Minnesota Vikings roster updates for Week 1 against the Chicago Bears

Minnesota Vikings roster updates for Week 1 against the Chicago Bears

Purple Daily is daily Vikings entertainment. I just want the Vikings to win a Super Bowl before we die. I will ride with this group. Seriously, man. Please. And away we go. All right. Uh we are on the verge of NFL football here tonight, gentlemen. We’ve got NFL football tonight. Thursday night, Eagles and the Cowboys. Yeah, there you go. Yeah. from watching some running aces tonight. Uh we got Darren Doogie Wolson in the house from the five eyewitness news department. Some information, some speculation about your Minnesota Vikings. But uh we start with my bookie, Jud. It’s my bookie season here with football upon us. I’ve got three of the best words out there for a sports fan. It’s very, very simple. Football is back. That’s right. And that means it’s time to watch some great football and also time to get your sweat on. And that’s where our friends at My Bookie comes in because they make it easy to get in on the action. 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Well, on Andrew Van Ginko, I mean, just watching him move during the portion of Wednesday’s practice that was open to us, he’s good to go. I have zero worry about Andrew Vankel heading into Monday, unless there’s some sort of setback today or Saturday during practice. But right now, Van Ginkle, he’s good to go. Christian Darasaw told my TV colleague Alec Osmus after yesterday’s practice after that Wednesday practice when KOC before Wednesday’s practice alluded to Darasaw getting a ton of work during Wednesday’s practice in the moment immediately after the practice Darasaw told Alec he feels great now he said also I’ll defer to the trainers to the staff whether I play but just in that moment coming off presumably a ton of snaps now unlike training camp. We don’t get to watch every single snap during a regular season practice. So, they boo us after 20-ish minutes. So, I don’t know what it looked like. 7 on 7, 11 on 11, whatever it was. I guess Darol would have been just 11 on 11. But when he was out there, you know, when things ramped up Wednesday afternoon, I don’t necessarily know what it looked like, but the fact that he stopped, he spoke, and he said, “Hey, I feel good.” That’s pretty encouraging. I do stop a little bit on just the overall idea of that Soldierfield surface. I always wonder about that surface. Is that the game that you want Christian Darasaw returning for on that crappy grass surface? And I saw that they’re relaying sod and all that, but there’s always question marks and I know KOC poo pooed the surface of course, right? like there’s no reason to draw attention on a Wednesday heading into Monday’s game, but I’m just telling you me personally. I do pause a little bit, but just know that Darasaw feels great to me, this is all Darasaw’s decision, he’s playing on Monday. Clearly, it’s not, but the fact he’s feeling good is encouraging. Harrison Smith, it was reiterated to me this morning, Thursday morning, that more than anything, realize he is doing great. He is going to play football. This is not a mental health issue. This is not him contemplating retirement, anything crazy. He is going to play football. Whether he plays Monday remains to be seen. Did have somebody tell me, hey, I think he’ll play. Like this is not one who wants to miss games, but maybe put that under the reckless speculation Thursday umbrella. I do not have it nailed down that he is definitively going to play on Monday. On Darasaw, back to him. Um because o Ok O Okonnell Okonnell sounded really optimistic about him playing but then he he was and I guess it’s smart he was guarded about the fact that this decision can’t be for one game. This what once he’s back you do not want to to lose him again. That being said what makes this game so intriguing to me is it’s JJ McCarthy’s first game and do you want Justin school blocking for him at his on his blind side or Darasaw? So my sense is unless there is a setback, which I don’t expect because I mean that dude has been ahead of schedule the entire time, unless there is a setback, I think he will play. And I think if they really had questions or concerns, he probably would have started the season on a restricted list. You know, IR he can return or the pup where you have to miss four games. So if I’m the Vikings, I think this is pretty encouraging. I think they’re being smart, but I think Christian Darasaw plays, which is great because it also means that you have that new look offensive line intact then for game one. Yes, a point. And hey, reading between the lines of what KOC said on Wednesday about Darasaw getting all that work on Wednesday, well, if Justin School was going to play on Monday, doesn’t school get some work during the Wednesday practice? So, yes, I would say even though I paused because of that surface, yes, signs do point to Christian Darasol playing on Monday night. Yeah. Uh, it’s a it’s something that we kind of glossed over a little bit, I feel like, with last year’s team that they won 14 games. Sam Darnold had this career launching season and they were missing one of the best players in the NFL and and they brought in Cam Robinson and yeah, I I think at the end of the day he probably played at a league average level for a starting left tackle if you believe PFF. But just I don’t know if we’re making a big enough deal out of the boost you get if Darasaw is ready to rock in week one as one of the three or five best left tackles in the entire NFL. And then the rest of I mean Ryan Kelly has been regarded as a top three top five center the last few years. Uh Bri Brian O’Neal on the right side. So our guys Jeremiah Sirills and Alex Boon on the O line committee they ranked all 32 NFL offensive lines this week and they they both did it independently. They did not consult and they had like only a couple major differences throughout. They both had the Vikings as a top five offensive line going into the season. Wow. So Philly won. Any other teams above the Vikings? Philly number one for both. Um they had the Vikings as the best NFC North offensive line, but the Lions and the Bears also like in or right around the top 10, man. And the Packers are top half of the league. might be my local bias, but that Frank Ragnau retirement, I just don’t see how Detroit can have a comparable offensive line. I get it. Like, they have some dudes. I understand. Zitler went to Tennessee. Yeah. I just I don’t know when you lose a player of that caliber how you’re going to maintain that sort of level across the board. So, hey, I’ll defer to those guys. I mean, they forget more about O line play in one second than I’ll ever know, right? I’m just saying like that ragnau retirement that is a big freaking deal. And Chicago and the Vikings offensive line both massively improved cuz the Bears actually went and spent there too. So like both be well and it’s funny Caleb Williams got sacked 60 plus times. So the Bears went out and improved their line. I would be curious and they weren’t all his fault but I would be curious in Caleb’s case how many of those sacks were self-inflicted? But that line is definitely improved. The Vikings line to me and I feel like we sleep on this at times. So yes, for McCarthyy’s sake, the interior being being much more stout is huge, but I also think you can’t talk enough about what that what that means for the run game and starting on Monday. Like you are going to run the football now. And when you’re talking about uh Donovan Jackson, who’s a huge man and he’s athletic as hell, when you’re talking about hopefully a healthy uh Freeze or Fries and a a healthy Kelly, you’re talking about moving people now. And the run game, I think, is just an enormous part here because the protection’s great, but if you can now, especially in the red zone, if you can move guys on the defensive line, that’s going to change the arithmetic on this thing to me almost completely as far as what your offense is capable of doing. I mean, I haven’t wavered. I mean, I don’t still have the numbers in front of me, rush attempts for the Vikings in 22, 23, and 24, but whatever those numbers are, it’s going to be higher this year. So looking at the four years of KOC calling plays, running the offense, they are going to run the ball in my opinion more this year compared to the last three. The other guy, by the way, Phil, you get in touch with people over in Egan, they are so excited about TJ Hawinson, right? So yes, on Darasaw and remembering that Darasaw missed a good chunk of last year, but think about it and hey, they won games early without Hawinson, but I’m not even quite sure like even in December if TJ was even 80% 85%. Like he’s feeling great now. He absolutely is. And hey, we know how big a year it is for TJ Hawinson when looking at his contract for 2026. But I’m just saying there’s a bunch of people in Egan uber pumped up about TJ Hawinson. I think Hawinson has a good game on Monday. Yeah. So where do you think and he even commented recently I I don’t know if it was like a group scrum or if you were there Dukes but just about Yeah. when he came back last year it was obvious to him even though he put in all the work and and spent time coming back that he just wasn’t the same physically but he did feel closer toward the end of the season to being the same. So, I think we’re so used to now you tear your knee up and you come back within 10 or 12 months and you’re back on the field. But that’s step one is get back on the field. It might take another 6 to 12 months to get back to being the guy that you were or close to it physically. So, it might even though you’re ready to play, you might not be the same version of TJ Hawinson. So my question is, if we’re getting a mostly fully healthy version of TJ Hawinson, where does he fall in the tight end pecking order in the NFL right now? Like what could he be by the time we look up in December or January? I mean, I think he’s in that, you know, catches wise, touchdowns wise, in that four, five, six, seven range. You know, not quite Trey McBride in terms of of catches score touchdowns. Yeah. Bowers is clearly in that top two, top three. But yeah, like you know, from a fantasy perspective, I really really like TJ Hawinson, right? Like to me, he’s right there with Mark Andrews of of Baltimore. And I’m with you, Phil. Like to me, because it’s different Darasaw coming back from a significant knee injury compared to Hawk, right? Just logically, it’s it’s the running of routes, right? It’s going further downfield. I don’t necessarily. And just watching Darasaw move throughout August. I guess I’m not overly worried about the steps he needs to take, planting and all that. Like Darasaw to me is ready to go. It was the cutting and and breaking and all that that I think I’m not sure, you know, he didn’t catch a touchdown until the playoff game, right? Correct me if I’m wrong. Like he did not catch a touchdown in November or December. Not that that’s the end all beall, but took a while for TJ to find the end zone last year. I just know the normaly of of a normal off season bringing JJ down to Nashville, tight end you, you know, transitioning into some work at at Woodberry High School with the guys, then training camp and all that. Like TJ is feeling really, really good. So, I just I think he’s sitting on a pretty good year. Let’s talk about the quarterback room because I I don’t know if if you guys saw Okonnell and McCarthy talk about it, but it is amazing, at least from what you hear now, how much more comfortable they feel with Carson Wentz as the backup. Uh McCarthy called him coach Wentz at one point. Um, Okonnell, who quite frankly just didn’t have much to say about Sam Howell, is talking about what Wentz brings and how he has experiences, how how Wentz was playing for Philadelphia and beat Washington a couple of times when Okonnell was there. It’s just like I think that whole quarterback structure, especially in Okonnell’s world, has to be right or he’s not comfortable. And I have no idea if Carson Wentz can play still. I have no idea how good or but I do know this in listening to these guys now talk about that room it sounds like just the presence of a veteran guy who’s been there done that been through it is a huge upgrade and so now McCarthy went and bromer to me that puzzle in the Vikings mind is complete and that’s the thing that you could tell Dukes in in hearing them talk about Howell in training camp it never seemed like there was a comfort there it seems like there is a comfort now. Oh, absolutely. And I think more recently the feedback the Vikings received from the Rams. So Wentz was there what a couple years ago. So, yes, certainly some NFC East, you know, connections with with Kevin’s time with with Washington and and Carson being in Philly, but but certainly, you know, Wentz being on the Rams a couple years ago and the Vikings receiving some of that feedback certainly went some sort of way in the Vikings making this move. Then on brosmer I mean KC alluding to the idea that and hey it’s not going to happen anytime soon but if big hypothetical but if he had to hand the keys KOC to Max that he feels like Max could actually move the team that it wouldn’t be a complete train wreck. And hey like it’s pretty darn rare for an undrafted rookie quarterback to make the 53man roster. We know where this is trending. Okay. went on a one-year deal, security blanket this year. Undoubtedly, Max Bromer is quarterback, too, this time next year. You know, isn’t it just on McCarthy for a second, isn’t it kind of a strange feeling? I know that Vikings fans and media who’s covered this franchise for years, if not decades, you always have your guard up when it comes to quarterbacks because every young quarterback that comes through either is a bust or gets hurt in a devastating fashion. That injury could come in year two with Teddy or could come in year five with Dante Co Pepper. Like there has not been in most of our lifetimes a happy story of Vikings go out aggressively identify franchise quarterback in draft and you get you find your Josh Allen or your Patrick Mahomes or your Joe Burrow and it’s just a 10-year guy who’s going to be a Hall of Famer just it hasn’t happened but like it could happen starting Monday like the Vikings we always think about the negative things and we’re guard it’s the power of negative thinking the guarding against the bad That’s the history of Vikings football. But Doogie, there is a path to JJ McCarthy hitting the ground running or or being effective enough in year one and being an 8 to 10year super high-end awesome starting quarterback for this franchise. And we get to find out starting with Chapter 1 on Monday. I mean, I think that’s more likely compared to him being an outright bust. Now, maybe the ultimate answer is in the middle. Now, Phil, like how many franchises can have and and shows comparable to this can have this same conversation? Like imagine in Chicago, right, for how long? Yeah. They’ve been chasing and they’re a little nervous if you they’re a little nervous about year one of Caleb. Yeah. Some of the personalities, you know, Chicago hopes they have it now with Ben Johnson in charge, right? But I’m just saying a lot of franchises cuz you cite Josh Allen and Joe Burrow and Patrick Mahomes, those guys are really, really freaking hard to find. And so a lot of franchises can relate to the predicament the Vikings have been in going back. Yeah, as you alluded to a really long time. I just think there’s something to be said. You just you talk to people close to JJ winning that national championship at IMG and yeah, it was a stacked roster. I understand that and it was a bit of a goofy year co and all that but he won there. Then he goes to Michigan and just the way he exuded leadership there right and and helping that turnaround. Yeah, it was trending in the right direction under Harbaugh but getting all the way across the finish line. Like to me there’s something to be said. There’s not a randomness to that. And hey, does that mean the Vikings are winning 14 games this year that they’ll be playing in in February in the Super Bowl? No. But I’m just saying there is so much to bet on when it comes to JJ. And so, yeah, I mean, I remain incredibly high in them. I do. And I’m not expecting big things early. Like, I’ll continue to say, look at Bo Knicks first half of the season last year. Look at Jaden Daniels first half of the season last year. Things picked up second half. I’m not expecting a ton early, especially Monday night. Like I don’t think they’re passing the ball 65% of the time. I just don’t. Or it’s going to be a lot of short, you know, medium p. Like that’s where Hawinson comes into play. Yeah, maybe a chance here or a chance there. But they’re going to rely on the run game on Monday. Now, hey, the game could go sideways if you’re down 14 nothing. Okay. But I just think heading into Monday night, the idea is we’re not going to ask JJ to do a ton in his first start. But I’m just saying over the next three to five years, six years, like I’m just I’m thinking there’s a stronger likelihood that this thing is going to hit that it’s going to be a big time success story. And yeah, the infrastructure helps a freaking ton, right, with KOC, with Macau, with West Phillips, with the talent around him, right? I mean, Bo Knicks had enough success last year with a lot of blah around him. You look at all this talent around McCarthy track records. I just I think he’s sitting on a pretty darn good career. I think there’s a couple things at play here though, too. Is first of all, is McCarthy what Okonnell wants? I think the answer is yes. Okay. So, so like I’ll go back to the Bears. Caleb Williams might be a great quarterback. Is he a great quarterback for Ben Johnson system? We don’t know yet. Shawn Payeyton for all all of his arrogance and as much as he might be a jackass is a really good coach with quarterbacks and Bo Knicks is his type of guy and he got him like like if you if you plant Bo Nicks somewhere else I don’t know that that he gets off to the type of season that we certainly all did not expect. So, I think that’s one. And the thing about McCarthy, too, that we have to keep in mind is so the longstanding knock on him is, well, he played for Harbaugh at Michigan and they ran the ball a ton. Okay. So, are you telling me right now if I tell you in three years the Vikings are in two years the Vikings are going to win a Super Bowl championship and they’re going to run the ball a lot that you’re going to say, “Hold on a second here. I thought we were going to get the 98 Vikings. I thought it was going to be a high-flying circus and now you’re holding a Lombardi trophy and you ran all the time. Like that’s the Michigan thing that’s sort of weird is you shouldn’t care how you win a championship. Like if you win, but it is fair to say that you do need your quarterback to drive success in the NFL more than JJ did at Michigan. Sure, that is a fair thing to point out, right? But the Vikings have also insulated him where his where what he does can drive success. But to Doogie’s point, for the first game and probably for the entire season, you can’t call on him to carry you. Like, it’s not that’s not going to work. So, can you put him in a situation and you know, Jim Harbaugh pretty damn good coach. Jim Harbaugh did a good job there. So, like like these are all all the components I feel like we often end up with. Well, the quarterback has to save you. If the quarterback doesn’t save you, you’re screwed. That’s not how this is supposed to work. So, I just think it’s going to be really interesting to watch play out. And I will say this, I’m eager, but as a longtime Vikings follower, I’m anxious as well to see to see this because it’s just taken so damn long because of the injury to get to this point. Yeah. And hey, I get it. You could also cite being nervous, right? Anxious and nervous, right? Like, yeah, there is a bit of an unknown. There is a mystery there, right? And and we are programmed from following the Vikings for so long. Yeah. Phil to to go more the negative route, right? And so I understand it. I get it. But I think he’s the real deal. I do. And and yeah, I mean, there is no doubt that that KOC, you know, identified him pre-draft and and yeah, they liked a couple of those guys. You know, another guy who KOC strongly liked pre-draft, Jaden Daniels, right? And and you know, now does Jaden have the same success here? Probably, right? But I get it. There’s there’s some question marks there, right? But I’m just saying like KC loved Jaden pre-draft. Jaden’s turned out pretty darn good. Yeah, I’m just saying. And even Drake May, right? And it might take a little while for Drake, but I don’t know some of those throws, Phil. We were sitting there. How about that no look throw he made back of the end zone? You and I were standing right there during the joint practices. We saw enough or at least I did those two days just watching Drake May up close where I’m like, “Yeah, eventually.” Yeah. And and again, infrastructure matters and and so they still need some some stuff there with the Patriots, but I would bet on on Drake May as well. But just with everything in place here, yeah, I just I have a hard time believing that that McCarthy is going to fail miserably. Yeah. Uh I I Yes, I agree. I think with this infrastructure, it would be pretty incredible to not have just a a competitive season at quarterback. A couple more minutes here with Dukes for sure. 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So, tonight you get uh you get some action tomorrow night and then of course you got college football on Saturday and uh and the league back on Sunday and Monday. So, it’s it’s just like five consecutive days of football on the Mackie household Roku TVs. Yes, I said plural TVs because Roku has differentiz TVs for any room in your home. If you’re looking to fill out the living room, maybe you’re looking to fill out your college apartment room or your dorm room, Roku is the best for watching sports and the best for bringing friends and family together for sports and entertainment and movies. roku.com or find Roku TVs, America’s number one streaming platform, at a retailer near you. Boom. Love it. Five straight days. Almost forgot about Chief’s Chargers in Brazil tomorrow. How could I forget about my guy Joel YouTube? If the YouTube did and then Yeah, I hear you read there, Phil. I’m like, yeah, these next five days as good as it is. I have an NFC North thing for you guys. So, everyone has strong and differing opinions on the NFC North. I mean, everyone agrees that it’s a great division and one of the best in recent football history on paper going into the season. We are going to find out so much in the first two weeks about this division. PE there’s going to be after week two, at least one of these four teams and their fan bases are going to be freaking out and panicking. Uh there might there might be a 2-0 start that you didn’t expect because in week one they all play each other. So you got Bears and Vikings on Monday night and the afternoon I think it’s the Fox prime slot at 3:25 on Sunday is the Lions at the Packers. So right away like two of those teams are going to take losses in week one unless there’s a tie, but let’s say that there’s not a tie. And then in week two, Green Bay plays Washington on a short week Thursday night. So like, okay, now Green Bay gets two home games for Green Bay, so they could start two and 0, but Green Bay, Detroit, Washington. Green Bay could start 0 and2. There’s a world Chicago Vikings on a Monday and then a short week at Detroit. I would say Chicago is likely to start 0 and2, but then there’s the Lions who play at Green Bay and then home against Chicago division game. What if Ben Johnson has a few tricks up his sleeve? So, uh, I once we get about 10 more days down the road, the the NFC North could have some chaos happening. Yeah. And hey, Phil, I’m not quite there on Monday. Yeah. I’m picking the Vikings to win, but I don’t think it’s going to be some sort of blood bath. Like, I think it’s going to be competitive. I mean, I just I look at and I get it. Personnel matters most. I understand that. But you look at Ben Johnson’s success against Brian Flores the last couple years. 23 in Detroit, 24 in Detroit that you know schematically he’s going to come up with something like I just I don’t think the Vikings are holding Chicago without a touchdown. As good as this Vikings defense is. And I think hey they can lead the NFL in sacks. I think they’ll be right up there. I don’t think it’s fluky the way they create turnovers. I really don’t. And so I think they’re going to be near the top of the league again this year in turnovers created. I really really like this defense, but I’m just saying I don’t think the Vikings are winning 176 or 23 or something like that. Like I think it’s I think it’s absolutely a one-sore game. And so I’m not I’m not saying like no way, no how on Chicago, you know, like not having a chance. Like they have a chance to me, Phil. They do. But I also think there’s something to be said and I know Bill Barnwell, others who are incredibly smart offer resistance on this, but 9-0 years ago, 8-1 last year in one score games. Yeah, they know what they’re doing. And I get it. The quarterback has changed. I understand that. I do. But I don’t think that’s random. I just don’t. when you have that success you did in 22 and in 24 and ones score games, I don’t see why the Vikings can’t have a ton of success again this year in one score games. And that’s how the like the league is made for that. Like like a one-sore game, that’s what the league wants. So So to me, I agree completely. It’s not this, hey, we won a bunch of one-score games and a year from now we’re going to win games by 14 points or something. Um it’s funny. The only thing I think or it’s going to flip, right? Like that’s what people think Jud that that there’s sure a ramness a a luck factor involved that the Vikings can’t repeat this sort of success in one score games and I’m saying no I think they can right well you have to know how to play in them that’s my point is is like they are they’re what the league wants so you have to be prepared now the only thing that I would say is random and I I talked about this with uh Chip on purple access today the only thing that’s random in my opinion is turnover turn overs that you get. So, so turnover worthy plays to me are what a defense like Flores is about. Now, if they if there are actually fumbles or or picks can depend on various factors, but the other thing that in my opinion is not random at all is turnovers by you. So, if you guys recall, part of the reason why before Kirk got hurt two years ago, the Vikings started off so poorly was because they were making really dumb decisions with the ball and they lost those balls. That was not some random thing. That was a you are not doing a good job here thing. Now, a few of them definitely are, but the majority like you can’t have a a litany of turnovers and say h just bad luck. So I feel like we draw I feel like we assign too many things as random when some when some of it is but a lot of it is not. And so, yeah, I think the Barnwells of the world, and they’re very smart, Dukes, you’re right. But the Barnwells of the world also go through these things and think, okay, I’m I’m going to apply a formula to everything here. And that and that’s fine to do, but the reality is it’s not nearly as foolproof then to say, you know what, the Vikings two years ago great in one score games or three years ago, two years ago, not so good. Last year, good. So, it’s going to flip again. I think that’s I think that’s trying to paint with a very very broad brush of all teams instead of trying to examine it a little bit closer which they don’t have time to do because they’re trying to basically put out an analysis for all 32 teams. Yes. Yeah. I mean, well put. And hey, like Aaron Jones ball security. Yeah. I mean, I still have my concerns, right? Like I can’t imagine he goes this entire year with two or less fumbles. like I’d probably bet the over. I don’t know if that’s you know a my bookie prop bet or not but I’m just saying like you know so that’s one example. So sure yeah ball security absolutely. Yeah I mean I do I think about that but I think they’re going to at least defensively put themselves in advantageous positions to create nearly if not as many turnovers as they did last year. Agreed. Darren Doogie Wolson everyone from the five eyewitness news sports department. The next time we talk to you will be uh after the first game of the season. D enjoy your football notes real quick. The Vikings will have scouting representation at Huntington Bank Stadium on Saturday for the Gophers against Northwestern State. And the Vikings had their senior personnel executive Jamal Stevenson out and about last weekend. He was at LSU Clemson. College scout Steve Sabbo was at the VAT South Carolina game. All right. All right. Let’s go scout the next generation of great Vikings football players. You got it. Darren Doogie Wilson. We’ll see you next week here on Purple Daily. Uh look out for the Thursday episode on your Purple Daily feed today as well.

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