What a year he's having. Looks smooth and accurate. Big athletic kid. New England was smart not to part with him for the 3 number one picks Minnesota offered. Had some bad moments last year, but damn he's on track to be a top 10 QB in the NFL. I had bagged on him early in the year but that was oh so wrong, lol.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/4717...start-game

Dumb ass kid. Got it by the tail but can't get out of his own way. 3rd overall pick in round 1. Yuck.

Tennessee Titans: 1-11 record; .571 strength of schedule
New Orleans Saints: 2-10; .502 SOS
New York Giants: 2-10; .539 SOS
Las Vegas Raiders 2-10; .556 SOS
Cleveland Browns: 3-9; .480 SOS
Washington Commanders: 3-9; .517 SOS
New York Jets: 3-9; .534 SOS
Arizona Cardinals: 3-9; .565 SOS
Atlanta Falcons (pick belongs to Los Angeles Rams): 4-8; .498 SOS
Cincinnati Bengals: 4-8; .517 SOS
11. Minnesota Vikings: 4-8; .532 SOS
Miami Dolphins: 5-7; .488 SOS

We're moving on up...That SOS isnt doing us any favors! 

Will Wentz be the veteran QB competition in camp next year? I think they might have to think bigger than that.

Man, the look on the faces of some of the players on the sidelines yesterday was a gut punch.  It seems to me KOC has maybe lost the team?  The body language was of a team that has quit.  What a mess.

The bad news:  we had a severe cold snap over the weekend that froze up my automatic waterers for the horses.  I set about figuring out the problem, which I thought was a GFCI breaker.  
As I was texting my electrician back and forth during the first half of the game, he suggested that it was usually the actual heating element, which was an easier fix.

After Max's first interception, I left to go get the replacement part from the local farm & ranch supply store.
I'm glad I did not wait.  So I didn't see the second half live.  Thankfully.

The Good news: I spent the rest of the afternoon fixing the automatic waterer.  
My horses are happy and well watered now.  

But I cannot do this anymore...not for a while.
I can only afford to take a peek with one eye to maybe check a score or stats.  This is just not fun.

The wheels have fallen off this wagon. 
I had believed that he could not do worse than JJM.  He did. 
I felt bad for Max.  I feel bad for now departing Adam Thielen.
I gotta take a break.

I am happy that I still have a college football team to root for (FCS playoffs...go Griz).

I acknowledge that I lived in Colorado for ten years and went to multiple Bronco games and my daughter and her family are avid Bronco fans (with the Vikings as #2 with a nod to me).  And I can pull for Bo Nix who I had loudly advocated here during last year's draft.

But I just can't do this anymore.  I like y'all, and will likely take a peek back here from time to time, but my head hurts from banging it against a brick wall.

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For obvious reasons...

I think thats the last win we might see this season? Unless something really big improves at QB. 

Commanders
At Dallas
At NYG
Lions
Packers

Too bad this years team sucks...Such a great home schedule remaining and 3 of the 5 are at home. That might actually work against them this year - sadly.

Sorry, but this is a GM issue
Sunday’s 26-0 loss at Seattle — the Vikings’ most humiliating defeat since last being shut out 34-0 by Green Bay 18 years ago — isn’t just a quarterback issue. It’s an overall general manager problem. Sustained success isn’t possible when your GM gets lapped by his peers annually in the draft. 

Throwing $300 million at other teams’ aging free agents can’t replace building core starters and quality depth among players entering their prime at three to five years, or generally ages 23 to 26. 

The Vikings have four players on their roster who were drafted three to five years ago — one from the last year under Rick Spielman (2021) and three from the first two years under Kwesi Adofo-Mensah (2022-23). Two are regular starters (Christian Darrisaw, Jordan Addison). Darrisaw didn’t play Sunday.

As for the rest of the NFC North, the Packers have 18 players and 12 starters who they drafted from 2021-23 while the Lions have 13 players and 11 starters, and the Bears have six players and five starters. Feel free to say, “Wow.”

Vikings among league’s most inconsistent
We tend to think of the Vikings as a proud, consistent franchise. Maybe we should amend that thinking as they fell to 4-8 and all but secured a 16th consecutive season of being unable to string two playoff years together. 

Yep, the last time this team made the playoffs in consecutive seasons was 2008-09. Let’s measure the stink level of that amazingly consistent stretch of inconsistency. Since 2000, the Vikings have made the playoffs 10 times. That’s tied for ninth most. But they’ve put together consecutive playoff seasons only that one time.

They are one of only five teams with one or fewer streaks of fewer than three seasons of making the postseason since 2000. The others: Chicago, whose only streak was 2005-06, and Washington, Jacksonville and Cleveland — none of whom have reached the playoffs in back-to-back years since 2000. It’s come to this: The Vikings being mentioned in the same breath with, gulp, Cleveland.


How about a little star-power help for Brosmer?
Max Brosmer was awful on an undrafted rookie level of awfulness (although his 32.8 passer rating was only 1.4 lower than first-rounder J.J. McCarthy’s Lambeau Field debut debacle the week before). But he got no help in getting comfortable from his side of the ball.

How many times have we said, written and back-patted Justin Jefferson and Addison as one of the best receiving duos in football? Well, they let Brosmer down when he needed them to step up early and keep this game from becoming the joke that it became. 

Brosmer was 4 for 4 for 26 yards and a first down when he dropped back to pass on second-and-9 from his 27. He threw a great ball 15 yards downfield that a wide-open Addison dropped. That came on the Vikings’ second possession and led to a second straight punt. Two possessions later, Brosmer was 6 of 9 for 46 yards and two first downs, and the Vikings trailed only 3-0. It was first-and-10 when Jefferson dropped a ball thrown to him a yard from the first down.

If Addison and Jefferson catch those two balls, Brosmer starts 8 of 10 for about 76 yards, and he’s a whole lot more comfortable than what he morphed into en route to completing 19 of 30 for 126 yards. Spread some of that blame around to the stars.

Seattle knew it was over at 10-0
It’s especially embarrassing for an NFL team to be down only 10-0 with over 31 minutes left and have its opponent start playing as if that lead is insurmountable. 

How else can we explain Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald easing up and not bothering to use one of his three timeouts when his defense sacked Brosmer at the Vikings’ 24-yard line with 1:50 left in the first half? He allowed the Vikings to punt the ball at 1:12. Seattle then ran three plays from near midfield and waited another 13 seconds before Macdonald called his first timeout with 23 seconds left. 

Probably fearing a Vikings’ defensive score more so than anything, Macdonald didn’t even try for a touchdown before settling for a 56-yard field goal and a 13-0 halftime lead.


STRIB