The Purple and Gold Standard
Brian Flores is now effectively subpoenaing 31 of 32 NFL teams — and the Minnesota Vikings may be the one franchise he didn’t. In the latest episode of Two Old Bloggers on the Vikings 1st & SKOL network, hosts Dave Stefano and Darren Campbell tackle the biggest story in the NFL right now: Flores’ expanding […]
It has been an interesting offseason for our Minnesota Vikings. There were some moves we would have like to have seen made but overall, they have done a very good job of being frugal with the wallet and not making any big signings. They did give James Pierre a 2 yr 8.25M before signing Jauan […]
It’s not particularly unusual when the national media overlooks the Minnesota Vikings over the spring and summer months. It happens more often than not. After all, the Vikings are not among the largest media market teams and they haven’t been league darlings either, like the Packers often have been or the Lions in more recent […]
Hey, all. My apologies for not being super active over the past few days. I’ve been a bit under the weather and, honestly, there hasn’t been a whole lot to talk about in the way of news from our favorite football team. Since we’re getting more into the “community discussion” phase of the offseason while […]
The Minnesota Vikings’ search for a new general manager has taken a more deliberate path, if that’s the right term, beginning with the decision to fire Kwesi Adofo-Mensah in late January and put off a search for a new GM until after the draft, naming EVP of Football Operations Rob Brzezinski as interim GM. Wilf […]
Last season, for my inaugural crystal ball look at the 2025 Minnesota Vikings season, I stepped on a rake. I had our favorite team going 12-5, largely because of early optimism about J.J. McCarthy’s readiness. While the reasoning seemed sound, a rookie season comparable to those of C.J. Stroud, Jayden Daniels, and Bo Nix didn’t […]
The search for the next General Manager for the Minnesota Vikings is moving along, and with the first round of interviews in the books, the team has reportedly narrowed their list down to a final five candidates. According to Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports, the five candidates who are being called back for second, in-person […]
The GM search is still ongoing and now it appears they are down to 5 candidates. They are … interim GM Rob Brzezinski, Broncos assistant GM Reed Burckhardt, Bills assistant GM Terrance Gray, Rams assistant GM John McKay and Seahawks assistant GM Nolan Teasley. Seeing as I do not know much about what the qualifications […]
The lawsuit that Minnesota Vikings’ defensive coordinator Brian Flores has lodged against the National Football League about its hiring practice is still ongoing, and after a move that Flores made on Tuesday, the suit now involves nearly every team in the league. According to Front Office Sports, Flores has subpoenaed 25 NFL teams for information […]
The word for this had started to come out yesterday, but just moments ago, the news became officially official. Officially. The National Football League has named the Twin Cities the home of the 2028 National Football League Draft. They will take the torch from Washington, D.C., which will host the 2027 event at the National […]
The Minnesota Vikings’ 2026 quarterback competition is officially on, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. On the latest episode of The Real Forno Show, Vikings beat writer and NFL draft analyst Tyler Forness breaks down exactly how both J.J. McCarthy and Kyler Murray can win the starting job — treating it as a true 50/50 […]
The Minnesota Vikings will only get one home game during the 2026 preseason, but they’ll be spending it getting prepared against one of the more interesting teams in the AFC. Ahead of their preseason game at U.S. Bank Stadium on 22 August, the Vikings will be hosting the league’s other purple team, the Baltimore Ravens, […]
In the latest episode of Two Old Bloggers, hosts Dave Stefano and Darren Campbell deliver a sharp, candid breakdown of everything shaking up Vikings land heading into the 2026 season. The duo zeroed in on a troubling theme emerging from Minnesota’s ongoing GM search: top assistant GM candidates like Chad Alexander may be declining interviews […]
Not much going on right now as we await the first OTAs and minicamp. The current Cap Space (per OverTheCap) without the Jennings signing reflected is : $12,267,125One June 2nd it will increase due to the Post-June 1 release savings: +$12,500,000 (combined from Harrison Smith and Jonathan Allen)Adjusted Total Cap Space: $24,767,125 I imagine Jennings […]
In the days following the NFL draft, a controversy over the value of NFL draft consensus boards resurfaced with more energy. Are they good? Are they bad? How are they compiled? Are they accurate? Are they useful? Are reaches in the draft really bad? Are steals really good? Is there really wisdom in this groupthink? […]
The Minnesota Vikings’ 2026 NFL schedule is here, and it’s packed with high-stakes matchups, a brutal mid-season gauntlet, and a Mexico City neutral-site showdown — making this one of the most fascinating schedules in recent franchise history. On the latest episode of The Real Forno Show, beat writer and NFL draft analyst Tyler Forness and […]
The Minnesota Vikings and the rest of the NFL released their official schedules Thursday evening to some muted fanfare as fans compared schedule-release presentations. But let’s cut to the chase and take a more in-depth look at the Vikings’ regular season schedule. Preseason In the past the second preseason game has been the occasion for […]
Now that the Minnesota Vikings’ 2026 schedule is officially out there in the wild, I wanted to give a few initial thoughts on how things could, potentially, go for our favorite football team in 2026. I don’t want to do game-by-game predictions or anything like that, but I do want to put my initial record […]
The schedule is out, ladies and gentlemen! Here’s what the 2026 slate looks like for our Minnesota Vikings. We’ll have more discussion on the schedule over the course of the next few days, but for now, there it is! What do you think, folks?
We are getting closer to the release of the 2026 NFL regular season schedule, which is an event because the marketing folks in the NFL offices on Park Avenue know how to keep this league relevant pretty much year-round now. We’re seeing more and more leaks and rumors about the Minnesota Vikings’ schedule for the […]
Queue the fart noise machine! I guess it is useful if you are planning on attending games. Maybe some early predictors will find it helpful to know when they play the teams that were already assigned to play. Obviously the team should go 17-0 right? The team still has not processed Jauan Jennings’ contract with […]
The NFL schedule is set to be released this week, which will mark the last big event of the offseason before we begin the long, desolate slog towards training camp at the end of July and the preseason in August. We already know who the Vikings will play in 2026 and where they’ll be playing […]
We have our second Minnesota Vikings-related schedule leak ahead of Thursday’s formal release of the 2026 regular season slate, and it once again sees a familiar scenario for the Vikings to end a regular season with. Ben Goessling of the Minnesota Star-Tribune is reporting that the Vikings will finish up the 2026 regular season with […]
The full release of the 2026 NFL regular season schedule is still about two days away, but if the rumor that has surfaced this evening is accurate, the Minnesota Vikings may have another country to add to their collective passports. The word has started circulating among numerous sources that the Vikings will be traveling to […]
In a previous article, I discussed the tediously long NFL offseason and how breaking it into quarters makes it a bit more tolerable. With the draft concluded and minicamps and OTAs now underway, we’ve entered the third quarter. We’re getting there. With things (somewhat) quiet before the schedule release and the general manager vacancy filled, […]