Minnesota Vikings Talk

Ugh, this seems like it's going to be a long upcoming season. No draft picks, no cap room, a team that is old as dirt and the last two drafts may have been the worst in team history. Who are the building blocks? Anyone other than Jefferson, Darrisaw and O'Neill? 2022 was a fun year overall, but I think we're in for a pretty rough stretch now.

I love Derek Carr giving the Raiders the business. LV: Ok Derek, you can go find a team to get traded to. Carr: You mean I can pick a team that will either have to sign fewer free agents because of my huge salary, or I'll have to rework my awesome contract? Not to mention my new team will have to give my old team draft picks that could otherwise make us better? LV:........ Carr: Yeah, I think I'll just wait for you to pay me 40M to go away.

Today the 9-7-1 Giants meet the 13-4 Vikings in the Wild Card Round of the NFC playoffs at U.S. Bank Stadium. Vegas currently favors the Vikings by 3 points, thus indicating that this game is, in essence, a toss-up. These two teams have been involved in a combined 23 one-score games, in which they have combined an impressive record of 19-4-1. They also happened to meet in Week 16, a game which game down to a last-second, 61-yard field goal by Minnesota's kicker, Greg Joseph. The Vikings, who have had issues up front as of late, will receive a large boost today in the form of Center Garrett Bradbury, who will return after missing the previous five games. They will be …

We made it. Week 1 is here! And it’s Packers week…

Refs screwed them out of two TDs. Still they won.

There are lots of similarities between the 2022 Twins and Vikings. I wrote about it at VikingsTerritory.com. What say you? https://vikingsterritory.com/2022/top_news/the-eerie-similarities-between-the-2022-twins-and-vikings?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

Anybody going?

Too soon?

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/33231841/dallas-cowboys-paid-24-million-settle-cheerleaders-voyeurism-allegations What is wrong with this league? Yeah, this scumbag "accidentally" walked into the cheerleaders dressing room with his ipad recording. And of course the Cowboys cover it up. If he got caught doing this stuff twice, that likely means he didn't get caught a dozen times. I hope congress seizes his data records.

Let's have some fun! How do we get our Vikings on the right track? I'm using Spotrac to do some roster management and I'm going full aggressive rebuild here: Hire Bills OC Brian Daboll as head coach. We saw him run circles around Belichek on Saturday night. He has turned Josh Allen into a running and throwing nightmare for defenses. Let him hire some smart, savvy coaches and let's get to work: Resigning Free Agents: I'm cutting everyone but two. That means Barr, Peterson, Conklin, Cole, Richardson, Hill, Vigil, Griffin, etc. They are all gone. I am resigning these guys: K Greg Joseph - 3 years 4.5M I like what I saw, I'll invest in keeping the kid …

This has been mentioned in the Offseason Thread as well, but I think a separate thread on the Vikings changes makes sense. On Monday morning, the Vikings officially fired Mike Zimmer and Rick Spielman. It seems like the right and easy decision, but certainly not easy. The Zimmer news was leaked on Sunday, but the thought was Spielman might stick. On Monday, both lost their jobs. So, here are some topics for discussion. Do you agree with both firings? What are the top 2-3 reasons that each was fired? What are the traits that you would want to see in a new GM and a new head coach? Who would you like to see get those jobs? My re…

Seems right to start a new one. On the plus side, there's a good chance the whole division is 0-1 after today! And we had good special teams!

7-9 with a severely flawed roster over the course of the season. Wilf said Zimmer is coming back, which means Rick Spielman is coming back. As much as I continue to disagree about Zimmer running the show, I’ll stop complaining about it now that a decision was made. We saw some positive things in 2020. Justin Jefferson being the obvious #1 choice. That kid is special, and Philly will be haunted for years knowing they took Reagor instead. We have good playmakers on offense with Cook, Thielen, and Irv Smith Jr. On defense, Eric Kendricks is a stud, and Cam Dantzler looks like he could be an All-Pro caliber player one year. We also saw a ton of negative things in 2020. …

Trevor Lawrence!

Now that they year is over, it is time for the off-season thread. Since the other thread is already a bunch of pages long, it is better to start a new one. Will Spellman be fired? Zimmer? How will the oline be improved? I say blow it up. This team is going nowhere.

Not sure if there's a better place for this but I really enjoyed the article on ESPN about Antoine Winfield Jr. https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2020/story/_/id/29011535/antoine-winfield-jr-unique-2020-nfl-draft-path-5-foot-9-first-round-bloodlines

I'm just curious. Have you watched any XFL games? It seems to be off to a better start than previous spring leagues. Would Minnesota consider getting an XFL team if the league succeeds?

I have as much confidence in them as I did last week... going to stick with that as this team destroyed the Packers... then again, they lost to the Falcons so who knows.. Hoping the Vikings D is living rent free in Garapolo's head. I think this will be a low scoring game personally.

Here we go! The dirty, cheating Saints in the 1st round. The Vikings are stumbling into the playoffs, but none of that matters anymore. Plenty of 6 seeds have made noise in the past. Can Kirk pull off a miracle run like Joe Flacco did a few years back with the Ravens?

It's amazing that Cousins can be so good this year, and then be so awful just because it's Monday instead of Sunday. I don't know what the reason is, I won't call him a choker because I don't know him, but there is definitely a reason he struggles so badly on Monday night.

Not very confident about this one. If you want to talk during the game, hit up the game thread at purplepain.

Anyone else enjoying the fact that the Packers are constantly getting nailed because of the new Rodgers rule?

Holy sheet...care to share? One thing I noticed was that K Hunt was getting the extra slap and hit after the tackle all night...He did his time. He should not be taking hits like he did. I bet the comment from Rudolph had something to do with Hunt....Garret is out for the rest of the season.

Post your commentary here. Also, the thread at purplepain is also an option: http://purplepain.proboards.com/thread/2450/week-broncos-vikings-support-group

Prime time, on the road, against a winning team... though to be fair, I don't know what to make of the Cowboys... but the 3 above say this means we lose handily.. Here's the game thread on purple pain which will be more active than this one if you want to talk football.

Is it good Cousins or bad Cousins today?

A couple of old friends come to town with chips on their shoulders? This should be a blowout... but the last I said that Buffalo was in town... so there's that.

So... the Lions got absolutely hosed on Monday night...My wife's family is from MI and it hurts for me to say that... just as much as it hurts for me to be rooting for them over GB.. But Packers favoritism... Anyways, I expect the refs to be out in full force against us... Maybe we get lucky and Goddell has instructed them to call the fairest game possible so that everyone watching it will see it, but I'm guessing we're more likely going to see the worng end of bad calls. If you want some action then what you'll see here tomorrow, join our support group: http://purplepain.proboards.com/thread/2350/week-vikings-lions-support-group

Dominated today. I was expecting a much closer game. Cousins took shots deep and it kept cashing checks. He is so week to week. I really liked some of the play calls too. Nice disguised plays, misdirection, and good plays for the moment. Great win. Eagles aren't a push over, and the Vikings ran through them.

Why is Anthony Harris still on the field? Two straight games he single handedly keeps the opponents drive alive with dumb selfish penalties.