100 episodes

Welcome to the Vikings Territory Breakdown podcast, where co-hosts Joe Oberle and Mark Craig offer their unique insider’s opinion and analysis on the latest Purple news and happenings emanating from TCO Performance Center, U.S. Bank Stadium and beyond. The Minnesota Vikings are a constant source of exciting, enervating and, oftentimes, confounding news, and Craig and Oberle illuminate and explain it all from a perspective of experience and hard-earned insight.

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    • 3.8 • 12 Ratings

Welcome to the Vikings Territory Breakdown podcast, where co-hosts Joe Oberle and Mark Craig offer their unique insider’s opinion and analysis on the latest Purple news and happenings emanating from TCO Performance Center, U.S. Bank Stadium and beyond. The Minnesota Vikings are a constant source of exciting, enervating and, oftentimes, confounding news, and Craig and Oberle illuminate and explain it all from a perspective of experience and hard-earned insight.

    NFL Draft 2024—What will the Vikings Do?

    NFL Draft 2024—What will the Vikings Do?

    So we needed a draft expert of our own to weigh in on what the Purple will do. Former Vikings and Tennesse Titans general manager Jeff Diamond joins the fellas at the Vikings Territory Breakdown podcast (Joe Oberle, senior writer at vikingsterritory.com and purplePTSD.com and Mark Craig, NFL and Vikings writer for the Star Tribune and startribune.com) to break it all down.
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    • 1 hr 4 min
    Buckle Up—Vikes are Day-1 Players in the 2024 NFL Draft

    Buckle Up—Vikes are Day-1 Players in the 2024 NFL Draft

    Things are getting down to the wire in the NFL Draft. We are two weeks out from the first day of the next era in Minnesota Vikings football, as they hold two draft picks in the first round of the upcoming draft. And we couldn’t be happier that it’s almost here.
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    • 1 hr 1 min
    Trading Places—The Vikings Search for a QBOTF

    Trading Places—The Vikings Search for a QBOTF

    A couple weeks ago the Vikings made a trade with the Houston Texans to acquire the 23rd pick in the draft in 2024 draft to go along with their pick (11th overall), and all the subsequent speculation centers on them trading up in the first round to grab a QB of the future. That speculation carries some weight as the Vikings lost their QB of the present in free agency, so they definitely have to make moves to secure on going forward.
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    • 58 min
    Kwesi’s Cookin’ in Week 2 of Free Agency

    Kwesi’s Cookin’ in Week 2 of Free Agency

    Kwesi has been cookin,’ as all the kids like to say. After a banner week in free agency that saw the addition of several defensive performers, a new quarterback in Sam Darnold and the swiping of a fan-favorite running back from that rival team to the east, 
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    • 55 min
    Vikings Trade for a Second First Rounder Intensifies the Offseason

    Vikings Trade for a Second First Rounder Intensifies the Offseason

    Vikings GM Kwesi Adolfo-Mensah secured a trade of draft picks with the Houston Texans that appears to signal the Vikings’ desires to move up in the 2024 NFL Draft and grab their QB of the future.
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    • 1 hr 6 min
    Kirk Cousins Flies the Coop and Becomes a Falcon

    Kirk Cousins Flies the Coop and Becomes a Falcon

    Joe Oberle and Mark Craig talk all the Free Agency moves the Vikings made in day 1 of the legal tampering. The new NFL League year started this week with the “legal tampering” period on Monday and the Vikings made a huge splash—but it was kind of a belly flop.
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    • 58 min

Customer Reviews

3.8 out of 5
12 Ratings

12 Ratings

FRGFBS ,

Poorly produced

This may be the most poorly produced podcast I’ve heard. All the computer noises. I lost count at a dozen. As good as the content may be it’s so distracting making this a first, and only, listen.

Roger Dier ,

Two Guys Who Ooze True Purple

I've been listening to Joe Johnson and Joe Oberle for several years--hence the name "Morning Joes--and they always have a unique and dare I say, oddly refreshing take on the machinations of the Minnesota Vikings. The two gents, a pair of unmatched socks, have a charming synergy, which is fueled by the neurosis of Joe Johnson, a younger man than the other. Joe the Younger articulates what many fans feel about the never-ending struggle of the Vikings to win a Super Bowl, a state-of-mind that no Vikings executive, coach, player or fan has ever experienced. We're talking nearly six decades of frustration, folks. The two men work together on a part-time basis--Joe the Younger has an indirect financial stake in the Vikings success as owner of a pair of Vikings websites while Joe the Older edits one of them. The latent panic of Joe the Younger when the Vikings lose or do something completely off the rails is amusing to hear. The soothing strokes of Joe the Older trying to bring some perspecitive to Joe the Younger gives the show a brotherly feel. Joe Johnson's written articles (and verbal opinions) are often train-of-thought screeds that are so creative and funny that one feels s/he is reading the reincarnation of Hunter Thompson, minus the drugs. Joe the Older often acts as the Crisis Cop with the blowhorn, talking Joe the Younger off the ledge. I highly recommend this podcast, and visits to Vikings Territory and PurplePTSD websites, for creative and often humorus analysis of all things Minnesota Vikings.

Jhsherman ,

sorry, i wanted this to be good

didn’t seek out a podcast to knock it, but these guys think the NFL is stuck in 1980 and hasn’t been evolving at an increasingly fast pace over the last 30 years. very poor understanding of positional value or how to generate wins in the modern NFL. altogether, it’s just poor commentary deliver and poorer analysis from the host. just not good :(

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