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The roster the Vikings take to Ford Field on Sunday could be its healthiest of the year. Vikings get back well-known Goff nemesis, Andrew Van Ginkel. And from the sounds of it, both Darrisaw and O’Neill should play, giving the Vikings its healthiest line of the year, with only Ryan Kelly remaining out. And Kelly’s mandatory 4-game absence ends with this game, meaning he can return next week against the Ravens if he’s up to it. The question is…will he?
I have no idea what’s going on with Kelly, and it sounds like nobody else does either. It’s been radio silence from that camp. I think if he were going to retire, he would’ve done that 4 weeks ago. Is there a financial angle to it? Is there a benefit to resting his brain another week, or two, or 4? No clue. But I tend to think he needs to make a decision after the Lions game. Either go on season-ending IR, retire, or get out there and play.
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So who's starting at center? Brandel or Jurgens?
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(10-30-2025, 08:54 AM)StickierBuns Wrote: So who's starting at center? Brandel or Jurgens?
Brandel as far as I know. He had his best game of the year against the Chargers, so hopefully he's settling in.
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We havent won a game there since the season ender of the 2020 season...So we're due just from the odds lol!
Lions are the best team in the NFL imo.
I'm not predicting anything anymore with these Vikings, but I hope (for themselves and me) they put up a good, competitive showing.
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(10-30-2025, 09:14 AM)MaroonBells Wrote: Brandel as far as I know. He had his best game of the year against the Chargers, so hopefully he's settling in.
I am glad to see Brandel will be starting, but I think you meant to say Browns and not Chargers.
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So this is the closest Viking team to what we had on paper at the beginning of the year. Unfortunately the Lions will be the more rested team coming off the bye week. I'm going to be very interested in how this Viking team responds, being that if we had any ideas of doing anything within the division this year, this is basically a must win game and I think the team knows that. Big test for KOC also
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(10-30-2025, 08:43 AM)MaroonBells Wrote: The roster the Vikings take to Ford Field on Sunday could be its healthiest of the year. Vikings get back well-known Goff nemesis, Andrew Van Ginkel. And from the sounds of it, both Darrisaw and O’Neill should play, giving the Vikings its healthiest line of the year, with only Ryan Kelly remaining out. And Kelly’s mandatory 4-game absence ends with this game, meaning he can return next week against the Ravens if he’s up to it. The question is…will he?
I have no idea what’s going on with Kelly, and it sounds like nobody else does either. It’s been radio silence from that camp. I think if he were going to retire, he would’ve done that 4 weeks ago. Is there a financial angle to it? Is there a benefit to resting his brain another week, or two, or 4? No clue. But I tend to think he needs to make a decision after the Lions game. Either go on season-ending IR, retire, or get out there and play.
This is great to hear about O'Neill. It was expected that CD would be playing, but the question will be, is he finally off the "pitch count", because that has to stop. He either plays the full game or isn't ready and doesn't play at all.
I think I'm most excited about Gink coming back, outside of McCarthy of course. He is a disrupter, an animal on the field, and just a quiet, blue-collar dude who just makes plays.
We knew that Kelly had a couple concussions this year. Do we really think this is anything more than protecting himself from another, especially so close together? I really wish Kelly was healthy and didn't have these concussions, but sadly, like Tua, I think he needs to retire before it's too late.
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(10-30-2025, 10:11 AM)IceRatz16 Wrote: I am glad to see Brandel will be starting, but I think you meant to say Browns and not Chargers.
Just going by PFF grade, Brandel's worst game of the year was against the Browns, but that was also his first game playing center, and against a very good front seven to boot. His best game so far was last week against the Chargers.
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(10-30-2025, 10:42 AM)MaroonBells Wrote: Just going by PFF grade, Brandel's worst game of the year was against the Browns, but that was also his first game playing center, and against a very good front seven to boot. His best game so far was last week against the Chargers.
Weird. I haven't found a PFF grade for Brandel against the Chargers. Even still, I couldn't really care less about the PFF grades as I care more about his protection and blocking. He stand by my statement. We went against one of the best DLs in the NFL in his first start at C and he performed very well, despite the low PFF grade.
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