"This is a better version of tehe one i put up yesterday"
"i miss these days as a vikings fan.. i hope we can turn it around in 2014"
lol, nope!
The undeniably old Sid Hartman reporting on the vikings lack of depth behind key positions. I am so glad they suck!
Norway demands Minnesoda Vikings, change their name. Saying it mocks country's proud heritage as murdurous, Swede-killing, Lutefisk Eaters.
Considering the way every Viking season ends in failure they should call them the Minnesota Jaymos
From the link Skully provided:
“By the way, on the Favre thing: Tremendous 2009 season. Over 4,000 yards and 30 TD passes. Couldn’t have been better. But nearly every Green Bay Packer fan was telling you at the time of the trade, ‘Don’t worry, he’ll definitely throw an interception in the NFC championship game and rip your hearts out, so good luck with that.’ And yet you were still somehow so Smooten with Favre to hand him another $20 million for an utter shitshow of a 2010 season, during which of course the Packers handed it back on a plate to the Vikes with their Aaron Rodgers and yet another Super Bowl victory… Fucking duh.”
@skully posted:Norway demands Minnesoda Vikings, change their name. Saying it mocks country's proud heritage as murdurous, Swede-killing, Lutefisk Eaters.
I vote for "Muskies". The big elusive fish - sort of like allusion to the Vikings elusive quest for a big fish (SB).
If we're going for a fish name, carp seems appropriate as well, 'cause you know, they suck.
Minnesota Lutefisk
A legend has it that Viking fishermen hung their cod to dry on tall birch racks. When some neighboring Vikings attacked, they burned the racks of fish, but a rainstorm blew in from the North Sea, dousing the fire. The remaining fish soaked in a puddle of rainwater and birch ash for months before some hungry Vikings discovered the cod, reconstituted it and had a feast.
Typical of the Viks, a reclamation of another's cast-off. I'm guessing the feast mentioned seemed like the greatest thing ever, but really how good can cod soaked in rainwater and birch ash for months really taste? Probably tastes similar to reaching the SB 4x but losing.
From this I learned that Vikings QB Kirk Cousins could be abducted by aliens.
If it is going to happen then may it happen just before the season opener. another season wasted.
@Ghost of Lambeau posted:From this I learned that Vikings QB Kirk Cousins could be abducted by aliens.
If it is going to happen then may it happen just before the season opener.
another season wasted.
The guy on the vikings WTF page picks Elflein as a possible preseason cut for the vikings. I thought Elflein was one of their stronger players on that O-Line. Why didn't he pick Reiff or O'Neill? Those two were gashed regularly by the Smiths last season. Maybe the guy running the podcast is a closet Packers' fan who likes seeing Cousins sacked several times per game. Whatever. I just thinks it's funny that a guy can wear purple stuff and think he can have a podcast that people are interested in. So sad and yet so sucky.
Perfect.
The Vikings started a new Tik Tok challenge asking fans to duet themselves catching passes from Kirk Cousins.
— Gridiron (@Gridiron) July 21, 2020
The responses are fantastic 😂 pic.twitter.com/xEhnOYUGsi
Kevin King with a clutch Interception (Week 2) https://t.co/yhyUtTHKqN
— Tony Bark (@starkforlife44) July 21, 2020
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Oh goody goody goody!! Suckqueens sign Old One Eye to a 3 year extension.
@ammo posted:Oh goody goody goody!! Suckqueens sign Old One Eye to a 3 year extension.
If Pedmohontas were allowed in here, she’d be threatening to knock your teeth out with her golf clubs.
You know that means they extend the GM, too. The run of mediocrity continues!
Dalvin Cook reporting to camp?
If Cook chose not to report to Vikings camp on time, he’d risk losing an accrued season toward free agency. Without four accrued seasons, Cook would be a restricted (not unrestricted) free agent in 2021.
Cousins was clearly throwing to the dog, who was wide open in the corner, but wasn't looking.
The fact that Kirk Cousins will make 194 million dollars from 2016 to 2022 is one of the most amazing statistics in NFL history. It's right up there with Sam Bradford making 130 million in his career.
There is a West Michigan story that links both Cousins and Bradford. There was a kid from Lowell High School named Keith Nichol who was one of the most highly recruited players in the country in the mid-2000s. He first committed to MSU and was likely going to be the starting QB before John L. Smith was fired. He then decided to switch his commitment to Oklahoma to be the starting QB there. When he got there, Sam Bradford had also been recruited and he lost a competition to Bradford and hardly played as a freshman. Because he wanted to play, he transfers to MSU. He sits out a year and ends up having to compete with Kirk Cousins for the starting QB job. Nichol and Cousins battle for the job and are really close, with Dantonio not making a decision until the end of that year. If Nichol goes there to begin with out of high school, he's probably the starting QB by this point (Cousins is a year younger), and Dantonio probably sticks with him as a starter since he had trouble making the call when both were battling for an open job. In the end, Cousins wins the job and they convert Nichol to WR during the bowl game practices. He can't really transfer again, so he's stuck. His biggest career highlight is catching a hail mary pass from Cousins to beat the Badgers in the year that Wisconsin had Russell Wilson.
Nichols college stats as a QB look really good. While at MSU he completes 53 passes in 98 attempts for 841 yards with 9 TDs and 3 interceptions. He was likely good enough to be a starting QB at a Power 5 school and getting that experience may have been good enough for him to at least make a practice squad somewhere. Instead, he tries out as a WR for a few teams and doesn't make it. He did get his degree and is now a financial advisor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Nichol
https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-nichol-4354b484/
I would laugh at most things related to the Vikings, but not this. In this case what goes around will literally come around.
Oh, I'm only laughing in the fact that it happens, first, to the Vikes. And not a player or coach. But their Covid Control doctor.
Kinda like not getting your draft pick in time so you lose your spot. Eventually it happens to everyone, but the Vikings......wait a minute???
Now their big free agent signing, Michael Pierce, has opted out for the 2020 season.
watching the top 100 last night, it's Z's turn - I hear Paul Allen - in his best letdown voice, 'holy cow, its Zadarius Smith' .
that is all.
Patriots must be trying to tank to get the #1 overall pick
Several starters choosing to opt out
The 2021 draft could end up a complete disaster. Let's say there is no college football and a shortened pro season with some teams fielding basically JV lineups (Patriots for example). How do you scout? How do you figure out draft position if the NFL season ends prematurely? In 2021, teams may end up having to essentially work two draft classes of players into your roster for the first time. The salary cap may potentially collapse by tens of millions of dollars and teams will have to lay off a lot of veterans if the owners and players don't come to some sort of an agreement.
How a game with 22 guys in close physical contact on almost every play with rosters of 50 players and a bunch of often older, out-of-shape coaches on each team is going to get through a week of training camp without being shut down is questionable. One look at Andy Reid or Mike McCarthy and you know they are in a high-risk category. Pete Carroll, Arians, and Belichick are pushing 70. Zimmer is 64. Many of these guys work 100+ hour weeks, are constantly stressed, and don't eat very healthy. You don't get the sense that NBA or MLB jobs are quite as stressful since each game isn't as crucial and you aren't essentially pulling all-nighters like you are preparing for a college exam multiple nights every week.
The idea though is to just play and televise the games so the league and teams can get paid. Yes, it can't be good for those coaches you mentioned. If the regular players can't play, they will probably look for local talent and hold a workout. I can hear it now, "the replacement at running back is Larry from Dobbs Auto. They say his repairs are quick and fast. ......."
I see a spring football season for college, and probably no season for the NFL. Some of the leagues for college soccer have already declared they will go in spring instead. It's smarter, as by then there will probably be a vaccine -- somewhere in the world. Some countries are on final trials for vaccines. Here, the government just gave Pfizer $1.5 billion to develop one, so we are far behind already. That's what nationalism will do for ya...
@Ghost of Lambeau posted:The idea though is to just play and televise the games so the league and teams can get paid. Yes, it can't be good for those coaches you mentioned. If the regular players can't play, they will probably look for local talent and hold a workout. I can hear it now, "the replacement at running back is Larry from Dobbs Auto. They say his repairs are quick and fast. ......."
I wonder what the contract language is. Do they have to play all the games every week to get the national TV money or just enough to cover the time slots? In other words, does Fox or CBS care if they have 6 early games in the same time slot? If they have one, they've got their time slots covered. They really need 7 games a week: Thursday night, 2 Sunday 1 EST games (Fox and CBS), 2 Sunday 4:30 EST games (Fox and CBS), Sunday night, and Monday night.
@Fandame posted:I see a spring football season for college.....
Followed by a fall season? Asking kids to play 30 games in a calendar year is gonna bring all sorts of challenges, legal and ethical.