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Late over covers throughout college football, Vikings’ kicking woes among weekend’s worst gambling bad beats
Line: Over/under 59 It would have been hard to enjoy Thanksgiving leftovers if you had the under in this game. With just over four minutes left, Toledo led 44-0 and the thought of three more scores didn’t seem like a realistic fear for bettors on the under. Things got interesting when Central Michigan’s Mike Danna […]
Continue readingMinnesota Vikings GM Rick Spielman guarantees kicking competition despite not drafting a kicker
“I can guarantee you we’ll have a kicking competition,” Spielman said at the conclusion of the draft. Minnesota signed Greg Joseph off Tampa Bay’s practice squad in February and released veteran kicker Dan Bailey a month later after he missed three kicks against Jacksonville in Week 13 and went 0-for-4 the following week in Tampa […]
Continue readingNFL salary-cap space for all 32 teams: Who’s set to spend, who needs to save?
NFL free agency kicks off next week and teams will be working with a salary cap of $182.5 million for the 2021 season, an 8% decrease from the $198.2 million cap in 2020. The cap has risen every year since 2011, but the reduced revenue due to the coronavirus pandemic forced a drop for next […]
Continue readingNFL free-agency tracker: Latest signings, trades, cuts, news and rumors for 2021
Who’s ready for 2021 NFL free agency? With Super Bowl LV in the rearview mirror, one of the strangest NFL offseasons ever is just getting started. We’ve already seen quarterback trades and other drama around star signal-callers, and the franchise tag window has come and gone with 10 players getting tagged. Free agency kicks off […]
Continue readingMinnesota Vikings OC Gary Kubiak ‘taking some time’ to weigh options
“He’s taking some time to mentally think about the season and where he’s at healthwise and he’ll decide what he wants to do,” Zimmer said Tuesday at his season-ending news conference. A source confirmed to ESPN on Monday that Kubiak, 59, is mulling retirement after two seasons in Minnesota, with the last year spent calling […]
Continue readingNFL Week 17 fantasy football inactives watch: Who’s in and who’s out?
Refresh often for the latest information. Miles Sanders, RB, PHI: Knee — OUT Impact: Boston Scott takes over as the team’s No. 1 RB. DeSean Jackson, WR, PHI: Ankle — OUT Impact: Alshon Jeffery/Jalen Reagor to start for the Eagles at WR. Dallas Goedert, TE, PHI: Ankle — OUT Impact: Zach Ertz will handle the […]
Continue readingCoach Mike Zimmer: ‘We’ll see’ whether Minnesota Vikings’ Dan Bailey kicks Sunday
EAGAN, Minn. — Dan Bailey missed three field goals and an extra point in the Minnesota Vikings’ 26-14 loss at Tampa Bay on Sunday, and as of Wednesday, the team had yet to sign a new kicker. Coach Mike Zimmer was lukewarm in his commitment to keeping the 32-year-old kicker in place for Minnesota’s Week […]
Continue readingNFL Power Rankings Week 15: 1-32 poll, plus each team’s offense, defense, special-teams rankings
As the NFL Power Rankings get into crunch time, we checked in with our Football Power Index (FPI) friends to see how powerful each team really is. From the good (the Chiefs’ offense) to the bad (the Lions’ defense) to the mediocre, our NFL Nation writers explain the offense, defense and special-teams rankings for the […]
Continue readingBucs’ Tom Brady throws season-long 48-yard TD pass to Scotty Miller
The TD pass came on third-and-4 from the Minnesota 48, with Miller shifting from the left to the right side of the formation pre-snap. Brady had missed a deep shot to tight end Rob Gronkowski on third-and-3 on the opening possession, but the Bucs were aided by two missed field goals and a missed extra […]
Continue readingMinnesota Vikings’ playoff hopes take hit as Dan Bailey misses 4 kicks
Kicking issues continued to haunt the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday, as four missed kicks from Dan Bailey contributed to a 26-14 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, dropping Minnesota’s chances of making the playoffs to 22%, according to ESPN’s Football Power Index. Bailey was wide left on his extra-point attempt after the Vikings’ first-quarter touchdown […]
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