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Arif and James are back to talk about Rick’s extension, the trade that wasn’t, a little bit of training camp news, and a fantastic mailbag.  And the lottery for the Norse Code Fantasy League is officially open! Sign up to hurt yourself at norsecodepodcast@gmail.com or DM @norsecodedn. *****Download Link Here***** Episode Notes: You can catch Aaron Gleeman’s simulated Twins … [Read more...] about Norse Code Podcast Episode 330: The Trade That Wasn’t

Weekend Open Thread Good Morning! With the announcement that Coral is coming and we’ll have a limited gif library (at least for the time being) I’m going to start dumping gifs from my giphy account that I’ve accumulated over the last....checks calendar....six years. Some of them have a meaning to me or reason why I kept it in my gif library, I’ll provide an explanation as we … [Read more...] about Minnesota Vikings News and Links: August 8th and 9th, 2020

Steven Bisig-USA TODAY Sports The roster moves continue Armon Watts’ stay on the Minnesota Vikings’ reserve/COVID-19 list was a short one, as the team announced on Thursday morning that the second-year defensive tackle had been activated. Watts was placed on the list on Tuesday, meaning that he was only out for a couple of days. Tough to envision a shorter stint on the … [Read more...] about Vikings activate Armon Watts from COVID-19 list, waive Bralon Addison

Photo by Doug Murray/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Let’s learn a bit about him It appears that the Minnesota Vikings are going to be making another roster move here shortly. The #Vikings are expected to sign LB Quentin Poling, pending COVID-19 testing and a physical, per source. Onetime #Dolphins draft pick was most recently with the #Raiders.— Tom Pelissero … [Read more...] about Report: Vikings to sign LB Quentin Poling

Michael Pierce will, apparently, be the only one The deadline that the National Football League set for players to opt out of the 2020 season due to COVID-19 concerns passed at 3:00 PM Central time on Thursday. According to numerous reports, no other members of the Minnesota Vikings made the choice to opt out. That leaves defensive tackle Michael Pierce, who opted out a week or … [Read more...] about No more Vikings opt out as league deadline passes

Weekend Eve Open Thread Good Morning, It’s Friday! Your Weekend Eve Open Thread is up, running, and ready for business. I saw pictures of the Vikings on the practice field and I see they made a couple of roster moves. There are a couple of free agents available, one of which I’d like the Vikings to sign. Meanwhile we’ll carry on with our news and links full of crockpot … [Read more...] about Minnesota Vikings News and Links: August 7th, 2020

Brian Spurlock-USA TODAY Sports BJ Reidell and Drew Mahowald discuss Rick Spielman’s extension, the PJ Hall trade fail and the NFL Top 100. The Daily Norseman and the Climbing The Pocket Network have joined forces to create a one-stop shop for Vikings podcasts delivered to your eardrums daily. This collection of shows promises to deliver the top independent voices covering … [Read more...] about Unbelievable! – Stickin’ With Rick

Coral will launch on Daily Norseman on Tuesday, Aug. 11. We’ve got big news for the community here at Daily Norseman. We’re rolling out a new commenting system called Coral across all of our NFL communities over the next couple of weeks. We debuted this system in five communities on Monday, Aug. 3: Arrowhead Pride, Behind the Steel Curtain, Blogging the Boys, Silver & … [Read more...] about Coral, our new commenting system, is coming soon!

Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports The eternal shuffle continues When the Minnesota Vikings selected Boise State offensive tackle Ezra Cleveland in the second round of the 2020 NFL Draft, many around these parts asked the question that we see connected to just about every Vikings’ offensive lineman. . . Can he play guard? If the early part of Training Camp is any indication, the … [Read more...] about Vikings have Ezra Cleveland practicing at guard early on