The Minnesota Vikings will hit the road to take on the New York Giants of New Jersey. The two teams are playing out the string with their young QBs at the helm. Jaxson Dart (with an ‘x’ because his parents are cool) has shown flashes of promise in his rookie year.

Series Record: 19-13

Road Record: 10-7

Streak: W1

• The Vikings have won five straight regular season games against the Giants
• The Vikings have had 300 yards or more on offense in each of those five wins
• Andrew Van Ginkel had a pick six in the Week...

Well, look at it this way: The 2025 Vikings’ championship hopes lasted just as long as the Kansas City Chiefs’.

Honestly, I’ve never felt so good on a day when the Vikings were officially eliminated from the playoffs. J.J. McCarthy is improving by leaps and bounds before our eyes. After playing his best game so far last week against the Washington Commanders, he followed it up Sunday Night with an even better performance on the road, during primetime, against a desperate Dallas Cowboys team.

Aside from a couple of issues, like the initial interception (the batted balls need to be...

The Minnesota Vikings and the New York Giants put out their first injury reports of the week yesterday as they prepare for this weekend’s game at MetLife Stadium. Let’s take a look at who’s practicing and who’s not, and in what capacity.

Minnesota Vikings

• OT Christian Darrisaw – DNP (knee)
• DL Javon Hargrave – DNP (thigh)
• C Ryan Kelly – DNP (knee)
• OT Brian O’Neill – DNP (heel)
• TE Gavin Bartholomew* – Limited (back)
• LB Austin Keys – Limited (ankle)
• WR Jalen Nailor – Limited (back)
• RB Ty Chandler* – Full...

The final road trip of the 2025 NFL season for our Minnesota Vikings comes this Sunday, as they will hit the road for MetLife Stadium to face the New York Football Giants.

The purple are looking to extend their first winning streak of the season to three games, as they’re coming off of a pair of impressive victories. They blasted the Washington Commanders 31-0 a couple of weeks ago, and they followed that up by defeating the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday Night Football this past week by a score of 34-26. They’ve been led by some stifling defense and a...

A couple of days after announcing that Jonathan Greenard will miss the remainder of the Minnesota Vikings’ 2025 season with a shoulder injury, one of his defensive teammates has seen his season come to an end for the same reason.

The team has announce that, along with Greenard, they have placed safety Josh Metellus on injured reserve today. Metellus will also be having surgery to repair an injured shoulder, and that will end his 2025 campaign.

Metellus, who signed a three-year, $36 million extension with the Vikings this offseason, played more of a traditional safety role in the Vikings’ defense...

Beating the Cowboys is always good! Our young QB is slowly beginning to show the things that KOC has confidence in. I posted this link the other day but it is still relevant and kind of prescient.

A very good article here that says “NFL quarterbacks do not take any semblance of final shape, on average, until 250-300 drop backs”. It includes a lot of super nerd stats and a comparison to Jared Goff and Josh Allen to support the theory that by the Giants game we should be seeing the real version of JJ.

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• My piece on J.J. McCarthy’s game against the Dallas Cowboys
• James Foster wrote about Keldric Faulk, draft prospect
• The Hallmark Holiday city rankings

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The Minnesota Vikings and J.J. McCarthy have looked much better over the past two weeks. At a high level, the improved results are largely attributable to McCarthy’s play. His 5-to-1 touchdown-to-interception ratio in that span is a massive upgrade from the 1-to-3 ratio in his previous three starts. The team has also scored 65 points in the last two games compared to just 42 in the prior three.

Is this improvement simply because he’s facing porous defenses, or has McCarthy truly taken a big step forward?

The Case for Bad Defenses

• Washington Commanders – 2nd worst in Total Yards...

The early betting lines are out for Week 16 in the National Football League, and the Minnesota Vikings find themselves in a role that they haven’t been in for a while: favorites.

According to the folks from the FanDuel Sportsbook, the Vikings are an early 2.5-point favorite over the New York Football Giants in what will be their final road game of the 2025 season this Sunday at MetLife Stadium. The over/under for this one current sits at 43.5 points. Unless my memory is failing me, this is the first time the Vikings have been favored since their game against...

J.J. McCarthy torches Cowboys with 3 TDs in Vikings’ 34-26 spoiler win – but can the young QB sustain this vs elite defenses? Dive into the latest Real Forno Show breakdown of Minnesota Vikings football.

In the newest episode of The Real Forno Show, hosted by Tyler Forness with producer Dave Stefano, the duo dissects the Minnesota Vikings’ thrilling 34-26 victory over the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday Night Football. Despite being eliminated from playoff contention, the Vikings played spoiler, fueled by J.J. McCarthy’s resilient performance: 250 passing yards, 2 TD passes (both to Jalen Nailor), a rushing TD, and a...

As the Minnesota Vikings prepare for the final three games of their 2025 season, they will do so without one of their top players on the defensive side of the ball.

At his Monday press conference, head coach Kevin O’Connell announced that edge defender Jonathan Greenard would undergo season-ending surgery on his shoulder, meaning that he will miss the last three games for Brian Flores’ defense.

Greenard, who was already dealing with a shoulder issue that caused him to miss a game earlier this season, re-aggravated the injury last night while attempting to bring down Dak Prescott late in the...