🎙️Spoiler: This is one of my fave episodes this draft cycle

🏈The great Greg Cosell on QBs; OT/DE/TE sleepers

🏈Alec Lewis on why teams ignore best draft practices ( +Josh Harris 'process' talk) and how VR factored into Jayden Daniels's breakout season
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The start to the 2024 season has gone about as poorly for the #MNTwins as possible. Just like Matt Wallner, they may be in need of a mental reset.

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#mnwild re-sign Marc-Andre Fleury to 1-year deal: What this means for him going forward

By Joe Smith and me

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#mnwild ’s Freddy Gaudreau on offseason reset: ‘We wish life was always uphill’ theathletic.com/5422761/2024/0…

I decided to try something new with my co-host 6,000 miles away: Solo podcast.

Come for the Matt Wallner and Louie Varland opinions, stay for the mailbag questions and much different vibe. (And please never tell Bonnes the nice things I said about him.)

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For Drake Maye’s sake — and just football enjoyment sake — you’d really hope whichever team drafts Drake Maye has an ownership group & staff that acts disciplined and rational, committed to long-term development no matter how tough the present becomes.

Psycho confirmed

Dane has the Vikings doing what a number of you would like them to do.

Spent the last couple of months trying to answer a question: How random is the NFL Draft? The answer led me to Nobel Prize-winning professors, to Johnny Manziel and to the messy concoction that makes the event so fascinating. For The Athletic:

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Sam Darnold might ultimately be a pretty critical aspect of the development of a potential #Vikings young QB. Here’s why: theathletic.com/5417770/2024/0…

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'Maybe the ultimate wild card is thrown into the draft, and all the sudden you end up with Brock Bowers.' ~ Paul Allen

From The Athletic: Nobel Prize-winning scholars have spent decades mulling whether there is a single best way to pick in the NFL Draft. The answer, they’ve found, is a resounding yes.

So why don't teams follow it? nyti.ms/3W13w0J

One of the most faulty decision-making processes in the NFL: draft strategy.

Conversations with 14 GMs, coaches, staffers and executives in other sports unearthed a messy concoction of uncertainty, overconfidence, competing incentives, pressure and impatience.

✍️ Alec Lewis

Vikings DT Harrison Phillips said he was surprised that DC Brian Flores didn’t get poached to become a HC. Said he worried about it this offseason. And he wasn’t the only one.

Sam Darnold might ultimately be a pretty critical aspect of the development of a potential #Vikings young QB. Here’s why: theathletic.com/5417770/2024/0…

What was Vikings RT Brian O'Neill's reaction to the Vikings signing Aaron Jones?

'Let's go.'

He smiled very bright.

'Excited to get to play with him because ... we watched him do some damage the last couple of years.'

Vikings TE T.J. Hockenson talked today. No timeline on his potential return. Was asked about Week 1, said, 'Anything is possible,' but it's pretty clear that focus is on being methodical if that ultimately translates into the most optimal recovery for a major piece.

Vikings HC Kevin O’Connell said that WR Justin Jefferson isn’t in the building today for voluntary workouts. No surprise. Justin didn’t partake last year, either. KOC and JJ have and will continue to communicate.

John Hynes Q&A: #mnwild coach on what he’s learned and what needs to change for next season

My sitdown with Hynes >> theathletic.com/5414398/2024/0…