Anyone else get the feeling we’ve seen all this before?

The 2021 NFL Draft is mere days away, and Minnesota Vikings fans and media have hopped from one distraction to the next. From “Well, Thuney didn’t work out but perhaps Orlando Brown will” type distraction. While both ended up shoring up the line for the Kansas City Chiefs, which is in and of itself a topic worthy of a multi-entry series, the Vikings have yet again had no real intention of trading for/signing O-linemen either this off-season. They perhaps only were floating their names out there to give the impression to those who seem to only remember six-to-twelve month intervals that they’re actually trying to fix the core issue this team has had since 2015. Unfortunately, (most) Vikings fans remember beyond a year and as we’ve seen other teams can do the same in one off-season.

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