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Receiver Greg Jennings agreed to a five-year contract Friday night with the Minnesota Vikings, and here is my highly controversial and thoroughly debatable takeaway: The deal makes perfect sense for the Vikings. It elevated them from having zero l...

Will the Green Bay-to-Minnesota pipeline produce another hit for the Minnesota Vikings? That's the question we're asking Thursday morning amid the news that receiver Greg Jennings is taking his first free-agent visit to the Packers' NFC North rival....

INDIANPOLIS -- So I'm about to step into a marathon availability session Thursday morning here at the NFL scouting combine. It will include Chicago Bears coach Marc Trestman and general manager Phil Emery, Detroit Lions coach Jim Schwartz and Minneso...

A few of you have suggested I've been a bit negative toward the Green Bay Packers' chances of winning Saturday night's wild-card playoff game against the Minnesota Vikings. For me, this week has been about presenting some undeniable facts in context,...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Many of you are asking why referee Mike Carey didn't employ the "Jim Schwartz rule" here at the Metrodome after Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy challenged a turnover late in the third quarter. That includes two Minnesota Vikings ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- A few thoughts from one of the best NFC North football games we've seen in recent memory: What it means: The Minnesota Vikings qualified for the playoffs by winning their fourth consecutive regular-season game. They beat the Green B...

Five things to know and my 2012 all-division team: Division MVP: If your definition of this award is the player who has the most impact on his team's winning percentage, then our MVP is Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers. If your MVP is t...

We're Black and Blue All Over: Greg Jennings' declaration Tuesday that he likely will play elsewhere in 2012 meshes with the sense we've had throughout the season, as soon as Randall Cobb began to emerge as a big-time receiver when Jennings was si...

Around here, we learned yet another lesson about the limits of conventional wisdom last week. Playing without leading receiver Percy Harvin, the Minnesota Vikings completed 75 percent of their passes and put up 221 passing yards in a 34-24 surprise o...

We've posted an All-NFC North team after every season since we started this blog five seasons ago. (Links: 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008.) Below, you'll find our first attempt at a midseason division team. As always, its composition is a blend of advice ...

It seems a million years ago. In reality, it was 18 months. In the second round of the 2011 draft, three pass-catchers of diverse backgrounds and skills entered the NFC North. I've checked in on their progress at various times, and at the midpoint of...

We're Black and Blue All Over: With their bye on the horizon, you wonder if the Green Bay Packers will try to steal two more weeks of rest for receiver Jordy Nelson's hamstring injury -- at the cost of only one more missed game. Nelson didn't p...

We're Black and Blue All Over: It appears that Green Bay Packers receiver Greg Jennings' immediate future has hit a crossroads. Amid anticipation that Jennings is set for a running test this week on his strained groin, Jason Wilde of ESPNMilwaukee...

We're Black and Blue All Over: CHICAGO -- Good morning as we quickly close the door on Week 7 and motor full-speed into Week 8. The virtual ink is hardly dry on the Chicago Bears' 13-7 victory over the Detroit Lions, and already the first installm...

We're Black and Blue All Over: Chicago Bears receiver/kick returner Devin Hester didn't practice Thursday because of a quadriceps injury, but he intends to play -- and make an impact -- in Monday night's game against the Detroit Lions. As Jesse...

We're Black and Blue All Over. (We're also on Facebook and Twitter.) A former NFC North running back who had worked out for two other divisional teams in the past two weeks has signed elsewhere, ending a longer-than-expected run of unemployment. ...