NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell will be in town on Sunday to visit with Vikings ownership for the first time in three years. Owners Zygi and Mark Wilf and team executives will start the day by taking Goodell by the team’s proposed practice facility site in Eagan. Then they’ll move to the U.S. Bank Stadium preview center across the street from where the new stadium is being built downtown. After a brief Q&A with invited season-ticket holders and a session with the media, Goodell will take a tour of the stadium. Читать дальше...
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Mike Zimmer on Wednesday said he doesn’t know “what a game manager is, really,” and that whatever it is he doesn’t consider Teddy Bridgewater to be one. He was being honest in one sense. Polite in another sense. Practical in yet another sense. And he was speaking some hidden truth, yes, in yet another sense. But in the strictest sense of the definition of a quarterback being labeled a “game manager,” which is typically not a compliment, the connotation is a QB who doesn’t take too many chances, relying... Читать дальше...
Each Wednesday, we highlight five Vikings stats that really mean something. 486 — total yards after contact for Adrian Peterson this season The running back rushed for a season-high 203 yards in Sunday’s victory over the Raiders. It was the sixth time he topped 200 yards in his career, tying him with O.J. Simpson for that NFL record. And more than half of his yards were after contact. According to Pro Football Focus, 125 of his 203 yards came after a defender got their hands on him, including all 80 on his game-sealing touchdown run. Читать дальше...
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