https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/page/283/?d=4WordPress Posts: WordPress Postsenhttps://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-vikings-are-re-learning-mike-zimmers-four-learns-of-football/Mike Zimmer is a football coach without frills. He's said many times that he's driven by the teaching aspect of his job: the film sessions, the practice field, the sideline during games, etc. Believe it or not, the focus of his lessons isn't always Xs and Os.   Since his arrival, Zimmer has perio...8837Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/4-vikings-players-who-need-more-snaps/The Minnesota Vikings are sitting at 1-4 after the first five games of the season. With some better execution and savvier in-game choices, they could be 3-2 at this point. While that record is definitely disappointing and not what many were expecting at this point, they have played much better rec...8836Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/marco-rossi-faces-an-uphill-battle-to-make-the-wild-roster-next-year/Marian Gaborik. Brent Burns. Pierre-Marc Bouchard.   Each player had significant individual accomplishments with the Minnesota Wild. All of them did something that one of the team’s newest draft picks wants to achieve, too. They made the team immediately after being drafted.   Ninth overall pick...8833Tue, 13 Oct 2020 10:00:14 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/crunching-the-numbers-behind-mike-zimmers-4th-and-1-decision/With 3 minutes, 28 seconds remaining in the half on Sunday night against Seattle, the Minnesota Vikings faced a 4th and 1 from their own 21. Conventional wisdom says to punt in that situation. Since 1994, only 8% of teams ever go for it. It probably didn't raise nearly as many eyebrows as Zimmer's...8832Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/why-didnt-kirk-cousins-throw-deep-more-against-seattle/It feels as though every Kirk Cousins performance this season has been some form of extreme, whether that was necessarily his fault or not. Think about the Indianapolis Colts game compared to last week’s Houston Texans game, for example. He's all over the place.   This week was much more “meh.”  ...8831Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/why-cant-the-vikings-find-guards/As we inch closer to Halloween, the Minnesota Vikings continue to be the NFL’s closest thing to a slasher flick. While I sat down for a bowl of popcorn with the lights off, the Vikings headed out to Seattle to put an immediate 13-0 lead on the Seahawks. Much like a group of kids heading to Camp Cr...8830Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/mike-zimmers-4th-and-1-gamble-was-justifiable/The only person that won't be doing any Monday morning second-guessing is the Minnesota Vikings head coach.   Mike Zimmer, the man who often challenges the analytics movement that drives the in-games decisions of many decision-makers, made a forward-thinking, probability-sound decision with two m...8826Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/4-things-we-learned-from-the-vikings-loss-to-the-seahawks/Let me know if this sounds familiar: The Minnesota Vikings lost in a heartbreaking fashion to the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday night. The Vikings got off to an early 13-0 start, but it quickly faded after halftime. They fought their way back and held the lead late in the game. But Zimmer opted to go...8824Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/instant-reaction-seahawks-shock-vikings-27-26-with-95-yard-two-minute-drive/This one will be analyzed for a long time.   Russell Wilson hit D.K. Metcalf for a fourth-down touchdown with 15 seconds left to give the Seahawks a 27-26 win, ending a 95-yard drive that Wilson executed in under two minutes. He also connected on a 4th and 10 seconds earlier. Mike Zimmer had an a...8823Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/3-players-the-timberwolves-could-draft-17th-overall/The talk heading into the NBA Draft for Minnesota Timberwolves’ fans will be who they will take, or what they will do, with the No. 1 pick.   We’ll go more into that over the next month. There will be plenty of time for chatter now that the season is over.   Quick tangent: The NBA did such an ex...8822Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/two-purple-dreams-and-one-disaster-for-the-seahawks-game/We’re going to try a little something new this week. With it being 2020, we decided to plant our freak flag and embrace the loose sense of reality a bit.     Today we’re going to discuss two potential absolute best case scenarios for the Minnesota Vikings’ Week 5 matchup in Seattle on Sunday Ni...8821Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/vikings-mailbag-garrett-bradburys-progress-and-where-are-bisi-and-irv/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...8818Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/bill-guerin-has-most-of-the-wild-forwards-on-short-term-deals-now/Bill Guerin is taking no prisoners.   Since the early days of the Parise/Suter era, the Minnesota Wild have experienced a lack of goal scoring and fallen flat in the playoffs. But there have been changes lately, especially since Chuck Fletcher was fired in 2018. Paul Fenton made tweaks, but it wa...8816Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/what-does-the-cam-talbot-deal-mean-for-kaapo-kahkonen-and-hunter-jones/On Friday afternoon, the Minnesota Wild addressed their need for a No. 1 goalie by signing veteran goaltender Cam Talbot to a three-year deal worth $11 million ($3.67M AAV).   The 33-year-old Talbot is coming off a season in which he played in 26 games for the Calgary Flames, going 12-10-1, with...8814Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/big-matchups-and-key-stats-for-the-vikings-seahawks-game/The Minnesota Vikings caught a break in their early season schedule gauntlet last week, escaping Houston with a victory over the winless Texans – a team so listless they dismissed their head coach/general manager the following day. Now it’s back to reality. The Vikings’ first three losses came aga...8813Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/dont-say-i-didnt-warn-you-about-d-k-metcalf-deep-balls/With longtime nemesis Russell Wilson playing at career high levels to start 2020, the Minnesota Vikings will have their work cut out for them on Sunday Night Football when they square off against the Seattle Seahawks this weekend. The Vikings have yet to defeat Wilson since he entered the league,...8812Fri, 09 Oct 2020 06:50:44 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-vikings-need-to-play-better-coming-out-of-halftime/Through the first four weeks of the season, the Minnesota Vikings have struggled in their first drive of the second half. This has not only limited their ability to come back in games, but it allowed their opponents to blow them out in Weeks 1 and 2 and make things close in the last two games.  ...8811Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/it-didnt-take-long-for-bill-guerin-to-overhaul-the-wilds-center-depth/In early August, Wild general manager Bill Guerin watched his team get dominated down the middle in their play-in series against the Vancouver Canucks. Aging veterans Eric Staal and Mikko Koivu took most of the meaningful minutes in that series, and after losing in four games, it was clear to Guer...8809Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-wild-deliberately-drafted-players-with-attitude-and-skill/Minnesota Wild general manager Bill Guerin may speak softly, but his he carries a big stick. He and Judd Bracket, the team's Director of Amateur Scouting, have taken concerted action in building the future of the franchise this offseason. The process started with trading Jason Zucker back in Febru...8808Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/garrett-bradbury-has-made-meaningful-improvements-this-season/It's been a long time since September of 2019, where freshman center Garrett Bradbury put up one of the worst pass blocking starts Pro Football Focus had ever graded. Here in 2020, Bradbury's play has improved significantly. Outside of a high-profile flattening by Jeffery Simmons (pictured below),...8806Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-stefon-diggs-trade-looks-like-a-win-win-for-the-vikings-and-bills/In the NFL, most trades have a winner and a loser. While one team usually reaps the benefits of a franchise-changing move, the other wonders what the hell they were doing. In some ways, trades are like a winner-take-all deathmatch where there ABSOLUTELY MUST BE A WINNER!!!   Because of this, ever...8804Thu, 08 Oct 2020 06:50:13 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-wild-sold-high-on-kunin-and-got-a-top-center-prospect-in-return/For a team engaged in an active offseason makeover, the Minnesota Wild had a quiet Day 1 of the draft. They wisely stayed put at ninth overall to scoop up a falling Marco Rossi, and called it a day. No goalie acquisitions, no dealing of veterans like Matt Dumba, just a moment for the hot stove to...8803Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/dalvin-cooks-fast-start-has-him-looking-at-barry-sanders-tape-for-inspiration/Dalvin Cook fires up his tablet and goes to work watching film: Upcoming opponents, past performances, practice reps -- the whole routine. But that's also where Cook has stored some of his most valuable video, a Barry Sanders highlight reel.   "Barry just stands there, they hand it to him, and he...8802Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/how-did-the-wolves-get-here-and-where-exactly-are-they-going/To land the first overall pick in any draft, a lot has to go wrong.   A 19-45 record would signal the beginning of a complete teardown and rebuild for most teams. The Minnesota Timberwolves brass jumped the gun on that measure in February, but in a pretty unorthodox way. Instead of trading away p...8801Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/jimmy-butler-was-right-and-its-time-for-minnesota-to-accept-that/Whoopsie-daisey. We’ve been down this road before, Timberwolves fans.   Instead of recognizing Jimmy Butler for being the franchise-overhaul enforcer that the Minnesota Timberwolves so desperately needed and traded for back in June of 2017, we all were enamored with enabling youthful potential th...8800Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000