This has been the prevailing sentiment since long ago…

Some thoughts on Kyler and Vikings: Based on recent reports, this feels like the path the Vikings are most likely to take. Why it could work: Kyler has incredible raw talent. He can make plays that very few others can make. He can make a play caller right when it goes wrong 1/

The Vikings intend to name Andrew Healy and Trent Kirchner as assistant general managers in the coming days, per sources. Huge hires. Healey will serve as the team’s secondary football executive, revered for analytics; Kirchner is a premier evaluator.

This may be a hot take, but following many travels, I've determined that THIS is the Midwest. Dakotas are amazing, but are nothing like the Midwest. Missouri feels more like a Southern state than Midwest. Kentucky is more like Tennessee and Virginia than the Midwest.

New Ep of @AlecLewisShow from last night on the first day of Vikings minicamp, talking Kyler and J.J., what they looked like on the field, and the other 80 players who also exist: youtube.com/watch?v=_hkVJy2d…

The Vikings are making front office changes, per sources. Assistant GM Demitrius Washington is seeking other opportunities. Senior personnel executive Jamaal Stephenson, senior college executive Pat Roberts and pro scout Salli Clavelle won't return. nytimes.com/athletic/7351453…

I don't personally know a single Viking fan who wanted or wants J.J. McCarthy to be a bust. It's usually the opposite, in fact.

I liked that #Vikings OC Wes Phillips gave kudos to JJ McCarthy when asked about his growth. “It’s just been a continuous upward arrow for him” “There’s several things that we noticed with JJ off the bat that were improvements”

Fair to critique coverage. On the trade question: Many many many people have been speculating on whether J.J. McCarthy would be/wants to be/should be traded. Had anyone actually asked him if there is any basis to it? Doesn't that matter? Isn't that the point of access?

It’s starting to feel to me like they’re using the spring as the “competition” and it won’t bleed into training camp

"I hate a super cocky arrogant player that is just barely above average... That's Kyler Murray" – @CutonDime25 responds to Kyler's recent presser where he seemed to take subliminal jabs at JJ McCarthy about not getting enough reps WE ARE LIVE youtube.com/watch?v=sEnSh8kI…

#Vikings QB Kyler Murray on the toughest part of adjusting to Minnesota’s offense: “Having to split reps, me already being behind, not getting the amount of reps you would typically want a guy to get learning the offense, that’s probably the toughest part.”

I never met Gordon Wood, but I have a story about him. In one of my grad school seminars, we read Wood’s Creation of the American Republic. The sheer erudition and evidentiary depth of the book bowled me over. Back then, before kids and before life accelerated to warp speed, I used to call my mother every Sunday to catch up. Lots of times, we ended up talking about what I was reading that week in my grad seminars or for leisure. Mom had an omnivorous mind, and she was always looking for something else to read. She was a true intellectual—curious about almost everything, always eager to integrate new arguments or ideas into her existing schemas of how the world worked or to have those schemas challenged and changed. When we talked that particular Sunday, I think I tried to describe to her part of Wood’s argument about the relationship between the state constitutions during the Articles of Confederation era and the federal Constitution. Maybe I was tired, maybe I didn’t completely understand her questions, but the end result of the conversation was that Mom had questions about Wood’s argument that I didn’t answer satisfactorily. I told her that she should probably just read the book, and we said goodbye. She did eventually read the book, but the next Sunday, Mom started our conversation by saying, “Well, I had a lovely conversation with Gordon Wood this week.” For a split second, I thought she was joking, but then I remembered who I was dealing with. I started to sweat. “How?” I asked. A whole variety of unlikely scenarios in which the foremost historian of the American Revolution and my mother, who lived in Wichita, Kansas, might have met ran through my mind. “Oh, I just looked up his office phone number on Brown’s website and called, and he picked up!” Mom said. I decided I would have to find another profession. As it ended up, Gordon Wood spent about an hour on the phone with my mother answering her questions about the Constitution. Ever since, I’ve had a soft spot for the man when I imagine him picking up the phone in Providence and finding Becky Elder from Wichita on the other end of the line. His generosity in that moment spoke very well of him. Rest in peace, professor.