Week 8 thread

bluejerseyjinx · Post #201 » by **bluejerseyjinx** » Fri Oct 24, 2025 3:12 am

azcatz11 wrote:
bluejerseyjinx wrote:
Duke4life831 wrote:Haha okay, I’m now starting to think the Vikings are sacrificing Wentz to the football gods. Because this is just cruel to watch at this point

Maybe this is Minnesota's way of tanking.

Best WR tandem in the league. No shot you tank here. Honestly they should have signed Flacco

No there not. Lamb/Pickens & Chase/Higgins in class by themselves.

hermes · Post #202 » by **hermes** » Fri Oct 24, 2025 3:15 am

why not put in brosmer last drive?

azcatz11 · Post #203 » by **azcatz11** » Fri Oct 24, 2025 3:15 am

bluejerseyjinx wrote:
azcatz11 wrote:
bluejerseyjinx wrote:Maybe this is Minnesota's way of tanking.

Best WR tandem in the league. No shot you tank here. Honestly they should have signed Flacco

No there not. Lamb/Pickens & Chase/Higgins in class by themselves.

Jefferson = Chase and Addison is better than Higgins

hermes · Post #204 » by **hermes** » Fri Oct 24, 2025 3:16 am

well max has a good hard count

Post #205 » by **Duke4life831** » Fri Oct 24, 2025 3:19 am

I get the Chargers are in prevent, but they were the last drive as well. Brosmer already getting to his check downs ridiculously faster than Wentz has all year.

See how much easier it is, to just check it down. Rather than hold onto the ball forever and taking hits for no reason

hermes · Post #206 » by **hermes** » Fri Oct 24, 2025 3:20 am

well that sucked

azcatz11 · Post #207 » by **azcatz11** » Fri Oct 24, 2025 3:28 am

Duke4life831 wrote:I get the Chargers are in prevent, but they were the last drive as well. Brosmer already getting to his check downs ridiculously faster than Wentz has all year.

See how much easier it is, to just check it down. Rather than hold onto the ball forever and taking hits for no reason

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Post #208 » by **Cactus Jack** » Fri Oct 24, 2025 3:31 am

Duke4life831 wrote:I’m golden. My team is 5-2 and Darnold has been looking like a legit top 5-7 QB this year. Nothing to be upset about at all, unless you’re a fan of one of the other 3 teams in the NFC West…

Am I right Jack???

Go Duke!!!!

Post #209 » by **Duke4life831** » Fri Oct 24, 2025 3:42 am

Dallas Turner tonight, 0 tackles. On the season has just 3 tackles for a loss.

Undrafted rookie free agent Tyler Batty, who made his NFL debut last Sunday (only 3 plays, did get a tackle). Had 2 tackles, both for a loss tonight.

So basically in just 1 game vs Turner all season (8 games)

Batty has 3 tackles, 2 for a loss.
Turner has 10 tackles, 3 for a loss.

Pull the cord on Turner already and try and trade him at the deadline. Dude plays with zero effort out there

LAKESHOW · Post #210 » by **LAKESHOW** » Fri Oct 24, 2025 4:53 am

Bruh, the Vikings season is over

JujitsuFlip · Post #211 » by **JujitsuFlip** » Fri Oct 24, 2025 5:05 am

Duke4life831 wrote:
bluejerseyjinx wrote:
Duke4life831 wrote:If you think that is bad. Go back and look at the last 4 Vikings draft. It’s as bad as it gets.

But even with all of that, they decided to extend him this summer

Perhaps we can get you in a better mood and talk about the Bills instead. Who do they play this week?

Well since I’ve changed my little avatar on here to the Bills, they’re currently 0-2.

But should have an easy game against the Panthers Sunday

Panthers have a sneaky good defense.

JujitsuFlip · Post #212 » by **JujitsuFlip** » Fri Oct 24, 2025 5:08 am

bluejerseyjinx wrote:Come on Vikings. Lets just get some momentum going and see if you can turn this game around a bit. We get sleepy on the east coast if it ain't exciting.

I did fall asleep in the recliner hahaha

Lakers In 5 · Post #213 » by **Lakers In 5** » Fri Oct 24, 2025 6:31 am

The Vikings letting Darnold and Jones walk so they could roll with McCarthy and the corpse of Wentz is an all-time fumble. I would've let them walk as well, but let's not mention that. I'm not really in the loop with everything Vikings, but how did this happen? Was it money, was it thinking Darnold was a walking fluke, was it KOC thinking he could fix any QB?

Post #214 » by **Cactus Jack** » Fri Oct 24, 2025 7:17 am

Lakers In 5 wrote:The Vikings letting Darnold and Jones walk so they could roll with McCarthy and the corpse of Wentz is an all-time fumble. I would've let them walk as well, but let's not mention that. I'm not really in the loop with everything Vikings, but how did this happen? Was it money, was it thinking Darnold was a walking fluke, was it KOC thinking he could fix any QB?

It's pretty obvious by now that they fell in love with the idea of having a starting QB on a rookie deal. As soon as they made the investment (McCarthy), there really was no turning back.

Darnold wanted more than just a 1 year commitment to be a starter.

In hindsight, they should've kept Jones around by letting him compete for the job. Then they would've had a fallback option.

El Turco · Post #215 » by **El Turco** » Fri Oct 24, 2025 11:08 am

I think Vikings were just looking for a higher ceiling at quarterback and thought McCarthy would be that guy. They knew Darnold won't take them far in post season.

But Cowboys fans need to learn from Vikings. Yeah it might suck to have a QB who chokes under pressure and in playoff games but if you get rid of him you might end up with a QB that sucks in regular season too.

JujitsuFlip · Post #216 » by **JujitsuFlip** » Fri Oct 24, 2025 12:01 pm

Lakers In 5 wrote:The Vikings letting Darnold and Jones walk so they could roll with McCarthy and the corpse of Wentz is an all-time fumble. I would've let them walk as well, but let's not mention that. I'm not really in the loop with everything Vikings, but how did this happen? Was it money, was it thinking Darnold was a walking fluke, was it KOC thinking he could fix any QB?

Just a sidebar here, i don't think Wentz ever figured into the equation. Vikings signed Wentz on August 24th; after all 3 preseason games were already over.

Post #217 » by **Worm Guts** » Fri Oct 24, 2025 12:34 pm

Cactus Jack wrote:
Lakers In 5 wrote:The Vikings letting Darnold and Jones walk so they could roll with McCarthy and the corpse of Wentz is an all-time fumble. I would've let them walk as well, but let's not mention that. I'm not really in the loop with everything Vikings, but how did this happen? Was it money, was it thinking Darnold was a walking fluke, was it KOC thinking he could fix any QB?

It's pretty obvious by now that they fell in love with the idea of having a starting QB on a rookie deal. As soon as they made the investment (McCarthy), there really was no turning back.

Darnold wanted more than just a 1 year commitment to be a starter.

In hindsight, they should've kept Jones around by letting him compete for the job. Then they would've had a fallback option.

They offered Jones more than Indy did, but he thought he had a better shot to play in Indy. I don't think the Vikings could have resigned either Darnold or Jones without trading McCarthy or offering them substantially more than they received.

And for all this hand-wringing, we still don't have very much information on McCarthy yet.

QB_Eagles · Post #218 » by **QB_Eagles** » Fri Oct 24, 2025 4:39 pm

Damn, Wentz actually was crying during the game. Maybe he realized he won't get any more chances to be a starter in the NFL.

Or maybe Egals trolls got to him and he didn't have the ignore feature. That can move grown men to tears, too.

LAKESHOW · Post #219 » by **LAKESHOW** » Fri Oct 24, 2025 4:40 pm

It is showing itself to be gross incompetence, an Egotistical belief in oneself abilities, in allowing 2 QBs to be released. In a time when several teams are in a dire search for 1. And to top it all, those 2 teams are now 1st place teams

QB_Eagles · Post #220 » by **QB_Eagles** » Fri Oct 24, 2025 4:44 pm

El Turco wrote:I think Vikings were just looking for a higher ceiling at quarterback and thought McCarthy would be that guy. They knew Darnold won't take them far in post season.

But Cowboys fans need to learn from Vikings. Yeah it might suck to have a QB who chokes under pressure and in playoff games but if you get rid of him you might end up with a QB that sucks in regular season too.

Better to have a QB who sucks in the regular season than one who isn't clutch in the playoffs IMO.

At least the former gets you a higher draft pick.