The Importance of Knowing What the Hell You're Talking About
Just a quick little gem this morning from St. Paul Pioneer Press writer Tom Powers. This is from an article basically telling Vikings' fans to curb their enthusiasm.
Also note that the same semi-leaky offensive line is back, but with a longer rap sheet. In a draft filled with quality offensive tackles, the Vikings came up empty. So now we're hearing the names "Artis Hicks" and "Marcus Robinson" again. Yikes. Maybe they can get Toniu Fonoti back and put him in there.
Couple minor quibbles here. . .
Point the first. . .Marcus Robinson was cut by the Vikings in December of 2006. So, if you've heard the name "Marcus Robinson" since then. . .well, it hasn't been in connection with the Minnesota Vikings.
Point the second. . .Marcus Robinson is a wide receiver. Which means he would have not a damn thing to do with the Minnesota Vikings' offensive line even if he WAS still a Viking. Which, as we've already pointed out, is not the case.
For crying out loud, people. . .research is NOT that hard. Then again, maybe Powers is auditioning for a job at ESPN.
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Why research? He was lazy, needed to write something. It didn’t matter what. He writes nothing but gibberish anyway.
He is getting too comfortable in his job. He thinks he can write anything and get away with it.
You got him to rights Gonzo. Good work.
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by The Bears are Ditkaless on
Apr 30, 2008 9:41 AM CDT
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Think he must have meant Marcus Johnson. Not a very bright reporter it seems. Talking about 2 offensive linemen who will be backups* this year, is there even a story there?
- Assuming Herrera starts at RG of course
by Iceland-Viking on
Apr 30, 2008 10:32 AM CDT
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Jernulizm?
Tom Powers has a point (the one at the top of his head). You can write trash while the Vikings keep getting better and still remain employed somehow. Why he hasn’t caused the Pioneer Press to fold years ago scares me. Are their that many idiots in Minnesota or do people just use his column to wrap up their garbage, even in this internet age???
by Elgar on
Apr 30, 2008 11:30 AM CDT
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In regards to the stupid article
I don’t see what the big hang up on Brian Brohm is. If he was as good as everyone claims he is why did so many teams pass on him? Maybe because he has a long list of injuries. And since so many of you complain about Jackson missing games due to injury I don’t think you would want Brohm coming here and doing the same. It was obvious that the Vikes didn’t take a tackle with their first pick in the draft because there weren’t any worth taking that high after the first round. Only ONE went in the 2nd round and that was to the Colts. We needed to get younger at safety if Sharper gets hurt or doesn’t come back next year and Johnson was the highest rated safety according to Mel Kiper Jr and other draft “experts”. I love after one full year as a starter everyone thinks that Jackson is not the QB for this team. Noone believes in development anymore eh? Just expect a young qb to come in and pick up the west coast offense and win every game. What a load of crap from a bunch of idiots who don’t know too much about football. Ask any real NFL expert and they’ll tell you that it takes any rookie, especially a QB, three years to get acclimated to the NFL. This is barely Jackson’s 2nd year starting. Why is it that the Eagles were one good receiver from getting to the Super Bowl but the Vikings getting Allen doesn’t put them in Super Bowl contention? We would have won that Denver game had Troy Williamson not dropped two critical passes. We would have won the KC game had we had a pass rusher get to Huard before he threw the pass to Bowe for the game winning TD. Both issues have been addressed in free agency and those two games would have put us at 10-6 and into the playoffs. Everyone knows that once you’re in the playoffs anything can happen. “Brent” says we need to score points to win games, our offense ranked 13th in the league, better than Washington, the Giants, Tampa, San Diego, all playoff teams and one SB winner, and we averaged 22.8 pts per game. With an upgraded defense that’s plenty to win games. People forget that QBs like Trent Dilfer, Brad Johnson and Eli Manning won Super Bowls with great defense and game management. So to win the Super Bowls you don’t have to be the top rated QB in the league but I guess for most ignorant Vikings fans you do. I can’t remember when was the last time we had a d-coordinator for more than one year. Everytime one left the new one had to come in and establish his own “style” of defense instead of trying to fix what the problems of the previous coordinator. Now that Frazier has one year under his belt he can fix his own mistakes and improve in year two. A few upgrades to the defense, ie. M. Williams and J. Allen, and this defense is good to go. I love when people come on here and say ridiculous things and try to sound like fans. The Vikings have poor depth? I may give you that when it comes to the offensive line but only when it comes to the tackle position. Other than that we have GREAT depth at every other position. WR behind Berrian and Rice:B. Wade, A. Allison, R. Ferguson and rookie J. Johnson. D-line behind Edwards, Williams’x2 and Allen:F. Evans, K. Allen, E. James, J. Mitchell, O. Grigsby, B. Robison, E. Wyms and rookie L. Guion. LBs behind Henderson, Leber and Greenway: D. Sartz, H. Farwell, D. Pope, R. Alexander, D. Herron and V. Ciurciu. DBs behind Sharp, Williams, Griffin and Winfield: M. Boulware, C. Gordon, M. McCauley, E. Frampton and rookie T. Johnson. RB behind Peterson: C. Taylor, M. Hicks, T. Tapeh, N. Tahi. Not sure where I see the poor depth. Derrick Pope was a starter for the Dolphins and is now our back up, Michael Boulware was a starter for Seattle and Houston and is now one of our backups, David Herron was wanted so badly by Bill Belichik that he had to call Childress to tell him not to take him or else. Rufus Alexander was the 2nd rated LB coming out of college last year and Heath Farwell knows all the LB positions like the back of his hand. We should all remember how well our DBs stepped up when Winfield went down with an injury for a few games last year. Artis Hicks was our starter at guard and also a starter for the Eagles and he backs up our guard and LT positions. I don’t see the “poor” depth that I’m hearing with this team. Now as far as QB goes, what can you tell someone who wants instant success from that position and doesn’t believe in development. Oh well!
by Idle Hands on
Apr 30, 2008 12:33 PM CDT
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You made a lot of good points...
But seriously man. Paragraphs. Try them out. :- b
by Robert Rence on
Apr 30, 2008 12:40 PM CDT
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I agree
Very solid points. But really hard to follow it considering it was one big blob of text.
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by Gorilla Bird on
Apr 30, 2008 1:33 PM CDT
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Oh No!
Writing Nazi’s are on this board?
I seen a missing comma. Does that count?
by Duluth Guy on
May 1, 2008 10:17 AM CDT
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A mountain out of a molehill.
I don’t care about commas, and nit-picking that crap is generally trolling in my opinion. I’m just saying it was hard to read.
Also, Godwin’s Law. You lose. :- b
by Robert Rence on
May 1, 2008 11:38 AM CDT
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I understand
I am just prepping the board for my dyslexia.
by Duluth Guy on
May 1, 2008 4:56 PM CDT
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You're sure it's not a sexy learning disability?
Like Sexlexia?
by Robert Rence on
May 2, 2008 6:23 AM CDT
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Fish Wrap Factory ?
Who reads that “Fish Wrap Factory” anyway…
by birdsonthehat on
Apr 30, 2008 6:30 PM CDT
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Why?
Dude’s not our problem any more.
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by Gonzo on
May 1, 2008 7:01 AM CDT
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