'The Athletic Football Show' previews the 2026 Minnesota Vikings

“The Athletic Football Show” is previewing all 32 teams leading up to the start of the 2026 NFL season. Below are select quotes from the show’s preview of the Minnesota Vikings. The quotes are edited for clarity. You can watch the whole preview on YouTube and in the embedded video below, or listen to the full NFC North preview wherever you get your podcasts.Robert Mays on what about the Vikings most excites him: I’m most excited about the entire experiment on offense. What does the offense even look like, passing-game wise? What are you going to ask of Kyler Murray? When I look back at the 2024 version of the Vikings, the amount of damage they were able to do in the intermediate-to-deep part of the field, especially outside the numbers, was huge. Kyler Murray’s biggest strength to me as a