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I really do hope the Vikings kick Xavier Woods to the curb and get a Robert Griffin type of player in the draft Kirk Cousin is so wimpy when he talks oh they need to get a cb in the draft cause Breeland is very bad

 

Big fan of Dallas today and Cincinnati... need wins from these two teams.

 

Practice altercation led to Vikings cutting Bashaud Breeland



The Vikings’ decision to cut starting cornerback Bashaud Breeland was surprising enough that it figured to have to do with issues beyond performance on the field.

And that’s exactly the case, as NFL Network is reporting that the Vikings cut Breeland after he had a verbal altercation with coaches at practice today.


According to the report, Breeland took off his cleats and then got into it with teammates who were trying to calm him down.

On Monday, Breeland will go on waivers, where any team that wants him can take him for the balance of the season. It’s possible that a playoff contender will figure he can add depth at an important position and be willing to take him on, even at the risk that a player who got cut for having a dispute with coaches isn’t exactly the safest bet.

If no team claims Breeland, he becomes an unrestricted free agent.

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Wow what a KNUCKHEAD got into a verbal argument with teammates and coaches this guy was lucky to be on the roster after the Johnson comments,he was a very BAD cb and this will follow him as not being a teammate good riddance

 

Minnesota leads the league with 41 sacks even though no player has more than six.

 

The Vikings are getting a key offensive role player back for Sunday’s game against the Rams.

Minnesota announced on Wednesday that running back Alexander Mattison has been activated off of the reserve/COVID-19 list.


Mattison missed Monday’s victory over the Bears while on the list. He’s second on the team with 432 rushing yards and two rushing touchdowns. Mattison has started three games this season, replacing Dalvin Cook when he was injured. Mattison rushed for 100 yards in two of those three games, reaching 90 yards in the third.

Cook leads the team with 1,067 yards rushing and six touchdowns.

The Vikings host the Rams on Sunday for a matchup that should have significant NFC postseason implications.

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This is really a must have game for the Vikings, glad he's back to give the Rams something else to think about besides Dalvin Cook....just hope we see the Good Kirk!

 

Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins appeared on the practice report for the first time all season. He has an injury to his ribs.

The Vikings held only a walkthrough practice Wednesday but estimated him as limited on the injury report.


He was sacked four times in the victory over the Bears on Sunday.

Receiver Adam Thielen (ankle) also was limited. He played only six snaps in Week 13 and hasn’t played since.

Right guard Mason Cole, who played all 64 snaps Monday, was listed as a non-participant with an elbow injury. Fullback C.J. Ham (hamstring), linebacker Eric Kendricks (low back) and running back Alexander Mattison (not injury releated) also were limited.

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When he talks he's sounds so Milk Toast where's the fire the lack leadership by Cousins and Mike Zimmer

 

The Vikings got running back Dalvin Cook back on the active roster Wednesday, but another key offensive player is reportedly done for the year.

Wide receiver Adam Thielen made a brief return to the lineup last Sunday before aggravating a left ankle injury and it looks like that will be his final contribution to the team this season. Chad Graff of TheAthletic.com reports that Thielen had season-ending ankle surgery.


Thielen missed two games before returning to play 23 snaps in a 30-23 loss to the Rams. He caught three passes for 40 yards before leaving the game and has 67 catches for 726 yards and 10 touchdowns.

Thielen is signed for three more years and has a base salary of just over $12 million for the 2022 season.

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This is good news and bad Thielen and Dalvin Cook,it gives KJ Osborn a chance and in a way it's the last chance for Zimmer and Kubiak to stut their stuff

 

Justin Jefferson hasn’t talked to Mike Zimmer since his postgame comments

Vikings receiver Justin Jefferson has not talked to coach Mike Zimmer since he sounded off after Sunday’s 30-23 loss to the Rams. But Jefferson saw the clip of Zimmer characterizing Jefferson’s comments as “frustration.”

Jefferson agreed, but he didn’t back down from his assertion that the Vikings lacked energy.


“Nah,” Jefferson said when asked if he and Zimmer had talked, via Chris Tomasson of the Pioneer Press. “I had seen his little interview, though, but, yeah, I agree with him, just being frustrated. I definitely don’t feel like we had enough energy that we should’ve had, especially going against a team like that. We got to run off that energy, that high motor, that tempo. I felt like we were lacking that. We didn’t really talk about that too much. (Zimmer) knows me as a person, knows who I am, and know I won’t say anything to hurt the team or hurt anybody.”

A lack of energy in any game is a problem, but lacking energy in a Week 16 game during a playoff race is inexcusable. The Vikings now are eighth in the NFC’s postseason playoff picture, a game behind the Eagles and 49ers.

Jefferson also questioned the play calling in the red zone Sunday.

The Vikings scored only two touchdowns on five red zone trips against the Rams, with Jefferson getting one target inside the 20. He caught a 5-yard pass.

Jefferson’s 20 targets in the red zone this season are tied for fifth among NFL receivers but 14 behind NFL leader Cooper Kupp. Jefferson has 11 catches for 101 yards and seven touchdowns in the red zone this season.

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This isnt good at all... sounds like Zimmer is losing the locker room. Not just Zim, but the majority of the staff seems in over their heads.

Time for some real serios changes at the top. This has gone on long enough... very frustrating season for a team this loaded.

 

Wow it does seem like he's lost the locker room once again it's same old song good but not good enough if Jefferson frustrated their must be others that feel that way also,kinda makes Green Bay game very interesting

 

Mike Zimmer has got to go the Vikings are in free fall they can't afford this kind of chaos

 

The Vikings are in a tough spot with Kirk Cousins



As the Vikings move toward the conclusion of Kirk Cousins‘s fourth year with the team, they have a problem.

The quarterback who has delivered one playoff appearance during his time in Minnesota, and whose untimely COVID positive has delivered the de facto final nail on the prospects of another one, has one year left on his contract. He has a cap number of $45 million, along with a fully-guaranteed salary in 2022 of $35 million.


In February, Cousins told #PFTPM that he’s not inclined to re-do the current deal. If so, the Vikings enter his lame-duck season with a healthy dilemma. Keep him or trade him?

He’s been good enough, at a time when the organization seems to be content to be jjust good enough. While it seems that Cousins and coach Mike Zimmer may be inching toward the point at which they no longer can coexist, there’s a chance that ownership will decide to kick the can and roll the dice on a team that, while likely not good enough to contend for a championship, will be relevant until late in the regular season, and possibly will make it to the playoffs.

If the Vikings decide to move on, the question becomes whether someone would take Cousins’s current salary, or whether the Vikings would have to pay a large chunk of it to facilitate a deal. While Cousins doesn’t land in Brock Osweiler/Jared Goff hot-potato territory, which would require the Vikings to give another team one or more draft picks to take the Cousins contract off the books, it may not be easy to find a team that gladly will pay Cousins $35 million in 2022 — especially if he’s not inclined to extend the contract on the way through the door.

If the 49ers hadn’t invested three first-round picks and a third-round pick in quarterback Trey Lance earlier this year, a potential Cousins and Kyle Shanahan reunion would have made sense. Ditto for the Rams and Sean McVay, if L.A. hadn’t gone all in with Matthew Stafford. Who else would want Cousins?

Much of it depends on the looming coaching carousel, followed by the now-annual question of which veteran quarterbacks will be on the move. Through it all, the Vikings may simply be inclined to make a series of excuses for their chronic failures in 2021 and try it all over again in 2022.

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I think Cousins has had a decent season and the bigger problem lies in the coaching staff. The Vikings higher-ups made this bad contract, now they have to live with it, but they dont have to live with average, ho-hum coaching.

Nobody is going to pick up Cousins contract, 2022 will be the same ol' same ol' if they dont change the staff, in my opinion. Very talented football team and it needs upper echelon type coaching and leadership. The play-calling has been horrendous.

 

Harrison Smith fined $ 12,875 for unsportsmanlike conduct gee that a nice chuck of change

 

Wow the Mike Zimmer press conference he looked like a spoiled little child and not a head coach of an NFL team this guy just gave up the Vikings have not gotten better under the Mike Zimmer regime

 

What a disapointing season!