It was a good day on Sunday in terms of being a Vikings fan. JJ and the team had a solid game. No complaints really. The goal now is to keep it up against Dallas which is going to be tough on the road. There is a lot of debate here about the “system” and whether or not KOC is making things easier for the boy wonder. It is quite comical to me. There simply is way more to it than even the most “sophisticated” of fans will ever know. In the end, and after reading the first link below,...

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Week 14 Minnesota Vikings postgame roundtable here at Daily Norseman. The Vikes are coming off a surprising shutout win over the Washington Commanders, with J.J. McCarthy looking better than he had before in any full game.

Can the Vikings turn this into a streak? Before we look ahead to that, and next weekend’s matchup with the Cowboys, how about we ask the boys a few questions about the game that just happened this weekend?

Let’s talk to it:

Question 1: On a scale of 1-100, how surprised were you with how Sunday’s game...

The Minnesota Vikings shut out the Washington Commanders 31-0 on Sunday. It was the first time a team was shut out the week prior to a shutout victory since 1992. The defense was dominant and the offense was efficient. It was a beatdown from the start. It’s a rare treat to enjoy an easy win. Let’s take a peek at whose fault it is…

J.J. McCarthy

The team opened the game with a long 7-play, 61-yard drive and followed that up with a 19 play 98 yard drive. You can’t do that without execution from the QB. He was decisive...

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Episode Notes:

• McCarthy Takes Down the Commies
• Can Philip Rivers Defeat Time?
• Is Bryce Young Fixed Now?
• Dave Portnoy wants to murder Pete Carroll
• Uh, the tree saga

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Even though they’re coming off of one of their best performances of the 2025 season, you’d probably expect the Minnesota Vikings to be a significant underdog in a road game against a team that still finds itself on the fringes of playoff contention, and that’s where they find themselves in this Sunday’s game against the Dallas Cowboys.

Our friends at the FanDuel Sportsbook have installed the Vikings as a 6.5-point underdog for their trip to Jerryworld on Sunday Night Football. The over/under for this one is a pretty high one, as that number currently sits at 47.5 points.

It makes...

In the latest episode of The Real Forno Show, Tyler Forness and producer Dave Stefano deliver a balanced, film-heavy breakdown of J.J. McCarthy’s standout performance in the Minnesota Vikings’ dominant 31-0 shutout of the Washington Commanders. While the box score (16/23, 163 yards, 3 TDs, zero turnovers) sparked excitement and a much-needed vibe shift for the 5-8 Vikings, Forness cautions against overreaction—emphasizing this was McCarthy’s cleanest start yet but against one of the NFL’s worst defenses. The hosts dig into what actually improved, what still needs work, and whether this signals a true turning point for the rookie quarterback.

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In a bit of a mild surprise, the National Football League has decided to keep a game that has just about no playoff implications in a prime time slot this week.

The Sunday Night Football matchup at Jerryworld between our Minnesota Vikings and the Dallas Cowboys will remain in the Sunday Night spot on NBC, despite there potentially being more attractive matchups available.

Per the NFL’s flex scheduling rules, between Weeks 14 and 17 the league only has to give six days notice before moving games from the Sunday afternoon spots into the Sunday night position. But, since NBC was...

I’ve never played the sport of football at a high level. I’ve never really played the sport of football at what you’d consider a medium level. Like a lot of folks, I’ve spent a lot of time watching football over the course of my life and would like to think that I’ve learned a few things along the way. So, when I see things regarding our Minnesota Vikings that I find confusing, I do what I can to try to relate them back to my own life experiences in an effort to understand them.

Yesterday, as the Vikings were thumping...

I mentioned this in my post-game recap of the Minnesota Vikings’ 31-0 victory over the Washington Commanders in Week 14 action, but I figured it was significant enough to warrant its own highlight.

By pitching a shutout on Sunday afternoon, this Vikings team became the first team in 33 years to follow up getting shut out by pitching a shutout of their own.

To find the last time this happened, you have to go back to the 1992 season. That year, the Denver Broncos lost to the Philadelphia Eagles in Week 3 of that season by a score of 30-0...

Last Sunday, the Minnesota Vikings hit the lowest of lows in a thoroughly embarrassing loss to the Seattle Seahawks. On Sunday at U.S. Bank Stadium, they were just about as far away from that as they could possibly be.

J.J. McCarthy had, by far, the best game of his young NFL career, and the Minnesota Vikings defense forced multiple turnovers for the first time in weeks as a team that got shutout last week got a shutout of their own by blowing out the Washington Commanders at home by a final score of 31-0

On the opening possession of the...

We’re on to the fourth quarter at U.S. Bank Stadium, and your Minnesota Vikings are now blowing out the Washington Commanders by a score of 24-0.

The Commanders got the ball first coming out of halftime after the Vikings won the coin toss and took the football first, and they moved the ball into Minnesota territory. It looked like the Vikings’ defense had forced a turnover, with Eric Wilson getting a strip-sack of Jayden Daniels and the Vikings recovering the fumble, but they were called for twelve men on the field and the takeaway was negated. Washington then converted on...

They’re heading into the locker rooms at halftime at U.S. Bank Stadium, and your Minnesota Vikings lead the Washington Commanders by a score of 14-0.

The Vikings took over at their own 2-yard line after turning Washington away in goal-to-go, and then embarked on what might have been their most impressive drive of the season, going 98 yards in 19 plays, taking over twelve minutes off the clock. The capper came when Jordan Mason took a handoff and blasted over the left side from eight yards out to give the Vikings a 14-0 lead midway through the second quarter.

The...