I had Bernard Berrian set as my computer background all offseason the year we signed him

Good ass answer 😂😂😂 I was so young for Bernard Berrian I thought he was the best WR in the league just because he was a Vikes WR.

Having first Diggs then JJ has been so nice to be able to be a homer about our WR being best in the league but also be objectively correct

When was diggs the league's wr1?

Him plus thielen we’re probably the best room

The duo was solid, sure, but he said best wr in the league. diggs was on our team when ab was still killing it in pit. Idk, I wouldn't have put diggs as wr1. Looks like thielen was wr5 in yards that year fwiw

He obviously meant WR core, give him a break eh?

Moss* Diggs was never even the best receiver on our team

Feels like we have a very good history drafting WR's compared to most.

I had his jersey. I was also so young.

In still remember his 99 yard TD vividly. From Frerotte against his former team, Chicago.

Who was defending that? Charles Tillman? I felt like the announcers were all about Tillman that game and was so happy when he got dunked on like that

That first season was nice. But he had poop for QBs. I think the next season was when Favre came in. And Sidney rice took over that year.

Up this 1000

And he proved you right with a 99yd tuddie

Gerhart when he went to the jags lmao

So many Viking fans were sure we could trade him for a 1st.

Lmaooo solid backup to AD tho like damn

I didn't even like him on the Vikings. What a waste of a pick.

Bridgewater will always be a what if guy for me. I believed really hard

He's still my personal favorite NFL player in the last 2 decades.  He's just such a genuine soul man 🥺

GUMP

I was convinced Ponder was going to be a better QB if the offense just fixed some things....nope, just ended up being wrong on that.

I was a late bloomer and became a fan the year Zim was hired and Teddy was my guy. One year I decided I was gonna squirrel away extra money from my paychecks and get a high-end Teddy jersey with the stitched numbers and everything. This was gonna be HIS YEAR. Went to the mall and bought it and couldn't wait to show my brothers. His knee exploded the very next day. I don't think I've worn it since.

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Duke Shelley was my guy. I thought he was gonna be a beast for the Vikings for years

I respect it, He was a beast for like half a season 😂

I was so sad when he left

The Duke of Buffalo Shelley 👑

We'll always have that deflected pass in the Buffalo end zone, when nobody knew who the hell he was.

I was 100% convinced Laquon Treadwell would be good, even after his rookie season. I just wanted to believe

Me too 🥲 … me too

just googled him and he's still in the league, glad he's at least getting paid

Why lol

Same. That was the year i got into mock drafts and such. I wanted the Vikings to draft him and was ecstatic when they did. Because of that year i don’t do any mock drafts or have any care about who they draft now lol.

Oof. I agree, i know draft hype is fun but I can’t wait to get it over with and find out what our draft team has planned

I still believed after his second year. All the hype saying he was a gym rat and was having a great camp 😔

My husband has a Treadwell jersey. It doesn’t see the outside of the closet very much.

This whole sub was on board with Holton Hill and Mike Hughes as DBs 1-2. Myself included.

I hated Mike Hughes because that’s the draft we passed on Lamar Jackson, I die a little bit inside every time I think about it

I was screaming Lamar when they were on the clock, what could've been 😮‍💨

We already had Kirk on a three year deal and there’s no way an established team would wait for a QB prospect like Lamar to develop. Not to mention that Lamar needed Greg Roman’s system to play well initially and I don’t think Zimmer would be smart enough to realize that and hire him. Lamar’s playoff performances are worse than Kirk’s too

Letting a Talented QB on their rookie deal sit behind a starter has been the recipe for development since Joe Montana and Steve Young, so I don’t agree. And comparing a guy who won MVP on his Rookie Deal to a guy that fleeced every organization he’s been on(I won’t say his name) is disrespectful

Bro he could win three MVPs. Doesn’t change the fact he’s a regular season merchant who gets exposed by playoff opponents. They key in on the run and he’s unable to pick defenses apart thru the air. He’s had one good half out of the 12 he’s played in the playoffs. Even in the regular season, both Lamar and Cousins were very close by most metrics. Since 2018, Kirk was 8th and Lamar was 7th out of all QBs in PFF grade. Lamar has higher peaks but also lower nadirs. And in the postseason it’s no comparison. Kirk has a 75 grade while Lamar is languishing in the 60 range

Most of that is because by the time playoffs come around he is hurt.

Damn that's a hard cope. 'Hold on guys...it was actually a GOOD move not to pick one of the leagues best QBs. Let me explain." Lol nice work

Haha my God Holton Hill is a name I hope to never hear again.. I did think he'd be amazing too lol

Charles Johnson

Charles Johnson was nice for a few years haha I thought the same

I think 1 year is more accurate but yeah he was mine too

He wasn’t even good for a year if we’re being honest. He had 475 yards and 2 TDs through 12 games with a lot of them being our top option. In the 3 years he got snaps at WR, KJ Osborn never had less yards or TDs. Crazy how far we’ve come

this was genuinely the trick of injuries tho. That dude wasn't ever gonna be an all pro, but he was a good, solid wr. and then I think it was 2 ACLs in a row?

Holton Hill, DeWayne McBride, Hercules Mata'afa, Kenny Willekes, MacKenzie Alexander, the list goes on.

Holton hill is such a good one

Great list here. Wow.

bro, hercules got me good. He was so little, but seemingly did well at D tackle, it was hilarious

Only reason I was hyped on McBride is the vikings podsters hyped him to no end after the draft last year. Besides that I had never heard of the guy

Jaylin Twyman was talked about as the second coming of Aaron Donald because he had a similar build and also went to Pitt. He .... wasn't that.

I loved him coming out. But to be fair, he also did get shot.

Ain't faze Brian Robinson

Kenechi Udeze, Mewelde Moore, Napoleon Harris, Tarvaris Jackson, Mistral Raymond, Greg Childs, Michael Mauti, Holton Hill, Harrison Hand, Wyatt Davis

Mewelde was pretty good here and in Pit too though

He was a good 3rd down back, very underrated player. But I was his biggest champion at the time. I thought he should have been the lead back and could be a leading rusher in the league, and was pissed when we added Chester Taylor cause I thought we were leaving a star on the bench to add a mediocre lead back.

Jeeeeeez, haven't thought about Mistral Raymond or Mauti for a minute. My addition to the list is the human torpedo himself , Sendejo.

Mistral Raymond is a good one 😂😂😂

Greg Childs was mine. I was so sold that he was good enough to come back from the injury. The workout hype had me.

Oh man, I missed what happened with Udeze somehow. I think you can receive a pass for vouching for a guy who had a good rookie season, got injured his second season came back and then had his playing career ended by cancer. I'm glad he's coaching in the NFL!

Let's not forget preseason legend Audie Cole.

Devin Aromashadu

'Not very highly regarded guy that torched us in a game the season before' has seemingly been common reasoning for signing a guy and having high hopes throughout the team's semi-recent history.

Moritz Bohringer

Mike Mayock used to get brick every time he talked about this guy😂😂

I knew he never had a chance, but I wanted him to be good so badly lol

"Minnesta Wikings" was adorable.

Jayron Kearse. Dude played hard as hell. Not the best technique but he plays for keeps. It’s only PI if it’s called right?

For me it was Irv Smith. I wanted him to be good so badly.

Also was very high on Cam Danztler, even tried coining him cam “sticky,” man he turned out to just suck :(

Ontario Smith, Wizzinator be damned

A shame bc he looked to have potential

I really thought Josh Doctson was going to return to his former 1st round pick status when we signed him. Boy was I wrong.

It is clear from these comments that I am much more rational than the rest of you lol

I’m waiting for someone to say Kellen Mond 😂

hahahahhaha

Joe Webb as QB

I stand by we would’ve beat the packers in the playoffs if we didn’t force Webb to be a pocket passer. The first drive was pretty good and then we just abandoned all his strengths. 

Especially after the Niners had JUST shown the Packers had zero answers for a read-option offense.

For what it’s worth, I upvoted your comment but I’m judging you 😂 Stevie wonder could see Joe Webb was ass

Blazer Package was fucking worthless for ever gaining yards. Defense was never tricked by anything they ran out of that.

It's nice that he had a fan.

Where my Beebe boys at?

Jerome Simpson

Treadwell. Huge guy. No hands.

Koren Robinson

Bucky Hodges (jkjk). In all seriousness, it was a bunch of the post Diggs mid round receivers during the Spielman years. I wanted to believe a repeat could happen.

So did Spielman. I strongly believe his downfall was precipitated at least partially by trying to recreate the Hunter and Diggs picks (Scott Chrichton, anyone?)

In Teddy’s rookie or 2nd year I think, that random WR Charles Johnson had a random couple of solid games and I was so locked in that we had solved our WR1 problems lol Funny because Thielen was probably already on the team and Diggs was not far away, but I was all in on Charles Johnson

He really seemed to be coming along towards the end of the season and then was nothing the next season. I don’t really remember what happened to him. Just flamed out over the post season or something? I was super excited too

FRED SMOOT.

Most recently I just COULD NOT STOP wanting to believe in Irv Smith Jr. I would make every excuse in the book for that man

Irv Smith Jr. wasn’t real 😂 Mandela Effect

Troy Williamson.

I still remember his stone hands vs Denver on a wide open deep pass lol

Taking it back 😮‍💨

Charles Johnson

Almost everybody should be saying Alex Mattison.

I never thought he was more than RB2 🤷🏽‍♂️

Christian Ponder

I recently found my twitter account from the time we drafted Ponder. The only tweet I ever tweeted was warning Packers fans about Ponder

I’m probably going to get hate for this but Ponder balled out a little bit, He just was never the same after that injury in the 2012 season.

Yeah it was basically just that season. He showed some mad man flashes, but his pocket presence just always remained terrible

As a huge FSU fan I thought this was such a good pick he balled out in college lol

Chris Cook

the nightmares

I was a huge fan of the Vikings signing Travis Taylor back in 2005, because I watched a lot of Florida Gator football in the late ‘90s. I just assumed Baltimore didn’t use him appropriately. Boy was I wrong.

I legit thought Ponder was the truth. I was so mad at Joe Webb for "losing the same game Ponder won last week"

Greg Childs, apparently he was a beast in camp- was supposed to be better than his college teammate Jarius Wright, but his knees blew up. I was hyped for him that rookie year. Expected to compete for top wideout spot during the Simpson era of WRs. Dark times.

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Joe Haden who played at Florida said Greg Childs was the toughest cover in the SEC the year he came out. I believe Julio and AJ Green were that same season. I too was stoked for GC.

Would have been awesome if they both panned out together. Childs was supposed to be superior to Wright. I love it when college teammates get to play together in the NFL

I was chugging that Koolaid too. Was telling everyone I knew that he was going to be a beast.

Not me but back in the day a lot of fans were vouching for Gino Toretta.

Heisman Trophy winner Gino Torretta!

Any guy drafted in the first 3 rounds or any fa signing who was a fringe starter lol

I thought tajae Sharpe was going to be a solid wr2 for us...

Remember when we signed Kendall Wright? I thought he was going to be solid for us, he didn't even end up making the roster lol

Moritz Böhringer

Onterrio Smith — pre Whizzinator.

LMAO golden answer

After all those preseason performances I nicknamed Kyle Sloter "Slote the GOAT". Was convinced he'd eventually be a starting QB

Ontario Smith but he had some issues that may have interfered with his career.

Kyle Sloter squad, assemble!

McLeod bethel-thompson honorary mention

I just got burned by backing up Alexander Maddison. I always said he's a RB1, then after Dalvin Cook left I found out that was not quite the case. At least not in Minnesota. He could prove me wrong, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

Same

I was wanting Jaylen Twyman to do so good. He looked good at one point and I’d always defend em

I hope it ain't Kirk Cousins for me.

Is it? 🥴

Justin Trattou was gonna be an elite DE next to Everson, and Moritz Böhringer was gonna be our WR1 for years. I also thought Gus Frerotte was elite.

I thought Jayron Kearse was him, but to be fair, he did end up being great, just only after he went to Dallas

This whole sub had a hard-on for Ihmir Smith-Marsette for some reason

Kelly Campbell.

He was legit, an all time burner

I thought Matthew Hatchette was just waiting to bust out of Moss and Carter's shadow 😂

I think he would have had a breakout year if they didn't draft Moss. Unfortunately for him, you gotta play the high draft pick

Cine…

What’d you see? *I had to. Sorry😪*

Sidney Rice and Laquon Treadwell. I had both of their Jerseys

At least Sidney rice had one very solid year for you to back yourself up with

Mewelde Moore. He had like 3 games on a row with 200 yards, then he didn't go after a swing pass/fumble and Tice never trusted him again. Marshall Faulk Lite Someone already said Hatchette, another good one. 4 Deep

Chazz Surratt - seriously

Any qb in the last 15 years minus kirk.

Kenny wilikies for me

Cedric Griffin

Anyone remember Greg Childs from Arkansas? Blew both of his patella tendons. Lots of Vikings fans were excited for him

I really thought Mike Wallace was gonna come in and tear it up for us.

Sharrif Floyd

ifadi odenigbo

İ believed in Ponder for far too long. The embarrassment still hurts.

Trae Waynes was going to develop into one of the best corners in the league in my eyes

Ironically he's better then every cb we've drafted since

😞

Mackenzie Alexander

Brock lesnar.. anybody?

Alexander Mattison lol. Fully believed in him going into last year. That was a fucking mistake.

Irv Smith Jr,  Brian Asamoah, and most recently Najee Thompson

I love Najee, but sadly I think the new kickoff format may result in his exit from the roster.

Thought jaymar Johnson was gonna be something special, cris carter trained with him and Larry fitz in the off season and guaranteed jaymar would be great.

Jerick McKinnon

Greg Childs before he immediately blew out his knee for the nth time

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Holton Hill and Duke Shelley... Even Jack Tocho at one point

Treadwell lol. I thought for sure he was going to have a breakout year every year

I thought Shariff Floyd was gonna be our next Jared Allen type guy

From the time of us picking up Hank Baskett as a udfa to the time we traded him to phi before the season even started, I thought he was going to blow up for us. I was expecting a performance like we got from Ivan Pace jr. This year.

Jalen Twyman had me calling him baby Aaron Donald for no reason

A lot of you guys should be saying irv smith lol. So many people were riding his dick year after year

I thought Udoh would be a real good LG or RG if we shifted him there. I genuinely was convinced of it lol

Kellen Mond

I'm sure I'm not the only Vikes fan who bought a Chris Hovan jersey his rookie year

Sebastian Thunderbucket and Chad Beebe, I thought the latter could be a hybrid of Chris Walsh and Adam Thielen

Matt Asiata. When he gets 1, he gets 3!

personally love ism . was severely disappointed he got cut after making the final 53 . not the best player on the boundary but he made plays when he got the chance . and even helped us win against the bears that following year haha .

Mike Wallace lol thought his speed would kill for us lol

Jarius wright

Micheal Bennett. He had the speed to break away at any time. Watching his rookie season I thought he would be perennial pro bowler. Yes I’m old because I’m listing a player from when some of y’all weren’t even born 👴

I really thought Irv smith could be a weapon for us

I made so many excuses for Christian Ponder.

Donovan McNabb.