Vikings Territory: The 4 Most Outrageous Storylines From The Vikings Offseason

Press release from Vikings Territory:

2021-08-24

The Minnesota Vikings hired a new offensive coordinator, Klint Kubiak, early this year. The team also added Ryan Ficken as special teams coordinator and Keenan McCardell as wide receivers coach. Then, general manager Rick Spielman signed a litany of defensive free agents to shore up depth, culminating in Everson Griffen’s reunion with the team on Monday. The NFL draft was highlighted by the selections of Christian Darrisaw, Wyatt Davis, and Kellen Mond. Spielman also navigated Danielle Hunter’s alleged disgruntlement, convincing the Vikings pass rusher to remain with the franchise for 2021 and reevaluate his contract next spring.

Here are the four most outrageous storylines from the Vikings 2021 offseason.

That was false, and it was never remotely true.

February 1, 2021

February 1, 2021

All contentions from Tucker were flatly wrong. While Cousins is a semi-polarizing player, the Vikings did not have plans to jettison him. San Francisco was at the top of the fake list because of Cousins’ ties to Kyle Shanahan. The 49ers drafted Trey Lance instead. Cousins was also linked to the Denver Broncos as their long-term quarterback prognosis remains fluid. Even the Chicago Bears were whispered as a Cousins destination before the team drafted Justin Fields.

Here’s the deal: The Vikings coaching staff knew from the onset of the offseason that it wouldn’t be an intelligible plan to start Dozier at right guard again. Dozier struggled profusely in 2020, ending the season at the bottom of the barrel per Pro Football Focus among offensive guards.

Fans made the psychosis memes, a goofy and panicked illustration that attempted to coax the Vikings into signing a guard. But they didn’t. Cole-Davis-Udoh was the ultimate plan, for better or worse.

This one was fun.

Jones-to-Minnesota was ultra-fun to ponder – for about five seconds. Habitually under Zimmer, the Vikings run the football at a top-five clip for percentage of running plays. Minnesota is a run-first team, hence the lucrative direct deposits that hit Dalvin Cook’s bank account. Adding Jones to the stable with Adam Thielen and Justin Jefferson would be an embarrassment of riches, particularly for a squad that throws seldom compared to pass-first teams.

The only way that Minnesota would take on Jones and his contract would be for a swap of prominent assets – and Spielman wasn’t trading a Thielen, a folklorish Minnesota hero.

VikingsTerritory partook in this outrageousness – full disclosure there. Relations between an aloof Rodgers and a weirdly stubborn Packers front office were so strained that it truly seemed Rodgers would be traded to the Denver Broncos or Las Vegas Raiders – or simply retire at the peak of his powers for Jeopardy.

If the Vikings wish to conquer the NFC North, they’ll have to go through Rodgers, which is fair considering a team must slay formidable foes if it hopes to effectuate a Super Bowl trek.

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