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Every time I watch another NFC North team exploiting opponents with this thing called a forward pass, the #Vikings are a 6-1 team going on 2-5.
From the sixth floor of Lincoln Financial Field, Oswald managed to get off three shots at the McCarthy motorcade.
“Back, and to the left. … Back, and to the left.”
Risk-averse gas bag who’s more afraid of his inflated shadow than Punxsutawney Phil.
P.J. Fleck on why he punted when down 14 with 2:36 left in the game:
- We're down 14 points. Still got timeouts. If we don't get that fourth down, they're going to score another touchdown, and there's no way we get a chance. A chance to be able to punt it, use timeouts before the two-minute warning, get the ball back, and give it another shot with downs. It's exactly why I did it.
You thought you had enough time?
Fleck: Absolutely. Yeah, because you still have two-minute warning plus two timeouts. You stop, stop, and runs. Stop on third down punt. You get the ball in two minutes to go. And either way, if you if you don't get it there, then it's a three touchdown game, and then there's no chance.
- You get everything you possibly can to give yourself the best chance. And I felt at that point, third and eight, what we just did in the first two plays of it, or the first three plays of it, that's exactly why we did it. So when is do everything we can to call timeouts before the two minute warning? Down two possessions.
Brian Murphy retweeted
COLUMN: The indefensible state of the #vikings offense and the man who owns it. KOC’s well-worn scheme, banal play-calling and underutilized roster, with Kyler Murray’s inconsistency and missed opportunities, have cracked this contradictory team in half. open.substack.com/pub/purple…
COLUMN: The indefensible state of the #vikings offense and the man who owns it. KOC’s well-worn scheme, banal play-calling and underutilized roster, with Kyler Murray’s inconsistency and missed opportunities, have cracked this contradictory team in half. open.substack.com/pub/purple…
Eight weeks into a dominant defensive season, attrition is metastasizing, as Detroit’s second-half running attack has shown.
Chronic offensive ineptitude is untenable.
#Vikings
#Vikings might become the first team in NFL history to go from 6-0 to 6-7 with one loss.
Jefferson’s one-handed juggle and grab may have trumped that stairway to heaven he climbed in Buffalo four years ago.
Monster touchdown on multiple levels.
Just target the man.
#vikings
Trade suitors are gonna pluck this chicken clean.
The Detroit Red Wings are suspending Dylan Larkin without pay, the team announced Thursday, in response to news that Larkin will sit out the team’s games as he awaits a trade.
More details from @m_bultman:
nytimes.com/athletic/7736677…
I trust baseball owners and players to resolve their labor disputes peacefully as aways.
No one knows when there will be another Major League Baseball game.
Will there be a 2027 season at all? How many games will be canceled? Could they play a full season?
Read @TheAthletic's guide to the lockout:
nytimes.com/athletic/7731128…
I’ve seen $12 bills with more authenticity.
Kirk Herbstreit headlined a GOP fundraiser after feigning ignorance about anything involving politics.
awfulannouncing.com/espn/kir…
Pirates player on 3B.
1971 World Series.
Earl Weaver visits Jim Palmer on the mound at Memorial Stadium, with an Oakland A's player nearby, likely in the 1973 or 1974 ALCS. The two famously bickered for years and won four pennants together. Palmer: 268 wins, three Cy Youngs and never a grand slam allowed. What was Earl saying? ⚾ #JimPalmer #Orioles
ALT Orioles manager Earl Weaver talks with pitcher Jim Palmer on the mound at Memorial Stadium
Brian Murphy retweeted
COLUMN: Hey, 6-0 is a helluva accomplishment. Finding ways to win. Protecting the football. Building scar tissue. All worthy traits.
Time to mothball the pacifier and training wheels, though.
November’s schedule demands more adulting from the #Vikings.
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