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Episode Notes:

• The deep-dive into J.J. McCarthy: “Waiting for the Cement to Dry”
• My most recent breakdown after the Chicago game
• Matt Fries had a preseason breakdown of Max Brosmer that’s currently pinned at Wide Left
• There are a lot of film breakdowns on J.J. McCarthy. The two I would recommend are this one from JT O’Sullivan (behind a Patreon paywall) and this one from Kurt Warner
• I mentioned an Evan Edinger video on his addiction to Kratom. You can find that here

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Vikings suffer worst Lambeau loss to Packers since 2007 (23-6) and J.J. McCarthy is now in concussion protocol — is this the moment Kevin O’Connell finally turns to Max Brosmer? Tyler Forness and Dave Stefano deliver the raw, unfiltered reaction every purple-blooded fan needs after Sunday’s disaster.

On the latest “The Day After” episode of The Real Forno Show (Vikings 1st & SKOL / Fans First Sports Network), Tyler and Dave dissect the historic humiliation against Green Bay and the massive quarterback crossroads the franchise now faces. With McCarthy likely missing the Seattle game and possibly more, the conversation has...

The Minnesota Vikings announced that starting QB J.J. McCarthy is in concussion protocol. Typically, it’s nearly certain this will lead to McCarthy missing at least one week. Based on averages, 25–30% of players return the same week, another 25–30% the following week, and 80% return before the three-week mark. Many factors influence recovery, including the number of concussions, severity, and other physical and mental considerations.

Undrafted Free Agent Max Brosmer is the only healthy remaining QB on the Vikings’ roster. The former University of Minnesota Golden Gopher will be the first alumnus to start at QB in the NFL if...

Now that Minnesota Vikings’ quarterback J.J. McCarthy has been placed in the concussion protocol, it seems likely that backup quarterback Max Brosmer will get the start on Sunday against the Seahawks, although Kevin O’Connell said he’d wait to see how things go before making a decision on who will start at quarterback in Seattle.

Brosmer was signed as a UDFA by the Vikings after the draft this year and after a rough first few days in training camp progressed very well and made the active roster, which is exceedingly rare for a UDFA as a rookie. In fact, I believe...

When the NFL schedules came out back in May, the Week 13 matchup between the Minnesota Vikings and the Seattle Seahawks was looked at as being the “Sam Darnold Revenge Game.” It still might be, although at this point it might be the sort of revenge that you generally see in a movie produced by Quentin Tarantino.

The odds for this Sunday’s game have been released by our friends at the FanDuel Sportsbook, and the Vikings are a 10.5-point underdog in the early betting. I will say that when I checked the lines last night, the number was at 9.5,...

The quarterback situation for the Minnesota Vikings has just gotten a lot more complicated.

During his Monday morning press conference, head coach Kevin O’Connell told reporters that quarterback J.J. McCarthy is now in the league’s concussion protocol, and that it’s “too early to tell” who the team’s quarterback will be when the team travels to the West Coast this Sunday to take on the Seattle Seahawks.

McCarthy played the entire game at Lambeau Field on Sunday when the Vikings lost to the Green Bay Packers, 23-6. O’Connell said that McCarthy presented concussion symptoms on the flight home last night and...

The Minnesota Vikings faced the Green Bay Packers on Sunday, and it was an embarrassing loss, 23–6. The Vikings’ offense was pathetic. The special teams continued to be a mess. The Packers weren’t asked to do much offensively and were held in check for most of the day by a decent defensive performance. Emanuel Wilson helped the Packers maintain possession, and the Vikings were never a real threat to win this game. Let’s take a look at who to blame!

(This isn’t that serious — it’s called nincompoop. Only a nincompoop would be offended.)

Kevin O’Connell

When the entire team...

Where did all the feelings go? What about that happy glow? Was that so long ago, when we were first in love?

-Neil Young, Mr. Disappointment

When J.J. McCarthy hit Jalen Nailor on a 3rd-and-5 to seal a victory at Ford Field over the Detroit Lions, it really felt like the Minnesota Vikings had finally found their footing for this 2025 season and were, potentially, getting ready to turn the corner.

That was three weeks ago. At this point, it feels like about three years ago.

After losing a couple of winnable games against Baltimore and Chicago, the Vikings decided...

After a miserable loss to the Green Bay Packers, a game in which J.J. McCarthy continued to struggle, the Minnesota Vikings face an increasingly difficult path with McCarthy’s development. The increased difficulty comes as McCarthy appears to have lost confidence after six games of ongoing accuracy and other issues.

The Vikings’ game plan against the Packers was a conservative one offensively, looking to run the ball and take the pressure off McCarthy after rallying veterans around McCarthy to help boost his confidence earlier in the week. It didn’t work.

The Viking’s scoring drives stalled in the first half resulting in...

For all intents and purposes, the competitive portion of the Minnesota Vikings’ 2025 season came to a screeching halt on Sunday afternoon at Lambeau Field.

After going into halftime trailing 10-6, the Vikings completely fell apart in the second half, with another special teams gaffe sending the team into a spiral that resulted in a 23-6 loss on Sunday afternoon at Lambeau Field.

The Vikings drew first blood in this one, getting a 52-yard field goal from Will Reichard on their first possession to stake themselves to a 3-0 lead two minutes into the contest. Green Bay immediately responded, marching...

It’s time for the final fifteen minutes of football at Lambeau Field, as your Minnesota Vikings trail the Green Bay Packers by a score of 17-6, and they’re on the verge of adding more.

The Packers got the football first coming out of the locker room, as they won the opening coin toss and deferred to the second half. They quickly found themselves in Minnesota territory after Jordan Love escaped the pocket and scrambled to the Minnesota 45. But the offense stalled from there and the Packers punted it away. . .or so we thought. Myles Price called for a...

They’re heading into the Lambeau Field locker rooms at halftime, and your Minnesota Vikings trail by a score of 10-6 against the Green Bay Packers.

The Vikings’ offense got themselves on a roll behind Jordan Mason to start the second quarter, handing the ball to Jordan Mason on multiple plays and getting the offense into the red zone. Then, on a 3rd-and-1 play from the Green Bay 17, they had T.J. Hockenson take a snap from under center and attempt a sneak for no gain. The ensuing 4th-and-1 saw Mason get stuffed for no gain, resulting in a turnover on...