Here comes the dad in me….
Disney Plus is $2.99/month for the first 6 months as part of a Black Friday deal.
A younger me would have been discussing the sales on guns, camo, and ice shelters like the rest of you. 40-year-old dad of 4-and-6-year old me is excited we can watch the Lion King and Jungle Book for a reasonable price.
The Vikings now have three top-12 drafted quarterbacks on their roster.
Would take Jones for next year for backup. Plus if what they say on KFan the team also picks up a draft pick which we do not have many of next year. Front office finding ways to keep finding ways to get more draft picks. If true to what they said this morning.
I heard that too, but I also heard someone question that because it seems to good to be true. I’m in that camp, seems to good to be true. You could pick up a fringe starting QB who’s won a playoff game to be your backup for a few months, then let him walk and get a 3rd round pick? Seems too good to be true. He cleared all teams on waivers so I’m guessing it’s not true.
Looks like the Packers GM made a smart move in signing Jacobs instead of resigning Jones. Plus the Packers GM didn’t give up a kings ransom like the Vikings GM did for Turner, who had all of 1 tackle today and can’t get on the field.
You went from commenting on the Packers in a Packers thread to “but look what the Vikings did.” You sound like someone who can’t stop thinking or talking about an ex-girlfriend. 
Looking back – we beat ranked USC and Illinois and nearly beat ranked Michigan and Penn State. If either of those two games go the other direction and we get back one of the stinkers against Rutgers, Iowa or NC, we’re talking about a completely different season. Oh well, woulda, coulda, shoulda. Anyone know where I can get a deal on a muffler?
You’re absolutely right. I know it’s a lot of woulda, coulda, shoulda, like you said….but this 2024 Gopher Football team, having beaten higher-ish-ranked USC, ranked Illiois, and new Big-10-opponent UCLA on the road, even if they lose to Michigan and Penn State, then just freaking take 2 out of 3 from UNC, Iowa, or Rutgers….
The biggest frustration to me is that they had some of the best QB play they’ve had in my life and it’ll be tough to replace. Add in that Daniel Jackson and a few other key players will be gone and it would’ve been nice to see this year go better than it did. I’ve heard on the radio from those that sort of know the program that the redshirt freshman QB is good and has some Brosmer traits, but man it would’ve been good to have Brosmer longer. This year had some very fun moments but I would have liked to have seen more.
Remember going into the season a lot of people thought the Bears would be good and the offense would bee solid with Allen, Moore, Odunze, and Kmet? That’s the Bears offense we saw today. Some very good receivers on that team. Thought Williams looked pretty good at times. One of his bigger flaws may come from his strength- he runs very well and therefore doesn’t seem to want to give up and throw the ball away.
Vikes 9-2 and lead the league in WTF.
Gim it was something like that was their record against unranked opponents as well. The point of the stat was that statistically it would be very unlikely to drop a game to the unranked gophers on Saturday.
Daniel Jones got released by the Giants today. Confirming once again, the NFL stands for Not For Long.
And confirming, once again, that drafting is not easy. As always I’m not necessarily defending the Kwesi’s and Spielman’s (we all know Kwesi’s drafts haven’t produced much) but I think a lot of Vikings fans look at our team in isolation as if the Vikings are always awful at drafting. The Giants put a ton of stock into Jones, then paid him a bunch based of very little. Far more misses than hits in drafting.
In the report I linked to earlier, anosmia (loss of smell) resolved in about 2 weeks after using a nicotine patch.
Initially I read that as Nicotine POUCHES would improve your smell, and if that was the case I’d be able to smell from here to China right now.
I love them, but we don’t get them too often. I believe they’re one of those that have been referred to as a “Superfood” because of how many benefits you can get from eating them.
Now the root cause of most of our full freezer space is my wife just hitting reorder instead of looking at what we already have and we now have 37 bags of frozen peas, etc.
Probably the funniest thing I’ll see all day
My stream started working just in time to show that interview with Tyson while he was wearing that thong thing backstage. I can’t unsee that.
Netflix is getting hammered on Twitter right now by everyone from casual viewers to celebrities for all the streaming and buffering issues.
The had a big time event as an opportunity to shine, and it looks like this might cause their brand more harm than good.
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What amazes me nowadays is how very, very few people can say both were bad. Both were BS and shouldn’t have happened.100%
Yet some how they’re compared to each other “equally” all of the time, but monetarily they are apples to asteroids.
Big numbers lose real meaning with most people…
Millions, Billions, Trillions….they’re just numbers right??
If you break the math down, it’s crazy to realize how far apart the Floyd Riots and Januray 6th really were.
$1,500,000,000 ÷ $2,700,000 = 555.55
The riots cost our country 555 TIMES MORE MONEY than Jan 6.
Let that sink in.
Evening nowadays is a case of “yeah, but….” And all I see on this thread are people referring to Jan 6 with the same “yeah, but….” response.
I’m not arguing for the other side. All the burning and pathetic looting during the “mourning” period was trash for our country. So was Jan 6. Yeah but whatever.
What amazes me nowadays is how very, very few people can say both were bad. Both were BS and shouldn’t have happened.
Glad you got some closure. Your post was a good reminder that the best of times, our normal daily lives, can be interrupted for the worse any time. I’m not saying that in a always carry vs. live scared sense, just a good reminder for those to take it however they wish.
i really didn’t start this thread with politics in mind. I know it’s border related and everyone is amped up, but it would be cool if we could just have a civil discussion on a sportsman’s level without throwing darts across the aisle.
That’s one of the best, most common sense, relatable posts I’ve ever seen on this site.
He’s getting more out of Darnold than anyone thought possible (short of the last couple games), and while not necessarily “young” he took an average Kirk Cousins in the middle of his career to the next level and made him one of the highest paid QBs in the league. I also give him some credit with helping develop Goff in LA. I could name some far worst coaches for QBs in our recent history – my point being is that in some Hypothetical situation where Rogers would come here, it would be a spectacular mismatch. But that’s probably the same everywhere, at this point.
And although not a rookie at the time, I can’t imagine many other coaches in recent history would have been able to get more out of Josh Dobbs, at least initially, than KOC did.
Just to entertain the thought for fun, my “no” reasons:
1. His high cost goes completely against the current Vikings financial model. They were able to sign guys like Van Ginkel, Greenard, Cashman, Aaron Jones, etc. by getting rid of big contracts like Hunter and Cousins. They’re also operating on a model of building their team by putting money into other positions while a typically highly paid position, the QB, is on a rookie contract starting next year. Paying Rogers what he would want would make no sense.
2. What KOC has built with this organization would not work whatsoever with Rogers. Admittedly winning (starting 5-0) is a big part of it, but earlier this year players were talking about something special with this team. Rogers and his ego, his mantra, his demands that a franchise be his, would not work here.
3. He’s not that great anymore, definitely not the guy you want to go with if you have high aspirations.
What are the chances of Vikings signing Aaron Rodgers in the offseason,not what he used to be ,but definitely an improvement over anything on the team, could definitely see him leading this team to a disappointing loss in the playoffs
Zero
There’s something serene and majestic about that pig jumping off the dock, which is not a sentence I ever imagined I’d type
I’m no law expert, at all. Just a little experience with it as a private security instructor.
If he caused fear of harm with his actions there could be some level of assault he could be charged with.
And something that I know even less about but I’m just throwing this out there…. if his actions meant you couldn’t leave, could that be false imprisonment??
Hopefully you hear back, if this is someone not in their right mind for whatever reason I’d say it’s absolutely worth a call to the police telling them you’d like some follow up info based on concern for your own safety.
And like others have mentioned, utilize a permit to carry. And be familiar with how to apply it in different situations. I think a lot of people start carrying and think a use of force situation will be blatantly obvious. But if an unarmed big guy is yelling and threatening you, it would be smart to know how to verbalize your actions if you used force.
I went to Iraq twice with the 1st Infantry Division. I don’t say that to make it about me, I say it for context. What we did wasn’t always easy. And from the start it really made me realize that if what we were going through was rough, what others before us went through must’ve been much worse, without some of the creature comforts we had, being able to e-mail home, call every once in awhile, get things from home shipped, etc.
Which is why I say to any vets who came before me, thank you so much because I couldn’t imagine what it was like for you. Desert Storm, Vietnam, Korea, any remaining WWII vets, etc. And I know there are plenty on here who have relatives who served in these eras. Please, please convey my gratitude to them. Tell them some guy on this outdoor forum knows a little bit about being deployed to a combat zone and he can’t imagine what you/they had to do, and he’s extremely grateful, and that those veterans of the past kept making things better for those who still serve today.
Too early to tell but surprising results out of Michigan…
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All those yard signs got me confused. I think I voted for a realtor !
That’s hilarious. Glenn that’s a pretty good one too!
Mailed mine in a few weeks ago. In 2022 the wife and I drove to the vote in person and took turns with one waiting in line while the other waited in the vehicle with the kids, so mail in was nice. It also allowed us to take our time and look some things up on school board candidates, with around 12 on the ballot and you can vote for 4. I’ve mentioned this before but the top of the ballot usually gets all the yard signs, flags, and banter, but those local elections arguably have just as much impact, if not more, than the big-name ones as they’ll affect your local schools, property taxes, etc.
One thing I would be extremely interested in watching would be a TV show or series where some coaches, GM’s, and scouts go back to draft classes from a few years ago and go into detail about why a player didn’t work out in the NFL. They could review the pre-draft scouting reports and what everyone was saying and then follow their work through the NFL and explain what went wrong and how it went wrong.
Obviously this would be with the benefit of hindsight but I would be interested in hearing their perspective and see if there are any patterns, because there are no sure-fire things. I tend to favor prospects who play for great teams in big-time games (Georgia, Alabama, Ohio State, etc.) but then there are some obvious discrepancies there: Lewis Cene was a 1st-round pick from an absolutely dominant defense and barely saw the field in the NFL; what didn’t work? Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes didn’t make it to any blue-chip, contending rosters in college and now they’re the talk of the NFL. What slipped by college recruiters but became more obvious to NFL draft scouts?
One additional note: I just went on about how unpredictable things are, yet I do feel like it almost never goes well when a highly-touted college prospect has traits that some people like but barely played, and my examples are Richardson and Trey Lance. I’m pretty astonished that NFL GM’s were willing to draft those two so high based on such a small sample size from college football.
I agree, and boy does that have to be a tough decision. Hard to know what that would be like in an athlete’s shoes, I mean if you can just struggle through a few years you’re looking at a bunch more money, but you’ve got to decide if that pain is worth it and what it might do for the rest of your life.
Hopefully he gets an opportunity to stay in the game for employment if that’s what he chooses. It always seems like any semi-intelligent athlete that makes it to pro sports can find a job either on TV or radio or as a scout, coach, etc.
I will echo the last 2 responses-i can’t keep it out. I have a pretty nice Diamondback cover with a rubber “seal” and it doesn’t keep it out. I just look at it as the price i pay for living in the middle of nowhere, which I’ll take. I just don’t put anything in the bed without acknowledging it’ll be covered in dust.
Yeah taller kid too from what i remember hearing. They’re throwing more this year and from what I’ve heard the freshman is suited for this type of offense.
