https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/page/77/?d=4WordPress Posts: WordPress Postsenhttps://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/2016-minnesota-twins-report-card-phil-hughes/This is a series of evaluations that will be done this offseason on every player that closed the season on the 40-man roster for the Minnesota Twins, with one appearing every weekday from now until each player has been evaluated. The plan is to start with Mr. Albers and move all the way through th...1269Sun, 16 Oct 2016 09:00:56 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/running-back-or-offensive-line-an-examination-of-jerick-mckinnons-decisionmaking/The Vikings are bad at running the ball.   It's an unusual state of affairs, and it's not something that we expected to see going into the season; the running back corps was known to be excellent, with future Hall of Famer Adrian Peterson backed up by the emerging young Jerick McKinnon. The offen...1268Mon, 17 Oct 2016 12:04:25 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/2016-minnesota-twins-report-card-kyle-gibson/This is a series of evaluations that will be done this offseason on every player that closed the season on the 40-man roster for the Minnesota Twins, with one appearing every weekday from now until each player has been evaluated. The plan is to start with Mr. Albers and move all the way through th...1267Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/2016-minnesota-twins-report-card-tyler-duffey/This is a series of evaluations that will be done this offseason on every player that closed the season on the 40-man roster for the Minnesota Twins, with one appearing every weekday from now until each player has been evaluated. The plan is to start with Mr. Albers and move all the way through th...1263Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/2016-minnesota-twins-report-card-pat-dean/This is a series of evaluations that will be done this offseason on every player that closed the season on the 40-man roster for the Minnesota Twins, with one appearing every weekday from now until each player has been evaluated. The plan is to start with Mr. Albers and move all the way through th...1260Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/minnesota-twins-announce-minor-league-player-pitcher-of-the-year/On Wednesday the Minnesota Twins announced the winners of the Sherry Robertson Award for Minor League Player of the Year as well as the Jim Rantz Award for Minor League Pitcher of the Year.   The Robertson Award was established in 1970, and was named after the team’s first farm director. Since 2...1258Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/xs-os-linval-josephs-dominance-at-nose-tackle/Signed in 2014, Minnesota Vikings nose tackle Linval Joseph has turned into a key cog of the league's best defense. Whether he is pushing interior linemen out of the way to get the quarterback, occupying two blockers and opening rushing lanes for Anthony Barr and Eric Kendricks or body slamming ru...1255Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:39:56 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/minnesota-vikings-expected-to-sign-former-dolphins-and-rams-tackle-jake-long/Sam Ekstrom contributed to this report.   As first reported by ESPN's Adam Schefter, the Vikings signed offensive tackle Jake Long Tuesday morning, a former number one overall pick. He's previously played offensive tackle for the Miami Dolphins and St. Louis Rams, as well as (briefly) for the Atl...1252Tue, 11 Oct 2016 05:54:35 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/2016-minnesota-twins-report-card-j-t-chargois/This is a series of evaluations that will be done this offseason on every player that closed the season on the 40-man roster for the Minnesota Twins, with one appearing every weekday from now until each player has been evaluated. The plan is to start with Mr. Albers and move all the way through th...1251Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/sparkplug-patterson-and-unconquerable-third-down-defense-play-big-roles-in-vikings-win/Photo Credit: Brian Curski (Cumulus Media), Kyle Hansen (Cumulus Media) and Luke Inman (Cold Omaha)   The Minnesota Vikings drafted a wide receiver in the first round of the 2016 NFL Draft to address a perceived need for pass catchers, yet it’s been a different first-round pick, Cordarrelle Patte...1247Sun, 09 Oct 2016 18:08:51 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/vikings-rack-up-another-dominant-win-leave-with-few-questions/The Vikings put together their second-straight three-phase win, getting positive returns from their offense, defense and special teams. After reasonable questions about the sustainability of wins produced defensively, the offense has stepped up both in terms of pure points and internal statistical...1246Mon, 10 Oct 2016 06:48:31 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/2016-minnesota-twins-report-card-buddy-boshers/This is a series of evaluations that will be done this offseason on every player that closed the season on the 40-man roster for the Minnesota Twins, with one appearing every weekday from now until each player has been evaluated. The plan is to start with Mr. Albers and move all the way through th...1244Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/simplicity-the-key-to-sam-bradfords-crash-course/There was a reason Minnesota Vikings quarterback Sam Bradford didn’t start in the team’s Week 1 game just eight days after arriving in the Twin Cities following a blockbuster Sept. 3 trade. Learning an NFL offense is hard enough in a full offseason; let alone in a week.   Even the 15-day window B...1242Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/2016-minnesota-twins-report-card-jose-berrios/This is a series of evaluations that will be done this offseason on every player that closed the season on the 40-man roster for the Minnesota Twins, with one appearing every weekday from now until each player has been evaluated. The plan is to start with Mr. Albers and move all the way through th...1240Thu, 06 Oct 2016 16:51:51 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/2016-minnesota-twins-report-card-andrew-albers/This is a series of evaluations that will be done this offseason on every player that closed the season on the 40-man roster for the Minnesota Twins, with one appearing every weekday from now until each player has been evaluated. The plan is to start with Mr. Albers and move all the way through th...1237Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/few-mistakes-in-three-phase-win-continues-vikings-undefeated-push/The Minnesota Vikings reeled off another win, this time expected by pundits and bettors alike. A 24-10 drubbing of the New York Giants and Eli Manning.   The fantastic thing about this victory is that the Vikings succeeded in all three phases of the game with only some minor hiccups in between.  ...1227Tue, 04 Oct 2016 07:24:45 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/balanced-offense-complements-fierce-defense-in-vikings-24-10-win/Photo Credit: Kyle Hansen   As usual, the Minnesota Vikings’ defense was the A-topic.   It pressured -- though didn’t sack -- Eli Manning for much of the night, but if Manning had been as willing to hold the ball as long as the Panthers’ quarterback Cam Newton did the week prior, the Vikings wou...1226Tue, 04 Oct 2016 01:10:25 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/the-morning-after-twins-cap-rough-season-with-series-win-over-white-sox/It may have brought to end the worst season since the franchise moved from Washington D.C. in 1961, but Sunday’s 6-3 win over the Chicago White Sox featured the key tenets to whatever the future holds for the Minnesota Twins.   Byron Buxton opened the game with a first-pitch inside-the-park home...1224Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/the-morning-after-four-twins-pitchers-combine-to-shut-out-white-sox/Hector Santiago twirled 6.1 solid innings and was backed up by three of his finest bullpen chums as the Twins shut out the White Sox 6-0 Saturday night at U.S. Cellular Field. The Twins jumped on the formerly formidable James Shields with five earned runs over seven innings, and his offense muster...1221Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/the-morning-after-twins-make-history-with-103rd-loss/The Minnesota Twins took their historic 103rd loss of the season in grand fashion, as the first seven batters of the game struck out, and the offense didn’t kick into gear until it was far too late in a 7-3 loss at U.S. Cellular Field on Friday night.   Tyler Duffey dug the Twins a deep hole, go...1220Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/laquon-treadwell-sort-of-appeared-on-hbos-ballers/It was reported back in July by The Undefeated that Minnesota Vikings rookie Laquon Treadwell would be appearing on HBO's hit series "Ballers," a show built around the lives of fictional NFL football players but often features current or former NFL players in cameo roles.   Treadwell "appeared" i...1219Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/vikings-preparing-for-different-giants-team-than-they-did-in-december/When the Minnesota Vikings met the New York Giants last December, things were different. For one, it was outdoors and a frigid 10 degrees.   New York had been officially eliminated from the NFC playoff chase; Minnesota was still trying to clinch a berth.   The Giants were missing star receiver O...1218Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/the-morning-after-twins-stave-off-sweep-history/The leaky bullpen made another appearance in Kansas City on Thursday night, but a timely pickoff of the game’s fastest runner helped Twins steal a win, stave off a sweep and avoid their historic 103rd loss in a 7-6 win at Kauffman Stadium.   A two-out pinch-hit single from Salvador Perez in the...1216Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/the-morning-after-twins-take-historic-loss-in-kansas-city/The sagging bullpen ruptured again in Kansas City Wednesday night, as the Minnesota Twins dropped their 102nd game of the season in familiar fashion. Three eighth-inning runs spurred Kansas City to victory, a win that quickly was dampened by the team being eliminated from the playoffs shortly ther...1212Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/928-wolves-players-discuss-grind-of-thibs-practices-learning-his-defense/It's going to be a common theme early this season: Tom Thibodeau is going to work his guys hard, and he's going to insist that they know his defense inside and out.   "He has a lot of emphasis on defense," said Ricky Rubio. "That’s going to make us a better team. Play as a team, play together. Bu...1208Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000