The Vikings defense feasted on a second-year quarterback (Marcus Mariota) who felt the pressure in the second half and started making mistakes. “We’re going to make sure we are ready for Sam and make sure we are ready for Shaun”.
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Sam Bradford arrived in Minnesota on Saturday, Sept3.
The Vikings acquired Bradford two weeks ago in a trade with Philadelphia for two premium draft picks, but Hill started the opener at Tennessee.
Head Coach Mike McCarthy and the squad want to re-establish themselves as the dominant team in the Black and Blue and will have an opportunity against a team still reeling from the loss of starting quarterback Teddy Bridgewater only days away from the start of the season.
“It is.” Zimmer said after practice with mock suspense, “we’ll find out Sunday”. Second-year pro T.J. Yeldon is expected to get the majority of the work in the run game.
On Sunday, the Green Bay Packers will face the Minnesota Vikings for the 109th regular season matchup and 111th overall including postseason games.
The Vikings have released their full injury report. In order to do this, the Vikings will lean on their defensive line to keep Rodgers under duress and force him to be off his game.
The Vikings say fans are encouraged to be in their seats by 7:00 p.m. Against the Titans Linval Joseph saw 40 snaps, compared to 29 for Johnson and 22 for Stephen, who also forced a fumble in the contest.
Johnson compiled 5.5 sacks for Minnesota in 16 games in 2015, filling in as a starter when his teammates were injured.
“He could”, Zimmer said, before flashing a sly smile. Maybe he’ll get in for a token play or two, but the Vikings have so much depth at wide receiver they don’t need Treadwell to play immediately. “We actually had a three-man rotation in there with Shamar Stephen, Linval [Joseph] and Tom Johnson, so we’ll continue to do that”.
“When you start to put year after year together in the same system, that’s how you can make that jump from a very good defense to an elite defense”, Rodgers said.
“It was good to see”, cornerbacks coach Joe Whitt said. “He’s getting better as a pass rusher”. He is by far their best player on offense. “But we expect it to get rocking when we get out there on offense”.
Zimmer was asked how he felt about the festivities.
“Hopefully, our crowd, our fans, will be really loud when they’re on offense, obviously, ” Zimmer said. “I’m kind of a routine guy”. As exciting as those returns were last week, the defense isn’t going to score twice a game, they just aren’t.
The Vikings’ defense returned two turnovers for touchdowns in Week 1, something that won’t happen on Sunday. The Vikings will be riding a huge wave of emotion, and I think it will cause them to come out of the gates with their collective hair on fire.
This game will be a “barn-burner” no doubt, but there is something about this Vikings team that I like a lot.
Not surprisingly, the Packers feature an active roster with 83 percent of their players age 28 or younger.
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Each practice of the offseason through the regular season Treadwell is one of the last Vikings to leave the practice field and Zimmer is taking notice. “We took a good approach to each day we’ve had this week”, he said.It’s almost as if Zimmer, who made his bones in this league as a long-time defensive coordinator, looked at his favorite side of the ball in the locker room at intermission and implored them to make a play or in this case, two or three.
