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  What's the identity of this squad?
Posted by: purplefaithful - 10-16-2025, 01:15 PM - Forum: The Longship - Replies (4)

Its not a prolific offense or defense...

Its not a singular or dynamic passer, runner or D stud. 

Jetta hasn't been his normal productive self for all the obvious reasons. 

A lot of FA $$'s have been dropped and this is about as middling, vanilla and nondescript a squad as I can remember. 

They haven't been very entertaining either...Least compared to y.ago (which I enjoyed till the end). 

Yawn?

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  Kwesi's Photoshoot
Posted by: MaroonBells - 10-16-2025, 10:53 AM - Forum: The Longship - Replies (6)

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  All signs point to Wentz
Posted by: Montana Tom - 10-16-2025, 10:00 AM - Forum: The Longship - Replies (2)

JJM is not 100%.
Neither is Wentz and his sore left shoulder, but it's not his throwing arm.
Sorry Sticky...KOC is not going to throw JJM out there if he's not 100%
From the Strib:
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The Vikings quarterback predicament has been debated and guesstimated so intensely it’s as if we’re all playing the board game Clue. Who will start Sunday against the Eagles? Will it be Professor Wentz or Colonel McCarthy in the bank with a dagger?

The head coach isn’t revealing his answer yet. The affable Kevin O’Connell was uncharacteristically terse Wednesday when asked where things stand with his quarterback decision.

“They stand in the same place they did Monday when I answered that question,” he said.

Alrighty then.

I began the week predicting that J.J. McCarthy would return to the starter’s role after missing three games because of a high ankle sprain.

I would like to retract that guess. Eyes, ears and gut tell me that Carson Wentz will remain the starter for at least one more game and quite possibly longer.

Let’s read the tea leaves, shall we?

Start with McCarthy’s answer when asked how his ankle is feeling.

“Ankle is getting there,” he said. “I wouldn’t say it’s 100 percent right now.”

That doesn’t sound like a guy who will be ready to play an NFL game on Sunday. He also called it a “really annoying injury.” He was listed as limited in practice on Wednesday.

The organization is not going to send McCarthy back onto the field until there is 100% confidence that he has no physical limitations. McCarthy’s mobility is an important part of his skill set, so “getting there” physically does not meet the threshold of being ready to run the offense.

O’Connell’s answers in media sessions both Monday and Wednesday were equally enlightening.

Unprompted, he called McCarthy’s high ankle sprain a “a unique, real injury,” which likely was intended to shoot down conspiracy theories about whether McCarthy’s absence was a soft benching disguised as an injury.

O’Connell’s openness about what has been taking place behind the scenes was especially illuminating. He went into extensive detail about the work he and McCarthy have done since returning from Europe on refining his fundamentals. O’Connell’s descriptions made it sound like a pupil going through quarterback school to drill down on footwork principles.

O’Connell noted that several negative factors came into play in McCarthy’s tough outing against the Falcons in his second start — injuries along the offensive line, his ankle injury, a lack of practice time after the birth of his child — but the coach’s willingness to discuss his bye week sessions with McCarthy on footwork fundamentals didn’t come across as random. That part didn’t sound like a quarterback ready to start Sunday, either.

“He’s an accurate passer,” O’Connell said. “What I have learned about him is when he plays with that ideal base, balance and body position, you’re going to see the ball come out with a lot of revolutions and it’s going to go where he wants it to go.”

O’Connell has wisely — and likely purposely — not given concrete timelines and assessments publicly so that he doesn’t box himself in on deciding how the situation unfolds.

This season began under a complicated premise: A first-year starting quarterback on a veteran team built to win now and become relevant in the playoffs. The picture became muddier with McCarthy’s shaky start and injury.

The organization drafted McCarthy to be a franchise quarterback and the only true way for him to work through growing pains is to gain experience in games. That was the basis for my theory that he would return as the starter this week. A wise friend reminded me that Wentz went 9-for-9 passing with a touchdown on the final drive against one of the NFL’s best defenses to pull off a win against the Cleveland Browns in the most recent game. How do you tell him to take a seat after doing that?

Realistically, O’Connell has a two-week buffer before McCarthy’s status becomes a larger story. Assuming Wentz starts Sunday, a quarterback change seems unlikely next week considering the Vikings will have only one practice day before playing Thursday night in Los Angeles against the Chargers.

That puts a spotlight on the Nov. 2 game in Detroit. McCarthy’s ankle should be fully healthy by then. Two weeks in an NFL season can feel like an eternity because so much can change. It’s the Vikings, though, so questions about the quarterback situation are evergreen.

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  OT: Rolling in Cash
Posted by: MaroonBells - 10-16-2025, 09:32 AM - Forum: The Longship - Replies (14)

Anyone else play this game? Every fall I try to go as long as I can before lighting up the furnace. It’s October 16th and I still haven’t turned it on. Am I thrifty? You bet I am. And you can just put a damn sweater on (I hear my dad’s voice echo in my head).

What’s more, last time I had the AC on was September 12th, which, due to an unusually rainy early Fall in Denver, was also the last date I had the sprinklers on, which was also not long after my kids moved out, taking their 20-minute showers with them to their college towns.

My last water bill before the kids moved out: $362.00. First water bill after kids moved out: $18.00.

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  Josh Simmons AWOL
Posted by: JustInTime - 10-15-2025, 05:59 PM - Forum: The Longship - Replies (3)



No Donovan Jackson to fill in. Does not sound like a good situation.

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  RUMORS: WRers to change teams soon....trades coming
Posted by: StickierBuns - 10-15-2025, 12:57 PM - Forum: The Longship - Replies (1)

Guys like Chris Olave and Jakobi Meyers. Been hearing how active this could be this year before the trade deadline. Some pretty good teams are going to get better....like a Buffalo. I could see them being active. New England supposedly in the market for another WRer for Maye.

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  Greenard: 'I think JJ is going to be back this Sunday'
Posted by: StickierBuns - 10-15-2025, 03:43 AM - Forum: The Longship - Replies (11)

vikingzfanpage

Jonathan Greenard thinks JJ McCarthy will return to action this week, he said to @tr5nton via YouTube:

“I think JJ, he will probably be back this week. I think he will.”

Take with a grain, I'm not always a fan of what the players say lol. Sometimes they can say some interesting things. But he put this out there yesterday, FYI.

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  Conjecture- What if McCarthy is still a question mark
Posted by: smleh - 10-14-2025, 05:32 PM - Forum: The Longship - Replies (5)

Do they bring in competition next year, and if so who?

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  Max makes an impression
Posted by: StickierBuns - 10-14-2025, 01:41 PM - Forum: The Longship - Replies (6)

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Continued high praise from the #Vikings coaching staff on Max Brosmer:
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Vikings OC Wes Phillips today on Max Brosmer: "Nobody is going to question Max's preparation going into any football game. No matter if he's supposed to be the emergency 3, or the 2, or if he was going in as a starter. We all feel great about, intangibly, everything Max brings."

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  Stick A Fork In Hitman
Posted by: JustInTime - 10-14-2025, 01:11 PM - Forum: The Longship - Replies (12)

Sounds done.



Who could have predicted this outcome?

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