2026 Regular Season Thread

Post #1 » by **Worm Guts** » Mon Sep 14, 2026 6:43 pm

Started off nicely yesterday. It was strange though, for the first three quarters it felt like the Vikings were on the brink of getting blown out, then they end up winning by 17 points. It was a crazy turn of event.

hermes · Post #2 » by **hermes** » Mon Sep 14, 2026 11:30 pm

yeah the game started off poorly, injuries, offense not playing well, defense getting burned for big plays quite a bit

then the packers completely fell apart once they took the field goal off the board to try going for it
we were helped by the refs on one drive like four times, but i'm taking that as evening out the calls after they screwed us on that 60 yard run we had that got called back for being down

more consistency from the offense would be good, and while the defense turning it on when we really need it is nice, more consistency there too would be good

Post #3 » by **Worm Guts** » Mon Sep 21, 2026 6:27 pm

Another win against a division rival, although I'm not sure we've looked like the better team either game.

hermes · Post #4 » by **hermes** » Mon Sep 21, 2026 6:58 pm

dallas turner is figuring it out

Post #5 » by **Worm Guts** » Tue Sep 22, 2026 1:36 pm

hermes wrote:dallas turner is figuring it out

It's actually amazing how disruptive he is.

hermes · Post #6 » by **hermes** » Mon Sep 28, 2026 5:35 pm

mccarthy to the giants for a 5th

i didn't even realize this was a possibility. surprised we got anything at all for him
i wonder if we're in the market for another qb because we have two now with an injury history

Post #7 » by **Worm Guts** » Mon Sep 28, 2026 7:02 pm

hermes wrote:mccarthy to the giants for a 5th

i didn't even realize this was a possibility. surprised we got anything at all for him
i wonder if we're in the market for another qb because we have two now with an injury history

Yeah, I'm not sure what to think of our QB situation now. It seems pretty likely we'll be looking for a new starting QB next season. Hopefully the QBs we have make it through this season.

hermes · Post #8 » by **hermes** » Sun Oct 4, 2026 11:08 pm

hockenson was great, aaron jones had a good day. reichard and price were great (our punter wasn't)
getting jefferson and the left side of the line back should help

kyler finally starting to look good in the second half. great rapport with hockenson

defense is still great. two sacks for turner
a lot of extremely close plays that went our way and not miami's. wouldn't have taken much for this game to be completely different

Post #9 » by **Worm Guts** » Mon Oct 5, 2026 5:32 am

I didn’t see the first half but it seems like we still have a lot to clean up on offense. Hopefully though it looks like Murray is building a chemistry with Hockenson.
Saints next week, then the bye, hopefully Jefferson is healthy after that.

hermes · Post #10 » by **hermes** » Mon Oct 12, 2026 5:24 pm

the defense is really something, and will of course

need to watch the turnovers, especially while the offense is getting on track

but the offense is looking better and better. kyler connections improving, and he looked good moving around.

bye week probably comes at a good time, hopefully we can get some people healthy

Post #11 » by **Worm Guts** » Mon Oct 12, 2026 7:36 pm

We could get Mason, Hockenson, Darrisaw and Addison back after the bye, so hopefully with that, the offense will continue to improve. If we want to be a real contender, I think we need more production from the offense.

Post #12 » by **Worm Guts** » Tue Oct 27, 2026 6:44 pm

6-0, but now is when the schedule gets tough. We need the offense to get it together. Another division this week would be huge.

hermes · Post #13 » by **hermes** » Tue Oct 27, 2026 6:57 pm

two more weeks until the trade deadline. i don't know if we feel we're in a good enough spot to 'go all-in'. are we a piece or two away?

Post #14 » by **Worm Guts** » Tue Oct 27, 2026 7:14 pm

hermes wrote:two more weeks until the trade deadline. i don't know if we feel we're in a good enough spot to 'go all-in'. are we a piece or two away?

Probably not, in the sense that QB might be our biggest problem, and that's a pretty tough position to fix mid-season.

hermes · Post #15 » by **hermes** » Sun Nov 1, 2026 10:52 pm

defense was great in the first half. got gashed quite a bit on the run in the second half (maybe tired? they were on the field a ton)
will missed

and the offense continues to stink. they made a better effort to get jefferson the ball - had a great TD catch but not much else to show for it
kyler is running/scrambling more - which is good - but the accuracy isn't great, timing isn't the best either. had that one pretty good game and that seems to be it other than a few good throws a game
KOC decisions weren't that great either. going for the 4th down early in the 4th quarter while in field goal range (after the injury delay) probably wasn't bad but left 3 points on the field - which i guess didn't matter in the end
but not going for it with 3 min left and your defense can't stop the run is bad - no confidence we were getting the ball back after that
and why do we always seem to try such low percentage plays on critical downs? 3rd and 4 and we chuck it 40 yards downfield to addison? why not hock safety valve just past the sticks?

Post #16 » by **Worm Guts** » Mon Nov 2, 2026 3:25 pm

hermes wrote:defense was great in the first half. got gashed quite a bit on the run in the second half (maybe tired? they were on the field a ton)
will missed

and the offense continues to stink. they made a better effort to get jefferson the ball - had a great TD catch but not much else to show for it
kyler is running/scrambling more - which is good - but the accuracy isn't great, timing isn't the best either. had that one pretty good game and that seems to be it other than a few good throws a game
KOC decisions weren't that great either. going for the 4th down early in the 4th quarter while in field goal range (after the injury delay) probably wasn't bad but left 3 points on the field - which i guess didn't matter in the end
but not going for it with 3 min left and your defense can't stop the run is bad - no confidence we were getting the ball back after that
and why do we always seem to try such low percentage plays on critical downs? 3rd and 4 and we chuck it 40 yards downfield to addison? why not hock safety valve just past the sticks?

I'm not sure what happened against the run the last two series. It was one thing on the drive where we gave up the TD, where the pass is still a threat, but I don't know why they were able to run the last series where they were just trying to run the clock out and we knew exactly what they were trying to do? I didn't mind the punt at the time because I did think the Vikings had a chance to get the ball back.
I agree with you on the not kicking the field goal opinion. With the way we were struggling to move the ball, kick the field goal and get within 2.

I think we are getting close to the point of having to make a change at QB. Wentz isn't great but what we saw at the beginning of the season is better than what we are seeing now.

hermes · Post #17 » by **hermes** » Mon Nov 2, 2026 7:13 pm

think any trades are in our future? i know there is a lot of hope for jonathan taylor

Post #18 » by **Worm Guts** » Mon Nov 2, 2026 8:49 pm

hermes wrote:think any trades are in our future? i know there is a lot of hope for jonathan taylor

I wouldn't be surprised. I think we have to do something offensively if we want to consider ourselves contenders.

hermes · Post #19 » by **hermes** » Tue Nov 10, 2026 4:30 am

well that was awful