https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/page/81/?d=4WordPress Posts: WordPress Postsenhttps://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/minnesota-vikings-can-brad-sorensen-actually-compete-as-a-backup/The Minnesota Vikings have announced that they've signed former Southern Utah quarterback Brad Sorensen at quarterback. With a signing this late in the offseason, it's unlikely that he'll be able to put enough reps together to convince the Vikings that they need to get rid of backup quarterback Sh...1018Sun, 21 Aug 2016 08:30:35 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/53-man-roster-updates-from-sam-luke-and-arif/With two preseason games already behind us, it's time to update our 53-man roster predictions.   Our team of Vikings writers -- myself, Luke Inman and Arif Hasan -- have all submitted a fresh batch of names. For the most part we agreed on the skill positions. But the offensive line and defense? A...1014Fri, 19 Aug 2016 11:19:20 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/excruciating-preseason-game-presages-mixed-individual-performances-for-vikings-depth/An unusual start to the game from Minnesota, Teddy Bridgewater racked up no touchdowns or interceptions because he didn’t take the field. For that, here's a guest recap from Maggie Schultz, who emailed me this quick recap of the game: butts butts butts butts butts butts butts butts butts butts b...1010Fri, 19 Aug 2016 04:33:57 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/pro-football-focus-names-one-vikings-player-to-all-decade-team-three-to-second-team-and-an-honorable-mention-sort-of/Pro Football Focus recently finished grading the 2006 NFL season, which gives them a full decade of data (2006-2015) by which they can evaluate players. In light of that fact, they've decided to name an "All-Decade" team that doesn't look at a standard (although arbitrary) decade starting at a zer...1006Wed, 17 Aug 2016 15:10:37 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/shamar-stephen-gives-vikings-incredible-depth-at-defensive-tackle/As one of Minnesota Vikings’ three seventh-round picks in 2014, defensive tackle Shamar Stephen was already a long shot to play meaningful reps as a rookie, just by virtue of being the 220th pick in the draft. Practice squad seemed like his best possible outcome heading into that summer.   The Vi...998Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/quick-takeaways-from-minnesota-vikings-preseason-week-1-against-cincinnati-bengals/The Minnesota Vikings eked out the Cincinnati Bengals in a 17-16 matchup on Friday night. The result is obviously irrelevant, but the process—especially early—that led to the result is well worth dissecting.   We'll have to see which of these takeaways survive a rewatch but for now, I think we've...990Fri, 12 Aug 2016 22:17:19 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/812-gibson-vs-ventura-injury-updates-and-escobar-pitching-fallout/It’s dreary, overcast and the rain is coming down pretty good as the Minnesota Twins prepare to open a three-game weekend set against the Kansas City Royals at Target Field. Both teams will not hit on the field as they wait for the weather pattern to pass, and the Pioneer Press’ Mike Berardino --...988Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/training-camp-rewind-with-insight-from-paul-allen/Short and sweet was the theme for players and coaches down in Mankato as the Vikings trimmed nearly a week off their typical trip to training camp thanks to a scrimmage with the Cincinnati Bengals.   My time spent down in Mankato was put to good use, from depth chart risers to splash plays there...984Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/811-twins-come-up-short-by-large-margins-on-both-sides-of-split-doubleheader-drop-series-with-astros/What a difference 24 hours makes. The Minnesota Twins went from leading 5-0 and feeling pretty good about their chances of at least splitting, if not outright winning the four game series with the Houston Astros to getting downright obliterated in a split doubleheader on Thursday.   Oh, what a li...983Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/minnesota-vikings-seemingly-do-well-in-joint-practices-with-cincinnati-bengals/The Minnesota Vikings have just concluded the first of two padded practices with the Cincinnati Bengals in Cincinnati. Despite the Bengals playing as one of the top teams in the NFL last year, with a 12-4 record and ranking fourth in total point differential, the Vikings seemingly looked like the...980Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/89-spotty-santiago-drops-first-target-field-start/The Minnesota Twins fell 7-5 to the Houston Astros on Tuesday night at Target Field, as starter Hector Santiago lost his first home start since joining the club at the August 1 trade deadline.   The Twins first trailed 2-0, then 2-1, then led 4-2 before being outscored 5-1 over the final three inn...976Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/89-team-photo-day-polanco-at-short-again-and-santiagos-first-home-start-as-a-twin/It’s overcast and very, very warm at Target Field as the Minnesota Twins prepare for game two of a four-game set against the Houston Astros. It projects to be about 85 degrees at first pitch with a 65 percent humidity according to Weather.com.   [caption id=attachment_6184" align="alignnone" widt...974Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/88-plouffe-returns-kepler-mauer-awarded-positional-musical-chairs-and-more/Greetings from Target Field, where it's a bit overcast, but the perfect temperature for a baseball game. It's Tyler Duffey (6-8, 6.21 ERA) vs. righty Collin McHugh (7-8, 4.73 ERA). Duffey might have saved himself from being sent down by going 6.0 innings, albeit giving up eight hits and five earne...971Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/minnesota-vikings-draft-class-power-rankings/Photo Credit: Luke Inman   After witnessing last year’s outstanding rookie draft class, fans will have to be careful with their expectations this season for the Vikings’ first-year players. With an already-deep roster and a number of free agents added to the fold, there likely won’t be bountiful...970Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/day-6-8-notebook-quarterbacks-and-the-offensive-line/The Vikings topped off a phenomenal night practice with fireworks, but it was explosive playmaking that was the focus of the fans and the offense as they set up to resolve the most obvious area of improvement for Minnesota’s offense: playmaking and pass protection.   The offense, though adequate,...968Mon, 08 Aug 2016 11:27:24 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/night-practice-roundup-teddy-bridgewater-impresses-but-the-defense-gets-their-hits/We'll post more thorough notebooks throughout the day with rundowns of all the position battles over the last three days, but we can do a quick recap of what happened at the night practice—the most popular event at training camp—where last night Teddy Bridgewater shined, but still demonstrated som...962Sun, 07 Aug 2016 08:49:35 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/creating-more-turnovers-may-help-vikings-achieve-elite-defensive-status/In his two years as head coach, Mike Zimmer has crafted a top-10 defense that still feels as if it has room to rise further up the ranks. Whether the defense can continue its ascension may be dependent on its ability to create more turnovers.   The Vikings recorded 19 takeaways in Zimmer’s first...958Fri, 05 Aug 2016 14:57:37 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/day-4-and-5-notebook-trench-warfare-producing-a-clear-winner/  With four days of padded practices done, we now have a much clearer look at some of the most critical positions on the roster. And nowhere will the differences between unpadded and padded practices become clearer than along the trenches.   While it was difficult to get an understanding  of t...953Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/trae-waynes-has-positioned-himself-better-for-year-2/As a quiet and reserved person, Trae Waynes enjoys blending into the background, so when he was suddenly thrown into the fire (on a -6 degree day) during the Minnesota Vikings’ Wild Card game at TCF Bank Stadium last January, it took a second to realize it. That is, until he made a key interceptio...951Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/converted-from-qb-to-db-tre-roberson-making-a-splash/There's a player on the roster with Hall of Fame bloodlines and has experience quarterbacking his team to a national championship. But with the Vikings, he's not throwing passes; he's stopping them.   Maybe it would have been nice to see what the athletic phenom for Illinois State could have done...950Wed, 03 Aug 2016 13:35:15 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/jeff-locke-enters-make-or-break-year-indoors/The Vikings’ punt team has long employed a conservative scheme under veteran coordinator Mike Priefer. In his eyes, distance matters less than hangtime. It’s a sensible strategy that has reduced return yards and kept opponents out of the endzone via punt returns each of the last two seasons, albei...949Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/the-lowdown-on-a-couple-twins-relievers-and-a-possible-surprise-starter/Kennys Vargas isn’t the only Minnesota Twins player with some interesting things going on behind the scenes statistically. A couple of Twins relievers have some interesting secondary statistics, and potentially even more intriguing quotes about what has made them tick this season.   One of those...943Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/rob-antony-on-the-trade-deadline-i-would-like-to-have-done-more/Until about the 11th hour, the trade deadline looked like it would be about what didn't happen, rather than what trades were made, for the Minnesota Twins. The vox populi was admittedly anxious, knowing that the Twins are staving off an 100-loss season and had some veterans that could yield the yo...942Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/day-3-training-camp-defensive-notebook-waiting-on-waynes-could-be-worth-it/I'm quickly heading out into practice before Day 4, so we'll have to wait on in-depth observations, but I do have a few quick hitters to get out of the way. Find the Day 1 Notebook here Find the Day 2 Notebook here Find the Day 3 Offensive Notebook here     Defensive Backs Genera...941Mon, 01 Aug 2016 14:05:46 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/antony-remains-active-makes-abad-trade/Minnesota Twins interim general manager Rob Antony remained active Monday afternoon, as he shipped left-handed reliever Fernando Abad to the Red Sox per multiple reports.         Nothing is finalized on the roster quite yet, but this would sure seem to mean that Tyler Duffey wil...940Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000