Minnesota Vikings News Dump (9.5.2025) | Harrison No Practice, Erdahl BOSS, Jets All Good

Minnesota Vikings News Dump (9.5.2025) | Harrison No Practice, Erdahl BOSS, Jets All Good

[Music] What’s going on, Jerome? Beautiful Friday. Birds are indeed chirping and stuff and it’s time for Vikings, another Vikings news dump. So, you know, the the memes that say that bird watching just like creeps up on me and just like h it’s absolutely true. So, randomly this uh before the summer put a hummingbird feeder in uh off of the eaves in front of our kitchen window. So, you’re you’re at the kitchen sink, you can just see out there. Uh, massive hummingbirds. Just like a gaggle. I don’t even know. Oh, Javvante Williams. No, no, that’s Miles Sanders. Whatever. Anyways, uh, but yeah, bird watching just creeps up like the wife is enamored by this family of hummingbirds. I feel like she wants to adopt them. Do they fly south? I imagine so. Doesn’t matter. But anyways, uh, Vikings and Bears is when football actually gets on. Not Cowboys and Eagles right now. Whatever. Uh although hey the the Vikings do play the the the Eagles and the Cowboys. Those defenses yum yum yum yum time for Kevin McConnell. Uh but Vikings and Bears this week waiting all day for Monday night. Uh back in 85 I don’t remember how the 85 Bears ended up. Uh but Jim McMahon the punky QB chucking the ball. Probably a pick six. I don’t know. But in the foreground Vikings number 79 in your program. Number one in your hat. Doug Martin. That’s right. Doug Martin. great defensive lineman for the Vikings and not Muscle Hamster, the other Doug Martin. It’s going to be good to go. Also good to go is producer Ally has been working her absolute tail off uh purple ftw.net is the merchandise site and celebrate the start of the season with production value uh season kickoff sale September 3rd through 10th 15% off everything with code weback one word and you guys crush it. August was our bestselling day for the merch. Bestselling day, bestselling month for the merch. So, get the mugs, get the hats, get the fanny packs, get everything. You guys are the best. Also, hopefully good to go for Monday Night Football. Darasaw and Harrison Smith. So, there there’s a couple ways to look at everything. Uh here where they missed practice on Thursday, sure, but notably Darasaw did practice in full on Wednesday. Uh as well as Harrison Smith participated in the walkthrough on Wednesday. did not practice on Wednesday afternoon. So, it’s really we’ll see what happens on Friday because uh in the NFL practice week, you know, you got if it’s a full week, you have three injury reports. First one is always whatever. All right. So, the Vikings are playing on Sunday. This Thursday, one would be a Wednesday and it’s always whatever. So, a lot of veterans get the day off and it’s not really anything to write home about. But then the second day of practice is when things start getting serious. And of course, Friday is Friday or Saturday in this case, the third practice is extremely key. So I wouldn’t be shocked if Darasaw is limited or full on Friday and Harrison Smith if he if Harrison is DMP on Friday, then start worrying about things, right? And yeah, I know it’s a personal medical issue and we talked about this before and he doesn’t have to address it, but also the fact that they’re really like completely tiptoeing around it just allows the the conspiracy theories and rumors to run rampant. So, I don’t know. Uh, good news though, Justin Jefferson not listed on their Drew report. Andrew Vaninkle practiced in full with his neck. That that was the undisclosed injury that kept most of training camp. Good to go. Uh Jaylen Naylor also practice in full. Uh should be wide receiver three for the Vikings uh on Monday night behind Jefferson and Thelen. Uh also you have Xavier Scott uh and Elijah Williams a DNP as they’re dealing with some preseason injuries but still made the 53. Good to go for the Bears. Uh so TJ Edwards popping up DNP. Edwards is a stud along the defense for the Bears. So, him being out, I mean, it could be yum yum time for Jordan Mason, a Aaron Jones. Uh, as well as the the Bears only have one healthy running back against DeAndre Swift. So, Rashan Johnson DNPed with a foot on Thursday. Again, it was just a guesstimate in terms of the practice on Thursday that they had a walkth through or there’s not practice on Thursday participation as Yeah. So, they just had a glorified walkthrough. uh as well as uh rookie Kyle Monkey from from uh Ruckers also limited with a hamstring but Jaylen Johnson calf/g groin also limited and I think he that he’ll play it seems like he’s trending towards playing but he’s not going to be 100% so it’s going to be yum yum time for Justin Jefferson everything is yum yum time right now yeah uh and with Harrison Vex fan page as of this morning Harrison Smith status for Monday Night Football remains to be seen during Du Wolfson mentioned on score north. Smith is doing great and rumors of him not playing football this year are false. I don’t know like all all the it could be as simple. We’ve had so many explanations uh in the comments and on social media, but as long as it’s not like serious. See, see seems to be that I did did have somebody tell me I think he’ll play Monday night. And uh Harrison playing on Monday night will actually be huge because the Vikings are only rostering four quarterbacks right now. You do have uh Fabian Maro on the practice squad, but if Harrison can’t go, that really limits the Vikings three safety looks. So, it could be a spot where Mattelis has to play more of a traditional safety role uh if Harrison Smith is no go, but I guess we’ll see, right? Uh you know, Friday is a major practice day for the Vikings and we’ll see what happens there. Also, uh Justin Jefferson guessing strip, uh Justin Jefferson said, “His hamstring is feeling great heading into week one. Credit to the training staff for really prepping me up until this point.” He said, “Missing the whole training camp and just staying in the training room definitely gets to be dark days. I fail on dark days. Being by yourself and competing with yourself, but you think about the ending result, having a healthy body, having a strong body to maintain a full season.” So, I it did seem like the Vikings were just getting ahead of this. I mean, you know, Jefferson could have toughed it out and, you know, been out there in training camp and it could have been something that lingered all season, but it truly does seem like the Vikings training staff and Kevin McConnell and Jefferson like they nipped this thing in the bud. And like I said, he’s not even on on the injury report, which is pretty damn fantastic uh given everything that happened uh in training camp and preseason. So, uh JJ JJ to JJ, that connection is going to be live. Joe Buck. JJ to JJ. Shut up, Joe Buck. I I’m preemin uh I’m preemptively on tilt just Monday night. Also, the NFL put out this graphic since the Super Bowl was in Santa Clara. Do you know the Golden Gate Bridge is like an hour away from Santa Clara? But I guess I mean I I I guess if you’re go Nah, this doesn’t make sense. Anyways, uh but you know the graphic of of teams and their stars and stuff like that. Josh Allen, Jaden Daniels, Matta, love to see that. Mahomes, Joe Burrow, uh Justin Jefferson is up there, uh in the front to the right. But for the Bears, the Bears, they put out Tory Taylor. Now, Tory Taylor is a stud, don’t get me wrong. The pride of Iowa, and you know, when he got drafted, it was like fourth round. He’s a mid-round pick, right? And then Caleb Williams was like, “Oh, you’re not going to be punting much.” Punted all the time, right? And I don’t know. I don’t I feel I feel like to a degree this is trolling a lot, right? Uh where I mean the Bears have a bunch of star players. I mean they got Caleb Williams, they got DJ Moore, they got Jaylon Johnson, they they got all all these players, right? But I love it, man. Also fantastic. Jamie Erdall, good morning football. Minnesota native. Love to see that. Uh so remember last year she sounded the the Galla horn before the Colts game which started a nine-game winning streak on the Vikings 14- win season. Absolutely great, right? And then on Good Morning Football on Thursday, Jamie Erdall predicted dun dun Vikings win the Super Bowl over the Broncos and stupid Ashon Payton. Douche douche. Douche, douche, douche, douche, douche, douche, douche. You know, life imitates art sometimes because initially like like K. Adams was was freaking awesome because she she supported JJ McCarthy and she thinks the Vikings won the Super Bowl and then she went full-on heel turn to the to the Packers. So, literally just like Good Morning Football, we replace K. Adams with Jamie Erdol. She’s back. It’s good to see. All right. But Jamie, hey, like have her have have Jamie sound the Galla horn every single game and keep this thing rolling all the way to Santa Clara. I mean, this Super Bowl is basically in San Jose, but I digress. Also, this is this is cool, too. Kevin Seafford, ESPN, who’s not Carl Gerbishment. Uh, this was really interesting and nuance. Brian Flores talking about allowing Jumping Josh to call a series of defensive plays in the preseason. It gave Mattelis a chance to see what coaches see and feel what they feel because I don’t know like obviously Mattel’s team leader, you know, team captain out there and I mean he he he’s just he’s fantastic, right? But uh with there’s difference between players and coaches, right? And I feel like players like whenever they get a chance to call plays, it’s always you pick up a new a new respect for the profession because when you’re out there playing, you’re just like, “Let’s do this, let’s do that, let’s do this.” And then all of a sudden, when you’re you’re calling plays and you’re counting things and you’re dialing things up, it’s a whole different ballgame. And I I feel like there is a lot of science to play calling. Also, I feel like there’s a ton of R2. Are they pausing the game? Time out from the game. Oh, wait. If they cancel the game, does this mean uh the fantasy points don’t count? Sweet. Nah, it doesn’t matter. Uh but also, I’ve talked about this before. I feel like Josh Matelis is going to be a head coach a after it’s all said and done. He’s going to win a dozen drone parties in the next 10 years, a dozen rings. So, he’ll have to grow two more fingers or have to put them n uh and Mattelis like he he’ll work his way up be a defense coordinator, head coach or the college NFL. I I think he’s got it. I think he’s got it. I’m going to be good to go. Speaking of Flores, so a lot’s been made about the showdown between Brian Flores and Ben Johnson. Vikings DC and the Bears offensive play caller. Yeah, Alissy athletic. Vikings DC Brian Flores on what makes facing Ben Johnson tough? What what doesn’t make it tough? It’s the run game. It’s the pass game. It’s the play action game. It’s a screen game. Gun runs, under runs, underplay action, gunplay action, third down, red zone, all of it. It’s fair. It’s fair. Plus, I mean, that that that Lions team was pretty damn jacked up, right? But I feel like they’re they were much better together and I think that they’re going to fall apart apart, which is going to be great, right? And then Dan Orski, like or hey, 11 yard end zone, bro. We trusted you. And I feel like this is like a sprinkle of just Lions homerisism, but Ben Johnson’s offense hung 122 points in four games against Brian Flores last two years, 16 touchdowns and punted 14 times. Video game stuff. F you. We’re done. Or he’s done. He’s done. So, all right. Anyways, that’s it. It’s a beautiful Friday. Uh again, watch the watch for the practice report. Hopefully Darasaw and Harrison some some progress will be made in practice two of the week. Guess we’ll find out. Uh you guys are the best. You know what to do. Skull production value.

Minnesota Vikings News Dump for Friday, September 5th.
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