New Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler needs to take a few courses in public relations:
I know Cutler already has alienated enough small pockets of fans at various appearances in Chicago to produce a flurry of furious e-mails, such as the one from a guy at Wrigley Field last week who criticized the quarterback for waving [...]

The Star-Trib’s Judd Zulgad giddily reports that the Vikings have been mixing some Wildcat plays in with the rest of the stuff they’re working on at minicamp:
On Saturday, the Vikings experimented with using the “Wildcat” offense, lining up [Percy] Harvin at quarterback at times.  Running back Chester Taylor and wide receiver Darius Reynaud also are getting [...]

Judd Zulgad and Kevin Seifert are both reporting (Seifert via Facebook) that Antoine Winfield was a no-show for today’s mandatory minicamp session.  There is no official word on why Antoine is not there, but we all know Antoine was trying to negotiate a contract extension this off-season and those talks broke down.  For what it’s [...]

The fine folks at EA Sports have released the official player rankings for the newest installment of the highly popular Madden NFL football series, Madden 10 (evidently not Madden ‘10, as I would’ve expected).  As we all might have anticipated, the Vikings‘ own Adrian Peterson is ranked #1 among running backs with an overall 97.  [...]

You thought Marcellus Wiley was going to let Fran Tarkenton’s hatchet job on him go by without a response?  Think again.
First, what Fran said about Marcellus, in response to Marcellus calling him “a grumpy old man”:
Marcellus Wiley, who is trying to parlay a minimal football career into still making  more money. This grumpy old man [...]

The Packers‘ transition from a 4-3 to a 3-4 defense was always going to be a difficult one, but the Green Bay coaching staff at least hoped their players would help smooth it some by being on-board for it.  Hope dashed:
Aaron Kampman did nothing Thursday to quell speculation that he’s not overly thrilled about his [...]

Fran Tarkenton doesn’t just think signing Brett Favre would be a mistake for the Vikings as a football team – he believes it would violate the very essence of what it means to be a Viking; an essence that, in Fran’s mind at least, is intimately tied up with feelings of tribalistic hatred toward that [...]

If you thought Fran Tarkenton was done mixing it up with the Branch Favreidians…well, you were way off.  Fran ain’t afraid.  Fran is here to tell it like it is.  To the sportswriters who have been bashing Fran in the wake of his anti-Favre remarks:
I had an opinion that was not in agreement with Brett [...]

Tarvaris Jackson was already in an awkward position thanks to all the Favre-talk going on…and then Pat Williams made that situation still more uncomfortable by publicly questioning Jackson’s commitment to being a top quarterback.  Now Jackson is trying to defend himself.  The Vikings‘ quarterback said:
[Pat]’s an older guy, he wants to win. I guess he [...]

The Brett Favre melodrama is proving a divisive issue among legendary Vikings of the past.  On one side you have Fran Tarkenton, who recently told Atlanta radio that Favre behaved in a “despicable” manner by forcing his way out of Green Bay, and said he hoped the Vikings do sign Favre so he can “watch [...]