Josh Oliver

@"StickyBun" said: Cousins calls Oliver the 'Sears Tower', lol. Because he's tall. And Kirk's a nerd. 

@"Kentis" said: Right now, Oliver is the 1st overall tight end on PFF. A total of 71 TEs are considered, but Oliver’s 89.5 grade is claiming the gold medal.

Yeah, but Kwesi spent like $60 Billion on a back up TE.  Get the pitchforks and torches!!!

@"AGRforever" said:

@"Kentis" said: Right now, Oliver is the 1st overall tight end on PFF. A total of 71 TEs are considered, but Oliver’s 89.5 grade is claiming the gold medal.

Yeah, but Kwesi spent like $60 Billion on a back up TE.  Get the pitchforks and torches!!!

@"AGRforever" said:

@"Kentis" said: Right now, Oliver is the 1st overall tight end on PFF. A total of 71 TEs are considered, but Oliver’s 89.5 grade is claiming the gold medal.

Yeah, but Kwesi spent like $60 Billion on a back up TE.  Get the pitchforks and torches!!!

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"AGRforever" said:

@"Kentis" said: Right now, Oliver is the 1st overall tight end on PFF. A total of 71 TEs are considered, but Oliver’s 89.5 grade is claiming the gold medal.

Yeah, but Kwesi spent like $60 Billion on a back up TE.  Get the pitchforks and torches!!!

Don't give them any ideas. It’s a public safety issue. That crowd is so fucking stupid they'd be running around the exurbs with their heads on fire and pitchforks stuck in their asses. 

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"AGRforever" said:

@"Kentis" said: Right now, Oliver is the 1st overall tight end on PFF. A total of 71 TEs are considered, but Oliver’s 89.5 grade is claiming the gold medal.

Yeah, but Kwesi spent like $60 Billion on a back up TE.  Get the pitchforks and torches!!!

Don't give them any ideas. It’s a public safety issue. That crowd is so fucking stupid they'd be running around the exurbs with their heads on fire and pitchforks stuck in their asses. 

Because anybody that doesn't agree with the Homer's take has to be fucking stupid.

Good Lord...

There's enough division in the country, do we really have to have a Culpepper part deuce with Kirko?

He is what he is...He's all the best passer we've had since Favre. 

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"AGRforever" said:

@"Kentis" said: Right now, Oliver is the 1st overall tight end on PFF. A total of 71 TEs are considered, but Oliver’s 89.5 grade is claiming the gold medal.

Yeah, but Kwesi spent like $60 Billion on a back up TE.  Get the pitchforks and torches!!!

Don't give them any ideas. It’s a public safety issue. That crowd is so fucking stupid they'd be running around the exurbs with their heads on fire and pitchforks stuck in their asses. 

Because anybody that doesn't agree with the Homer's take has to be fucking stupid.

What's the Homer's take? 

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"AGRforever" said:

@"Kentis" said: Right now, Oliver is the 1st overall tight end on PFF. A total of 71 TEs are considered, but Oliver’s 89.5 grade is claiming the gold medal.

Yeah, but Kwesi spent like $60 Billion on a back up TE.  Get the pitchforks and torches!!!

Don't give them any ideas. It’s a public safety issue. That crowd is so fucking stupid they'd be running around the exurbs with their heads on fire and pitchforks stuck in their asses. 

Because anybody that doesn't agree with the Homer's take has to be fucking stupid.

What's the Homer's take? 

read you past posts.  anybody you disagree with gets blasted,  apparently in this instance they are "fucking stupid"  simply because you disagree with their positions on something.  contrary to your belief,  you are not dead on in all things Vikings related,  you are have a pretty good football opinion on most things,  but you do get blinded by purple and just because some have a different view on something (KAM, his hiring, and his efforts to date ) doesnt make them "fucking stupid".

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"AGRforever" said:

@"Kentis" said: Right now, Oliver is the 1st overall tight end on PFF. A total of 71 TEs are considered, but Oliver’s 89.5 grade is claiming the gold medal.

Yeah, but Kwesi spent like $60 Billion on a back up TE.  Get the pitchforks and torches!!!

Don't give them any ideas. It’s a public safety issue. That crowd is so fucking stupid they'd be running around the exurbs with their heads on fire and pitchforks stuck in their asses. 

Because anybody that doesn't agree with the Homer's take has to be fucking stupid.

What's the Homer's take? 

read you past posts.  anybody you disagree with gets blasted,  apparently in this instance they are "fucking stupid"  simply because you disagree with their positions on something.  contrary to your belief,  you are not dead on in all things Vikings related,  you are have a pretty good football opinion on most things,  but you do get blinded by purple and just because some have a different view on something (KAM, his hiring, and his efforts to date ) doesnt make them "fucking stupid".

@"supafreak84" said:

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"AGRforever" said:

@"Kentis" said: Right now, Oliver is the 1st overall tight end on PFF. A total of 71 TEs are considered, but Oliver’s 89.5 grade is claiming the gold medal.

Yeah, but Kwesi spent like $60 Billion on a back up TE.  Get the pitchforks and torches!!!

Don't give them any ideas. It’s a public safety issue. That crowd is so fucking stupid they'd be running around the exurbs with their heads on fire and pitchforks stuck in their asses. 

Because anybody that doesn't agree with the Homer's take has to be fucking stupid.

What's the Homer's take? 

read you past posts.  anybody you disagree with gets blasted,  apparently in this instance they are "fucking stupid"  simply because you disagree with their positions on something.  contrary to your belief,  you are not dead on in all things Vikings related,  you are have a pretty good football opinion on most things,  but you do get blinded by purple and just because some have a different view on something (KAM, his hiring, and his efforts to date ) doesnt make them "fucking stupid".

Wait Jimmy, you must have missed that Asamoah was going to be a "superstar" this season, Lewis Cine was going to be an amazing piece in the Brian Flores system, continuity on the offensive line was all we needed for improvement, and we were winning 12 games and competing to go to the Super Bowl this season and anybody who thought otherwise had an agenda. But hey, everybody else is the fucking morons, right?

@"supafreak84" said:

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"AGRforever" said:

@"Kentis" said: Right now, Oliver is the 1st overall tight end on PFF. A total of 71 TEs are considered, but Oliver’s 89.5 grade is claiming the gold medal.

Yeah, but Kwesi spent like $60 Billion on a back up TE.  Get the pitchforks and torches!!!

Don't give them any ideas. It’s a public safety issue. That crowd is so fucking stupid they'd be running around the exurbs with their heads on fire and pitchforks stuck in their asses. 

Because anybody that doesn't agree with the Homer's take has to be fucking stupid.

What's the Homer's take? 

read you past posts.  anybody you disagree with gets blasted,  apparently in this instance they are "fucking stupid"  simply because you disagree with their positions on something.  contrary to your belief,  you are not dead on in all things Vikings related,  you are have a pretty good football opinion on most things,  but you do get blinded by purple and just because some have a different view on something (KAM, his hiring, and his efforts to date ) doesnt make them "fucking stupid".

Wait Jimmy, you must have missed that Asamoah was going to be a "superstar" this season, Lewis Cine was going to be an amazing piece in the Brian Flores system, continuity on the offensive line was all we needed for improvement, and we were winning 12 games and competing to go to the Super Bowl this season and anybody who thought otherwise had an agenda. But hey, everybody else is the fucking morons, right?

@"StickyBun" said:

@"supafreak84" said:

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"AGRforever" said:

@"Kentis" said: Right now, Oliver is the 1st overall tight end on PFF. A total of 71 TEs are considered, but Oliver’s 89.5 grade is claiming the gold medal.

Yeah, but Kwesi spent like $60 Billion on a back up TE.  Get the pitchforks and torches!!!

Don't give them any ideas. It’s a public safety issue. That crowd is so fucking stupid they'd be running around the exurbs with their heads on fire and pitchforks stuck in their asses. 

Because anybody that doesn't agree with the Homer's take has to be fucking stupid.

What's the Homer's take? 

read you past posts.  anybody you disagree with gets blasted,  apparently in this instance they are "fucking stupid"  simply because you disagree with their positions on something.  contrary to your belief,  you are not dead on in all things Vikings related,  you are have a pretty good football opinion on most things,  but you do get blinded by purple and just because some have a different view on something (KAM, his hiring, and his efforts to date ) doesnt make them "fucking stupid".

Wait Jimmy, you must have missed that Asamoah was going to be a "superstar" this season, Lewis Cine was going to be an amazing piece in the Brian Flores system, continuity on the offensive line was all we needed for improvement, and we were winning 12 games and competing to go to the Super Bowl this season and anybody who thought otherwise had an agenda. But hey, everybody else is the fucking morons, right?

Yep, I love me some MB, but he's a homer. I've said as much in the past. He's not big on 'remembering' past players he's hyped that have flopped. No biggie. 

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"StickyBun" said:

@"supafreak84" said:

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"AGRforever" said:

@"Kentis" said: Right now, Oliver is the 1st overall tight end on PFF. A total of 71 TEs are considered, but Oliver’s 89.5 grade is claiming the gold medal.

Yeah, but Kwesi spent like $60 Billion on a back up TE.  Get the pitchforks and torches!!!

Don't give them any ideas. It’s a public safety issue. That crowd is so fucking stupid they'd be running around the exurbs with their heads on fire and pitchforks stuck in their asses. 

Because anybody that doesn't agree with the Homer's take has to be fucking stupid.

What's the Homer's take? 

read you past posts.  anybody you disagree with gets blasted,  apparently in this instance they are "fucking stupid"  simply because you disagree with their positions on something.  contrary to your belief,  you are not dead on in all things Vikings related,  you are have a pretty good football opinion on most things,  but you do get blinded by purple and just because some have a different view on something (KAM, his hiring, and his efforts to date ) doesnt make them "fucking stupid".

Wait Jimmy, you must have missed that Asamoah was going to be a "superstar" this season, Lewis Cine was going to be an amazing piece in the Brian Flores system, continuity on the offensive line was all we needed for improvement, and we were winning 12 games and competing to go to the Super Bowl this season and anybody who thought otherwise had an agenda. But hey, everybody else is the fucking morons, right?

Yep, I love me some MB, but he's a homer. I've said as much in the past. He's not big on 'remembering' past players he's hyped that have flopped. No biggie. 

I love you too Sticky. Shall we list all the players you've hyped that didn't turn out? 

@"StickyBun" said:

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"StickyBun" said:

@"supafreak84" said:

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"AGRforever" said:

@"Kentis" said: Right now, Oliver is the 1st overall tight end on PFF. A total of 71 TEs are considered, but Oliver’s 89.5 grade is claiming the gold medal.

Yeah, but Kwesi spent like $60 Billion on a back up TE.  Get the pitchforks and torches!!!

Don't give them any ideas. It’s a public safety issue. That crowd is so fucking stupid they'd be running around the exurbs with their heads on fire and pitchforks stuck in their asses. 

Because anybody that doesn't agree with the Homer's take has to be fucking stupid.

What's the Homer's take? 

read you past posts.  anybody you disagree with gets blasted,  apparently in this instance they are "fucking stupid"  simply because you disagree with their positions on something.  contrary to your belief,  you are not dead on in all things Vikings related,  you are have a pretty good football opinion on most things,  but you do get blinded by purple and just because some have a different view on something (KAM, his hiring, and his efforts to date ) doesnt make them "fucking stupid".

Wait Jimmy, you must have missed that Asamoah was going to be a "superstar" this season, Lewis Cine was going to be an amazing piece in the Brian Flores system, continuity on the offensive line was all we needed for improvement, and we were winning 12 games and competing to go to the Super Bowl this season and anybody who thought otherwise had an agenda. But hey, everybody else is the fucking morons, right?

Yep, I love me some MB, but he's a homer. I've said as much in the past. He's not big on 'remembering' past players he's hyped that have flopped. No biggie. 

I love you too Sticky. Shall we list all the players you've hyped that didn't turn out? 

But I admit them! And what Supa said of your opinion of the season is spot on. Just sayin'. I'm the one who mentions how WRONG I am most times, about predictions, players, etc.. I don't think I can ever remember you admitting that. And I mean ever. 

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"StickyBun" said:

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"StickyBun" said:

@"supafreak84" said:

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"AGRforever" said:

@"Kentis" said: Right now, Oliver is the 1st overall tight end on PFF. A total of 71 TEs are considered, but Oliver’s 89.5 grade is claiming the gold medal.

Yeah, but Kwesi spent like $60 Billion on a back up TE.  Get the pitchforks and torches!!!

Don't give them any ideas. It’s a public safety issue. That crowd is so fucking stupid they'd be running around the exurbs with their heads on fire and pitchforks stuck in their asses. 

Because anybody that doesn't agree with the Homer's take has to be fucking stupid.

What's the Homer's take? 

read you past posts.  anybody you disagree with gets blasted,  apparently in this instance they are "fucking stupid"  simply because you disagree with their positions on something.  contrary to your belief,  you are not dead on in all things Vikings related,  you are have a pretty good football opinion on most things,  but you do get blinded by purple and just because some have a different view on something (KAM, his hiring, and his efforts to date ) doesnt make them "fucking stupid".

Wait Jimmy, you must have missed that Asamoah was going to be a "superstar" this season, Lewis Cine was going to be an amazing piece in the Brian Flores system, continuity on the offensive line was all we needed for improvement, and we were winning 12 games and competing to go to the Super Bowl this season and anybody who thought otherwise had an agenda. But hey, everybody else is the fucking morons, right?

Yep, I love me some MB, but he's a homer. I've said as much in the past. He's not big on 'remembering' past players he's hyped that have flopped. No biggie. 

I love you too Sticky. Shall we list all the players you've hyped that didn't turn out? 

But I admit them! And what Supa said of your opinion of the season is spot on. Just sayin'. I'm the one who mentions how WRONG I am most times, about predictions, players, etc.. I don't think I can ever remember you admitting that. And I mean ever. 

I'll let you know when it happens. 

@"supafreak84" said:

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"AGRforever" said:

@"Kentis" said: Right now, Oliver is the 1st overall tight end on PFF. A total of 71 TEs are considered, but Oliver’s 89.5 grade is claiming the gold medal.

Yeah, but Kwesi spent like $60 Billion on a back up TE.  Get the pitchforks and torches!!!

Don't give them any ideas. It’s a public safety issue. That crowd is so fucking stupid they'd be running around the exurbs with their heads on fire and pitchforks stuck in their asses. 

Because anybody that doesn't agree with the Homer's take has to be fucking stupid.

What's the Homer's take? 

read you past posts.  anybody you disagree with gets blasted,  apparently in this instance they are "fucking stupid"  simply because you disagree with their positions on something.  contrary to your belief,  you are not dead on in all things Vikings related,  you are have a pretty good football opinion on most things,  but you do get blinded by purple and just because some have a different view on something (KAM, his hiring, and his efforts to date ) doesnt make them "fucking stupid".

Wait Jimmy, you must have missed that Asamoah was going to be a "superstar" this season, Lewis Cine was going to be an amazing piece in the Brian Flores system, continuity on the offensive line was all we needed for improvement, and we were winning 12 games and competing to go to the Super Bowl this season and anybody who thought otherwise had an agenda. But hey, everybody else is the fucking morons, right?

@"MaroonBells" said:

See, by any standard, that’s a rational, reasonable take. It only SOUNDS like starry-eyed homerism when you compare it to the surplus of negativity directed at every decision the GM makes simply because some folks don’t like him….or wanted him to make a decision THEY supported. You have to admit it’s pretty ridiculous. Any reasonable evaluation of our GM would factor in his good decisions (TJH, KOC, Thielen, Cook) and bad (trade down comp, Donatell, Tomlinson) and those for which it's too early (drafts, Davenport, Oliver, Flores). But in context with other NFL GMs, that's probably par for the course.

I like this spicy Jimmy but hopefully he doesn't melt the whole board into a congealed lump of crud :p.

I just bypass Kwesi and KOC and Kirko (should we refer to them as the KKK? No?  Too spicy? :o) and blame the Wilfs. 

Cuz if it all goes to shit which seems like at least a 50/50 chance at this point, they are the guys that hired the dopes to run the team into shit and insisted on no real tear-down, etc.  And they will have to manage another of their famously mediocre hires to try all over again and get the fans believing in them. 

Why the fans believe in them after 18 years of .500 I don't know.  Well actually I do--cuz they built some nice buildings.  Who sez we can't have nice things?  Maybe not Lombardi trophies, but we got buildings, baby, big fuckin' fancy ones.  Take that, 49ers and Chiefs!

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"AGRforever" said:

@"Kentis" said: Right now, Oliver is the 1st overall tight end on PFF. A total of 71 TEs are considered, but Oliver’s 89.5 grade is claiming the gold medal.

Yeah, but Kwesi spent like $60 Billion on a back up TE.  Get the pitchforks and torches!!!

Don't give them any ideas. It’s a public safety issue. That crowd is so fucking stupid they'd be running around the exurbs with their heads on fire and pitchforks stuck in their asses. 

Because anybody that doesn't agree with the Homer's take has to be fucking stupid.

What's the Homer's take? 

read you past posts.  anybody you disagree with gets blasted,  apparently in this instance they are "fucking stupid"  simply because you disagree with their positions on something.  contrary to your belief,  you are not dead on in all things Vikings related,  you are have a pretty good football opinion on most things,  but you do get blinded by purple and just because some have a different view on something (KAM, his hiring, and his efforts to date ) doesnt make them "fucking stupid".

Is it that? Or is it more that we should maybe be patient with decisions made by the GM before reflexively kvetching about them like a teary teen whose TikTok goes unliked? 
Many were slagging the Davenport signing as a bust less than a week ago. My “homer” response wasn’t “no, he was a great signing!” It was “maybe, just maybe, we should wait to see what he does when he actually plays before calling him a bust...maybe?" 

See, by any standard, that’s a rational, reasonable take. It only SOUNDS like starry-eyed homerism when you compare it to the surplus of negativity directed at every decision the GM makes simply because some folks don’t like him….or wanted him to make a decision THEY supported. You have to admit it’s pretty ridiculous. Any reasonable evaluation of our GM would factor in his good decisions (TJH, KOC, Thielen, Cook) and bad (trade down comp, Donatell, Tomlinson) and those for which it's too early (drafts, Davenport, Oliver, Flores). But in context with other NFL GMs, that's probably par for the course.

Anyway, that’s all I’m doing. Aside from my work as a part-time Pagan god and saver of whales, I consider it my job as board homer to bring a little sliver of hope, a ray of sunshine if you will, to those who are convinced they can't have anything nice. And I enjoy my work.