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Then one has to wonder how many more injuries we'll see? The athletes will continuing getting bigger, stronger and faster. And the wear and tear on the bodies will increase, meaning a NFL player's average career life will probably be briefer.

It struck me kind of funny when I read this ...
I read ...

dead_poet wrote: They play tonight!

Oops. All day today I've been thinking it was Tuesday ... my bad

jackal wrote:It was tough to tell because of experience...but I felt Tratou
was outplaying hunter. Hunter had four more years NFL
exp.

Hunter is a rookie and in my mind has vastly outplayed Trattau

Looking at my favorite playoff site (playoffstatus.com) There's actually 15 different ways the Vikings can clench a playoff berth this coming weekend. Granted, 9 of them involve the Vikings getting a tie, so if we toss those out, there are 6 remaining possibilities as follow:

Case 1
Vikings beats ...

As far as running out of the shotgun, they pretty much abandoned it after Peterson kept blowing it in the first half, totaling 4 carries out of the shotgun for a total of -12 yards. That likely contributed to some difficulties moving the ball in the 2nd half by making the team more one dimensional ...

I found this on 1500espn.com. I found it to reveal what I thought was happening with Kalil the last 2 years. I thought it was a good read.

http://www.1500espn.com/sportswire/Afte ... rink080815

Comments?

Interesting - Emlen Tunnell - who held the record before Krause, had 79 ints

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emlen_Tunnell

Went back and took a look at what the success rate has been for our undrafted free agents. With the criteria of being on the 53 man roster here's what I found:
2014: Austin Wentworth
2013: Rodney Smith, Zach Line (ugh)
2012: Chase Baker
2011: Matt Asiata, Larry Dean
2010: None
2009: John Cooper ...

The 89% cap floor is applied to a four year period. A team could (theoretically) be well below the cap for one year and not be in violation of the CBA so long as they made it up in the other three years (without going over their specific cap allotment with carryovers).

Even if a team is found to ...

You guys are starting to hit on something I have been wondering about. I do not know the NFL salary cap rules that well - especially at this stage where we have 87 players on contract and can only have 53 going into the regular season. But using the numbers specified in that cap spreadsheet that was ...

I don't know the exact date for the start of training camp, but they can start no more than 2 weeks before their first preseason game which, for the Vikings, is the Hall of Fame game on August 9th. That would put the start of training camp no earlier than July 26th.

If AD looks at it that way, I believe he will lose his $250,000 workout bonus - not that he cares that much.

What!?! You've got to be kidding me! Only one other Dave here ... unbelievable.

Obviously, I am Dave - and have been in too many places with multiple Dave's.

From the northern suburbs of Minneapolis.

Fan since 1970.

I have noticed that on Vikings.com they are saying that this was Greenway's last year on his contract.
http://www.vikings.com/news/article-1/Vikings-Roundup-1230-Zimmer-Reflects-on-First-Season/e5ca8bf5-8c64-4ae5-b698-f1c78837fce4
Greenway wrapped up his ninth season, the final one of his ...

You also have to remember that Norv has some prior experience with Johnson so he kind of knew what he was getting.

The guy that I am really curious about is Henry Josey. He sounds like he could be a good back if he can stay healthy. Just not much experience there. Is he a replacement/improvement ...