Brad Childress has perfected the fine art of using arcane football lingo to make incredibly simple stuff seem really complicated, thereby making himself seem really smart. A case in point - Childress’s rundown of the Vikings’ mini-camp schedule (via Star-Tribune.com ):
We’ll go morning and afternoon and have an installation in between. There are many [...]

Adrian Peterson has admitted to using video games as a means of venting his frustration after a loss. Said Peterson to SportsGamer.com :
I did that with the Oregon game. After the way that game worked out in Eugene, I went back on NCAA Football 07 and replayed it and got some payback. It made [...]

Almost everyone has been positive about the Vikings drafting RB Adrian Peterson with the number 7 pick. The consensus seems to be that Peterson will be not only a good back but a great one - one prognosticator even has him making the Hall-of-Fame. There are, however, a few people willing to [...]

ESPN.com has a Madden ‘08 preview up (okay, it’s been up there for awhile, but I only just discovered it - so sue me). It looks real pretty, but even if I had an Xbox 360, I don’t know if I’d buy it. The Madden games are fun to play but have [...]

Randy Hill of FoxSports.com has graced us with his list of rookies he thinks will make an immediate impact in the NFL. Among these is the Minnesota Vikings‘ very own Adrian Peterson, about whom Hill says the following (the superstitious may now want to avert their eyes):
If the Vikes can use the pass to [...]

Mock drafts seem to be all the rage right now. At the rate we’re going I fully expect them to start looking ahead 10 years or more, to guess which grade schoolers will have a huge impact down the road. “Little Timmy could be a beast at defensive end if he improves his [...]

Charlie Walters aka The Bullshooter reports in the St. Paul Pioneer-Press that Adrian Peterson wants to buy his mom a house as soon as he signs with the Vikings. In other news, I just saw this basket of kittens and they were so cute I almost died…
The goofs over at Rube Chat debate the [...]

OTAs are over and mini-camp is right around the corner. So now seems a perfect time to prematurely and almost entirely speculatively take stock of where the team stands, position-by-position.
QB - It looks like Tarvaris Jackson is solidly your number one at this point, given that he played first-team throughout OTAs. He would [...]

The Minnesota Vikings held their last OTA session for the week today, with a concentration on two-minute drills. The big news was that Kenechi Udeze (working with the first-team today) actually recorded a sack - meaning he now has as many sacks in two-minute drills this off-season as he had the last two regular [...]