Pre-Camp “Links Of The Week”
Training camp is oh-so-close now and we are all excited about the new heights our coverage will reach this year, but first let’s do some house cleaning and see what others are saying around the web:
- A look at the looming battle at the inside linebacker position from Andrew Garda.
- A model for predicting the success of quarterbacks? You have my attention.
- Some fantasy football advice from one of our favorite Vikings bloggers.
- Arif and Di Murphy team up to discuss the Chris Kluwe fiasco podcast-style on Purple FTW!
- Jarius Wright certainly seems like a guy that could really establish himself in 2014.
- A trip down memory lane… all the way back to 2009.
- The value of the Minnesota Vikings has broken the $1 billion mark, according to Forbes.
- A pre-bombshell interview with Chris Kluwe is so interesting to listen to given the events of the last few days.
- Left guard isn’t getting a lot of attention, but it will be an interesting camp battle to keep in mind as the regular season approaches.
- Isame Faciane is a “dark horse” name to keep tabs on between now and the final cutdown.
- Training camp has some big questions that will need to be answered sooner than later.
- Keeping Mike Priefer on staff is a weird display of loyalty to a man causing the team unnecessary distraction.
- A preview of what Mankato has in store for the wide out and tight end positions.
- This might be a season in which the Vikings secondary starts to earn themselves some respect.
- A pre-camp roster prediction has the Vikings carrying three quarterbacks and six wide outs.
- A preview of the specialists on this team as training camp draws nearer.
- A leaked email suggests that Chris Kluwe’s camp may have wanted to keep the full investigative report out of the public domain, as well as the Vikings organization.
- The Vikings have already started to receive pressure from politicians to release the full results of the Kluwe investigation.
- Conversely, one politician traded jabs with Kluwe via Twitter about the whole situation.
- In 2003, one proposal put the team in all black uniforms that look kind of cool.
- Predictably, Chris Kluwe is taking things to a level beyond the Vikings and is questioning the NFL’s culture as a whole.
- Former Viking Christian Ballard is suing the NFLPA for not providing him with accurate information regarding head injuries.
- An examination of the team’s options at running back this preseason.
- We are only $100 from meeting our goal to help this family out.
- And, now, your moment of Zen: