With camp just a few days away, it seems like a good time to roll up our sleeves and do a little position-by-position analysis. We’ll start with the running backs.
Obviously, any discussion of the Vikings‘ running back corps must begin with

This is Jared Allen being faced with one of the few things capable of taking him down. . .a military working dog. I’m of the assumption that this picture is from #69’s recent USO trip to Afghanistan. (Picture courtesy of Jared Allen’s FaceBook.)

Camp is set to open Friday, and everyone already knows Brett Favre won’t be there.
If the 2009 timeline plays out the same way in 2010, Brett will remain in Hattiesburg until the beginning of preseason, and will see his first on-field action in the

The Vikings‘ chances of winning anything in 2010 without Brett Favre at quarterback hover somewhere between slim and none – and probably closer to none than slim.
Most Viking players have been reluctant to acknowledge this fact – in

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NFC North vs. NFC South
AFC North vs. AFC West
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After spending most of the off-season in quiet seclusion, Brett Favre has emerged the last few weeks and is talking up a storm.
In his latest media statement, given to a Hattiesburg TV reporter outside a high school, Brett spoke about two matters of

There has been, as far as I know, very little scuttlebutt this off-season about Terrell Owens being pursued by the Vikings.
And if you were thinking of starting some kind of T.O.-to-Minnesota rumor…well, you can forget it. Because the Vikings

Newspaper reports are nice, but we all know that, until there’s video of a thing happening, it didn’t really happen.
Well, now there’s video of Brad Childress and Brett Favre meeting. Or, standing near each other in the same place, at