We know the who and the where, we just need to learn the when

We are just a couple of days away from learning the full 2024 schedule for your Minnesota Vikings (and the 31 other NFL teams that we don’t care nearly as much about). While the full schedule will come out at 7:00 PM Central time on Wednesday, 15 May, there are going to be plenty of leaks and other rumors coming out before then.

In fact, we should know who the Vikings will “host” in this year’s International Series game at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium this season on...

Some rare stability for the Vikings

Going into the 2024 NFL season, the Minnesota Vikings’ coaching staff will have a level of consistency that they haven’t had in a while.

With Kevin O’Connell, Wes Phillips, and Brian Flores returning as the head coach and coordinators, the team will have the same people at those three positions for the first time since 2017.

There’s been quite a bit of turnover for the Vikings at those spots over the past decade. Here’s a quick rundown of the changes over that time.

• 2016: Mike Zimmer (Head Coach), Pat Shurmur (Offensive Coordinator), George...

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J.J. McCarthy labeled as perfect fit for Vikings

Vikings score two of The Athletic’s best NFL Draft picks

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One obvious one, the other not so much

The superlatives continue to roll in for a few members of the Minnesota Vikings’ 2024 NFL Draft class as they take the field for their first official practices with the team.

Over at The Athletic, Nick Baumgardner and Scott Dochterman have put together their list of their favorite picks at each position, and two of the players that the Vikings selected in last month’s Draft appear on the list.

The first one is one that you might expect because he was selected in the first round, as Baumgardner (who handled the defensive...

Seems accurate to me

The Minnesota Vikings have started their rookie minicamp for this year, giving them their first opportunity to see their 2024 NFL Draft picks and undrafted free agents, as well as a few other, more experienced players. For the first time in a long time, the Vikings have a first-round quarterback in the fold, and it seems that he’s in exactly the right place.

Behind the great E$PN paywall, NFL analyst Matt Bowen has put together a list of players who have landed in the perfect spot, and he’s put J.J. McCarthy on his list. Here’s what...

Football is back, at least a little bit

Football is back. . .a little bit.

Today, some of the newest Minnesota Vikings took to the field at the Twin Cities Orthopedics Performance Center in Eagan as the purple kicked off their rookie minicamp. Before the action got underway, however, three young men who were drafted by the Vikings a couple of weeks ago put pen to paper on their first National Football League contracts.

The three rookies that signed were the last three players the Vikings landed from the selection meeting: Alabama kicker Will Reichard, Wake Forest offensive lineman Michael...

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Kyle Sloter makes claim that Mike Zimmer and Rick Spielman “hated” each other

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I’m not sure if we should be surprised by this or not

During Rick Spielman’s tenure with the Minnesota Vikings, he was responsible for the hiring of three head coaches: Brad Childress, Leslie Frazier (who started as an interim coach after Childress was fired), and Mike Zimmer. Zimmer had the longest and, arguably, the most successful tenure of those three coaches, but things apparently wore down between Zimmer and Spielman at the end of the trail.

Former Vikings’ quarterback Kyle Sloter was a guest on Matt Falk’s podcast the other day and made a pretty significant claim about the relationship...

Not a lot going on right now as we are in the offseason which my wife knows full well.

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Vikings announce jersey numbers for new players, swaps for veterans

Harrison Phillips: Vikings will use ‘division of labor’ to carry leadership torch vacated by Kirk Cousins

“There’s gonna be a huge loss,” Phillips said Wednesday on NFL Total Access. “Kirk Cousins as a person, as a leader, as a teammate, that’s a big void in your locker room. One of the most humble guys that I’ve ever been...

Let’s get everybody caught up

Since we’re rapidly reaching the point of the offseason where there isn’t going to be a whole lot to talk about, let’s start with some cosmetic moves that the Minnesota Vikings made on Wednesday.

The team has announced the numbers for every player on the roster that hadn’t already been assigned one, most notably the team’s draft picks, undrafted free agents, and free agents they signed this offseason. They also announced some new numbers for veteran players as well.

So, for those of you that might be jersey aficionados, we’ll go through some of the...

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NFL to release schedule next Wednesday

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Not as early as we had thought

It appears that we’re going to have to wait just a bit longer for the 2024 NFL schedule than we had originally thought.

The National Football League has just announced that the release of this season’s schedule will be happening on 15 May, which is one week from tomorrow, at 7:00 PM Central time. It appears, according to Ben Fischer of the Sports Business Journal, that the teams were, in fact, expecting the schedule to be released this coming Thursday, but that is officially not happening.

Again, if past seasons are any indication,...