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purplefaithful · (This post was last modified: Yesterday, 08:15 PM by purplefaithful.)

No tears shed for the Kitties

Priority to keep BFlo if he doesnt get a HC oppty

Is Van Gink our 2nd best player behind Jetta?

Speaking of Edges, Turner is really starting to flash on the field more. He still tackles too high, but I'm excited about 2026 for him.

Brosmer is soooo far from ready to play in the NFL. What did we have 3 or 6 yards passing today? BRUTAL

Vikings have rattled off 4 straight wins. Thats an impressive coaChing job

Speaking of --- great play call by KOC on the Addison play

Look at the teams these franchises can field by wk 16. What happens at Wk 17? Or a Wk 18? There aint enough bodies anymore, rosters are going to have to be expanded.

In some ways, this year reminds me a bit of 2008...Just a QB away from being a force with Tarvaris at QB.

Merry Xmas to all, I guess not to The Lions tonight.

supafreak84 · Yesterday, 08:32 PM

This team is so incredibly frustrating lol. Out of the playoffs since before Thanksgiving, but let's go on a winning streak now with zero to play for! The only thing it's done is save Kwesi's ass for another year and secured us from once again drafting in the top ten. We'll draft our usual 13 to 17.

Brosmer was brutal.

Defense once again showed they are one of the better units in the league. Anybody think we won't miss Harrison Smith?

Fuck it...let's beat the Packers

purplefaithful · (This post was last modified: Yesterday, 08:43 PM by purplefaithful.)

(Yesterday, 08:32 PM)supafreak84 Wrote: This team is so incredibly frustrating lol. Out of the playoffs since before Thanksgiving, but let's go on a winning streak now with zero to play for! The only thing it's done is save Kwesi's ass for another year and secured us from once again drafting in the top ten. We'll draft our usual 13 to 17.

Brosmer was brutal.

Defense once again showed they are one of the better units in the league. Anybody think we won't miss Harrison Smith?

Fuck it...let's beat the Packers

Agreed, at this point lets just beat the Pack!

Good catch on Dirty Harry...Ive done a complete 180 on him and would love him back another year to help mentor a newbie.

Overall a really tough fan year and I hate how it unfolded, especially at QB. As fun as most of last year was, this year wasn't. Least for me.

That said, they're sniffing .500 cause of BFlo/KOC and their ability to keep the locker room united and the team from coming apart. Will the owners recognize this vs the GM? I dont know, there's a time for that later.

For now? I'm enjoying a sweep of the Kitties.

Kentis · Yesterday, 08:49 PM

We’re out of the cellar…! Tongue

Merry Christmas…!

*JimmyinSD* · Yesterday, 11:18 PM

(Yesterday, 08:32 PM)supafreak84 Wrote: This team is so incredibly frustrating lol. Out of the playoffs since before Thanksgiving, but let's go on a winning streak now with zero to play for! The only thing it's done is save Kwesi's ass for another year and secured us from once again drafting in the top ten. We'll draft our usual 13 to 17.

Brosmer was brutal.

Defense once again showed they are one of the better units in the league. Anybody think we won't miss Harrison Smith?

Fuck it...let's beat the Packers

Well with a first place schedule in a true rebuild year, WTf did you expect.

A MASH unit O line and Brosmer was supposed to impress against a premier D front?

Fuck yes we will miss the hitman, sure would be nice to have Hamilton and not have division opponents have a decent draft picks as a result of KAMs ineptitude.

Yes. well.... fuck it!

purplefaithful · 6 hours ago

The announced 66,874 fans at U.S. Bank Stadium were awash in holiday revelry by the two-minute warning of the Vikings’ 23-10 Christmas Day victory over the Lions, as video board operators focused on individual players for what amounted to curtain calls.

They roared for Justin Jefferson, whose 10-yard reception moments earlier had helped him pass Randy Moss for the most receiving yards by a NFL player in the first six seasons of his career. Then the picture changed to Harrison Smith, who had sacked Jared Goff in the first quarter and pounced on an Amon-Ra St. Brown crossing route in the third for the 39th interception of his 14-year career.

The fans, dressed in winter white to match the Vikings’ special uniforms, lauded the safety with a grateful ovation. Smith, rarely the type to display emotion, responded by blowing kisses to the crowd.

“The fans here have never experienced a Super Bowl, and they always show up,” Smith said, holding back tears for the second consecutive home game. “For them to keep going, it just shows how much they love the team, how much they love everything that goes into it. I mean, we’re out of the playoffs, everybody shows up in white. They do their part. One of these days, they’ll get it.”

“It,” of course, is the Lombardi Trophy the Vikings have never won and haven’t played for in nearly 50 years. The 2025 season, the 65th in franchise history, will end without a playoff berth; it means if Smith retires after this year, he will never have reached a Super Bowl. The looming sunset seemed on the minds of the fans who saluted Smith and the safety who returned their gratitude.

The safety wouldn’t entertain the question of retirement after the game, calling himself a “very much in-the-moment type of guy” and saying he wanted to savor the time he has with teammates he loves.

He has decided to come back the past two years after contemplating retirement, and this year, when he missed the Vikings’ first two games with a personal medical issue, he admitted he wondered briefly if he would make it back.

The Lions game, then, was a kind of capstone. After Smith broke from his deep safety position to cut off the in-breaking pass he knew Goff liked to throw to St. Brown, he thought about firing the ball into the stands, but pulled up when he realized his 39th interception — possibly his last at U.S. Bank Stadium — was one he would like to keep.

“The pick was a good one,” Smith said with a smirk afterward, allowing himself a moment of self-congratulation.

Later, he grew reflective when asked why he has become more emotional.

“There’s definitely a maturity, and you realize your own football mortality,” he said. ”When you’re young, there’s no end in sight. The past couple years, I know it’s there. It’s not an emotion of sadness. It’s more heightened, I would say. So you just feel it a little bit more.”

“There’s something about this group, when you get in between the lines, you go all-out,” Smith said. “I don’t know why, exactly, but it makes it fun. I forget my age. I forget all that. I just enjoy the moment.”

So did the fans who turned out in white to salute him.

Not everyone gets to play 14 years with one team, he acknowledged. “I’m not naive to that. I just wanted to show my appreciation.”

STRIB

Bullazin · 6 hours ago

Harry can still play at a high level, I really hope he goes 1 more but I doubt it.

This team does have a great culture as Harry says. Can it translate to wins? It’s all on JJ really unless they give up on him early ( which they won’t).

Gonna be a long offseason hyping up the kid. Sure would be nice to have a storybook year in 2026.

MaroonBells · 5 hours ago

(Yesterday, 08:14 PM)purplefaithful Wrote: No tears shed for the Kitties

Priority to keep BFlo if he doesnt get a HC oppty

Is Van Gink our 2nd best player behind Jetta?

Speaking of Edges, Turner is really starting to flash on the field more. He still tackles too high, but I'm excited about 2026 for him.

Brosmer is soooo far from ready to play in the NFL. What did we have 3 or 6 yards passing today? BRUTAL

Vikings have rattled off 4 straight wins. Thats an impressive coaChing job

Speaking of --- great play call by KOC on the Addison play

Look at the teams these franchises can field by wk 16. What happens at Wk 17? Or a Wk 18? There aint enough bodies anymore, rosters are going to have to be expanded.

In some ways, this year reminds me a bit of 2008...Just a QB away from being a force with Tarvaris at QB.

Merry Xmas to all, I guess not to The Lions tonight.

Well I know one thing, with just league-average QB play this year, the Vikings not only make the playoffs, they're probably the team nobody wants to play.

supafreak84 · 4 hours ago

(Yesterday, 11:18 PM)JimmyinSD Wrote: Well with a first place schedule in a true rebuild year, WTf did you expect.

A MASH unit O line and Brosmer was supposed to impress against a premier D front?

Fuck yes we will miss the hitman, sure would be nice to have Hamilton and not have division opponents have a decent draft picks as a result of KAMs ineptitude.

Yes. well.... fuck it!

WTF did I expect? Oh, probably like everyone else here who saw a 14 win team last year who spent 300 million on free agency additions and were starting a highly drafted quarterback and thought we'd be a playoff team. Instead we got one of the worst offenses in football that put our defense in bad situations, penalties in abundance, and a stubborn head coach who wouldn't adjust his play calling until week 14 when that was his only option left. I've seen "rebuild" years before and this wasn't one of them.

I don't think Detroit has a premier defensive front. They literally have one dude. I actually thought our offensive line played decent considering we trotted out three backups as starters. I'm also tired of the built-in MASH unit excuse for our offensive line every year. We just need to go into every year expecting injuries along our offensive line and do our damndest to invest in that line and bring in the best ten guys possible year in and year out. Maybe prioritize those positions a little more in the draft, maybe spend some more coin to keep a guy like Cam Robinson, maybe don't just automatically hand over backup jobs to late round draft picks or UDFA's where there's such a steep drop-off in play. I'm just beyond tired of this team having issues with the offensive line each and every year.

purplefaithful

(4 hours ago)supafreak84 Wrote: WTF did I expect? Oh, probably like everyone else here who saw a 14 win team last year who spent 300 million on free agency additions and were starting a highly drafted quarterback and thought we'd be a playoff team. Instead we got one of the worst offenses in football that put our defense in bad situations, penalties in abundance, and a stubborn head coach who wouldn't adjust his play calling until week 14 when that was his only option left. I've seen "rebuild" years before and this wasn't one of them.

I don't think Detroit has a premier defensive front. They literally have one dude. I actually thought our offensive line played decent considering we trotted out three backups as starters. I'm also tired of the built-in MASH unit excuse for our offensive line every year. We just need to go into every year expecting injuries along our offensive line and do our damndest to invest in that line and bring in the best ten guys possible year in and year out. Maybe prioritize those positions a little more in the draft, maybe spend some more coin to keep a guy like Cam Robinson, maybe don't just automatically hand over backup jobs to late round draft picks or UDFA's where there's such a steep drop-off in play. I'm just beyond tired of this team having issues with the offensive line each and every year.

Your expectations were higher than mine..I had their floor at 9 and thats IF JJM could play much - and he didnt.

I agree it seems like the Vikings are as snake bit as anyone along that OL. But I look at what many teams can trot out to the field by December and its not good. Look at KC this year, look at how the loss of Decker impacted the Lions yesterday.

This also gets back to 17 game seasons and the toll it takes on a locker room. What will happen with 18 games?

PLUS, KAMS drafting has been a problem and its impacted depth on this team no doubt.

Vikings have plenty of reasons to look into the mirror and they'll find problems, but injuries imo derailed the season the most (especially at QB and OL).