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Photo Illustration by Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images What’s the opposite of “cha-ching?” In recent years, the Minnesota Vikings haven’t had to worry too much about salary cap issues, thanks to the work of Rob Brzezinski and the front office. Prior to this season, the Vikings had been able to retain a lot of their own talent and continue adding pieces. This past … [Read more...] about Rapoport: NFL Salary Cap could drop by $40 million for the 2021 season

Photo by James Flores/Getty Images Thorsday Open Thread Good Morning, It’s Thorsday! Your Thorsday Open Thread is up, running, and ready for business. I’m off service for the next seven days, I’ll be back and forth moderating the two threads I posted. My plans on my seven days off include working off the honey do list, hitting the range to get my scopes sighted back in, … [Read more...] about Minnesota Vikings News and Links: June 4th, 2020

Picture supplied by the Minnesota Vikings Let’s feed some people The recent events in Minneapolis have left a great number of people without access to grocery stores and other basic necessities. In one of what I’m sure will be many things that the Minnesota Vikings will be doing to help the Twin Cities community, they are making sure that people that don’t have access to … [Read more...] about Vikings Table is helping to provide meals for those in need

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Not by much, but it’s something It’s obviously way too early to make any solid predictions about how the 2020 NFL season is going to go, but that’s certainly not going to stop people from doing it. And, since there isn’t a lot of other football-related news to talk about, we’re going to look at what one of those predictions has to say. It … [Read more...] about ESPN gives Vikings best odds of winning NFC North in 2020

Photo by LAYNE KENNEDY/Corbis via Getty Images We’ve reached the peak of this slow off-season week Happy Hump Day, everyone! We are definitely in an unprecedented slow cycle for NFL-related news and discussion. So, to generate some meaningful dialogue, I’ll throw out a few talking points, and let you take them and run with them in the comments. If you had to live with only … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: June 3, 2020

Six Vikings made the list in all Over the years, the Minnesota Vikings have fielded a number of players that rank among the greatest in the history of the National Football League. One website has put together a list of the greatest players in league history to wear their respective jersey numbers, and six prominent members of the purple made the list. In numerical order, the … [Read more...] about Marshall, Moss among players deemed best in NFL history to wear their numbers

Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images How is this possible? With all of the great players the Minnesota Vikings defense has fielded in recent years, defensive end Danielle Hunter could be on his way to being the best. He’s already the youngest player in NFL history to reach the 50 sack plateau, and he might just be getting to his prime years as a pass rusher. With all that … [Read more...] about Pro Football Focus says the Vikings’ most underrated player is Danielle Hunter

Photo by Michael Workman/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Tuesday Open Thread Good Morning, It’s Tuesday! I’m throwing this together real fast this morning, as Gone Fishin is putting something together, or taking something apart, or fixing something. I’ll post more links etc in a little while. Meanwhile we’ll carry on with our news and links full of crockpot recipes, nap … [Read more...] about Minnesota Vikings News and Links: June 2nd, 2020

Chuck Cook -USA TODAY Sports Anyone getting excited for training camp yet? Happy Monday, everyone! I hope you were all able to enjoy your weekend. It was a little breezy over here in the northern Dakota, which goes without saying, but it was also warm so we tore into a fairly sizeable paver project in the yard. We have about 150-ish square feet of pavers going in, but it’s … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: June 1, 2020