SportsCenter featured the Vikings in their On the Clock segment. Let me first say…very laid-back atmosphere for On the Clock. Nice chairs. No Sean Salisbury is also a plus.
Now to the nitty-gritty…what the “experts” had to say about the Vikes. Jaworski pummeled them for their lack of explosive pass plays. [...]

The NFL has given the Vikings and Packers the honor of playing the first game of the now-customary season-opening Monday Night Football double-header this year.
The game will be played at Lambeau Field at 6 p.m. September 8.  It will mark the beginning of the Aaron Rodgers era in Green Bay…assuming Brett Favre hasn’t returned from [...]

The Vikings still have a pudge for Sage Rosenfels, the Houston Texans back-up QB, who may have become expendable after Houston acquired Quinn Grey via free agency.
The Vikes tried getting Rosenfels earlier this off-season, but the third-round pick they offered didn’t do it for Houston.  It’s believed trade talks between the two parties will pick [...]

It’s beginning to look like Daunte Culpepper will not have a job when training camp starts.
As ProFootballTalk pointed out today, the Raiders recently signed a pair of unknown quarterbacks, Erik Meyer and Jeff Otis, to go along with JaMarcus Russell and Andrew Walter.  Furthermore, Culpepper is still not listed on Raiders’ transaction page has having [...]

Matt Birk has decided not to participate in the Vikings‘ voluntary off-season conditioning program.  This has set off rumblings that Birk is unhappy over the team’s reticence to negotiate an extension with him, despite their eager willingness to re-sign veterans like Kevin Williams, Pat Williams and Bryant McKinnie (I bet they sort of regret that [...]

The Houston Texans are about to sign QB Quinn Gray to a one-year deal.  This will give them three fairly experienced quarterbacks, with Matt Schaub and Sage Rosenfels already in the mix.
The Vikings, as we know, pursued Rosenfels earlier in the off-season, but were unwilling to give the Texans the second-round pick they wanted in [...]

The Vikings have signed former Houston Texans and Seattle Seahawks safety Michael Boulware.  This pretty much completes the transformation of the Vikings’ safety position:  since the end of the season, they’ve gotten rid of Tank Williams and Dwight Smith, and will probably not bring back Mike Doss; and they’ve signed Madieu Williams and now Boulware.  [...]

Brad Childress spoke about Bryant McKinnie, who has pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from his Miami nightclub altercation.  Chilly is usually circumspect when dealing with this kind of stuff publicly, but today he came pretty close to saying McKinnie’s days as a Viking are numbered:
I know … [reporters] don’t want to hear, “Until I [...]

The Vikings are scrambling to find a solution to their back-up quarterback situation.  The two names being bandied about the most lately are Craig Nall and Gus Frerotte.
Nall, who was the third QB behind Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers with the Packers last year, has reportedly been talking to several teams, including the Vikings.  Brad [...]

The Vikings picked up a pair of new players today:  DT Ellis Wyms and LB Dallas Sartz.
I know both those guys were real high on your wish-list at the beginning of free agency.
Wyms comes in from Seattle, where he posted 2 sacks last year.  He is basically a replacement for the departed Spencer Johnson.
Dallas Sartz [...]