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VT Is Giving Away Some Prizes This Month!

March 31, 2013, by 9 comments

As promised, we are thanking you all for giving us our best month ever (and trying to top it) by giving away some prizes during the month of April!

The prizes are some Amazon.com gift cards, which you could use at our Fan Cave page if you wanted, or on anything you wanted at all.  There are four gift cards available, with the top prize being a $25 gift card, and there are a number of ways to enter tickets.

You can gain extra entries by liking us on FaceBook or following us on Twitter.  You can leave a comment.  You can even add an entry every single day by simply asking the top question.  Hop to it and check back often!  The Drawing will take place shortly after the NFL Draft ends later this month.

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Happy Easter From VT

March 31, 2013, by No comments yet

Happy Easter, everyone!

I hope you are like us and taking the Holiday Weekend to spend quality time with family and friends!

Thank all of you for what has been by far our best month ever since starting up this page.  We are talking three times more traffic than any other month in our history, and we appreciate each and every visitor.

Big things are planned for April, which happens to be Draft Month, and that includes a little token of our appreciation.  We’ll soon be announcing the details of a giveaway prize and information on how you can win.  Keep checking back.

Also, we will be picking up the pace on our Draft coverage as we endeavour to make March our second best month ever!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend, we’ll see you in the comments!

The Best Movie You Will See This Summer

March 17, 2013, by 13 comments

A lot of good looking blockbusters are poised to release this summer, but I just tripped across this trailer (thanks to some great Twitter followers) and I thought I’d pass it along for all of you to enjoy.

 

Hell, I’m already looking forward to the sequel!

Catch Up With The Offseason Tracker

March 16, 2013, by 11 comments

The NFL offseason is weeks and weeks of waiting followed by a brief period of absolute chaos.

The last few days have been pretty chaotic, and a lot has taken place, but we have all the major notes of interest in one place so that you don’t have to go searching around our site, or the rest of the internet, to find what you are looking for.

Be sure to check out the Offseason Tracker to keep up on all of the latest Vikings news and follow the various links for complete analysis and opinion on each topic.  Or, at the very least, lie to me and tell me you went there and like that page so that I feel special.

Either works.

On The Clock With DraftSeason.com

March 4, 2013, by 5 comments

Free agency hasn’t even opened up yet, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t draft season on the blogosphere.

Brett is preparing to be the General Manager of a war room at the famous Mock One site and I was recently invited to represent the Vikings in an all-bloggers mock draft at DraftSeason.com.

The DraftSeason.com was pretty simple:  One round with no trades.

I’m not going to lie… I was feeling a little anxious about having to make a choice at #23 as I weighed options carefully and played out scenarios in my head.

As it turns out, my choice was every bit as simple as the rules.

Missouri defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson was still available when I was on the clock and I considered it to be a no-brainer to make him my choice.  Richardson was my choice for the Vikings in my very first mock draft, and we know the Vikings seem to have interest in him, but the way things played out in this mock made it difficult not just consider him the best player available.

I have my doubts about Richardson actually being available when the Vikings are on the clock, but this exercise illustrates that the Vikings could be in prime position to get a steal on day one, as there are enough blue chip defensive line prospects that one of them could very well fall.  If it isn’t a defensive lineman that falls then it could very well be a receiver, defensive back, or guard which would also be positions of need.

To view the full results of the DraftSeason.com blogger mock please click right here.  I hope I represented the Vikings in good fashion.

 

 

The Offseason Tracker That Puts All The Must Have Info In One Place

February 17, 2013, by 2 comments

As we churn through this exciting offseason there is so much information and opinions flying about that it is almost too difficult to keep it all straight.  It certainly is too difficult to go back and try to find something you read two months ago.

Thus, we have put together a one-stop shop for all of your offseason news, opinions, rankings, and rumors.

We call it the Offseason Tracker and you can visit it by clicking here or the button at the top of the screen.  We’ll keep it up there for the whole offseason, and it’ll be growing bigger on a daily basis.

Check it out and let us know if there is anything we should add to it to make it more useful.

Whenever A Season Ends, An Offseason Begins

January 6, 2013, by 67 comments

The Vikings, led by backup quarterback Joe Webb, got their asses kicked at Lambeau Field in the Wild Card round of the playoffs.

There really is no nicer way to put it than that without being dishonest.  The game was a debacle in all phases of the game.  Embarrassing production on offense, deadly mistakes on defense, turnovers coming from the special teams, and a coaching staff that seemed outmatched nearly the whole time.

With that being said, Saturday night’s letdown is just one black mark in what was otherwise a very pleasant surprise of a season, with the Vikings netting 10 wins after getting just three the season prior.

The Vikings accomplished many of their stated goals in 2012.  They kept Ponder upright for 16 games in an effort to gauge his progression.   The offensive line improved with players that never once had to miss a start.  The running game was one of the best that the world has ever seen, with Adrian Peterson making a very convincing bid to be the NFL’s MVP.

On defense, Alan Williams put together one of the better looking secondaries, albeit lacking depth, that Vikings fans have seen in years and years.  The pass rush was fairly consistent and the run defense was usually fairly stout, with only a select few exceptions in each area.

The special teams unit was overall one of the best in the NFL.

Following a phenomenal Draft from Rick Spielman, and Eric Sugarman earning every penny of his salary in keeping this squad relatively healthy, the Vikings are certainly a lot further along in their rebuilding process than almost anybody expected.

With that being said, there is not a position on this roster that couldn’t stand to be improved, other than kicker, and the Vikings now have another offseason full of opportunity to get even better.  They have an offseason to evaluate the coaching staff, search for free agents, prepare for the NFL Draft, and continue to develop their current talent.

While I was hoping not to be starting this for a few more weeks, the offseason unfortunately does begin today, and we here at VT are excited to do you the favor of filling it full of analysis, irresponsible speculation, rumor mongering, and discussion.