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Minnesota Vikings News and Links: Who Do You Want For GM?
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 […]
Brian Flores Subpoenas Pretty Much The Entire NFL
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 […]
Twin Cities Officially Named Host of 2028 NFL Draft
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 […]
Can J.J. McCarthy Beat Kyler Murray — Who Wins the Starting Job?
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 […]
Vikings to Hold Joint Practices with Ravens
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, […]
Vikings Front Office Power Struggle & 2026 Schedule Traps
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 […]
Minnesota Vikings News and Links: What Moves Are Next?
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 […]
The Consensus Board Discord
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? […]
Rare Division Start + Early Bye: Vikings 2026 Schedule Deep Dive
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 […]
Thoughts on the Vikings 2026-27 Schedule
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 […]
Vikings schedule: Predicting Minnesota’s 2026 results
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 […]
Your Minnesota Vikings 2026 Schedule
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?
Vikings 2026 Schedule: What We Think We Know Right Now
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 […]
Minnesota Vikings News and Links: It’s Schedule Release Day!
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 […]
NFL schedule release 2026: Tracking the Vikings rumors
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 […]
Report: Vikings to Close Season at Home Against Bears
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 […]
Report: Vikings to Face 49ers in Mexico City in November
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 […]
Thoughts on the Current Scene
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, […]
The Vikings GM Race Is Tighter Than You Think
The Minnesota Vikings GM search is heating up — and The Real Forno Show has the full breakdown. Host Tyler Forness, beat writer and NFL draft guru, sits down with coaching and GM candidate expert A.J. Schulte to rank all seven candidates vying to be Minnesota’s next general manager. From the lone internal candidate Rob […]
Vikings Schedule 2026: Do You Want the Vikings Playing on Holidays?
It used to be that the only holiday NFL fans really had to pay any attention to was Thanksgiving, because you knew that there was going to be a doubleheader on that day. The Lions were going to play someone right around noon or so, the Cowboys were going to play someone later on in […]
Adrian Peterson to Be Inducted Into Vikings Ring of Honor
Former Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson is likely to be a first-ballot Hall of Famer when he becomes eligible for the Class of 2027 the next time the committee votes. Before he gets to Canton, however, he’s going to be enshrined in the place where he made his name in the NFL. The Vikings […]
While NFL Burned Cash, Vikings Robbed Free Agency Blind – Jennings Reaction
The Minnesota Vikings may have pulled off the most quietly brilliant offseason in the NFL in 2026. While other teams burned cash on overpriced wideouts, the Vikings scooped up quarterback Kyler Murray for just $1.3 million two months ago and on Thursday, locked in physical wide receiver Jauan Jennings on an $8 million guaranteed deal. […]
Minnesota Vikings News and Links: Happy Mother’s Day!
What will a true open QB competition look like? How would fans truly be able to know what is happening on the practice fields? I know there is a faction of fans who prefer that JJ gets to start or wins the competition and that is cool. I just am not reading the tea leaves […]
Minnesota Vikings News and Links: What Position Needs An Upgrade Next?
You gotta love the Jennings signing! The team needed a more reliable wide receiver behind Jefferson and Addison. Jennings has proven he can handle being the #1 option at receiver. We will soon find out about the structure of Jennings deal and I would not be surprised if there were a void year or two […]
Vikings Sign Nearly All Of Their 2026 Draft Class
With the team’s first rookie mini-camp getting underway today in Eagan, the Minnesota Vikings’ 2026 Draft Class has, officially, put pen to paper. Well, almost all of them have, anyway. The Vikings have announced that eight of the nine players that they drafted in this past April’s draft have officially signed their rookie contracts. The […]
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