08-07-2022, 05:54 PM
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Ingram and Cine with the first team
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08-07-2022, 07:45 PM
Is this really a bump, or is it just a veteran day for the guys ahead of them?
08-07-2022, 09:24 PM
08-08-2022, 12:32 AM
Quote: @JimmyinSD said:It's a vet day. But it is also planning for the future. Nobody knows when that day will come but it may be soon for Peterson, Davis and Smith, if the young guys do well. Based solely on draft position, Cine and Ingram should be ready to start sooner rather than later.
08-08-2022, 10:55 AM
I think Ingram slipped a bit in the Draft because of that incident in his past. Starting on the O-line at LSU is no joke. Can't remember the last time I heard someone refer to one of the Viking's guards as 'very stout' and having a 'great anchor'. Its borderline sports porn.
08-08-2022, 01:12 PM
Quote: @StickyBun said: I'm stealing that line :p
08-08-2022, 01:16 PM
Quote: @StickyBun said:Nothing borderline about it as a Viking fan.
08-08-2022, 04:30 PM
I don't really buy into preseason hype but I am so hopeful Ingram is the real deal.
08-09-2022, 11:25 AM
Quote: @StickyBun said:I dont know that he slipped much if it all. Gil Brandt had him late 70s if I remember correctly and he's still well connected in NFL circles. Considering the allegations that led to his college suspension, the dude better be a Pro Bowler and be a great person to show that he isn't what he was alleged. I'm still not a fan of the pick. Hoping he proves me wrong.
08-09-2022, 12:02 PM
In many of the Vikings' practices, though, O'Connell has included a full-team period that matches up the team's starting offense against its second-team defense, or its defensive starters against its No. 2 offense.It's where Kirk Cousins and Justin Jefferson have put some of the team's second-string defensive backs through their toughest work, and where second-year quarterback Kellen Mond made perhaps his best throw of training camp, beating Cameron Dantzler with a throw to Albert Wilson as Mond rolled to his left away from pressure.
The starters-versus-backups snaps have several purposes, O'Connell said, but one of the main objectives is an opportunity to test players the Vikings might need — or want — to become starters later this season. "You can really see guys establish themselves and deserve to be in that first huddle, possibly, by those reps," O'Connell said. "Everybody wants to talk about guys being in those first huddles in end of July, early August – it really matters at the end of this month – but those ones versus twos allow us a lot of times to see matchups that maybe you don't see, see young guys respond. "It's not like we're splitting this playbook in half; we're running every single Minnesota Vikings play right now to digest it all, to do their best to learn it and then go try to play fast, and then we coach it up on the tape and see if we can limit the fact that we're not making the same mistake over and over again. If we can fix those things and guys can move forward, maybe we can start working them into those competitive ones-versus-ones periods." It's a philosophy O'Connell said he learned through different stops as a player and coach around the NFL. He said one of the reasons for the Vikings' large coaching staff — the team has 24 assistants on its roster — is so the team can have as small of a player-to-coach ratio as possible, giving even the Vikings' reserves access to detailed instruction. His message to the Vikings' No. 2 units in those practice periods? "They're not a scout team," he said. "There's no rules that say they're not allowed to go try to win that drill." https://www.startribune.com/vikings-star...600196771/ |
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