Bryant McKinnie News

The Vikings' offense has improved steadily since starting the season ranked among the league's worst.

Tight end Visanthe Shiancoe says the Vikings can taste an NFC North championship but we re not going to try to eat the meal before it s ready.

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. a ' Sure, the NFC North standings are an inanimate object, incapable of verbalization and sitting on the agate page of the morning paper waiting for your perusal and not much more.

Could Hall of Famer Dan Marino's record for passing yards in a season fall? He definitely has one legit threat this season.

No, this isna t a post where I tell Bryant McKinnie to avoid drinking too much over the course of the bye week.

Last update: November 5, 2009 - 4:12 PM Stu is counting on this being long enough ago that we can all laugh.

Posted by ESPN.com's Kevin Seifert If you follow Minnesota left tackle Bryant McKinnie on Twitter , you know he spent Wednesday on ESPN's campus in Bristol, CT.

The call by referee Tony Corrente's crew was the first time since Nov. 30, 2003 that Hutchinson had been penalized for holding.

GREEN BAY, Wis. The Vikings sacked Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers six times Sunday while Brett Favre was not sacked in a 38-26 victory at Lambeau Field.

The Tribune-Review takes a position-by-position look at the Steelers-Vikings matchup at Heinz Field: Steelers - Position - Vikings B- - Quarterback - B- The battle of the gunslingers might have turned out differently had Chester Taylor held on to an ill-fated screen pass.

Vikings backup Artis Hicks was talking about how he started for injured right tackle Phil Loadholt in Sunday's game against the Rams when starting left tackle Bryant McKinnie interrupted.

By the time you read this it definitely won't be breaking news. Michael Crabtree's ridiculously long holdout is over.

Coach Brad Childress' offensive play calling over his first three years at the helm of the Vikings has been unimaginative, too conservative and worst of all .

Vikings left tackle Bryant McKinnie. Last update: October 10, 2009 - 7:07 PM Vikings offensive tackle Bryant McKinnie is a beast of a man at 6-8 and 335 pounds, but he's hoping to become larger than life off the field as well.

The odds overwhelmingly favor 4-0 teams qualifying for the NFL postseason. According to ESPN, 84 percent of teams that start 4-0 make the playoffs.

Since signing with the Vikings in 2004, Winfield faced Favre eight times and endured six losses, including five by seven points or fewer.

Editor's note: ESPN's 'Monday Night Football' analyst Ron Jaworski, a former Pro Bowl quarterback, pores over hours of film at NFL Films in Mount Laurel, N.J. In fact, he said he has seen each of Vikings quarterback Brett Favre's 9,374 career regular-season passes.

The late Max McGee played his entire career for the Green Bay Packers, but a restaurant he opened in Eden Prairie has become a favorite of Vikings players.

Pajama Day Master, former KFAN host Darren "Doogie" Wolfson has a passion for sports, but not a consistent forum in which he's allowed to spew his thoughts.

Percy Harvin woke up Sunday morning not knowing whether he would play in the Vikings' game against the San Francisco 49ers.