10-16-2017, 11:48 AM
Vikings to face variety of somewhat flawed QB optionsIf Teddy Bridgewater is cleared to practice and looks like the team's best quarterback, the Vikings will face a torturous decision under radically revamped circumstances.
By turning Aaron Rodgers’ upper body into an unwilling accordion, Anthony Barr might have altered the NFC North the way a bulldozer alters a condemned house.
As of midafternoon Sunday, the convalescing Teddy Bridgewater had a better chance than Rodgers of playing in Super Bowl LII at U.S. Bank Stadium, and for the first time in 25 years, the Vikings found themselves stronger at quarterback than the Green Bay Packers, even amid the Vikings’ typically dramatic uncertainty at the position.
If the Vikings ride to the NFC North Division title behind Case Keenum, Sam Bradford, Teddy Bridgewater or Kyle Sloter — or behind an out-of-work activist or an employed television commentator — Barr will become their stealth MVP, to be rewarded by teammates with surreptitious fist bumps and Bitcoin.
When he broke Rodgers’ collarbone, Barr made Sunday’s 23-10 victory a certainty and a division championship a more likely possibility.
The previous weekend, Rodgers led the Packers to the kind of improbable, last-second victory remindful of his greatness while the Vikings started Bradford, watched him limp like he was wearing a too-loose prosthetic, and won at Chicago behind Keenum.
This Sunday, Bradford couldn’t play, Rodgers suffered what the Packers termed a possible season-ending injury, Keenum won again and Bridgewater prepared for a week in which he might be cleared to return to practice, which would give the Vikings 21 days to decide whether to activate him.
It is typical of the Vikings’ history at the position that suddenly Bridgewater is deemed to have healthier knees than Bradford, a little more than a year after Bridgewater suffered an injury that could have cost him his life or his leg.
It is atypical of this rivalry that the Vikings have three quarterbacks on their roster that are better than the Packers’ default starter, Brett Hundley, who succeeded Sunday in proving that Rodgers is the NFL’s most indispensable player...
http://www.startribune.com/vikings-dispe...451013143/
By turning Aaron Rodgers’ upper body into an unwilling accordion, Anthony Barr might have altered the NFC North the way a bulldozer alters a condemned house.
As of midafternoon Sunday, the convalescing Teddy Bridgewater had a better chance than Rodgers of playing in Super Bowl LII at U.S. Bank Stadium, and for the first time in 25 years, the Vikings found themselves stronger at quarterback than the Green Bay Packers, even amid the Vikings’ typically dramatic uncertainty at the position.
If the Vikings ride to the NFC North Division title behind Case Keenum, Sam Bradford, Teddy Bridgewater or Kyle Sloter — or behind an out-of-work activist or an employed television commentator — Barr will become their stealth MVP, to be rewarded by teammates with surreptitious fist bumps and Bitcoin.
When he broke Rodgers’ collarbone, Barr made Sunday’s 23-10 victory a certainty and a division championship a more likely possibility.
The previous weekend, Rodgers led the Packers to the kind of improbable, last-second victory remindful of his greatness while the Vikings started Bradford, watched him limp like he was wearing a too-loose prosthetic, and won at Chicago behind Keenum.
This Sunday, Bradford couldn’t play, Rodgers suffered what the Packers termed a possible season-ending injury, Keenum won again and Bridgewater prepared for a week in which he might be cleared to return to practice, which would give the Vikings 21 days to decide whether to activate him.
It is typical of the Vikings’ history at the position that suddenly Bridgewater is deemed to have healthier knees than Bradford, a little more than a year after Bridgewater suffered an injury that could have cost him his life or his leg.
It is atypical of this rivalry that the Vikings have three quarterbacks on their roster that are better than the Packers’ default starter, Brett Hundley, who succeeded Sunday in proving that Rodgers is the NFL’s most indispensable player...
http://www.startribune.com/vikings-dispe...451013143/
