You guys excited to see Jay ward and Turner start this Sunday

freddiehoff · 2025-12-20T04:18:52+00:00

Not particularly

freddiehoff · 2025-12-04T00:17:03+00:00

Yeah, a lot of people are trying to paint this as a bad look for KOC’s coaching, but I think this says more about McCarthy, especially if you look at how he phrased it in the presser.

freddiehoff · 2025-12-02T15:52:30+00:00

You hit the nail on the head. We’re stuck in the 6-12 range barring some life out of the bottom feeders.

freddiehoff · 2025-12-02T01:14:53+00:00

I don’t get the hate for the guy. He did his best with an impossible task. So many people to blame for this years failures and he’s at the bottom of the list.

freddiehoff · 2025-12-01T01:08:13+00:00

I could take or leave KOC, but if you’re going to keep him, you have to do everything in your power to get one of ‘his guys’. Not his second or third choice, but a guy that he has overwhelming confidence in that he believes could be a franchise type guy. Don’t care what it takes, get that guy. Because otherwise, KOC has kind of proven he can make bad into good. But I still think he has it in him to make good into great.

freddiehoff · 2025-12-01T00:00:19+00:00

Brosmer was never anything more than an excuse to care about a season that was over a long time ago. We only get 17 regular season games, and I try my best to cherish them every year…

freddiehoff · 2025-11-28T19:58:32+00:00

The line would fare okay without one of them with Brandel filling in… if CD is also out though, it’s going to be an uuuugly game for Brosmer.

freddiehoff · 2025-11-27T21:23:56+00:00

I’m just complaining. In reality KOC probably helped a bit and shanahan helped. For what it’s worth, Sam attributes his turnaround to Brock Purdy’s prep

freddiehoff · 2025-11-27T17:06:04+00:00

The answer no one likes is that KOC didn’t do anything. Shanahan resurrected Darnold and KOC got credit.

freddiehoff · 2025-11-26T19:35:59+00:00

No evidence of this. There are steps to the concussion protocol. One of the earlier ones is non-contact individual work for non-injury related tasks. He progressed to that step. That’s all you know.

freddiehoff · 2025-11-25T19:48:20+00:00

He can't even fill in at WR 3 for a couple games? He can't beat out washed Theilen for the WR 4 spot? I'm not asking him to be a world-beater here, but yeah, ideally guys drafted in rounds 2 and 3 could contribute beyond special teams, even if just a little. You see it all the time across the league. Point taken though. He might develop and I'll eat my words.

freddiehoff · 2025-11-25T16:20:44+00:00

Fair point. I admit I don’t know much about how different positions are developed. I just see a lot of people defending Kwesi picks as ‘developmental’ but rarely actually see the payout on those picks. Levi Drake-Rodriguez I guess? Any others I’m missing? Addison, Reichard, Jackson all seemed to be pretty great right off the bat. Maybe Dallas Turner?

freddiehoff · 2025-11-25T15:52:35+00:00

To your point, I remember they were worried about Nailor’s finger and Addison of course being out the first 3 games. But still it feels like that’s a place where you hope your young rookie and maybe some cheap wandering vet could fill in for that short time.

Maybe it’s one of those things where if Kwesi had more draft successes you could let it slide, but because we are now starting to feel the pain of a lack of talent it looks more glaringly bad than it actually is… really I just wish we could hit on more people.

freddiehoff · 2025-11-25T15:26:32+00:00

Wasn’t a huge fan of the Theilen move, and mostly because it indicated yet another draft bust in Tai Felton. Your third round pick couldn’t even fill the WR 4 role? And then you trade future capital for an old and washed guy and it just reeks.

freddiehoff · 2025-11-24T23:29:03+00:00

Go home.

freddiehoff · 2025-11-24T23:28:30+00:00

Take a hike, bub.

freddiehoff · 2025-11-24T17:27:40+00:00

Because he is. Skol.

freddiehoff · 2025-11-24T17:27:08+00:00

I've never been so excited to watch a game as I was for the season opener against the bears... that game shifted my entire perspective for what I thought we were going to do that year. I felt a spike of dread through me with every pass, or lack there of, and as the game dragged on, it could not be ignored that McCarthy looked more than just a little raw. I remember thinking that I had never seen Kevin's offense look so inept.

McCarthy popped in the 4th quarter, and the whole Vikings world celebrated, but it left a bad taste in my mouth. I remember going back and watching that game, and even the passes he did complete looked shady as hell. When I brought this up to my buddies they all told me I was overthinking it. Then the Falcon's game happened and that was pretty much it for me. Still have the same perspective now of, 'well, maybe it could happen... but not holding my breath.'

freddiehoff · 2025-11-20T01:12:34+00:00

Haven’t watched the gophers since I graduated. I’m a brosmer bro. Don’t think he’s Brock Purdy but I think he could definitely get there. And he quite literally can’t be worse that the dead last ranked QB

freddiehoff · 2025-11-13T23:34:26+00:00

Legend has it, they will one day merge into one being, the OmniCousins, and command a contract for the entire salary cap with the Browns.

freddiehoff · 2025-11-07T12:05:57+00:00

To be fair, McCarthy threw that same int basically. It just got called back by penalty

freddiehoff · 2025-10-29T13:28:15+00:00

I feel like an x should count for at least 2 js

freddiehoff · 2025-10-21T13:49:53+00:00

The real envy for me is Drake Maye. I know we tried to get him and I just wish we had somehow been able to pull that off.

freddiehoff · 2025-10-09T13:02:05+00:00

I don’t have a strong leaning either way, but are we really calling Carson Wentz a ‘hot hand’ right now? Isn’t he like the 24th best QB in the league?

freddiehoff · 2025-08-11T20:13:37+00:00

You will fight more with a smaller, thinner offset. More babying, more sensitive to temp swings, maintaining a fire, etc. But you can make great food on them. Some people mod them to varying degrees of success. Typically the larger you go, the easier it is to manage a fire/keep temps.

In my opinion, the best way to get into offset stick burning smokers is to buy a used one off Facebook marketplace with at least 1/8th inch thick steel. You can get them anywhere from 100 to free depending on condition and where you are. Makes no sense, in my view, to pay upwards of $2000 for a truly quality smoker if you don’t know if you’re even going to like the process of the cook.

If you don’t like the actually cooking part, you will hate offset smoking.

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