Minnesota Vikings News and Links, 18 July 2022

Welcome to Monday at your favorite Minnesota Vikings website, everyone! When we do next Monday’s Open Thread, the rookies (and some other players) for the purple will have reported to the Twin Cities Orthopedics Performance Center in Eagan for the start of Training Camp! We’re almost there, everyone.

Also, we still don’t have access to our Twitter account, but hopefully that situation is going to be rectified sooner rather than later.

Since the last time we brought you an Open Thread. . .

• Is mid-July too early for a 2023 Mock Draft? According to Mark, no. . .no, it is not.
• Colin Cowherd doesn’t think the Vikings are going to win 16 games anymore. He’s moved his prediction back to a much more realistic 13 or 14.
• Mike Zimmer and Kirk Cousins apparently didn’t like each other. Who knew? (Everyone. Everyone knew.)

Again, we all know the rules, but in case someone is new:

• No discussion of politics or religion
• No feeding of the trolls
• Leave the gender hatred at the door
• Keep the bad language to a minimum (using the spoiler tags, if you must)
• Speaking of which, if discussing a newer show or movie, please use spoiler tags
• No pictures that could get someone fired or in serious trouble with their employer
• If you can’t disagree in a civil manner, feel free to go away
• While navigating the open thread, just assume it’s sarcasm.