{"id":21955,"date":"2013-09-02T10:43:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T15:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=21955"},"modified":"2014-05-09T15:04:40","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T20:04:40","slug":"vikings-2013-practice-squad-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/09\/02\/vikings-2013-practice-squad-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings 2013 practice squad set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Viking_Head.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Viking_Head\" width=\"80\" height=\"81\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10672\" \/>The &#8220;final&#8221; roster I posted <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/08\/31\/vikings-53-man-roster-for-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday<\/a> didn&#8217;t last 24 hours without change &#8230; the Vikings claimed former Chicago Bear offensive tackle J&#8217;Marcus Webb off waivers and cut Troy Kropog to make room on the 53-man roster. Cornerback Bobby Felder and defensive end D&#8217;Aundre Reed were both waived\/injured and were put on the Vikings injured reserve list after passing waivers.<\/p>\n<p>Former Vikings Antoine Winfield and Chris Kluwe were both cut by their new teams, which adds a bit more evidence to the &#8220;Rick Spielman is an evil genius&#8221; file (Spielman cut both players despite good performances over several years and strong fan opinions (<b>Update, 3 September<\/b>: See <a href=\"http:\/\/m.1500espn.com\/pages\/sportswire.php?sPL=pjr_spielmans_genius_as_vikings_gm_expands_and_critics_cower090213\" target=\"_blank\">this Patrick Reusse post<\/a> for more grudging acknowledgement of the quality of Spielman&#8217;s decision-making)).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Kluwe released from Raiders, WInfield retires from Seattle. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Vikings&amp;src=hash\">#Vikings<\/a> GM Rick Spielman knows more than you. Don&#39;t deny it, accept it.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ted Glover (@purplebuckeye) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/purplebuckeye\/statuses\/374364328427663360\">September 2, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The following players have been signed to the eight-man practice squad (for some reason, I always think the PS is 10 players, rather than eight):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Joe Banyard, RB<\/li>\n<li>Travis Bond, OG<\/li>\n<li>Everett Dawkins, DT<\/li>\n<li>Chase Ford, TE<\/li>\n<li>Kevin Murphy OT<\/li>\n<li>Tristan Okpalaugo, DE<\/li>\n<li>Rodney Smith, WR<\/li>\n<li>Adam Thielen, WR<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;final&#8221; roster I posted yesterday didn&#8217;t last 24 hours without change &#8230; the Vikings claimed former Chicago Bear offensive tackle J&#8217;Marcus Webb off waivers and cut Troy Kropog to make room on the 53-man roster. Cornerback Bobby Felder and defensive end D&#8217;Aundre Reed were both waived\/injured and were put on the Vikings injured reserve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[126,179],"class_list":["post-21955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-minnesotavikings","tag-nfl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5I7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21955"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21958,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21955\/revisions\/21958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}