https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/page/222/?d=4WordPress Posts: WordPress Postsenhttps://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/minnesotas-roster-has-been-through-the-wringer/There have been many qualms about how the Minnesota Timberwolves have built the roster. But they are heading in the right direction in one respect; they are building a group with as many backgrounds as possible. This will ensure they have people with different perspectives because of their diversi...11372Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/attitude-reflects-leadership-for-the-vikings/With a roster of 53 players, plus a full staff of coaches and front office personnel, it is essential to differentiate the true leaders of a team from those who only want the best for themselves. The varying reactions to the team’s 0-2 start to the season, followed by a big win at home against the...11370Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/is-this-zimmer-team-sustainable/After breaking the 12-year drought against the Seattle Seahawks, it seems as though the Minnesota Vikings have swiftly gotten their season back on track. Kirk Cousins hatred is at an all-time low after his blazing-hot start, and all Minnesotans are singing Kumbaya down First Avenue. Or at least so...11367Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-new-look-vikings-defense-can-stifle-clevelands-running-game/The Minnesota Vikings will face their biggest test this season when they host the Cleveland Browns this Sunday at U.S. Bank Stadium. Minnesota's success will be determined by their run defense. This is a football cliché that frequently doesn't hold up in the modern NFL game. But since the Browns h...11366Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/which-current-players-could-end-up-in-the-twins-hall-of-fame/It’s easy to get nostalgic during the Minnesota Twins’ annual Hall of Fame induction ceremonies. The memories of yesteryear come rushing back faster than Willians Astudillo chugging his way around third base.   This year was no different, as the team honored the great Justin Morneau with grand fe...11365Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/kevin-fiala-needs-marco-rossi-to-make-the-wild-roster/It's about time.   Minnesota Wild fans have gone through a lot to get to this point. One trip to the conference final, one true "game-breaking" player in team history, multiple wasted first-round draft picks, and first-round playoff exits. In all, the team has had little direction and given fans...11361Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/its-a-shame-we-didnt-get-to-see-jose-miranda-in-september/September is an opportunity for teams that aren’t in contention to showcase their younger talent. While the Minnesota Twins have used their extra roster spots to take a look at Joe Ryan and Nick Gordon, Jose Miranda is the one prospect we should have seen this month.   When we last checked in on...11358Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/how-kirk-cousins-and-garrett-bradbury-counter-the-blitz/Football is a much more complicated game than we often give it credit for. There are several give-take arenas of gamesmanship that go entirely unnoticed by the naked eye. One such area is the mental battle between the offensive pass protection and the defensive coordinator. Often, the center and q...11357Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-wild-must-do-more-to-maximize-kevin-fialas-talents/Kevin Fiala is in a spot few young NHLers find themselves. He signed a two-year, $6 million contract two years ago — a “prove it” deal. By all accounts, he did, scoring at a 31-goal, 67-point pace over 114 games in two shortened seasons.   Most 25-year-olds with those numbers get rewarded with so...11356Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/justin-morneau-became-a-twins-legend-but-could-have-been-so-much-more/The Minnesota Twins’ offense in the early 2000s was defined by slap-hitting and scrappy baserunning. However, there wasn’t a shortage of good hitters in those lineups. Torii Hunter, Michael Cuddyer, and Joe Mauer put together great at-bats and could flex some power now and again. But players like...11354Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/is-it-time-to-give-kirk-cousins-another-contract-extension/We’ve all heard it. “The Vikings are a Dalvin Cook fumble and a Greg Joseph 37-yard field goal away from being 3-0!”   While the knee-jerk reaction makes it easy to point the finger at Cook and Joseph, the excuse above conveniently fails to acknowledge the Minnesota Vikings’ porous defense to sta...11350Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-vikings-need-to-prove-they-can-do-it-again/Mike Zimmer had pressure mounting on him ahead of Sunday’s game against the Seattle Seahawks. Sitting at 0-2, the Minnesota Vikings needed a win and some momentum to keep the season from going off the rails. With his back to the wall, Zimmer made some defensive adjustments, leaned on his offense,...11348Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/5-numbers-that-tell-the-story-of-the-vikings-seahawks-game/The Minnesota Vikings came into their home opener with a sense of impending doom. After two tough losses on the road to start the season, they would be without their star running back and offensive focal point Dalvin Cook. Even worse, they were facing the Seattle Seahawks, a team they hadn’t beate...11345Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/dumba-is-a-perfect-fit-for-an-alternate-captain-role/It’s finally over. The long-time will-they, won’t-they saga of naming the two alternate captains of the Minnesota Wild is settled. What a relief!   The captaincy and the alternate captains are nearly meaningless throughout the game. It doesn’t grant the team any favors on the ice, put more pucks...11340Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-vikings-needed-a-clean-win-like-this/At some point in the second half of the Minnesota Vikings’ 30-17 win over the Seattle Seahawks, the jumbotron camera found Justin Jefferson dancing on the sidelines. It took him a second, but he eventually looked up to the big screen and noticed it was on him. Jefferson does what he always does wh...11338Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/reexamining-rosass-moves-after-his-firing/With the school year back in full swing, the first unit my middle schoolers are focusing on is character development and alternating perspectives. Specifically, we are digging into some of these moments we encounter in books, film, and real-life where our thinking shifts when it becomes apparent t...11337Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/suddenly-kirk-cousins-and-the-offense-are-propelling-the-vikings-to-victory/At long last, the Minnesota Vikings have done it. After seven brutal, torturous losses to the Seattle Seahawks, most of them in the Pacific Northwest, the Vikings turned one around on Pete Carroll and Russell Wilson. The final score was 30-17, but it didn't look that way at first. The Vikings stag...11336Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-lynx-are-already-focused-on-next-year/Key additions the Minnesota Lynx made over the offseason did not deliver on their title aspirations. A late-season surge resulted in the No. 3 seed and a first-round bye in the WNBA Playoffs, and the Lynx were hoping to put together a deep postseason run for the first time since they winning it al...11335Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/what-should-we-think-when-bad-people-do-good-things/“The Minnesota Timberwolves are parting ways with president of basketball operations Gersson Rosas…” Shams tweeted. Like many of the Wolves faithful, I was shocked to hear this news. All summer I carefully and meticulously pieced together some semblance of hope for this upcoming season, and in an...11333Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/trevor-larnach-and-alex-kirilloff-missed-a-big-opportunity-this-year/Many things went wrong for the Minnesota Twins this season, but Trevor Larnach and Alex Kirilloff’s performances were one of the biggest disappointments. They entered the season as Top 100 prospects according to Baseball America and were expected to have a big year. While both reached the major le...11332Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/can-danielle-hunter-save-this-defense/Despite heavy recasting over the offseason, Minnesota Vikings fans are no strangers to the same show that the defense has been putting on for the past two weeks. Last season, Minnesota’s defense ranked 29th in points, 27th in yards, 25th in passing yards, and 27th in rushing yards allowed. Granted...11331Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/what-if-minnesotas-seahawks-problem-is-just-home-field-advantage/The Minnesota Vikings last beat the Seattle Seahawks in 2009. A purple-clad Brett Favre connected with Percy Harvin for the first touchdown of the game, one of four TD passes he completed that day. Minnesota won so handily over the Matt Hasselbeck-led Seahawks, 35-9, that Tarvaris Jackson finished...11329Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/what-would-a-vikings-in-season-hard-knocks-look-like/Nothing gets football fans excited for the upcoming season like HBO's Hard Knocks, an all-access show chronicling an NFL team's training camp and preseason. This summer, Hard Knocks covered the Dallas Cowboys in the show's 16th season.   Last Thursday, the NFL announced that Hard Knocks would ret...11328Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-wolves-could-use-even-more-lineup-combinations-this-season/Continuity and comfortability are something we always want to come with success. Everyone has a role and the job gets done successfully. But with NBA lineup combinations, this is easier said than done. Matchups, injuries, and internal mismatches make constant change a necessity. The Minnesota Ti...11326Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-vikings-didnt-draft-like-a-team-that-needs-to-win-now/On paper, the Minnesota Vikings seemed to have a decent 2021 draft class. It seemed like they had acquired their franchise left tackle and addressed guard while adding some depth at positions of need. However, one core-muscle surgery later, the Vikings find themselves in a bind, with zero snaps fr...11318Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000