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Daniel Carlson kicker out of Auburn..hope the Vikings have finally fixed there kicking woes

 

Daniel Carlson kicker out of Auburn..hope the Vikings have finally fixed there kicking woes

 

Vikings signing former Colts, Saints DT David Parry

After a previous free-agent visit in Minnesota, defensive tackle David Parry officially has a new team.

The Vikings struck a deal with Parry on Wednesday, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The 6-foot-2, 317-pound Parry spent the 2017 regular season with the New Orleans Saints. He joined the Saints practice squad in early September after being waived by the Indianapolis Colts. The Saints elevated Parry to the active roster in Week 3, but he suffered a season-ending ankle injury against the Panthers before landing on injured reserve.

 

He seems like another body for training camp to be a help to the others players,l not sure he will make the practice squad well good luck I could be wrong but I see him being cut and not making the team

 

Just wondering are the Vikings gonna sign any O-linemen?,cause it seems like there always signing D-linemen

 

Vikings hope to extend Barr, Diggs, Hunter



Before the Vikings splurged on quarterback Kirk Cousins, coach Mike Zimmer spent time pushing back against the kind of cap-busting move that would make it hard to keep the team’s young core players in place. The Vikings apparently will be trying to do both.

With Cousins signed and linebacker Eric Kendricks extended, the Vikings have three other young stars they hope to keep in the fold: linebacker Anthony Barr, receiver Stefon Diggs, and defensive end Danielle Hunter.

Beyond Kendricks, the Vikings already have extended defensive end Everson Griffen, cornerback Xavier Rhodes, defensive tackle Linval Joseph, and receiver Adam Thielen. Executive V.P. of football operations Rob Brzezinski has been negotiating the deals for more than 20 years, and he’ll be trying to continue to keep the current team together.

“I would be lying if I said you don’t feel some pressure, because you want to be able to keep this team together and keep all your best players,” Brzezinski recently told Chip Scoggins of the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

“We’re still going to try,” Spielman said. “Is it going to be easy? No.”

One thing they won’t have to worry about is ownership; Spielman said that the Wilfs have never refused a request from the front office to sign a given player.

Brezinzki calls the situation a “good problem to have,” but it remains to be seen whether this approach solves the problem that the Vikings have been plagued with for more than 40 years: Getting back to the Super Bowl, and perhaps this time winning it. (PFT)

 

Hunter and Diggs is a must keep will Barr go for whoever pays him the most money? hope he stays a Vikings

 

40yrs that's a looooong time the last time when they were in the SB that's almost 50yrs

 

FIRST SUPER BOWL — On Jan. 11, 1970, the Vikings lost to Kansas City, 23-7, in Super Bowl IV.

SECOND SUPER BOWL — On Jan. 13, 1974, the Vikings played in the 2nd Super Bowl in franchise history against the Miami Dolphins at Rice Stadium in Houston, TX. The Dolphins prevailed, 24-7.

THIRD SUPER BOWL — The Vikings played in their 2nd straight Super Bowl, losing to the Pittsburgh Steelers, 16-6, at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans on Jan. 12, 1975.

FOURTH SUPER BOWL — The Vikings played in their 3rd Super Bowl in 4 years against the Oakland Raiders at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA, on Jan. 9, 1977. Minnesota lost, 32-14.

 

Vikings running back Dalvin Cook was off to a promising start in his rookie season last year, rushing for 354 yards in four games before suffering a torn ACL on October 1. He’s now making solid progress toward getting healthy for his second season.

Cook will get limited work at the Vikings’ Organized Team Activities, Vikings coach Mike Zimmer told Tom Pelissero of NFL Network.

Zimmer described Cook as “ahead of schedule,” a designation that seems to apply to nearly every player recovering from a knee injury at this time of year.

Cook earned the starting running back job in Week One of his rookie season and was averaging 4.8 yards per carry at the time of his injury. After Cook went down, replacements Latavius Murray and Jerick McKinnon weren’t as productive.

The Vikings would love to see Cook playing like he did the first four games of last year, only doing it for 16 games in 2018.

 

Looking at the scores you wouldn’t believe that the worst of these beat downs was actually the 16-6 Steelers win.

 

The real beat down was against the RAIDERS 32-14 in that game they were outclassed in every way,against the STEELERS yeah they lost but in that game Ed Marinaro rb for the Vikings showed what a BUST he really was cause the STEELERS beat the heck out him...next stop Hill Steet Blues for Eddie lol

 

I remember that dude.

 

Oh he was a very frustrating and painful rb to watch

 

No more points don’t equate to a bigger beat down. The Steelers destroyed the Vikings, their offense couldn’t even get close to a score.

 

He was a mediocre actor too.

 

No I was not going by the points IMO they were just outclassed...the RAIDERS made them look awful the Vikings got put on BLAST!!! that day
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Well every SB the Vikings were in they were destroyed

 

Wow Rodger The Dodger Goodell and the NFL look REAL bad,it was never about disrespecting the military or the flag...it was about blacks being shot and killed over and over again the NFL has no back bone,just amazed how they folded it's all about the big bucks MONEY MONEY

 

Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins previously spoke about pre-offseason workout workouts with his new receivers. One of those receivers has spoken more recently about the effort to get to know the man who will be the team’s fifth starting quarterback since the 2015 season.

“It was awesome,” Adam Thielen said of the time that he and Stefon Diggs spent working out with Cousins in Atlanta, via Sid Hartman of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. “I think the biggest part of that was to get to know him on a personal level and just try to get that first initiation of how he likes guys to run routes and what he feels comfortable doing, and then just try to get on the same page. I think it was a really good start for Diggs and I to get a jump start on that.”

Part of the transition entails getting to know how Cousins does things, especially when the Vikings receivers have had in little more than two calendar years to work with Teddy Bridgewater, Shaun Hill, Sam Bradford, and Case Keenum.

“I think everybody individually does things a little differently,” Thielen said. “As a quarterback, every quarterback has their strengths and their weaknesses. I think the thing [Cousins] really brings to the table is the way that he leads, and his passion for the game of football. It has been really fun working with him and learning this offense together.

“As a receiver group, we’re really excited to keep getting some reps with him, and especially in some live situations. It has been a while since we’ve gone against a live defense so we’re excited to do that.”

Thielen added that Cousins is “an easy guy to be around,” that Cousins “makes it easy” for the receivers, and that he “gets along with everybody.”

It’s a lot easier to do that when the team is 0-0. But if the Vikings keep winning like they did with Keenum at the helm, the relationship will get better and better.