Minnesota Vikings News Dump (9.11.2025) | JJ NFC OPOTW! Harrison Speaks. Throwbacks Sunday.

Minnesota Vikings News Dump (9.11.2025) | JJ NFC OPOTW! Harrison Speaks. Throwbacks Sunday.

[Music] What’s going on Jeromes? Beautiful Thursday. Birds are chirping and stuff and it’s time for another Vikings news dump. So, of of course the news dour yesterday was Jonathan James McCarthy named NFC offensive player of the week. Three touchdowns in in the fourth quarter, 150.83 quarterback rating after the pick six. Getting things done in a big time way. And I didn’t even think about this, right? because just swept up in the comeback just the compete pendulum swing of the game. But look around the NFC like who else is going to win it? Stafford Acha Ibuka with the two touchdowns. Sure, maybe. But of of course the haters and losers are whatever. Bill Barnwell, ESPN from the worldwide bleeder of readers, viewers, and subscribers. JJ McCarthy was 29th in EPA per dropback in week one. Cool. All right. So, oh, so, so you’re saying Spencer Rattler had a better game. So, you’re saying that Russell Wilson had a better game? You’re saying that Jared Goof had a better game because EPA, Environmental Protection Agency, please, who cares about trees? Actually, trees are really important. That doesn’t matter. But, uh, but the numbers and the analytics say this. How about your eyeballs, ma’am? How about you had a man who struggled six three and outs, had a pick six. He he might be the only player in NFL history to throw a pick six and be named offensive player of the week. Like how about the appreciation for the wavos the grande wavos rancheros just he needs a wheelbarrow man to walk around. H how about this? How about the fourth quarter produ? It’s okay. It’s okay. Everything else will get ironed out. Eventually JJ McCarthy will have a 2007 Tom Brady FU tour. It’s true. But what what do you want? He’s great in the clutch. It’s what we need. Also, certified football psycho. Uh, Vikes fan page of Vikings quarterback JJ McCarthy says he watches film two to three times after the game concludes. He says he first watches it on the plane, buzzing through it, and then he watches it for about four hours the next day, eventually moving on to next week’s matchup. Oh, so he watches film on the plane and in an attempt to get better and make his team better as opposed to just stealing other guys jewelry for the gram. Please. Also, this this this is the exact moment you knew that J.J. McCarthy was gonna be like like you thought he was going to be good, but you knew he was going to be good. Uh JJ McCarthy on his game day mindset, it is better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war, which is true. Ancient Chinese proverb, just like if you can’t get home with four, send some more, right? But it’s kind of true. Like I’d rather be a warrior in a garden, you know, strapped and just, you know, slicing up tomatoes with my samurai sword versus a gardener on the front lines ready to face the enemy. The Mongols are coming. Uh gardener rather be with his hoe. But I don’t know. But eventually eventually Justin Jefferson is going to be like, I just want you to stop saying odd stuff, which is fair. I uh by the way True Detective season one amazing amazing tele like McConna Woody Harelson Alexander Dario season one great also I like season two like uh with Colin Ferrell Taylor Kitner um Vince Vaughn season 3 the Alabama one or the Arkansas one was good too and I didn’t mind the Jodie Foster season. I know a lot of people didn’t like it. Me and the wife liked it. But yeah, uh but again, you can’t just say random stuff like this and be bad. You can’t say stuff like this and beat Ryan Tanahill. It’s going to be good. Also good Sunday Night Football against the Hotlanta Falcons, the Dirty Birds, Revenge for 1998. Vikings wearing the throwback uniforms, which I love. And I know the Vikings haven’t had too many uniform variations throughout their history. I aside from this this little detour in the as but yeah I I always love that the Vikings oh we’re doing our throwbacks where you know other teams like the the Patriots and the Buccaneers and the Seahawks like they have great throwbacks awesome throwbacks we have hey we have gray face masks look at us look throwing it back to 1961 or something like that. Also Sunday night, we got JJ McCarthy, Michigan Vikings against Michael Pennik Jr. Washington uh Atlanta rematch. Story is gonna check out. Songs remain the same. Hey, Roma Dunay was there too. Jaylen McMillan didn’t work out for them. Yeah. Uh but for let’s see. So JJ McCarthy is going to throw like 14 times. Who’s going to be Donovan Edwards? Who’s gonna be Blake Corm in this? I I guess Law and Order Mason and Aon Jones. It’s going to be good. Also good. Harrison Smith fed the local media jackals talking about his uh personal medical issue. Uh was limited in practice. The the estimated walkthrough on Wednesday. Also uh return to practice in a limited fashion towards the end of last week. Did not play Monday against the Bears, but hopeful soon. Harrison said this quote, I’m just going to get out there and see how much I can handle and go from there. I’ve already moved around and moving around well. It’s just volume conditioning stuff like that. And I know people have talked about, well, we fans deserve to know. Well, at a certain point, players deserve privacy. Well, player players do deserve privacy where well, let’s talk about how the injury reports came about. Gambling many decades ago, injur injury reports became a mainstay because of gambling. Let’s say call it what it is, right? And there’s a big time difference between a personal medical issue. It could be something that’s serious. It could be something that he doesn’t want out in the public. It could be something that you know it’s na none your business either way. Illness limited DNP uh on Monday. Whereas if it’s like a high ankle sprain or you know a labreum tear or shoulder or what whatever like then yeah that can be fine because that affects the game. Whereas, hey, illness, it’s a broad term, but hey, it’s all covered. And all you need to know is Harrison’s working his way back, getting back into physical shape, and he’s going to be back on the field. That’s what it is, man. And the Vikings without Harrison, sort of a traditional look. Theo Mattel, two safeties. Jay Ward came in as well, playing some free safety when Mattel’s kicked into the slot. Murf Rogers Akuda before Akuda left uh with the concussion. And that’s basically it, right? So, how they’re going to roll. Speaking of injury report, uh so the the Vikings had a walkthrough, but guesstimation on participation. Again, you know, first practice reports uh on Wednesdays, don’t pay too much uh heed to them. Uh but it did say that uh Christian Darasel would have participated in full, which is a good sign. I think that he’ll be back for the Sunday night opener against the Falcons. Then you had Cashman. Ty Chandler banged up his knee towards the end of the game. Uh well, actually played through it. Kevin McConnell gave him a shout out for being tough. Cashman probably going to end up on injured reserve. A couple veterans, Ryan Kelly with a toe DMP. Same thing with Josh Oliver with the ankle. Again, monitor what happens. Next couple days could just be veteran days. Also, Auda like we mentioned as well as Andrew Van Ginkle in the crucion protocol. Short week. We’ll see if they clear. Who knows? Uh and then you have Miles Price Limited. Yeah, resting because he did really damn good as a return man. Kevin McC didn’t seem worried about him missing any time. And then Xavier Scott, Elijah Williams, uh, who had some lingering injuries from preseason. They practiced in full, uh, which is a good sign. Harrison Smith was limited, uh, like we said. Also, hey, Addison, so Addison is suspended for two more games, but he can return to the facilities and be practicing these next two weeks. So, that’s going to be good. And as evidenced by the chemistry he had with JJ McCarthy in training camp, baby. baby because this offense w was good late in the game Monday night and they’re getting Darasaw back. They’re getting Addison back. They’re getting CJ Ham back. Let’s go, baby. Let’s absolutely go. Also from Monday night. I feel like the Vikings have wrecked this dude, right? Caleb Williams has faced the Vikings three times in his career so far. Here are some of the images from those games. He’s also 0 and3 against them. We we’ve turned Caleb Williams, the number one overall pick, into Will Evas. All the memes just amazing. Also amazing. Uh so the Viking social team is really good with these fun little clips. Get to know the players and stuff. And that they ranked four different carb sources. Noodles, crackers, rice, and bread, right? And the Vikings, we all agree crackers are the fourth ranked carb, right? Yeah. Also, who who just puts crackers in here, right? Who who thinks that? You know, the these are high performance, amazingly fine-tuned 1% of the 1% physical athletes, world uh like world-class athletes, and they need carb sources, but crackers. Like, who’s out here deciding what what are we going to have today? We’re going to have some brown rice with quinoa. Are we going to have some sweet potatoes? Or we’re going to have some goldfish crackers or some honeymade graham crackers just in case we want s’mores later? Nah. No. Uh but uh Isaiah Rogers ranked noodles, crackers, rice bread. I don’t know. But Aaron Jones, thank goodness. So he Aaron Jones. So I I know that people made fun of Aon Jones hairline before. I see why he’s always wearing a hat. But he’s invited to the Korean barbecue. Rice and noodles. He’s got that. Also, noodles is too broad. Like what does noodles entail? Because noodles could be noodles could be Italian, they could be paradelli, they could be spaghetti, they could be linguini, uh, fetuccini, bikini, I don’t know. Uh, they could be Asian, they could be sobba noodles, udon udon, they could be ramen, they could be buckwheat sobba, they they could be vermicelli for spring rolls and stuff. Like, that’s too too broad of a definition. I don’t like it. Also, I don’t know if I’ve explained this before. I feel like rice was introduced to humans by aliens because if you think about it, so the early days of civilization and you think of how many cultures have rice as a staple in their diet. So, Native Americans, wild rice, you have South Americans, certainly, you have Africans, you have Indians, you have Asians, you have some Eastern Europeans, like they all just randomly just just randomly one day just looked into a bog and said, “Hey, I bet you we can eat that stuff.” Sketchy sketch. And they basically all came about the same way of like preparation and to eat it. I don’t know. Something something doesn’t It’s too convenient. It’s too convenient. So I feel like the aliens were dropping off these bags of rice with instructions. I don’t know. But uh what are we talking about? Oh, rice. Aaron Jones invited to the Korean barbecue. Wear a hat. Yeah. Also, speaking of Asians, uh, ML football, uh, news, Commander star quarterback Jaden Daniels is wearing a Japanese flag on his helmet this season. A lot of people week one when the commies were playing the Giants were like, “What’s he got a meatball on his helmet?” Uh, Daniels has Japanese heritage as his grandmother is Japanese, so that would make him what, an eighth. Yeah. And he is very proud of his heritage. Jaden is the first Japanese quarterback in NFL history. Well, you don’t count Timmy Chang, who’s Chinese, right? But we got one, ladies and gentlemen. We got one. That’s right. Welcome to the China Club. I’m allowed to say that, right? Uh but either way, so we finally have an Asian quarterback. Kimmy Chang crawled so Jane Daniels could run. We still have half a Kyler. We have a quarter of Sam Howell, but he’s disavowed. Also, we disavowed Tua, who that was a thin connection. Anyways, and also Young Hoku. He gone. He gone. So, but we got Jaden freaking Daniels. He’s going to take it to the Packers tonight. It’s going to be great. Speaking of the stupid Packers, so tonight they’re having a winter warning game. I think it’s going to be like 85 degrees in Green Bay, but you better wear white tomorrow. And then they have a graphic of Lambo with snowflakes and stuff. First off, you better wear white tomorrow or else what? How are you going to threaten us on 911, man? That’s not right. Also, only the Packers would be like, “Oh, it’s midseptember, so let’s get some snowflakes out there.” God. Also, don’t even get me started about how they just blatantly copied the Vikings winter warrior uniforms. Get out of here. Get Get the hell out of here. Anyways, that’s it. Vikings news for this beautiful, glorious Thursday. You guys are the absolute best. You know what to do. Go commies. Skull. Ooh, my Japanese quarterback production value.

Minnesota Vikings News Dump for Wednesday, September 11th.

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