed
That guys funny…
James Gregory, hilarious guy
we might get snow this weekend
Looks like 0.5 in at most. Gonna help for Deer opener back home!
Will get up earnly and play golf that morning. Like being in NOVA.
Welp, on top of a horrifying election night (RIP New York City), we had the plane crash/explosions/fires at the Louisville airport last night. Who thought it was a good idea to put a petroleum processing plant near the runway. I had to get off the news and find some type of escapism on tv. Still haven’t recovered. Didn’t help that completely brainwashed sister in the other room was cheering on the Dem’s, UGH.
Hey Kathy, I know a guy with a couple guns…
Haha! It’s depressing enough that so many young people are stupid enough to vote for a communist/jihadist, but my sister at least had real history, civics, economics, etc. She worked her whole life (no expecting free stuff). She still watches CNN, MSDNC constantly and believes every lie. There’s no getting through to her.
That is really the sad part… they don’t call it programming for nothing. The leftist propaganda machine that is the mainstream media has got people believing total lies.
I know a guy with more than a couple
Not to brag, but I have 18 firearms… inherited 12 of them when my Brother in-law passed away.
Nice, my next desire is reloading equipment.
I have like 2,000 rounds of ammo too. I also have a gun safe.
When my Father died he hd 45 guns in his house. He collected and shot guns for fun and sport. He especially liked to shoot trap and his favorite shotgun was a Model 12 Winchester. He had ten of them, ventilated ribs, engraved stocks and all were worth quite a bit of money.
Never locked his doors.
Nice.
my cousin built his own 4 gauge
Dad had an 8 and a 10 gauge.Didn’t shoot them though.
Man a 4 gauge would be one hell of a gun.
Bust your shoulder in half with that thing.
Run this with Hamm…
wait a second….i thought the qb WASN’T supposed to throw it to a wide open FB…………………………………………………………………………………
I had a FB in college we called Roberto Duran…
Rec for Hands of Stone.
Cries in Carson Wentz
Hmmmm…
doesn’t he have like a terrible neck and isn’t recovering?
Assuming he’s okay medically now. Otherwise there wouldn’t be multiple teams looking at him.
must be.
but also we are pro’s at treating neck injuries, just ask gink
Cleared to play as I understand it.
Neck fusion? Probably limits his range a bit, but I’m no sawbones….
Ball hawking corner with pretty good cover skills.
Piss poor tackler.
upgrade? I dunno. Why not?
He probably shouldn’t try to go off any ramps with a bicycle
Laughing… nice GF
“piss poor tackler”
who are…..half of the vikings secondary and pace jr.
“half” – generous.
Maybe this explains why Kalil seemed distracted or frustrated during his time with the Vikes:
https://nypost.com/2025/11/05/sports/model-reveals-intimate-details-about-why-she-divorced-longtime-nfl-star-matt-kalil/
Sounds like he wasn’t present in the marriage. Some guys just probably shouldn’t get married.
I thought she was saying he had a gigantic shlong.
As did I
You said he had a ‘gigantic shlong’?
I don’t want to know how you know but as always No Kink Shaming.
His ex mentions it in the article.
what did you read?
he had a big ol penix
Huh
gigantic schlong seems to have been the “biggest” part of the problem.
3 Coke cans?? Oh my goodness….
No wonder he couldn’t block. The pain from wearing those athletic supporters must’ve been excruciating.
The Ravens have the 28th ranked pass defense in the NFL, allowing 250 YPG and 14 passing TDs. They allow opposing QB’s an average passer rating of 99.2.
McCarthy averages less than 150 yards a game, and has a 73.0 passer rating.
Hmmmm…. will he have a little healthier passing day statistically against one of the worst passing defenses in the league?
They’ve been bad because of injuries but seem to be getting healthier. I think it could be tough sledding if JJ isn’t given enough time.
No idea where these ratings come from…
Let us hope the whole is larger than the sum of the parts.
We have the 2nd ranked Special Teams in the NFL?
They obviously didn’t include penalties.
Maybe they’re only counting penalties? Only one team with more than we have???
returner, punter, & kicker are all very good, they make up for the stupid penalties
I think its all about the Oline, if it remains healthy I believe all of those offensive rankings will increase. Maybe even the defensive ones
Yep, it helps the defense when you can control the ball a little bit.
This is great! We finally have an average O line!
If those are reflective of the entire season then it includes all the injuries the OL has had.
When healthy our OL is better than average. ‘We have been down so long it looks like UP to us’.
Yep, exactly
Team just had their best win all season and we got over Mediocre Tuesday and the board is still popping off with Politics.
Well, it is the day after elections
stop being a pansy and go post on the DN if you need a safe space
Damn, that made me LOL
Ah right, because 24/7 political brain rot makes yall more manly got it. Ill keep note of that.
🙄 🙄
No, this isn’t me…
Drunk?
Inner Ear Infection affecting balance?
Laughing… I’m going with drunk.
I was trying to be kind.
Once a day of kindness is my goal.
He clearly isn’t drunk, it’s all in act.
His swing was too good for him to be that drunk….
Believe me, I have swung a golf club drunk before (I am not proud of it, usually after a shitty Vikings game)…..
‘His swing was too good for him to be that drunk….’
Drinking and ‘Driving’ seldom ends well.
In looking forward to the Vikings game against the Ravens, obviously the running game is going to be a key factor. Honestly I think whichever team does the better job of stopping the run will win Sunday. Lamar is not the running threat he used to be, but he can still make plays with his legs. Henry has also not been as big a threat running the ball as in the past, with several teams shutting him down this year.
I think if we stop Henry, we win.
It would be good if Jones can go too. Mason is a fine runner, but Jones is for sure a better pass blocking RB and a better pass receiving RB – that has become fairly evident.
If Jones can’t go it would help if Ham can. Ham is a more than adequate pass blocking RB.
I think having Hamm back in the line-up would be huge actually. Jones has an AC sprain, but I heard they think he can still play. Dunno about that. Guess the injury report today will give us a clue. Jones is definitely the best RB on the team though, for sure.
I heard that HE thinks he can play this weekend.
We have yet to hear from the trainers or the HC.
“lamar is not the running threat he used to be”
until he runs ALL around us this sunday haha
Little more worried about our secondary. You have to contain Lamar in the pocket or he will kill you. But to do so, requires a lot of asserts upfront which puts big pressure on the backend guys. You watch more Ravens than I do, but can recall defenses trying so hard to keep him contained, he actually has five or six seconds ro throw.
Lamar has actually become more of a pocket passer than ever. He likes to take deep drops that gives him space to operate, so teams that can get immediate pressure on him are going to do better. He’s a good broken field runner, but he wants to throw the ball more now. He’s actually the highest rated passer in the league, with a 136.4 passer rating. He has 14 TD’s and 1 interception in his 5 games he’s played this year, with a 72.9% completion rate. I think teams do have to play Henry hard, and also “spy” Lamar, which makes it hard to play the pass. So yeah, we’ll have our hands full, but I still think stopping Henry up front will be a big factor.
Isn’t your wife a Ravens fan? Split household?
Yes… might have to watch the game in separate rooms… grin.
I woke up to learn that my property taxes have increased over 1k per year over 10 years, thanks to the local school referendum passing. They got used to the “free” covid money, and since that dried up, and because the governor spent the entire billions surplus, they just steal more money from me.
My friend lives in Denver, and his home is worth double what mine is, and he pays less in property taxes.
I hate Minnesota…
North Dakota kind of sucks for property taxes as well….the legislature keeps trying to address it but never gets much done.
They need to just remove property tax for residential property and keep it for businesses. That was my big gripe with the proposal last year, Wal-Mart doesn’t need a break on property taxes.
Amen
Property taxes in Minot are 53% higher than the national average.
Ouch.
‘Why Not Minot’
Sounds like a good reason right there.
we’ve lived here 10 years, property taxes have gone from $2,300 to $3,800 in that time. Reason # 7,542,790,951,169,438,479 to GTFO of town & move out into the country.
Mine are currently 4600 on an 1,800 sq ft house (above grade)…
Just awful.
Holy shit
GM
FTP
SKOL
Happy Hump Day!
oh wow, good morning.
For her, afternoon, evening or night would work as well.
Yes, most certainly
I feel like Mamdani winning in New York encapsulates so many things going on in this country right now.
I think that Jay Jones winning the race to be the ‘top cop’ after texting about killing a GOP rival and his kids says everything about the Dems. It doesn’t matter how big a piece of shit you are we don’t care.
They’re celebrating things like that in fact. There’s an instability to our country simmering deep within these days.
Love me some Mamdani. His election will concentrate the democratic socialists in NYC.
The Dims/Woke elected him so they own him.
Almost feel sorry for NYC but you get what you vote for.
Will be interesting to see how he pays for everything he’s promised.
Tax the rich and the evil corporations….nothing to it.
He won’t/can’t pay for it.
He will blame others for what he can and ignore the rest.
If he tries to “tax the rich”…the rich will move outside the city.
Just what we did and many others are doing from Commifornia.
Great Media post today.
Thanks, that one made me laugh.
“Ope, geez, sorry ‘bout that”
i said this to a friend the other day, but i think Eric Wilson has been and will continue to be the best free agent signing we had this year.
Eric Wilson is pretty good.
he’s replaced cam bynum’s infectious smile well, i think
The game against the Lions was definitely the best the team has played all season. The defense was great, the special teams were very good, and the offense ran the ball the best they have all year, setting up our passing game nicely. It all clicked for this game. This was what I was expecting the team to look like this year. Exactly.
Now we just have to keep doing it. Get the lead early, run the ball effectively, and force the other QB to play from behind so we can rush him and force bad throws.
Good morning, SKOL!
FTP!
Happy Hump Day!
I wouldn’t kick her out of bed because of her poor gun handling skills.
Plus FTP Auto Rec.
but would you kick her out for eating crackers in bed!?!?!
Before or after??
Jayden Daniels sure has had a tough second year after being really good as a rookie. A lot like C.J. Stroud. I’m not really understanding it. Is it the pure progression based O, where it’s more about finding an open guy than reading a defense? Is the first guy covered more than last year forcing him to go deeper into reads? If so, is there enough time to let him do that? Last year I saw him make several very good progression reads and throws, but this year he looks slower on the draw. Is he trying to process more this year and it’s slowing down his play? Trying to take that next step in his evolution, and it’s a bit bigger than he thought it might be?
I don’t know, but he was beyond the pale good last year and maybe it’s just hard to achieve that same standard or something. Whatever it is, I have not seen the same guy I saw last year for sure.
Hoping this is just a learning curve thing and once he heals up from his injuries, he can settle back into being Jayden Daniels. He’s a good kid.
Sophomore Slump??
I think so to some extent. He is slower on getting the ball out, or not throwing it and taking off running a lot. Kliff Kingsbury has run some route concepts that I don’t like much too, so it’s never one thing in the NFL. McLaurin has missed a lot of games too. Still, I think Jayden is either trying to do too much, or he’s just not seeing the field as well this year. I’ve seen him not take throws that are there, while looking for something else. I’m like “it’s right there, just take the throw”. But he works a part of the field I’m thinking he has no business even looking at. Last year he seemed right on with his reads and progressions a lot, which really impressed me. I mean top tier reads. This year he seems to have regressed in that department, which makes no sense.
His number one receiver has been hurt just about all year and the number two has missed several games. Daniels himself has also been inured and missed several games. There’s been very little offensive continuity so far.
But clearly, Daniels has played enough that is plenty of film on him and defenses are makiing things tougher for him.
Certainly a factor.
Maybe a coaching thing. Last year they allowed him to go by his natural instincts and athletic ability. This year they may be working on him actually learning the position of QB in the NFL.
Also teams have had all off season to review his film and pick up on his tendencies.
Found this for you MT….
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1j8z6r8zl6o?xtor=AL-71-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&at_medium=social&at_campaign_type=owned&at_link_id=F6ABCCF6-B669-11F0-9305-83DADA21883C&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_ptr_name=twitter&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_link_origin=BBCNews&at_format=link&at_link_type=web_link
Looks worthy of my award winning behind.
That’s one contest I will pass on.
My ‘buns of steel’ could win that award but it is a ‘No Enter Zone’.
Apparently, publicly wishing death to republicans is a winning strategy.
Picked up JJ in my other fantasy league as Daniels is dead.
We will see how that goes.
yes, republicans got beaten badly across the board. Its time for people to realize that Trump, although a great president, is an unpopular politician. Even though he won the last election, he barely scraped by against Biden and Kamala – who were both terrible candidates.
I expect the Republicans to get beaten badly in next years Mid-terms.
Two thoughts.
First, Virginia (lived there for 50years) and NJ are very blue states. In NJ alone, there are a million more registered democrats than republicans. Thus, even if Trump were very popular, doubt the outcome would be different.
Second, the big election issue was affordability and granted the Republicans and Trump have not addressed this well – have done some long range things but prices are still very high on most items. And people are upset with this. Trump ran on he was going “to bring the price of eggs down.”
But interestingly, talk from politicians is cheap, and I have yet to hear ONE solid idea from the democrat candidates that would actually work.
Agree the Democrats have no ideas that will work.
Regarding the first point, the losses were much worse than Trumps margin of defeat in the presidential election…Truth is Trump has gotten much less popular since he was elected, and he wasn’t that popular in the first place.
Of course, Trump ran on “bringing Biden’s inflationary prices down” and he has not done so – thus, he’s less popular,
Agree with that, I know moderate Republicans who have soured on Trump because prices in the grocery store have not come down.
It has been 9 months.
It is a long term effort to ‘unfuck’ the economy after FJB. He has another year to right the ship before the midterms.
Agree, there is still hope…but he does need to get prices down, which I think is going to be really difficult.
Ummm…tariffs?
The tarrifs are likely a contributing factor.
I really thought that the decrease in fuel/gas prices would lead to lower grocery store prices, and lower prices in general across the board.
I was wrong.
So he needs to double down and get as much as he can in the next year. If The Dims retake the house not much will get done by either side except what the executive branch can do by itself.
Well, that 60 vote closure rule in the Senate is going to kill just about anything anyway. Dems have learned their base (most vocal ones) want absolutely nothing to get done by the Trump Administration, even if and especially if it’s good for the country.
Might as well change the Filibuster Rule.
The Dems tried to eliminate it and kicked out the two Dims who sided with the GOP to keep it. Chucky stated with those two gone they would eliminate it but then DJT won and the Rep won the majority. The Dems will get rid of it as soon as they get the Senate Majority back.
Agree with this, I kind of have always thought it was a stupid rule….
I am afraid we could see all kinds of crazy shit though when that happens, like the supreme court increasing to 15 judges to pack it with Democrats.
And DC and Puerto Rico will become states.
They sure will.
I understand the reason for the rule, and it is indeed pretty solid, but we are where we are.
The Republicans are at a point where they are forced to play the hand they have been dealt.
Its a good rule as long as people are willing to act and behave in the best interests of the country….
But when you can no longer disagree with civility, and you block the majority on every front, then it is no longer a workable rule.
The Dumbs don’t even have ideas that won’t work. Their only message is Orange Man bad, Republicans are fascists.