Pacifist Viking

Chris Cook has looked really good in preseason games; now he's injured and will miss time ( Kevin Seifert ). The Vikes have been suffer...

I saw what I needed from Greg Camarillo: he's an ideal possession receiver. He's got reliable hands and he can find open spots in t...

According to Football Outsiders , Greg Camarillo did not have a single drop last season on his 73 targets ( 50 catches ). The Vikings had a...

Crap . Crap . Update Given that the Vikings still have Bernard Berrian, Percy Harvin (I assume right now), Visanthe Shiancoe, and Adrian Pe...

It was great to see E.J. Henderson not only play, but be extraordinarily active . He looks like a player that can still be a good middle li...

Pat Reusse writes a good defense of Brad Childress ( Star Tribune ). One of the things I often come back to is the poor state of the Viking...

(or, how this blog turned into repetitive existential whining, where I'm inexplicably willing to admit the ways that the Vikings mean wa...

This is an extended argument against head-to-head standings for fantasy football, and in favor of Cross Country standings. The concise ex...

I have a crazy simple idea for projecting Brett Favre 's 2010 statistics. I'm just going to take take the average of his 2008 and 2...

I can see why people who aren't Viking fans get tired of this. It all seems so theatrical, melodramatic, overblown. As a Viking fan, I...

He's back in town. He's back with the Vikings ( Star Tribune ). Last year, the expectation was that Favre would be a caretaker, not...

Tony Dungy doesn't like Rex Ryan's swearing, and in fact wouldn't want to hire him because of it ( Shutdown Corner ). OK, that ...

Progress, evidently ( PFT , Strib ). I'm still worried.

He's back! ( ESPN ). As much as fretting Favre, I've been fretting Percy Harvin and Sidney Rice being available, healthy, and prepar...

Vikings-Rams Box Score (ESPN) My crazy optimism-fueled fantasies about Sage Rosenfels aren't going away. Sure, he was doing what he di...

Vikings If you compare preseason football to regular season football, it's awful, sure. But if you think of it as a glorified scrimmage...

Life is often quite seasonal. Minnesotans (and others) who have slogged through the recent heat and humidity know that in a few months we...

Elizabeth Merrill has a long profile on Brad Childress and his background ( ESPN ).

I had this mythology of timing built up in my head. The 1976 Minnesota Vikings went 11-2-1 in the regular season, and won their NFC playof...

Sleepers My definition of a sleeper WR: a player few regard as a starter before the season (or at best, a fringe #3 starter), that will prod...