Perhaps they should have stuck with Sam Darnold.

The Minnesota Vikings, who won 13 games in 2022 and 14 games in 2024, are in the midst of a tumultuous stretch where several reporters are pointing out that there’s some internal strife beginning to manifest.

“It’s felt to me…that there’s been like an underlying tension with this team and in its staff,” The Athletic’s Alec Lewis said on his eponymous podcast. “You just get the sense that the joy that has been there in two of the three seasons, where they have won double digit games, you just don’t feel that.”

The backdrop to this report is the rampant injuries at key positions and, arguably, mismanagement at the quarterback position.

Starting quarterback J.J. McCarthy has played poorly in limited action and dealt with a right high-ankl

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