PurplePTSD: Trade Possibility, QB in 2023 Draft, Bye Week Prosperity

The sister-web site to VikingsTerritory is PurplePTSD.com, and the guys and gals over there roll out the Minnesota Vikings assessment just as a lot as we do.

Here is some of their prime articles from the very last couple of days:

1 – Usa These days thinks, of all Vikings players, Oli Udoh is the gentleman who could or should really be traded before up coming week’s deadline.

2 – Josh Frey examines irrespective of whether the Vikings should acquire a stab at another quarterback in the 2023 NFL Draft.

3 – The bye week was type to the Vikings inspite of the workforce not even observing a football area.

4 – In the day-to-day online video phase, Dustin Baker factors out 8 Vikings strengths heading out of the bye.

5 – PPTSD examines the trade rumor mill for the NFC North.

The Vikings knocked off the Miami Dolphins in 7 days 6, 24-16, courtesy of a Minnesota defense that showed up with a ferocious move rush, arguably for the first time in 2022. The Vikings offense, on the other hand, was very dry for a lot of the 1st 50 % but located means to make just plenty of massive plays to win the activity.

Broad receiver Justin Jefferson recorded 6 catches, 107 receiving yards, and no touchdowns in a game that felt pedestrian for the Vikings playmaker. But that is just the norm now for Jefferson — 107 acquiring yards is “no significant deal.” Jefferson also procured a wonderful 2nd-Half reception of 47 yards that aided transform the tide in Week 6.

The Vikings are early 3.5-point residence favorites against the Arizona Cardinals in Week 8, who won in Week 7 about the New Orleans Saints, 42-34. Minnesota very first experienced a bye week, although, ample time to winner a 5-1 begin although prepping for the underachieving Cardinals.

The Environmentally friendly Bay Packers also dropped a 3rd recreation in a row, sinking Aaron Rodgers’ group to 3-4, with a strange 2.5-sport deficit in the NFC North to Minnesota. The Vikings are the No. 2 seed in the NFC driving the Philadelphia Eagles and would host a dwelling playoff activity if the playoffs begun nowadays.

Ed Donatell’s protection proceeds to embrace the final bend-never-crack philosophy, curiously rating 27th in yards permitted but 12th in factors authorized. This could possibly just be “the way it is” for the 2022 Vikings defense — spotty throughout most games but mounting with victory in its grasp.

A 5-6 document the rest of the way would plop the Vikings in the postseason. Of system, profitable the division is most popular, but subpar football the rest of the way, as a worst-situation circumstance, would net a playoff berth. That is the perk of a 5-1 start off.

The Cardinals will have DeAndre Hopkins back on the industry when Minnesota hosts Arizona in 7 days 8. He was previously suspended just before 7 days 7.

Dustin Baker is a political scientist who graduated from the College of Minnesota in 2007. Subscribe to his every day YouTube Channel, VikesNow. He hosts a podcast with Bryant McKinnie, which airs every Wednesday with Raun Sawh and Sally from Minneapolis. His Viking fandom dates again to 1996. Stated responsible pleasures: Peanut Butter Ice Product, ‘The Sopranos,’ and The Doors (the band).