09-09-2017, 01:36 AM
Before the NFL game slowed down for Eric Kendricks, the Vikings needed the fleet-of-foot middle linebacker to slow his own roll.
Kendricks played like he drank too much coffee, coach Mike Zimmer says, overly eager to do his job. Not until Kendricks’ nerves settled did the Vikings’ leading tackler his first two seasons fully come into his own, commanding the Vikings’ front seven by relaying the play and tipping his teammates to the opponent’s formation and alignments.
The undersized (6 feet, 232 pounds) but mobile third-year pro became the valuable sideline-to-sideline defender who told his coach no, he didn’t want to make the prescribed move to outside linebacker this offseason because playing in the middle is where he can stop offenses on both sides of the field...
http://www.startribune.com/eric-kendrick...443349373/
Kendricks played like he drank too much coffee, coach Mike Zimmer says, overly eager to do his job. Not until Kendricks’ nerves settled did the Vikings’ leading tackler his first two seasons fully come into his own, commanding the Vikings’ front seven by relaying the play and tipping his teammates to the opponent’s formation and alignments.
The undersized (6 feet, 232 pounds) but mobile third-year pro became the valuable sideline-to-sideline defender who told his coach no, he didn’t want to make the prescribed move to outside linebacker this offseason because playing in the middle is where he can stop offenses on both sides of the field...
http://www.startribune.com/eric-kendrick...443349373/
