General Sports Thread

You been watching much of the Vikings this year?

 

Yeah and it's been infuriating! They should be at least 7-3 rather than 5-5. They've thrown away so many good positions. Having said that they've still got a good chance of securing a play off spot.

 

Meh think I’d rather they lose every game now just to ensure the coach gets fired. This pattern has gone on for way too long and just scraping into the 7th seed to get battered in the wildcard round might be enough for the owners to think “well we made the playoffs, let’s give him another year”. Think there needs to be a rebuild from top to bottom if they want to be challenging for a super bowl (which is all that matters)

 

Yeah, Zimmer's tactics have been piss poor. Although yesterday he finally figured out that Justin Jefferson will catch most balls that come his way. He's too reliant on the running game. He needs to use Cook more sparingly - like yesterday. Cook is an explosive running back but not if you use him for most of the plays. Although yesterday was much better tactically. NFL is now an offensive minded league. Zimmer has always been known as a good defensive coach. Those days are gone with the quality of quarterbacks, wide receivers and running backs. There's no reason to keep Cousins on a tight leash anymore - yesterday he found Jefferson for a 56 yard pass for example. I'm glad Zimmer realised there was only one way to beat the Packers and that was to score a lot of points.

 

Yeah they should’ve traded Cook a year ago. He is great but running backs are almost irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, passing way more effective.

Yeah couldn’t believe last year when the defence was ****ing appalling and the genius idea was to spend the last remaining bit of cap space they had on defensive players in free agency. Breeland has been the worst player I’ve ever seen at the Vikings I think, Peterson and Richardson are both past it and I don’t think I’ve seen Tomlinson do anything and I’ve watched every snap of every game. The team is ****ed for the next few years salary cap wise so it’s a good opportunity to just bin everyone we can and rebuild. Only players I’d really want to keep are Hunter and Jefferson rest are available for the right price

 

RIP Sir Frank Williams
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/59453378

 

RIP. What a man.

 

R.I.P.

A true legend .

 

GB into Davis Cup quarter finals after beating France and Czech Republic (2-1 in each case)

 

I see Lando Norris is moving to Monaco. One presumes that the same level of vitriol will be aimed at him for "not paying his taxes" and being unpatriotic, as is toward Lewis Hamilton. After all, they're exactly the sam.....oh....

 

Bring on the global minimum tax, baby.

 

Get a strong feeling that you're going to want to set an early quali time in Jeddah, because someone's going to stuff it into a wall at 150 mph and bring the session to a premature end.

 

Charles says hi!

 

I literally even got the speed right.

 

I see Lewis has overcome his discomfort about racing in Saudi Arabia then. And then turning a blind eye to Kingspan sponsorship too, ****ing hypocrite.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/59511709

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...traged-by-lewis-hamilton-car-sponsorship-deal

 

How? He has no say at all in the sponsorship of the car, that’s on Toto and he’s addressed it. The Guardian headline is click bait and utterly wrong. I mean if it’s true, why is nobody having a go at Bottas?

He was also asked a direct question about racing in Saudi and answered it honestly. He’s making his feelings known, and tacitly making a point by wearing the rainbow helmet. Would it be better to be complicity silent like the rest of the grid (bar Vettel who is wearing rainbow laces and organised a women only karting event. But nobody is complaining at him).

 

Edit: fake news!

 

Well, that was dramatic.

This race is liable to be something of a ****show overall. There will be safety cars.

 

Hahahahahahaha Max. In the wall! Ooops!

 

Max was driving right on the edge there and it proved fatal for his qualifying.