madlithuanian

X takes the square! I posted my rant before reading your post!

I COULD NOT AGREE MORE!!!! Why isn't TIllman on him?

I will get better. He looked to have righted the ship at the 2nd half and just made one bad pass pressing it with a minute to go after Vasher matador'ed Jennings.

But the challenge loss and loss of a TO are on the coaches. There was ample time for someone upstairs to see it. I initially thought when he threw the flag, someone upstairs dialed it in! And let's be honest. I could care less how many men are on that field...when the game is this tight you do not authorize that audible. You say, no matter what, kick it. So, I still blame the coaches. Who coached Mannelly?

Yep, the players f'ed up. Bad decisions were made and poor execution was abound. However, the buck stops at the coach. Bottom line, this team did not look prepared to play. He did get the defense going, but Smith did not have this club ready to play at a high level. He needs to right that wrong, and get this team motivated next weekend. He's got all of this season to prove me wrong, but I still don't feel he is good enough to get this team to the promised land.

F F F F F F F ...dammit that's depressing. Should have drafted Laurinaitis!

I guess we're even now w/ Url out... Avantage PIT....

I'd tend to agree....

To me, turnovers don't make the whole picture. As much as Cutler f'ed up...he circled the wagons and led the team down to what should have been the win after all those mistakes earlier. If it were Grossman, he would have continued to snowball downward. Cutler has more moxie. Yep, the last pick sucked. But the D got torched at the worst moment, and he shouldn't have had to have another series. But, with that said, he still botched it and deserves blame. However, I see him very differently than Grossman. As horrifically as we played, we only lost by 6 on the road agasint a good team. If we can win 2 of the next 3, we're still more than OK. I don't suspect a win w/ PIT, but I think we can beat SEA and should beat DET.

Gotcha! In my league, we've banned trades altogether. Only free agent pick-ups are allowed. We felt as though trades really don't happen in the NFL all that often (Although we're sure glad it did w/ Cutler!), there's too much chance for collusion, and the voting process is a pain. Basically, it's an administrative nightmare we did away with.

Are you getting rid of Housh and marshall or trying to get them? If you're getting rid of them, DO IT! Don't try to get them. Olsen and Holmes I think will prove far more valuable as the season goes on. I like Housh, but I just don't trust anything relating to Denver...

I liked it too. But, it's time to make #24 a number to remember!

Yeah...and the whizzinator...and little Shiancoe... But I'm really just looking at this season...

I really couldn't agree more. I'm really going off an a tangent here...but I just get a sick to my stomach feeling about everything involving the Vikings this year. You tack in Wade's j/a comments early on, the whole Favre thing, the lack of punishment for the Williams wall, the AP love-fest, etc...and I just feel like they are trying to buy/or be given the Super Bowl. I just have a feeling all this will come to haunt them. It reeks of desperation...

All good!

Sorry, I'm not looking to spar... I was simply piggy-backing onto your comment stating basically the same thing. Appareantly I wasn't clear enough.

From PFT: League's reaction to StarCaps ruling focuses on disparity Posted by Mike Florio on September 11, 2009 4:23 PM ET In the wake of Friday's decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit that Saints defensive ends Charles Grant and Will Smith will be suspended for taking StarCaps and Vikings defensive tackles Pat and Kevin Williams won't, the NFL's reaction centers on the obvious differences in treatment, and the union's role in letting it happen. "The real losers today are the players on 31 other clubs," NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said via e-mail, "who no longer live under the same rules as players on the Minnesota Vikings -- a result of the NFL Players Association's failure to stand behind the program it negotiated with the league, and for which it has properly claimed credit with fans and before Congress. The most respected program in sports has been put in jeopardy by the NFL union's silence and today's ruling." In our view, however, the union had no choice but to join in the attack on the steroids policy, given the possibility that the union would have faced a lawsuit of its own for agreeing to allow the Commissioner to serve as judge, jury, executioner, appeals court, and governor when it comes to the determination of whether a player violated the policy. But the league has a point. It's hard for the union to claim it has helped craft a policy that gets tough on cheaters while at the same time fighting the very rules that demonstrate such toughness. And to the extent that the NFL is concerned about differences in treatment between players on the Vikings and players with other teams, lawyer David Cornwell (who represents the Saints players who'll serve their suspensions) has a suggestion -- give the Saints players a pass on this one. Said Cornwell via e-mail, "The same rational (uniformity) that compelled the NFL to argue against application of the Minnesota statute should also compel the NFL to refrain from suspending Charles [Grant] and Will [smith]." It's highly unlikely that the league will see it this way, and thus the Saints players will be suspended and the Vikings players won't. In the end, it's simply a matter of dumb luck for the Vikings. Minnesota has a statute that gives employees specific protections against drug testing, and Louisiana doesn't. As Cornwell points out, however, Louisiana has a similar law, but Louisiana provides an exemption to the NFL and the NCAA. The moral of the story? Better lobbying efforts in the Twin Cities might have secured a similar exemption in Minnesota.

One at a time... Let's care care of business in Winconsin.

It just feels right to see this post! Football is here! Thanks as always for your efforts Noots!

C'MON FOLKS!!!! WE NEED MORE THAN 4 of us going at this!!!!

I'm taking the Bears and the 3.5! Money in the bank!!!

Same thing I thought...until I saw your avatar again, then my mind wandered.

Really? I always thought that the home team generally gets 3 points. Which would make it a "virtual pick 'em" with GB favored by .5. Or basically just favored to win.

Ha! Please share said source of such classy material!

I wouldn't be opposed to looking at it. But if he excels on the DL, we could probably use him more there. Will T. looks like he miught have a place as a FB in the future...