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NFL Free Agency: Vikings & Player Injuries Analysis
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Apr 14, 2025
Tyler Forness talks about the Minnesota Vikings free agency approach, and recent comments by an NFL executive, who criticized what the team did. *The Vikings Are Taking ADVANTAGE Of Something Other Teams Don't Understand...* For more VIKINGS coverage: Facebook: Instagram: Twitter/X: TikTok: #minnesotavikings #vikings #vikingsfootball #nfl #skolvikings
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Minnesota Vikings have been widely praised for their free agency strategy, but was it deserved
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One exact fires back and did not like what they did at all. Let's talk about why
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The Minnesota Vikings had an excellent free agency. They filled all their needs, and not only did they fill them, they got some really talented football players to boot
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They spent more money than just about any team in the National Football League in free agency
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but they also had a lot to work with. It's over $63 million at the beginning of the free agency period
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Now they had needs on both sides of the football in the trenches and they
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fortified them on both sides of the football with center, Ryan Kelly
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Ray, Carol fries on offense. And then you had defensive tackles, Jonathan Allen and Javon Hargrave
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It was great moves, right? Plus they're going to get two compensatory picks back
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but the athletics, Mike Sando, who is very plugged in and talks to a lot of executives
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scouts coaches all that kind of stuff he talked to people about every single team in the national
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football league one executive did not have a lot of nice things to say and it's very interesting
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we'll explain why it's interesting in a minute but here's the quote it's like the 2015 colts all
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over again signing older guys who have been hurt who are on third or fourth contracts one exec said
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and he's talking about a team that added trent cole frank or kenna langford and andre johnson
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for agency. You cannot build a team with old players. That same exec continued
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especially old players who have been cut because they were hurt. Now that's a very interesting one. And it's
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interesting for two reasons. One, the GM of that 2015 team, VP of Player Personnel, Ryan Gregson
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Ryan Gregson who in the Vikings front office right now Pretty impressive The link is obvious for that reason Gregson tried to build a team of
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stars. Well, sometimes when you build a team of stars in a free agency, it fizzles out
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The way it's different with Kweissi Opal Mensah is he's trying to find advantages. One advantage he's found that has
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worked for him is by targeting players who were injured and trusting the
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medical staff to keep them uninjured and Drew Van Ginkle, Blake Cashman are two prime examples
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Cashman missed three games with what was described as a stir-toe injury. Van Ginkle missed like a half
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They were kept pretty healthy all year long. And the Vikings think they can do that again
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Will Fries broke his leg. Ryan Kelly's had injury issues all throughout his career
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Jonathan Allen partially torn pectoral muscles. Javon Hargreave torn triceps. They think that they can fix those injury concerns
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prevent them from being a thing. And hey, we mentioned Van Ginko and Cashman
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We didn't even mention Aaron Jones, who played all 17 games for just the third time in his career
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He played every week. The Vikings think that they have an advantage here
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Is it fair to criticize them for it? I think they don't understand why the Minnesota Vikings are doing it
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They're looking at it from a spreadsheet perspective. Hey, you signed this guy
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You gave him a total of $60 million over three years if he maxed it out in Jonathan Allen
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but he's coming off a year where he only played half the games because of a torn pack. Doesn't make a lot of sense
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When you contextualize it, it does. The Vikings are ready to roll and they have a medical staff that can keep them healthy
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It's a market edge. The equation of events has exploited before, and it's not always going to work
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but if it works again, we could be talking about a Superbowl. I'm Tyler Fornes with ADZ sports skull Vikings
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