Despite trading for quarterback Sam Bradford on Saturday, the Minnesota Vikings quarterback situation is not as clear-cut as it might seem.
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“We’re not going to stick our heads in the sand”. But given the circumstances, we know the pressure comes down on the line. I just think the stunning way they lost, it was tough.
He didn’t get his chance to be an National Football League head coach until age 57. However, head coach Mike Zimmer said, “I don’t know…”
“I feel I can play until I’m just ready to hang it up, honestly”, Peterson said.
“I stay right in my lane”, he explained. Anytime you have a tragedy or whatever you want to call it, they’re going to be looking to somebody for strength and wisdom and all these other things.
“I only know what we’ve put in the past two days or what they’ve taught me the past two days”, Bradford said afterward. I think they learned lesson there about rushing. Running back Adrian Peterson is still going strong at 31.
On the heels of a 4-0 pre-season, that has not changed the team’s goal. “It takes a team to win a championship, so we’re still chasing the same thing”. He lacks mobility. They quickly gave up a 2017 first-round pick and a conditional fourth pick to Philadelphia for former number-one pick quarterback Sam Bradford.
Bradford’s nose has been buried in the playbook over the past four days.
The question then, is why are the Vikings acting as if they will let Hill start in Week 1?
In the 72 hours following Bridgewater’s catastrophic injury, Hill was the proclaimed savior, and the Vikings closed ranks around him, secure in his experience as a wily steward for an offense predicated on using Adrian Peterson as a battering ram and a play-making defense created to grind down opponents. “So to finally have the season here in front of me, I’m pretty pumped up”. Guys that came into the league at age 21 or 22 have gained experience, but also grown in age together. SB50 MVP Von Miller and much of the Denver D returns, and they were the real reason they won it all past year, so this may be an experiment in how far a team can go with no perceptible offense.
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This week, I caught up with Matt Vensel, who is in his third year covering the Vikings for the Star Tribune. Defensive end Everson Griffen, who posted 22½ sacks over the last two seasons, is poised for a big year. The $1.1 billion venue was built on the same site as the old Metrodome.
