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RE: Vikes talk for Twins fans - 9/5/2014 7:21:20 PM   
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RE: Vikes talk for Twins fans - 9/6/2014 11:54:40 PM   
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RE: Vikes talk for Twins fans - 9/6/2014 11:57:00 PM   
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RE: Vikes talk for Twins fans - 9/7/2014 12:00:03 AM   
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When you've been fans as long as we have ... that's HUGE.
Think about it.

These management teams who have the audacity to act like we fans are losers, because we get too upset about losses .... deserve to be fired and publicly humiliated.
This is not Utopia or Smallville or anything close.
Professional sports are about winning. I want guys involved who will do damn-near anything to get it done.

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RE: Vikes talk for Twins fans - 9/7/2014 12:19:01 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hard Knocks is a much-criticized show, but I've always enjoyed it, and I've always learned some things from it.
Zimmers aura and personality, when with the Bengals, stuck with me more than almost any character we have been introduced to.
Dude was honest, intense, and driven. Not fake. No bullshit. They filmed many interactions he had with his "guys" during that training camp.
He patted guys on the back, he cussed guys out, and he cut guys. And every one of those guys he dealt with, respected him.
It was easy to see. He's a football guy who loves the game, and wants desperately to put his own stamp on something before he's done.
This should be as good a place as any. Give him some rope, and let him build and mold what he thinks will work.
Where we were headed before, sure as hell wasn't working.

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RE: Vikes talk for Twins fans - 9/7/2014 12:24:58 AM   
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Hard Knocks is a much-criticized show, but I've always enjoyed it, and I've always learned some things from it.
Zimmers aura and personality, when with the Bengals, stuck with me more than almost any character we have been introduced to.
Dude was honest, intense, and driven. Not fake. No bullshit. They filmed many interactions he had with his "guys" during that training camp.
He patted guys on the back, he cussed guys out, and he cut guys. And every one of those guys he dealt with, respected him.
It was easy to see. He's a football guy who loves the game, and wants desperately to put his own stamp on something before he's done.
This should be as good a place as any. Give him some rope, and let him build and mold what he thinks will work.
Where we were headed before, sure as hell wasn't working.



So not Rex Ryan?
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RE: Vikes talk for Twins fans - 9/7/2014 12:29:54 AM   
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You read me well.
Not sure I could like someone less than Sexy Rexy.
And .. a lot of that came from Hard Knocks, as well.
How someone like him gets that arrogant, I have NO idea.

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RE: Vikes talk for Twins fans - 9/7/2014 12:55:06 AM   
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Hard Knocks is a much-criticized show, but I've always enjoyed it, and I've always learned some things from it.
Zimmers aura and personality, when with the Bengals, stuck with me more than almost any character we have been introduced to.
Dude was honest, intense, and driven. Not fake. No bullshit. They filmed many interactions he had with his "guys" during that training camp.
He patted guys on the back, he cussed guys out, and he cut guys. And every one of those guys he dealt with, respected him.
It was easy to see. He's a football guy who loves the game, and wants desperately to put his own stamp on something before he's done.
This should be as good a place as any. Give him some rope, and let him build and mold what he thinks will work.
Where we were headed before, sure as hell wasn't working.



I'm always interested in that player/coach dynamic. Why it works. How it works.

Some guys can be a hard ass and it works. Some guys are a hard ass and it does not work.
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RE: Vikes talk for Twins fans - 9/7/2014 1:03:18 AM   
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Personally, I think the hard attitude has to be real, earned. Otherwise the players see through that. Childress was fake hard. Steckel was delusional.
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RE: Vikes talk for Twins fans - 9/7/2014 1:43:59 AM   
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The anti-Rex
You read me well.
Not sure I could like someone less than Sexy Rexy.
And .. a lot of that came from Hard Knocks, as well.
How someone like him gets that arrogant, I have NO idea.



It's always about the players. When the coach thinks he is the best thing about the team (possibly a few exceptions) he's taking too much credit.

I hope Zimmer remains who he is, even after he leads us to a SB. Sure, ask for a raise, but keep the passion and the love for what you do. Money can be so temporary. Most people get rid of it almost as quickly as they get it. Changing lives, doing good for others, teaching, these things are permanent. You can't spend that, and nobody will remember your net worth when you die.
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RE: Vikes talk for Twins fans - 9/7/2014 2:15:49 AM   
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Spot on as usual.
Fascinating, to see (like you say) how the same apparent styles work or don't work.
Very very fine line.
You just can never fake the "work". Those under you see whether its true, honest effort, or if you're just talking about it a lot.
Zimmer comes off to me as a worker of the highest kind.
Oh ... and blame. How that's handled is very telling in todays games and professions.
Theres not a team on the planet that COULDN'T come up with a hard-luck story about their injuries or their shortcomings or the injustices they've had heaped on them.
The good ones never spend a moment thinking about that crap. That only see opps for someone else, or chances to head in a new direction.
Good stuff Pete.

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RE: Vikes talk for Twins fans - 9/7/2014 8:35:47 AM   
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I have approximately 7 million times more faith in Zimmer than I did in the previous two regimes.
For that reason alone, I am deeply looking forward to this season and next.


I do also. When Childress was hired, yes he came from a winning program as the OC, he never had the experience of calling plays so he was just another coach on the field. Then Frazer, he's was the DC with a team that wasn't even one of the better defense in the league. He was promoted on the cheap because they still owed Childress millions.

Now Zimmer. Experienced Dc with a top 5 defense and the best thing he did was hire experience for his coordinators. Huge move. The other 2 hired inexperience. Now in a couple of years if Norv moves on, one of his assistants might take the job because system installed and has the knowledge passed on to him. That's how to give coaches experienc.

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RE: Vikes talk for Twins fans - 9/7/2014 9:55:11 AM   
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RE: Vikes talk for Twins fans - 9/7/2014 1:28:01 PM   
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We'd suck, and people would call for Teddy
Or
We'd kick ass, and people would still call for Teddy.

Yup.

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RE: Vikes talk for Twins fans - 9/7/2014 2:18:03 PM   
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Excited about the year
We are built for outside
That's gonna be huge later on

Trying to tame my excitement, but this could be so much fun.
(Yeah ... It's just the rams).

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RE: Vikes talk for Twins fans - 9/7/2014 2:27:09 PM   
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I wanna hate Aaron Rodgers, but his commercials have won me over.
It's the Peyton manning principal

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RE: Vikes talk for Twins fans - 9/7/2014 2:35:43 PM   
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Loving it

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RE: Vikes talk for Twins fans - 9/7/2014 2:36:01 PM   
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Great start

Excited about the year
We are built for outside
That's gonna be huge later on

Trying to tame my excitement, but this could be so much fun.
(Yeah ... It's just the rams).


It's also a road game.......

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RE: Vikes talk for Twins fans - 9/7/2014 2:36:20 PM   
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How to shut up a bunch of assholes.

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RE: Vikes talk for Twins fans - 9/7/2014 2:37:00 PM   
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Too easy

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RE: Vikes talk for Twins fans - 9/7/2014 2:37:28 PM   
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Zimmer
Turner
CPatt

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RE: Vikes talk for Twins fans - 9/7/2014 2:38:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		Both the defense and the offense seem to be a difference from night and day as compared to a year ago.

Vikings fans should be excited....even if it is the Rams.

There have been times the Vikings couldn't win on the road if they paid the other team to not show up.....they would still find a way to lose.

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RE: Vikes talk for Twins fans - 9/7/2014 2:42:18 PM   
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RE: Vikes talk for Twins fans - 9/7/2014 2:43:24 PM   
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RE: Vikes talk for Twins fans - 9/7/2014 2:48:47 PM   
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Taking names.

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