https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/page/317/?d=4WordPress Posts: WordPress Postsenhttps://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/while-their-pass-defense-bent-vikings-run-stuffing-helped-beat-the-cowboys/DALLAS -- It looked for a moment like the Minnesota Vikings' magnanimous effort against Ezekiel Elliott was going to get washed away in a late-game secondary collapse that could throw the season into disarray.   Despite nose tackle Linval Joseph's injury absence that threw Jaleel Johnson into a s...7416Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/instant-reaction-vikings-win-28-24-thriller-in-dallas/Get Sam Ekstrom's first take on the Vikings' stunning road victory over the Dallas Cowboys.   BIG PICTURE   What looked like it could be a devastating collapse turned into an exhilarating, gutty victory. A Minnesota defense getting gashed held on fourth down in their own red zone and staved off...7415Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/undefeated-how-does-minnesota-stack-up-against-iowa-to-get-to-10-0/The Minnesota Golden Gophers are 9-0 coming off one of the programs biggest wins in its history, ranked inside the top 10 in the AP Poll at No. 7 for the first time since 1962 and are headed into the last three games of the season   The Gophers take on the Iowa Hawkeyes in Iowa City this coming w...7414Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/gameday-is-adam-thielen-or-linval-joseph-a-greater-loss-vs-cowboys/DALLAS -- It's gameday in Big D, where the Minnesota Vikings look to bounce back against the 5-3 Dallas Cowboys on Sunday Night Football. It's their first regular season game at the new Cowboys Stadium since 2013, and the first time as Vikings coach that Mike Zimmer will square off against the tea...7413Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/no-17-minnesota-upsets-no-4-penn-state-to-remain-undefeated/Minnesota was nearly a touchdown underdog coming into the game, but the Golden Gophers emerged 1-0 in the Penn State championship season on Saturday.   No. 17 Minnesota upset No. 4 Penn State 31-26 on Saturday to remain unbeaten in 2019 and head into the game at Iowa next weekend 9-0.   “That wa...7412Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/this-kid-can-flat-out-play-andrew-wiggins-is-finding-his-right-situation/D'Angelo Russell to the Minnesota Timberwolves did not happen this summer. Still, the pursuit of Russell was the player-specific Wolves storyline that defined the intermediate months. It wasn't Karl-Anthony Towns taking the step. And it wasn't Robert Covington returning from injury. If anything, t...7410Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/losing-against-contenders-on-the-road-is-not-just-a-vikings-problem/It's no secret that the Minnesota Vikings have struggled on the road under Mike Zimmer, a truism made more frustrating by the fact that some of those Vikings teams were quality contenders yet always failed to beat fellow contenders away from home.   Division title-winning teams in 2015 and 2017 e...7408Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/vikings-should-aspire-for-cowboys-offensive-line-continuity/With a young franchise quarterback preparing to cash a massive contract and an electric running back that just got his own payday, the Dallas Cowboys had to make sure those investments were protected.   That's why no team spent more on the offensive line in 2018. No team is spending more on the o...7405Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/charlie-beattie-rises-up-to-gophers-tv-play-by-play-voice/Charlie Beattie did not grow up in a hockey household. As he himself put it logically speaking, he should not be into hockey.   The winter sport he played as a kid was basketball. He never picked up on hockey until college, and attended few hockey games with his dad before the NHL left town in 19...7404Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-system-works-karl-anthony-towns-on-the-timberwolves-new-schemes/Karl-Anthony Towns used the past two games to assess what is working and what is not working for his Minnesota Timberwolves. Sidelined as punishment for his altercation with Joel Embiid, Towns had a different perspective watching those games from his hotel room.   "I'm just a highly-educated fan...7402Wed, 06 Nov 2019 01:24:59 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/meet-bryan-greenlee-the-golden-gophers-new-guard-and-barber/The calendar turned to June, the Golden Gophers had another scholarship to dole out, and Bryan Greenlee didn't yet know where he'd be playing college basketball in the coming fall.   The three-star recruit from Gainesville, Fla., is now part of Richard Pitino's bench in Minnesota, the team's fina...7401Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/gophers-p-j-fleck-signs-seven-year-extension-through-2026-season/With much recent speculation surrounding the Gophers’ football head coach with his contract, P.J. Fleck and Minnesota’s athletics director got an extension finalized Tuesday, according to a release from Gophers Athletics.   Fleck signed a contract extension of seven years to take him through the...7399Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/moving-on-from-mikko-koivu-will-be-necessary-painful-for-wild/For 15 seasons, Mikko Koivu has been the heart, soul and identity of the Minnesota Wild.   Named the first full-time captain for the Wild by former head coach Todd Richards in October 2009, Koivu made his mark by playing a responsible, 200-foot game and earning the praise of his coaches. Now just...7393Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/mike-zimmer-given-three-more-4th-and-1-decisions-vs-chiefs-after-ruing-decision-in-week-8/Mike Zimmer is an old-school coach through and through, quick to scoff at the overuse of analytics at the expense of coaching instincts.   It was no surprise, then, that Zimmer wasn't exactly happy with himself after Kirk Cousins got stuffed trying to sneak the ball on 4th and 1 from Minnesota's...7390Mon, 04 Nov 2019 14:42:16 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/vikings-chiefs-game-showed-the-importance-of-special-teams-play/Mike Zimmer has preached since Day 1 of his tenure that each of football's three phases -- offense, defense and the oft-overlooked special teams -- carry weight.   Sunday's loss proved that special teams can make or break a game, or a season, as a pair of special teams gaffes cost the Vikings in...7388Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/explosive-plays-the-difference-maker-in-vikings-loss-to-chiefs/KANSAS CITY -- The Minnesota Vikings had been marvelous through the first half of the season in one particularly important offensive category: yards per play. Only two clubs ranked higher, the Houston Texans and Sunday's opponent, the Kansas City Chiefs.   Sunday's razor-thin margin of defeat on...7387Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/instant-reaction-vikings-lose-heartbreaker-on-last-second-field-goal/The Vikings lost 26-23 on a last-second field goal against the Chiefs. Sam Ekstrom gives his initial thoughts.   BIG PICTURE: The Vikings needed to prove they could beat a winning team on the road. Kirk Cousins needed to prove himself in a tough environment. Despite holding a lead in the fourth q...7386Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/how-the-timberwolves-thrived-without-karl-anthony-towns/The Minnesota Timberwolves entered their Saturday evening game in Washington with a massive hole to fill. On a per-36 minutes basis -- which corrects for Karl-Anthony Towns, um, "missing" the second half of the Philadelphia game -- the deleted Towns chasm to be filled in was 31.7 points, 13.4 rebo...7384Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/local-products-shine-for-notre-dame-in-victory-over-gophers/Notre Dame’s players are no strangers to 3M Arena at Mariucci. Or Minnesota in general, for that matter.   The Notre Dame Fighting Irish’s roster lists six players as being from Minnesota, with half of them hailing from Eden Prairie. The Eden Prairie contingency accounted for three points in Notr...7383Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/rudolph-thanks-kelce-thielen-updates-health-halfway-benchmarks/Kyle Rudolph and Travis Kelce have been two of the league's most consistent tight ends for the better part of the last decade. Since Kelce entered the NFL in 2013, he and Rudolph sit in the top 10 for tight end receptions and touchdowns, while nobody has more yards over that span than Kelce.   Wh...7376Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/mahomes-or-moore-vikings-biding-time-as-they-wait-for-chiefs-quarterback-decision/For the second time in six weeks, the Vikings may end up facing a 30-something journeyman backup quarterback.   With Patrick Mahomes still recovering from a kneecap dislocation, Matt Moore is potentially in line for a second straight start when the Chiefs and Vikings face off Sunday afternoon. Ba...7373Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/what-weve-learned-about-these-timberwolves/This version of the Minnesota Timberwolves was always going to be a puzzle. When the Wolves hired Gersson Rosas to take over the basketball operations department this past spring, a box full of puzzle pieces was cracked open. Those pieces began to fall out of the box when Rosas proclaimed that Min...7370Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/gophers-new-three-point-shooting-identity-on-display-in-exhibition-win/It was clear within five minutes of the Golden Gophers' Monday night scrimmage against Division-II Southwest Minnesota State: Fans should prepare to watch the Gophers launch the 3-ball.   Of Minnesota's first 10 field-goal attempts, seven came from behind the 3-point line. By the end of their 73-...7367Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/why-kevin-stefanski-might-be-the-nfls-next-great-offensive-coach/The 2018 Minnesota Vikings were not good on offense. They ranked below average by DVOA, and they were a bottom-10 passing offense and bottom-three rushing offense by expected points added (EPA) per play.   The 2019 Vikings are good on offense. Quite good, in fact — halfway through the season, the...7365Tue, 29 Oct 2019 07:00:34 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/mike-zimmer-isnt-concerned-about-xavier-rhodes-should-he-be/For the better part of a half decade, Minnesota Vikings fans have grown accustomed to continuity on Mike Zimmer's defense. Everson Griffen rushing the passer, Anthony Barr roaming the middle of the field, Harrison Smith lurking in the back end and Xavier Rhodes terminating opponents' top receiver....7361Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000