It’s getting closer, folks. We’re about three weeks or so from the start of training camp for the Minnesota Vikings, and that means the lists are getting more and more prevalent around the sports media world. We’ve gotten a set of roster rankings to chew on, and if you’re trying to find the purple on it, you’re going to have to do a bit of scrolling before you find our favorite team.

ESPN has ranked the rosters of all 32 teams from best to worst, and they have our squad ranked at #22. That’s not really where we’re accustomed to...

As Minnesota Vikings training camp approaches, Tyler Forness and Dave Stefano of The Real Forno Show break down every position on the roster — from the high-stakes quarterback competition between Kyler Murray and J.J. McCarthy to a revamped run game, a new “bully ball” wide receiver, and a defensive line full of unknowns. If you want to know where this Vikings team truly stands heading into camp, this episode delivers the sharpest analysis in the Vikings podcast space.

The biggest storyline this offseason remains the quarterback room. Tyler laid out a clear framework: “Carson Wentz won’t get elevated to being...

The Minnesota Vikings can’t catch a break this offseason — and Darren Campbell and Dave Stefano of Two Old Bloggers [2OB] on Vikings 1st & SKOL are here to make sense of the chaos. In this episode, your two favorite old bloggers unpack the Dianna Russini police body cam scandal involving head coach Kevin O’Connell, debate whether it signals a locker room trust crisis, and ask the question every Vikings fan is thinking: does any of this actually matter when the 2026 season kicks off?

Beyond the drama, Darren and Dave get into the real football questions that will define...

As the Minnesota Vikings and the rest of the NFL move through the no-man’s land from the conclusion of the off-season program until the start of training camp, I took a stab at a 53-man roster projection after cuts are made at the end of August. I also provided some thoughts and insights into each position group and player including a trending arrow for each player on the roster and some useful information links and videos as well.

Part one is focused on the offensive side. Part two will be focused on the defensive side and specialists.

Here we go....

After a bit of a slow week news-wise, and a week where yours truly had a few things happening away from the interwebs, we’ve got the results of this week’s SB Nation Reacts poll about our Minnesota Vikings to share with you, so let’s get you those results here as promised.

For this week’s question, we asked you who you thought would lead the purple in quarterback sacks for this coming NFL season. We had several options, but when everybody had cast their votes, the final result was. . .well, I don’t think a whole lot of people are going...

As we trudge along watching the leaves fall from the trees, there is not a whole heck of a lot to discuss besides you know what and that is kind of boring already. It wont stop some folks as you will see in the links. One thing that might be interesting is to give your guess for Mr Mankato (it needs a new name now no?).

I am guessing the early candidates would be Dillon Bell, Demond Claiborne, Charles Demmings, Jakobe Thomas, and Domonique Orange. If I had to guess I would pick Big Citrus but defensive tackles do not...

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Episode Notes:

• My piece explaining the move to Beehiiv from Substack
• We talked briefly about Adam Schefter, which you can read about here
• Here’s the NY Times piece that reignited the Diana Russini scandal
• This is the dashcam and bodycam footage acquired by The Center Square of the police stop of Russini
• We mentioned the Brendan Sorsby story on the pod, you can get our scouting report on the player at Wide Left
• Bill Simmons and his colonoscopy
• There’s a good piece in the Athletic pointing out that Balogan’s foul...

or me, out of the position groups, I think defensive line is going to be the most interesting to watch and to see how it all shakes out. I am always a fan of the big uglies and I think it is key to the success of the defense. I have to trust Flores and it is super exciting and interesting that the team drafted Caleb Banks and Dominique Orange. The depth on the defensive line has shifted to being very young. The two oldest players are Eric Johnson II (27) and Isaiahh Loudermilk (28) and Johnson received $93,750 in...

Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NFL. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Vikings fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys.

It is time, once again, for another one of our SB Nation Reacts surveys, where we ask the readers of the internet’s leading Minnesota Vikings community their opinion on a question concerning our favorite football team.

We’re getting ever closer to the start of this year’s training camp, and we’re wondering who is going to lead the team in some of...

Generally, when a story with scandalous overtones makes its way through the NFL landscape, one of the things that fans of the Minnesota Vikings have a tendency to think is, “Well, at least our team wasn’t involved.”

In the case of what has been one of the bigger stories of this past offseason, it turns out that we just didn’t wait quite long enough to come to that conclusion.

A story surfaced earlier this week that Dianna Russini, the former NFL writer for The Athletic, had used her connections to FaceTime a current NFL coach in order to get herself...

The Minnesota Vikings are being overlooked heading into 2026 — and if history is any guide, that might be exactly what this franchise needs. On the latest episode of The Real Forno Show, host Tyler Forness of Vikings 1st & SKOL welcomed football analyst and YouTube personality Garret Greenlee of Football Analysis — a channel boasting over 246,000 subscribers — for a wide-ranging breakdown of the state of the Vikings franchise and delivered some of the sharpest takes of the off-season.

Greenlee opened by pushing back on the national narrative that Minnesota has no path to the postseason in 2026....

We’re in the home stretch of the NFL’s offseason, and that means we have just one question for you.

WHATCHA GONNA DO. . .WHEN LIST-A-MANIA RUNS WILD ON YOU?!

ahem. . .Sorry about that.

Yes, it’s listing and ranking time around the football media landscape as we get closer to the start of the season, and over at CBS Sports, they’ve put together their list of the top 100 players in the league heading into the 2026 season.

One member of the Minnesota Vikings finds himself in the top ten, and as you’ve probably guessed, that player is wide receiver...