Can KOC lead the Vikings to elite status in 2025? NFL playoffs, draft trends, and Vikings news! Will McCarthy shine?

Darren Campbell and Dave Stefano on Two Old Bloggers, a Vikings 1st & SKOL production with Fans First Sports Network, explore if Kevin O’Connell can lead the Minnesota Vikings to back-to-back playoffs in 2025 [with better results], last achieved in 2008-2009. This episode dives into J.J. McCarthy’s growth, draft trends from 2012-2021, and Vikingsland updates like rookie minicamp, Daniel Jones’ contract offer retraction, and the Aaron Jones-Jordan Mason split.

Key Points of the Episode:

• Kevin O’Connell’s Elite Challenge:...

The offseason practices are on!

Minicamp is going and I do not know if there any televised portions but there are ways to see some of it ...

To watch the Minnesota Vikings’ 2025 rookie minicamp, you can follow the team’s social media channels and watch highlights on their website and YouTube channel. The Vikings will also share content from the NFL Network, NFL+, and NFL Channel, according to their website. You can also find highlights and news coverage on Twitter/X from Vikings media members, says a YouTube video.

https://www.vikings.com/video/2025-rookie-minicamp-practice-highlights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFoHL8N2Zhc

Minnesota Vikings News and Links

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Only one remains unsigned

The Minnesota Vikings will start their rookie mini-camp on Friday, and before the latest members of the team take the field, almost all of them will have signed their first NFL contracts.

Late on Thursday, the team announced that they have agreed to terms with wide receiver Tai Felton, defensive lineman Tyrion Ingram-Dawkins, linebacker Kobe King, and tight end Grant Bartholomew. Only offensive lineman Donovan Jackson, the team’s first-round pick, remains unsigned, but he will still be participating in this week’s camp.

The Vikings were tied with Atlanta and Washington for the fewest picks in this...

Will the Vikings be on the list?

We are less than a week away from the release of the National Football League’s 2025 regular season schedule, but there’s a chance we might know a small piece of the Minnesota Vikings’ schedule the day before that.

The league has announced that they will announce the full slate of international games for the upcoming season on Tuesday morning, 13 May, during the broadcast of Good Morning, Football on the NFL Network.

As we’ve mentioned on numerous occasions, the Vikings are set to serve as the road team for three teams that will...

Sometimes the best trade is the one you do not make!

Now that the draft is over and it has been analyzed ad nauseum, we can see the picture of this “time horizon” that Kwesi speaks of often. Many of the Draft Doofi believed the Vikings were going to trade down. Yet they did not. It is fairly obvious the reason why. Two of the top three interior offensive linemen had been selected already. They did not want to miss out on the other one. It is debatable which guard should have been ranked as the best but system fit...

To Err is Human. Ask a Vikings Fan.

We’ve officially entered the (relatively) quiet portion of the offseason. Minicamps and OTAs will soon be here, but not yet. Same with the NFL schedule release. Chris, Mark, Warren, et al. have done the usual excellent job of covering where we stand. So, in the meantime, let’s have some fun with this one – and by “fun” I mean laugh at our collective anguish.

The term “a trip down memory lane” usually evokes enjoyable or pleasant experiences. Not for Minnesota Vikings fans. More often than not, memory lane entails a carrot of...

The Minnesota Vikings fanbase has been spoiled with high level WR play throughout the team’s history. The current WR is no exception to that norm. Justin Jefferson is nearly unanimously in the Top 2 WRs (Jefferson, Chase) and for my money the best WR in the league. Addison didn’t have the leap in production in Year 2 like the team would’ve hoped, but he’s still a high level WR 2 in this league.

Today, it is being reported the Dallas Cowboys are trading for Pittsburgh Steelers WR George Pickens in exchange for a 3rd round pick in 2026 and a...

It makes sense for one reason

It took the Minnesota Vikings a little while to shore up their quarterback situation this offseason, with the team eventually making a trade to acquire Sam Howell from the Seattle Seahawks on Draft weekend. Howell joins expected starter J.J. McCarthy and backup Brett Rypien on the depth chart at the game’s most important position.

It sounds like one free agency move from the past couple of months may have thrown a bit of a wrench into the Vikings’ quarterback plans. On the Ross Tucker podcast, Tom Pelissero of the NFL Network stated that the...

The offensive line was greatly improved in the offseason, but I think another unit has a possibility of being the best in the league.

If you ask Vikings fans about which line improved the most in the 2025 offseason, the majority (of Daily Norseman readers at least) will say it was the offensive side of the ball. That view is completely warranted in my opinion. The fact that Will Fries is even on the team is a testament to the culture that the Wilf’s have built. Common wisdom contends that offensive lines take time to mesh, which could be a...

A detailed look at the Vikings’ 3rd round draft pick

With the 102nd pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, the Minnesota Vikings selected Tai Felton, WR, Maryland. Felton was ranked #126 on the consensus board and was the 16th ranked wide receiver. He was the 14th wide receiver selected in the draft.

Overall, this pick was within fair value range (#126 with a standard deviation of 41.7). This was the last pick of the 3rd round and the next pick- the first of Day Three- was also for a wide receiver so there was a chance Felton could have been...

They seem to be pretty good at this

While the Minnesota Vikings might not have made a huge splash during the 2025 NFL Draft, making only five selections on Draft weekend, they appear to have done what they’ve done quite a bit in recent years: dominate the undrafted free agent signing frenzy.

Thor Nystrom, who you should absolutely be following on X if you’re not already, has ranked the undrafted free agent classes in the NFC, and the Vikings find themselves on top of the heap.

Nystrom is particularly high on one signing, Kansas offensive lineman Logan Brown. He had...

Vikings projected to have one of NFL’s five hardest schedules in 2025

Looking ahead to the schedule and giving a way too early prediction, I can see the games going down like this ...

Eagles (home): Loss

Ravens (home): Loss

Lions (home and away): Win and Loss

Packers (home and away): Win and Loss

Commanders (home): Win

Bengals (home): Win

Chargers (away): Win

Bears (home and away): Win and Loss

Steelers (away): Win

Falcons (home): Win

Seahawks (away): Loss

Cowboys (away): Loss

Browns (away): Win

Giants...