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I can't imagine a 5th round pick who averaged 320 yards receiving and 3 TD's the last 2 years  is  replacing Diggs. But I'd love if Rap was correct in that assumption.

"Fill the void"? 

 

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packerboi posted:

I can't imagine a 5th round pick who averaged 320 yards receiving and 3 TD's the last 2 years  is  replacing Diggs. But I'd love if Rap was correct in that assumption.

"Fill the void"? 

 

I'm thinking they go after Mims in the draft.

YooperPackfan posted:

So you want us to draft the next Datone Jones and they draft the next Xavier Rhodes? Because that’s what happened 

The 2013 first round pick with Ted taking Datone 1 pick before DeAndre Hopkins surely hurt, but not as bad as 2012.

After losing Nick Collins to the neck injury in 2011 and with Harrison Smith on the board I was convinced we had our replacement all lined up and we were getting our first Golden Domer in round 1 since Aaron Taylor.

But no, Ted decides to go all genius and take a 4-3 DE who publicly stated he didn't want to play 3-4 OLB in Nick Perry ... and Perry went on to have 1 decent season in year 5 ... and Ted decided to give him a huge new deal ... and Perry sucked for two more seasons until Gutey finally pulled the plug ... and Ted still desperate for a safety after M.D. Jennings started in 2013 ... reached  for HaHa in 2014. 

Meanwhile, in one of the moves that keep the Vikings from becoming the Lions, Spielman wisely trades up and snatches Smith 1 pick after Ted gets his guy Perry ... and Smith is an All-Pro for years on end.

Oh well, at least the prime Rhodes, Griffen, Joseph, Waynes, Smith, et al. were not enough to overcome the Queens' poor QB/OL play.

Minneapolis Marines

The Packers would win this game 7-6 - and so it begins for the Minniquota.  

The Minneapolis Marines were tough at the time and there was some pressure for the Packers to win - according to the "humble beginnings" video.  The Marines played from 1905 to 1924.  The team was resurrected as the Red Jackets in 1929 and and only played two years.   Minnesota also hosted the Duluth Eskimos from 1923 to 1927.  No championships between them - so that tradition is upheld by the present day Vikings.  It is reassuring to note that Minnesota football history is consistent.  

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A couple of years ago we went to my wife’s cousin’s house in Minneapolis for one of their kids birthday gathering. It was a Sunday and they had the Viking game on the TV. While we were watching the game I noticed there dog laying in the corner. The poor thing was nothing but skin and bones.

Well, in the first half the Viking kicked a field goal and the dog suddenly jumped up barked a few times and danced a jig.

In the second half the Vikings scored a TD and the dog went to the piano and played the Viking fight song while barking the words.

The Vikings won the game and the dog jumped out the window, climbed in their car, and drove around the block honking the horn.

I finally had to ask, “What is the story with your dog?”

My wife’s cousin replied, “Oh Sparky is the world’s greatest Viking fan. She’s twenty-two years old and for her entire life, every time the Vikings do something good she celebrates. The better the Vikings do, the bigger the celebration.”

”I’d say,” I said. “She drove a car just because the Vikings won a meaningless game against the Lions. What does she do if the Vikings win an Important game like the Super Bowl?”

”How should we know?”

Brad Childress has been circling retirement for some time and the former Vikings head coach says that he’s finally reached the point where he’s ready to walk away from football for good.

Childress first said he was retiring in 2018 when he gave up his job as an assistant to Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, but that was a brief absence from the game as he became an advisor to Bears head coach Matt Nagy a short time later. He took a job as a head coach in the Alliance of American Football, but left before the league’s ill-fated inaugural season to return to Chicago.

Childress said in January that he wouldn’t return to the Bears, but didn’t close the door on a similar advisory role for Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski, who broke into the NFL when Childress was the Vikings coach. Childress now says that door is closed.

“People say, ‘Is he really retired? Is he really, really retired?'” Childress said, via Chris Tomasson of the Pioneer Press. “Yeah. Last year was my last year. I just felt like it was time to move on. It’s about time. I put my toe in the water in retirement and pretty soon you’ve got to jump in. It’s more about spending time with my family and grandkids and that type of thing.”

Childress was 39-35 as the Vikings head coach and has coached in the NFL in one form or another since 1999.

bvan posted:

Brad Childress has been circling retirement for some time and the former Vikings head coach says that he’s finally reached the point where he’s ready to walk away from football for good.

Childress first said he was retiring in 2018 when he gave up his job as an assistant to Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, but that was a brief absence from the game as he became an advisor to Bears head coach Matt Nagy a short time later. He took a job as a head coach in the Alliance of American Football, but left before the league’s ill-fated inaugural season to return to Chicago.

Childress said in January that he wouldn’t return to the Bears, but didn’t close the door on a similar advisory role for Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski, who broke into the NFL when Childress was the Vikings coach. Childress now says that door is closed....

 

Sounds like a guy that used to play in Green Bay that he coached... 

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