Minnesota Vikings News and Links: October 23rd, 2020
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Weekend Eve Open Thread Good Morning, It’s Friday!
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Weekend Eve Open Thread Good Morning, It’s Friday!
Good morning from GA Skol’s house Georgia, I hope the start of your pre-weekend is going well. I had a bunch of words to type up here but I’m currently working off the wifi on my phone and it’s slower than “pay for hotel wifi.” I’ll have to keep this short, Phyre Ryck, keep Zimmer (but that’s not how life works). Meanwhile we’ll carry on with our news and links open thread full of crockpot recipes, nap strategies and beer recommendations; drop by for some fan wisdom, snark and it’s Friday, time to take half a day off and start the weekend early!
Around the DN since our last open thread:
RIP, Matt Blair. Another Vikings’ legend has passed away.
Live from the Shady Hills Retirement Home, everyone’s favorite crabby uncle, Ted Glover says “Fire Everyone. The Ngakoue trade encapsulates everything that’s currently wrong with the Minnesota Vikings.”
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Vikings place George Iloka on injured reserve
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He tore an ACL in practice And the hits just keep on coming for your Minnesota Vikings.
The team has announced that they have placed safety George Iloka on injured reserve. The reports are that Iloka tore an ACL yesterday during the Vikings’ practice and that his season is now over.
Practice. . .we’re talkin’ ‘bout. . .practice.
Iloka joined the Vikings’ practice squad earlier this season, and had been elevated to the active roster twice before the team officially signed him to the 53-man roster. He’s seen a decent amount of time in the secondary for the Vikings this year after reuniting with Mike Zimmer, who he played for in Cincinnati.
With the injury to Iloka, the only two remaining safeties on the squad are a pair of rookies: sixth-round pick Josh Metellus and undrafted free agent Luther Kirk, who the Vikings signed to the practice squad a few weeks ago. Not an ideal situation at that spot for the purple.
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Minnesota Vikings News and Links: October 22nd, 2020
1 DAY AGO - Thorsday Open Thread Good Morning, It’s Thorsday!
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1 DAY AGO - Thorsday Open Thread Good Morning, It’s Thorsday!
I got home just before midnight last night so I’m going to slap this together and get to bed. By the time all six of you that comment here now are reading this I’ll be on my way to Georgia to hit the stands for three or four days of deer hunting and grilling meat. The weather looks rain free for the moment, but I’ll take my phone with me so I can post here and the ex-con fanpost to keep myself amused. Meanwhile we’ll carry on with our news and links full of crockpot recipes, nap strategies and beer recommendations; drop by for some fan wisdom, snark and it’s Thorsday - I was informed this is cultural appropriation, but I’m not smart and still don’t know what that means.
Around the DN since our last open thread:
Norse Code Podcast Episode 345: This Team Might Not Be Good. Arif and James are back to talk about velcro wallets and the draft! All the content you could ever want from a regular Minnesota Vikings podcast. We also discuss Collapse
We need to have the tanking discussion again, don’t we?
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Well, let’s do it, then. I know that it might shock you to hear me say this, but your 2020 Minnesota Vikings are not a good football team. They’re 1-5 after six weeks, they just got waxed at home against a team that was 0-5 and just fired their head coach, and everyone is apparently sick to death of the general manager, the head coach, and the quarterback.
I get it. Believe me, I do. This team had expectations placed upon it and, to this point, has not come anywhere close to meeting them.
But we need to talk about the idea of the Vikings “tanking” the season in the hopes of securing a higher draft position and how ridiculous it is. And that’s precisely what it is. . .ridiculous.
For starters, you are never in a million years going to convince me that you’re going to get a group of 53 alpha males, who are being coached and trained by another group of alpha males* that it’s in their best interests to not give 100% effort or that Collapse
Live Chat Q&A: Looking Ahead to the Bye Week
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Unbelievable! - Is it Time to Start Over?
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BJ Reidell and Drew Mahowald offer their thoughts from the most recent Vikings loss. The Daily Norseman and the Climbing The Pocket Network have joined forces to create a one-stop shop for Vikings podcasts delivered to your eardrums daily. This collection of shows promises to deliver the top independent voices covering the Vikings from every angle.
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RIP, Matt Blair
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Another Vikings’ legend has passed away On Thursday, the Minnesota Vikings announced the loss of another link to the team’s illustrious past.
Linebacker Matt Blair, one of the most underrated players in franchise history, has passed away. He was 70 years old.
Blair was a second-round pick of the Vikings in the 1974 NFL Draft out of Iowa State University. He made an immediate impact with the team, both on defense and on special teams, en route to being named to the NFL’s All-Rookie team in 1974. He made six consecutive Pro Bowls from 1977 to 1982, and was named to the All-NFL First-Team in 1980.
Blair was a member of two of the Vikings’ Super Bowl teams, playing in Super Bowl IX as a rookie and Super Bowl XI. He’s a member of the Vikings’ Ring of Honor and, in a number that speaks to his ability on special teams, is currently third in NFL history in blocked kicks, racking up 20 over the course of his career. He also intercepted 16 passes in Collapse
Danielle Hunter to undergo season-ending neck surgery
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Some “tweak” After the Minnesota Vikings made the decision earlier on Thursday to trade one of their pass rushers away, they have learned that another star defensive end will not be returning this season as previously hoped.
Numerous sources on social media are reporting that defensive end Danielle Hunter will be undergoing surgery to repair a herniated disc in his neck, a move that will officially end his 2020 season before it even gets underway.
Hunter stopped practicing with the team in mid-August with what head coach Mike Zimmer had described as a “tweak.” While no specifics have been given as to the extent of the injury, the fact that Hunter is now undergoing surgery speaks to just how serious the issue is.
From a football perspective, with no Hunter and no Ngakoue, I have no idea where in the heck the Vikings are going to get any sort of pass rush from. For a team that is rolling with a bunch of rookies at the cornerback position, that Collapse
Vikings trade Yannick Ngakoue to Baltimore Ravens
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Well, that was fun Well, I sincerely hope that nobody out there made significant investments in Yannick Ngakoue swag during the two months that he was a member of the Minnesota Vikings.
Numerous sources have reported, and the Vikings have confirmed, that they are trading Ngakoue to the Baltimore Ravens for a pair of draft picks. One of them is the Ravens’ third-round pick in the 2021 NFL Draft, while the other is a conditional fifth-rounder that becomes a fourth if Ngakoue makes the Pro Bowl this year on the first ballot (not as an alternate).
The Vikings traded for Ngakoue just after Training Camp ended this season, sending their second-round pick in 2021 to the Jacksonville Jaguars in exchange for his services. The logic, at least at the time, seemed to be that the Vikings would then turn around and sign Ngakoue to a long-term deal and, eventually, pair him with Danielle Hunter at the defensive end Collapse
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Fire Everyone
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The Ngakoue trade encapsulates everything that’s currently wrong with the Minnesota Vikings Hi everyone, how have you all been? I talked to Fearless Leader, and he graciously agreed to let me make a guest post here on the front page. This is a one time thing, and honestly, it isn’t the post I wanted to make my cameo appearance over.
I was hoping it would be a Super Bowl winning Stock Market Report but lol Sid Hartman lived to be 100 and didn’t see one so I’ll be long dead before the Vikings ever win it all.
You’ll have to settle for this instead.
When I said goodbye to you all over the summer, I said that, among other things, I just wasn’t fired up about the state of the team. I thought the Vikings had gone as far as they could under Mike Zimmer and Rick Spielman, and that this was going to be a team that was heading towards a rebuild, not a re-tool.
I thought it would be kind of a gradual trip, though, kind of like a leisurely Collapse
Norse Code Podcast Episode 345: This Team Might Not Be Good
1 DAY AGO - Arif and James are back to talk about velcro wallets and the draft! All the content you could ever Expand
1 DAY AGO - Arif and James are back to talk about velcro wallets and the draft! All the content you could ever want from a regular Minnesota Vikings podcast. We also discuss the loss to the Falcons, how this could affect Zimmer/Spielman going forward, coaching and drafting philosophy, and the Cousins contract. Skip to 53:19 for Zimmer and Spielman’s future
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Episode Notes:
For those who want to skip the game recap and go right to the discussion over Zimmer and Spielman’s future - skip to 53:19 for Zimmer and Spielman’s
An explanation of the post-June 1 designation from Over the Cap
My Players of the Week piece for Week 6
Six things the Vikings can do to get better for 2021
Special thanks to Rhymesayers Entertainment and Atmosphere for our theme song!
Arif - @ArifHasanNFL
James - @bigmono
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Minnesota Vikings News and Links: October 21st, 2020
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Wednesday Open Thread Good Morning, Expand
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Wednesday Open Thread Good Morning, It’s Hump Day!
Well maybe it isn’t, but I’m going with it since I type it earlier. We’re getting a driveway extension poured so my son can park his work van in the side yard on the boat pad (sidenote eff HOA’s and my dbag neighbor). I had removed all the sprinklers from that side of the lawn but after the company got started we found wires......about 4 inches down and cross connected to each other, had to make the decision to cut the power to the sprinkler system and either have it reinstalled or a new system put in. I did see that Fishin didn’t post a thread yesterday, I can’t access Chorus on my work computer and then the sh*tshow that is my job started so I couldn’t move Surly’s fanpost to the front page....sorry about that Surly. Meanwhile we’ll carry on with our news and links full of crockpot recipes, nap strategies and beer recommendations; drop by for some fan wisdom, snark and Collapse
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