https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/page/278/?d=4WordPress Posts: WordPress Postsenhttps://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-ingredients-to-winning-in-the-windy-city/In their first game post-9/11, the Minnesota Vikings traveled to Soldier Field to face the Chicago Bears with much of the same team that made the NFC Championship Game the year prior.   The Three Deep passing attack was still intact with Randy Moss, Cris Carter and Jake Reed catching balls from D...9031Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/everyone-could-use-a-kirk-cousins-breakthrough-on-monday-night-football/A win over the Chicago Bears on Monday night would be a breakthrough for Kirk Cousins. Everyone knows the numbers: He’s 0-9 in Monday Night Football and 0-3 against Chicago as a member of the Minnesota Vikings.   Sure, he beat the New Orleans Saints in the playoffs last year. Yeah, that win over...9030Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/5-red-hot-topics-for-the-timberwolves-before-the-draft/Oh my goodness gracious, you guys. It’s draft week!   Normally, we’re a month into the season in mid-November. Obviously the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all of this. When we’re at more than 100,000 cases per day in the United States, it seems trivial to talk about sports. But here we are.   W...9028Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/4-wild-prospects-we-thought-for-sure-would-pan-out/In honor of the Minnesota Wild’s 20th season, 10KRinks is taking a look at some franchise-long trends. Today, we took stock of some of the prospects who were supposed to pan out, but didn’t.   Let’s jump right into Minnesota’s worst draft class, that is the one that did the least with top-end pic...9027Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/3-scripts-that-need-to-flip-if-the-vikings-are-going-to-beat-the-bears/The Minnesota Vikings have lost four in a row to the Chicago Bears. In those games the same storyline continues to play out, like the Vikings are stuck in the movie Groundhog Day.   These are the scripts that need to flip if they are going to end this losing streak to their division rival: Get...9025Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/bill-simmons-makes-a-case-for-a-vikings-playoff-push/Buried deep in Bill Simmons’ Friday podcast, which was headlined by potential Russell Westbrook trades, NFL playoff talk and a tribute to Alex Trebek, The Sports Guy went to bat for the Minnesota Vikings.   “I’m going to make a tiny case for the Vikings,” he told his guest, Ringer NFL writer Kevi...9023Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/wild-fans-are-all-in-on-guerin-why-isnt-the-rest-of-the-league/Stop me if you’ve heard this before: A leader takes over, slips on every banana peel possible, makes everyone hate him and is sent packing as soon as possible. A new guy takes over, and it doesn’t really matter who takes over, because anyone’s an improvement.   The most recent example that we hav...9022Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/jeff-gladney-and-kris-boyds-texas-football-connection/Matthew Stafford wasted no time challenging the Minnesota Vikings secondary last Sunday, firing a deep shot down the left sideline for Marvin Hall Jr..   Kris Boyd, making his second start of the season, tracked it the whole way. The second-year corner repelled the deep ball, which wound up being...9019Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-vikings-are-starting-to-resemble-the-2019-titans/Entering their bye week, the Minnesota Vikings had a 1-5 record, and it seemed as if all was lost in the 2020 season. However, after consecutive wins at Green Bay and vs. Detroit, the Vikings' playoff hopes for 2020 are suddenly alive. A win on Monday night against the Chicago Bears would improve...9018Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/anthony-edwards-is-a-giant-bag-of-maybies/Maybe Anthony Edwards goes first overall. Maybe he’s worth it, maybe he’s not.   A year ago this time, Edwards was the buzz of the 2020 NBA Draft class. Though ESPN had him ranked fourth in their final recruiting rankings, the 6’5” Edwards provided that tantalizing allure of an athletic, scoring...9017Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/if-the-vikings-want-to-win-in-chicago-it-will-have-to-be-with-defense/The Minnesota Vikings seek to continue their inexorable march toward missing out on a Top 10 draft pick on Monday night in Chicago – a place where, over the years, Da Bears have treated the Vikings like a baby treats a diaper.   As surely as I just deliberately conflated two George Wendt characte...9016Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-long-term-affects-of-dalvin-cooks-breakout/The biggest storyline of the 2020 Minnesota Vikings has been the emergence of Dalvin Cook. Over the past two weeks, Cook has put the Vikings on his back, collecting 478 all-purpose yards and six touchdowns to take Minnesota from tanking for Trevor Lawrence into playoff contention.   Although Cook...9014Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-vikings-are-due-for-a-play-action-explosion/For one quarter last Sunday, it looked like the Minnesota Vikings were back to their old play-action tricks that had confounded defenses throughout 2019.   First attempt: A 22-yard hit to Kyle Rudolph.   Second attempt: 22 more yards to Justin Jefferson.   Third attempt: A 30-yard crosser to Ad...9013Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/redrafting-the-vikings-2020-draft/Judging by the draft grades put out right after the 2020 draft, the Minnesota Vikings had one of the best drafts of any team:     Of course, we all know draft grades are hardly predictive of how draft classes will actually pan out — Bleacher Report once wrote that the Seahawks drafting Russell...9011Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/eric-wilson-isnt-an-anthony-barr-replacement/Following the 34-20 win over the Detroit Lions, Eric Kendricks effusively praised Eric Wilson. "I don’t know that anyone’s playing at a higher level than Eric Wilson right now," Kendricks said. "That man is a walking turnover."   To date, Wilson has intercepted three passes, recovered two fumbles...9009Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/how-the-vikings-should-game-plan-for-chicagos-front-seven/This week's game is surely circled on Kirk Cousins' calendar. Not only is the game on Monday Night, where he holds an 0-9 record, but it is also against a team that he hasn’t beat while donning the purple and gold. The Minnesota Vikings are currently riding a hot streak on the back of MVP candidat...9008Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/james-wiseman-a-great-player-bad-fit-for-the-timberwolves/Anybody who claims to know exactly what James Wiseman’s NBA future will look like is trying to sell you something.   Wiseman, the athletic seven-footer who sat atop ESPN’s recruit rankings for the 2019 class, was supposed to make the University of Memphis appointment viewing during the 2019-20 se...9007Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/tiny-nicks-gambling-picks-11-11/Locks No Locks today. Degenerates Northern Illinois +7.5 (-110): This Central Michigan team is a little suspect to me. They were able to sneak out a win last week against an unimpressive Ohio team, and now are looking to cover more than a touchdown on the road? That doesn't seem right to me w...9006Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/riley-reiff-is-succeeding-in-gary-kubiaks-system/Another week, another game where Dalvin Cook proves he’s worth every penny of his new contract and that as long as he remains healthy and attached to a Mike Zimmer game plan he’ll obliterate opposing defenses and the record books. Once again the Vikings put themselves in a position where they didn...9003Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/vikings-mailbag-elfleins-future-2021-draft-cost-saving-moves/For years the listeners of our Football Machine Vikings podcast have sent in amazing Twitter questions, and far too often we’ve had to leave many of them on the cutting room floor because of time. No longer! Each week we’ll pull some questions that didn’t make the cut and address them in this spac...9001Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/what-does-2021-look-like-for-barr-hughes-and-hunter/The Minnesota Vikings are back in the thick of things in the NFC after winning two in a row and improving to 3-5 on the season. Even though they remain a long shot to make the postseason, it is remarkable that they've climbed all the way back into contention despite being ravaged by injuries.   T...9000Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/5-numbers-that-tell-the-story-of-the-vikings-lions-game/The Minnesota Vikings stuck with the same formula that led them to victory last week in Lambeau and ran all over the Detroit Lions on Sunday afternoon. Once again the number of running plays (34) exceeded the number of passing attempts (20) in their 34-20 victory.   We have yet to see how this st...8998Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/its-starting-to-look-like-spielman-nailed-the-2020-draft/The Minnesota Vikings have risen from the dead! Once 1-5 with visions of a complete teardown, they have picked up a pair of wins and found themselves back into the playoff picture. Now two games back of the seventh playoff spot in the NFC, it's fair to wonder just how they're doing it and if it's...8997Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/why-kirk-cousins-kept-throwing-to-his-right-against-detroit/Make it two weeks in a row where quarterback Kirk Cousins does not need to be anything but a play-action robot and checkdown dispenser. From a pure talent perspective, the Minnesota Vikings had the Detroit Lions beat in this one, but offensive coordinator Gary Kubiak’s game plan and the dominance...8996Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/hercules-mataafa-from-clown-emoji-to-edge-rusher/Hercules Mata'afa's NFL experience has been anything but standard. Mata'afa, a defensive tackle, weighed in at 254 pounds at the NFL Combine, well shy of the 306-pound average for the position. He entered the draft as a projected mid-round pick, but fell out of the draft entirely due to these size...8995Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000