The Viking Age Podcast: A Minnesota Vikings Podcast from FanSided

This is a Vikings podcast for people who read the transaction wire. Chris Shad and Adam Patrick record twice a week for The Viking Age, on the site's YouTube channel first and in podcast form the day after. Shad writes for Fansided and ZoneCoverage.com. Patrick is managing editor of The Viking Age and a lead editor for the NFL division at Fansided. The subject matter is mostly what happens between games. Quarterback churn dominates: Kyler Murray arriving on a one-year, 1.2 million dollar deal with no tag clause, Carson Wentz returning, Geno and Carr names floating around the combine, and the running question of what any of it means for JJ McCarthy. The general manager search gets the same treatment, including reporting that the team wants a leader rather than a scouting or financial background of the kind Rob Brzezinski brings. Draft season pulls the show toward prospects like Dylan Thieneman, whose name kept appearing in mock drafts. Contract fights get their own recurring watch, with Jonathan Grenard's situation returning across episodes. The method is consistent: read the quote or the report, then stress-test it out loud. Kevin O'Connell's comments about Kyler Murray operating from the pocket get played back nearly in full before the hosts decide what he actually meant. Alec Lewis gets quoted and questioned in the same breath. When a national take calls it the worst offseason in the league, the hosts take that on directly rather than nodding along. The rhythm is fast and unpolished. Sentences run long, one host interrupts the other, and a point often gets made three different ways before it lands. Tangents are part of the design — a stray thought about Rick Spielman returning in a personnel role, or a wrestling aside, arrives and departs without ceremony. Listener interaction is not an afterthought either. A comment from a fan in Australia describing the show as a blend of humor, optimism, pessimism and depression got read aloud and discussed at length, which says something about how the hosts see their own product. Mock outrage shows up as connective tissue. So does genuine grief: one episode paused before any football to acknowledge a friend who died with her three children in a house fire, and to point listeners toward the fundraiser supporting her family. That range is part of what the show is. Frustration, sarcasm, hopefulness and sincerity sit next to each other without much transition. Anyone who wants the calm, evenly measured version of Vikings analysis will be happier elsewhere. Anyone who wants to hear two informed fans reason through the mess in real time will recognize this immediately.