![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Easton started five games last year and played pretty well. Center Focused – The Vikings have taken two-year incumbent center Joe Berger out of the current mix for who will be the starting center – leaving Nick Easton and Pat Elflein.Is it Emmanuel Lamur? Is it Ben Gedeon? Is it Edmond Robinson? Tonight will give us the first look at who is making the biggest early impression. The Vikings can round up the usual suspects and determine who is best suited for the job. As such, his replacement isn’t an open wound that needs emergency replacement. To be honest, more games than not last year, Greenway was only on the field 30-40 percent of the time because so many opponents would have more than two receivers in the game at a time. It Ain’t Easy Being Green(way’s Replacement) – The Vikings didn’t do anything in free agency to replace retired Chad Greenway.Nobody is going to forget Adrian Peterson, but a couple of big runs from Cook would start to blur the memory. Fans are waiting to see what he looks like with big men with bad intentions looking to take him down. He has done nothing during the OTA, minicamp and training camp sessions to dissuade the momentum. Born to Run – The buzz surrounding Dalvin Cook has been growing in Minnesota since the day he was drafted.These are the ones that will start changing the status quo as the season moves on. Given that line of thinking, the Vikings are all about themselves and have some questions they want answered. It’s all about evaluating their own roster. Very little concern is being had on the part of coaches how long a particular Buffalo quarterback will play or if the Bills intend to play their starters longer than the Vikings player their starters. It’s more about getting your own house in order. ![]() By the admission of coaches, the focus of preseason isn’t so much about addressing what the other team intends to throw at you. The Minnesota Vikings get the game-playing portion of their 2017 season underway tonight when they match up with the Buffalo Bills in the preseason opener.Īs is the reality of the preseason, neither the Vikings nor Bills are going to do anything exotic. ![]()
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