As they prepare for their Week 9 meeting on Sunday afternoon, the Minnesota Vikings and the Detroit Lions are heading in opposite directions, and that is reflected in the early betting odds for this one.

The Vikings are an 8.5-point underdog heading into this weekend’s matchup at Ford Field, with the over/under currently sitting at 48.5 points, according to the FanDuel Sportsbook.

As we know, the Vikings have dropped their last two games, including a 37-10 throttling on Thursday Night Football against the Los Angeles Chargers. In that one, the Vikings had no answers for anything the Chargers did offensively,...

After the Carson Wentz impending surgery and move to IR, the Vikings will need to add another QB to the team. The current raging topic is about how the team and, specifically, KOC handled Wentz in the Chargers game. There are plenty of fans who feel it was inexcusable to leave him in the game when he was clearly in a lot of pain at times. There are others (like myself) that feel Wentz wanted to be out there and KOC did OK since he did ask him throughout the game if he was alright. I am sure this will...

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• Here’s the Sam Hoppen tweet about getting your ass beat (net success rate)
• Kevin Seifert’s story on Carson Wentz playing through his shoulder injury
• Joe Flacco on anime
• Taco Bell 50K
• How the Dynamic Kickoff is changing fourth-down strategy, kicking angles and roster construction

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Vikings fans, brace for chaos: Carson Wentz’s season-ending IR placement thrusts J.J. McCarthy back into the spotlight, potentially reshaping Minnesota’s 2025 campaign. In this gripping episode of The Real Forno Show, hosts Tyler Forness and Dave Stefano dive deep into the fallout, Kwesi Adofo-Mensah’s draft hits and misses, Kevin O’Connell’s play-calling woes, backup QB options, and trade deadline buzz. As a Vikings 1st & SKOL production, this Minnesota Vikings podcast delivers raw, unfiltered analysis on the Purple’s path forward – could McCarthy spark a playoff push or expose deeper flaws?

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I’ve been relatively quiet since our Minnesota Vikings lost to the Los Angeles Chargers on Thursday night. Primarily because there was a lot of real-life stuff that I had to attend to, but the other part of it is that, quite frankly, I still honestly don’t know what on Earth that was we saw on Thursday night. Warren hit the low points in his piece, which you should read if you haven’t already, but man. . .if that wasn’t the single-worst performance the Vikings have put together in the Kevin O’Connell era, the list of worse performances is an awfully...

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Well, the Minnesota Vikings may have embarassed themselves on national television in Week 8 of NFL action, but we’re still here making our picks. Yes, our collective of learned pro football blowhards have submitted their picks for this week, so let’s take a look at who we’re picking.

First, here’s our look at how everyone is doing this season with their picks. Again, you can take a look at pretty much anything relating to our selections, whether it’s how we’re doing over the course of the season or for any individual week.

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It’s Not Just the Injuries

It’s certainly true that the Vikings have been...

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Kevin O’Connell

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