Vikings

The Vikings will play tonight without top receiver Adam Thielen. He'll miss another game with a hamstring injury. Star Tribune Sports Columnist Jim Souhan joined me today from Seattle today on WJON.

The Vikings had their 4th best come from behind win in franchise history when they overcame a 20-0 halftime deficit to beat the Broncos 27-23 at U.S. Bank Stadium Sunday. Star Tribune Sports Columnist Jim Souhan joined me on WJON today.

The Vikings will play at Kansas City Sunday against the Chiefs at Noon, pregame on WJON at 11 a.m. Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes sustained a knee injury a couple of weeks ago and didn't play last week against Green Bay.

The Vikings downed the Washington Redskins 19-9 Thursday night to improve to 6-2 this season. Star Tribune Sports Columnist Jim Souhan joined me on WJON today. He was impressed with the play of running back Dalvin Cook and receiver Stefon Diggs.

The Timberwolves opened their season with a 1-point win in overtime at Brooklyn. Star Tribune Sports Columnist Jim Souhan joined me on WJON today. He said for at least one night the small lineup that includes Robert Covington at the 4 and Andrew Wiggins as the 3 worked.

The Vikings won 42-30 at Detroit Sunday to improve to 5-2. Kirk Cousins threw 4 touchdowns to 4 different receivers. Star Tribune Sports Columnist Jim Souhan joined me on WJON today.

The Vikings host the Philadelphia Eagles Sunday at noon. Hear the game on WJON. Both teams are 3-2 which makes this game important for playoff positioning, tiebreaks, and maybe seeding.

This week's version of the Ovie and the Franchise Podcast focuses on the Twins and the Vikings. The Twins open the playoffs Friday and are still determining who is healthy enough to play in the series and how the starting pitching rotation will set up.

The Vikings lost 16-6 Sunday afternoon in Chicago to the Bears to drop to 2-2 on the season. Chicago led 10-0 at halftime and 16-0 at the end of 3 quarters. The Vikings knocked out Bears' starting quarterback Mitchell Trubisky in the 1st quarter but backup Chase Daniel threw for 195 yards and…

The Vikings could move into a first place tie Sunday if they beat the Bears in Chicago. That became possible after Green Bay lost at home to Philadelphia Thursday night. Detroit would need to lose at home against Kansas City for that to become possible too.