There are other quarterbacks with more accolades. But if you combine statistical analysis with the eye test, you can find a path to calling Aaron Rodgers the greatest quarterback in NFL history.For all of the advanced statistics and in-depth video analysis available to us, no one has devised a simple, one-stop-shopping destination for evaluating quarterbacks.
In baseball, WAR offers an imperfect but relevant snapshot of a player’s overall value. To judge an NFL quarterback, you need to study basic statistics, advanced statistics and new-age statistics while understanding that play-calling, the quality of teammates and opposing defenses, coaching, nagging injuries, NFL rules and the way they are interpreted, running and scrambling ability and situational play all can skew performance and judgment.
On Sunday, Aaron Rodgers will play at U.S. Bank Stadium. There is no sure way to accurately compare him to Otto Graham, Johnny Unitas, Joe Montana or even Tom Brady. There is no logical way to compare him to Jim Brown, Jerry Rice, Lawrence Taylor or Dick Butkus.
But if you combine statistical analysis with the eye test, you can find a path to calling Rodgers the greatest quarterback in NFL history. And if he’s the greatest quarterback in NFL history, that would make him the most valuable player in league history, and perhaps the greatest football player ever.

The Minnesota Vikings not only signed Michael Floyd after a severe DUI incident in Arizona, but they stuck by him after violating the terms of his house arrest. Now with an injury to star receiver Stefon Diggs, the Vikings will need Floyd to step into the spotlight.
In Floyd’s debut against the Chicago Bears, he caught one pass, a 19-yard throw from quarterback Case Keenum. The reception required the former Cardinal to create separation and adjust to the ball. Floyd’s catch was a familiar sight to anyone who had watched him in training camp. For a large receiver (6-foot-3, 220 pounds) he has deceptive speed and the ability to make high-difficulty plays downfield.

At his best, Floyd can be a terrific downfield weapon – and that doesn’t just mean on bombs thrown 30 or 40 yards. In 2015, 20 of his 52 grabs were thrown between 11-20 yards.
It so happens that Diggs has been very successful on intermediate throws this year. He’s made seven catches, including one that ended up as a 52-yard touchdown, at the intermediate depth and caught four more balls that traveled between 21-30 yards in the air.
Diggs essentially transformed from a slot underneath receiver to a dominant deep threat. His average depth of target nearly doubled.
But a groin injury hampered Diggs against the Bears. He finished the game with just one catch for four yards and he has not practiced since Monday night’s game.
https://www.1500espn.com/vikings-2/2017/...spotlight/

Following Nick Easton’s strongest game of the year, the Minnesota Vikings’ left guard will be out with a calf injury against the Green Bay Packers. The next man up is lineman Jeremiah Sirles, who played only 39 minutes at guard last year, but started 10 games at tackle in 2016.
“Things happen a little faster when you move inside,” Sirles said. “At tackle there’s a lot more space, timing things to deal with. Inside guys are on top of you a lot faster. I’ll have a great challenge going against a guy like [Mike] Daniels who is fast and strong and quick.”

Head coach Mike Zimmer said Thursday that Sirles’ versatility as a backup brings value to the team.
“It’s definitely changed up my preparation this week as far as being able to focus on one spot,” Sirles said. “I usually go into a game focusing on all four spots if I were to be thrust into battle at any of those place. Mentally this week it’s been easier for me to focus on the left guard spot and hone in on the gameplan and the smaller details of that one spot.”
https://www.1500espn.com/vikings-2/2017/...gs-o-line/

Former Vikings safety Paul Krause, a hall of famer, long has believed his number should be retired.
But since he last suited up in 1979, 11 different Vikings players have been issued his old jersey No. 22. At least Krause feels better about the guy wearing it now, Harrison Smith, a fellow Pro Bowl safety.
“I own the all-time interception record, and I think (my number) should be retired, but that’s not Smith’s fault,” Krause said. “He’s a very, very good safety.”
Krause had 81 interceptions playing with the Washington Redskins from 1964-67 and the Vikings from 1968-79. He appeared in eight Pro Bowls, was named all-pro three times and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1998.
Krause has grumbled before about his number not being retired. In 2003, that’s why he declined to attend a game in which Brian Russell had chance to tie his team record with an interception in six straight games. Russell did tie the mark before his streak was snapped.
For three decades after Krause retired, many hardly notable Minnesota players wore No. 22, such as Jarvis Redwine, Ken Johnson and Artose Pinner. Then in the 2012 draft, the Vikings used a first-round pick on Smith, who had worn No. 22 growing up in Knoxville, Tenn., and at Notre Dame.
“It was available when I got drafted, so you know I wanted it,” Smith said. “I knew (Krause) was the all-time leader in interceptions but, you know, I never had met him or anything.”
http://www.twincities.com/2017/10/13/vik...ul-krause/

concussion? Other? 

https://www.gomn.com/sports/you-wont-hav...-on-sunday

When the Vikings faced Green Bay Packers wide receiver Jordy Nelson at Lambeau Field on Christmas Eve 2016, their plan for dealing with top receivers was still in the process of being fully formed.
Xavier Rhodes had shadowed alpha receivers such as Calvin Johnson, Odell Beckham, Alshon Jeffery and DeAndre Hopkins, but he hadn’t done it against Nelson. And even on the days when Rhodes would follow an elite wideout across the field, he’d stay at his normal spot when that receiver would line up in the slot.
With the metamorphosis of that plan not quite complete by last December, confusion reigned in the Vikings’ secondary early in the loss to the Packers. Coach Mike Zimmer said after the game that Rhodes was supposed to shadow Nelson all day, only to see the Vikings’ corners go against his plan and stay on their respective sides for the first series. And as startling as the development was, it didn’t have much to do with the final result anyway: Nelson burned the Vikings for 81 of his 145 yards on three catches from the slot, when he was facing Captain Munnerlyn.
This time around, there might not be anywhere near the ambiguity about where Rhodes will be. After shadowing one receiver all game five times last year, he’s already done it four times this season. And on several occasions, Rhodes has even started following his man into the slot...
http://www.startribune.com/vikings-corne...450797173/

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000...f121870745&sf121870745=1

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news...-mayfield/


 Mayfield has had some off field issues that will drop him...Rosen 3rd is a head scratcher...I still like the son of Zeus as our #1 and maybe we double down Norman style and grab Mayfield in the second and catch lighting in a bottle twice with a talented prospect falling to Day 2 because of off field concerns...Price in the 3rd and we have our OL rebuild done and a QB to possibly build on...